It has just gone 1pm in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here are the headlines …
Residents of Gaza and the families and loved ones of those being held hostage by Hamas are anxiously waiting to see if the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas will be extended. Fighting was paused on Friday, but today is the last day of the extended truce deal.
The latest exchange of hostages in Gaza for Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails took place on Tuesday night. Twelve hostages – 10 Israelis and two Thai nationals – are now in Israel. The 30 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons on Tuesday were 15 children and 15 women. In a statement, the Israel prison service said the 30 Palestinians were released from Ofer prison, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and from a detention centre in Jerusalem.
The Times of Israel is reporting that medics have assessed some of the hostages returned overnight from Gaza and found them in generally good medical condition.
Sixty Israelis have been freed as part of the truce so far. Another 21 hostages – 19 Thais, one Filipino and one Russian-Israeli – have also been released in separate negotiations since the ceasefire began. Prior to the truce, Hamas released four hostages, and the Israeli army rescued one. Two other hostages were found dead in Gaza. It remains unclear how many people are still being held and their condition.
The latest swap brought to 180 the number of Palestinian women and children freed from Israeli prisons as part of the deal. Most have been teenagers accused of throwing stones and firebombs during confrontations with Israeli forces. Several were women convicted by Israeli military courts of attempting deadly attacks. Prisoner advocate groups said that over the four days of the initial truce, Israeli forces arrested at least 133 Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, meaning the total number of Palestinian detainees held by Israel has reduced by less than 50.
Hamas has informed mediators that it is willing to extend the truce for four days. Under that arrangement, “the movement would be able to release Israeli prisoners that it, other resistance movements and other parties hold during this period, according to the terms of the existing truce,” a source has told AFP.
Haaretz reports that “according to an official familiar with the ceasefire negotiations”, Israel has indicated that it is unwilling to extend the truce beyond Sunday. Israel has previously said it would extend the truce for a day for every occasion on which 10 hostages were released by Hamas from captivity in Gaza.
A Hamas official has said in addition to the releases as part of the truce deal, it is planning to release Russian hostages, as a show of “gratitude” to Vladimir Putin and Russia’s position on the conflict in Gaza.
Palestinian media have reported two people, including a child, were injured by Israeli forces during a large-scale military incursion into the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. The Wafa news agency said Israeli troops fired stun grenades and teargas canisters toward residents and their homes. Al Jazeera reports that hundreds of Israeli troops have taken part in the raid, supported by more than 50 armoured vehicles.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called Benjamin Netanyahu “the butcher of Gaza” and accused Israel’s prime minister of spawning antisemitism across the world.
Pope Francis has again called for the continuation of the truce in the Gaza Strip, for the release of all hostages and for humanitarian aid access into the territory.
Anthony Albanese’s Australian government is coming under significant and increasing pressure from within to take a stronger line on a full ceasefire in Gaza. About 40 Labor party branches in New South Wales have passed motions demanding a full ceasefire.
Here are some fuller quotes from US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s appearance at a Nato press conference today in Brussels. He told the media:
We will discuss with Israel how it can achieve its objective to ensure the terrorist attacks of 7 October never happen again, while sustaining increasing humanitarian assistance and minimising further suffering and casualties among Palestinian civilians.
We will keep our efforts going to prevent the conflict from spreading, and we will remain focused on enabling safe departure of American citizens and other foreign nationals from Gaza.
We will work to build upon principles that I set out in Tokyo a few weeks ago, for the ‘day after’ in Gaza, and to find the steps that we and our partners can take in the region now to lay the foundation for a just and lasting peace.
When Blinken spoke in Tokyo earlier this month, he said “Gaza cannot … continue to be run by Hamas; that simply invites repetition of 7 October. It’s also clear that Israel cannot occupy Gaza.”
Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has told CNN that it believes there are 161 people seized in Israel on 7 October who are still being held captive in Gaza.
The prime minister’s office told the US news network that four of them are children under the age of 18, with four at the ages of 18 and 19. There are believed to be ten people being held who are aged 75 or older.
It said of the 161 that 15 are foreigners, and 146 are Israelis, some of whom are dual nationals.
US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that he would work with the Israelis during his trip to Israel in the coming days to see if a temporary ceasefire that has been in place and allowed hostages kidnapped by Hamas to go free could be extended.
Speaking at a press conference in Brussels after a Nato meeting, Blinken said the continuation of the pauses would mean more hostages to be freed and more assistance getting into Gaza.
“Clearly, that’s something we want. I believe it’s also something that Israel wants,” Reuters reports he said.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is calling for an international conference to resolve the Mideast conflict.
Associated Press said Wednesday that the Palestinians are ready to work with the international community on a “serious political process” that leads to an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem. He also again called for a halt to the war in Gaza.
A Palestinian official has told Reuters that despite a willingness on both sides to prolong the truce, no agreement had yet been reached. Discussions were still under way with mediators Egypt and Qatar, the official said.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office declined to comment on the state of any talks but noted that an extra 50 Palestinian female detainees had been added on Tuesday to a list cleared to be released in case a new swap was agreed.
It has just gone 1pm in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here are the headlines …
Residents of Gaza and the families and loved ones of those being held hostage by Hamas are anxiously waiting to see if the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas will be extended. Fighting was paused on Friday, but today is the last day of the extended truce deal.
The latest exchange of hostages in Gaza for Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails took place on Tuesday night. Twelve hostages – 10 Israelis and two Thai nationals – are now in Israel. The 30 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons on Tuesday were 15 children and 15 women. In a statement, the Israel prison service said the 30 Palestinians were released from Ofer prison, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and from a detention centre in Jerusalem.
The Times of Israel is reporting that medics have assessed some of the hostages returned overnight from Gaza and found them in generally good medical condition.
Sixty Israelis have been freed as part of the truce so far. Another 21 hostages – 19 Thais, one Filipino and one Russian-Israeli – have also been released in separate negotiations since the ceasefire began. Prior to the truce, Hamas released four hostages, and the Israeli army rescued one. Two other hostages were found dead in Gaza. It remains unclear how many people are still being held and their condition.
The latest swap brought to 180 the number of Palestinian women and children freed from Israeli prisons as part of the deal. Most have been teenagers accused of throwing stones and firebombs during confrontations with Israeli forces. Several were women convicted by Israeli military courts of attempting deadly attacks. Prisoner advocate groups said that over the four days of the initial truce, Israeli forces arrested at least 133 Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, meaning the total number of Palestinian detainees held by Israel has reduced by less than 50.
Hamas has informed mediators that it is willing to extend the truce for four days. Under that arrangement, “the movement would be able to release Israeli prisoners that it, other resistance movements and other parties hold during this period, according to the terms of the existing truce,” a source has told AFP.
Haaretz reports that “according to an official familiar with the ceasefire negotiations”, Israel has indicated that it is unwilling to extend the truce beyond Sunday. Israel has previously said it would extend the truce for a day for every occasion on which 10 hostages were released by Hamas from captivity in Gaza.
A Hamas official has said in addition to the releases as part of the truce deal, it is planning to release Russian hostages, as a show of “gratitude” to Vladimir Putin and Russia’s position on the conflict in Gaza.
Palestinian media have reported two people, including a child, were injured by Israeli forces during a large-scale military incursion into the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. The Wafa news agency said Israeli troops fired stun grenades and teargas canisters toward residents and their homes. Al Jazeera reports that hundreds of Israeli troops have taken part in the raid, supported by more than 50 armoured vehicles.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called Benjamin Netanyahu “the butcher of Gaza” and accused Israel’s prime minister of spawning antisemitism across the world.
Pope Francis has again called for the continuation of the truce in the Gaza Strip, for the release of all hostages and for humanitarian aid access into the territory.
Anthony Albanese’s Australian government is coming under significant and increasing pressure from within to take a stronger line on a full ceasefire in Gaza. About 40 Labor party branches in New South Wales have passed motions demanding a full ceasefire.
AFP has spoken to Taghrid al-Najjar, a 46-year-old mother who lives in Gaza. She told reporters that before the war, she had never left her farming village along the border with Israel in the south-east.
She told reporters:
I discovered that my house had been completely destroyed – 27 years of my life to build it and everything is gone. For two days I couldn’t eat, then I told myself that I had to continue living. My house is destroyed but my children are alive, so we will rebuild. We have already done it once, we can do it again.
For weeks she lived with nine members of her family in a Khan Younis school converted into a makeshift camp for displaced people, but has returned to what is left of her home during the pause in fighting.
Each night the family squeezes through a window to sleep in the only room where the walls have not entirely crumpled. Once there is a permanent ceasefire, Najjar said, they will pitch a tent, but only for “long enough to rebuild the house”.
Tass reports that more Russian hostages are expected to be released today in what Hamas has described as a sign of ‘gratitude’ to Russia’s president Vladimir Putin for the position he has taken on the conflict in Gaza.
It quotes Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzook saying: “We have not released any of the Israeli men who are in Gaza, with the exception of Russian Ron Krivoy, whom we released as a sign of the movement’s gratitude towards the position of Russia’s President Putin. Today, several other Russians will be released outside the framework of the truce deal.”
Tass notes that Abu Marzook has recently visited Moscow. Krivoy was released on 26 November. The Russian-Israeli worked as a sound technician at the Nova music festival attacked by Hamas. Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the release was due to Russian diplomatic contacts with Hamas.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called Benjamin Netanyahu “the butcher of Gaza” and accused Israel’s prime minister of spawning antisemitism across the world.
AFP reports that in televised remarks on Wednesday, the Turkish president said:
Netanyahu has already written his name in history as the butcher of Gaza. Netanyahu is endangering the security of all Jews in the world by supporting antisemitism with the murders he committed in Gaza.
Israel recalled all its diplomatic staff from Turkey as a security precaution at the start of its war with Hamas. Turkey has also withdrawn its Tel Aviv envoy. The two sides had last year reappointed ambassadors after a decade-long rupture in ties.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday he welcomed a pause in the war in Gaza and the exchange of hostages and detainees between Israel and Hamas as a temporary “stop of bloodshed” in the territory.
Speaking in parliament, Turkey’s president said statements by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Israel were “lessening” Ankara’s hopes that the pause could turn into a full ceasefire, but added Turkey would ramp up diplomatic efforts for a lasting ceasefire in coming days.
Reuters reports Erdoğan also said Turkey had “largely completed” evacuating its citizens from Gaza, where he repeated a genocide was taking place. He added that he would discuss the war in Gaza during a trip to Dubai later this week.
A planned visit to Ankara by Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, this week was cancelled without explanation.
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