Israel-Palestine live: Israel and Palestinians agree to truce, hostage deal

Israeli Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar has requested that the citizenship of Ataa Jaber, an athlete who plays football for the Palestinian national team, be revoked, according to Israeli media. 

The call came after the football player, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, observed a minute's silence for Gaza during a match against Lebanon last week.

In a letter to Interior Minister Moshe Arbel, Zohar requested that Jaber's citizenship be revoked due to his “clear identification with terrorists”.

“During the game, Jaber expressed identification with the enemy when he stood for a minute of silence in memory of ‘the victims in Gaza’ while ignoring the murdered on the Israeli side and identifying with the Nazi terrorist organisation Hamas,” the minister said. 
 

An Israeli drone strike that killed two journalists and a civilian on Tuesday also caused damage to a church in south Lebanon.

Photos shared online showed damage to the walls, chairs and ceiling. 

Exclusive footage inside Gaza's Indonesian Hospital, which was shared on Al-Jazeera Arabic on Tuesday, shows the widespread destruction inside the building, which has been under Israeli siege for days. 

Ceilings in some wards have totally collapsed; windows have been smashed and blood streaks the walls. Dead bodies are also clearly visible in the footage. 

Equipment, including wheelchairs, hospital beds, MRI and X-ray machines are also completely destroyed. 

Israeli tanks surround the building and there has been no electricity since the start of the siege. Journalists inside the hospital said that anyone who moves is being shot at.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister reiterated calls for a ceasefire during a meeting with Muslim and Arab League diplomats in Moscow on Tuesday.

“There is no excuse for such atrocities with the claim of self-defence,” he said, saying that there must be an “immediate ceasefire and end to the siege”.

“We cannot talk about the future of Gaza until we have a ceasefire and Israel stops the targeting of civilians,” he added. 

Representatives from Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan and Palestine are also present at the meeting.
 

Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said on Tuesday that negotiations to free captives taken by Hamas are at their “closest point”.

“We are at the closest point we ever have been in reaching an agreement,” he said.

He added that they are currently at the “final stage”, and that he is “very optimistic and hopeful”.
 

An Israeli air strike on Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp which killed at least 20 Palestinians earlier today also targeted the homes of medical personnel, according to an Al Jazeera journalist on the ground. 

Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Washah said “the houses of a nurse and a civil defence staff were among those targeted”.

One survivor at the scene said that in some homes, there were at least 50 people sheltering.

A World Health Organisation (WHO) spokesperson said on Tuesday that three hospitals in Gaza have requested help with evacuating patients and said that planning was underway.

WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said that the three hospitals were Al Shifa, from which a group of babies has already been rescued, Indonesian Hospital and Al Ahli Hospital.

He said such an event was a last resort, as Israeli bombardment and siege has left patients without healthcare and staff unable to assist them. 

"It's robbing the entire population of the north of the means to seek health (care)," he told a Geneva press briefing.
 

Two journalists for al-Mayadeen have been killed following an Israeli attack on south Lebanon, the news agency said.

The journalists have been identified as correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih al-Me’mari. 

Earlier this month, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, warned Israel against any more attacks on Lebanon. 

“All options are on the table on the Lebanese front,” he said. If Israel continues targeting civilians in Lebanon, “then we will go back to ‘a civilian for a civilian’.”

A 17-year-old Palestinian has been shot in the chest by Israeli forces in the Balata refugee camp, according to the Red Crescent. 

The teenager was taken to the Rafidia Hospital for treatment.
 

A civilian has been killed in south Lebanon along with two journalists on Tuesday morning, according to al-Mayadeen. 

The air strike struck the crossroads between Tayr Harfa and Jabbain in the Sour district. 

The civilian has been identified as Hussein Akil, who worked as a guide for the journalists, L’Orient Today reported. 
 

In an interview with CNN, the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak said that Israel “helped build bunkers under al-Shifa Hospital”.

Barak said that Israel had built the bunkers when asked about his view that there is a “command centre” at al-Shifa.

“It is already known for many years that there are bunkers that were originally built by Israeli constructors underneath al-Shifa and were used as command centre by Hamas, as part of the system. I don’t know to what extent it is used as a major one, but it has for sure been used by Hamas,” he said.

When pressed to clarify, Barak maintained that Israeli engineers constructed the bunkers. 

“Decades ago, they were running the place, we [Israel] helped them build these bunkers to create more space for operations of the hospital within the limited size of the complex,” he added.

The interviewee challenges Barak, saying that Israel is yet to show conclusive evidence that Hamas is using al-Shifa Hospital as a command centre.

A Palestinian citizen of Israel from the village of Abu Sinan in the Galilee has been arrested on suspicion of “incitement and publishing content supportive of Hamas on social media,” according to local media. 

The woman, who is described as being in her 20s, was arrested on Monday and referred to an Israeli police station for interrogation. 

Her social media post reportedly read: “This will remain the greatest day in the history of Palestine,” believed to be in reference to the 7 October attack on Israel. 

Israeli police are set to request an extension of the woman’s arrest until judicial procedures are completed.  
 

Israeli bombing targeted the vicinity of a gathering of a group of journalists in southern Lebanon, al Jazeera Arabic reported on Tuesday. 

The journalists were in the town of Teyr Harfa. 
 

An 80-year-old woman has been killed in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon, according to the country’s state-run media.

The woman’s granddaughter was also wounded in the attack. 

“Enemy aircraft raided inhabited houses in Kfar Kila, leading to the death of citizen Laiqa Sarhan, 80, and the wounding of her granddaughter,” the official National News Agency said.

The death marks the 11th civilian casualty in Lebanon since the start of the war on 7 October.

Earlier this month, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, warned that if Israel conducts any major operation against Lebanon, they “would be committing the biggest foolishness in your history and the history of your presence”.

He added that if Israel continues targeting civilians in Lebanon, “then we will go back to ‘a civilian for a civilian’.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the ongoing war with the leaders of the Brics bloc in a video conference on Tuesday, after which the group is expected to issue a joint statement, the Kremlin said.