26 February 2025 - Israel Special Weapons News

Hamas: Deal reached with Israel to release 620 Palestinians following delay Press TV 26 Feb 2025 -- Days after Israel failed to release hundreds of Palestinians in exchange for Israeli captives, Hamas says it has reached a new agreement with mediators in Egypt to bring the abductees home.
Hamas: Deal reached with Israel to release more than 600 Palestinians IRNA 26 Feb 2025 -- Hamas has confirmed that Israel will release the 620 Palestinian prisoners, whose release was postponed by the regime, while the resistance group will simultaneously hand over the bodies of four Israeli prisoners.

West Bank security situation remains alarming, warn UN aid agencies UN News 26 Feb 2025 -- Weeks of deadly Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank have turned Palestinian communities into "battlefields" and left 40,000 people homeless, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday.
Human Rights Council: Gaza ceasefire must hold, Türk insists UN News 26 Feb 2025 -- UN human rights chief Volker Türk issued a strong appeal on Wednesday for the fragile ceasefire in Gaza to hold, amid delays to talks between Hamas and Israel on extending the truce into the second phase.
The West Bank is undergoing an alarming spillover of the Gaza war UNRWA 26 Feb 2025
West Bank becoming 'battlefield,' over 50 killed in 5 weeks: UNRWA Press TV 26 Feb 2025 -- The occupied West Bank has become a "battlefield" as Israel is repeating its genocidal actions in Gaza there, says Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

Iran's parliament speaker, foreign minister meet Hezbollah chief in Beirut Press TV 26 Feb 2025 -- Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi have held talks with the secretary general of Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah in Beirut.

Egypt rejects Israel's 'unacceptable' proposal to run Gaza Press TV 26 Feb 2025 -- Egypt has rejected a proposal made by Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid that Cairo, instead of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, temporarily run the Gaza Strip, dismissing such plans as "unacceptable."
Russia's Lavrov: Trump's Gaza displacement plan 'time bomb' for region Press TV 26 Feb 2025 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says US President Donald Trump's scheme to take over the besieged Gaza Strip would not resolve the long-standing Palestinian issue, but would rather be a "time bomb" in West Asia.

Aboul Gheit condemns Israeli raids on Syria, describes them as reckless provocation League of Arab States 26 Feb 2025 -- Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, vehemently condemned the Israeli occupation's raids and attacks on Syrian territory in the past few hours, describing them as a reckless provocation and a dangerous escalation aimed at exploiting Syria's political transition to impose an illegal and illegitimate reality.
'Provocative escalation': Arab League censures Israeli strikes in Syria Press TV 26 Feb 2025 -- Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has decried recent Israeli airstrikes in southern Syria as a "provocative and reckless escalation."
Hamas condemns Israeli strikes on Damascus, southern Syria Press TV 26 Feb 2025 -- Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned in the strongest terms Israeli attacks targeting multiple locations in the Syrian capital Damascus and the southern part of the Arab country.
Israel strikes targets in southern Syria after pressing for 'demilitarization' Press TV 26 Feb 2025 -- Israeli warplanes have carried out multiple airstrikes on military targets across southern Syria, attacking areas outside the capital Damascus and the southern province of Dera'a after a call by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for "demilitarization" of the region.

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