Palestinians to be ‘in charge’ of Gaza after war ends, says Israeli defence minister
Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said that there will be no Israeli civilian presence in Gaza and Palestinian bodies will be “in charge” of the territory after the war ends.
In a statement by his office, reported by Reuters, Gallant said Hamas would no longer control Gaza and Israel would reserve its operational freedom of action. He was quoted as saying:
Gaza residents are Palestinian, therefore Palestinian bodies will be in charge, with the condition that there will be no hostile actions or threats against the State of Israel.”
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The Israeli prime minister, at a meeting with US special envoy Amos Hochstein, did not specify what his plans entailed, AP reported.
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He said he was committed to resettling evacuated residents from Israel’s north back in their homes safely, adding that he hoped to resolve the conflict with Lebanon diplomatically. He said:
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Israel, after the murderous attack on Saturday of October 7, is determined, bolder and more united than ever before. Those of our neighbours who have not yet understood this will understand this very well in the future.
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The Israeli leader’s comments came days after an audacious Israeli drone strike in Beirut killed a senior Hamas official in a move that threatened a significant and dangerous escalation of Israel’s war against Hamas and its related conflict with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
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Here’s a recap of the latest developments:
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Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said that there will be no Israeli civilian presence in Gaza and Palestinian bodies will be “in charge” of the territory after the war ends. In a statement by his office on Thursday, Gallant said Hamas would no longer control Gaza and Israel would reserve its operational freedom of action.
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for two explosions at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate commander Qassem Suleimani. More than 95 Iranians were killed and scores more injured in the attack on Wednesday, which came at a memorial ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of the killing of Suleimani, the head of Iran’s al-Quds force. The US is “in no position to doubt” the Islamic State’s claim of responsibility, the White House has said.
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More than 22,438 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began, the majority of them women and children, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s health ministry on Thursday. The figures include 125 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours. At least 12 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a home in al-Mawasi evacuation zone, Palestinian hospital officials said. The blast reportedly killed a man and his wife, seven of their children and three other children ranging in age from five to 14.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, will depart later today to the Middle East for the fourth time since the Israel-Hamas war began in October. Blinken is set to visit Israel and the occupied West Bank, as well as Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt over the next week, the US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told reporters.
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A US airstrike in Baghdad on Thursday killed the commander of an Iranian-backed Shia militia that Washington blames for attacks on American forces in the region, according to US officials. One official said that a leader of Harakat al-Nujaba, whom the official did not name, was killed in his car as he was about to enter the garage at his group’s Baghdad headquarters.
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Several Gulf Arab states have strongly condemned remarks by two Israeli government ministers this week calling for Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza. Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has called on Palestinians to leave Gaza and make way for Israelis who could “make the desert bloom” while national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for promoting “a solution to encourage the emigration of Gaza’s residents” and the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory. The UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, said he was “very disturbed” by the statements.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had killed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) northern Gaza operations chief, Mamdouh Lolo, in an airstrike in northern Gaza. The IDF said the strike was a joint operation with Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet. Separately, the IDF said it raided and destroyed a Hamas military compound along the central coast of the Gaza Strip, including an underground tunnel system that led to a facility that was used by Hamas to manufacture weapons.
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The UK’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, has warned Israel it must allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza to avoid starvation and large outbreaks of disease. Speaking during a trip in Kosovo, Cameron also said attacks in Red Sea shipping lanes must stop, otherwise international action will be taken.
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Israel has accused the UN of “stalling” the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the territory which Israel has held under a virtual siege and continual aerial bombardment since 7 October. The Israeli defence ministry body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs said it was equipped to inspect up to 200 trucks a day passing through the Kerem Shalom crossing, but the UN was “not scraping 100”.
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At least 120 Palestinians were detained during an Israeli military raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had detained hundreds of people suspected of militant activities.
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Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said there must be a “new reality” that would allow Israelis who have evacuated from northern areas of the country to return. He was referring to the repeated exchanges of fire over the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon.
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A Houthi drone boat laden with explosives detonated in the Red Sea on Thursday, a senior US military officer said, just hours after the US and its allies warned the Iran-backed militia group to stop attacks or face “consequences”.
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Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said that there will be no Israeli civilian presence in Gaza and Palestinian bodies will be “in charge” of the territory after the war ends.
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In a statement by his office, reported by Reuters, Gallant said Hamas would no longer control Gaza and Israel would reserve its operational freedom of action. He was quoted as saying:
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Gaza residents are Palestinian, therefore Palestinian bodies will be in charge, with the condition that there will be no hostile actions or threats against the State of Israel.”
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The US is “in no position to doubt” a claim by Islamic State that it was responsible for an attack in southern Iran that killed dozens on Wednesday, the White House has said.
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The White House’s national security spokesperson, John Kirby, told reporters at a briefing today that the US has “long said and maintained” that IS “remains a viable terror threat”.
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Several Gulf Arab states have strongly condemned remarks by two Israeli government ministers this week calling for Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza.
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We reported earlier that the UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, said he was “very disturbed” by the statements made earlier this week by Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, and national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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On Monday, Ben-Gvir called for promoting “a solution to encourage the emigration of Gaza’s residents” and the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory. A day earlier, Smotrich had said Palestinians should leave Gaza and make way for Israelis who could “make the desert bloom”.
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In a statement today, Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry said it “categorically condemns and rejects the comments of the two ministers”. It called on the international community to act in the face of the Israeli government’s “persistence” in violating international law “through its statements and actions”.
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Qatar also “condemned in the strongest terms” the comments by the two Israeli ministers, its foreign ministry said, adding:
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The policy of collective punishment and forced displacement practised by the occupation authorities against the inhabitants of Gaza will not change the fact that Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian.”
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Kuwait warned against “Israeli plans to displace Gaza residents in particular, and the Palestinian people in general”.
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The United Arab Emirates, which normalised ties with Israel in 2020, also “condemned in the strongest terms the extremist statements” of the two ministers, AFP reported.
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The UAE voiced its “categorical rejection of such offensive statements and of all practices … which threaten further escalation and instability in the region”, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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The US, France and the EU have also denounced the comments.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, will depart later today to the Middle East for the fourth time since the Israel-Hamas war began in October.
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Blinken is set to visit Israel and the occupied West Bank, as well as Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt over the next week, the US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told reporters.
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If you’re just joining us, here’s a recap of the latest developments:
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More than 22,438 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began, the majority of them women and children, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s health ministry on Thursday. The figures include 125 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours. At least 14 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on the al-Mawasi evacuation zone, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Thursday. Al Jazeera reported that the youngest was five years old and most were aged under 10.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had killed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) northern Gaza operations chief, Mamdouh Lolo, in an airstrike in northern Gaza. The IDF said the strike was a joint operation with Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet.
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The UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, has said he is “very disturbed” by statements by high-level Israeli officials calling for Palestinians in Gaza to be moved to neighbouring Arab countries. His comments came days after Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, called on Palestinians to leave Gaza and make way for Israelis who could “make the desert bloom”.
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The UK’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, has warned Israel it must allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza to avoid starvation and large outbreaks of disease. Speaking during a trip in Kosovo, Cameron also said attacks in Red Sea shipping lanes must stop, otherwise international action will be taken.
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Israel has accused the UN of “stalling” the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the territory which Israel has held under a virtual siege and continual aerial bombardment since 7 October. The Israeli defence ministry body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs said it was equipped to inspect up to 200 trucks a day passing through the Kerem Shalom crossing, but the UN was “not scraping 100”.
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At least 120 Palestinians were detained during an Israeli military raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had detained hundreds of people suspected of militant activities.
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Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said there must be a “new reality” that would allow Israelis who have evacuated from northern areas of the country to return. He was referring to the repeated exchanges of fire over the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon.
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for two explosions at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate commander Qassem Suleimani. More than 95 Iranians were killed and scores more injured in the attack on Wednesday, which came at a memorial ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of the killing of Suleimani, the head of Iran’s al-Quds force.
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The US military has carried out an airstrike in Baghdad against a high-ranking Iraqi militia commander whom it blames for attacks against US forces in the country, killing him and another person, a US official said. The strike on Thursday, which hit a vehicle in the capital, targeted a leader of Harakat al-Nujaba, the official said.
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Four Hezbollah fighters were killed overnight in southern Lebanon, the movement announced on Thursday, in what Lebanese state media said were Israeli strikes on the border town of Naqura. The deaths, according to a source close to Hezbollah, included a local leader.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, will depart on Thursday for the Middle East, including a stop in Israel, an unnamed senior US official said. Blinken will leave Thursday night “for stops in a number of capitals, including Israel”, the official said. It would be his fourth crisis trip to the Middle East.
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility on its Telegram platform for two explosions at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate commander Qassem Suleimani, Reuters reported.
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At least 84 people were killed and scores injured during the blasts, which struck minutes apart on Wednesday, shaking the city of Kerman, about 820km (510 miles) south-east of the capital, Tehran.
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The explosions occurred during a memorial ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of the killing of Suleimani, the head of Iran’s al-Quds force.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, said they have killed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) northern Gaza operations chief, Mamdouh Lolo, in an airstrike in northern Gaza.
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According to the IDF, Lolo was an assistant to the leaders of the militant group in northern Gaza and a “central figure” in the PIJ.
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ממדוח לולו, שימש כסייענם של ראשי מרחב צפון הרצועה בארגון הג'יהאד האסלאמי הפלסטיני, ועמד בקשר עם בכירי מפקדת הארגון בחו״ל. לולו חוסל בתקיפת כלי טיס של צה״ל, בהובלת מרכז האש והמודיעין בפיקוד הדרום ובהכוונה של שב״כ ואגף המודיעין >> pic.twitter.com/lN3yB4OXbG
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Gaza’s health ministry reports that 125 Palestinians were killed and 318 wounded in the past 24 hours by Israeli military action inside the Gaza Strip. The number raises the overall death toll to 22,438, with at least 57,614, with the ministry adding the majority of them are women and children.
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The Hamas-led health ministry has previously said the figures are likely and undercount, as there remain Palestinians missing who are presumed to be under the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli airstrikes on the tightly congested territory.
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The US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the strike hit a vehicle in Baghdad. It targeted a leader of Harakat al Nujaba, the official said, without naming the person.
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Police sources and eyewitnesses had said a drone had fired at least two rockets at a building in eastern Baghdad used by the Iraqi militia group.
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“We will retaliate and make the Americans regret carrying out this aggression,” Reuters reports a local Iraqi militia commander said.
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The US has 900 troops deployed in Syria and 2,500 in Iraq which it claims are there to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State militants.
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Tensions across the region are increasing, with violence in recent days in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, northern Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, the Red Sea and Iraq.
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Israeli forces searched houses in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday, detaining hundreds of people suspected of militant activities, its military said.
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According to residents, Israeli forces detained at least 120 people and demolished three houses, including one belonging to a member of the Tulkarem Brigades, an armed militant group linked to the Palestinian faction Fatah.
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“IDF forces continue to operate, alongside other Israeli security forces, in a broad divisional operation to suppress terrorism in the Nour al-Shams refugee camp in Menashe,” Reuters reports the military said in a statement.
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Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the official spokesperson for the president of the Palestinian Authority condemned Israel’s operation. It reported the spokesperson said the operations will not achieve security and stability and will push matters to an uncontrollable situation.
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An airstrike on the logistical support headquarters of an Iran-backed militia in central Baghdad Thursday killed a high-ranking militia commander, militia officials said, as tension continued to rise across the region. The prime minister’s office in Iraq said that the US-led international coalition bore responsibility for an “unjustified” attack on an Iraqi security force. Reuters reports the office said: “The attack is a dangerous escalation and a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty.”
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Four Hezbollah fighters were killed overnight in southern Lebanon, the movement announced on Thursday, in what Lebanese state media said were Israeli strikes on the border town of Naqura. The deaths, according to a source close to Hezbollah, included a local leader.
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Israel’s air force has released new video footage which it claims shows it attacking Hezbollah targets inside Lebanon. It claimed to have attacked an observation post and terrorist infrastructure of Hezbollah in the Marun al-Ras area in southern Lebanon.
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At least 14 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on the al-Mawasi evacuation zone. Al Jazeera reported that the youngest was five years old and most were aged under 10, with rubble from the attack injuring displaced people sheltering in tents. The government media office in Gaza on Thursday accused Israel of repeatedly forcing Palestinians to flee their homes and move to areas that Israel then bombed.
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The IDF has claimed in its latest operational update that it has “thwarted Hamas anti-tank missile terrorist cells throughout the Gaza Strip”. It said it was active in Khan Younis, and Bureij, among other locations.
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Israel has accused the UN of “stalling” the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the territory which Israel has held under a virtual siege and continual aerial bombardment since 7 October. In a message, the Israeli defence ministry body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs said it was equipped to inspect up to 200 trucks a day passing through the Kerem Shalom crossing, but the UN was “not scraping 100”. Prior to 7 October, 500 aid trucks were crossing into Gaza daily. Israel insists on inspecting everything that enters the territory.
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The US said that it is “not seeing any acts that constitute genocide” in Gaza, referring to South Africa’s case against Israel in the international court of justice in which South Africa accused Israel of “genocidal” acts across Gaza. In a news briefing on Wednesday, the US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said: “Those are allegations that should not be made lightly … we are not seeing any acts that constitute genocide … That is a determination by the state department.”
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A total of 22,313 Palestinians have been killed and 57,296 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said on Wednesday. At least 85% of the population of the Gaza Strip has been displaced from their homes by Israel’s military actions. The UN has previously said that 40% of the population in the territory is at risk of starvation.
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An airstrike on the logistical support headquarters of an Iran-backed militia in central Baghdad on Thursday killed a high-ranking militia commander, militia officials said, as tension continued to rise across the region.
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The Popular Mobilization Force, a coalition of militias that is nominally under the control of the Iraqi military, announced in a statement that its deputy head of operations in Baghdad, Mushtaq Taleb al-Saidi, or “Abu Taqwa”, had been killed “as a result of brutal American aggression”.
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The prime minister’s office in Iraq said that the US-led international coalition bore responsibility for an “unjustified” attack on an Iraqi security force. Reuters reports the office said: “The attack is a dangerous escalation and a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty.”
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Associated Press reports it was not immediately clear who had carried out the strike.
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The strike killed two people and wounded five, according to two militia officials, who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly. One of the officials said al-Saidi was driving into the garage of the headquarters affiliated with the al-Nujaba militia, one of the members of the PMF, along with another militia official when the car was hit, killing both.
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The attack in Baghdad comes amid Israel’s continuing aerial bombardment and ground operation in Gaza, repeated exchanges of fire between Israel and anti-Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, and Yemen Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
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The killing on Tuesday of a senior Hamas figure in Beirut, the deaths yesterday in Iran of almost 100 people in explosions at a Kerman ceremony marking the anniversary of the killing of Qassem Suleimani, and Israeli strikes inside Syria have all added to widening regional fears of escalation.
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Four Hezbollah fighters were killed overnight in southern Lebanon, the movement announced on Thursday, in what Lebanese state media said were Israeli strikes on the border town of Naqura.
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The deaths, which according to a source close to Hezbollah, included a local leader. It said in a statement the four fighters had been killed “on the road to Jerusalem” – a phrase it has been using to announce deaths of its members due to Israeli fire since the Israel-Hamas conflict started on 7 October.
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The group did not elaborate, but a source close to Hezbollah told AFP that the four were killed in Naqura near the Israeli border, adding that one of them was the movement’s local leader.
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Lebanon’s official National news agency said Israeli aircraft “carried out raids on the centre of Naqura, which destroyed a home and damaged surrounding houses”.
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The Lebanese group had on Wednesday announced the deaths of five other Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon.
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Reuters has a quick snap that at least two militia fighters have been killed, and five wounded in a drone strike against an Iran-backed militia headquarters in eastern Baghdad.
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The US secretary of state Antony Blinken will depart on Thursday for the Middle East, including a stop in Israel, an unnamed senior US official has told the Reuters and Agence France-Presse news agencies on Wednesday.
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The official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said U.S. diplomatic envoy Amos Hochstein will also travel to Israel in an effort to calm tensions between the country and Hezbollah.
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Blinken leaves Thursday night “for stops in a number of capitals, including Israel,” the official said, but didn’t provide any further details.
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It would be the US secretary of state’s fourth crisis trip to the Middle East, the US official told Agence France-Presse.
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The trip comes after a suspected Israeli strike killed a top Hamas leader in the suburbs of Beirut, raising fears of a wider conflict. “It is in no one’s interest – not in the interest of any country in the region, not in the interest of any country in the world – to see this conflict escalated any further than it already is,” state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said earlier on Wednesday.
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It’s also after almost 100 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in Iran by twin explosions near the grave of a slain Revolutionary Guards general. Tehran is blaming the United States and Israel for the attack but Washington has rejected suggestions of either nation’s involvement.
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Hello and welcome to our latest blog on the Israel-Gaza war. It’s currently 7:56am in Gaza and Tel Aviv and my name is Reged Ahmad. I’ll be with you for the next while.
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The US secretary of state Antony Blinken will leave Thursday evening on his fourth crisis trip to the Middle East, a US official says. The trip will include Israel, but no other details have been provided.
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More on that shortly but first, here’s a summary of the latest events so far:
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Israel carried out the strike that killed Hamas’s deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut, Lebanon, a US defense department official told Agence France-Presse anonymously on Wednesday. “The strike was an Israeli strike,” said the official, without providing further details. On Tuesday, al-Arouri was killed in Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut. Both Hamas and Hezbollah have blamed Israel for al-Arouri’s killing.
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The international court of justice will hold public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in its case against Israel over “genocidal” acts in Gaza next week. In a press release on Wednesday, the ICJ said that it will hold public hearings at the Peace Palace in The Hague next Thursday and Friday. It added: “The hearings will be devoted to the request for the indication for provisional measures contained in South Africa’s application.”
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The US said that it is “not seeing any acts that constitute genocide” in Gaza, referring to South Africa’s case against Israel in the international court of justice in which it accused Israel of “genocidal” acts across Gaza. In a news briefing on Wednesday, US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said, “Those are allegations that should not be made lightly … we are not seeing any acts that constitute genocide … That is a determination by the state department.” Miller’s comments come as Israeli strikes have killed over 22,300 Palestinians across Gaza – which human rights organisations have described as an “open air prison” – since 7 October.
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A local Hezbollah official and two other members were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon, Reuters reports two security sources saying. Wednesday’s strike bring the death toll in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon to nine Hezbollah members since the Iran-backed group began exchanging fire with Israeli forces at the start of October.
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The United States sees no “clear desire” by either Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement or Israel to go to war with the other, a senior Biden administration official has told Reuters. The official was briefing reporters on condition of anonymity and referring to a speech earlier in the day by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on the assassination on Tuesday of a senior Hamas official in Beirut.
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Twelve nations led by the United States on Wednesday have jointly warned Yemen’s Houthi rebels of consequences unless they immediately halt sea attacks that have been disrupting global commerce. President Joe Biden’s administration described the statement – joined by Britain, Germany and Japan – as a final warning, as Biden weighs possible military strikes against the Houthis if attacks persist, Agence France-Presse reports.
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Members of the UN security council on Wednesday also called on Yemen’s Houthis to halt their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Addressing the council’s first formal meeting of 2024, members also demanded that the Houthis release the Galaxy Leader, a Japanese-operated cargo ship linked to an Israeli company, and its crew, which the group seized on 19 November
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The United States remains “incredibly concerned” about the risk of the Israel-Gaza war spreading to other fronts, according to the US state department. The state department also said the US was not involved and had no reason to believe that Israel was involved in the explosions in central Iran earlier on Wednesday.
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The US coordinated with Israel, Egypt and others in rescuing the mother of a US serviceman and her American brother-in-law in Gaza, the Associated Press (AP) is reporting. The news agency says it’s the only known operation of its kind to extract American citizens and their close family members during the months of fighting and Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
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A senior official in the US Education Department has stepped down, citing President Joe Biden’s handling of the conflict in Gaza, Reuters is reporting, in the latest sign of dissent in the administration over the war.
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Meanwhile, 17 Biden re-election campaign staffers have issued a warning in an anonymous letter that Biden could lose voters over the issue, according to the Reuters news agency. Biden’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Key events
Three Israelis who were considered missing since the Hamas attacks on 7 October are being held hostage in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said.
This brings the number of people held hostage in Gaza since the attacks on Israel to 132, according to figures provided by Israeli officials.
IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari told reporters:
Three citizens who were considered missing are now recognised as hostages and their families have been informed.
Netanyahu says he seeks ‘fundamental change’ on Israel-Lebanon border
Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is seeking a “fundamental change” on Israel’s border with Lebanon.
The Israeli prime minister, at a meeting with US special envoy Amos Hochstein, did not specify what his plans entailed, AP reported.
He said he was committed to resettling evacuated residents from Israel’s north back in their homes safely, adding that he hoped to resolve the conflict with Lebanon diplomatically. He said:
Israel, after the murderous attack on Saturday of October 7, is determined, bolder and more united than ever before. Those of our neighbours who have not yet understood this will understand this very well in the future.
The Israeli leader’s comments came days after an audacious Israeli drone strike in Beirut killed a senior Hamas official in a move that threatened a significant and dangerous escalation of Israel’s war against Hamas and its related conflict with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
In a statement released by his office on Thursday, Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant outlined Israel’s new phase in its war on Gaza, saying:
“In the northern region of the Gaza strip, we will transition to a new combat approach in accordance with military achievements on the ground.”
Gallant added that Israel’s operations would include raids, demolishing tunnels, air and ground strikes, and special forces operations, Reuters reports.
He added that Israel’s military operation in the south “will continue for as long as is deemed necessary”.
Since 7 October, Israeli strikes have killed more than 22,400 Palestinians while leaving 1.9 million survivors internally displaced amid severe shortages in food, water, fuel and medical supplies.
Summary of the day so far
Here’s a recap of the latest developments:
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Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said that there will be no Israeli civilian presence in Gaza and Palestinian bodies will be “in charge” of the territory after the war ends. In a statement by his office on Thursday, Gallant said Hamas would no longer control Gaza and Israel would reserve its operational freedom of action.
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for two explosions at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate commander Qassem Suleimani. More than 95 Iranians were killed and scores more injured in the attack on Wednesday, which came at a memorial ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of the killing of Suleimani, the head of Iran’s al-Quds force. The US is “in no position to doubt” the Islamic State’s claim of responsibility, the White House has said.
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More than 22,438 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began, the majority of them women and children, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s health ministry on Thursday. The figures include 125 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours. At least 12 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a home in al-Mawasi evacuation zone, Palestinian hospital officials said. The blast reportedly killed a man and his wife, seven of their children and three other children ranging in age from five to 14.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, will depart later today to the Middle East for the fourth time since the Israel-Hamas war began in October. Blinken is set to visit Israel and the occupied West Bank, as well as Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt over the next week, the US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told reporters.
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A US airstrike in Baghdad on Thursday killed the commander of an Iranian-backed Shia militia that Washington blames for attacks on American forces in the region, according to US officials. One official said that a leader of Harakat al-Nujaba, whom the official did not name, was killed in his car as he was about to enter the garage at his group’s Baghdad headquarters.
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Several Gulf Arab states have strongly condemned remarks by two Israeli government ministers this week calling for Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza. Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has called on Palestinians to leave Gaza and make way for Israelis who could “make the desert bloom” while national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for promoting “a solution to encourage the emigration of Gaza’s residents” and the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory. The UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, said he was “very disturbed” by the statements.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had killed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) northern Gaza operations chief, Mamdouh Lolo, in an airstrike in northern Gaza. The IDF said the strike was a joint operation with Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet. Separately, the IDF said it raided and destroyed a Hamas military compound along the central coast of the Gaza Strip, including an underground tunnel system that led to a facility that was used by Hamas to manufacture weapons.
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The UK’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, has warned Israel it must allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza to avoid starvation and large outbreaks of disease. Speaking during a trip in Kosovo, Cameron also said attacks in Red Sea shipping lanes must stop, otherwise international action will be taken.
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Israel has accused the UN of “stalling” the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the territory which Israel has held under a virtual siege and continual aerial bombardment since 7 October. The Israeli defence ministry body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs said it was equipped to inspect up to 200 trucks a day passing through the Kerem Shalom crossing, but the UN was “not scraping 100”.
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At least 120 Palestinians were detained during an Israeli military raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had detained hundreds of people suspected of militant activities.
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Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said there must be a “new reality” that would allow Israelis who have evacuated from northern areas of the country to return. He was referring to the repeated exchanges of fire over the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon.
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A Houthi drone boat laden with explosives detonated in the Red Sea on Thursday, a senior US military officer said, just hours after the US and its allies warned the Iran-backed militia group to stop attacks or face “consequences”.
Palestinians to be ‘in charge’ of Gaza after war ends, says Israeli defence minister
Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said that there will be no Israeli civilian presence in Gaza and Palestinian bodies will be “in charge” of the territory after the war ends.
In a statement by his office, reported by Reuters, Gallant said Hamas would no longer control Gaza and Israel would reserve its operational freedom of action. He was quoted as saying:
Gaza residents are Palestinian, therefore Palestinian bodies will be in charge, with the condition that there will be no hostile actions or threats against the State of Israel.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it raided and destroyed a Hamas military compound along the central coast of the Gaza Strip, including an underground tunnel system that stretched for hundreds of metres.
According to the IDF, one of the tunnels led to a facility that was used by Hamas to manufacture weapons. The IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said the facility had been used to create long-range rockets and was stocked with explosives, adding:
The damage to the production sites and Hamas’s rocket launch capability and its reduction, as is carried out throughout the war, continues to be one of the main objectives of the military operation.”
US ‘in no position to doubt’ Islamic State claim for attack in Iran, says White House
The US is “in no position to doubt” a claim by Islamic State that it was responsible for an attack in southern Iran that killed dozens on Wednesday, the White House has said.
The White House’s national security spokesperson, John Kirby, told reporters at a briefing today that the US has “long said and maintained” that IS “remains a viable terror threat”.
The head of the UN interim forces in Lebanon said he has met with Lebanese officials to discuss the situation in southern Lebanon.
Posting to social media, Aroldo Lázaro said he met with the Lebanese speaker, Nabih Berri, the caretaker prime minister, Najib Miqati, and army commander Joseph Aoun. He wrote:
I expressed my concern about the situation and breaches in the cessation of hostilities, including potential miscalculation, which could have devastating consequences. Our priorities are to prevent escalation, protect civilian lives, and ensure peacekeepers’ safety and security.”
Gulf states condemn Israeli ministers’ call for Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza
Several Gulf Arab states have strongly condemned remarks by two Israeli government ministers this week calling for Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza.
We reported earlier that the UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, said he was “very disturbed” by the statements made earlier this week by Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, and national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.
On Monday, Ben-Gvir called for promoting “a solution to encourage the emigration of Gaza’s residents” and the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory. A day earlier, Smotrich had said Palestinians should leave Gaza and make way for Israelis who could “make the desert bloom”.
In a statement today, Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry said it “categorically condemns and rejects the comments of the two ministers”. It called on the international community to act in the face of the Israeli government’s “persistence” in violating international law “through its statements and actions”.
Qatar also “condemned in the strongest terms” the comments by the two Israeli ministers, its foreign ministry said, adding:
The policy of collective punishment and forced displacement practised by the occupation authorities against the inhabitants of Gaza will not change the fact that Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian.”
Kuwait warned against “Israeli plans to displace Gaza residents in particular, and the Palestinian people in general”.
The United Arab Emirates, which normalised ties with Israel in 2020, also “condemned in the strongest terms the extremist statements” of the two ministers, AFP reported.
The UAE voiced its “categorical rejection of such offensive statements and of all practices … which threaten further escalation and instability in the region”, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The US, France and the EU have also denounced the comments.
The UN security council has condemned the “cowardly” attack in southern Iran that killed at least dozens at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of the senior Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Suleimani.
In a statement, the council condemned “in the strongest terms” the attack in the city of Kerman on Wednesday.
It said members of the council “expressed their deepest sympathy and condolences” to the families of the victims of the “reprehensible” attack.
The members of the security council underlined the need to hold perpetrators, organisers, financiers, and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice.”
The statement reiterated that “any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed”.
While Antony Blinken heads to the Middle East later today, another senior US official is already on the ground as the US intensifies its diplomatic engagement in a bid to calm tensions on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Joe Biden has dispatched the special envoy Amos Hochstein, who arrived in Israel earlier today where he met with the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant. Hochstein was heavily involved in shepherding talks that led to the establishment of a maritime border between Israel and Lebanon in 2022.
During their meeting in Tel Aviv, Gallant said Israel preferred a diplomatic solution but that there was “a short window of time” to find one, according to remarks provided by his office. He said:
We find ourselves at a junction – there is a short window of time for diplomatic understandings. We will not tolerate the threats posed by the Iranian proxy, Hezbollah and we will ensure the security of our citizens.”
US secretary of state to tour Middle East amid fears of tensions escalating
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, will depart later today to the Middle East for the fourth time since the Israel-Hamas war began in October.
Blinken is set to visit Israel and the occupied West Bank, as well as Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt over the next week, the US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told reporters.
We reported earlier that an Israeli strike had destroyed a home in Mawasi in southern Gaza, an area that the Israeli military had declared a safe zone.
At least 12 people were killed, almost all of them children, according to Palestinian hospital officials.
The blast killed a man and his wife, seven of their children and three other children ranging in age from five to 14, according to a list of the dead who were taken to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.
There was no immediate response from Israel’s military.
A Houthi drone boat laden with explosives detonated in the Red Sea on Thursday, a senior US military officer said, just hours after the US and its allies warned the Iran-backed militia group to stop attacks or face “consequences”.
Vice Adm Brad Cooper, the commander of US naval forces in the Middle East, told journalists:
A Houthi one-way attack unmanned surface vessel, or USV, detonated in international shipping lanes. Fortunately, there were no casualties and no ships were hit.
He said the uncrewed boat “came within a couple of miles of ships operating in the area – merchant ships and US Navy ships – and we all watched as it exploded”.
He added it was the first time the Houthis had used a USV in recent months, since their harassment of commercial ships in the Red Sea began after the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war.
The incident marked the 25th attack by the Houthis targeting merchant vessels sailing in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since 18 November, he said, adding that “there are no signs that their irresponsible behaviour is abating.”
The incident came a day after 12 nations, led by the US, warned the Houthis of consequences unless they immediately halted firing on commercial vessels.
Here’s more on Wednesday’s attack on a crowd in southern Iran at a memorial for senior Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Suleimani, for which Islamic State has now claimed responsibility.
At least 84 people died when two blasts ripped through the crowd near Suleimani’s tomb in the city of Kerman, four years after he was killed by a US drone strike in Baghdad.
In a statement posted on its affiliate Telegram channels today, Islamic State said two of its members had detonated their explosive belts in the crowd.
Early today, Iran had said it was bolstering security along its borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the first tangible sign that it suspected that the attack was work of an Islamic State affiliate.
Attention has focused on Islamic State Khorasan Province, a Sunni group operating primarily in Afghanistan that resents the damage done to Islamic State’s cause by Suleimani in Iraq and Syria.
Summary of the day so far
If you’re just joining us, here’s a recap of the latest developments:
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More than 22,438 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began, the majority of them women and children, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s health ministry on Thursday. The figures include 125 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours. At least 14 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on the al-Mawasi evacuation zone, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Thursday. Al Jazeera reported that the youngest was five years old and most were aged under 10.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had killed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) northern Gaza operations chief, Mamdouh Lolo, in an airstrike in northern Gaza. The IDF said the strike was a joint operation with Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet.
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The UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, has said he is “very disturbed” by statements by high-level Israeli officials calling for Palestinians in Gaza to be moved to neighbouring Arab countries. His comments came days after Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, called on Palestinians to leave Gaza and make way for Israelis who could “make the desert bloom”.
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The UK’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, has warned Israel it must allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza to avoid starvation and large outbreaks of disease. Speaking during a trip in Kosovo, Cameron also said attacks in Red Sea shipping lanes must stop, otherwise international action will be taken.
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Israel has accused the UN of “stalling” the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the territory which Israel has held under a virtual siege and continual aerial bombardment since 7 October. The Israeli defence ministry body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs said it was equipped to inspect up to 200 trucks a day passing through the Kerem Shalom crossing, but the UN was “not scraping 100”.
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At least 120 Palestinians were detained during an Israeli military raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had detained hundreds of people suspected of militant activities.
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Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said there must be a “new reality” that would allow Israelis who have evacuated from northern areas of the country to return. He was referring to the repeated exchanges of fire over the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon.
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for two explosions at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate commander Qassem Suleimani. More than 95 Iranians were killed and scores more injured in the attack on Wednesday, which came at a memorial ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of the killing of Suleimani, the head of Iran’s al-Quds force.
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The US military has carried out an airstrike in Baghdad against a high-ranking Iraqi militia commander whom it blames for attacks against US forces in the country, killing him and another person, a US official said. The strike on Thursday, which hit a vehicle in the capital, targeted a leader of Harakat al-Nujaba, the official said.
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Four Hezbollah fighters were killed overnight in southern Lebanon, the movement announced on Thursday, in what Lebanese state media said were Israeli strikes on the border town of Naqura. The deaths, according to a source close to Hezbollah, included a local leader.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, will depart on Thursday for the Middle East, including a stop in Israel, an unnamed senior US official said. Blinken will leave Thursday night “for stops in a number of capitals, including Israel”, the official said. It would be his fourth crisis trip to the Middle East.
The UN’s top human rights official has said he is “very disturbed” by statements by “high-level Israeli officials” calling for Palestinians in Gaza to be moved to neighbouring Arab countries.
In a social media post, Volker Türk said 85% of people in Gaza are already internally displaced, and that they “have the right to return to their homes”.
He warned that international law “prohibits forcible transfer of protected persons within or deportation from occupied territory”.
His comments came days after Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, called for Palestinians to leave Gaza and make way for Israelis who could “make the desert bloom”.
“What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage emigration,” Smotrich told Army Radio on Sunday. “If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not 2 million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after will be totally different.”
Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, said on Monday that the war presented an “opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza”.
Islamic State claims responsibility for attacks at Iran memorial for assassinated commander
Islamic State has claimed responsibility on its Telegram platform for two explosions at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate commander Qassem Suleimani, Reuters reported.
At least 84 people were killed and scores injured during the blasts, which struck minutes apart on Wednesday, shaking the city of Kerman, about 820km (510 miles) south-east of the capital, Tehran.
The explosions occurred during a memorial ceremony marking the fourth anniversary of the killing of Suleimani, the head of Iran’s al-Quds force.
Israel military says it killed senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad member in northern Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, said they have killed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) northern Gaza operations chief, Mamdouh Lolo, in an airstrike in northern Gaza.
According to the IDF, Lolo was an assistant to the leaders of the militant group in northern Gaza and a “central figure” in the PIJ.