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Special reports: Updates December and earlier, 2024: Al-Shifa was a dream and a nightmare & Why is hypothermia killing Gaza’s children? & Gaza's 2024: A year of war and misery 2 Stories & When burning hospitals are no longer news 2 Stories & Genocide in Gaza: Silence is complicity Previous reports: 'Broken': Domestic violence impacts women, children in Gaza & Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs & Millions in bonds for Israel put US states at odds with investment policies and earler stories  Overview special reports

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

Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel Updated: December 6, 2024: Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war   Click here for earlier stories/news

January 8 - 5, 2025 "When a rose dies a thorn is left behind to eternally sting the skins of the genocide-baby killers." The Gazaian Thinker just read the actual and fact-finding news and 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 ........................................ ............................................ ................................................. just read the actual and fact-finding news

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 8 2025 - by Jazeera staff
<<Children killed by Israeli drone strike in occupied West Bank
Two children were among three Palestinians from the same family killed in an Israeli drone attack in the occupied West Bank.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/8/children-killed-by-israeli-drone-strike-in-occupied-west-bank

France 24 - January 8, 2024 - by: NEWS WIRES
<<Red Cross pleads for unhindered aid access as weather exacerbates 'unbearable conditions' in Gaza
Falling temperatures and heavy rains have ravaged shelters in Gaza, leaving thousands without basic necessities or shelter, said the Red Cross on Wednesday. Citing the deaths of eight newborn babies due to exposure, the Red Cross once again called for unimpeded aid access to the besieged Palestinian enclave. The Red Cross called Wednesday for safe and unhindered access to Gaza to bring desperately needed aid into the war-torn Palestinian territory wracked by hunger and where babies are freezing to death. Heavy rain and flooding have ravaged the makeshift shelters in Gaza, leaving thousands with up to 30 centimetres (one foot) of water inside their damaged tents, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said. The dire weather conditions were "exacerbating the unbearable conditions" in Gaza, it said, pointing out that many families were left "clinging on to survival in makeshift camps, without even the most basic necessities, such as blankets". Citing the United Nations, the IFRC highlighted the deaths of eight newborn babies who had been living in tents without warmth or protection from the rain and falling temperatures.
Those deaths "underscore the critical severity of the humanitarian crisis there", IFRC Secretary-General Jagan Chapagain said in a statement. "I urgently reiterate my call to grant safe and unhindered access to humanitarians to let them provide life-saving assistance," he said. "Without safe access -- children will freeze to death. Without safe access -- families will starve. Without safe access -- humanitarian workers can't save lives."
According to a UN count, more than 330 humanitarian workers have been killed in Gaza since Israel unleashed its war there following Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack.
'A trickle of aid'
Chapagain issued an "urgent plea to all the parties... to put an end to this human suffering. Now". The IFRC said the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) was striving to provide emergency health services and supplies to people in Gaza, with an extra sense of urgency during the cold winter months. But it warned that "the lack of aid deliveries and access is making providing adequate support all but impossible". The IFRC stressed that the closure of the main Rafah border crossing last May had had a dramatic impact on the humanitarian situation. "Only a trickle of aid is currently entering Gaza," it warned. It also lamented the "continuing attacks on health facilities across the Gaza Strip", which it said meant people were unable to access the treatment they need. "In the north of Gaza, there are now no functioning hospitals," it said. The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity warned that access to healthcare had also become "seriously compromised" in parts of the West Bank. It was seeing "a dramatic decline in children's mental health", it added. It pointed in a statement to the drastic increase in restrictions imposed by Israeli forces since the start of the war in Gaza. In particular, it highlighted the situation in the Jaber neighbourhood inside the H2 area of Hebron City, which is under full Israeli military control. MSF, which said it had been forced to suspend its operations for five months from December 2023, urged Israeli forces to "stop implementing restrictive measures that impede the ability of Palestinians to access basic services, including medical care". MSF project coordinator Chloe Janssen warned that "although we are now able to provide care in the MSF clinic in Jaber neighbourhood, access remains challenging as our staff can be searched and delayed at the checkpoints to enter the H2 area.
"Access to medical care should never be arbitrarily denied, impeded or blocked."
(AFP)>>
Source: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250108-red-cross-urges-unhindered-aid-access-to-flood-hit-and-freezing-gaza

Al Jazeera - Jan 8 2025 - By Urooba Jamal and Mersiha Gadzo
<<LIVE: Israeli raid kills 15-day-old baby as Gaza mourns aid worker, doctor
Attacks by Israel’s army on war-battered Gaza continue with at least 19 Palestinians killed so far, including infants, young children, and women.
US President-elect Donald Trump demands that Hamas releases Israeli captives held in Gaza by the time he enters office, warning <all hell will break out> otherwise.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/8/live-israeli-forces-kill-49-in-gaza-including-children-in-tent-camp

Al Jazeera - Jan 8 2025 - by Jazeera staff
<<'Massacres': Women, children killed as Israel bombs Gaza's <safe zone>
Al Jazeera's correspondent says fear dominates in Gaza as Israeli attacks intensify, targeting the al-Mawasi <humanitarian safe zone>.
Many women and young children have been reported killed in Israel's latest attacks on Gaza, with nearly 50 people killed and dozens wounded in a single day as the overall death toll in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory pushes towards 46,000. Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 49 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks since the early hours of Tuesday morning. The dead included at least five children killed by Israeli strikes on tents sheltering displaced people in al-Mawasi - a desolate coastal area in southern Gaza designated a <humanitarian safe zone> by the Israeli military. Despite hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian civilians crammed into makeshift tent camps in al-Mawasi, Israel's military has continually attacked the site, claiming, without providing evidence, that it is targeting Hamas. Gaza's Ministry of Health said late on Tuesday that Israeli forces had carried out three "massacres" of Palestinian families in the past 24 hours, in which 31 people were killed and 57 were wounded. The overall death toll from Israeli attacks on the territory had now risen to 45,885 people killed and more than 109,000 injured in the 15 months since Israel's war on the enclave began, on October 7, 2023. Ahmed al-Farra, director of the children's ward at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, told the Associated Press (AP) news agency that five children were killed in the same tent as they sheltered together in al-Mawasi.
Their bodies were among the eight children and five women brought to the hospital on Tuesday. Israeli strikes also hit a car and two residential houses in the Khan Younis area, the hospital said, adding that two of those killed in the attacks were men, while two people killed in the vehicle were unidentifiable. In the hospital's morgue, bodies lay on stretchers or were stacked on metal shelves. A young girl in a fuzzy pink sweatshirt rested with her head in the lap of another dead child. Other corpses, some disfigured by Israeli explosions, were covered in blankets, the AP reports.
Al Jazeera's correspondent in central Gaza, Tareq Abu Azzoum, said Israeli attacks had "ramped up" across Gaza over the past 12 hours, in particular on the al-Mawasi area. Hardships suffered by Palestinians in Gaza had also been exacerbated by Israel's continued attacks on humanitarian aid convoys and the hijacking by "Palestinian criminal gangs" of fuel tankers, which had jeopardised the territory's already struggling hospitals. The European Hospital in Khan Younis has now warned that it will run out of fuel within the next 24 hours, Abu Azzoum said. Al-Aqsa Hospital, in central Gaza's Deir el-Balah, has also reported that it will be forced to cut electricity due to fuel shortages caused by Israel's restrictions on delivery of supplies to Gaza and the hijackings. "So, the scene on the ground is a bit chaotic and the atmosphere is quite charged with fear and anticipation of more air strikes looming on the horizon too," Abu Azzoum said. Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and the coordinator for emergency relief, said in a statement that attempts by aid workers to save lives in Gaza were "at breaking point". Fletcher recounted how Israeli forces had recently attacked a food distribution point operated by a partner of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), injuring three people. Israeli troops had also fired 16 bullets at a clearly marked UN convoy. And Palestinian gangs had hijacked six fuel tankers, leaving hardly any for humanitarian operations. "These incidents are part of a dangerous pattern of sabotage and deliberate disruption," Fletcher said.
"Statements by Israeli authorities vilify our aid workers even as the military attacks them. Community volunteers who accompany our convoys are being targeted," he said. "There is now a perception that it is dangerous to protect aid convoys but safe to loot them," he added.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/8/massacres-women-children-killed-as-israel-bombs-gazas-safe-zone

Al Jazeera - Jan 8 2025
<<Trump hints at military moves in Middle East and Americas
Incoming US President Donald Trump said <all hell will break out> in the Middle East if Israeli captives in Gaza aren’t released. He also refused to rule out military action over the Panama Canal and Greenland.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/8/trump-hints-at-military-moves-in-middle-east-and-americas

Al Jazeera - Jan 7 2025
<<Quotable
Israeli "commitment" needed for release of Hamas captives
Al Jazeera correspondent Ali Hashem talks about the "commitment" Israel may need to make to secure the release of more than 30 captives being held in Gaza.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/quotable/2025/1/7/aje-onl-qt_ali-hashem-060125

Al Jazeera - Jan 7 2025
<<Israel extends closure of Al Jazeera office in occupied West Bank
The move follows a raid last September by Israeli forces that shut Al Jazeera's Ramallah office for 45 days.
Israeli authorities have renewed a closure order on Al Jazeera’s office in the occupied West Bank, days after the Palestinian Authority suspended the network's broadcasts for four months. Israeli soldiers posted an extension order on the entrance of the building housing Al Jazeera’s offices in central Ramallah, a city in the occupied West Bank under Palestinian Authority (PA) control, on Tuesday morning. The document renews the closure starting on December 22 for 45 days. According to Al Jazeera's Arabic channel, the commander of the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, Avi Balut, said that the order was justified because the office was being used for <incitement and support for acts of terrorism>. Last September, Israeli forces raided Al Jazeera's Ramallah office and issued an initial 45-day closure order. Staff were instructed to leave the premises and take their personal belongings. Later, Israel's government announced it was also revoking the press credentials of Al Jazeera journalists in the country. The move followed a decision in May to ban Al Jazeera from broadcasting from Israel. The network’s offices were also closed for 45 days; an order that has been extended several times. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has long been at odds with Al Jazeera. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza last October, the network has faced repeated attempts to silence its reporting through arrests, imprisonment and attacks on its journalists.
Al Jazeera has condemned and denounced Israel's orders on its office in Ramallah. In a statement in September, the network said: "The raid on the office and seizure of our equipment is not only an attack on Al Jazeera, but an affront to press freedom and the very principles of journalism." "These oppressive measures are clearly intended to prevent the world from witnessing the reality of the situation in the occupied territories and the ongoing war on Gaza and the devastating impact on innocent civilians." The PA has also suspended all Al Jazeera broadcasts from the occupied West Bank and placed restrictions on anyone working for the network, it says on grounds that the channel violates Palestinian laws, and that Al Jazeera is tampering with and interfering in Palestinian internal affairs. Al Jazeera has slammed the decision, branding it a move “in line with the [Israeli] occupation's actions against its staff".>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/7/israel-extends-closure-of-al-jazeera-office-in-occupied-west-bank

Al Jazeera - Jan 7 2025
<<Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
Israeli settlers have carried out a series of arson attacks across the occupied West Bank after Palestinian gunmen killed three Israelis near an illegal settlement.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/7/israeli-settler-attacks-against-palestinians-in-the-occupied-west-bank

Al Jazeera - Jan 7 2025
<<Gaza aid effort at 'breaking point', warns UN
OCHA chief says attacks by both Israeli troops and Palestinian groups stifling bid to save lives in war-torn enclave. The efforts of United Nations agencies to supply humanitarian aid in Gaza are at "breaking point", a senior official has warned. Aid efforts in Gaza are facing mounting obstacles as Israeli forces continue attacks on relief workers amid a breakdown of law and order in the war-torn enclave, the UN humanitarian agency's (OCHA) chief said in a statement late on Monday. He also noted the threat from armed Palestinian groups. Tom Fletcher, undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said: "The reality is that despite our determination to deliver food, water and medicine to survivors, our efforts to save lives are at breaking point." The official noted an Israeli air attack had seriously injured three people at a known food distribution point where the World Food Programme (WFP) partner was operating. Israeli soldiers also fired more than 16 rounds at a clearly marked UN convoy at the checkpoint from the south to the north on Sunday, he added. Armed Palestinian gangs are also hindering operations. They hijacked six fuel tankers entering from the Karem Abu Salem crossing, known as Kerem Shalom to Israelis, leaving humanitarian agencies with hardly any fuel for aid operations, Fletcher said. "There is no meaningful civil order. Israeli forces are unable or unwilling to ensure the safety of our convoys. Statements by Israeli authorities vilify our aid workers even as the military attacks them. Community volunteers who accompany our convoys are being targeted. There is now a perception that it is dangerous to protect aid convoys but safe to loot them," Fletcher said. Israel's genocide in Gaza has killed at least 45,854 Palestinians and wounded 109,139 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and about 250 were taken captive. OCHA has also expressed deep concern after another baby froze to death in Gaza on Monday due to hypothermia and Israel’s restriction of the entry of humanitarian aid, including tents, blankets, mattresses and other supplies for displaced Palestinians. "These deaths were preventable had the items required to protect these children been accessible to their families," it said in a statement. UN agencies estimate that some 1.6 million people in Gaza are living in makeshift shelters that do not protect them from the cold of winter, with nearly half a million in flood-prone areas. Authorities in Gaza say some 110,000 out of the 135,000 tents being used as shelter in the Strip are worn out and not fit for use. Fletcher has called on UN member states to ensure that all civilians, and all humanitarian operations, are protected.
"This should not need to be said," he insisted.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/7/gaza-aid-effort-at-breaking-point-warns-un

Al Jazeera - Jan 6 2025
<<Three Israelis killed in shooting attack in occupied West Bank
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinian communities in West Bank should look like Gaza’s 'Jabalia'. Three Israelis were killed and eight others injured in a shooting attack near the illegal West Bank settlement of Kedumim, Israeli authorities have said. Israeli media outlets cited security officials as saying at least two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at cars and a bus outside the settlement before fleeing the scene on Monday.
The shooting killed two women in their 70s as well as a 35-year-old police investigator from the illegal settlement of Ariel. The incident comes as the war rages on in Gaza amid efforts to reach a truce deal. After the shooting, far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich appeared to call for all-out violence against Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, akin to the devastation Israel has unleashed on Gaza. "Al-Funduk, Nablus and Jenin need to look like Jabalia," he said, referring to the northern Gaza area that Israel has levelled and deprived of humanitarian aid for weeks.
Israel has faced accusations of ethnic cleansing in Jabalia. United Nations experts and several rights groups have also said that Israel is carrying out a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. <The terrorism in [the West Bank] and the terrorism from Gaza and Iran is the same terrorism - and it must be defeated,> Smotrich added on Monday, according to the Times of Israel. Since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023, Israel has intensified its crackdown on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, killing hundreds of people. The past year has also seen an uptick in settler attacks. Palestinian gunmen - some associated with Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad - have also carried out attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied territory in recent months. Abu Obeida, the spokesperson of Hamas's Qassam Brigades, hailed Monday's shooting, saying that efforts by Israel and its agents to stop the "heroes of the West Bank" from backing Gaza are "destined to fail". "The enemy must know that it will never enjoy security until our people have security," Abu Obeida said in a statement. Al Jazeera's Hamdah Salhut said that a manhunt for the suspects in Monday's attack is under way across the occupied West Bank. Reporting from Amman, Jordan because the Palestinian Authority has suspended Al Jazeera's operations in the occupied West Bank, Salhut said Israeli authorities have closed several roads and blocked off many areas in their search. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israeli forces will capture the attackers. <We will reach the despicable murderers and bring them to justice and everyone who helped them,> he wrote in a post on X. <No one will be spared.> The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in an advisory opinion in July that Israel's presence in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is unlawful and must end "as rapidly as possible". Alon Liel, the former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said that amid the escalating violence in the region, many Israelis are accepting that there is "no alternative" to fighting, particularly among younger people. <It's a very dangerous attitude that is developing here,> Liel told Al Jazeera on Monday. "We need a very fundamental change in the thinking of Israel and maybe a fundamental change in the attitude of the international community [towards] the conflict, too.">>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/6/three-israelis-killed-in-shooting-attack-in-occupied-west-bank

Al Jazeera - Jan 6 2025
<<Israeli forces use ambulance to raid occupied West Bank
A UN expert has called out Israeli forces for a 'flagrant violation' of international law after they used an ambulance to carry out a raid in the occupied West Bank.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/6/israeli-forces-use-ambulance-to-raid-occupied-west-bank

Al Jazeera - Jan 6 2025
<<Palestinian Authority shuts down several Al Jazeera digital platforms
The decision came after the PA closed Al Jazeera's office in the occupied West Bank, temporarily suspending its work.
The Magistrate Court of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank has ordered the closure of several Al Jazeera websites for four months, a court document shows - the latest restriction by the Palestinian Authority (PA) on the network. In a letter dated Sunday, the Attorney General's Office demanded the Palestinian Ministry of Communication implement the court's decision by shutting down aljazeera.net, aljazeera.net/live, aljazeera360.com and global.ajplus.net
The order asked all companies licensed for radio and satellite broadcasting to abide by the decision <under penalty of legal accountability>. According to the document, the websites published material that <threaten national security and incite the commission of crimes>. The latest move came after the PA closed Al Jazeera's office in the occupied West Bank last week, temporarily suspending its work - a decision the network has denounced. A PA ministerial committee, including the culture, interior and communications ministries justified that decision, saying the network was broadcasting <inciting material and reports that were deceiving and stirring strife> in the country. The network criticised the decision, calling it "an attempt to dissuade the channel from covering the rapidly escalating events taking place in the occupied territory> adding that it was "in line with the [Israeli] occupation's actions against its staff". The closure was also slammed by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) which called for its immediate reversal, warning that Al Jazeera's reporting inside Gaza and the West Bank was <vital>. According to analysts and human rights activists, such decisions by the PA are part of a broader attempt to silence criticism of its security operations in the Jenin refugee camp. The closure of Al Jazeera's websites and broadcast took place almost a month after the PA launched a crackdown on the Jenin Brigades - a coalition of armed groups which are affiliated with Palestinian factions such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and even Fatah, the party that controls the PA.
Since early December, the PA has besieged the Jenin camp and cut off water and electricity to most of the inhabitants in an ostensible attempt to restore <law and order> across the West Bank. However, its indiscriminate tactics in Jenin coincide with a wider attack on free speech, activists and human rights groups told Al Jazeera. Israel has also targeted Al Jazeera's work in the West Bank. Last September, authorities stormed Al Jazeera's office in Ramallah and shut it down.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/6/palestinian-authority-shuts-down-several-al-jazeera-websites

Al Jazeera - Jan 5 2025 - Al Jazeera Live - By Nils Adler
<<LIVE: Eighth Gaza baby freezes to death as Israel kills 88 people in a day
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

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