An Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed a close confidante as head of the negotiations for the second stage of the armistice with Hamas.
Ron Dermmer, born in the United States, is a cabinet minister who is generally considered a Netanyahus closest consultant. Previously, he was served as Israel’s ambassador in the USA and is a former Republican activist with robust connections to the Trump White House.
Israel and Hamas have to negotiate a second and more complex phase of the ceasefire, and the first ends in early March. Palestinians and Arab countries have generally rejected the proposal of US President Donald Trump to remove the Palestinian population from Gaza and take over the territory.
Since the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, the Gaza war has triggered, more than 50,000 people have died in the Gaza and Lebanon, and almost 70% of the buildings in Gaza were destroyed in Gaza and Lebanon, according to Health Ministries. Around 1,200 people were killed in Israel during the attack on October 7.
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Egypt’s leader confirms the opposition to Trump’s Gaza plan
Egypt’s guide repeated his opposition to the transfer of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, as proposed by US President Donald Trump.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi asked the international community on Wednesday to support a reconstruction plan that would enable the Palestinians to stay in their homeland. He said that the reconstruction of Gaza strips had to be implemented “without the transfer of the Palestinian people from their country on which they cling”.
Egypt and Jordan have rejected Trump’s proposal to record a vast number of Palestinian refugees.
El-Sissi spoke in Madrid at a joint press conference with the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who also condemned Trump’s proposal. It is “immoral and contrary to the resolutions of the United Nations” and has a destabilizing effect on the region.
The two guides also called for the revival of a peace process, which led to a two-state solution for the conflict.
U and will launch another polio vaccination drive in the Gaza Strip
The United Nations’ chief of health says that another campaign for polio vaccinations will be started in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, General Director of the World Health Organization, said on Wednesday about X that the campaign aims to vaccinate more than 591,000 children under the age of 10.
According to the recent evidence of poliovirus, it comes into sewing samples and signal cycle.
Last year, Gaza reported his first polio case in 25 years of 10 months elderly boy, who is now paralyzed in one leg. At that time, the WHO said that the presence of a paralysis said that there could be hundreds that were infected but have no symptoms.
Israeli drone strike in South Libanon kills 1
According to the State National News Agency in Lebanon in the Lebanese news agency, an Israeli drone strike against the car in a border village killed a person.
The strike on Wednesday in the village of Aita al-Shaab was the first since Israeli troops retired the day before as part of a US ceasefire between Israel and the Hisbollah from southern border areas.
The agency also said that Israeli troops opened fire on the Lebanese side of the border and wounded two people.
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
Oxfam says that 80% of the Gaza water infrastructure is damaged
According to the international charity organization Oxfam, 80% of the water and sanitary networks in the Gaza Strip in the Israel-Hamas War were damaged or destroyed.
The damaged networks, including all six vast wastewater treatment plants, have accelerated the spread of water diseases as hundreds of thousands of people in tent camps, said Oxfam.
In a report this week, the World Bank estimated that the reconstruction of Gaza would cost over 50 billion US dollars. This is well over twice as high as the entire Palestinian economic output in 2022.
With the future of ceasefire and Israel and Egypt, which maintains a blockade of the Gaza Strip, it is unclear when or how something is being rebuilt.
5 Israeli soldiers who are charged with a Palestinian prisoner due to assault
The Israeli military lawyers charged five soldiers for assault for a Palestinian prisoner in which they soded him with a knife.
The military said that the attack on July 5, 2024 in the SDE Teiman facility “caused serious physical injuries to the prisoner, including cracked ribs, a suitable lung and an inner rectal tear.”
The soldiers brought the prisoner into a separate area that was tied up with connected eyes and handcuffs before attacking it. The evidence for the attack was “extensive” and contained film material from a surveillance camera.
The five belonged to nine Israeli reservists who were arrested last July for the attack. At that time, a defender denied the allegations and said the soldiers answered by force when the prisoner attacked her.
Their arrest triggered furious protests from supporters who demanded their release, including the MPs and at least two government ministers. Hardliners in Israel have called for a demanding treatment of suspicion of Hamas fighters.
Netanyahu appoints a close consultant with Trump tie to guide ceasefire negotiations
An Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed a close confidante as head of the negotiations for the second stage of the armistice with Hamas.
The officer says that cabinet minister Ron Dermer will lead the Israeli team. Earlier talks were led by the heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet security authorities.
The talks have not yet started in the second stage, which should contain an end to the war, the return of all hostages and the extract of Israeli extract from the Gaza.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the appointment was not officially announced.
The Dermer, born in the USA, is widely considered a Netanyahus closest consultant. Previously, he was served as Israel’s ambassador in the USA and is a former Republican activist with robust connections to the Trump White House.
Dermmer is currently acting as Israel’s strategic ministry of law, where he was an essential player in relationships with the United States and in Arab Gol Arts.
– Joseph Federman, Jerusalem
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