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Special reports: Updates March and earlier, 2025-'24: Actual:  The world must not accept the ‘new normal’ in Palestine And Trying to heal the trauma of Israeli raids And The Palestinians Israel displaces in the West Bank have nowhere to go & What does Israel cutting off Gaza’s electricity mean & Designed to humiliate and Public execution & Article related to starvation as a war-tactic in Gaza Pre-ceasefire & Post-Ceasefire December 30 - 26, 2024 'Betrayed' and 'abandoned' Sixth baby dies from severe cold   The arrest of Makmoud Khalil and aftermath & 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 20 - 18, 2025 Food for thought: We knew it since long now, the bestiality of the idf has no boundaries and here some facts 1-year-old among victims of Israel’s indiscriminate bombing... and <<Israeli airstrikes kill 70 Palestinians, UN staff member on Wednesday... and more facts that screams for STOP THIS GENOCIDE March 19 - 18, 2025 Stories of children killed in Israel’s attacks in Gaza... and Two-thirds of people Israel killed in Gaza strikes were women and children... and more bestial attack crimes stories by the nazi-idf leaded by 'ober-stuermbahnfuhrer' netanyahu And 'I was a human shield'

March 18, 2025 Israel resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza Read more about "The unmistakable sounds of genocide" i.e. acts of inhumanity of the idf nazis and their co-killers of the innocent. March 15 - 13, 2025 Food for thought: 'genocidal' targeting of reproductive facilities in Gaza Remember mengele and ask yourself: who are the 'non-humans'? Or does your 'collective memory' censors yours? Read more here

March 13 - 11, 2025 Food for thought: Nobody interrupts the psychopaths whom keep bombing; killing civilians and with it also of Palestinian women who only want to give birth to a new generation. Gino d'Artali Read more and decide for yourself and   March 11 - 9, 2025 <<Starvation as a weapon... Question: who really are The non-humans? 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 - March 17, 2025 - Opinion by Mohamad Alasmar
<<The world must not accept the ‘new normal’ in Palestine
As violence escalates in Gaza and the West Bank, the international community is obliged to act to stop it.
When I returned to my hometown near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in January, the tension was palpable. It reminded me of the second Intifada, which I witnessed firsthand as a child. There was fear and anxiety and an increased sense of uncertainty due to constant attacks by Israeli settlers. Roads to and from the town were blocked by checkpoints, leading to hours-long waits and humiliation for Palestinians trying to enter or leave. Weeks before I visited, Israeli settlers had set fire to my family’s land during the olive-picking season. This followed a similar attack last summer and two more the year before, which had destroyed property, crops, and ancient olive trees. My father told me he stood powerless, unable to extinguish the fire as the armed settlers were protected by Israeli forces. Even if the soldiers hadn’t been there to prevent any action to save the property, there would not have been enough water available to put out the fire because it is diverted by nearby illegal settlements. The situation across the occupied West Bank has been worsening for years, but violence escalated sharply after October 7, 2023. Nearly half of all Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces or settlers since records began were killed in just the past two years. So far this year, that violence has seen a two-year-old shot in the head by an Israeli sniper inside her family home, and a 23-year-old pregnant woman killed by Israeli fire. These are not isolated incidents, but part of a broader pattern where Palestinians are killed in unprecedented ways, at unprecedented rates. Israeli military raids on Palestinian homes and arbitrary detention have become a daily occurrence. Of the 10,000 Palestinians lingering in Israeli prisons, more than 300 are children, most of whom face no charge and have no way of knowing if or when they will see their families again. Villages are attacked, homes are demolished, and property is destroyed at accelerated rates. The architecture of occupation — checkpoints, barriers, and permits — has intensified and made daily life unbearable for Palestinians. Nearly 900 new military checkpoints and barriers have been installed since October 7. This has led to severe movement restrictions and disruptions to essential services, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis. What was once unprecedented has become “routine” – and the world seems to be getting used to it. Our new reality includes Israeli air strikes on refugee camps, hospitals under siege, children shot in front of their homes. Such incidents of brutal violence have become regular occurrences, just like in Gaza. Remember the first hospital attack in Gaza? The first targeting of a school sheltering the displaced? The first fire from an Israeli air strike tearing through tents of the displaced and burning people alive? Now try to remember the last one. Such violent incidents have become so normalised that they are ultimately accepted as a grim reality in a faraway land.
The same is now happening in the occupied West Bank.
As Save the Children’s representative to the United Nations, I see how this dynamic is reflected on the international stage. The persistent lack of meaningful accountability for Israeli forces has fostered a culture of impunity — allowing acts like bombing schools, burning down homes, and the killing of journalists and humanitarian workers to become perceived as “normal”. And even when the spotlight is cast on Palestine at global events, it seems to make no difference. Earlier this month, the Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land won the Oscar for best documentary. Accepting the award, Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra expressed his hope that his infant daughter would not have to live the same life that he was currently living – always fearing settler violence, home demolitions and forced displacement. Despite the film winning the highest accolades (or perhaps because of it), the attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers on Masafer Yatta, Adra’s community, have only intensified. There has been no meaningful action from the international community about it. People can be forgiven for being overwhelmed in the face of relentless brutality taking place for more than a year and a half now. It’s only human to feel numb. Besides, so many people have been exposed to media coverage that has systematically dehumanised Palestinians and sidelined their voices, severing human connection and empathy. But governments cannot be forgiven for taking no action. They have a legal obligation to uphold international law. Its norms are not relative; they are not up for negotiation. The truth is that the shocking violations taking place in Gaza and the West Bank have been normalised because they are being accepted by those entrusted to uphold the norms of international law. We must demand that international bodies and governments take concrete steps to hold perpetrators accountable for their actions. This includes suspending arms transfers and supporting mechanisms that challenge impunity for those who flout international law.
The global community must act decisively to restore respect for international law. States that ignore these laws undermine the very foundation of a rules-based global order. While those who violate children’s rights and international law bear ultimate responsibility, all member states of the United Nations have a duty under the Geneva Conventions to ensure adherence to these principles. Weekly massacres are not normal. A population brought to the brink of a man-made famine is not normal. Air strikes on refugee camps are not normal. A two-tier system of rights based on ethnicity is not normal. Detaining, imprisoning and killing children is not normal. The time for passive observation has passed. The world must demand accountability, support humanitarian efforts, and refuse to accept the unacceptable. Every delay costs more lives; every delay weakens the system designed to keep people across the world safe. Only through collective action can we break this cycle of violence and ensure a future where children in Palestine and Israel, regardless of their ethnicity or religion, are protected and valued. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/17/the-world-must-not-accept-the-new-normal-in-palestine

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Al Jazeera - March 21, 2025 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<Trying to heal the trauma of Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank
In Tulkarem and Jenin, dedicated volunteers work to help the people traumatised and displaced by Israel’s raids.
Jenin and Tulkarem, occupied West Bank – Omaima Faraj bows her head in silence for a moment – she’s tired, but the work does not stop. She arrives at a school-turned-shelter near Tulkarem where her first patient, an elderly displaced woman who greets her tenderly, is waiting for her to measure her glucose and blood pressure. Then she moves to the next classroom, the next patient, walking down an open passage drenched in late-February sunshine. Faraj, 25, has been volunteering to help residents devastated by the Israeli raids for weeks. She is one of the young Palestinians working to address the emergency Israel is creating across the occupied West Bank as it raids refugee camps and displaces thousands.
Rushing into danger
When Israel’s military occupation and displacement of the camp began in what the Israelis have called operation “Iron Wall”, on January 21, Faraj rushed into the camp instead of running away from the violence. She stayed there with her fellow volunteers for more than 12 critical days, when the attacks were at their fiercest and people were still trying to organise to flee the camp. They focused on delivering aid to people in need – the injured, the elderly, and people with limited mobility. Nobody could get to a hospital because the Israeli soldiers wouldn’t let them. Israeli soldiers harassed the volunteers, Faraj recounts, describing how they would threaten her and her colleagues, telling them to leave and never return or they’d be shot. One incident particularly haunts her, of an elderly man who was trapped in his house for four days. The team kept trying to reach him, but Israeli soldiers blocked their path. Finally, the International Committee of the Red Cross intervened, coordinating with the Israelis to allow safe passage for the volunteers. When they reached the man, he was in dire straits – lacking food, water and hygiene for four days, but they were finally able to evacuate him. As they were leaving, they were goaded, warned not to return – or risk being shot.
Backpack medics
“We didn’t have an emergency plan for this,” says Alaa Srouji, director of the Al-Awda Center in Tulkarem. Two volunteers pull aside blankets stretched across the windows to air out a room for an elderly displaced woman who is seated on a sofa showing them what she needs them to do
Two volunteers visit an elderly displaced woman to help her and check her health [Al Jazeera]
Al-Awda and the Lajee Center of Aida Camp in Bethlehem are training volunteers to document the expulsions of people and camp conditions so they can assess the aid needed. The volunteers are about 15 mostly female nurses and medics who came together when the Israeli raids began, to provide medical aid and distribute essentials to the thousands who were harmed. Their young faces show the toll of nearly two months of working nonstop with people displaced by the Israeli attack on the Nur Shams and Tulkarem camps. They are struggling to fill a huge gap left when Israel banned the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) from helping people in the occupied West Bank. These volunteers don’t have headquarters, they spend all day walking around to serve people with nothing more than their backpacks and determination. They go to one of the 11 temporary, hurriedly set up shelters or wherever their patients have managed to find a place to live. They bring medical and psychological support and also clothes, food, and other necessities to those who have lost everything to Israel’s raiding soldiers. In their backpacks are gauze, portable glucose monitors, gloves, bandages, tourniquets, manual blood pressure monitors, notebooks and pens. “Our role as a local community is so important,” says Alaa. The volunteers must also support each other emotionally, holding group sessions to cope with the toll of working within their devastated communities. Many of them are from the camp, so they are also displaced, targeted, and have seen their neighbourhoods levelled by Israeli bulldozers. Faraj is no different. Like many Palestinians, she is marked by loss and violence after her 18-year-old brother was killed by an Israeli drone in January 2024. The camp is a no-go zone. Some displaced residents take the risk of returning to their homes to try to retrieve some of their belongings. They navigate rubble-filled streets, the stench of rotting food left behind in now-abandoned houses, and sewers torn open by bulldozers, while Israeli soldiers patrol and drones hover overhead, searching for movement inside the camp.
Laughing, crying, screaming the trauma
An hour’s drive from Tulkarem is Jenin, and 10 minutes from Jenin is a village called Kafr Dan where an unusual sound filters in the air – children’s laughter.

A group of children shouting as they participate in a Freedom Theater programme in Kafr Dan|Al Jazeera
About 20 children roam around the garden of a large house. They’re gathered into a rough circle by trainers who encourage them to speak – loudly – to let out their fear and anger. The activity is organised by the Freedom Theater of Jenin, which came to Kafr Dan to provide this moment of respite for displaced children to simply be, at least for a moment. They started up inside Jenin camp as a space where children and youth could participate in cultural activities but have been blocked by the Israeli army from being there. So, “We bring the theatre to the children,” says Shatha Jarrar, one of the three activity coordinators. The children are encouraged to be as loud as they like, to scream out the fear and anger they hold inside after the violence they have been exposed to. A game involving a small ball balanced on a spoon is next, making the children laugh again and their watching mothers smile, happy to see their children happy. Sitting by the side is a smiling Um Muhammed, 67, who has brought some of the children to join the activities. They’re not her children, though, as she has offered shelter in her house to a family of seven who have recently been displaced from Jenin. Um Muhammed was displaced in 2002, during the second Intifada, her home in the Jenin refugee camp destroyed by Israeli forces back when her three children were small. They are older now, she says, her eyes darting around as she recalls the trauma of displacement. They’ve got children of their own, and she is a grandmother. Um Muhammed knows all too well the fear of Israeli tanks rolling in and explosions echoing. That’s why, now, she insists on helping people going through the same thing. Shatha, 26, and her two co-organisers start putting their equipment away, stowing it in backpacks. Activities are done for today. Shatha became aware of the Freedom Theater when she attended a programme there as a child and later decided to dedicate her time to the theatre’s legacy. “Theatre is a different world and a way of life. My work with children is part of this world. The children are our tomorrow,” she says. Near her is a mother – who prefers to withhold her name – who was watching her children. She, her husband and two children lived through the dystopian sight of Israeli drone quadcopters blaring orders to evacuate. Then came the Apache helicopters hovering in the sky, drone attacks, and a fleet of armoured vehicles invading, accompanied by heavily armed Israeli soldiers. Her eyes widen and her speech quickens, the memories fresh as she tells her story. Finally, as they left, they had to stand while Israeli soldiers scanned their faces and arrested some of the men trying to leave. When they first left, she had held out hope that they would be allowed back in a few days.
But the reality of their displacement is slowly settling in.
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SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/21/trying-to-heal-the-trauma-of-israeli-raids-in-the-occupied-west-bank

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Al Jazeera - March 13, 2025 - By Mat Nashed
<<The Palestinians Israel displaces in the West Bank have nowhere to go
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are anxious about the future as Israel steps up aggression against refugee camps.
In early February, Israeli forces stormed Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and began bulldozing homes, demolishing shops and tearing up roads. Nur Shams is located just outside the northern coastal city of Tulkarem, which has been subjected to increasingly violent Israeli raids in recent years, particularly in the Tulkarem refugee camp. Israel’s quick, deliberate destruction of the Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps has uprooted thousands of inhabitants and upended countless lives in days. Hamdan Fahmawi’s shop was damaged and vandalised in the raids – the third time in a year. On February 26, the 46-year-old, who had left the area, made the risky decision to return with his 17-year-old son and some staff to inspect his shop in Nur Shams and retrieve some cash and important paperwork. “Israeli soldiers eventually told us to get out [of the shop and leave the camp], so we did. One of them raised his gun at us and we felt we were in danger, but thankfully nobody got hurt,” said Fahmawi.
Displacement
Since Israel’s assaults began on the West Bank on January 21 – days after it had to pause its devastating war on Gaza – Israeli soldiers have forcefully expelled at least 40,000 Palestinians from their homes in the camps. The stated aim of Israel’s new raids, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, is to root out “Iranian-backed groups” affiliated with Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in three refugee camps: Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams. In 2021, desperate and aggrieved Palestinian youth formed ad-hoc armed groups to resist Israel’s ever-entrenching occupation, according to a report by the International Crisis Group. However, they hardly pose a threat to Israeli soldiers or illegal settlers, instead clashing with Israeli security forces when they raid the camps. Israel has still tried to exaggerate the armed groups’ capabilities – framing them as Iranian proxies – to justify destroying camps and uprooting thousands of Palestinians as part of a greater plan to make Palestinian life unbearable in the occupied West Bank, analysts, inhabitants and human rights monitors say. “I think people [who have been displaced] are lost and they are not sure what to do or what their next steps will be,” said Murad Jadallah, a human rights researcher with Al-Haq, a Palestinian rights group. “We have reached a new level of uncertainty,” he told Al Jazeera. Nourdeen Ali, 17, said many families fled or lost their homes in Nur Shams and ended up staying with relatives and friends just outside the camp. But then many were uprooted for a second time when Israeli forces raided the homes surrounding Nur Shams and kicked more families out. Israel typically converts homes in and around the camp into makeshift “interrogation” centres, Ali told Al Jazeera. “What happens is the Israelis will [come into a neighbourhood] and take over one random house … and then nobody in that area is able to enter or leave their house without risking being shot and killed or searched and arrested,” he said.
‘People will go back’
Israel’s indiscriminate attacks are forcing thousands of people to seek shelter in schools, mosques and football pitches, say inhabitants, who add that the only help available to them is coming from Palestinians who mobilised to provide basic relief – donating blankets, bedding, food and water.
Ali believes that most Palestinians will return to their homes in the camps once Israel halts its raid. “The way I see things, no matter what the Israelis do, people will go back to the houses where they grew up because a life without the camp is impossible for them,” he told Al Jazeera.
Fahmawi adds that most people from the camp are too poor to afford life in the larger cities, so they will return to Nur Shams even if Israel entrenches its presence to intimidate and harass Palestinians. “Everywhere in Palestine is dangerous, not just the camps … there is no law and [the Israeli army] can shoot any Palestinian at any time. However, we don’t have any other place to go. We have no choice,” he told Al Jazeera.
More affluent Palestinians have different considerations.
Jadallah said a close friend relocated to Jordan with his family out of fear that Israel will soon attack and destroy Palestinian cities – such as Tulkarem, Jenin and Ramallah – in the same way they are attacking the camps. “My friend used to live in Jenin camp, but then he got a good income, so he moved with his family to Jenin city,” Jadallah explained. “They recently decided to go to Jordan and put their children in school there, because Jenin city is becoming too dangerous,” he added, referring to the Israelis’ frequent military raids that often target civilians. Fahmawi doesn’t think leaving will make Palestinians safer. He refers to the recent abduction of Palestinian PhD student Mahmoud Khalil by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement on March 8, despite Khalil having legal permanent residence in the United States. The administration of US President Donald Trump revoked Khalil’s permanent residency as punishment for him leading Columbia University student protests against what many experts and rights describe as Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “There is no alternative to the homeland,” Fahmawi told Al Jazeera. “In the end, there is no place else for all of us to go … if we die, then we’ll die on our land.”
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/13/palestinians-displaced-by-israeli-aggression-hit-new-levels-of-uncertainty

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