Netanyahu reveals his plans for post-war Gaza

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today he was “disappointed” by Israel's plan to build hundreds of new housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Speaking at a news conference in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, he said it was long-standing U.S. policy that new settlements are counterproductive to reaching an enduring peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

An NBC News crew found scenes of death and destruction at a family home in Deir al-Balah after, eyewitnesses said, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 22 people.

Bodies could be seen trapped in the rubble while survivors were pulled out.

Journalist Muhammad Yaghi has been killed in Gaza in an Israeli bombing of the enclave, the Palestinian Information Ministry said in a statement today.

NBC News is not able to independently verify his death.

At least 13 more patients have died at Nasser Hospital since Israeli forces stormed it last week, the Gaza Health Ministry said in a statement today on Telegram, adding that a lack of oxygen had contributed to some of the deaths.

It added that there was also a lack of food and electricity at the facility in the enclave's southern city of Khan Younis, along with poor hygiene conditions and sewage water all over the ground.

On Sunday, the IDF announced the arrest of more than 100 suspected Hamas fighters inside the hospital compound.

More than 400 people have been killed when living at U.N. refugee camps in Gaza, the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians said on X today.

Around 1 million people from all age groups are seeking shelter at UNRWA facilities across the strip, it said.

“Nowhere, & no-one, is safe,” it added.

A Palestinian man covered in ash carries two children to be treated at Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Hospital after being injured in Israeli attacks in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, last night.

Sending weapons or ammunition to Israel could violate international humanitarian law, the United Nations said on X today, before urging all relevant parties to suspend providing arms to the country.

Hezbollah launched drone attacks targeting an Israeli command center, the Lebanese militant group said in a statement on Telegram today.

The Iran-backed group said it targeted the northern Israeli city of Qiryat Shemona, in response to recent Israeli attacks on villages in southern Lebanon.

The IDF said in a statement yesterday that it attacked several targets in southern Lebanon to “remove a threat.”

At least one person was killed and 15 were injured when Israel targeted a car in Jenin in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement on Telegram.

On its own Telegram channel, the Israel Defense Forces said it targeted “a terrorist who was on his way to commit a terror attack, and who carried out several shooting attacks over the past weeks.”

Hamas' political leader has left Egypt after talks with officials in the country about a cease-fire with Israel and a hostage exchange deal, the militant group said in a statement today.

Ismail Haniyeh left with several other Hamas leaders after discussions with Egyptian intelligence director Abbas Kamel, the statement issued on Telegram said. It is unclear whether any progress was made.

The group left after White House Middle East adviser Brett McGurk arrived in Cairo in hopes for talks about a pause in the fighting in Gaza and a potential end to the conflict in the enclave.

Israeli soldiers patrol on foot at an undisclosed location during ongoing ground operations in Gaza today.

There is “no health system to speak of left in Gaza,” the secretary general of Doctors Without Borders said in a briefing to the U.N. Security Council yesterday.

“Israel’s military has dismantled hospital after hospital,” Chris Lockyear said. “What remains is so little in the face of such carnage. It is preposterous.”

"The excuse given is that medical facilities have been used for military purposes, yet we have seen zero independently verified evidence of this," he said.

“In exceptional circumstances where a hospital loses its protected status, any attack must follow the principles of proportionality and precaution,” he added. “Instead of adherence to international law, we see the systematic disabling of hospitals. This has left the entire medical system inoperable.”

A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join the Islamic State terrorist group lost her latest appeal today over the removal of her U.K. citizenship.

The British government took away Shamima Begum’s citizenship on national security grounds in 2019, shortly after she was found in a detention camp in Syria.

Begum, now 24, argued the decision was unlawful, in part because British officials failed to properly consider whether she was a victim of trafficking, an argument that was rejected by a lower court in February 2023.

The Court of Appeal in London rejected her appeal Friday following an appeal in October. Judge Sue Carr said: “It could be argued that the decision in Ms Begum’s case was harsh. It could also be argued that Ms Begum is the author of her own misfortune."

Some 29,514 people have been killed in the enclave since Oct. 7, the Gaza Health Ministry said today, as Israel intensifies military operations in the south.

Another 69,000 people have been injured, with thousands still missing under the rubble, it added.

Israel plans to approve the construction of more than 3,300 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank, a senior Cabinet minister from the far-right wing of the government announced.

Approval of new construction is bound to elicit condemnation from the United States at a time when the relationship between the allies is fraught because of disagreements over the course of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a statement late yesterday that the new construction is meant as a response to a fatal Palestinian shooting attack near Jerusalem earlier in the day. He said Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant participated in the discussion leading to the decision.

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