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Deaths from Israel’s attacks on Gaza close to 62,000 as missing added

Local authorities add 14,000 people, missing and presumed dead, to the list.

Authorities in Gaza have updated the death toll from Israel’s war on the enclave to 61,709, having added thousands who are missing and now presumed dead.

The head of the Gaza Government Information Office told a news conference that the bodies of 76 percent of the Palestinians killed in the conflict have been recovered and brought to medical centres. However, at least 14,222 people are still believed to be trapped under the rubble or in areas inaccessible to rescuers.

‘Homes have become graveyards’

The updated numbers come amid the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that last month halted, at least temporarily, 15 months of genocide in the enclave, which followed the assault by Hamas on southern Israel in October 2023 that saw the armed group kill about 1,200 and take 250 people back to Gaza as captives.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/...-missing-added

'I don't know how he survived', says freed Israeli hostage's niece

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While held hostage by Hamas for 15 months in Gaza, 80-year-old Gadi Moses ate mainly a piece of bread and an olive twice a day, his niece Efrat Machikawa says.

"I have no idea how he survived," she tells the BBC. "He lost so much weight."

He was given a small bowl of water to wash himself every five days and had to ask to use the toilet, she said. He moved frequently and was mostly alone, with Ms Machikawa saying "loneliness is another form of torture".

He calculated maths problems in his head to distract himself, and walked up to 11 km (six miles) a day in a room, measuring the distance, she added.

"Even in the darkest times, he knew how to somehow lift himself," she said. "The hope of reuniting with the family and worrying about us was the greatest power, was the only nutrition that he had for his soul."

Gadi was one of 18 hostages released so far this year as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in exchange for 583 Palestinian prisoners.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78xeg7xn55o

Trump's Gaza plan won't happen, but it will have consequences

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The plan, as expressed by Donald Trump, is not going to happen. It requires the co-operation of Arab states that have rejected it.

They include Jordan and Egypt, countries that Trump wants to take in Gaza's Palestinians - and Saudi Arabia, which might be expected to foot the bill.

Western allies of the US and Israel are also against the idea.

Some - perhaps many - Palestinians in Gaza might be tempted to get out if they had the chance.

But even if a million left, close to 1.5m others would still be there.

Presumably the United States - the new owners of Trump's "Riviera of the Middle East," would have to use force to remove them.

After America's catastrophic intervention in Iraq in 2003, that would be deeply unpopular in the US.

It would be the final end of any lingering hope that a two-state solution was possible. That is the aspiration that a conflict more than a century old could be ended with the establishment of an independent Palestine alongside Israel.

The Netanyahu government is adamantly against the idea, and over years of failed peace talks, "two states for two peoples" became an empty slogan.

But it has been a central plank of US foreign policy since the early 1990s.

The Trump plan would also violate international law.

America's already threadbare assertions that it believes in a rules-based international order would dissolve. Russia's territorial ambitions in Ukraine and China's in Taiwan would be turbocharged.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pwjgp59do

Netanyahu gifts Trump golden pager in nod to Lebanon explosions

Trump, be care...........!:D

https://www.aol.com/netanyahu-gifts-...214509889.html

Netanyahu vows to destroy Hamas and return all Gaza hostages

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On Saturday, Hamas returned 3 hostages to Israel in an exhausted state. After the release, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would destroy the group and return all hostages held in Gaza, The Times of Israel reports.

"We have once again seen what the Hamas monsters are. They are the same monsters who slaughtered our citizens and abused our captives," Netanyahu said.

The prime minister said the government will do everything possible to return all remaining hostages, adding that he has instructed the Israeli negotiating team to demand their safety.

"But beyond that, President Trump agreed with me totally: we will do everything to return all the hostages, but Hamas won’t be there. We will eliminate Hamas, and return all our captives," the Israeli Prime Minister added.

On Tuesday, February 4, Benjamin Netanyahu met with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC. The Israeli prime minister became the first foreign leader to meet with the newly elected US president after he officially took office.

Axios recently wrote that during a visit to Washington, DC, Netanyahu presented a plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza war that includes many conditions. First of all, he demanded that the group relinquish power in Gaza and that its leaders leave the region. According to the Israeli prime minister, there is no other way.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...b99e69ee&ei=71

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Because are israelians angels neither ?:D

Media always speaks about the same side, not the other......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZgkoXCkmE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kci6_N2tLxo

Starvation of hostages is ‘crime against humanity’, say furious Israelis

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...a-latest-news/

Trump is worse than Putin.......!:haha:

‘Insane’: Rights advocates denounce Trump’s call for US to ‘own’ Gaza

Donald Trump’s call for the United States to “take over” and “own” Gaza after its Palestinian population is entirely displaced has stunned rights advocates and politicians, prompting condemnations and forceful rejections of the proposal.

“Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not the United States, and President Trump’s call to displace Palestinians from their land either temporarily or permanently is an absolute non-starter,” CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.

“If the Palestinian people were ever somehow forcibly expelled from Gaza, this crime against humanity would complete the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians on their own land, spark widespread conflict, put the final nail in the coffin of international law, and permanently scar our nation’s international image.”

“Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not the United States, and President Trump’s call to displace Palestinians from their land either temporarily or permanently is an absolute non-starter,” CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.

“If the Palestinian people were ever somehow forcibly expelled from Gaza, this crime against humanity would complete the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians on their own land, spark widespread conflict, put the final nail in the coffin of international law, and permanently scar our nation’s international image.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/...us-to-own-gaza

After....the Canada....!:har: why not....?:03:

Meanwhile the terrorist group Hamas says it's delaying the release of Israeli hostages until further notice, accusing Israel of breaching the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

Might be a good time to send the troops back in and flush the rats out of their tunnels once and for all.

Israel orders extra troops around Gaza as ceasefire shows signs of faltering

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to beef up troops in and around the Gaza Strip after Hamas threatened to call off a scheduled hostage release on Saturday, an Israeli official said.

Mr Netanyahu also ordered officials “to prepare for every scenario if Hamas doesn’t release our hostages this Saturday”, according to the official.

The Israeli official was not clear if Mr Netanyahu’s order referred to all hostages, or the three scheduled for release on Saturday.

Israel had signalled on Monday it planned to reinforce defences along the Gaza border. The all-scenario plan was announced during a four-hour meeting between Mr Netanyahu and his Security Cabinet that focused on Hamas’s threat, which risks jeopardising the three-week-old ceasefire.

So far, Hamas has released 21 hostages in a series of exchanges for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

But it said on Monday — and reiterated on Tuesday — that it planned to delay the next release of three more hostages after accusing Israel of failing to meet the terms of the ceasefire, including by not allowing enough tents and other aid into Gaza.

US President Donald Trump has said Israel should cancel the entire ceasefire if all of the roughly 70 hostages are not freed by Saturday.

Hamas brushed off his threat on Tuesday, doubling down on its claim that Israel has violated the ceasefire and warned that it would only continue releasing hostages if all parties adhered to the ceasefire.

Mr Trump is hosting Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday as he escalates pressure on the Arab nation to take in refugees from Gaza — perhaps permanently — as part of his audacious plan to remake the Middle East.

Palestinians and the international community have seethed over Mr Trump’s recent comments that any Palestinians potentially expelled from Gaza would not have a right to return.

During the first six-week phase of the ceasefire, Hamas committed to freeing 33 hostages captured in its attack on Israel on October 7 2023, while Israel said it would release nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. The sides have carried out five swaps since January 19.

The war could resume in early March if no agreement is reached on the more complicated second phase of the ceasefire, which calls for the return of all remaining hostages and an indefinite extension of the truce.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...4082b196&ei=20

Apologies for the source but the content is most welcome and hopefully Hamas will soon be brought to heel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-9jRR7hb90

Why is it that when I see the Hamas Guys all covered up I mainly see The Bad Guys from a Power Rangers episode?
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