Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has secured her fourth consecutive term and overall fifth term, with the ruling Awami League party. obtaining almost 75% of the seats in Bangladesh's general election in Jan. Voter turnout was reported at approximately 40%. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is demanding new elections supervised by a neutral caretaker government following reduced voter turnout due to the BNP's boycott of the election.
An ‘Israeli’ drone strike hit a Hamas office in Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least six people, including a senior Hamas official. A US official told The Washington Post that ‘Israel’ was responsible for the strike that killed Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chief of Hamas’s political bureau. Hamas has confirmed that al-Arouri was killed and released a statement on his assassination.
‘Israel’ Hayom has reported that some members of Congress have reviewed a plan to condition US aid to Arab countries on their willingness to accept refugees from Gaza, which would facilitate the ‘Israeli’ goal of cleansing the territory of the Palestinians. The proposal was shown to key figures in the House and Senate, but the report did not say who submitted the plan.
New disclosures continue to add to the growing body of evidence indicating many ‘Israelis’ who died on October 7 were killed by the ‘Israeli’ military. The ‘Israeli’ government continues to muzzle captives freed from Gaza to prevent further damage to the Jewish entity’s official narrative.
A Hamas leader and Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both signalled that they might be close to reaching an agreement on Hamas releasing hostages in exchange for a short ceasefire. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s senior political leader based in Qatar, said Hamas officials are “approaching a truce agreement” with Israel. Netanyahu said Israel was working on a hostage deal and that he hoped “we will have good news soon.”