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Al Jazeera - Feb 11, 2025
<<Why the Gaza ceasefire is in jeopardy
Hamas says it won’t release any more Israeli captives as part of the
Gaza ceasefire, because Israel is violating the agreement. Israel has
told its military to ‘prepare’ for a resumption of the conflict. Is the
deal about to fall apart? Soraya Lennie explains.>>
Video:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/11/why-the-gaza-ceasefire-is-in-jeopardy
Video capture Palestinians continue to return to the ruins
Al Jazeera - Feb 11, 2025
<<In Pictures
Gaza in need of shelter and supplies as winter storms hit
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is being exacerbated as displaced
Palestinians face a shortage of shelter.
Winter crisis: Palestinians in Gaza face inadequate shelter and supplies
As winter storms grip Gaza, the combination of severe weather, lack of
shelter, and Israel’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian aid has created
an increasingly desperate situation for hundreds of thousands of
displaced people. Cold temperatures, relentless rain, and strong winds
have turned makeshift shelters into barely liveable spaces, offering
little to no protection from the elements. Israel’s restrictions on aid
deliveries have only compounded the crisis, leaving many without access
to the most basic necessities, including food, medicine, and heating.
The curbs were among the key violations cited by Hamas when it announced
on Monday that it would postpone the release of more Israeli prisoners,
initially scheduled for Saturday, unless Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s government complied with the terms of the ceasefire
agreement.
International aid groups and officials have raised alarm over how the
inconsistent flow of supplies due to Israeli roadblocks is worsening
humanitarian conditions in Gaza. “The health system is ruined.
Malnutrition is rising. The risk of famine persists,” said Hanan Balkhy,
regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean at the World Health
Organization. “We are ready to scale up our response, but we urgently
need systematic and sustained access to the population across Gaza, and
we need an end to restrictions on the entry of essential supplies.” A
recent update from the UN aid coordination office said nearly one
million displaced Palestinians are living in “substandard tents or
makeshift shelters, with families resorting to sewing old rice sacks
together for basic cover”. Hosni Mahna, a spokesperson for the Gaza
municipality, said: “The cold weather has a catastrophic impact on
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in tents and temporary
shelters, especially with the lack of heating and basic supplies to
protect against rain and strong winds.” Families, including young
children and the elderly, sleep on cold dirt or cement floors without
insulation, increasing their risk of infection and illness. Strong winds
have ripped apart makeshift tents, while heavy rains have flooded entire
shelter camps, leaving many in uninhabitable conditions.
“There is an acute shortage of tents. In the Gaza and North governorates
alone, we need at least 120,000 tents to temporarily shelter residents
who have lost their homes, but what has been delivered so far covers
only 10 percent of the actual need,” said Mahna.>>
View pictures:
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/2/11/winter-crisis-palestinians-in-gaza-face-inadequate-shelter-and-supplies
Al Jazeera - Feb 11, 2025
<<Did Israel violate the Gaza ceasefire? What to know about Hamas’s
pause
Hamas says it will halt its captive releases until Israel complies with
the terms of the ceasefire agreed between them. Hamas says Israeli
ceasefire violations reached the point that it would no longer hold up
its end of the bargain – and will delay the release of an upcoming batch
of Israeli captives indefinitely. Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’s
armed wing the Qassam Brigades, said on Monday: “The resistance
leadership monitored the enemy’s violations and their non-compliance
with the terms of the agreement … Meanwhile, the resistance fulfilled
all its obligations.” Not responding to the accusations of violating the
ceasefire, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Hamas’s position
was a “complete violation of the ceasefire agreement”.
What happened? Who violated the ceasefire? What next? Here’s what we
know:
What does the ceasefire say?
According to details released about the pact, the ceasefire has been
designed in three, six-week, phases characterised by a halt in military
operations and moving towards total calm and reconstruction of Gaza. We
are currently halfway through the first phase and, in those three weeks,
21 captives taken from Israel have been released by Hamas, of a total of
33 to be released. Each release has been matched by Israel releasing
hundreds of Palestinians it rounded up into its jails, with more than
730 being released so far under the deal. In this phase, Israeli
soldiers are to withdraw from parts of Gaza that they have occupied and
specific levels of aid should be allowed into Gaza to bring its
population back from the starvation Israel imposed.
Did Israel violate the ceasefire?
Yes.
Israel is still killing people in Gaza, according to daily reports from
the Ministry of Health in the enclave. In terms of aid, Israel allowed
only 8,500 trucks of food and basic aid items into Gaza so far, when
according to the ceasefire terms, it should have been 12,000 trucks. In
terms of shelter, 200,000 tents are stipulated in the first phase, but
only 10 percent have been allowed in so far – halfway through the first
phase – and none of the promised 60,000 mobile homes. On top of that, 50
desperately sick or injured people were supposed to be allowed out of
Gaza daily with family members accompanying them – that should have been
1,000 people so far but the Health Ministry says only 120 patients have
been allowed to leave. Also at issue was Israel dragging its heels on
allowing people to return to their homes in northern Gaza, a clear part
of the agreement.
Did Hamas violate the ceasefire?
Hamas says it has met all obligations so far.
But on January 25, Israel said Hamas had not freed a female Israeli
civilian captive as promised, and retaliated by delaying the return of
Palestinians to their homes in northern Gaza. The captive, Arbel Yehoud,
was eventually released.
What’s Hamas’s position?
Abu Obeida said Hamas would pause implementing the agreement due to
Israel’s violations but they are open to resuming if Israel agrees to
comply.
Hamas said it has complied with the deal and accused Israel of delaying
the return of displaced people to northern Gaza, killing Palestinians,
and hindering the entry of necessities and equipment to remove debris
and find bodies. “Hamas intentionally made this announcement five full
days before the scheduled release of the prisoners to give mediators
enough time to pressure the occupation to fulfil its obligations and to
keep the door open for the exchange to take place on time if the
occupation adheres to its commitments,” the group said.
How has Israel reacted?
The news divided Israelis.
The pause in releasing the captives has dismayed their families and
supporters, who have protested to demand that Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu fix the situation. It has also increased rhetoric from
far-right figures who had opposed the ceasefire anyway. Despite
resigning from his position over the ceasefire, former National Security
Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for “a massive fire attack on Gaza, from
the air and land”.
What did Trump say?
The United States president suggested that all Israeli captives in Gaza
be returned in one batch by Saturday and if that doesn’t happen, Israel
should cancel the ceasefire, allowing “all hell to break loose”. Trump’s
comments on the ceasefire – which he claims to have made possible – have
been erratic and frequently at odds with the terms agreed to in Doha.
Under the agreement, the rebuilding and future governance of Gaza is to
be determined in a vague third stage, to take place after all captives
have been exchanged. However, Trump has since suggested that all Gaza’s
inhabitants be expelled, adding on Saturday that those ethnically
cleansed from Gaza would not be allowed to return.
What is the situation in Gaza now?
Since the statement by Abu Obeida and Trump’s comments, people in Gaza
have been living in fear, heightened by the sound of Israeli warplanes
hovering overhead, Al Jazeera’s Maram Humaid reported from Gaza. Prices
of essential goods have started rising again, and everyone anxiously
awaits developments until Saturday. Since the ceasefire, people have
been working to clear the rubble of destroyed homes with their bare
hands or primitive tools, as heavy machinery has not been allowed in.
The bodies of countless dead people remain under rubble that human hands
cannot clear. Hundreds of thousands of families remain without shelter
as the entry of caravans and tents is blocked, leaving them exposed to
harsh winter conditions as a severe shortage of drinking and other water
forces people to use contaminated sources or travel long distances for
clean water.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/11/did-israel-violate-the-gaza-ceasefire-what-to-know-about-hamass-pause
580 Palestinians arrested
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Feb. 11 , 2025
<<West Bank: 580 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in January
At least 580 Palestinians, including women and children, were arrested
in January 2025 by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, according
to Palestinian rights groups.
News Center- At least 580 Palestinians, including 17 women and 60
children, were arrested in January 2025 by Israeli forces in the
occupied West Bank, Palestinian rights groups said on Monday. Most
people were arrested in the northern city of Jenin and its refugee camp,
according to the joint statement by the Commission of Detainees' Affairs
and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS). Hundreds of Palestinians
were also interrogated by Israeli forces during the raids in the West
Bank, the statement added. At least 14,500 Palestinians, including 455
women and 1,115 children, have been arrested in the West Bank since
October 7, 2023, according to the statement. In January, the Palestine
Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that Israeli forces obstructed the
movement of its ambulances in the West Bank. According to medical
sources, Israeli forces have kept preventing ambulances from entering
the eastern neighborhood of Jenin city in the northern West Bank.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/west-bank-580-palestinians-arrested-by-israeli-forces-in-january-36517
Al Jazeera - Feb 11, 2025
<<Israeli offensive on occupied West Bank forcibly displaced 40,000: UN
The UN says 44 deaths in the occupied West Bank since January were
linked to operations in Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said the
forced displacement of Palestinians in the northern area of the occupied
West Bank is escalating at an alarming rate, with the number of people
evacuating reaching 40,000 since January. The UNRWA warning came as
Israeli forces continued with their massive raids on Tuesday, storming
Jenin and arresting three people, while demolishing more than a dozen
houses in two areas near the city of Hebron. Since the start of an
Israeli operation on January 21, targeting the Jenin refugee camp and
its adjoining city, the raids have expanded to other areas of the
occupied territory, UNRWA said. It said several refugee camps, including
Jenin, Tulkarem, Nur Shams and Far’a, have been “nearly emptied of their
residents”, describing the nearly three-week military operation as “the
single longest in the West Bank” since the second Intifada.
According to UNRWA, the four camps were collectively home to some 76,600
Palestinian refugees.
UNRWA said the “repeated and destructive operations” carried out by
Israeli forces “have rendered the northern refugee camps uninhabitable,
trapping residents in cyclical displacement”. “In 2024, more than 60
percent of displacement was a result of” Israeli forces’ operations,
“absent any judicial orders”, it added. In 2025 so far, UNRWA noted,
Israel has carried out 38 air raids targeting the West Bank. According
to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), a US-based crisis
monitoring group, the operation in the West Bank has killed nearly 70
people and at least 44 of the deaths were linked to the Israeli
operations in Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas. These numbers are supported by
the Palestinian Ministry of Health. UNRWA reiterated its call on
Israelis to protect civilians and civilian infrastructures “at all
times”, adding that “collective punishment is never acceptable”. Since
January 30, UNRWA no longer has any contact with the Israeli
authorities, after their ban took effect, making it impossible to raise
concerns about civilian suffering in the Palestinian territory, the
agency noted.
“This puts at grave risk the lives of Palestine refugees and the UNRWA
staff that serve them,” it said.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/11/israeli-offensive-on-occupied-west-bank-forcibly-displaced-40000-un
Al Jazeera - Feb 9, 2025
<<Saudi Arabia slams Netanyahu’s suggestion it should host Palestinian
state
The kingdom reiterated that ‘the Palestinian people have a right to
their land’ and cannot be ‘expelled’.
Saudi Arabia has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
suggestion that the kingdom’s land be used to establish a Palestinian
state. In a statement on Sunday, the Saudi Foreign Ministry accused
Netanyahu of attempting to “divert attention” from Israel’s ongoing
“crimes” in Gaza, including “ethnic cleansing”. “The kingdom affirms
that the Palestinian people have a right to their land, and they are not
intruders or immigrants to it who can be expelled whenever the brutal
Israeli occupation wishes,” said the Foreign Ministry. On Thursday,
Netanyahu responded to an interviewer on Israel’s Channel 14 who
misspoke by saying “Saudi state” instead of “Palestinian state”.
“The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia; they have a
lot of land over there,” Netanyahu said.
The interviewer replied that it was an idea worth exploring.
The exchange drew angry reactions from Arab states, including Qatar,
Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq, as well as the
six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). “These dangerous and
irresponsible statements confirm the approach of the Israeli occupation
forces in their disrespect for international and UN laws and treaties
and the sovereignty of states,” said GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed
Albudaiwi. The Saudi Foreign Ministry thanked the “brotherly countries”
for denouncing Netanyahu’s remarks. Discussions of the fate of
Palestinians in Gaza had already been upended by an earlier shock
proposal from United States President Donald Trump for the US to “take
over” and “own” Gaza, resettling Palestinians elsewhere in a move that
would amount to ethnic cleansing. That suggestion, amid a fragile
ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, has also been roundly
condemned by Arab leaders. Trump has also said Saudi Arabia would not
require the formation of a Palestinian state as a precondition to
normalise ties with Israel, a claim Riyadh has repeatedly denied.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,700 Palestinians including
about 18,000 children, and wrecked much of the enclave’s infrastructure.
More than 14,000 more people are missing and are presumed to be dead.
The Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7 that sparked the war killed
1,139 people and seized more than 250 captives, dozens of whom are still
believed to be in the enclave.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/saudi-arabia-slams-netanyahus-suggestion-it-should-host-palestinian-state
Al Jazeera - Feb 9, 2025
<<Israel kills two women, including pregnant 23-year-old, in West Bank
raid
Two killed by Israel in Nur Shams camp, near Tulkarem, as military
intensifes West Bank attacks.
The Israeli military has expanded its assaults in the occupied West
Bank, killing two women – one of which was eight months pregnant, during
a raid in the Palestinian territory’s Nur Shams refugee camp. The troops
opened fire on a Palestinian family at the camp, killing Sondos Jamal
Muhammad Shalabi and critically injuring her husband, the Palestinian
Ministry of Health said in a statement on Sunday.
The ministry said medical teams were unable to save the 23-year-old
woman’s fetus, because the Israeli military prevented them from
transferring the injured couple to a hospital. In a separate statement
the ministry said that a 21-year-old woman, Rahaf Fouad Abdullah al-Ashqar,
was also killed by Israeli forces in her home. Palestine’s Wafa news
agency said the Israeli army raided the camp in occupied West Bank’s
Tulkarem region early on Sunday and deployed heavy machinery and
bulldozers, raiding dozens of homes as reconnaissance planes flew at low
altitudes. Local sources told Al Jazeera Arabic they also heard sounds
of heavy gunfire and huge explosions. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s
Tulkarem Battalion said that it had thwarted an Israeli infiltration
into Nur Shams. Earlier, the Palestine Red Crescent Society also said
Israeli soldiers prevented its medical teams from entering the camp,
despite reports of casualties. Israel, which claimed its operation
targeted what it called “disruptive activities” in the camp, has imposed
a curfew in the area. The raid on Nur Shams camp came as Israeli forces
continue their weeks-long military operation in the north of the
occupied West Bank, targeting Jenin, camps in Tulkarem and Far’a in
Tubas governorate. The assaults have displaced more than 26,000
Palestinians from their homes in Jenin and Tulkarem in the past few
weeks. Since a ceasefire in Gaza was announced last month, Israel has
increased the frequency and intensity of its attacks across the occupied
West Bank. Wafa reported that more Israeli military reinforcements have
been deployed towards Far’a camp from the Hamra checkpoint, as Israeli
forces continue to destroy infrastructure and private property in the
area. Raids on citizens’ homes and field interrogations have also been
ongoing, a day after Israeli soldiers forcibly displaced dozens of
families, with some of them now sheltering in schools. At least eight
Palestinians were arrested in Far’a. Reporting from Amman, Jordan, Al
Jazeera’s Nour Odeh said Israel’s conduct in Gaza is now being repeated
in the occupied West Bank. “The stated aim of this [Israeli] military
assault [in the occupied West Bank]… comes under the banner or the
pretext of fighting so-called terrorism,” she said. “But the agenda of
this [Israeli] coalition government included, long before October 7,
2023, the annexation of the occupied West Bank,” Odeh added.
“And so, in order to do that, [Israeli] ministers have openly and
repeatedly said they must first shatter the idea that Palestinian
freedom is possible, cleanse the area from as many Palestinians as
possible and encourage their voluntary migration.”
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/israel-kills-eight-month-pregnant-woman-in-occupied-west-bank-raid
Video capture Israel withdraws from Netzarim Corridor
Al Jazeera - Feb 9, 2025
<<Israeli forces withdraw from Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor
The withdrawal from the corridor, which cut off northern Gaza from the
rest of the Strip, is part of the Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal. The
Israeli military has completed its withdrawal from Gaza’s Netzarim
Corridor – a requirement under phase one of the ceasefire deal between
Israel and Hamas agreed last month. “Israeli forces have dismantled
their positions and military posts and completely withdrawn their tanks
from the Netzarim Corridor on Salaheddin Road, allowing vehicles to pass
freely in both directions,” a Hamas official said on Sunday, referring
to Salah al-Din Street. The so-called Netzarim Corridor refers to a
strip of land that cut off northern Gaza from the rest of the Strip.
According to the ceasefire agreement, the deadline for withdrawal was
February 9. The full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the corridor took
place a day after Hamas and Israel conducted their fifth
captive-prisoner swap, which saw the Palestinian group release three
Israeli captives in exchange for 183 Palestinian prisoners held in
Israeli jails. It also comes on the same day Israel sent a delegation to
Qatar for talks ahead of the second phase of the ceasefire deal,
according to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. The
first phase of the ceasefire began on January 19 and is set to last for
at least six weeks. But a source in Netanyahu’s office told Reuters that
the delegation would only discuss technical issues, rather than more
complicated issues such as Gaza’s post-war administration.
Israel’s ‘failure’
In a statement, Hamas said Israel’s complete withdrawal from the
Netzarim corridor signals a “continuation of the failure of the goals of
the war of extermination against the Palestinian people”. It said the
return of displaced Palestinians to their homes and the continuation of
the exchange of captives and prisoners refutes Netanyahu’s “lie” about
achieving victory in the 15-month war on the enclave. “Gaza will remain
a land liberated by the hands of its people and its fighters, and
forbidden to the occupying invaders and any external force,” it said.
Israel created the corridor at the beginning of its war on Gaza. It is a
closed-off military zone that stretches from Israel’s boundary with Gaza
to the Mediterranean Sea and is about 6km (3.7 miles) wide.a map shows
gaza with areas in orange showing land seized by Israel and a red line
labelled netazarim The corridor was named after Netzarim, the last
Israeli settlement to be closed in Gaza in 2005, under the then-Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Reporting from Doha, Qatar, Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker said the
corridor was a strategic Israeli military move – giving it access,
control and oversight. “For Palestinians, it was yet another land grab –
a corridor of suffocation, attacks and death. The Israeli army has been
accused of shooting and killing indiscriminately anyone who dared to
come near,” she said. “Israeli media have quoted soldiers saying they
feel that withdrawing is a failure – leaving behind the corridor that
had become a symbol of their power, their control, and their victory,”
she added. Reporting from northern Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said
the Israeli military’s withdrawal from the corridor is a hope for more
free movement for people in the enclave. “It will be very difficult for
people who were displaced from this area to return to their homes. It’s
hard to imagine where are they going to stay here other than just
setting up tents here and there,” he said. “The hope is now that with
the withdrawal of the Israeli military, there is more free movement, a
flow of vehicles and aid trucks going all the way to the northern part
of the Strip,” he added. Mouin Rabbani, a non-resident fellow at the
Middle East Council on Global Affairs, told Al Jazeera the Netzarim
Corridor “shouldn’t have a future” and “should disappear”. “Israel has
not only occupied what they call the Netzarim Corridor, but placed
numerous structures there that demonstrated their determination to
maintain a permanent presence there, to have this capacity to bisect the
Gaza Strip, to paralyse transportation and movement within it at will,”
he said. “That has failed once again, and they are being compelled to
withdraw from the Netzarim Corridor and hopefully never to return.”>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/israeli-forces-withdraw-from-gazas-netzarim-corridor
Al Jazeera - Feb 9, 2025
<<German police break up pro-Palestinian protest in Berlin
Video shows German police violently dispersing protesters at a
pro-Palestinian rally in Berlin. Local media reports that demonstrators
were assaulted after chanting in Arabic in support of Palestine.>>
Video:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/9/german-police-break-up-pro-palestinian-protest-in-berlin
Al Jazeera - Feb 9, 2025
<<Quotable
Will the ICC be “yet another victim buried in the rubble of Gaza?”>>
Video:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/quotable/2025/2/8/will-the-icc-be-yet-another-victim-buried-in-the-rubble-of-gaza
Al Jazeera - Feb 5 2025
<<US protesters outraged by Trump’s Gaza plan during Netanyahu visit
Hundreds of protesters demonstrating against Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House were outraged to hear
President Donald Trump talk of the US ‘owning’ Gaza and forcibly
displacing Palestinians.>>
Video:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/5/us-protesters-outraged-by-trumps-gaza-plan-during-netanyahu-visit
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