The Israeli military has provided new details that changed its initial account of the killing of 15 emergency workers near the southern Gaza city of Rafah last month but said investigators were still examining the evidence.

The 15 paramedics and emergency responders were shot dead on March 23 and buried in a shallow grave where their bodies were found a week later by officials from the United Nations and the Palestinian Red Crescent. Another man is still missing.

Israel has admitted to mistakenly killing over a dozen Palestinian aid workers when troops fired on emergency vehicles last month in Rafah.

Mobile phone footage appeared to contradict claims by Israel’s army that it shot at “terrorists [in] suspicious vehicles” during a controversial attack.

The video was recovered from the phone of a Palestinian paramedic who was one of 15 humanitarian workers killed by Israeli forces in the attack on March 23, according to the United Nations and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

The Israel Defense Forces acknowledged on Saturday evening that it had been incorrect in its initial account of an incident in southern Gaza’s Rafah last month during which troops fired on Palestinian emergency vehicles, killing 14 or 15 medics whose bodies were later recovered from a mass grave.

An Israeli strike in southern Gaza killed senior Hamas leader Salah Bardawil, according to the Associated Press.

Bardawil was a Palestinian parliament and political bureau member and was among at least 26 people killed in the Israeli strikes between Saturday night and Sunday morning. 

Bardawil’s wife was also killed by the strike.

Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza, killing more than 400 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, threatening the complete collapse of a two-month ceasefire as Israel vowed to use more force to free hostages held by Hamas.

The Palestinian militant group, which still holds 59 of the 250 or so hostages seized in its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, accused Israel of breaching the ceasefire and jeopardising efforts by mediators to secure a permanent truce.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is over as Israeli fighter jets began striking the Gaza Strip after Hamas refused repeated hostage deal offers, officials said.

At least 326 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in the airstrikes, according to hospital officials.

Israel launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing at least 326 Palestinians, including women and children, according to hospital officials. The surprise bombardment shattered a ceasefire in place since January and threatened to fully reignite the 17-month-old war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the strikes after Hamas refused Israeli demands to change the ceasefire agreement. Officials said the operation was open-ended and was expected to expand. The White House said it had been consulted and voiced support for Israel’s actions.

The Israeli military says it is carrying out "extensive strikes" in the Gaza Strip.

A spokesperson for Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence agency – the strip's main emergency response service – told the BBC that at least 34 Palestinians have been killed and 70 others injured.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was targeting what it called "terror targets" belonging to Hamas.

This is the largest wave of airstrikes in Gaza since the ceasefire began on 19 January...

Some academic institutions are finally facing a long-overdue reckoning after refusing to enforce the law (and their own policies) in the face of systemic abuses and lawlessness from pro-Hamas mobs.  Jewish students have been threatened, attacked, harassed, and even prevented from attending classes or walking freely on their own campuses.  Many of these episodes arguably or incontrovertibly constitute civil rights violations, on top of all the other chaos and dysfunction.