Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the terror army to launch a large-scale "military operation" in the West Bank following the bus bombings in the Tel Aviv city of Bat Yam.

US President Donald Trump has claimed that Kiev started the war in Ukraine, that Zelensky's approval rating has dropped to 4 percent, and that Ukraine has not held presidential elections since 2019, when a "comedian with no prior political experience" came to power. How well-founded are his claims?

Key events from the past 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the entire Middle East.

Arab states are trying to prepare their own plan for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip as an alternative to US President Trump's plan to resettle the population of the Gaza Strip in other countries. The plan includes the formation of a national Palestinian committee to govern the Gaza Strip without Hamas and to participate internationally in the reconstruction without displacing Palestinians abroad.

The Afghan embassy in Islamabad has said that the Pakistani government is planning to deport all Afghan immigrants in the country. Afghan citizens in Islamabad and Rawalpindi are currently being detained and searched without any official notice.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has called for a nationwide referendum on amending the country's current constitution, a move that could help pave the way for a peace deal with Armenia's arch-rival Azerbaijan, Reuters reported.

The Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs reported that 1,109 mosques and 3 churches in Gaza were destroyed during Israeli aggression between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2024. At least 315 employees of mosques and religious institutions were killed, and 27 were arrested by Israeli soldiers. The ministry announced the formation of the Minaret Coalition, which includes heads of religious and charitable organizations and other religious leaders from more than 30 countries, to restore mosques and religious institutions.

Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a "dictator" and a "small-time comedian" for refusing to hold elections. He also said that Zelensky admitted that half of the funds allocated for the war were "lost."

The French Senate has approved a bill to ban the wearing of the hijab during sporting events. "This bill is designed for political purposes: it is a way of fighting Islam under the pretext of defending secularism," said Socialist Selvi Robert.

In the city of Balashikha, near Moscow, a drunken man beat 11-year-old Egor with derogatory language that many Russians use to describe Central Asians.