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Updates March and earlier, 2025-'24 Actual: Gaza's stolen childhood incl. Genocide continues, and 'we remain numbers' and. Sidi Shayban's Ramadan iftars challenge Israeli restrictions & The full story of political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil & Gaza is being starved and bombed again. Why are we allowing it? & 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 ctting off Gaza’s electricity mean & Public execution & Article related to starvation as a war-tactic in Gaza   & 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 27 - 24, 2025 The Palestinian activists who refuse to leave despite Israeli violence... and with them all who'll keep rowing 'till the sea and 'No other land'. And more actual news below March 25 - 23,2025 A timeline of Israel’s weaponisation of aid to Gaza... and Palestinians in Gaza attacked as they comply with Israeli evacuation order... and UNRWA: Banning aid is a collective punishment on Gaza... Food for thought: If it is not 'kristall-(sic)clear by now the attempted genocide of the Palestinian nation simply goes on while the West keeps saying: "Wir haben es nicht gewuesst". Read more and decide for yourself.

March 23 - 20, 2025 Food for thought: A jewish saying: if you kill one human being you kill humanity. How true. And even morseo: they're to become no.1 in the worldbook of records. Read more.   The full story of political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil and Gaza is being starved and bombed again. Why are we allowing it? And 'I was a human shield' March 10 - 12, 2025 Release Mahmoud...

March 20 - 17, 2025 Read more about idf atricities here March 20 - 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

When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
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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.>
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Screenshot video footage - air attack targets charity kitchen
Al Jazeera - March 27, 2025 - By Maram Humaid
<<Israeli air attack targets charity kitchen in Gaza
An Israeli attack in central Gaza hit Palestinians who were waiting at a charity kitchen for a meal to break their Ramadan fast.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/27/israeli-air-attack-targets-charity-kitchen-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - March 27, 2025 - By Maram Humaid
<<Palestinians face struggle to survive in Gaza or being forced out by Israel
Israel’s call for Palestinians to leave Gaza has been called ethnic cleansing. Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, Palestine – Listening to the radio a few days ago outside the tent he now has to call home, 77-year-old Mohammed al-Nabahin heard about an Israeli plan to establish a “voluntary” migration office for Palestinians in Gaza. The news report gave al-Nabahin the details. An agency planned by Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, and approved by the cabinet. Its aim was to organise and secure the exit of Palestinians “wishing to migrate” to third countries. Palestinians returning to their original villages in historical Palestine was not mentioned. The plan follows some similar suggestions by US President Donald Trump earlier this year. “The idea is completely out of the question,” Mohammed said flatly. “If they want to displace us voluntarily, then let them allow us to return to our lands in occupied Palestine, from which they expelled us!” he told Al Jazeera. “Why should we leave our country?” Mohammed has already experienced being forced out of his home. When Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began 17 months ago, Mohammed was forced to flee and leave his home in central Gaza’s Bureij. He still thinks living in a tent in Gaza is better than leaving. “All of my children agree with me. They are all against leaving Gaza, no matter what happens,” Mohammed said.
Waiting for death
In the tent opposite, 47-year-old Salwa al-Masri is preparing food for her family, fanning the wood fire to keep it going. She shares Mohammed’s disdain for the idea of leaving Gaza. Her struggles in the war are the same as so many others in Gaza. Forced into displacement, she is barely able to find enough food to feed her family since Israel decided to block the entry of goods to Gaza. She has to rely on foraging for edible plants like mallow and spinach, which grow wild nearby. The hunger, along with Israel’s bombs, has left her “waiting for death”. But for Salwa, it’s that very suffering that means she can’t bear the idea of leaving. “We’ve endured all this only to leave? That will never happen,” she said. “We’ve lost everything. I lost my entire home in Beit Hanoun [in northern Gaza], and I have chosen to live the rest of my life as a displaced person in the south, enduring hardship and hunger, but I will not leave,” she added. Salwa believes Israel is using the bombings and starvation to pressure people into leaving, waiting for desperation to build before offering “exit options”. “Where would we go, wandering in foreign lands? Why is every option available, except for us staying?” she added. Israel has recently killed all eight of Salwa’s sister’s children in a strike on Beit Hanoun. “Do you think my sister, after such a loss, would choose to leave? Of course not,” she said.
Desperate to leave
Israel’s attempts to get Palestinians to leave Gaza have been denounced by human rights organisations as an attempt to ethnically cleanse the territory. Palestinians already have a long experience of being displaced at the hands of Israel, starting in 1948 when at least 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes and villages by Zionist militias to make way for the state of Israel to be declared. Ethnic cleansing has repeatedly been brought up during Israel’s war on Gaza, under different guises – many Israelis see it as a goal of the war, hoping to extend the cleansing to include the occupied West Bank. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, and with no end in sight, Israel is betting that thousands of Palestinians will be desperate to leave, even if they are unable to return. And in Gaza, while many older Palestinians are determined to stay, many from the younger generations see no future for themselves in the enclave. On a street corner, 25-year-old Mahmoud al-Rai is fixing kicycle tyres in a small makeshift workshop. When told about the migration agency, which he had not heard of, Mahmoud responded with a wide smile: “Where do I sign up?” “I want to leave Gaza as soon as possible,” he told Al Jazeera. “We are exhausted by the wars – no human being can endure what we go through here. There seems to be no end to this war and its tragedies. Every minute we live here is like dying.” Mahmoud said he doesn’t care where he goes, and he doesn’t care that Israel would be facilitating his exit. He added that he was not alone – many of his friends and peers share his desire to leave Gaza permanently. “We all see that we have no future here. No life, no work, no education – only destruction, wars, and bloodshed,” said the young man, who helps support his family of 10, including his parents.
“Just open the crossings for migration and see how many people, especially the young ones, will leave Gaza immediately.”
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/27/palestinians-face-struggle-to-survive-in-gaza-or-being-forced-out-by-israel

Al Jazeera - March 27, 2025
<<Israeli military kills Hamas spokesman as Gaza assault continues
Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua was killed when Israeli fighters jets bombed his tent shelter in northern Gaza. A Hamas spokesperson has been killed by an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza, news outlets have confirmed, as Israel’s army continues its renewed assault on the besieged enclave. Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua was killed when Israeli fighter jets bombed his tent shelter in the northern city of Jabalia in the early hours of Thursday morning, according to Al-Aqsa television and the Shehab News Agency. Several more people were wounded in the strike, including children, according to Hind Khoudary, an Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza. Khoudary said the attack was one of several carried out by the Israeli military across the Strip over recent hours, including a strike on a home in the as-Saftawi area of Gaza City, which killed six members of the same family. On March 18, Israel abruptly ended a fragile two-month ceasefire as it resumed its intense bombing campaign and ground operations in Gaza. Israel has since killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an attempt to pressure Hamas into freeing the remaining captives held in the war-torn enclave. Several senior Hamas officials have also been killed over the past week. On Sunday, an Israeli air strike on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza killed five people, including Ismail Barhoum, the head of finances and institutions within Hamas’s political office. That same day, Israeli fighter jets also bombed tents housing displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis. Salah al-Bardaweel, a prominent Hamas political leader and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was killed in that attack alongside his wife. Both men were part of Hamas’s political office – a 20-member decision-making body, 11 of whom have been killed since the start of the war in late 2023, according to the Reuters news agency. Hamas still holds 59 of the roughly 250 captives the group took during the October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas assault while the Israeli military has now killed at least 50,183 Palestinians and wounded 113,828 others since launching its ground and air assault on the Palestinian enclave. About 830 people have been killed since Israel resumed attacks 10 days ago, according to statistics from Gaza’s Ministry of Health, with women and children making up more than half of the casualties. The United Nations’ humanitarian agency (OCHA) also announced on Tuesday that 142,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced by the Israeli military since March 18, exacerbating an already dire humanitarian situation caused by Israel’s ongoing restrictions on aid entering Gaza. The rising death toll in Gaza comes amid weeks of slow-moving and fractious ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas. Mediators – the United States, Qatar and Egypt – have failed to secure an extension to the first stage of the three-phase agreement, which expired on March 1. Hamas has accused Israel of intentionally jeopardising truce discussions, aimed at bringing about a permanent end to fighting. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed he ordered Israeli forces to renew attacks on Gaza after Hamas rejected proposals to secure an extension. On Wednesday, Netanyahu repeated threats that Israel would seize territory in Gaza if Hamas failed to release the remaining captives.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/27/israeli-military-kills-hamas-spokesman-as-gaza-assault-continues


Screenshot video footage - Mourners carry away one of the bodies of victims
Al Jazeera - March 27, 2025 - By Stephen Quillen
<<LIVE: Israel kills Hamas spokesman in Gaza, bombs Syria’s Latakia
Mourners carry away one of the bodies of victims from the Palestinian Abu al-Rous family who were killed when their house was hit by Israeli bombardment, during the funeral at the Bureij camp. Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, killing Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua and eight other Palestinians in predawn attacks. UN says Israel’s renewed offensive on Gaza has displaced more than 142,000 people in the past week alone.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/27/live-israels-relentless-bombardment-kills-26-palestinians-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - March 26, 2025
<<Trump administration arrests Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk at Tufts
A doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by federal agents without explanation, her lawyer said. United States immigration authorities have arrested and revoked the visa of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University near Boston who had voiced support for Palestinians during Israel’s war in Gaza. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, had left her home in Somerville on Tuesday night to meet friends and break her Ramadan fast when she was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said in a petition filed in Boston federal court. Ozturk’s supporters say her detention is the first known immigration arrest of a Boston-area student engaged in such activism to be carried out under President Donald Trump. His administration has detained or sought to detain several foreign-born students who are legally in the US and have been involved in pro-Palestinian protests. The actions have been condemned as an assault on free speech, though the Trump administration argues that certain protests are anti-Semitic and can undermine US foreign policy. US Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin in a post on X said authorities determined Ozturk “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organisation that relishes the killing of Americans”. “A visa is a privilege, not a right,” McLaughlin said. She did not specify what activities. But Ozturk’s arrest came a year after the student co-authored an opinion piece in the school’s student paper, the Tufts Daily, that criticised Tufts’ response to calls by students to divest from companies with ties to Israel and to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide”. “Based on patterns we are seeing across the country, her exercising her free speech rights appears to have played a role in her detention,” Khanbabai said.
‘Looked like a kidnapping’
Following Ozturk’s arrest, Khanbabai filed a lawsuit late Tuesday arguing she was unlawfully detained, prompting US District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston that night to order US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) not to move Ozturk out of Massachusetts without at least 48 hours notice.
Despite the judge’s order, by Wednesday afternoon, Khanbabai in a motion said she had been unable to locate her client in New England and had just been informed by a US senator’s office that Ozturk was transferred to Louisiana. She sought a court order requiring ICE to permit access to Ozturk. The student’s detention was condemned by Democratic lawmakers, including US Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who said the “arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties”. A rally in her support was expected later Wednesday in Somerville. Neighbours said they were left rattled by the arrest, which played out at 5:30pm on a residential block. “It looked like a kidnapping,” said Michael Mathis, a 32-year-old software engineer whose surveillance camera picked up the footage of the arrest. “They approach her and start grabbing her with their faces covered. They’re covering their faces. They’re in unmarked vehicles.” The Trump administration has targeted international students as it seeks to crack down on immigration, including ramping up immigration arrests and sharply restricting border crossings. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in particular, have pledged to deport foreign pro-Palestinian protesters, accusing them of supporting Hamas militants, posing hurdles for US foreign policy, and being anti-Semitic. Protesters, including some Jewish groups, say the administration wrongly conflates their criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian rights with anti-Semitism and support for Hamas.
Targeting university students
Ozturk is a Fulbright Scholar and student in Tufts’ doctoral programme for child study and human development, according to her LinkedIn profile, and had previously studied at Columbia University in New York. She has been in the country on an F-1 visa, which allows students to live in the US while studying, according to the lawsuit. In a statement, Tufts president Sunil Kumar said the school had no advance knowledge of the arrest, which he recognised would be “distressing to some members of our community, particularly the members of our international community”. Ozturk was taken into custody less than three weeks after Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and lawful permanent resident, was similarly arrested. He is challenging his detention after Trump, without evidence, accused him of supporting Hamas, which Khalil denies. Federal immigration officials are also seeking to detain a South Korean-born Columbia University student who is a legal permanent US resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, a move blocked by the courts for now. A Lebanese doctor and assistant professor at Brown University in Rhode Island this month was denied re-entry to the US and deported to Lebanon after the Trump administration alleged that her phone contained photos “sympathetic” to Hezbollah. Rasha Alawieh said she does not support the group but holds regard for its slain leader because of her religion. The Trump administration has also targeted students at Cornell University in New York and Georgetown University in Washington.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/trump-administration-arrests-turkish-student-at-tufts-revokes-visa

Al Jazeera - March 26, 2025
<<Palestinian Oscar winner feared for his life during Israeli settler attack
Hamdan Ballal says he was assaulted by settlers and soldiers outside his home in Susiya in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land says he thought he was going to “die” at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers before his arrest this week in the occupied West Bank. Hamdan Ballal was arrested on Monday by Israeli forces after he was beaten and injured three weeks after winning his Oscar in Hollywood. He was released on Tuesday from a police station in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba. The incident took place in the village of Susiya in the southern West Bank as residents were breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Speaking to Al Jazeera on Tuesday, Ballal said he had gone to document a settler attack on his neighbour’s home in Susiya. But as the situation escalated and Ballal realised it had “become more and more dangerous”, he said he decided to return home to his family. However, a settler known to him, together with two Israeli soldiers, followed him to his house, Ballal said, adding that the assault took place just outside his home. “They held the gun directly to me, the soldiers. … The settler went behind me and directly attacked me with his hands. I don’t know what he held in his hands,” he said.
Ballal fell to the ground as the attack continued. “The soldiers kept on shouting at me, threatening me and putting the gun, one time at my neck. … They also put the gun on my cheek.” Ballal recalled thinking he would not survive the attack. “The soldiers let him [the settler] beat me, and the soldiers also beat me with a gun. I fell because it was a hard, hard attack,” he said. “They focused on my head. They kicked my head and also with a gun. “I felt they were going to kill me, not just to punish me. … I felt I would die,” he told Al Jazeera.
‘Settlers do what they want’
The documentary No Other Land – directed by Ballal, another Palestinian and two Israelis – chronicles settler violence and Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta area. It won the Oscar for best documentary on March 2. Since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, Ballal said the Israeli army “lets the settlers do what they want”. “Because the army [is] here, they are settlers with uniforms,” he said. The Palestinian Ministry of Health says Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 884 Palestinians in the West Bank since the war started 17 months ago. According to the rights group Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, about 15,700 Palestinians have been detained since October 2023.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/palestinian-oscar-winner-feared-for-his-life-during-israeli-settler-attack


Screenshot video footage - Palestinian journalists protest
Al Jazeera - March 26, 2025
<<Palestinian journalists protest targeting of colleagues in Gaza
Palestinian journalists rallied in front of Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis to protest the targeting of their colleagues Mohammad Mansour and Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat, killed in Israeli strikes two days ago.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/26/palestinian-journalists-protest-targeting-of-colleagues-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - March 26, 2025
<<Netanyahu accuses Israel’s opposition of fuelling ‘anarchy’
Thousands of Israelis have taken part in antigovernment protests after Netanyahu resumed strikes in Gaza.
Israelis protest against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the opposition of fuelling “anarchy” in Israel, after mass antigovernment protests in recent days, while the opposition leader Yair Lapid has called for a “revolt” if the government refuses to accept verdicts issued by the country’s Supreme Court. Addressing the opposition during a speech in parliament on Wednesday, Netanyahu said, “You recycle the same worn-out and ridiculous slogans about ‘the end of democracy’. Well, once and for all: Democracy is not in danger, it is the power of the bureaucrats that is in danger.” “Perhaps you could stop putting spanners in the works of the government in the middle of a war? Perhaps you could stop fuelling the sedition, hatred and anarchy in the streets?” he added. Thousands of Israelis have taken part in several days of antigovernment protests, accusing Netanyahu of undermining democracy by removing Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet internal security agency and resuming strikes in Gaza without any regard for captives held in the besieged enclave. Netanyahu is locked in a battle with the Shin Bet chief, who is running a bribery investigation into the prime minister’s office, citing a lack of “trust”. The two men have been at loggerheads, fuelled by bitter recriminations over the failure to prevent the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks on southern Israel. The demonstrations, which erupted last week, have been organised by a broad coalition of anti-Netanyahu groups who say the Israeli leader is trying to stay in power at any cost. The Supreme Court froze Bar’s dismissal after several appeals were filed, including by opposition leader Yair Lapid’s centre-right Yesh Atid party. The opposition’s appeal highlighted what critics see as the two main reasons Netanyahu moved against Bar. The first was his criticism of the government over the security failure that allowed Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the deadliest day in the country’s history. The second was what the opposition appeal said was a Shin Bet investigation into Netanyahu’s close associates on suspicion of receiving money linked to Qatar. Netanyahu’s office has dismissed the accusations as “fake news”.
Calling for a ‘revolt’
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called for a “revolt” against the government of Netanyahu if it refused to accept verdicts issued by the country’s Supreme Court. “A government that doesn’t obey the court is a criminal government that should not be obeyed,” Lapid told local radio 103FM. “If the government does not comply with the Supreme Court, we must shut down the country, and that would be the end of everything.” Israel’s cabinet also passed a vote of no confidence on Sunday against the country’s attorney general, Baharav-Miara, the first step in a process to dismiss her. Netanyahu’s office pointed to “significant and prolonged differences between the government and the government’s legal adviser,” a key part of the attorney general’s job. Following the Supreme Court’s initial ruling in the Bar case, Baharav-Miara said Netanyahu could not name a new internal security chief and was “prohibited to take any action that harms” his position.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/netanyahu-accuses-israels-opposition-of-fuelling-anarchy


Screenshot video footage - What Palestinians in Gaza say
Al Jazeera - March 26, 2025
<<What Palestinians in Gaza say about Israel’s ‘Migration Directorate’
Israel plans to establish a government agency to oversee the “voluntary departure” of Palestinians from Gaza, a move Palestinians have rejected and condemned as ethnic cleansing.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/26/what-palestinians-in-gaza-say-about-israels-migration

Al Jazeera - March 26, 2025
<<Palestinian Oscar winner feared for his life during Israeli settler attack
Hamdan Ballal says he was assaulted by settlers and soldiers outside his home in Susiya in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land says he thought he was going to “die” at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers before his arrest this week in the occupied West Bank. Hamdan Ballal was arrested on Monday by Israeli forces after he was beaten and injured three weeks after winning his Oscar in Hollywood. He was released on Tuesday from a police station in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba. The incident took place in the village of Susiya in the southern West Bank as residents were breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Speaking to Al Jazeera on Tuesday, Ballal said he had gone to document a settler attack on his neighbour’s home in Susiya. But as the situation escalated and Ballal realised it had “become more and more dangerous”, he said he decided to return home to his family. However, a settler known to him, together with two Israeli soldiers, followed him to his house, Ballal said, adding that the assault took place just outside his home. “They held the gun directly to me, the soldiers. … The settler went behind me and directly attacked me with his hands. I don’t know what he held in his hands,” he said. Ballal fell to the ground as the attack continued. “The soldiers kept on shouting at me, threatening me and putting the gun, one time at my neck. … They also put the gun on my cheek.” Ballal recalled thinking he would not survive the attack. “The soldiers let him [the settler] beat me, and the soldiers also beat me with a gun. I fell because it was a hard, hard attack,” he said. “They focused on my head. They kicked my head and also with a gun.
“I felt they were going to kill me, not just to punish me. … I felt I would die,” he told Al Jazeera.
‘Settlers do what they want’
The documentary No Other Land – directed by Ballal, another Palestinian and two Israelis – chronicles settler violence and Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta area. It won the Oscar for best documentary on March 2. Since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, Ballal said the Israeli army “lets the settlers do what they want”. “Because the army [is] here, they are settlers with uniforms,” he said. The Palestinian Ministry of Health says Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 884 Palestinians in the West Bank since the war started 17 months ago. According to the rights group Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, about 15,700 Palestinians have been detained since October 2023.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/palestinian-oscar-winner-feared-for-his-life-during-israeli-settler-attack


Screenshot video footage - Hundreds of Palestinians protest in Gaza
Al Jazeera - March 26, 2025
<<Hundreds of Palestinians protest in Gaza against the war
Hundreds of Palestinians have gathered in northern Gaza to demand an end to Israel’s escalating onslaught. Protesters were seen carrying signs and chanting slogans as they marched down the streets of Beit Lahiya.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/26/hundreds-of-palestinians-protest-in-gaza-against-the-war

Al Jazeera - March 26, 2025
<<Over 140,000 displaced in a week in Gaza amid renewed Israeli attacks: UN
At least 39 killed in 24 hours as bombardment continues across the Strip since Israel reneged on ceasefire agreement.
Israel’s renewed attacks on the Gaza Strip have continued for a ninth straight day, killing dozens of Palestinians, as the United Nations says more than 140,000 people have been displaced since last week. The UN’s humanitarian agency, OCHA, said 142,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced since Israel resumed its war on Gaza on March 18. “Fleeing with only a few personal belongings, many people are now staying on the streets, in desperate need of food, drinking water, and shelter essentials,” the agency said late on Tuesday. Israeli attacks killed at least 39 people, including children, and wounded 124 across Gaza in 24 hours, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Attacks were reported across the enclave, including in northern Gaza’s Jabalia, as well as Khan Younis and Rafah in the south. In Jabalia, Israeli military planes hit a house packed with civilians, killing at least eight of them. Among the victims was a six-month-old baby. At the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, a residential flat was targeted, killing one child. “This night has been marked by utter devastation, with Israeli forces bombarding densely populated areas in central and northern Gaza,” said Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. “People here are quite terrified of what might come next as there’s been no breakthrough in the ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.”
Tens of thousands displaced
According to the UN’s OCHA, about 250,000 Palestinians are in the areas slated for evacuation in Rafah, Khan Younis and northern Gaza, including more than 50,000 people at 240 sites for internally displaced people. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City in the north, said displaced people were seeking all and any place that would provide “even just a little bit of safety for them”. “They are moving into tent sites, overcrowded areas, they are moving into the near-collapsing, partially destroyed evacuation centres,” he said. “They are lacking the most basic necessities to survive the difficult conditions, the by-products of displacement – hunger, thirst and trauma, and above all, the constant fear of being attacked in their tents.” The displacement is being driven mainly by Israel’s forced evacuation orders and its destruction of homes and public infrastructure, OCHA said. Since Israel resumed the war, its military has issued six notices, placing about 15 percent of Gaza under evacuation, it added.
Humanitarian aid in peril
Gaza’s remaining water system is also in peril, and will completely collapse if fuel supplies run out, all but cutting off people’s access to clean water, according to Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF. The medical NGO’s statement came as Israel’s punishing blockade entered its 25th day. MSF said the lack of access to safe water is already having dire consequences for people’s health. “The sheer number of children with skin conditions is a direct result of Gaza’s destruction and blockade,” said Chiara Lodi, the MSF medical team coordinator in Gaza. “In addition to treating adults and children who have severe war injuries, our staff are treating an increasing number of children with entirely preventable skin diseases like scabies, which is not only uncomfortable, but in severe cases, sees them scratch their skin until it bleeds which can lead to infection.”
The siege began on March 2 after Israel reneged on the ceasefire deal and sought to extend the first stage of the three-phase agreement that expired – without committing to ending the war on Gaza. On top of the number of civilians who have died, OCHA said at least eight aid workers have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed its war last week, bringing the total number killed since the breach of the ceasefire to 399.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/over-140000-displaced-in-a-week-in-gaza-amid-renewed-israeli-attacks-un


792 Palestinians killed
Jinha - Womens News Agency - March 26, 2025
<<792 Palestinians killed in Gaza since March 18
792 Palestinians have been killed and 1,663 others injured in Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip since March 18, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
News Center- Since the Israeli army resumed its attacks on the Gaza Strip, 792 Palestinians have been killed and 1,663 others injured in Israel's attacks, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. At least 50,144 Palestinians have been killed and 113,704 others injured in Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the ministry added. Several civilians, including children and women, have been killed and injured since the early hours of Wednesday, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. According to the news agency, eight civilians were killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting a house belonging to the al-Najjar family in Jabalia in northern Gaza, and a civilian was killed in an airstrike on a residential building in Beit Lahia. Two citizens were killed, and another was injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting a gathering in the center of Khan Younis. A civilian was also injured by sniper fire in Al-Zeitoun, the southwestern and largest quarter of the Old City of Gaza.>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/792-palestinians-killed-in-gaza-since-march-18-36778?page=1

Al Jazeera - March 26, 2025
<<US judge blocks deportation of another pro-Palestinian student activist
Korean American Yunseo Chung, 21, is among several students challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to deport them over their pro-Palestinian activism. A judge has ruled that Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old Korean American student at Columbia University who is being sought for deportation by the administration of President Donald Trump, cannot be detained as she fights attempts to remove her from the United States over her pro-Palestinian views. “As of today, Yunseo Chung no longer has to fear and live in fear of ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] coming to her doorstep and abducting her in the night,” Chung’s lawyer Ramzi Kassem said after the court ruling on Tuesday.
US District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said government lawyers had not yet laid out enough facts about their claims that they needed to detain the student while her case against deportation plays out in court. “Nor was it clear why Ms Chung would pose potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences,” the judge said, citing a rationale that the Trump administration has invoked in Chung’s case and those of other student protesters it is seeking to throw out of the country over their pro-Palestinian activism. “What is the issue with permitting her to stay in the community and not be subjected to ICE detention while the parties participate in rational, orderly briefing?” the judge said, using a legal term for fleshing out arguments in court filings. The ruling for Chung, who has lived in the US since she was 7 years old and holds permanent residency, was a small win in a larger lawsuit in which she is seeking to block the US government from deporting non-citizens who participated in university campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. Chung was not at the hearing while about a dozen supporters watched quietly from the court audience. According to a spokesperson at the Department of Homeland Security, Chung is “being sought for removal proceedings under the immigration laws” for engaging in “concerning conduct”, including being arrested at a protest. Chung said in her lawsuit that ICE agents were looking to deport her after her arrest on March 5 while protesting Columbia University’s disciplinary actions against student protesters. Her legal team was also informed earlier this month that her permanent residence status in the US had been revoked. Such actions form part of a “larger pattern of attempted US government repression of constitutionally protected activity and other forms of speech”, Chung’s lawsuit states and cites the Trump administration’s attempt to deport other international students in the country. One such case is Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate from Columbia University. His attempted deportation over his role in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia is one of the most high-profile among several students targeted by Trump. Held in detention, Khalil has described himself as a political prisoner detained for exercising his free speech. Khalil is also challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to remove him from the country, and on March 10, a New York district court prohibited his deportation and extended it two days later. Another student up for deportation is Cornell University’s Momodou Taal, who is also suing the US government for attempting to deport him. Badar Khan Suri, an Indian student at Georgetown University, faces a similar situation, as he remains detained by the government. However, a federal judge has barred his deportation for now.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/us-judge-blocks-deportation-of-another-pro-palestinian-student-activist

Al Jazeera - March 25, 2025
<<Will Benjamin Netanyahu accept a new ceasefire?
Egypt has proposed a new plan to end Israel’s war on Gaza.>>
Read more/video: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2025/3/25/will-benjamin-netanyahu-accept-a-new-ceasefire


Screenshot video footage - 24 hours of Israeli atrocities in Gaza
Al Jazeera - March 25, 2025
<<24 hours of Israeli atrocities in Gaza
A hospital bombed, civilians targeted, journalists killed. These are some of the atrocities carried out by Israel in the Gaza Strip in just a 24-hour span.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/3/25/24-hours-of-israeli-atrocities-in-gaza


No other land
Al Jazeera - March 25, 2025
<<Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal released from detention
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of No Other Land, had been detained by Israeli forces after being attacked by settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land who was detained by the Israeli army after being attacked by settlers, has been released. In a post on social media platform X on Tuesday, his fellow co-director Yuval Abraham said: “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.” The Associated Press news agency said its journalists had also seen Ballal and two other Palestinian people leaving the police station where they were being held in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank. Ballal had bruises on his face and blood on his clothes, the AP reported. Ballal said he was held at an army base and forced to sleep under a freezing air conditioner. “I was blindfolded for 24 hours,” he told AP. “All the night I was freezing. It was a room, I couldn’t see anything … I heard the voice of soldiers laughing about me.” Lea Tsemel, the attorney representing the three men, said that they received only minimal care for their injuries from the attack and that she had no access to them for several hours after their arrest. She had earlier said they were accused of throwing stones at a young settler, allegations they deny. Ballal and the other directors of No Other Land, which explores the struggles of living under Israeli occupation, had mounted the stage at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month when the film won the Oscar award for Best Documentary Feature. On Monday, around two dozen settlers — some masked, some carrying guns and some in military uniforms — attacked the occupied West Bank village of Susiya in the evening as residents were breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Soldiers who arrived pointed their guns at the Palestinians, while settlers continued throwing stones, residents told the AP.
Lamia Ballal, the director’s wife, said she heard her husband being beaten outside their home as she huddled inside with their three children. She heard him screaming, “I’m dying!” and calling for an ambulance. When she looked out the window, she saw three men in uniform beating Ballal with the butts of their rifles and another person in civilian clothes who appeared to be filming the violence. “Of course, after the Oscar, they have come to attack us more,” Lamia said. “I felt afraid.” Human rights group Amnesty International called for accountability for the attack. “Hamdan Billal was forcibly disappeared by Israeli soldiers after having been assaulted by Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians … He has now been released, but those who carried out the attacks must be held accountable,” it said in a post on X. Ballal said he was attacked by a well-known settler who had threatened him in the past. The settler can be seen with other masked men in a widely circulated video from August in which they threaten Ballal. “This is my land, I was given it by God,” the settler says in the video, in which he also uses profanity and tries to get Ballal to fight him. “Next time it won’t be nice,” the settler says in the video. On Tuesday, a small bloodstain could be seen outside Ballal’s family home, and the car’s windshield and windows were shattered. Neighbours pointed to a nearby water tank with a hole in the side that they said had been punched by the settlers. Basel Adra – another of the film’s co-directors, who is a prominent Palestinian activist in the area – said there has been a massive upswing in attacks by settlers and Israeli forces since the Oscar win. “Nobody can do anything to stop the pogroms, and soldiers are only there to facilitate and help the attacks,” he said. “We’re living in dark days here, in Gaza, and all of the West Bank … Nobody’s stopping this.” The Israeli military said on Monday that it had detained three Palestinians suspected of hurling rocks at forces and one Israeli civilian involved in what it described as a violent confrontation.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/25/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-hamdan-ballal-released-from-detention

Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025
<<‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
The film is an Oscar-winning documentary collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.
Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank after he was beaten and injured by Israeli settlers, his fellow co-director Yuval Abraham said on X. “A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film No Other Land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding,” Abraham said in a post.
“Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since,” he added. A video provided by the Center for Jewish Nonviolence showed a masked settler shoving and swinging his fists at two activists from the group in a dusty field at night. The activists rush back to their car. “Get in, get in!” one shouts, and they duck inside as the thuds of rocks can be heard hitting the car. “Car window was broken,” the driver says as they drive off. A group of 10 to 20 masked settlers also attacked Jewish activists at the scene with stones and sticks, smashed their car windows and slashed their tyres. “We don’t know where Hamdan is because he was taken away in a blindfold,” Josh Kimelman, one of the activists who was at the scene, told The Associated Press news agency. The Israeli military said it was looking into the episode but did not immediately comment. No Other Land, a collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, follows activist Basel Adra as he risks arrest and violence to document the destruction of his hometown, Masafer Yatta, by the Israeli military. The film has won a string of international awards, starting at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024. It has also drawn ire in Israel and abroad, as when Miami Beach briefly proposed ending the lease of a movie theatre that screened the documentary.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/24/no-other-land-co-director-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-and-arrested

Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025
<<Co-director of No Other Land attacked by Israeli settlers & detained
A Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank after he was beaten and injured by Israeli settlers>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/3/25/video-co-director-of-no-other-land-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-detained


Screenshot video footage - The Palestinian activists who refuse to leave
Al Jazeera - March 25, 2025
<<The Palestinian activists who refuse to leave despite Israeli violence
As Israeli settler violence peaks in the occupied West Bank and President Trump pushes his plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, these three Palestinian activists say they’ll remain in their homes until they die. They call it ‘Sumud’, steadfastness.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/25/the-palestinian-activists-who-refuse-to-leave-despite-israeli-violence

Al Jazeera - March 25, 2025
<<Korean American sues Trump admin to stop deportation over campus activism
Yunseo Chung, 21, moved to the US when she was seven and now faces deportation over pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University.
United States permanent resident and Columbia University student Yunseo Chung, 21, has sued US President Donald Trump’s administration to halt her deportation, accusing authorities of using the same tactics employed against other college activists over their pro-Palestinian views. Chung said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) moved to deport her after she was arrested on March 5 while protesting against Columbia University’s disciplinary actions against student protesters. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, Chung said that in the days after her arrest ICE officials signed an administrative arrest warrant and went to her parents’ residence seeking to detain her for deportation. Chung is accused of having “engaged in concerning conduct” and was arrested during a “pro-Hamas protest”, according to a senior spokesperson at the Department of Homeland Security. “She is being sought for removal proceedings under the immigration laws. Chung will have an opportunity to present her case before an immigration judge,” the spokesperson said. Immigration agents have not been able to detain Chung despite visiting her parents’ residences multiple times, according to reports. Chung, who migrated to the US from South Korea with her parents when she was seven years old, is seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s efforts to deport non-citizens who participated in campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. She is also asking a judge to prevent the administration from detaining her, moving her out of New York City or removing her from the country while her lawsuit plays out. “ICE’s shocking actions against Ms Chung form part of a larger pattern of attempted US government repression of constitutionally protected protest activity and other forms of speech,” said Chung’s lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Manhattan. If successful, Chung’s lawsuit could block the administration’s efforts to deport non-US citizens who took part in campus protests against Israel. Chung’s lawsuit also cites the Trump administration’s efforts to deport five other students who have spoken out on pro-Palestinian issues. In one of the most high-profile cases, immigration officials detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student, and told him his green card was being revoked because he participated in protests. Khalil, who received a master’s degree last semester, served as a negotiator for students as they bargained with Columbia officials over an end to their campus tent encampment last spring. Also due for deportation is Momodou Taal, of Cornell University, who received a notice last week to surrender to immigration authorities after he sued on March 15 to preempt deportation efforts. Taal’s lawyer, Eric Lee, said Monday that his client is not being required to surrender before a hearing in the lawsuit scheduled for Tuesday in Syracuse. The government has also detained Badar Khan Suri, an Indian studying at Georgetown University – though a federal judge has barred Suri’s deportation – as well as refusing to let a professor at Brown University’s medical school enter the US. Chung’s petition comes after President Trump promised to deport foreign pro-Palestinian protesters, whom he has accused of being “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American”, a charge dismissed by the protests and rights advocates who say the president’s order violates the free speech rights of international students and scholars.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/25/korean-american-sues-trump-admin-to-stop-deportation-over-campus-activism


Screenshot video footage - State Department blames Hamas for Israel’s killing of AJ journalist
Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025
<<State Department blames Hamas for Israel’s killing of AJ journalist
US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce blamed Hamas for “every single thing that’s happening” in Gaza when asked Monday about two journalists killed in Israeli attacks, including Al Jazeera’s Hossam Shabat.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/3/24/state-department-blames-hamas-for-israels-killing-of-aj-journalist

Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025
<<How serious is Israel’s latest political crisis for its leader?
Protests are held over Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to sack the Shin Bet chief and the attorney general.>>
Read more/video: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2025/3/24/how-serious-is-israels-latest-political-crisis-for-its-leader

Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025 - By Stephen Kapos - Artist, retired architect and a holocaust survivor
<<I am a Holocaust survivor. UK police interviewed me for protesting genocide
It’s vital for all of us in Britain to speak out now against our own government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.
I was seven years old when Germany invaded and occupied their unreliable ally, Hungary, in March 1944. This makes me 87 years old now. But my memories of hiding as a hunted Jew on false papers, and the utter devastation of the climactic fighting around us, between a trapped German Army and the Red Army, are still a crystal clear memory. I see the burnt-out cars, tanks, dead horses and human bodies, ammunition and helmets thrown about, burnt-out buildings, mountains of rubble and broken glass everywhere – just like tragically destroyed Gaza is looking today. For over a year now it’s been clear that Israel’s plan is to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza in order to force as many people as possible to leave. This policy has many differences from Nazi Germany’s plan to destroy Jewish society in Europe – but it also has many similarities. That is why, as a Holocaust survivor, I’ve felt compelled to join various pro-Palestine protests in London. These protests have been numerous and often huge. So it’s no surprise that the authorities have imposed increasing restrictions on them in order to dissuade people from attending. But I was still surprised when the Metropolitan Police called me in for an interview. We don’t know quite how far those in power intend to go with their restrictions on the right to protest. But we do know they want to portray London’s pro-Palestine demos as tainted with anti-Semitism. This is despite the fact that these protests have included thousands of Jews and that many Jews, including myself, have addressed the protesters from the stage. A year ago, in April 2024, I gave my first speech on a stage in Hyde Park where I told the huge crowd about Adolf Eichmann coming to Hungary to organise the deportation of 400,000 Jews to Auschwitz. I also spoke about the 15 members of my own family who perished there and about my father who was taken to Belsen and Theresienstadt concentration camps – although eventually he did return. I ended the speech like this: We Jews who survived all this pain, killings, humiliation and destruction are against the use of the memory of the Holocaust by the Government of Israel as cover and justification for the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank. What was most striking about the speech was not what I said but that the huge crowd listened in such respectful silence and then applauded with such enthusiasm. To suggest that such a crowd was anti-Semitic – let alone potentially violent – is absurd. Yet that is exactly what several newspapers did when they published evidence-free articles the next day falsely claiming that the crowd had threatened to vandalise Hyde Park’s Holocaust memorial. Since then, pro-Israel politicians and journalists have continued to claim that our protests are “hate marches” or “no-go zones for Jews”. Recent claims that our marches are a threat to London’s synagogues are a further development of this relentless – but baseless – campaign. Anyone who has witnessed the overwhelming warmth and support that our group of Holocaust survivor descendants – as well as the wider Jewish bloc – experience regularly on the marches, will understand quite how baseless. Most importantly, this whole campaign is an intentional distraction from the main issue, which is to stop the Gaza genocide now. As Israel resumes its indiscriminate bombing – murdering hundreds more civilians in Gaza – it’s vital for all of us in Britain to speak out now against our own government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.
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/2025/3/25/i-am-a-holocaust-survivor-uk-police-interviewed-me-for-protesting-genocide

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