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Special reports: Updates February and earlier, 2025-'24: Actual: Why is America afraid of ‘No Other Land’?... & For Israel, ceasefire is a continuation of war by other means... Opinion: & Netanyahu’s plan to deprive and rule in Gaza will fail again & Ramadan in Gaza: Ruins and unshakable faith Earlier: 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 & 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 11 - 9, 2025 <<Starvation as a weapon... Question: who really are The non-humans? Read more and decide for yourself Actual: What does Israel cutting off Gaza’s electricity mean &

March 8 - 3, 2025 Food for thought: "'Gazuantamo riviera bay' incl. trump tower 1.2 and us. drone zyklon b attacks to clean-up the human beasts trash" trump & co-predators. Gino d'Artali Read more and decide for yourself March 6 - 5, 2025 Food for thought: As a weapon of war the former Syrian dictator used the weapon of starvation to try and force the people to "kneel or starve" While starving and refusing to kneel assad had to flee. Alas, history repeats itself through the genociding acts of netanyahu and trump. But... the Palestinians will not kneel and if... they'll prefer to die an honorable death. Gino d'Artali Read more and decide for yourself

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 earlier Designed to humiliate & Public execution & Article related to starvation as a war-tactic in Gaza Overview special reports  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 - Gaza is not 4 sale
Al Jazeera - March 11, 2025
<<Why is Israel trying to rewrite the Gaza ceasefire?
Former Israeli government adviser Daniel Levy argues Israel will continue to thwart attempts to solidify the ceasefire in Gaza.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2025/3/11/why-is-israel-trying-to-rewrite-the-gaza-ceasefire


Video footage - starvation as a weapon
Al Jazeera - March 11, 2025
<<How Israel uses starvation as a weapon in Gaza
Researches say Palestinians in Gaza have lost an average of 18kg due to extreme hunger caused by Israel’s war. Al Jazeera’s Hind Touissate explains how Israel uses starvation as a weapon in Gaza.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/11/how-israel-uses-starvation-as-a-weapon-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - March 11, 2025
<<Why is Israel trying to rewrite the Gaza ceasefire?
Former Israeli government adviser Daniel Levy argues Israel will continue to thwart attempts to solidify the ceasefire in Gaza.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2025/3/11/why-is-israel-trying-to-rewrite-the-gaza-ceasefire


UNRWA chief warns of ‘deepening hunger’
Al Jazeera - March 11, 2025
<<UNRWA chief warns of ‘deepening hunger’ in Gaza as Israel blocks all food
With Israel’s complete blockade on Gaza approaching 10 days, Philippe Lazzarini says aid is being ‘weaponised’.
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has warned that the situation in Gaza is “deteriorating very, very quickly”, more than a week after Israel again halted all supplies from entering the Gaza Strip. “Whatever the intent is, it’s clearly a weaponisation of humanitarian aid into Gaza,” Lazzarini told reporters at UN offices in Geneva on Monday. “It is critical that humanitarian aid is allowed into Gaza again to maintain the progress made during the first phase of the ceasefire and meet people’s basic needs,” he said, adding that there remains a risk of returning to the “deepening hunger” seen before the recent ceasefire. Lazzarini heads up UNRWA, which has been mandated by the UN General Assembly to provide assistance to Palestinians, in Palestine and neighbouring countries, since December 1949. The agency provides schooling and healthcare services, and could only be replaced by “capable Palestinian institutions” within “a Palestinian state”, Lazzarini has repeatedly said, amid his agency being banned by the Israeli government. Lazzarini told journalists that “a fierce disinformation campaign”, legislation outlawing UNRWA in Israel’s parliament and “the suspension of funding by key donors” have taken a toll on the agency.
He warned that UNRWA cannot be allowed to “implode”.
“Collapse would create a dangerous vacuum in the occupied Palestinian territory and send shockwaves through Jordan, Lebanon and Syria,” Lazzarini said. “An environment in which children are deprived of education, and people lack access to basic services, is fertile ground for exploitation and extremism,” he said.
“This is a threat to peace and stability in the region and beyond.”
The agency’s financial situation is also “critical and precarious”, Lazzarini added. Prior to January 26, 2024, the United States was UNRWA’s largest funder. Following accusations from Israel, the administration of former US President Joe Biden cut its contributions to UNRWA entirely, promising it would continue to provide aid to the Gaza Strip through alternative UN agencies, such as the World Food Programme, and non-government organisations. However, according to The Times of Israel, US funding for Gaza’s relief efforts may have been caught up in US President Donald Trump’s administration’s sweeping cuts to the US Agency for International Development (USAID). While it is not clear exactly which USAID programmes are being cut, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote in a post on X on Monday that “after a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83 percent of the programs at USAID”. The Trump administration had initially said that the only exceptions to the cuts would be aid programmes in Israel and Egypt. Rubio is currently in Saudi Arabia, where he discussed Gaza reconstruction efforts with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday, according to the US State Department. Saudi Arabia is one of dozens of countries to have voiced support for a $53bn Egypt-led plan to rebuild Gaza as an alternative to Trump’s plan to forcibly displace all Palestinians from the Strip. The rebuilding Gaza plan is among many factors being considered by negotiators from Israel and Hamas and mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the US at talks aimed at reviving the ceasefire agreement, which has stalled after Israel refused to enter into the second phase of the deal. Hamas on Monday said that Israel has also failed to live up to its side of the agreement by refusing to withdraw its troops from the border area between Gaza and Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, and preventing outside aid from reaching Gaza directly.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>> Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/11/unrwa-chief-warns-of-deepening-hunger-in-gaza-as-israel-blocks-all-food

Al Jazeera - March 10, 2025
<<Palestinians react as Israel cuts off Gaza’s remaining electricity
What’s believed to be the last power line operating into Gaza has been cut off by Israel, threatening the operation of a key water facility. Palestinians in Gaza have been living without proper power supplies since the start of the war.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/10/palestinians-react-as-israel-cuts-off-gazas-remaining-electricity

Al Jazeera - March 10, 2025
<<Boatless in Gaza: Using old fridge doors to catch fish
Palestinians use makeshift paddleboards to fish in Gaza City’s port after bombing destroyed local fishing boats.
Balanced calmly on top of what was once a refrigerator door, fisherman Khaled Habib uses a makeshift paddle to propel himself through the waters of Gaza City’s fishing port. More than 15 months of Israeli bombardment has destroyed most of the boats in the harbour, wrecking the fishermen’s means of making a living. “We’re in a very difficult situation today, and struggling with the fishing. There are no fishing boats left. They’ve all been destroyed and tossed on the ground,” said Habib. “I made this boat from refrigerator doors and cork, and thankfully it worked.” To continue feeding his family, Habib came up with the idea of stuffing cork into old fridge doors to make them buoyant. He covered one side with wood and the other with plastic sheeting to help make the makeshift paddleboard waterproof. Habib also crafted a fishing cage out of wire because of the lack of nets, but admitted that his resulting catch was “small”. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in December that the conflict had taken Gaza’s “once thriving fishing sector to the brink of collapse”. “Gaza’s average daily catch between October 2023 to April 2024 dropped to just 7.3 percent of 2022 levels, causing a $17.5 million production loss,” the FAO said. Using dough as bait, Habib now fishes mainly inside the small port area. Despite the fragile ceasefire that came into force on January 19, and which largely halted the fighting, Habib said fishing outside the port is not allowed. “If we go [outside the fishermen’s harbour], the Israeli boats will shoot at us,” he said.>>
View photos here: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/3/10/boatless-in-gaza-using-old-fridge-doors-to-catch-fish

Al Jazeera - March 9, 2025
<<Mahmoud Khalil, student leader of Columbia protests, arrested
A US immigration enforcement agent said Khalil’s permanent residency was also being revoked, according to the protest leader’s lawyer. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) have arrested a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in last year’s pro-Palestinian protests at New York’s Columbia University, the student workers’ union said on Sunday. The student, Mahmoud Khalil at the university’s School of International and Public Affairs, was arrested at his university residence on Saturday, the Student Workers of Columbia union said in a statement. Khalil’s wife is a US citizen and he has a permanent residency green card, the union said. He remained in detention on Sunday. Khalil’s wife declined to comment through one of Khalil’s fellow students. Khalil’s lawyer, Amy Greer, told the Associated Press news agency that she spoke by phone with one of the ICE agents during the arrest, who said they were acting on State Department orders to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the lawyer that Khalil was in the country as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer. Greer said the authorities declined to tell Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, whether he was accused of committing a crime. Khalil has since been transferred to an immigration detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. “We have not been able to get any more details about why he is being detained,” Greer told the AP. “This is a clear escalation. The administration is following through on its threats.” The arrest appeared to be among the first known actions under President Donald Trump’s pledge to deport international students who joined the protests against Israel’s war in Gaza that swept college campuses last year. His administration has claimed participants forfeited their rights to remain in the country by supporting Hamas, which is designated as a ‘terror’ organisation by the US.
The move has been described as an attack on First Amendment freedoms.
Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin, has been one of the school administrators’ lead negotiators of the pro-Palestinian student protesters, some of whom set up a tent encampment on a Columbia lawn last year and seized control of an academic building for several hours in April before police entered the campus to arrest them. Khalil was not in the group that occupied the building but was a mediator between Columbia provosts and the protesters. The protesting students called for Columbia’s divestment from companies with ties to Israel, a ceasefire and an end to the war that killed nearly 50,000 Palestinians and turned the enclave into rubble after nonstop bombardment. The US provided the bulk of the ammunition for the war. Columbia said last year that it would consider expediting some of the students’ demands through its investments committee. Rights groups have accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza – home to 2.3 million people. Despite a ceasefire in place since January 19, Israel has blocked the entry of any aid into Gaza since March 1, drawing condemnation from rights groups and aid agencies. The October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and subsequent Israeli military offensive on Gaza led to months of pro-Palestinian protests that roiled US college campuses. At least 1,100 people were killed in the Hamas attack and some 240 people were taken captive. Most of the captives have been released as part of truce deals. A new round of truce talks will resume in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Monday.
Targeted by the government
A spokesperson for Columbia said the school was barred by law from sharing information about individual students. The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department, which oversees the country’s visa system, did not respond to questions from the news agencies. It was not immediately clear on what grounds ICE agents arrested Khalil. The ICE comes under the US Department of Homeland Security. In an interview with the Reuters news agency a few hours before his arrest on Saturday about the Trump administration’s criticism of Columbia, Khalil said he was concerned that he was being targeted by the government for speaking to the media. The Trump administration on Friday said it had cancelled government contracts and grants worth about $400m to Columbia University. The government said the cuts and the student deportation efforts are due to “anti-Semitic” harassment at and near Columbia’s Manhattan campus. “What more can Columbia do to appease Congress or the government now?” Khalil said before his arrest, noting that Columbia had twice called in police to arrest protesters and had disciplined many pro-Palestinian students and staff, suspending some. “They basically silenced anyone supporting Palestine on campus and this was not enough. Clearly, Trump is using the protesters as a scapegoat for his wider agenda [of] fighting and attacking higher education and the Ivy League education system.”
In response to the announced grant cuts on Friday, Columbia’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, said the school was committed to combating anti-Semitism and was “working with the federal government to address their legitimate concerns”.
Protesting students have denied the charges of anti-Semitism.
‘This is only the beginning’
Maryam Alwan, a Palestinian American senior at Columbia who has protested alongside Khalil, said the Trump administration was dehumanising Palestinians. “I am horrified for my dear friend Mahmoud, who is a legal resident, and I am horrified that this is only the beginning,” she said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week that international students who support Hamas, which the US has designated a “terrorist” organisation, face visa revocation and deportation. On Thursday, Columbia issued a revised protocol for how students and school staff should handle ICE agents seeking to enter private school property. The school said ICE agents without a judicial arrest warrant may be allowed to enter its private property in “exigent circumstances”, which it did not specify. “By allowing ICE on campus, Columbia is surrendering to the Trump administration’s assault on universities across the country and sacrificing international students to protect its finances,” the Student Workers of Columbia said in its statement. Khalil lives in a university apartment building near Columbia’s main gated campus.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>> Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/9/mahmoud-khalil-student-leader-of-columbia-protests-arrested

Al Jazeera - March 9, 2025
Gaza residents react to Trump’s ‘last warning’
<<Israeli soldiers roll Palestinian car off cliff in occupied West Bank
This is the moment Israeli soldiers pushed a Palestinian’s car off a cliff after arresting them during a traffic stop in Hebron, occupied West Bank. The Israeli military has not yet commented on the incident.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/9/israeli-soldiers-roll-palestinian-car-off-cliff-in-occupied-west-bank

Al Jazeera - March 9, 2025
<<Israel to send team for Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar
Israel is expected to send a delegation to Doha to negotiate truce extension deal on Monday after Hamas held talks with Egyptian officials in Cairo.
Israel has confirmed it will send a delegation to Qatar’s capital for talks on extending a fragile ceasefire with Hamas. On Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a delegation would be sent to Doha on Monday in “an effort to advance negotiations”.
This comes after a Hamas team met Egyptian officials in Cairo on Saturday to negotiate the second phase of the ceasefire deal. “The delegation emphasised the necessity of adhering to all terms of the agreement proceeding immediately to initiate negotiations for the second phase, opening the border crossings, and allowing the entry of relief materials into Gaza without any restrictions or conditions,” it said in a statement. In earlier comments, Hamas spokesperson Abdel Latif al-Qanoua said a day earlier that “indicators are positive regarding the start of negotiations for the second phase”. The first phase of the ceasefire deal ended on March 1 , after six weeks of exchanges, including 25 living Israeli captives held in Gaza for the release of 1,800 Palestinians in Israeli prisons. Israel has said it wants to extend the first stage of the agreement until mid-April, refusing to move to the second stage of the deal that involves a complete end to the war and full withdrawal of its forces from Gaza. Hamas, however, says it wants both sides to move to the second phase as agreed.
Protests in Tel Aviv
Meanwhile, freed Israeli captives and families of those still held in Gaza called on the government to move on to the second stage of the deal and prevent a return to war. During a protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, Einav Zangauker, mother of Matan Zangauker, who is being held in Gaza, accused Netanyahu of playing a “political game of chess” with the captives. “The war could resume in a week … Only an agreement that brings them all at once will ensure their return,” she said. Reporting from Jordan, Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut said Israel’s push to see an extension of phase one of the deal has led to a blockade of desperately needed humanitarian aid. “There’s still so much pressure on Netanyahu from family members of captives who are accusing the premier of prolonging the war for his own personal and political gain,” she said. Amid the talks, Israel continued its deadly assault on Gaza, killing at least three Palestinians on Saturday. Palestinians in Gaza are also struggling under the aid blockade, which has worsened a dire humanitarian crisis amid the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Since Friday night, Rafah has been the target of intense Israeli attacks from tanks and drones, with shelling affecting residential areas, including al-Jnaina, ash-Shawka and Tal as-Sultan, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, at least 48,453 Palestinians have been killed and 111,860 wounded by Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>> Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/9/israel-to-send-team-for-gaza-ceasefire-talks-in-qatar


Gaza is not for sale
Al Jazeera - March 9, 2025 - By Nils Adler
<<Activists target Trump’s golf course in Scotland over Gaza
Pro-Palestine activists have targeted Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland, spraying “GAZA IS NOT 4SALE” on the lawn and splattering red paint on the clubhouse in protest against his plans for the US to take over Gaza and resettle its population.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/9/activists-target-trumps-golf-course-in-scotland-over-gaza

France24 - March 8, 2025
<<France, Germany, Italy and UK throw support behind Arab plan for Gaza reconstruction
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Saturday adopted an Arab League plan to rebuild the devastated Gaza Strip. The Egyptian proposal, which was welcomed by the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the UK, was crafted as an alternative to US President Donald Trump's proposal to take over the coastal territory and displace the Palestinians living there. An extraordinary meeting of the the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has adopted an Arab proposal for rebuilding the Gaza Strip. The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Britain said on Saturday they supported an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that would cost $53 billion and avoid displacing Palestinians from the enclave.
"The plan shows a realistic path to the reconstruction of Gaza and promises – if implemented – swift and sustainable improvement of the catastrophic living conditions for the Palestinians living in Gaza," the ministers said in a joint statement. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation formally adopted early Saturday the Arab League counter-proposal to US President Donald Trump's plan to take over Gaza and displace its residents, calling on the international community to support the regional initiative. The decision by the 57-member grouping came at an emergency meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, three days after the Arab League ratified the plan at a summit in Cairo. The Egyptian-crafted alternative to Trump's widely condemned takeover proposes to rebuild the Gaza Strip under the future administration of the Palestinian Authority. The OIC "adopts the plan ... on the early recovery and reconstruction of Gaza", a communique said. The body, which represents the Muslim world, urged "the international community and international and regional funding institutions to swiftly provide the necessary support for the plan". Trump triggered global outrage when he suggested the US "take over" Gaza and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East", while forcing its Palestinian inhabitants to relocate to Egypt or Jordan. Forcibly displacing or transferring a population living in occupied territory is a crime against humanity under the Geneva Convention.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty welcomed the OIC endorsement and said he now hoped to gain support from the wider international community, including the US. "The next step is for the plan to become an international plan through adoption by the European Union and international parties such as Japan, Russia, China and others," Abdelatty said. "This is what we will seek and we have contact with all parties, including the American party." The Egyptian proposal envisages the creation of an administrative committee of independent, professional Palestinian technocrats entrusted with the governance of Gaza after the end of the war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The committee would be responsible for the oversight of humanitarian aid and managing the Strip's affairs for a temporary period under the supervision of the Palestinian Authority. However, the Egyptian proposal – which does not outline a role for Hamas, which controls Gaza – has already been rejected by both the US and Israel. The plan "does not meet the expectations" of Washington, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters on Thursday. Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, however, gave a more positive reaction, calling it a "good-faith first step from the Egyptians". Trump's plan has united Arab countries in opposition, and Rabha Seif Allam, of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo, said Egypt was seeking "broad support" for its proposal. "This is an attempt to build a broad coalition that refuses the displacement" of Palestinians from Gaza, she said.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP and Reuters)>> Video: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250308-muslim-nations-adopt-arab-alternative-to-trump-s-gaza-plan

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