Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

9 February 2025 23:54 GMT

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

Our blog will soon be closing for the day. Here are some of today's main developments:

  • The Israeli military has completed its withdrawal from the Netzarim Corridor in northern Gaza on Sunday as part of an ongoing ceasefire deal.

  • In an interview with Fox News, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu praised US President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly displace and “relocate” Gaza's population to Jordan and Egypt.

  • Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinians on Sunday, Gaza's civil defence agency reported, while the Israeli military said it had fired "warning shots" at Palestinians approaching its positions and hit them.

  • More than 20,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank due to Israel’s latest military offensive, an official has confirmed.

  • Israeli President Isaac Herzog has claimed that Donald Trump will meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and possibly Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to Reuters.

  • Israel’s Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Eli Cohen, has reiterated his government's push for Saudi Arabia to absorb Palestinians and create a state within its borders, dismissing any possibility of Palestinian sovereignty on their own land.

  • Mike Huckabee, a key ally of Donald Trump, and the US nominee to be ambassador to Israel has called for Hamas’s eradication, claiming the Trump administration is ready to reshape the Middle East in ways he described as “biblical.”

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed US President Donald Trump’s proposal to take control of Gaza and forcibly displace its population, calling it “revolutionary.”

  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected US President Donald Trump’s proposal to take control of Gaza, calling it a meaningless plan pushed by the Zionist lobby.

  • US President Donald Trump told reporters that allowing Palestinians to return to Gaza would be a “big mistake,” insisting that the US would “own” the territory.