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Israel Targets NGO's
Quds news - Dec 30, 2025
{Israel Targets Save the Children, MSF, and Other Aid Groups With License Revocations in Gaza and West Bank
Israel has begun moves to revoke the licenses of Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, and other major aid groups in Gaza and the West Bank, citing security claims.
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Israeli government has begun steps to revoke the operating licenses of several international organizations in Gaza and the West Bank. Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday that the move targets more than 10 international NGOs. The list includes Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), Save the Children, CARE International, the Norwegian Refugee Council, World Vision, Oxfam, and the International Rescue Committee. The report said a joint ministerial team leads the process. Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and the Fight Against Antisemitism heads the effort. Israeli authorities have sent official letters to the organizations. The letters state that Israel will cancel their licenses on January 1. They order all activities to end by March 1, 2026. Israel claims the organizations failed to complete legal registration requirements. Some organizations reportedly refused to meet a key Israeli demand. The demand requires full lists of Palestinian employees for what Israel calls “security screening.” Israeli authorities claimed security investigations linked employees of Doctors Without Borders to “terrorist activities.” They provided no evidence to support the allegation. In September, Israeli magazine +972 reported that Israel seeks full control over humanitarian work in Gaza and the West Bank. The report said a new mechanism forces organizations to choose between protecting staff and continuing aid. The magazine said the measures pose an existential threat to dozens of NGOs. Many of them have worked for decades to support Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Under the new rules, Israel can ban any organization it accuses of “delegitimizing” the state. Israel can also block NGOs that employed anyone who supported boycotts in the past seven years. The report said NGOs fear that handing over staff names puts Palestinian employees at risk. It warned of surveillance, pressure, and retaliation, especially in Gaza. According to +972, Israel aims to dismantle the current humanitarian aid model. It added that Israel seeks to replace it with a system that serves its political agenda. Israel has taken similar steps against UNRWA. In 2024, the Knesset passed a law banning the agency’s activity in Israel. Israel claimed some UNRWA staff took part in October 7, 2023 events but did not provide evidence. In mid-December, the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee approved a draft decision. The decision blocks water and electricity from reaching UNRWA facilities.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66970&slug=israel-targets-save-the-children-msf-and-other-aid-groups-with-license-revocations-in-gaza-and-west-bank


Videoscreen grab:Winter rains batter displaced Palestinians
Al Jazeera - Dec 30, 2025
{Israeli strikes on Gaza are relentless as displaced endure flooded camps
Israeli attacks, violating a ceasefire agreement, are reported across Gaza, as Palestinian misery compounded by rains. Israeli forces have carried out strikes across the Gaza Strip as they continue with their near-daily violations of the ceasefire agreement, with Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave continuing apace and displaced Palestinians enduring the destruction of their few remaining possessions in flooding brought about by heavy winter rains. Israeli air strikes on Tuesday targeted locations north of Rafah and east of Khan Younis, the Maghazi camp in central Gaza and Beit Lahiya in the north of the Strip, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reported. Reporting from Gaza City, Khoudary said artillery shelling had been reported in the territory’s southern and central regions, while there had also been an attack in the Gaza City neighbourhood of Shujayea, striking close to the tent of a displaced family. She said the latest attacks, in violation of the United States-brokered ceasefire that came into force in October, numbering nearly 1,000 now, were coming at a time of immense hardship for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians, as heavy rains and strong winds had ravaged their makeshift camps, destroying the few possessions they had left. Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Sunday that Israel had committed 969 ceasefire violations since it came into effect on October 10, resulting in the deaths of 418 civilians and injuries to more than 1,100. “Palestinians are still very traumatised and anxious,” Khoudary said. “The situation on the ground continues to deteriorate as the rain continues.”
Calls to allow supplies in
Aid groups have repeatedly called for Israeli authorities to lift restrictions to allow more supplies, including shelter equipment, into the territory, where displaced families have been trying to stay dry in flimsy, battered tents that offer scant protection from the elements after months of use. “Families here are helpless while the Israeli authorities continue to restrict all kinds of shelter into the Gaza Strip,” Khoudary said. Officials have warned that the severe conditions also bring new dangers, with the threat of disease and illness as overwhelmed and damaged sewage systems contaminate floodwaters, as well as the risk that buildings could collapse amid heavy rain and wind. At least two people have been killed by damaged structures falling amid the severe weather in recent days.

Winter rains batter displaced Palestinians
‘We are still suffering’
In a displacement camp east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, heavy rain in recent days has left tents submerged in muddy water, destroying the few possessions that the families had taken with them from their homes. Inside the tents, an Al Jazeera team found essential items like pillows, mattresses and bedcovers soaked in muddy water. “The tent has been flooded,” said Mohammed al-Louh, a resident. “I took my family out, but I couldn’t even get a blanket, a mattress or a bag of flour. I have no way to sleep with my children or keep them warm.” Another man, Haitham Arafat, said he had lost his son and daughter as well as his home to Israel’s genocidal war, and was still suffering amid the severe conditions. “I fled to this place. Does this mean the war is over?” he said. “No, we are still suffering. We haven’t slept for two days because of the heavy rain.” Reporting from the camp, Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili said the winter storms had brought a new “chapter of suffering” for Palestinians who had been plunged into a humanitarian crisis by Israel’s war. “What was meant to be a temporary shelter for them has turned into a flooded trap,” he said.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/30/israeli-strikes-on-gaza-are-relentless-as-displaced-endure-flooded-camps


Palestinian Hostages Held by Israel
Quds news - Dec 30, 2025
{How Many Palestinian Hostages Held by Israel?
According to the latest update issued on Tuesday by Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy groups, from October 2023, when Israel launched its assault on Gaza, to this date, the number of Palestinian hostages doubled.
How Many Palestinian Hostages Held by Israel?
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- At least 9,300 Palestinians, including children, women, and journalists, are being held in Israeli jails, amid reports of torture and medical negligence. According to the latest update issued on Tuesday by Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy groups, from October 2023, when Israel launched its assault on Gaza, to this date, the number of Palestinian hostages doubled, rising from 5,000 to around 9,300. According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS), of those in detention:
Administrative Detention
The groups said they have documented a “dangerous increase” in the number of Palestinians held under administrative detention in Israeli prisons. Israel routinely uses administrative detention and has, over the years, placed thousands of Palestinians behind bars for periods ranging from several months to several years, without charging them, without telling them what they are accused of, and without disclosing the alleged evidence to them or their lawyers. More than 3,350 detainees are currently held under this order by December 2025, including 15 women and dozens of children. The majority of administrative detainees are former prisoners, school and university students, journalists, human rights activists, lawyers, engineers, doctors, academics, parliamentarians, activists, workers, and first-degree relatives of martyrs and prisoners, including sisters of martyrs and wives of prisoners. Among the Palestinians killed behind bars since the genocide in Gaza were 11 people held under “administrative detention” without trial or charge. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Western states rarely employ administrative detention and in some countries, the practice does not exist at all. Israeli occupation authorities use it mainly in the West Bank against Palestinians “while its use against Israeli citizens, particularly Jewish ones, is rarely employed.”
Females
The number of female detainees currently stands at 49, including two women who have been detained since before October 7, 2023, two children, 16 held under administrative detention, and 24 mothers.
Children (Minors)
The number of child detainees under the age of 18 is approximately 350 – all held in Megiddo and Ofer prisons. There is no clear data regarding the detention of children from the Gaza Strip. Among the martyred Palestinian prisoners this year was 17-year-old child Walid Khaled Ahmed from the town of Silwad near Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
Unlawful Combatants
These are Palestinians arrested in the Gaza Strip by occupation forces and are held without charge or trial under the “illegal combatants” law. According to the occupation’s data, as of December 2025, the number of detainees held as “unlawful combatants” stands at 1,220 people.
Sick Detainees
The number of sick detainees in occupation prisons has rapidly escalated since October 7, 2023. There are hundreds of sick and wounded prisoners, with continuous increases due to crimes, policies, and systematic retaliatory measures, foremost among them torture and medical crimes.
Journalists
The number of Palestinian journalists detained in occupation prisons is 42. Almost all of them (40) were arrested after October 7, 2023 and remain in detention, among them one female journalist.
Parliamentarians
The number of detained parliamentarians is 9, the longest-held among them being the two political leaders Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat.
Prisoners Serving Long and Life Sentences
After the October 2025 prisoner-exchange deal, 9 Palestinian prisoners detained before the Oslo Accords remain behind bars.
The number of detainees sentenced to life imprisonment is 115.
Detainees Died in Israeli Jails The number of
The identified Palestinian detainees since 1967 to now stands at 323 people. Since the genocide, more than 100 detainees have been killed or died behind bars, including 86 whose identities were revealed. This figure does not include all martyred detainees as the occupation continues to forcibly disappear dozens of bodies of detainees who were killed in military camps, making this the “bloodiest stage in the history of the prisoner movement.”  In 2025, the child Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmed, 17-years-old, from the town of Silwad near Ramallah, was killed through starvation only six months after his arrest. The number of martyred detainees whose bodies are withheld by the occupation is 94, including 83 who were killed after the genocide. The martyr Anis Dawla is considered the longest-held case historically; his body has been withheld since 1980. Israeli occupation authorities have been accused of torturing Palestinian detainees. Testimonies also describe regular beatings by guards, extreme overcrowding, humiliation, and inadequate hygiene. In August 2024, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem accused Israeli occupation authorities of systematically abusing Palestinians in “torture camps”, subjecting them to severe violence and sexual assault.
 ts report, titled “Welcome to Hell”, is based on 55 testimonies from former detainees from the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories. The overwhelming majority of these detainees were held without trial.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66969&slug=how-many-palestinian-hostages-held-by-israel


Gang-Raping and Assaulting Palestinian Detainee
Quds news - Dec 30, 2025
{Israel to Indict Former Military Prosecutor for Leaking Video Showing Gang-Raping and Assaulting Palestinian Detainee
Last year, a video was leaked of a gang rape of a Palestinian detainee from Gaza by Israeli guards at the Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert. The video shows the detainee being selected from a larger group lying bound on the floor.
Israel to Indict Former Military Prosecutor for Leaking Video Showing Gang-Raping and Assaulting Palestinian Detainee
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israel Police is trporyedly expected to indict the former Cheif Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, along with her deputy and several other top legal officers, for leaking a video last year showing Israeli soldiers gang-raping and sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman prison. Haaretz reported that the head of the police's Investigations Division is expected to present the findings to Police Commissioner Dani Levi this week. The recently concluded investigation determined that Tomer-Yerushalmi can be charged with offenses including the illicit disclosure of official information by a public servant, obstruction of justice, abuse of office, fraud, and breach of trust. The maximum penalty for all these offenses is up to three years in prison.
What We Know
Last year, a video was leaked of a gang rape of a Palestinian detainee from Gaza by Israeli guards at the Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert. The video shows the detainee being selected from a larger group lying bound on the floor. The victim is then escorted to a wall, where guards, using their shields to hide their identity from the camera, proceed to rape him. The video was aired by Israel’s Channel 11. The attack is believed to have been so brutal that, after he was transferred to hospital, Israeli media reported that the victim was unable to walk. Ten soldiers were ultimately arrested for the rape on July 29. The soldiers belong to a unit known as Force 100, which is tasked with guarding the Sde Teiman facility, according to Haaretz. In August 2024, military prosecutors released three of the arrested soldiers, adding to the two previously released by investigators following a military court hearing in Kfar Yona on July 30, at which settlers gathered in support of the soldiers under arrest. Hard right and ultranationalist politicians, such as National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, said any action, even gang rape, is permissible if it is undertaken for the security of the state. The detainee suffered rib fractures, a punctured lung, and a rectal injury after being stabbed in the buttocks. The court has prohibited publication of the defendants’ names. The military prosecution noted that throughout the assault, the detainee cried out in pain, bled from his rectum, and later complained of difficulty breathing and a headache.  The video of the gang rape at Sde Teiman is the latest piece in a growing body of evidence of abuse, sexual assault and the systematic withholding of food and medical care that Palestinians endure within the Israeli prison system. A report titled Welcome to Hell, published this week by the Israeli human rights advocacy group, B’Tselem, includes interviews with 55 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli detention centres since October 7. In firsthand accounts, the prisoners, the majority of whom were later released without charge at locations across the occupied Palestinian territory, Gaza and within Israel, recount being assaulted, insulted and sexually abused by guards. The defendants are currently not in custody or under any legal restrictions.
What About the Leaked Video?
The Israeli occupation authorities announced they are investigating the leaking of the video. The Israeli military’s top lawyer, Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, resigned after admitting to leaking the footage. In her resignation statement, Tomer-Yerushalmi blamed pressure from the right-wing on her rape investigation for her decision to leak the footage, claiming that she was countering “false propaganda directed against the military law enforcement authorities”.
Many of the loudest voices in defending the rapists were vocal in welcoming the resignation of Tomer-Yerushalmi. Writing on social media hours after her resignation, Smotrich accused her and much of Israel’s judicial system of rank corruption, as well as launching what he called an “anti-Semitic blood libel” against their military. Ben-Gvir was no less critical of Israel’s judicial system in the leaking of the footage, writing: “All those involved in the affair must be held accountable.” Lawr, she was reported as missing, with police mounting an hours-long search for her on a beach north of Tel Aviv. She was subsequently found alive and well, police said, but was then taken into custody.
Where’s the Palestinian Detainee?
According to Haaretz, the Palestinian detainee who was abused by guards was released to the Gaza Strip as part of the Gaza ceasefire without giving testimony, the military informed the defense attorneys of the five soldiers in the case. However, no confirmation has been made by Palestinian prisoner institutions.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66968&slug=israel-to-indict-former-military-prosecutor-for-leaking-video-showing-gang-raping-and-assaulting-palestinian-detainee


Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud - Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera - Dec 30, 2025 Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud reports live from Gaza City, Gaza [Al Jazeera]
{A decimated Gaza marks the end of another year of Israeli bombs
Nobody relaxes too much in the fleeting moments of near-normalcy because they know these can disappear at any time.
Over the past year, Gaza’s infrastructure has been subjected to a devastating reality. What once functioned under strain has been pushed beyond the point of collapse. Electricity networks, water systems, hospitals, roads and municipal services have been systematically destroyed or severely damaged, leaving daily life defined by survival. It is not unusual for families to plan their days around the sound of generators, if fuel is available at all. Parents and children queue for hours for a few litres of unsafe water or a pack of bread. Hospitals operate in near darkness, doctors performing life-saving procedures using mobile phones for light. Streets that once carried children to school are reduced to rubble.
Gaza’s reality is always harsh
Life in Gaza was never easy, even during the moments the outside world labelled as “normal”. For most people, life was lived with constant uncertainty. You learned not to plan too far ahead, because calm was fragile, always temporary. There were days with electricity, when the streets felt quieter, and families allowed themselves a small sense of relief, but everyone knew it could disappear at any time. Gaza’s infrastructure mirrors that. It was fragile long before the latest devastation of Israel’s genocidal war. Decades of illegal Israeli blockade, repeated military assaults and tight restrictions on construction materials meant systems were always patched up, always operating on borrowed time. Nothing truly recovered. One of the most visible losses has been electricity. Across the Gaza Strip, darkness is not an exception. Our only power plant was severely damaged and shut down due to fuel shortages; close to 80 percent of power transmission has been destroyed. For families, this loss is felt in small, relentless ways. A mother charges her phone whenever a neighbour’s generator briefly hums to life, knowing it may be her only chance to contact family. Children do their homework by candlelight, if they do it at all. Refrigerators sit useless, food spoiling. Access to water has also deteriorated sharply. Israel’s bombardment damaged wells, desalination plants and pumping stations. Without electricity or fuel, clean water cannot be extracted or distributed. Over the course of our reporting on Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, we documented families lining up with plastic containers, waiting for water trucks that may or may not arrive. When they do, the water often smells of salt or metal, its taste sharp and unfamiliar.
Many have no choice but to drink it anyway. Children fall sick with stomach infections. Skin rashes spread. Washing becomes a luxury.

The cumulative effect: Paralysis
Hospitals, once overstretched but functioning, now operate in crisis mode. Over the past month of fieldwork, I visited many medical facilities that have been damaged or forced out of service entirely. Those still functioning face severe shortages of medicine, equipment, electricity and staff. I remember the depressed feeling I had after visiting two intensive care units in Gaza City and the central area of the Strip. Both were overcrowded, forced to put patients two to a bed. The dialysis machines operated under constant threat of power loss, as did operating theatres that would often go dark mid-procedure. Harshest of all, the medical teams are often forced to make impossible decisions about who receives care and who must wait. Beyond health and utilities, the destruction of roads, public facilities and municipal infrastructure has fractured Gaza from within: rubble-filled streets, sewage-flooded roads, slow ambulances and aid delivery.
Rubbish collection has largely ceased, leading to the spread of disease. Telecommunications infrastructure has been repeatedly knocked out, isolating families and cutting people off from emergency services and the outside world. There’s a cumulative effect of Israel’s intense bombing campaign – which is being carried out deliberately to paralyse daily life – because infrastructure systems depend on one another. Without electricity, water cannot be pumped. Without fuel, hospitals cannot function. Without roads, aid cannot reach those in need. Each collapse accelerates the next while creating new layers of difficult living conditions. As the year 2025 approaches its end, Gaza’s entire infrastructure no longer supports normal life; it barely sustains survival. Talking about rebuilding does not simply mean reconstructing buildings, but also the restoration of systems that allow people to live with dignity: safe water, reliable electricity, functioning hospitals, and basic public services. Until then, Gaza’s civilians continue to endure the consequences of another year that has shaken the foundations of daily life.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/12/30/a-year-of-israeli-bombs-has-decimated-gazas-infrastructure

Al Jazeera - Dec 30, 2025 By Ori Goldberg - Independent analyst.
{Netanyahu’s Mar-a-Lago win that wasn’t
The Israeli prime minister’s failure to secure any assurances from Trump is yet another signal Israel is losing ground.
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid his fifth visit to the United States since President Donald Trump took office in January. Before the meeting between the two, the Israeli press described the prime minister as fully engaged in an attempt to placate his domestic political partners by achieving “concessions” from Trump. What were these concessions? They were predominantly related to denying Turkiye any presence in the Gaza stabilisation force and to US approval for an Israeli strike on Iran. Netanyahu failed on both counts. Trump specifically referred to his good relationship with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and spoke of “Bibi’s” respect for him, too. With regard to Iran, Trump mentioned Iran’s willingness to “make a deal” and provided clear guidelines for American involvement while saying nothing about authorising a solo Israeli operation. Israeli media suggests that Trump provided Israel with a “green light” for a strike on Iran. That is not reflected in Trump’s official statement in any way. Trump talked about the reconstruction of Gaza beginning “soon”. When he spoke of the disarmament of Hamas, he said that it must happen or nearly 60 states will make it happen. Hamas has already agreed to disarm if the process is carried out by a Palestinian-led force. Trump said nothing to suggest that he does not agree with Hamas’s logic, especially when one considers the refusal of most participating countries to carry out a violent disarmament of the group. Trump also made no mention of the last hostage body held in Gaza as a necessary condition for moving to “Stage II” of the deal. Nothing is more significant in Trump’s world than the use of language and symbolic gestures. When Trump referred to Netanyahu as a “great wartime prime minister” as he was discussing his blueprint for “peace”, he made it clear that his guest was running out of time. This was also clearly apparent when Trump said he had spoken with Israel’s official head of state, President Isaac Herzog, about a pardon for Netanyahu and was assured such a pardon was imminent. President Herzog, by the way, categorically denied that such a conversation had taken place. What may be the best reflection of the Trump-Netanyahu meeting at Mar-a-Lago has to do with a brief conversation over the phone between Trump and Israeli Minister of Education Yoav Kish. The purpose of the call was for Kish to inform Trump that he will be awarded the Israel Prize on Israel’s Independence Day in 2026. The award is given out by the minister of education in a televised ceremony attended by Israel’s leaders. It marks the official end of Independence Day celebrations. Its recipients are most frequently career academics at a late stage of their careers. The prize reflects a lifetime’s devotion to the expansion of human knowledge. Sometimes, special prizes are awarded in civic categories, most often for what is called a “life’s work”, such as fostering coexistence between Jews and Palestinians, promoting social equality, etc. The prize, as understood by its name, is nearly always awarded to Israeli citizens but can be awarded to Jews living abroad and even to non-Jews who have made a “special contribution to the Jewish people”. In other words, the Trump-Netanyahu meeting involved Trump instructing Netanyahu with regard to upcoming measures and Netanyahu snapping to attention and signalling his acceptance by heaping yet another semi-fictitious honour on Trump’s already crowded head. Yet, despite these clear displays of the unequal nature of their relationships, there have been persistent voices suggesting that Trump and Netanyahu are operating in cahoots. According to such analyses, the United States fully supports the Israeli attempt to “change the Middle East” – Netanyahu’s favourite phrase – as the Americans make a pivot to Asia and the global race for dominance with China. Israel will “take care” of the “Iranian threat” as the Arabs languish in their own irresolvable internal tensions and competitions. The mobilisation of Arab states after the Israeli strike on Doha is all but ignored. These voices also point to the fact that Israel continues to completely ignore the “ceasefire” enacted by “Stage I” of the Trump plan, and does so with the full support of the United States. In fact, Trump said that Israel has “lived up” to the ceasefire “100 percent”, and that he has no problems with Israel’s actions in Gaza. These include bombing, destruction of buildings and infrastructure, the blocking of life-saving aid amid harsh weather and many other steps that ensure and expand the ongoing Israeli genocide. It is indeed extremely difficult to reconcile this with the notion that Israel has run out of options for delaying Stage II and an internationally-brokered solution to Palestinian statehood. After all, one hears repeatedly from Israeli media about initiatives to “settle Gaza”, “relocate” 1.5 million Palestinians to Somaliland and dismantle the Oslo Accords, one ethnically cleansed Palestinian community at a time. The US and other countries, like Germany and the UK, continue to buy Israeli arms at a massive rate and to equip Israel with arms of their own. How is it possible to reach a conclusion that the Israeli genocide is reaching its endgame? The short answer is that it is not. Israel continues to kill, destroy, subvert and expand its efforts to destabilise any semblance of regional order. For example, Israel recognised the statehood of Somaliland in order to have a “dumping ground” for ethnically cleansed Palestinians, but also to pit the United Arab Emirates against Saudi Arabia, as both have conflicting interests in Somalia, and, by doing so, ensure that the Palestinian question is not addressed and that everyone remains frozen by fear of Israeli weapons. The longer answer recognises the effects of this genocide on Israel itself: Genocide consumes genocidaires. That is not to suggest that justice is assured by cosmic forces; far from it. Justice should be pursued at the most grounded and realistic level, as should the dignity and preservation of Palestinian lives. However, the genocide has shaped Israel in its image on a daily, immediate level. Violence is rising as quickly as the prices of the staples, democracy is backsliding, and there is no end in sight to the “forever war”. This is not an abstract, “strategic” matter. While Israel has been actively seeking to delete Palestinian identity for nearly 80 years, it has not succeeded in doing so. Israel’s internal contradictions have surfaced with paralysing force over the past two years. Israel will not “die” or “recede”, but the gap between Israeli perceptions of the world and global perceptions of Israel has never been wider. Trump and his vision of America do not appreciate “losers”. Israel no longer has any “wins” in the offing. It can and does kill and burn, procrastinate and obfuscate. Even Trump recognises that this power has no lasting effects following its own immediate application. Israel has no options. There is no greater loss. 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/2025/12/30/netanyahus-mar-a-lago-win-that


Pro-Palestine activists covered British Labour Party offices in red paint - Handout via Justice for the Hunger Strikers
Al Jazeera - Dec 29, 2025 By Caolán Magee
{Pro-Palestine activists target UK Labour offices over hunger strikers
Activists accuse the government of refusing to engage with the detainees' demands. Pro-Palestine activists have sprayed red paint and smashed windows at the offices of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party in London, saying the action is in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in British jails. The group Justice for the Hunger Strikers said on Monday that its members had targeted the governing party, citing growing anger at what it described as the government’s refusal to engage with the hunger strikers. The protest was held as four detainees continue to refuse food while being held on remand awaiting trial, prompting increasing concern from doctors and campaigners that one or more could die. Four other detainees have since ended their hunger strike but have said they plan to resume it in the new year.

Hunger strike enters critical stage
Heba Muraisi is on day 57 of her hunger strike and is being held in a prison in West Yorkshire. In a statement shared with Al Jazeera on Monday, she said: “I’ve been forced fed repression and I’m stuffed with rage and that’s why I’m doing what I’m doing now. I am bringing acute awareness to the unjust application of UK laws by our Government and I’m glad that people can now see this after a year of imprisonment and human rights violations. Keep going, keep fighting.”
The three other detainees still on hunger strike are Teuta Hoxha on day 51, Kamran Ahmed on day 50 and Lewie Chiaramello on day 36. Hoxha and Ahmed have previously been hospitalised during the protest. A spokesperson for Justice for the Hunger Strikers criticised the Labour government, saying it has failed to intervene despite advance warning of the hunger strike. “Despite being given two weeks notice of the hunger strike, the Labour government has refused to engage with the hunger strikers or their families and legal representatives, even as they have reached a critical stage, with death a very real possibility,” the spokesperson said. The hunger strikers are being held in five prisons across England over their alleged involvement in break-ins at the UK subsidiary of the Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems in Bristol and at a Royal Air Force base in Oxfordshire. The detainees deny the charges against them, including burglary and violent disorder, and said the UK government should itself be held accountable for its alleged role in Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian people. All eight hunger strikers are members of Palestine Action and were charged before the group was designated a proscribed organisation under “antiterrorism” laws. They are expected to spend more than a year in prison before their trials begin – well beyond the UK’s usual six-month pretrial detention limit. According to the Prisoners for Palestine group, their trials are expected to begin between April and January 2027. The detainees’ demands include release on bail, an end to what they describe as interference with their mail and reading materials, access to a fair trial and the de-proscription of Palestine Action. Additional demands issued this week include transferring Muraisi back to HMP Bronzefield, closer to her family; lifting non-association orders between prisoners; and allowing detainees access to prison activities and courses.
International concern
Campaigners have described the protest as the largest hunger strike in Britain since the Irish hunger strikes of 1981, saying it has prompted hundreds of solidarity demonstrations across the country. On Friday, a group of United Nations experts – including Gina Romero, the UN special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on occupied Palestinian territory – issued a statement expressing alarm at the detainees’ treatment. “Hunger strike is often a measure of last resort by people who believe that their rights to protest and effective remedy have been exhausted,” the experts said. “The state’s duty of care toward hunger strikers is heightened, not diminished.” Separately, more than 800 doctors have signed a letter addressed to Justice Secretary David Lammy urging him to intervene. The letter, written on December 17, raised “grave concern” about the prisoners’ health, warning they were at high risk of organ failure, irreversible neurological damage, cardiac arrhythmias and death. Lawyers for the hunger-striking detainees said last week that they had initiated legal proceedings against the government, alleging it had abandoned its own prison safety policy. The detainees said they have written repeatedly to Lammy and other justice officials without receiving a response. James Timpson, the UK minister of state for prisons, probation and reducing reoffending, said the government would not engage directly with the hunger strikers or their representatives. “We are very experienced at dealing with hunger strikes,” Timpson said. “Over the last five years, we have averaged over 200 hunger strike incidents every year. I do not treat any prisoners differently to others. We have a justice system based on the separation of powers, and the independent judiciary is the cornerstone of our system.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/29/pro-palestine-activists-target-uk-labour-offices-over-hunger-strikers


Al-Aqsa Mosque
Quds news - Dec 29, 2025
{Jerusalem Governorate Says Israeli ‘Ritual Pool’ Claim Near Al-Aqsa Is Fabricated
Jerusalem officials say Israeli claims of a Jewish “ritual pool” beneath Al-Aqsa mosque are fabricated, revealing that the structures are Umayyad-era water systems and warning the excavations threaten the mosque’s foundations and erase Jerusalem’s Islamic heritage.
Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- The Jerusalem Governorate rejected Israeli claims about a newly discovered “sacred pool” near Al-Aqsa Mosque. In a statement issued on Monday, the governorate said the claims lack scientific value. It said Israel is falsifying archaeological evidence. The response followed statements by the Israeli Antiquities Authority. Israeli officials claimed they found a “ritual purification pool” allegedly dating back to Jewish residents before 70 AD. Israeli media outlet Ynet published the report, citing excavations beneath Al-Buraq Plaza near the Old City. The Jerusalem Governorate said the discovered structures are not ritual pools. It revealed that they are water systems from the Umayyad era. The statement said these systems formed part of the Umayyad palaces adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque. The governorate said the rapid pace of Israeli excavation announcements reflects a systematic policy. It added that Israel is using archaeology as a political tool aiming to erase the Arab and Islamic history of Jerusalem and impose a single occupation narrative. The statement said the Israeli claims contradict professional archaeological standards. It added that they lack neutral scientific evidence or internationally recognized research methods.
The governorate stressed that Israeli excavations violate international humanitarian law. It cited conventions on cultural heritage protection, highlighting UNESCO’s decision of October 18, 2016. That UNESCO decision confirmed Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Buraq Wall as exclusive Islamic heritage sites. The desicion also denied any Jewish religious connection to the two locations and declared all unilateral Israeli measures in the area illegal, including excavations and alterations. The governorate said so-called “Jewish religious discoveries” amount to functional falsification. It added that credible historical and archaeological studies prove the structures are water facilities dating back to the Umayyad period. Israel has long tried to impose a biblical narrative on Jerusalem’s stones even thiugh it has failed to present decisive archaeological proof. The governorate urged UNESCO, the United Nations, and legal and human rights bodies to intervene immediately. It demanded an independent international investigation committee and accountability for Israel over violations against Jerusalem’s heritage, identity, and holy sites.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66966&slug=jerusalem-governorate-says-israeli-ritual-pool-claim-near-al-aqsa-is-fabricated

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


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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