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Friday, 21 February, 2025

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Israel keeps denying entry of heavy machinery into Gaza

Israel has only allowed six small machines to remove rubble from the Gaza Strip while preventing the entry of hundreds more that are desperately needed, according to Ismail al-Thawabta, director of Gazas Government Media Office, reports Al Jazeera. Thawabteh told the Anadolu news agency that the...

$50bn needed to rebuild Gaza

Reconstruction efforts in Gaza will require more than $50bn after 15 months of Israels devastating war, according to a new assessment by the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank, reports Al Jazeera. The figures come as Arab countries continue to scramble to find a viable...

Egypt developing plan to rebuild Gaza, countering Trump’s decision

Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out of the strip in a counter to President Donald Trumps proposal to depopulate the territory so the U.S. can take it over, reports AP. The countrys state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said the proposal calls for establishing...

Health catastrophe in Gaza worsening amid lack of water

Oxfam said that less than seven percent of pre-conflict water levels is available to Palestinians in north and south Gaza, heightening the spread of waterborne diseases and worsening a health catastrophe in the enclave, reports Al Jazeera. In the North Gaza governorate, which includes Jabalia,...

The hostages don’t have time: Freed captive

Iair Horn, an Israeli-Argentinian freed from Hamas captivity on Saturday, has issued a video message calling for the urgent release of the captives remaining in Gaza, reports Al Jazeera. In the message, which was screened at a rally in Tel Aviv, Horn said: I was there. I was in Hamass tunnels. I...

‘Life torn apart’ for women, girls in Gaza: UNFPA

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UNs sexual and reproductive health agency, has brought reproductive health supplies, dignity kits, menstrual hygiene kits, and kits for newborn babies and new mothers to Gaza since the ceasefire, reports Al Jazeera. But UNFPA warns that much more needs...

Heavy machinery, mobile homes for Gaza left sitting at Egyptian border

There isnt any significant change regarding the entry of heavy machinery and mobile houses to the Gaza Strip from the main two entry points. What has been allowed to enter Gaza yesterday and during the early hours of this morning, as we have seen today, are only humanitarian aid trucks that are...

US committed to ‘buying and owning’ Gaza: Trump

United States President Donald Trump has reiterated his controversial proposal to take control of Gaza strip, saying he is committed to buying and owning the war-ravaged enclave, reports Al Jazeera. Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday, the US president said Gaza should be...

Israel releases 183 Palestinians after 3 hostages freed

A total of 183 Palestinians have been released from Israeli prisons and three Israeli captives have been freed in Gaza, in the fifth swap as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Al Jazeera and BBC reported. Seven Palestinians were transferred to hospital for immediate treatment...

Trump’s ‘immoral’ Gaza plan includes ‘international crime’

Its unlawful, immoral and completely irresponsible, says Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, when asked about US President Trumps suggestion to remove Palestinians from Gaza and have the US take ownership, reports Al Jazeera. What he proposes is...

Iran warns Israel seeking Gaza-style genocide in West Bank

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has called on the international community to stop Israel from repeating its Gaza genocide against Palestinians now in the occupied West Bank, where the regime has intensified its raids. Despite the ceasefire in Gaza, the [Israeli] crimes...

Israel to release 110 Palestinians in exchange for 3 captives

Israel is set to release 110 Palestinian prisoners, including 30 minors, in exchange for three Israeli captives as the third phase of the prisoner swap under the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, Press TV reported. In a statement on Wednesday, the...

Israel continues to attack Palestinians despite ceasefire

The Israeli military continues to violate the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are returning to their homes in northern Gaza, Press TV reported. Israeli tanks opened fire on some Gazans in the vicinity of Gaza Citys al-Zaytoun neighborhood on Tuesday....

Western politicians silent as Israel killing Palestinian children

The UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory has called out Western politicians for their silence as Israels military kills children in the occupied West Bank, reports Al Jazeera. As Israel continues to kill Palestinian children from the River to...

Palestinians celebrate their return to Gaza after long war

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gazas most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the north for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas, a dramatic reversal of their exodus 15 months ago, reports AP. As a fragile ceasefire held into a second...

People in Gaza ‘lost everything and they need everything’

Juliette Touma, the communication director for the UNs refugee agency for the Palestinians, UNRWA, says the volume of aid going into Gaza has increased very significantly after the ceasefire deal entered into force despite huge challenges on the ground, reports Al Jazeera. She added that the...

Israel killed 1,400 policeman, destroyed all police stations in Gaza

All police offices and stations in the Gaza Strip have been burned and hundreds of vehicles and other assets destroyed in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023, according to the General Directorate of the Palestinian Police in the Gaza Strip, reports Al Jazeera. More than 1,400 members of the...

Four Israeli women to be released in return for 200 Palestinians

Israel is expected to release 200 Palestinians in exchange for four female Israeli soldiers, a Hamas media official said, Press TV reported. The announcement was made on Tuesday by Nader Fakhouri, an official with the Prisoners Media Office affiliated with Hamas. Fakhouri said, The second...

Israeli snipers kill two Palestinian children despite ceasefire

Israeli gunfire has killed two Palestinian children and injured several others in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, despite a ceasefire currently in effect between Israel and Hamas. Zakaria Hamid Yahya Barbakh was fatally shot on Monday near al-Awda Square in southern areas of Rafah city,...

Palestinians returning to old neighbourhoods find ‘no signs of life’

Following the implementation of the ceasefire deal on Sunday, families have started to emerge from their evacuation shelters and open-air encampments and head back to check on what is left of their homes and businesses, reports Al Jazeera. They have returned to Rafah, to the eastern areas of the...

Israel-Hamas ceasefire takes effect

A ceasefire deal agreed between Israel and Hamas has gone into effect after a nearly three-hour delay during which Israeli attacks killed at least 19 Palestinians, Al Jazeera, Times of Israel and Press TV reported. The deal stipulates a pause in fighting and the release of three Israeli captives...

Israeli attacks kill 8 in Gaza as ceasefire deal delayed

Gaza-based civil defence agency said that Israeli strikes attacks killed at least eight people and dozens wounded on Sunday, when the ceasefire was supposed to take effect, reports Al Jazeera. Agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said three people were killed in northern Gaza and five in Gaza City,...

What will happen on day 1 of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire?

The anticipated Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal will take effect at 8.30am (local time) on Sunday, reports Al Jazeera. According to the plan, Hamas will release three living female captives in exchange for 95 Palestinians held in Israeli jails, most of them women and children. The exchange will...

Ready to govern Gaza: Palestine’s President

Palestines President Mahmoud Abbas has said that the Palestinian Authority (PA) was ready to assume full responsibility in post-war Gaza, in his first statement since a ceasefire deal was announced between Israel and Hamas., reports Al Jazeera. The Palestinian government, under president Abbas...

116 Palestinians killed since agreement announced

Since the ceasefire agreement has been announced on Wednesday, at least 116 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip. Among those 116 are 30 children and 32 women, and more than 264 Palestinians injured. These Palestinians were killed in several areas across the Gaza Strip, reports Al...

Gaza death toll rises

Israeli attacks in Gaza over the last 24 hours have killed at least 88 people and injured 189, according to the enclaves Health Ministry. This brings the total toll of the war in Gaza to 46,876 killed and 110,642 injured, it added. Despite international calls for peace, including messages of...

Gaza deal seems within reach: Scholz

Olaf Scholz, the chancellor of Germany, has said a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas appears to be within reach, reports Al Jazeera. We understand how painful any agreement with the terrorist organisation Hamas is for Israel. Nevertheless, the lives of the hostages must now have top...

Israeli attacks killed 24 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn

At least 24 people have been killed in attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources told Al Jazeera. Eight people were killed in central Gazas Deir el-Balah, 12 in the southern city of Khan Younis, and four others in Gaza City in the north. The Israeli army has continued a genocidal war on...