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Historical documents from the British National Archives revealed that, after the 1967 war, Israel had a secret plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza to southern Egypt. Fifty years later, former U.S. President Trump proposed a similar plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza and the occupied West Bank, aiming to push Palestinians into Egypt and Jordan.
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Russia on Saturday condemned Israel’s decision to ban the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from operating in the occupied territories.
Last October, the Israeli parliament passed two laws that called for ending UNRWA’s operations in Israel and occupied Palestinian territories, and prohibiting Israeli authorities from having any contact with the agency. The laws came into effect on Thursday.
The Foreign Ministry said UNRWA should be allowed to continue its work until a final peaceful settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Praising the agency’s role, the ministry described it as a “pillar of support for peaceful Palestinians in the occupied territory and neighboring countries, as well as a guarantee of the fundamental right of refugees to return.”
Moscow reiterated that peace in the Middle East must be based on the establishment of an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, coexisting with Israel in security.
The ministry also questioned Israel’s claim to “sovereign territory” in its decree banning UNRWA’s operations in occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
“This means that hundreds of thousands of children, women, and the elderly are at risk of being abandoned to their fate,” it said.
Russia accused Israel of violating international law, including UN resolutions, stressing that an occupying power “cannot extend its sovereignty to the occupied territory.”
“Such arbitrary steps, fraught with the gravest humanitarian consequences for the Palestinians, are deeply disappointing and deserve to be condemned.
“It should also be noted that as a result of the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, 273 UNRWA staff members were killed, which was the largest onetime loss to the UN since its creation almost 80 years ago,” the ministry stressed.
Israel has killed more than 47,000 people, most of them women and children, in Gaza, triggered a humanitarian catastrophe and left the territory in ruins that could take years to rebuild and make it habitable.
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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has stated that at least seven Palestinian children died due to the cold weather in the Gaza Strip since the last Sunday when the ceasefire came into effect. “Winter and displacement have taken a heavy toll. With very few homes left standing, displaced families continue to face these sub-human conditions,” the agency added.
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Israeli prisoner Emily Damari who was recently released in a prisoner exchange deal was actually a soldier in the Israeli army at the time of her capture, and Israel tries to hide this. She was serving as a soldier in the city of Hebron.
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Since mid-December, 2024, Israel’s military operations in the Jenin refugee camp have displaced 2,000 families, rendering the area “nearly uninhabitable,” according to Roland Friedrich, director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
Meanwhile Israeli forces have encircled the Al Razi hospital in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz calls it a “security strategy shift,” while the Red Crescent reports ambulances blocked from reaching the injured.
The Israeli army launched, Tuesday, a large-scale attack on Jenin and its refugee camp after the Palestinian Authority security forces withdrew from the area.
Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by bulldozers, drones, and warplanes, stormed the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, launching an unprecedented military onslaught. The initial death toll since the onset of the aggression has reached 10, with nearly 40 others injured.
