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 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
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Al Jazeera - Dec 28, 2025 By Ahmed Najar
{When Palestinian existence is portrayed as hate
Israel and its supporters would have you believe that just being a Palestinian is a lethal threat.
I am a Palestinian. And increasingly, that fact alone is treated as a provocation.
In recent months, I have watched anti-Semitism — a real, lethal form of hatred with a long and horrific history — be stripped of its meaning and weaponised to silence Palestinians, criminalise solidarity with us, and shield Israel from accountability as it carries out a genocide in Gaza. This is not about protecting Jewish people. It is about protecting power.
The pattern is now impossible to ignore.
A children’s educator, Ms Rachel, whose entire public work is built around care, learning, and empathy, is branded “Anti-Semite of the Year” — not for her engaging in any form of hate speech, but for expressing concern for Palestinian children. For acknowledging that children in Gaza are being bombed, starved, and traumatised. For expressing compassion. As a Palestinian, I hear the message clearly: even empathy for our children is dangerous. Then there is Palestine Action, a protest movement that targets weapons manufacturers supplying Israel’s military. Instead of being debated, challenged, or even criticised within a democratic framework, it is proscribed as a “terrorist” organisation, casually equated with ISIL (ISIS) – a group responsible for mass executions, sexual slavery, and genocidal violence. This comparison is not just obscene. It is deliberate. It collapses the meaning of “terrorism” so completely that political dissent becomes extremism by definition. Resistance becomes pathology. Protest becomes “terror”. And Palestinians, once again, are framed not as a people under occupation, but as a permanent threat. Language itself is now being criminalised. Phrases like “globalise the Intifada” are banned without any serious engagement with history or meaning. Intifada — a word that literally means “shaking off” — is torn from its political context as an uprising against military occupation and reduced to a slur. Palestinians are denied even the right to name their resistance.
At the same time, international law is being actively dismantled.
Staff and judges at the International Criminal Court are sanctioned and intimidated for daring to investigate Israeli war crimes. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on Palestine, has not only been sanctioned, but also relentlessly smeared — because she uses the language of international law to describe occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
When international law is applied to African leaders, it is celebrated.
When it is applied to Israel, it is treated as an act of hostility.
This brings us to Australia — and to one of the most revealing moments of all.
After the horrific Bondi Beach attack, which shocked and horrified people across Australia, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Australian government of encouraging anti-Semitism. Not because of any incitement, not because of inflammatory rhetoric — but because Australia had moved towards recognising Palestine as a state.
Read that again.
The diplomatic recognition of Palestinian statehood — long framed as essential to peace and grounded in international law — is presented as a moral failing, even as a contributor to anti-Semitic violence. Palestinian existence itself is treated as the problem. What makes this moment so disturbing is not only that Netanyahu made this claim, but that so many centres of power ran with it rather than challenged it. Instead of forcefully rejecting the idea that recognising Palestinian rights could “encourage anti-Semitism”, governments, institutions, and commentators allowed the premise to stand. Some echoed it outright. Others stayed silent. Almost none confronted the dangerous logic at its core: that Palestinian political recognition is inherently destabilising, provocative, or threatening.
This is how moral collapse happens — not with thunder, but with acquiescence.
The result is not safety for the Jewish people, but erasure of the Palestinian people.
As a Palestinian, I find it devastating.
It means my identity is not merely contested — it is criminalised. My grief is not simply ignored — it is politicised. My demand for justice is not debated — it is pathologised as hatred. Anti-Semitism is real. It must be confronted seriously and without hesitation. The Jewish people deserve safety, dignity, and protection — everywhere. But when anti-Semitism is stretched to include children’s educators, UN experts, international judges, protest movements, chants, words, and even the diplomatic recognition of Palestine, then the term no longer serves to protect Jewish people. It protects a state from accountability. Worse still, this weaponisation endangers Jews by collapsing Jewish identity into the actions of a government committing mass atrocities. It tells the world that Israel speaks for all Jews — and that anyone who objects must therefore be hostile to Jews themselves. That is not protection. It is recklessness masquerading as morality.
For Palestinians like me, the psychological toll is immense.
I am tired of having to preface every sentence with disclaimers.
I am deeply pained by watching my people starve while being lectured about tone.
I am angry that international law seems to apply only in certain politically convenient cases.
And I am grieving — not just for Gaza, but for the moral collapse unfolding around it.
Opposing genocide is not anti-Semitism.
Solidarity is not “terrorism”.
Recognising Palestine is not incitement.
Naming your suffering is not violence.
If the world insists on calling me an anti-Semite for refusing to accept the annihilation of my people, then it is not anti-Semitism that is being countered.
It is genocide that is being justified.
And history will remember who helped make that possible.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12/28/when-palestinian-existence-is-portrayed-as-hate


Storms Deepen Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis
Quds news - Dec 28, 2025
{UNRWA Chief Warns Winter Storms Deepen Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis
Relentless winter storms are turning Gaza’s humanitarian crisis into a life-threatening disaster, as UNRWA warns that rain, cold, and blocked aid are pushing displaced families toward despair and death.
Gaza (QNN)- UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini warned that harsh winter weather is worsening the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. He said rain and cold intensify suffering after more than two years of Israeli genocide and blockade. In a post on X, Lazzarini said more rain in Gaza means more misery, despair, and death. He stressed that thousands of Palestinian families live in flooded, worn-out tents or among the ruins of destroyed homes. Basic life needs remain absent. Lazzarini said humanitarian aid does not reach Gaza in sufficient amounts. He warned that the shortage puts children, the elderly, and the sick at extreme risk. He added that UNRWA has the capacity to scale up relief operations. This depends on allowing enough aid to enter Gaza on a regular basis.
The government had raised the alarm. It said Gaza urgently needs around 200,000 prefabricated housing units to shelter displaced families during severe winter conditions. The government’s operations room said the current weather system flooded and blew away thousands of displacement tents across the Strip. It said this has pushed the humanitarian emergency to a critical level. Since Saturday, Gaza has faced a polar low-pressure system. It is the third major winter storm this season. Heavy rain and strong winds hit a population already suffering from a severe lack of shelter materials and basic aid.
The humanitarian crisis continues despite a ceasefire agreement that took effect on October 10.
Living conditions have not improved. Israel continues to violate its commitments by keeping crossings closed. It has not allowed the agreed food, medical supplies, relief aid, shelter materials, or mobile homes to enter the strip.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66958&slug=unrwa-chief-warns-winter-storms-deepen-gazas-humanitarian-crisis


Videoscreen grab: Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera - Dec 28, 2025
{Gaza storm kills Palestinian woman as Israeli curbs on aid compound misery
Extreme weather leaves thousands homeless as tents collapse amid strong wind and heavy rain.
A Palestinian woman in Gaza has died as a winter storm threatens the lives of nearly 900,000 Palestinians living in tents across the devastated coastal enclave.
The 30-year-old, identified as Alaa Marwan Juha, died on Sunday when a wall collapsed onto her tent in the Remal neighbourhood to the west of Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. The incident occurred amid heavy rain and strong winds that have battered the Gaza Strip since Saturday evening, flooding and blowing away thousands of tents sheltering the forcibly displaced Palestinians. Al Jazeera Arabic, citing witnesses, reported that the partially destroyed wall gave way under the force of the wind, crashing down on the tent beside it. The wall collapse also injured several members of Juha’s family, the network reported. Many Palestinian families have been living in tents since late 2023 as Israel waged its genocidal war on Gaza. The enclave is imminently facing freezing temperatures, rain and strong winds, as the authorities warn the downpour could intensify into a full-blown storm.
‘Disaster area’
Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO), told Al Jazeera Arabic that the severe weather conditions are exacerbating an already catastrophic humanitarian situation. “This low-pressure system will complicate matters further … and poses a danger to the lives of citizens,” Shawa said. He said the tents offer no real protection against flooding and called for an urgent entry of mobile homes, or caravans, and equipment to repair destroyed sewage networks. “Tents represent neither a choice nor a solution,” he said, noting that agreed humanitarian protocols stipulate the provision of adequate shelter. Shawa urged the international community to pressure Israel to lift restrictions on life-saving aid, describing the entire Gaza Strip as a “disaster area”. At least 15 people, including three babies, have died this month from hypothermia following the rains and plunging temperatures, according to the authorities in Gaza.
Emergency workers have warned people not to stay in damaged buildings, several of which have completely collapsed. But with much of the Palestinian territory reduced to rubble, there are few places to escape the rain. Meanwhile, the healthcare system in Gaza is on the brink of total collapse, and the absence of much-needed aid, including medicine and medical supplies, is exacerbating the situation.
Ceasefire violations
Separately on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for the United States, as negotiators and others discuss the second stage of the ceasefire, the first phase of which took effect on October 10. Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement and block desperately needed humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged coastal enclave, even though these are stipulated in the first phase of the agreement. A 20-point plan proposed by US President Donald Trump in September called for an initial truce followed by steps towards a wider peace. So far, as part of the first phase, there has been the exchange of captives held by Hamas in Gaza and prisoners in Israeli jails, and a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces from the enclave. However, Israeli attacks continue. Since the truce went into effect, more than 414 Palestinians have been killed and 1,142 wounded in ceasefire violations, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 71,266 Palestinians and wounded 171,219 since October 2023.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/28/gaza-storm-kills-palestinian-woman-as-israeli-curbs-on-aid-compound-misery


Heavy Storm Batters Gaza
Quds news - Dec 28, 2025
{Heavy Storm Batters Gaza, Leaving Displaced Palestinians Freezing in Flooded Tents
Videos circulating on social media show tents being blown away, strong winds scattering belongings, displaced people pleading for help, and children shivering from the cold. Heavy Storm Batters Gaza, Leaving Displaced Palestinians Freezing in Flooded Tents
Gaza (QNN)- Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, sheltering in dilapidated tents, endured a severe night after a polar low-pressure system brought heavy rain and strong winds across the Strip on Saturday, leaving them freezing and flooding. A polar low-pressure system accompanied by heavy rain and strong winds battered the Gaza Strip on Saturday. It is the third polar low to affect the Palestinian territory this winter, with a fourth low-pressure system forecast to hit the area starting on Monday, meteorologist Laith al-Allami said. Earlier, the Palestinian Civil Defense urged the public to take precautions ahead of a weather system, which hit the region on Friday evening and is expected to go through next Wednesday and bring heavy rain, strong winds and a sharp drop in temperatures. It warned that the storm could trigger flooding and dangerous road conditions. Local sources confirmed hundreds of tents were flooded across Gaza over the heavy rain and winds. The Mayor of Gaza City said  thousands of families are now left living in the open after their tents were flooded. The enclave is imminently facing freezing temperatures, rain and strong winds, as the authorities warn the downpour could intensify into a full-blown storm. Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal warned, “The coming hours are dangerous, and we may witness the disaster again, with displaced families being flooded and their tents destroyed due to the approaching low-pressure system. We are facing a dire situation, and global action is urgently needed to save Gaza from flooding. The rescue group noted that the “worn-out tents could not withstand the strong winds, with some torn or blown away, leaving entire families in the open." Ismail Al-Thawabta, head of the Gaza Government Media Office, said “warnings of a humanitarian disaster are highly likely” as the heavy storm hit the enclave. Videos circulating on social media show tents being blown away, strong winds scattering belongings, displaced people pleading for help, and children shivering from the cold. On Saturday night in Gaza City, a Palestinian child fell into a deep water well. Despite hours of desperate efforts, the Civil Defense team was only able to recover him dead. Ibrahim Abu al-Reesh, head of field operations for the Civil Defense in the Gaza Port area, said that his teams responded to various distress calls as weather conditions got harsher in places where displaced people set up fragile tents. “We worked hard to cover some of these damaged tents with plastic sheets after they were flooded by rainwater,” he said. Earlier this month, the heavy rains flooded tents and shelters across Gaza, where most of the buildings have been destroyed or damaged during the genocide. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, at least 16 people have died from hypothermia and collapsing buildings, including four children. Many of the structures that collapsed were already severely damaged by Israeli airstrikes and could not withstand the heavy rain and strong winds. In several cases, residents were trapped under the rubble, while others were injured or killed. More than 27,000 tents housing displaced families have been destroyed or swept away by flooding and powerful winds, affecting over 250,000 people across Gaza, the Gaza Civil Defense said. Israel’s two-year war has destroyed more than 80 percent of the structures across Gaza, forcing hundreds of thousands of families to take refuge in flimsy tents or overcrowded makeshift shelters. Now, the humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate as winter deepens amid an Israeli blockade despite the ceasefire with limited access to shelter materials, fuel, and medical care. Humanitarian groups have immediately urged Israel to allow unimpeded deliveries of aid to Gaza. But the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says the Israeli occupation government has blocked it from bringing aid directly into Gaza. “People have reportedly died due to the collapse of damaged buildings where families were sheltering. Children have reportedly died from exposure to the cold,” UNRWA said on Tuesday. “This must stop. Aid must be allowed in at scale, now.” The UN chief’s spokesperson Farhan Haq said the UN has been warning that “children will be dying from hypothermia” in the war-ravaged territory. “That’s why we need to make sure that we can get warm clothing, tents and tarps and shelters [into Gaza],” he said. “We need to have much more aid coming in to protect especially the youngest and most vulnerable.”} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66957&slug=heavy-storm-batters-gaza-leaving-displaced-palestinians-freezing-in-flooded-tents


Flooding hits displaced Palestinians’ tents-photo-Salhi-Anadolu
Al Jazeera - Dec 27, 2025
{Palestinians suffer flooded tents and debris as cold and rain lash Gaza
Authorities in the enclave warn that the expected downpour could intensify into a full-blown storm. Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, surrounded by tents and debris, are suffering through more winter rains after two years of Israeli bombardment destroyed much of the Strip. A polar low-pressure system accompanied by heavy rain and strong winds swept across the Gaza Strip on Saturday. It is the third polar low to affect the Palestinian territory this winter, with a fourth low-pressure system forecast to hit the area starting on Monday, meteorologist Laith al-Allami told the Anadolu news agency. Many families have been living in tents since late 2023, for most of the duration of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The enclave is imminently facing freezing temperatures, rain and strong winds, as the authorities warn the downpour could intensify into a full-blown storm. Mohammed Maslah, a displaced Palestinian now in Gaza City, told Al Jazeera in his rugged tent that he did not have a choice but to stay there. “I could not find anywhere to live in Gaza, except Gaza Port,” he told Al Jazeera. “I’m forced to stay here because my home is under Israeli control. After just a few hours of rain, we were soaked.” In Deir al-Balah, Shaima Wadi, a mother of four children who was displaced from Jabaliya in the north, spoke to the Associated Press. “We have been living in this tent for two years. Every time it rains and the tent collapses over our heads, we try to put up new pieces of wood,” she said. “With how expensive everything has become, and without any income, we can barely afford clothes for our children or mattresses for them to sleep on.” The heavy rains earlier this month flooded tents and makeshift shelters across Gaza, where most of the buildings have been destroyed or damaged by Israeli attacks. So far in December, at least 15 people, including three babies, died from hypothermia following rains and plunging temperatures, with several buildings collapsing, according to the authorities in Gaza. Aid organisations have called for Israel to allow more shelters and other humanitarian aid into the territory. Ibrahim Abu al-Reesh, head of field operations for the Civil Defence in the Gaza Port area, said that his teams responded to various distress calls as weather conditions got harsher in places where displaced people set up fragile tents. “We worked hard to cover some of these damaged tents with plastic sheets after they were flooded by rainwater,” he told Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim Al Khalili, reporting from Gaza City, said that winter has been adding to the suffering of tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians who do not have safe shelters. “The same misery repeats as each rain fills neighbourhoods with muddy water,” he said.
Ceasefire talks
As Palestinians face dire conditions in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit Washington, DC, in the coming days while negotiators and others discuss the second stage of the ceasefire that took effect on October 10. The progress in the peace process has been slow. Challenges in phase two of the ceasefire include the deployment of an international stabilisation force, a technocratic governing body for Gaza, the proposed disarmament of Hamas and further Israeli troop withdrawals from the territory. So far, the agreement has partially held despite Israel’s repeated violations. Since the ceasefire went into effect, more than 414 Palestinians have been killed and 1,142 wounded, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. It also said the bodies of 679 people were pulled from the rubble during the same period, as the truce makes it safer to search for the remains of people killed earlier. The ministry on Saturday said that 29 bodies, including 25 recovered from under the rubble, had been brought to local hospitals over the past 48 hours. The overall Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war has risen to at least 71,266, the ministry said, and another 171,219 have been wounded.} Video - Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/27/palestinians-suffer-flooded-tents-and-debris-as-cold-and-rain-lash-gaza


Videoscreen grab: Dr Hussam Abu Safia’s son
Al Jazeera - Dec 28, 2025
{One year in Israeli detention, Dr Hussam Abu Safia’s son pleads for release
Israel has held Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safia for an entire year without charge. His son is pleading for his release, describing his father’s mistreatment in detention and recalling his refusal to abandon his patients at Kamal Adwan Hospital.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/12/28/one-year-in-israeli-detention-dr-hussam-abu-safias-son-pleads-for-release

Al Jazeera - Dec 28, 2025 By Faisal Ali
{Somalia condemns Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as ‘naked invasion’
Somalia’s president calls for unity at an emergency joint session of parliament, which declares the Israeli move ‘null and void’. Somalia’s president has condemned Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland as a “naked invasion”, warning that the move threatens to ignite separatist movements elsewhere. Addressing an emergency joint session of parliament on Sunday, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has committed the “greatest abuse” of Somalia’s sovereignty in the nation’s history and referred to Israel as an “enemy”. “I am encouraging the Somali people to be calm and to defend the unity and the independence of our country, which is facing this naked invasion,” he said. Lawmakers unanimously passed a resolution declaring Israel’s recognition as “null and void” although the measure is largely symbolic given that Somalia has not controlled Somaliland since it declared independence in 1991, which Somalia has never accepted. The resolution warns that individuals or institutions violating Somalia’s sovereignty will face legal consequences under the country’s penal code and international law. It directed the government to take up the matter with the United Nations, African Union, Arab League and other regional bodies.
‘Existential threat’
Netanyahu on Friday announced that Israel had established full diplomatic relations with Somaliland, describing the move as being in the spirit of the United States-brokered Abraham Accords, which normalised ties between Israel and several Arab countries. The announcement made Israel the first UN member state to formally recognise the self-declared state, which has sought international acceptance for more than three decades without success. Mohamud accused Netanyahu of trying to import Middle Eastern conflicts into Somalia and promised his country would not allow its territory to be used as a military base to attack other nations. He urged Somalis to set aside “tribal and regional rivalries” to confront what he described as an “existential threat” to the country’s unity. “We need to combine our wisdom and strengths to defend our existence and sovereignty,” the president said, calling on Somaliland’s leaders to enter meaningful negotiations to preserve Somalia’s territorial integrity. Somali Prime Minister Hamza Barre told Al Jazeera Arabic that Israel was “searching for a foothold in the Horn of Africa” and called on it to recognise and accept a Palestinian state instead. Defending the Israeli move, Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, known locally as Cirro, said on Friday that Somaliland’s recognition “is not a threat, not an act of hostility” to neighbouring countries. He said his nation is “deeply rooted in Islamic values of moderation, justice and coexistence” and does not represent an alignment against any Islamic nation or community.
Meanwhile, the Israeli decision sparked immediate international backlash. A joint statement issued on Saturday by 21 Arab and African countries and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation condemned the recognition as a grave violation of international law and the UN Charter.
In a statement, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed support for Somalia.
Regional leaders – including the presidents of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Djibouti – held phone calls with Mohamud to reaffirm support for Somalia’s territorial integrity. Eritrea separately called on China to take action at the UN Security Council, drawing parallels to the Taiwan issue.
The European Union issued a statement calling for respect for Somalia’s sovereignty but stopped short of condemning the move. It urged authorities in Mogadishu and Hargeisa to engage in dialogue.
Israel’s move to recognise Somaliland came during a more than two-year genocidal war in Gaza, in which more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed. Israel is currently being investigated by the International Court of Justice over allegations of genocide, and Netanyahu is the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court on accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 after a civil war under military ruler Siad Barre. The self-declared republic controls part of northwestern Somalia and has its own constitution, currency and flag. It claims the territory of the former British Somaliland protectorate, but its eastern regions remain under the control of rival administrations loyal to Somalia. Asked by the New York Post on Friday if he would recognise Somaliland, US President Donald Trump replied “no” although he added that the matter remained under study. “Does anyone know what Somaliland is, really?” Trump asked. The UN Security Council is expected to discuss Israel’s recognition of Somaliland on Monday.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/28/somalia-condemns-israels-recognition-of-somaliland-as-naked-invasion


Videoscreen grab: Amina Mohammed and woman in terrifying fear
Al Jazeera - Dec 28, 2025
{UN’s Amina Mohammed: Why women pay the highest price in war
From Sudan to Gaza, impunity for violence against women is fuelling conflict worldwide, the UN’s deputy chief warns.
In today’s conflicts, women and girls are facing escalating violence with near-total impunity. From mass rapes in Sudan to attacks on schools and shelters in Gaza and Syria, and the segregation of women in Afghanistan, protection is collapsing as wars intensify. Speaking to Talk to Al Jazeera, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed warns that violence against women is not a side issue but a front-line threat to peace and development. With funding shrinking and the political will faltering, she confronts hard questions about the world’s failure to protect those most at risk.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/talk-to-al-jazeera/2025/12/28/uns-amina-mohammed-why-women-pay-the-highest-price-in-war


Al Jazeera - Dec 28, 2025 By Elis Gjevori
{Israel kills over 700 relatives of Palestinian journalists in Gaza: Report
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says Israel is using collective punishment to crush reporting of its genocidal war in Gaza.
Israel has killed at least 706 family members of Palestinian journalists since the start of its genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. The syndicate’s Freedoms Committee said in a report released late on Saturday that Israeli forces are systematically targeting the families of journalists as part of what it called a war aimed at silencing Palestinian reporting. The report said the attacks represent a deliberate strategy rather than deaths as a result of war. Israeli violence against journalists has “evolved to take on a more dangerous and brutal dimension, represented by targeting the families and relatives of journalists, in a clear attempt to turn journalistic work into an existential burden for which sons, wives, fathers, and mothers pay the price”, the union said. Muhammad al-Lahham, head of the Freedoms Committee, said the pattern of attacks from 2023 to 2025 exposes Israel’s intent to crush independent reporting in Gaza. Targeting journalists’ families, he said, “reveals that the Israeli occupation is waging a comprehensive war on the truth, making no distinction between the camera and the child, nor between the pen and the home”.
“The blood of the journalists’ families will remain a living witness to the crime of trying to silence the Palestinian voice,” al-Lahham added.
Witnesses to family killings
The committee said Israeli forces killed 436 relatives of journalists in 2023, 203 in 2024 and at least 67 this year. The deaths continued even after many families were forcibly displaced and sought shelter in tents and makeshift camps, it said.
The syndicate cited a recent case near Khan Younis, where the bodies of journalist Hiba al-Abadla, her mother and about 15 members of the al-Astal family were recovered nearly two years after Israeli aircraft bombed their home west of the city. “Hundreds of children, women and the elderly were killed because of a family member’s professional connection to journalism, in flagrant violation of all humanitarian and legal norms,” the committee said. According to the findings, Israeli attacks have repeatedly struck journalists’ homes, places of displacement and areas known to house media workers and their relatives. In some cases, entire families have been wiped out, leaving journalists alive to bear witness to their annihilation. The committee described this as a “qualitative shift” in Israel’s behaviour, moving from individual targeting to collective punishment. By turning families into targets, it said, Israel aims to intimidate society itself and “dry up the environment that nurtures the media”.
Almost 300 journalists killed
Beyond the death toll, the syndicate warned of severe psychological harm. Journalists who survived after losing children, partners or parents now face trauma, family breakdowns and crushing guilt, and many have been forced to flee or suspend their work under the weight of Israel’s continuing violence. Over the past year, Israel killed several journalists in Gaza in targeted assassinations – most notably Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif – falsely claiming that they are members of Hamas. They are among nearly 300 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza during the war over 26 months – an average of about 12 journalists a month – according to Shireen.ps, a monitoring website named after Al Jazeera’s veteran correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh. who was killed in the occupied West Bank in 2022. Media freedom groups have condemned the Israeli attacks on journalists, but the killings have proceeded with impunity. Israel has never arrested or charged any of its soldiers for killing journalists. While the targeting of the news media has intensified during the war in Gaza, Israel has killed dozens of Arab journalists over the past two decades. In December, a report by Reporters Without Borders found that Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/28/israel-kills-over-700-relatives-of-palestinian-journalists-in-gaza-report


Anna Liedtke
Quds news - Dec 28, 2025
{German Journalist Says She Was Raped by Israeli Forces After Abducting Her From Gaza-Bound Aid Ship
"We were transferred from one prison to another, and during the strip searches I was raped," Liedtke said.
German Journalist says She Was Raped by Israeli Forces After Abducting Her From Gaza-Bound Aid Ship
Berlin (QNN)- A German journalist abducted aboard the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla vessel Conscience said Israeli forces raped her while in detention, confirming the assault took place during a strip search amid prison transfers. Speaking publicly for the first time, 25-year-old Anna Liedtke said she was held for five days after Israeli forces intercepted the Gaza-bound humanitarian ship in fall 2025, roughly 100 nautical miles from Gaza's coast, and abducted activists on board. "We were transferred from one prison to another, and during the strip searches I was raped," Liedtke said. She described the assault as part of broader, systemic abuse rather than an isolated case. She said she chose to speak out on behalf of other “women who have experienced sexual violence and sexual torture in the prisons”, including those still imprisoned. She added the “Zionist states, its prisons, and his guards should feel ashamed.” Liedtke noted accounts from Palestinian detainees of sexual assault by Israeli forces in Israeli prisons. “A couple of times we heard from Palestinian prisoners, especially female prisoners, about the situation in the Zionist prison.” Over 90 Palestinian detainees have been killed while in Israeli prisons since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023. According to prisoner advocacy groups, the true number is likely far higher and all of those killed died from either torture, assault, wilful medical neglect or malnutrition. The groups, based on testimonies, official records, and evidence, indicate that there has been an unparalleled campaign of assault against detained Palestinians. In August 2024, B’Tselem issued its report on the Israeli prison system titled “Welcome to Hell”, detailing the physical, psychological and sexual abuse meted out to Palestinians taken into Israeli custody. B’Tselem has described the Israeli prison system as a "network of torture camps" within which prisoners were subjected to "repeated use of sexual violence" including "gang sexual violence and assault committed by a group of prison guards or soldiers". Last year, Israel's Channel 12 published a leaked video which appeared to show Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee. Earlier this year, a United Nations inquiry accused Israel of using sexualised torture and rape as "a method of war... to destabilize, dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people".} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66956&slug=german-journalist-says-she-was-raped-by-israeli-forces-after-abducting-her-from-gaza-bound-aid-ship


Shahed Abu AlShaikh-Courtesy of Shahed Abu AlShaikh
Al Jazeera - Dec 26, 2025
{Israel killed our dreams, but its genocide could not defeat us
I had just begun my third year studying English translation at university when the war started. The onslaught turned my life upside down – it erased colours, shattered dreams, and broke my spirit. University education – the centre of my life and ambition – stopped. Gaza itself came to a standstill amid unprecedented destruction. Like all families in Gaza, my family and I have suffered greatly during this war. Two years of genocide robbed us of our health and sense of stability. We were forced to flee 10 times, moving from northern Gaza to Khan Younis in the south, then to Rafah, then to Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. After more than a year, we returned to Gaza City, only to be displaced again to Khan Younis eight months after our return. Our home was badly damaged; we are now forced to live in it, with tarpaulins instead of walls. In the summer of 2024, universities reopened but only for online learning. I registered, not because I still believed I could achieve my dream of being a teaching assistant, but because I wanted to finish what I had started. I completed my third year – the year that was supposed to shape me as a future lecturer – from inside a tent, using unstable internet. In February, my final year began. A few months later, famine hit us. My health started to deteriorate due to the lack of food, the displacement, and the constant fear of bombing. I lost nearly 15kg in a sudden, unhealthy bout of weight loss. My body became frail, and I was constantly dizzy due to the lack of food. At some point, we had just one meal in the middle of the day, one that was hardly enough to feed a baby. I could see my collarbones becoming more prominent as the famine worsened. I also began to notice the severe weight loss of my family members, especially my mother. There were moments when I felt that we were on the brink of losing her. I became afraid to stay awake past 8pm, fearing the hunger I constantly felt. Despite all the hardship, I decided not to let the war break me. I kept reminding myself that Gaza is the land of everything, and that what matters is the “now”. One night, I decided to start my own project – if I couldn’t light minds with knowledge, I could light phones – or charge them. I shared with my family the idea of starting a small phone-charging project using a small solar panel, and they fully supported me. The next morning, I wrote on a piece of paper: “Phone Charging Point” and hung it outside our tent, and my career as a phone-charging business owner began. I made numbered cards and attached them to each phone to ensure none got lost. My days became filled with voices calling out, “Shahed, how’s phone number 7?” I would smile outwardly, but inside, I would carry a deep ache – the ache of never imagining my final year of university would look like this. I struggled with cloudy weather, too many phones, and final exams. Every passing cloud that blocked the sun would cut off the power supply since I didn’t have a large battery for storage. In those moments, I cried from exhaustion and helplessness. Every day, I earned around $10, just enough to buy internet cards and simple things I once took for granted, like a packet of chips or a box of juice. I would sit there, watching the phones charge, thinking: That was supposed to be my time, my time as a teaching assistant at the university. I took my final exams in October while surrounded by phones that were not charging because of cloudy skies, tears streaming down my face. I am one of hundreds of thousands of young people in Gaza who refuse to let the war write the end of our stories. Education is our form of resistance; that is why the occupation sought to obliterate it. It hoped to send us into the darkness of ignorance, dejection and resignation. Yet, the youth of Gaza stand undefeated. We have continued to pursue our education online, battling constant internet blackouts. We continue to support ourselves and our families however we can – some selling food in small street stalls, others offering private tutoring, or starting small businesses. Many are applying for scholarships so they can continue their education abroad. All of this is proof that Gaza’s youth love life, love their homeland, and are determined to rebuild it, not as it once was, but even better. I’m now applying for scholarships outside Gaza to pursue my master’s degree. I want to go abroad, study and then return one day not to charge phones, but to charge minds. If I get accepted, I will hand over my small phone-charging project to my younger brother Anas, whose dream is to become a journalist, to tell the truth about Gaza and its people. He and I, and the rest of our peers in Gaza, refuse to give up.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12/26/israel-killed-our-dreams-but-its-genocide-could-not-defeat-us

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