LIVE: Israel quits UN rights body; Palestinians reject Trump’s Gaza plan

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Fox News that United States President Donald Trump’s “remarkable” plan for displacing Palestinians from Gaza “should be really pursued, examined and done”.
• The proposal has been widely rejected, including by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who said they would “never leave, no matter what”.
• Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon has said his country will “stand with” the US and “not participate” in the “biased” UN Human Rights Council a day after Trump also quit the Geneva-based body.
• US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that the US military is “prepared to look at all options” in Gaza, as Netanyahu continued his Washington trip with a visit to the Pentagon.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 47,552 people and injured 111,629 others, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The Gaza Government Media Office has given a death toll of at least 61,709 people, saying thousands of people who are missing are now presumed dead. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
• ‘Catastrophic’ conditions due to Israeli siege in occupied West BankFor more than two weeks, thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been under Israeli siege.Israel’s military assault has been relentless and is intensifying, with raids largely focused on Jenin and its refugee camp, in the north of the occupied territory.More than 17,000 Palestinians there have been forced to flee their homes, and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says major sections of the camp have been levelled.
• Dozens of deported ex-Palestinian prisoners remain in Cairo awaiting transfer: OfficialQadura Fares, head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs in Palestine, has provided an update on the whereabouts of several exchanged prisoners who were part of last month’s ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.He said, “Fifteen deported Palestinians have left Cairo for Turkiye as part of the process of relocating freed detainees.”Fares also pointed out that “80 deported Palestinians remain in Cairo, awaiting transfer procedures to several other countries,” and that “the occupation authorities have transferred 20 deported detainees to the Gaza Strip in the last batch due to the difficulty of finding places to receive them.”
• Freed Palestinian prisoners are greeted after being released by Israel as part of a captives-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 1, 2025 [File: Hatem Khaled/Reuters]
• Spain rejects Israel’s suggestion it should accept Palestinians from GazaSpain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has rejected the suggestion by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz that Spain should accept displaced Palestinians from Gaza.“Gazans’ land is Gaza and Gaza must be part of the future Palestinian state,” Albares said in an interview with Spanish radio station RNE.
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• Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares [File: Johanna Geron/Reuters]
• Two Israeli soldiers killed in northern Gaza accidentThe Israeli army has confirmed the deaths of an officer and a soldier as well as the injury of eight others in a crane collapse in the northern Gaza Strip due to stormy weather.Israel’s public broadcaster Kan said the crane collapsed due to strong winds and fell on a tent with soldiers inside it.Reports in Israeli media said the army is investigating this incident, which it described as “serious and reflects a lack of preparation for weather conditions”.
• Living conditions in Gaza are ‘dangerous’: UNICEFTess Ingram, UNICEF’s communications manager, has told Al Jazeera from Gaza that she met families yesterday that were building makeshift shelters on top of the rubble of what used to be their homes.“They were using pieces of plywood with sheets of tarpaulin. I hope that it’s still standing,” she said, adding she was particularly concerned about children’s wellbeing.“For kids in these conditions, it’s frightening not only to be outside, exposed to the cold, but also very dangerous. We’ve had a number of children in Gaza die of hypothermia. It’s clear that when you meet with families, they don’t have what they need to protect them[selves],” she said.Ingram said the needs of the people in Gaza are “immense” and called for ramping up emergency relief efforts fast, adding that requires the delivery of more than 600 aid trucks a day. “But the needs are far greater than that.“The main things that people are asking me for are tents, tarpaulin and water. The water system has been decimated and people are really struggling to find safe water to drink,” she said.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/6/live-trumps-gaza-plan-condemned-as-palestinians-pledge-to-never-leave