🔺️Al Jazeera correspondent:


The occupation forces continue the siege of the town of Burqa, north of Nablus, storming dozens of homes and conducting investigations

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Israeli Army Radio:

The security services estimate that the military operation in Khan Yunis is about to end

[A.k]

Occupation soldiers destroy everything inside of a house after raiding it during the ongoing storming of the village of Burqa, NorthWest of Nablus in the West Bank.


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🔺️The young man, Hazem Ahmed Qadeeh, was killed after being sniped by a soldier in the Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of Khan Yunis

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Israeli Army Radio:

In the coming days, the army is close to resolving a position regarding a military operation in Rafah.

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🔺️Artillery shelling targets southeast of Deir al-Balah

[A.k]

🔻Let the state burn,” headline of today’s Haaretz newspaper


The newspaper directly accuses Netanyahu, and says that Netanyahu is being dragged behind Ben Gvir, who says that his motives for restricting the entry of Palestinians to Al-Aqsa are security, not ideological, and he justifies this by saying that the worshipers will raise the image of Sinwar and Hamas flags

[A.k]

🔻The Saudi newspaper Elaph: A security source said that there are estimates at the top of the security in Israel that Yahya Sinwar and his brother Muhammad crossed from Rafah to Egypt, possibly with hostages.

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Walla website:


Biden's senior advisor will arrive in Israel this week for talks on the Rafah operation and the kidnapping deal.


The army will present to the security and political cabinet this week a plan for an operation in Rafah and the evacuation of civilians from it.


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🔺️Al-Shifa Hospital yard turns into a cemetery west of Gaza City

[A.k]

🔺 Breaking: US drafts counter UN Security Council resolution calling for temporary ceasefire and opposing a ground offensive in Rafah.

Source: Middle East Eye

[JU]

🔻Muhammad Al-Sinwar, Yahya Al-Sinwar's younger brother, is one of the elite commanders of the Al-Qassam Brigades and is considered the youngest commander among the elite leaders


Israel places him on the assassination list and has previously attempted to assassinate him 6 times. Israel previously claimed in 2014 that it had succeeded in assassinating him and published a fabricated video.


Muhammad rarely appears in Gaza and his last public appearance in Gaza was in 2022


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🔺️7 dead and 17 injured arrived since yesterday at the Gaza European Hospital, east of Khan Yunis Governorate

[A.k]

🔻 An Emirati consortium is reportedly in talks for a $22bn deal to acquire land on Egypt’s north coast, a deal that Bloomberg reported also involves Talaat Moustafa Group owned by Hisham Talaat Moustafa who was released from prison in 2017, after President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi pardoned him of a murder conviction.

[G&T]

🔺 "I miss bread."

And when the journalist asked her, "Does your father bring you bread?"

She said, "He is in heaven."

And she began to cry.

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🔺"Its not a nightmare, it's reality and you are all witness to it"

A medical student in Gaza describes the situation at Al Shifa hospital.

[G&T]

🔺️Local sources

Last night, the Israeli army again penetrated the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, besieged the residents, and is now calling on them to evacuate via Salah al-Din Street.

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🔻 The Hebrew newspaper "Maariv" on the head of the Regional Council, "Mita Asher" in the Western Galilee:

"It seems that communications with the Israeli government are cut off in Jerusalem, and in the north here there is only Nasrallah who takes us seriously."

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🔻Hebrew sources:

A very difficult incident in the Gaza Strip.. Three helicopters evacuate the wounded and dead after an anti-tank missile hit a building that collapsed on soldiers.

So far, 6 wounded have been evacuated to Beilinson Hospital and 2 to Ichilov

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🔺Argentina sees first monthly budget surplus in 12 years.

January was the first full month in office for Mr Milei, a far-right libertarian who took office in December, and it ended with a positive balance for public-sector finances of US$589 million (S$800 million) at the official exchange rate, the government said late on Feb 16.

Source: The Strait Times

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