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Special reports: Updates February and earlier, 2025-'24: Actual: Nakba survivors see echoes of the past & How is Israel violating the Gaza ceasefire deal? & A Gaza mother’s heartbreak & Netanyahu’s political calculus that sent tanks into Jenin Earlier: Punishing pro-Palestine protests &  Gaza urgently needs a more effective humanitarian approach and More than $50bn needed to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s war on enclave & No, Mr Trump, we will not be “happy” and “safe” elsewhere. & Returning to Gaza, a stranger in my own city & Overview special reports 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

March 5 - 4, 2025 Why is America afraid of ‘No Other Land’?... and both, incl. israel, afraid of showing empathy as a human virtue? Read more here

March 5, 2025: Why is America afraid of ‘No Other Land’?... March 4, 2025: Column For Israel, ceasefire is a continuation of war by other means... Opinion: Netanyahu’s plan to deprive and rule in Gaza will fail again AND Ramadan in Gaza: Ruins and unshakable faith

March 4 - February 28, 2025 Food for thought: And I quote: "|the christian| God made me and with it america great again" trump I call that blasphemy pur sang but maybe... their God and with it says 'thnx for the crypto-contribution' so carry on with your genocidal plans. but really, trump spitted his God in the eyes. Will that God be as mercifull like Allah is? the Gazanan Thinker Read more and decide for yourself  Pre-ceasefire & Post-Ceasefire December 30 - 26, 2024 'Betrayed' and 'abandoned' Sixth baby dies from severe cold

 
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.



Video footage - Children waiting in fear
Jinha - Womens News Agency - March 5, 2025
<<‘The continued closure of key border crossings into Gaza is putting civilian lives at risk’
The continued closure of key border crossings into Gaza is putting civilian lives at risk, just as they begin to recover from months of war, deprivation and hunger, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday.
News Center- Despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli authorities keep the crossings closed, not allowing humanitarian supplies to enter the enclave. The continued closure of key border crossings into Gaza is putting civilian lives at risk, just as they begin to recover from months of war, deprivation and hunger, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday. “The Kerem Shalom, Zikim and Erez crossings have remained closed for cargo for the third consecutive day, severely restricting the flow of humanitarian supplies into the devastated enclave,” Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, said at a press conference on Tuesday. “The Israeli authorities have rejected our attempts to collect humanitarian supplies that crossed the Kerem Shalom border crossing before its closure,” he said, citing the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). “Given the huge needs in Gaza, keeping the crossings closed will have devastating consequences,” he warned, underscoring that Member States and those with influence must use all available means to ensure the ceasefire holds. “Humanitarian aid must continue to flow at a scale similar to what we have seen over the past six weeks when the ceasefire began. This brought respite and relief to people in need,” Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said Tuesday in a post on social media platform X. He noted that the vast majority of the people in Gaza rely on aid for their sheer survival, adding that water, medical care and electricity were essential to complement basic food assistance. “Aid and these basic services are non-negotiable. They must never be used as weapons of war.”>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/the-continued-closure-of-key-border-crossings-into-gaza-is-putting-civilian-lives-at-risk-36671

Al Jazeera - March 5, 2025
<<In Pictures
Oscar win brings hope to Palestinians in Masafer Yatta
Residents hope No Other Land’s win will bring the world’s attention to them as they face possible Israeli expulsion.
Just last week, Israeli troops tore down a Palestinian family’s shed in Masafer Yatta, a remote, hilly corner at the southern edge of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It was the latest instance of destruction targeting a collection of hamlets whose population is threatened with expulsion.
Over the weekend, Masafer Yatta residents cheered the Oscar win of a documentary, No Other Land, which depicts life in the beleaguered community, and hoped it would bring them some help. No Other Land follows Palestinian activist Basel Adra, as he risks arrest to document the destruction of Masafer Yatta West Bank, joined by his co-director, Israeli journalist and filmmaker Yuval Abraham. The joint Palestinian-Israeli production has won a string of international awards, starting at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024. Five years in the making, it gained greater resonance amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as well as increasing raids in the West Bank that have caused the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians.
In al-Tuwaneh, one of the hamlets that make up Masafer Yatta, Salem Adra said his family stayed up all night for the Oscar ceremony. They watched as his older brother, Basel, the film’s co-director, came on stage to accept the award for the best documentary.
“It was such a huge surprise, such joy,” he said.
Salem said he hoped the Oscar win “opens the world’s eyes to what’s happening here in Masafer Yatta”.
“It’s a win for all of Palestine and for everyone who lives in Masafer Yatta,” he said. Since the film was first released, he said, threats and pressure against his family have increased. Their car has been stoned by the settlers. After the movie won an award at the Berlin International Film Festival a year ago, the military returned over and over to the family, and once detained his father, searching his phone and asking: “Why are you filming?”
The Israeli military designated Masafer Yatta as a live-fire training zone in the 1980s and ordered residents, mostly Arab Bedouin, to be expelled. Israel said the Bedouin did not have permanent structures in the area. But families say they have lived and herded their sheep and goats across the area long before Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 war. After a 20-year legal battle by residents, Israel’s Supreme Court upheld the expulsion order in 2022. But about 1,000 residents have largely remained in place, as Israeli troops regularly demolish homes, tents, water tanks and olive orchards.
Palestinians fear outright expulsion could come at any time.
In his acceptance speech on Sunday night, Basel called on the world “to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people”.
He said he hoped his newborn daughter would “not have to live the same life I am living now … Always feeling settler violence, home demolitions and forceful displacement.”>>
View pictures here: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/3/5/oscar-win-brings-hope-to-palestinians-in-masafer-yatta


Video screenshot footage: Israel’s aid blockade continues
Al Jazeera - March 5, 2025 - By Urooba Jamal and Alice Speri
<<LIVE: As Israel’s aid blockade continues, WFP warns Gaza food stocks low
The World Food Programme says it only has enough food supplies in Gaza to keep public kitchens and bakeries open for less than two weeks.
Arab leaders unanimously agree on a five-year $53bn plan to rebuild Gaza without displacing Palestinians, to counter US President Donald Trump’s proposal to “take over” the coastal enclave.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/5/live-israel-slams-egypts-gaza-plan-hamas-welcomes-call-for-elections

Al Jazeera - March 4, 2025
<<Arab leaders endorse Egypt’s Gaza reconstruction plan
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s plan for Gaza counters the US proposal to take over the enclave.
Arab leaders have endorsed an Egyptian plan for the reconstruction of war-shattered Gaza that would allow its residents to remain in the territory, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said. At the meeting in Cairo on Tuesday, the regional leaders endorsed the counterproposal to US President Donald Trump’s plan to expel Gaza’s 2.3 million residents and redevelop the Palestinian territory.
The attendees at the summit included the emir of Qatar, the vice president of the United Arab Emirates and the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia. United Nations Secretary-General Antonios Guterres also attended. Egypt’s plan includes an initial recovery phase aimed at de-mining the territory and providing temporary housing, followed by a longer reconstruction phase focused on rebuilding essential infrastructure, according to media reports.
Other key questions about Gaza’s future include who will govern the enclave and which countries will provide the billions of dollars needed for the reconstruction of the devastated territory. El-Sisi said Egypt had worked in cooperation with Palestinians on creating an administrative committee of independent, professional Palestinian technocrats entrusted with the governance of Gaza. The committee would be responsible for the oversight of humanitarian aid and managing the Gaza Strip’s affairs for a temporary period, in preparation for the return of the Palestinian Authority (PA), he said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the PA, said he welcomed the Egyptian idea and urged Trump to support such a plan that would not involve displacing Palestinian residents. Abbas, in power since 2005, also said he was ready to hold presidential and parliamentary elections if circumstances allowed, adding his PA was the only legitimate governing and military force in the occupied Palestinian territories. Hamas has said it rejects any solution imposed on the Gaza Strip by outsiders. “We look forward to an effective Arab role that ends the humanitarian tragedy created by the occupation in the Gaza Strip … and thwarts the [Israeli] occupation’s plans to displace [Palestinians],” the group said in a statement on Tuesday. Any proposal would require heavy buy-in from oil-rich Gulf Arab states such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, which have the billions of dollars needed to roll out the plan.
Gaza truce expires
The extraordinary summit comes days after the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza expired. Israel reneged on the terms of the deal by refusing to embark on phase two negotiations, instead pushing for an extension of the first phase of the deal. Israel announced on Sunday that it would halt the entry of humanitarian aid and other supplies into Gaza and introduced a new ceasefire proposal that it said was backed by the US.
During the 42 days of the first phase, 25 living captives and the remains of eight dead captives were returned to Israel in exchange for some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. All remaining living captives were due to be freed in a second phase of the ceasefire, but Hamas and Israel are deadlocked over how to extend the truce. Under the new Israeli proposal, Hamas would be required to release half its remaining captives in exchange for a ceasefire extension and a promise to negotiate a lasting truce. Israel made no mention of releasing more Palestinian prisoners – a key component of the first phase. Hamas has accused Israel of trying to sabotage the existing agreement, which called for the two sides to negotiate the return of the remaining captives in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a lasting ceasefire. But no substantive negotiations have been held.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/4/arab-leaders-meet-to-discuss-egypts-53bn-gaza-plan


Video screenshot footage: Students sue Columbia
Al Jazeera - March 4, 2025
<<Students sue Columbia over suspensions after Palestine protests
Three students are suing Columbia University after they were suspended for their role in pro-Palestine demonstrations on campus. President Donald Trump has said schools that allow such “illegal” protests will lose all funding, and students could be imprisoned.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/4/students-sue-columbia-over-suspensions-after-palestine-protests

Al Jazeera - March 4, 2025
<<In Pictures
A red-covered table stretching several hundred metres carved a path through mounds of rubble in southern Gaza, as families gathered to break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. As the sun set over a neighbourhood in Rafah, where Israel’s war on Gaza has left barely a handful of buildings standing, hundreds of Palestinians of all ages dug into their Iftar meal marking the end of the day’s fast. “People are deeply saddened, and everything around us feels heartbreaking,” said Malak Fadda, who had organised the communal meal. “So, we decided to bring joy back to this street, just as it was before the war.” Music wafted from loudspeakers through the crowd in Rafah, who sat on a long row of plastic chairs under bunting, Palestinian flags and lights strung between the broken concrete. Israeli bombardment has displaced almost the entire population and triggered widespread hunger, according to the United Nations. The truce that took effect on 19 January has enabled greater aid flows into the devastated Palestinian territory, but hundreds of thousands continue to live in tents, with many camped out in the rubble of their former homes. In the northern city of Beit Lahiya, dozens defiantly joined together in the fading evening light to break the fast amongst the remnants of half-collapsed buildings.
“We are here in the midst of destruction and rubble and we are steadfast despite the pain and our wounds,” said Mohammed Abu al-Jidyan.
“Here, we are eating Iftar on our land and we will not leave this place,” he added.>>
View pictures here: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/3/4/gaza-families-break-ramadan-fast-amid-ruins


Video screenshot footage: Israeli settlers attack village
Al Jazeera - March 4, 2025
<<Israeli settlers attack village in Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank
Masked Israeli settlers armed with clubs and batons attacked a village in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank. The plight of residents was the subject of a film that won best documentary at the Oscars.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/4/israeli-settlers-attack-village-in-masafer-yatta-occupied-west-bank

Al Jazeera - March 4, 2025
<<Israeli captives’ families fight with Knesset security guards
Violent clashes erupted at Israel’s parliament when families of Israeli captives in Gaza and survivors of the Oct 7 attack were stopped from watching an address by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/4/israeli-captives-families-fight-with-knesset-security-guards


Palestinian woman holds on to life
Jinha - Womens News Agency - March 4, 2025
<<Palestinian woman holds on to life by setting up tent on rubble of her destroyed home
Palestinian woman Amira Owais struggles to survive by setting up a tent on the rubble of her home destroyed in Israel’s attacks. “I want to tell the world that this land is not for sale.”
Gaza- Amira Owais, a Palestinian woman who holds on to life in Gaza City's Shujaiya neighborhood, is one of the Palestinian women, who are determined to rebuild their life. She keeps struggling to survive by setting up a tent on the rubble of her home destroyed in Israel’s attacks.
One of her sons killed
Amira Owais told NuJINHA what they had experienced during Israel’s attacks on Gaza. “We were displaced multiple times during the war. It seemed like the displacement would never end. We have experienced indescribable pain but the worst one was the loss of my son. When I expected his return for lunch, I found myself looking for his shroud. When he left home, I did not know that he would never return. One of my sons was injured in Israel’s attacks on Al-Shifa Hospital. He was paralyzed for a long time and was able to recover somewhat through physical therapy. Then, he went south with his wife.”
She set up tent by using wood beams and sheets of nylon
Amira Owais cannot sleep at night anymore. “I still cannot believe my son is dead. Despite everything, we struggle to survive. Following the ceasefire, I returned to my home. However, my home was destroyed in the attacks. So, I decided to set up a tent on the rubble of my home by using wood beams and sheets of nylon to say that I am here and never leave my land. I did not ask for help from anyone, because I knew that everyone tried to rebuild their lives, like me.”
‘I will not leave my land’
At night, the tent of Amira Owais shakes due to strong wind. “On stormy days, I feel like I experience another war. One night, my tent leaked. I sat in a corner and waited for the morning. It was another test that I should pass. Palestinian women are not only victims of the war but also the architects of life amidst the destruction. I set up my tent on the rubble of my destroyed home to show the world that this land is not for sale and that we sow hope despite the destruction. I will not leave my land even if I have to live without a shelter.”>>
Video: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/palestinian-woman-holds-on-to-life-by-setting-up-tent-on-rubble-of-her-destroyed-home-36660

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