Israel sends tanks into West Bank as Hamas says Gaza talks on hold
- Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Mardawi has said the Palestinian group will not engage in further ceasefire discussions until Israel releases 620 Palestinians who were supposed to be freed on Saturday.
- Israeli tanks have been deployed to the occupied West Bank for the first time in more than 20 years, as 40,000 Palestinians flee Israel’s assault on refugee camps in the north.
- An estimated 450,000 people have attended the Beirut funeral of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli air strike.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed 48,319 Palestinian deaths in Israel’s war on Gaza, while 111,749 people have been wounded. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to at least 61,709, saying thousands of Palestinians missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
Families of Palestinian detainees ‘devastated’ after Israel postpones release
We have been reporting on Israel’s decision on Sunday to indefinitely postpone the release of 620 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, despite Hamas freeing six captives from Gaza a day earlier as stipulated by the Gaza ceasefire agreement.
The decision caused anguish for hundreds of family members who had gathered in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, waiting for hours to receive their loved ones, before being told they weren’t coming.
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Hamas condemns Israel’s operations in occupied West Bank
The Palestinian group says Israel’s decision to expand its operations in Jenin governorate and other parts of the northern occupied West Bank reveals its “dangerous intention to persist [in] the war of extermination”.
Hamas also called for a “unified front” against “Israel’s forced displacement campaigns” that have affected more than 40,000 residents from the Jenin, Tulkarem, Nur Shams and Far’a refugee camps.
The group also dismissed a statement by Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz – who said the Israeli army will stay in the West Bank’s refugee camps for the next year – as “an illusion that will not come true”.
On Sunday, the Israeli military announced it would deploy tanks to the occupied West Bank for the first time since 2002.
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Palestinian Foreign Ministry says Israeli tanks ‘grave escalation’ in West Bank
In a statement shared on X, the ministry said deploying tanks in the occupied West Bank is a continuation of Israel’s “genocide, displacement and annexation”.
It said the tanks, alongside the forcible displacement of 40,000 Palestinians and Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz saying that Palestinians would not be able to return to their homes, represented a “grave escalation”.
“The Ministry renews its urgent calls on the international community to intervene immediately to curb Israel’s unchecked aggression,” the statement added.
Hamas had been turning each batch of hostage releases into a circus designed to humiliate the hostages.
ReplyDeleteSooner or later the process would break and collapse.
Likewise that mfering Zionist state!
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