Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he had ordered two Palestinian citizens of Israel convicted on terror charges to be stripped of their citizenship and deported to areas under Palestinian control.

It is the first time such measures are being taken under a 2023 law, which allows for the revocation of Israeli citizenship or residence permits from perpetrators of anti-Israeli attacks whose families subsequently received compensation from the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority.

"This morning I signed the revocation of citizenship and deportation of two Israeli terrorists who carried out stabbing and shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and were rewarded for their heinous acts by the Palestinian Authority," Netanyahu said in a statement released by his office.

"I thank Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz for leading the law that will expel them from the State of Israel, with many more like them to follow," it added.

The statement was released as Netanyahu was heading to Washington, where he will meet US President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Israel violated the ceasefire agreement at least 1,620 times since its occurrence in October in Gaza, killing at least 573 people and wounding 1,553, Al Jazeera reported, citing the Gaza media office.

In a statement, the media office said 292 of those victims were children, women and the elderly.

Moreover, only 31,178 aid, commercial and fuel trucks have entered Gaza, in contrast to the 72,000 that were part of the agreement.

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

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 members in response to Monday's incident in Rafah.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will meet US President Donald Trump on Wednesday to discuss the Gaza conflict and the ongoing missile negotiations with Iran.

The two leaders are set to meet in Washington on Wednesday, their sixth such encounter in the United States since Trump returned to office a year ago.

"On this trip, we will discuss a range of issues: Gaza, the region, but of course first and foremost the negotiations with Iran," Netanyahu said, in a video statement before his departure.

"I will present to the president our views regarding the principles for the negotiations."

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

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, 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.

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.

"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.

A White House official reiterated US President Donald Trump's opposition toward Israel annexing the West Bank.

"A stable West Bank keeps Israel secure and is in line with this administration’s goal to achieve peace in the region," the official said.

An immigration judge has rejected the Trump administration's efforts to deport Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested last year as part of its targeting of pro-Palestinian campus activists, her lawyers said on Monday.

Lawyers for the Turkish student detailed the immigration judge's decision in a filing with the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, which had been reviewing a ruling that led to her release from immigration custody in May.

An immigration judge on January 29 concluded the US Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving she was removable and terminated the proceedings against her, her lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union wrote.

Her immigration lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai, said the decision was issued by Immigration Judge Roopal Patel in Boston.

That ended, for now, proceedings that began with Ozturk's arrest by immigration authorities in March on a street in Massachusetts after the US Department of State revoked her student visa.

The sole basis authorities provided for revoking her visa was an editorial she co-authored in Tufts' student newspaper a year earlier criticizing her school's response to Israel's war in Gaza.

"Today, I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that despite the justice system's flaws, my case may give hope to those who have also been wronged by the U.S. government," Ozturk said in a statement.

WASHINGTON: A Palestinian woman, who lost dozens of family members in the Gaza war, has been hospitalised following a seizure in US immigration detention, the Department of Homeland Security said.

Kordia, a 33-year-old Muslim Palestinian woman living in the US and whose mother is an American citizen, was detained by US 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 US authorities about her health. The family could not immediately be reached for comment. DHS says ICE will ensure she receives proper medical care.

Kordia has said she was targeted for pro-Palestinian activism and cast the conditions in her detention facility as "filthy, overcrowded and inhumane."

Britain on Monday called on Israel to reverse its decision to expand control over the West Bank, joining Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in criticising the move.

"The UK strongly condemns the Israeli Security Cabinet’s decision yesterday to expand Israeli control over the West Bank," the British government said. 

Critics have said Israel's move to ease settlement expansion and widen its powers in the West Bank went in the direction of annexing occupied land.

"Any unilateral attempt to alter the geographic or demographic make-up of Palestine is wholly unacceptable and would be inconsistent with international law. We call on Israel to reverse these decisions immediately," the British government added.