SvennoJ on 15 January 2025
Main events from January 14th
- Mediator Qatar has confirmed a deal between Israel and Hamas is close, with talks to end the war and release Israeli captives being held in Gaza progressing rapidly.
- Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has said that despite opposition from within Netanyahu’s coalition, the proposed deal, if it passes, will be supported by most of the government.
- Israel has continued its relentless assault on Gaza over the past day, including in Deir el-Balah, where at least 13 people have been killed in an attack on a building sheltering displaced Palestinians.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has revealed Washington’s “day after” plan for post-war Gaza, including deploying an international security force that would oversee policing and border crossings in the enclave.
- An Israeli air strike has killed at least six people in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinian Authority security forces have been targeting armed resistance groups for weeks.
- Hours before the air strike, the Jenin Battalion of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades had said it had agreed to an initiative to end the standoff with PA forces.
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