<article data-history-node-id="420459" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-target-house-near-gaza-city" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-target-house-near-gaza-city" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli strikes target house near Gaza City</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel launched strikes targeting a house in the Zeitoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli strikes have killed at least 36 people in Gaza on Thursday.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

<span class="field field-title">Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Rafah&nbsp;</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/pauline-ertel" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/pauline-ertel" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Pauline Ertel</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-12T08:00:00+00:00" title="12 March 2025 08:00 GMT">Wed, 03/12/2025 - 08:00</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="line-height:1.38">A Palestinian man, Hamdan Qashta, was just confirmed killed after being critically injured by Israeli army gunfire in Rafah, southern Gaza, Quds&nbsp;News is reporting.&nbsp;</p> <p style="line-height:1.38">The Israeli military has committed numerous violations of the ceasefire in Gaza over the past 24 hours, killing at least nine Palestinians in separate attacks.</p> </div>

<span class="field field-title">Israel denied entry to members of EU parliament on official mission</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/pauline-ertel" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/pauline-ertel" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Pauline Ertel</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-12T11:04:31+00:00" title="12 March 2025 11:04 GMT">Wed, 03/12/2025 - 11:04</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>On 24 February, MEPs Lynn Boylan and Rima Hassan were refused entry to Israel during an official mission from the European Parliament.</p> <p>During an Irish parliamentary session earlier this week, Ireland's Boylan spoke out against the incident and described how the group of MEPs, including herself, were “detained and subsequently&nbsp;deported" when attempting to enter Israel.&nbsp;</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Today I raised the fact that Israel prevented the EU Parliaments official mission to Palestine from taking place and confiscated the phones of 2 MEPs and 2 officials for 90 mins. <a href="https://t.co/il3z2DBoLS">pic.twitter.com/il3z2DBoLS</a></p> — Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 (@LNBDublin) <a href="https://twitter.com/LNBDublin/status/1899194821559869897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>“While detained by the Israeli authorities, our electronic devices were confiscated for over ninety minutes. Our passports, including an Irish diplomatic passport were confiscated and not returned to us until we arrived back in Brussels,” Boylan explained.&nbsp;</p> <p>The group of MEPs that was&nbsp;travelling to Israel form part of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with Palestine, of which Boylan is the chair. The delegation&nbsp;holds regular meetings with Palestinian and international groups on EU-Palestinian relations and on political, economic and social and human rights developments in Palestine.</p> </div>

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