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Special Report Global Sumud Flotilla October 2-1, 2025 September Trench stories are now embedded in the daily news August 27, 2025 “When Life becomes Cheaper than Bread.” Call for Justice August 26, 2025 Cease fire? Where, when? And by the way, we are not hamas, idf i.e. terrorists, we are civilians i.e. humans. Question is... are the (western) genociders too? TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

Jan 22, 2026 - Dec 31, 2025 Palestine was the deadliest place to be a journalist in 2025 as 260 Journalists were Killed in Gaza but... Journalists do not die - Their Words Live on Shireen Abu Akleh and many others intentionally killed by israeli forces the World knows what’s happened in Gaza in the last two years thanks to ‘remarkable’ local journalists and stories of the Fallen or Wounded which demands Justice... March 11 - 9, 2026 Palestine still is the deadliest place to be a journalist in Gaza but... Journalists do not die nor can jailing or betrayal silence them - Their Words Live on and especially where we Honour Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away Fatima Hassouna and Mariam Abu Daqqa and more actual news Overview of journalists killed in action in Gaza Journalists keep Revealing the Truth despite All Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel December 6, 2024: Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war   Click here for earlier stories/news

Day 2 day update: In Today's Factual News: April 10, 2026 The spiral of death and destruction continues where there is ‘Neither war nor peace’ in Gaza and the West Bank but a continuation of crimes against humanity and the world keeping worried only about the rising prices at the pump and more Actual News all as part of the chris-jew magogs Live Updates about the 'ceasefire' Updated April 2 - March 31-25, 2026 israels Death Penalty on Humanity approved based on the chris-jew magogs crusade   In memory and support of our daughters Hind Rajab and Hani Naim Watch the full docu-movie - 'The voice of Hind Rajab'  here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMEtcEmmkH0

Left-Actual news-Middle: about the all-out christian-jewish against Muslims war as an orgy of violence continues with now the genocide-killers t&n with a new playbook: women, children first then all the rest of humanity April 9, 2026 Israel bombed Gaza on 36 of the past 40 days while the war raged in Iran, Lebanon and region March 25, 2026 Israel Advances Death Penalty Bill for Palestinian Detainees and Hostages and other factual news March 30, 2026 Land Day 'Between memory and the fight for what remains...' Israel is deliberately blocking and killing foreign journalists and unfortunately it means that for now there are no Live Updates But We'll be Back!! Jan 1, 2026 Dec 31, 2025 On how israelis understand an act of Human Kindness: Banning of all Aid Groups October 7, 2025 Special Report About 2 years of Genocide

All actual news from Palestine comes since weeks incl. OUT OF THE TRENCHES stories click below for an Overview special reports For the complete story of the ´Madleen´ heroic voyage' click here July 4 - 3, 2025 Gaza’s hunger crisis is not a tragedy – it’s a war tactic

 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.

   
War against Humanity -
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves,
and it is tiresome for children to be always
and forever explaining things to them.”

  
 Olive tree - Symbol of Palestine
- Did you eat today  - Boy shouts FOOD and PEACE NOW - GO AWAY you mercenaries of the usa/isr/idf/ghf devils!!!!

Newsflash:
the all-out christian-jewish
against Muslims war
as an orgy of violence continues


the united ma gogs' death sentence order on Humanity


Al Jazeera - April 10, 2026 By Mariamne Everett, AFP, Anadolu and Reuters
{OIC condemns Israeli approval of 34 new West Bank settlements
The Palestinian Presidency’s office condemned the plan as a “flagrant violation of international ⁠law”. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned Israel’s approval of 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying the decision violates international law. Israeli rights group Peace Now reported late on Thursday that the government had taken the decision “secretly” in early April. The decision was also reported widely by Israeli media outlets. The Palestinian Presidency’s office condemned the plan as a “flagrant violation of international ⁠law”. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli government. The OIC’s general secretariat said in a statement on Friday that Israel “the occupying power, has no sovereignty over the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and that all its measures aimed at changing the geographic and demographic reality there are null and void under international law”. The 34 settlements approved on Thursday come on top of 68 approved since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government came to power in 2022. The OIC general secretariat also “warned of the gravity of the escalation of settlement policies, land confiscation, settler terrorism and attempts to annex and impose so-called Israeli sovereignty on the occupied West Bank, stressing that this aims to undermine the two-state solution and violate the rights of the Palestinian people“.
‘Serious violation of international law’
Turkiye also criticised Israel’s approval of the new settlements, calling it a “serious violation of international law and UN resolutions”. Israel’s Channel 24 reported that the security cabinet “secretly” approved the establishment of these new settlements during a recent session. “This is the largest number of settlements ever approved in a single cabinet session,” it added. News website Ynet reported that military chief Eyal Zamir warned during the security cabinet meeting on April 1 that the army could “collapse” because of increasing demands on its manpower. That included the legalisation of dozens of outposts, granting them official settlement status and therefore protection from Israeli troops. The approved sites include locations within Palestinian neighbourhoods in the northern West Bank and remote areas rarely reached by Israeli forces, Channel 24 said, adding that 10 of the 34 settlements are already existing outposts, which are illegal under Israeli law, but will now be retroactively legalised under the decision. The remaining 24 are yet to be built. All Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law. The decision has not been officially published by any Israeli government body. Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. Excluding East Jerusalem, more than 500,000 Israelis now live there in settlements, among some three million Palestinians. Settlement expansion has been a key policy under successive Israeli governments since 1967, but has accelerated significantly under the Netanyahu-led coalition. Rights groups say approvals of new settlements, land seizures and settler violence have further increased since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, which has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/10/oic-condemns-israeli-approval-of-34-new-west-bank-settlements


Spanish protesters
Quds news - April 10, 2026
{Israel Expels Spain From US’s CMCC Over Pro-Palestine, Anti-Occupation Stance
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israel has expelled Spain from the US-run Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Kiryat Gat over its pro-Palestine, anti-occupation stance, stating that Spain “has repeatedly chosen to stand against Israel.” Israel said the move was carried out in coordination with the US. On Friday afternoon, ICC-wanted dPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that this came "after Spain has chosen repeatedly to stand against Israel." "Spain has defamed our heroes, the soldiers of the IDF, the soldiers of the most moral army in the world," Netanyahu said, adding that he is "not willing to tolerate this hypocrisy and hostility. I do not intend to allow any country to wage a diplomatic war against us without paying an immediate price." Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar noted that the move, which was carried out in coordination with the US over the Spanish government's "obsessive anti-Israel bias." The CMCC, which is a part of US Central Command (CENTCOM) was created in October 2025 in order to oversee and facilitate the flow of humanitarian, logistical, and security assistance from the international community into the Gaza Strip under Trump's so-called Gaza peace plan. } Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67532&slug=israel-expels-spain-from-uss-cmcc-over-pro-palestine-anti-occupation-stance

 
Screenschot: a mothers' grief - missing children under the rubble
Al Jazeera - April 10, 2026
{Gaza families still unable to bury dead six months into ‘ceasefire’
About 10,000 Palestinians remain missing, believed to be buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings during Israel’s genocidal war. Six months into the so-called “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, thousands of families still cannot bury their loved ones. About 10,000 Palestinians remain missing, believed to be buried under collapsed buildings since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023. On October 10 last year, an internationally mediated agreement was signed between Israel and Hamas, aiming to end the conflict.
Yet for many, the war has not ended.
The United Nations says Israeli bombardment has generated more than 61 million tonnes of rubble in the besieged and battered Strip, leaving entire communities entombed. Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary spoke to a Palestinian father in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Abu Mohammed survived an Israeli attack after rescuers pulled him from beneath the rubble. Four of his children did not. Since then, he has lived beside the ruins of his home, where their bodies remain trapped. He managed to bury his wife, his mother, and one of his children. The rest are still beneath the debris. “I have been trying for three years to retrieve my children, but these are massive concrete slabs. There is no way I can do this, even with an excavator. This needs heavy equipment,” said Abu Mohammed. “How can I do this on my own?” He said he has repeatedly called civil defence teams, but no one has come to assist him. Two of his surviving children are in Cairo in neighbouring Egypt, receiving medical treatment alone, without a parent.
Barely any change
The ceasefire was supposed to allow heavy machinery into Gaza to begin recovery efforts and reunite families. Months later, that has not happened. “Nothing has entered Gaza except the limited equipment brought in for Egyptian committees and Red Crescent’s team to retrieve Israeli captives,” Mahmoud Basal, Gaza’s civil defence spokesperson, told Al Jazeera. “Once those bodies were recovered, the file was closed.” Across Gaza, thousands remain buried. In just one apartment block in Bureij, at least 50 bodies are still trapped beneath the rubble, untouched since October 2023. Six months into the ceasefire, conditions on the ground have barely shifted. Families continue to wait as bodies are not yet recovered; meanwhile, Israeli attacks persist. Israeli forces shot and killed a young female student on Thursday while she attended a class in a tent in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, according to health and education officials. Despite the ceasefire, Israel still occupies more than half of the Gaza Strip. It has levelled most buildings in these areas and forced residents out. Since the ceasefire took effect, at least 738 people have been killed and 2,036 wounded. Authorities have recovered 759 bodies from the rubble.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed more than 72,317 Palestinians and wounded at least 172,158 others.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/10/gaza-families-still-unable-to-bury-dead-six-months-into-ceasefire


Screenschot: ceasefire, when?
Al Jazeera - April 10, 2026 By Al Jazeera, Anadolu and AP
{Six months into ‘ceasefire’, Gaza suffers under persistent Israeli attacks
Gaza’s devastation grows as more than 72,000 people killed and 172,000 injured amid Israeli violations of US-brokered truce. Since the Gaza “ceasefire” began six months ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 738 people and injured more than 2,000, according to Palestine’s Ministry of Health. Gaza faces unprecedented devastation, with more than 10 percent of its population killed or injured. The death toll has surpassed 72,000 people, mostly children and women, with at least 172,000 injured and many others believed to be trapped under rubble. Since the United States-brokered ceasefire took effect on October 10, Israel has violated the agreement thousands of times through near-daily attacks. Following Israeli and United States attacks on Iran from February 28, Israeli authorities shut down all Gaza crossings, halting medical evacuations. This closure included the Rafah crossing, which, under the terms of the ceasefire, was supposed to allow 50 patients and their companions daily passage for medical treatment. Healthcare has reached a crisis point, with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) documenting more than 18,500 patients, including 4,000 children, needing medical evacuation. Despite Israel announcing limited resumption of medical evacuations through Rafah on March 19, only 625 of 7,800 travellers – approximately 8 percent of the agreed number – have been permitted to leave for treatment since February 28. The humanitarian crisis continues to worsen as Israel restricts essential food and medical supplies. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the global hunger monitor, 77 percent of Gaza’s population now experiences severe acute food insecurity. Gaza’s Government Media Office recently disputed claims on X by Board of Peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov that 602 aid trucks entered Gaza in one day. The office clarified that only 207 trucks actually entered, with just 79 carrying humanitarian assistance. The office added that the aid making its way in “does not meet the level of humanitarian response required” and falls significantly short of “scaled access”. The statement noted that Israel’s implementation of the humanitarian protocol under the ceasefire agreement has not exceeded 38 percent of agreed-upon levels, asserting that “distorting the facts cannot conceal the scale of the catastrophe, nor does it absolve any party of its legal and humanitarian responsibilities”. The office called for international intervention to protect Palestinian civilians.} Gallery - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/4/10/six-months-into-a-us-brokered-ceasefire-gaza-remains-under-israeli-attacks


Screenschot: scorched earth - ceasefire, really?
Al Jazeera - April 10, 2026 By Maram Humaid
{‘Neither war nor peace’: What Gaza looks like six months into ‘ceasefire’
Since October 2025 agreement, attacks continue, aid is insufficient and regional conflicts are deepening local instability.
Gaza City, Palestine – Six months after a ceasefire agreement was signed on October 10, 2025, the reality on the ground in the Gaza Strip remains fragile, oscillating between relative calm and recurring escalation, with no tangible improvement in humanitarian or security conditions for Palestinian civilians. The agreement between Israel and Hamas was brokered internationally after a devastating war lasting two years, resulting in more than 72,000 Palestinian deaths and tens of thousands of injuries. It was expected to mark a turning point towards ending the war and initiating a recovery phase for Gaza’s population. At its core, the agreement stipulated an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire, including the cessation of all ground and air military operations, alongside a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from within the Strip – particularly from populated areas – in order to reduce direct contact with civilians. It also included expanded humanitarian arrangements, most notably the regular opening of border crossings like the Rafah crossing; enabling greater freedom of movement for individuals; and the improved entry of aid, including hundreds of daily trucks carrying food, medicine and fuel, with guarantees that assistance would reach all areas of the Strip without obstruction. In parallel, the agreement outlined a reconstruction framework under international supervision aimed at rehabilitating destroyed infrastructure and housing, as well as phased prisoner and detainee exchanges, and the establishment of an international monitoring mechanism to oversee this implementation. However, six months later, field data and reports from international organisations show that these commitments have not been fulfilled as promised. No full ceasefire has been achieved, no comprehensive withdrawal has taken place, aid has remained below agreed-upon levels, and border crossings have continued to operate intermittently under shifting security and political conditions. Amid this fluctuating agreement, people in Gaza remain trapped in instability, amid ongoing Israeli violations and daily volatility across all aspects of life. This has turned the ceasefire from a stable framework for ending the war into a partial, temporary truce used to manage rather than resolve the crisis.
What Gaza looks like six months later
During the months that the agreement has been in place, the Israeli army has continued its attacks, raising questions about the fragility of the ceasefire and the role of mediators in enforcing its terms. Gaza’s Government Media Office has documented more than 2,073 violations between October 2025 and March 2026, including Israeli air strikes, gunfire and incursions. In the first weeks of the truce alone, about 497 violations were recorded, resulting in 342 Palestinian deaths, while by December, the toll had reached 379 killed and 992 injured, according to Ministry of Health data. In the following months, violations continued at a lower intensity – but did not stop. Field reports consistently documented deaths resulting from air strikes and gunfire, including attacks near schools and residential areas. By April this year, the total death toll since the start of the ceasefire has exceeded 700 Palestinians, according to official sources. These figures suggest that the agreement lacks an effective enforcement or monitoring mechanism, and no guarantor capable of ensuring compliance on the ground. In practice, the ceasefire did not stop the killing; it reshaped it into a lower intensity but continuous pattern.
Humanitarian needs: High cost, low supply
The period following the October ceasefire has seen a relative improvement in the entry of food aid into Gaza, but this has been limited, fragile, and insufficient to meet accumulated humanitarian needs. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the agreement called for the entry of about 600 aid trucks per day; however, actual deliveries remained significantly below this threshold in the early weeks and have continually fluctuated since. UN estimates indicate that these levels have failed to compensate for the severe collapse of supplies during the two-year war, meaning that food markets and costs have not yet stabilised. Reports from the UN and humanitarian organisations also note that severe restrictions on food entry led to a collapse in food security, widespread malnutrition, and even famine-like conditions during the war. These effects have persisted after the truce. Despite some food deliveries, due to inconsistent truck flow and distribution challenges in recent months, quantities still remain below minimum requirements, leading to continued shortages and sharp price increases. The UN has repeatedly called for unhindered aid access, warning that restrictions on crossings and distribution systems impede access for the most vulnerable people.
Iran war: Regional ripple effect
In recent months, the humanitarian situation has been further impacted by regional tensions linked to the US and Israel’s war on Iran, which began on February 28 and lasted for 40 days until a two-week ceasefire was announced on April 8. The regional escalation disrupted crossings and global supply chains through temporary closures and reduced cargo movement. Official sources indicate that this disruption affected part of the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire provisions, such as the entry of aid and movement through crossings. On the humanitarian and logistical level, only 4,999 aid trucks entered Gaza out of 23,400 that were planned (21 percent compliance), while only 625 people of 7,800 were allowed to travel through crossings (8 percent compliance). These reduced aid flows caused food prices to surge due to limited supplies and higher transport and logistics costs, deepening food insecurity for most Gaza residents who continue to struggle for survival. During the war on Iran, Israel’s attacks on Gaza continued. The Gaza Government Media Office recorded 434 Israeli violations during this period, resulting in 104 deaths and 341 injuries. These figures reflect a breakdown in implementation during regional escalation, highlighting how external conflict continued to affect Gaza’s internal situation.
Crossings: Halting aid, care, supplies
Following the October ceasefire, the Rafah crossing became one of the key points of contention, as the agreement’s provisions on opening crossings and facilitating movement were not fully implemented on the ground. After Rafah’s partial reopening in February under ceasefire arrangements, movement remained heavily restricted. Despite provisions calling for full humanitarian and commercial access and reconstruction, operations were limited and tightly controlled.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and other UN agencies, only a few hundred patients were able to leave Gaza in the early weeks, while more than 20,000 patients are estimated to require urgent treatment outside the Strip, highlighting a massive gap between need and response. The WHO also indicates that evacuation rates remain far below minimum requirements, meaning the process would take years to address existing needs. This turned Rafah into a highly restricted and selective crossing, with medical lists subject to multiple security approvals and complex prioritisation mechanisms, leaving thousands of critical cases waiting inside Gaza. Meanwhile, restrictions extended to reconstruction materials, with OCHA reporting continued bans or tight controls on “dual-use” items such as steel, cement, and heavy equipment, severely delaying reconstruction efforts. Aid deliveries were also affected by inspection procedures and rerouting between crossings, reducing efficiency even when entry was permitted. As a result, crossings, especially Rafah, shifted from a gateway meant to reflect ceasefire implementation into a tightly controlled political and security mechanism, limiting movement, slowing medical evacuation and freezing reconstruction.
Yellow Line: Consolidating Israeli control
On the ground, the Israeli army did not withdraw to pre-war lines. Instead, a so-called “Yellow Line” was established as a separation boundary dividing Gaza into zones of control. According to estimates based on military mapping and UN-linked analyses, Israel maintains effective control over roughly 50–55 percent of the Strip, including large areas of Rafah, Khan Younis and northern Gaza, meaning the full withdrawal stipulated in the agreement was not implemented. OCHA and field reports describe this line not as a fixed border but as a shifting buffer zone, sometimes marked by yellow indicators or temporary barriers, and often unclear on the ground, creating dangerous ambiguity for civilians returning to their homes or farmland. This ambiguity has been accompanied by direct risks: UN and medical reports documented dozens of fatal incidents near the Yellow Line in its early phases, including at least 90 deaths in a short period due to proximity or crossing attempts, in addition to hundreds of injuries. Reports also indicate the increased use of quadcopter drones in the area, contributing to surveillance and attacks that further restricted civilian movement, particularly for farmers and residents inspecting their homes. The Yellow Line has effectively become a security reality rather than a political boundary, consolidating military control, restricting access to large areas, and creating a high-risk environment with frequent casualties and no clear civilian protections.
What do six months of ceasefire mean?
Six months ago, dozens of politicians, an international Board of Peace, and a United States-mediated process helped secure a ceasefire on paper. But for people on the ground in Gaza, it is a situation of “neither war nor peace”. The intensity of the violence has decreased, yet attacks have not ceased, while no meaningful political or humanitarian stabilisation has been achieved. At the same time, no comprehensive reconstruction has begun, living conditions have barely improved, and more than two million people continue to face deep uncertainty. During this period, there was also a noticeable decline in international media coverage of Gaza, as global attention shifted towards the US-Israel vs Iran escalation in 2026. This shift reshaped news priorities, even as conditions inside Gaza remained unchanged. Media scholars suggest that major conflicts often usurp coverage of other crises, even when the intensity of the latter remains unchanged on the ground. As yet, the ceasefire has not produced sustainable transformation and remains closer to a temporary truce than a final settlement.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/10/neither-war-nor-peace-what-gaza-looks-like-six-months-into-ceasefire


Screenschot: Muath Amarne
Al Jazeera - April 10, 2026
{Palestinian journalist describes losing prosthetic eye in Israeli prison
Palestinian journalist Muath Amarne said his prosthetic eye fell out after an infection while in Israeli detention, leaving him in urgent need of surgery. Amarne, who lost his left eye in 2019 after being struck by an Israeli rubber bullet, was held in prison for more than seven months.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/4/10/palestinian-journalist-describes-losing-prosthetic-eye-in-israeli-prison


Al-Aqsa Mosque
Quds news - April 10, 2026
{100,000 Palestinians Attend 1st Friday Prayers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque After Israel’s 40-Day Closure
Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- 100,000 Palestinian worshipers attended the Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem for the first time since Israel closed it to Muslim worshipers on February 28. Jerusalem’s Islamic Waqf confirmed that 100,000 worshipers performed the first Friday prayers of the at the mosque today. Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, 1948-occupied Palestine, and occupied Jerusalem succeeded in reaching the holy site and attending the Friday sermon and prayers. Ahead of the prayers, large numbers of well-armed Israeli occupation soldiers deployed in the streets of the occupied city and at the mosque’s gates and in its vicinity. The forces also raided the holy site. Israel reopened Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday to Palestinians for the first time since the start of the US-Israeli assault on Iran on 28 February. Videos circulating on social media show the reopening of the mosque’s gates, with large crowds entering its courtyards. Videos also showed volunteers and mosque custodians cleaning and preparing the site to receive worshipers. Israel barred Muslim worshipers from accessing Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque since the start of the ongoing Israeli-US assault on Iran, marking a total closure of one of Islam’s holiest sites not seen since the start of the occupation in 1967 and raising concerns over Israeli plans to impose further restrictions and tighten control over the compound. No exceptions have been made for Muslims, even during Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, or the Eid al-Fitr holiday. Meanwhile, it allowed settler incursions into Islam’s third-holiest site on Sunday. Up to 50 settlers were permitted to visit the Al-Buraq Wall, which is part of the walls of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex and known to Jews as the Western Wall. The settlers attended traditional prayers as part of the Passover holiday, held in a covered space by the Western Wall plaza. Israeli occupation authorities have also resumed near-daily incursions by Israeli settlers into Al-Aqsa following its reopening, while extending their duration. Dozens raided the site from 6:30am local time, shortly after Muslim worshipers were cleared from the site following dawn prayers. They were seen performing Tamudic rituals, praying, singing and dancing while backed by forces.  Before the war, such incursions took place in two shifts on weekdays: from 7am to 11am and from 1:30pm to 2:30pm. Under a new schedule approved before the war on Iran, raids now run from 6:30am to 11:30am and from 1:30pm to 3pm, totalling six and a half hours daily. The Jerusalem Governorate described the extension as a “dangerous escalation” that further undermines the status quo. “The extension reflects an acceleration in efforts to impose new realities at Al-Aqsa Mosque and entrench time-based division, particularly following its reopening after a 40-day closure,” it said. This Friday is the first Friday since the closure, during which the holy site was shut for five Fridays.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67531&slug=100000-palestinians-attend-1st-friday-prayers-at-jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-after-israels-40-day-closure

Quds news - April 10, 2026
{UK Arms Firms Caught Attempting Illegal Weapons Shipment to Israel via Belgium
Belgian authorities intercept a covert UK-linked arms shipment to Israel, exposing attempts to bypass strict export controls amid Israeli assaults.
Brussels (QNN)- Belgian authorities have seized a shipment of military equipment from the United Kingdom after uncovering an attempt to illegally transfer weapons to Israel, according to a report by RTL. The cargo arrived by truck from Britain and reached Bierset Airport, where it was scheduled for loading onto a plane operated by Challenge Airlines, a carrier that frequently flies to Israel. However, officials quickly grew suspicious after reviewing incomplete and unclear declarations about the shipment’s contents. An alert from a monitoring NGO prompted Belgian authorities to inspect the cargo. The organization tracks the movement of military equipment to conflict zones, particularly shipments linked to Israel. Inspectors opened 33 crates and found sensitive military equipment inside. The shipment included lasers, targeting sights, fire control systems, and components used in fighter jets. These items require strict authorization before they can transit through Belgian territory. Authorities said the shipment lacked the necessary export license. Belgian law prohibits the country from serving as a transit route for military equipment destined for Israel, especially amid Israeli crimes in several countries. Belgium has tightened controls on arms transfers following the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Officials aim to prevent further assaults by restricting the movement of military technology through its territory. The discovery of undeclared equipment raised serious legal concerns. Authorities believe those responsible may have attempted to bypass regulations by failing to properly declare the cargo. Officials immediately seized the shipment at Liège Airport and filed a formal complaint. Investigators have launched a probe to identify those involved in organizing and approving the transfer.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67534&slug=uk-arms-firms-caught-attempting-illegal-weapons-shipment-to-israel-via-belgium


German Police Brutally Arrest Pro-Palestine Woman
Quds news - April 10, 2026
{Video: German Police Brutally Arrest Pro-Palestine Woman at Anti-Occupation Protest
Berlin (QNN)- German police were filmed violently arresting a pro-Palestine woman during a protest in Berlin against Israeli assaults in Gaza and Lebanon, amid Germany’s continued support for Israel. A German police officer was filmed covering the mouth of a woman chanting slogans in support of Palestine as she was detained during the protest in Berlin on Thursday. She was chanting, “Free Palestine, Free Gaza” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” The demonstration was held in support of civilians facing Israeli attacks in Gaza and Lebanon. Germany’s police units are often accused of brutality against pro-Palestinian protesters. In 2025, Germany tried to deport a group of Western activists over their alleged behaviour at demonstrations, which campaigners said was an attempt to silence pro-Palestinian voices. Throughout Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, Germany has backed the onslaught through its military and political support. Germany is one of Israel’s closest, a long-time ally and the second-largest exporter of arms to Israel after the United States. It supplies about 30 percent of Israel’s imported weapons, second only to the United States, which accounts for nearly 60 percent. The German government has approved arms exports to Israel worth over 485 million euros since the start of the Gaza genocide in October 2023, according to official data published by the Bundestag in June. In August, Germany announced a suspension of some arms exports to Israel following mounting pressure to reevaluate arms transfers to Israel amid reports of growing civilian casualties and limited access for humanitarian aid in Gaza. The decision affected some weapons and systems that could be used in Gaza. However, the restrictions were lifted weeks after the fragile ceasefire was announced in Gaza in October. In December, Berlin approved a $3.1bn deal to purchase Israel’s Arrow 3 missile defence system, following a $3.5bn agreement two years earlier. Together, the contracts mark Israel’s largest arms sale to date, worth more than $6.6bn. The deals boost Israel’s defence industry as it faces growing international isolation over its war on Gaza. Israel has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians in its war on Gaza since October 2023, devastating entire areas, using starvation as a weapon of war, and forcibly displacing most of the population across the Strip. Now, Israel has continued to violate the ceasefire, backed by the US, killing hundreds and blocking much-needed aid from entering the enclave. Leading rights groups and a UN Commission have confirmed that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67530&slug=video-german-police-brutally-arrest-pro-palestine-woman-at-anti-occupation-protest


Aid Flooding Gaza (sic)
Quds news - April 10, 2026
{Mladenov Claims Aid Flooding Gaza, Authorities Dent Amid Israeli Restrictions
Gaza (QNN)- Nickolay Mladenov claimed that hundreds of aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday, attributing the development to the efforts of the so-called Trump “Board of Peace.” Palestinians, however, disputed the claim, asserting that Israel continues to impose restrictions on aid entry despite the ceasefire. Mladenov, who has been appointed as the director-general of the “Board of Peace”, said in a post on X that 602 trucks entered Gaza on Thursday with “essential supplies for families who have waited too long.” “This was made possible through intensive engagement by my team,  the National Committee for Gaza Management (NGAC) and Board of Peace.” The Gaza Government Media Office refuted the claims, confirming that only 207 trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday, April 9, including 79 humanitarian aid trucks. “This falls significantly short of the level required to meet urgent humanitarian needs and does not support claims of “expanded access”,” the Office said. The Office added that the overall compliance with agreed aid entry levels since the ceasefire began has not exceeded 38%. “Where is the so-called “Board of Peace” in addressing ongoing daily violations of the agreement by Israel? Why has it remained silent? And how does it reconcile this silence with its stated commitments to the international community to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza?” The Office asked in a statement on Friday. Palestinians flooded Nickolay Mladenov’s post, condemning and refuting his claims. Ramy Abdu, Chairman of Euro-Med Monitor, wrote, “Lies. Today, 207 trucks entered—only 79 carried aid. This doesn’t meet even a quarter of a day’s needs. Nickolay Mladenov has become part of a machine of deception and misinformation. Criminal and must be removed from his position and rejected outright.” Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha said, “Are you serious? We know the number of trucks that entered today was around 200. Even if the figures being reported are accurate, this is not something that should require “intensive engagement” from anyone. Allowing food and humanitarian aid to reach civilians is a basic obligation.” Nearly six months into the Gaza ceasefire, which took effect on October 10, the Israeli occupation continues its genocidal war on the Palestinian enclave, killing hundreds and restricting the entry of desperately-needed aid, with no pause in the attacks or the suffering. Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement over 2,070 times. The average number of violations committed by Israeli forces has reached 13.1 violations per day, according to the Gaza Government Media Office. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Thursday that 738 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the start of the ceasefire. Among the victims were over 309 children, women and elders, representing 43.3%. Israel has also restricted the entry of essential humanitarian aid to the enclave despite the ceasefire stipulating that “full aid will be immediately sent into the Gaza Strip”. From October 10 to April 1, only 40,572 trucks have entered Gaza. That is only 39.3 percent of the trucks allocated, the Gaza Media Office said, with an average of 235.8 trucks entering daily. In addition, Israel has blocked essential and nutritious food items, including meat, dairy, and vegetables, crucial for a balanced diet. Instead, non-nutritious foodstuffs are being allowed, such as snacks, chocolate, crisps, and soft drinks. 600 trucks are supposed to enter the enclave daily, including 50 fuel trucks. The Office noted that Israel continues to provide misleading figures to the mediators and refuse to submit to independent international monitoring. It added that field data confirm that what has actually entered does not exceed 40% of the total number of trucks agreed upon. The most serious violation concerns the entry of fuel, as the quantity allowed to enter did not exceed 15%, underscoring a deliberate obstruction of recovery efforts and the continuation of basic services in the Gaza Strip. The Office also noted that Israel continues to block the entry of tents, mobile homes, caravans, and other essential shelter materials, “in clear violation of existing agreements and international humanitarian law.” On February 28, the first day of the Israeli-US assault on Iran, Israel closed all the Gaza border crossings, citing an emergency situation, worsening an already severe humanitarian crisis. The closures included the Rafah And Karem Abu Salem crossings. Israel claimed in its statement on the closures of the Gaza crossings that enough food had been delivered to Gaza since the beginning of the ceasefire to provide four times the need of the population, without providing evidence. Ismail Ibrahim al-Thawabta, director general of the Gaza Government Media Office, said the Gaza Strip “faces indicators of a worsening humanitarian crisis if restrictions on aid continue. Responsibility for preventing this crisis lies with the occupying power, which is limiting humanitarian supplies in clear violation of international humanitarian law and its obligations towards the civilian population.” According to truck drivers, aid deliveries are facing significant delays, with Israeli inspections taking much longer than expected. Also, the Israeli occupation government said it banned 37 aid groups from war-torn Gaza, the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem; the decision took effect on March 1, a move described as having potentially devastating consequences for Palestinians. The vast majority of Gaza’s more than 2 million residents rely on aid groups for food, water, healthcare, shelter and other essentials. Only on March 3, Israeli occupation authorities said that they would reopen the Karem Abu Salem crossing to allow for the “gradual entry of humanitarian aid” into the territory. That crossing sits at the intersection of the Gaza Strip boundary with the Israeli and Egyptian borders.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67529&slug=mladenov-claims-aid-flooding-gaza-authorities-dent-amid-israeli-restrictions


Critically Injure Palestinian Child
Quds news - April 9, 2026
{Israeli Forces Critically Injure Palestinian Child in the Occupied West Bank
Occupied West Bank (QNN)- Israeli forces critically wounded a Palestinian child in Jalazone camp in the northern occupied West Bank on Thursday, as attacks on Palestinians intensify, with more than 1,070 killed since the start of the Gaza genocide. A video published on social media by local media shows people running along an alleyway while carrying the child who had been critically injured in the head after being struck by live ammunition by Israeli forces. Local sources said large Israeli forces stormed the refugee camp on Thursday. During the raid, the soldiers fired live ammunition toward Palestinians. Last night, Israeli occupation forces also killed a Palestinian youth near the village of Tayasir, east of Tubas before withholding his body. Local sources said the residents confronted an attack by settlers near the village before the forces stormed the village and shot Alaa Khaled Muhammad Subaih, 28. On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers beat a 68-year-old Palestinian woman to death during a raid on her home in the town of Jayyous. Israeli forces routinely raid Palestinian towns and homes in the occupied West Bank, a practice that has intensified sharply since October 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza. Between January and September 2025, nearly 7,500 such raids and operations were carried out, representing a 37% increase compared to the same period in 2024. According to United Nations data, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, by Israeli forces and settlers since 7 October 2023, one in five of those killed were children.  On Wednesday, OCHA confirmed that 1,079  Palestinians, at least 235  of them children, were killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem between 7 October 2023 and 30 March 2026. Of these, 33 have been killed since the beginning of 2026. Violence and harassment by Israeli settlers continued unabated across the occupied West Bank, OCHA added.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67528&slug=israeli-forces-critically-injure-palestinian-child-in-the-occupied-west-bank


acute food security crisis
Jinhagency - Womens News Agency - April 10, 2026
{Lebanon faces acute food security crisis amid escalating attacks.
Against the backdrop of military escalation in Lebanon, the country is experiencing an acute food price.
News Center _ The World Food Programme warned today, Friday, April 10, of the worsening food security crisis in Lebanon due to disrupted commodity supply chains caused by the expanding scope of military confrontations. Allison Oman, Director of the World Food Programme in Lebanon, said during a video conference from Beirut that the situation "is not limited to a displacement crisis, but is rapidly turning into a food security crisis," pointing out that the continuous rise in food prices increases families' inability to purchase them, especially with the growing demand from displaced families. Since yesterday, Thursday, southern Lebanon has witnessed a major military escalation, as Israeli warplanes launched raids on a number of towns, while Hezbollah announced it had targeted Israeli settlements. Hezbollah has continued to bomb sites inside and in southern Israel since March 2, following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28. In response, Israel is intensifying its airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs and several areas in the southeast and north, in addition to ground incursions in the south of the country.}: Video - Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/1-38930


Al Jazeera - April 10, 2026
{Israeli settlers turn Passover into celebration of ethnic cleansing
Palestinians displaced by settler violence confront loss of community as settlers celebrate their forced expulsions.
Jordan Valley, Occupied West Bank – Haitham al-Zayed, 24, says his fondest memories as a child were spent swimming in al-Auja’s lush pools. “You’d always find someone there during hot days. Everyone went there to cool down,” he said. Three months after he and his family were forcibly displaced by Jewish settlers from Shallal al-Auja – located beside the stream coming down from al-Auja spring in the southern occupied West Bank – he was horrified, but unsurprised, when thousands of settlers converged on the spring during the Jewish festival of Passover at the start of this month. In one video circulating on settler chat groups, settler children waded and splashed in the same natural pools where Haitham had once swam. Their parents barbecued nearby, speaking to the camera with elation. “Happy holiday! Look at this wonder,” one man announced. “After years that Jews could not come here, the people of Israel returned to their land.” The video then focused on who made this possible: The so-called hilltop youth, the networks of young settlers carrying out systematic violence against Palestinians, driving out dozens of communities across the West Bank since 2023. “Do you know thanks to whom this wonderful thing happened?” one man said. “Thanks to a few youth – 16 years old! That are going around this area with their flocks. I saw them stubbornly redeeming the land for us.” For Haitham, watching the video from the area his family has been displaced to – a patch of desert, mountainous terrain in an area called Jabal al-Birka, roughly 5km (3 miles) from Shallal al-Auja and within direct sightline of it – the footage was “very hard to see”, if unsurprising. In the background of the celebrations, he could make out the remains of structures damaged or burned in the months of escalating violence that preceded their displacement. “It’s not just one incident,” he said. “It’s all systematic. It’s tied to the expansion of annexation in the West Bank.” According to the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 1,727 Palestinians from 36 communities in the West Bank were displaced in the first three months of 2026 alone, due to settler violence and access restrictions – already exceeding the highest annual figure recorded in any of the previous three years. Allegra Pacheco, chief of party of the West Bank Protection Consortium – a strategic partnership of several international organisations and nearly a dozen European Union donor countries working to prevent the forcible displacement of Palestinians from Area C – said the video was more than provocation. It was potentially evidence of the celebration of the intentional use of violence by Israeli settlers to forcibly displace Palestinians – a serious violation of international law. “The praising of ethnic cleansing carried out by these settler youth,” said Pacheco, “it’s really showing both the impunity and the lack of accountability we are seeing right now.”
‘Fighting for our survival’
The displacement Haitham described did not happen overnight. For years, settlers had conducted what he called “provocative tours” around his community. Then, after Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the accompanying intensification of raids on the West Bank started in October 2023, access to al-Auja spring and its canals was cut off by settlers, severing the Palestinian community’s main water source and summer gathering spots. Armed settlers on all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) – funded by the Israeli government and provided to settler outposts, which are unauthorised and technically illegal under both Israeli and international law – chased livestock and children. Israeli soldiers – and often settlers in military fatigues – raided homes to interrogate or detain residents on the basis of settler claims. “Just from my family – me and my father – about 400 sheep were stolen,” Haitham said. By January of this year, the families of Shallal al-Auja and the adjacent community of Ras Ein al-Auja – primary targets of settler violence for months – concluded they had no choice but to leave. Haitham’s family was among them. These days, he thinks a lot about the friends he grew up with, longing for the football pitch where they played every evening, and the funerals and weddings that bound their Bedouin community together. The former community now finds itself dispersed across the West Bank, with aid from international organisations likely to end soon, and a lack of electricity and other infrastructure. “We’re just fighting for survival, and all that joy of being all together has now dissipated into just us trying to live to the next day,” Haitham says.
New plan: ‘It’s all ours’
Passover brought a rash of videos from across the West Bank of settlers picnicking, hiking and praying in areas Palestinians had recently been driven from. It was, Pacheco explained, an organised effort. “For the vacation, they’ve set up these ‘get to know the Holy Land’ hikes,” she said, adding that settlers had “intentionally picked” areas in the West Bank under partial or total Palestinian administrative control (referred to as Areas B and A, respectively), a deliberate push beyond Area C, which is under the full control of Israel. It reflected, Pacheco said, a hardening of settler ideology. “The settlers have said it – the plan is to empty out C, push [Palestinians] into B, push them into A. Now, they have a new one: It’s all ours.” In settler chat groups, one slogan has gained currency: “Marching towards the expulsion of the enemy.” That march pushed forward in recent months in Hammam al-Maleh, a once-touristic area in the northern Jordan Valley featuring hot springs and Mamluk-era remains. With settler shepherds employing the same violent playbook as elsewhere, the Palestinian shepherding community was driven to a near-wholesale evacuation in the past month. In videos spread during Passover, what appeared to be hundreds of settlers gathered for music and prayers just outside Hammam al-Maleh’s abandoned school, which had not long ago served more than 100 students from the surrounding area.
Muhammad – who asked that his full name not be used, fearing retribution from Israeli authorities – is the last permanent resident of Hammam al-Maleh, refusing to leave. The displaced families watching the Passover video from wherever they had scattered, he said, “were extremely hurt – not only the children, but also their parents, because they saw their homes in the background. They saw the land they were kicked out of.”
‘It’s not going to end here’
The pattern of violence that Muhammad describes in Hammam al-Maleh mirrors closely what Haitham describes happened in the al-Auja area: Livestock invasions around people’s homes, attacks on property, intimidation of women and children, with the Israeli military often coming to aid settlers rather than Palestinian residents under attack, and often the detention and arrest of the Palestinians. But the northern Jordan Valley has been the location of some of the most brutal settler attacks lately, including the reported sexual assault of a father in front of his tied-up children in Khirbet Hamsa al-Fawqa, and the brutal beating of an elderly man in Tayasir. “The settlers have no mercy,” explained Muhammad. “[These settlers] don’t want to only attack able-bodied men. They specifically go after the ones they know can’t defend themselves. So they target the children and the elderly. “They don’t want the land. It’s just: How do we kick Palestinians out?” On March 8, Gilad Shriki, commander of the Israeli forces’ Jordan Valley Brigade, came and warned Hammam al-Maleh and several other communities in the area to leave, declaring that “Area C will soon be cleared of Palestinians,” according to Palestinian activists in the Jordan Valley. Haitham’s new home in the southern Jordan Valley now houses about 120 families from several communities that came there after fleeing settler violence. Located in Area A and on land owned by the Islamic Waqf, they had hoped they would be safe. But “the same people that used to harass us have just appeared in the same area again,” he said. “They’re doing the same provocations [land invasions]. They are chasing the children with the ATVs.” Fearing for their safety, Muhammad moved his wife and four small children – including a nine-year-old daughter who is disabled and unable to speak – from Hammam al-Maleh to Tayasir, which is in Area B. But “the same settlers that attacked us in Hammam al-Maleh are now chasing them there,” he said. “There’s a continuous pattern of chasing Palestinians, even if they leave – to displace them again,” said Muhammad. “That’s part of why I’m not willing to move – I know it’s not going to end here.” With more than 5,600 people displaced since 2023, according to OCHA’s latest figures, the crisis has stretched far beyond the West Bank Protection Consortium’s original Area C mandate. “And now, we’re witnessing the most worrisome escalation in their violence – armed settlers repeatedly shooting and killing Palestinians,” said Pacheco. On April 8, settlers shot and killed Alaa Sobeih inside his greenhouse in Tayasir – where Muhammad’s family and many others from Hammam al-Maleh had fled. Pacheco referred to the UN’s early warning indicators for mass atrocities. “This kind of incitement, this tolerance of violence against a distinct ethnic group by non-state actors with no accountability, and now public celebrations of the act – it’s extremely disturbing,” she said. “It’s not just worrisome by what they’re saying, but what this could potentially lead to very soon.”
Refusing to leave
Though his neighbours’ homes in Hammam al-Maleh have been dismantled, Muhammad is refusing to leave. “If I’m not around, then they potentially won,” he said. “If they go to my house and I’m not there, they would post celebration photos.” Despite the isolation and the violence, Muhammad remains in Hammam al-Maleh in part for “that satisfaction of proving [to them] that this land is ours”. When he left for three days during Eid to visit his family, settlers stripped the community of generators, electrical cables and solar panels, leaving them without reliable electricity.
He returned anyway.
Without any sheep to graze, he patrols the community each day. The settlers know he is there, and he makes sure of it. Muhammad, refusing to leave at all, put it simply: “I was born here. I was raised here. I am not willing to leave. Even if I die here – I will die happy, because I stayed on my land.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/10/israeli-settlers-turn-passover-celebration-ethnic-cleansing


Screenschot: Hospitals in Beirut after Israeli attacks
Al Jazeera - April 9, 2026 By Alexander Durie
{Hospitals in Beirut struggle to deal with casualties after Israeli attacks
Doctors warn of worsening crises as vital supplies run low and Israeli attacks devastate Beirut and surrounding areas.
Beirut, Lebanon – As bombs rained down on Lebanon’s capital, hundreds of people rushed to the American University of Beirut (AUB) Hospital, many crying, many scared. Children were looking for their siblings or their parents, unsure if they were dead or alive. Israeli forces had bombed 100-plus targets across the country in 10 minutes on Wednesday, despite a ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran that many thought would include Lebanon. “In under an hour, we received around 76 injured people. Unfortunately, six people didn’t make it,” Dr Salah Zeineldine, AUB’s chief medical officer, told Al Jazeera, as the hospital became an “epicentre” for victims of the Israeli attacks. The death toll from Israel’s attacks across Lebanon on Wednesday has now risen to 303, with 1,150 injured, according to a preliminary toll released Thursday by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. Dr Zeineldine noted that a lot of critically injured patients at AUB Hospital were children. The eldest child was 12 years old, while the two patients who had to go directly to the ICU were babies: one a few months old, another only a few weeks old. The Lebanese Health Ministry said that at least 110 children, women, and elderly people were among those killed on Wednesday.
The main causes of deaths and injuries were from people being crushed due to the blast and parts of buildings falling on them, causing fractured bones and head trauma.
‘A nightmare’
Lebanon is no stranger to war or Israeli air strikes, and medical workers in the country have dealt with many crises in recent years, notably during the 2023-2024 war with Israel, but Dr Zeineldine insists that what happened on Wednesday was “a different ballgame altogether”. “It was a big challenge for us, in Beirut especially. We’ve never lost this many people in a single day. This intensity is not something we’ve ever experienced,” he said. “All the patients we got were civilians,” Dr Zeineldine said, adding that the attack was “very random”, not targeting any specific place or group of people. Israel had claimed the attacks targeted the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, but the victims, according to Dr Zeineldine, included “lots of children, women, men, elderly people, all kinds of people in the civilian strata”. At Rafik Hariri University Hospital, a medical coordinator from Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF, reported that “injured parents were calling out for their children. Families were coming with children’s pictures, asking if anyone had seen their loved ones”. The number of casualties is still likely to rise, as rescue workers were still pulling people out of the rubble on Thursday. But even the current figure is already higher than the estimated 218 people who died from the Beirut port blast in 2020, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, and another recent event that devastated Beirut and stretched Lebanon’s healthcare system to its limits. In several Beirut hospitals, many medical workers were tired yet determined to keep going. Speaking on Thursday at the Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital in Beirut, Dr Antoine Zoghbi, the president of the Lebanese Red Cross, shook his head in disbelief in his office, his eyes tired and mouth dry. “This is a nightmare, a nightmare,” he repeated over and over again. Medical officers in Beirut hospitals told Al Jazeera that they prepare their teams for crisis situations to react quickly and effectively to help patients, but added that no one could have expected intense days like these with indiscriminate attacks on civilians. “It’s different today because they struck without warning,” Dr Zoghbi said. “They struck many regions at the same time, and they struck hard – to cause harm, to inflict pain. It’s a war with no rules. It’s a war with no limits.” The Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital received 15 patients from the attacks on Wednesday, much fewer than in AUB Hospital, but Dr Zoghbi noted that this attack was adding an extra strain on an already depleted healthcare system in Lebanon. “If Israel carries on like this, it’s going to result in many more injuries, many more deaths,” Dr Zoghbi said. “So far, the hospitals have been able to hold out. Will we be able to withstand the second strike, the fourth strike? I don’t know. Will we still have the equipment, the medicine, to keep doing what needs to be done?”
Depletion of resources
The concern about how the war is worsening economic and social issues in Lebanon was echoed in several Beirut hospitals. Dr Alain Kortbaoui, head of the Emergency Medicine Department at Geitawi Hospital in Beirut, said the war has limited imports and exports, which were already restricted due to the economic crisis in Lebanon since 2019. “We don’t have any more imports of medication. We never know when we’re going to defeat whatever patients have,” Dr Kortbaoui told Al Jazeera. The World Health Organization also said that some ⁠of ⁠Lebanon’s hospitals could run out of life-saving trauma ⁠medical kits within days, as supplies ⁠near depletion following mass casualties from large-scale Israeli strikes. With oil prices increasing due to the United States-Israel war on Iran, Dr Kortbaoui said that Lebanese hospitals have been indirectly impacted, since “everything here works on generators”. The hospital suffers from frequent power cuts, despite medical workers continuing to work as normal to support incoming patients, reeling in pain. “Unless the hospital is directly hit, it’s going to always perform,” Dr Kortbaoui told Al Jazeera. Lebanese doctors seemed doubtful that hospitals would become targets for Israeli attacks as they had been in Gaza, but after one of the most intense attacks in modern Lebanese history, nobody could predict what Israeli forces would do next. “I still don’t understand why they hit so many regions in Lebanon,” Dr Kortbaoui said. “Sometimes we understand the way they’re thinking, but it’s not always the case.” The doctor added that all four patients he treated from the attacks were still in shock, their memories of the event almost erased. “They don’t understand what’s going on. The first one that arrived here had two floors that fell on him. He woke up without remembering anything.” But like in previous crises, Lebanese people showed their solidarity despite the devastation. The Lebanese Red Cross is the sole supplier of blood banks to hospitals, and its open call for blood donations was widely shared by people on social media. Many Lebanese and foreigners went to Beirut hospitals to donate blood shortly after Israel’s attacks. “Whenever there is a crisis, the Lebanese people stand together,” Dr Zoghbi said. But still, the Lebanese Red Cross president recognised that local initiatives and donations would only go so far in healing the scars that wars and mass displacement have made on the country. “We are a people who are wounded,” he said. “What we can do is remain here, maintain our supplies, and keep operating.” While for Dr Zeineldine of AUB Hospital, the most direct way to help people in Lebanon right now remains political. According to him, supporting Lebanon’s overwhelmed healthcare system could be summarised in three words: “Stop the war.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/9/hospitals-in-beirut-struggle-to-deal-with-casualties-after-israeli-attacks

Al Jazeera - April 9, 2026 By Alia Chughtai and Marium Ali
{Israel bombed Gaza on 36 of the past 40 days while the war raged in Iran
In that short time, Israel killed at least 107 people, permitted only 8 percent of medical evacuations, and admitted just 20 percent of trucks. The United States and Iran agreed on Wednesday to a two-week ceasefire following 40 days of war, with talks set to begin on Saturday in Islamabad, Pakistan. But since February 28, when Israel and the US began bombing Iran, Israel has also, on a near-daily basis, launched attacks on Lebanon, Gaza and the occupied West Bank. While much of the world’s attention has been on Iran, here are three main things that you may have missed in Gaza.
Israel bombed Gaza on 36 of the past 40 days
Since the declaration of a “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip six months ago, Israel has violated the agreement thousands of times, with attacks on a nearly daily basis. Over the past 40 days, Israel has not only continued bombing Gaza, but has also closed the Rafah crossing and withheld life‑saving food and medical supplies. According to an analysis by Al Jazeera, Israel has attacked Gaza on 36 out of the past 40 days, meaning there were only four days on which no violent attacks, deaths or injuries were reported in the Strip.
How many people has Israel killed in that time?
Between February 28 and April 8, Israeli attacks killed at least 107 people in Gaza and injured 342 others. Since the “ceasefire” in Gaza took effect six months ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 738 people and injured more than 2,000. In total, since launching its genocidal war on Gaza, Israel has killed or injured at least 10 percent of the Strip’s population, killing more than 72,000 people, the majority of them women and children, and injuring at least 172,000 others, with thousands more buried under the rubble and presumed dead. On Wednesday, as the world awaited the much-anticipated pause in attacks between the US, Israel and Iran, Israel killed another journalist in Gaza – Al Jazeera’s correspondent Mohammed Wiswash, who was killed in a targeted drone strike. On the same day, Israel launched one of its largest-ever attacks on Lebanon in a single day, launching a wave of strikes that killed at least 254 people and injured 1,165.
Only 8 percent medically evacuated
On February 28, the day Israel and the US began strikes on Iran, Israeli authorities closed all crossings into Gaza, halting the transfer of wounded patients abroad and suspending medical evacuations. Among them was Rafah crossing, Gaza’s sole gateway to the outside world through Egypt, which was supposed to open under the US-brokered 20-point ceasefire plan for the Strip. Based on the agreement, 50 patients per day, plus their companions – typically one or two per patient – were supposed to be allowed out of the enclave for treatment. More than two years of Israeli attacks have left thousands injured and in need of urgent medical treatment. According to OCHA, more than 18,500 critical patients, including 4,000 children, require medical evacuations. On March 19, Israeli authorities announced the resumption of limited medical evacuations through Rafah. According to the Gaza Media Office, since February 28, 625 out of 7,800 travellers have been permitted to leave Gaza for treatment – about 8 percent of the agreed number.
Twenty percent of trucks allowed to enter Gaza
Israel has continued to limit urgent food and medical supplies, exacerbating severe shortages and deepening a humanitarian crisis. According to the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC), the global hunger monitor, more than three-quarters (77 percent) of the population in Gaza are facing high levels of acute food insecurity. Of the 1.6 million people analysed by IPC:
475,000 people are in Phase 2, food stress.
1,027,790 people are in Phase 3, food crisis.
570,980 people are in Phase 4, food emergency.
1,885 people are in Phase 5, famine.
According to the Gaza Media Office, since the US-Israel war on Iran began, Israel has allowed only 4,999 of the 23,400 trucks stipulated in the ceasefire agreement into the Strip – just one-fifth of the promised deliveries.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/9/israel-bombed-gaza-on-36-of-the-past-40-days-while-the-war-raged-in-iran

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Quds news - April 3, 2026
{AOC Vows to Oppose All Future US Military Aid to Israel, Including Defensive Systems
Washington (Quds News Network)- New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has vowed to oppose any future US military aid to Israel, including funding for defensive systems, amid the ongoing assaults on Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, as well as growing accusations that Israel has drawn the United States into a war with Iran. In a statement on social media, Ocasio-Cortez said that Israel was fully capable of funding “Iron Dome and other defensive systems”, and that “consistent with my voting record to date, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and US law”. Her remarks on Wednesday follow reports that she pledged to oppose any future military aid to Israel during a New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) forum on Tuesday evening. “Our allies who need our military aid must understand that we will provide it consistent with the Leahy amendment and the foreign assistance act”, Ocasio-Cortez added, referring to a law which prohibits the US from providing military support to army units that violate human rights. According to City & State, which obtained a partial recording of the DSA forum, Ocasio-Cortez told members: “I have not once ever voted to authorize funding to Israel, and I will never,” adding that “the Israeli government should be able to finance their own weapons if they seek to arm themselves.” According to the report, at one point during the forum a DSA member asked Ocasio-Cortez: “If the moment presents itself in Congress, will you commit to voting no for any spending on arms for Israel, including so-called ‘defensive capabilities’?” She responded: “Yes.” Ocasio-Cortez, one of the most recognized names in Congress, had previously faced criticism from the left for failing to join many of her fellow progressives in accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza and other positions relating to funding for Israel’s Iron Dome. In 2021, she voted “present” on a supplemental military funding bill for Iron Dome. At the time, she said she opposed the “substance” of the bill but that the vote was rushed and did not allow time for proper debate or discussion. She also said at the time that “contrary to popular narrative, this bill was not for all US funding of the Iron Dome, and opposing it would not defund US financing of the system in any way, shape, or form”. Last year, Ocasio-Cortez voted against an amendment that would have cut $500m in US funding for Israel’s Iron Dome system. It was introduced by Marjorie Taylor Greene, the then–Republican representative. Ocasio-Cortez said at the time that the proposed amendment did nothing “to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza”. “What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to continue,” she said. And in 2024, she joined 18 Democratic members of Congress in a statement that while they opposed sending offensive weapons to Israel, “all of us support strengthening the Iron Dome and other defense systems.” Those positions have strained her relationship with elements of the DSA, which withdrew its endorsement of her in 2024, saying at the time that while the organization recognized that the congresswoman had “taken many courageous positions on Palestine”, DSA members had “raised their concerns regarding a number of her votes” as well as the statement she signed in 2024. However, in March, she finally called the Israeli war on Gaza an “unfolding genocide” in a scathing speech that demanded Biden suspend military aid to Israel. While other American progressives – including congresswomen Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib, who is Palestinian – have used the term “genocide”, Ocasio-Cortez had refrained from doing so until her remarks in March. In January, Ocasio-Cortez implied that she was waiting for the UN’s International Court of Justice to weigh in on the term, noting that “the fact that this word is even in play, the fact that this word is even in our discourse, I think, demonstrates the mass inhumanity that Gaza is facing”. A group of pro-Palestine protesters confronted Ocasio-Cortez in March at a movie theater in Brooklyn, criticizing her for “refus[ing] to call it a genocide”. On Wednesday, Ro Khanna, a California Democratic representative, echoed Ocasio-Cortez’s statement, saying that while the Iron Dome is “important & saves lives”, Israel “should be able to buy it on their own with a $45 defense billion budget [sic]”. He did not say outright whether he would oppose future votes on Iron Dome funding. “Israel is a first world country, and it can pay for the defensive systems it needs.”} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67482&slug=aoc-vows-to-oppose-all-future-us-military-aid-to-israel-including-defensive-systems

Quds news - April 3, 2026
{Over 100 US Legal Experts Slam Israeli-US Assault on Iran as “War Crimes”
Washington (QNN)- More than 100 US-based international law experts have condemned the Israeli-US assault on Iran as a violation of the United Nations Charter and warned it could amount to “war crimes,” citing, among other concerns, remarks by US officials, including Trump’s saying the US may conduct strikes on Tehran “just for fun.” In an open letter, published on Thursday, the experts said the conduct of US forces and statements by senior US officials “raise serious concerns about violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law”. They warned that the US-Israeli assault, which began on February 28, was launched without UN Security Council authorisation and without credible evidence of an imminent Iranian threat. The human toll continues to rise, with at least 2,076 people killed and 26,500 wounded in Iran since the start of the assault. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said more than 600 schools and education centres have been hit since February 28. The US and Israel have expanded their attacks on Iran, hitting a century-old medical research centre in Tehran, steel plants and a bridge near the capital, in some of the latest strikes on Iranian infrastructure. A drone strike has also hit a Red Crescent relief warehouse in Iran’s Bushehr province. “Force against another state is only permitted in self-defense against an actual or imminent armed attack or where authorized by the UN Security Council. The Security Council did not authorize the attack. Iran did not attack Israel or the United States,” the letter said. The experts’ concerns fall into four areas: the legality of the decision to go to war; the conduct of hostilities; threatening rhetoric from senior officials; and what they describe as the dismantling of civilian protection structures inside the US government under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “gloves off” approach to warfare. The scholars highlighted a strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran, on the first day of the war that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, as well as attacks on hospitals, water plants and energy infrastructure. “We are seriously concerned about strikes that have hit schools, health facilities, and homes,” the letter said. The letter also condemned public statements by senior US officials, including President Donald Trump. In particular, it noted a mid-March comment from Trump where he said the US may conduct strikes on Iran “just for fun”. It also cited comments from Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth from early March in which he said the US does not fight with “stupid rules ⁠of engagement”. “Public statements by senior officials indicate an alarming disrespect for the rules of international humanitarian law accepted by states, and which protect both civilians and members of the armed forces,” the letter said. It also added that the war is costing US taxpayers up to $2bn a day. The letter was co-authored by prominent legal scholars including Yale Law School’s Oona Hathaway and Harold Koh, Philip Alston of NYU, and former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth. The experts said that due to their connection to the US, their main focus was on the conduct of that government, but they “remain concerned about the risk of atrocities across the region”. They also highlighted the “importance of equal application of international law to all, including countries that hold themselves out as global leaders”, expressing concern about the harm this war is doing to the international legal order and the system of international law. The signatories are urging Washington to change course, writing: “We urge US government officials to uphold the UN Charter, international humanitarian law, and human rights law at all times, and to publicly make clear US commitment to and respect for norms of international law.”} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67484&slug=over-100-us-legal-experts-slam-israeli-us-assault-on-iran-as-war-crimes


Genocide Leaves 47,000 Widows and Thousands of Orphans
Quds news - April 2, 2026
{Gaza Officials Say Israel’s Genocide Leaves 47,000 Widows and Thousands of Orphans
The Ministry of Social Development in Gaza warns that Israel’s ongoing genocide have left 47,000 women widowed and thousands of children orphaned, creating a mounting humanitarian crisis across the Strip.
Gaza (QNN)- The Israeli genocide in Gaza has produced a devastating toll on Palestinians. Newly released official statistics show that 47,019 women in Gaza are now widows. Of these, 26,370 lost their husbands during the recent genocide. The largest group falls between 19 and 50 years old, accounting for 84.6% of widows, while women over 60 make up 14.9%. The widows are spread across Gaza’s governorates: 27.8% in Gaza City, 22.5% in the north, 13.2% in the central region, 18.3% in Khan Yunis, and 8.2% in Rafah. The Ministry of Social Development has identified urgent needs. These include psychosocial support, educational reintegration, legal protection, child care, economic empowerment, healthcare, cash assistance, and vocational training. Programs also provide intensive job training, small home-based projects, monthly food baskets, and recreational activities. Specialized centers for widows’ education and shelter are under development. Zaher Al-Wahidi, director of the Health Information Center at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, had previously described the scale of loss. He said the genicide killed 70,300 Palestinians and injured 171,000. Among the casualties were 20,000 children, 10,000 women, and 5,000 elderly. Israel's genocide left over 57,000 children orphaned. Of these, 49,000 lost their fathers, 5,000 lost their mothers, and 3,000 lost both parents. Entire households (2,600 families) were wiped out, while 5,000 families lost nearly all members. Six thousand families lost part of their members. Al-Wahidi added that more than 1,000 children under one year old died during the genocide. Another 450 children were born under bombardment but did not survive. The destruction of infrastructure has led to food shortages, disease, and worsening conditions in refugee camps. The figures paint a stark picture of a humanitarian catastrophe. Aid organizations and local authorities warn that urgent action is needed to support widows, orphans, and the most vulnerable communities across Gaza.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67476&slug=gaza-officials-say-israels-genocide-leaves-47000-widows-and-thousands-of-orphans


Jinhagency - Womens News Agency - April 1, 2026 Shayla Qasenkhani
{Conflict Without a Fixed Farmework…Why Are Analyses Falling to keep Up with the War?
As the War between Iran and the US-Israel continues, a conflict beyond traditional military boundaries emerges, with political tensions, media pressures, and rapid shifts making it multi-layered.
News Center _ Nearly a month has passed since the war between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other; a war that has proven that today’s conflicts are no longer confined to traditional battlefields. When the pressure of political tug-of-war and military attacks is coupled with the power of media, it reaches a point where the human mind and psyche become another arena of confrontation. In this context, Donald Trump’s rhetorical maneuvers via the media have confounded analysts and further obscured the prospects for interpretation and predicition. The result is a situation in which analysis has become more complex,and public opinion is mired in an exhausting state of ambiguity regarding the future of this war. In these days when war is raging—and even before it broke out—the pace of interpretation has become faster than the pace of reality itself. Narratives are crafted in haste, analyses follow one after another, and each side seeks to define the meaning of the war within a framework that grants it legitimacy and a superior position. Yet the problem lies in the fact that wars do not necessarily unfold according to these narratives; they are shaped more by the course of events than explained by them. In the classical view, war is considered a phenomenon that is understandable and, to some extent, predictable. From models of power balance to the logic of deterrence and cost‑benefit calculations, these tools were supposed to help us understand when a war begins, how it evolves, and at what point it might stop. Yet the experience of contemporary conflicts, especially what we are witnessing in the recent tensions between Iran, the United States, and Israel, shows that while these frameworks are useful, they are no longer sufficient to explain reality as it is. A clear example of this is the gap between official narrative and the reality on the ground. On one hand, Israel defines its attacks as a preemptive act to contain a threat; on the other hand, Iran describes these actions as aggression and presents its response as legitimate defense. At the media level, this contradiction seems simple and understandable: action and reaction. But on the ground, the gradual expansion of the confrontation—from an exchange of strikes to the increasing presence and role of the United States in the region—reveals that reality is far more complex than this simplistic binary. These complexities become even more evident when we look at the predictions made before the war erupted. In the months leading up to the confrontation, many American think tanks, including the Brookings Institution, the RAND Corporation, and the Council on Foreign Relations, assessed that the likelihood of a direct, large‑scale war was low. These assessments were based on the familiar framework of cost‑benefit calculations and the assumption of actor rationality—namely, that the costs of a large‑scale conflict would naturally lead the parties to exercise restraint. Nevertheless, what happened showed that relying exclusively on these models to understand the dynamics of war is insufficient. Part of this inadequacy stems from the assumption of fixed actor behavior. In many of these analyses, there was an assumption that political leaders, including Donald Trump, would ultimately avoid sliding into a costly war. But what actually happened demonstrated that decisions were not necessarily governed by long‑term calculations; rather, they were heavily influenced by short‑term considerations, internal pressures, and rapid changes in the political landscape. Furthermore, the contradictions in official statements have added to the complexity. Repeated assurances that the war is nearing an end come at a time when facts on the ground show no sign of de‑escalation; on the contrary, there are indications of its expansion. The constant shifts in tone and official positions—sometimes over very short periods—reveal that relying on declared discourse alone is no longer sufficient to predict the war's trajectory. First, there is the war as known at the official level: the direct military confrontation visible in attacks, responses, and field maneuvers. This level of war is what appears in breaking news and seems, at first glance, controllable and analyzable. Within this framework, each side seeks to change the deterrence equation in its favor by drawing red lines and demonstrating strength. But at the second level, a less visible war unfolds: the war of short‑term political calculations. At this level, decisions are not necessarily made with the aim of achieving a final military victory; they often serve to manage internal situations or temporarily reset balances. For example, a limited strike may have a political or media function—ranging from changing the public agenda to sending messages to adversaries or allies—more than being a purely military step. At this level, even "controlling" the war becomes a tool in itself: a war neither so wide as to spiral out of control nor so limited as to have no impact. This situation, in a way, contributes to the war's persistence, as it can be kept at a level that ensures its continued political utility. Finally, there is the third level: war as a process. A process that wears down existing structures and gradually redefines them. The contours of this level can be seen in the shifting regional balance of power, in the transformation of direct confrontation—previously avoided by certain parties—into something familiar, and in the changing expectations that actors have of one another. This level is often the least visible, yet its impact is the most enduring. The problem with many analyses is that they stop at the first level. They ask: who will win? But they rarely ask: what is this war changing? Therefore, when the war deviates from the expected path, those analyses lose their credibility. Perhaps the most important question is not about the end of the war, but about the logic of its continuation: what keeps the war going despite its rising costs—from economic pressures to international concern and public opposition? The answer cannot be found in military calculations alone, but in the intersection of domestic politics, regional rivalries, and the logic of unstable decision‑making. War is not waged only on battlefields; it is also waged in language, in narratives, and in moment‑by‑moment decisions. As long as these levels are not taken together, any analysis, however precise it may seem, will miss part of the reality. This war is not just a military confrontation; it is a test of how we understand war itself—a test that reveals that grasping today's complex reality requires moving away from rigid, one‑dimensional frameworks and moving toward analyses that embrace instability, multiple layers, and the potential for transformation.}: Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/1-38867?page=1


Screenschot: Francesca Albanese
Al Jazeera - March 31, 2026
{UN expert Albanese confronted by pro-Israeli protesters in Germany
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, was confronted by pro-Israeli protesters accusing her of supporting Hamas during a visit to Germany for the screening of a documentary that follows her work during the Gaza genocide.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/31/un-expert-albanese-confronted-by-pro-israeli-protesters-in-germany


Mohamad Safa
Quds news - March 30, 2026
{Former UN Diplomat Warns of Possible Nuclear Attack on Iran, Leaks Urgent Appeal
Ex-UN diplomat Mohamad Safa leaks urgent warning on possible nuclear strike in Iran, revealing he quit his career to expose the looming threat and call the world to action.
Tehran (QNN)- Mohamad Safa, former main representative of Patriotic Vision (PVA) at the United Nations, has revealed alarming information about the UN preparing for possible nuclear use in Iran. Safa says he gave up his diplomatic career to alert the world. In a powerful statement, Safa stated that Tehran is a densely populated city of nearly 10 million people. He warned war proponents that the city is not a barren desert but home to families, children, pets, and working-class citizens with ordinary dreams. “You’re sick to want war,” he wrote, urging people to grasp the gravity of the situation. Safa compared the potential destruction to bombing major global capitals. “Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond,” he said. He warned that such an act could trigger a catastrophic humanitarian and environmental crisis. The whistleblower urged urgent public action. “Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested ‘No Kings’ in the United States. The possibility of nuclear weapon use must be taken seriously. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us,” Safa said. Safa explained that his decision to suspend his duties followed the realization that some UN officials serve powerful lobbies rather than the organization itself. He said he could no longer in good conscience participate in or witness decisions that might lead to nuclear strikes. “After much reflection, I have suspended all my duties as PVA Main Representative at the UN and from all UN committees and groups of which I am a member,” he stated. PVA, or Patriotic Vision, holds special consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Safa’s revelation comes as a stark warning about escalating global tensions and the real threat of nuclear conflict.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67461&slug=former-un-diplomat-warns-of-possible-nuclear-attack-on-iran-leaks-urgent-appeal

Fransesca Albanese
Al Jazeera - March 23, 2026 By Edna Mohamed and AFP
{UN expert says world has given Israel ‘licence to torture Palestinians’
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says torture ‘has effectively become state policy’ in Israel.
A United Nations expert says the world has given Israel a licence to torture Palestinians, with life in the occupied Palestinian territory “a continuum of physical and mental suffering”. Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the rights situation in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, said on Monday that “torture has effectively become state policy” in Israel. “Israel has effectively been given a licence to torture Palestinians, because most of your governments, your ministers, have allowed it,” she said, as she presented her latest report to the UN Human Rights Council. “What once operated in the shadows is now practiced openly: a regime of organised humiliation, pain and degradation, sanctioned at the highest political levels,” Albanese said in the report, titled “Torture and genocide”. “Torture is not confined to cells and interrogation rooms,” the report outlined. “Through the cumulative impact of mass displacement, siege, denial of aid and food, unrestrained military and settler violence, and pervasive surveillance and terror, the occupied Palestinian territory has become a space of collective punishment, where the destruction of the conditions of life turns genocidal violence into a tool of collective torture with long-term mental and physical consequences for the occupied population,” it added. Albanese, an outspoken critic of Israeli action in the occupied West Bank and its genocidal war on Gaza, has faced backlash from Israel and the United States, with mounting calls for her removal from the position of special rapporteur. Since October 7, 2023, Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 72,263 people and injured 171,944 others, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. In the occupied West Bank, since October 2023, Israeli authorities arrested more than 18,500 Palestinians, including at least 1,500 children as of February, the report found. Israel’s mission to the UN slammed Albanese’s report and called her an “agent of chaos”. “Albanese abuses her UN platform to engage in virulent antisemitism, including peddling narratives that constitute Holocaust distortion and trivialisation. She routinely makes statements supporting terrorist organisations and advocates dangerous extremist narratives to undermine the very existence of the State of Israel,” the mission said in a statement. Albanese called on UN member states to “prevent and punish” acts of torture and genocide, and uphold international law. “Its increasing use as part of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people makes this violation all the more grave and indefensible,” she said, according to a UN press release. “If the international community continues to tolerate such acts when inflicted on Palestinians, then the law itself will be stripped of meaning.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/un-expert-says-world-has-given-israel-licence-to-torture-palestinians

Al Jazeera - March 24, 2026
{‘Israel has been given a licence to torture Palestinians’
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has said the world gave Israel a ‘licence to torture Palestinians’ as she presented her latest report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. She criticised governments for allowing violations to continue with impunity.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/24/israel-has-been-given-a-licence-to-torture


Hind Rajab - Handout via Reuters
Al Jazeera - March 23, 2026 By Graham Keeley
{‘Substantial evidence’ of double-tap strike in killing of Gaza’s Hind Rajab
Campaign group Avaaz analyses the timeline of events to conclude that violations show Israel systematically kills first responders.
In the final hours of her life on January 29, 2024, Hind Rajab’s feeble voice could be heard desperately pleading with her mother and emergency workers for help, as she was trapped in a car surrounded by the bodies of six of her relatives. After finally getting clearance from the Israeli military in Gaza City, a Red Crescent ambulance raced to save the five-year-old girl. But two paramedics were killed when their marked vehicle – whose sirens were blaring – came under Israeli tank fire. The remains of the nine victims were recovered 12 days later. Two years after the tragedy, a report claims this was a “double tap” attack by the Israeli army. A double-tap strike essentially means carrying out two strikes on the same target, often wounding or killing medics and civilians who are coming to the aid of people harmed in the first attack. Analysis by the legal campaign group Avaaz has found evidence that the killings contravened international combat law under the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute. “By reconstructing the coordination and timing around the approved ambulance mission, it shows that there is substantial evidence of a deliberate ‘double-tap’ tactic – an initial military strike followed with a deliberately timed second strike targeting emergency responders and medical personnel who arrive to help,” Avaaz says in its report exclusively shared with Al Jazeera. “The brief brings together the timeline of events up to and beyond Hind’s death, showing what Israeli forces must have been aware of at each stage, and the frequent opportunities they had to pull back from murder. “It documents over 40 human rights violations and ties together how those violations are evidence of a double-tap attack on the hospital workers. Each violation builds to an alarming possibility: Israel is not only killing Palestinians – it is systematically killing those who try to save them. The message is clear: If the medical community tries to help, it will be extinguished.” More than 1,500 healthcare workers have been killed during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, including several since a so-called “ceasefire” came into effect in October. Avaaz, building on previous investigations by Al Jazeera in partnership with the Hind Rajab Foundation and other media organisations, claims there is clear evidence that this double strike constituted a war crime. The campaign group is now urging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to bring those responsible to justice. At the time of publishing, the Israeli military had not responded to Al Jazeera’s request for comment.
‘I am absolutely convinced that this is another case of double tap’
Al Jazeera, in partnership with the Hind Rajab Foundation, last year revealed evidence of deliberate killings. The Israeli government initially claimed that none of its forces was present at the time, later asserting that the 335 bullet holes found in the family’s car were the result of an exchange of fire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters. However, a subsequent investigation of satellite imagery and audio from that day by the multidisciplinary research group Forensic Architecture, based at Goldsmiths, the University of London, identified only the presence of several Israeli Merkava tanks in the vicinity of the family’s car and no evidence of any exchange of fire. The Avaaz report highlights that the ambulance obtained permission from COGAT, an arm of the Israeli military, to go to Hind’s aid, so Israeli forces knew exactly when the first responders would arrive and the route they would take. About three hours passed between the initial shooting of the family vehicle and the attack on the ambulance, indicating the Israeli army had ample opportunity for “situational awareness, communication, and command decision-making”, the report adds. Avaaz says the ambulance was attacked by a tank in a way that could not have been a warning shot if the military had any reason to believe it was not there to rescue Hind. Instead, the assault “points to lethal targeting”. The Israeli army gave no warning before attacking the ambulance, previous investigations have found. “I have taken the investigations done by a number of independent journalistic outfits. I was really struck by the evidence at the end of the whole horrendous incident,” said Sarah Andrew, legal director of Avaaz, who added that as a mother, Hind’s death made her think of her own daughter. “In particular, the kind of weaponry that was used on the ambulance, the timing and the fact that no warning was given – it immediately triggered a question in my mind, and I am absolutely convinced that this is another case of double tap.” She told Al Jazeera: “It is something that has not had attention, and we would like to take this with [an independent legal] partner to the ICC.” “What I have done is establish a legal framework for the previous investigation. I think it is very important that we also look at what happened to the ambulance workers as well as what happened to Hind and her family.” The report says, “Even where an attacking force claims it suspects misuse of a medical vehicle, international humanitarian law requires warnings and an opportunity to comply before an attack can be lawful.” Andrew said the Israeli military has yet to explain why a tank fired on an ambulance. “We have not heard from the people responsible. I want them to appear before the ICC and hear what on earth was in their mind when they ordered 120mm tank rounds to be fired into an ambulance,” she said. “Justice is first of all bringing the light of attention into this crime and secondly seeing the persons responsible being accountable for their actions.” Professor James Sweeney, from the University of Lancaster, who is an expert on human rights and conflict, said in double-tap attacks, the second strike is usually within five to 10 minutes. It can also mean letting off a small explosion to induce rescuers to respond, then exploding another bomb once they are near. “The [Avaaz] brief says that the attack on the ambulance should be considered a double tap, but usually the second attack would be within five to 20 minutes and would be considered a trick,” he told Al Jazeera. “It would seem that [in this case] the passage of time was greater, but that does not take anything away from the fact that the attack on the ambulance was so unlawful. You could see it as a form of double-tap, but it is not my normal understanding of it. But in any case, it does not take away from the fact that these were war crimes.” The Hind Rajab Foundation said in a statement, “The double tap arguments are consistent with our analysis as well. We are continuously preparing for new filings against responsible soldiers in various jurisdictions.
“We have 24 names of responsible perpetrators. We are open to work together with Avaaz on a filing specifically regarding the attack on the ambulance.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/substantial-evidence-of-double-tap-strike-in-killing-of-gazas-hind-rajab
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islamophobia
Al Jazeera - March 9, 2026 By Anealla Safdar
{UK media biased against Muslims, says group that analysed 40,000 articles
Centre for Media Monitoring reports right-wing outlets Spectator and GB News often malign Muslims and their faith.
London, United Kingdom – As anti-Muslim hate crimes rise in Britain, so too does biased coverage of Muslims in the media, a new study suggests. The Centre for Media Monitoring, a nonprofit organisation that examines how Muslims and Islam are portrayed in the media, said in a report released on Monday that of about 40,000 articles it assessed from 30 outlets, 70 percent associated Muslims or Islam with negative aspects or behaviours. “As the largest study of its kind ever conducted in the UK, this report presents deeply concerning evidence of structural bias in how Muslims are portrayed in the UK press,” said Rizwana Hamid, the group’s director. The report said almost half of the articles published about Muslims in the UK, or about 20,000, contained a “high degree of bias”. The data point to a “systemic problem within our media ecosystem”, Hamid said. “When entire communities are repeatedly framed through lenses of suspicion or threat, it inevitably shapes public attitudes, political debate and the everyday lives of British Muslims”. News organisations that address the concerns and interests of right-wing voters in Britain were more likely to produce biased coverage about Muslims, the report found. The organisation named The Spectator magazine and GB News television channel as the “worst across all five bias categories” – negative coverage, generalisations, misrepresentations, contextual omissions and problematic headlines – as well as newspapers such as The Telegraph, Jewish Chronicle, Daily Express, The Sun, Daily Mail and The Times. “Harmful coverage is not incidental among these outlets,” the report read. At the other end of the scale, the outlets least likely to produce biased coverage maligning Muslims and their faith were: ITV, the Metro newspaper, BBC, the PA news agency, The Guardian, The Associated Press, London Evening Standard and Sky News.
Rise of racism with echoes of the past
The study was released as Muslims across Britain face increasing hostility, in part due to the rising popularity of hard-right public figures and swelling anti-immigration sentiment. “Extensive research has shown correlations between negative portrayals of Muslims and rising hate crime, employment discrimination, and support for restrictive policies,” the report said. In October, the UK reported that religious hate crimes against Muslims rose 19 percent during the year ending in March 2025 compared with the previous period. The Home Office said anti-Muslim hate crimes spiked after the 2024 Southport mass stabbing at a girls dance class, which agitators on social media had blamed on a fictitious Muslim migrant. Recently, mosques have been targeted, and British Muslims as well as other ethnic minority groups have reported a growing sense of unease and insecurity as a sense of nationalism grows in line with the growth of the far-right Reform UK party. Observers said the kind of racism returning to the UK has echoes of the discrimination witnessed in the 1970s and 1980s. Prime Minister Keir Starmer told ITV late last year that it was “tearing our country apart”. The Centre for Media Monitoring said in one example it studied, right-wing media amplified a claim by United States President Donald Trump that London was governed by “Sharia law”. Trump in September told the United Nations General Assembly: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed. It’s been so changed. … Now they want to go to Sharia law. But you are in a different country. You can’t do that.” While The Metro fact-checked the claim and The Independent provided contextualised commentary, “opinion-let outlets such as the Daily Express went further by treating the conspiracy as credible”, the report said. “Presenting baseless claims as matters of debate normalises misinformation and fuels anti-Muslim narratives, underscoring the media’s responsibility to challenge falsehoods decisively rather than inadvertently legitimising them,” the group said.}: Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/uk-media-bias-muslims

Al Nakba - 75 years of resistence - VICTORY is on its way to the sea

  Video found footage shoots: Genocidal crime scene witnesses evidence

 
Screengrabs: Israel denies women in Gaza ‘conditions to live’ - Over 12,000 Palestinian Women Killed - Women pushed “to the Brink”

   
Videoscreen grabs: Under Siege Children Pay Tribute to The Fallen

 Screengrabs: Stop starving Gaza and Foreign Doctors Uncover Disturbing Pattern of Israeli Forces Targeting Children & babies killed as Israeli strikes
   
WHY?  

Fighting for Habiba - Gazanan Pieta  - Children suffering from malnutrition - USA visas for medical evacuation patients denied

LOOK AND ACT AGAINST instead of ALWAYS looking away!!!!