CrossFireArabia- January 26, 2025
#BreakingNews | The Lebanese News Agency: A female soldier was injured after occupation forces opened fire on her car in the town of Deir Mimas.
1000s of Palestinians Wait at Netzarim to Cross Into North Gaza
- CrossFireArabia
- January 26, 2025
Thousands of displaced Palestinians have been gathering at the closest point to the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza since Saturday, spending the entire night on the streets as they await a permit from the Israeli occupation to return to their homes in northern Gaza.
Women, children, and elderly people have been lining up along Al-Rashid Street (west), waiting for the Israeli military to permit them to begin streaming into northern Gaza. Meanwhile, vehicles filled with residents and their belongings are also waiting on Salah al-Din Street (east), where they will undergo searches before being allowed to cross into the northern areas.
The movement was expected to resume after Hamas handed over four Israeli soldiers as part of the ceasefire agreement on Saturday.
According to the agreement, the Israeli army is required to withdraw completely from west of the Netzarim axis, including the coastal Al-Rashid Street, to Salah al-Din Street in the east.
Under the deal, Israeli forces must dismantle military positions in the Netzarim area. Once completed, Palestinians would regain freedom of movement between Gaza’s north and south. Hamas sources confirmed this and said displaced Palestinians would be allowed to return to their homes unarmed. Humanitarian aid would also move freely via Al-Rashid Street.
Earlier on Saturday, Hamas said that Israel is delaying the ceasefire terms. In a statement, Hamas said, “The occupation continues to stall in implementing the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement by keeping Al-Rashid Street closed and blocking displaced civilians from returning north.”
Hamas warned Israel against further delays, holding it accountable for any disruptions to the agreement.
The ceasefire, which began on January 19, is set to last 42 days in its first phase. Egypt, Qatar, and the United States brokered the agreement.
From October 7, 2023, to January 19, 2025, Israel’s genocide in Gaza caused catastrophic losses. Over 158,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were killed or injured. More than 14,000 remain missing, making this one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters according to the Quds News Network.
- 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.
