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Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and the Arab League’s Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit stressed the need to prevent further deterioration of the situation in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported.

During a meeting in the Jordanian capital Amman, the two leaders discussed the need to strengthen the fragile Gaza ceasefire to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Strip. They also opposed the forced displacement of Palestinians and expressed support for Egypt’s reconstruction plan for Gaza.

The officials reiterated that a sovereign Palestinian state based on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital remains the only path to regional peace.

Israel said on Sunday its troops would remain for many months in refugee camps in the occupied West Bank after its intensifying military operation displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians living there.

The military began a major raid in the West Bank's north a month ago, just after a truce went into effect in the Gaza Strip.

The West Bank offensive has gradually expanded, spanning multiple refugee camps near the cities of Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas. Three of the camps, Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams, "are now empty of residents", Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement.

He put the number of forcefully displaced Palestinians at 40,000, the same figure provided by the United Nations which said the offensive has so far killed at least 51 Palestinians including seven children, and three Israeli soldiers.

For a moment, tens of thousands of people in a packed Beirut stadium let out a unified cry.

The coffins of Hassan Nasrallah and Hachem Safieddine, wrapped in Hezbollah's arresting yellow flag, had appeared.

Men and women broke down in tears, scrambling over each other to spy a better view of the solemn procession.

Not even Israeli fighter jets, who flew menacingly at low altitudes over the funeral, could break the spell. "Death to Israel," people screamed in unison.

Above all was the sound of one woman, waving a flag bearing Nasrallah's face.

"Sayyed, o Sayyed," she cried, using the honorific for black-turbaned Shia scholars descended from the Prophet, like Hezbollah's slain secretary general.

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Israel says it carried out additional air strikes in southern Lebanon, The Times of Israel reported.

The military statement claimed several buildings used by Hezbollah to store weapons were among the locations it struck.

The statement followed several Israeli strikes in Lebanon today, in addition to the deployment of fighter jets to fly over the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Israel will not accept the presence of forces from Syria's newly established army in the southern outskirts of the capital, Damascus, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

Israeli soldiers, he added, will remain on Mount Hermon and in a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights for “an unlimited period of time”. He also demanded the “full demilitarisation of southern Syria from troops of the new Syrian regime”.

Israel and Syria signed a ceasefire agreement in 1974, designating the Golan Heights as a demilitarised buffer zone. However, on the same day that former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was ousted, Israel announced that its troops were moving into a UN-patrolled buffer zone, which has separated Israeli and Syrian forces in the occupied Golan Heights since 1974.

Ministry Of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates warned on Sunday that Israel’s deployment of heavy tanks near Jenin in the occupied West Bank signals an escalation of aggression and crimes against Palestinians, particularly in the northern West Bank, Wafa news agency reported.

This comes as Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz vowed to prevent displaced Palestinians from returning home and ordered an extended military presence in the area.

In a statement, the ministry condemned Katz’s remarks, the tank deployment and the intimidation of civilians, calling it an "overt attempt to entrench a policy of genocide and displacement against an unarmed population". The statement also urged urgent international intervention to stop Israel’s actions and uphold Palestinian rights.

Israeli forces stormed the town of Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, and forced shop owners to close their shops, local sources reported on Sunday. 

Since the beginning of the Israeli offensive in the northern West Bank, more than 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarm, Nour Shams and al-Far'a.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared to resume fighting in the Gaza Strip "at any moment" while vowing to complete the war's objectives "whether through negotiation or by other means".

"We are prepared to resume intense fighting at any moment," Netanyahu said at a ceremony for combat officers, a day after Israel halted the release of Palestinian prisoners as part of a truce deal. "In Gaza, we have eliminated most of Hamas's organised forces, but let there be no doubt, we will complete the war's objectives entirely - whether through negotiation or by other means," he added

Israeli soldiers have been destroying infrastructure in Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, using bulldozers since dawn, videos published by Quds News Network show. 

The governor of Jenin said in a statement that a 48-hour curfew was announced starting this morning, as the Israeli military deployed tanks to Jenin, Wafa news agency reported.

Breaking | Israeli occupation bulldozers raze the streets and infrastructure during their raid on Al-Yamun town, west of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/2qsO2PZFxw

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 23, 2025

The Israeli military has targeted Hezbollah infrastructure with rocket launchers and other weapons in eastern Lebanon's Baalbek area and several other regions in the south of the country, according to a Telegram statement by the Israeli military.

The attacks were conducted after the army identified Hezbollah activity at the sites, it said.

The attacks come as a public funeral is being held for former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in Israeli air strikes on Beirut on 27 September 2024. 

Israeli jets have also flown over Beirut at low altitudes during the funeral. 

The Palestinian health ministry reported that 10 bodies were brought to hospitals in Gaza over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll since 7 October 2023 to 48,339.

There were no injuries recorded in the past day, leaving the total number of wounded at 111,753 since the war began. However, many bodies are still believed to be trapped under the rubble or lying on the roads.

Israeli warplanes were flying at low altitude over Beirut, their rumbling echoing across the city as tens of thousands gathered for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's funeral near the capital, Lebanese state media reported. 

"The hostile warplanes flew at low altitude over the skies of Beirut and its suburbs," the National News Agency said.

Israel's High Court of Justice has agreed to a request by the government to grant it another 90 days before finalising a decision as to whether a state inquiry into the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 will be established, The Times of Israel reported. 

The government must now provide the court with a new update by 11 May.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government created an uproar this month when it pushed for another deferral of the investigation, arguing that Israel cannot conduct such an inquiry while engaged in ongoing conflicts and that there could be bias against the government.

The Movement for Quality Government in Israel, an opposition faction that petitioned the high court for a state commission of inquiry, said the government’s delay marks “a new pinnacle in shirking responsibility and contempt for the public”.

Israel has ordered its military to prepare for an "extended stay" in parts of the occupied West Bank as it escalates operations against Palestinian armed groups, the Israeli defence minister said on Sunday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the military to carry out an "intensive" operation in the occupied West Bank following a series of bus explosions in Tel Aviv on Thursday, which Netanyahu's office described as an attempted mass attack. No casualties were reported.

Israel's military has been conducting a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank over the past months. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from refugee camps, while homes and infrastructure have been demolished.

Hamas accused Israel on Sunday of jeopardising the Gaza ceasefire agreement after the government delayed the release of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners due to be freed after Hamas released six Israeli captives on Saturday. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said the prisoner release would be delayed until Hamas ends its "humiliating ceremonies" while freeing Israeli captives.

"By postponing the release of our Palestinian prisoners according to the phase one ceasefire agreement, the enemy government is acting rampantly and exposing the entire agreement to grave danger," senior Hamas official Basem Naim said in a statement.

Naim also called on mediators "especially the Americans... to pressure Netanyahu and his government to implement the agreement as it is and immediately release our prisoners".