On March 15, 2026, Eight Palestinian police officers were killed and 14 people injured after Israeli aircraft struck a police vehicle on Salah al-Din Street near the entrance to Al-Zawayda, in the Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli air strike on a police vehicle in central Gaza killed eight officers on Sunday, hospital officials said, as violence continues to test a fragile ceasefire in the war-battered territory. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah said the bodies of eight victims were brought in after a police vehicle was struck in the nearby town of Zawaida. Gaza’s Interior Ministry said the dead include Col. Iyad Abu Yusuf, director of the Central Governorate Intervention Police, along with seven other officers. **Names of the martyrs:** According to reports from Gaza’s Interior Ministry and regional media, the eight police officers killed in the Israeli strike on a police vehicle near al-Zawaida (central Gaza) on 15 March 2026 included the following names: 1) Col. Iyad Abu Yousef – head of the Intervention Police in the Central Governorate 2) Abdul Rahman Al-Amassi 3) Wissam Al-Hafi 4) Yousef Meet (or Maite) 5) Musab Al-Durra 6) Fathi Oweida 7) Rami Harb 8) Abdullah Abu Shaar (name sometimes reported with slight spelling variations) The following name was also spreaded: 9) Tawfiq Al-Khalidi

On March 15, around 01:30, the Israeli special forces infiltrated the town of Tammun Tubas goverorate, in the northern West Bank. Local residents said an Israel Defense Forces special unit entered Tammun in a vehicle with Palestinian license plates, followed by reinforcements from nearby checkpoints. They opened fire with automatic weapons at a Palestinian family of 6 while they were returning home. According to online testimonies, they had gone to get some festive clothes. Four members of the same family were executed from point-blank range (the father, the mother, and their two children). All were fatally shot in the head and face; the father was also hit in the chest and hand. Their other two children, Mustafa, 8, and Khaled, 11, sustained minor shrapnel injuries to the head and face. One of the killed children, Othman, 7 y/o, had special needs (blind). Israeli army reinforcements stormed then Tammun, arriving from the Ein Shibli Checkpoint and the Tayasir Checkpoint, spread throughout the town, and prevented residents from approaching or rescuing the victims. After Israeli army executed the two children and their mother and father while they were in their car, Israeli army towed their car away withe the bodies, but later allowing the Red Crescent to bring them along with the two injured children. In a related incident, Israeli forces also arrested Mahmoud Hassan Bani Odeh and his son Hassan, 19, after raiding their home in Tammun. They also detained the child Yaman Hossam Bani Odeh, 15. They withdrew at 04:10. ## **Casulaties** **Names of the martyrs:** 1) Ali Khaled Sayel Bani Odeh, 37 years old (father), shot in the head, face, chest, and left hand. 2) Waad Othman Aql Bani Odeh, 35 years old (mother), shot in the face and head. 3) Mohammad Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, 5 years old, shot in the face and head. 4) Othman Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, 7 years old, Child withe special need (blind), shot in the face and head. **Injured:** The 3 wounded as a result of shooting by the occupation forces at a vehicle (which they were traveling in alongside their father, mother, and two brothers who were martyred) in the town of Tammoun are: Mustafa Ali Khaled Sayel Bani Odeh, 8 years old, and his brother Khaled, 11 years old, in addition to the female citizen - Nesma Hossam Bani Mustafa Bani. Testimonies of the both surviving brothers All along the day, the boys were interviewed by various media. They presented the same story, with additional details following the moment. Ali Khaled released at least 3 testimonies. Khaled shared that an Israeli soldier removed him from the vehicle by his hair after shooting. "He said, 'We killed some dogs,' He threw him on the ground and jump on his back, shoot him with their combat boots. Then, soldiers placked him on a wall and threatened him. After that, they took me to a Jeep and searched me. They asked me, 'who was with you in the car?' When I said, 'my mother, father and brothers,' he started yelling at me, calling me 'liar, liar.'. In the jeep, the brothers were stripped and threatened. Ali Khaled asked a soldier if he loved his dad and his mom. When the soldier said yes, Ali Khaled asked him why he had killed his own parents. At that moment, the soldier punched him in the face.

On March 14, 2026, Israeli settlers carried out a violent attack in the village of Qusra in the West Bank, killing 25-year-old Ameer Motasem Odeh and injuring three others, including his father, who was brutally beaten. One of the injured remains in critical condition. The assault occurred in the Al-Karak area west of Qusra, southeast of Nablus, where armed settlers opened live fire toward homes and residents. Medical sources reported that Odeh was shot in the chest with live ammunition, while two others were wounded in the knee and thigh, and his father suffered assault-related injuries. The injured were initially treated at a local medical center, and both Odeh and another victim were later transferred to Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus, where doctors attempted resuscitation. Odeh was pronounced dead. Mayor Hani Odeh confirmed that the settlers’ attack targeted young men and homes in the town, leaving the community shaken. ## Timeline of the event (according to the Haaretz journalsist Matan Golan) Reports indicate that since the early afternoon, a rolling settler attack targeted houses on the hilltop near the outpost deep in Area B, from where the attack on three activists from “Looking the Occupation in the Eye” occurred two weeks ago. Since then, settlers have been roaming daily among the houses, terrorizing residents and acting as if the hill belongs to them. **Around 2:20 p.m.**, a report (with attached video) indicated that settlers threw stones at a truck driver, who managed to escape. Residents say they called the police, who informed them that the army was on its way. **Around 3:00 p.m.**, masked settlers were seen moving between houses, including a settler carrying a long weapon. The cries of frightened children can be heard from a house. Residents reported that they called security forces again. **By 4:00 p.m.**, reports say that an Israeli force arrived on the hill, and gunfire was heard in the footage, though no injuries were reported at that time. Around this stage, there were reports of stones being thrown back and forth between houses, and later footage shows soldiers alongside the settlers. According to multiple eyewitnesses, the army left the hill around **4:50 p.m.**, while the settlers remained. **At 5:15 p.m.**, a report came in that settlers were attacking an inhabited house, smashing windows, and that residents had gone out to help the family, resulting in a confrontation with the settlers. Eyewitnesses stated that the settlers shot and killed Ameer Motasem Odeh and injured three others, reportedly fired at dozens of meters from the houses. ## **Casulaties** **Name of the martyr:** Amir Moatasem Mahmoud Odeh, 25 **Other casulaties:** Amir Mu’tasim Odeh, father of Amir

On March 12, 2026, at 16:35, the Israeli forces present near the Za'atara Junction, south of Nablus, opened fire on a vehicle in which two citizens were traveling, leading to their death. The Israeli forces opened fire on the stopped vehicle in which the two young men were traveling while they were passing near the Zaatara Junction. Israeli forces detained then their bodies. Israeli authorities claimed the men attempted a car-ramming and shooting attack, a claim repeated in Israeli military statements. However, the footage shows two soldiers firing at point-blank range through the driver’s window of a stationary vehicle, isolated from any other cars, which factually contradicts the claim that the shooting was an act of self-defense against an attack. Israeli forces closed a number of military checkpoints and gates surrounding the city of Nablus, including Awarta, Al-Murabba'a, Deir Sharaf, and the Huwwara gates, and tightened their procedures on others, causing stifling traffic crises and preventing thousands of citizens from reaching their cities, villages, and places of residence. **Names of the martyrs:** 1) Mamoun Badawi Idris Rashdan, 25 2) Muhammad Ali Bassam Youssef Badawi Rashdan, 24

In a very short time, Israeli airstriked two places in the central Gaza- West of Gaza City, on March 11 in the evening. Both are places settled by tents and fragile shelters where displaced and homeless families lives. Both are in the so-called "safe zone". **1) Strike on Displacement Tents – Sawarha Area (Central Gaza), west of Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip** The strike hit makeshift shelters where civilians had taken refuge after earlier bombardments. Victims were transported to Al‑Awda Hospital by medical teams. Families held a brief farewell before burial for one of the victims. **Casualties reported:** 2 women killed, 7 people injured, including 3 children **Identified martyr:** Salsabil Anwar Farraj, 12 years old. **2) Airstrike on Building Near Displacement Tents – Area west of Gaza City** Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike on a building west of Gaza City during the evening. The strike caused major structural destruction to the targeted building. Fires spread to nearby displacement tents, where civilians were staying. Families who had already fled earlier attacks panicked and evacuated again. No immediate casualties are confirmed. **Overall context for March 11, 2026:** Hospitals in Gaza reported at least one additional fatality and two wounded people in the previous 24 hours from other incidents across the enclave.

On March 9, 2026, Israeli forces shelled the village of Qalaya in the Marjayoun district, killing the priest of the Christian parish, Father Pierre Al-Rai and injuring at least 4 of residents. The shelling hit a house located in the eastern part of the village, a Christian location considered relatively safe until now. The mayor of Qlayaa, Hanna Daher, stated that the inhabitants could not explain the reasons for the attack. “We don't know why our village was bombed. The target is unclear. Qlayaa is a safe locality”, the mayor said. “The affected house is located at the east end of the village. We first heard an explosion and then the inhabitants saw smoke rising from a house to the east. Everyone rushed to the place”. The mayor said rescuers found several injured people inside the building. “When we arrived we found that the house had been hit by an artillery shell and that there were injuries inside”, he explained. “While we were trying to evacuate people, a second bullet exploded in the house. We narrowly avoided a massacre, because there were many of us on site”. **Double Tap:** Lebanese news reports stated that an Israeli Merkava tank hit a house in Qlayaa twice. The first strike wounded the owner and his wife. Father al-Rahi and other neighbors rushed to the scene to help when the tank fired a second time. Father al-Rahi was wounded from the strike and later died from his injuries. 4 other Lebanese civilians were also injured in the attack. **A terror attack in respons of the earlier public statement of the priest:** Father Pierre al-Rahi, also known by his French name Pierre el-Raï, had earlier refused, along with other priests, to obey an order by the Israeli military to evacuate the Christian village of Qlayaa, a Maronite village of some 8,000 inhabitants in the Marjayoun district, a few miles from the Israeli border. “We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love,” Father al-Rahi told the France24 television channel on the steps of his church in Qlayaa March 8, a day before his death, while tens of thousands of Lebanese civilians have already fled their homes fearing further violence in the Marjayoun district. **Israeli Army spin:** On Tuesday, the IDF confirmed that tanks fired at suspected terrorists attempting to enter a house near where IDF soldiers were operating in southern Lebanon, but the military's statement did not directly link the incident with the shell fire that caused Raei's fatal injuries. **Qlayaa’s Mayor Hanna Daher statement to AsiaNews:** “They say there were fighters in the house, but that’s not true. These are lies, inside, there were only the residents of the house and people from the village who came to help the wounded.” **Pope Leo XIV statement:** Pope Leo XIV expressed “profound sorrow for all the victims of the bombings in the Middle East over the last few days — for the many innocent people, including many children, and for those who were providing them with aid, such as Father Pierre El-Rahi, a Maronite priest killed this afternoon in Qlayaa,” the Vatican’s Telegram channel said. The message posted by Holy See Press on Telegram said Pope Leo “is following the situation with concern and prays that all hostilities will cease as soon as possible.” **The French charity L’Oeuvre d’Orient statement:** “L’Oeuvre d’Orient condemns in the strongest possible terms these acts of war, which aim to destabilize all of Lebanon and kill innocent civilians. The death of a priest who refused to leave his parish is yet another escalation of senseless violence. L’Oeuvre d’Orient also denounces the risk of annexation and the disappearance of villages south of the Litani River, particularly historic Christian villages,” **David Azulay head of Metula settlement** Israeli Activist B.M. reports: *"The audacity: Four days after talking on Israeli radio about the need to "destroy and wipe out" South Lebanon, the head of Metula settlement, David Azulay, issues a statement of condolences, in Hebrew and Arabic, for Pierre al-Rahi, the Lebanese priest who was murdered by Israel on Monday. The village of Al-Qlayaa, where al-Rahi was murdered, is located 5 kilometers from Metula. Some Lebanese Christians originally from Al-Qlayaa, who used to be part of Israel's pre-2000 collaborator militia, the South Lebanon Army, now reside in Metula."* **Statement of Fr. Toufic Bou Merhi, Latin-rite parish priest in Tyre and Deirmimas:** Speaking to Vatican News, he said the 50-year-old Fr. El-Rahi was a true pastor for the Christians of his parish. Despite many Israeli evacuation orders for the area, Fr. El-Rahi remained to serve his parishioners. While the parish is mourning the death of Fr. El-Rahi and are now very afraid, even as the house of another priest was directly attacked: *“Up to now, people haven't wanted to leave their homes in Christian villages, but in this situation, everything has changed. Leaving home means living on the streets or trying to rent another place, but people can't afford it, especially given the country's already dire economic situation."* Other [source](https://www.lebanondebate.com/article/801170-القليعة-تنزف-استشهاد-كاهن-البلدة-بالقصف-الإسرائيلي)

On March 9, a few minutes after midnight, Israeli strikes hit tents sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in Al-Sawariha, central Gaza, killing three women, including a child and a journalist, and injuring more than 10 others. **Names of the martyrs:** 1) Amal Mohammed Shamali, 46, journalist 2) Nour Saleh Al-Shallafah, 30 3) Salsabeel Anwar Faraj, 12

On March 8, 2026, three Palestinians were killed and five others injured early Sunday during a brutal attack by Israeli colonists on the village of Abu Falah, east of Ramallah, followed by an Israeli military raid on the village. At 02:20, a group of settlers, protected by the occupation forces, attacked the village of Khirbet Abu Falah, and opened fire on the citizens, and the Israeli forces also intervened and fired live and rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas towards the citizens, which led to the death of 3 citizens (one of them as a result of inhaling tear gas), 4 others were injured. Local sources said the two Hamayel victims were killed while residents confronted colonists who attacked the village. Israeli forces later stormed the area and fired tear gas canisters to disperse residents responding to the attack. **Names of the martyrs:** 1) Thaer Awad Muhammad Ibrahim Hamayel, 24, 2) Farea Jawdat Hamayel, 57, both of whom were shot in the head. 3) Mohammad Hassein Marra, 55, who died after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces during the raid on the village. He reportedly arrived at the hospital in cardiac arrest. **Other casulaties:** According to medical sources, five other residents sustained live-fire injuries, including three in the head, one in the pelvis, and another in the shoulder with the bullet exiting from the neck. The 4 wounded as a result of gunfire by settlers while they were attacking the village of Khirbet Abu Falah are: Moaz Qassam Al-Khatib, Jihad Hamid Marra, Zaid Salim Turki Hamayel, and Fadi Hani Muhammad Nazzal.

On the afternoon of March 7, an Israeli settler known to local residents opened fire on Palestinians in Khirbet Wadi al-Rakheem in Masafer Yatta, killing Amir Mohammad Shanaran and critically injuring his brother. According to medical sources and local anti-settlement activist Osama Makhamreh, Amir Mohammad Shanaran (28) was shot in the neck and killed, while his brother Khaled Mohammad Shanaran (33) was shot with live ammunition and hospitalized in critical condition. Witnesses said the brothers were near their home when armed settlers from the illegal settlement of Susya opened fire on them. **Casualties:** Martyr: 1) Amir Mohammad Shanaran (28) Severly injured: 2) Khaled Mohammad Shanaran (33) During the same attack, several members of the Shanaran family were injured while attempting to confront the settlers. 1) The brothers’ father was severely beaten, suffering head injuries and bruises. 2) Their aunt sustained a fractured leg. 3) Their uncle and two cousins were also beaten, leaving them with multiple bruises. In total, five family members were hospitalized after severe physical assaults during the attack. **Israeli Army statement:** The Israeli military said the shooter was a reservist soldier who arrived after reports of clashes between settlers and Palestinians. Israeli Military Police said a preliminary investigation had found that the shooter was a reservist soldier who arrived on the scene after being alerted to the confrontations between Palestinians and settlers. According to the IDF, troops and police officers were dispatched to a Palestinian village in the Masafer Yatta area “following a report of a violent confrontation between Israeli civilians and several Palestinians, in which several individuals were injured.” Military police opened an investigation into the incident, the findings of which will be submitted to the Military Advocate General for review, the IDF said. The Israel Police also launched an investigation and collected findings at the scene. **Investigation of the Naboth's Vineyard @nabothVin org:** In the Palestinian village of Susya, last Saturday (7 March 2026), tragedy struck. Amir Muhammad Shanran was shot and killed, and his brother Khaled critically wounded. What happened that day is only the latest chapter in a story that began nearly 30 years ago : the perpetrators belong to the Luski family, settlers living in an illegal outpost at the archaeological site known as Ancient Susya. The outpost was established decades ago on land expropriated by the Israeli state in 1986. Although demolition orders were issued, they were never enforced. Over the years, the family received state support—including a mortgage from the WZO Settlement Division intended for carpentry and livestock—allowing them to expand their presence. Originally sheep farmers, the Luskis eventually moved into cattle ranching, building an illegal cowshed near their home. The herd routinely trespasses onto Palestinian fields, destroying crops. On Saturday, March 7, 2026, the Luki family drove their cattle more than a kilometer into Shanran farmland, sparking a confrontation. When the Shanaran brothers tried to drive the cows away, Luria Luski, armed with a weapon supplied by the Israeli army, opened fire. The video footage shows Amir lying motionless, while the cows continued grazing calmly nearby—a stark contrast to the violence unfolding. Violence runs in the family. Luria’s father, Gadi Luski, and brother, Shem Tov Luski, have long records of attacks on Palestinians, including incidents so severe they occasionally led to prosecution. Yet accountability remains rare. This killing is not an isolated event. In the same week, four other Palestinians were shot by settlers in nearby villages. Experience shows that perpetrators rarely face consequences—even when attacks are recorded on video. The IDF’s response to the Shanran killing illustrates how normalized such violence has become. Their statement described the shooter as “an IDF reservist who arrived following a report of an assault” and noted that two Palestinians were hit, with one dying from his wounds. In the West Bank today, under a government that often turns a blind eye, any Israeli holding a weapon has, in effect, a license to kill Palestinians. And in Susya, decades of state-backed settlement expansion and unchecked settler violence have made that deadly reality painfully clear. **Broader context:** According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers since the beginning of 2026, and 40 Palestinians have been killed by settlers since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023.

On March 7, 2026, an Israeli drone bombed a house in the center of Khan Younis, killing a man, Ahmed al-Qudra, and injuring his daughter in the center of the city of Khan Younis. She was treated in intensive care; Sources reported that the child, Julia Ahmed Muhammad Al-Qudra, was martyred a day after her father was martyred in an Israeli bombing of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Before that, a local source reported that Israeli artillery shelling targeted eastern Khan Younis, while occupation vehicles opened fire northeast of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. **Names of the martyrs:** Ahmed Muhammad al-Qudra (34 years old) killed on March 7 Julia Ahmed Muhammad Al-Qudra, (4 years old) succumbed on March 8