Live: Israeli forces detonate 20 homes in Jenin

Israeli forces are continuing their raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

According to the Wafa news agency, soldiers demolished the Hamza Mosque in Jenin's refugee camp.

Wafa also says the Israeli army forced residents of the Jenin and Tulkarm refugee camps to leave due to their continued offensives.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei denounced US President Donald Trump's idea of ​​moving Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip, stressing that the territory was their "homeland."

"Political coercion and demographic manipulation will not be able to force Palestinians to migrate," the spokesperson said on X.

The Gaza Strip is the "homeland of the Palestinians" and "they have paid an extremely high price to remain there," Baghaei said.

Separately, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, said Gaza has brought Israel “to its knees” with the ceasefire.

“The small, limited Gaza brought the Zionist regime, armed to the teeth and fully supported by America, to its knees,” Khamenei said during a meeting with officials in Tehran.

Hospitals in Gaza have received the bodies of 48 people over the past two days, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

The ministry stated that 11 of the deceased were killed in recent Israeli attacks, while 37 bodies were retrieved from the rubble of earlier strikes. Eight injured individuals were also admitted for treatment.

These latest fatalities raise the overall death toll in Gaza since the war began to 47,354, with 111,563 people wounded, according to the ministry.

Qatar reaffirmed its support for a two-state solution on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump repeated his call to move Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt or Jordan.

Foreign ministry spokesman Majed bin Mohammed al-Ansari did not reveal details of conversations with US officials but said Qatar often didn't see "eye to eye" with its allies.

"Our position has always been clear to the necessity of the Palestinian people receiving their rights, and that the two-state solution is the only path forward," Ansari told a media briefing when asked about Trump's comments.

"We don't see eye to eye on a lot of things with all our allies, not only the United States, but we work very closely with them to make sure that we formulate policy together," he added.

Specialised teams have been removing unexploded ordnance and missiles in all areas of the Gaza Strip over the past few days, Gaza’s Government Media Office reported.

“We call on our Palestinian people to take the utmost caution, care and attention during daily movements, and we appeal to our people to stay away from suspicious objects and inform the competent authorities immediately,” it said in a statement on Telegram.

Israeli forces detained at least 25 Palestinians, including former prisoners, in the occupied West Bank between yesterday evening and Tuesday morning, according to Wafa news agency.

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees reported that the detentions occurred across the governorates of Tulkarm, Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem.

The commission also said the Israeli forces rounded up dozens of residents as part of their ongoing military raid in the Jenin and Tulkarm governorates.

Rafah will remain an "extremely dangerous area" without Israeli forces’ complete withdrawal, and people should "not rush to return" to the city, Al Jazeera reported the city's mayor, Ahmed al-Soufi, saying. 

Israeli forces have withdrawn from Rafah’s city centre as part of the ceasefire agreement but they remain stationed along the Philadelphi Corridor – the strip of land bordering Egypt – and have continued their attacks, the mayor said.

“Access to the southern half of the city near the border axis is unavailable,” al-Soufi said, adding that particularly the central and southern areas should be avoided.

“Although the northwestern, northern, and eastern areas are relatively safer due to their distance from the axis, they are still vulnerable” to Israeli firepower.

The Israeli military has marked the area within 700 meters of the border as a "red zone" and warned civilians to avoid it.

Israeli forces launched a "wide-scale arrest campaign" at dawn in the towns of Beit Duqqu and Biddu, northwest of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Quds News Network.

The Palestinian news outlet reported that detainees were subjected to abuse during field interrogations.

A photo shared on social media alongside the report showed nine blindfolded men with their hands bound behind their backs, with an Israeli military vehicle parked nearby.

Last night, Israeli occupation forces carried out a detention campaign in the towns of Biddu and Beit Duqqo, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, rounding up several Palestinians and subjecting the detainees to mistreatment. pic.twitter.com/b6HZvIgqsN

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 28, 2025

Israeli tanks opened fire on people returning to their homes on Tuesday morning in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, south of Gaza City, Wafa news agency reported.

The agency said Israeli forces also opened fire towards the northeastern borders of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent said it retrieved 10 decomposed bodies from locations along al-Rashid Street in Gaza on Monday.

On Sunday, US President Donald Trump proposed that one and a half million Palestinians in Gaza be relocated to Jordan or Iraq as part of a plan to "just clean out" the enclave. His special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Bickhof, even suggested relocating a portion of the Gaza population to Indonesia.

Israel’s former far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir supported Trump’s suggestion in a post on X.

"One of our demands from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to promote voluntary emigration. When the president of the world’s greatest superpower, Trump, personally brings up this idea, it is worth the Israeli government implementing it - promoting emigration now," he wrote. 

This ethnic cleansing would pave the way for Jewish colonisation projects and the transformation of Gaza into the futuristic technological hub that Netanyahu dreams of.

With this plan, Trump is in keeping with the long-term movement of Zionism and, more precisely, the war objectives set by the Israeli far right.

Read more: Trump's Gaza plan: The century-old Zionist illusion of 'voluntary' emigration of Palestinians Opinion by Thierry Brésillon

Israeli military evacuation orders amid its war on Gaza made it nearly impossible for pregnant women and babies to receive life-saving healthcare in violation of their rights, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report said.

Dr Ahmed al-Shaer, at al-Helal al-Emirati maternity hospital in Rafah, said they had so few incubators and so many preterm babies that, “We have to put four or five babies in one incubator. ... Most of them don’t survive.”

In July, the rate of miscarriage in Gaza had increased by up to 300 per cent since the start of the war, reported HRW, citing maternal health experts. 

The report also said the circumstances for pregnant women and babies are not likely to improve despite the ceasefire, due to Israel's ban on the UN’s agency for Palestine refugees (Unrwa). Set to take effect next week, the ban will limit the humanitarian aid to Gaza.

NEW: The Israeli government’s blockade of Gaza and attacks on healthcare facilities have directly harmed women and girls during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.

In a new report, HRW details these violations of pregnant women’s rights: https://t.co/YNfJDoddtM pic.twitter.com/Ap4KGiu7py

— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) January 28, 2025

Israeli occupation forces on Monday night forcibly removed families from their homes in Tulkarm refugee camp in occupied West Bank at gunpoint, eyewitnesses told the Wafa news agency.

Several families were told they would not be allowed to return for a week, the agency reported.

Israeli forces also seized several tall buildings overlooking the Martyrs and al-Hammam neighbourhoods, turning them into military outposts after expelling residents.

The Tulkarm Directorate of Awqaf opened Masjid Mos'ab Bin Omair and Salah Al-Din mosques to provide shelter for those displaced by the Israeli raid.

Meanwhile, the bulldozers continued destroying infrastructure and property, including homes and businesses, and set fire to a house in the al-Wakalah neighbourhood.

US President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated his desire to move Palestinians out of Gaza and said he believes Egypt or Jordan would help him.

The president on Saturday said the region should be "cleaned out" of Palestinians, a proposal rejected by both countries. Asked about those comments, Trump told reporters Monday evening that he would "want them to live in a place without violence. Gaza has been hell for so many years. They can live in much better and more comfortable areas".

"You know, when you look at the Gaza Strip, it's been hell for so many years... there's always been violence associated with it," Trump said.

"I’ve helped him [el-Sisi] a lot and I hope he’ll help us. I think he’ll do it [take in Palestinians] and the king of Jordan will do it too," he added.

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates:

• The Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli army killed a second person in Gaza, and injured several people, after Israeli forces bombed a bulldozer.

• Hanfy el-Gebaly, the speaker of the Egyptian House of Representatives, said it "completely rejects" proposals to move Palestinians out of the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

• Heavy fighting has taken place between the Tulkarm Battalion of the al-Quds Brigades and Israeli forces in the Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

• Albanian PM Edi Rama said "It is absolutely not true" that his country will take up to 100,000 Palestinian refugees at the request of the Trump administration.

• Italy is to send military police officers to join the re-started European Union Border Assistance Mission for the Rafah Crossing Point (EUBAM Rafah) tasked to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. 

• Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he discussed the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, the release of captives, and creating a pathway for security and stability in the region with Jordan's King Abdullah in a phone conversation.

• The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams are providing first aid services to citizens returning to northern Gaza via Al-Rashid Street.

• Israel holds 112 Palestinian children in "administrative detention" - an "all-time high" number - as of December 2024, Defense for Children International said.

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

On Monday evening tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians continued to travel back to their homes in northern Gaza. More than 300,000 Palestinians made the journey to the besieged enclave's north, Palestinian officials in Gaza said. 

Despite the ceasefire, Israel fired on displaced Palestinians. At least one child was killed when Israeli troops shelled a donkey cart in central Gaza. 

Meanwhile, Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli fire killed two people on Monday and wounded 17 others in the south in a second day of violence as residents tried to return to border villages.

Here's what else you need to know about Monday's developments in Israel's war on Gaza:

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to travel to Washington DC next week for a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump
• An Israeli soldier used the muzzle of his rifle to hit New York Times journalist Aaron Boxerman
• A Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo on Monday for ceasefire talks
• Hamas's armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, confirmed that two of its members were killed after Israel launched an air strike on their vehicle in the Nur Shams refugee camp
• Israli attacks on the occupied West Bank are going to deepen suffering and violence on Palestinians, a group of UN special rapporteurs