‘Life-saving work’ in balance as Israel’s NGO ban nears: NRC chief

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned that the aid group’s “life-saving work” in the occupied Palestinian territory will soon be “much more difficult” amid Israel’s push to bar the organisation from operating.

Israel has revoked the operating licences of dozens of aid groups for allegedly failing to comply with new government regulations that require the organisations to provide detailed information on staff members, as well as their funding and operations.

Experts say the requirements contravene humanitarian principles and follow a longstanding Israeli government campaign to impede the work of aid groups assisting Palestinians.

NRC head Jan Egeland said the organisation will lose its registration in 16 days.

“This will prevent our life-saving assistance,” he wrote on X, adding that at least 40 aid groups also will lose their registrations.

That will mean “fewer humanitarian organisations” as well as “fewer services reaching families in desperate need”.

In 16 days, Israel is set to remove NRC’s registration and make our life-saving work for Palestinians much more difficult.

Since 2009, NRC has provided essential humanitarian aid in Gaza and the West Bank.
We have reached over one million people in Gaza, and 100,000 on the West…

— Jan Egeland (@NRC_Egeland) February 11, 2026

Children injured in Israeli fire on Gaza City

A source at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City tells Al Jazeera that several Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on people in the city’s Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Children were among the injured transported to the hospital.

Refuse piles grow higher in Gaza amid dire lack of public services


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UN begins clearing waste dump in Gaza

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) says work has begun “to remove a solid-waste mound” that has overtaken a once-bustling market in Gaza City known as Firas Market. Located in one of the city’s oldest commercial districts, the “huge wartime garbage dump poses both an environmental and health risk”, UNDP said in a post on X

Palestinian foreign minister stresses need to clear unexploded ordnance in Gaza

Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, the Palestinian minister of foreign affairs and expatriates, has warned that the “widespread presence” of unexploded ordnance in Gaza amid Israel’s continued bombardment “poses a direct threat to civilians’ lives”.

It also “hinders the delivery of humanitarian aid, and delays recovery and reconstruction efforts”, the minister said, according to a readout of a meeting between Palestinian officials and international agencies working on efforts to clear the ordnance.

The United Nations has estimated that Israel’s two-year military assault on Gaza has created 61 million tonnes of rubble. According to preliminary assessments from September of last year, the UN also said it could take up to 20 years to remove the debris, at a cost of as much as $909m.

Gaza government says 288 people crossed Rafah border since partial reopening

Gaza’s Government Media Office has said a total of 288 people out of an expected 1,800 have so far crossed the Rafah border between Gaza and Egypt in both directions since it was partially reopened on February 2, after Israel kept it closed for nearly two years.

Returnees who made their way back to Gaza described being subjected to humiliating searches and interrogations by the Israeli military, which controls the Palestinian side of the key crossing point.

More than 20,000 Palestinians are also in need of medical evacuation, the vast majority of whom have been unable to exit Gaza since the partial reopening.

Larijani says ‘positive atmosphere’ in Doha talks as Iran attempts to garner support

I spoke to Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, as he finished his meetings with Qatar’s emir and prime minister, and he told me that there had been “a very positive atmosphere.”

Asked about when a second round of talks would be held, he said they were still talking to all sides about that. There were talks with regional actors [that would have taken place] in Turkiye, but Iran rejected that, saying that the negotiations were broken when the US struck Iran while they were in talks in Oman [last year].

Doha is an important stop in Larijani’s trip, and he has just concluded a meeting with some Hamas political leaders in the Qatari capital as well. We saw that he also met the Houthis in Oman yesterday, as well as representatives from the government.

It appears that Iran is firing on a lot of fronts to try and avoid disaster, which many people here in Doha believe would affect the entire region.

Here are some of his key comments to Al Jazeera:

• Negotiations with Washington are ongoing, and countries in the region are striving to make the talks a success; our position on them is positive.
• We have not received a specific proposal from Washington.
• No one gave us nuclear technology; we achieved it through our own local efforts.
• Washington has concluded that a different approach to Iran, other than the military option, must be pursued … The United States has moved towards a rational path by engaging in negotiations.
• No negotiations on any other issue besides the nuclear programme [will occur]… There is common ground with Washington regarding our non-acquisition of nuclear weapons.
• There is no talk of zeroing out enrichment; we need it in the fields of energy and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
• Qatar is playing a positive role in mediation
• Israel is trying to sabotage the negotiation process and is looking for pretexts to ignite.
• Israel does not have plans against Iran alone, but targets the stability of the entire region.
• If the United States attacks us, we will target its military bases in the region.

‘Netanyahu pushing to derail US-Iran nuclear talks, favours escalation over diplomacy’

Phyllis Bennis, a longtime fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and a sharp critic of US Middle East policy, tells Al Jazeera that Netanyahu’s overriding objective in talks with Trump remains clear: to prevent meaningful negotiations with Tehran from succeeding.

“It’s been clear for some time that Netanyahu’s goal here is to prevent negotiations,” she said. “And if there are to be negotiations, to essentially scuttle them.”

Bennis pointed out that Netanyahu has enjoyed extraordinary access to the Trump administration since the president’s second term began, making six visits to Washington already.

Trump, she noted, is eager for a deal with Iran — but one he can tout as superior to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) negotiated under President Obama.

“The reality is the deal Obama made was working,” Bennis emphasised. “The IAEA agreed with that, US intelligence agreed with that, Iran was abiding by the terms of the deal.” Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, not because Iran was violating it, but because he insisted he could secure something “better” — though no such improved deal ever materialised.


‘Israel has concerns over Iran’s nuclear programme, but never discusses its own’

Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies highlighted that most expert analyses, including US intelligence assessments, agree Iran is not currently pursuing a nuclear weapon.

Yet, the overlap between civilian nuclear technology and potential weapons capability fuels Israel’s public concern over the possibility of Iran developing nuclear weapons — and, she added, partly explains Israel’s history of assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists.

Iran has hinted at a willingness to cap uranium enrichment at 20 percent — a level useful for scientific research, but far below weapons-grade material. But broader issues, like restrictions on Iran’s missile programme, remain major sticking points, Bennis told Al Jazeera.

What’s conspicuously absent from the agenda, Bennis stressed, is any discussion of Israel’s own undeclared nuclear arsenal or the heavy US military presence in the region, including aircraft carriers and plans for additional deployments that Tehran views as highly threatening.

She expressed deep scepticism about the Trump administration’s approach to diplomacy. “This is not an administration known for careful calculation and weighing diplomacy,” Bennis said. “Diplomacy hasn’t been its strong suit.”

Instead, she noted, the focus appears to be on claiming credit for “ending wars” — even if it means using force to do so — while continuing policies she described as violations of international law, from support for genocide in Gaza to threats against other nations.

Netanyahu meets US’s Rubio

The Israeli prime minister has held talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington, DC, before his meeting with Trump.

Netanyahu’s office shared photos and a short video from the discussions on social media.

The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, could be seen sitting alongside Rubio.

ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו נפגש בבלייר האוס בוושינגטון עם מזכיר המדינה של ארה״ב מרקו רוביו. pic.twitter.com/kr6qyRDCzj

— ראש ממשלת ישראל (@IsraeliPM_heb) February 11, 2026

Loud protests outside White House as Netanyahu meets Trump

Canada must close airspace to Netanyahu: Rights group

A Canadian human rights group is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to close the country’s airspace to the Israeli prime minister, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza.

CBC News reported that Netanyahu’s plane flew “hundreds of kilometres through Canadian airspace” as the Israeli leader made his way to Washington, DC, for talks with Trump and other senior US officials.

“Carney has promised to arrest Netanyahu if he lands in Canada, but apparently his principles don’t apply above ground level,” Yara Shoufani, president of Canadian for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, said in a statement.

“Canada is abandoning its legal obligations as a member of the ICC by giving safe passage to this war criminal and fugitive,” Shoufani said.

CBC said that, according to Canadian protocol, foreign government flights must seek permission “well before” they enter the country’s airspace.

Israel ‘banking on total impunity, openly defying int’l law’: Amnesty

After Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu at the White House, Amnesty International’s Erika Guevara Rosas says that, instead of welcoming Israeli leaders “with open arms”, countries should be pressuring Israel to end its rights abuses.

“States should be ramping up global pressure on Israel to halt its ongoing genocide, its unlawful occupation, and its cruel system of apartheid against all Palestinians whose rights it controls,” Guevara Rosas wrote on X.

“Impunity for genocide and for the crime against humanity of apartheid must end now,” she said.

🇺🇸 @POTUS is once again hosting @netanyahu, a fugitive wanted by the @IntlCrimCourt for war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians. In recent weeks, alongside continuing the genocide in Gaza, #Israel has escalated its campaign to cement its unlawful control over… pic.twitter.com/BBAVqVQvgZ

— Erika Guevara Rosas (@ErikaGuevaraR) February 11, 2026

Trump says he ‘insisted negotiations with Iran’ will continue during Netanyahu meeting

The US president says he told the Israeli prime minister that he intends to see “whether or not a deal can be consummated” as a result of negotiations with Iran.

“If it can, I let the Prime Minister know that will be a preference. If it cannot, we will just have to see what the outcome will be,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

“Last time Iran decided that they were better off not making a Deal, and they were hit with Midnight Hammer — That did not work well for them,” said Trump, referring to the US military attacks on Iranian nuclear sites in June of last year. “Hopefully this time they will be more reasonable and responsible.”

Trump added that he and Netanyahu also discussed “the tremendous progress being made in Gaza, and the Region in general”.

“There is truly PEACE in the Middle East,” Trump said, despite continued Israeli violations of the US-brokered “ceasefire” in Gaza that have killed hundreds of Palestinians since October.

Netanyahu’s office says PM shared Israel’s ‘security needs’ with Trump

The Israeli prime minister’s office says Netanyahu and Trump discussed “negotiations with Iran, Gaza and regional developments” during their meeting at the White House.

The prime minister outlined the security needs of the State of Israel in the context of the negotiations, and the two agreed on “continued coordination and close ties between them”, the office said in a statement.

Not concerns, plain needs aka demands.


Netanyahu signs Israel’s membership in Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ in US visit

The office of the Israeli prime minister has confirmed that Netanyahu signed Israel’s membership to Trump’s controversial “Board of Peace” during his meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Initially designed to supervise Gaza’s ceasefire, the initiative is being pushed by Trump to take up a wider role in resolving global conflicts, with critics saying it could become a rival to the United Nations.

Several US allies have taken a cautious approach and refused to join the board, which has a $1bn price tag for permanent membership.

The Israeli leader, who will hold a seat on the multi-national board, faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territory.

Other board members include representatives of nations friendly to Israel, including former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Netanyahu ‘doesn’t want US-Iran diplomacy to succeed’

Barbara Slavin, a distinguished fellow at the US-based Stimson Center think tank, says the Israeli prime minister is bringing “maximalist demands” to the White House.

“He considers Iran to be a mortal threat to Israel. He wants it weakened in any possible way. He would love to see regime change,” Slavin told Al Jazeera.

“But if he can’t have that, he would like to make sure that Iran has no nuclear programme whatsoever and that it has no missiles that could strike Israel.”

Slavin said that Netanyahu ultimately will be pushing the Trump administration to take “a very, very hard line” on Iran. “He doesn’t want diplomacy to succeed. He really wants the United States to attack again, presumably with Israel also attacking Iran,” she said.

“He clearly was worried, especially because Donald Trump said some rather optimistic things after the talks in Oman,” Slavin told Al Jazeera, referring to recent discussions between US and Iranian officials in the Gulf country. Iran described the talks in Muscat as a “good start” and suggested that another round of negotiations with the US will be set up.

But a deal that would focus solely on the Iranian nuclear programme “would not satisfy Netanyahu”, Slavin said. “So, I think he’s in a little bit of a panic.”

She added that Netanyahu, who is running for re-election this year, also “wants to make sure that the United States doesn’t raise any complaints over Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank”.

‘Netanyahu looking for win on Iran ahead of Israeli vote’

Netanyahu has a lot to consider, namely that there might be early elections in Israel, and he’s struggling to get his budget approved.

Toppling the government in Iran would make him king of all kings, as far as Israeli policy is concerned, and that’s something he can take to the ballot and win with. This is also an issue of consensus, as Netanyahu’s position on Iran enjoys support from the opposition and the coalition, even though there is some criticism around his tactics.

Netanyahu now needs to convince Trump that a deal is not something that will yield results and that Iran cannot be trusted. But if a deal is reached, he needs to make sure that this is up to par with what Israel can live with. He wants Iran to be permanently disabled and that, in effect, is a formula to ensure that Israel continues to be the hegemon in the region.

Trump prefers diplomacy with Iran but warns of ‘military deterrence’ as US deploys massive forces

White House correspondent Kimberly Halkett says that President Donald Trump, in his recent Truth Social post, highlighted discussions from his nearly three-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Reporting from the White House, Halkett noted the talks covered not only Iran but also what Trump described as “progress” in Gaza and the region.

In respect to Trump’s post on Truth Social, he once again has indicated that he wants to see a deal with Iran, but that came once again with a heavy threat of “military deterrence”, Halkett said. “While he’s hoping for diplomacy, he is once again reminding Iran what happened the last time Iran didn’t want a deal.”

Halkett said that the US military buildup in the Gulf has not been seen since the Desert Storm in the 90s. The US’s deployment of F-22s is “concerning”, she added.

Stop calling it a deal, he wants Iran to comply with his and Israel's demands to claim a win...

Massive US military buildup in Gulf creates ‘very fraught’ situation

Alan Eyre, distinguished diplomatic fellow at the Middle East Institute, has told Al Jazeera that while talks between the US and Iran are few and far between, Washington has staged a major build-up in the Gulf.

“This is a very fraught situation because when you gather that much military hardware in such a relatively small area, such as the Persian Gulf, the odds for miscalculation and consequent destabilisation regionally become very high,” he said.

Meanwhile, “the talks have been happening at a very slow, desultory pace,” he continued.

Eyre said that while under previous US administrations there had been “a concentrated team of experts on both sides, we’re not seeing that now.” “There’s very few people involved on the US administration dealing with these issues, and the pace is so much slower.”

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