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

14 January 2025 00:00 GMT

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Here are the day's key developments:

- A Gaza ceasefire deal could be announced as early as Tuesday afternoon local time, Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 reported on Monday. The Financial Times, citing its sources, reported that negotiators in Doha are "98 percent close" to sealing the agreement. Further rounds of "intensive talks" on a Gaza ceasefire will move from Doha to Cairo to apply "the final touches," sources have told Egypt's al-Qahera TV. The US president's national security adviser has also confirmed that negotiators are in the advanced stages. 

- The Times of Israel, citing the Saudi broadcaster al-Hadath, reports that Israel has sent Hamas a list of names of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to be swapped for captives in Gaza in a ceasefire deal. Some of the prisoners are serving life sentences, al-Hadath said, but added that the highly-coveted prisoner Marwan Barghouti is not among them.

- Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said he will oppose any ceasefire agreement. "We will not be part of a surrender deal that involves releasing dangerous terrorists, halting the war, squandering the hard-won achievements paid for in blood, and abandoning many hostages still in captivity," he said in a post on X.

- The Israeli army announced on Monday that five of its soldiers have been killed in northern Gaza, the Reuters news agency reported.  The army did not specify exactly when they were killed. 

- The death toll from Israel's 16-month assault on Gaza has now surpassed 46,600. 

- Lebanese state news agency NNA reported four more Israeli violations of its ceasefire deal with Hezbollah. It said that Israeli forces targeted several home homes in the town of Aita ash-Shaab in southern Lebanon. The same source reported that an Israeli reconaissance plane flew at low altitude over the city of Tyre. It added that Israel conducted a large-scale military operation in the town of Khaim, and that military vehicles were seen advancing into the town of Meiss el-Jabal.

- The head of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Nawaf Salam, secured the support of enough lawmakers to be designated Lebanon's next prime minister. As president of the world court he ordered Israel to stop its military offensive in Gaza, but stopped short of using the term "ceasefire".