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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/
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