Palestinians showing their resilience
Busy day tomorrow for Blinken
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s delegation in Tel Aviv expects to discuss the Israeli defense minister's plan for the next phase of the war in Gaza during key meetings on Tuesday, according to a senior US official.
Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant put forward the military's plan for the next phase of the war. Gallant’s proposal states that Palestinians not be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza until all the remaining hostages are freed.
The US side is expected to push Israeli officials on an “imminent” transition of the war to a lower-intensity phase, the official said — which the US has not yet seen.
Yet so far the same as with every other visit to 'supposedly' tell Israel to simmer down
Strikes continue to ramp up: The IDF said it hit the southern city of Khan Younis with 30 strikes overnight into Monday. The military has issued several evacuation orders telling civilians to leave much of the area. At least 22,835 Palestinians have been killed and 58,416 others injured in Gaza since October 7, the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Sunday. Israel’s Iron Dome system also intercepted several rockets fired from inside Gaza.
Strikes outside of Israel: A senior Hezbollah commander, Wissam Tawil, was killed by an Israeli drone strike on his car in southern Lebanon, Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz said in an interview with an Israeli news station on Monday. It comes after an attack killed Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in southern Beirut last week, for which Israel has not claimed responsibility. Israel and Hezbollah have since traded strikes over the past day, three months since hostilities broke out in October. Separately, the IDF said it killed a Hamas militant in Syria who it says was a central figure in firing rockets from Syria toward Israel.
Widespread raids across the West Bank: Three men were shot and killed as Israeli forces stormed the city of Tulkarem and the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Graphic footage shows one of the men being run over by an Israeli military vehicle as he lay injured on the ground, while there are also reports of Israeli forces preventing ambulances from reaching the injured. The Palestinian Shehab news agency reports that the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a coalition of armed Palestinian groups in the West Bank, have said they are engaged in “violent clashes” with the Israeli military in several locations in the Tulkarem refugee camp. There are also local media reports of the Israeli military bombing a location in the camp.
Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues and local media also report that overnight raids are being carried out in the following locations across the occupied West Bank:
- The towns of Anabta and Kafr al-Labad, east of Tulkarem
- The city of Qalqilya
- The city of Nablus
- The Al-Fawwar camp and Al-Dhaheriya, south of Hebron
- The village of Husan, west of Bethlehem
- The village of Atara, north of Ramallah
- Numerous towns and villages in the Jenin Governorate
