American President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and reiterated the United States' opposition to an attack on Rafah "without protection for Palestinian civilians".
The White House reported this in a statement.
Biden, we read in the US statement, "reaffirmed that the military operation cannot proceed without a credible and executable plan to guarantee security and support for civilians in Rafah".
The American president and Netanyahu also discussed the ongoing negotiations for the release of the Israeli hostages still in the hands of Hamas, the White House adds.
US Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani at the Munich Security Conference today.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, writing on the parties, without preconditions", clarifying that "Israel will continue to oppose the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Such recognition, in the wake of the October 7 massacre, would give an unprecedented enormous reward to terrorism and prevent any future peace agreement" .
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Hundreds of Palestinian workers from the West Bank are working in Israel to help build a new barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip, despite the Israeli Security Cabinet banning them from doing so, the Ynet news site reports, citing eyewitness accounts. of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers deployed in the area.
Ynet says Palestinian workers are engaged in engineering work on breaches in the fence, which was damaged in dozens of places at the start of the war against Hamas.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense responded to the reports by stating that only four Palestinians are working on the project, specifying that it hires contractors "in accordance with safety guidelines, classification and sensitivity of the work" and that the workers come from a group of Palestinian workers "approved to work on essential projects" for Israel.
At least 12 people died yesterday following an Israeli air strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
This was announced by a spokesperson for the Al Aqsa Martyrs' hospital, quoted by the international media.
Ten of the victims were women and children, the source specifies.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that at least six people died and several others were injured in an Israeli shelling that hit a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in the early hours of today.
Two more people lost their lives in a raid launched late yesterday evening by Israeli forces against two houses east of Jabalia, in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
In the previous hours, at least three people were killed and several others injured following another Israeli bombing against a vehicle and a group of individuals in the city of Gaza, according to Wafa.
The total death toll in the Gaza Strip since October 7 is at least 28,663 dead and 68,395 injured, according to the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Moscow organizes conference with Hamas and Islamic Jihad
Russia has invited 14 Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, to take part in an intra-Palestinian conference to be held in Moscow from February 29 to March 2.
This was stated by the special envoy for the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov, quoted by the Tass agency.
Israel, 'Hezbollah complex hit, terrorists killed'
Last night - after the rockets launched on Kiryat Shmona from Lebanon - the Israeli air force struck a "Hezbollah military complex" across the border in the city of Qantara in the south of the country.
The military spokesman said this according to "real terrorists were killed".
The same source added that "another Hezbollah military facility in the city area was hit".
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