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Back on Track: Israel Poised to Free 620 Palestinians Prisoners

CrossFireArabia
February 26, 2025

Israel is set to release 620 Palestinian detainees after days of stalling by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The expected release as announced by Hamas will now proceed as originally scheduled.

Hamas had stated that Israel violated the ceasefire agreement, in place since 19 January 19, by freezing the release of Palestinian detainees. It insisted Israel failed to uphold its commitments, after Hamas released Israeli prisoners as agreed. Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi warned that no releases would mean that the deal to release more of the hostages would be off-the-table.

The Israeli government is angry because of the way the Israeli hostages are being released through “humiliating ceremonies” especially after an Israeli prisoner expressed gratitude to Hamas fighters upon release, kissing their foreheads.

However, Israel soon caved in under pressure from the countries sponsoring the negotiations mainly, the USA, Egypt and Qatar.

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‘You Have No Business Here’ Syrians Tell Netanyahu

CrossFireArabia
February 25, 2025

Hundreds of Syrians demonstrated in the southern Daraa province on Tuesday against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for the demilitarization of southern Syria.

Protesters gathered in the March 18 Square in Daraa city, calling Netanyahu’s comments a “blatant interference” in Syria’s internal affairs, according to an Anadolu correspondent.

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Israeli drones were seen flying over the area during the protest.

On Sunday, Netanyahu called for the complete demilitarization of southern Syria in the provinces of Quneitra, Daraa and Suweyda from the forces of the new Syrian army.

“We will not tolerate any threat to the Druze community in southern Syria,” he claimed, saying that the Israeli army will stay in Syria’s buffer zone and the Syrian Hermon Mount “Jabal al-Sheikh” for “an unlimited period of time.”

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After the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December, Israel expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarized buffer zone, a move that violated the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria.

Israel’s recent military advances in the Golan Heights, which it has occupied since 1967, have drawn condemnation from the United Nations and several Arab nations.

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Aaron Bushnell: Hero Remembered

CrossFireArabia
February 25, 2025

Aaron Bushnell self-immolated on this day one year ago to call attention to the genocide in Palestine. Bushnell dressed in his US Air Force military fatigues to self-immolate in front of the Israeli Embassy.

One year ago today, 25 year-old active duty U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/48DgVddp4W
— CODEPINK (@codepink) February 25, 2025

His sacrifice has been honored from Yemen to Palestine and beyond.

Aaron Bushnell would have turned 26 today. Never forget. pic.twitter.com/gfJRVIeDV7
— 𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 🫒🔑🇵🇸 (@JimmyJ4thewin) February 25, 2025

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A Happy Family No More

CrossFireArabia
February 25, 2025

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Five Infants Die in Gaza Because of The Freeze

CrossFireArabia
February 25, 2025

“Nine infants were hospitalized in the past two weeks due to health complications caused by severe cold,” Saeed Salah, Director of the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital in Gaza, told Anadolu.

“Of the nine cases, five infants aged between one day and two weeks died,” he added.

Salah said one baby is still on a ventilator due to his serious health condition, however, three others were discharged from hospital.

He said the nine new born were transferred to the hospital from northern Gaza because the region there has been completely destroyed and where most of the population has been displaced and are living in tents following Israel’s destructive war on the enclave.

Salah appealed to the international community to intervene to allow the entry of mobile homes, tents, and fuel into Gaza to provide shelter to thousands of Palestinians.

Hamas blamed Israel’s “criminal policies” for the death of the babies in Gaza news of which are trending on the social media.

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In a statement, the group called for immediate intervention “to stop Israel’s violations of the ceasefire agreement and allow the entry of urgent shelter, heating, and medical aid supplies into Gaza to the children there.”

According to Gaza’s government media office, nearly 1.5 million Palestinians have been left without home or shelter after Israel waged its deadly war on the enclave.

A ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement has been in place in Gaza since last month, pausing the Israeli war that has killed at least 48,350 people, mostly women and children, and left the enclave in ruins.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.