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09-01-2025
GAZA STRIP: Attacks by Israel’s army on war-battered Gaza continue with at least 51 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry, including infants, young children, and women.
US President-elect Donald Trump demands that Hamas releases Israeli captives held in Gaza by the time he enters office, warning “all hell will break out” otherwise.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati informs international sponsors of the Israel-Hezbollah truce deal about continued Israeli violations as Lebanon’s army deploys units to southern areas that Israeli forces pulled out from.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 45,936 Palestinians and wounded 109,274 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 taken captive.
An Israeli air strike targeted a group of Palestine Telecommunications Company workers who were maintaining towers in the Shujayea district of northern Gaza City.
Four employers sustained critical injuries in the attack. Journalist Hossam Shbat shared a video documenting the scene.
Israeli aircraft target the crews of the Palestinian Telecommunications Company in Gaza City while they were working.
The Palestinian Information Center also shared a video on X showing Palestinian civilians trying to help and transport the wounded.
Media has reported earlier that the Israeli army killed three Palestinian fighters yesterday in an air strike on the town of Tammun in the occupied West Bank’s Tubas governorate.
Ahmad Assad, governor of the northern West Bank city of Tubas, told media that the strike actually killed a 23-year-old man and two children, aged eight and 10.
Trump’s statement in which he said “all hell will break out” in the Middle East if Hamas does not release captives by the time he takes office is indicative that the incoming US leader thinks outgoing US President Joe Biden dragged out the war on Gaza for far too long, according to an analyst.
“Trump is not a person who speaks with great precision, and oftentimes without much coherence,” Dan Perry, a former regional editor at The Associated Press, told media but “it’s very, very clear that he identifies that Biden somehow allowed the war to go on longer than the vast majority of people in the region and in America would like to have seen, and that includes Israelis.”
What Trump means by saying “there’s going to be hell to pay” is not at all clear, but he does have leverage on [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, said Perry.
This could force him to accept Hamas’s terms of an end to the war with Hamas remaining in power in Gaza, something few Israelis want, and something Trump himself unlikely wants, the former editor said.
“Another thing he could do is force Netanyahu to agree to create a logical endgame, meaning allowing the Palestinian Authority or some version of it, to take over for Hamas,” said Perry, adding that so far Netanyahu has blocked this because elements of his coalition oppose it.
“So Israel has great strategic fuzziness, and Trump could potentially force them to rethink that, but it’s also possible that Trump could apply great pressure on Arab countries to maximize the pressure on Hamas,” he added.
A number of teachers and students suffered injuries after inhaling tear gas that Israeli soldiers launched at the Kisan School east of Bethlehem, Wafa news agency reports.
Palestinians at the school were reportedly throwing stones at military vehicles when troops launched the barrage of gas. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
