
🇵🇸***PALESTINE NEWS UPDATE***🇵🇸
February 22, 2025 at 09:06 AM
🔴 EVENING RECAP #israel #palestine
Good evening Middle East Eye readers,
Our blog will soon be closing for the day. Here are some of today's main developments:
A Palestinian girl, 13, has been shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Israeli forces shot and killed 13-year-old Ayman Nassar al-Haimoni in the Hebron area of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
US President Donald Trump on Friday insisted his proposal to seize the Gaza Strip “really works,” though he said he would not enforce it.
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for resuming the fighting in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Gaza needs at least 60,000 mobile homes and 200,000 tents to shelter displaced Palestinians, the Strip's government media office said, adding that the aid received so far only suffices half the number of tents required.
The Red Cross is concerned about the operations through which Hamas hands over the Israeli captives, stating that it had not been conducted in a private and dignified manner, Reuters news agency said.
Lebanon's Hezbollah will bury its former leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli air strike, in a mass funeral aimed at showing political strength after the group emerged badly weakened from last year's war.
Israel will release 602 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for six Israeli captives, who are set to return to Israel, according to the Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.
Gamal Bayoumi, Egypt’s former deputy foreign affairs minister to the EU, described the Saudi-hosted meeting as a preliminary step ahead of a formal summit in Cairo next month