JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip is expanding to seize “large areas,” the defense minister said, while officials at hospitals inside the Palestinian territory said that Israeli strikes overnight and into Wednesday had killed more than 40 people, nearly a dozen of them children.

The Palestinian presidency on Monday warned of dangers posed by Israel’s forced evacuation orders in Rafah, southern Gaza, urging the global community to uphold its responsibilities in defense of international law and humanitarian conventions.

Aid agencies say the workers were killed and buried in a mass grave in Rafah, in southern Gaza. Residents described being shot at along the evacuation route.

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RAMALLAH, March 30, 2025 (WAFA) – President of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) Younes Al-Khatib Sunday held the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the safety and lives of nine crew members besieged for eight consecutive days in Rafah’s Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the Palestinian Civil Defence have confirmed its teams recovered the body of one of its crew members who went missing in Gaza’s western Rafah on Sunday following a days-long Israeli siege on the area.

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The offensive comes as Israel faces criticism after the United Nations said bodies of aid workers were found in a “mass grave."