Israel army kills two Palestinians in latest Gaza ceasefire breach

TNA’s live coverage of the latest from the war on Gaza concludes for today. Join us again tomorrow at 0800 GMT for updates from the besieged Palestinian enclave.
 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shared a social media post accusing former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar of falsifying the agency’s investigation into the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.

The post was originally published on X on February 6 by former Likud spokesman Erez Tadmor and was later reposted by Netanyahu on his own account, almost verbatim, with Tadmor credited at the beginning.

In the post, Tadmor alleges that Bar viewed Netanyahu as “an illegitimate prime minister who has already dragged Israel into an unnecessary war [the 2014 Gaza war], and therefore — in order to prevent him from making another miscalculation — decided to appoint himself de facto prime minister on the night of the [October 7] massacre.”

He further claims that “after the decisions he made led to the greatest disaster in the country’s history, Bar realized that the only thing worse than the reckless decisions themselves was that they were made as part of a rebellion against the prime minister — and decided to falsify the Shin Bet investigation.”

A building collapse in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli killed 14 people, the civil defence chief said Monday after search and rescue operations ended following the disaster a day earlier.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said authorities had decided to take measures including to evacuate 114 buildings at risk of collapse in the impoverished city, where residents have decried years of official neglect.

The stricken building consisted of two blocks, each containing six apartments in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighbourhood, one of the poorest areas in the city. Twenty-two people were inside at the time of the collapse.

Civil defence chief Imad Khreish told reporters in front of the building that "the search and rescue operations have ended for now", noting that eight residents were rescued alive, while "unfortunately 14 victims died".

Security personnel had evacuated adjacent buildings fearing further collapses.

Mayor Abdel Hamid Karimeh on Sunday declared Tripoli a "disaster-stricken city" due to unsafe buildings threatening the lives of "thousands of our people".

This latest disaster came after another building collapse in Tripoli late last month killed two people.

Lebanon is dotted with derelict buildings, and many inhabited structures are in an advanced state of disrepair.

Several thousand Indonesian troops are expected to deploy to Gaza in the coming weeks as part of a US-coordinated peacekeeping mission, according to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster.

No specific timeline has been announced for their arrival. The International Stabilisation Force forms part of US President Donald Trump’s post-war plan for the Palestinian enclave.

Kan reported that the Indonesian forces will be stationed in Rafah, in southern Gaza.

In November, Indonesia’s defence minister said the country had trained around 20,000 personnel to carry out health and reconstruction work in the war-devastated territory.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has voiced support for demonstrators in Australia who protested against a visit by Israel’s president.

The group highlighted that Isaac Herzog had previously claimed there were “no innocent civilians” in Gaza at the outset of Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians in the territory.

“We also strongly condemn Australian police officers for attacking a group of Australian Muslims as they peacefully prayed,” CAIR said in a statement. “This assault on worshipers was an obscene act of bigotry and those responsible should be held accountable.”

Israel's military claimed Monday it had killed four armed fighters who emerged from a tunnel in southern Gaza and attacked its troops, accusing the suspects of a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire.

Despite a US-brokered truce that entered its second phase last month, violence has continued in the Palestinian territory, with Israel and Hamas trading accusations.

Gaza's health officials said that six people were killed on Monday by Israeli fire in several incidents separate to the one in Rafah, including four killed in an air strike on an apartment in Gaza City.

In a statement about the tunnel incident, the Israeli military said, "A short while ago, four armed terrorists exited an underground tunnel shaft and fired towards soldiers in the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip.... Following identification, the troops eliminated the terrorists."

It said none of its troops had been injured in the attack, which it called a "blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement".

Israeli troops "are continuing to operate in the area to locate and eliminate all the terrorists within the underground tunnel route", the military added.

Hamas's armed wing described what it said was a "heroic resistance".

The fighters "refused humiliation or submission in the besieged Rafah valley and chose martyrdom over surrender," the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement.

 A Palestinian woman, who lost dozens of family members in the Gaza war, has been hospitalized following a seizure in U.S. immigration detention, the Department of Homeland Security said on Monday.

On February 6, 2026, at about 8:45 p.m., "medical staff at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, notified ICE that detainee Leqaa Kordia was admitted to Texas Health Huguley Hospital in Burleson, Texas, for further evaluation following a seizure," a DHS spokesperson said.

Kordia, a 33-year-old Muslim Palestinian woman living in the U.S. and whose mother is an American citizen, was detained by U.S. immigration authorities early last year.

She was detained during a meeting with immigration officials at the Newark Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office, where she was accompanied by her attorney. At the time of her detention last year, Kordia was in the process of securing legal residency.

In a weekend statement cited by media, her family and legal team said they have not received communication from U.S. authorities about her health. The family could not immediately be reached for comment. DHS says ICE will ensure she receives proper medical care.

Rights groups have long reported on detainee complaints about conditions in ICE detention facilities, calling the conditions inhumane. The federal government has denied treating detainees inhumanely.

Amnesty International says 175 members of Kordia's family have been killed during Israel's assault on Gaza since late 2023 following an attack by militant group Hamas.

The Homeland Security Department says Kordia, who was raised in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was arrested for immigration violations related to overstaying her expired student visa. The DHS also says she was arrested by local authorities in 2024 during pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University that the department cast as being supportive of Hamas.

The Israeli army said it shot and killed a person after they crossed the so-called “yellow line” in northern Gaza, an area that has been heavily bombarded.

Since an October “ceasefire” deal came into effect, Israel has defended several fatal attacks by claiming Palestinians crossed the demarcation line, which remains largely unmarked amid Gaza’s destruction.

One such incident occurred in mid-October, when an Israeli attack killed multiple members of a Palestinian family — including women and children — as they attempted to return to their home in Gaza City.

Iran stepped up its crackdown on Monday after recent protests, making more arrests while holding the door open to Washington for further nuclear negotiations.

The arrests -- including that of Javad Emam, the spokesperson for the main reformist coalition -- came after Iranian and US officials held talks in Oman that both sides painted as positive.

On Saturday, Iran heaped more jail time on Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, and on Monday arrested Hossein Karoubi, the son of prominent dissident Mehdi Karoubi.

Weeks after repressing a wave of protests, one of the greatest challenges to the government since it came to power in the 1979 Islamic revolution, Tehran has taken a two-track approach.

It is rounding up and jailing perceived critics, while at the same time pursuing a potential diplomatic opening with US President Donald Trump's administration.

A spokesperson for the Reformist Front coalition told local media on Monday that Iran's Revolutionary Guards had arrested the group's spokesman Emam.

Emam was one of at least five Reformist Front figures to be detained, as were several activists and filmmakers who co-signed a protest statement.

Iran's government has branded the protests "riots" fuelled by its arch-foes Israel and the United States.

Israeli military strikes on Monday killed three people west of Gaza City, according to the hospital where the casualties arrived.

Shifa Hospital reported the deaths amid the months-old ceasefire that has seen continued fighting. The Israeli army said Monday it is striking targets in response to Israeli troops coming under fire in the southern city of Rafah, which it says was a violation of the ceasefire. The army said it is striking targets “in a precise manner."

The four-month-old US-backed ceasefire followed stalled negotiations and included Israel and Hamas accepting a 20-point plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump aimed at ending the war unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel.

At the time, Trump said it would lead to a “Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace.”

Hamas freed all the living hostages it still held at the outset of the deal in exchange for thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and the remains of others.

But the larger issues the agreement sought to address, including the future governance of the strip, were met with reservations, and the U.S. offered no firm timeline.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged Israel to reverse its decision to expand control over the occupied West Bank, expressing serious concern over the move.

Speaking to reporters, a spokesperson for Guterres said the UN chief is “gravely concerned” by decisions taken by Israel’s security cabinet.

“The secretary-general warns that the current trajectory on the ground, including this decision, is eroding the prospects for a two-state solution,” said UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric at a news conference at UN headquarters in New York City.

“He reiterates that all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and their associated regime and infrastructure have no legal validity and are in flagrant violation of international law, including relevant United Nations resolutions,” Dujarric added.

“Such actions, including Israel’s continuing presence in the occupied Palestinian territory are not only destabilising, but as recalled by the International Court of Justice, unlawful.”

The death toll from an Israeli attack on a building in Gaza City has risen to four, according to Qatari news outlet Al Jazeera Arabic.

Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates led regional states on Monday in condemning Israel's move to ease settlement expansion and widen its powers in the West Bank, a step critics said went in the direction of annexing occupied land.

Sunday's decisions by Israel's security cabinet will make it easier for Jewish settlers to buy land in the West Bank and give Israeli authorities more power to act in areas supposedly under full Palestinian control, two senior Israeli ministers said.

One of them, ultranationalist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, said in announcing the decisions that the government would "continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state."

A joint statement by foreign ministers of Middle Eastern and some other Muslim countries, including Egypt and Turkey, denounced the decisions as a violation of international law that would undermine the vision of a two-state solution as well as stability in the region.

They said the moves meant to entrench Israeli settlement of the West Bank, displacing Palestinians and imposing unlawful Israeli sovereignty there. Annexing the territory has long been a priority of far-right parties in Netanyahu's coalition.

France accused Iran on Monday of "repression and intimidation" after a court handed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi a new six-year prison sentence on charges of harming national security.

Mohammadi, sentenced Saturday, was also handed a one-and-a-half-year prison sentence for "propaganda" against Iran's Islamic system, according to her foundation.

"With this sentence, the Iranian regime has, once again, chosen repression and intimidation," the French foreign ministry said in a statement, describing the 53-year-old as a "tireless defender" of human rights.

Paris is calling for the release of the activist, who was arrested before protests erupted nationwide in December after speaking out against the government at a funeral ceremony.

Israeli opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Monday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of falsifying security protocols in an effort to deflect blame from himself over his government’s failures on the 7 October attack, calling for police to consider a criminal probe of the premier, the Times of Israel reported.

"The Netanyahu document is a forgery of security protocols in an official document issued by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, in a way that must be intentional," Lapid declared, referring to a 55-page document released by Netanyahu last week containing his answers given to State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman as part of the ombudsman’s since-frozen investigation into the attack.

In the document, which contains selective, curated quotes from cabinet protocols, Netanyahu sought to pin the failure to prevent the onslaught on political rivals and security chiefs, while presenting himself in a positive light and deflecting responsibility for the attack. 

Israeli attacks on Lebanon killed four people on Monday including a Lebanese security forces member and his child, hours after the Israeli army seized a member of Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya.

Israel frequently strikes Lebanon despite a November 2024 ceasefire aimed at ending more than a year of hostilities with militant group Hezbollah.

On Monday, Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on the village of Yanuh in the south killed three people.

The Israeli military said the strike targeted Ahmad Ali Salameh, who it alleged was Hezbollah's head of artillery and had been working to restore the group's capabilities.

In addition to Salameh, the strike killed a member of Lebanon's security forces and his three-year-old child, who were passing by, according to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA).

Later on Monday, the health ministry reported that Israeli gunfire killed one person in the border village of Aita al-Shaab, with the Israeli military saying it killed a Hezbollah member.

It alleged he was "gathering intelligence on (Israeli) troops and operated to rehabilitate Hezbollah's terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon".

A second Palestinian man was killed on Monday by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip, in another breach of the ceasefire deal.

The victim was identified as Khaled Baraka, a farmer, who was killed by Israeli fire east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Iran is prepared to dilute its highly enriched uranium if the United States lifts all sanctions on the country, the head of its atomic energy agency said Monday after talks resumed with Washington.

"In conclusion, in response to a question about the possibility of diluting 60 percent enriched uranium... the head of the Atomic Energy Organization said that this depends on whether all sanctions would be lifted in return," the official IRNA news agency reported, referring to agency chief Mohammad Eslami, without specifying whether this included all sanctions on Iran or only those imposed by the United States.

Diluting uranium means mixing it with blend material to reduce the enrichment level, so that the final product does not exceed a given enrichment threshold.

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian farmer in Beit Lahia in the central Gaza Strip, according to local health authorities.

The man was identified as 54-year-old Nabil Al-Rahal.

The European Union on Monday condemned new Israeli measures to tighten control of the West Bank and pave the way for more settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

"The European Union condemns recent decisions by Israel's security cabinet to expand Israeli control in the West Bank. This move is another step in the wrong direction," EU spokesman Anouar El Anouni told journalists.

Iran still holds "deep distrust" for the United States despite agreeing to return to talks on its disputed nuclear programme, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Monday.

"We are looking for serious negotiations to achieve a result, provided the other side shows the same seriousness and is also ready for constructive negotiations," the minister said.

"Unfortunately, a deep mistrust persists due to the behaviour of the United States in recent years," he said, addressing ambassadors at a diplomatic gathering in Tehran.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday called on his compatriots to show "resolve" ahead of the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution this week.

Since the revolution, "foreign powers have always sought to restore the previous situation", Ali Khamenei said, referring to the period when Iran was under the rule of shah Reza Pahlavi and dependent on the United States.

"National power is less about missiles and aircraft and more about the will and steadfastness of the people," the leader said, adding: "Show it again and frustrate the enemy."

Saudi Arabia and seven other Muslim countries on Monday condemned new Israeli measures to tighten control of the West Bank and pave the way for more settlements on the occupied Palestinian territory.

Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey "condemned in the strongest terms the illegal Israeli decisions and measures aimed at imposing unlawful Israeli sovereignty", a Saudi foreign ministry statement said.

The secretary of Iran's top security body said he will visit Oman on Tuesday, as the Gulf sultanate mediates nuclear talks between the Islamic republic and the United States.

Ali Larijani will head a delegation that "will meet with senior officials of the Sultanate of Oman and discuss the latest regional and international developments, as well as bilateral cooperation at various levels", according to a statement posted on his Telegram account on Monday.

Iran and the United States resumed dialogue in Oman on Friday for the first time since the 12-day Iran-Israel war last June, which was briefly joined by the US military.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has been invited to the United States on 19 February to attend a meeting about President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, an official said on Monday.

Indonesia also hoped to sign a trade deal with Trump during the trip, Presidential spokesperson Prasetyo Hadi said.

Israeli forces have arrested dozens of Palestinian workers in the vicinity of occupied Jerusalem on Monday, local media reported.

Around 40 were detained, mostly from the West Bank, local media reported.

Israeli forces injured a fisherman sailing in southern Gaza's waters by live gunfire, according to local media, in the latest incident of its kind as the Israeli military continues to violate the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

The Islamic Iran Nation's Union Party sought the release of secretary-general Azar Mansouri, the Shargh newspaper said on Monday, after her arrest along with other members of the Reform Front, an umbrella body of Iranian reformists and moderates.

A campaign of mass arrests and intimidation has led to the arrests of thousands as authorities seek to deter further protests after last month's crackdown on the bloodiest unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

On Sunday, state media said three senior figures from Iran's Reform Front were arrested, among them Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, Mohsen Aminzadeh, and Azar Mansouri, who acts as the front's head.

Shargh said at least two more Reform Front members were asked to report to the prosecutor's office in Tehran's Evin prison on Tuesday.

An Israeli strike targeted a vehicle in the southern Lebanese town of Yanouh in the Tyre District on Monday, local media reported.

The Israeli military said it targeted an alleged Hezbollah operative in a statement on the same day.