February 9, 2025

* Israel displaces 400 Palestinians in West Bank refugee camp A Palestinian official has confirmed that 400 Palestinians have been displaced from the Al Faraa refugee camp in southern Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank on the seventh day of an Israeli assault on the camp. Tubas and Northern Jordan Valley Governor Ahmed Al Asad said that about 400 Palestinians from Al Faraa camp have been displaced so far amid the ongoing Israeli military offensive. * Freed Palestinians say Israeli forces tortured them for not reciting Torah Freed Palestinians have revealed that Israeli forces violently attacked them because they refused to recite verses from the Torah. Prisoners said they were violently attacked hours before release because they refused to recite a verse that included a threat to Palestinians. * Several arrested in German police crackdown on pro-Palestine protest German police have arrested several pro-Palestine protestors in Berlin and forced them to stop playing music and chanting slogans against Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during a rally. Hundreds of people gathered at the square near the Wittenbergplatz metro station in support of Palestine, under the slogan "Stop the aggression in the West Bank — Do not supply weapons to Israel." * After Biden, Trump revokes security clearances for Blinken, Sullivan President Donald Trump has revoked security clearances for Antony Blinken, the former secretary of state, and Jake Sullivan, the former national security adviser, White House officials said. The move came a day after Trump said he had revoked the security clearance for his predecessor Joe Biden, stopping his access to daily intelligence briefings. Trump also revoked security clearances for Biden's Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, who helped coordinate the Department of Justice's response to the January 6, 2021, riots by Trump supporters in the US Capitol. * US judge blocks Musk's DOGE from accessing Treasury payment systems A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system, citing the risk of "irreparable harm." US District Judge in Manhattan issued the order after a coalition of Democratic attorneys general from 19 US states filed a lawsuit late arguing Musk's DOGE has no legal power to access the US Department of Treasury systems. The court ruling prevents DOGE from accessing the system that processes Social Security benefits, Medicaid and Medicare payments to doctors, and payments to other federal agencies.