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Al Jazeera - Dec 2, 2025 - By Caolán Magee
{Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teenagers in occupied West Bank
An Israeli drone strike in Khan Younis, Gaza also killed photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi.
Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian teenagers in separate incidents in Hebron and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army said 17-year-old Muhannad al-Zughair was shot dead in the Abu Daajan area of Hebron after what it claimed was a ramming attack that injured two soldiers. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said, “We do not know whether that attack occurred because no investigation has been launched.” “The teenager was injured and fled towards Hebron. He was later found and killed inside a car. The body is now being withheld by Israeli forces in what is now standard operating procedure.” Meanwhile, in the north of Ramallah, 18-year-old Muhammad Asmar was killed near the village of Umm Safa. Odeh added that the alleged assailant was “held by soldiers and was then shot while on the ground and left to bleed for hours”. In a statement, the Israeli army said it had killed a Palestinian who “had begun to stab soldiers near the settlement”. According to the Magen David Adom ambulance service, two Israelis were lightly wounded. Hamas praised what it called a “heroic stabbing operation”, saying the attack “is a natural response to the crimes of the [Israeli] occupation, and a clear message that its attempts to break the will of our people through military operations, daily killings, arrests, and field executions will not succeed”. Across the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have continued to carry out raids. Troops stormed the vicinity of three hospitals in Hebron and demolished two apartments in al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem. Israeli settlers also attacked Burqa village northwest of Nablus, setting fire to a tractor and attempting to torch a vehicle, while others sprayed graffiti on a home.Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal under international law. The International Court of Justice reaffirmed last year that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and must end.

Mahmoud Wadi
Journalist killed in Gaza drone strike
Meanwhile, Israel has continued its attacks in Gaza, where an Israeli drone strike in central Khan Younis killed Palestinian photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi. The Wafa news agency reported that journalist Muhammad Abdel Fattah Aslih was also wounded in the same attack. Aslih is the brother of Hassan Aslih, a photographer killed in a drone strike on Nasser Hospital in May. A video posted on Instagram and verified by Al Jazeera shows Wadi’s body with a press vest laid on top, surrounded by mourners. More than 260 media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, making it the deadliest conflict for journalists on record. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 70,100 Palestinians and wounded 170,965 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and about 200 were taken captive. Israel has continued to attack Gaza despite a ceasefire, which began on October 10. More than 356 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks during that period.
Health system on the brink
The Israeli prime minister’s office said authorities have received “findings” from Gaza that could be the remains of two captives whose bodies have not yet been returned. The office said the material was transferred via the Red Cross and would be received in a military ceremony before being taken to Israel’s forensic medicine centre for identification. Hamas had agreed to return the bodies of captives as part of the ceasefire agreement, but has said that widespread destruction across Gaza has made recovery efforts difficult. Meanwhile, healthcare workers in Gaza say they face critical shortages of medicines and equipment. The UN has described the situation as “catastrophic”. Less than half of Gaza’s hospitals, and just over a third of its clinics, are functioning at minimal capacity.
Al-Ahli Hospital is treating more than three times the patients it was built for, while al-Shifa, Nasser and al-Rantisi hospitals are also overwhelmed. More than half of essential medicines and two-thirds of medical supplies are out of stock, the UN has said. Monitoring groups say Israeli forces have killed about 1,000 healthcare workers since the war began. At least 25 medical staff from Gaza are being held in Israeli prisons without charge.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/israeli-forces-kill-two-palestinian-teenagers-in-occupied-west-bank


Videoscreen grab: deliberate destruction kills babies
Al Jazeera - Dec 2, 2025 - By Justin Salhani
{Israel’s genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire: Analysts
Analysts and a human rights group say Israel’s genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire. On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire was supposed to have put an end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. But two months on, Israel has violated the ceasefire more than 500 times, killing at least 356 Palestinians, and sending the total death toll in Gaza above 70,000. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made his position clear, saying that the war “has not ended”.
Analysts say that while the rate of Israel’s killing of Palestinians in Gaza has slowed since the ceasefire, the war, for all intents and purposes, has continued.
“If you break genocide down to its essence, it’s not only mass killing,” Muhammad Shehada, a visiting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told Al Jazeera. “It is also destroying the population’s ability to exist together as a group, and that is being achieved by the mass destruction [of infrastructure], the killing, ethnic cleansing, and starvation,” he said.
Political theatre and spectacle
Analysts say that instead of coming as a reprieve for Palestinians, the ceasefire gave the international community an excuse to stop focusing on Israel’s actions in Gaza. The US-backed ceasefire agreement was meant to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza and kick-start aid deliveries to Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, where famine had been declared. “At long last, we have peace in the Middle East,” US President Donald Trump declared from Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, where a Gaza peace summit was being held. But Israel continued attacking. It has also failed to allow the entry of the amount of aid it agreed to, destroyed more than 1,500 buildings, and expanded deeper into Gaza, cutting people off from their homes. “It’s theatre because everyone was fed up with the genocide and keen for it to disappear and not solve it. And that’s exactly what we’ve seen,” Shehada said. In the weeks since the ceasefire began, Gaza has flickered in and out of media headlines. “The main difference, of course, is the reduced media coverage, which was one of the intended purposes of the so-called ceasefire,” Lebanese Palestinian researcher and writer Elia Ayoub told Al Jazeera. “There is far less pressure on Israel today than there was until October 10, with no sign of accountability on the horizon.”
‘Israel’s genocide is not over’
The ongoing harm to Palestinians in Gaza has also been noted by Amnesty International, which released a legal analysis last week of what it called the “ongoing genocide in the Occupied Gaza Strip”. “The world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over,” said Agnes Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International. The analysis cites the number of Palestinians killed since the ceasefire went into effect, Israel’s restriction of relief, humanitarian and medical supplies, and how Israel’s blockade and siege of Gaza led to a famine, and thus an increased vulnerability to illnesses. “So far, there is no indication that Israel is taking serious measures to reverse the deadly impact of its crimes and no evidence that its intent has changed,” Callamard said. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said on October 1, before the ceasefire, that 100 people were dying in Gaza a day, mostly from Israeli military operations or shootings at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution points. Since the ceasefire, people are still dying from direct military operations, albeit fewer per day, and the foundations of Palestinian society in Gaza are still lying in ruins. “Israel is continuing its genocide in Gaza, but its pace is different; the destruction on the houses is continuing and the killing of Palestinians is continuing, and the Israeli yellow line of occupation in the Gaza Strip is part of the genocide,” defence analyst Hamze Attar told Al Jazeera. “The genocide is not only about killing people, but about restricting people from going back to their homes and creating a new reality in the Gaza Strip.”
Simply genocide
One of the ceasefire’s main stipulations was for Hamas and other Palestinian groups to return the captives held in Gaza. Hamas has returned all living captives and all but two of the bodies of dead captives: an Israeli policeman named Ran Gvili and a Thai national named Sudthisak Rinthalak. One of the remaining bodies could be returned in the coming days, according to Israeli media. For months, Israel’s most fervent supporters claimed a return of the captives would end the war. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem previously said the group has shown its “commitment to fully complete the exchange process and its ongoing efforts to finalise it despite significant difficulties”. As for Israel, it has released 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and returned the bodies of 345 more who died in its prisons. Many reportedly showed signs of torture, mutilation and execution. However, Israel has not eased its pressure on the people of Gaza. “As soon as ceasefires go into effect, nobody bothers with details, which gives Israel a free hand to do what it wants,” Shehada said. As for the United States, which helped pressure Israel into the deal, Shehada said Trump is more interested in the spectacle of peace than in “the dynamics on the ground”, adding that Israel violates the ceasefire systematically, making it difficult for mediators to keep up. The end goal, he said, was still the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. In Gaza, as in Lebanon or in Syria, Israel has undermined peace agreements, analysts say. Netanyahu has claimed his goal is to destroy and dismantle Hamas, though analysts have repeatedly doubted his stated intentions. “It confirms what we already knew: that the goal is not to defeat an armed enemy, Hamas, but to make sure that life itself cannot be sustained in Gaza in the long-term,” Ayoub said.
“It’s simply genocide.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/12/2/israels-genocide-in-gaza-has-not-stopped-despite-ceasefire-analysts

Al Jazeera - Dec 2, 2025 - By Yashraj Sharma
{Beyond Netanyahu: Israel’s major political corruption scandals
A look at corruption cases involving Israeli prime ministers.
Benjamin Netanyahu is the first sitting prime minister in Israel to stand trial after being accused of corruption, but he is hardly the only one to have been mired in such scandals. Nearly all Israeli prime ministers since 1996, including Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Olmert, alongside Netanyahu, have been investigated on charges of corruption, as have several other cabinet ministers, Knesset members, and mayors.
Here is an overview of the major corruption scandals in Israel over the past two decades.
Benjamin Netanyahu
The sitting prime minister of Israel was indicted in three cases – known as “1000”, “2000”, and “4000” – for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, involving allegedly accepting illicit gifts and trading regulatory favours for positive media coverage. The trial is ongoing. Netanyahu admits to taking gifts but claims no favours were returned. On Sunday, November 30, President Isaac Herzog’s office confirmed that Netanyahu submitted a formal pardon request, saying his ongoing trial divides the nation as he goes on a spree of attacking neighbouring countries in the Middle East.
Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister who served from 2006 to 2009, faced a range of charges over misconduct during his terms as trade minister, communications minister and finance minister. Olmert resigned in 2008 – staying on in a caretaker capacity for a few months – before he could be indicted after a US businessman, Morris Talansky, testified about giving Olmert cash-stuffed envelopes in the 1990s for political and personal expenses. Olmert was convicted of breach of trust in July 2012, of bribery in March 2014, and of breach of trust in March 2015. His six-year sentence was reduced to 18 months in December 2015.
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon, the former prime minister from March 2001 to April 2006, was investigated for bribery allegations that real-estate developers and foreign businessmen sought political favours from him and his sons in exchange for financial benefits. Despite recommendations to indict some associates, prosecutors ultimately did not charge Sharon himself, citing insufficient evidence. However, his son, Omri Sharon, served prison time for illegal fundraising connected to the campaigns.
Ezer Weizman
Ezer Weizman, who served as Israel’s president from 1993 to 2000 after retiring as commander of the Air Force and minister of defence, faced allegations of fraud and breach of trust for receiving large cash gifts – more than $300,000 from a French businessman – while serving as a lawmaker and minister. Weizman resigned from the presidency in 2000 to avoid prosecution. Although prosecutors determined that Weizman had accepted the money, he was never formally charged or tried in a court of law because the statute of limitations had elapsed by the time the investigation concluded.
Aryeh Deri
Aryeh Deri, one of the founders of the Shas political party who served as the vice prime minister under Netanyahu from December 2022 to January 2023, has been convicted of corruption twice. In 1999, he was convicted of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust; in 2022, he faced charges for tax offences. He served nearly two years in prison for the first conviction. For the second, he signed a plea deal in 2022, resigning from parliament to avoid prison. Despite this, PM Netanyahu appointed him interior and health minister, and the parliament passed the so-called “Deri Law” in 2022 that would limit the Supreme Court of Israel’s ability to review the “reasonableness” of government decisions. In 2023, the Supreme Court disqualified him from serving as a minister on grounds of “extreme unreasonableness” due to his conviction on tax evasion.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/beyond-netanyahu-israels-major-political-corruption-scandals


Videoscreen grab: protesting the deadliest conflict ever for journalists
Al Jazeera - Dec 2, 2025
{Israel’s war on Gaza deadliest conflict ever for journalists, says report
More journalists killed in Gaza than in both world wars, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan combined, says Costs of War project.
Correction
This article originally misstated the number of journalists killed in Gaza. It should be an average of 13 per month, not per week.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 232 journalists – an average of 13 per month – making it the deadliest conflict for media workers ever recorded, according to a report by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs’ Costs of War project. More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia and the United States war in Afghanistan combined, the report published on Tuesday found. “It is, quite simply, the worst ever conflict for reporters,” the analysis said. The report explained it was unclear how many Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been specifically targeted by Israeli attacks and “how many were simply the victims, like tens of thousands of fellow civilians, of Israel’s bombardment”. However, it cites the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) as documenting 35 cases where Israel’s military likely targeted and killed journalists because of their work by the end of 2024.
Among them was Al Jazeera reporter Hamza Dahdouh, who was killed on January 7, 2024 when a missile struck the vehicle he was travelling in in southern Gaza. He was the fifth immediate family member of Wael Dahdouh, Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, to be killed by Israeli attacks. A more recent case is Al Jazeera reporter Hossam Shabat, killed on March 24 when an Israeli strike hit his car.  Israel’s military accused Shabat of being a secret Hamas operative, a claim the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Israel has repeatedly levied against Palestinian journalists without evidence to justify their killing or mistreatment. The attacks on journalists in Gaza, where nearly no foreign correspondents have been granted access, have intensified a trend where local reporters – often underpaid and underresourced – face the greatest risks, according to the Costs of War project. “Across the globe, the economics of the industry, the violence of war, and coordinated censorship campaigns are turning more conflict zones into news graveyards, with Gaza being the most extreme example,” the report said.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/2/gaza-war-deadliest-ever-for-journalists-says-report

Quds News - Dec 2, 2025
{Three Palestinians, Including Journalist, Killed in Israeli Attacks Across Gaza in Yet Another Ceasefire Violation
Three Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, marking another violation of the ceasefire that took effect in early October.
Gaza (QNN)- Three Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, marking another violation of the ceasefire that took effect in early October. Among the victims was a journalist, who was killed in an Israeli drone strike. Medical sources confirmed that Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in central Gaza’s Al-Bureij camp and Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood. Photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi was also killed in a drone attack in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. Earlier, the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza also said that Israeli forces besieged dozens of Palestinian families in their homes and in a building sheltering displaced people, under heavy fire and drone attacks, in the Sannafour area of the Tuffah neighborhood last night, injuring five civilians, including two children and a woman. The team was able to evacuate the families in coordination with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The military also detonated a booby-trapped robot in the al-Shaaf area east of Gaza City, conducted demolition operations on buildings in the northern part of the Strip, carried out air raids targeting Jabalia, and launched artillery shelling on the Bureij camp in the central Strip. The attacks come in violation of the ceasefire agreement which took effect on October 10 and stated "all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended". Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire at least 591 times in 50 days, killing hundreds of Palestinians since 10 October, according to the Gaza Government Media Office on Sunday. The Office said about 357 civilians have been killed and 903 others injured in the violations, with children, women and the elderly accounting for the majority of the victims. The Office added Israel shot at civilians 164 times, raided residential areas beyond the “yellow line” 25 times, bombed and shelled Gaza 280 times, and demolished people’s properties on 118 occasions. It added that Israel has also abducted 38 Palestinians from Gaza during the 50 days.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66815&slug=three-palestinians-including-journalist-killed-in-israeli-attacks-across-gaza-in-yet-another-ceasefire-violation

Al Jazeera - Dec 2, 2025
{Video: Moment Palestinian prisoner’s home is blown up by Israeli forces
Palestinian prisoner Abdulkarim Sanobar’s home in the occupied West Bank was blown up by the Israeli military, after he was accused of a bomb attack on empty buses in February. Rights groups say blowing up the homes of prisoners is collective punishment and a war crime.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/12/2/video-moment-palestinian-prisoners-home-is-blown-up-by-israeli-forces

Quds News - Dec 2, 2025
{Israeli Forces Besiege Palestinian Families in Homes East of Gaza City, Injuring Five
The Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza confirmed that Israeli forces besieged dozens of families inside their homes east of Gaza City.
Israeli Forces Besiege Palestinian Families in Homes East of Gaza City, Injuring Five
Gaza (QNN)- The Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza confirmed that Israeli forces besieged dozens of families inside their homes east of Gaza City on Monday night, injuring five people, including two children, under heavy fire. The rescue agency said in a statement that Israeli forces besieged dozens of Palestinian families in their homes and in a building sheltering displaced people, under heavy fire and drone attacks, in the Sannafour area of the Tuffah neighborhood.
The team was able to evacuate the families in coordination with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The attack comes in violation of the ceasefire agreement which took effect on October 10 and stated "all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended".  Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire at least 591 times in 50 days, killing hundreds of Palestinians since 10 October, according to the Gaza Government Media Office on Sunday. The Office said about 357 civilians have been killed and 903 others injured in the violations, with children, women and the elderly accounting for the majority of the victims.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66814&slug=israeli-forces-besiege-palestinian-families-in-homes-east-of-gaza-city-injuring-five


Norwegian Fund Targets Microsoft
Quds News - Dec 2, 2025
{Norwegian Fund Targets Microsoft Over Involvement in Israel’s Gaza Genocide
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s $2 trillion fund, is pressuring Microsoft over its role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, citing ethical concerns.
Oslo (QNN)- The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, is increasing pressure on Microsoft over its involvement in Israel's genocide. According to Calcalist, the move follows indications that Microsoft technologies were used by the Israeli military in attacks on Gaza and the West Bank. The fund manages $2 trillion in assets and is the largest in the world. It announced it will support a proposal at Microsoft’s annual shareholder meeting next Friday. The proposal asks the US tech giant to publish a report on the risks of operating in countries with human rights concerns. The initiative comes from EICO, which seeks to make Microsoft disclose how effective its human rights oversight is. The organization cites evidence that Microsoft’s software and cloud infrastructure likely served the Israeli military during attacks on Palestinian territories. Calcalist reports the fund will also vote against reappointing CEO Satya Nadella as board chair and oppose his compensation package. The fund said in a statement that Microsoft’s board must consider the material risks and the broad social and environmental impacts of its operations and products. The Norwegian fund typically opposes large executive pay packages. It previously rejected Elon Musk’s inflated compensation at Tesla.
Calcalist notes that the fund’s stance is not new. Recent steps include:
Selling shares in 13 Israeli companies in August based on recommendations from its ethics committee.
Microsoft blocking Israel’s Unit 8200, an intelligence unit, from accessing some cloud services in September.
These moves signal a shift toward stricter ethical restrictions on investments tied to Israeli military crimes. Data from Calcalist, using the LSGE platform, shows the fund held a 1.35% stake in Microsoft at the end of June, worth roughly $50 billion. Microsoft is the fund’s second-largest holding after Nvidia. The fund ranks as the eighth-largest Microsoft shareholder worldwide, giving it significant voting influence.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66813&slug=norwegian-fund-targets-microsoft-over-involvement-in-israels-gaza-genocide


Red Signs Sweep London
Quds News - Dec 1, 2025
{Red Signs Sweep London in Campaign to Free Palestinian Hostages
Red signs and ribbons spread across London as activists launch a new campaign demanding freedom for thousands of Palestinian hostages held in Israeli jails.
London (QNN)- Bold red signs have taken over the streets of Westminster in central London. The new symbolic campaign, titled “Free Palestinian Hostages,” aims to highlight the ongoing suffering of thousands of Palestinian hostages and detainees held by Israel. Organizers say the campaign reminds the world that around 9,100 Palestinian hostages remain inside Israeli jails. The figures include 3,544 administrative detainees, 400 children, 53 women, 16 doctors, and 300 prisoners serving life sentences. The campaign features red ribbons and information boards placed in central locations across London. It also includes short videos that tell the stories of histages and detainees. Supporters plan to spread these videos across media outlets and social platforms to build global momentum. The initiative focuses first on Palestinian hostages who are doctors, women, and children. Organizers say their stories offer a human and shocking picture of life inside Israeli detention. Campaign coordinators chose the color red as the unified visual symbol. They describe it as a global sign that reflects Palestinian blood and the pain of hostages. They argue that other colors once used in human rights movements have lost their impact. Red, one of the colors of the Palestinian flag, now represents both suffering and resilience. Organizers hope the color will grow into a worldwide symbol for the Palestinian detainees’ cause. They believe it can help unite solidarity efforts in different countries, similar to how other colors became international markers for major humanitarian struggles in recent history. The campaign does not belong to any specific group. It remains open for anyone who wants to join or volunteer, both inside and outside the United Kingdom. At its final stage, the organizers want the issue of Palestinian detainees to evolve into a global movement that crosses borders and politics. They aim to refocus attention on the thousands of families waiting for their loved ones behind bars.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66812&slug=red-signs-sweep-london-in-campaign-to-free-palestinian-hostages


Handala
Quds News - Dec 1, 2025
{“We Breathe Your Air”: Hackers Target Top Israeli Nuclear Scientist, Leave Roses as Message
Hackers accessed the car of Israeli nuclear scientist Isaac Girtz and placed a bouquet of roses inside. A video shows the act on the fifth anniversary of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s assassination.
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Tehran-based cyber group “Handala” claimed a daring operation against Isaac Girtz, a senior Israeli nuclear engineer. The group said it infiltrated his car and placed a bouquet of flowers inside. The group said it was a message for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The operation coincided with the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh near Tehran on November 27, 2020. The hackers released a video showing the moment it placed the flowers in Girtz’s car outside his home. According to Iranian ISNA news agency, the group accessed all of Girtz’s data by hacking Israel’s Soreq Nuclear Research Center. This included his email, home address, and detailed records of his past and current workplaces. Girtz works as a systems engineer at the advanced Saraf facility. He holds a strategic position in Israel’s nuclear structure and plays a major role in national security projects. Soreq facility remains vital for Israel. It houses a nuclear reactor. Israeli authorities have not issued an official response. Israeli media circulated the story, but the government remains silent. The hackers also posted a message on their official site for the Israeli public: “We walk your streets, breathe your air, and stand in places you thought were secure.”} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66811&slug=we-breathe-your-air-hackers-target-top-israeli-nuclear-scientist-leave-roses-as-message


Videoscreen grab: Abdullah, his brothers and father-Courtesy of I.I.M.A. Mazid
Al Jazeera - Dec 1, 2025 - By Federica Marsi Reporting from Padova, Italy.
{A Gaza family split by medical evacuation hopes transplant could unite them
Padova, Italy – Abdullah, 10, barely lifts his gaze from his tablet as he plays his favourite video game, where he creates a virtual universe that lets him be anything he imagines. The beeping of the chemotherapy infusion pump delivering drugs into his veins briefly brings his attention back, and he fumbles for the charger of the plug-in device before resuming his game. His mother, Iman Ismail Mohammad Abu Mazid, says he picked up the gaming habit after leaving Gaza on May 14 for the Italian city of Padova to receive life-saving treatment for leukaemia. Back in Deir el-Balah, the city in central Gaza that the family called home, he was a “very sociable child” who “would always be in the streets playing football with his brothers and other children his age,” she told Al Jazeera, before looking through her phone to retrieve a picture of the boy she remembers. In it, three well-groomed children look at the camera. Abdullah has the same calm look, but his hair is now longer and his skin has a tinge of yellow. Standing beside him in the picture is Mohammad, who is now 11, and Mahmoud, who is eight. The cancer that consumes Abdullah also tore their family apart. While Abdullah, his mother Iman and one-year-old Qamar were granted seats on a medical evacuation flight that took them to Italy, the rest of the family – Ahmad and the other two children, Mohammad and Mahmoud – stayed behind in Gaza, which Israel continues to bomb despite a ceasefire agreement being in place. Now the disease could be what brings them back together. In early November, a team of doctors in Gaza took blood samples from Abdullah’s siblings and sent them to Italy to determine their compatibility as donors for the boy’s marrow transplant. If one is a match, they will all be allowed onto a medical flight to Padova. If the results are negative, they will need to apply to the Italian government for family reunion – a much longer process fraught with logistical challenges. Iman said the fate of his family hangs on those results. They could save Abdullah from the disease, and the rest of their family from Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. “I fear for their safety every day,” she said. “Abdullah misses his siblings, and I miss my children, too.” Abdullah shyly nodded in confirmation, adding that he misses a nicely done kebab, too. He has no penchant for Italian food and reminisces about the seasoned meat the family’s go-to restaurant in Deir el-Balah served. Asked whether he would like to bring Gaza to Padova, he said, “Not all of it, just my neighbourhood.”
Escaping war in Gaza
Iman found out she was pregnant with Qamar in March 2024, as the war was raging around her. At first, she thought her period had skipped because she had been barely surviving on water and bread. When it became apparent that a fourth child was on the way, she recalls feeling “terrified”. “I was constantly worried and anxious that they’d tell me the baby was deformed, abnormal, sick,” because of the lack of food and sanitation, she said. “My body was exhausted, and I couldn’t stand. I spent my entire pregnancy lying on the floor,” she says rapidly in Arabic, before picking up the toddler tugging insistently at her leg and placing her on her lap to feed her. Her baby girl was delivered in a tented field hospital in Deir el-Balah that lacked basic sanitation and medicines, as victims of Israeli bombardment were rushed in. “You could see someone injured at any moment – an amputated limb, an amputated hand … The scenes were horrific,” she said. “And the doctors were nervous because the area was being targeted.” Months later, in April this year, Abdullah started feeling sick. “He was yellow, had abdominal cramps, a headache,” she said. At the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Abdullah was strapped to an IV and given painkillers and antibiotics. The fluids kept the fever from spiking, but nothing could stop the cancer from spreading. The family was advised to take him to the European Hospital in Khan Younis, despite the Israeli army having announced a major expansion of military operations in the area. The 10-kilometre (six-mile) ride southward was “terrifying”. “There wasn’t a soul on the street,” Iman remembered. Doctors could only offer diluted chemotherapy treatment. Abdullah was flagged to the World Health Organization (WHO) for medical evacuation. Unexpectedly, medical evacuation was granted shortly afterwards. Iman and her husband, Ahmad, did not need words to take the decision to split the family. “There was more silence than dialogue,” she said. Ahmad arrived at the European Hospital on May 13 to bid Iman, Abdullah and Qamar an emotional farewell. As he was leaving the compound, the earth shook and a slab of concrete flew right past his head. That day, the Israeli military announced they had dropped nine bunker-busting bombs and dozens of other munitions on the hospital’s courtyard and surrounding area. They claimed to have killed Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar and more than 20 other members of the group. International law prohibits attacks on hospitals, which constitute a war crime. Hamas confirmed Sinwar’s death in August, but did not provide details on how he died. “I was convinced that [my husband] had been killed,” Iman recalled. “I kept calling him and screaming, saying, ‘I swear, he’s gone’,” she said. “I called 10 times or more, but he didn’t answer. I was certain he had been martyred. But I didn’t give up, I didn’t give up! After so many attempts, finally, he answered.”
A new life away from home
Abdullah is among more than 5,500 children who have been evacuated from Gaza through medical evacuations coordinated by the WHO. A total of 8,000 people have so far been able to leave for life-saving treatment, but 16,500 people are still waiting, according to United Nations figures. Of those, 3,800 are children. Since July 2024, more than 900 patients have died while awaiting medical evacuations, according to the WHO. Abdullah was taken to Padova thanks to the doggedness of lawyer Rebecca Fedetto, who in February founded an organisation to facilitate and support medical evacuations. “I knew I wanted to do something and be active,” she told Al Jazeera. “I couldn’t live normally, my conscience didn’t allow it.” Fedetto worked the phone in search of anyone who could help her navigate the process of paperwork, approvals, and coordination required to provide a referral for a patient to be moved to a medical facility abroad. “At one point, I thought I wouldn’t make it, it was all so complex,” she said. “When it started to work out, I couldn’t believe it.” Her self-made NGO, Padova Abbraccia i Bambini (Padova Hugs Children), has facilitated six medical evacuations, welcoming 25 people. Among them are six-year-old Ahmad, who is recovering from third-degree burns on nearly half of his body, and eight-year-old Seela, who lost both legs. A team of volunteers caters to the families’ every need, offering transport, babysitting, homeschooling and emotional support. Fedetto said the city’s response has been overwhelmingly welcoming. “Many people have emailed us asking if they could help, because this war is something that touches our conscience” she said. “Often people want to help, they just don’t know how.” WHO has appealed for countries to offer more medical evacuations, as Gaza’s healthcare remains limited. Only 18 hospitals out of 36 are partially functional. More than 30 countries have so far heeded the call, including European Union member states, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. “We are thankful for their solidarity,” Rik Peeperkorn, WHO’s representative for the occupied Palestinian territory, told Al Jazeera. Peeperkorn said that under the terms of the ceasefire, WHO should be able to evacuate 50 patients per day, in addition to their caregivers. “To make this possible, more countries must step forward with generosity and accept patients in need,” he said.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/1/a-gaza-family-split-by-medical-evacuation-hopes-transplant-could-unite-them


journalism is ‘both a battleground and a lifeline’
UN news - Dec 1, 2025
{In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, journalism is ‘both a battleground and a lifeline’
Mourners perform the funeral prayer for Palestinian journalists killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 10.
UN News Mourners perform the funeral prayer for Palestinian journalists killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 10.
More than 260 media professionals were killed in the recent hostilities in Gaza – the deadliest conflict for journalists in decades. The issue was in the spotlight at UN Headquarters on Monday during a forum focused on the dangers and complexities of reporting from the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The conversation “could not be more timely, nor more necessary,” said Melissa Fleming, head of the Department of Global Communications (DGC) which organized the 2025 United Nations International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East. “This seminar is inviting us to consider how journalism in Israel and Palestine, particularly in Gaza and the West Bank, has become both a battleground and a lifeline,” she said.
‘Unacceptable ban’ on foreign press: Guterres
Ms. Fleming read out a message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres who said that “journalists in Gaza have been facing the same risks and realities as the people they cover – including displacement, famine and death.” Furthermore, the rules of war are clear: civilians and civilian infrastructure are not a target, and journalists must be able to perform their essential work without interference, intimidation or harm. “This includes the unacceptable ban that prevents international journalists from accessing Gaza,” he said.
Fulfilling their duty
Following the deadly 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel, Gaza was placed under a complete siege.  Wael Al-Dahdouh, chief of the Gaza bureau of the Al Jazeera network, recalled that the enclave was isolated and water supply, electricity, communications and the internet were cut off. Nevertheless, journalists continued to work amid bombardment, deprivation, personal loss and displacement. “There were so many responsibilities that we felt towards you, towards the whole world,” he said in a video message. “Because we realised that if we did not fulfill our duty with our will, even if the cost is our lives, then the world will not see what is happening to two million people in this area as a result of the Israeli genocide.”
Put pressure on Israel: Mansour
The Permanent Observer of the Observer State of Palestine, Riyad Mansour, saluted “the courageous Palestinian journalists in Gaza” as “thanks to them, this genocide in Gaza has become the most documented in history.” He appealed for participants to put pressure on Israel to allow the entry of foreign reporters.
“We should ask ourselves why Israel is not allowing foreign aid into Gaza. Don't accept their security pretext. Foreign journalists were allowed in every war zone except Gaza,” he said.
Protection, access and accountability
Jodie Ginsberg, Chief Executive Officer with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), underscored the need for protection and independent access to Gaza, as well as accountability. She stressed that “allowing international access to Gaza is not a reflection on Palestinian journalists” but “a norm that we should be insisting upon, and a support to those Palestinian journalists.”
Relatives also targeted
Nasser Abu Bakr, Chairman of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, reported that more than 255 journalists were killed in Gaza, representing 18 per cent of the overall number in the Strip. More than 500 were wounded and Israel arrested over 200 others who were subjected to extreme torture in prison. Additionally, relatives of journalists also were killed or targeted. He said the syndicate and the International Union of Journalists are ready to cooperate with the Secretary-General in submitting a report detailing the systemic crimes perpetrated against journalists in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Moreover, the time has come to implement UN Security Council resolution 2222 (2015) which condemns impunity for crimes against journalists. “We want this resolution to be implemented on the occupation, and those in the occupation State to be held accountable for these crimes against our journalists,” he said in a video message.
Journalism vital to peace
The Secretary-General’s message upheld the UN’s unwavering commitment to achieve a two-State solution between Israelis and Palestinians, and the work of journalists is vital in building the informed global consensus required to realize this goal. The UN chief expressed hope that the dialogue will “strengthen respect for press freedom and the protection and safety of journalists in the Middle East” and help in laying the foundation for a just and lasting peace.} Source: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166481


cold weather intensifies
UN News - Dec 1, 2025
{Gaza: UN reports expanded winterisation efforts as cold weather intensifies
Cold and rainy weather has made some shelters in Gaza uninhabitable.
The UN says humanitarian partners in Gaza are scaling up winterisation efforts as cold weather and heavy rain continue to impact displaced Palestinians. More than 230,000 families – that’s around 1.15 million people – received monthly food parcels between 1 and 27 November, through 59 distribution points, including 21 in northern Gaza. Shelter partners distributed over 8,800 blankets and more than 300 tents, with additional tarpaulins and mattresses arriving this week.
Flood risk
Site management teams warn that flooding remains a major risk. Sandbags have been deployed to 41 displacement sites, while cash-for-work teams have been reinforcing drainage and collect empty flour sacks to improve insulation. On Friday, UN-coordinated aid entering Gaza included dignity kits, menstrual health items, medical supplies and adolescent kits – though road damage and limited transport continue to restrict access, especially in the north. Protection partners say gender-based violence services reached 671 women and girls in one day last week, with new tents allowing safe spaces to reopen after flood damage. Briefing reporters in New York on Monday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said humanitarian conditions remain extremely dire even as aid operations continue. Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Ramiz Alakbarov, has just finished a fact-finding mission to Gaza, stressing the importance of unfettered humanitarian access. “Meanwhile, our partners leading the health response report that they continue to restore services across the Strip – with 234 health service points now operational, compared to 197 before the ceasefire,” Mr. Dujarric added.
Shelter needs
Shelter needs are still high, with some 1.5 million people in need of urgent support. Over the weekend, 160 high-performance tents arrived in Gaza for learning activities – the biggest influx so far. However, stationary and other school supplies are still not being allowed into Gaza, Mr. Dujarric warned, hampering efforts to scale up the response. Around 123,000 families have received cash assistance since the fragile truce began – exceeding the target of 120,000 under the 60-day ceasefire plan.} Source: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166479


Three Winters Without Shelter
Quds News - Dec 2, 2025
{UK Urges Israel to “Allow Much More Aid” Into Gaza Amid Restrictions Despite Ceasefire
The UK Foreign Secretary has urged Israel to “allow much more aid” into Gaza and to “open all routes and crossings immediately,” amid Israeli restrictions on aid. UK Urges Israel to “Allow Much More Aid” Into Gaza Amid Restrictions Despite Ceasefire
London (QNN)- The UK Foreign Secretary has urged Israel to “allow much more aid” into Gaza and to “open all routes and crossings immediately,” amid Israeli restrictions on aid despite the ceasefire, with a consignment of over 1,100 tents sent by the UK to the war-torn strip took more than a year to arrive. The Foreign Office announced that more than 1,000 tents reached Gaza on Monday following months of delay. Yvette Cooper said: "The situation in Gaza remains dire, with worsening weather conditions compounding the critical issues caused by damaged infrastructure and over two years” of Israeli genocide. "Parents have been trying to shelter their children under broken roofs and open skies. These tents will provide a lifeline to thousands of people needing shelter, protecting them from the cold winds and relentless rain turning rubble into mud." Cooper said the arrival of the aid was welcome but only a step towards the major reconstruction that is "badly needed" and she was frustrated to see "yet another consignment of aid stuck at the border" earlier this year. This cannot be allowed to continue," she said. "The arrival of these tents shows the scale of potential impact when our aid gets in, and we will continue to do all we can to urge unhindered humanitarian access, the opening of all the crossings, the implementation of the peace plan, and a path to peace." UNICEF Special Representative to the State of Palestine Jonathan Veitch said the arrival of the tents "represents months of ongoing work by the international community to push for greater aid access". "The situation in Gaza is devastating as cold, and heavy rains continue to affect families living in extremely difficult conditions.” "Even with the ceasefire, daily life remains incredibly challenging for children in Gaza.. much more is needed." According to the UN on Monday, shelter needs in Gaza are “still high, with some 1.5 million people in need of urgent support.” Cooper’s announcement comes amid repeated calls from human rights groups and protesters for the British government to end its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as it provides vital components of F-35 jets and operates Shadow R1 surveillance flights over the war-torn enclave.
Three Winters Without Shelter, Gaza’s Families Face the Cold Again
Last week, displaced Palestinian families in Gaza wake up to find water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall left their shelters and belongings soaked. It is now the third winter they have endured since the start of the two-year Israeli genocide. Officials in Gaza have received “hundreds of pleas for help,” Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson for Gaza Civil Defense, said “but the resources are nonexistent.” “Entire shelter centers have seen water levels rise to more than 10 centimeters (3.94 inches). Mattresses are soaked, blankets are drenched and there are no options left, because every option has been destroyed by Israel,” he said. The Civil Defense has warned residents, especially the displaced, to take necessary precautions against potential destruction from the storm, with strong winds, heavy rain, and thunderstorms expected over the coming days.
Israel Blocks Tents: What We Know
In the Gaza Strip, families displaced by Israel’s two-year genocide find themselves confronting a relentless, freezing reality: three winters in a row without adequate shelter. As winter approaches once more, the urgency of the situation is palpable, cold nights, battered tents and flood-prone areas. According to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, nearly all of the Gaza Strip’s residents have been displaced. Following the start of the ceasefire, many families tried to return to their homes, most to find only rubble. However, according to the UN Satellite Centre, around 81% of all structures are damaged. As the ceasefire entered its second month, humanitarian agencies say that far too little aid is reaching Gaza, as hunger persists with winter approaching and old tents start to fray. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), which hosts the Shelter Cluster that coordinates the humanitarian shelter response and identifies priority needs for displaced families, said that Israeli restrictions continue to block the entry of lifesaving shelter materials. The NRC noted that since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October, Israel has rejected 23 requests from nine aid agencies to bring in urgently needed shelter supplies such as tents, sealing and framing kits, bedding, kitchen sets, and blankets, amounting to nearly 4,000 pallets. “We have a very short chance to protect families from the winter rains and cold,” said Angelita Caredda, Middle East and North Africa Regional Director for the NRC. “More than three weeks into the ceasefire, Gaza should be receiving a surge of shelter materials, but only a fraction of what is needed has entered. The international community must act now to secure swift and unimpeded access.” According to the humanitarian coordination body, nearly 1.5 million people already required tents and other emergency shelter materials and more than 282,000 housing units have been damaged or destroyed across Gaza, leaving families without protection, privacy, or adequate shelter as temperatures drop. The Gaza Municipality has also warned that the humanitarian situation in the city could deteriorate sharply with the arrival of winter rains. In a statement, the municipality said any rainfall could worsen the suffering of hundreds of thousands of displaced people living outdoors or in damaged tents, noting that 93 percent of tents have either collapsed or become uninhabitable after nearly two years of war.  Officials cautioned that without an immediate delivery of relief supplies, fuel, and repair equipment, the already fragile sanitation and water systems could completely fail once heavy rains begin, heightening risks of flooding, disease outbreaks, and contamination. “The tragedy of Gaza’s residents may worsen significantly in the coming weeks unless urgent international intervention is mobilised,” the municipality said, urging humanitarian organisations to act swiftly to prevent a larger catastrophe threatening civilian lives and public health.
UNRWA said 61 million tonnes of debris now cover Gaza and entire neighbourhoods have been erased. It said families were searching the ruins for shelter. Two weeks ago, the Gaza Rights Center (GRC) confirmed that 74% of the tents currently housing displaced Palestinians are unfit for living. Last winter, several children froze to death amid a harsh cold snap in Gaza, where a lack of heating was compounded by Israel’s blockade preventing shelter from entering the enclave. Amjad al-Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGO Network, which liaises with the UN, said: “We are entering winter very soon, which means rainwater and flooding are expected, and there is a high risk of disease outbreaks due to the hundreds of tons of waste near residential areas.”
Is Aid Entering Gaza?
Aid groups and Palestinians say Israel has “engineered starvation” in Gaza. The Gaza’s Government Media Office has said since the start of the ceasefire, only 28 percent of the agreed-upon number of aid trucks have been allowed to enter, far below the promised 15,600, amounting to 171 trucks per day after the ceasefire. “These limited quantities fall far below the minimum humanitarian threshold,” the Office said, calling for the immediate entry of at least 600 trucks daily to provide essential supplies such as food, medicine, fuel, and cooking gas. The Office has also accused Israel of “engineered starvation,” saying Israel has banned more than 350 basic food items, including eggs, meat, cheese, vegetables, and nutritional supplements, while permitting low-value products such as soft drinks, chocolate, and crisps sold at inflated prices. “This proves that the occupation is deliberately implementing a policy of food manipulation as a weapon against civilians,” the Office has added. “The UN and its partners have been able to get 37,000 metric tonnes of aid, mostly food, into Gaza since the October 10 ceasefire, but much more is needed, " UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters. “Despite significant progress on the humanitarian scale-up, people’s urgent needs are still immense, with impediments not being lifted quickly enough since the ceasefire,” Haq said, citing reports from the UN’s humanitarian service, OCHA. Haq was critical that entry of humanitarian supplies into Gaza continues to be limited by Israel. The UN’s World Food Programme has stressed all crossing points into the Gaza Strip should be opened to flood the famine-hit territory with aid. Chris Gunness, the former spokesperson for UNRWA, the Palestinian refugee agency, said Israel is committing a war crime by blocking aid to Gaza. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Gunness noted that tens of thousands of Palestinians – mainly children – remain at risk of malnutrition. He also said that if Israel doesn’t meet its obligation “to flood the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid”, then third-party countries must act. “Israel has made it clear that it wants to commit a genocide against the Palestinians, it wants to ethnically cleanse them, and it wants to starve them,” he said. The Norwegian Refugee Council confirmed that only 100 aid trucks are entering Gaza daily through the UN system as the NGO and other humanitarian organisations are “effectively barred” from bringing in desperately needed assistance. “There may be aid coming in through governments like [the UAE and Egypt] that we don’t have oversight over, but we know the amount of aid that is entering is wholly insufficient for the tremendous amount of need in Gaza after two years of bombardment and destruction,” communication adviser Shaina Low told Al Jazeera. “We have about $4m worth of aid sitting in warehouses in Egypt waiting to be deployed,” including shelter and hygiene supplies that will be critical for the approaching winter, she added. “But each time we apply with the Israelis, we get rejected.” Low said even basic tents are a rare commodity for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in war-battered Gaza.  “Many people do not even have tents,” she said. “The people who have tents in Gaza are the ones who are lucky.” “We’re just calling for the entry of emergency shelter supplies like tents, like tarpaulins … which will provide the minimal amount of shelter for the winter,” said Low. “We haven’t even been able to prepare or plan for the long term.” The World Food Programme noted last month only half the needed amount of food is coming in. Abeer Etefa, senior spokesperson for WFP, described the situation as a "race against time". "We need full access. We need everything to be moving fast," she said. The ceasefire includes a term requiring Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. Despite this, essential goods still face heavy delays. Residents report that the blockade continues to limit life-saving food and supplies. Last August, the Integrated Food Phase Classification (IPC) officially announced that Gaza is subjected to an Israeli-made famine.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66816&slug=uk-urges-israel-to-allow-much-more-aid-into-gaza-amid-restrictions-despite-ceasefire


Quds News - Nov 30, 2025 - By: Yasmin Abu Shammala
{“Every Place Longs for You”: A Journey Through Gaza's Geography of Loss
As Gaza’s landscape turns into tents and rubble, Yasmin Abu Shammala, a displaced journalist, travels the old coastal road to confront the silence left by vanished schools, ruined cafés, and the memories buried beneath them.
A person is usually born into a community, one life folded into the rhythm of many. But here in Gaza, things have always been different.  We are born not merely into a community, but as a community, as roots pressed deep into the soil of this place. From the summer sea to the winter fire pit, from the spring chrysanthemums to the autumn olive press, Gaza shapes us in every season, in calm and in war, though calm has never truly lived here since the day I opened my eyes to this land. A Gazan sees themselves reflected in Gaza’s stones, its trees, its sky, even the air that fills its lungs. It is a bond no words can untangle, not even we, who feel it in our bones, can fully describe it. Here, we cling to our places the way others cling to their children.If the world wouldn’t call us mad, we would list our places among our sons and daughters, answering “three, and a home overlooking Martyrs’ (Al-Shuhada’a) Square” when asked how many we are. But the world has already given us enough labels, and madness would simply be another. For two years, since October 2023, Israel has harmed us in our children, and in the places we carried like children. Losing a child tears away a piece of the soul; losing both children and places turns a person into a moving shell. Two years of erasure fed on what remained of us. Today, after two years exiled in southern Gaza, unable to see the face of my own city, I decide to walk toward the scattered pieces of me in the north. They say distance kills love, but Israel has already killed us in every way imaginable, including killing us with longing: longing for those taken, for those we cannot reach, for the places that were our first instinct of belonging. And so I begin my return to Gaza, by walking the long, wounded length of al-Rasheed Street…
Stepping Into What Was Lost
I step into al-Rasheed Street, the long shoreline road that once threaded the city together like a living artery. Before the genocidal war, this street felt like Gaza’s quiet promise: a place where the sea leaned close enough to touch your breath, where cafés glowed in soft colors at night, and where every passing student, worker, and family carried the calm that only water can give. I used to wait for my university rides just to pass through this road, to watch the waves rise and fall beside the wheels of passing taxis, to catch the faint scent of cardamom coffee drifting from beachfront kiosks, to feel the city open around me in a rare moment of unburdened life. But today, al-Rasheed feels like it has forgotten how to breathe. The cafés are bones. The rest-stops are ash. The sea is blocked by rows of tents, white, torn, heavy with salt and sorrow. A road that once carried the city’s leisure has become the line Israel used to divide Gaza’s body in half: north from south, home from exile. The driver says nothing, but the radio fills the silence. “Every place longs for you,” an old song for Mohammed Abdu. The lyrics settle over the ruins outside my window like dust, and something inside me tightens. I close my eyes. For a moment, I hear only the song and the sea, both calling the names of places I haven’t seen in two years. I open my eyes as the song fades, but the ache it leaves behind lingers like humidity. The car is still moving along al-Rasheed Street, its windows framing a coastline that no longer recognizes itself. The driver keeps his eyes on the road; the radio murmurs low, replaying the line, “Every place longs for you,” as if it were a prayer we are no longer sure how to say out loud. Beside me sits a man holding a small cardboard box on his knees, filled with socks, batteries, cheap hairclips, and a few small bags of sugar. The kind of mixed, fragile stock that tells you more about survival than any report ever could. I do a double take before I realize I know that I am sitting beside a teacher.
It’s Hussam Hijazi.
Years ago, he was a respected teacher in a school in western Gaza. Now he adjusts the box on his lap so it doesn’t slide with every bump in the road. He notices my gaze and offers a tired, apologetic half-smile, as if he owes me an explanation for the box between us. “The war pushed me here,” he says quietly, his voice almost drowned by the hum of the engine. “I was a teacher for fifteen years. Fifteen.” He repeats the number like someone reciting a verse they can’t quite let go of. “When the schools closed, when salaries stopped, when survival became the only curriculum left… I had no choice.” He tilts his head toward the window, toward the long line of al-Rasheed stretching ahead of us. “This was the road I took to school every day,” he adds. “Now it’s the road I take to find whatever merchandise is cheapest, so I can sell enough to buy bread.” There is no anger in his tone, only a deep exhaustion, and a thin thread of dignity holding itself together in his posture, in the way he keeps one careful hand on the box as if it were the last fragile shape of his old life. For a moment, we sit in silence. The car rattles forward. Outside, the tents blur past like a second, makeshift city. Hussam lets out a short, humorless laugh, and I feel something pull inside my chest, the sense that Gaza has not only displaced its people, but displaced them from the roles they were born to fill. When the car finally slows near the broken frame of the Palestinian Legislative Council, I step out. The air outside is heavier, but my steps are surer. Some destinations demand the dignity of arriving on foot. I close the door behind me, leaving Hussam to continue his search for cheaper goods, and begin walking toward the place that once held this city’s mind and conversation:
Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center.
Rashad al-Shawa Center: A City Without Its Stage
The closer I get to Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center, the more the air changes. It becomes heavier, as though grief has density here, as though memory thickens into something you must wade through. This center was once Gaza’s crown, its intellectual gateway, the hall where international delegations sat, where young people filled notebooks, where exhibitions stretched across polished floors. I attended conferences here, hurried between its doors, listened to voices that dared to imagine Gaza as part of the world. Now, when I stand before it, it takes me a moment to realize I’m in the right place. The great hall is gone. The façade is fractured. And where the entrance once welcomed thousands, there are tents, dozens of them, pitched against walls that survived only halfway. Inside one of these tents, I meet Abeer Dheifallah, sitting on a thin mattress that barely shields her from the cold ground. She looks at the ruins around her and shakes her head slowly. “I used to enter this building with awe,” she says. “It made me feel small in a good way, small because Gaza was grand. I never imagined I would be living inside a tent here, in the same place I once entered dressed for conferences and ceremonies.” Her voice breaks when she adds, “I feel like the center is ashamed of what we have become, or maybe I am ashamed that I have no walls to hide my grief.” Just beyond the tents stands al-Karmel Secondary School for Boys, directly opposite al-Shawa Center. My father spent years teaching Arabic there, years shaping students who went on to rank among Palestine’s highest achievers in national exams. Today, the schoolyard is a field of tents. The classrooms are unrecognizable. My father refuses to walk near it; he avoids its name in conversation. He fears that seeing what it has become will pierce through layers of grief he carefully folded away. And he is not alone. According to updated educational damage assessments, more than 80% of Gaza’s schools have been destroyed or severely damaged, and over 625,000 students lost access to formal education. The numbers are staggering, yet they still feel too small to capture what it means when the place where your father once shaped futures becomes a shelter without books, without teachers, without children. I cannot stand here any longer. I turn south, walking toward a place that once tasted like celebration.
Abu al-Saud Sweets, The Sweetness That Tried to Live
The smell reaches me before the storefront does, a memory, not a scent. Warm sugar. Melted cheese. Semolina kissed by heat. Abu al-Saud, Gaza’s most beloved dessert shop, sits half-rebuilt, half-broken, but undeniably alive. It was tradition: every person passing by would stop for knafeh, whether they planned to or not. It was the dessert people carried abroad as gifts, the taste that said “Gaza” before any word could. During the first day of the genocide, Abu al-Saud voluntarily shut its doors, not because ingredients ran out, but out of mourning for the martyrs, as the shop’s manager, Khaled Abu Ouda, told me. Then came the strike. The ovens were shattered, the counters burned, the copper trays twisted. But the moment a temporary truce was announced, Abu al-Saud reopened. Khaled described it simply: “When I saw the crowds coming back, more than before, it felt, for a moment, like the war had ended.” I stand before the shop and feel the ache of something too tender to touch. I cannot enter. Sweetness today feels like a betrayal. I leave the lingering scent behind and continue walking toward where the city once rested.
The Vanishing of Unknown Soldier Square
Saha al-Jundi al-Majhoul, The Unknown Soldier Square, was once the wide breath between Gaza’s errands. The place we stopped to rest after shopping in Rimal. The place we crossed on our way to work. The place we bought Gaza-style iced drinks or kharroub before continuing our day.  For a full year of my life, I passed through this square daily as a marketing content writer working nearby. Today, as I reach its edges, I cannot recognize it. The square is gone, not metaphorically, but literally buried under tent after tent after tent. There is no room to walk. No pigeons. No vendors spinning pink cotton candy. No children weaving through legs. Just fabric walls and ropes and exhaustion. And then, quietly, grief takes a new shape inside me. Because from here, I walk toward the building where I worked for the first time, my first job, my first salary, my first steps into adulthood.
I found it collapsed.
The place where I learned how to write professionally, where I grew into myself, where coworkers became friends, gone. According to recent economic assessments, over 70% of Gaza’s private businesses have been destroyed, and more than 85% of the workforce has lost stable employment. Entire sectors vanished: marketing, IT, media, design, retail, too many to count. These numbers sit heavily on the rubble where my workplace once stood, because now they have a face. Mine.
I can’t stay here.
I continue walking toward a familiar landmark of comfort.
The Last Taste of Normal, Muraṭibat Kazem
For a fleeting moment, I almost smile.
Because Kazem’s Ice Drink Shop, Muraṭibat Kazem, is still operating. He still accepts the small 10-shekel coin that most shops refuse due to inflation and scarcity. He still uses the same recipe he used before the war. But when I take a sip, something inside me folds. My taste buds recognize the flavor, but my heart does not recognize the world around it. Maybe it’s because every place in Gaza carries ghosts now. Kazem’s iced drink holds memories of people who are no longer here to drink it with me. And joy, when tied to faces that war has erased, becomes something sharp rather than sweet.
I leave silently. Some losses are too loud to swallow. Returning South, A Road That No Longer Knows Us
The sun begins to sink as I make my way back toward al-Rasheed Street. This time, I walk slowly, unwilling to rush through the city that has already lost too much. On my way back south, the bus I’m riding in jolts to a stop. A crowd is arguing over space in a small minibus. I look out the window and my breath catches, my former university professor is among them. Before the war, he drove to campus in his private car, respected, dignified, steady. Today, he is forced to fight for a seat in an overcrowded shared bus, because survival has turned every meter of asphalt into a battlefield. I turn my face away quickly, pretending not to recognize him, giving him the dignity the war has stolen. Recent human-impact reports show that more than 60% of Gaza’s academics and university employees have lost their jobs or were forced into informal labor, selling vegetables, repairing shoes, working construction, anything that might keep a family alive for one more week.
He is not alone.
None of us are.
This Pain Has No Ending Yet
As Gaza fades into the darkness behind me, I can feel the weight of everything I saw pressing into my lungs. The tents. The ruins. The places that once held our laughter. The places that raised our parents. The places that shaped who we became. We keep telling ourselves we will return to these places when the war ends,  but today taught me a different truth: we are returning even as we are breaking. This genocide did not only kill people. It killed the geography of our memories. It killed our places, which for Gazans, is another form of killing us. Tonight, as I arrive back in the south, the nightmare does not loosen its grip. We still wake up from dreams of those we lost. Now we also wake up from dreams of the streets and buildings that raised us.} Videos - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66799&slug=every-place-longs-for-you-a-journey-through-gazas-geography-of-loss

   

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