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Special reports: Updates February and earlier, 2025-'24: A thousand days of Israeli impunity, still no justice for Shireen Abu Akleh & Why has Trump hit the world criminal court with sanctions? & Trump must not be allowed to torpedo the Palestinian right to remain & Jordan faces ‘geopolitical blackmail’ &  Advocates warn Trump’s threat to deport pro-Palestine students & Overview special reports

November 28 - 24 and earler stories, 2024 Is Netanyahu immune from ICC arrest warrant-NO!   TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

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

February 7 - 1, 2025 Fact: Gaza is not for sale... despite the continues suffering and betrayals on netanyahus' Western allies side. And more fact-finding news

January 31 - 28, 2025 In pictures and words: Bittersweet homecoming for Palestinians returning to Gaza City... Read more and decide for yourself

January 28 - 24, 2025 "Now it's time to grief" If the ones guilty of the genocide let us and it doesn't look like it. By the way, did you know that during WW2 the american allies knew all about the transportation routes that brought the jews to the gaschambers but simply let the trains roll. And now there was this so-called 'holocaust remembrance day' but... too many haven't learned anything from history... Read more and decide for yourself  Pre-ceasefire & Post-Ceasefire December 30 - 26, 2024 'Betrayed' and 'abandoned' Sixth baby dies from severe cold

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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.>
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France24 - Feb 7, 2025 - EXPERT ANALYSIS MIDDLE EAST - Video by: William HILDERBRANDT
<<'Incredibly dangerous, immensely destabilising for displacement of Palestinians into Egypt, Jordan'
Palestinians in Gaza say they are determined to rebuild their own seafront restaurants and hotels, dismissing U.S. President Donald Trump's vision of creating a "Riviera of the Middle East" emptied of its population and under U.S. control. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's William Hilderbrandt welcomes Dr H. A. Hellyer, Scholar in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, specialising in Security Studies. Dr. Hellyer is also Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for Defence and Security Studies in London where he is based.>>
Video: https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250207-incredibly-dangerous-immensely-destabilising-for-displacement-of-palestinians-into-egypt-jordan

Al Jazeera - Feb 7, 2025
<<In Pictures
<<Strong winds and heavy rain pummelling Gaza’s survivors
Winter weather conditions are worsening the plight of Palestinians sheltering among the enclave’s ruins.
Cold weather conditions negatively affect Palestinians staying in tents
Frigid winds have blown down tents in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of people remain homeless amid the two-week-old ceasefire.
Palestinians in the territory are enduring their second cold, wet winter since Israel’s war on Gaza started in October 2023. Strong winds and rain are adding to people’s suffering, with thousands of families living in worn-out tents after their homes were destroyed in the bombardment. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect last month, pausing Israel’s 15-month assault. But most people found their homes destroyed or heavily damaged. Families have since struggled to find shelter amid mounds of debris and destruction across the besieged enclave. Authorities are pleading for temporary shelters to be allowed in, calling it the most pressing humanitarian need.
“Despite the tragedy we are living, despite the rain and the very bad weather, people are staying under no roof,” Qassem Abu Hassoun told Al Jazeera. “Which means that people are hanging on to their country, their land. People are hanging on to even one grain of sand.” Anwar Hellis called the struggle “more difficult for us than displacement”. “We woke up at night and found our tents destroyed above us due to the wind and our clothes and food were filled with sand,” he said. Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said the weather had forced many Palestinians to leave a makeshift encampment in the western part of the city. Basic supplies such as warm clothing also are not widely available. “People here are not only lacking shelter but also the very essential supplies that provide them some warmth and protection,” Mahmoud said.>>
View Pictures: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/2/7/more-than-two-million-palestinians-endure-a-harsh-winter-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - Feb 6, 2025 - By Ruwaida Amer
<<Palestinians return home in Gaza, but without their loved ones
More than 61,700 Palestinians were killed by Israel in the Gaza war. Now, their family members are returning home without them. Gaza City, Palestine – Aya Hassouna is thin with a pale face. Her eyes are red, and her voice is full of sadness. She had a husband, Abdullah, and two children, four-year-old Hamza, and two-year-old Raghad. But as she returned with hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians to northern Gaza after months of displacement in the south of the enclave, she was travelling alone. Abdullah, Hamza and Raghad were killed in an Israeli attack on August 9, as they prepared for a day trip to the beach, an attempt to escape the daily horrors of the war. Aya described a strong explosion, smoke, and then her children lying dead on the ground with blood pouring from their heads. Abdullah, who had earlier gone to buy ingredients for a cake and some snacks for the beach, was dead too. “Since that time, I have been trying to be strong. I am trying to endure the separation,” Aya said. “But everything around me reminds me of them.” Her journey back home to Gaza City’s as-Saftawi neighbourhood last week, as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, had many of those painful reminders. Abdullah had been desperate to go back home. He’d already set aside the clothes he would wear for the journey. She took her husband’s outfit with her on her long walk north, as well as those of her children. And she walked, alone. “Sadness was eating away at my heart,” Aya said. “Sometimes I cried. I looked at the families walking together, a mother, a father and their children. As for me, I was alone without any of them.” Aya arrived at her family’s home and reunited with her mother, but she is not sure how long the journey took. Her mind was preoccupied with the heartache of the losses that still haunt her. Soon after, she decided to go and see whatever was left of her house, which had been destroyed during the war. As she searched through the rubble for any of their old belongings to keep as memories, she found herself imagining searching for her lost loved ones, and finally finding them again.
“What can I do? This is my fate.”
The dutiful son
So many of those returning to Gaza’s north have had to go through the same pain as Aya, returning home, but without their loved ones. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 61,700 Palestinians, including more than 17,400 children. Jawaher Shabeer’s son, Walid, was one of those killed. They fled Gaza City together at the start of the war, moving to Rafah, in the far south of the Strip. Walid was Jawaher’s eldest son. He was 26 and “dutiful and affectionate”. It was that love for his mother and his family that led to Walid leaving the family’s tent in Rafah at the end of Ramadan in April last year, trying to find work to alleviate the famine-like conditions the family were living through. “He found work with one of his friends near Khan Younis,” Jawaher said. “He promised that he would return with okra to cook.” But Walid didn’t come back. Jawaher was told that he had been shot by the Israeli army in Khan Younis. The month passed heavily on Jawaher’s heart. She says she lost the ability to speak. Instead, in her mind, she pictured Walid, imagining his return. Jawaher made her own return to the north with the rest of her family. But before she left, she would make one last stop to visit Walid’s grave. “I cried over Walid,” Jawaher said. “How would I go back without him? How will I meet my daughters and granddaughters in Gaza City without Walid, that kind young man, that companion of mine.”>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/6/palestinians-return-home-in-gaza-but-without-their-loved-ones

Al Jazeera - Feb 6 2025 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<Thousands in Gaza struggle in tents amid cold, stormy weather
Displaced Palestinians languish in makeshift tent encampments as harsh winds and rain hit the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians sit in a tent camp under the rain in Gaza City
Violent storm destroys tents of displaced people in Gaza
Strong winds, rain and winter are adding to the suffering of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, with thousands of families living in worn-out tents after their homes were destroyed in Israel’s bombardment of the coastal enclave. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza since a ceasefire came into effect last month, pausing Israel’s 15-month assault on the territory. But most people found their homes destroyed or heavily damaged. Families have since struggled to find shelter amid mounds of debris and destruction across the besieged enclave. A spokesperson for the Gaza City municipality told Al Jazeera that the city did not have enough resources to help the displaced amid the storm, adding that sewage and rainwater entered hundreds of tents and shelters. Speaking to Al Jazeera from a makeshift encampment in the courtyard of a school in Gaza City, Mahmoud Riyad Khalil al-Fayoumi said he has been living in a tent alongside three other families. “The blankets are very wet,” said al-Fayoumi, explaining that he sent his two-month-old baby and his brother, who has a spinal cord injury, to stay with other people due to the harsh weather conditions. “We don’t know what to do. We don’t know where to go. This is our situation here.” Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said heavy rain and wind had forced many Palestinians to leave a makeshift encampment in the western part of the city. Basic supplies such as warm clothing also are not widely available, worsening the situation. “People right now here are not only lacking shelter, but also the very essential supplies that provide them some warmth and protection from these terrible weather conditions,” Mahmoud said. In its latest update on Wednesday, the United Nations humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) said with more than 500,000 people returning to the Gaza and North Gaza governorates, “the need for food, water, tents and shelter materials in that area remains critical”. Despite increased deliveries of humanitarian aid since the ceasefire took hold on January 19, shelter assistance has been limited. Earlier this week, the Gaza Government Media Office accused Israel of restricting the flow of aid and shelters into the territory. “Securing shelters has become an urgent humanitarian need that cannot be delayed. It is the most pressing need at this moment,” it said in a statement earlier this week. Tess Ingram, a communications manager at UNICEF, the UN’s child rights agency, said Palestinians in Gaza are ill-equipped to withstand the cold weather because they have lost so much during the war. The situation is particularly dangerous for children, Ingram told Al Jazeera from Gaza City. “For kids in these conditions, it’s not only frightening to be outside, exposed and in the cold, but it’s also very dangerous for their wellbeing,” she said. “We’ve had a number of children in Gaza die of hypothermia and it’s clear here when you meet with families that they don’t have what they need to protect them from that cold. Families are lacking warm clothes for their children. There’s many children without shoes.” Displaced Palestinians also continue to face harsh conditions in other parts of Gaza, as well.
“The tent flew away and the people were in disarray,” Saqer Abdelal told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah in the central part of the enclave. “We’re now transporting our belongings to a man who agreed to host us until the winter ends.” “This is more difficult to us than displacement,” said Anwar Hellis, another Palestinian in Deir el-Balah. “We woke up at night and found our tents destroyed due to the wind. Our clothes and food were filled with sand.” In southern Gaza, the Rafah municipality has called for 40,000 additional tents and emergency shelter units for residents. The city is still hosting thousands of displaced people whose homes have been destroyed in other areas. The municipality also said it does not have enough heavy machinery, which is hindering the reopening of roads and the clearing of rubble.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/6/thousands-in-gaza-struggle-in-tents-amid-cold-stormy-weather

Al Jazeera - Feb 5 2025
<<In Pictures
<<Gaza transformed into rubble-strewn wasteland after Israeli bombardment
It could take at least 15 years to clear Gaza’s rubble, with 100 trucks working full time, says the United Nations. Israeli bombardment and ground operations in Gaza have transformed entire neighbourhoods into rubble-strewn wastelands, with blackened shells of buildings and mounds of debris stretching out in all directions. Major roads have been ploughed up. Critical water and electricity infrastructure is in ruins. Most hospitals no longer function. The United Nations says that it could take more than 350 years to rebuild if the blockade remains. The full extent of the damage will only be known when the fighting ends and inspectors have full access to the territory. The most heavily destroyed part of Gaza, in the north, had been sealed off and largely depopulated by Israeli forces in an operation that began in early October. Using satellite data, the United Nations estimated last month that 69 percent of the structures in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, including at least 245,000 homes. The World Bank estimated $18.5bn in damage – nearly the combined economic output of the West Bank and Gaza in 2022 – from just the first four months of the war. Before anything can be rebuilt, the rubble must be removed – a staggering task in itself. The UN estimates that the war has littered Gaza with at least 50 million tonnes of rubble – roughly 12 times the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. With more than 100 trucks working full time, it would take more than 15 years to clear the rubble, and there is little open space in the narrow coastal territory that is home to some 2.3 million Palestinians.>>
View Pictures: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/2/5/gaza-transformed-into-rubble-strewn-wasteland-after-israeli-bombardment


Video capture Release of 110 Palestinians celebrated
Al Jazeera - Feb 5 2025 - By Ali Harb
<<As Trump meets Netanyahu, protesters chant: ‘Palestine is not for sale’
Washington, DC – As President Donald Trump called for ethnically cleansing Gaza and for the United States to “own” the territory, hundreds of protesters outside the White House warned him that “Palestine is not for sale”. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Washington, DC, on Tuesday evening to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House and call on the Trump administration to stop supplying weapons to Israel. The protesters chanted, “Free Palestine” and denounced Israeli atrocities amid a heavy security presence. Michael Schirtzer, an activist at the protest, said Americans do not want their tax money used to kill Palestinians. Schirtzer dismissed Trump’s call for ethnically cleansing Gaza as an “insane” position. “The people of Palestine will be going nowhere. They are the Indigenous people of that land,” he told Al Jazeera. “It is a coloniser mentality to say that you’re going to displace people.” Trump had said earlier that Palestinians “would love” to leave Gaza if given a chance, reiterating his call for displacing the entire population of the territory “permanently”. The US president has faced backlash from Arab states and rights groups for his proposed plan, which critics say would amount to ethnic cleansing. But Trump doubled down on his remarks during a news conference with Netanyahu later on Tuesday, saying that the US would “take over Gaza” after it is depopulated and “own it”.
‘Architect of a literal genocide’
At the White House protest, Sofia Ahmad, a 24-year-old Iranian American demonstrator, struggled to find the words to describe Trump’s call for mass displacement in Gaza. “The fact that he is the president is disgusting,” Ahmad told Al Jazeera. “He’s a fascist, a psychopath, a narcissist. But it’s still important to show up here.” She underscored that Netanyahu is a fugitive from justice who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for suspected war crimes in Gaza, including using starvation as a weapon of war. “DC is full of war criminals, but the worst of the worst is here – a man who is the architect of a literal genocide,” Ahmad said. Israel’s US-backed offensive in Gaza has killed nearly 62,000 Palestinians, which includes thousands of missing people who are presumed dead, since October 2023. Leading human rights groups and United Nations experts have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide against Palestinians – an effort to destroy them as a people. Mohammad Qasim, an organiser with the Palestinian Youth Movement, said protesters are outraged that Netanyahu, “the war criminal”, has been invited to Washington, DC. “We’re here in the streets to protest to make it clear that he’s not welcome in our city,” Qasim said. He added that “there is no way” Trump can succeed in forcing Palestinians out of Gaza. “We’ve seen the resolve and the steadfastness and the love of the land that the Palestinian people of Gaza have demonstrated over the last 15 to 16 months,” he said. “If Donald Trump thinks that our people will capitulate and leave their land, he is sorely mistaken.” Protesters projected a “wanted” poster with Netanyahu’s face on a hotel overlooking the White House. They also waved Palestinian flags and held signs denouncing US support for Israel.
“Pay for housing, not genocide,” one poster read.
A woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty stood in the middle of the crowd as activists depicting Israeli officers were shackling and dragging her.
‘Golden opportunity’
Earlier in the day, Palestinian rights advocates held a news conference in the same spot as the protest to denounce Netanyahu’s visit. Osama Abuirshaid, executive director of American Muslims for Palestine, said Trump should not allow Netanyahu to manipulate him and called on the US president to change the dynamics of the US-Israel relationship. Abuirshaid said that former US President Joe Biden let Netanyahu disrespect him and show him “the middle finger”. “Trump has this golden opportunity to show the world who the boss is, and that he’s ushering in a new era,” Abuirshaid told reporters. “It doesn’t mean that we agree with everything, with all of his policies, but we agree with one thing – America should be respected again,” he said. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the antiwar group Code Pink, also said that Trump had an “incredible opportunity” to pursue peace in the Middle East. “Will he go the road of the warmongers or will he listen to the voice of the people in the United States that have said for months now, not only did we want to ceasefire, but we want to stop sending weapons to Israel,” Benjamin said. She added that Netanyahu should face justice for atrocities against Palestinians, not be invited to the White House. “Netanyahu does not belong on the streets of Washington, DC. He belongs in The Hague,” Benjamin said.
Pushing to appeal to Trump
Some speakers at the news conference struck a more conciliatory tone, appealing to Trump’s pledge to bring peace to the Middle East and pursue an “America First” agenda. The advocates argued that prioritising US interests would dictate saying “no” to Netanyahu’s demands for more weapons and support for Israel. Trump has taken credit for brokering the fragile Gaza ceasefire, which brought much needed-relief and surged humanitarian assistance to the population in the devastated territory. When asked about the apparent conciliatory tone, Nihad Awad – the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – said it does not represent a change in stance. He noted that his group is in “total disagreement” with Trump over some policies, including the president’s anti-immigration push. “But it doesn’t mean that he’s just an enemy of us and the people,” Awad said. “We believe that the office he’s holding is so powerful, and he has important opportunities to bring peace to the region, peace that is based on justice and liberty and dignity and respect for all. So this is our appeal to him — because he can do it, and he promised to do it.” Hours later, Awad released a statement denouncing Trump’s call for displacing Palestinians in Gaza. “Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not the United States, and President Trump’s call to displace Palestinians from their land either temporarily or permanently is an absolute non-starter,” he said. “Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the entire Muslim world have made it clear that this delusional idea is unacceptable.”>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/5/as-trump-meets-netanyahu-protesters-chant-palestine-is-not-for-sale

Al Jazeera - Feb 4 2025
<<Trump to withdraw US from UN Rights Council, extend UNRWA funds ban: Report
The US president is expected to sign the orders cutting ties and funds to the UN agencies as Netanyahu visits the White House.
children sit next to a blue sign that says UNRWA United States President Donald Trump is planning to cut off US engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council and extend a funding ban on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, an unnamed White House official told US media outlets. US news media, including Politico and NPR, reported on Monday that Trump was expected to sign an executive order withdrawing from the two UN bodies on Tuesday, the same day the White House is expected to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a longtime critic of the UN, and UNRWA in particular. Since taking office for a second term on January 20, Trump has already withdrawn the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris climate agreement, which he also withdrew from during his first term – a move that was later reversed by the Biden administration. Trump’s withdrawal of the US from the UN Human Rights Council would also not be a first for Trump, who withdrew from the council in his first term. When the Trump administration quit the Human Rights Council in 2018, Trump’s then-UN envoy Nikki Haley claimed the move was due to “chronic bias” against Israel from the body, which is made up of 47 UN member states who are elected for four-year terms. The council conducts periodic reviews of the human rights records of UN member states, including the US, which is due to undergo its next review in August.
During the council’s last review of the US in 2020, countries offered recommendations on how Washington might improve its human rights record, including by tackling racism and closing the Guantanamo Bay prison. The council is also responsible for appointing human rights experts to serve as independent UN special rapporteurs. Several UN special rapporteurs have accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, including, most notably, the special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese. As an elected member of the council, most recently from 2022-2024, the US has also leveraged its position to criticise the human rights record of other countries.
UNRWA order comes as Netanyahu visits White House
Trump’s plan to sign another executive order specifically targeting the embattled UNRWA coincides with Netanyahu’s visit to the White House.
According to a UNRWA situation report, Israeli forces killed 272 UNRWA staff members during Israel’s 15-month onslaught on the Gaza Strip and repeatedly attacked UNRWA buildings, including schools where thousands of Palestinians were seeking shelter. In October, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed two bills banning UNRWA operations within Israel’s borders, including occupied East Jerusalem, which came into effect last week. Founded by the UN General Assembly in 1949, UNRWA provides aid, health and education services to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
UNRWA at a glance
The US was UNRWA’s biggest donor, providing $300m to $400m a year, but Biden paused funding in January 2024 after Israel made unfounded accusations about a dozen UNRWA staff taking part in the deadly October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas. Although an independent report found that Israeli authorities did not provide evidence for their claims to the UN, the US Congress decided to formally suspend contributions to UNRWA until at least March 2025. The UN later found that nine employees may have been involved in the attack and were fired. UNRWA is playing a vital role in Gaza’s recovery as a fragile ceasefire continues to hold between Israel and Hamas. Trump and Netanyahu are expected to discuss the next phase of the ceasefire deal when they meet. Speaking after Netanyahu arrived in the US on Monday, Trump said there were <no guarantees> that the ceasefire deal would hold.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/4/trump-to-withdraw-us-from-un-human-rights-council-extend-unrwa-funding-ban

Al Jazeera - Feb 3 2025
<<Inside Story
What’s behind surge in Israeli attacks on Palestinian homes in West Bank?
Israeli PM Netanyahu reiterates pledge to ‘redraw’ the Middle East as he arrives in the US for talks with Trump.>>
Read more/Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2025/2/3/whats-behind-surge-in-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-homes-in-west-bank

Al Jazeera - Feb 3 2025
<<Gaza authorities plead for tents, accuse Israel of obstructing aid
Government Media Office says securing temporary shelters is the ‘most pressing’ humanitarian need in Gaza. Local authorities in the Gaza Strip have called on donors and aid groups to prioritise sending tents and temporary shelters to help house people whose homes have been destroyed by Israel.
The Gaza Government Media Office said on Monday that thousands of Palestinian families across the enclave are sleeping out in the open amid the frigid temperatures. “Securing shelters has become an urgent humanitarian need that cannot be delayed. It is the most pressing need at this moment,” the office said in a statement. It urged the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation, which has been helping coordinate aid to Palestinians, to include tents alongside food and other humanitarian supplies in the coming assistance shipments. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have returned to the north of the territory after the truce reached between Israel and Hamas last month. But many found that their homes have been turned to rubble as Israel levelled entire neighbourhoods in Gaza City and northern towns like Jabalia and Beit Hanoon. The Government Media Office later accused Israel of restricting the flow of aid and shelters to the territory in violation of the ceasefire deal that went into effect on January 19.
It said the agreement stipulates that 60,000 trailers and 200,000 tents must enter Gaza to help house Palestinians rendered homeless by Israeli bombing. According to the office, the deal also requires Israel to allow equipment to help clear the rubble to reach Gaza. “But the Israeli occupation is putting obstacles and delaying the execution of the agreement, escalating the humanitarian crisis and the suffering of civilians in the Gaza Strip,” it said. “This will have dangerous and unprecedented implications.” Later on Tuesday, World Food Programme official Antoine Renard said there had been a surge in aid to Gaza but suggested that some Israeli restrictions remained, including on items deemed to be “dual use” for civilian and military purposes. “This is a reminder to you that many of the items that are dual use need also to enter into Gaza like medical and also tents,” Renard was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency. United States President Donald Trump has been calling for displacing the entire population of Gaza, citing the widespread destruction in the territory. Trump’s proposal, which critics say would amount to ethnic cleansing, has been forcefully rejected by Arab states. The US president is set to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday. The meeting would come amid concerns over the durability of the ceasefire. The initial 42-day truce, which will see the release of 33 Israeli captives and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, expires on March 1. The second stage, which would see the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and the freeing of all captives, has not been finalised. On Monday, Trump – who has repeatedly taken credit for helping broker the deal – said he has “no assurances” that the fighting will not resume. “I’ve seen people brutalised. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. No, I have no guarantees that the peace is going to hold,” he told reporters at the White House. Ofer Cassif, a member of the Israeli parliament and a vocal critic of Israel’s abuses against Palestinians, said it was “terrifying” that talks over the second stage have not begun. “I’ve been saying since day one that Netanyahu and the thugs around him in the coalition and the government are not really interested in a ceasefire or saving the Israeli hostages – let alone saving the lives of thousands of Palestinians,” he told Al Jazeera from West Jerusalem.
Israel has killed nearly 62,000 Palestinians, including thousands who are missing and presumed dead, during the war that started in October 2023.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/3/gaza-authorities-plead-for-tents-accuse-israel-of-obstructing-aid

Al Jazeera - Feb 3 2025
<<Why Gaza’s death toll was raised to nearly 62,000
Authorities in Gaza have updated the death toll from Israel’s war on the enclave to 61,709, having added thousands who are missing and now presumed dead.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/3/why-gazas-death-toll-was-raised-to-nearly-62000

Al Jazeera - Jan 3 2025
<<Deaths from Israel’s attacks on Gaza close to 62,000 as missing added
Local authorities add 14,000 people, missing and presumed dead, to the list. Authorities in Gaza have updated the death toll from Israel’s war on the enclave to 61,709, having added thousands who are missing and now presumed dead. The head of the Gaza Government Information Office told a news conference that the bodies of 76 percent of the Palestinians killed in the conflict have been recovered and brought to medical centres. However, at least 14,222 people are still believed to be trapped under the rubble or in areas inaccessible to rescuers. Speaking at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, Salama Maarouf told reporters that among the death toll are 17,881 children, including 214 newborn infants.
“More than 2 million people have been forcibly displaced, some more than 25 times, under dire conditions lacking basic services,” the official added, noting that 111,588 people have also been injured.
‘Homes have become graveyards’
The updated numbers come amid the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that last month halted, at least temporarily, 15 months of genocide in the enclave, which followed the assault by Hamas on southern Israel in October 2023 that saw the armed group kill about 1,200 and take 250 people back to Gaza as captives. The pause in fighting, set to continue until at least early March, has given room for Palestinian rescuers to reach parts of Gaza they could not reach before. “Humanitarian and medical teams have shifted from rescue to recovery missions,” said Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzom, reporting from Gaza’s al-Rashid Street, a route many Palestinians are taking to head back to their northern hometowns.
“Hundreds of homes have become graveyards.”
Maarouf also noted the heavy toll on health, humanitarian and media workers in the enclave. At least 1,155 medical personnel, 205 journalists and 194 civil defence workers are reported to have been killed during Israel’s onslaught.
Phase II talks
Negotiations are about to get under way, moving to the second stage of the three-phase ceasefire. That envisages an approach to a permanent end to the war. Mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States will open those talks today, but if they cannot bring Israel and Hamas to an agreement, fighting could resume in March. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in Washington, DC and plans to meet President Donald Trump, is under pressure from far-right allies to cut the ceasefire short and continue fighting. Netanyahu, who alongside other Israeli officials and Hamas leaders is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, said he and Trump would discuss “victory over Hamas, achieving the release of all our hostages and dealing with the Iranian terror axis” in the Middle East.>>
Video: Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/3/gaza-death-toll-rises-close-to-62000-as-missing-added

Al Jazeera - Feb 3, 2025
<<Palestinian family reunites in north Gaza for first time in Israel’s war
‘Oh, my dear. May God bless you!’ See the heartwarming moment this Palestinian mother of four reunites with her husband in northern Gaza. The family was separated for more than a year, enduring displacement and Israeli bombing, never knowing if they would see each other again.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/3/palestinian-family-reunites-in-north-gaza-for-first-time-in-israels-war

Jinha - Womens News Agency - January 3, 2025
<<At least 25 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank
At least 25 Palestinians have been killed since the Israeli military operation began in Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials.
News Center- Israeli forces, backed by helicopters and armored bulldozers, began the assault on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on January 21, two days after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in Gaza. At least 25 Palestinians, a 73-year-old man and a two-year-old girl, have been killed since the Israeli military operation began in Jenin, the Palestinian officials said on Sunday. The Israeli military blew up buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Sunday. “In a split second yesterday, large swathes of Jenin camp were completely destroyed in a series of controlled detonations by the Israeli Security Forces,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement on Monday. “Residents of the camp have endured the impossible, facing nearly two months of unceasing and escalating violence. In the last months, Jenin camp has been rendered a ghost town. On a day that was supposed to mark the beginning of the new school semester for thousands of children, 13 schools in the northern West Bank remained closed due to ISF operations in the area. Today’s shocking scenes in the West Bank undermine the fragile ceasefire reached in Gaza, and risk a new escalation.”>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/at-least-25-palestinians-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-occupied-west-bank-36467?page=1

Al Jazeera - Feb 2, 2025
<<Israel and Hamas complete fourth prisoner-captive exchange
Palestinian prisoners have reunited with loved ones following their release from Israeli jails, as Hamas freed three captives held in Gaza. One detainee who had smuggled his sperm out of prison met his grown sons for the first time in Ramallah.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/2/israel-and-hamas-complete-fourth-prisoner-captive-exchange

Al Jazeera - Feb 1, 2025
<<Palestinians released by Israel show signs of ‘torture, starvation’
Dozens of Palestinians released from Israeli jails show signs of torture and starvation, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said following the latest batch that was released on Saturday.
Correction
An earlier version of this story stated that Red Cross staff had expressed outrage to Al Jazeera about the treatment of released prisoners from Ketziot Prison on Saturday by the Israeli Prison Service. That statement was not given to Al Jazeera, and was based on a report from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, quoting from an interview with a security source. Dozens of Palestinians released from Israeli jails show signs of torture and starvation, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said following the latest batch that was released on Saturday. As part of ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, 183 Palestinians were released from Israeli jails. They emerged wearing stained grey prison jumpsuits and exhibiting signs of years of detention. Several of them looked tired and frail as they made the short walk from the bus to the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, before being cheered through the crowd and reunited with their families. “Every time prisoners are released, we find the prisoners’ bodies reflecting the level of crimes committed against them, including torture that is unprecedented in its level after October 7, starvation crimes, systematic medical crimes, and the infection of a number of them with scabies, in addition to the severe beatings that the prisoners were subjected to before their release, which continued for days according to many of their testimonies, and which in some cases led to rib fractures,” the organisation said in a statement. “The Prisoner’s Society confirms again that the occupation practices organized terrorism against the released prisoners and their families, through several methods that have been monitored, the most prominent of which are the severe beatings that the released prisoners were subjected to, and the threats that reached the point of killing if any reception party was organized or if the family showed any sign of reception.”>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/1/palestinians-released-by-israel-show-signs-of-torture-starvation

Al Jazeera - Feb 1, 2025
<<Arab ministers reject Trump’s call to displace Palestinians from Gaza
US president has suggested that Egypt and Jordan should to take in Palestinians from Gaza.
Foreign ministers of five Arab countries have issued a joint statement rejecting the forced displacement of Palestinians from their land. The statement, released on Saturday, presented a unified stance against US President Donald Trump’s call for Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza. Foreign ministers and officials from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League said Trump’s proposed move would threaten stability in the region, spread conflict and undermine prospects for peace. “We affirm our rejection of [any attempts] to compromise Palestinians’ unalienable rights, whether through settlement activities, or evictions or annex of land or through vacating the land from its owners … in any form or under any circumstances or justifications,” the joint statement read. The meeting came after Trump said last week that Egypt and Jordan should take in Palestinians from Gaza, which he called a “demolition site” following 15 months of Israeli bombardment that rendered most of its 2.3 million people homeless.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/1/arab-ministers-reject-trumps-call-to-displace-palestinians-from-gaza

Al Jazeera - Feb 1, 2025
<<Palestinian patients enter Egypt as Rafah crossing opens after nine months
Gaza’s Health Ministry says a group of 50 sick and wounded patients and their attendants are in Egypt for medical treatment abroad. Ambulances drive as the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip reopens. The Rafah border crossing has opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment abroad. Gaza’s Health Ministry on Saturday said a group of 50 patients, accompanied by 61 caregivers, crossed from Rafah to reach Egypt. Egyptian television showed Palestinian Red Cross ambulances pulling up to the crossing gate, and several children being brought out on stretchers and transferred to ambulances on the Egyptian side.
Many of the patients are suffering from chronic diseases, including cancer, and have been unable to get treatment during Israel’s 15-month war.
A total of 400 Palestinians will be allowed to leave Gaza as part of a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel on January 19. The reopening of the Rafah crossing represents a significant breakthrough that bolsters the deal. Israel agreed to reopen the crossing after Hamas released the last living female captives in Gaza. The opening of the key border crossing also came on the heels of Hamas releasing three Israeli captives in Gaza earlier on Saturday in exchange for more than 180 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/1/palestinian-patients-on-way-to-egypt-as-rafah-crossing-opens-after-9-months

Al Jazeera - Feb 1, 2025
<<Palestinians released by Israel show signs of ‘torture, starvation’
Dozens of Palestinians released from Israeli jails show signs of torture and starvation, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said following the latest batch that was released on Saturday. As part of ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, 183 Palestinians were released from Israeli jails. They emerged wearing stained grey prison jumpsuits and exhibiting signs of years of detention. Several of them looked tired and frail as they made the short walk from the bus to the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, before being cheered through the crowd and reunited with their families.
“Every time prisoners are released, we find the prisoners’ bodies reflecting the level of crimes committed against them, including torture that is unprecedented in its level after October 7, starvation crimes, systematic medical crimes, and the infection of a number of them with scabies, in addition to the severe beatings that the prisoners were subjected to before their release, which continued for days according to many of their testimonies, and which in some cases led to rib fractures,” the organisation said in a statement. “The Prisoner’s Society confirms again that the occupation practices organized terrorism against the released prisoners and their families, through several methods that have been monitored, the most prominent of which are the severe beatings that the released prisoners were subjected to, and the threats that reached the point of killing if any reception party was organized or if the family showed any sign of reception.” One of the released Palestinians said, “For the past 15 months, we were exposed to the most brutal torture … the Israelis treated us in inhumane ways. They treated animals better than us.” Speaking to Al Jazeera, Red Cross staff expressed outrage at the way the Israel Prison Service handled the released prisoners from Ketziot Prison on Saturday. According to their accounts, Palestinian detainees were released handcuffed with their hands above their heads with a band that read: “The people of eternity does not forget.” Hamas said the “abuse and torture” Palestinian prisoners endured “confirms the ugliness of what [they] are subjected to” in Israeli prisons. It added in a statement that its armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, did not fail to provide the necessary healthcare to Israeli captives despite the conditions in Gaza, including Israel’s relentless bombing and attacks that killed more than 47,000 people in the besieged enclave since October 2023. “The good physical and psychological condition of the enemy’s prisoners proves the values ​​of our resistance and its moral commitment towards the prisoners, while the criminal occupation commits the most heinous violations against our prisoners in jails,” the group said.
Sources told Al Jazeera that one Palestinian, Hussam Shahin, will be transferred to hospital after he underwent surgery without anaesthesia while in jail. Under the terms of the ceasefire deal, 33 captives held by Hamas in Gaza are to be freed in the first six weeks of the truce in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians, many of whom have been serving life sentences in Israel.>>
Source/videos: Al Jazeera and news agencies: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/1/palestinians-released-by-israel-show-signs-of-torture-starvation

Al Jazeera - Feb 1, 2025
<<Palestinian patients enter Egypt as Rafah crossing opens after nine months
Gaza’s Health Ministry says a group of 50 sick and wounded patients and their attendants are in Egypt for medical treatment abroad. The Rafah border crossing has opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment abroad. Gaza’s Health Ministry on Saturday said a group of 50 patients, accompanied by 61 caregivers, crossed from Rafah to reach Egypt. Egyptian television showed Palestinian Red Cross ambulances pulling up to the crossing gate, and several children being brought out on stretchers and transferred to ambulances on the Egyptian side. Many of the patients are suffering from chronic diseases, including cancer, and have been unable to get treatment during Israel’s 15-month war. A total of 400 Palestinians will be allowed to leave Gaza as part of a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel on January 19. The reopening of the Rafah crossing represents a significant breakthrough that bolsters the deal. Israel agreed to reopen the crossing after Hamas released the last living female captives in Gaza. The opening of the key border crossing also came on the heels of Hamas releasing three Israeli captives in Gaza earlier on Saturday in exchange for more than 180 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
‘Hope the number will increase’
Mohammed Zaqout, director of hospitals in Gaza’s Health Ministry, said more than 6,000 Palestinian patients were ready to be evacuated abroad, and at least 12,000 patients were in urgent need of treatment. He said the small numbers set to be evacuated will not cover the need, “and we hope the number will increase”. Arwa Damon, founder of the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance (INARA), described to Al Jazeera the “laborious” process to take about 2,500 Palestinian children requiring lifesaving medical care out of Gaza. She said a child’s parents or guardians apply for a medical evacuation. Then the Health Ministry in Gaza reviews the cases and puts the patients into categories depending on urgency. “Then there is a whole coordination effort that has to happen with Israel clearing every single one of the names that’s requesting to be evacuated,” Damon added. “And then, you need the whole mechanism which is coordinated with the WHO to actually get the children out of Gaza and then on to whichever third country has agreed to receive them for medical treatment.” Damon said this “has always been extraordinarily painful” and a “very slow” process that “quite simply has failed to get medical treatment for all those who need it”. In Israel’s 15-month genocide on the enclave following Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, Gaza’s health sector has been decimated, leaving most hospitals out of operation. Tens of thousands of Palestinians wounded by Israel’s bombardment and ground offensives have been suffering due to a lack of proper medical care. Israeli forces closed the Rafah crossing in May 2024 after seizing it. Egypt followed suit by shutting down its side of the passage in protest. Even prior to the Gaza war, Palestinians relied on the crossing heavily, routinely applying for permission to travel outside the territory for lifesaving treatments not available in the enclave, including chemotherapy.
Management of the crossing has been mired with complexities.
Israel has long accused Hamas of using its control of the border to smuggle weapons – a claim Egypt has denied. Israel has also refused to allow the Palestinian Authority (PA) to officially take over the management of the crossing. Instead, the crossing will be staffed by Palestinians from Gaza who previously served as border officers with the PA, but they will not be allowed to wear official PA insignia, a European diplomat told The Associated Press news agency, on condition of anonymity. Monitors from the European Union will also be present, as they were before 2007. “It will support Palestinian border personnel and allow the transfer of individuals out of Gaza, including those who need medical care,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote on X, referring to its monitoring mission at the crossing.>>
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/1/palestinian-patients-on-way-to-egypt-as-rafah-crossing-opens-after-9-months

Al Jazeera - Feb 1, 2025
<<Arab ministers reject Trump’s call to displace Palestinians from Gaza
US president has suggested that Egypt and Jordan should to take in Palestinians from Gaza.
The statement, released on Saturday, presented a unified stance against US President Donald Trump’s call for Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza. Foreign ministers and officials from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League said Trump’s proposed move would threaten stability in the region, spread conflict and undermine prospects for peace. “We affirm our rejection of [any attempts] to compromise Palestinians’ unalienable rights, whether through settlement activities, or evictions or annex of land or through vacating the land from its owners … in any form or under any circumstances or justifications,” the joint statement read. The meeting came after Trump said last week that Egypt and Jordan should take in Palestinians from Gaza, which he called a “demolition site” following 15 months of Israeli bombardment that rendered most of its 2.3 million people homeless. Egypt and Jordan – key US allies in the region – have repeatedly rejected Trump’s proposal to “clean out” Gaza. Jordan is home to several million Palestinians, while tens of thousands live in Egypt. On Wednesday, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi also rejected Trump’s idea and said Egyptians would take to the streets to express their disapproval. “Displacement of the Palestinian people from their land is an injustice that we cannot take part in,” he added. However, on Thursday, Trump reiterated the idea, saying, “We do a lot for them, and they are going to do it,” in apparent reference to abundant US aid, including military assistance, to Egypt and Jordan. Analysts have said Trump’s proposal would amount to ethnic cleansing. Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine/Israel programme at the Arab Center Washington DC, told Al Jazeera earlier this week that Trump’s “outrageous” statement should be condemned for violating all norms and basic rights. “Trump says all kinds of things,” Munayyer said, explaining that the US president’s statement should be taken with a hint of scepticism. “Sometimes, they’re things that he means. Sometimes, they’re things that he doesn’t mean. Sometimes, they’re things that he heard in a conversation that he had five minutes ago. Sometimes, they’re things that he thinks he heard but misunderstood.”
The foreign ministers on Saturday highlighted that they “look forward to working with the administration of US President Donald Trump to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, in accordance with the two-state solution”. They also welcomed Egypt’s plans to hold an international conference in the near future with the United Nations that would be focused on rebuilding Gaza and affirmed the UN’s main aid agency for Palestinians, UNRWA’s “pivotal, indispensable and irreplaceable role” in the enclave which has been mostly flattened during the fifteen months war between Israel and Hamas.>>
Videos: Al Jazeera and news agencies:https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/1/arab-ministers-reject-trumps-call-to-displace-palestinians-from-gaza
 

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