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Special reports: Updates February and earlier, 2025-'24: Actual: Our ‘return’ to northern Gaza is not the end of exile and On idle talk and genocide in Gaza   & Earlier:  A thousand days of Israeli impunity, still no justice for Shireen Abu Akleh & Why has Trump hit the world criminal court with sanctions? & Trump must not be allowed to torpedo the Palestinian right to remain & Jordan faces ‘geopolitical blackmail’ &  Advocates warn Trump’s threat to deport pro-Palestine students & Overview special reports

November 28 - 24 and earler stories, 2024 Is Netanyahu immune from ICC arrest warrant-NO!   TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel Updated: December 6, 2024: Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war   Click here for earlier stories/news

February 13 - 12, 2025 Opinion: Western democracy has lost her tongue. just read the actual and fact-finding news February 11 - 5, 2025 <<Does Israel violate the Gaza ceasefire? Yes! Together with their western allies. just read the actual and fact-finding news

February 7 - 1, 2025 Fact: Gaza is not for sale... despite the continues suffering and betrayals on netanyahus' Western allies side. And more fact-finding news January 31 - 28, 2025 In pictures and words: Bittersweet homecoming for Palestinians returning to Gaza City... Read more and decide for yourself

January 28 - 24, 2025 "Now it's time to grief" If the ones guilty of the genocide let us and it doesn't look like it. By the way, did you know that during WW2 the american allies knew all about the transportation routes that brought the jews to the gaschambers but simply let the trains roll. And now there was this so-called 'holocaust remembrance day' but... too many haven't learned anything from history... Read more and decide for yourself  Pre-ceasefire & Post-Ceasefire December 30 - 26, 2024 'Betrayed' and 'abandoned' Sixth baby dies from severe cold

 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.



Al Jazeera - Feb 13, 2025
<<At least 25 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Jenin this year
Since a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel has increased the frequency and intensity of its attacks in the occupied West Bank.
Israel’s continuing deadly raids in Jenin have killed at least 25 Palestinians and displaced nearly 20,000 this year, the camp’s media committee said.
On Thursday, it said that the Israeli army has also prevented water from reaching four main hospitals in the region and said that 35 percent of Jenin city’s residents have also been deprived of water. Since a ceasefire in Gaza was announced last month, Israel has increased the frequency and intensity of its attacks in Jenin and across the occupied West Bank, leaving behind widespread destruction and a humanitarian crisis. On Thursday, the Israeli army launched an attack on a parked vehicle in Jenin. No injuries have been reported so far. The Jenin refugee camp, set up in 1953 by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to accommodate displaced Palestinians, is a hub for Palestinian resistance groups operating under the umbrella of the Jenin Brigades and has long been a focal point for Israeli military incursions.
More arrests and displacement
On Thursday, the Israeli army also said it had detained more than 90 Palestinians this week across the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said at least 380 people have been arrested by Israeli forces since the start of their large-scale military operations in the occupied West Bank after the Gaza ceasefire went into effect on January 19. At least 150 Palestinians have been arrested in Jenin over the past 24 days with at least 125 taken in by Israeli soldiers during an 18-day siege of Tulkarem, according to the PPS. It recorded at least 100 arrests in Tubas over 17 days. Reporting from Amman, Jordan, Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh said that the Israeli army is digging deeper in Jenin and Tulkarem by continuing nightly raids.
“What we have been hearing from official sources in Tulkarem, for example, is that this onslaught resulted in the displacement of 85 percent of the residents of its refugee camp, and of a significant portion of the Jenin refugee camp which is now almost unrecognisable in some areas,” she said.
“This mass displacement is happening while Israeli military officials are saying that their plan is to completely change the geography of the camp, and that there will be some areas where return will simply not be possible because they will be torn down.”
Israeli assault intensifies across occupied West Bank
On Thursday, the Israeli army also killed a young Palestinian man and arrested his brother in Ramallah. “The young man Issa Riyad Jabali was 28 years old and was killed by the occupation forces’ bullets near the town of Huwara, on the pretext of carrying out an operation,” the Palestinian Health Ministry said. A group of Israeli settlers also stormed the village of al-Awsaj, north of Jericho, kidnapped a Palestinian man and took him to an unknown location, according to Eid Brahma, the director of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society in Jericho and the Jordan Valley. Israeli forces also arrested a Palestinian man from al-Jiftlik north of Jericho while he was herding sheep. Soldiers present at the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge crossing also detained a high school student from the city of Bethlehem while he was returning from Jordan.
Since October 7, 2023, at least 915 Palestinians, including 182 children and minors, have been killed and more than 7,616 wounded by Israeli army and settler attacks. At least 15,000 Palestinians have also been detained.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/13/at-least-25-palestinians-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-jenin-this-year

Al Jazeera - Feb 13, 2025
<<Hamas says three captives to be released amid ceasefire deal collapse fears
Hamas says it will release captives according to timeline set out in truce after fears agreement would not hold following Israel’s violations.
Hamas says it is committed to the release of captives held in Gaza according to a timeline set out in a ceasefire, days after fears arose that the truce would not hold following Israel’s violation of the agreement. In a statement released on Thursday, Hamas said it “confirms continuation in implementing the agreement in accordance with what was signed, including the exchange of prisoners according to the specified timetable”. Hamas spokesperson Abdul Latif al-Qanoua also confirmed to the Anadolu news agency that the group will release captives on Saturday if Israel adheres to the terms of the ceasefire. “The [Israeli] occupation has violated the agreement multiple times, whether by preventing the return of displaced people or blocking the entry of humanitarian aid,” he said. “If Israel does not adhere to the terms of the agreement, the prisoner exchange process will not take place.” A Palestinian source quoted by AFP news agency said on Thursday that mediators had obtained from Israel a “promise … to put in place a humanitarian protocol starting from this morning” that would allow construction equipment and temporary housing into the devastated territory.
The Hamas statement added that talks being held this week in Cairo aimed at overcoming an impasse in implementing the deal had been “positive”.
Later on Thursday, Israel said Hamas must release three living captives on Saturday or Israel will return to war. This week, the agreement with Israel has come under severe strain. Hamas warned it would delay the next release of captives scheduled for Saturday due to Israel violating the truce by shooting Palestinians in Gaza and not allowing the agreed-upon number of tents, shelters and other vital aid to enter the besieged enclave. Israel responded by saying that if Hamas failed to free captives according to the schedule, it would resume its war. Since the ceasefire went into effect on January 19, Israeli forces have killed at least 92 Palestinians and wounded more than 800, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. A Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss the ceasefire with mediators Egypt and Qatar. Egyptian state-linked media said heavy equipment and trucks carrying mobile homes were ready to enter Gaza from Egypt on Thursday. The AFP news agency shared images showing a row of bulldozers on the Egyptian side of the border. However, Israel later said they would not be allowed to enter through the crossing. “There is no entry of caravans or heavy equipment into the Gaza Strip, and there is no coordination for this,” Omer Dostri, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote on X, adding: “No goods are allowed to enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing.” Hamas has previously accused Israel of holding up the delivery of heavy machinery needed to clear the vast amounts of rubble across the enclave. United States President Donald Trump had warned this week that “hell” would break loose if Hamas failed to release “all” the remaining captives by noon (10:00 GMT) on Saturday. If fighting resumes, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said: “The new Gaza war … will not end without the defeat of Hamas and the release of all the hostages.” “It will also allow the realisation of US President Trump’s vision for Gaza,” he added. Trump, whose return to the White House has emboldened the Israeli far right, caused a global outcry over his proposal for the US to take over the Gaza Strip and move its 2.3 million residents to Egypt or Jordan. The Gaza truce, currently in its first phase, has seen Israeli captives released in small groups in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli custody.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES, NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/13/hamas-says-three-captives-to-be-released-amid-ceasefire-deal-collapse-fears


Al Jazeera - Feb 13, 2025
<<Israel killed majority of record number of journalists slain in 2024: CPJ
The Committee to Protect Journalists said 2024 was the most dangerous year yet for journalists, with 124 media workers killed.
A record number of journalists were killed in 2024, with Israel responsible for more than two-thirds of those deaths, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said in its annual report. Announcing its findings on Wednesday, the CPJ said at least 124 journalists were killed in 18 countries last year, in what was the deadliest year for media workers since the committee began keeping records more than three decades ago. The previous deadliest year for media workers was 2007, when 113 journalists were killed, with almost half of those due to the Iraq war, the press freedom group said. “Today is the most dangerous time to be a journalist in CPJ’s history,” the committee’s chief Jodie Ginsberg said in the statement. “The war in Gaza is unprecedented in its impact on journalists and demonstrates a major deterioration in global norms on protecting journalists in conflict zones, but it is far from the only place journalists are in danger,” she said. At least 85 journalists died throughout 2024 at the hands of the Israeli military during Israel’s war on Gaza, the CPJ said, with 82 of those who were killed being Palestinians. The advocacy group also accused Israel of attempting to stifle investigations into the killings, shift blame onto journalists for their own deaths, and ignoring its duty to hold its own military personnel accountable for the killings of so many media workers. The CPJ named Sudan and Pakistan as the joint second most deadly countries for media workers last year, with six journalists killed in each. It also said at least 24 journalists were deliberately killed because of their work, in what it described as an “alarming rise in the number of targeted killings”. The CPJ said 10 journalists were “murdered” by the Israeli military in Gaza and Lebanon, while the 14 other journalists were assassinated in Haiti, Mexico, Pakistan, Myanmar, Mozambique, India, Iraq, and Sudan. The group said that freelance journalists accounted for 43 deaths – more than 35 percent of last year’s total – with 31 of those cases being Palestinians reporting from Gaza. “International media continue to be barred from reporting from the Occupied Palestinian Territory, except for rare and escorted trips arranged by the Israeli military,” the CPJ said, highlighting the essential work of freelancers in the besieged enclave. “CPJ has repeatedly advocated for Israel and Egypt to open access, and reiterates that call as part of the ongoing ceasefire,” it added. The Israeli military has killed several Al Jazeera journalists covering the war in Gaza since October 2023. Among those killed were Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi, who died on July 31, 2024, when Israeli forces bombed their car in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. Israeli authorities denied deliberately targeting the pair, as well as other journalists in Gaza. In a statement, Al Jazeera Media Network labelled the killings a “targeted assassination” and pledged to “pursue all legal actions to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes”. Israel’s attacks on Palestinian journalists have also continued into 2025, with reporter Ahmad al-Shayah among six killed in a drone strike on a charity facility in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on January 15.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/13/israel-killed-majority-of-record-number-of-journalists-slain-in-2024-cpj

Al Jazeera - Feb 12, 2025
<<Hamas delegation in Egypt as mediators push to maintain Gaza ceasefire
Fragile ceasefire appears strained, with Hamas saying it will not bow down to threats from Israel and the US.
A Hamas delegation has arrived in Cairo to discuss the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement with mediators, according to a statement by the Palestinian group. The fragile agreement reached last month between Hamas and Israel appeared strained on Wednesday, with Hamas saying it would not bow down to threats from Israel and the United States of renewed fighting and the mass displacement of Palestinians. Egyptian and Qatari mediators were working to salvage the deal, according to Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera News TV, which is close to the country’s security agencies. Hamas has warned it will delay the next release of Israeli captives scheduled for Saturday, saying Israel has violated the truce by firing on people in Gaza and not allowing the agreed-upon number of tents, shelters and other vital aid to enter the territory. “The occupation must implement the terms of the ceasefire agreement until the prisoners are released. The occupation is required to abide by the agreed humanitarian protocol,” Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a statement on Wednesday. Since the ceasefire went into effect on January 19, Israeli fire has killed at least 92 Palestinians and wounded more than 800 others, said Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Health Ministry on Tuesday. In the latest violence, a 44-year-old man was killed and another was wounded in an Israeli strike in the southern city of Rafah. The Israeli military has said it only fires on people who approach its forces or enter certain areas in violation of the truce.
Threat of resumed fighting
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with the support of President Donald Trump, has warned that Israel would resume fighting if the captives are not released on Saturday. Trump has threatened that “all hell” will break out if Hamas does not release the remaining Israeli captives held in Gaza by Saturday. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz echoed the phrase in a post on X on Wednesday, saying that if Hamas does not release the Israeli captives by Saturday, “the gates of hell will open on them, just as the US president promised.” “The new Gaza war will be different in intensity from the one before the ceasefire – and will not end without the defeat of Hamas and the release of all the hostages,” he wrote. Reporting from Amman, Jordan, Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut said that the Israeli army has been discussing a plan for a renewed offensive. “However, some sources speaking to Israeli Army Radio said any military action to rescue the captives from Gaza would be ‘nearly impossible’ as Hamas is still very much active,” Salhut said. The International Committee on the Red Cross also weighed in on Wednesday, warning that “any reversal” in the agreement “risks plunging people back into the misery and despair that defined the last 16 months”. To date, at least 48,222 Palestinians have been confirmed killed throughout Israel’s war in Gaza. At least 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, with more than 200 taken captive. The enclave remains on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe, with the vast majority of its residents displaced and its infrastructure destroyed throughout the war.
‘Palestinians cannot be transferred’
In his post on Wednesday, Israeli Defence Minister Katz also pointed to Trump’s plan for the US to “take over” and permanently displace the people of Gaza. He said a renewed Israeli offensive “will also allow the realisation of US President Trump’s vision for Gaza”. Trump has promised to heap pressure on both Jordan and Egypt to accept forcibly displaced Palestinians. Both countries have refused. On Wednesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II spoke by phone, stressing the importance of the immediate start of Gaza’s reconstruction “without the transfer of Palestinian people from their land”, according to a statement from the Egyptian presidency.
The leaders also “showed their keenness” to work with Trump to achieve “permanent peace” in the region through the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, the statement said. That came a day after Abdullah met Trump at the White House. Speaking to Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi again said that the kingdom will not budge in its opposition to Trump’s proposal. “There are fixed and steadfast Jordanian positions that will not change … the Palestinians cannot be transferred to Egypt, Jordan, or any Arab state,” Safadi said. The Palestinian Authority and Arab nations have all been united in their opposition to Trump’s plan. On Wednesday, Hamas called for mass demonstrations across the world “against the plans of displacement and forced deportation”.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/12/hamas-delegation-in-egypt-as-mediators-push-to-maintain-gaza-ceasefire

Al Jazeera - Feb 12, 2025
<<Kamal Adwan’s detained director alleges torture by Israeli authorities
Lawyers representing Kamal Adwan Hospital’s Dr. Hussam Abu Safia had their first contact with the director since he was detained by Israeli forces last year. He told them he was tortured with electric shocks and is being denied needed medication.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/12/kamal-adwans-detained-director-alleges-torture-by-israeli-authorities

Al Jazeera - Feb 12, 2025
<<Gaza hospital chief Abu Safia detained, tortured in Israeli jail: Lawyer
The 51-year-old Hussam Abu Safia was detained by the Israeli army from Gaza in December. The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital has been subjected to various forms of intense torture and inhumane treatment in an Israeli military prison, his lawyer told Al Jazeera. The 51-year-old Hussam Abu Safia was detained in Gaza by the Israeli army in December and taken to Sde Teiman military detention camp in Israel’s Negev Desert, before being transferred to Ofer Prison, located near Ramallah. He was “arrested by force, handcuffed and forced to take off his clothes after being taken from the hospital to one of the army camps”, said Samir al-Mana’ama, a lawyer with the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights who visited him in Ofer Prison on Tuesday. Al-Mana’ama said that Abu Safia suffers from “an enlarged heart muscle and from high blood pressure” and was beaten up and refused treatment for the heart condition. Transferred to Ofter Prison on 9 January, he was held in solitary confinement for 25 days and interrogated nonstop by the Israeli army, Israeli intelligence and police, the lawyer added. “Despite denying all the charges against him, he was beaten with an electric stick by the Israeli army so as to extract a confession from him,” said the lawyer. There was “no legal justification” for Abu Safia’s arrest, the lawyer said, adding that “any accusation needs evidence and as long as there is no evidence, there is no real complete accusation against Doctor Hussam.” A lack of medical care combined with the appalling conditions in “very cold prison cells” had “severely affected” the doctor’s health, he said, adding that he was “facing a lot of sufferings in his confinement and detention”. In a separate statement issued by the lawyer, he said that Abu Safia had been given no access to legal counsel during his 47 days in arbitrary detention. Abu Safia, who had documented the cruel impact of Israel’s offensive on Kamal Adwan Hospital, was arrested after refusing multiple military threats to leave the hospital during a devastating blockade on the northern Gaza Strip. The doctor was reportedly sighted back in December by two released prisoners at Sde Teiman, a controversial facility known for its extreme abuse of detainees.
‘Thousands disappeared’
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Amman in Jordan, said the doctor was one of hundreds of medical workers taken from Gaza by Israeli forces to the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp and other Israeli military prisons. “At least his family now knows where he is and that he is alive, unlike potentially thousands of others who the UN said have been forcibly disappeared from Gaza,” she said. The Prisoners’ Affairs Committee and the Prisoner’s Society issued a report citing the lawyer of a Palestinian detainee who said he had been subjected to severe torture in Israeli detention. According to the report, the prisoner had been beaten by Israeli soldiers while going from north to the south of Gaza, forced to take off his clothes and left for hours in the cold without food or water. Later, tied up and beaten, with both his hands suffering a fracture. Blindfolded and handcuffed, he was eventually transferred to hospital “because my injuries were clearly visible and swollen”, only realising where he was after being discovered by a lawyer.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/12/gaza-hospital-chief-abu-safia-tortured-in-israeli-jail-lawyer


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Al Jazeera - Feb 12, 2025
<<Palestinian mother returns to destroyed home in North Gaza
“This is my home! My home is gone, and so is the man who built it.” This is the moment a Palestinian mother broke down as she returned to her home in North Gaza without her husband to find it destroyed.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/12/palestinian-mother-returns-to-destroyed-home-in-north

Al Jazeera - Feb 12, 2025 - by By Al Jazeera Staff
<<Amid deadly raids, Israeli army orders evacuation of another West Bank camp
Israeli army storms Nur Shams camp as it continues three-week ‘open war against existence of Palestinian people’ in West Bank. The Israeli army issued a forced evacuation threat for Nur Shams refugee camp as it continues its deadly operation across the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces “stormed” the camp’s al-Ayada neighbourhood on Wednesday, using loudspeakers at a mosque to tell residents to immediately leave the camp, which has been under Israeli siege since earlier this week, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. The report added that Israeli forces deployed at the entrances to the camp fired “live bullets and sound bombs” to sow panic among residents, with soldiers “assaulting young men” and “expelling the elderly without allowing them to take their basic needs”. The forced evacuation threat was the latest in a series of orders issued over the past four days since Israel launched operations in the camp. Three weeks ago, Israel launched its “Iron Wall” military operation across the West Bank, killing dozens of Palestinians and forcing at least 40,000 to flee their homes, according to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). Launched just days after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed in Gaza, the operation has seen Israeli forces raiding several refugee camps, including Jenin, Tulkarem, Far’a and Arroub, in a bid to clear them of residents. “It’s comprehensive and open war against the whole existence of the Palestinian people in the West Bank,” Hamza Zubiedat, a land rights researcher based in Bethlehem, told Al Jazeera.
‘Hidden war’
UNRWA has described the nearly three-week military operation as “the single longest in the West Bank” since the second Intifada. In addition to the large-scale military operations in refugee camps and cities in the northern occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers have also launched a series of smaller attacks. Wafa reported on Wednesday that Israeli soldiers assaulted three students in the town of Huwara, south of Nablus. The army also deployed tear gas and sound bombs against a number of students in al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, causing them to suffer suffocation-related injuries. Israeli forces stormed Aqqaba town, north of Tubas, arresting two men. They also destroyed agricultural land with bulldozers in Funduq village, east of Qalqilya, and raided homes close to occupied East Jerusalem. Land-rights analyst Zubiedat stressed that Israel’s assault goes beyond the camps, with Israel building “new walls” around Palestinian villages in the Jordan Valley, “isolating whole Palestinian communities” from the West Bank cities. “We are not only talking about the daily scenes in the refugee camps of Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem, but there is also the other hidden war,” he said. “The real goal of this operation is going beyond even the military goals.” UNICEF, the UN agency for children, issued a statement on Wednesday, said 13 children have been killed in the West Bank this year, adding that “there has been a 200 per cent increase in the number of Palestinian children killed in the territory over the past 16 months as compared to the 16 months prior”. “UNICEF condemns all acts of violence against children and calls for the immediate cessation of armed activity across the occupied West Bank. All civilians, including every child without exception, must be protected,” it said in the satement.>>
SOURCE/Video: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/12/israeli-military-orders-evacuation-of-west-banks-nur-shams-camp

France 24 - February , 2025 - By: NEWS WIRES - Video by: François PICARD
<<ordan to take 2,000 sick Gaza kids as Trump pushes plan to expel Palestinians
King Abdullah II of Jordan on Tuesday told US President Donald Trump that his country would be willing to take in 2,000 sick children from Gaza. Abdullah's visit to the White House comes after Trump announced that the US would "take over" the Palestinian territory and permanently resettle the people living there. Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday told Donald Trump that his country would take in some 2,000 sick children from war-torn Gaza, as the US president pushed his plan to take over the territory and push out Palestinians. Speaking at the White House, Abdullah added that Egypt would present a proposal on how countries in the region could "work" with Trump on the plan, despite Arab nations and the Palestinians having rejected it outright. "I think one of the things that we can do right away is take 2,000 children, cancer children who are in a very ill state, that is possible," Abdullah said as Trump welcomed him and Crown Prince Hussein in the Oval Office. Trump called it a "beautiful gesture" and said he didn't know about it before the Jordanian monarch's arrival at the White House. The US president meanwhile backed down on a suggestion that he could withhold aid for Jordan and Egypt if they refused to take in more than two million Palestinians from Gaza. "I think we'll do something. I don't have to threaten that, I do believe we're above that," Trump said. Trump stunned the world when he announced a proposal last week for the United States to "take over" Gaza, envisioning rebuilding the devastated territory into the "Riviera of the Middle East" – but only after resettling Palestinians elsewhere, with no plan for them ever to return. Jordan's Abdullah was repeatedly pressed by reporters on whether he supported the plan, but said only that Egypt was coming up with a response and that Arab nations would then discuss it at talks in Riyadh. "The president is looking at Egypt coming to present that plan... (then) we will be in Saudi Arabia to discuss how we should work with the president and with the United States," Abdullah said. "The point is, how do we make this work in a way that is good for everybody."
'Tough guy'
The meeting came as the Gaza ceasefire appears increasingly fragile, after Trump warned on Monday that "all hell" would break out if Hamas fails to release all hostages by Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel would resume "intense fighting" in Gaza if Hamas did not meet the deadline.
Trump said he doubted that the Palestinian militant group would abide by the ultimatum. "I don't think they're going to make the deadline personally. I think they want to play a tough guy, but we'll see how tough they are," Trump said. But he played down the risk of a longer threat to efforts to create a lasting peace between Israel and Hamas. "It's not going to take a long time when you know bullies," he added, referring to Hamas. The Jordanian king and crown prince earlier met Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. King Abdullah is a key US ally but last week rejected "any attempts" to take control of the Palestinian territories and displace its people after Trump stunned the world with his proposal for Gaza. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is expected to visit the White House later this week, urged on Tuesday the reconstruction of Gaza "without displacing Palestinians." Analysts say the issue is an existential one for Jordan in particular. Half of Jordan's population of 11 million is of Palestinian origin, and since the establishment of Israel in 1948, many Palestinians have sought refuge there. In 1970 in what became known as "Black September," clashes erupted between the Jordanian army and Palestinian groups led by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). It resulted in the expulsion of those groups. But Jordan is also keenly aware of the economic pressure Trump could exercise. Every year, Jordan receives around $750 million in economic assistance from Washington and another $350 million in military aid.(AFP)>>
Source: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250211-jordan-king-set-for-tense-trump-talks-over-gaza

Al Jazeera - Feb 12, 2025 - by By Al Jazeera Staff
<<‘Palestinians cannot be transferred’ from Gaza, Jordanian FM says
Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi tells Al Jazeera that Jordan remains opposed to Trump’s Gaza takeover plan.
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has told Al Jazeera that the kingdom will not budge in its opposition to US President Donald Trump’s proposal of relocating Palestinians in Gaza to other countries, such as Jordan and Egypt. His comments come after Jordan’s King Abdullah II met Trump in the White House on Tuesday, where the latter reiterated at a news briefing that the US would be taking over the besieged Gaza Strip emptied of its residents, a proposal critics say is effectively ethnic cleansing, the forcible expulsion of people from their homeland. “There are fixed and steadfast Jordanian positions that will not change … the Palestinians cannot be transferred to Egypt, Jordan, or any Arab state,” Safadi said in an interview with Al Jazeera. “We will work for a just peace, which cannot take place without the implementation of the two-state solution that guarantees the rights of the Palestinian people, especially their right for freedom and for an independent sovereign state on their Palestinian homeland.” Both Jordan and Egypt have refused to accept forcibly displaced Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority, Hamas and Arab nations have all been united in their unyielding opposition to Trump’s plan. China has also firmly stated, “Gaza belongs to Palestinians.” During the meeting with Trump, Abdullah avoided directly contradicting Trump, alluding instead to an alternative plan soon to be revealed by Egypt. When asked whether Jordan would take in Palestinians displaced from Gaza, the Jordanian leader said he would do what was “best” for his country. He added that Jordan would take 2,000 sick Palestinian children who need medical treatment. Jordan is currently home to more than 2 million Palestinian refugees in its population of 11 million people. Safadi said Arab states are now working to formulate a plan to rebuild Gaza “without transferring its people,” which will be presented once it’s ready.
“The American president presented some ideas. And, his majesty presented some ideas,” he said. “We will work with the American president to build Gaza without transferring its people.” On Tuesday, Trump emphasised again that Palestinians would not want to stay in Gaza, seemingly dismissing their deep attachment to their land.
Critics say his vision for Gaza — redeveloped with hotels, offices and a “Riviera” atmosphere — seems divorced from the politics of the region and that this is not another real estate opportunity. Palestinians have long withstood pressures to force them from their remaining territory, despite decades of continued Israeli occupation and bombardment.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/12/palestinians-cannot-be-transferred-from-gaza-jordanian-fm-says

Al Jazeera - Feb 12, 2025
<<Arab League chief warns of regional instability over Trump’s Gaza plan
“Unacceptable.” Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit rejects US President Donald Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians, warning it could destabilize the entire Middle East.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/12/arab-league-chief-warns-of-regional-instability-over-trumps-gaza-plan

Al Jazeera - Feb 12, 2025
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Fear and condemnation in Gaza as Israel threatens to resume war
Hamas says it’s committed to ceasefire despite Israeli threat to resume ‘intense fighting’ in Gaza if captives are not released.Israel has threatened to resume “intense fighting” in Gaza if captives are not released this weekend, while Hamas insists it remains committed to the ceasefire deal and accuses Israel of violating it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon, the ceasefire will end, and the IDF [Israeli military] will resume intense fighting until Hamas is decisively defeated.” His threat echoed that of US President Donald Trump who on Monday said “hell” would break loose if Hamas failed to release “all” Israeli captives by Saturday. A Hamas official quoted by Reuters news agency said the captives could be brought home only if the ceasefire was respected, dismissing the “language of threats” by Trump. “Trump must remember there is an agreement that must be respected by both parties, and this is the only way to bring back the prisoners. The language of threats has no value and only complicates matters,” senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said. The possibility of a resumption of fighting in Gaza has triggered wide-scale condemnation and fear among Palestinians. In Israel’s 15-month attack on Gaza, at least 48,219 Palestinians have been confirmed killed and 111,665 wounded, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. The Gaza Government Media Office has updated the death toll to at least 61,709 because about 14,000 missing people trapped under the rubble of Gaza’s buildings are now presumed dead.>>
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