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The Israeli military confirmed today that it is flooding some of the many Hamas tunnels under the Gaza Strip with seawater to destroy them. Press agencies and Israeli media reported on it. We continue to follow events in the Middle East online.
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Update report 20:06
“During the war, the military used new ways to neutralize the underground terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, namely by pumping large amounts of water into the tunnels,” a military report said.
She emphasized that she does not use the flooding method to destroy all tunnels, but only in suitable places and where there is no risk of contamination of drinking water. It added that it had installed pumps and pipelines in the Gaza Strip for this purpose and always carried out preventative “professional and comprehensive” inspections, including soil and groundwater analysis, before tunnels were flooded.
8:04 p.m
The Israeli military confirmed today that it is flooding some of the numerous Hamas tunnels under the Gaza Strip with seawater to destroy them. Press agencies and Israeli media reported on it. The Times of Israel news site noted that this method of dismantling the network of underground gangs of the radical Islamist movement has been an open secret for several weeks.
6:37 p.m
The proposal for a new ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Hamas movement includes three phases in which all hostages still held by the Islamist group in the Gaza Strip would be gradually released in exchange for the release of some Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons. This was reported by the Reuters agency, citing a high-ranking Hamas representative.
5:00 p.m
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has hinted at the possibility of provisional recognition of a Palestinian state. According to him, such a step would help make irreversible the process towards the so-called two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, that is, the creation of an independent Palestinian state in peaceful neighborhood with Israel. The head of British diplomacy said this as he received ambassadors from Arab countries in London, the public broadcaster BBC reported today.
16:01
Israel will not withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip or release thousands of Palestinian prisoners, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in response to reports of a possible deal with Hamas.
13:04
The Israeli left-wing MP Ofer Cassif is threatened with expulsion from parliament because he and around two hundred Israelis supported a South African lawsuit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the beginning of January. South Africa accuses Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. The majority of Israeli MPs support impeachment proceedings against Cassif
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Hamas chief Ismail Haniya announced that the group had received the draft ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip drawn up at talks in Paris and would examine it. Haníja will discuss the proposal in Cairo. The head of the Israeli secret service Mossad, David Barnea, held talks in Paris on Sunday with the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, and representatives of Egypt and Qatar, who are acting as mediators in the conflict.
9:36
Clearly arranged with numbers and maps: The War on the Red Sea. How Yemeni rebels turned the world’s main highway into a battlefield.
08:46
Israeli soldiers stormed a hospital in the occupied West Bank town of Janin overnight, killing three Palestinians there. According to Reuters, the Voice of Palestine radio station made the announcement. Israel said it killed militants from the Palestinian militant group Hamas who were hiding in the hospital.
07:22
About 10 percent of the 12,000 staff at the United Nations Office for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) are affiliated with the militant Palestinian movement Hamas or another militant organization, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. This was announced by the Israeli secret services, according to a Monday report in the Wall Street Journal.
20:13
At weekend talks in Paris between the heads of the US, Israeli and Egyptian intelligence agencies to facilitate a new deal between Israel and Hamas on the release of hostages, Significant progress has been made. Qatari Prime Minister Muhammad bin Abdar Rahman Sani announced this today. Qatar, along with the United States and Egypt, is mediating negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas.
19:22
Israeli government officials had promised in Washington in recent days that the buffer zone the Israeli army is establishing in the Gaza Strip near the border with Israel would only be temporary. Israel will reportedly withdraw from it once Hamas is completely defeated. This was reported today by the Times of Israel (ToI) server, citing an unnamed American official. The Axios server wrote today, citing unnamed officials, that Israeli Defense Minister Joav Galant promised to prevent the construction of illegal Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip.
6:17 p.m
Six people, including pro-Iranian fighters, were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Damascus today. wrote the AFP agency with reference to the exiled Syrian Organization for Human Rights (SOHR). Iranian state media initially reported that two people died and several others were injured in an airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus near the mausoleum of Sayyid Zainab, one of the granddaughters of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. Shortly afterwards, Syrian state media admitted that Iranian advisers were among the dead, but later retracted the report.
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The Israeli government is facing criticism over the participation of 11 ministers in a conference on Sunday that called for the reconstruction of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel reported today. Some participants at the event also called for the expulsion of Palestinians from the area, where Israel has been waging war against the Palestinian movement Hamas since October in retaliation for its terrorist attack. The participation of ministers and government members in the conference was condemned today by the German Foreign Ministry and Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz, who has been a member of the war cabinet since October.
16:19
Today the Palestinian movement Hamas once again made the release of the hostages kidnapped from Israel on October 7 conditional Ending the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and withdrawing Israeli troops from the area. This was reported by the Reuters agency.
15:26
The Israeli offensive in Gaza has killed at least 26,637 Palestinians since October, according to Hamas-controlled authorities. including 215 for the past day.
12:40
The Palestinian movement Hamas today released the hostages kidnapped from Israel On October 7, it made this conditional on the end of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the area. Reuters provides information about this today. The announcement came after the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency held talks in Paris on Sunday with his American counterpart and representatives from Egypt and Qatar, which are acting as mediators in the conflict. The topic was a possible deal to release the remaining 130 hostages.
11:57
Austria is now among the countries that are freezing funding for the UN Office for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).said the Foreign Ministry in Vienna. Israel has accused 12 UNRWA workers of involvement in an October 7 attack by Palestinian Hamas terrorists on its territory. Previously, the USA, Canada, Australia, Italy, Great Britain, Finland and Germany, which was one of the largest donors, had informed this UN office of the suspension of financial contributions.
11:56
The American newspaper The New York Times, referring to an Israeli document submitted to the US government, today described details of the employees of the United Nations Office for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) who were arrested for their involvement in the Hamas attack Israel released them in October. Ten of the twelve people reportedly belonged to the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and one to another militant organization, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. One of the employees took part in the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Beeri last October 7, in which 97 people lost their lives, another was involved in the kidnapping of a woman and another supplied ammunition.
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