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Welcome to cryfreedom.net, formerly known as Womens Liberation Front.  A website that hopes to draw and keeps your attention for  both the global 21th. century 3rd. feminist revolution as well as especially for the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi uprising in Iran and the struggles of our sisters in other parts of the Middle East. This online magazine that started December 2019 will be published every week. Thank you for your time and interest. 
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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

January 5, 2025 - December 26, 2024
"I don't know if I will write to you again.
I keep what I have written and am writing.
Maybe it will come to light one day.
I refuse a cheap death. I curse the murderer,"
Mohammad Hijazi - Media worker, killed
Read more and decide for yourself

January 2, 2025 - December 31, 2024
Food for thought
'Survivors from the West (-ern allies of netanyahu)'
you'll not see photos of the ongoing inhuman
deliberate mayhem/destruction of the
Gazaian people.
Read more and decide for yourself
where you want to watch it.
Gino d'Artali

December 30 - 26, 2024
'Betrayed' and 'abandoned' Sixth baby dies from severe cold

Dec 31 - 27, 2024
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December 10 - 7, 2024
Food for thought:
'The next one' as seen by an Iranian activist cartoonnist
and yes, with the fall of assad
it most likely is a matter of time
before the next ones,
netanyahu, khamenei, erdogan and others,
will follow.
Gino d'Artali
Read more and decide for yourself

 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.

Al Jazeera - Jan 5 2025
<<'I refuse a cheap death': Israel kills Palestinian journalist in Gaza
Israel kills Mohammad Hijazi, taking the number of media workers killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023 to 220.
A Palestinian writer, poet and journalist has been killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, according to his family, taking the total number of journalists killed in the Israel-Palestine conflict since October 7, 2023 to 220. Mohammad Hijazi was among nearly 90 Palestinians slain in Israeli bombardment across the besieged territory in the last 24 hours, according to a Gaza Health Ministry statement on Sunday. Hundreds of people have been killed in the Jabalia camp since Israel imposed a military siege of northern Gaza on October 5 and intensified bombardment, forcing thousands to flee. Israel has prevented even aid groups from supplying basic food items to the area. "I don't know if I will write to you again. I keep what I have written and am writing. Maybe it will come to light one day. I refuse a cheap death. I curse the murderer," Hijazi wrote on Facebook in August of last year. "Let us in this bottom that we have finally reached, arm ourselves with patience and prayer, and count the days we have lived as a historic achievement, while awaiting what is coming with a broken heart, an extinguished eye, a head held high, and a spirit that fights until the end of the road." It was not immediately clear whether Hijazi was working for a specific media organisation when he died. Since the beginning of its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 220 journalists and media workers, including Hijazi.
Meanwhile, Gaza's Health Ministry reported on Sunday that at least 88 Palestinians had been killed and 208 others injured in the past 24 hours.
The latest fatalities bring the death toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza to at least 45,805 since October 2023, while an estimated 109,064 have been injured. Among those killed in the latest Israeli strikes across Gaza on Sunday were three Palestinians who were living in a tent in Deir el-Balah, according to Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, reporting from central Gaza. A family of 15 people were also buried under the rubble in the northwest of Gaza City, following a separate strike, Mahmoud reported. "The Palestinian Civil Defence is doing its best to remove bodies from under the rubble, but has only removed four of the family members," he said. "It's estimated there are at least 15 family members under the three-storey building that was flattened to the ground. "These repeated attacks - deliberate against families - continue to unfold, causing more tragedies among Palestinians." In the last three days, Israeli forces have killed more than 200 people in Gaza, Mahmoud noted. The last few remaining hospitals across Gaza are now overwhelmed, he added. At the emergency department at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, many people were left on the floor and others were waiting to be admitted into the operating theatre, Mahmoud said. "By the time it’s their turn, it's too late - they have already bled to death. [Many] burns are quite severe, and no pain medication is available at the hospital," he said. "There's a silent death going on. In the past weeks, due to the ongoing attacks, people are dying quietly because of the lack of medical supplies." On Sunday, the Israeli military claimed that it had struck more than 100 <terror targets> in the Gaza Strip over the past two days. Several of the strikes targeted sites from which Palestinian fighters had been firing projectiles into Israel in recent days, the military said. The latest violence in Gaza comes as indirect negotiations for a captive release deal resumed in Qatar. Mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been engaged for months in efforts to strike a deal to end the war and secure the release of dozens of captives still held in Gaza. Israel has detained more than 10,000 Palestinians since launching its devastating war, which has brought it global condemnation. Rights groups have termed Israel's military offensive as a genocide, while the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the top United Nations court, said in March 2024 that the Israeli operation "plausibly" amounted to genocide. Seperately, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/5/i-refuse-a-cheap-death-israel-kills-palestinian-journalist-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - Jan 5 2025 - Al Jazeera Live - By Urooba Jamal and Umut Uras
<<LIVE: Eighth Gaza baby freezes to death as Israel kills 88 people in a day
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
Israeli forces have killed at least 88 Palestinians in a day across Gaza. They bombed the enclave more than 100 times in just three days, killing more than 200 Palestinians, with women and children making up a majority of the victims.
Meanwhile, another baby in Gaza has died of hypothermia - the eighth such death amid the Israeli genocide in the enclave.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/5/live-israel-kills-70-in-gaza-as-us-proposes-8bn-weapons-shipment

Al Jazeera - Jan 4 2025
<<Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza is out of service: Gaza health ministry
North Gaza has three hospitals, all of which have been taken out of service by Israel’s offensive. The Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza is no longer treating patients or wounded, the Gaza Ministry of Health said. The ministry noted that the North Gaza governorate has three public hospitals, Kamal Adwan, Beit Hanoon and the Indonesian Hospital, all of which have been taken out of service by Israel's offensive. On Friday, Israeli soldiers surrounded the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, where many displaced Palestinians have sought shelter. Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya was cleared of patients and staff and it was severely burned by the Israeli army last week. Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the hospital, was also arrested by Israeli forces during their raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya last week. On Saturday, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on X that the agency had received "no updates on the safety and wellbeing" of the 51-year old Abu Safia. A separate evacuation order has also been issued to the al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, according to Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, who was reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. Healthcare in the Gaza Strip has been pushed to the brink of collapse amid repeated attacks by Israeli forces, including last week's destruction of the Kamal Adwan Hospital. Both the Indonesian and al-Awda Hospitals have been damaged due to repeated Israeli attacks since October 2023. Mahmoud said that many of those being treated or seeking shelter at the two hospitals had come from the destroyed Kamal Adwan Hospital. "We are talking about people in very critical condition," he said. "They need to be attached to medical equipment, and some of them have sustained severe injuries." Images from the Indonesian Hospital show children among the severely injured patients. Mahmoud also reported that Israeli authorities have blocked "any sort of coordination" between hospital staff and independent humanitarian organisations such as the Red Crescent. Israel has defended its raids on medical facilities by saying they are being used by Palestinian armed groups, but the UN has frequently questioned the veracity of the claims. On Friday, Israel's UN ambassador in Geneva, Daniel Meron, posted on social media a letter he sent to the UN and the World Health Organization, saying that the raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital a week ago was <triggered by irrefutable evidence> that Palestinian armed groups were using the hospital. He said Israeli forces had taken <extraordinary measures to protect civilian life while acting on credible intelligence>.
'Systemic targeting of healthcare system in Gaza'
Israel's targeting of medical facilities in Gaza prompted the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting on Friday, during which UN officials pleaded for the protection of the hospitals. At the meeting, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Israel has failed to substantiate many of its claims that the facilities were being used by fighters in Gaza, describing the allegations as "often vague and broad" and in some cases "appear to be contradicted by publicly available information". Turk called for an independent investigation into all Israeli attacks on medical facilities and healthcare workers in Gaza, as well as the alleged misuse of such facilities. Rik Peeperkorn of the WHO urged Israel to immediately rescind its evacuation orders on the Indonesian and al-Awda Hospitals. "They are struggling to stay open. Food, water and fuel are depleting fast," he said at the UNSC meeting, adding that the hospitals have been without many essential medicines over the last 85 days amid Israel's renewed assault on northern Gaza. Peeperkorn said the WHO was deeply concerned about the fate of the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safia, who was arrested by Israel last week. "We have lost contact with him since and call for his immediate release," Peeperkorn said. Christina Markus Lassen, Denmark's ambassador to the UN, noted the WHO’s warning of a "systematic targeting of the healthcare system in Gaza" and urged that the "pattern" be "reversed". A recent report from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights found that Israeli forces have conducted more than 136 air raids on some 27 hospitals and 12 medical facilities over the past eight months.
Israeli attacks on Gaza continue
Meanwhile, Israeli forces continue to bombard areas across Gaza, killing at least 41 people across Gaza since dawn on Saturday, including 27 people in the north of the strip, according to Gaza’s civil defence. An Israeli air attack on a house on Saturday, killed eleven family members including seven children in northern Gaza City. "The home, which housed several displaced people, was completely destroyed," said civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal. "It was a two-storey building and several people are still under the rubble," he added, saying Israeli drones "also fired on ambulance staff" who tried to treat the wounded. Al Jazeera's Mahmoud also reported that at least five people were killed early on Saturday in an Israeli drone attack on a convoy of security personnel hired to protect the delivery of commercial and humanitarian trucks. The civil defence also reported that a husband, wife and their son were killed in an Israeli attack on a home on al-Sahaba Street, Gaza City. Several people were also injured after Israeli fighter jets bombed tents housing displaced Palestinians in the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. Separately on Saturday, the Israeli army said a rocket was identified after being fired from northern Gaza towards Israel. The army said that the rocket fell into the area of the Beit Hanoon crossing, known as Erez to Israelis, one of several crossings between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 45,658 Palestinians and wounded 108,583 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and about 250 others were taken captive.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/4/israel-orders-evacuation-of-gazas-critical-indonesian-al-awda-hospitals


Ahlam Al-Zein
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Jan 3, 2024 - by RAFIF ESLEEM
<<'People struggle to survive due to the rise in food prices'
People struggle to survive due to the rise in food prices, said Ahlam Al-Zein, one woman in the Gaza Strip. "This situation causes people not to even communicate with each other."
Gaza- Due to Israel's ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip for over a year, women struggle to survive against difficult living conditions. "Our life has completely changed since the beginning of the war," said Ahlam Al-Zein, one woman in the Gaza Strip. "Even our family relationships have completely changed. My brother and sister are not the same anymore. We face difficult living conditions and we cannot make ends meet due to the rise in food prices. People have started to stare at each other strangely. They are unable to breathe sometimes due to poverty, sometimes due to fear. Heavy burdens on women have psychological effects on them. This situation also affects our communication with each other."
'People have changed'
Families cannot afford to make ends meet anymore due to financial difficulties, Ahlam Al-Zein told NuJINHA. "This situation also affects the mental health of people. Even grandparents give a negative answer when their grandchildren ask them for a piece of bread because they know that they will starve if they do not have a piece of bread. About one year ago, I was displaced to southern Gaza along with my children. I have lost communication with one of my sons."
'We often move to other places'
Ahlam Al-Zein has lost many of her relatives and neighbors in Israeli attacks. "I feel great pain when I see their photos and videos on the internet. I cry for hours when I see their photos. Due to the ongoing Israeli attacks, we often move to other places. Our life is in fear and poverty." >>
Video: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/people-struggle-to-survive-due-to-the-rise-in-food-prices-36278?page=1 

France 24 - Jan 3, 2025 - By: Anaelle JONAH
<<Suicide rate in Israeli army hits 13-year high amid ongoing war
The Israeli army has reported a sharp increase in the number of suicides since the start of the war in Gaza, adding that thousands of soldiers have stopped serving in combat roles due to mental distress. The trend has led the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to adopt new preventive measures 15 months into a conflict that has mobilised hundreds of thousands of reservists. The Israeli army said Thursday that 28 soldiers had taken their own lives since the start of the war, marking the highest toll in 13 years and raising concerns about a potential mental health crisis in the army. The IDF noted that these are "suspected" suicides, as all cases remain under investigation to this day. In a casualty report for the past two years, the IDF said it recorded 21 suicides in 2024, up from 17 the year before - including 10 that occurred before the October 7 attacks by Hamas militants that triggered the war. The increase was most notable when compared to previous years, with 14 suspected suicides in 2022 and 11 in 2021. More than half of suicide cases last year involved reservists, a figure attributed to the surge in the number of reservists called up since the war began 15 months ago. The IDF also reported that thousands of reservist soldiers had stopped serving in combat roles due to mental distress.
'Each loss is one too many'
Overall fatalities seemingly decreased in 2024 compared to the previous year, with 363 soldiers killed compared to 558 in 2023. Operational activities accounted for 295 deaths in 2024. Additionally, 23 soldiers died in various accidents, including road incidents, and 11 were killed in terrorist attacks or enemy assaults. "The State of Israel has experienced great loss. Each person is a world unto themselves, and each loss is one too many. (...) We will do everything possible to minimise these painful cases," said Brigadier-General Amir Vadmani, from the military's human resources department, in a press release. In response to the rising suicide rates, the IDF said it adopted several measures aimed at prevention and support. A 24/7 mental health support hotline has been established, alongside an increase in the number of mental health officers and their availability. The army said it also opened a dedicated clinic for regular service members and expended care for combat trauma responses to discharged soldiers.
Growing distrust
In 2021, the IDF claimed to have reduced suicides by 75 percent through prevention programs, though the accuracy of such figures has been questioned before. That same year, Professor Tamar Hermann of the Israel Democracy Institute told the Knesset Subcommittee for Personnel in the IDF she was "surprised by the information presented concerning prevention and response efforts on the part of the IDF, considering the lack of public trust in the IDF on the issue". Surveys conducted by the institute revealed that public trust in the IDF's suicide reporting dropped from 46 percent in 2020 to 38 percent in 2021. Distrust was particularly pronounced among younger Israelis, with only 29 percent of those aged 18-24 expressing trust in the IDF on the issue, compared to 44 percent of those aged 55 and older. The IDF has historically reported lower suicide rates compared to the general population in Israel and other militaries globally. The US military has seen more than four times as many deaths by suicide as in combat in post-9/11 operations, according to a study by Brown University's Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs. A 2024 report by the Pentagon showed that American soldiers are nearly nine times more likely to die by suicide than they are in combat. In total, the IDF has reported the deaths of 891 soldiers across regular, permanent and reserve service, with 5,569 others injured since the start of the ongoing war, which was sparked by Hamas-led militants' October 7, 2023 attack into Israel. The militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted approximately 250. Around 100 hostages remain in Gaza, with at least a third believed to be dead. Israel's offensive has resulted in the deaths of more than 45,500 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the territory's Health Ministry. Half of the casualties are reported to be women and children.>>
Source: https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250103-suicide-rate-in-israeli-army-hits-thirteen-year-high-amid-ongoing-war

Al Jazeera - Jan 3 2025
<<UN human rights chief: Investigate Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals
The UN Higher Commissioner for Human Rights told the UN Security Council that Israeli claims of Hamas launching attacks from hospitals in Gaza are often "vague" and sometimes "contradicted by publicly available information.">>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/3/un-human-rights-chief-investigate-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-hospitals


Shireen abu Akleh wall mural - AP Photo
Al Jazeera - Jan 3 2025 - By Shola Lawal
<<Al Jazeera in Palestine: A timeline of coverage against all odds
The network has continued to report on the plight of Palestinians, despite intimidation.
Al Jazeera Media Network has strongly condemned the Palestinian Authority (PA) ban on its operations in the occupied West Bank this week, calling it an action that "aligns with Israeli occupation practises". Since its launch in 1996, Al Jazeera's reporters have covered the Middle East, from the Arab Spring to Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and the brutal war on Gaza, even when other news organisations pulled their journalists out.
From the start, Al Jazeera has faced attempts to silence its reporting through arrests, imprisonment and attacks on its journalists. And since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, the channel has faced even more attempts to stifle its reporting on Palestine. Al Jazeera's determination to provide round-the-clock, firsthand reporting on the horrors in Gaza and the deadly raids in the occupied West Bank has come at a high cost, with at least six Al Jazeera journalists killed in the Palestinian territory since 2022. The PA's decision to ban Al Jazeera mirrors Israel's announcement last year that the channel would be banned in Israel and then its closure of the bureau in Ramallah. Here’s a breakdown of how Al Jazeera has been targeted by both the PA and Israel:
When did Al Jazeera start reporting from the West Bank and Gaza?
Al Jazeera has been reporting in Palestine since 2000, marking Al Jazeera Arabic's first attempt to launch a foreign bureau. There are Al Jazeera bureaus in Ramallah and occupied East Jerusalem in the West Bank, although both have now been suspended by the Israeli government or the PA.
In 2021, Israeli forces bombed the Gaza bureau.
How many times has the PA shut Al Jazeera down?
The PA controls parts of the occupied West Bank and has suspended Al Jazeera's operations there three times:
In March 2001, the PA, led at the time by President Yasser Arafat, invaded Al Jazeera's Ramallah offices and prevented staff from accessing the building. No official reasons were provided. However, bureau chief Walid Al-Omari said at the time that a security official had called the bureau and accused the network of airing footage <offensive> to Arafat, demanding that it be removed. On July 15, 2009, PA security officials stormed Al Jazeera's Ramallah offices and banned its 35 employees from broadcasting. Officials alleged the network had broadcast <false information> because late Palestinian politician Farouk Kaddoumi, in an interview, accused PA President Mahmoud Abbas of involvement in an Israeli plot to kill Arafat. The office was allowed to reopen four days later following an outcry from journalists' rights groups. In December 2024, Fatah, the Palestinian party that dominates the PA, banned Al Jazeera from reporting from the governorates of Jenin, Qalqilya and Tubas in the occupied West Bank, citing its coverage of clashes between the Palestinian security forces and Palestinian armed groups. Since mid-December, PA security forces have cracked down on the armed groups in what analysts say is an attempt to endear the PA to the Israelis and the United States. The crackdown has led to the killing of several civilians as well as the West Bank journalist Shatha Sabbagh, 22. On January 2, 2025, the PA suspended all Al Jazeera broadcasts from the West Bank and placed restrictions on anyone working for the network.
How many times has Israel shut Al Jazeera down?
Israeli authorities have repeatedly attempted to muzzle Al Jazeera. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long accused the network's coverage of <inciting violence>. The network refutes these claims as <arbitrary and hostile>. In July 2017, Netanyahu threatened to close Al Jazeera's Jerusalem office in a Facebook post because the network covered a fallout between Palestinians and Israeli authorities over Al-Aqsa Mosque. In May 2021, Israel bombed Al Jazeera's Gaza office. Israeli forces gave Al Jazeera and other media organisations in the same building just one hour to evacuate the tower. In May 2024, Al Jazeera's occupied East Jerusalem bureau was raided and closed after the Israeli parliament passed a law allowing the government to suspend the operations of foreign media that pose a <threat>, for 45 days at a time. The ban, including a ban on Al Jazeera's website in Israel, has been renewed multiple times and remains in place. Al Jazeera now reports from Amman, Jordan. In September 2024, heavily armed and masked Israeli security forces raided Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah at 3am and shuttered its operations as the bureau was broadcasting live. Israeli officials alleged that the network supported <terrorism> and ordered operations to be closed for 45 days. Al Jazeera staff were forced to stand on the street and were threatened with a laser weapon during the raid.
How many Al Jazeera journalists have been killed or injured in the West Bank and Gaza?
At least six Al Jazeera journalists have been killed by Israeli authorities in the West Bank and Gaza while on duty. In most cases, the journalists were wearing marked press vests or were in clearly marked cars.

Shireen Abu Akleh
Shireen Abu Akleh: Veteran journalist Abu Akleh was shot and killed by a bullet to the head on May 11, 2022, while reporting on an Israeli raid on Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. Despite the fact she was wearing a helmet and a vest clearly marked with "Press", the bullet from an Israeli sniper penetrated just below her helmet. Israeli forces at first tried to blame <crossfire> from Palestinian fighters but were forced to backtrack when ample video evidence proved no Palestinian fighters were nearby. No action has been taken against the sniper. Israeli forces attacked her funeral procession attended by thousands of Palestinians paying their respects - at one point causing her coffin to slip and nearly hit the ground.
Samer Abudaqa: On December 15, 2023, an Israeli air attack injured Al Jazeera cameraman Abudaqa in Khan Younis, Gaza. Israeli officials prevented emergency vehicles from reaching him despite international pleas as he bled out over several hours.
Wael Dahdouh: Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief, whose wife, son, daughter and grandson were killed by Israeli bombs on Gaza, was filming with Abudaqa and was injured in the same attack. On January 7, 2024, Dahdouh's son, Hamza Dahdouh, who also worked as a journalist for Al Jazeera, was killed in an attack alongside his colleague, Mustafa Thuraya.
Ismail Abu Omar: On February 13, 2024, an Israeli drone hit Abu Omar, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent, and his cameraman, Ahmad Matar, in Rafah, southern Gaza. The two men were critically injured.
Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi: Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent al-Ghoul was reporting with cameraman al-Rifi on July 31, 2024, when an Israeli air raid hit their car in the Shati refugee area of Gaza City. Al-Ghoul had previously been detained and severely beaten by Israeli forces in March 2024 as he covered raids on the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Hossam Shabat: Shabat was injured on November 20, 2024, during a second Israeli raid on a house that had just been hit, and that he was reporting on.
Ahmed al-Louh: Israel killed Al Jazeera Arabic photojournalist al-Louh on December 15, 2024, while he was covering attempts by the Palestinian Civil Defence to rescue an injured family in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp. Five others were killed.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/3/a-history-of-al-jazeera-in-palestine

Al Jazeera - Jan 3 2025
<<Israeli attacks kill dozens in Gaza as ceasefire talks resume in Qatar
Israeli attacks kill dozens of people across Gaza as indirect Hamas-Israel ceasefire talks resume in Qatar.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in multiple Israeli attacks on Gaza, hospital staff said, as high-level negotiators prepare to resume stalled ceasefire talks. Staff at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza said on Friday that more than a dozen women and children were among those killed in attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp, az-Zawayda, Maghazi camp and Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. In Gaza City alone, at least 30 people were killed in Israeli attacks, the Palestinian Civil Defence said in a statement. Among them were three children who died when their home was struck in the vicinity of al-Shamaa mosque in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood. In southern Gaza, the Civil Defence said its teams recovered the bodies of two Palestinians who were killed in an attack on the Khirbet al-Adas area, near Rafah, while two others were injured and taken to the nearby Nasser Hospital. Medical sources in the enclave told Al Jazeera at least 52 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip on Friday. Israeli jets destroyed buildings in the centre of the Strip, killing journalist Omar al-Diraoui in his home in az-Zawayda – the second journalist to be killed in 24 hours. On Thursday, it was confirmed that photographer Hassan al-Qishaoui had been killed in an Israeli attack. Following the deaths, Gaza's Government Media Office revised the number of journalists killed in the enclave since the beginning of the nearly 15-month war to 2024.
Meanwhile, Israel pressed on with a renewed military offensive in the north of Gaza, with Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum reporting that Israeli forces ordered the immediate evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya. At least 25 patients were trapped inside the hospital, along with medical staff, according to people inside who spoke to Al Jazeera. Israeli soldiers have surrounded the facility and are firing at it, they said. Hamas slammed Israel's attack on the hospital in a statement, calling it a "war crime" and part of Israel’s ongoing "genocide" in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israelis also woke up to an attack early on Friday morning, with the army intercepting a missile reportedly fired from Yemen, which had set off air raid sirens in Jerusalem and central Israel.
Ceasefire talks resume
As the attacks continued, a new round of indirect talks on a ceasefire in Gaza resumed in Qatar's capital, Doha, a senior Hamas official said. Basem Naim stressed the group's seriousness in seeking to reach a deal as soon as possible. The new talks will focus on agreeing on a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces, he said, as well as ensuring the return of displaced families to their homes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said earlier that he had authorised a delegation from the Mossad intelligence agency, the Shin Bet internal security agency and the military to continue negotiations in Qatar. Sami al-Arian, director of the Centre for Islam and Global Affairs at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, said Hamas could be willing to walk back one of its key demands - the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Gaza. "There has been a lot of pressure from the mediators - particularly the Qataris and Egyptians - to be flexible on these terms," he told Al Jazeera. "They have assured the resistance, Hamas and other groups, that eventually Israel will withdraw," he said. But Ori Goldberg, a Tel Aviv-based political analyst, told Al Jazeera he does not see any grounds for optimism that a ceasefire will be agreed upon at the talks, amid a lack of significant international pressure being applied on either side. "To the best of my knowledge, Hamas is interested in a deal but not excessively, because its recruitment rates are rising the longer Israel continues its genocide in Gaza," he said. "Certainly, the Israeli public is interested in a deal. [But] the Israeli government? Not so much - the war serves its interests," he said. Key mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been attempting to secure a lasting deal in indirect talks for months. So far, 45,658 Palestinians have been killed and 108,583 wounded in Gaza since Israel began its war on the enclave on October 7, 2023. The war has caused widespread destruction and displaced some 90 percent of Gaza's population of 2.3 million, many of them multiple times. Hamas-led forces killed some 1,139 people in Israel in attacks on October 7, 2023, and took about 250 captives. About 100 captives are still in Gaza, although at least a third of them are believed to be dead.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/3/israeli-forces-kill-dozens-in-gaza-with-ceasefire-talks-set-to-resume

CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists - January 2, 2025
<<CPJ urges Palestinian Authority to lift ban on Al Jazeera in West Bank
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Palestinian Authority's January 1 decision to suspend Al Jazeera's operations in the West Bank.
"Governments resort to censoring news outlets when they have something to hide," said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. “The Palestinian Authority should reverse its decision to suspend Al Jazeera’s operations and allow journalists to report freely without fear of reprisal." Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported on January 1 that the Palestinian Authority froze the Qatari broadcaster's coverage on grounds of <inciting material.> The ban comes after the Authority criticized Al Jazeera's coverage of a standoff between Palestinian security forces and militants in the West Bank's Jenin camp, according to news reports. Israel raided Al Jazeera's Ramallah office in September and ordered its closure for 45 days on the grounds of <incitement to and support of terrorism.> Israel banned Al Jazeera's Israel operations in May, citing national security concerns.>>
Source: https://cpj.org/

Al Jazeera - Jan 2 2025
<<Photos: More than 60 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Head of the enclave's police, his deputy and a journalist among those who lost their lives. A man injured during an Israeli strike is wheeled on a hospital bed at Al-Ahli Arab hospital, also known as the Baptist hospital, in Gaza City on January 2. Medical sources told Al Jazeera on Thursday that Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip had killed at least 63 Palestinians. Gaza's Government Media Office gave a higher number, saying that 71 had been killed, including the head of the enclave's police force and his deputy, after Israeli military forces carried out 34 air strikes over the previous 24 hours. Israeli attacks were reported across the embattled enclave, including in the so-called humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi and northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, which has been bombed repeatedly in recent days. Palestinians have also been killed and wounded in attacks on Gaza City's Remal and Shujayea neighbourhoods, and the town of az-Zawayda, in the central Gaza Strip. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), says Israel's deadly strike on southern Gaza's displacement camp al-Mawasi is yet another signal to end the war.
"As the year begins, we got reports of yet another attack on al-Mawasi with dozens of people killed, another reminder that there is no humanitarian zone let alone a safe zone [in Gaza]," he said. "Every day without a ceasefire will bring more tragedy." Asked about Thursday's reported death toll, a spokesperson for the Israeli army said the military followed international law in waging the war on Gaza and it takes <feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm>. Among those killed on Thursday were photojournalist Hassan al-Qishaoui. At least 217 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023.>>
View photos: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/1/2/photos-more-than-70-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-attacks-on-gaza

Al Jazeera - Jan 2 2025 - By Al Jazeera team
<<Gaza police chief among dozens of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks
Enclave rocked by wave of deadly attacks, from Jabalia camp in north to <safe humanitarian zone> of al-Mawasi in south.
Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 71 people, including the head of the enclave’s police force and his deputy, Palestinian authorities have said. Israeli forces carried out more than 30 strikes on Thursday, including in the so-called humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi and northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza's Government Media Office said. "The Israeli air strikes targeted civilians and infrastructure in horrific crimes added to the occupation's dark record," the media office said in a statement. Chief of Gaza's police force, Mahmud Salah, and his deputy, Hussam Shahwan, were among 12 people killed in a strike on a tent encampment in al-Mawasi, a coastal area near the southern town of Khan Younis, medical sources told Al Jazeera. Salah was a veteran officer who had spent 30 years in the force, serving six years as its chief. Gaza's Interior Ministry condemned the killings, saying the two police officers had been "performing their humanitarian and national duty in serving our people". It accused Israel of spreading "chaos" and deepening the "human suffering" in Gaza with the deadly strike. A video clip from the aftermath of the attack, which also wounded about 15, showed people searching for survivors among burning tents, scattered debris, and washing lines where residents of the camp for displaced people had hung clothes to dry. Reporting from Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Strip, Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum said the latest strikes marked "a very significant escalation", with an additional attack on a gas station on the outskirts of the town killing nine people. "The bodies were brought to Al-Aqsa [Martyrs] Hospital. They were ... shredded to pieces due to that brutal strike and we saw the mothers ... crying over the loss they have endured today," he said. Other Israeli air strikes killed at least 26 Palestinians, including six in the Interior Ministry headquarters in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, three at the Shati camp in the west of Gaza City, and at least seven in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north. Later on Thursday, separate Israeli air strikes killed at least four people on Jalaa Street in downtown Gaza City and two in its Zeitoun district, medics said. Another strike killed at least eight Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip. The dead were members of local committees that help secure aid convoys, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies.
No warning
The Israeli military gave no warning for Thursday’s predawn attack on al-Mawasi, which has been hit relentlessly by Israeli warplanes, drones and artillery. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), decried the attack. "As the year begins, we got reports of yet another attack on Al Mawasi with dozens of people killed [and] injured. Another reminder that there is no humanitarian zone let alone a <safe zone> [in Gaza]," Lazzarini, said in a post on X. "Everyday without a ceasefire will bring more tragedy." Israeli forces have repeatedly targeted so-called <safe zones> in Gaza, attacking forcibly displaced families who had followed forced evacuation orders. An attack on December 22 killed eight people, including two children. Earlier that month, on December 3, at least 20 people were killed in what Israel's military claimed was the targeting of a Hamas official. After Thursday's attack, Israel's military said it had conducted an intelligence-based strike and had eliminated Shahwan, whom it called the head of Hamas security forces in southern Gaza. It made no mention of Salah's death. Days earlier, Israeli tanks had advanced on al-Mawasi from the southern city of Rafah, forcing dozens of families to flee northward fearing imminent attack. Prior to the attack on northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, Israeli forces issued orders for all residents to flee three targeted areas. The warning was described as a <pre-anaesthesia before the attack> by the Israeli military’s Arabic language spokesman, Avichay Adraee. <Once again, terrorist organisations are launching rockets from your area, which has been warned many times in the past,> he said in a post on social media. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said that he authorised negotiators to continue talks in the Qatari capital Doha to secure a captive release deal after Israel and Hamas traded accusations recently over delaying an agreement. Key mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been attempting to secure a lasting deal in indirect talks for months. The toll from the first two days of 2025 takes the number of deaths in Gaza to more than 46,000 since Israel began its war on the enclave on October 7, 2023.
At least six babies have died of cold in recent days, as the forcibly displaced Palestinians across Gaza brave winter rains.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/2/israel-attacks-gaza-humanitarian-zone-killing-at-least-11-wounding-15

Al Jazeera - Dec 31 2024
<<Israel's war on Gaza: 12 months, 12 pictures
Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 45,541 Palestinians and wounded 108,338 since October 7, 2023.
Israel's war on Gaza has left a trail of devastation with the lives of more than two million Palestinians severely disrupted. Long lines of people waiting for food aid have become a common sight. In hospitals, the situation is dire with wounded civilians flooding emergency rooms. Entire families have been wiped out in bombings, leaving behind only grief and despair. Homes - once symbols of stability - have been reduced to rubble, displacing hundreds of thousands who now seek shelter in overcrowded refugee camps or makeshift accommodations.
These images from the past year capture only a fraction of the suffering endured by the Palestinians of Gaza.>>
View photos: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/12/31/israels-war-on-gaza-12-months-12-pictures

Al Jazeera - Dec 31 2024 - Al Jazeera Live - By Mohamed A. Hussein and Hanna Duggal
<<Know their names
As the conflict in Gaza enters its 15th month, more than 45,400 people have been killed and 108,000 injured. The war has been particularly marked by the challenges of reporting from a warzone in effect sealed off to reporters from outside Gaza, where reporting has been impossible at times - and far too often, deadly. Despite these challenges, Palestinian journalists have continued to report the horrors of the war, serving as the world's eyes and ears during one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. From October 7, 2023, to December 25, 2024, at least 217 journalists and media workers had been killed in Gaza. Five more were killed on December 26 when an Israeli air strike targeted a news van near al-Awda Hospital. These most recent killings of journalists underscore the perilous environment in which media professionals are operating in Gaza. Simply put, this has been the worst conflict for journalists - ever. The following list is a tribute to the journalists and media workers who have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, arranged by the dates of their deaths.
Hisham's last message to the world
Hisham Al-Nawajah, a 27-year-old reporter for the Khabar News Agency, was killed on October 9, 2023, when Israeli warplanes targeted an area in the Remal district of western Gaza, home to several media outlets. He was killed while covering the forced evacuation of the 'Haji' building, located on Institutions Street in Gaza governorate, which was destroyed in the air strike. Hisham, known for his courage and dedication to reporting amid the escalating violence, had been documenting the intensifying conflict when the building was hit.
Hisham Al-Nawajah
October 10, 2023
"All this arrogance, hysterical bombing and destruction that the Israeli occupation is trying to cause in Gaza and causing terror and anxiety among the citizens.
Oh God, grant us security and safety.
Rest assured, people, calm down, control your anxiety and reassure those around you.
God willing, we will be the victors."
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the war in Gaza has killed more journalists in a year than any other conflict the organisation has recorded.
Ayat's last message to the world
Ayat Khadoura, a freelance journalist and podcast presenter, was killed along with several family members in an Israeli air strike that targeted her home in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. Khadoura had been sharing videos on social media to document the dire situation in Gaza. One of her most poignant posts was a video shared on November 6, 2023, which she called My Last Message to the World. In the video, she said, "We had big dreams, but our dream now is to be killed in one piece so they know who we are."
Ayat Khadoura
November 20, 2023
"We are human beings like everyone else in the world. We had many big dreams. But unfortunately today our dreams are that if we were martyred, we would be martyred as one body, that people would recognize us, and not be dismembered and put in a bag. Our dreams have become that we would not hear the sound of bombing. We never imagined that we would reach this stage and live such a life without the most basic necessities of life. There are things we cannot talk about. Sometimes this war will end, and who will live will tell people what happened to us, what we lived through."
The CPJ said the killings of journalists and the systematic arrests and detentions of media workers in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023, have created a news void that could cause potential war crimes to go undocumented.
Jabr's last message to the world
Jabr Abu Hadrous, a reporter for the Quds al-Youm broadcaster, was killed in an Israeli air strike on his home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza in December 2023. He died with seven members of his family. Jabr, 36, was described by colleagues as a brave and driven journalist, whose personal connection to the community he served made his reporting all the more poignant.>>
Read more messages here: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/12/31/know-their-names-the-palestinian-journalists-killed-by-israel-in-gaza

CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists - December 26, 2024
<<Israeli strike kills 5 Al-Quds Al-Youm TV journalists in central Gaza
Beirut, December 26, 2024- Israeli forces killed five journalists and media workers with Al-Quds Al-Youm TV, a channel affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group, in a Thursday strike on their vehicle outside Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. The Associated Press reported that footage showed the van had visible press markings. "CPJ denounces Israel's killing of five journalists working for Al-Quds Al-Youm TV," said Carlos Martinez de la Serna, CPJ's program director in New York. "The Israeli strike on their vehicle, which was clearly marked 'Press,' means that at least nine Gazan journalists have been killed in less than two weeks. The international community must act now to protect Palestinian journalists in Gaza and end Israel’s impunity for these killings."
The five journalists killed on December 26 have been identified as:
Correspondent Faisal Abu Al Qumsan
Camera operator Ayman Al Gedi
Photographer and editor Fadi Hassouna
Editor Mohammed Al-Ladaa
Producer and fixer Ibrahim Sheikh Ali
An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson posted on social media platform X that those killed on December 26 were militants posing as journalists.
CPJ's email to the IDF's North America Media desk asking whether the journalists were targeted for their work or whether there was any evidence that they were militants did not receive an immediate response. Earlier in December, Israeli forces killed four journalists in separate strikes on December 14 and 15.>>
Source: https://cpj.org/2024/12/israeli-strike-kills-5-al-quds-al-youm-tv-journalists-in-central-gaza/


The Gazaian Thinker

"On the road of ...

children are soo much more wise
than big people.
That's a fact of life.
Like the Gazaian and only +-years-old girl,
shot and killed by an israeli soldier,
who said with her last breath
*I will tell Allah everything
about the evil
that offends life on and earth
by killing especially the innocent,
the women, the children
of whom I was and am one*.

She also knew that Mohammads' road
is not a dead-end street
but always has a beginning
which, when walked on,
with every step taken and word spoken,
is a step and word towards the truth.

So yes I will tell
and only ask from people still walking too
with every step taken or word spoken,
to let it be a step or word of truth
because that is Mohammads' road
that unites all Ummahs
and also leads to the final
words of truth and convictions
of all who so greedily and without heart
take life and ground of the Just.

And we, the Ummahs by heart and soul,
know what awaits us at the 'other side':
Allah who will ask "what did you do to help bring justice?"

Insh'Allah - hoda hafez"

Dedicated to Saly Khan and all other innocent children who gave their lifes for Freedom.

"I hear my grandpa's soul saying
'evil people
can only win
if good people
stay silent and do nothing.'"
 
and

"When the world,
at the brink of an WW3 outbreak,
is so troubled
you can/have/are
(to be) the solution."

and

"I was 'not' a child
I only wanted
a little bit dead,
just short,
to then wake-up again
on the banks
of the river to the sea
and a free Palestine"
 

 

Gino d'Artali
ghost-poet/writer of The Thinker - Gaza
 


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