The IDF announces that the body of Oron Shaul, who was killed and captured by Hamas during the 2014 Gaza War, was recovered in an operation in Northern Gaza.[10]
The IDF conducts drone strikes and a ground raid in Jenin in a counterterrorism operation codenamed "Iron Wall", killing at least eight Palestinians and injuring 35.[15][16]
The Knesset plenum passes a law criminalizing denial, trivialization, and celebration of the 7 October Hamas attack.[17]
Four people are injured in a knife attack in Tel Aviv. The attacker, a Moroccan citizen with US residency, is shot dead.[18]
25 January –
Four female IDF soldiers captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks, including Naama Levy, are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.[19]
Two hundred Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.[20]
Three Israelis and five Thais captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.[24]
110 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.[25]
February
1 February –
Three Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.[26]
183 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.[27]
Prime Minister Netanyahu appoints retired Major General Eyal Zamir as IDF chief of staff.[28]
4 February – Two soldiers and a Palestinian gunman are killed and eight soldiers are injured, two seriously, in a shooting at the Tayasir checkpoint in the West Bank.[29]
A woman in Eilat dies from hypothermia during a winter storm that swept across Israel.[31]
6 February – US president Donald Trump imposes sanctions against the International Criminal Court in part over its issuance of an arrest warrant against Netanyahu over alleged war crimes committed in Gaza.[32]
8 February –
183 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.[33]
Three Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.[34]
369 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.[36]
Three Israelis captured by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad during the 7 October attacks are released by both groups as part of the ceasefire agreement.[37]
Hamas returns the bodies of Kfir and Ariel Bibas and Oded Lifshitz, who were captured during the 7 October attacks but later died in captivity, as part of the ceasefire agreement. A fourth body, which Hamas claimed was Shiri Bibas, is later found to have been misidentified as a hostage.[41] Hamas subsequently says that Shiri's remains had been mixed with those of other victims following an Israeli airstrike[42][43] and that it will examine allegations over Shiri's remains, while asking Israel to return the body, which it identifies as a Palestinian woman.[44][45]
The Knesset passes a law imposing an entry ban into Israel for people who deny the Holocaust and the 7 October attacks, as well as those who support legal punishment against Israelis over actions committed during IDF service.[46]
21 February – Hamas says that it had handed over the remains of Shiri Bibas, which are subsequently identified by forensic experts.[48][49]
22 February – Four Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks and two others held in captivity after entering the Gaza Strip on their own in 2014 and 2015 are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement. They are the final living hostages held by Hamas to be released in the first phase of the deal.[50][51]
24 February – MEPs Rima Hassan and Lynn Boylan are denied entry to Israel as part of an EU-Palestine delegation, with Israeli authorities citing Hassan's support for anti-Israel boycotts.[52]
25 February – The IDF launches airstrikes on military installations outside Damascus and in Daraa Governorate in southern Syria, killing at least two people.[53]
27 February –
Hamas returns the bodies of four hostages captured during the 7 October attacks but later died in captivity, as part of the ceasefire agreement.[54]
More than 600 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.[55]
A combined vehicle ramming and stabbing attack in Pardes Hanna-Karkur injures 13 people, one of them seriously. The attacker is shot and killed by police.[56]
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