About a week and a half before Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the group was planning a “major operation” and that Tel Aviv should be prepared, but the Israeli leader “did nothing,” Haaretz reported, citing a new book “Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel is continuing to tighten its grip on Hamas inside Gaza and has stolen even more land inside the enclave since the ceasefire.
The U.S. will open what has been described as a pop-up consular office in the Jewish settlement in Efrat and Beitar Illit in what Hamas rejected as “de facto recognition of the legitimacy of settlements and the occupation’s control over the West Bank,” according to a report last week.
The Trump administration plans to develop a massive military base inside Gaza that will house up to 5,000 members of the so-called International Stabilization Force (ISF), which is a key initiative of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, according to a report.
Israel killed at least 71,800 Palestinians since October 2023 and injured 171,555. The IDF also killed up to 529 since the President Donald Trump-backed ceasefire. Another 1,400 have been injured.
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, laid out plans last month for a futuristic Gaza with hotels lining its beaches and skyscrapers, and he told an audience in Davos that there is no “Plan B” and he was banking on “catastrophic success,” which would include the complete disarmament of Hamas.
The killing in Gaza continues, despite President Donald Trump’s ceasefire. Israel has killed more than 71,660 and injured 171,419 since the genocidal war began on 8 October 2023.
Phillippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), called Israel’s demolition of his agency’s offices in occupied East Jerusalem an “unprecedented attack” and a “new level of open and deliberate defiance of international law” by Israel.
Newly released satellite images show IDF troops taking more land in Gaza—hundreds of meters past the “yellow line” that essentially cuts the enclave in half, dividing it between an Israel-controlled side and a Palestinian-controlled side, which is closer to the Mediterranean Sea, according to a new report.
At least 71,424 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the Gaza genocide began in October 2023, and at least 171,324 have been injured, according to health officials in the enclave.