Live: Israel kills more than 430 Palestinians on Tuesday

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Here are the day's key developments:

- Israel has breached the ceasefire and launched a wave of air strikes during Suhoor in Gaza on Tuesday, killing 430 people and wounding hundreds of others. The international community had condemned the action, but the US said Israel consulted it first before resuming the full-scale war on the Strip. 

- The spokesman for Palestinian Islamic Jihad's (PIJ) armed wing, the al-Quds Brigades, was targeted in the overnight Israeli air strikes on Gaza, the group announced on Tuesday. Naji Abu Saif, known as Abu Hamza, and his wife, Shaima Abu Saif, were both killed. 

- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that negotiations on restoring the ceasefire in Gaza would continue "only under fire", adding that military pressure on Hamas was a "critical condition" for securing the release of the remaining captives held in Gaza. "This is just the beginning," he warned. 

- In a statement released on Tuesday, Hamas said it remains committed to its ceasefire obligations and that Israeli suggestions that a Hamas attack is imminent are "baseless".

- Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets from Jerusalem to New York demanding that the Israeli government abide by its ceasefire obligations. 

- Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they would expand their range of targets in Israel in the next hours and days unless the "aggression" on Gaza stops. The group's military spokesperson, Yahya Sarea, also confirmed that they had targeted an air base in Israel with a ballistic missile. The Israeli military said that missile was intercepted outside of Israeli airspace. 

- At least 10 US air strikes targeted parts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the port city of Hodeidah in the very early hours of Wednesday, local media said. 

Thousands of people took to the streets in Manhattan on Tuesday demanding an end to Israel's war on Gaza and an end to US aid for Israel. 

Video shared by The People's Forum on X showed scores of protesters holding up signs, chanting, and marching through Times Square.

🇵🇸⛓️‍💥 In NYC a massive crowd marches in the streets to demand an end to all US aid to Israel! pic.twitter.com/pecwiwcbsW

— The People's Forum (@PeoplesForumNYC) March 18, 2025

At least 10 US air strikes targeted parts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the port city of Hodeidah in the very early hours of Wednesday, local media said. 

This is the third round of air strikes on the Houthis ordered this week by President Donald Trump. The Houthis said last week they were resuming their naval blockade in the Red Sea in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

Aljazeera's correspondent in Gaza is reporting that Israeli air strikes have struck the tents of displaced Palestinians in Asdaa, west of Khan Younis, just after midnight on Wednesday. One person is said to have been killed, and a number of children wounded. 

In his first statement from lockup, Columbia University student and activist for Palestinian rights Mahmoud Khalil described himself as a "political prisoner" who was targeted "as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent."

The statement was published exclusively by The Guardian on Tuesday, and in much of it, Khalil refocused attention on Israel's war on Gaza.

He was taken away from his home in New York by plainclothes agents in an unmarked car on 9 March. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally revoked Khalil's green card - his US permanent residency - because his position on Israel-Palestine was seen as "adversarial" to US foreign policy. 

“My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night,” Khalil said. “With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom.”

“Who has the right to have rights?” Khalil asked. “It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing.”

“Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities,” he added.

Khalil described how he was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which had been displaced from their land during the 1948 Nakba.

“I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention - imprisonment without trial or charge - to strip Palestinians of their rights,” he said.

Israel’s air strikes on Gaza on Tuesday received widespread backlash on social media, with hundreds of thousands reacting to Israel’s newest assault. 

Israel killed hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children, in a wave of air strikes targeting five Gaza municipalities at around 3am local time.

Social media erupted with images of Israel’s bombings with images of children and babies killed during the attacks, bodies transported to hospitals and images of makeshift tents burning. 

Many on social media from Gaza reported on X that “children died hungry before they could have their suhoor” and Israel’s “burning entire Gaza Palestinian families alive in their makeshift tents”.

Read more: Thousands online respond to the harrowing aftermath of Israel’s attack on Gaza

The United Arab Emirates condemned on Tuesday fresh Israeli strikes on Gaza and warned about the repercussions of military escalation, state news agency Wam reported.

- Reporting by Reuters

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that negotiations on restoring the ceasefire in Gaza would continue "only under fire", adding that military pressure on Hamas was a "critical condition" for securing the release of the remaining captives held in Gaza.

"This is just the beginning," Netanyahu warned. 

Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they would expand their range of targets in Israel in the next hours and days unless the "aggression" on Gaza stops.

The group's military spokesperson, Yahya Sarea, also confirmed that they had targeted an air base in Israel with a ballistic missile. 

Earlier, the Israeli military said it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen towards Israeli territory. Sirens had sounded in several areas of Israel.

The Houthi group has repeatedly fired drones and missiles towards Israel in what it has described as acts of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

The firing of the missile came after Israel resumed air strikes against targets in Gaza that killed more than 400 people since dawn on Tuesday, according to Palestinian health authorities, in an onslaught that ended weeks of relative calm after talks to secure a permanent ceasefire stalled.

"Yemen, its leadership, people, and army will not stand idly by while witnessing all the massacres against our people in Gaza," Sarea said in a televised address.

- Reporting by Reuters

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that he condemns Hamas for its "irresponsible actions" in Gaza, as Israel resumes air strikes across the enclave.

He added that Israel has "committed a massacre against our people, and we demand that the international community force it to stop its aggression".

A lengthy phone call on Tuesday between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin included a discussion on preventing Iranian attacks on Israel, a short readout from the White House showed. Russia has long been an economic and military partner of the Islamic Republic. 

"The leaders spoke broadly about the Middle East as a region of potential cooperation to prevent future conflicts," the readout said. "The two leaders shared the view that Iran should never be in a position to destroy Israel." 

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that sirens sounded across southern Israel after the Houthis launched a ballistic missile in the direction of the Negev, where a ceremony for graduating soldiers was taking place. 

A correspondent for Fox News in Israel said the missile was intercepted outside of Israeli airspace. 

Israel’s renewed attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed over 400 people since dawn on Tuesday.

The Israeli military has carried out countless air strikes across the besieged Palestinian enclave, unravelling the ceasefire it agreed with Hamas in January.

However, this is not the first violation of the ceasefire agreement, which aimed to release Israeli captives in return for an end to the war on Gaza.

Middle East Eye details some of the ways Israel has violated the fragile truce before unilaterally resuming the conflict altogether.

Read more: At least 155 Palestinians were killing during the truce before Tuesday's bombings even began

Germany's foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said on Tuesday that she is in shock after seeing the images from Israel's pounding of the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 400 people in the latest air strikes. 

"The images of burning tents in refugee camps are shocking. I emphasize that international law includes the principle of proportionality, even in self-defence," Baerbock said in Berlin. 

"I have to appeal here, in particular, to the United States, to its regional influence, to its corresponding potential for influence," she added.

In a statement released on Tuesday, Hamas said it remains committed to its ceasefire obligations and that Israeli suggestions that a Hamas attack is imminent are "baseless".

"The Hamas Movement affirms that the Israeli occupation has reneged on the ceasefire agreement, evaded its obligations, and continued to perpetrate massacres against our people in Gaza; all amidst a shameful international silence," the statement read. 

"The occupation’s claims that the resistance had made preparations to attack its troops are baseless and false pretexts to justify its return to the war and escalation of its bloody aggression. 

"The occupation is trying to mislead the public opinion and create false justifications to cover its premeditated decision to resume its genocide against unarmed civilians, completely disregarding its commitments under the ceasefire agreement."

"The Hamas Movement remained committed to the agreement until the very last moment, and was keen on ensuring its continuation," the statement concluded.