CrossFireArabia- January 26, 2025
BREAKING: A Lebanese woman was just shot dead by Israeli occupation forces while trying to return to her village of Kafr Kela in southern Lebanon, according to local sources.
Israeli Female Soldiers Say They Were Disguised as Palestinian Women
- CrossFireArabia
- January 26, 2025
The Israeli Kan Channel revealed new details about the last four Israeli female prisoners who were released by the Qassam Brigades, the Hamas military wing, Saturday. They said they were with a female prisoner who is still held by the Islamist organization.
The Kan Channel said the female prisoners said that in the first days of their captivity, there was an older man with them, who took care of them and provided them with food.
The same source added Hamas members moved the female prisoners from one place to another, disguised as Palestinian women, noting that the female prisoners learned to speak Arabic in captivity.
The Qassam Brigades released the four Israeli female soldiers, Saturday, as part of a second exchange batch within the first phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
The ceremony of handing over the four Israeli female prisoners took place in Palestine Square in Gaza City, amid a notable military presence from the Palestinian resistance factions, especially the Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades. The Qassam Brigades broadcasted pictures of the handover of the Israeli female soldiers.
The four released are Karina Arif, Danielle Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Elbag, according to the list published by the Qassam Brigades on Friday according to JO24.
Trump Proposes Relocating Gazans to Jordan, Egypt
- CrossFireArabia
- January 26, 2025
US President Donald Trump, Saturday, proposed relocating Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries like Egypt and Jordan. This is an unusual proposal that was opposed by the former administration of Joe Biden.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One towards Miami, the president said he raised the matter during a telephone call with King Abdullah II of Jordan, and he might talk with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday.
“I said to him (Jordan’s king) that I’d love you to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess,” said Trump. “I’d like him (Jordan’s king) to take people”.
“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’m talking to Gen. Al Sisi tomorrow sometime I believe. I’d like Egypt to take people. And I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump continued.
“You’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. You know over the centuries it’s had many, many conflicts. And I don’t know, something has to happen,” he added.
Describing Gaza as “a demolition site,” the US president said: “Almost everything is demolished and people are dying there. So l’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”
He added that the move “could be temporary or could be long-term.”
The Biden administration opposed relocating Gaza residents outside the enclave, advocating a return of Gazans to their homes in the aftermath of a potential peace and a two-state solution.
Israel’s genocidal war has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and injured over 111,000 since Oct. 7, 2023.
Since Jan. 19, a ceasefire is in place to bring respite to civilians in the Palestinian enclave, but Trump said last week he is not confident that the truce will hold.
“It’s not our war. It’s their war. I think they are very weakened on the other side,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I looked at a picture of Gaza. Gaza is like a massive demolition site. That place is. … It’s really got to be rebuilt in a different way,” he said.
“Gaza is interesting. It’s a phenomenal location on the sea, best weather, you know, everything’s good. It’s like some beautiful things could be done with it, but it’s very interesting, but some fantastic things could be done with Gaza,” Trump added according to Anadolu.
Israel Tell Us UNRWA to ‘Pack Up And Leave’
- CrossFireArabia
- January 25, 2025
The Israeli envoy to the UN, Danny Danon, sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, demanding that UNRWA cease its operations in the Israeli-occupied territories, including Jerusalem, by the end of January 2025.
“UNRWA is required to cease its operations in Jerusalem, and evacuate all premises in which it operates in the city, no later than 30 January 2025,” Danny Danon stated in the letter.
What is Trump’s New Gift to Israel?
- CrossFireArabia
- January 25, 2025
The Trump White House instructed the Pentagon to release the hold imposed by the Biden administration on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, three Israeli officials told Axios. The officials stated that 1,800 MK-84 bombs, which were held in storage in the U.S., will be put on a ship and delivered to Israel in the coming days.
Last May, then-President Joe Biden paused the delivery of a weapons shipment that included 2,000-pound bombs that Israel had used to flatten wide swathes of Gaza Strip.
His decision to halt the shipment was made due to concerns over its possible use in a heavily populated area.
