Israeli foreign minister says deal will have ‘majority support’

Speaking from Rome, Gideon Saar said that despite opposition from within the Netanyahu coalition, the proposed deal, if it passes, will be supported by most of the government.

“I believe that if we achieve this hostage deal, we will have a majority in the government that will support the agreement,” he said next to Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.

Tajani also said Palestinians were standing in the way of lasting peace. “For this, we must see a deep and real change among Palestinians. Unfortunately, we are not seeing it today,” he said.

He promised regular raids, like those that Israel conducts daily in the occupied West Bank, if there is future “terrorism” in Gaza following a ceasefire deal.

PIJ in Jenin says it agreed to initiative to end Palestinian infighting

The Jenin Battalion of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades says it has agreed to an initiative to “end the bloodshed and preserve the Palestinian national fabric” after weeks of skirmishes between its fighters and Palestinian Authority security forces.

The group said in a statement that it accepted the proposal – put forward by local leaders, known as the reform committees, civil society groups and the Chamber of Commerce – from a “position of strength”.

The Jenin Battalion did not reveal the details of the agreement, but it said that it affirms the “legitimate right to resist the criminal occupation”. The PA has been carrying out raids in Jenin against groups fighting Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.

The Fatah-led authority, which has suspended Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank, has faced accusations of silencing dissent and freedom of expression in a parallel campaign with the crackdown in Jenin.

Israeli military says it attacked a target in Jenin

The Israeli army announces carrying out an air strike in the occupied West Bank without providing further details.

According to an initial tally by the Palestinian Red Crescent, the air strike has killed at least one person and wounded two others.


Six killed in Israeli air strike in Jenin

The death toll from the attack has now risen to six, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, which also reported a “number of injuries” that are in stable condition.

Main events from January 14th

Israel bombs southern Lebanon

Israeli forces have blown up houses and bulldozed roads overnight in the villages of Aita al-Shaab, Hanine and Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate, according to the National News Agency (NNA).

The agency also reported “a bombing operation” carried out by Israel in the village of Markaba in the Marjayoun district of Nabatieh.

Israeli bombardment reported in southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that the Israeli army has shelled an area on the outskirts of the village of Kfarchouba, which borders Syria’s occupied Golan Heights.

An Israeli force also advanced towards Maroun al-Ras near the town of Bint Jbeil in violation of the fragile ceasefire reached with Hezbollah in November, the agency said.

Hezbollah has said it is giving the Lebanese government space to address Israel’s breaches through diplomatic channels, but the group’s leaders have warned that it may eventually respond to Israel’s attacks.

The ceasefire stipulates that Israeli forces must fully withdraw from Lebanon by January 25.

Israeli military claims to have seized 3,300 weapons in Syria

Since the fall of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in mid-December last year, Israeli forces pressing into Syria have taken more than 3,300 pieces of weaponry, according to Israel’s military.

The weapons include army tanks, antitank and RPG launchers, shells mortars, mortar bombs, surveillance equipment and other arms, according to the military.

Across all combat zones in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, Israel’s military says it has taken 170,000 weapons and other items.

_{An Israeli military vehicle drives on the Syrian side of the ceasefire line, as seen from Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, on January 6}

Israel bombs military convoy of new Syrian authorities

Al Jazeera Arabic reports that at least one person was killed and several others were injured when Israel targeted a military convoy of the new Syrian authorities on the outskirts of Quneitra near the occupied Golan Heights.

The Israeli military had confirmed in a statement that it fired at vehicles carrying “weapons and ammunition” in the area.

Israel has been relentlessly bombing Syrian military and civilian infrastructure and further advancing into the country’s territory since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government last month.

Aid workers in Gaza fear intensified Israeli bombing as truce talks continue

Christian Aid, a British aid agency, says its Palestinian partners in Gaza are “hopeful” of a ceasefire but also afraid that Israel may step up attacks on the Strip before agreeing to a truce.

“Our partners are hopeful for a deal, and happy – of course – that the suffering families are having to endure may ease,” said Katie Roxburgh, a Christian Aid programme manager, after speaking to her colleagues on the ground.

“But they told me they are also afraid, because the last moments before a ceasefire is agreed are brutal due to intensified bombing,” she said. A deal “cannot come soon enough”, Roxburgh said.

“It would offer Palestinians in Gaza respite from the relentless bombardment, displacement and deprivation they have endured for the last 15 months and an opportunity to release all hostages and illegally held detainees,” she said.

Fuel shortages continue to threaten Gaza hospitals, UN says

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) is warning that the fuel crisis in Gaza is continuing to threaten the operation of health facilities in the Strip, directly affecting medical care for 2,000 patients in Deir el-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah, and another 220 in the north of the enclave.

The shortages could also shut down 75 haemodialysis machines across the Strip, the agency said, threatening the lives of “approximately 700 patients suffering from kidney diseases”.

At present, the partially operational hospitals in Gaza do not have any fuel reserves and are relying on piecemeal deliveries from international agencies just to safeguard the most critical services, it said.

The crisis has been caused by Israel’s blockade of Gaza, as well as the looting of the little supplies that get through by armed Palestinian gangs, aid agencies say.

Gaza’s fuel crisis could also shut down water and sanitation services

The UN’s humanitarian agency is warning that critical water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in Gaza are also at risk of grinding to a halt because of a lack of fuel. Unless additional supplies are allowed in, aid groups would also be unable to transport and distribute water, the agency added.

Combined, the lack of fuel and access restrictions have forced aid groups to make impossible choices, “having to decide daily between providing water, pumping sewage, repairing water or sewage leaks, or transferring solid waste”, it reported.

“Displaced people, particularly in northern Gaza, have been forced to either survive on extremely limited quantities of water for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene, or to take long dangerous trips for collection, or even resort to using unsafe water sources,” it said.

“Aggravating these conditions is the lack of fuel for sewage and solid waste management, which continues to cause sewage spills and a mounting accumulation of solid waste in or near displacement sites, exacerbating the spread of vermin, infectious diseases and other public health risks.”

Israel continues to deny UN aid missions to North Gaza

Stephane Dujarric, the UN spokesman, says Israeli authorities are continuing to deny aid missions, turning down two attempts to reach hospitals in north Gaza on Tuesday.

“The missions were meant to evacuate patients from the al-Awda and Indonesian hospitals – and to deliver food, water, fuel, hygiene kits as well as cleaning supplies, which are critical to hospitals,” he told reporters in New York.

“You’ll recall that access to al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia remains extremely limited as the Israeli siege in North Gaza governorate continues. Al-Awda is the only hospital that is still partially functioning in North Gaza governorate, but it faces critical shortages of the most basic items including fuel and medical supplies.”

The Israeli siege of North Gaza has been going on for more than 100 days, and Palestinian authorities say the offensive has left at least 5,000 people killed or missing.

Norway, UK slam imminent Israeli ban on UNRWA

The top British and Norwegian diplomats have expressed support for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees as Israel plans to enact two laws that ban the organisation from Israeli territory later this month.

In a post on X, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide met UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini and expressed his gratitude and firm support for the agency.

“UNRWA is the backbone of all humanitarian work in Palestine, for securing education & health for Palestine refugees until a just political solution. Banning @UNRWA is an unprecedented attack on the UN,” the ministry said.

Imminent Israeli legislation means @UNRWA faces a cliff edge in their ability to support Palestinian refugees across the West Bank and Gaza.

Today I met with them to reiterate our firm support. Israel must prevent the further collapse of humanitarian operations in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/DifRAduaPy

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) January 13, 2025

Facing Israeli ban, UNRWA will ‘stay and deliver’ in Gaza

Within two weeks, Israeli ban on UNRWA, the main lifeline for aid to Palestinians, will come into force, affecting its work in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

The severance of communication between UNRWA and Israeli authorities due to the ban will amplify the risks and challenges the agency faces in Gaza, said the agency’s chief, Philippe Lazzarini.

Nevertheless, UNRWA will “stay and deliver” in Gaza, he said. At great personal risk, “UNRWA’s local staff will remain and continue to provide emergency assistance and where possible, education and primary healthcare.”

With no visas, UNRWA’s non-Palestinian employees will not be able to enter Gaza and those there now will have to leave, he explained.

Women, children killed in Israeli raid on Rafah as the day’s toll rises to 63

Israeli fighter jets have bombed the Shaat family home in the al-Nasr neighbourhood of Rafah in southern Gaza, killing a woman and four children, the Wafa news agency reports.

Medical sources in Gaza have also told Al Jazeera over the past hour that at least 63 people have been confirmed killed by Israeli attacks across the Strip since dawn on Tuesday. It is not known if this latest attack in Rafah is included in that tally.

As we have been reporting, an Israeli strike on the Shaheen family home in the Deir el-Balah area of central Gaza killed 13 people on Tuesday, many of them Palestinians displaced from other parts of the enclave.

Several killed, wounded as Israeli forces attack Gaza City

The Israeli military has bombed al-Ahly Club in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, west of Gaza City in northern Gaza, killing and injuring several people, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

Israeli attack on Gaza City school kills 7

Israeli forces have bombed the al-Farabi School in Gaza City, killing at least seven people, the Quds News Network and the Palestinian Information Center report. A “whole family” was killed in the attack on the school, those same outlets report, which was housing displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza.

Earlier, we reported the Israeli military had also bombed al-Ahly Club in the city’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, killing and injuring an unspecified number of people.


_{Aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza City’s al-Farabi school}

Israeli military bombs central Gaza, killing at least 3

Israeli forces bombed the house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least three people from the same family, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

Six Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Nuseirat

As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces have stepped up attacks on Gaza, killing at least 22 Palestinians since dawn today.

One of the overnight attacks included a bombing that killed at least six people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency. The victims included the head of the nursing department at al-Awda Hospital, the agency reported. At least seven others were also wounded in the attack.

Two Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Rafah

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the two victims were killed in an Israeli drone attack on Khirbet al-Adas area, north of the city of Rafah.

Israeli military claims to have hit Hamas targets in Khan Younis, Deir el-Balah

In its latest war update, Israel’s military claims to have struck 50 targets in Gaza over the past day.

The attacks, it said, targeted fighter cells, weapons depots and Hamas military sites. Several “precise” overnight strikes zeroed in on fighters in Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah, it said.

As we’ve been reporting, the latest strikes have killed numerous civilians. One overnight attack on a family home in Rafah’s Nassr neighbourhood killed a woman and four children.

On average, Israeli bombardment in Gaza is maiming 15 children a day, leaving them with lifelong disabilities, according to Save the Children.

Deadly Israeli attack hits Bureij refugee camp

Israeli forces have carried out more deadly bombardments in central Gaza, this time targeting Bureij refugee camp.

The latest attack, striking the centre of the camp, has killed at least five Palestinians, with a number of others wounded.

It follows a spate of attacks on central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat, where one overnight strike killed six people, including the head of al-Awda Hospital’s nursing department, according to Wafa news agency.

‘The more we hear about a ceasefire, the more families are targeted, killed’

Things are getting out of control. People are keeping an eye on the developments in Doha about a potential ceasefire, but at the same time, people are dying by the hour. The more we hear about a potential ceasefire agreement, the higher the pace of the attacks, the more families are being targeted and killed.

Over the past 72 hours, more people have been targeted inside residential homes. This includes a family targeted in an overnight attack in Deir el-Balah. That attack was so loud that it shook the foundations of all the buildings in the surrounding area. I live far away from this area, but we could feel the intensity of the explosion and some of the debris and shrapnel fell in the yard we are staying at.

Similar things happened in Bureij refugee camp, where people at the entrance of the camp reported debris falling on their home as a result of an attack on a home further to the east.

This is the situation. The bombing campaign is killing more people, including women and children.

Israeli strike on Jenin comes as Katz promises to expand raids

Several Palestinians have been killed after the Israeli military carried out a drone strike in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. They say it was coordinated with Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security agency, and have refused to give further details.

The Israeli media is reporting that the target of that attack was a known fighter in the Palestinian camp.

The Israeli military has been conducting near-nightly raids in the occupied West Bank since the war on Gaza began, killing nearly 800 Palestinians and arresting several thousand others.

In fact, the Israeli defence minister says Israel will continue this policy across the occupied West Bank and will not allow the territory to “turn into Gaza”. He also says Israel will expand these operations beyond what they are now.

The air strike in Jenin is quite significant, because it’s the first in nearly a month since the Palestinian Authority has been carrying out and conducting its own raids in the refugee camp for the last several weeks.

Israeli helicopter evacuates soldiers wounded in attack near Jenin

Palestinian fighters have struck an Israeli military bulldozer with an explosive device in the occupied West Bank town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, according to the Palestinian Information Center.

An Israeli helicopter has landed in the town to transport the wounded soldiers to hospital. The military has now confirmed that three Israeli soldiers were injured in the incident. Two of them, from the Menashe Brigade, suffered serious injuries, while a reservist from the Kfir Brigade suffered minor injuries.

The Israeli military has also stormed several locations across the occupied West Bank over recent hours, including:

AP obtains draft of Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal

The Associated Press news agency says officials from Egypt and Hamas have confirmed the authenticity.

Here’s what the AP is reporting: