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SvennoJ on 02 February 2025
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Main events from February 1st

  • Three captives were transferred to Israel and 183 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel as celebratory scenes erupted in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
  • The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says released prisoners showed signs of starvation, illness and physical injuries, indicating they had been beaten.
  • Hospitals in Gaza received 27 bodies in the past 24 hours as the death toll from Israel’s 15-month war continues to rise with bodies being pulled out of the vast piles of rubble.
  • The Rafah border crossing opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow dozens of sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment.
  • Palestinian health authorities say five people were killed by Israeli air strikes in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, including a 14-year-old boy.
  • Foreign ministers of five Arab countries rejected the forced displacement of Palestinians from their land as suggested by US President Donald Trump.



37 children make it out of Gaza for treatment in Egypt

The reopening of the Rafah crossing represents a significant breakthrough that bolsters the ceasefire deal Israel and Hamas reached last month.

Egypt’s Al-Qahera television showed several children being brought out on gurneys and transferred to ambulances on the Egyptian side. They were rushed to hospitals in the nearby Egyptian city of El Arish and elsewhere. Footage showed one young girl whose foot had been amputated.

Zaher al-Wahidi, an official with Gaza’s Health Ministry, said 37 of the children had crossed into Egypt by Saturday evening.

Mohammed Zaqout, director of hospitals at Gaza’s Health Ministry, said more than 6,000 patients were ready to be evacuated abroad and more than 12,000 were in urgent need of treatment.

He said the small numbers set to be evacuated would not cover the need, “and we hope the number will increase”.

Five Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Jenin

Palestinian health authorities say five people were killed by Israeli air strikes in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, including a 14-year-old boy. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike targeting a vehicle with “armed terrorists” but did not offer further details.

With these latest deaths, the toll since the start of the Israeli assault on the city and its refugee camp 12 days ago has risen to 24.