In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 30 March 2025 until 08:00, 31 March 2025
Gaza Strip
Merciless blitz on defenceless Gaza — growing numbers of dead and injured
Victims 30–31 March 2025:
27 killed — 116 wounded
Since dawn, Israeli air strikes and gunfire on homes as well as many facilities resulted in the deaths of 27 residents and the wounding of 116 others. The total number killed in Gaza, since 7 October 2023, is at least 50,357 with the total wounded at least 114,400. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza since 7 October, 2023 is at least 93 and, that of those injured, is more than 211.
UN footage shows Gaza first responders retrieved from mass graves in Rafah
Head of the UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) in Palestine, Jonathan Whittall, shared a harrowing account of a mass grave uncovered in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, where several emergency responders and paramedics, still in their uniforms and gloves, were killed by Israeli forces. ‘Seven days ago, as Israeli forces advanced on Rafah, 10 PRCS and 6 Civil Defense first responders were dispatched to collect injured,’ Whittall said in a thread on X. ‘All five ambulances and one fire-truck were struck, along with a UN vehicle that arrived later.’
Footage from OCHA shows Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and Civil Defence workers carefully retrieving human remains, including 14 bodies recovered on Sunday alone. ‘On the first day of Eid, we returned and recovered the buried bodies of 8 PRCS, 6 Civil Defense and 1 UN staff. They were killed in their uniforms. Driving their clearly marked vehicles. Wearing their gloves. On their way to save lives. This should never have happened,’ Whittall added.
International Red Cross ‘appalled’ by killing of Palestinian medics, rescuers in Gaza
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday expressed outrage after eight paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), five first responders from the Gaza Civil Defense, and a UN staff member were killed while performing emergency duties in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Earlier, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that it retrieved the bodies of 14 people in Rafah following an Israeli strike about a week ago, including eight of its medics, five civil defense workers, and a UN agency employee. “We are deeply saddened and mourn alongside their families, loved ones, and colleagues,” the ICRC statement said.
“These staff and volunteers were risking their own lives to provide support to others,” it added. The medics were targeted on 23 March as they headed to provide first aid to wounded individuals from Israeli shelling in the Al-Hashashin area. The Palestinian Red Crescent said the targeting is a “premeditated crime” and a “flagrant violation” of international humanitarian law, which mandates that Israeli forces respect and facilitate medical teams’ work without threatening their lives. The organisation renewed its call for the international community to fulfil its legal duties and take concrete steps to halt Israel’s “grave violations” against medical teams and Palestinian civilians, stressing the need to hold Israel accountable.
West Bank
Palestinian Monitoring Group — Since midnight on 07 October 2023, Occupation forces have been imposing a complete closure around the whole of the West Bank, preventing people (even including permit-holders) from entering both Jerusalem City as well as Israel, other than for especially-negotiated exceptions. Permanent military checkpoints impose severe travel restrictions within the Occupied West Bank.
Israeli Army attack – 1 child wounded: Ramallah – 18:20, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, raided the village of Shuqba and wounded an 11-year-old child.
Israeli Army attack – population–control: Jenin – Israeli forces continue storming the city as well as the refugee camp as well as maintaining closure of all entrances.
Israeli Army attacks – home invasions – 5 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – the Israeli Army continues to storm the city and both Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, opening fire while raiding homes and taking prisoner five residents.
Israeli Army attack – man wounded: Qalqiliya – 22:10, Israeli troops opened fire, from the Eyal checkpoint, shooting and wounding a man, Ismail Farid Barbakh, who was subsequently admitted to the Government Hospital.
Israeli Army attack – 1 child wounded: Nablus – 08:00, the Israeli military stormed the town of Beita, shooting and wounding a child: Aboud Tayseer Bani Shamseh.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Nablus – 14:20, Israeli soldiers opened fire, from the al-Muraba’a, wounding and hospitalising a man.
Israeli Army attack – 1 child injured: Nablus – 19:40, an 11-year-old girl, Razan Omar Mleitat, was injured by a soldier using his gun as a club, during a storming of Beit Furik by Israeli Occupation forces.
Home invasion: Tulkarem – 01:55, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Kafr Abbush and searched a home.
Home invasions: Qalqiliya – 11:45–16:25, Israeli forces raided the village of Ras Tira and invaded two homes.
Home invasions and abductions: Nablus – 19:40–03:15, Israeli forces raided Beit Furik and abducted two minors: 15-year-old Salim Yousef Salem Nasasra and Bakr Munther Abu Ayyash, aged 16. Two adults were also taken prisoner.
Home invasions and population–control: Nablus – 23:55–03:15, the Israeli Army raided Asira al-Shamaliya, invading a number of homes and interrogating eleven residents.
Home invasions: Bethlehem – 01:55–04:05, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Husan, and invaded eight homes.
Home invasion – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 01:10, Israeli troops raided the town of Beit Kahil, invading a house and taking prisoner one person.
Occupation settlement development: Jerusalem – Israeli Occupation forces continued the construction and expansion work that has been going for two months at the Kochav Yaakov settlement, built on Kafr Aqab land. The forces also built a new road for the settlement.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Ramallah – 09:15, Israeli Occupation settlers grazed their sheep on crops growing on al-Mughayir village agricultural land.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Tubas – Israeli settlers grazed their cattle on crops growing in the al-Bureij area of the North Jordan Valley.
Occupation settler land grab: Bethlehem – 16:45, Occupation settlers began ploughing land, seized from a family in the town of Tuqu.
Occupation settler arson and pastoral sabotage: Hebron – 18:00, Israeli settlers invaded the Wadi al-Simsam area, south of al-Dhahiriya, and set fire to a livestock shelter.
Raid: Jerusalem – 21:45, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the town of al-Ram.
Raid: Jerusalem – 22:20, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the town of Kafr Aqab.
Raid: Jerusalem – 23:15, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Anata.
Raid: Jerusalem – 00:30, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Hizma.
Raid: Jerusalem – 04:00, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of Bir Nabala.
Raids: Ramallah – 08:00-10:20, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the villages of Deir Sudan and Umm Safa.
Raid: Ramallah – 15:35, Israeli Occupation forces raided al-Bireh.
Raid: Ramallah – 20:50-21:30, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Qarawat Bani Zeid.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Ramallah – 21:35, the Israeli Army, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided and patrolled the town of Beit Rima.
Raid: Ramallah – 21:55, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Ni’lin.
Raid – 4 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 04:10–07:00, the Israeli military raided Silwad, taking prisoner four people.
Raid: Ramallah – 05:00–07:00, Israeli soldiers again raided and patrolled al-Bireh.
Raid: Jenin – 09:35, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Ti’inik.
Raid: Jenin – 12:45, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Zububa.
Raids: Jenin – 18:00–22:10, the Israeli Army raided Araba as well as the village of Bir al-Basha.
Raid: Jenin – 20:30–22:10, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Faqua.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Jenin – 04:40, the Israeli military raided the town of Qabatiya, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Jenin – 05:55, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Arbouna.
Raid – 5 taken prisoner – population–control: Tubas – 02:50, Israeli Occupation forces raided Tamoun, taking prisoner five people and ordering one other to report for interrogation at Israeli Military Intelligence.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 08:00-09:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Jit.
Raid: Nablus – 08:35–11:00, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Aqraba as well as the villages of Osarin and Jalloud.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – midnight-01:45, Israeli troops raided the city, taking prisoner one person.
Raids: Salfit – 09:15, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Bruqin and Kafr al-Dik, as well as the village of Yasuf.
Raid: Salfit – 20:15–21:30, Israeli soldiers raided the town of Kafr al-Dik.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Jericho – 09:15-12:05, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided the Aqbat Jabir refugee camp.
Raid: Bethlehem – 08:05, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of al-Rashaydeh.
Raid: Bethlehem – 14:25, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Beit Fajjar.
Raid: Bethlehem – 15:00–22:40, Israeli troops raided the village of Umm Salamuna.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 15:00–22:40, the Israeli military raided the village of Jouret Ash-Sham’a, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Hebron – 10:45-13:05, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled al-Dhahiriya.
Raid: Hebron – 22:10, Israeli forces raided the town of Sa’ir.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Hebron – 04:30, the Israeli Army raided the town of Yatta, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Hebron – 22:10, Israeli troops, firing stun grenades, raided the town of Sa’ir.