{"id":123193,"date":"2025-01-19T01:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T01:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/gaza-latest-israel-retains-right-to-resume-fighting-netanyahu-says-as-he-issues-ceasefire-warning-over-hostages-list-sky-news\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T01:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T01:50:38","slug":"gaza-latest-israel-retains-right-to-resume-fighting-netanyahu-says-as-he-issues-ceasefire-warning-over-hostages-list-sky-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/gaza-latest-israel-retains-right-to-resume-fighting-netanyahu-says-as-he-issues-ceasefire-warning-over-hostages-list-sky-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza latest: Israel retains right to resume fighting, Netanyahu says – as he issues ceasefire warning over hostages list – Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel’s prime minister has warned the ceasefire deal is at risk, demanding Hamas releases a list of hostages it will free as part of the agreement. It comes as the Israeli government approved a deal due to come into effect at 6.30am on Sunday (UK time).
Saturday 18 January 2025 22:57, UK
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has repeated his call for the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.
That’s according to news agency WAFA, which reports he wants Israel’s military to make way for the Palestinian Authority – the group governing parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank – to assume full responsibilities in Gaza.
In a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, the news agency reports Abbas said he’s grateful for France’s support.
Abbas also underlined the importance of international recognition for Palestine, full UN membership and a two-state solution.
More than 70 people were arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest in London today – marking the highest total out of 23 such demonstrations held since October 7 2023.
Today’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally was curtailed by police, who blocked organisers’ plans to march past the BBC as it would direct the crowd near a synagogue.
As we reported at 3.43pm, our correspondent Shamaan Freeman-Powell<\/b><\/a> said the protest was largely peaceful, with thousands in attendance.
But demonstrators marched towards Trafalgar Square from Whitehall after speeches.
Protesters were met with a line of police officers and eventually broke through, with those who made it to the square finding themselves held in one corner.
The Metropolitan Police warned the group to disperse, later announcing 77 people had been arrested.
Of those arrested:
Commander Adam Slonecki, who led the policing operation, said: “This is the highest number of arrests we have seen, in response to the most significant escalation in criminality.”
“We could not have been clearer about the conditions in place,” he said.
“Protesters were to remain in Whitehall with no march towards the BBC.”
The PSC described the force’s conditions as “repressive” and called for police to lift them.
The Muslim Association of Britain criticised the decision to block the march, calling it “an outrageous assault on democracy, freedom of assembly, and freedom of expression”.
Israelis are demonstrating in Tel Aviv for the release of hostages still held in Gaza.
As our international correspondent Alex Rossi<\/a> <\/b>explained earlier, many in the city want hostages to be released as soon as possible under the terms of the ceasefire deal – see our 6.50pm post.
Among the protesters tonight is Eli Bibas, grandfather of the youngest hostage in Gaza, Kfir Bibas.
The wife of the longest-held Palestinian prisoner in Israel has said she fears she may not be able to see him easily once he’s released.
Nael Barghouti has spent 44 years – two-thirds of his life – in Israeli prisons, spending more time incarcerated by Israel than any other Palestinian.
The 68-year-old is the highest-profile prisoner set to be freed as part of the Gaza ceasefire beginning tomorrow morning.
Now Barghouti’s wife, Eman, worries she may not be able to see her husband if he is deported to an area she can’t easily reach. 
“They prevent families to see each other,” she said during an interview in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, cited by the Associated Press.
Barghouti was jailed In 1978 for taking part in an attack that killed an Israeli soldier in Jerusalem. He was then released in 2011 as part of an exchange between Israel and Hamas.
He married Eman – who had spent 10 years in an Israeli jail accused of attempting to plan a suicide operation in Jaffa – during his release.
Barghouti was a member of the armed wing of the Fatah movement when he was given his life sentence in 1978 and later joined Hamas. He was rearrested in 2014.
Eman said she remembers seeing her husband gazing at the stars “because he didn’t see them for 33 years and a half”.
To find out more about the most prominent Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, click below…
According to Iranian state media, Tehran has today unveiled an underground naval missile base somewhere in the Persian Gulf.
State TV showed Revolutionary Guards chief General Hossein Salami visiting the secret base during war games. 
He said it’s one of several built underground for vessels capable of firing long-range missiles and distant warfare.
“We assure the great nation of Iran that their young people are capable of coming out honourable and victorious from a battle on the seas against enemies big and small,” Salami added.
The base was built 500 metres below the ground and images showed tunnels with long rows of what state TV said were a new version of radar-evading speedboats that can launch cruise missiles.
It comes just two days before Donald Trump begins his second term as president.
Iranian leaders are concerned Trump may empower Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike their nuclear sites while tightening US sanctions on its oil industry.
As we’ve been reporting, there is opposition to the impending ceasefire deal within Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
His far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has said he and most of his party will resign over their opposition to the agreement.
He said he plans to submit his letter of resignation on Sunday morning, when the ceasefire is set to begin.
Ben-Gvir called the deal “reckless”, but his resignation will not bring down the government – despite shrinking Netanyahu’s majority – or derail the ceasefire deal.
It does, however, destabilise the government at a delicate moment and could eventually lead to its collapse.
It likely depends on how many people join Ben-Gvir in resigning.
Police have said they were arresting a group of around 20-30 pro-Palestinian protesters on suspicion of breaching conditions in central London.
We reported earlier there are thousands demonstrating in central London today, with the rally limited to Whitehall – see our 3.43pm post.
But the Metropolitan Police said demonstrators broke a police line as they marched towards Trafalgar Square.
“Around 20 to 30 people who breached the conditions are still contained in Trafalgar Square,” the force said earlier.
“They are being arrested. Others have already been arrested.”
Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks delivered just minutes ago – warning Israel will resume fighting if negotiations don’t progress – has raised fears the ceasefire deal won’t reach its second phase.
The first phase of the agreement – due to kick in at 6.30am tomorrow on UK time – is set to see 33 hostages released by Hamas in Gaza, with the remaining captives freed in the second phase.
Negotiations for that second phase will begin on the 16th day of phase one, but our international correspondent Alex Rossi<\/a> <\/b>said those pinning their hopes on the deal fear they will be disappointed.
Speaking from Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, he said: “People have come here pretty much every week to campaign to try and force the hand of the government to prioritise the hostages, rather than prosecuting the war in Gaza. 
“Most people here say that they believe bringing the hostages back should have taken priority, rather than trying to fight the war in Gaza. 
“The big fear here – and I think it was pretty much spelt out, I don’t think they’re going to find much comfort in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech – the big fear here, the people have been telling me, is that this deal will break down on phase two.”
‘Bad deal’<\/b>
Most people are “optimistic” the first 33 will be freed, Rossi said, but the deal is “ridiculously complicated”.
“Many people here, interestingly, do not think it is particularly a good deal for Israel,” Rossi added.
“They are pleased, of course, it’s the only deal that they could get as far as they’re concerned, and they must bring the hostages back.
“But in terms of the actual deal and where it leaves Hamas, there’s a fear here that, although much degraded, the reality of the Gaza Strip is going to be very much like the day before October 7.”
Benjamin Netanyahu has now delivered his statement – insisting Israel will not “relent” until all hostages are released.
He did not say anything about his warning made barely a couple of hours ago that the ceasefire deal will not be enacted if Hamas does not provide a list of hostages set to be released – see our 4.53pm post.
But he did describe that ceasefire as “temporary”, adding he has the backing of incoming President Donald Trump to resume fighting if negotiations do not progress.
If Israel does restart the fighting, he said they will do so in new and “forceful” ways.
“If we must return to fighting, we will do that in new, forceful ways,” he said.
“President Trump and President Biden have given full backing to Israel’s right to return to combat if Israel concludes that negotiations on Phase B are futile.”
He also said the Israeli military has “changed the face of the Middle East” after inflicting what he called defeats on “enemies” across the region, including Iran and Hezbollah.
Watch his statement in full here…<\/b>
We’re expecting to hear from Israel’s prime minister in a matter of minutes, with his office saying he will deliver a statement at 6.10pm (UK time).
This comes less than two hours after he warned Israel will not proceed with the ceasefire deal – due to come into effect tomorrow morning – without a list of hostages to be released by Hamas.
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