The First Round of the Gaza Strip Referendum on the Interaction Between the United States, Israel, and the Hamas Regime in the Middle East

The Prime Minister’s office said they had told the hostages’ families that Hamas had violated their agreement in two ways. First, by not releasing a full list of its hostages and their health status, and secondly by not releasing a female hostage called Arbel Yehud, whom Israel says is a civilian and Hamas says is a soldier. “As a result” of these alleged breaches, a statement from Netanyahu’s office said, “it has been decided that the movement of Gazans to the northern Gaza Strip will not be approved.”

Israeli troops have rescued eight hostages alive, and recovered the bodies of dozens of others, a small number of which were killed during Israeli military operations.

The first six weeks of the deal will see the swap of over 2,000 Palestinian prisoners for 33 Israeli hostages, as brokered by the U.S., Qatar and Egypt.

Israeli soldiers fired on the large crowds of Gaza residents hoping to return home several times, wounding nine people and killing two others, according to health officials at the nearby Al-Awda Hospital. The Israeli military said its troops in central Gaza had identified “several gatherings of dozens of suspects” who had advanced toward Israeli forces and “posed a threat to them,” prompting its troops to fire warning shots. The militant group Islamic Jihad, which posed a threat, was killed by it in southern Gaza.

The deputy head of the Islamic Jihad told Al Jazeera that the group accepted Yehud would be released to remove a pretext that Israel was trying to block the return of residents.

A senior military official in Hamas who uses the nom du guerre Abu Ahmad said the US, Israel, and Egypt had given guarantees that Yehud was in good health.

President Trump separately provoked strong reaction across the Middle East when he suggested that a large proportion of Gaza’s residents could be moved to Egypt and Jordan at least temporarily.

Both the Jordanian government and militant groups like Hamas rejected the suggestion, as did Arab-Israeli lawmakers.

Israeli-Se Lebanon Conflict Overcame the Last-Ditch Gaza-Hamas-Lebanese War: A U.S.-Mexico Perspective

Lebanese emergency officials said more than 120 were injured and 22 people killed. The military leaders said that their soldiers had fired shots to warn people not to approach Israeli positions.

Under the terms of a separate peace agreement signed with the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah, Israeli forces were supposed to have fully withdrawn from Lebanese territory Sunday.

Israeli troops have blocked thousands of displaced Palestinians from traveling back to their homes in the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, amid Israeli accusations that Hamas had breached the ceasefire deal by delaying the release of specific hostages.

The U.S. has been helping to monitor the Lebanon ceasefire, and a statement from the White House said the agreement’s terms had now been extended until Feb. 18. This will provide more time for Israeli units to make way for Lebanese Army troops who are advancing to replace them, and to withdraw beyond the existing border between the two countries.

The Israeli military fired on the protesters from where they were supposed to have left by Sunday.

The release of Arbel Yehud, an Israeli female civilian, and the return of Palestinians to northern Gaza would be contingent upon the release of female soldiers.

In a New York Sunday night interview with reporters, Wit1-6556 said there was a crisis and they overcame it with good dialogue and conversation. We all need to stay positive. He praised Qatar’s prime minister as well as the Israeli government for helping resolve the respective disputes.

The disagreements between Israel and militant groups it has fought for decades highlighted the low levels of trust between the recently warring parties. But last-ditch negotiations involving officials in the Qatari capital Doha, Washington D.C., and elsewhere have managed to keep the ceasefire deals alive, according to President Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.

The scenes of massive crowds of people returning to Gaza on foot came as the U.S. and Qatar helped preserve two ceasefire agreements — between Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon — that both risked collapse over the weekend.

Israeli forces on Monday morning opened the Netzarim corridor that separates north and south Gaza, with crowds in the thousands streaming back to their abandoned homes in the north.