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Russia Condemns Israel’s UNRWA Ban
- CrossFireArabia
- February 1, 2025
Russia on Saturday condemned Israel’s decision to ban the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from operating in the occupied territories.
Last October, the Israeli parliament passed two laws that called for ending UNRWA’s operations in Israel and occupied Palestinian territories, and prohibiting Israeli authorities from having any contact with the agency. The laws came into effect on Thursday.
The Foreign Ministry said UNRWA should be allowed to continue its work until a final peaceful settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Praising the agency’s role, the ministry described it as a “pillar of support for peaceful Palestinians in the occupied territory and neighboring countries, as well as a guarantee of the fundamental right of refugees to return.”
Moscow reiterated that peace in the Middle East must be based on the establishment of an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, coexisting with Israel in security.
The ministry also questioned Israel’s claim to “sovereign territory” in its decree banning UNRWA’s operations in occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
“This means that hundreds of thousands of children, women, and the elderly are at risk of being abandoned to their fate,” it said.
Russia accused Israel of violating international law, including UN resolutions, stressing that an occupying power “cannot extend its sovereignty to the occupied territory.”
“Such arbitrary steps, fraught with the gravest humanitarian consequences for the Palestinians, are deeply disappointing and deserve to be condemned.
“It should also be noted that as a result of the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, 273 UNRWA staff members were killed, which was the largest onetime loss to the UN since its creation almost 80 years ago,” the ministry stressed.
Israel has killed more than 47,000 people, most of them women and children, in Gaza, triggered a humanitarian catastrophe and left the territory in ruins that could take years to rebuild and make it habitable.
Palestinian Released After 21 Years in Jail
- CrossFireArabia
- February 1, 2025
In pictures | In an emotional and long-awaited moment, Hassan Bahar Al-Dam was reunited with his family in Askar refugee camp, Nablus, after spending 21 years in Israeli captivity. His release was part of the prisoner exchange deal secured by the Palestinian resistance.
Israel Kills 14-Year-Old by Drone Strike
- CrossFireArabia
- February 1, 2025
14-year-old Ahmad Abdel Halim Saadi was killed this afternoon in an Israeli drone strike on the eastern neighborhood of Jenin, according to medical sources.
Hamas Calls Trump ‘Displacement Statement’ as ‘Absurd, Meaningless’
- CrossFireArabia
- February 1, 2025
The Palestinian Hamas, Saturday, slammed the repeated US statements on displacing Palestinians from Gaza as “absurd and meaningless.”
In a statement, Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas leader, said the “plans to displace Palestinians from Gaza are absurd and meaningless,” stressing: “What the Israeli occupation failed to achieve by force, will not be accomplished through political maneuvers.”
“The repeated US announcements on displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip under the pretext of its reconstruction reflect a persistent complicity in the crime,” Abu Zuhri said according to Anadolu.
The Hamas leader considered the US administration’s insistence on the displacement plans for Gaza’s Palestinians as “a recipe for further chaos and tension in the region.”
On Friday, US President Donald Trump said he is “confident” Egypt and Jordan would take Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, stressing and affirming previous statements on the issue.
“I heard somebody said they’re not going to, but I think they will. I feel confident they will,” Trump said from the Oval Office.
Trump doubled down Thursday on his controversial proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza, insisting that Egypt and Jordan would comply, despite their repeated rejections.
“They will do it. They will do it. They’re going to do it, okay? We do a lot for them, and they’re going to do it,” Trump told reporters when asked if he would consider measures to pressure Cairo and Amman to accept his plan.
Trump suggested over the weekend to “clean out” Gaza and resettle Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan, describing the enclave as a “demolition site” after Israel’s genocidal war.
The two countries, however, vehemently rejected any call for the displacement or relocation of Palestinians from their land.
Trump’s proposal came after a ceasefire agreement took effect in Gaza on Jan. 19, suspending the Israeli war, that has killed more than 47,400 Palestinians, most of them women and children, since Oct. 7, 2023, according to Gaza’s health authorities.
Trump’s proposal has received widespread condemnation, with critics calling it “ethnic cleansing” and a “war crime.” Many countries in the Muslim and Arab world as well as European nations such as France have firmly rejected the idea.