The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned on Tuesday of the collapse of the agency due to Israeli Knesset laws that prohibit its work and the cessation of funding by major donors.

Lazzarini said the collapse of the agency would create a dangerous vacuum in the provision of essential services, creating “fertile ground for exploitation and extremism,” posing a threat to peace and stability in the region and beyond. He added that UNRWA faces significant operational challenges following the implementation of Knesset decisions, which forced the agency to evacuate its headquarters in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, while its international staff were expelled from the occupied West Bank. He noted that the courage and commitment of the agency’s Palestinian staff had kept UNRWA schools and health clinics open to provide essential services to Palestinian refugees.

Lazzarini explained that UNRWA operations in the Gaza Strip continue through its local and international staff, whose entry or exit from Palestine is no longer facilitated by Israel. He added: “It is not clear to what extent (Israel) will restrict our ability to operate due to the ban on contact between UNRWA representatives and Israeli officials, but the agency will remain and will continue to implement its mandate until it is prevented from doing so.”

The Commissioner-General of UNRWA said that the Agency continues to play a crucial role in meeting the enormous needs of the people of the Gaza Strip, stressing that reducing its operations now is unhelpful and would sabotage recovery plans and political transition in Gaza.

"Time is running out to preserve UNRWA operations, and decisive intervention is urgently required," he added.

Lazzarini stressed that there is no alternative that can provide public services to Palestinian refugees in the occupied territories, and stressed the importance of allowing UNRWA to gradually end its mandate within the framework of a political process such as the two-state solution, and transferring responsibilities to capable and willing Palestinian institutions.

He stressed that the success of these efforts depends entirely on the strength of the international community's commitment to the political track, which must be supported by funding to maintain the agency's operations until the completion of the transfer of its services to Palestinian institutions.

Specialized crews in the Gaza Strip recovered the bodies of two dead, a father and his son, from the Abdeen family.

According to local sources, their remains were lost last August in the Tal al-Sultan area west of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, before they were found today.

He said that the Israeli occupation forces demolished 6 houses belonging to the Qashta family, near the eastern garage in the center of Rafah city.

The Trump administration has halted all financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority's security forces as part of a broader freeze on foreign aid, according to U.S. and Palestinian officials.

The freeze decision and its impact on the Palestinian Authority

The Palestinian security forces, which suffer from chronic underfunding, are considered a key element in maintaining security and order in areas controlled by the Authority.

Washington had suspended direct aid to the Palestinian Authority during Trump's first term, but continued to fund training and reform programs for security forces.

These programs are implemented through the Office of the US Security Coordinator in Jerusalem, a coalition of several countries.

Reactions to freezing

Major General Anwar Rajab, spokesman for the Palestinian security forces, told The Washington Post that the United States was a “major donor” to training and rehabilitation programs for the Palestinian security forces.

In contrast, a former Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the freeze had not significantly affected the US Security Coordinator's office, noting that other donors had pledged to cover the financial shortfall.

Direct impact on training programs

However, a Palestinian colonel who oversees training at the Central Institute for Security Forces confirmed that the freeze had led to the reduction of some training programs, noting that a meeting scheduled with the American side to review “counter-insurgency” operations in the Jenin camp had been postponed and no new date had been set.

The colonel added that Washington was funding a project to create a virtual shooting range, which was necessary because of Israel's refusal to allow the import of live ammunition.

Although the project was nearing completion, the authority is now looking for alternative donors due to the suspension of US funding.

Larry Ellison, the founder of the high-tech company Oracle, has accompanied US President Donald Trump since he took office last month, an extensive investigation by the Intercept has revealed. The man Trump has referred to as “one of the hardest working guys in the world” was in the front row at the inauguration, and then watched the president sign an executive order on artificial intelligence, a “major business interest” of the tech giant.

Ellison, the Oracle co-founder, was sitting next to Rupert Murdoch, the Israeli billionaire, in early February when Trump created a fund to facilitate the purchase of TikTok. His presence was no coincidence.

Last month, after the Supreme Court upheld a law banning TikTok, Oracle emerged as a leader in the race to take control of the Chinese-owned short-video platform.

While anti-China hawks in Washington led the charge against TikTok, it was the anger of pro-Israel activists that likely explains why Oracle was the natural choice to take control of the social media app.

The campaign to ban the app began to gain momentum after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. According to experts, the push for the ban was not only about US national security, but also about Israel’s security. Politicians even linked their campaigns against TikTok to the alleged propaganda that the platform is a platform for Hamas.

Oracle, which already controls some of TikTok’s day-to-day operations, has taken a staunchly pro-Israel stance and, according to an investigation by The Intercept, has suppressed pro-Palestinian activism within the company.

Last November, Oracle CEO Safra Katz, an Israeli-American, told an Israeli business news outlet: “For employees, it’s clear: If you’re not with America or Israel, don’t work here — this is a free country.”

The company’s collaboration with Israeli government agencies has been extensive, spanning everything from direct technology work with the military to programs designed to help Israel with public relations — including, according to internal company messages, on social media platforms like TikTok.

It is worth noting that among Oracle’s 160,000 employees around the world, there are thousands who support the Palestinian cause and oppose the Israeli war of extermination, despite facing repression and punishment related to their positions. A group of Oracle employees told the American website that the opposition and reactions were part of an internal crisis among the pro-Palestinian employees at the giant technology company due to its unwavering support for Israel.

Oracle employees who spoke to the site described an environment of fear, and several said they were seeking to leave the company.

“The environment is horrible, people are terrified to even mention Palestine. I can’t take it anymore,” said one employee, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation.

Last year, 68 Oracle employees signed an open letter criticizing the company’s partnerships with Israel. Several also sounded the alarm about what they said were biases in some of the company’s programs, including the removal of avenues for employees to donate money to pro-Palestinian causes. According to several Oracle employees who spoke to the site on condition of anonymity to protect their livelihoods, one employee was fired for alleged trademark infringement after he created a Palestinian-Oracle logo on a watermelon — a symbol of Palestinian solidarity — that was posted to a Slack channel and shared on social media.

While companies like Google and Amazon have been criticized for working with the Israeli military and suppressing pro-Palestinian voices, employees and observers told the site that Oracle stands out for its steadfast commitment to Israel.

Relations with Israel

Oracle, a Texas-based giant that has emerged as a leader in database management software and services, has a close history with Israel — one of the company's many nation-state clients.

Both Katz and Ellison have close ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Katz met with Netanyahu a few months before the Gaza war began to discuss expanding Oracle’s operations in Israel. Ellison, a major Republican donor in the United States, once offered Netanyahu a spot on Oracle’s board of directors and invited him to his private island in Hawaii.

Oracle’s first high-profile deal with the Israeli government came in 2021, when it became the first multinational tech company to offer cloud services in Israel. The database giant built a $319 million data center in Jerusalem for the project.

Not all of Oracle’s work in Israel has been made public, however. Even as it announced the cloud computing deal, Oracle had been working on a top-secret, four-year project with the Israeli Air Force called Project Minta, according to screenshots of Slack posts obtained by the site.

Oracle and the War on Gaza

Immediately after the Al-Aqsa Intifada on October 7, 2023, Oracle publicly declared its support for Israel. Katz also demanded that the phrase “Oracle Stands with Israel” be displayed on all company screens, in more than 180 countries.

During the war, company officials continued to tout their support for Israel—and discuss emerging and ongoing projects with the Israeli government. At one point, in Slack, Shimon Levy (president of Oracle Israel) noted that the Israeli Ministry of Defense was “a demanding customer with very high standards.”

A month after the war, Levy praised Oracle employees who were leading “an important volunteer initiative to develop and operate a unique tool” for Israeli public relations on social media. The project, called “Words of Iron,” was developed in collaboration with Israeli ministries to help them elevate pro-Israel content and counter critical narratives on TikTok, Instagram and Twitter.

In February 2024, the Israeli Military Cyber Administration and Oracle teamed up for another hackathon “to find technical solutions for the rehabilitation of Israeli settlements near Gaza using Oracle technology,” according to internal Slack messages, integrating information provided by Oracle with Israeli software systems. Levy also announced that the company had donated bags of medical and environmental supplies to IDF soldiers, worth half a million dollars.

Last summer, Katz attended a private lobbying meeting with U.S. senators to advocate for continued arms shipments to Israel. And last fall, Oracle announced it was partnering with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, one of Israel’s largest defense companies, on an artificial intelligence project to provide “warfighters with rapid, actionable insights on the battlefield.”

“What really struck me was how obvious the complicity was,” Marwa Fatafta, Access Now’s Middle East and North Africa policy and advocacy director, told the site. “They are definitely exploiting the impunity that Israel has, and there are no consequences at all.”

By the time Katz returned to Israel in November 2024 on her second trip since the war broke out, some employees were feeling deeply uncomfortable in the workplace.

“Can any of the 155,000+ Oracle employees around the world who have a different opinion than Catz express their opinion without being penalized or even fired?” Hani Rasheed, Oracle UK’s director of enterprise architecture, posted on LinkedIn.

Cut off aid to the Palestinians

Meanwhile, as Israel began bombing and fully invading Gaza, some employees said the company was restricting support for the Palestinians.

Like many companies, Oracle runs a program to match employee donations to charitable causes. With the outbreak of war, relief organizations such as Medical Aid for Palestinians and UNRWA were removed from the internal donations page and are no longer listed as accepting matching donations, four employees told the site.

Oracle employees told the site that the company attributed the disappearance of the Palestinian-oriented charities to policy changes that focused on education, the environment and health — although Oracle employees noted that some of the charities in question focused on those areas. When they asked to reinstate the charities, they received no response.

It is noteworthy that in public statements to the Israeli media, Katz referred to pro-Palestinian human rights groups as “brainwashing organizations,” adding: “They don’t even know the facts.”

Activists disagree with Oracle's sweeping statements surrounding Israel's war on Gaza.

In the press, Oracle did not hesitate to take a clear position, rejecting the idea that its work with Israel amid the Gaza offensive could cause problems with customers in other parts of the world. “Absolutely not,” said Yael Har Even, executive vice president of Oracle Israel, when asked about the possibility. “Zero always says – the US first, then Israel, and then the whole world.”

At Access Now, the site said: “What really struck me was how obvious the complicity was. They are absolutely exploiting the impunity that Israel enjoys, and there are absolutely no consequences.”

By the time Katz returned to Israel in November 2024 on her second trip since the war broke out, some employees were feeling deeply uncomfortable in the workplace.

“Can any of the 155,000+ Oracle employees around the world who have a different opinion than Catz express their opinion without being penalized or even fired?” Hani Rasheed, Oracle UK’s director of enterprise architecture, posted on LinkedIn.

Cut off aid to the Palestinians

Meanwhile, as Israel began bombing and fully invading Gaza, some employees said the company was restricting support for the Palestinians.

Like many companies, Oracle runs a program to match employee donations to charitable causes. With the outbreak of war, relief organizations such as Medical Aid for Palestinians and UNRWA were removed from the internal donations page and are no longer listed as accepting matching donations, four employees told the site.

Oracle employees told the site that the company attributed the disappearance of the Palestinian-oriented charities to policy changes that focused on education, the environment and health — although Oracle employees noted that some of the charities in question focused on those areas. When they asked to reinstate the charities, they received no response.

It is noteworthy that in public statements to the Israeli media, Katz referred to pro-Palestinian human rights groups as “brainwashing organizations,” adding: “They don’t even know the facts.”

Activists disagree with Oracle's sweeping statements surrounding Israel's war on Gaza.

In the press, Oracle did not hesitate to take a clear position, rejecting the idea that its work with Israel amid the Gaza offensive could cause problems with customers in other parts of the world. “Absolutely not,” said Yael Har Even, executive vice president of Oracle Israel, when asked about the possibility. “Zero always says – the US first, then Israel, and then the whole world.”

Today, Wednesday, Israeli occupation bulldozers continued to demolish homes in Tulkarm camp, as part of the escalation campaign targeting the camp for 23 consecutive days.

According to local sources, large forces of the occupation army, with their vehicles and bulldozers, completed their aggression on the houses in the camp, after they notified yesterday of the demolition of 14 houses under the pretext of opening a street extending from the agency area to the Balawneh neighborhood.

She added that the occupation gave the camp residents only two hours to evacuate their homes before demolishing them, as the citizens headed inside the camp amidst a state of shock and sadness at the scenes of destruction that befell it in general, and to the property in particular.

Painful scenes showed families rushing out, racing against time, carrying whatever belongings they could from their partially destroyed homes, while the occupation forces surrounded the area and deployed heavy infantry patrols between the alleys and inside some of the homes that they had turned into military barracks.

Since yesterday morning until today, the occupation forces have completely demolished seven houses, extending from the Balawneh, Shuhada, Al-Wakala and Al-Khidmat neighbourhoods, accompanied by the complete destruction of the infrastructure of water, electricity, sewage and communications networks.

The Popular Committee for Services in Tulkarm Camp said in a press release that the occupation continues to burn and destroy homes in the camp for the 24th consecutive day, and that 50 homes were completely destroyed, and that 90% of the camp’s residents were displaced after the occupation forced them to leave by force.

She pointed out that the occupation drew a map of the houses that it intends to demolish to pave new streets in the camp, and most of the houses adjacent to the demolition sites were damaged due to the nature of the adjacent construction, and that the occupation's decision to open a street in the middle of the camp will cause the demolition and damage of thousands of houses.

In this context, the occupation forces continued to deploy their foot and mobile patrols in the neighborhoods of Nour Shams camp, which has been under a tight siege for 11 days, specifically in the Manshiyya neighborhood, amidst raids on homes and turning them into military barracks, accompanied by extensive bombing operations inside the camp.

Infantry forces were also deployed in large numbers in the city’s neighborhoods, and military checkpoints were set up around the Younis roundabout in the northern neighborhood, the Abu Safiya junction in the eastern neighborhood, and on Nablus Street, which connects the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps. Vehicles were stopped, searched, the identities of their passengers were checked, and young men were abused.

The occupation forces also continued to seize a number of houses in the eastern neighborhood of the city and turned them into military barracks and sniper locations, imposing a tight siege on them, preventing citizens from moving and leaving their homes, and subjecting them to interrogation and abuse, while seizing two houses on Nablus Street adjacent to Tulkarm camp, with its soldiers deployed around them.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday that China calls on all parties to accelerate the two-state solution and support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.

The conflict in Gaza is due to the delay in resolving the Palestinian issue, Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, told the media after chairing a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council on "practicing multilateralism and reforming and improving global governance."

He added that the Palestinian issue has always been at the heart of the Middle East issue, noting that until the two-state solution is achieved, the logic of responding to injustice with injustice will not stop, and the cycle of violence will not end.

He stressed that all parties in the Middle East should overcome their differences and support the establishment of a Palestinian state, noting that the United Nations must take the necessary measures for the State of Palestine to obtain full membership in it.

He stressed that Gaza is the homeland of the Palestinians and part of the Palestinian territories, and should not be a victim of international politics.

He stressed that the parties concerned must continue to implement the ceasefire agreement and make constructive progress in subsequent negotiations.

He added that the principle of "Palestinians govern Palestine" must be adhered to, which is the basic principle for governing Gaza after the conflict, in line with the two-state solution with the ultimate goal of achieving peaceful coexistence between Palestine and Israel and promoting long-term peace and stability in the Middle East.

Large numbers of settlers spread out this afternoon in Ramin Plain, east of Tulkarm, while they were firing live ammunition intensively.

Local sources reported that a large group of settlers came in their vehicles from the "Shavei Shomron" settlement, built on citizens' lands northwest of Nablus, and spread out in the plain in provocative tours, during which they fired heavy live ammunition.

It is noteworthy that the Ramin Plain area is exposed to repeated attacks by settlers, in light of a settlement outpost in which a family of settlers resides, who have seized a large area of the plain’s lands and spread their livestock there, and they attack farmers while they are on their lands and expel them from them under threat of arms.

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan affirmed on Wednesday his country's position rejecting any attempts aimed at displacing the Palestinian people from their land.

During his meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he reiterated the necessity of linking the Gaza reconstruction process to a path leading to comprehensive and lasting peace based on the "two-state solution", as it is the way to achieve stability in the region.

The meeting also touched on a number of regional and international issues of common interest, developments in the Middle East, especially developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, and efforts made towards the crisis in the Gaza Strip and its repercussions on regional peace, stability and security.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces detained dozens of students from Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus.

Local sources reported that the occupation soldiers pursued the school students, threw sound bombs at them, forced them out of a bus that was transporting them, interrogated them in the field, closed the Khallet Zeina road north of the village, and prevented the students from returning to their homes until now.

Today, Wednesday, settlers seized a public vehicle in the Sebastia Plain, northwest of Nablus.

Sebastia Mayor Muhammad Azem said that settlers pursued a public vehicle that was traveling on a dirt road in the Sebastia plain, and they have been holding the vehicle and its driver for three hours without knowing the fate of those inside.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation authorities decided to demolish the homes of the families of the two prisoners, Hayel Daif Allah from the town of Rafat, northwest of Jerusalem, and Ahmed Al-Haimouni from Hebron.

The Supreme Court of the occupation rejected the petition submitted by the family of prisoner Hayel Abdul Jabbar Daif Allah (58 years old), who has been detained since September 2024, against the decision to demolish the family home, and gave the occupation prosecution a deadline to empty the house until February 26, 2025.

The occupation also decided to demolish the home of the family of prisoner Ahmed Al-Haimouni, who has been detained since October 1, 2024.

The Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Prisoners' Club explained that the demolition decision and the rejection of the petition were expected, in light of all previous decisions issued regarding the demolition of homes belonging to the families of Palestinian prisoners, as it comes within the framework of systematic crimes, including the crime of (collective punishment) that affects all aspects of Palestinian life, on several levels, as part of the crime of the apartheid regime.

The Authority and the Club continued that despite the decision of the International Court of Justice, which is that the continuation of emergency laws in the Israeli legal system violates several articles of the Geneva Convention and the Hague Convention, the Israeli Supreme Court completely ignored this, as part of its disregard for the existence of the international human rights system, considering it a case (exception) and that it is above the law.

It is noteworthy that the policy of house demolitions is one of the most prominent historical policies pursued by the occupation and continues to this day, but it has escalated significantly during the past few years, as part of the processes of erasure and confrontation of the ongoing Palestinian presence, which reached its peak with the war of extermination.

During the 16-month war of extermination in Gaza, the Israeli army destroyed most of the water and sewage networks in the Strip, leading to catastrophic health conditions.

Clemence Laguarda, the humanitarian coordinator for Oxfam International, a British-based non-governmental organization, in the Gaza Strip, said in a statement that Israel destroyed 1,650 kilometers of water and sewage networks, 80% of which are in the Gaza Strip.

She pointed out that this led to catastrophic health conditions, while residents in northern Gaza and in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip live on only 5.7 liters of water per day, which is less than 7% of pre-war rates.

“This is barely enough to flush a toilet,” Laguarda said. Oxfam said it looked forward to the ceasefire continuing and the flow of fuel and aid so Palestinians can rebuild their lives.

Oxfam confirmed that the destruction of these vital facilities has led to catastrophic health and medical conditions in the Strip, which threatens a worsening humanitarian crisis that threatens the lives of the population, especially with the scarcity of potable water and environmental pollution.

In the same context, the Regional Director of the United Nations Population Fund for Arab States, Laila Baker, said that the level of destruction due to the war on Gaza is as far as the eye can see.

Bakr called for improving living conditions to help the people of Gaza rebuild and rebuild their normal lives.

She pointed out that people's connection to the land is still strong, despite the amount of rubble and debris and the crowding of people in places unfit for living.

An assessment issued by the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank showed that rebuilding Gaza and the West Bank requires $53.2 billion over the next ten years, including $20 billion in the first three years.

According to a recent UN report, Gaza is experiencing an unprecedented devastation crisis, with estimates that removing the 40 to 50 million tons of debris and rubble from the conflict and restoring services to normal will take years of hard work.

Today, Wednesday, settlers began expanding one of the colonial outposts near the Tayasir checkpoint, east of Tubas.

The head of the village council in Al-Maleh and the Bedouin camps, Mahdi Draghmeh, reported that a number of settlers had begun expanding the colonial outpost, which is about 200 meters northeast of the Tayasir checkpoint.

He added that the settlers have set up about three tents and three caravans so far, while expansion work continues.

About twenty days ago, the settlers established a new colonial outpost near the barrier and began expanding it.

A report by the Wall and Settlement Authority indicated that the settlers had attempted to establish 10 new colonial outposts since the beginning of last January, which were predominantly agricultural and pastoral in nature, and were distributed as follows: 4 new colonial outposts on the lands of Tubas Governorate, 3 outposts in Nablus Governorate, and 3 others in Qalqilya, Ramallah, and Bethlehem.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces stormed the town, accompanied by a bulldozer, in preparation for carrying out a demolition operation, during which sound bombs were fired at the citizens.

Dozens of settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque today, Wednesday, under the protection of the Israeli occupation police.

Local sources reported that dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa from the Al-Maghariba Gate, carried out provocative tours in its courtyards, and performed Talmudic rituals in public under the protection of the occupation police, who assaulted the worshipers and removed them from the path of the settlers’ storming.

The occupation police also tightened its military measures at the gates of the Old City and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The official spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, warned against the occupation authorities continuing their comprehensive war on our people and our land in the West Bank, especially in the Jenin Governorate and its camp, and the Tulkarm Governorate and its camps, committing more crimes of murder, displacement, and destruction of property.

He said that the occupation forces are waging a campaign of systematic destruction of homes and displacement of citizens, which has led to the martyrdom of dozens of citizens and hundreds of wounded, amid international silence on the occupation's plans aimed at implementing the racist annexation and expansion plan, in continuation of the crimes of genocide it committed in the Gaza Strip, which led to the martyrdom, wounding and loss of more than 200 thousand citizens.

Abu Rudeineh called for the US administration to intervene to stop the ongoing Israeli aggression against our people and our land, and not to encourage it to continue its aggression, which will lead to the situation exploding in an uncontrollable manner, and everyone will pay the price.

The official spokesman for the presidency stressed that the Palestinian people will not accept any plans, whether for displacement or an alternative homeland.

Threatening our people will not benefit anyone, but will lead to widespread destruction here or in the region.

The presidential spokesman also condemned the occupation authorities' issuance of tenders to build 974 new colonial settlement units in the "Efrat" colony, and considered it an extension of the occupation's plans aimed at imposing a fait accompli policy, stressing that all colonialism is illegitimate and violates all international legitimacy resolutions that stressed the necessity of its removal.

He stressed that expanding colonialism directly leads to the consecration of the Israeli apartheid regime, and falls within the framework of imposing unilateral and illegal measures to undermine any opportunity to achieve peace in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.

Finally, heavy machinery has entered the Gaza Strip, and its number is limited, and the mobile homes are still undergoing Israeli inspections. In the midst of the Strip’s need for hundreds of heavy machinery and engineering equipment, and the necessity of the arrival of thousands of mobile homes, and with the resistance’s commitment to the terms of the first phase of the exchange deal, the occupation has not committed to it, especially the humanitarian protocol, as the occupation is obstructing the entry of basic priorities related to infrastructure, hospitals, water, electrical appliances, and energy sources.

The first drop of rain.. This applies to the aid that has been brought into the Gaza Strip, which needs millions of drops so that it becomes appropriate to talk about this humanitarian dimension, which Israel is deliberately delaying and procrastinating. However, the resistance succeeded in achieving an important strategic accomplishment against Israel, by agreeing with the mediating countries to release 4 bodies of Israelis tomorrow, Thursday, and 6 living detainees on Saturday. Thus, Israel was placed in a difficult position, as it must implement the deal protocol to the letter, and this is what Netanyahu does not want, as he seeks to preserve his government for fear of its collapse if he goes to the second stage negotiations.

The demand to bring in equipment, aid and caravans is an acquired and legitimate right of the Palestinians who no longer have a place to shelter them after the occupation destroyed their homes and tents. This right is not considered a favor or a gift from anyone... Rather, it is a real necessity for the steadfastness and strength of the Palestinians and their endurance of this unprecedented aggression.

Despite the positive developments in the negotiations for the end of the first phase, the preparations for the launch of the second phase train, the enthusiasm of each party, whether Palestinian or Israeli, to receive a large number of detainees and prisoners, even corpses, and the atmosphere of optimism that has returned to prevail, the Palestinian negotiator must pay attention to the seriousness of the stage, especially since Israel is still threatening to disarm Hamas and evacuate its leaders, and prevent any Palestinian ruling authority in the Strip. There is no doubt that these conditions, which are repeated in the form of statements and threats from officials in Israel and the United States, alike, constitute a real warning to cancel the exchange deal, cancel the ceasefire, and resume the aggression.

The state of polarization and political division within Israeli society, and among the leadership of Israeli political, security and military decision-making, is increasing. It is becoming more intense after the end of the first round of implementing the steps of the truce deal and ceasefire, and the start of negotiations and their preliminaries regarding the second round of the agreement. Will it be completed with all its pros and cons or will it stop with all its consequences?

The society and decision-making institutions of the colony are divided into two groups that are not necessarily equal, each with its own rules, biases, and justifiable motives.

The first team is working and pressing towards continuing the ceasefire, completing the steps of the truce agreement, and releasing the remaining Israeli prisoners, after the success of the steps of the first stage, and the implementation of its provisions by the two parties to the conflict: 1- By the Palestinian resistance, 2- By the occupation forces, the colony army, and the security services, despite the difficulties, procedural obstacles, and deliberate or accidental attempts at obstruction.

The second team has no interest in a ceasefire for personal reasons, opportunistic partisan motives, or racist ideology.

The first team is represented by the families of the Israeli prisoners who have not yet been released, as the agreement is gradual, multi-step, and the mutual freedom of the prisoners is carried out in stages.

These people express their motives and demands through almost daily protests and tangible demonstrations that attract and support other segments of solidarity, represented by the families of soldiers killed in the past months. They do not find that any political or deterrent gains have been achieved against the “Palestinian enemy.” Rather, the “enemy” is still capable and present, as evidenced by its ability to hold prisoners, the organization’s ability to release prisoners, the availability of logistical capabilities to hide, and the availability of weapons and accompanying services.

The families of thousands of soldiers and officers who are still in reserve are also in solidarity with them and participating in the protest.

And mandatory conscription for nearly a year and a half without a specific horizon.

These people believe that the continuation of the war will lead to more losses of prisoners, more than thirty of whom were killed due to deliberate or random Israeli bombing, and that there is no way to release the Israelis except through agreement and prisoner exchange.

The military and security establishment also does not find that it has strategic goals that can be achieved or undermined in the Gaza Strip, after the destruction and bombing of everything existing throughout the Strip.

Military and security leaders also believe that continuing the war through an invasion will give the Palestinian resistance opportunities to pounce and snipe at soldiers and vehicles due to the destruction, devastation, and accumulation of debris that hinders Israeli movements. Otherwise, priority and freedom of movement will be given to the Palestinians. Therefore, they do not favor re-invasion. If the war is resumed, it will be limited to bombing operations, unrestricted except for more destruction of civilian homes.

This conflict between the options of the two parties to the division and dispute will constitute obstacles to delay, but it will not cancel the continuation towards the option of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange.

The use of the broken record and the threat of displacement is not new, but rather has its roots in the old-new apartheid ideology, which is shared by many colonial powers, regardless of their geographical locations, political systems, and governments elected by their peoples, as history has attested to since ancient times.

In the past, the displacement of peoples was done for purely economic motives, as happened in the displacement of millions of crushed Africans to America. And now this motive is back again after Trump announced his intention to displace the people of Gaza and deal with it as a real estate deal for him, in addition to laying his hands on Greenland and annexing Canada. Then the colonial military motive appeared, as former US President Johnson did in one of the islands of Mauritius, and today it came in the form of ethnic cleansing (genocide).

Many terms have been used to describe this situation: reallocation/repositioning, displacement, transfer, dispossessing, and today we are facing a new form of genocide.

Several methods have been and are still being used to test the people's feelings regarding the idea of displacement.

1- In the past, violence was practiced and massacres were committed, as happened in Tantura, Deir Yassin, Kafr Qasim, Iqrit, Bir’am, and other massacres, some of which the perpetrators admitted to, while there are massacres that the same perpetrator still deliberately ignores.

2- Resorting to methods of tightening the noose on citizens in order to limit their freedom of movement, such as imposing military orders or the tendency to place barriers, earthen curtains and iron gates. The objectives behind this method have changed, as at first it was to establish a fait accompli that says "we are here" and to send a message to the residents that there is someone controlling them, then another objective was added, which is tightening the noose so that the citizen feels disgusted and begins to think about searching for alternatives that enable him to overcome the problems and obstacles of these fixed barriers (the detestable Qalandia barrier, for example) and their impact on his fixed daily life. Sometimes, what is known as the flying, non-fixed barriers is resorted to, one of the most prominent objectives of which is to humiliate and annoy the citizen.

3- In addition, these checkpoints are used to serve political visions that aim to consolidate the annexation of certain geographical areas (Qalandiya and Hizma checkpoints to separate the West Bank areas from the city of Jerusalem, and the Container and Za’tara checkpoints to separate the north of the West Bank from the south).

There is no doubt that there is a significant increase in the number of military checkpoints set up by the occupation, not only with the aim of tightening the noose and confiscating freedom of movement and travel, but also in order to humiliate the Palestinian citizen and push him to think about emigrating.

There is no doubt that the discussion on the subject of these barriers is long in terms of the goal, importance, and mechanisms for activating them, so I will leave this matter to the specialists to address it in a comprehensive and detailed manner.

No matter how different and varied the names are, they all leave permanent psychological fingerprints and effects with different levels of influence. Perhaps what the Palestinian people have been exposed to since the 1948 Nakba, which led to the existence of a new psychological term known as Intergenerational Traumatic Effects, was followed by what resulted from another Nakba in 1967 and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees outside their homes, followed by massacres and continuous incursions into the occupied territories with the aim of displacement and in the best of cases, dissolving the Palestinian national identity through attempts to create dependency and normalization (see the author's book "The Role of Palestinian Workers in the Israeli Economy - Reserve Army in Israel", published by the Palestinian Office for Press and Information, Jerusalem, 1981) and the book "The Siege - Israeli Violations Against the Palestinian Cultural Movement in the Occupied Territories in 1967", published by the Palestinian Writers Union, Jerusalem, 1987.

Unfortunately, the calls for displacement have achieved some of their goals, as they have become the talk of the majority of Palestinians, to the point that some representatives of Palestinian factions have held protests in public squares. Once you start thinking about it, the farce has found a way into the souls and minds of some, instead of mobilizing the masses and formulating plans to confront and act to prevent it from happening.

Under such conditions, psychological symptoms of various names and forms began to crystallize. We should mention that the first scientific psychological study on this matter was conducted by Finnish researcher Raya Panumiki for the Arab Studies Association in 1983. The researcher addressed, in the field, the psychological effects on Palestinian children with the assistance of educator Therese Sabella.

In the last two weeks, the mental health team at the Center for Educational Studies and Applications (CARE) took a random sample from different geographical areas (occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah, Jericho and northern Hebron), of males and females with different age and educational levels and political views, totaling approximately 900 people. After conducting individual interviews with members of this sample, the team recorded the following observations: - The majority of those we spoke with see the threat of displacement as a mere scarecrow and a desperate attempt to cover up the operations and massacres that took place, which can be described as genocide at best. Therefore, these nonsense and attempts come as a new distraction to distract the people and their institutions from taking actions that would ward off the psychological repercussions of the genocide attempts that are still continuing throughout the northern and southern governorates of the homeland, targeting all categories and sectors of the Palestinian people. It is no coincidence that the focus is on refugee camps as an attempt to obliterate one of the main features of the Palestinian cause, in addition to slowing down the reconstruction operations in order to formulate a complete plan to make it subordinate to the vision of Trump and his allies in the region, so that he becomes the final authority in every small and large matter, and thus the whips of economic dependence become dominant in the region as a whole, as is the case with some existing mini-states.

- What made matters worse for such people is the scarcity of material and moral support, first from the well-off in our society and second from the Arab peoples. This desired support, unfortunately, did not go beyond chants, slogans and statements that are of no avail. What exacerbated such feelings is the continuation of the state of division and narrow factional work.

- One of the goals of the heresies and the threat of expulsion is to spread a feeling of weakness and despair among the citizens, and unfortunately the attempts to involve some members of the fifth column from our own people, whether Arab or Palestinian, intentionally or unintentionally, attempts to make doubt and suspicion penetrate the souls of the people on the path of resignation and surrender. Through the answers and reactions of the majority of the individuals in this sample, we found sufficient awareness of the impossibility of implementing what the advocates of expulsion aspire to, from the experiences and attempts of expulsion that followed the 1948 catastrophe and the lessons learned from it, as a result of the miserable reality they lived and continue to live, and perhaps the clinging of the people of Qalqilya Governorate is an example of this, as they categorically refused, after the June defeat and what followed, to leave their homes and lands, taking lessons from what happened in 1948, not to mention the reality of the situation that says "We have no other place to go and we have no choice but to continue to cling to our land and remain steadfast on it."

Despair has not been able to penetrate the souls of citizens due to their constant adherence to religious belief and the words of the Holy Prophet, “Do not despair” and “Do not despair of the mercy of God.”

- We found among a group of this random sample a state of staggering and suspicion, with a feeling of loss of hope and loss of a safe place, insomnia and anxiety to the point of hallucination, after they witnessed the great destruction that befell their property and the large numbers of dead, wounded and missing.

To get out and to mitigate the expected psychological repercussions later (the growth of feelings of introversion and loneliness, the expansion of the circle of social disintegration, and thus the increase in the possibility of feeling frustrated and lack of motivation to take initiative and persevere with a decrease in productivity and self-reliance, and a clear and tangible observation represented in the decline in academic achievement among the student group, and the continued dominance of feelings of sadness and absent-mindedness, due to the fear of the following "displacement", all of this will contribute to increasing the chances of domestic and local violence, which undermines the chances of civil peace).

• Therefore, we are in dire need of developing preventive measures and the necessity of intensifying the culture of mental health and conducting more training, especially in marginalized areas, and the concerted efforts of everyone: specialized governmental and civil institutions, professionals in the field and everyone who has a direct or indirect relationship, in order to reduce the expected negative psychological effects such as those we mentioned above, for example, but not limited to.

• The media (in all its forms and types) has an active role in this field, whether in choosing the terms used or presenting the programmes. It would be preferable to focus on the positive aspect in form and content and to avoid as much as possible the constant use of images and programmes with a potential negative connotation and impact.

• The necessity of rallying around the Palestine Liberation Organization and joining all national and Islamic forces in one trench, on the path of unified collective action and eliminating the narrow factional action that has brought us to the miserable state we are in today, which has made the wicked in our land become lions.

The People's Republic of China has reaffirmed its strong support for the two-state solution as the only realistic path to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

China's Xinhua News Agency quoted Chinese Ambassador to Egypt and the Arab League Liao Liqiang as calling, in a speech he delivered at the fourth meeting of the Global Alliance for the Two-State Solution, held in Cairo, for the international community to work vigorously to fully implement the ceasefire agreement.

He also expressed his deep concern about the situation in the Gaza Strip.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces removed commercial stalls, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources said that the occupation forces removed commercial stalls and seized some of them at the entrance to the town.

A child was killed this Wednesday morning by Israeli occupation army bullets in the airport area, east of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.

Between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2025, the occupation forces launched an aggression on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death and injury of more than 158,000 people, most of whom were children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.

The world is awaiting the talks on the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, which entered its 32nd day on Wednesday, while the suffering of the Palestinians in the Strip is worsening due to Israel’s obstruction of the entry of humanitarian aid.

This anticipation comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel's intention to enter into the second phase of negotiations, while reiterating his demand to disarm the Gaza Strip and remove Hamas from power, without clarifying the details.

Netanyahu asked the ministers during an official meeting on Tuesday not to leak anything related to the exchange deal with Hamas.

On the Palestinian side, Hamas in the Gaza Strip decided to hand over the bodies of 4 Israeli prisoners on Thursday. Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya said that it was decided to hand over 6 living prisoners next Saturday, as part of implementing the provisions of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement.

Hamas confirmed in a statement: "We are ready for a second phase in which the prisoners will be exchanged in one go," in order to "reach an agreement that leads to a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from the Strip."

Regarding the efforts of mediators aimed at moving the file of rebuilding the Gaza Strip, Egyptian sources revealed that extensive consultations are taking place between Cairo and representatives of the European Union regarding formulating a partnership mechanism and supervising a temporary committee formed by the Egyptians from independent Palestinian figures who are not affiliated with either the Fatah or Hamas movements or the Palestinian Authority, to manage the Gaza Strip with direct Egyptian supervision and European follow-up.

The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on Tulkarm and Jenin, amidst the destruction of infrastructure.

**Tulkarm**

The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 24th consecutive day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 11th day, amid a military escalation of demolition, bombing, and burning of homes and widespread destruction of infrastructure.

Local sources said that the occupation forces sent more military reinforcements to the city of Tulkarm and its two camps (Tulkarm and Nour Shams), accompanied by the sound of gunfire and explosions, while they stormed the suburbs of Dhnaba, east of the city, and Artah, south of it, and raided several homes and residential buildings, and arrested a number of citizens, including displaced persons from Nour Shams camp. Among the detainees were identified as: Ali Abu Zahra, Ayman Turabi, Nael Al-Banna and his son Yousef, and Abdul Rahman Hani Muhammad Abdullah.

The occupation forces were deployed in various streets and neighborhoods of the city, and set up military checkpoints in them. They were stationed in the streets of Nablus connecting the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, the Shuwaika roundabout in the northern neighborhood, the Abu Safiya junction in the eastern neighborhood, and the Faroun roundabout in the south, while foot patrols roamed the streets of the city, specifically the vegetable market, and the street of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.

The occupation forces stopped the vehicles, searched them, checked the identities of their passengers, and prevented them from passing, while they intercepted young men, detained them, interrogated them in the field, and abused them, without any arrests being reported.

Last night, an occupation military vehicle collided with a civilian vehicle on Nablus Street. Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation soldiers fired sound bombs at the vehicle and prevented ambulance crews from approaching it for a long time before allowing them to transport the injured person to the hospital.

In the same context, Tulkarm camp witnessed a large-scale demolition of citizens’ homes after 14 homes inside the camp were notified of their demolition, under the pretext of paving a street in the middle of the camp extending from the Agency area to the Balawneh neighborhood.

The occupation bulldozers continued to demolish a number of houses in the camp since yesterday morning, while the soldiers burned a number of others, amid the sounds of gunfire. The targeted houses belong to the families: Abu Shahab, Sheikh Ali, Balidi, Al-Turki, Hajbi, Ibrahim, Abdul Razzaq, Qassem, Kanaan, Abed, Salem, Hajj Yusef, and Shahab.

At the same time, the occupation forces continue their tight siege on Nour Shams camp, with infantry soldiers deployed in its neighborhoods, raiding and vandalizing homes, while burning the home of the Faisal family in the Manshiyya neighborhood.

The occupation forces continue to seize two houses on Nablus Street, turning them into military barracks, with foot patrols deployed around them.

At the same time, the occupation forces continue to close the gate of the Jabara checkpoint at the southern entrance to the city of Tulkarm for the 12th consecutive day, isolating the city from the villages and towns of Al-Kafriyat and the rest of the West Bank governorates.

**fetal**

Today, Wednesday, the aggression of the Israeli occupation army on the city of Jenin and its camp entered its first month, which has so far resulted in the martyrdom of 26 citizens and dozens of injuries, and the displacement of thousands of citizens, amidst unprecedented destruction, demolition and burning of homes.

As the Israeli aggression on Jenin camp continues, the extent of the massive destruction of homes, properties and shops of citizens in the neighborhoods and streets of the city and the camp is revealed day after day, while the occupation continues to send military reinforcements accompanied by bulldozers and fuel tankers to the entrances and surroundings of the camp.

Yesterday, the occupation army brought in large water tanks, in addition to small rooms for the occupation soldiers. The occupation bulldozers continue the destruction and demolition work and the opening of streets in several neighborhoods of the Jenin camp. Drones also continue to fly at low altitudes in the sky of the city and the camp.

Frankly speaking, transferring the Gaza experience to the West Bank, without scrutiny or review, and ignoring the lessons and morals learned from the bloody experience, is at odds with reason and logic in dealing with the enormous costs of an enemy that has practiced madness, driven by desires for revenge and dreams of expansion fueled by biblical myths, to brutalize the popular incubators that have no weapons other than what they cling to of will, steadfastness, and connection to the land of their fathers and grandfathers, so they paid the bills of their steadfastness from their origins, and the hardship of their lives from homes and properties, and from the heart of their sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers.

As long as the demand for a final cessation of the war on Gaza is at the forefront of the terms of the final agreement in its second phase between Israel and the resistance, why the insistence on setting it on fire in the West Bank, in the face of an enemy that has reached the peak of madness in burning, erasing and uprooting, by targeting camps, villages and towns.

If the matter is not a matter of “closing the means is more important than bringing benefits,” then let it be a matter of unity of arenas, to rearrange priorities, conduct reviews, and cool the hot heads that view the tragedies that have befallen the incubators as tactics and nothing more.

In Gaza, the Holocaust targeted people, not Hamas. In the West Bank, tens of thousands were displaced from the northern camps, and streets were opened on the ruins of homes and shops, under the pretext of targeting the resistance fighters who had barricaded themselves there to defend their residents.

The fates of people and their properties are not determined by calculations of disputes, intrigues, and the disturbance of the authority by digging under it to weaken it, so that what happened to Gaza will happen to the West Bank. These calculations are closer to suicide than to correcting the course and achieving goals.

Since the first bullet was fired, the resistance has taken up residence in caves and mountains, and the fedayeen did not raise their rifles inside the alleys of the camps, in the open squares under the eyes of the drones, which caused their martyrdom in the prime of their lives, along with dozens of others who happened to be in the places where they were targeted.

The land is worthless without its people, and the camps are worthless without their refugee guards who warm themselves on the embers of longing to return to the villages and towns from which they were displaced, only to lose the right to return even to their camps, which have become rubble and barren wasteland.

Life and mothers' wombs remain the strongest weapon against those who kill and displace demographics to control geography... so be gentle with the incubators

The Israeli occupation forces launched an arrest campaign in the West Bank at dawn and this morning, Wednesday.

In Bethlehem, the occupation forces stormed several towns in the Bethlehem Governorate, and detained 14 citizens for hours during a raid on the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem.

The occupation forces also arrested: Ibrahim Ali Dhuib, Ibrahim Suleiman Dhuib from Za’tara, Muhammad Eid Al-Arouj, Muhammad Mustafa Issa Arouj, a freed prisoner, Faisal Hassan Al-Arouj from the town of Janata to the east, and the child Mu’in Ghassan Salahat (14 years old) from Beit Fajjar.

In Nablus, the occupation forces stormed the village of Kafr Qalil, raided and searched several homes, and arrested citizens Moatasem Sayel and Osama Ahmed.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces stormed the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus, and arrested citizen Tariq Abu Al-Muslim after raiding his house.

In Hebron, the occupation soldiers raided a number of citizens’ homes in the neighborhoods of Asida, Al-Batin, Al-Jilda and the center of Beit Ummar, searched them, ransacked their contents, destroyed their furniture, seized agricultural materials, and arrested the brothers Rami Jamil Abu Maria (40 years old), and his brother Tamer (38 years old), and the child Hudhayfah Hussein Abdullah Bahr (14 years old).

The occupation forces also seized large quantities of bags of organic fertilizer from the home of Jamil Amer Abu Maria, who uses it for agricultural purposes.

The occupation forces stormed the city of Hebron and searched several homes owned by the Al-Jaabari, Jaber, Al-Tamimi and other families, and wreaked havoc on their contents.

On Tuesday, the Israeli occupation army launched artillery shelling on residential areas in Daraa Governorate, southern Syria.

According to local sources, the Israeli army launched 9 artillery attacks southwest of Daraa.

The sources pointed out that the bombing targeted civilian residential areas, while they did not mention any deaths or injuries as a result of the bombing.

Taking advantage of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime on December 8, 2024, Israel expanded its occupation of the Golan Heights by occupying the Syrian buffer zone and Mount Hermon, and expanded its attacks on infrastructure and military sites in Syria.

The Israeli army began destroying the military infrastructure and remaining capabilities of the ousted regime's army, and expanded its occupation within the buffer zone surrounding the Golan Heights, which is part of Syrian territory, until it reached a distance of 25 kilometers from the capital, Damascus.

Israel also announced the collapse of the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria, and the deployment of its army in the demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, most of whose area it has occupied since 1967, in a move condemned by the United Nations and Arab countries.

It is noteworthy that Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967. In 1974, a separation of forces agreement was signed between Israel and Syria, which defined the borders of the buffer zone and the demilitarized zone.

This evening, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces sent more military vehicles and bulldozers to the city of Tulkarm and its two camps (Tulkarm and Nour Shams), amid an escalation in the demolition, destruction and burning of homes.

According to local sources, the occupation bulldozers continued throughout the day the process of demolishing a number of houses in Tulkarm camp, which they started in the morning, while the soldiers burned a number of others, amid the sounds of gunfire. It was explained that the targeted houses belong to the families: Abu Shahab, Sheikh Ali, Balidi, Al-Turki, Hajbi, Ibrahim, Abdul Razzaq, Qasim, Kanaan, Abed, Salem, Hajj Yusef, and Shahab.

The occupation forces had notified the demolition of 14 houses inside the camp, under the pretext of paving a street in the middle of the camp extending from the Agency area to the Balawneh neighborhood.

The head of the Popular Committee for Services in Tulkarm Camp, Faisal Salama, said that the occupation forces immediately began demolishing the homes this morning without giving their owners enough time to take their belongings, adding that a number of citizens who were able to enter the camp were surprised by the extent of the destruction in their homes and their contents, and some of them were burned.

He explained that the aim of demolishing this number of houses, as each building has several floors housing dozens of families, is to reoccupy the camp and draw a military occupation map inside it to facilitate the movement of soldiers and vehicles, implement the annexation policy, and change its features.

Salama added: "We are talking about 62 invasions of Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps since the beginning of the Israeli aggression against our people in October 2023, and each invasion is more violent than the one before it, with crimes around the clock, and the comprehensive destruction of the infrastructure of sewage networks, water, electricity, communications, streets and roads, and the demolition, bombing and burning of homes."

Salama explained that this aggression is the longest, as it lasted for 23 days and is still ongoing, indicating that according to statistics up until now, 50 homes were destroyed and burned, and 300 shops were completely destroyed, in addition to the destruction and sabotage of a large number of vehicles, and thus the camp became lifeless, with water, electricity and communications cut off after the destruction and bulldozing of the infrastructure, in addition to the displacement of 11 thousand citizens out of 15 thousand who lived in it.

In the same context, the occupation forces set up military checkpoints inside the city of Tulkarm, and burned a house in the Nour Shams camp.

Our correspondent reported that the occupation forces set up checkpoints on Nablus Street, which connects Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, Shuwaika Roundabout Street in the northern neighborhood, Abu Safiya Junction Street in the eastern neighborhood, and Faroun Roundabout to the south, while foot patrols roamed the city streets, specifically the vegetable market and the street of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.

The occupation forces stopped the vehicles, searched them, checked the identities of their passengers, and prevented them from passing, while they intercepted young men, detained them, interrogated them in the field, and abused them, without any arrests being reported.

An occupation military vehicle collided with a Palestinian civilian vehicle on Nablus Street. Eyewitnesses told WAFA that the occupation soldiers fired sound bombs at the vehicle and prevented ambulance crews from approaching it.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that the occupation army detained the ambulance on Nablus Street, near Al-Firdaws Mosque, while it was on its way to transport an injured person as a result of the accident.

A citizen was injured by Israeli occupation forces' bullets, Tuesday evening, during their raid on the village of Deir Abu Mash'al, northwest of Ramallah.

According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed Deir Abu Mash'al amidst gunfire, which led to clashes during which a citizen was injured by live bullets in the foot.

In the same context, the occupation forces stormed the villages and towns of Deir Ghassaneh, Kafr Ein, Beit Rima, Barqa, and Deir Jarir in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, without any arrests being reported.

The Israeli occupation army said on Tuesday that it had opened fire on a number of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, claiming that they were approaching its forces stationed in different areas of the Strip, which it considered a "threat" to its personnel.

He said in a statement published on his account on the "X" platform: "Today we opened fire at a number of suspects who approached our forces operating in different areas of the Gaza Strip and posed a threat to them."

He claimed that his forces spotted a Palestinian in the southern Gaza Strip moving near them, so they opened fire to push him away.

"When the suspect continued to advance toward the force and posed an immediate threat, he was shot again to remove the threat," he claimed.

An Israeli drone also fired to “remove” a Palestinian vehicle, claiming that it “was moving north from the center of the Strip on an unauthorized route for vehicle movement, without passing through the inspection route, contrary to the agreed plan.”

In its statement, the Israeli army called on the residents of Gaza to "obey" its instructions and "not approach the forces deployed in the area, and to cross through the agreed-upon inspection axes."

On January 27, the process of Palestinians returning to the northern Gaza Strip began on foot via the coastal road and by vehicle on Salah al-Din Road, while three American and Egyptian security companies took over the process of searching the returning vehicles, according to Hebrew media.

On January 19, a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and a prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel went into effect, mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States.

The agreement consists of 3 stages, each lasting 42 days, during which negotiations will take place to start a second and third stage, leading to the end of the war of extermination.