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Gaza ceasefire has re-opened the door for aid workers - WFP chief<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>At Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, families prepared for the journey with the assistance of WHO teams. Among them was Al-Ata Al-Najjar, the mother of young Abdul, who suffers from a suspected case of cystic fibrosis and a congenital heart defect. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very happy when I received the call about travelling for treatment. I felt relieved that my child, God willing, will get his treatment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuation comes amid urgent calls from the WHO to expedite medical transfers for critically ill patients. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative for the Palestinian territories, stressed the scale of the crisis, estimating that between 12,000 and 14,000 patients in Gaza require urgent evacuation for life-saving treatment. \u201cThis is just the start. We need to speed up the pace. What we need are medical corridors now outside Gaza,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As the convoy reached Rafah, families made their final steps toward the crossing, some in wheelchairs, others clinging to loved ones. <\/p>\n<p>With thousands still in dire need of medical transfers, the WHO continues to urge for accelerated evacuation efforts, warning that many lives remain at risk without immediate intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces shut down the crossing in early May after seizing it during an offensive on the southern city, prompting Egypt to close its side in protest.<\/p>\n<p>The reopening marks a key breakthrough in the ceasefire agreement reached earlier this month between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Israel agreed to reopen Rafah after Hamas released the last remaining living female hostages in Gaza. It is Gaza\u2019s only border crossing that does not lead into Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Under the six-week first phase of the truce, 33 Israeli hostages held by Hamas and nearly 2,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are to be released, while displaced Palestinians will be allowed to return to northern Gaza, and humanitarian aid will increase to the war-torn enclave.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, Israel and Hamas are set to begin talks on the second phase of the ceasefire, which aims to secure the release of the remaining hostages and extend the truce indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>If no agreement is reached, the war could resume in early March.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738502029,"updatedAt":1738512544,"publishedAt":1738512142,"firstPublishedAt":1738512142,"lastPublishedAt":1738512142,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/23\/96\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e70bacc1-6bdd-5523-92aa-701fc7b4b420-9022396.jpg","altText":"A Palestinian girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is carried by medics before crossing the Rafah border into Egypt, in Khan Younis, Saturday Feb. 1, 25","caption":"A Palestinian girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is carried by medics before crossing the Rafah border into Egypt, in Khan Younis, Saturday Feb. 1, 25","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Jehad Alshrafi\/Copyright 2025, The AP. 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FREED GAZA","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Three Israeli hostages and dozens of Palestinian prisoners freed ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Three Israeli hostages and dozens of Palestinian prisoners freed ","titleListing2":"Three Israeli hostages and dozens of Palestinian prisoners freed ","leadin":"Israel has begun releasing a group of Palestinian prisoners after Hamas freed three hostages as part of the ceasefire deal that has halted 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip.","summary":"Israel has begun releasing a group of Palestinian prisoners after Hamas freed three hostages as part of the ceasefire deal that has halted 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip.","keySentence":"","url":"hamas-hands-two-israeli-hostages-over-to-the-red-cross-in-gaza","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/02\/01\/hamas-hands-two-israeli-hostages-over-to-the-red-cross-in-gaza","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Militants handed Yarden Bibas and French-Israeli Ofer Kalderon to Red Cross officials in the southern city of Khan Younis, while US-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, looking pale and thin, was released to the Red Cross later on Saturday morning in Gaza City to the north. \n\nShortly afterwards Israel began releasing a group of Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire deal that has halted 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip.\n\nA bus departed Ofer Military Prison with some 32 prisoners for the West Bank. About 150 other prisoners were being sent to Gaza or deported.\n\nAccording to Palestinian authorities, a total of 183 Palestinian prisoners are to be released, including dozens serving lengthy sentences or life sentences, and 111 people from the Gaza Strip who were arrested after Oct. 7, 2023 and held without trial.\n\nAll three Israeli hostages were abducted during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that sparked the war. Their release brings to 18 the number of hostages released since the ceasefire began on Jan. 19.\n\nBoth of Saturday's events were quick and orderly, in contrast to chaotic scenes that had unfolded during an earlier hostage release on Thursday, when armed militants appeared to struggle to hold back a crowd mobbing the hostages. In both of Saturday's releases, masked and armed militants stood in lines as the hostages walked onto a stage and waved before being led off and handed over to the Red Cross.\n\nIn Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, thousands of people gathered to watch the releases being transmitted live on a large screen, waving signs and cheering. \n\nThe ceasefire is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and the Hamas militant group. The deal has held for two weeks, halting the fighting and allowing for increased aid to flow into the tiny coastal territory.\n\nDuring the truce's six-week first phase, a total of 33 Israeli hostages are expected to be freed in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners during the truce\u2019s initial six weeks. Israel says it has received information from Hamas that eight of those hostages were either killed in Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack or have died in captivity\n\nAlso on Saturday, wounded Palestinians are expected to be allowed to leave Gaza for Egypt through the Rafah crossing. It had been the only exit point for Palestinians during the war before Israel closed it in May. A European Union civilian mission was deployed Friday to prepare for the reopening of the crossing.\n\nThe reopening would mark another key step in the first phase of the ceasefire, which calls for the return of Palestinians to northern Gaza and an increase in humanitarian aid to the devastated territory.\n\nThe Health Ministry said 50 sick and wounded children are to be evacuated through the Rafah crossing along with 61 companions.\n\nSiegel, 65, originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was taken hostage from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, along with his wife, Aviva Siegel. She was released during the 2023 ceasefire and has waged a high-profile campaign to free Siegel and other hostages.\n\nMeanwhile, the release of Bibas, 35, brought renewed attention to the fate of his wife, Shiri, and their two young sons, Ariel, 4 and Kfir, 9 months old at the time. All four were captured from Kibbutz Nir Oz. \n\nKfir was the youngest of about 250 people taken captive on Oct. 7, and his plight quickly came to represent the helplessness and anger the hostage-taking stirred in Israel, where the Bibas family has become a household name.\n\nHamas has said Shiri and her sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike. Israel has not confirmed that, but a military spokesman recently acknowledged serious concern about their fates.\n\nKalderon, 54, was also captured from Kibbutz Nir Oz.\n\nIn Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv, Kalderon's family hugged and cheered as they saw the images of him climbing onto the stage in Khan Younis and being transferred to the Red Cross.\n\n\u201cOfer is coming home!\u201d they said, arms lifted to the sky.\n\nKalderon\u2019s two children, Erez and Sahar, were abducted alongside him and released during a brief ceasefire in November 2023. Family members said they weren\u2019t able to recover from their ordeal until their father returned. \n\n\u201cWe are sorry it took so long, Ofer,\u201d said Eyal Kalderon. \u201cWe will soon be a whole family again. We hope other families will soon feel like this, until the last family.\u201d\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said France \u201cshares in the relief and joy\u201d of Kalderon's return after 483 days of \u201cunimaginable hell,\u201d adding that France would continue doing all it can to secure the release of another French Israeli hostage still being held in Gaza.\n\nOf the roughly 250 people initially abducted by militants in the Oct. 7 attack, more than 100 were released during a weeklong ceasefire in Nov. 2023. About 80 more are still in Gaza, at least a third of them believed dead. \n\nIsrael and Hamas are set next week to begin negotiating a second phase of the ceasefire, which calls for releasing the remaining hostages and extending the truce indefinitely. The war could resume in early March if an agreement is not reached.\n\nIsrael says it is still committed to destroying Hamas, even after the militant group reasserted its rule over Gaza within hours of the latest ceasefire. A key far-right partner in Netanyahu\u2019s coalition is calling for the war to resume after the ceasefire\u2019s first phase.\n\nHamas says it won\u2019t release the remaining hostages without an end to the war and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.\n\nIn the Oct. 7 attack that started the war, some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed. More than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel\u2019s retaliatory air and ground war, over half of them women and children, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were militants.\n\nThe Israeli military says it killed over 17,000 fighters, without providing evidence. It blames civilian deaths on Hamas because its fighters operate in residential neighbourhoods.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Militants handed Yarden Bibas and French-Israeli Ofer Kalderon to Red Cross officials in the southern city of Khan Younis, while US-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, looking pale and thin, was released to the Red Cross later on Saturday morning in Gaza City to the north. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards Israel began releasing a group of Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire deal that has halted 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>A bus departed Ofer Military Prison with some 32 prisoners for the West Bank. About 150 other prisoners were being sent to Gaza or deported.<\/p>\n<p>According to Palestinian authorities, a total of 183 Palestinian prisoners are to be released, including dozens serving lengthy sentences or life sentences, and 111 people from the Gaza Strip who were arrested after Oct. 7, 2023 and held without trial.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//02//19//64//808x539_cmsv2_868dec44-6052-55d8-b8d9-211ec2a5e621-9021964.jpg/" alt=\"Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel get off Red Cross bus in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo\/Nasser Nasser)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/384x256_cmsv2_868dec44-6052-55d8-b8d9-211ec2a5e621-9021964.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/640x427_cmsv2_868dec44-6052-55d8-b8d9-211ec2a5e621-9021964.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/750x500_cmsv2_868dec44-6052-55d8-b8d9-211ec2a5e621-9021964.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/828x552_cmsv2_868dec44-6052-55d8-b8d9-211ec2a5e621-9021964.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/1080x720_cmsv2_868dec44-6052-55d8-b8d9-211ec2a5e621-9021964.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/1200x800_cmsv2_868dec44-6052-55d8-b8d9-211ec2a5e621-9021964.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/1920x1281_cmsv2_868dec44-6052-55d8-b8d9-211ec2a5e621-9021964.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel get off Red Cross bus in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo\/Nasser Nasser)<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>All three Israeli hostages were abducted during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that sparked the war. Their release brings to 18 the number of hostages released since the ceasefire began on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Both of Saturday's events were quick and orderly, in contrast to chaotic scenes that had unfolded during an earlier hostage release on Thursday, when armed militants appeared to struggle to hold back a crowd mobbing the hostages. In both of Saturday's releases, masked and armed militants stood in lines as the hostages walked onto a stage and waved before being led off and handed over to the Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>In Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, thousands of people gathered to watch the releases being transmitted live on a large screen, waving signs and cheering. <\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and the Hamas militant group. The deal has held for two weeks, halting the fighting and allowing for increased aid to flow into the tiny coastal territory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//02//19//64//808x539_cmsv2_26660d45-397a-5a0a-b38e-bb2e77c8cdbe-9021964.jpg/" alt=\"Israeli Yarden Bibas is escorted by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Feb 1st 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/384x256_cmsv2_26660d45-397a-5a0a-b38e-bb2e77c8cdbe-9021964.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/640x427_cmsv2_26660d45-397a-5a0a-b38e-bb2e77c8cdbe-9021964.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/750x500_cmsv2_26660d45-397a-5a0a-b38e-bb2e77c8cdbe-9021964.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/828x552_cmsv2_26660d45-397a-5a0a-b38e-bb2e77c8cdbe-9021964.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/1080x720_cmsv2_26660d45-397a-5a0a-b38e-bb2e77c8cdbe-9021964.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/1200x800_cmsv2_26660d45-397a-5a0a-b38e-bb2e77c8cdbe-9021964.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/1920x1281_cmsv2_26660d45-397a-5a0a-b38e-bb2e77c8cdbe-9021964.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Israeli Yarden Bibas is escorted by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Feb 1st 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Abdel Kareem Hana\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>During the truce's six-week first phase, a total of 33 Israeli hostages are expected to be freed in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners during the truce\u2019s initial six weeks. Israel says it has received information from Hamas that eight of those hostages were either killed in Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack or have died in captivity<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, wounded Palestinians are expected to be allowed to leave Gaza for Egypt through the Rafah crossing. It had been the only exit point for Palestinians during the war before Israel closed it in May. A European Union civilian mission was deployed Friday to prepare for the reopening of the crossing.<\/p>\n<p>The reopening would mark another key step in the first phase of the ceasefire, which calls for the return of Palestinians to northern Gaza and an increase in humanitarian aid to the devastated territory.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Ministry said 50 sick and wounded children are to be evacuated through the Rafah crossing along with 61 companions.<\/p>\n<p>Siegel, 65, originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was taken hostage from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, along with his wife, Aviva Siegel. She was released during the 2023 ceasefire and has waged a high-profile campaign to free Siegel and other hostages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666015625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//02//19//64//808x539_cmsv2_b522f35a-9cae-53d1-b024-7d18f9f7e792-9021964.jpg/" alt=\"American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, 65, is escorted by Hamas fighters as he is handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Saturday Feb.1, 2025.(AP Photo\/Mohammed Hajjar)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/384x256_cmsv2_b522f35a-9cae-53d1-b024-7d18f9f7e792-9021964.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/640x426_cmsv2_b522f35a-9cae-53d1-b024-7d18f9f7e792-9021964.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/750x500_cmsv2_b522f35a-9cae-53d1-b024-7d18f9f7e792-9021964.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/828x551_cmsv2_b522f35a-9cae-53d1-b024-7d18f9f7e792-9021964.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/1080x719_cmsv2_b522f35a-9cae-53d1-b024-7d18f9f7e792-9021964.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/1200x799_cmsv2_b522f35a-9cae-53d1-b024-7d18f9f7e792-9021964.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/02\/19\/64\/1920x1279_cmsv2_b522f35a-9cae-53d1-b024-7d18f9f7e792-9021964.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, 65, is escorted by Hamas fighters as he is handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Saturday Feb.1, 2025.(AP Photo\/Mohammed Hajjar)<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mohammed Hajjar\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the release of Bibas, 35, brought renewed attention to the fate of his wife, Shiri, and their two young sons, Ariel, 4 and Kfir, 9 months old at the time. All four were captured from Kibbutz Nir Oz. <\/p>\n<p>Kfir was the youngest of about 250 people taken captive on Oct. 7, and his plight quickly came to represent the helplessness and anger the hostage-taking stirred in Israel, where the Bibas family has become a household name.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has said Shiri and her sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike. Israel has not confirmed that, but a military spokesman recently acknowledged serious concern about their fates.<\/p>\n<p>Kalderon, 54, was also captured from Kibbutz Nir Oz.<\/p>\n<p>In Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv, Kalderon's family hugged and cheered as they saw the images of him climbing onto the stage in Khan Younis and being transferred to the Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfer is coming home!\u201d they said, arms lifted to the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Kalderon\u2019s two children, Erez and Sahar, were abducted alongside him and released during a brief ceasefire in November 2023. Family members said they weren\u2019t able to recover from their ordeal until their father returned. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are sorry it took so long, Ofer,\u201d said Eyal Kalderon. \u201cWe will soon be a whole family again. We hope other families will soon feel like this, until the last family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said France \u201cshares in the relief and joy\u201d of Kalderon's return after 483 days of \u201cunimaginable hell,\u201d adding that France would continue doing all it can to secure the release of another French Israeli hostage still being held in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Of the roughly 250 people initially abducted by militants in the Oct. 7 attack, more than 100 were released during a weeklong ceasefire in Nov. 2023. About 80 more are still in Gaza, at least a third of them believed dead. <\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hamas are set next week to begin negotiating a second phase of the ceasefire, which calls for releasing the remaining hostages and extending the truce indefinitely. The war could resume in early March if an agreement is not reached.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says it is still committed to destroying Hamas, even after the militant group reasserted its rule over Gaza within hours of the latest ceasefire. A key far-right partner in Netanyahu\u2019s coalition is calling for the war to resume after the ceasefire\u2019s first phase.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas says it won\u2019t release the remaining hostages without an end to the war and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>In the Oct. 7 attack that started the war, some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed. More than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel\u2019s retaliatory air and ground war, over half of them women and children, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were militants.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military says it killed over 17,000 fighters, without providing evidence. 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Residents of Tamoun said that the airstrike hit a house in a crowded neighbourhood. The Palestinian Health Ministry cautioned that the death toll was likely to rise.\n\nPalestinians say the extensive military operations - such as the ongoing raid in the Jenin refugee camp that has so far killed at least 18 Palestinians - only deepen resentment for Israel and prolong the cycle of bloodshed.\n\nIn a statement, Hamas mourned the men killed in Tamoun but did not claim them as members. It called on Palestinians across Israel and the occupied West Bank to mobilise against Israel in hopes of making it \u201cpay the price for its crimes.\u201d\n\nIsrael's defence minister indicated on Wednesday that the military plans to keep soldiers in the flashpoint city of Jenin for the foreseeable future,.\n\nIsrael Katz pledged that the urban refugee camp in Jenin - long a bastion for Palestinian militancy - \u201cwill not return to what it was.\u201d\n\nThe military said it has killed 18 alleged Palestinian militants during the nine-day operation in and around Jenin, during which soldiers and armoured bulldozers have caused widespread damage and destroyed scores of homes.\n\nPalestinian health officials have not released a total death toll, but say Israeli fire has killed roughly 20 Palestinians since the start of the raid, including a 2-year-old girl. Israel\u2019s military has pledged to investigate her death.\n\nThe Palestinian Health Ministry said two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank overnight and into Wednesday.\n\nA 23-year-old man was shot dead in Tulkarem and a 25-year-old man was killed in a strike on Jenin. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its reports.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Palestinian health authorities say an Israeli airstrike in the northern West Bank has killed at least 10 people.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said the strike by a warplane targeted a Palestinian militant cell in the area based on intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s use of a jet fighter to strike the rural village of Tamoun late on Wednesday marked the latest escalation in its intensifying crackdown on Palestinian militants in the occupied territory. Residents of Tamoun said that the airstrike hit a house in a crowded neighbourhood. The Palestinian Health Ministry cautioned that the death toll was likely to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians say the extensive military operations - such as the ongoing raid in the Jenin refugee camp that has so far killed at least 18 Palestinians - only deepen resentment for Israel and prolong the cycle of bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Hamas mourned the men killed in Tamoun but did not claim them as members. It called on Palestinians across Israel and the occupied West Bank to mobilise against Israel in hopes of making it \u201cpay the price for its crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel's defence minister indicated on Wednesday that the military plans to keep soldiers in the flashpoint city of Jenin for the foreseeable future,.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Katz pledged that the urban refugee camp in Jenin - long a bastion for Palestinian militancy - \u201cwill not return to what it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The military said it has killed 18 alleged Palestinian militants during the nine-day operation in and around Jenin, during which soldiers and armoured bulldozers have caused widespread damage and destroyed scores of homes.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian health officials have not released a total death toll, but say Israeli fire has killed roughly 20 Palestinians since the start of the raid, including a 2-year-old girl. Israel\u2019s military has pledged to investigate her death.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Health Ministry said two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank overnight and into Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A 23-year-old man was shot dead in Tulkarem and a 25-year-old man was killed in a strike on Jenin. 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from Khan Younis in Gaza began returning to areas destroyed by Israeli offensives against Hamas, reversing a mass exodus that took place 15 months earlier.\n\nSome 200,000 people, according to UN figures, reached the north of the enclave on roads inspected by Egyptian and American officials, with scenes of joy despite the destruction that awaited them at home.\n\nMany had travelled for days in difficult conditions, pushing vehicles or walking.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Taking advantage of a ceasefire, Palestinians from Khan Younis in Gaza began returning to areas destroyed by Israeli offensives against Hamas, reversing a mass exodus that took place 15 months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Some 200,000 people, according to UN figures, reached the north of the enclave on roads inspected by Egyptian and American officials, with scenes of joy despite the destruction that awaited them at home.<\/p>\n<p>Many had travelled for days in difficult conditions, pushing vehicles or 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Euronews breaks down what we know about its mandate and operations.","summary":"The EU\u2019s top diplomat has said the civilian mission can play a \u201cdecisive role\u201d in supporting the Gaza ceasefire. Euronews breaks down what we know about its mandate and operations.","keySentence":"","url":"what-we-know-about-the-eus-revived-rafah-border-mission","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/28\/what-we-know-about-the-eus-revived-rafah-border-mission","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The European Union is set to revive a civilian mission on the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, a move it hopes will increase the flow of aid into the enclave and allow the injured to be evacuated for treatment abroad.\n\nThe non-armed mission is expected to be operational on the border crossing from early February, after a deal was struck with the backing of Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), which partially governs the occupied West Bank.\n\nEstablished in 2005 but dismantled two years later when Hamas took control of Gaza, the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) is understood to have been preparing for re-deployment since May last year.\n\nIsrael seized the crossing that same month, forcing its closure and further restricting the flow of essential aid to civilians.\u00a0\n\nThe ceasefire deal struck between Hamas and Israel, which began on January 19, is expected to now allow the crossing to reopen in the presence of European observers.\n\nA European Commission spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday that the mission will be deployed \"at the beginning of February\" until the end of the first phase of the truce between Israel and Hamas, which is set to expire on March 2.\n\nWhat do we know about the mission and who carries out its work?\n\nThe mission is non-military and is mainly tasked with policing the border and allowing the safe transit of goods and people. It has been led by Bulgarian diplomat Nataliya Apostolova since November 2023.\n\nIt has maintained ten international and eight local staff members while on stand-by mode since it was suspended in 2007.\n\nIts workforce is now expected to be slightly beefed up as part of its re-deployment, with France, Italy and Spain contributing officers from its law enforcement forces.\n\nThe Italian foreign ministry confirmed on Monday that seven Carabinieri officers would join another two Italian nationals already part of the mission. Spain is understood to have deployed ten officers from its Guardia Civil, according to Spanish agency EFE, which would make it the largest contributor of personnel.\n\nIt is understood that Spanish and French officers have joined their Italian counterparts at the European Gendarmerie Force (Eurogendfor) headquarters in Vincenza, Italy, to prepare for the mission.\n\nAn Italian military command will coordinate the transfer and deployment of the officers to the Rafah crossing.\n\nWhat is the mission\u2019s mandate?\n\nThe EU\u2019s foreign affairs chief, Kaja Kallas, said on Monday that the mission would support the \"transfer of injured individuals out of Gaza for treatment.\"\n\nThe World Health Organisation has repeatedly raised the alarm on the \u201cexcruciatingly slow\u201d pace of medical evacuations. Its director-general Tedros Adhanom said earlier this month that it would take \"five to ten years to evacuate\" the 12,000 critically ill patients at the current rate of evacuations, which has plunged since the Rafah crossing closed last May.\n\nThe mission is also expected to facilitate the smooth passage of trucks carrying critical humanitarian aid, including food, medicine and fuel.\n\nAfter Israel\u2019s military incursion into Rafah forced the crossing\u2019s closure last May, the Kerem Shalom crossing on Gaza\u2019s border with Israel became the main route for transporting humanitarian aid, significantly reducing the number of trucks entering the enclave.\n\nUnder the truce deal, 600 truckloads of aid - including 50 carrying fuel - are expected to enter the Gaza strip every day, the minimum number needed to curb famine, according to humanitarian agencies.\u00a0\n\nAn average 500 trucks per day entered Gaza before the war broke out with Hamas\u2019 attack on Israel on October 7.\n\nIsrael continues to carry out exhaustive inspections on aid trucks entering the territory to ensure no goods can be hijacked by militant groups such as Hamas.\n\nBut aid groups have accused Israel of instrumentalising its control over the territory to restrict the flow of essential goods and exacerbate a deepening humanitarian crisis.\n\nThe EU, in principle, is considered a trusted mediator that can ensure the safe and swift passage of trucks and people through the crossing.\u00a0\n\nThe mission's mandate, which currently expires on 30 June this year, is also described as intended to \u201cbuild confidence between the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.\u201d\n\nIsrael is nonetheless expected to maintain its presence on the crossing and along the Philadelphi corridor, which runs along the Gaza-Egypt border, throughout the first phase of the ceasefire.\n\nEuronews contacted the European Commission to ask how the mission\u2019s mandate could change in a potential second phase of the ceasefire, but did not receive an answer in time for publication.\u00a0\n\nCould it increase the EU\u2019s role in shaping Gaza\u2019s future?\n\nThe EU has had a minimal role in diplomatic efforts to secure peace in Gaza, which have been spearheaded by regional partners such as Qatar and Egypt as well as the US.\n\nBut the bloc is the biggest donor of aid to the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, investing \u20ac1.18 billion between 2021 and 2024 to prop up the local economy and prevent its people from plunging into destitution.\n\nIt is expected to have a leading role in the future reconstruction of Gaza, which can only start in a potential third phase of the ceasefire and is expected to take several years given the extent of destruction following 15 months of Israeli bombardment.\n\nDuring her visit to Turkey over the weekend, the EU\u2019s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said the bloc was \"committed to the long-term reconstruction and development\" of Gaza.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has previously laid out the EU's five principles for the future of Gaza. They include no forced displacement of Palestinian people.\n\nBut Kallas refused to be drawn to comment this week on controversial statements made by US President Donald Trump hinting that civilians should be expelled from Gaza and southern Lebanon, and received by neighbouring countries such as Egypt and Lebanon.\n\n\u201cYou\u2019re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,\" Trump said over the weekend\n\nTrump's comments have been met with outrage and firmly rebuked by the international community, including some European governments.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The European Union is set to revive a civilian mission on the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, a move it hopes will increase the flow of aid into the enclave and allow the injured to be evacuated for treatment abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The non-armed mission is expected to be operational on the border crossing from early February, after a deal was struck with the backing of Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), which partially governs the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2005 but dismantled two years later when Hamas took control of Gaza, the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) is understood to have been preparing for re-deployment since May last year.<\/p>\n<p>Israel seized the crossing that same month, forcing its closure and further restricting the flow of essential aid to civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//19//ceasefire-delayed-israel-says-after-hamas-fails-to-release-hostages-names/">deal struck between Hamas and Israel, which began on January 19, is expected to now allow the crossing to reopen in the presence of European observers.<\/p>\n<p>A European Commission spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday that the mission will be deployed \"at the beginning of February\" until the end of the first phase of the truce between Israel and Hamas, which is set to expire on March 2.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What do we know about the mission and who carries out its work?<\/strong><\/h2><p>The mission is non-military and is mainly tasked with policing the border and allowing the safe transit of goods and people. It has been led by Bulgarian diplomat Nataliya Apostolova since November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>It has maintained ten international and eight local staff members while on stand-by mode since it was suspended in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Its workforce is now expected to be slightly beefed up as part of its re-deployment, with France, Italy and Spain contributing officers from its law enforcement forces.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian foreign ministry confirmed on Monday that seven Carabinieri officers would join another two Italian nationals already part of the mission. Spain is understood to have deployed ten officers from its Guardia Civil, according to Spanish agency EFE, which would make it the largest contributor of personnel.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that Spanish and French officers have joined their Italian counterparts at the European Gendarmerie Force (Eurogendfor) headquarters in Vincenza, Italy, to prepare for the mission.<\/p>\n<p>An Italian military command will coordinate the transfer and deployment of the officers to the Rafah crossing.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the mission\u2019s mandate?<\/strong><\/h2><p>The EU\u2019s foreign affairs chief, Kaja Kallas, said on Monday that the mission would support the \"transfer of injured individuals out of Gaza for treatment.\"<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation has repeatedly raised the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//30//israel-has-to-stop-attacks-on-hospitals-in-gaza-says-who-chief/">alarm on the \u201cexcruciatingly slow\u201d pace of medical evacuations. Its director-general Tedros Adhanom said earlier this month that it would take \"five to ten years to evacuate\" the 12,000 critically ill patients at the current rate of evacuations, which has plunged since the Rafah crossing closed last May.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is also expected to facilitate the smooth passage of trucks carrying critical humanitarian aid, including food, medicine and fuel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//01//15//40//808x454_cmsv2_42c10092-c952-55fc-a741-3dea1dcfa19c-9011540.jpg/" alt=\"The three main land crossings into Gaza\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/15\/40\/384x216_cmsv2_42c10092-c952-55fc-a741-3dea1dcfa19c-9011540.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/15\/40\/640x360_cmsv2_42c10092-c952-55fc-a741-3dea1dcfa19c-9011540.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/15\/40\/750x422_cmsv2_42c10092-c952-55fc-a741-3dea1dcfa19c-9011540.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/15\/40\/828x466_cmsv2_42c10092-c952-55fc-a741-3dea1dcfa19c-9011540.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/15\/40\/1080x608_cmsv2_42c10092-c952-55fc-a741-3dea1dcfa19c-9011540.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/15\/40\/1200x675_cmsv2_42c10092-c952-55fc-a741-3dea1dcfa19c-9011540.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/15\/40\/1920x1080_cmsv2_42c10092-c952-55fc-a741-3dea1dcfa19c-9011540.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The three main land crossings into Gaza<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Under the truce deal, 600 truckloads of aid - including 50 carrying fuel - are expected to enter the Gaza strip every day, the minimum number needed to curb famine, according to humanitarian agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An average 500 trucks per day entered Gaza before the war broke out with Hamas\u2019 attack on Israel on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>Israel continues to carry out exhaustive inspections on aid trucks entering the territory to ensure no goods can be hijacked by militant groups such as Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>But aid groups have accused Israel of instrumentalising its control over the territory to restrict the flow of essential goods and exacerbate a deepening humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The EU, in principle, is considered a trusted mediator that can ensure the safe and swift passage of trucks and people through the crossing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mission's mandate, which currently expires on 30 June this year, is also described as intended to \u201cbuild confidence between the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel is nonetheless expected to maintain its presence on the crossing and along the Philadelphi corridor, which runs along the Gaza-Egypt border, throughout the first phase of the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews contacted the European Commission to ask how the mission\u2019s mandate could change in a potential second phase of the ceasefire, but did not receive an answer in time for publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Could it increase the EU\u2019s role in shaping Gaza\u2019s future?<\/strong><\/h2><p>The EU has had a minimal role in diplomatic efforts to secure peace in Gaza, which have been spearheaded by regional partners such as Qatar and Egypt as well as the US.<\/p>\n<p>But the bloc is the biggest donor of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//01//16//eu-pledges-120-million-in-aid-for-gaza-as-israel-truce-appears-near/">aid to the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, investing \u20ac1.18 billion between 2021 and 2024 to prop up the local economy and prevent its people from plunging into destitution.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to have a leading role in the future reconstruction of Gaza, which can only start in a potential third phase of the ceasefire and is expected to take several years given the extent of destruction following 15 months of Israeli bombardment.<\/p>\n<p>During her visit to Turkey over the weekend, the EU\u2019s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said the bloc was \"committed to the long-term reconstruction and development\" of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has previously laid out the EU's <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//11//06//no-hamas-rule-no-blockade-von-der-leyen-proposes-five-principles-for-gazas-future/">five principles<\/strong><\/a> for the future of Gaza. They include no forced displacement of Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>But Kallas refused to be drawn to comment this week on controversial statements made by US President Donald Trump hinting that civilians should be expelled from Gaza and southern Lebanon, and received by neighbouring countries such as Egypt and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,\" Trump said over the weekend<\/p>\n<p>Trump's comments have been met with outrage and firmly rebuked by the international community, including some European governments.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738079899,"updatedAt":1738168928,"publishedAt":1738084334,"firstPublishedAt":1738084334,"lastPublishedAt":1738084334,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/15\/40\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_73b9685f-1a10-5ce7-af92-d874f87efe74-9011540.jpg","altText":"Trucks of aid enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing in Rafah, Egypt, Sunday January. 19, 2025.","caption":"Trucks of aid enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing in Rafah, Egypt, Sunday January. 19, 2025.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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DEAL REACHED","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Palestinians head back to northern Gaza amid Israel-Hamas ceasefire","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Palestinians head back to northern Gaza amid Israel-Hamas ceasefire","titleListing2":"Palestinians head back to northern Gaza amid Israel-Hamas ceasefire","leadin":"Militant group Hamas has hailed the return of thousands of displaced people to northern Gaza a \"victory\", as Palestinians gathered with their belongings to return to the strip for the first time since the war began.","summary":"Militant group Hamas has hailed the return of thousands of displaced people to northern Gaza a \"victory\", as Palestinians gathered with their belongings to return to the strip for the first time since the war began.","keySentence":"","url":"deal-reached-to-allow-displaced-palestinians-to-return-to-northern-gaza-says-qatar","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/27\/deal-reached-to-allow-displaced-palestinians-to-return-to-northern-gaza-says-qatar","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians gathered to return home to northern Gaza for the first time since the war between Israel and Hamas began, following a ceasefire agreement to halt the conflict.\n\nPalestinians stood with their belongings by the Netzarim Corridor, preparing to make the journey by car and foot into northern Gaza, which has largely been destroyed by 15 months of Israeli bombardment.\n\nMore than 1.5 million Palestinians have been displaced since the start of the war.\n\nAn agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage held by Hamas and allow Palestinians to return to northern\u00a0Gaza, easing the first major crisis of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which came into effect on 19 January.\n\nIn a statement, Qatar \u2014 who, together with Egypt and the United States, mediated the Gaza ceasefire \u2014 said Hamas would hand over the civilian hostage, Arbel Yehoud, along with two others before Friday.\n\nEarly on Monday, Palestinians began returning to the heavily destroyed north of the Gaza Strip. Images showed a long line of people walking along the coast towards the north, in accordance with the ceasefire.\n\nThe office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the hostage release, which will also include the Agam Berger, will take place on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister also confirmed that Palestinians could move north on Monday with the IDF saying people can start crossing on foot at 7 am local time (6 am CET).\n\nThat comes after Netanyahu's office said on Saturday that displaced Palestinians would not be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza until Arbel Yehoud was released by Hamas.\n\nThe Israelis said Yehoud should have been released by Hamas this week in the latest hostage and prisoner exchange.\n\nA senior Hamas official said Yehoud would be released next week but gave no reason for the delay.\n\nEarly on Saturday, hundreds of Palestinians had already begun gathering in central Wadi Gaza, expecting to be able to cross back into the northern part of the Strip.\n\n\"I am excited to return to the north, to return to my destroyed home because there is no other option. If we don't return to the north, it is likely that our chances of remaining in the south will amount to displacement,\" Abdel Fattah Al-Wosari said on Sunday.\n\n'Clean out' Gaza\u00a0\n\nHe was referring to comments made by US President Donald Trump on Sunday, who suggested neighbouring countries take in Palestinians to \"clean out\" Gaza.\n\nTrump described Gaza as a \"demolition site\" and suggested moving Palestinians away from the Strip \"could be temporary, could be long-term.\"\n\nHamas and the Palestinian Authority criticised that suggestion and it was rejected by Jordan and Egypt.\n\nA statement by Egypt's foreign ministry said the \"temporary or long-term\" transfer of Palestinians \"threatens stability, risks expanding the conflict in the region and undermines prospects of peace and coexistence among its people.\"\n\nEgypt stressed its rejection of any violation of Palestinians' rights \"whether through settlement or annexation of territories\" or \"encouraging the transfer or uprooting of Palestinians from their land.\"\n\nThe statement, which didn't address Trump's comments directly, urged the international community to work toward \"the practical implementation of the two-state solution\" to the Israel-Palestine conflict.\n\nHamas triggered the war in October 2023 with its cross-border attack into Israel that saw some 1,200 people killed and 250 others taken as hostages back to Gaza.\n\nIsrael responded with a devastating offensive that has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish between civilians and militants but say women and children make up more than half the dead.\n\nThe UN said on Saturday that more than 13,000 children have been killed in the fighting.\n\nThe conflict has\u00a0destabilised the Middle East and sparked global protests, as well as highlighting political tensions inside Israel.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians gathered to return home to northern Gaza for the first time since the war between Israel and Hamas began, following a ceasefire agreement to halt the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians stood with their belongings by the Netzarim Corridor, preparing to make the journey by car and foot into northern Gaza, which has largely been destroyed by 15 months of Israeli bombardment.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1.5 million Palestinians have been displaced since the start of the war.<\/p>\n<p>An agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage held by Hamas and allow Palestinians to return to northern\u00a0Gaza, easing the first major crisis of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which came into effect on 19 January.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Qatar \u2014 who, together with Egypt and the United States, mediated the Gaza ceasefire \u2014 said Hamas would hand over the civilian hostage, Arbel Yehoud, along with two others before Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Early on Monday, Palestinians began returning to the heavily destroyed north of the Gaza Strip. Images showed a long line of people walking along the coast towards the north, in accordance with the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//50//14//808x539_cmsv2_7484a85c-abd0-55c9-944d-021006bc4f63-9005014.jpg/" alt=\"Displaced Palestinians gather with their belongings near a roadblock as they wait to return to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, 26 January, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_7484a85c-abd0-55c9-944d-021006bc4f63-9005014.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_7484a85c-abd0-55c9-944d-021006bc4f63-9005014.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_7484a85c-abd0-55c9-944d-021006bc4f63-9005014.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_7484a85c-abd0-55c9-944d-021006bc4f63-9005014.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_7484a85c-abd0-55c9-944d-021006bc4f63-9005014.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_7484a85c-abd0-55c9-944d-021006bc4f63-9005014.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/1920x1280_cmsv2_7484a85c-abd0-55c9-944d-021006bc4f63-9005014.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Displaced Palestinians gather with their belongings near a roadblock as they wait to return to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, 26 January, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mohammad Abu Samra\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the hostage release, which will also include the Agam Berger, will take place on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also confirmed that Palestinians could move north on Monday with the IDF saying people can start crossing on foot at 7 am local time (6 am CET).<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//26//israel-stops-palestinians-returning-to-north-gaza-until-hamas-releases-civilian-hostage/">That comes after Netanyahu's office said on Saturday<\/a> that displaced Palestinians would not be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza until Arbel Yehoud was released by Hamas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1883648464208498989\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Israelis said Yehoud should have been released by Hamas this week in the latest hostage and prisoner exchange.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Hamas official said Yehoud would be released next week but gave no reason for the delay.<\/p>\n<p>Early on Saturday, hundreds of Palestinians had already begun gathering in central Wadi Gaza, expecting to be able to cross back into the northern part of the Strip.<\/p>\n<p>\"I am excited to return to the north, to return to my destroyed home because there is no other option. If we don't return to the north, it is likely that our chances of remaining in the south will amount to displacement,\" Abdel Fattah Al-Wosari said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<h2>'Clean out' Gaza<\/h2><p>He was referring to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//26//trump-wants-jordan-and-egypt-to-accept-more-refugees-and-just-clean-out-gaza/">comments made by US President Donald Trump on Sunday<\/a>, who suggested neighbouring countries take in Palestinians to \"clean out\" Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Trump described Gaza as a \"demolition site\" and suggested moving Palestinians away from the Strip \"could be temporary, could be long-term.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//50//14//808x539_cmsv2_3f6bfcef-7e4c-5476-bd2c-d0860a721076-9005014.jpg/" alt=\"Palestinians walk through the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, 20 January, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_3f6bfcef-7e4c-5476-bd2c-d0860a721076-9005014.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_3f6bfcef-7e4c-5476-bd2c-d0860a721076-9005014.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_3f6bfcef-7e4c-5476-bd2c-d0860a721076-9005014.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_3f6bfcef-7e4c-5476-bd2c-d0860a721076-9005014.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_3f6bfcef-7e4c-5476-bd2c-d0860a721076-9005014.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_3f6bfcef-7e4c-5476-bd2c-d0860a721076-9005014.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/1920x1280_cmsv2_3f6bfcef-7e4c-5476-bd2c-d0860a721076-9005014.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinians walk through the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, 20 January, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Abed Hajjar\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hamas and the Palestinian Authority criticised that suggestion and it was rejected by Jordan and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Egypt's foreign ministry said the \"temporary or long-term\" transfer of Palestinians \"threatens stability, risks expanding the conflict in the region and undermines prospects of peace and coexistence among its people.\"<\/p>\n<p>Egypt stressed its rejection of any violation of Palestinians' rights \"whether through settlement or annexation of territories\" or \"encouraging the transfer or uprooting of Palestinians from their land.\"<\/p>\n<p>The statement, which didn't address Trump's comments directly, urged the international community to work toward \"the practical implementation of the two-state solution\" to the Israel-Palestine conflict.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6668039538714992\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//50//14//808x539_cmsv2_fe020496-3663-5875-ba0d-3c4cf4c4895f-9005014.jpg/" alt=\"Displaced Palestinians gather with their belongings near a roadblock as they wait to return to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, 26 January, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_fe020496-3663-5875-ba0d-3c4cf4c4895f-9005014.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_fe020496-3663-5875-ba0d-3c4cf4c4895f-9005014.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_fe020496-3663-5875-ba0d-3c4cf4c4895f-9005014.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_fe020496-3663-5875-ba0d-3c4cf4c4895f-9005014.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_fe020496-3663-5875-ba0d-3c4cf4c4895f-9005014.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_fe020496-3663-5875-ba0d-3c4cf4c4895f-9005014.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/50\/14\/1920x1280_cmsv2_fe020496-3663-5875-ba0d-3c4cf4c4895f-9005014.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Displaced Palestinians gather with their belongings near a roadblock as they wait to return to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, 26 January, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Jehad Alshrafi\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hamas triggered the war in October 2023 with its cross-border attack into Israel that saw some 1,200 people killed and 250 others taken as hostages back to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Israel responded with a devastating offensive that has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish between civilians and militants but say women and children make up more than half the dead.<\/p>\n<p>The UN said on Saturday that more than 13,000 children have been killed in the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has\u00a0destabilised the Middle East and sparked global protests, as well as highlighting political tensions inside Israel.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737935640,"updatedAt":1737969680,"publishedAt":1737950724,"firstPublishedAt":1737950724,"lastPublishedAt":1737969680,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Jehad Alshrafi\/Copyright 2025, The AP. 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PROTEST FOR PALESTINE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Thousands march on streets of Brussels demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Thousands march in Brussels demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza","titleListing2":"Thousands march on streets of Brussels demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza","leadin":"Thousands took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza as well as sanctions against Israel by both the Belgian government and European Union.","summary":"Thousands took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza as well as sanctions against Israel by both the Belgian government and European Union.","keySentence":"","url":"thousands-march-on-streets-of-brussels-demanding-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/01\/26\/thousands-march-on-streets-of-brussels-demanding-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Thousands marched on the streets of Brussels on Sunday, calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and urging both the Belgian government and the European Union (EU) to sanction Israel.\n\nProtesters demanded the protection of the Palestinian population, the release of politically detained individuals, and access to international aid for those in Gaza currently facing a humanitarian emergency.\u00a0\n\nOrganisers on social media also urged the Belgian government to impose a comprehensive international military embargo against Israel, support the ongoing case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel\u2019s conduct during the war with Hamas, and push the EU to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel on the grounds of human rights violations.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nBelgian police said they counted around 7,000 people taking part at the march. It was organised by dozens of Belgian NGOs, including 11.11.11, Amnesty International Belgium, Pax Christi and Groen.\n\nThose at the rally chanted slogans like \"Free, free Palestine!\" and \"Stop, stop genocide!\" as they marched through the Belgian capital.\n\nMany at the protest could be seen carrying placards with first names on them \u2013 which they say is to put a face behind the death toll in Gaza. Local health authorities report that over 46,000 Palestinians, most of whom were civilians, were killed during the 15-month-long war. Around 1.9 million of Gaza\u2019s population of 2.2 million were displaced.\u00a0\n\nDemonstrators said the ceasefire, which took effect last week, offered Palestinians in Gaza respite, but that the agreement does yet guarantee the end of the conflict in the region. They urged the EU and its Member States to address the situation in Gaza.\u00a0\n\nWies de Graeve, director of Amnesty International Belgium\u2019s Flemish branch, said: \u201cThe ceasefire has been good news, of course, for the families of the hostages and also for the families of Palestinians who had been arbitrarily detained in Israel.\"\n\nHowever, de Graeve said living conditions in Gaza continue to endanger Palestinians. He said it was important for a comprehensive arms embargo to be maintained and established against Israel and for the Belgian government, as well as the EU, to fully support the International Criminal Court in investigating the conflict.\n\n\"If we don't look at this in the broader context of an end to occupation and an end of the apartheid system committed against the Palestinians, we will never see a real solution that respects the human rights of all in the region.\"\n\nDespite the recently announced ceasefire, living conditions in Gaza remain dire. The war set back development in Gaza by as much as 69 years, according to an assessment made by a UN-backed report. \u00a0\n\nThe United Nation\u2019s Development Programme said the Palestinian economy could be put on a restorative track to align with its pre-war development goals in the next decade, but this would require a comprehensive recovery and reconstruction plan which combines humanitarian aid and strategic investment in recovery and reconstruction.\u00a0\n\nThousands of Palestinians were kept from returning to their homes in northern Gaza by Israel on Sunday, as it accused Hamas of violating the fragile ceasefire by changing the order of hostages it had released. Local health officials said Israeli forces fired on the crowd, killing two and wounding nine.\u00a0\n\nIsrael said its war in Gaza was essential to combat Hamas and that its strikes and blockade were intended to target the militant group rather than civilians.\u00a0\n\nTheir offensive began after Hamas\u2019 cross-border attack into Israel on 7 October, 2023, which saw around 1,200 people killed and more than 200 others taken as hostages back to Gaza.\u00a0\n\nIntensifying violence in the West Bank\n\nAs Palestinians returned to their homes in Gaza under the terms of the long-awaited ceasefire deal, Israeli forces launched a major operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.\u00a0\n\nSuspected Israeli settlers tore through two Palestinian towns and several people were killed by Israeli airstrikes.\n\nPalestinians view such operations and the expansion of settlements as ways of cementing Israeli control over the West Bank, where three million Palestinians live under seemingly open-ended Israeli military rule.\u00a0 \n\nJenin Mayor Mohammad Jarrar described the scale and intensity of the Israeli operation to CNN as \u201cby far the hardest and most troubling\u201d in recent months. He warned against \u201ca man-made disaster similar to what we have seen in Gaza\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThe UN agency for Palestinian refugees said that if Israel carries out its threat to close its east Jerusalem headquarters, the outsize effects will be felt acutely and immediately by tens of thousands of Palestinians.\u00a0\n\nThe agency, known as UNRWA, runs 12 facilities that provide critical public services across east Jerusalem, including schools enrolling at least 1,200 children and free clinics serving over 70,000 people.\n\nIsrael says the agency has allowed itself to be infiltrated by Hamas, allegations denied by the UN.\u00a0\n\nThe violence comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces domestic pressure from his far-right allies after agreeing to the truce and a hostage-prisoner exchange with the Hamas militant group.\u00a0\n\nMeanwhile, newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump has rescinded the Biden administration\u2019s sanctions against Israelis accused of violence in the territory.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nAccording to the Times of Israel, the order was used over the past year against 17 individuals and 16 entities, including settlers the US said had violently attacked Palestinians and illegally driven them off their land.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nIt is understood that Netanyahu raised the issue with Trump ahead of his inauguration.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nMore than half a million Israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank, which was captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 war. These settlements are considered illegal under international law.\u00a0\n\nIsraeli troops and settlers have reportedly killed at least 851 Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem since the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas that sparked the war in Gaza.\u00a0\n\nDonald Trump's comments on Gaza\n\nRecently inaugurated US president Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.\u00a0\n\nHe said he would urge the leaders of the two Arab countries to take in the largely homeless population, so that \u201cwe just clean out that whole thing.\u201d He added that resettling Gaza\u2019s population \u201ccould be temporary or long-term.\u201d\u00a0\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s literally a demolition site right now,\u201d Trump said, referring to the vast destruction in the wake of Israeli\u2019s military campaign, \u201cI\u2019d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change.\u201d\u00a0\n\nSenior Hamas official Bassem Naim said Palestinians would never accept such a proposal \u201ceven if seemingly well-intentioned under the guise of reconstruction.\u201d He said the Palestinians can rebuild Gaza \u201ceven better than before.\u201d \u00a0\n\nJordan's foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, told journalists that his country's rejection of the proposed transfer of Palestinians was \u201cfirm and unwavering.\u201d\u00a0\n\nBoth\u00a0Egypt and Jordan have made peace with Israel but support the creation of a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem - territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war. They fear that the permanent displacement of Gaza's population could make that impossible.\u00a0\n\nBefore and during the 1948 war surrounding Israel\u2019s creation, some 700,000 Palestinians \u2013 a majority of the pre-war population \u2013 fled or were driven from their homes in what is now Israel, an event they commemorate as the Nakba.\u00a0\n\nIsrael refused to allow them to return because it would have resulted in a Palestinian majority within its borders. The refugees and their descendants now number around 6 million, with large communities in Gaza, as well as the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.\u00a0\n\nTrump\u2019s proposal is likely to be welcomed by Israel, where Netanyahu's far-right governing partners have long advocated what they describe as the voluntary migration of large numbers of Palestinians and the reestablishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza.\u00a0\n\nHuman rights groups have already accused Israel of ethnic cleansing, which United Nations experts have defined as a policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove the civilian population of another group from certain areas \u201cby violent and terror-inspiring means.\u201d\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Thousands marched on the streets of Brussels on Sunday, calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and urging both the Belgian government and the European Union (EU) to sanction Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters demanded the protection of the Palestinian population, the release of politically detained individuals, and access to international aid for those in Gaza currently facing a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//video//2025//01//24//gaza-ceasefire-brings-respite-but-living-conditions-remain-disastrous/">humanitarian emergency.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Organisers on social media also urged the Belgian government to impose a comprehensive international military embargo against Israel, support the ongoing case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel\u2019s conduct during the war with Hamas, and push the EU to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel on the grounds of human rights violations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Belgian police said they counted around 7,000 people taking part at the march. It was organised by dozens of Belgian NGOs, including 11.11.11, Amnesty International Belgium, Pax Christi and Groen.<\/p>\n<p>Those at the rally chanted slogans like \"Free, free Palestine!\" and \"Stop, stop genocide!\" as they marched through the Belgian capital.<\/p>\n<p>Many at the protest could be seen carrying placards with first names on them \u2013 which they say is to put a face behind the death toll in Gaza. Local health authorities report that over 46,000 Palestinians, most of whom were civilians, were killed during the 15-month-long war. Around 1.9 million of Gaza\u2019s population of 2.2 million were displaced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5607866507747318\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//44//64//808x454_cmsv2_564704ff-142c-57d8-9bbb-5e4a8642502e-9004464.jpg/" alt=\"Some at the demonstration carried placards with first names on - which they say symbolise those killed in the conflict.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/384x215_cmsv2_564704ff-142c-57d8-9bbb-5e4a8642502e-9004464.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/640x359_cmsv2_564704ff-142c-57d8-9bbb-5e4a8642502e-9004464.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/750x421_cmsv2_564704ff-142c-57d8-9bbb-5e4a8642502e-9004464.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/828x464_cmsv2_564704ff-142c-57d8-9bbb-5e4a8642502e-9004464.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1080x606_cmsv2_564704ff-142c-57d8-9bbb-5e4a8642502e-9004464.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1200x673_cmsv2_564704ff-142c-57d8-9bbb-5e4a8642502e-9004464.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1920x1077_cmsv2_564704ff-142c-57d8-9bbb-5e4a8642502e-9004464.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Some at the demonstration carried placards with first names on - which they say symbolise those killed in the conflict.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Evelyn Ann-Marie Dom<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Demonstrators said the ceasefire, which <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//20//palestinians-in-gaza-wake-up-relieved-after-first-night-of-ceasefire/">took effect last week<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> offered Palestinians in Gaza respite, but that the agreement does yet guarantee the end of the conflict in the region. They urged the EU and its Member States to address the situation in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wies de Graeve, director of Amnesty International Belgium\u2019s Flemish branch, said: \u201cThe ceasefire has been good news, of course, for the families of the hostages and also for the families of Palestinians who had been arbitrarily detained in Israel.\"<\/p>\n<p>However, de Graeve said living conditions in Gaza continue to endanger Palestinians. He said it was important for a comprehensive arms embargo to be maintained and established against Israel and for the Belgian government, as well as the EU, to fully support the International Criminal Court in investigating the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\"If we don't look at this in the broader context of an end to occupation and an end of the apartheid system committed against the Palestinians, we will never see a real solution that respects the human rights of all in the region.<em>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5613095238095238\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//44//64//808x454_cmsv2_d6fd949d-e23d-5026-b5f0-e122b8375ab0-9004464.jpg/" alt=\"Amnesty International take part in demonstration calling for permanent ceasefire in Gaza\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/384x216_cmsv2_d6fd949d-e23d-5026-b5f0-e122b8375ab0-9004464.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/640x359_cmsv2_d6fd949d-e23d-5026-b5f0-e122b8375ab0-9004464.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/750x421_cmsv2_d6fd949d-e23d-5026-b5f0-e122b8375ab0-9004464.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/828x465_cmsv2_d6fd949d-e23d-5026-b5f0-e122b8375ab0-9004464.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1080x606_cmsv2_d6fd949d-e23d-5026-b5f0-e122b8375ab0-9004464.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1200x674_cmsv2_d6fd949d-e23d-5026-b5f0-e122b8375ab0-9004464.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1920x1078_cmsv2_d6fd949d-e23d-5026-b5f0-e122b8375ab0-9004464.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Amnesty International take part in demonstration calling for permanent ceasefire in Gaza<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Evelyn Ann-Marie Dom<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Despite the recently announced ceasefire, living conditions in Gaza remain dire. The war set back development in Gaza by as much as 69 years, according to an assessment made by a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//10//22//war-in-gaza-has-set-development-back-by-seven-decades-un-report-says/">UN-backed report.<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The United Nation\u2019s Development Programme said the Palestinian economy could be put on a restorative track to align with its pre-war development goals in the next decade, but this would require a comprehensive recovery and reconstruction plan which combines humanitarian aid and strategic investment in recovery and reconstruction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Palestinians were kept from returning to their homes in northern Gaza by Israel on Sunday, as it accused Hamas of violating the fragile ceasefire by changing the order of hostages it had released. Local health officials said Israeli forces fired on the crowd, killing two and wounding nine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//44//64//808x539_cmsv2_f6b41852-ebe7-5a88-a5e8-769501d92ed5-9004464.jpg/" alt=\"Palestinians wait next to their belongings in central Gaza, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, as the Israeli military is warning Palestinians not to return to northern Gaza\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/384x256_cmsv2_f6b41852-ebe7-5a88-a5e8-769501d92ed5-9004464.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/640x427_cmsv2_f6b41852-ebe7-5a88-a5e8-769501d92ed5-9004464.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/750x500_cmsv2_f6b41852-ebe7-5a88-a5e8-769501d92ed5-9004464.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/828x552_cmsv2_f6b41852-ebe7-5a88-a5e8-769501d92ed5-9004464.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1080x720_cmsv2_f6b41852-ebe7-5a88-a5e8-769501d92ed5-9004464.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1200x800_cmsv2_f6b41852-ebe7-5a88-a5e8-769501d92ed5-9004464.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1920x1281_cmsv2_f6b41852-ebe7-5a88-a5e8-769501d92ed5-9004464.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinians wait next to their belongings in central Gaza, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, as the Israeli military is warning Palestinians not to return to northern Gaza<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Abdel Kareem Hana\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Israel said its war in Gaza was essential to combat Hamas and that its strikes and blockade were intended to target the militant group rather than civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their offensive began after Hamas\u2019 cross-border attack into Israel on 7 October, 2023, which saw around 1,200 people killed and more than 200 others taken as hostages back to Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Intensifying violence in the West Bank<\/h2><p>As Palestinians returned to their homes in Gaza under the terms of the long-awaited ceasefire deal, Israeli forces launched a major operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suspected Israeli settlers tore through two Palestinian towns and several people were <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//23//major-israeli-military-operation-continues-in-west-bank-city-of-jenin/">killed by Israeli airstrikes.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Palestinians view such operations and the expansion of settlements as ways of cementing Israeli control over the West Bank, where three million Palestinians live under seemingly open-ended Israeli military rule.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Jenin Mayor Mohammad Jarrar described the scale and intensity of the Israeli operation to CNN as \u201cby far the hardest and most troubling\u201d in recent months. He warned against \u201ca man-made disaster similar to what we have seen in Gaza\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//44//64//808x539_cmsv2_7536a752-ca95-5c43-a981-7a0406ea2995-9004464.jpg/" alt=\"Smoke rises over Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank during an Israeli military operation, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/384x256_cmsv2_7536a752-ca95-5c43-a981-7a0406ea2995-9004464.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/640x427_cmsv2_7536a752-ca95-5c43-a981-7a0406ea2995-9004464.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/750x500_cmsv2_7536a752-ca95-5c43-a981-7a0406ea2995-9004464.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/828x552_cmsv2_7536a752-ca95-5c43-a981-7a0406ea2995-9004464.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1080x720_cmsv2_7536a752-ca95-5c43-a981-7a0406ea2995-9004464.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1200x800_cmsv2_7536a752-ca95-5c43-a981-7a0406ea2995-9004464.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1920x1281_cmsv2_7536a752-ca95-5c43-a981-7a0406ea2995-9004464.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Smoke rises over Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank during an Israeli military operation, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Majdi Mohammed\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said that if Israel carries out its threat to close its east Jerusalem headquarters, the outsize effects will be felt acutely and immediately by tens of thousands of Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The agency, known as UNRWA, runs 12 facilities that provide critical public services across east Jerusalem, including schools enrolling at least 1,200 children and free clinics serving over 70,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says the agency has allowed itself to be infiltrated by Hamas, allegations denied by the UN.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The violence comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces domestic pressure from his far-right allies after agreeing to the truce and a hostage-prisoner exchange with the Hamas militant group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump has <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//21//from-peace-through-strength-and-pausing-aid-day-one-of-trumps-foreign-policy/">rescinded the Biden administration\u2019s sanctions<\/strong><\/a> against Israelis accused of violence in the territory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//44//64//808x539_cmsv2_d1fe983d-141f-5b6f-a1ac-86d8f6e356b4-9004464.jpg/" alt=\"A Palestinian sits on the rubble at the site where Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants who carried out a deadly attack on a bus in the West Bank earlier this month\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/384x256_cmsv2_d1fe983d-141f-5b6f-a1ac-86d8f6e356b4-9004464.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/640x427_cmsv2_d1fe983d-141f-5b6f-a1ac-86d8f6e356b4-9004464.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/750x500_cmsv2_d1fe983d-141f-5b6f-a1ac-86d8f6e356b4-9004464.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/828x552_cmsv2_d1fe983d-141f-5b6f-a1ac-86d8f6e356b4-9004464.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1080x720_cmsv2_d1fe983d-141f-5b6f-a1ac-86d8f6e356b4-9004464.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1200x800_cmsv2_d1fe983d-141f-5b6f-a1ac-86d8f6e356b4-9004464.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/44\/64\/1920x1281_cmsv2_d1fe983d-141f-5b6f-a1ac-86d8f6e356b4-9004464.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Palestinian sits on the rubble at the site where Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants who carried out a deadly attack on a bus in the West Bank earlier this month<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Majdi Mohammed\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to the Times of Israel, the order was used over the past year against 17 individuals and 16 entities, including settlers the US said had violently attacked Palestinians and illegally driven them off their land.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that Netanyahu raised the issue with Trump ahead of his inauguration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than half a million Israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank, which was captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 war. These settlements are considered illegal under international law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israeli troops and settlers have reportedly killed at least 851 Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem since the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas that sparked the war in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Donald Trump's comments on Gaza<\/h2><p>Recently inaugurated US president Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said he would urge the leaders of the two Arab countries to take in the largely homeless population, so that \u201c<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//26//trump-wants-jordan-and-egypt-to-accept-more-refugees-and-just-clean-out-gaza/">we just clean out that whole thing.\u201d<\/strong><\/a> He added that resettling Gaza\u2019s population \u201ccould be temporary or long-term.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s literally a demolition site right now,\u201d Trump said, referring to the vast destruction in the wake of Israeli\u2019s military campaign, \u201cI\u2019d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//31//16//808x539_cmsv2_97195b89-f437-57a9-a951-4d95181faac6-9003116.jpg/" alt=\"A Palestinian boy carries his belongings as he walks with his family next to the rubble of destroyed homes, after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/31\/16\/384x256_cmsv2_97195b89-f437-57a9-a951-4d95181faac6-9003116.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/31\/16\/640x427_cmsv2_97195b89-f437-57a9-a951-4d95181faac6-9003116.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/31\/16\/750x500_cmsv2_97195b89-f437-57a9-a951-4d95181faac6-9003116.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/31\/16\/828x552_cmsv2_97195b89-f437-57a9-a951-4d95181faac6-9003116.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/31\/16\/1080x720_cmsv2_97195b89-f437-57a9-a951-4d95181faac6-9003116.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/31\/16\/1200x800_cmsv2_97195b89-f437-57a9-a951-4d95181faac6-9003116.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/31\/16\/1920x1281_cmsv2_97195b89-f437-57a9-a951-4d95181faac6-9003116.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Palestinian boy carries his belongings as he walks with his family next to the rubble of destroyed homes, after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Abed Hajjar\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim said Palestinians would never accept such a proposal \u201ceven if seemingly well-intentioned under the guise of reconstruction.\u201d He said the Palestinians can rebuild Gaza \u201ceven better than before.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jordan's foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, told journalists that his country's rejection of the proposed transfer of Palestinians was \u201cfirm and unwavering.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both\u00a0Egypt and Jordan have made peace with Israel but support the creation of a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem - territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war. They fear that the permanent displacement of Gaza's population could make that impossible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before and during the 1948 war surrounding Israel\u2019s creation, some 700,000 Palestinians \u2013 a majority of the pre-war population \u2013 fled or were driven from their homes in what is now Israel, an event they commemorate as the Nakba.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel refused to allow them to return because it would have resulted in a Palestinian majority within its borders. The refugees and their descendants now number around 6 million, with large communities in Gaza, as well as the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s proposal is likely to be welcomed by Israel, where Netanyahu's far-right governing partners have long advocated what they describe as the voluntary migration of large numbers of Palestinians and the reestablishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups have already <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//14//human-rights-watch-accuses-israel-of-forced-displacement-amounting-to-war-crimes/">accused Israel of ethnic cleansing<\/strong><\/a>, which United Nations experts have defined as a policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove the civilian population of another group from certain areas \u201cby violent and terror-inspiring 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HOSTAGES RELEASED","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Hamas releases four Israeli hostages in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Hamas releases four Israeli hostages in exchange for 200 Palestinians","titleListing2":"Hamas releases four Israeli hostages in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners","leadin":"Israeli authorities said they released 200 Palestinian prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire deal, hours after four Israeli soldiers were released.","summary":"Israeli authorities said they released 200 Palestinian prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire deal, hours after four Israeli soldiers were released.","keySentence":"","url":"hamas-hands-over-four-female-israeli-hostages-to-red-cross-in-gaza","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/25\/hamas-hands-over-four-female-israeli-hostages-to-red-cross-in-gaza","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Four Israeli soldiers, Karina Ariev, 20, Daniella Gilboa, 20, Naama Levy, 20, and Liri Albag, 19, were driven away from Gaza City's central Palestine Square in International Red Cross vehicles on Saturday morning.\n\nThey had spent more than 15 months in captivity.\n\nCrowds of Gazans who had gathered in the central square in Gaza City watched as the hostages were released and put into the vehicles.\n\nBefore they were released a Red Cross delegate, sitting at a desk in view of the crowd and the media in the square, signed unidentified documents alongside a Hamas fighter.\n\nThen, minutes later, the four were taken by Hamas gunmen up onto a stage where they waved to the crowd and the media. \n\nIsraeli army doctors later said the four didn't need any immediate medical treatment.\n\nThe release of the four comes just a few days into a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and is part of a long and uncertain process aimed at eventually ending the war.\n\nThe soldiers were captured by Hamas fighters from Nahal Oz base near the border with Gaza when they overran it on October 7 2023, killing more than 60 soldiers there. The female abductees had all served in a unit of lookouts charged with monitoring threats along the border.\n\nA fifth female soldier in their unit, Agam Berger, 20, was abducted with them but not included in the release. Video of the abduction of the five female soldiers was widely circulated. \n\nIsrael and Hamas have agreed in the ceasefire\u2019s first phase to a gradual release of 33 hostages in Gaza, in exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Three hostages were released previously during this truce in exchange for 90 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.\n\nPalestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails\n\nLater on Saturday Israeli authorities said they had released 200 Palestinian prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire deal. \n\nThe more notorious militants being released include Mohammad Odeh, 52, and Wael Qassim, 54, both from east Jerusalem. They were accused of carrying out a series of deadly Hamas attacks against Israelis, including a bombing at a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2002 that killed nine people, including five U.S. citizens.\n\nAnother prisoner set to be released is Mohammed Aradeh, 42, an Islamic Jihad militant, who become something of a Palestinian folk hero in 2021 along with five other prisoners after they used spoons to tunnel their way out of Israel\u2019s most secure prison in an extraordinary escape that stunned Israelis and Palestinians alike.\n\nAlso on Saturday, Israel said it will not allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza until Arbel Yehoud, one of the dozens of hostages held by Hamas, is released.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said Yehoud was supposed to have been released on Saturday as part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.\n\nSome 250 people were kidnapped during Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered 15 months of war. More than 90 hostages remain in Gaza, although at least a third are believed to be dead. The others were released, rescued, or their bodies were recovered.\n\nIsrael's military campaign has killed over 47,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not say how many were fighters but says more than half were women or children.\n\nWho are the four hostages?\n\nLiri Albag was featured in a video Hamas released in early January, filmed under duress. Her family said the video was \u201cdifficult to watch\u201d because of Albag\u2019s clear emotional distress. They were particularly active in the protest movement pushing for a deal with Hamas to bring the hostages home.\n\n\u201cLiri, if you\u2019re hearing us, tell the others that all the families are moving heaven and earth and want their children home, and we will fight until all hostages are returned,\u201d her father said in a statement after the video was released.\n\nJust before Karina Ariev was kidnapped, she she sent a message to her family, saying: \u201cIf I don\u2019t live, take care of mom and dad all their lives. Don\u2019t give up, live,\u201d according to Israeli media. Her family said she loves to cook, sing, dance and write poetry.\n\nIn January 2024, she was featured in a video along with Gilboa and Doron Steinbrecher, who was released last weekend. \n\nAfter the kidnapping, her parents changed her name from Danielle to Daniella, a Jewish tradition that is believed to bring God\u2019s protection.\n\nIn video of the kidnapping, Gilboa seems to have a foot injury as she is forced into the jeep that took her to Gaza.\n\nGilboa, from Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv, played piano and studied music in high school. She dreams of being a singer, according to Israeli media.\n\nThe footage from Levy's kidnapping, in which she is wearing grey sweatpants covered in blood, was shown around the world. \n\nLevy is a triathlete. When she was younger, she participated in the \u201cHands of Peace\u201d delegation, which brings together Americans, Israelis and Palestinians to work on coexistence.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Four Israeli soldiers, Karina Ariev, 20, Daniella Gilboa, 20, Naama Levy, 20, and Liri Albag, 19, were driven away from Gaza City's central Palestine Square in International Red Cross vehicles on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>They had spent more than 15 months in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds of Gazans who had gathered in the central square in Gaza City watched as the hostages were released and put into the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Before they were released a Red Cross delegate, sitting at a desk in view of the crowd and the media in the square, signed unidentified documents alongside a Hamas fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Then, minutes later, the four were taken by Hamas gunmen up onto a stage where they waved to the crowd and the media. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//27//06//808x539_cmsv2_2ea1e10c-8d1d-5ba5-9667-14e065994830-9002706.jpg/" alt=\"A crowd watches as Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters deploy in central Gaza City on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo\/Abed Hajjar)(AP Photo\/Abed Hajjar)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/27\/06\/384x256_cmsv2_2ea1e10c-8d1d-5ba5-9667-14e065994830-9002706.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/27\/06\/640x427_cmsv2_2ea1e10c-8d1d-5ba5-9667-14e065994830-9002706.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/27\/06\/750x500_cmsv2_2ea1e10c-8d1d-5ba5-9667-14e065994830-9002706.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/27\/06\/828x552_cmsv2_2ea1e10c-8d1d-5ba5-9667-14e065994830-9002706.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/27\/06\/1080x720_cmsv2_2ea1e10c-8d1d-5ba5-9667-14e065994830-9002706.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/27\/06\/1200x800_cmsv2_2ea1e10c-8d1d-5ba5-9667-14e065994830-9002706.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/27\/06\/1920x1281_cmsv2_2ea1e10c-8d1d-5ba5-9667-14e065994830-9002706.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A crowd watches as Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters deploy in central Gaza City on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo\/Abed Hajjar)(AP Photo\/Abed Hajjar)<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Abed Hajjar\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Israeli army doctors later said the four didn't need any immediate medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the four comes just a few days into a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and is part of a long and uncertain process aimed at eventually ending the war.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers were captured by Hamas fighters from Nahal Oz base near the border with Gaza when they overran it on October 7 2023, killing more than 60 soldiers there. The female abductees had all served in a unit of lookouts charged with monitoring threats along the border.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth female soldier in their unit, Agam Berger, 20, was abducted with them but not included in the release. Video of the abduction of the five female soldiers was widely circulated. <\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hamas have agreed in the ceasefire\u2019s first phase to a gradual release of 33 hostages in Gaza, in exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Three hostages were released previously during this truce in exchange for 90 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.<\/p>\n<h2>Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails<\/h2><p>Later on Saturday Israeli authorities said they had released 200 Palestinian prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire deal. <\/p>\n<p>The more notorious militants being released include Mohammad Odeh, 52, and Wael Qassim, 54, both from east Jerusalem. They were accused of carrying out a series of deadly Hamas attacks against Israelis, including a bombing at a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2002 that killed nine people, including five U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Another prisoner set to be released is Mohammed Aradeh, 42, an Islamic Jihad militant, who become something of a Palestinian folk hero in 2021 along with five other prisoners after they used spoons to tunnel their way out of Israel\u2019s most secure prison in an extraordinary escape that stunned Israelis and Palestinians alike.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, Israel said it will not allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza until Arbel Yehoud, one of the dozens of hostages held by Hamas, is released.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said Yehoud was supposed to have been released on Saturday as part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Some 250 people were kidnapped during Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered 15 months of war. More than 90 hostages remain in Gaza, although at least a third are believed to be dead. The others were released, rescued, or their bodies were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Israel's military campaign has killed over 47,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not say how many were fighters but says more than half were women or children.<\/p>\n<h2>Who are the four hostages?<\/h2><p>Liri Albag was featured in a video Hamas released in early January, filmed under duress. Her family said the video was \u201cdifficult to watch\u201d because of Albag\u2019s clear emotional distress. They were particularly active in the protest movement pushing for a deal with Hamas to bring the hostages home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiri, if you\u2019re hearing us, tell the others that all the families are moving heaven and earth and want their children home, and we will fight until all hostages are returned,\u201d her father said in a statement after the video was released.<\/p>\n<p>Just before Karina Ariev was kidnapped, she she sent a message to her family, saying: \u201cIf I don\u2019t live, take care of mom and dad all their lives. Don\u2019t give up, live,\u201d according to Israeli media. Her family said she loves to cook, sing, dance and write poetry.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2024, she was featured in a video along with Gilboa and Doron Steinbrecher, who was released last weekend. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1883046615990120649\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>After the kidnapping, her parents changed her name from Danielle to Daniella, a Jewish tradition that is believed to bring God\u2019s protection.<\/p>\n<p>In video of the kidnapping, Gilboa seems to have a foot injury as she is forced into the jeep that took her to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Gilboa, from Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv, played piano and studied music in high school. She dreams of being a singer, according to Israeli media.<\/p>\n<p>The footage from Levy's kidnapping, in which she is wearing grey sweatpants covered in blood, was shown around the world. <\/p>\n<p>Levy is a triathlete. When she was younger, she participated in the \u201cHands of Peace\u201d delegation, which brings together Americans, Israelis and Palestinians to work on coexistence.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737793108,"updatedAt":1737819544,"publishedAt":1737796376,"firstPublishedAt":1737796376,"lastPublishedAt":1737813593,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Abed Hajjar\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved","altText":"Israeli female soldier hostages wave before being handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. 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Israel is expected to publish a list of its own, naming Palestinian prisoners it will release in return.","summary":"The Palestinian militant group made public on Friday the names of the next four hostages that it plans to release as part of the ceasefire deal signed with Israel. Israel is expected to publish a list of its own, naming Palestinian prisoners it will release in return.","keySentence":"","url":"hamas-announces-names-of-next-four-hostages-to-be-released-on-saturday","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/24\/hamas-announces-names-of-next-four-hostages-to-be-released-on-saturday","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Hamas militant group on Friday revealed the names of four hostages it claimed it would release the following day as part of a ceasefire agreement with Israel, which has brought a halt to the war in Gaza for at least six weeks.\n\nThere was no immediate confirmation from Israel regarding the names of the hostages. The hostages are set to be freed on Saturday in exchange for the release of 180 Palestinians imprisoned or detained by Israel.\n\nEarlier on Friday, relatives of the hostages still being held by Hamas appealed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure the release of all remaining captives. They also called on US President Donald Trump to continue pushing for their release.\n\nIsrael estimates that approximately a third, or potentially as many as half, of the more than 90 hostages still in Gaza have died. \n\nHamas has not provided definitive numbers on the captives still alive or the names of those who have died, but it is expected to release further information about the remaining 26 hostages expected to be released in the upcoming weeks.\n\nUnder the first phase of the ceasefire deal, a total of 33 hostages are expected to be released gradually in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, with additional humanitarian aid entering Gaza.\n\nIn the Palestinian enclave, civilians in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, hoping to return to the remnants of their homes in the heavily damaged north, face an agonising wait.\n\nIsrael\u2019s war against Hamas has claimed the lives of more than 47,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities. The ministry does not differentiate between combatants and civilians. \n\nThe conflict was triggered by Hamas\u2019 attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, killing approximately 1,200 people.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Hamas militant group on Friday revealed the names of four hostages it claimed it would release the following day as part of a ceasefire agreement with Israel, which has brought a halt to the war in Gaza for at least six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate confirmation from Israel regarding the names of the hostages. The hostages are set to be freed on Saturday in exchange for the release of 180 Palestinians imprisoned or detained by Israel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//15//32//808x539_cmsv2_67598240-5a80-5e0e-a125-02170bfbe292-9001532.jpg/" alt=\"This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Daniella Gilboa who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October, 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/384x256_cmsv2_67598240-5a80-5e0e-a125-02170bfbe292-9001532.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/640x427_cmsv2_67598240-5a80-5e0e-a125-02170bfbe292-9001532.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/750x500_cmsv2_67598240-5a80-5e0e-a125-02170bfbe292-9001532.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/828x552_cmsv2_67598240-5a80-5e0e-a125-02170bfbe292-9001532.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/1080x720_cmsv2_67598240-5a80-5e0e-a125-02170bfbe292-9001532.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/1200x800_cmsv2_67598240-5a80-5e0e-a125-02170bfbe292-9001532.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/1920x1280_cmsv2_67598240-5a80-5e0e-a125-02170bfbe292-9001532.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Daniella Gilboa who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Friday, relatives of the hostages still being held by Hamas appealed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure the release of all remaining captives. They also called on US President Donald Trump to continue pushing for their release.<\/p>\n<p>Israel estimates that approximately a third, or potentially as many as half, of the more than 90 hostages still in Gaza have died. <\/p>\n<p>Hamas has not provided definitive numbers on the captives still alive or the names of those who have died, but it is expected to release further information about the remaining 26 hostages expected to be released in the upcoming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Under the first phase of the ceasefire deal, a total of 33 hostages are expected to be released gradually in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, with additional humanitarian aid entering Gaza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//00//15//32//808x539_cmsv2_6109f17d-a074-5640-bcf4-be50cbc6b584-9001532.jpg/" alt=\"This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Karina Ariev who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October, 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/384x256_cmsv2_6109f17d-a074-5640-bcf4-be50cbc6b584-9001532.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/640x427_cmsv2_6109f17d-a074-5640-bcf4-be50cbc6b584-9001532.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/750x500_cmsv2_6109f17d-a074-5640-bcf4-be50cbc6b584-9001532.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/828x552_cmsv2_6109f17d-a074-5640-bcf4-be50cbc6b584-9001532.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/1080x720_cmsv2_6109f17d-a074-5640-bcf4-be50cbc6b584-9001532.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/1200x800_cmsv2_6109f17d-a074-5640-bcf4-be50cbc6b584-9001532.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/15\/32\/1920x1280_cmsv2_6109f17d-a074-5640-bcf4-be50cbc6b584-9001532.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Karina Ariev who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the Palestinian enclave, civilians in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, hoping to return to the remnants of their homes in the heavily damaged north, face an agonising wait.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s war against Hamas has claimed the lives of more than 47,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities. The ministry does not differentiate between combatants and civilians. <\/p>\n<p>The conflict was triggered by Hamas\u2019 attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, killing approximately 1,200 people.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737731665,"updatedAt":1737778144,"publishedAt":1737734475,"firstPublishedAt":1737734475,"lastPublishedAt":1737777870,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":"https:\/\/newsroom.ap.org\/detail\/IsraelPalestinians\/d5eb85ab70214e7fac9bc44557c76d4f","sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Maya Alleruzzo\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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During this period, around 600 aid trucks a day will enter the territory, while 33 Israel hostages held by Hamas will be released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. \n\nThe first three Israeli hostages returned to Israel on Sunday, while 90 Palestinian prisoners were also freed. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Palestinians in Gaza have said they slept peacefully for the first time in more than a year, without the fear of being bombed, following the start of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. <\/p>\n<p>The deal, which went into effect on Sunday, brought the first pause in fighting since November 2023, when a week-long agreement between the two sides allowed for a hostage exchange. <\/p>\n<p>The skies above Gaza and Israel were silent overnight, as many displaced Palestinians began returning to what remained of their homes. They started to check on relatives left behind and, in many cases, to bury their dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army invaded Gaza after Hamas killed around 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 others in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in the mostly deadly ever attack against the Jewish state. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of them civilians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. And around 1.9m of Gaza's 2.2m people have been displaced. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.66640625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//67//62//808x539_cmsv2_09d43d9d-1bc6-5bfe-940d-9937b1dae8c5-8986762.jpg/" alt=\"A man rests on a swing in a street destroyed during the Israeli army&#39;s offensive against the Hamas group in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/384x256_cmsv2_09d43d9d-1bc6-5bfe-940d-9937b1dae8c5-8986762.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/640x427_cmsv2_09d43d9d-1bc6-5bfe-940d-9937b1dae8c5-8986762.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/750x500_cmsv2_09d43d9d-1bc6-5bfe-940d-9937b1dae8c5-8986762.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/828x552_cmsv2_09d43d9d-1bc6-5bfe-940d-9937b1dae8c5-8986762.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/1080x720_cmsv2_09d43d9d-1bc6-5bfe-940d-9937b1dae8c5-8986762.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/1200x800_cmsv2_09d43d9d-1bc6-5bfe-940d-9937b1dae8c5-8986762.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/1920x1280_cmsv2_09d43d9d-1bc6-5bfe-940d-9937b1dae8c5-8986762.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A man rests on a swing in a street destroyed during the Israeli army&#39;s offensive against the Hamas group in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mariam Dagga\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>After 15 months of devastating war, \"yesterday, there were no warplanes or anything, so we slept comfortably,\" said Maisara Abu-Qoush, a displaced Palestinian from Rafah, a city in southern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Many were seen returning from Khan Younis to Rafah, only to find massive destruction.<\/p>\n<p>People trekked through the wreckage, some on foot and others hauling their belongings on donkey carts. <\/p>\n<p>\"We are tired of the bombing. The people of Rafah felt humiliated and displaced. We walked long distances. We were very afraid,\" said Fatma Hamad, another displaced person from Rafah. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.66640625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//67//62//808x539_cmsv2_e9d41285-08eb-535a-aca1-234079c9bf9e-8986762.jpg/" alt=\"Children play in the rubble of a destroyed building in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/384x256_cmsv2_e9d41285-08eb-535a-aca1-234079c9bf9e-8986762.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/640x427_cmsv2_e9d41285-08eb-535a-aca1-234079c9bf9e-8986762.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/750x500_cmsv2_e9d41285-08eb-535a-aca1-234079c9bf9e-8986762.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/828x552_cmsv2_e9d41285-08eb-535a-aca1-234079c9bf9e-8986762.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/1080x720_cmsv2_e9d41285-08eb-535a-aca1-234079c9bf9e-8986762.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/1200x800_cmsv2_e9d41285-08eb-535a-aca1-234079c9bf9e-8986762.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/67\/62\/1920x1280_cmsv2_e9d41285-08eb-535a-aca1-234079c9bf9e-8986762.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Children play in the rubble of a destroyed building in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mariam Dagga\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The return of Palestinian families to their homes comes amid looming uncertainty about whether the ceasefire deal will last, who will govern the territory and how it will be rebuilt. <\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has said that reconstruction could take more than 350 years if Gaza remains under an Israeli blockade. <\/p>\n<p>More than 90% of houses in the devastated Gaza Strip have been destroyed or damaged since the war broke out in October 2023, according to the UN. <\/p>\n<h2>Aid enters Gaza<\/h2><p>United Nations humanitarian officials say that more than 630 trucks of humanitarian aid have entered Gaza since the implementation of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Tom Fletcher, the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, said that over 630 trucks had entered Gaza on Sunday, with at least 300 of them bringing humanitarian assistance to the north of the territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no time to lose,\u201d Fletcher wrote. \u201cAfter 15 months of relentless war, the humanitarian needs are staggering.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1881118836264718640\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Aid workers have been scrambling to address Gaza\u2019s dire humanitarian needs after 15 months of devastating war and tough Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries and the movement of convoys within Gaza. Lawlessness and looting by armed gangs has also been a major obstacle to aid distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Before this latest Israel-Hamas war began, Gaza was under a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade that allowed the entry of some 500 trucks a day carrying commercial supplies and humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>The initial phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal will last six weeks. 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CEASEFIRE STARTS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Israel-Hamas ceasefire begins, raising hope that 15 months of war will end","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israel-Hamas ceasefire begins, raising hope that war will now end","titleListing2":"Israel-Hamas ceasefire begins, raising hope that 15 months of war will end","leadin":"Celebrations erupted across the war-ravaged territory and some Palestinians began returning to their homes in Gaza, despite a bloody three hour delay.","summary":"Celebrations erupted across the war-ravaged territory and some Palestinians began returning to their homes in Gaza, despite a bloody three hour delay.","keySentence":"","url":"ceasefire-delayed-israel-says-after-hamas-fails-to-release-hostages-names","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/19\/ceasefire-delayed-israel-says-after-hamas-fails-to-release-hostages-names","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas took hold in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, ushering in an initial six-week period of calm and raising hopes for the release of dozens of hostages held by the militant group and an end to a devastating 15-month conflict. A last-minute delay by Hamas put off the start of the truce by nearly three hours and highlighted its fragility. \n\nBut even before the truce officially took effect, celebrations erupted across the war-ravaged territory and some Palestinians began returning to their homes. Israel, meanwhile, announced the names of the first hostages expected to return home later Sunday, in exchange for the planned release of dozens of Palestinian prisoners.\n\nThe truce, which started at 11:15 a.m. local time, is just the first step toward ultimately ending the conflict and returning nearly 100 hostages abducted in Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023 attack.\n\nRomi Gonen, 24, Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, were released via the International Red Cross on Sunday and are now back in Israel. Gonen was abducted from the Nova music festival, while the other two were kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Damari is an Israeli-British dual citizen. \n\nHamas had been supposed to provide their names before the start of the ceasefire, originally planned for 8:30 a.m. The militant group released their names about two hours later, citing technical reasons and saying it was still committed to the agreement.\n\nIn the interim between 8:30 a.m. and when the ceasefire took hold, Israeli fire killed at least 26 people, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry. It did not say whether they were civilians or fighters. The military has warned people to stay away from Israeli forces as they retreat to a buffer zone.\n\nDisplaced Palestinians set off for their former homes\n\nAs news of the ceasefire came Majida Abu Jarad made quick work of packing the contents of her family\u2019s temporary lodging in the sprawling tent city of Muwasi, just north of the strip\u2019s southern border with Egypt.\n\nAt the start of the war, they were forced to flee their house in Gaza\u2019s northern town of Beit Hanoun, where they used to gather around the kitchen table or on the roof on summer evenings amid the scent of roses and jasmine.\n\nThe house from those fond memories is gone, and for the past year, Abu Jarad, her husband and their six daughters have trekked the length of the Gaza Strip, following one evacuation order after another by the Israeli military.\n\nSeven times they fled, she said, and each time, their lives became more unrecognizable to them as they crowded with strangers to sleep in a school classroom, searching for water in a vast tent camp or sleeping on the street. \n\nNow the family is preparing to begin the trek home \u2014 or to whatever remains of it \u2014 and to reunite with relatives who remained in the north.\n\n\u201cAs soon as they said that the truce would start on Sunday, we started packing our bags and deciding what we would take, not caring that we would still be living in tents,\u201d Abu Jarad said.\n\nThe ceasefire, agreed after a year of intensive mediation by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, is the first step in a long and fragile process aimed at winding down the 15-month war.\n\nNetanyahu said he had instructed the military that the ceasefire \u201cwill not begin until Israel has in its possession the list of hostages to be freed, which Hamas committed to provide.\u201d He had issued a similar warning the night before.\n\nThe 42-day first phase of the ceasefire should see a total of 33 hostages returned from Gaza and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees released. Israeli forces should pull back into a buffer zone inside Gaza, and many displaced Palestinians should be able to return home. The devastated territory should also see a surge in humanitarian aid.\n\nThis is just the second ceasefire in the war, longer and more consequential than the weeklong pause over a year ago, with the potential to end the fighting for good.\n\nNegotiations on the far more difficult second phase of this ceasefire should begin in just over two weeks. Major questions remain, including whether the war will resume after the six-week first phase and how the rest of the nearly 100 hostages in Gaza will be freed.\n\nDozens of people took to the streets in Gaza\u2019s southern city of Khan Younis to celebrate the ceasefire, according to an Associated Press reporter. Four masked and armed Hamas fighters arrived in two vehicles as the celebrations were underway, with people welcoming them and chanting slogans in support of the militant group.\n\nGaza\u2019s Civil Defence, first responders who operate under the Hamas-run government, held a parade in Gaza City, where the rescuers waved a Palestinian flag alongside other revellers, according to AP footage, which also showed a small group of people carrying the flags of Islamic Jihad, the second largest militant group after Hamas, which took part in the Oct. 7 attack. \n\nThe Hamas-run police began deploying in public after mostly lying low due to Israeli airstrikes. Gaza City residents said they had seen them operating in parts of the city, and the AP reporter in Khan Younis saw a small number out on the streets.\n\nIsrael and the ceasefire deal\n\nIsrael\u2019s Cabinet approved the ceasefire early on Saturday in a rare session during the Jewish Sabbath, more than two days after mediators announced the deal. The warring sides were under pressure from both the outgoing Biden administration and President-elect Donald Trump to achieve a deal before the U.S. presidential inauguration on Monday.\n\nIt came after months of stumbling negotiations between the warring sides, and mediators Qatar, Egypt and the US, and is only the second such truce brokered in 15 months of war.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israel is treating the ceasefire with Hamas as temporary and retains the right to continue fighting if necessary.\n\nNetanyahu also touted Israel\u2019s military successes in Lebanon and Syria as the reason Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. \u201cWe have changed the face of the Middle East,\u201d Netanyahu said.\n\nNetanyahu stressed that he was able to negotiate the best deal possible even as Israel\u2019s far-right Public Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Saturday he and most of his party would resign from the government in opposition.\n\nThe three phases of the ceasefire\n\nThe ceasefire comprises of three phases. First, 33 hostages held by Hamas are to be released in a six-week phase in exchange for 737 Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons.\n\nIDF forces will also move east away from densely-populated areas, allowing thousands of displaced Palestinians to return to what remains of their homes.\n\nAid into Gaza will also be ramped up, with 600 trucks expected to be allowed into the territory every day. A convoy of trucks has been amassing on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing since Friday.\u00a0\n\nThe U.N.\u2019s humanitarian affairs agency says it has ratcheted up its preparations for providing aid to Gaza after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes effect.\n\nWhile the details of the second and third phases have been agreed in principle, negotiations to iron out the details are expected to take place during the six weeks of phase one.\n\nPhase two will see the remaining hostages held by Hamas released and a full Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza.\n\nPhase three will see the bodies of the remaining captives handed over to Israel in return for a three- to five-year reconstruction plan of Gaza to be conducted under international supervision.\n\nAid trucks line at the Rafah crossing\n\nLocal media in Egypt reported that 95 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed the Egyptian gate of the Rafah crossing and headed for the Gaza Strip.\n\nDozens of health workers and Red Crescent personnel prepared the rows of trucks and ambulances at the Rafah border crossing, which connects the Gaza Strip and Egypt.\n\nThe crossing, Gaza\u2019s main gateway to the outside world, has been closed since last May when the Israeli army took over the area.\n\nHow badly is Gaza damaged?\n\nThe toll of the war has been immense, and new details on its scope will now emerge. \n\nOver 46,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry. The Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that sparked the war killed over 1,200. Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have died.\n\nSome 90% of Gaza\u2019s population has been displaced. The United Nations says the health system, road network and other vital infrastructure have been badly damaged. \n\nRebuilding, if the ceasefire reaches its final phase, will take several years at least. Major questions about Gaza\u2019s future, political and otherwise, remain unresolved.\n\nIn their Interim Damage Assessment report issued in March last year, the European Union, the United Nations and the World Bank put the cost of rebuilding Gaza\u2019s critical infrastructure at \u20ac17.9 billion.\n\nAnd in October last year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development warned that it could take 350 years for Gaza\u2019s economy to return to pre-war levels if the Israeli blockade of the territory remains in force.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas took hold in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, ushering in an initial six-week period of calm and raising hopes for the release of dozens of hostages held by the militant group and an end to a devastating 15-month conflict. A last-minute delay by Hamas put off the start of the truce by nearly three hours and highlighted its fragility. <\/p>\n<p>But even before the truce officially took effect, celebrations erupted across the war-ravaged territory and some Palestinians began returning to their homes. Israel, meanwhile, announced the names of the first hostages expected to return home later Sunday, in exchange for the planned release of dozens of Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The truce, which started at 11:15 a.m. local time, is just the first step toward ultimately ending the conflict and returning nearly 100 hostages abducted in Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023 attack.<\/p>\n<p>Romi Gonen, 24, Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, were released via the International Red Cross on Sunday and are now back in Israel. Gonen was abducted from the Nova music festival, while the other two were kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Damari is an Israeli-British dual citizen. <\/p>\n<p>Hamas had been supposed to provide their names before the start of the ceasefire, originally planned for 8:30 a.m. The militant group released their names about two hours later, citing technical reasons and saying it was still committed to the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In the interim between 8:30 a.m. and when the ceasefire took hold, Israeli fire killed at least 26 people, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry. It did not say whether they were civilians or fighters. The military has warned people to stay away from Israeli forces as they retreat to a buffer zone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//40//14//808x539_cmsv2_4ce7c42c-d978-503e-865c-71be8a67d397-8984014.jpg/" alt=\"Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo\/Tsafrir Abayov)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_4ce7c42c-d978-503e-865c-71be8a67d397-8984014.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_4ce7c42c-d978-503e-865c-71be8a67d397-8984014.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_4ce7c42c-d978-503e-865c-71be8a67d397-8984014.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_4ce7c42c-d978-503e-865c-71be8a67d397-8984014.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_4ce7c42c-d978-503e-865c-71be8a67d397-8984014.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_4ce7c42c-d978-503e-865c-71be8a67d397-8984014.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/1920x1281_cmsv2_4ce7c42c-d978-503e-865c-71be8a67d397-8984014.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo\/Tsafrir Abayov)<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Tsafrir Abayov\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Displaced Palestinians set off for their former homes<\/h3><p>As news of the ceasefire came Majida Abu Jarad made quick work of packing the contents of her family\u2019s temporary lodging in the sprawling tent city of Muwasi, just north of the strip\u2019s southern border with Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the war, they were forced to flee their house in Gaza\u2019s northern town of Beit Hanoun, where they used to gather around the kitchen table or on the roof on summer evenings amid the scent of roses and jasmine.<\/p>\n<p>The house from those fond memories is gone, and for the past year, Abu Jarad, her husband and their six daughters have trekked the length of the Gaza Strip, following one evacuation order after another by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p>Seven times they fled, she said, and each time, their lives became more unrecognizable to them as they crowded with strangers to sleep in a school classroom, searching for water in a vast tent camp or sleeping on the street. <\/p>\n<p>Now the family is preparing to begin the trek home \u2014 or to whatever remains of it \u2014 and to reunite with relatives who remained in the north.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as they said that the truce would start on Sunday, we started packing our bags and deciding what we would take, not caring that we would still be living in tents,\u201d Abu Jarad said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//40//16//808x539_cmsv2_e63edd68-d78b-5ccd-8a0f-57c8b65ae8bf-8984016.jpg/" alt=\"Displaced Palestinians leave parts of Khan Younis as they go back to their homes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jehad Alshrafi)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/16\/384x256_cmsv2_e63edd68-d78b-5ccd-8a0f-57c8b65ae8bf-8984016.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/16\/640x427_cmsv2_e63edd68-d78b-5ccd-8a0f-57c8b65ae8bf-8984016.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/16\/750x500_cmsv2_e63edd68-d78b-5ccd-8a0f-57c8b65ae8bf-8984016.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/16\/828x552_cmsv2_e63edd68-d78b-5ccd-8a0f-57c8b65ae8bf-8984016.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/16\/1080x720_cmsv2_e63edd68-d78b-5ccd-8a0f-57c8b65ae8bf-8984016.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/16\/1200x800_cmsv2_e63edd68-d78b-5ccd-8a0f-57c8b65ae8bf-8984016.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/16\/1920x1281_cmsv2_e63edd68-d78b-5ccd-8a0f-57c8b65ae8bf-8984016.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Displaced Palestinians leave parts of Khan Younis as they go back to their homes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jehad Alshrafi)<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Jehad Alshrafi\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The ceasefire, agreed after a year of intensive mediation by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, is the first step in a long and fragile process aimed at winding down the 15-month war.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu said he had instructed the military that the ceasefire \u201cwill not begin until Israel has in its possession the list of hostages to be freed, which Hamas committed to provide.\u201d He had issued a similar warning the night before.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-day first phase of the ceasefire should see a total of 33 hostages returned from Gaza and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees released. Israeli forces should pull back into a buffer zone inside Gaza, and many displaced Palestinians should be able to return home. The devastated territory should also see a surge in humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the second ceasefire in the war, longer and more consequential than the weeklong pause over a year ago, with the potential to end the fighting for good.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations on the far more difficult second phase of this ceasefire should begin in just over two weeks. Major questions remain, including whether the war will resume after the six-week first phase and how the rest of the nearly 100 hostages in Gaza will be freed.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people took to the streets in Gaza\u2019s southern city of Khan Younis to celebrate the ceasefire, according to an Associated Press reporter. Four masked and armed Hamas fighters arrived in two vehicles as the celebrations were underway, with people welcoming them and chanting slogans in support of the militant group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//47//16//808x539_cmsv2_748925ca-3d57-53fe-b404-843a53f37c34-8984716.jpg/" alt=\"Members of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, take part in a parade as they celebrate the ceasefire, Gaza, Jan 19 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/47\/16\/384x256_cmsv2_748925ca-3d57-53fe-b404-843a53f37c34-8984716.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/47\/16\/640x427_cmsv2_748925ca-3d57-53fe-b404-843a53f37c34-8984716.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/47\/16\/750x500_cmsv2_748925ca-3d57-53fe-b404-843a53f37c34-8984716.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/47\/16\/828x552_cmsv2_748925ca-3d57-53fe-b404-843a53f37c34-8984716.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/47\/16\/1080x720_cmsv2_748925ca-3d57-53fe-b404-843a53f37c34-8984716.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/47\/16\/1200x800_cmsv2_748925ca-3d57-53fe-b404-843a53f37c34-8984716.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/47\/16\/1920x1281_cmsv2_748925ca-3d57-53fe-b404-843a53f37c34-8984716.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Members of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, take part in a parade as they celebrate the ceasefire, Gaza, Jan 19 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Abdel Kareem Hana\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gaza\u2019s Civil Defence, first responders who operate under the Hamas-run government, held a parade in Gaza City, where the rescuers waved a Palestinian flag alongside other revellers, according to AP footage, which also showed a small group of people carrying the flags of Islamic Jihad, the second largest militant group after Hamas, which took part in the Oct. 7 attack. <\/p>\n<p>The Hamas-run police began deploying in public after mostly lying low due to Israeli airstrikes. Gaza City residents said they had seen them operating in parts of the city, and the AP reporter in Khan Younis saw a small number out on the streets.<\/p>\n<h2>Israel and the ceasefire deal<\/h2><p>Israel\u2019s Cabinet approved the ceasefire early on Saturday in a rare session during the Jewish Sabbath, more than two days after mediators announced the deal. The warring sides were under pressure from both the outgoing Biden administration and President-elect Donald Trump to achieve a deal before the U.S. presidential inauguration on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It came after months of stumbling negotiations between the warring sides, and mediators Qatar, Egypt and the US, and is only the second such truce brokered in 15 months of war.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israel is treating the ceasefire with Hamas as temporary and retains the right to continue fighting if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu also touted Israel\u2019s military successes in Lebanon and Syria as the reason Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. \u201cWe have changed the face of the Middle East,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu stressed that he was able to negotiate the best deal possible even as Israel\u2019s far-right Public Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Saturday he and most of his party would resign from the government in opposition.<\/p>\n<h2>The three phases of the ceasefire<\/h2><p>The ceasefire comprises of three phases. First, 33 hostages held by Hamas are to be released in a six-week phase in exchange for 737 Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p>IDF forces will also move east away from densely-populated areas, allowing thousands of displaced Palestinians to return to what remains of their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Aid into Gaza will also be ramped up, with 600 trucks expected to be allowed into the territory every day. A convoy of trucks has been amassing on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing since Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.N.\u2019s humanitarian affairs agency says it has ratcheted up its preparations for providing aid to Gaza after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>While the details of the second and third phases have been agreed in principle, negotiations to iron out the details are expected to take place during the six weeks of phase one.<\/p>\n<p>Phase two will see the remaining hostages held by Hamas released and a full Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Phase three will see the bodies of the remaining captives handed over to Israel in return for a three- to five-year reconstruction plan of Gaza to be conducted under international supervision.<\/p>\n<h3>Aid trucks line at the Rafah crossing<\/h3><p>Local media in Egypt reported that 95 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed the Egyptian gate of the Rafah crossing and headed for the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of health workers and Red Crescent personnel prepared the rows of trucks and ambulances at the Rafah border crossing, which connects the Gaza Strip and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The crossing, Gaza\u2019s main gateway to the outside world, has been closed since last May when the Israeli army took over the area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//40//14//808x539_cmsv2_791f6c7a-2d96-5c68-863d-696ed9e5596a-8984014.jpg/" alt=\"Humanitarian aid trucks enter through the Kerem Shalom crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, Jan 19 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_791f6c7a-2d96-5c68-863d-696ed9e5596a-8984014.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_791f6c7a-2d96-5c68-863d-696ed9e5596a-8984014.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_791f6c7a-2d96-5c68-863d-696ed9e5596a-8984014.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_791f6c7a-2d96-5c68-863d-696ed9e5596a-8984014.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_791f6c7a-2d96-5c68-863d-696ed9e5596a-8984014.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_791f6c7a-2d96-5c68-863d-696ed9e5596a-8984014.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/1920x1281_cmsv2_791f6c7a-2d96-5c68-863d-696ed9e5596a-8984014.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Humanitarian aid trucks enter through the Kerem Shalom crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, Jan 19 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Jehad Alshrafi\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1880910313094062193\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>How badly is Gaza damaged?<\/h2><p>The toll of the war has been immense, and new details on its scope will now emerge. <\/p>\n<p>Over 46,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry. The Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that sparked the war killed over 1,200. Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have died.<\/p>\n<p>Some 90% of Gaza\u2019s population has been displaced. The United Nations says the health system, road network and other vital infrastructure have been badly damaged. <\/p>\n<p>Rebuilding, if the ceasefire reaches its final phase, will take several years at least. Major questions about Gaza\u2019s future, political and otherwise, remain unresolved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//40//14//808x539_cmsv2_c97af49e-845b-53f3-841c-601f29f88408-8984014.jpg/" alt=\"A destroyed part of Gaza City as seen from southern Israel, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo\/Tsafrir Abayov))\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_c97af49e-845b-53f3-841c-601f29f88408-8984014.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_c97af49e-845b-53f3-841c-601f29f88408-8984014.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_c97af49e-845b-53f3-841c-601f29f88408-8984014.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_c97af49e-845b-53f3-841c-601f29f88408-8984014.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_c97af49e-845b-53f3-841c-601f29f88408-8984014.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_c97af49e-845b-53f3-841c-601f29f88408-8984014.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/40\/14\/1920x1281_cmsv2_c97af49e-845b-53f3-841c-601f29f88408-8984014.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A destroyed part of Gaza City as seen from southern Israel, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo\/Tsafrir Abayov))<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Tsafrir Abayov\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In their <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////thedocs.worldbank.org//en//doc//14e309cd34e04e40b90eb19afa7b5d15-0280012024//original//Gaza-Interim-Damage-Assessment-032924-Final.pdf/">Interim Damage Assessment report issued in March last year<\/a>, the European Union, the United Nations and the World Bank put the cost of rebuilding Gaza\u2019s critical infrastructure at \u20ac17.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>And in October last year, the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.un.org//unispal//document//unctad-report-10sep24///">UN Conference on Trade and Development warned<\/a> that it could take 350 years for Gaza\u2019s economy to return to pre-war levels if the Israeli blockade of the territory remains in force.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737232588,"updatedAt":1737304168,"publishedAt":1737271620,"firstPublishedAt":1737271620,"lastPublishedAt":1737304168,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Abdel Kareem Hana\/Copyright 2025, The AP. 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A truce, if agreed, would put an end to over a year of war in the Gaza Strip.","summary":"Hamas have approved a draft deal for a ceasefire in Gaza, with Israel's cabinet debating the conditions, officials suggest. A truce, if agreed, would put an end to over a year of war in the Gaza Strip.","keySentence":"","url":"next-24-hours-critical-for-ceasefire-deal-between-israel-and-hamas-in-gaza","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/14\/next-24-hours-critical-for-ceasefire-deal-between-israel-and-hamas-in-gaza","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israel's cabinet should approve a ceasefire deal despite opposition from senior ministers, according to the latest statement from Israeli officials on Tuesday.\n\n\u201cWe are in decisive moments regarding the return of the abductees, and we, the cabinet members, will ensure their return to their families,\u201d Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter said, implying that an agreement could make the final hurdle through Israel's cabinet. \n\nHamas and Israel are in the midst of approving the \"final details\" of a ceasefire deal, a Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday in what appeared to be the most promising push to end hostilities between the pair in months. \n\nTwo officials involved in the talks said that Hamas had already accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire deal, which would include a pause in fighting and the immediate release of a dozen Israeli hostages. \n\nThe plan, however, would need Israeli approval to proceed, and Netanyahu is facing opposition from hardliners in his government over the deal. \n\nHis National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called the proposed truce \"terrible\" in a lengthy post on social media, saying it would \"erase the war achievements that have been achieved with much blood by our fighters, so far, in the Gaza Strip.\"\n\nBen-Gvir said he had prevented previous ceasefires through political pressure and threatened to do the same this time. He warned that he would be prepared to resign and called on Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also opposed the agreement, to do the same. \n\nNetanyahu has a majority within his coalition government and therefore a reasonable chance of pushing the agreement through. The leader could, however, face trouble if the parties of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich pulled out of his coalition and left him with a minority government. \n\nDichter said that Ben Gvir and Smotrich \"know well that their votes will not be decisive regarding the deal to return the abductees\u201d.\n\nWhat's in the deal? \n\nUS President Joe Biden, who brokered the truce along with Qatar and Egypt, has said that the deal is based on one he laid out in detail in May which would involve a so-called three part \"phased ceasefire\". \n\nIt is understood that Netanyahu has signalled he is only committed to the first phase of a partial hostage release in exchange for weekslong halt in fighting. The possibility of a lasting ceasefire would be negotiated after the first phase begins, according to Hamas officials. \n\nIn the \"first phase\" of the ceasefire Hamas would release dozens of the most vulnerable hostages taken to Gaza by Hamas militants on 7 October. Reuters has reported that, currently, negotiations were in advanced stages for the release of 33 of the 98 women, children and female soldiers. In this stage, at least some Palestinians would be allowed to return to their homes. \n\nIn the \"second phase,\" Hamas would release the remaining hostages in exchange for around 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, a withdrawal of Israeli forces and a lasting ceasefire. The remaining sticking points will be negotiated during the first phase. \n\nAlthough sources say talks have progressed its not the first time officials in the US, Egypt and Qatar \u2014 who have spent over a year trying to broker an agreement \u2014 have said they were on the verge of reaching a deal only for discussions to stall. \n\nAn agreement has been held up by a number of contentious issues, including details on the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners.\n\nHamas has said it won't release a number of Israeli hostages held in Gaza without Israel withdrawing its troops. On the other side, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep fighting until \"total victory\" has been achieved over the militant group. \n\nOfficials hope that if fighting can stop the two sides can work through an agreement on these sticking points. \n\nThe renewed discussions come as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a deal this week is \"very close\", adding he hoped to complete it before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated at the end of January. For his part, Trump told US channel Newsmax he understood a ceasefire was \"getting finished\" and that there had been a \"handshake\" in the negotiations. \n\nDespite talk of a ceasefire, there was no immediate break in fighting as Israeli strikes killed at least 18 people overnight in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian health officials. \n\nThere was also no official comment from Palestinian authorities on a potential ceasefire, apart from the Palestinian Foreign Ministry warning of Israeli plans to \"disconnect Gaza from the West Bank.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israel's cabinet should approve a ceasefire deal despite opposition from senior ministers, according to the latest statement from Israeli officials on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in decisive moments regarding the return of the abductees, and we, the cabinet members, will ensure their return to their families,\u201d Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter said, implying that an agreement could make the final hurdle through Israel's cabinet. <\/p>\n<p>Hamas and Israel are in the midst of approving the \"final details\" of a ceasefire deal, a Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday in what appeared to be the most promising push to end hostilities between the pair in months. <\/p>\n<p>Two officials involved in the talks said that Hamas had already accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire deal, which would include a pause in fighting and the immediate release of a dozen Israeli hostages. <\/p>\n<p>The plan, however, would need Israeli approval to proceed, and Netanyahu is facing opposition from hardliners in his government over the deal. <\/p>\n<p>His National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called the proposed truce \"terrible\" in a lengthy post on social media, saying it would \"erase the war achievements that have been achieved with much blood by our fighters, so far, in the Gaza Strip.\"<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir said he had prevented previous ceasefires through political pressure and threatened to do the same this time. He warned that he would be prepared to resign and called on Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also opposed the agreement, to do the same. <\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has a majority within his coalition government and therefore a reasonable chance of pushing the agreement through. The leader could, however, face trouble if the parties of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich pulled out of his coalition and left him with a minority government. <\/p>\n<p>Dichter said that Ben Gvir and Smotrich \"know well that their votes will not be decisive regarding the deal to return the abductees\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>What's in the deal?<\/h2><p>US President Joe Biden, who brokered the truce along with Qatar and Egypt, has said that the deal is based on one he laid out in detail in May which would involve a so-called three part \"phased ceasefire\". <\/p>\n<p>It is understood that Netanyahu has signalled he is only committed to the first phase of a partial hostage release in exchange for weekslong halt in fighting. The possibility of a lasting ceasefire would be negotiated after the first phase begins, according to Hamas officials. <\/p>\n<p>In the \"first phase\" of the ceasefire Hamas would release dozens of the most vulnerable hostages taken to Gaza by Hamas militants on 7 October. Reuters has reported that, currently, negotiations were in advanced stages for the release of 33 of the 98 women, children and female soldiers. In this stage, at least some Palestinians would be allowed to return to their homes. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8964938\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//11//israels-netanyahu-sends-mossad-chief-to-gaza-ceasefire-talks-in-qatar/">Israel's Netanyahu sends Mossad chief to Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the \"second phase,\" Hamas would release the remaining hostages in exchange for around 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, a withdrawal of Israeli forces and a lasting ceasefire. The remaining sticking points will be negotiated during the first phase. <\/p>\n<p>Although sources say talks have progressed its not the first time officials in the US, Egypt and Qatar \u2014 who have spent over a year trying to broker an agreement \u2014 have said they were on the verge of reaching a deal only for discussions to stall. <\/p>\n<p>An agreement has been held up by a number of contentious issues, including details on the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has said it won't release a number of Israeli hostages held in Gaza without Israel withdrawing its troops. On the other side, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep fighting until \"total victory\" has been achieved over the militant group. <\/p>\n<p>Officials hope that if fighting can stop the two sides can work through an agreement on these sticking points. <\/p>\n<p>The renewed discussions come as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a deal this week is \"very close\", adding he hoped to complete it before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated at the end of January. For his part, Trump told US channel Newsmax he understood a ceasefire was \"getting finished\" and that there had been a \"handshake\" in the negotiations. <\/p>\n<p>Despite talk of a ceasefire, there was no immediate break in fighting as Israeli strikes killed at least 18 people overnight in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian health officials. <\/p>\n<p>There was also no official comment from Palestinian authorities on a potential ceasefire, apart from the Palestinian Foreign Ministry warning of Israeli plans to \"disconnect Gaza from the West Bank.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1736834793,"updatedAt":1736862676,"publishedAt":1736840143,"firstPublishedAt":1736840143,"lastPublishedAt":1736862676,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Abdel Kareem Hana\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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Monday.","keySentence":"","url":"progress-made-in-talks-over-israel-hamas-ceasefire-and-hostage-release-officials-say","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/13\/progress-made-in-talks-over-israel-hamas-ceasefire-and-hostage-release-officials-say","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Mediators reportedly presented Israel and Hamas with a final draft of a deal on Monday, which they hope will end the ongoing war between the two in Gaza.\u00a0\n\nOfficials said US and regional mediators made significant progress overnight towards brokering a ceasefire in the conflict and the release of scores of hostages held in Gaza, but that a deal hasn\u2019t been reached yet.\u00a0\n\nFour officials acknowledged that progress had been made and said the coming days would be critical for ending more than 15 months of fighting that has destabilised the Middle East. These officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren\u2019t authorised to discuss the talks.\u00a0\n\nOne US official said all sides were \u201ccloser than we\u2019ve ever been, but it could still fall apart.\u201d The official declined to predict the timing of a potential agreement because he said it was too uncertain.\u00a0\n\nAnother person familiar with the talks claimed there had been a breakthrough overnight and that there was a proposed deal on the table. Israeli and Hamas negotiators will now take it back to their leaders for final approval, the person said.\u00a0\n\nAn Egyptian official said all sides were aiming for a deal before Trump\u2019s inauguration next Monday.\u00a0\n\nAsked about talks at a press conference, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said, \u201cprogress had been made, and I hope that within \u00a0a short time we will see things happening. But it is still to be proven.\u201d \u00a0\n\nA Hamas official said a number of contentious issues still needed to be resolved, including Israel\u2019s commitment to ending the war and details about the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the hostage-prisoner exchange.\u00a0\n\nEgypt, Qatar and the Biden administration have spent more than a year trying to broker an agreement to end the deadliest war ever fought in Gaza and secure the release of hostages captured in Hamas\u2019 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which triggered the conflict.\u00a0\n\nOn several occasions over the past year, US leaders have said they were close to reaching a deal.\u00a0\n\nA phased ceasefire is now under discussion. Netanyahu has repeatedly signalled that he is committed only to the first phase, which would involve a partial hostage release in exchange for a weekslong halt in fighting. \u00a0\n\nThe possibility of a lasting ceasefire and other issues would be negotiated after the first phase begins. Hamas has demanded a full withdrawal and a complete end to the war and is hoping that this first phase will lead to that outcome.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Mediators reportedly presented Israel and Hamas with a final draft of a deal on Monday, which they hope will end the ongoing war between the two in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said US and regional mediators made significant progress overnight towards brokering a ceasefire in the conflict and the release of scores of hostages held in Gaza, but that a deal hasn\u2019t been reached yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four officials acknowledged that progress had been made and said the coming days would be critical for ending more than 15 months of fighting that has destabilised the Middle East. These officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren\u2019t authorised to discuss the talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One US official said all sides were \u201ccloser than we\u2019ve ever been, but it could still fall apart.\u201d The official declined to predict the timing of a potential agreement because he said it was too uncertain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another person familiar with the talks claimed there had been a breakthrough overnight and that there was a proposed deal on the table. Israeli and Hamas negotiators will now take it back to their leaders for final approval, the person said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An Egyptian official said all sides were aiming for a deal before Trump\u2019s inauguration next Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked about talks at a press conference, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said, \u201cprogress had been made, and I hope that within \u00a0a short time we will see things happening. But it is still to be proven.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Hamas official said a number of contentious issues still needed to be resolved, including Israel\u2019s commitment to ending the war and details about the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the hostage-prisoner exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Egypt, Qatar and the Biden administration have spent more than a year trying to broker an agreement to end the deadliest war ever fought in Gaza and secure the release of hostages captured in Hamas\u2019 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which triggered the conflict.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8965156,8964938\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//11//israels-netanyahu-sends-mossad-chief-to-gaza-ceasefire-talks-in-qatar/">Israel's Netanyahu sends Mossad chief to Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//12//ambassadors-to-israel-join-rally-to-demand-gaza-ceasefire-and-hostage-release-deal/">Ambassadors to Israel join rally to demand Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On several occasions over the past year, US leaders have said they were close to reaching a deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A phased ceasefire is now under discussion. Netanyahu has repeatedly signalled that he is committed only to the first phase, which would involve a partial hostage release in exchange for a weekslong halt in fighting. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of a lasting ceasefire and other issues would be negotiated after the first phase begins. Hamas has demanded a full withdrawal and a complete end to the war and is hoping that this first phase will lead to that outcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1736780951,"updatedAt":1736786352,"publishedAt":1736784397,"firstPublishedAt":1736784397,"lastPublishedAt":1736784397,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/83\/68\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b5311305-cf8b-5d67-a7c3-d137f43e5ee8-8968368.jpg","altText":"Police scuffle with demonstrators who block a road during a protest demanding a cease-fire deal and the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas","caption":"Police scuffle with demonstrators who block a road during a protest demanding a cease-fire deal and the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Ariel Schalit\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2974,"urlSafeValue":"osullivan-d","title":"David O'Sullivan","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":25188,"slug":"gaza-city","urlSafeValue":"gaza-city","title":"Gaza City","titleRaw":"Gaza City"},{"id":10501,"slug":"gaza-attack","urlSafeValue":"gaza-attack","title":"Gaza attack","titleRaw":"Gaza attack"},{"id":29226,"slug":"israel-hamas-war","urlSafeValue":"israel-hamas-war","title":"Israel Hamas war","titleRaw":"Israel Hamas 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uninhabitable.","keySentence":"","url":"at-least-one-dead-in-gaza-city-after-israeli-strike-hits-house","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/13\/at-least-one-dead-in-gaza-city-after-israeli-strike-hits-house","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Rescuers have recovered at least one body from the rubble of a house in Gaza City that was destroyed after an Israeli strike hit it, local media said.\n\nSeveral houses in the Shujaiya neighbourhood in the eastern part of the city had been hit by Israeli attacks over the weekend, according to reports.\n\nLocal media did not immediately report on any casualties.\n\nThe ongoing Israel-Hamas war, now in its second year, has left over 161,600 housing units destroyed, another 194,000 structures partially damaged, and approximately 82,000 homes have been rendered uninhabitable, The Gazan Ministry of Public Works and Housing said in a recent report. \n\nMeanwhile, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Muhannad Hadi has called for an end to the war in Gaza to ensure a better future for children there and the entire region.\n\nHadi made the appeal on Sunday during a visit to Gaza City, where he met with representatives from humanitarian NGOs. The senior UN official also visited Gaza's Holy Family Church.\n\n\"Those children that you see here are the hope of the future, and without education, without proper health care, there will be no bright future. I am appealing to everybody to end this war. We are praying for peace,\" Hadi stressed.\n\nThe Israeli military launched the war after a Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, in which 1,139 people were killed and more than 200 people taken hostage. \n\nWhile some of the hostages have since been released, Israeli officials say about 100 remain in Hamas tunnels in the Gaza enclave, a third of whom are believed to be dead.\n\nSince Israel\u2019s war against Hamas began, more than 46,000 Gaza residents have been killed and more than 110,000 injured, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its casualty reports.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Rescuers have recovered at least one body from the rubble of a house in Gaza City that was destroyed after an Israeli strike hit it, local media said.<\/p>\n<p>Several houses in the Shujaiya neighbourhood in the eastern part of the city had been hit by Israeli attacks over the weekend, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Local media did not immediately report on any casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing Israel-Hamas war, now in its second year, has left over 161,600 housing units destroyed, another 194,000 structures partially damaged, and approximately 82,000 homes have been rendered uninhabitable, The Gazan Ministry of Public Works and Housing said in a recent report. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Muhannad Hadi has called for an end to the war in Gaza to ensure a better future for children there and the entire region.<\/p>\n<p>Hadi made the appeal on Sunday during a visit to Gaza City, where he met with representatives from humanitarian NGOs. The senior UN official also visited Gaza's Holy Family Church.<\/p>\n<p>\"Those children that you see here are the hope of the future, and without education, without proper health care, there will be no bright future. I am appealing to everybody to end this war. We are praying for peace,\" Hadi stressed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8965156,8964938\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//11//israels-netanyahu-sends-mossad-chief-to-gaza-ceasefire-talks-in-qatar/">Israel's Netanyahu sends Mossad chief to Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//12//ambassadors-to-israel-join-rally-to-demand-gaza-ceasefire-and-hostage-release-deal/">Ambassadors to Israel join rally to demand Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Israeli military launched the war after a Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, in which 1,139 people were killed and more than 200 people taken hostage. <\/p>\n<p>While some of the hostages have since been released, Israeli officials say about 100 remain in Hamas tunnels in the Gaza enclave, a third of whom are believed to be dead.<\/p>\n<p>Since Israel\u2019s war against Hamas began, more than 46,000 Gaza residents have been killed and more than 110,000 injured, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its casualty reports.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1736762673,"updatedAt":1736778607,"publishedAt":1736778232,"firstPublishedAt":1736778232,"lastPublishedAt":1736778445,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/71\/06\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f4a9ad55-0563-5141-bb82-5b72d58a21e3-8967106.jpg","altText":"FILE: Palestinian children look at a damaged residential building following an overnight Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, 8 January 2025","caption":"FILE: Palestinian children look at a damaged residential building following an overnight Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, 8 January 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Abdel Kareem Hana","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":957,"urlSafeValue":"fisayo","title":"Jerry 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STRIKE GAZA WEDNESDAY","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"At least 17 reported killed after deadly Israeli airstrikes hit southern Gaza","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"At least 17 killed after deadly Israeli airstrikes hit southern Gaza","titleListing2":"At least 17 reported killed after deadly Israeli airstrikes hit southern Gaza","leadin":"The strikes tore into tents for displaced Palestinians, a car and two houses in the Khan Younis area, a local hospital said.","summary":"The strikes tore into tents for displaced Palestinians, a car and two houses in the Khan Younis area, a local hospital said.","keySentence":"","url":"at-least-17-reported-killed-after-deadly-israeli-airstrikes-hit-southern-gaza","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/08\/at-least-17-reported-killed-after-deadly-israeli-airstrikes-hit-southern-gaza","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza have killed at least 17 people late on Tuesday, nearly all of whom were women or children according to local health authorities.\u00a0\n\nFive children were killed as they sheltered together in the same tent, said the director of the children\u2019s ward at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. \u00a0\n\nTheir bodies were among eight children and five women brought to the hospital after strikes reportedly tore into tents for displaced Palestinians, a car and two houses.\u00a0\n\nTwo of the dead were men and two in the vehicle were unidentifiable.\u00a0\n\nIsrael claimed to have targeted militants who had taken part in the October 7, 2023 attack which sparked the war \u2013 without providing evidence. Israel blamed Hamas for the civilian casualties.\u00a0\n\nThe ongoing war in Gaza is raging with no end in sight, though there has been recent reported progress in ceasefire talks and the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.\u00a0\n\nIsrael\u2019s air and ground war has killed over 45,800 Palestinians in Gaza, according to local health authorities. \u00a0\n\nThey say women and children make up more than half the dead but do not say how many of those killed were militants.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza have killed at least 17 people late on Tuesday, nearly all of whom were women or children according to local health authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Five children were killed as they sheltered together in the same tent, said the director of the children\u2019s ward at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their bodies were among eight children and five women brought to the hospital after strikes reportedly tore into tents for displaced Palestinians, a car and two houses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two of the dead were men and two in the vehicle were unidentifiable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel claimed to have targeted militants who had taken part in the October 7, 2023 attack which sparked the war \u2013 without providing evidence. Israel blamed Hamas for the civilian casualties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing war in Gaza is raging with no end in sight, though there has been recent <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//25//israel-and-hamas-trade-blame-on-ceasefire-efforts-as-they-inch-closer-to-a-deal/">reported progress<\/strong><\/a> in ceasefire talks and the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s air and ground war has killed over 45,800 Palestinians in Gaza, according to local health authorities. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They say women and children make up more than half the dead but do not say how many of those killed were militants.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1736331773,"updatedAt":1736349177,"publishedAt":1736344173,"firstPublishedAt":1736344173,"lastPublishedAt":1736344173,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/95\/32\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7eb2ecac-22b1-5b6c-8136-9d6133276bba-8953290.jpg","altText":"Smoke rises following an explosion in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.","caption":"Smoke rises following an explosion in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Ariel Schalit\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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ISRAEL ARMS SALE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Biden administration planning $8 billion arms sale to Israel as Gaza war continues","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Biden administration plans $8 billion arms sale to Israel","titleListing2":"Biden administration planning $8 billion arms sale to Israel as Gaza war continues","leadin":"The sale includes medium-range air-to-air missiles to help Israel defend against airborne threats, 155 mm projectile artillery shells for long-range targeting, Hellfire AGM-114 missiles, 500-pound bombs and other weaponry.","summary":"The sale includes medium-range air-to-air missiles to help Israel defend against airborne threats, 155 mm projectile artillery shells for long-range targeting, Hellfire AGM-114 missiles, 500-pound bombs and other weaponry.","keySentence":"","url":"biden-administration-planning-8-billion-arms-sale-to-israel-as-gaza-war-continues","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/05\/biden-administration-planning-8-billion-arms-sale-to-israel-as-gaza-war-continues","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The US State Department has informed Congress of a planned $8 billion (\u20ac7.7 billion) weapons sale to Israel, as the American ally presses forward with its\u00a0war against Hamas in Gaza.\n\nSome of the arms in the package could be sent through current US stocks but the majority would take a year or several years to deliver, according to two anonymous US officials.\n\nThe sale includes medium-range air-to-air missiles to help Israel defend against airborne threats, 155 mm projectile artillery shells for long-range targeting, Hellfire AGM-114 missiles, 500-pound bombs and other weaponry.\n\nThe weapons package would add to a\u00a0record of at least $17.9 billion (\u20ac17.3 billion) in military aid that Washington has provided Israel with since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.\n\nThe informal notice to Congress isn\u2019t the final notification before a sale. Now the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee can review the package.\n\nThe informal notice to Congress isn't the final notification before a sale. Now the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee can review the package.\n\nThe Biden administration has faced criticism over the mounting Palestinian civilian death toll with demonstrations on college campuses and\u00a0unsuccessful efforts in Congress to block sales of offensive weapons to Israel.\n\nThe US paused a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel in May over concerns about civilian casualties if the bombs were to be used during an assault on the southern city of Rafah.\n\nThe Biden administration has also demanded that Israel increase humanitarian aid into the enclave. But in November, citing some limited progress, it\u00a0declined to limit arms transfers as it had threatened to do if the situation did not improve.\n\nStrikes on Gaza\n\nMeanwhile, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 21 people, including at least two children, in Gaza on Saturday while a new effort at ceasefire talks was underway in Qatar after\u00a0nearly 15 months of war.\n\nThousands rallied again in Israel to press for a ceasefire deal, hours after Hamas released a video showing one of the hostages still being held in Gaza.\n\nIn the video, Israeli soldier and hostage Liri Albag, speaking under duress, expressed anguish over her situation and mentioned being held for 450 days.\n\n\"Today is the beginning of a new year; the whole world is celebrating. Only we are entering a dark year, a year of loneliness,\" she said.\n\nShe also said a fellow captive had been wounded by the fighting in Gaza, adding, \"We are living in an extremely terrifying nightmare.\" She didn't name the injured person.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he spoke with Albag's parents and told them that \"efforts are ongoing, including at this very moment\" to bring hostages home.\n\nAlbag's family in a statement said that \"It's time to make decisions as if your own children were there!\"\n\nThe war in the Strip started after a Hamas-led incursion into southern Israel on 7 October 2023 which saw around 1,200 people killed and 250 others taken as hostages back to Gaza.\n\nAround 100 remain captive in the Strip but Israeli officials believe at least a third of them are dead.\n\nThere were no immediate statements on the indirect negotiations toward a ceasefire.\n\nThe talks have repeatedly stalled as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to press on in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed.\n\nFighters with Hamas, which wants Israeli forces out of Gaza completely, continue to regroup in areas where Israeli forces withdraw.\n\nThe talks are mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States.\n\nThe war has\u00a0caused widespread destruction across the Strip and displaced about 90% of the population of 2.3 million,\u00a0many of them multiple times.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says more than 45,500 Palestinians have been killed, but officials don't distinguish between combatants and civilians in the tally.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The US State Department has informed Congress of a planned $8 billion (\u20ac7.7 billion) weapons sale to Israel, as the American ally presses forward with its\u00a0war against Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the arms in the package could be sent through current US stocks but the majority would take a year or several years to deliver, according to two anonymous US officials.<\/p>\n<p>The sale includes medium-range air-to-air missiles to help Israel defend against airborne threats, 155 mm projectile artillery shells for long-range targeting, Hellfire AGM-114 missiles, 500-pound bombs and other weaponry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6667528438469493\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//94//97//20//808x539_cmsv2_cf3d5e32-91e5-5304-8905-284f782a73d2-8949720.jpg/" alt=\"President Joe Biden pauses while presenting the Medal of Honor during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, 3 January, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/384x256_cmsv2_cf3d5e32-91e5-5304-8905-284f782a73d2-8949720.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/640x427_cmsv2_cf3d5e32-91e5-5304-8905-284f782a73d2-8949720.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/750x500_cmsv2_cf3d5e32-91e5-5304-8905-284f782a73d2-8949720.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/828x552_cmsv2_cf3d5e32-91e5-5304-8905-284f782a73d2-8949720.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/1080x720_cmsv2_cf3d5e32-91e5-5304-8905-284f782a73d2-8949720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/1200x800_cmsv2_cf3d5e32-91e5-5304-8905-284f782a73d2-8949720.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/1920x1280_cmsv2_cf3d5e32-91e5-5304-8905-284f782a73d2-8949720.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">President Joe Biden pauses while presenting the Medal of Honor during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, 3 January, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Susan Walsh\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The weapons package would add to a\u00a0record of at least $17.9 billion (\u20ac17.3 billion) in military aid that Washington has provided Israel with since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The informal notice to Congress isn\u2019t the final notification before a sale. Now the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee can review the package.<\/p>\n<p>The informal notice to Congress isn't the final notification before a sale. Now the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee can review the package.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has faced criticism over the mounting Palestinian civilian death toll with demonstrations on college campuses and\u00a0unsuccessful efforts in Congress to block sales of offensive weapons to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The US paused a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel in May over concerns about civilian casualties if the bombs were to be used during an assault on the southern city of Rafah.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6667886550777676\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//94//97//20//808x539_cmsv2_9676fa91-41d1-5ada-aab5-281aa06aedb3-8949720.jpg/" alt=\"A wounded child receives treatment at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following Israeli army airstrikes in Deir al-Balah, 4 January, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/384x256_cmsv2_9676fa91-41d1-5ada-aab5-281aa06aedb3-8949720.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/640x427_cmsv2_9676fa91-41d1-5ada-aab5-281aa06aedb3-8949720.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/750x500_cmsv2_9676fa91-41d1-5ada-aab5-281aa06aedb3-8949720.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/828x552_cmsv2_9676fa91-41d1-5ada-aab5-281aa06aedb3-8949720.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/1080x720_cmsv2_9676fa91-41d1-5ada-aab5-281aa06aedb3-8949720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/1200x800_cmsv2_9676fa91-41d1-5ada-aab5-281aa06aedb3-8949720.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/97\/20\/1920x1280_cmsv2_9676fa91-41d1-5ada-aab5-281aa06aedb3-8949720.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A wounded child receives treatment at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following Israeli army airstrikes in Deir al-Balah, 4 January, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Abdel Kareem Hana\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Biden administration has also demanded that Israel increase humanitarian aid into the enclave. But in November, citing some limited progress, it\u00a0declined to limit arms transfers as it had threatened to do if the situation did not improve.<\/p>\n<h2>Strikes on Gaza<\/h2><p>Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 21 people, including at least two children, in Gaza on Saturday while a new effort at ceasefire talks was underway in Qatar after\u00a0nearly 15 months of war.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands rallied again in Israel to press for a ceasefire deal, hours after Hamas released a video showing one of the hostages still being held in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Israeli soldier and hostage Liri Albag, speaking under duress, expressed anguish over her situation and mentioned being held for 450 days.<\/p>\n<p>\"Today is the beginning of a new year; the whole world is celebrating. Only we are entering a dark year, a year of loneliness,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also said a fellow captive had been wounded by the fighting in Gaza, adding, \"We are living in an extremely terrifying nightmare.\" She didn't name the injured person.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1875605238390079613\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he spoke with Albag's parents and told them that \"efforts are ongoing, including at this very moment\" to bring hostages home.<\/p>\n<p>Albag's family in a statement said that \"It's time to make decisions as if your own children were there!\"<\/p>\n<p>The war in the Strip started after a Hamas-led incursion into southern Israel on 7 October 2023 which saw around 1,200 people killed and 250 others taken as hostages back to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Around 100 remain captive in the Strip but Israeli officials believe at least a third of them are dead.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate statements on the indirect negotiations toward a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The talks have repeatedly stalled as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to press on in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//93//89//64//808x539_cmsv2_70a0d96c-aaa7-5a78-bb65-9de4b9b8d4d1-8938964.jpg/" alt=\"Israelis call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas in Tel Aviv, 28 December, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/89\/64\/384x256_cmsv2_70a0d96c-aaa7-5a78-bb65-9de4b9b8d4d1-8938964.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/89\/64\/640x427_cmsv2_70a0d96c-aaa7-5a78-bb65-9de4b9b8d4d1-8938964.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/89\/64\/750x500_cmsv2_70a0d96c-aaa7-5a78-bb65-9de4b9b8d4d1-8938964.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/89\/64\/828x552_cmsv2_70a0d96c-aaa7-5a78-bb65-9de4b9b8d4d1-8938964.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/89\/64\/1080x720_cmsv2_70a0d96c-aaa7-5a78-bb65-9de4b9b8d4d1-8938964.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/89\/64\/1200x800_cmsv2_70a0d96c-aaa7-5a78-bb65-9de4b9b8d4d1-8938964.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/89\/64\/1920x1280_cmsv2_70a0d96c-aaa7-5a78-bb65-9de4b9b8d4d1-8938964.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Israelis call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas in Tel Aviv, 28 December, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ariel Schalit\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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