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Israel defeats Hamas in Khan Yunis, Gaza.
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Israel conquers Khan Yunis: Hamas defeated in Gaza Strip's second largest city
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Much of the information cannot be independently verified.
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Update from February 1st, 10:55 p.m.:
According to US President Joe Biden, the violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank has reached an “unbearable level”.
According to
AFP,
he was explaining his previously adopted sanctions, which are intended to be imposed on people who “undermine peace, stability and security” in the West Bank, it said.
Biden accuses the settlers of “forcibly relocating people and villages and destroying property.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticizes the sanctions and sees “no reason” for such measures.
The majority of West Bank settlers are “law-respecting citizens.”
Violence against the Palestinian population would be sanctioned by Israeli authorities.
Israel captures Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip
Update from February 1st, 8:47 p.m.:
Israel has conquered Khan Yunis.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced on Thursday, according to the Jerusalem Post, that Hamas combat units in the city had been officially defeated.
According to the minister, around 10,000 Hamas fighters were killed in the fighting.
The Israeli army and Hamas have been fighting fiercely for days in the second largest city in the Gaza Strip.
Thousands of civilians fled to the south of the Gaza Strip.
Khan Yunis is hit by Israeli bombs.
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Hamas gives first positive sign towards ceasefire
Update from February 1st, 7:42 p.m.:
Hamas has given cautious approval for a ceasefire in Gaza and an exchange of hostages.
Qatar's foreign minister said this on Thursday evening.
Although there is no final deal yet, Hamas has responded positively to the proposal, according to Qatar's statement to
Reuters
.
During talks in Paris, Israel also agreed to the mediators' proposal.
Joe Biden sanctions four Israeli settlers for violence against Palestinians
Update from February 1st, 6:28 p.m.:
Joe Biden signs a historic sanction against violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
There are repeated attacks on the Palestinian population in Israeli settlement areas.
As the daily
Haaretz
reports, assets of four Israeli settlers will be frozen in the first round of sanctions.
Among other things, they are said to have set fire to houses and vehicles, threatened Israeli activists and attacked Palestinian people.
A Palestinian civilian died as a result.
Possible involvement of the UN Palestinian Relief Agency in a terrorist attack
Update from February 1st, 5:20 p.m.:
“UNRWA must not stop work, otherwise hundreds of thousands of people will die,” warned EU Foreign Affairs Representative Josep Borrell at the special EU summit in Brussels.
There is no alternative to the UN Palestinian Relief Agency.
The alleged involvement of UNRWA employees in the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel must be investigated, said Borrell.
But no collective punishment should be imposed on the Palestinian people.
Because of the allegations, several countries had announced that they would temporarily stop payments to the UN aid organization, including Germany.
However, it is still unclear how the EU will position itself overall.
Update from February 1st, 3:55 p.m.:
Is the USA planning a counterattack in response to the drone attack on US soldiers in Jordan?
US officials have now apparently confirmed to the US television channel
CBS News
that there are plans for attacks lasting several days against targets in Iraq and Syria.
The US sources are said to have said that the timing of the attacks was determined, among other things, by the weather.
You want to have the best possible view of the selected targets in order to protect civilians.
Hamas demands Israel withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip
Update from February 1st, 2:47 p.m.:
This week, mediators from Qatar and Egypt presented Hamas with the first concrete proposal for a longer ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
This was agreed upon by Israel and the USA during talks in Paris last week.
Now Hamas has announced that it would probably only sign this proposal if Israel committed to ending the war and completely withdrawing from the Gaza Strip.
This was said by a Palestinian representative close to the negotiations, according to information from the Reuters news agency.
The Palestinian official also said the ceasefire proposal calls for an initial phase of 40 days of ceasefire during which Hamas releases the remaining civilians among the 136 hostages still held by the terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.
This should be followed by the release of Israeli soldiers and finally the handover of the bodies of dead Israeli hostages.
“Infiltrated by Hamas”: Netanyahu wants to eliminate the UN aid agency in the Gaza Strip
Update from February 1st, 2:26 p.m.:
Employees of the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA are suspected of being involved in the Hamas massacre in Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has therefore now called for a reorganization of aid in the Gaza Strip.
UNRWA is “completely infiltrated by Hamas” and must be replaced by other UN organizations, Netanyahu said.
The infrastructure of the UN aid agency, with its schools and other facilities, “serves” the radical Islamic Hamas.
There is still a need for an independent aid organization in the Gaza Strip, “but UNRWA is not that organization,” said Netanyahu.
Update from February 1st, 1:49 p.m.:
According to the authorities there, at least 27,019 Palestinians have now been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war started by Hamas broke out on October 7th.
Since Wednesday (January 31) alone, 118 Palestinians have been killed and 190 others injured within 24 hours.
This is reported by the Reuters news agency.
Fear of US attack after incident in Jordan: Iran is probably withdrawing officers from Syria
Update from February 1st, 12:41 p.m.:
Because of an impending US attack, officers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard have apparently evacuated their positions in Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the German Press Agency that high-ranking commanders had left their positions along the Syrian-Iraqi border.
The background is a drone attack in Jordan near the Syrian border in which three US soldiers were killed and numerous others were injured on Sunday.
US President Joe Biden blamed “radical, Iran-backed militant groups” for the attack and threatened retaliation.
Iran denied any involvement.
According to the Observatory, posts in the Syria-Iraq border area have now been handed over to militias allied with Iran.
They had received orders not to launch attacks on US bases in the region.
Local activists from Dair as-Saur told the dpa that there was a high alert at the posts of the pro-Iranian militias.
This information cannot initially be independently verified.
Iran's decision to withdraw senior officers was partly due to its reluctance to be drawn directly into a conflict, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Israel News: Live on Arabic television - Hamas sets conditions for agreement with Israel
Update from February 1st, 10:55 a.m.:
Leading figures from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad set conditions for a deal with Israel in an interview broadcast live on television.
They said on the Arabic channel
Al Mayadeen
, which is close to the Shiite militia Hezbollah: "Our conditions include a ceasefire, an opening of the border crossing in Rafah, an international Arab commitment to reconstruction and the release of prisoners on the principle of 'all for all'." .
The “all for all” principle apparently means that Israel will release all Palestinian prisoners from prison in exchange for the release of the hostages taken captive by Hamas in Israel on October 7th.
The Rafah border crossing, which Hamas and other Palestinian “resistance groups” are calling for to be opened, is the only crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
Attacks in the Red Sea: USA attacks Huth rebels in Yemen
Update from February 1st, 7:50 a.m
.: The tension in the Red Sea continues to increase: After an attack by the Houthis on international shipping, the USA responded with a counterstrike.
A drone ground control station belonging to the terrorist militia in Yemen was destroyed in an airstrike on Thursday morning, the US Central Command told the US broadcaster
CNN
.
The destroyer “USS Carney” had previously repelled a Houthi attack with ship-based missiles on Wednesday evening.
Israel News: Netanyahu shows Hamas the limit on hostage deal
First report
: Tel Aviv – Israel wants to release many hostages.
In return, Palestinian prisoners could be exchanged.
Benjamin Netanyahu's government has now signaled that it is fundamentally ready to reach an agreement with the Islamist Hamas terrorist militia.
But for the Israeli prime minister there is a clear limit: there will be no permanent ceasefire in the war in Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video speech that they would not agree to a possible new agreement on a ceasefire in the Gaza war and the release of more hostages “at any price.”
Netanyahu said they were working on a new framework agreement to release the Israeli hostages still held by the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, adding: “We have red lines.” This includes not ending the Israeli war and not withdrawing its troops withdraw from the Gaza Strip and not release “thousands of terrorists” from Israeli prisons in exchange for a hostage deal.
Sick, injured and elderly: Hamas could soon release 35 hostages
Negotiators in Paris have been negotiating an agreement for days.
The head of the Israeli secret service Mossad, David Barnea, is said to have communicated the outlines of a possible agreement
to the war cabinet ministers on Monday, according to
Channel 12 .
The plan is apparently to release 35 female, sick, injured and elderly hostages in a first phase in which the fighting should pause for 35 days, it was said.
There would then be another week-long ceasefire during which negotiators would try to free young men and hostages who Hamas describes as soldiers.
The
Washington Post
had previously reported that the draft negotiated in Paris would initially release all civilians kidnapped from Israel during a six-week ceasefire.
For one hostage, three Palestinian prisoners would be released from Israeli prisons, it said.
According to the US report, the modalities are still unclear as to which prisoners will be released and who can determine this.
As of Wednesday evening, Hamas had not responded to the draft, the
Times of Israel
reported .
Hamas is expected to send its response through Qatar.
A key point of contention that has not yet been resolved is Hamas' demand that the agreement provide for a permanent ceasefire, which Israel has ruled out.
Netanyahu has repeatedly reiterated that Israel will stick to its goals of destroying Hamas and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel.
War in Israel: Hamas still holds 130 people captive in the Gaza Strip
Hamas abducted more than 250 hostages to the Gaza Strip in its unprecedented terrorist attack on Israel on October 7th.
It is estimated that more than 130 people are still in their power.
Israel believes that 27 of them are no longer alive.
(
jkf
/with material from
dpa
)