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SvennoJ on 10 February 2025
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Main events from February 9th

  • Displaced Palestinians are rushing to return to their homes in northern Gaza after Israeli forces withdrew from the militarised zone that bisects the Strip, known as the Netzarim Corridor.
  • Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City as the precarious ceasefire between Hamas and Israel increasingly frays over Israeli violations.
  • Israeli forces also shot and killed three people in the occupied West Bank, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, as the military steps up its assault on the territory.
  • Israel’s military continued air attacks on south Lebanon and bombed what it called a “Hezbollah tunnel” on the Lebanon-Syria border.
  • US President Donald Trump again says he’s committed to buying and owning Gaza, but could give sections of the land to other states in the Middle East to help in the rebuilding effort.
  • The Arab League condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suggestion that a Palestinian state should be created in Saudi Arabia, saying the remark showed “a complete detachment from reality”.

Hamas condemns Trump’s plan to ‘buy and own’ Gaza

Izzat al-Risheq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, said the latest statements from the US president are “absurd” and “reflect a deep ignorance of Palestine and the region”.

“Gaza is not a property that can be bought and sold, and it is an integral part of our occupied Palestinian land,” al-Risheq said in a statement shared on Telegram.

“Dealing with the Palestinian issue with the mentality of a real estate dealer is a recipe for failure,” he added.

“Our Palestinian people will thwart all displacement and deportation plans. Gaza belongs to its people,” he said, adding that the only way Palestinians will leave the besieged enclave is to return to their homes in the “cities and villages” that Israel occupied from 1948 onwards.


Israeli forces arrest Jerusalem book store owners, confiscate books

Jessica Montell, the executive director of the Jerusalem-based human rights organisation HaMoked, has said that undercover Israeli forces have “raided both branches of the Educational Bookshop, a well-respected Palestinian institution in Jerusalem”.

“After an hour search, they confiscated English and Arabic books, and detained the owners Ahmad Muna and Mahmoud Muna,” Montell said in a post on X.

Nir Hasson, a reporter for Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, citing the owner’s brother, said the soldiers “took every book with the Palestinian flag on it”.

“The Educational Bookshop is not just another bookstore. Every diplomat, journalist, or researcher of Jerusalem and the conflict knows these stores,” Hasson wrote in a post on X.