🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: March 18-19 (Recap)

1️⃣ Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul has been freed after 12 hours in Israeli custody. Israeli forces beat him severely when they detained him during a raid on Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.

2️⃣ The United Nations says it “stands against” harassment of journalists after al-Ghoul’s arrest, as rights group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls incident “deliberate attempt” to cover up Israeli assault on al-Shifa Hospital.

3️⃣ UN chief Antonio Guterres says a new report warning that famine is now imminent in northern Gaza is an “appalling indictment” of the situation on the ground.

4️⃣ Israeli forces launched several missiles at military sites near the Syrian capital, Damascus, resulting in some “material damage”, according to the official SANA news agency.

5️⃣ Northern Gaza could be hit by famine any time between mid-March and May and more than 70 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million population is facing “catastrophic hunger”, according to a UN-backed report.

6️⃣ Israeli forces have shelled a house in Jabalia in northern Gaza on Monday evening, killing at least eight Palestinians, including children, according to the Wafa news agency.

7️⃣ Israeli air attacks on two houses and an apartment in Rafah in southern Gaza have killed at least 14 people and injured several more, the Wafa news agency reports.

At least 31,726 people including more than 12,300 children, have been killed and over 73,792 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll from the October 7 attack in Israel stands at 1,139.

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