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Dec 28 - 16, 2025 “The blood of the journalists’ families will remain a living witness to the crime of trying to silence the Palestinian voice,” & Journalists do not die - They are killed but "Where there is Light there's always a Shadow… so Truth finding is to Reveal its Dark Face and have the voices of Palestinians - who stay Resilient - and Hold Ground… be heard Shireen Abu Akleh and many others intentionally killed by israeli forces the World knows what’s happened in Gaza in the last two years thanks to ‘remarkable’ local journalists and stories of the Fallen or Wounded which demands Justice... Nov 15 - 5, 2025 Attacks on Journalists continues but... risking Limb and Life they keep Revealing the Plain Truth and more actual news Overview of journalists killed in action in Gaza Journalists keep Revealing the Truth despite All Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel Updated: December 6, 2024: Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war   Click here for earlier stories/news

Day 2 day update: In Today's Factual News Dec 31, 2025 As the world welcomes a new year, we, in Gaza, dread what it will bring.. and more Factual News but the echoes of the voices of Palestinians - is Crystal Clear and  Resilient - and Hold Ground… to be heard Loud and Clear Dec 31, 2025 On how israelis understand an act of Human Kindness: Banning of all Aid Groups Live Updates Dec 31, 2025 Dec 29, 2025 Heavy Storm Batters Gaza And Dec 12 - 11, 2025: Gaza families struggle with Storm Byron 2 Gaza families struggle with Storm Byron

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All actual news from Palestine comes since weeks incl. OUT OF THE TRENCHES stories click below for an Overview special reports For the complete story of the ´Madleen´ heroic voyage' click here July 4 - 3, 2025 Gaza’s hunger crisis is not a tragedy – it’s a war tactic

 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

 
VICTORY is on its way to the sea  -- Screengrab Al Jazeera: Wanted for genocide - Guilty as Charged - rubio virus

  
 Olive tree - Symbol of Palestine
- Did you eat today  - Boy shouts FOOD and PEACE NOW - GO AWAY you mercenaries of the usa/isr/idf/ghf devils!!!!


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Escalating Violations Against Children - See The Pain
Jinhagency - Womens News Agency - Dec 31, 2025
{and Gaza and Escalating Violations Against Children
UNICEF confirmed that in 2025 millions of children worldwide face threats from hunger, war, and epidemics, amid worsening humanitarian conditions, famine in Darfur and Gaza, and rising violations of children’s rights.
News Center — UNICEF’s annual report for 2025 warned that children in conflict hotspots such as Ukraine, Sudan, and the Gaza Strip face daily life-threatening risks. The report also recorded cases of famine in Darfur and parts of Gaza during the summer of this year. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated on Tuesday, December 30, that hunger, war, and disease have reshaped the lives of millions of children around the world throughout 2025, pointing to the deterioration of humanitarian conditions in conflict zones. In its annual report, UNICEF announced that approximately 100,000 children in Gaza are suffering from severe food insecurity. It also noted that the number of children living in crisis and conflict areas has reached record levels. Never before has the number of children in such conditions been so high, with nearly one in every five children worldwide now living in areas affected by crises or conflict—almost double the number recorded in the mid-1990s. The report further stated that the United Nations documented the highest level of grave violations against children’s rights and attacks on humanitarian workers, with 41,370 serious violations recorded in 2024—an increase of 25% compared to the previous year. UNICEF stressed that effective humanitarian assistance programs have proven capable of saving lives and providing a better future even under the most difficult circumstances. It emphasized that 2026 will also be filled with challenges, and that the organization will continue to make every possible effort to protect children. The organization expressed deep sorrow over the tragic and preventable death of seven-year-old Ata May, who drowned on December 27 due to severe flooding in an informal displacement camp in the Al-Sudaniyah area, northwest of Gaza City. At least five other children lost their lives during December after being exposed to these harsh conditions, according to a statement issued by UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. The statement highlighted the extreme vulnerability faced by children in the most affected areas of Gaza, where the near-total destruction of homes and water and sanitation infrastructure has left families exposed to harsh weather conditions} Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/annual-report-famine-in-darfur-and-gaza-and-escalating-violations-against-children-38254


Palestine Action hunger strikers face severe health decline
Quds news - Dec 31, 2025
{UK Palestine Action hunger strikers face severe health decline as government refuses engagement
UK Palestine Action hunger strikers face critical health decline as the government refuses engagement, with detainees vowing to continue their protest despite warnings of life-threatening risks.
London (QNN)- Several Palestine Action detainees in UK prisons are facing serious health complications as their hunger strike continues, according to the Prisoners for Palestine group. The group said all hunger strikers now suffer from different levels of physical deterioration; Teuta Hoxha can no longer stand, Heba Muraisi struggles to form full sentences, Kamran Ahmed has experienced intermittent hearing loss. Despite the worsening conditions, the detainees remain committed to their hunger strike until their demands are met. “We have had no formal response,” Prisoners for Palestine told QNN. “Officials have stated they have no intention to meet us.” The group urged supporters to mobilise and escalate pressure in line with the hunger strikers’ calls.
Heba Muraisi is on day 57 of her hunger strike and is held in a prison in West Yorkshire.
In a statement shared with Al Jazeera on Monday, Muraisi said she is protesting the unjust application of UK laws and ongoing human rights violations.
She said her protest aims to force public awareness after more than a year of detainment.
The other hunger strikers still refusing food are Teuta Hoxha on day 51, Kamran Ahmed on day 50, and Lewie Chiaramello on day 36.
Hoxha and Ahmed were previously hospitalised during the protest.
A spokesperson for Justice for the Hunger Strikers stated that the Labour government failed to act. The spokesperson said officials ignored two weeks’ advance notice and refused engagement with detainees, families, and lawyers. They warned the detainees have reached a critical stage, with death now a real risk. The hunger strikers are held across five prisons in England. The protesters are accused of protesting UK’s incolvement in Israel’s genocided in Gaza. All eight hunger strikers belong to Palestine Action. Charges were filed before the group was designated a proscribed organisation under UK “antiterrorism” laws.
They are expected to remain in prison for over a year before trial, exceeding the UK’s usual six-month pretrial detention limit.
The detainees demand release on bail, fair trial guarantees, and an end to restrictions on mail and reading materials. They also call for the de-proscription of Palestine Action. Additional demands include transferring Muraisi back to HMP Bronzefield near her family, lifting non-association orders, and restoring access to prison activities and courses. Campaigners describe the protest as the largest hunger strike in Britain since the 1981 Irish hunger strikes. They say it has sparked hundreds of solidarity demonstrations nationwide. On Friday, UN experts voiced alarm over the detainees’ treatment. They said hunger strikes often represent a last resort when rights to protest and remedy are exhausted. They stressed that the state’s duty of care increases, not decreases, during such protests. More than 800 doctors have also urged Justice Secretary David Lammy to intervene. In a letter dated December 17, they warned of risks including organ failure, irreversible neurological damage, cardiac arrhythmias, and death. Lawyers for the detainees have launched legal action against the governmentfor abandoning its own prison safety policies. The detainees said they have repeatedly written to justice officials without receiving a reply. As the strike continues, supporters warn time is running out for meaningful intervention.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66976&slug=uk-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-face-severe-health-decline-as-government-refuses-engagement

Al Jazeera - Dec 31, 2025
{These are the countries attacked by Israel in 2025
In 2025, Israel carried out thousands of attacks in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, with at least 10,600 attacks recorded across multiple countries including Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Yemen and Qatar.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/12/31/these-are-the-countries-attacked-by-israel-in-2025


Videoscreen grab: GHF death aid
Al Jazeera - Dec 31, 2025
{This is how the GHF weaponised food aid in Gaza
Thousands of Palestinians were killed or injured at or near food distribution sites in Gaza this year as families risked their lives to get aid. Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Al Nuseirat refugee camp on how starving civilians became targets at GHF ‘deathtraps’.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/12/31/this-is-how-the-ghf-weaponised-food-aid-in-gaza


Palestinian Population Declined by Genocide
Quds news - Dec 31, 2025
{Gaza’s Palestinian Population Declined by 10.6% Over Two Years Amid Israeli Genocide: PCBS
Since the start of the Israeli assault on Gaza, more than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed, with 98% of the casualties in the Gaza Strip.
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Palestinian population of Gaza has declined by 10.6% over the past two years amid Israel’s genocidal war. Since the start of the Israeli assault on Gaza in October 2023, more than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed, with 98% of the casualties in the Gaza Strip, according to a new report. In its year-end update, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said since the start of the Israeli assault on Gaza, more than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed, with 98% of the casualties in the Gaza Strip. By the end of December 2025, 70,942 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, including 18,592 children and about 12,400 women, while around 11,000 remain missing. 171,195 others were injured and nearly 100,000 Palestinians were forced to leave Gaza, with some two million internally displaced from their homes. According to the Gaza Government Media Office on Wednesday, more than 2.4 million people in the Gaza Strip have been subjected to a comprehensive genocidal war, systematic starvation policies, and ethnic cleansing. In the West Bank, ongoing Israeli assaults and settler attacks killed 1,102 people injured 9,034 others, according to the report. The PCBS added that the population of Gaza dropped by 10.6% over two years, with the total Palestinian population now estimated at 5.56 million, including 3.43 million in the West Bank and 2.13 million in Gaza.  Globally, the Palestinian population is estimated at 15.49 million, with 8.82 million living in the diaspora. Despite these losses, Palestinians remain a youthful society, with 36% under the age of 15 and 64% under 30. The health system in Gaza has collapsed almost entirely, with 94% of medical facilities damaged or destroyed during the genocide. Only 19 hospitals remain partially operational, with just 2,000 beds available for over two million residents. About 60,000 pregnant women face severe health risks, and more than 70% of residents rely on unsafe drinking water, contributing to widespread diseases, particularly among children. Education has been heavily impacted, with over 179 schools completely destroyed and 218 damaged. Higher education suffered major losses, including 63 university buildings destroyed in Gaza. Nearly 18,979 students and 1,399 university students have been killed, along with hundreds of teachers and administrators. Economically, Gaza’s GDP contracted by 84% compared to 2023, while the West Bank saw a 13% decline. Unemployment reached catastrophic levels, with 46% of the workforce without jobs—28% in the West Bank and 78% in Gaza, totaling around 650,000 unemployed Palestinians.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66975&slug=gazas-palestinian-population-declined-by-106-over-two-years-amid-israeli-genocide-pcbs

Al Jazeera - Dec 31, 2025 Qasem Waleed
{As the world welcomes a new year, we, in Gaza, dread what it will bring
We have seen so much evil this year that we are afraid to imagine the future.
Another year has passed, and life in Gaza is still trapped between Israel’s killing machine and the growing indifference of the world. It is another year added to our unique calendar of loss, destruction and death. In March, I wrote about my fears that Israel might go even further in its genocidal drive than what it had already done. And it did. Israel went beyond even my darkest expectations, reaching an unimaginable level of evil. That evil marked the whole year for us in Gaza. As I see many people posting recaps of their favourite 2025 moments, I thought I’d share my own version. Here’s what this year looked like for me. It started with a 45-day ceasefire; the short respite from the bombs was not even enough for us to mentally process the 15 months of nonstop killing and destruction that preceded it. In February, I met many of the Palestinian captives who were set free as part of the truce and listened to the horror stories they recounted about their time being forcibly disappeared by the Israeli army. Among then was my high school teacher, Antar al-Agha. When I first saw him, I could not believe it was him. He was so pale and gaunt that he couldn’t stretch his arm to shake my hand. He told me about the long time he spent in what they called the “scabies room” in the Israeli detention centre – a room designated to be an incubator for scabies. “At one dawn, I was finally allowed to wash my hands, but it didn’t turn out to be a relief for me. Once the water touched my hand, the skin started to peel as if it were a hot boiled potato. The blood burst from all over my hands. I can still feel the pain,” he recounted. In March, Israel resumed the genocide, killing more than 400 people in a single blow in the middle of that month. It blocked all crossings into the Strip.
In April, the first signs of mass starvation started appearing.
In May, the Israeli army forcibly displaced me and my family from our house in eastern Khan Younis. By the end of that month, Israel orchestrated a new creative form of mass murder and humiliation, cynically calling it the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation”. Launched with the help of the United States, this entity started distributing food to starved Palestinians in the form of “hunger games”. In June, because of extreme hunger, I, too, went to a GHF point. There, I saw my people crawling on the blazing hot sand to get food. I saw a young man protect himself from bullets by taking cover behind another person. I saw young men stabbing each other to death over a kilo of flour.
In July, the Israeli army flattened my house, along with my entire neighbourhood.
In August, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially confirmed that Gaza was experiencing famine. By then, there was nothing left for us to eat, not even flour. We were making thin-layered bread by grinding red lentils or rice bird feed. A piece of that was my only meal for the day.
In September, the Israeli army ordered another mass displacement from northern Gaza to the south, throwing hundreds of thousands into the misery of having to relocate yet again.
In October, another ceasefire agreement was announced. By then, I had no energy to feel anything. I had already been consumed by grief over losing many of my relatives and close friends, my home and my entire city. I lost both of my freelance content writing contracts as I couldn’t keep up with work due to the inhumane conditions of displacement.
Deep down, I knew that Israel would not abide by its side of the truce deal, and this wouldn’t be the final thread of loss.
In November, my suspicions were confirmed. Israel continued to bomb us. The genocide was just transformed from a high, loud and intense campaign of killing into a quieter version. The Israeli land-grabbing continued, with the so-called “yellow line” constantly expanding and swallowing more and more land, including what remained of my neighbourhood. That month, the world’s indifference was made even more apparent with governments refusing to condemn Israel’s ceasefire violations and instead showering it with rewards, like a $35bn gas deal.
In December, the cruel winter hit, flooding tents and collapsing buildings. Babies started dying of hypothermia.
If I were able to remove from my memory one event of this year of misery, it would be my trip to the GHF site. The scenes I saw there were what I believe is the peak level of evil. I still cannot shake off the feeling of fear when I walk by places that I passed on my way to the GHF site and on the way back.
Today, as I wander the rain-flooded narrow alleys of my tent camp, I ask myself: What makes all these people keep clinging onto life after losing their homes, jobs, and loved ones?
For all I know, it’s not hope; it’s a mixture of helplessness and surrender to fate. Perhaps it is because in Gaza, time has frozen. Here, the past, the present, and the future happen simultaneously. Time here is not an arrow – it does not fly. It is a circle that merges beginnings and ends, and between them lie infinite episodes of horrifying agony. Similar to the fundamental laws of physics, which make no distinction between the past and the present, tragedy in Gaza makes no distinction either. A movement of a pendulum from right to left is the same movement in the opposite direction, with the same energy and momentum. Unless we initiate the process, the past and future would not be identifiable. Recently, I started entertaining the idea of retrocausality in Gaza, where the future affects the past, or where the effect occurs before the cause. Watching buildings collapse on their own, I imagine how Israeli planes bomb them sometime in the future, but we see them disintegrate now. Of course, one would argue that buildings are still collapsing in Gaza because they were already damaged by Israeli bombardment. But it is also true that Israel keeps bombing what Palestinians rebuild. The same building would be bombed and restored over and over again, so it is not too much of a stretch of the imagination to see how Palestinian rubble at present is destroyed in the future by an Israeli bomb. As the world looks to a new year and a better future, we in Gaza dread what is to come. We are caught between a past we don’t dare to remember and a future we don’t dare to imagine.
We can’t even make New Year’s resolutions because we have no control over our lives.
I want to eat less sugar, but Israel might do this for me by blocking all food from entering Gaza again.
I want to learn how to swim, but Israel might shoot me if I set foot in the sea.
I want to replant my back yard, but I can’t even get near it.
I want to take my mother to Umrah, to visit Masjid al-Haram, the Great Mosque of Mecca, but Israel is not allowing us to travel.
Probably the only New Year’s resolution I can make is to get used to chilly showers; the lack of gas and firewood may make that wish that much easier to fulfil.
In Gaza, there is nothing to plan for, and there is everything to wish for.
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/2025/12/31/as-the-world-welcomes-a-new-year-we-in-gaza-dread-what-it-will-bring


Hungerstrike
Al Jazeera - Dec 31, 2025
{Bodies of pro-Palestine hunger strikers in UK “reach breaking point”
Audrey Corno, a pro-Palestine activist, talks about the conditions of several Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners currently on hunger strike in UK prisons.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2025/12/31/aje-onl-qt_audrey_corno-311225


Videoscreen grab: a woman in Gaza
Al Jazeera - Dec 31, 2025 Hind Khoudary
{What being a woman in Gaza means in this genocidal war?
Mothers erasing themselves to feed their children, surgeries performed without anaesthesia and the total loss of privacy define the female experience in Gaza as the war enters another winter.
Women in Gaza are surviving the unsurvivable.
They are managing daily food scarcity while caring for their children under conditions of absolute deprivation; although a ceasefire stipulation, Israel continues to block tents and caravans, among other critical winter aid. Women in Gaza continue to navigate repeated displacement, packing and unpacking their families’ lives over and over again under heavy bombardment. They are caring not only for their own children, but also for the injured, the elderly, and the orphaned.
Above all, they carry the invisible but crushing emotional labour of holding families together through grief, terror, uncertainty and unrelenting loss amid unprecedented destruction.
Women are erasing themselves so others can survive
As a woman, I carry the burden of reporting the horrors that I, too, am faced with. I have reported, daily, on the Israeli genocide in Gaza, and there has not been a single day without a mother breaking my heart. Not one. Every day, I meet women who are exhausted beyond words, whose bodies starve while their hearts refuse to give up. In Gaza, a mother’s love has become an act of resistance against Israeli oppression. “I hold my baby close all night long, fearing the cold will take my child away from me, or the rain will sweep him away. I can’t sleep,” Suzan told me. She was displaced in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, surviving in a fragile tent for more than two years. “We only have three blankets,” she continued. “We share them. It’s OK if I can’t warm myself. My children can’t survive this cold without them.” I hear versions of this sentence everywhere I go. Mothers who erase themselves so their children can survive. During the height of the famine, I witnessed unconditional love in the rawest of forms. I will never forget how, without exception, every mother told me she deprived herself of food so her children could eat. “I cut one flatbread into pieces for my sons and daughters,” Maysoun told me. “When they eat, it’s as if I ate.” Maysoun is representative of the mothers of Gaza. Different faces, different stories, but the same sacrifice.
Every cycle a nightmare
For more than two years, displaced women have not been able to access toilets or privacy, deprived of safety and dignity. These women grew up sheltered, with safe spaces to pray, eat and wash. Sharing a toilet with 1,000 people is something you never become accustomed to. They have to manage menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth and illness while living in overcrowded shelters, tents, or the open air, without the basic necessities needed to sustain life. I was not spared from this reality. I, too, couldn’t find sanitary pads or painkillers post-surgery. Every menstrual cycle is a nightmare – a monthly reminder of how fragile dignity becomes in war. How pain becomes something we are expected to endure silently.
Thousands were widowed during the war
Living without a husband adds another layer of vulnerability for many. Many women have told me how empty they feel after losing the love of their lives. Others describe the struggle of managing their families under relentless bombardment and displacement. Widowhood in Gaza is not just loss – it is exposure, fear and isolation. While the Israeli-US aid distribution point, GHF, was in operation, thousands of Palestinians were either shot or killed while waiting for aid. The Israeli policy of preventing aid or commercial supplies from entry forced women to risk death while trying to secure food rations for their families. Israeli-inflicted hunger pushed these women into kill zones. Many who went were injured. Many were killed. Nearly everyone in Gaza is malnourished, including new mothers who struggle to breastfeed their newborns, despite their own bodies weakened after months of prolonged hunger. Many are physically unable to produce milk, and with infant formula unavailable or unaffordable, mothers are forced to feed their babies with whatever they can find – choices no mother in Gaza had to make before the war began. At Al-Aqsa Hospital, I met a woman with a bullet lodged in her stomach; she was shot at a GHF distribution point. While holding my gaze, she lifted her shirt and showed me her wound, asking if I thought the scar would disfigure her body. She continued to tell me of the pain of being stitched up without anaesthesia. I was jerked back to my own memory of waking up after gall bladder surgery without painkillers. I cried. I screamed. All I wanted was something to numb the pain, something to make it stop. I thought of the many pregnant women I reported on, giving birth without anaesthesia, without pain relief, without even a clean room to give birth in. Women screaming into the void, bringing life into the world while surrounded by death and destruction. And to think, if there were enough political will among Israel’s Western allies, none of this would be happening. There are more untold stories that must be told. Rasha, a breast cancer patient waiting endlessly for the Rafah crossing to open so she could leave Gaza for treatment, told me she believed she had developed cancer after being trapped under the rubble of her bombed-out home for hours. “I inhaled all the toxins, all the dust,” she said, tears streaming down her sunken face. “This is why I think I have breast cancer now. I was healthy before this war.” And while I continue to report on the horrors faced by the women of Gaza, I, too, feel like my own erasure. I try to provide whatever solace I can, but I know my words cannot provide the comfort these women need, the relief they deserve.
How do you respond to that as a reporter?
Another woman who will never leave my mind is Hala, who miscarried while being forcibly displaced from the north to the south. “I was pregnant with twins,” she told me. “I miscarried one and saved the other.” She paused. “I was bleeding the whole way, while carrying my belongings. I was forced to pack up whatever I could from our home and flee or risk death by bombardment.” I remember her voice – how it trembled but did not break. I remember how helpless I felt standing in front of her, my only weapon my notebook, my camera, my voice. Everywhere I go, I carry the voices of these women with me. They echo in my head and my heart. I hear them when I try to sleep, and when I report on air. I hear them when I am silent. Every woman I met entrusted me with her pain, her story, her truth. And none of them will ever leave my mind. I will carry them with me for the rest of my days. Because to be a woman in Gaza is to endure the unendurable – and to keep loving anyway.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/12/31/what-being-a-woman-in-gaza-means-in-this-genocidal-war


Videoscreen grab: hungerstrike
Al Jazeera - Dec 31, 2025
{Bodies of pro-Palestine hunger strikers in UK “reach breaking point”
Audrey Corno, a pro-Palestine activist, talks about the conditions of several Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners currently on hunger strike in UK prisons.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2025/12/31/aje-onl-qt_audrey_corno-311225


Gaza’s Women Welcome 2026
Jinhagency - Womens News Agency - Dec 31, 2025 Nagham Karajah
{Hopes Glowing in the Heart of Ashes… Gaza’s Women Welcome 2026 with New Visions
After two years of bombardment, killing, displacement, and societal collapse, Gaza’s women look toward 2026 with cautious hope for safety, dignity, and the restoration of human rights and humane living.
Nagham Karajah
Gaza — At the moment of transition between two years, women in the Gaza Strip stand at a crossroads laden with a complex mix of pain, longing, and hope, following two years of the most violent shocks ever etched into Palestinian collective memory. Gaza—ravaged by relentless bombardment, mass displacement, and the near-total collapse of infrastructure—welcomes the year 2026 with eyes fixed on a future driven by ambition despite the harshness of reality. According to the latest statistics from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, more than 70,000 people have been killed since October 2023. UN reports indicate that women and girls constitute nearly 70% of the total victims, highlighting the heavy burden borne by women throughout this prolonged conflict. In addition, more than 557,000 women are suffering from acute food insecurity, placing them in a daily struggle against hunger and the lack of basic services. Suha Sukkar, whose spirit of hope has not been extinguished by the bombardment but rather strengthened by it, says:
“If pain has shattered our homes, it will not shatter our determination. In 2026, we look forward to peace accompanying our paths and to smiles returning to people’s faces. Every woman in Gaza carries in her heart a seed of hope that the war will end and a new chapter of dignified and decent living will begin.” She affirms that women in displacement camps have not lost faith in their abilities:
“These years have taught me that hope is not measured by the number of days free from shelling, but by our ability to stand up after every collapse. We want sustainable education for our children, healthcare that honors human dignity, and work that guarantees us a life of dignity.”
“2026: A New Opportunity for Women’s Renaissance”
For her part, Heba Krizem views 2026 as an opportunity for a new women-led renaissance:
“We do not want to leave our land; rather, we want to be seen as active partners in rebuilding society. We have endured loss and displacement, but we have also gained strength and the ability to organize ourselves into strong solidarity-based communities. Our hope is that the new year will mark the beginning of economic programs that benefit women, and that real training and employment opportunities will be made available—so that the same hand baking bread in a tent is not the one left without any source of income.”
Iman Al-Ajla describes these hopes by saying:
“We are not just numbers in reports. We are mothers, daughters, sisters—women who raise their hopes high toward a new year. We wish that 2026 will be a year of peace, a year of rights, a year of well-being; a year in which every woman has enough food, shelter to protect her from winter’s cold, and dignity that shields her from the humiliation of war.” Reliable statistics demonstrate the vital role women have played during the crisis. They have been at the forefront of community empowerment efforts—organizing family support networks, pooling food resources, coordinating humanitarian aid, and striving to maintain education within tents and informal settlements despite immense challenges. Although these efforts are not always documented in official statistics, they form a genuine fabric of daily life in Gaza and highlight women’s ability to endure and innovate under harsh conditions.
“How Do We Live with Dignity?”
Despite the destruction of infrastructure, the decline of healthcare services, and the spread of disease and malnutrition—foreshadowing a severe public health crisis—women continue to ask the same questions: How do we live with dignity? How do we provide our children with a better future? These questions are not mere dreams but fundamental human rights recognized under international law, rights that every woman and girl in Gaza and around the world deserves. As such, women place their faith in girls’ education as a means of changing reality. This hope persists even as living conditions in Gaza remain at their most challenging. More than 70% of the infrastructure—including health, water, and education facilities—has been destroyed, making access to basic services a daily miracle. Patients, young and old alike, stand in long lines to obtain potable water. Pregnant women face compounded risks due to the shortage of medical services, while the healthcare sector suffers from near-total collapse. Furthermore, UN studies have confirmed that approximately 96% of women in Gaza have experienced some form of gender-based violence during the conflict, ranging from verbal and economic abuse to physical harm—underscoring the urgent need for psychological support and preventive services. Despite these harsh realities, women in Gaza do not stop dreaming. They see 2026 as an opportunity to reshape life—not merely by surviving the war, but by achieving sustainable human victories: education for girls, economic empowerment, stable healthcare, and solidarity-based communities that protect human dignity, not just survival.
“Our Hope Is That 2026 Will Be the Year We Move from Survival to Reconstruction”
In closing, Iman Al-Ajla said:
“Our hope is that 2026 will be the year we move from a state of survival to a state of rebuilding. We want it to be a year remembered as the one in which Gaza’s women rose up and took their communities by the hand toward a brighter future.” These lived testimonies are more than words; they are voices of resilience and determination emerging from the heart of an experience that has not been weakened by trauma, but rather deepened and enriched by it. They carry an unshakable hope that draws closer the reality they aspire to—one that recognizes Palestinian women as active partners in public life and a fundamental pillar in any genuine process of recovery or peace.} Video-Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/hopes-glowing-in-the-heart-of-ashes-gaza-s-women-welcome-2026-with-new-visions-38250

Quds news - Dec 31, 2025 Nour Dawoud
{Starvation and Narcotics: How Israel Turns Aid Routes Into Drug Pipelines in Gaza
Pills hidden in flour sacks. Drugs dropped from drones. As Gaza faces starvation under siege, Israeli-controlled channels are flooding the Strip with narcotics, according to officials, medics, and eyewitnesses.
Pills hidden inside flour sacks.
Narcotics dropped from drones.
As Gaza starves under siege, Israeli-controlled channels are flooding the Strip with illicit drugs, according to officials, medical professionals, and eyewitnesses who spoke to Quds News Network (QNN). Since a ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Israel has continued to restrict the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. At the same time, drugs have entered the besieged enclave through aid-linked routes and Israeli-controlled airspace. QNN examines how narcotics enter Gaza, who facilitates their spread, and why Palestinian authorities describe the practice as a deliberate weapon of war.
“Drugs Flooded the Markets During the War”
Residents repeatedly witnessed Israeli drones dropping drugs to collaborators during the assault. “This is not new,” Enas, a Palestinian woman displaced from Rafah and now sheltering in Khan Younis, told QNN. “Drugs and cigarettes flooded the markets throughout the war, even as Israel kept the crossings closed.”
Residents of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza also told QNN that in August, an Israeli quadcopter dropped drugs to two collaborators in the street. The drone later exploded, killing at least two people.
What Types of Drugs Enter Gaza?
Mohamed A., an officer in Gaza’s Interior Ministry, told us that authorities seized a wide range of narcotics. These include pills, cannabis resin, chemical drugs, and hallucinogenic substances that can cause severe addiction and death. Some of the drugs target the nervous system and carry lethal side effects.
Aid Trucks and Drones: How Drugs Enter Gaza
Commercial Trucks
The ceasefire promised the immediate entry of full humanitarian aid. The reality looks different. Israel allows only a limited number of commercial trucks into Gaza. These trucks do not carry meat, dairy, or fresh vegetables. They mainly transport snacks, chocolate, crisps, and soft drinks. According to Gaza officials, at least six commercial trucks each day are used to smuggle drugs into Gaza. Israeli-backed groups and individuals coordinate the operation. Smugglers hide narcotics inside canned food and packaged goods. Last year, cigarettes also entered Gaza through aid trucks, according to multiple reports. Smugglers later targeted the trucks inside Gaza to retrieve the goods. Earlier this year, Palestinians found oxycodone pills inside flour sacks distributed by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Photos of the pills spread widely on social media. Oxycodone is a powerful opioid similar to morphine. Doctors prescribe it for severe pain, including cancer and major injuries. Gaza-based pharmacist Omar Hamad said he personally saw oxycodone pills in four aid flour sacks. “The drug acts on specific receptors in the nervous system,” he wrote. “It causes severe addiction, slowed heart rate, impaired consciousness, and dangerous respiratory depression.” “Its effects can turn a person into something unrecognizable,” he added. “A shell of who they were.”
Drones
During the genocide, Israeli drones dropped packages containing drugs and cigarettes across Gaza, according to Interior Ministry officials. After the ceasefire, the practice continued. Israeli forces now drop boxes of drugs inside the so-called “yellow line,” an area under Israeli military control. Local dealer networks collect and distribute the drugs with protection from Israeli-armed gangs. The Israeli military presence in the area prevents Palestinian police from intervening.
Why Israel Floods Gaza With Narcotics
The Government Media Office said Israel uses drugs as a “soft weapon” against civilians. Officials say the goal is clear: Spread addiction, ncrease crime, destroy social cohesion, undermine mental and physical health. Interior Ministry investigations show that smuggling operations exploit Israel’s full control over crossings and the absence of Palestinian security forces there. Israel also blocks the entry of scanning devices, making inspection difficult once trucks enter Gaza. Israel’s control of the “yellow line” allows free coordination with collaborators, officials said.
Crushing Gaza’s Security From Within
By flooding Gaza with drugs, Israel aims to dismantle the enclave’s security and justice structures. The result is rising disorder, internal disputes, and social breakdown. Gaza’s Anti-Drug Task Force burns seized narcotics after raids on dealers. Officials say the process adds another layer of suffering during an already devastating humanitarian crisis. Legal experts say smuggling narcotics through humanitarian channels violates core principles of international humanitarian law. The Fourth Geneva Convention requires an occupying power to ensure food and medical supplies for civilians. The practice also violates the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs, which criminalizes drug smuggling through civilian and humanitarian systems. What emerges is not random smuggling, but a systematic abuse of control over Gaza’s lifelines. By exploiting aid routes, airspace, and siege conditions, Israel turns humanitarian channels into tools of social destruction. Long after bombs fall, the damage continues quietly, chemically, and deliberately, against a population already pushed to the edge.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66971&slug=starvation-and-narcotics-how-israel-turns-aid-routes-into-drug-pipelines-in-gaza


Quds news - Dec 31, 2025
{Israel to Continue Ban Foreign Journalists From Entering Gaza Despite Ceasefire
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor stated that Israel is deliberately blocking foreign journalists and investigators to hide evidence of genocide and war crimes in Gaza. Gaza (QNN)- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Monday that the ban on foreign journalists entering the Gaza Strip remains in effect despite the ceasefire that took effect in October. He blamed Hamas for violations of the agreement, while attacking Gaza and killing hundreds of civilians. "Hamas' repeated violations [of the cease-fire] lead to immediate responses by the IDF that could endanger both the reporters and our soldiers," he told the Knesset on Monday in response to a question by MK Ayman Odeh, Haaretz reported. He added that the Israeli forces have told the occuption. goverment they "oppose the entry of reporters, because the cease-fire agreement isn't perfect and there are fears that it could be canceled at any moment." Israel has barred foreign journalists from entering Gaza ever since the genocidal war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023. The Foreign Press Association has petitioned the Supreme Court against the ban twice. The first petition, submitted at the beginning of the assault, was rejected. In the second petition, filed more than a year ago, the justices have granted the state nine extensions on the deadline for submitting its response. Last week, they once again agreed to the state's request for an extension, but gave it only an extra two weeks rather than the 30 days it requested. Consequently, the response must be submitted by Sunday, after which a hearing on the petition will take place. According to Israeli news website Ynet, Israel is preparing a propaganda war ahead of allowing foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip. It plans to organize military-guided tours to justify its two-year genocide in Gaza. Despite months of preparation, Ynet said Israel admits its media readiness remains weak.  Officials fear that international reporters will expose the catastrophic reality inside Gaza and fuel global outrage over war crimes and genocide reports.  Israeli officials told Ynet they expect a flood of humanitarian reports once journalists enter Gaza. These reports, they said, could intensify evidence of genocide and war crimes. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the plan. It said Israeli military escorts serve as tools of propaganda, with journalists only allowed brief, highly controlled visits to pre-selected sites. CPJ noted that such restrictions violate international press freedom standards. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor stated that Israel is deliberately blocking foreign journalists and investigators to hide evidence of genocide and war crimes in Gaza. In a statement, the group said Israel runs a “systematic policy” to erase physical evidence through field operations and administrative measures. These include preventing journalists and investigation committees from entering Gaza to stop any international accountability. The monitor warned that Israel’s ban on foreign media is part of an institutional effort to keep its crimes “outside global scrutiny.” According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, Israeli forces have killed 257 Palestinian journalists since October 2023 to silence the Palestinian narrative. In December, a report by Reporters Without Borders found that Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country. Euro-Med added that Israel has completely destroyed several towns, refugee camps, and neighborhoods. Satellite images and field testimonies showed Israeli forces leveling areas, removing debris, and transporting it to unknown sites, a move aimed at wiping out traces of mass killings and explosions. The group cautioned that any delay in granting journalists access will give Israel more time to destroy remaining evidence and rewrite the story of Gaza’s devastation. “I have no doubt that the prevention of international access, the killings of journalists, the targeting of media facilities, the punishment of [Israeli] outlets like Haaretz is part of a deliberate strategy on the part of Israel to conceal what is happening inside Gaza,” said the CPJ chief executive, Jodie Ginsberg. Meanwhile, Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement in Gaza about 1000 times since it came into force on October 10, killing over 400 Palestinains and blocking much-needed aid from entering the enclave. Hamas warned that Israel’s “blatant and outrageous violations” threaten the ceasefire agreement. It also said mediators confirmed that Hamas did not commit a single violation of the agreement and fully adhered to it.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66973&slug=israel-to-continue-ban-foreign-journalists-from-entering-gaza-despite-ceasefire

Al Jazeera - Dec 31, 2025
{Four reasons why Benjamin Netanyahu may not want a Gaza ceasefire to hold
After his trip to the US, Israel’s prime minister returns home in an apparently strong position.} Read why here - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/31/four-reasons-why-benjamin-netanyahu-may-not-want-a-gaza-ceasefire-to-hold

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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