Live: Israel delays release of 602 Palestinian prisoners

The Palestinian health ministry is reporting severe oxygen shortages in hospitals across Gaza, adding that this is hampering intensive care and other vital operations.

In a statement, the ministry said that the shortages have been caused by Israeli targeting of 10 central oxygen stations including at al-Shifa Medical Complex, al-Rantisi Hospital, al-Durra Hospital, al-Nasr Complex, the Indonesian Hospital and the Sheikh Radwan clinic.

It added that the stations supplied oxygen to crucial areas including operating rooms, intensive care and emergency wards and neonatal incubators, as well as patients at home.

The ministry warned that oxygen supplied by NGOs could not meet their needs, adding that Israel's barring of the entry of oxygen stations into Gaza will exacerbate the crisis and threaten patients' lives.

Twelve Palestinians have been injured by Israeli fire amid the army's ongoing raid of the old town of Nablus, Wafa is reporting citing medical sources.

According to the director of the Red Crescent's Emergency and Ambulance Centre in Nablus, an elderly man and children are among those injured in the assault.

He reported that a child suffered shrapnel in the hand and face, while a young man was transferred after being run over by an Israeli military vehicle.

The Israeli army said its forces shot down a drone that crossed from Egypt into Israel on Sunday.

According to the statement, Israeli soldiers found weapons and ammunition on board.

Lebanese aviation officials have told Iran that Iranian flights to Beirut are suspended until Tuesday, Hossein Pourfarzaneh, head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation, was quoted as saying by the Iranian state news agency IRNA on Sunday.

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A planned evacuation of people in need of medical care from Gaza has been postponed due to a delay in Israel's approval, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting citing a source in the Palestinian health ministry.

The source said that Israel is deliberately delaying travel approvals for patients in order to obstruct their evacuation.

Israeli Prime Minister said in a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Israel will open the "gates of hell" in Gaza if all captives held in the enclave are not released.

He also vowed to eliminate Hamas military and "political rule" in Gaza.

Lebanese media is reporting that Israeli forces shot and killed a woman in a southern Lebanese border town, as residents were returning home.

The National News Agency (NNA) reported that Israeli forces "shot in the direction of Hula neighbourhoods after residents entered, leading to the death of a woman and the wounding of other people".

The report added that Israeli forces kidnapped three civilians.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran was the "single greatest source of instability of the region".

In a joint press conference in Jerusalem, Rubio said that there can not "be a nuclear Iran".

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel and US President Donald Trump share a "common strategy" on Gaza's future.

In a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio following a meeting in West Jerusalem, Netanyahu said the two had discussed Trump's "bold vision" for Gaza's future.

He added that they would "work to ensure that vision becomes a reality", and thanked Rubio for his "unequivocal backing" of Israel's policy in Gaza.

Rubio said that Hamas "must be eliminated".

The Palestinian health ministry has said that a total of seven deaths and five injuries were recorded at hospitals in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours.

The latest casualties bring the toll of people killed by Israeli forces since 7 October 2023 to 48,271, with another 111,693 wounded.

Hamas has issued a statement condemning the "treacherous" drone attack that killed three police officers in Rafah city as "a serious violation of the ceasefire agreement".

The officers were hit while securing the entry of aid trucks through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing.

Hamas added that Israel's refusal to allow the entry of heavy machinery into the strip also breaches the terms of the agreement, saying that Israel's stalling of the second phase of the talks confirm its lack of commitment to the truce.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that 13 female Palestinian detainees held at Damon prison are suffering increasingly harsh conditions at the hands of the authorities.

The PPS said that the women are forced to stay in cold cells, with windows left open and scarce supplies of clothing and blankets amid wintry temperatures.

According to the statement, the women have suffered particularly harsh treatment at the hands of prison guards. They are reportedly shackled, blindfolded and dragged when they are escorted to meetings with lawyers or relatives.

The detainees have also been frequently and unexpectedly transferred between cells - a measure it says is intended to undermine any sense of stability or routine within the prison.

Some of the women reported prison guards entering their cells during the night while they were asleep. These intrusions have forced the women to sleep with head coverings.

Seven Palestinians have been injured by Israeli fire in the ongoing raid on Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health is reporting.

Wafa news agency reported, citing eyewitnesses, that Israeli undercover forces stormed the Old City and surrounded a home amid loud explosions and heavy gunfire. It added that additional military reinforcements were deployed in the area.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that a 60-year-old man was shot in the foot and had been transferred to hospital for treatment.

The outgoing head of the Israeli military, Herzi Halevi is set to visit the US on an official visit from 17-20 February, the army said on Sunday.

According to a statement, Halevi will meet with senior US commanders  “to discuss key strategic and operational issues".

Halevi will step down on 6 March after having resigned in late January over "terrible" security and intelligence "failures" around the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October.

Israel's national broadcaster Kan has reported that Netanyahu has decided to bar the entry of mobile homes and heavy equipment into Gaza, following security consultations.

This is contrary to the ceasefire agreement which stipulates that Israel must allow the entry of at least 60,000 temporary homes and 200,000 tents into Gaza during the phase of the agreement.

Gaza's Government Media Office has condemned the move as "a clear evasion of its pledges and obligations" in the ceasefire with Hamas.

"[It] is an explicit declaration of its failure to the agreement," a statement by the office said on Telegram, adding that the refusal "shows the whole world who is the party obstructing the agreement".

Northern Gaza authorities reported that no mobile homes or tents have entered the area.