[🇧🇩] Israel and Hamas war in Gaza-----Can Bangladesh be a peace broker?

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Israeli strikes kill five in Gaza, health officials say

Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed five Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, health officials said, the latest violence to undermine a four-month-old, U.S.-brokered truce in the enclave. In Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, an airstrike killed two people who were riding an electric bike, medics said.

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Israeli strikes kill five in Gaza, health officials say

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Published :
Feb 10, 2026 19:30
Updated :
Feb 10, 2026 19:30

Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinians, who, according to medics, were killed by an Israeli strike on Monday, in Gaza City, Feb 10, 2026. Photo : REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed five Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, health officials said, the latest violence to undermine a four-month-old, U.S.-brokered truce in the enclave.

In Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, an airstrike killed two people who were riding an electric bike, medics said. Later, Israeli drone fire killed a woman in Deir Al-Balah and troops shot dead a man in Khan Younis in the south, they said.

Another man was killed by Israeli gunfire in Jabalia in north Gaza, Palestinian medics said.

The violence came a day after Israeli forces killed four militants in the southern city of Rafah after they emerged from an underground tunnel and opened fire on troops.

Without commenting directly on the four people killed on Tuesday, the Israeli military said it had carried out attacks targeting what it described as Hamas militants in response to Monday’s incident in Rafah.

In Gaza City, dozens of Palestinians rallied at the funerals of three people who were killed by an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the area on Monday night.

One body was wrapped in a Hamas green flag, while another had a green Hamas ribbon on his forehead, signaling that the two were members of the militant group.

Reuters was not able to ascertain the identities of those killed.

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Israel and Hamas have repeatedly traded blame for violations of the ceasefire deal, a key element of US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war, the deadliest and most destructive in the generations-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The next phase of Trump’s plan involves Hamas disarming, Israel withdrawing its troops from Gaza, and the deployment of an international peacekeeping force. Hamas has long rejected calls to lay down its arms and Israeli officials say they are preparing for a return to full-scale war.

At least 580 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the October ceasefire deal was struck, Gaza’s health ministry says. Israel says four soldiers have been killed by militants in Gaza over the same period.

The Gaza war started with the Oct 7, 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies. Israel’s air and ground war in Gaza has killed more than 72,000 people since then, according to Palestinian health ministry data.​

 

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Indonesia says proposed Gaza peacekeeping force could total 20,000 troops

A proposed multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza could total about 20,000 troops, with Indonesia estimating it could contribute up to 8,000, President Prabowo Subianto’s spokesman said on Tuesday. The spokesman said, however, that no deployment terms or areas of operation had been agreed

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Indonesia says proposed Gaza peacekeeping force could total 20,000 troops

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Published :
Feb 10, 2026 16:47
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Feb 10, 2026 16:47

Israeli military vehicles drive past destruction in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel, January 21, 2026. Photo : REUTERS/Amir Cohen/Files

A proposed multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza could total about 20,000 troops, with Indonesia estimating it could contribute up to 8,000, President Prabowo Subianto’s spokesman said on Tuesday.

The spokesman said, however, that no deployment terms or areas of operation had been agreed.

Prabowo has been invited to Washington later this month for the first meeting of US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace. The Southeast Asian country last year committed to ready 20,000 troops for deployment for a Gaza peacekeeping force, but it has said it is awaiting more details about the force's mandate before confirming deployment.

"The total number is approximately 20,000 (across countries) ... it is not only Indonesia," presidential spokesman Prasetyo Hadi told journalists on Tuesday, adding that the exact number of troops had not been discussed yet but Indonesia estimated it could offer up to 8,000.

"We are just preparing ourselves in case an agreement is reached and we have to send peacekeeping forces," he said.

Prasetyo also said there would be negotiations before Indonesia paid the $1 billion being asked for permanent membership of the Board of Peace. He did not clarify who the negotiations would be with, and said Indonesia had not yet confirmed Prabowo's attendance at the board meeting.

Separately, Indonesia's defence ministry also denied reports in Israeli media that the deployment of Indonesian troops would be in Gaza's Rafah and Khan Younis.

"Indonesia's plans to contribute to peace and humanitarian support in Gaza are still in the preparation and coordination stages," defence ministry spokesman Rico Ricardo Sirat told Reuters in a message.

"Operational matters (deployment location, number of personnel, schedule, mechanism) have not yet been finalised and will be announced once an official decision has been made and the necessary international mandate has been clarified," he added.​

 

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Palestinian leader urges Israel to lift Gaza ceasefire ‘obstacles’

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on Saturday for the removal of ‘all obstacles’ he said Israel has imposed on implementing phase two of the Gaza ceasefire.

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Palestinian leader urges Israel to lift Gaza ceasefire ‘obstacles’
Agence France-Presse . Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 15 February, 2026, 01:21

Displaced Palestinian nurse, 23-year-old Dalia Taha Abu Zarifa, speaks with children outside tents housing displaced families, as she makes her way to attend to patients who cannot make daily visits to a hospital, in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. | AFP photo

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on Saturday for the removal of ‘all obstacles’ he said Israel has imposed on implementing phase two of the Gaza ceasefire.

‘We emphasise the need to lift all obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation on the implementation of the provisions related to the second phase of the agreement,’ Abbas said, in a speech read by his prime minister Mohammed Mustafa at an African Union summit in Ethiopia.

This included the work of a technocratic committee established to oversee the daily governance of Gaza, he added. Removal of the obstacles was needed to ‘ensure continuity of services, coordinate humanitarian efforts and enable a swift recovery’, the president said.

Abbas accused Israel of ‘continuing to violate’ the ceasefire agreement with Palestinian militant group Hamas that took effect in October and was backed by the United States.

‘From the announcement of the ceasefire until today, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed [in Gaza], which threatens the durability of the truce and the full implementation of its second phase,’ he added.

Even though the US-brokered truce entered its second phase last month, violence has continued in the Palestinian territory, with Israel and Hamas trading blame.

The deal is aimed at permanently ending the Gaza war and was endorsed in November by the United Nations.

The second phase stipulates that Israeli forces gradually withdraw from Gaza and Hamas should disarm, with an international stabilisation force deployed to ensure security. Hamas has repeatedly said that disarmament is a red line, although it has indicated it could consider handing over its weapons to a future Palestinian governing authority.

The Israeli army still controls more than half of the Gaza Strip, while Hamas and Israel accuse each other daily of ceasefire violations.

Fifteen Palestinian experts on the technocratic committee, which is being overseen by a ‘Board of Peace’ set up by US president Donald Trump, are currently based in Egypt, despite a partial reopening on February 2 of the Rafah border crossing, Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world that does not lead to Israel.

Nickolay Mladenov, a Bulgarian diplomat whom Trump named high representative for Gaza, said on Friday that ‘a number of conditions need to be met’ before technocratic committee members can enter the Palestinian territory.

‘One, Hamas needs to transfer the civilian control of the institutions in Gaza,’ he told a discussion on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

‘This is not a government coming in after an election. This is far much more complicated,’ he said.

‘Because Hamas has been governing Gaza for 20 years and... implementing policies that are not in line with Palestinian legislation,’ he added.

Other conditions he mentioned included ending Gaza ceasefire violations and ‘a radical increase in the assistance to people, aid going into Gaza’.

‘And finally, we need to make sure that we have the framework agreed in place on the decommissioning of weapons in Gaza,’ Mladenov said, emphasising the importance of the future role of a Palestinian security force.

He said the International Stabilisation Force for the territory—set out under the Trump plan to end the war—’is extremely important’.

‘But far more important than the ISF is the new Palestinian security force that should be deployed in Gaza, that should be able to secure the ground with the assistance of the ISF,’ he added.​

 

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Gaza’s Nasser Hospital condemns move by MSF to suspend most services

One of Gaza’s last functioning large hospitals condemned the move by an international organization to pull out of operations over concerns about armed men, claiming on Sunday that the hospital had installed civil police for security. The move comes as at least 10 Palestinians were killed in c

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Gaza’s Nasser Hospital condemns move by MSF to suspend most services

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Feb 15, 2026 19:40
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Feb 15, 2026 19:40

Palestinians mourn over the body of Hamas militant Firas al-Najjar, who was killed in an Israeli military strike, during his funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. Photo : AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana

One of Gaza’s last functioning large hospitals condemned the move by an international organization to pull out of operations over concerns about armed men, claiming on Sunday that the hospital had installed civil police for security. The move comes as at least 10 Palestinians were killed in clashes with the Israeli military in Gaza.

Doctors Without Borders, also known by its acronym MSF, said in a statement Saturday that all its noncritical medical operations at Nasser Hospital were suspended due to security breaches that posed “serious” threats to its teams and patients. MSF said there had been an increase in patients and staff seeing armed men in parts of the compound since the U.S.-brokered October ceasefire was reached.

Nasser Hospital said Sunday that the increase in armed men was due to a civilian police presence aimed at protecting patients and staff and said MSF’s “allegations are factually incorrect, irresponsible, and pose a serious risk to a protected civilian medical facility.”

Nasser Hospital one of few functioning hospitals left in Gaza

Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis is one of the territory’s few functioning hospitals. Hundreds of patients and war-wounded have been treated there daily, and the facility was a hub for Palestinian prisoners released by Israel in exchange for Israeli hostages as part of the current ceasefire deal.

“MSF teams have reported a pattern of unacceptable acts including the presence of armed men, intimidation, arbitrary arrests of patients and a recent situation of suspicion of movement of weapons,” the organization said. The suspension occurred in January but was only recently announced.

Nasser Hospital staff say that in recent months it has been repeatedly attacked by masked, armed men and militias, which is why the presence of an armed civilian police force is crucial. Hamas remains the dominant force in areas not under Israeli control, including in the area where Nasser Hospital is located. But other armed groups have mushroomed across Gaza as a result of the war, including groups backed by Israel’s army in the Israeli-controlled part of the strip.

Throughout the war, which began with the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has repeatedly struck hospitals, including Nasser, accusing the militant group of operating in or around them. Hamas security men often have been seen inside hospitals, blocking access to some areas.

Some hostages released from Gaza have said they spent time during captivity in a hospital, including Nasser Hospital.

Ten Palestinians killed in strikes across Gaza

At least 10 Palestinians were killed Sunday by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip, hospital authorities said.

The dead include five men, all in their 20s, who were killed in an Israeli strike in the eastern part of Khan Younis city, according to the Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies. The strike hit a group of people in an area close to the Yellow Line which separates Israeli-controlled areas from the rest of Gaza, it said.

The Israeli military did not comment on the strike but has said in the past it will attack militants if its troops are threatened, especially near the Yellow Line.

Rami Shaqra said his son, al-Baraa, was among the militants who were securing the area from potential attacks by the Israeli forces or Israeli-backed armed groups, when they were hit by the Israeli military. He said that they were killed by an airstrike.

Associated Press footage from the morgue showed at least two of the men had headbands denoting membership in the Qassam Brigades, the militant arm of Hamas. In northern Gaza, a drone strike hit a group of people in the Falluja area of Jabaliya refugee camp, killing five people, according to the Shifa Hospital.

The Israeli military said it was striking northern Gaza in response to several ceasefire violations near the Yellow Line, including militants attempting to hide in debris and others who attempted to cross the line while armed.

The Oct. 10 U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal attempted to halt a more than two-year war between Israel and Hamas. While the heaviest fighting has subsided, the ceasefire has seen almost daily Israeli fire.

Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes and frequently fire on Palestinians near military-held zones, killing 601 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials. The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. But it does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants.

Militants have carried out shooting attacks on troops, and Israel says its strikes are in response to that and other violations. Four Israeli soldiers have been killed.​

 

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Army will occupy all Gaza if Hamas does not disarm: Israeli minister

Both Hamas and Israel accuse each other of near-daily ceasefire violations, with the health ministry in Gaza reporting 615 people killed by Israeli forces

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Army will occupy all Gaza if Hamas does not disarm: Israeli minister

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Jerusalem
Published: 24 Feb 2026, 13: 10

Displaced Palestinians gather for their fast-breaking Iftar meal amid the rubble of destroyed buildings at the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, on 23 February, 2026. AFP

Israeli far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that Palestinian Islamist group Hamas may soon be given a deadline to lay down its weapons.

"We estimate that in the coming days, Hamas will be given an ultimatum to disarm and completely demilitarise Gaza," Smotrich said in an interview with public broadcaster Kan.

Israel invaded the Gaza Strip in 2023, in retaliation for Hamas's unprecedented 7 October attack.

Under the first phase of a US-sponsored ceasefire in Gaza intended to halt two years of war, the Israeli army withdrew to positions behind a so-called Yellow Line, but still controls over half of the territory.

Both Hamas and Israel accuse each other of near-daily ceasefire violations, with the health ministry in Gaza reporting 615 people killed by Israeli forces since the truce started.

The Israeli military says it has lost five of its soldiers during the same period.

Displaced Palestinians gather for their fast-breaking Iftar meal amid the rubble of destroyed buildings at the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, on 23 February, 2026. AFP

If Hamas does not comply with the Israeli ultimatum to disarm, the army "will have international legitimacy and American backing to do it itself, and the IDF (military) is already preparing for this and is making plans", said the minister, who is a member of Israel's security cabinet charged with approving large-scale military operations.

The second ceasefire phase, which officially began last month, calls for a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli army and the disarmament of Hamas, which the militant group has vehemently opposed.

"The (Israeli military) will definitely enter and occupy Gaza if Hamas does not disarm," Smotrich said.

Asked how the military would do this, he said "there are two or three alternatives right now that we are examining".

The displaced Palestinian al-Ghafir family, gather to sit together to break the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast during Iftar next to their tent, which is erected amid the ruins of the al-Hasayna Mosque in western Gaza City on 21 February, 2026. AFP

The peace plan put forward by US president Donald Trump also calls for the establishment of a 20,000-strong peacekeeping force, called the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), to which several countries have committed troops.

Asked how the Israeli army would operate against Hamas when foreign soldiers were deployed on the ground, Smotrich said the latter would "pull out very quickly and allow the (Israeli military) to enter. This is coordinated with the Americans."

"By the way, I don't yet see them going in that fast," he added of the ISF.

A security source in Gaza, meanwhile, said on Monday that Israeli forces shelled Beit Lahia in the north.

The source also said that Israeli tanks opened fire in the south Gaza city of Khan Yunis, where at least two air strikes were also conducted.

Israel's military said Monday that Israeli troops "eliminated" a fighter who had crossed the Yellow Line into Israeli-held territory the previous day.​

 

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Israeli strikes kill 5 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least five people on Friday, the latest violence despite a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

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Israeli strikes kill 5 in Gaza
Agence France-Presse . Gaza City 28 February, 2026, 00:32

Israeli security forces stand guard as Muslim worshippers make their way to the Aqsa mosque ahead of the second Friday noon prayers of the month of Ramadan in the old city of Jerusalem on Friday. | AFP photo

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least five people on Friday, the latest violence despite a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

The agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas authorities, told AFP that an air strike in the early hours of Friday morning killed at least two people and seriously injured one in central Gaza.

A drone strike in the south of the strip shortly after midnight killed three and injured several more people, the agency added.

Violence has continued in the Palestinian territory despite the ceasefire entering its second phase last month, with Israel and Hamas trading accusations of violations.

Under the terms of the ceasefire, which took effect on October 10, Israeli troops withdrew to positions behind a so-called ‘Yellow Line’, though they remain in control of more than half of the territory.

The Israeli military said it struck armed Hamas members in the Rafah area of southern Gaza overnight on Friday in response to what it said was a ‘violation of the ceasefire agreement’.

In a statement, it said troops ‘identified several armed terrorists who emerged from the underground terror infrastructure in eastern Rafah.’

‘Shortly after, the troops alongside the Israeli Air Force struck and eliminated some of the terrorists in order to remove the threat,’ it said.

‘In response to the violation, the [Israeli military] precisely struck overnight [Friday] several armed Hamas terrorists in the Rafah area.’

Gaza’s health ministry, which operates under Hamas authorities, says at least 618 Palestinians have been killed since the truce began.

The Israeli military says at least five of its soldiers have been killed in the same period.

Media restrictions and limited access in Gaza have prevented AFP from independently verifying casualty figures or freely covering the fighting.​

 

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Bangladesh slates Israeli bid to annex Palestine land

Foreign minister Khalilur Rahman unequivocally condemned the recent Israeli legislation on land purchase which aims at unlawfully annexing occupied Palestinian territory.

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Bangladesh slates Israeli bid to annex Palestine land
Staff Correspondent 27 February, 2026, 15:03

Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman held a series of bilateral meetings with key counterparts on the sidelines of the OIC Executive Meeting on Palestine in Jeddah. | BSS photo Bangladesh country politics

Foreign minister Khalilur Rahman unequivocally condemned the recent Israeli legislation on land purchase which aims at unlawfully annexing occupied Palestinian territory.

The action is designed to alter the legal and demographic character of the Palestinian lands, including the Al Quds Al Sharif, he said while addressing the Open-Ended OIC Executive Committee Meeting of Foreign Ministers in Jeddah, according to a press release by the foreign ministry on Friday.

Expressing grave concern over the Israeli decision to ease land purchase and open land registries in West Bank to public scrutiny exposes the Palestinian landowners to multiple forms of intimidation and harassment, the minister said, adding that these actions were clearly in breach of relevant international laws and undermining the very foundations of a just and lasting social order.

Khalilur categorically stated that the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state following the two-state formula according to the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, can offer a sustainable solution to this long protracted crisis.

He rejected outright the land-related legislation of Israel and demanded ensuring the due land rights of the Palestinians.

He also demanded permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an unconditional and unhindered access of the international aid workers and humanitarian support providers to the affected men, women, and children in the strip.

In his address to the meeting, Khalilur also conveyed the Ramadan greetings from Bangladesh prime minister Tarique Rahman to the Muslim ummah .

He stated that the newly elected democratic government in Bangladesh looked forward to closely working with the OIC member states.

On the sidelines of the OIC meeting, the foreign minister held bilateral talks with the foreign minister of Pakistan, senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, foreign minister of the Gambia, Sering Modou Njie, foreign minister of Palestine, Varsen Ohanes Vartan Aghabekian, deputy foreign minister of Turkey, ambassador Musa Kulaklikaya; and also the vice-minister of foreign affairs of Saudi Arabia, Waleed A Elkhereiji.

At the bilateral talks, the dignitaries from the OIC member states congratulated the people and government of Bangladesh on successful holding the general elections, felicitated the prime minister for the massive victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and expressed their keenness to work with the new government.

Foreign minister Khalil shared with the leaders the visions and work programmes of the government, particularly with regard to foreign policy, foreign trade and investment, resolution of the Rohingya issue and improving effectiveness of the OIC secretariat.

They also expressed strong support to Bangladesh candidature for the presidency of the 81st UN General Assembly. He invited the dignitaries to pay visit to Bangladesh at their convenience.

Adviser for foreign affairs to the prime minister, Humayun Kabir, secretary (inter-governmental organizations) of the ministry of foreign affairs, M Forhadul Islam, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to OIC, MJH Jabed accompanied the foreign minister during the bilateral meetings.​