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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

Dec 28 - 16, 2025 “The blood of the journalists’ families will remain a living witness to the crime of trying to silence the Palestinian voice,” & Journalists do not die - They are killed but "Where there is Light there's always a Shadow… so Truth finding is to Reveal its Dark Face and have the voices of Palestinians - who stay Resilient - and Hold Ground… be heard 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... Nov 15 - 5, 2025 Attacks on Journalists continues but... risking Limb and Life they keep Revealing the Plain Truth 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 Updated: 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 Jan 3-2, 2026 In Today's Factual News A New Year for Gaza: Will life return? and The ceasefire did what it was meant to do – make Gaza invisible and more Factual News but the echoes of the voices of Palestinians - is Crystal Clear and  Resilient - and Hold Ground… to be heard Loud and Clear Live Updates Jan 1, 2026 Jan 1, 2026 Dec 31, 2025 On how israelis understand an act of Human Kindness: Banning of all Aid Groups Dec 29, 2025 Heavy Storm Batters Gaza And Dec 12 - 11, 2025: Gaza families struggle with Storm Byron 2 Gaza families struggle with Storm Byron

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 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.

 
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Maram Humaid
Al Jazeera - Jan 3, 2026 Maram Humaid
{A New Year for Gaza: Will life return?
Al Jazeera’s Maram Humaid reflects on a year of famine in Gaza, marked by hunger, loss, and relentless suffering.
Gaza City – Over the past two years, we stopped counting seasons, days, and the passage of time. Days are no longer days; the life we knew before the outbreak of Israel’s genocidal war is gone. Instead, days merge as we taste every shade of suffering and drink from every bitter cup except the one that will give us our lives back. We watch the world writing about the end of 2025, celebrating achievements and opening a blank page to welcome the coming year. But a new year in Gaza means we are entering the third year of the war and its aftermath. It’s as if Gaza has its own calendar since the genocide began.
Carrying tears and disbelief
Whoever emerged from this year alive survived with their body, but their soul has been eroded – you can see it on the face of any woman or man who has been displaced for two years. We were hopeful at the beginning of 2025 as we returned, carrying our tears and disbelief, to northern Gaza, to our destroyed homes where we had lived our entire lives. In that ceasefire in January 2025, we thought the war had ended and that we could start anew. But we were wrong. Only six weeks later, as people were still trying to absorb life in post-war northern Gaza, the war returned, even more brutal. In mid-March, we were woken to the sound of bombs – a sound that had never really left us. This time, Israel added the weapon of starvation, blocking the entry of everything, even aid. And so it went: War, bombardment, blood, hunger, and the constant race to secure a single meal. Seasons of abundance passed us by, Eid and feast days, while tables were bare.
No holiday cookies, no coffee, no chocolate. Nothing.
People made do by offering water, and some stopped receiving visitors, hiding their poverty.
This year’s Eid, supermarket shelves had been bare for months. A vendor set out a table with thin fingers of sweets his wife had made at home from sugar, sesame, and flour. One little piece sold for 10 shekels (about $3). I wasn’t surprised. Sugar and flour were priceless, sold by the gramme, like gold. That day, I went from place to place with my children, trying to find any sign of celebration. I was surprised at myself for hoping, even subconsciously, that it being Eid might change things, that perhaps food would enter. But I told myself: What would it being Eid matter in Gaza? Nothing changes. It’s just another day, the same reality. A day in Gaza means bombs in the sky, and hunger and deprivation of joy on the ground. I decided not to go see my family in the north for Eid and turned back home. Not only because I stood at a street corner for more than an hour and a half looking for a car or even an animal-drawn cart to take us north, but also because I felt joy was dead, no matter how hard I tried. So I returned, broken, my children trailing behind me. I had enough money to buy them new clothes, but all my money couldn’t buy them a cookie. I collapsed onto a couch at home, wondering at the wrath that seemed to have been unleashed on us in Gaza while the rest of the planet carried on, celebrating Eid as famine consumed us.
The passing of days
As the days passed, they drained us. Day after day, I began to lose my desire to work, to write, to keep listening to people’s stories. What’s the point of listening to the stories of the hungry when the world has grown accustomed to our protruding bones? What’s the point of covering a massacre that isn’t ending? I had no energy left. I would think of a story, but my mind would tell me to conserve what energy remained. My days narrowed to counting how much flour, rice, and sugar we had left. I cooked lentils over an open, smoking fire for my children. I worried about the last of the yeast, worried about how to find more firewood, craved a cup of coffee as if it were a dream, and scrolled through photos of once-abundant tables. We were seeing people die for a bag of flour or a food parcel, and crowds gathering at night to go to aid distribution points. I had never stopped thinking about leaving Gaza throughout the war, but my motivation changed as the thoughts got sharper. I was dreaming of taking my children somewhere they could eat whatever they wanted. I want to title all this humiliation and suffering in my memory as: “So we do not forget.” How could I forget, when even now, whenever I pass a stall full of fruits and vegetables, I gasp and stare, my heart pounding with prayers that this blessing will not disappear again? How could I forget, when I still remember my shock and emotion in late September when I entered a supermarket and saw shelves of food? I went into a buying frenzy. I took a bit of everything: Canned goods, chocolate, chips, cream cheese, flour, legumes. I felt like I was carrying treasures, even at double the price. Since then, whenever I enter a grocery shop, anxiety, fear, and exhaustion overwhelm me. I buy what I need and what I don’t need. Food is more available, yet my mind tells me that this abundance will not last. We are conditioned to deprivation, empty shelves and severed supply lines.
The food that has to last all day for the family. a small basket of bread and three small bowls of lentil gruel
It is a deep trauma, a constant feeling that food will disappear. I can’t say I hate food, but I hate the terror and fear around it. The same feeling returns with every door slam, every rug shaken out, every sound of a passing truck, or gunfire. All of it throws us into a state of emergency, waiting for the sound of a missile.
‘Achievements’
The other night, just before the end of the year, I was joking with my father and my siblings, who have been sheltering with us since September, when Israel forced people out of the north. We wanted to imitate the social media “achievements” trend, where friends and families gather around a cake, and each person lights a candle and details an achievement for the year. We began – without a cake – under dim LED lights, because electricity had been cut for months. When my turn came, I said my greatest achievement this year was retaining my mental and psychological faculties. I hadn’t even finished my sentence before everyone burst into laughter. “Who told you that you still have your mental and psychological faculties?” my sister choked out around her laughter. I fell silent, stunned by their reaction, then laughed along with them when I realised the weight of what I had said. What is this, you fool? What psyche, what sanity? God forgive you, Maram. After what you mentioned above, and what you didn’t mention, and everything you will never mention, is there still room to speak of mental and emotional stability? It was the most honest ending to this year. An ending where I fully understood the limits of my strength and that I had reached the end of it, yet somehow I managed to keep going.
This is not defiance, nor strength. Prolonged survival in this state eats away at souls and minds.
Day after day, our humanity erodes further until we are no longer fit for life, no matter how many years pass.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/3/a-new-year-for-gaza-will-life-return


Children whose homes were destroyed-Photo-Khatib-Anadolu
Al Jazeera - Jan 3, 2026
{Severe weather in Gaza hits vulnerable and wounded most in Israel’s war
As harsh weather conditions batter the besieged enclave once again, Palestinians with shattered limbs in Israel’s genocidal war suffer the most. The winter has made a life of relentless suffering worse for the people of Gaza, particularly for the wounded, children and elderly, with hundreds of thousands in the Palestinian territory displaced by Israel’s genocidal war desperately trying to survive on the scant humanitarian aid Israel is allowing in. Nine-year-old Assad al-Madhna lost his left hand when Israeli fire hit a group of children playing in al-Zuwayda in central Gaza. The same attack also wounded him in the leg. Now, as winter envelops the besieged enclave, Assad’s pain increases as the metal rods and pins holding his leg in place stiffen in the cold, making every step slower and agonising. “I can’t play with other children as in winter, my legs and hands hurt a lot,” he told Al Jazeera. “I haven’t received any prosthetic, struggle to change my clothes, and going to the toilet in this cold is a real challenge,” he said, adding: “Without my parents, I can’t manage it. At night, the severe cold becomes unbearable.” A truce between Israel and Hamas since October 10 has been fragile, a ceasefire in name only, according to Palestinians and rights groups, after two years of destructive war. Despite the truce, Palestinians in crowded camps – often in damaged tents and surrounded by mud – still face severe humanitarian conditions, trying to survive with few or no resources, making life the hardest for the most vulnerable.
‘No heating at all’
Eighteen-year-old Waed Murad survived an attack that wiped out her entire family – seven relatives in one strike. She now lives with a life-altering injury, and when the temperatures drop, her nerve pain intensifies, sleep slips away, and the little recovery she had is threatened. “I can’t keep myself warm because of the severe cold with the metal bars and pins always freezing,” she told Al Jazeera. “I am living in a tent with no heating at all. Every time I hear the wind, I feel the pain will get worse, as the cold will affect the metal fixation devices even more.” In the enclave, temperatures at night have ranged between eight and 12 degrees Celsius (46 and 53 degrees Fahrenheit) in recent days. Nearly 80 percent of buildings in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed or damaged by the war, according to United Nations data. About 1.5 million of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents have lost their homes, said Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza. Of more than 300,000 tents requested to shelter displaced people, “we have received only 60,000,” Shawa told the AFP news agency, pointing to Israeli restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian aid into the territory.
Israel slammed for banning NGOs
Meanwhile, the international community has condemned Israel’s recent announcement of a suspension of the operations of several international nongovernmental organisations in the occupied Palestinian territory. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was deeply concerned and called for the measure to be reversed. “This announcement comes on top of earlier restrictions that have already delayed critical food, medical, hygiene and shelter supplies from entering Gaza.” “This recent action will further exacerbate the humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the secretary-general, said in a statement. Several countries in the Middle East and Asia called on Israel to allow “immediate, full, and unhindered” deliveries of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as winter storms lash the bombarded Palestinian enclave. In a statement on Friday, the foreign ministers of Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkiye, Pakistan and Indonesia warned that “deteriorating” conditions in Gaza had left nearly 1.9 million displaced Palestinians particularly vulnerable. “Flooded camps, damaged tents, the collapse of damaged buildings, and exposure to cold temperatures coupled with malnutrition, have significantly heightened risks to civilian lives,” the statement read. Earlier this month, Gaza experienced a similar spell of heavy rain and cold. The weather caused at least 18 deaths due to the collapse of war-damaged buildings or exposure to cold, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. On December 18, the UN’s humanitarian office said 17 buildings collapsed during the storm, while 42,000 tents and makeshift shelters were fully or partially damaged.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/3/severe-weather-in-gaza-hits-vulnerable-and-wounded-most-in-israels-war


Ikhlas Al-Tawil
Jinhagency - Womens News Agency - Jan 3, 2026
{A Low-Pressure System in Gaza Turns a Mother’s Joy into a Tragedy
In a fleeting moment meant for her child’s laughter, Ikhlas Al-Tawil’s life became tragedy when a concrete slab crushed her back in a dilapidated refuge, leaving her paraplegic and immobile. Rafeef Islim
Gaza — Thousands of families in the Gaza Strip are living under harsh conditions imposed by displacement, forcing them to seek shelter in dilapidated houses unfit for habitation—especially as winter storms intensify across the region. The story of Ikhlas Al-Tawil reveals a dark side of the suffering endured by displaced people: caught between houses at risk of collapse and tents that offer no protection from the cold, they face impossible choices. Ikhlas Al-Tawil sustained paraplegia in the lower half of her body while playing with her child in a collapsing house she had fled to in the southern Gaza Strip, during the first winter low-pressure systems to hit the area. Al-Tawil says that on December 12 she suffered a painful accident caused by the storm, after being displaced to a dilapidated house in southern Gaza following the destruction of her home—attached to a garden in the Safatawi neighborhood in northern Gaza—by Israeli forces. She notes that she was forced to live in a house she knew well was at risk of collapse and could threaten her life, yet it remained less cruel than a tent and the suffering it entails. She explains: “We live in a city surrounded by rubble from every direction, with no place fit for a humane life. We therefore find ourselves facing two equally bitter options: a tent that neither protects us from the cold nor preserves our dignity, or a collapsing house. Despite the high rent of these houses, I am forced to pay it from my savings at the expense of my physical and mental health. And today I bear this burden alone, leaving four young children without a provider—the eldest is seven years old and the youngest has not yet reached three and a half.” According to doctors, the accident resulted in a fracture of the first lumbar vertebra of the spine, in addition to pressure on the spinal cord that led to paraplegia in the lower part of her body. Although she was immediately transferred to hospital and admitted to the operating room urgently in an attempt to save what could be saved, she still requires immediate and urgent medical rehabilitation to regain as much mobility as possible. Al-Tawil explains that medical and neurological rehabilitation is no longer a secondary option, but the only hope for restoring her ability to live a normal life. She spends her days and nights lying on her back, unable to sit or move independently. Worse still, she says, Gaza has only two rehabilitation centers—Hamad Hospital and Al-Wafa Hospital—neither of which provides services that would even allow her to sit without assistance, let alone regain her ability to walk. What troubles Al-Tawil most and deepens her anxiety is that her father had suffered from paraplegia; she knows well the stages of treatment and the time and meticulous care it requires. She therefore fully realizes the importance of urgently transferring her outside the Gaza Strip for treatment. Doctors’ attempts to reassure her do little to ease her psychological collapse, which worsens whenever she feels sensation fading from the lower part of her body, as if each nerve is snapping one by one, step after step. She says: “What my body is going through now is stiffness in the bones, muscle atrophy, and a gradual loss of sensation in tendons I could feel moving just days ago. It seems my body has begun to treat those nerves as if they no longer exist.” She adds that since December 15 she should have been in a physiotherapy center, receiving appropriate exercises and specialized care using equipment unavailable in Gaza. Instead, she remains stretched out on a bed all the time, receiving only painkillers at night, with no therapeutic intervention to help her recover what she loses day after day. What is needed is not a miracle, but medical and psychological rehabilitation and advanced equipment designed to deal with cases of paraplegia—measures capable of giving Ikhlas Al-Tawil a chance to live a normal life like other women her age. This is not a rare medical case. Al-Tawil finds solace in one thought that eases her suffering: that she was the one who took the impact of the falling concrete column, not her three-year-old child, who would have certainly lost his life had he been struck. “I bear the pain, the loss, the disability, and all the countless hardships that fall upon me, but I cannot bear to live a single day without my little child. So every day I console myself that he survived, that he is able to live, play, and run like other children his age.” Her young children are also suffering psychologically. Although they are living under the care of their paternal grandmother, they miss their mother every moment. The new life imposed on them is completely different and requires a long time to adapt to. She notes that from the very first moment of her injury, before she was transferred anywhere, she thought only of her children and fully grasped the magnitude of the disaster that had befallen her—especially when she completely lost sensation in the lower part of her body. Ikhlas Al-Tawil can no longer even bear to think about that house. The mere image of it in her mind brings back the moment of the accident and all the pain that accompanied it, triggering a nervous breakdown followed by a severe deterioration in her health and a sharp drop in blood pressure. She therefore affirms that she will never return to it. Because of that house, she finds herself today injured, homeless, and in urgent need of treatment outside the Gaza Strip—while it seems no one is paying attention to her suffering or seeking to save what remains of her health.} Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/a-low-pressure-system-in-gaza-turns-a-mother-s-joy-into-a-tragedy-38262


Al Jazeera - Jan 3, 2026
{UN chief Guterres calls on Israel to reverse NGO ban in Gaza, West Bank
Guterres says pending ban targets groups ‘indispensable to life-saving’ work, undermines ceasefire progress. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to reverse a pending ban on 37 nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. In a statement on Friday, Guterres called the work of the groups “indispensable to life-saving humanitarian work”, according to spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. He added that the “suspension risks undermining the fragile progress made during the ceasefire”. Israel banned the humanitarian groups for failing to meet new registration rules requiring aid groups working in the occupied territory to provide “detailed information on their staff members, funding and operations”. It has pledged to enforce the ban starting March 1. Experts have denounced the requirements as arbitrary and in violation of humanitarian principles. Aid groups have said that providing personal information about their Palestinian employees to Israel could put them at risk. The targeted groups include several country chapters of Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym, MSF), the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the International Rescue Committee. To date, Israel has killed about 500 aid workers and volunteers in Gaza throughout its genocidal war. All told, at least 71,271 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023. In his statement, Guterres said the NGO ban “comes on top of earlier restrictions that have already delayed critical food, medical, hygiene and shelter supplies from entering Gaza”. “This recent action will further exacerbate the humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians,” he said. Nearly all of Gaza’s population has been displaced throughout the war, with many still living in tents and temporary shelters. Israel had maintained severe restrictions on aid entering the enclave prior to a ceasefire going into effect in October. Under the deal, Israel was meant to provide unhindered aid access. But humanitarian groups have said Israel has continued to prevent adequate aid flow. Ongoing restrictions include materials that could be used to provide better shelter and protection from flooding amid devastating winter storms, according to the UN. Earlier on Friday, the foreign ministers of Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkiye, Pakistan and Indonesia warned that “deteriorating” conditions threatened to take even more lives in Gaza. “Flooded camps, damaged tents, the collapse of damaged buildings, and exposure to cold temperatures coupled with malnutrition, have significantly heightened risks to civilian lives,” they said in a statement.
They called on the international community “to pressure Israel, as the occupying power, to immediately lift constraints on the entry and distribution of essential supplies including tents, shelter materials, medical assistance, clean water, fuel, and sanitation support”.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/3/un-chief-guterres-calls-on-israel-to-reverse-ngo-ban-in-gaza-west-bank


A Mothers' Proof of a genocidal killing of a baby
Quds news - Jan 2, 2026
{Namecheap Takes Down Domain Hosting Videos Documenting Israeli War Crimes
Namecheap.com, the popular domain name and webhosting platform, has taken down the Genocide.live domain name, which was home to a publicly accessible archive of over 16,000 videos documenting Israeli war crimes.
Gaza (QNN)- Namecheap.com has taken down the Genocide.live domain name which was home to an archive of over 16k videos documenting Israeli war crimes submitted as evidence on the State of Israel’s acts of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza by the South African UN delegation to the UNSC and ICJ cases. Namecheap.com, the popular domain name and webhosting platform, has taken down the Genocide.live domain name, which was home to a publicly accessible archive of over 16,000 videos documenting Israeli war crimes. The archive, formerly known as TikTokGenocide, was previously submitted as “evidence on the State of Israel’s acts of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza” by the South African UN delegation to the United Nations Security Council in February of 2025 and is also included in ongoing court proceedings of the International Court of Justice case South Africa against Israel. In a New Year’s tweet on Tuesday, the maintainer of the site going by the alias of Zionism Observer on Twitter detailed the suspension of the Genocide.live domain name, under the seemingly claim of its hosting material that “promotes, encourages, engages or displays cruelty to humans or animals.” In addition to hosting over 16,000 videos of evidence documenting evidence of war crimes by Israeli soldiers and examples of intent of genocide from Israeli military and civil leaders, the Genocide.live archive also included an interactive map of Gaza detailing Israeli violations against the populace in each area, a geolocated index of the videos for which location data was positively determined, a categorized listing of videos detailing the nature of violations, an extensive index of the different types of victims of Israeli agression, a cross-indexed reference of various weapons of war used, and, perhaps most sensitively of all, a cross-indexed list of individual Israeli military brigades and battalions tied to each of the hosted pieces of evidence, where that information was available. The site’s maintainer noted with concern an anomaly in the traffic the archive was receiving from Israel, and had earlier reported recent attempts to probe their infrastructure from the same. Genocide.live is a part of the Databases for Palestine project, a collective founded in December of 2023 using tech to shed light on the terrible situation in Gaza and the acts of the Israeli occupation government and army that contributed to Israel being credibly accused of committing genocide in Palestine by prominent human rights organizations including Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Human Rights Watch, among others. Source: Zionism Observer, NeoSmart} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66986&slug=namecheap-takes-down-domain-hosting-videos-documenting-israeli-war-crimes



Actual news about All Aid Banned:
Quds news - Jan 2, 2026
{Joint statement: 53 NGOs warn of Israeli decision to halt lifesaving humanitarian operations in Gaza and West Bank
Fifty-three international NGOs warn that an Israeli decision to deregister aid groups could force a shutdown of humanitarian operations in Gaza and the West Bank, as hunger, displacement, and medical needs reach critical levels.
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Fifty-three international non-governmental organizations have warned that Israel’s recent registration measures could block critical humanitarian work across Palestine. In a joint press release, the NGOs said the steps threaten to force international aid groups to shut down operations in Gaza and the West Bank, including the eastern part of Jerusalem, despite extreme civilian need. On December 30, 37 international NGOs received official notices that their registrations would expire on December 31, 2025. The decision triggers a 60-day period. After that, the organizations would have to stop all operations. The NGOs said this move risks paralyzing humanitarian assistance at a critical moment. International NGOs work with the United Nations and Palestinian civil society groups to deliver lifesaving aid. UN agencies and donor governments have repeatedly said these organizations are indispensable. They have urged Israel to reverse the decision. Humanitarian needs remain severe, even with a ceasefire in Gaza. One in four families in Gaza survives on just one meal a day. Winter storms have displaced tens of thousands of people. About 1.3 million people urgently need shelter. International NGOs play a central role in the response. They deliver more than half of all food assistance in Gaza. They run or support around 60 percent of field hospitals. They implement nearly three-quarters of shelter and non-food item programs. They provide all treatment for children with severe acute malnutrition. The NGOs warned that removing them would close health facilities, stop food distributions, and collapse shelter pipelines. It would also cut off lifesaving care for children. In the West Bank, Israeli military raids and settler violence against native Palestinians continue. Further restrictions on international NGOs would sharply reduce aid at a time of rising need. The NGOs stressed that they already operate under strict compliance systems. More than 500 humanitarian workers have been killed by Israel since October 7, 2023. The NGOs said they cannot transfer sensitive personal data to the occupation state. They also warned that false narratives against aid groups put staff at risk and undermine relief efforts. “This is not a technical or administrative issue,” the statement said. “It is a deliberate policy choice with foreseeable consequences.” If registrations expire, the NGOs said Israel would obstruct humanitarian assistance at scale. They stressed that humanitarian access is a legal obligation under international humanitarian law, not a political option. The organizations also warned that the measures set a dangerous precedent. They said the move expands Israeli control over humanitarian operations in Palestine. This contradicts the internationally recognized legal framework and the role of the Palestinian Authority. The NGOs called on Israel to immediately halt deregistration procedures. They urged donor governments to use all available leverage to reverse the measures. They said independent and principled humanitarian work must be protected so civilians can receive urgent aid. The statement was signed by 53 international organizations, including Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Islamic Relief, Norwegian Refugee Council, and War Child Alliance.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66987&slug=joint-statement-53-ngos-warn-of-israeli-decision-to-halt-lifesaving-humanitarian-operations-in-gaza-and-west-bank

Quds news - Jan 2, 2026
{Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations React to Israel’s Suspension of Dozens of Life-Saving NGOs: “Genocidal Policies”
Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, warned that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians could lose access to essential medical care as Israel’s revocation of licences comes into effect.
Gaza (QNN)- More human rights and humanitarian organizations have condemned Israel’s ban on 37 international aid groups operating in the war-torn Gaza Strip, saying the move 'weaponizes bureaucracy' amid growing concerns over the deteriorating humanitarian situation as Israel blocks much-needed aid from entering the enclave. On Tuesday, Israel said it will suspend more than three dozen humanitarian organisations working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, including Doctors Without Borders, for allegedly failing to meet its new rules for aid groups. Organisations facing bans starting on Thursday didn’t meet new requirements for sharing information on their staffs, funding and operations, Israeli occupation authorities said. Other major organisations affected include the Norwegian Refugee Council, CARE International, the International Rescue Committee, and divisions of major charities such as Oxfam and Caritas. International organisations said Israel’s rules are arbitrary. Israel claimed 37 groups didn’t have their permits renewed. Israel changed its registration process for aid groups in March, which included a requirement to submit a list of staff, including Palestinians in Gaza. Some aid groups said they didn’t submit a list of Palestinian staff for fear those employees would be targeted by Israel. “It comes from a legal and safety perspective. In Gaza, we saw hundreds of aid workers get killed,” said Shaina Low, communications adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council. On Wednesday, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), which coordinates decisions across UN agencies and NGOs working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, urged Israel to reconsider its move, warning that they are an essential part of life-saving humanitarian operations in the occupied Palestinian territory. “The deregistration of INGOs in Gaza will have a catastrophic impact on access to essential and basic services,” the HCT said in the statement. “INGOs run or support the majority of field hospitals, primary healthcare centers, emergency shelter responses, water and sanitation services, nutrition stabilization centers for children with acute malnutrition, and critical mine action activities.”
The UN described Israel’s move as “outrageous”.
Ravina Shamdasani, the UN human rights spokesperson, said the move was the “latest in a pattern of unlawful restrictions” by Israel, as well as attacks on Israeli and Palestinian NGOs, amid broader access problems faced by the UN and other humanitarian groups. Nineteen Israeli human rights organisations also condemned the decision. The groups, united under The Platform coalition, issued a joint statement on Wednesday criticizing measures that restrict access to life-saving assistance in Gaza and the West Bank. “Israel, as the occupying power, has an obligation to ensure adequate supplies to Palestinian civilians. Not only is it failing to fulfil that obligation, but it is also preventing others from filling the gap,” the groups said. “The new registration framework violates core humanitarian principles of independence and neutrality,” the statement noted, adding that it “weaponizes bureaucracy” and “institutionalizes barriers” forcing vital organisations to suspend operations. The groups, including B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, urged Israel in Thursday’s statement to “immediately halt deregistration proceedings” and allow international organisations to operate safely, saying ensuring humanitarian aid access “is a legal obligation, not a discretionary choice”. “Conditioning aid on political alignment, penalizing support for legal accountability, and requiring the disclosure of sensitive personal data of Palestinian staff and their families all constitute a breach of duty of care and expose workers to surveillance and harm.” Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, warned that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians could lose access to essential medical care as Israel’s revocation of licences comes into effect. “The Palestinian health system is decimated, essential infrastructure is destroyed, and people struggle to meet basic needs. People need more services, not less. If MSF and other INGOs lose access, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be cut off from essential care. We currently support one in five hospital beds and the delivery of one in three births in Gaza,” MSF said in a post on X. “In 2025 alone, we provided nearly 800,000 outpatient consultations, treated over 100,000 trauma cases, performed 22,700 surgeries, assisted more than 10,000 births, and distributed nearly 700 million litres of water,” it added. The Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq said the move amounts to an escalation of “genocidal policies” in Gaza. The group said the restrictions violate international law and ignore rulings by the International Court of Justice, which has ordered Israel to ensure the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Al-Haq called on states to take concrete action, including sanctions and an arms embargo, and to support efforts to enforce International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Israeli officials. It said making humanitarian access dependent on political conditions forces out vital international assistance and further isolates Palestinians. Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said Israel’s decision amounts to a “dangerous escalation” that will severely obstruct humanitarian relief. It said the move risks collapsing critical services such as emergency medical care, water and sanitation, malnutrition treatment for children, and shelter for displaced families. It warned the move could force one in three health facilities in Gaza to shut down due to a lack of support. The monitor said the restrictions are part of a strategy to “strangle humanitarian access” in violation of international law and the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures, adding that limiting aid is being used as a tool of collective punishment. Former UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, who sits on the board of the Norwegian Refugee Council, told Al Jazeera he was not optimistic about what will happen next. “The reality is these agencies are essential to aid delivery – [and] aid delivery in particular in the Gaza Strip,” Griffiths said. “They are the last mile, the phrase used in humanitarian operations to those who actually deliver the aid to the people involved.” The move comes as ten countries, including Canada and Britain, have expressed “serious concerns” over a “renewed deterioration of the humanitarian situation” in Gaza, describing conditions as “catastrophic”. Recently, more than 100 aid groups accused Israel of obstructing life-saving aid from entering Gaza and called on it to end its “weaponisation of aid”. Despite the ceasefire which took effect in October, Israel has continued to kill Palestinians in Gaza and restricted the entry of aid, violating the agreement. “Entry of distribution and aid in the Gaza Strip will proceed without interference from the two parties through the United Nations and its agencies, and the Red Crescent, in addition to other international institutions not associated in any manner with either party,” Trump’s “20-point peace plan” says.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66983&slug=human-rights-and-humanitarian-organizations-react-to-israels-suspension-of-dozens-of-life-saving-ngos-genocidal-policies

Al Jazeera - Jan 1, 2026
{Israeli forces kill Palestinian child as Gaza humanitarian crisis deepens
Israel’s continued restrictions on aid deliveries leave Palestinian children particularly vulnerable, aid groups warn. Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian child in northern Gaza as hundreds of thousands of families across the bombarded enclave continue to reel from Israel’s continued restrictions on shelter supplies and other humanitarian aid. A medical source at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the child – identified as Youssef Ahmed al-Shandaghli – was killed by Israeli forces in the Jabalia an-Nazla area in the north of the territory. The exact circumstances surrounding the boy’s killing were not immediately clear. It comes as Israel has continued to carry out attacks across Gaza despite a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement that came into force in October, killing more than 400 Palestinians and injuring many more. Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries to the enclave have also worsened already dire conditions in the enclave, which has been largely reduced to rubble as a result of Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people there. On Thursday, local media outlets reported that a young girl died in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp due to extreme cold. Separately, the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza also reported that its teams recovered the bodies of a mother and child after a fire broke out in a tent sheltering displaced people in the Yarmouk area of central Gaza City. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families are residing in overcrowded displacement camps and makeshift shelters across the strip because their homes have been destroyed in Israel’s more than two-year-long war. The United Nations and humanitarian agencies have urged the Israeli authorities to allow tents, blankets and other supplies into Gaza to help families withstand dangerous winter conditions. But Israel has ignored the calls to lift its restrictions on aid deliveries, despite growing international condemnation that its policy is putting Palestinian lives at risk. Earlier this week, the UN’s child rights agency (UNICEF) said at least five Palestinian children had died in Gaza in December due to a lack of adequate shelter. That includes a seven-year-old Palestinian boy named Ata Mai who drowned to death in a makeshift displacement camp northwest of Gaza City on December 27 amid heavy rainfall, winds and freezing temperatures. “Ata went missing in the afternoon and, despite search and rescue efforts supported by heavy machinery, his body was only recovered hours later,” UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa regional director Edouard Beigbeder said in a statement. “Children in Gaza have endured enough and have the right to protection and safe shelter; all efforts must prioritize meeting this essential need,” Beigbeder added. “Furthermore, the urgent and large-scale entry of a full range of life-saving and life-sustaining supplies is required, including items that have previously been denied or restricted.” The warnings also come as Israel moved on Thursday to implement a ban on international aid groups working to support Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Israel has revoked the operating licences of 37 aid groups for failing to comply with new government regulations that require them to provide detailed information on their staff members, funding and operations. UN officials have denounced the ban as “the latest in a pattern of unlawful restrictions on humanitarian access” in the occupied Palestinian territory, while the targeted organisations have warned that they will be forced to halt their life-saving work.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/1/israeli-army-kills-palestinian-child-in-gaza-as-aid-crisis-deepens


Zohran Mamdani
Quds news - Jan 2, 2026
{Zohran Mamdani Revokes Executive Orders That Adam Signed to Support Israel
Mamdani drew global attention to his campaign because of his strong stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
New York City (QNN)- Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order in his first day as mayor on Thursday revoking all orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams, including two that support Israel. One of the revoked orders, signed last month by Adams, barred city agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel. Another that the former mayor signed last June implementing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, that equates Israel’s criticism with antisemitism. Mamdani did not revoke the creation of the city’s office to combat antisemitism, which Adams created in May. Still, the former mayor and others who had opposed Mamdani’s candidacy criticized the new mayor’s actions. In a post on X, Adams said Mamdani “promised a New Era and unity today. This isn’t new. And it isn’t unity.” Inna Vernikov, a Republican councilwoman from Brooklyn, attacked the mayor on Thursday night, saying on social media that one of the revoked orders “protects from discrimination Jews who believe in self determination.” A little more than an hour later, she added that “the pro-Hamas antisemites emboldened by” the mayor “are coming!” Mamdani promised on Thursday to be a mayor for all New Yorkers, and has made it clear that antisemitism will not be tolerated, while also saying he will advocate for Palestinians. Mamdani was sworn in as the first Muslim mayor of New York City on Thursday during a private ceremony where he took his oath using his grandfather's Quran and a 200-year-old copy of the Quran on loan from the New York Public Library. Mamdani drew global attention to his campaign because of his strong stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Recently, he stated that the United States is funding the genocide during a meeting with President Donald Trump. Standing alongside Trump, Mamdani was asked by a reporter about previous comments he had made about the US government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, including the current administration. Mamdani replied that he had shared with the president “the concern that many New Yorkers have of wanting their tax dollars to go towards the benefit of New Yorkers”, noting the city is “in the ninth consecutive year of more than 100,000 schoolchildren being homeless”. “I’ve spoken about the Israeli government committing genocide and I’ve spoken about our government funding it,” Mamdani said, adding that the Trump voters he met “were tired of seeing our tax dollars fund endless wars”. It was the first known occasion that Israel’s genocide in Gaza was mentioned within the walls of the White House.  At one point he said that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - per the International Criminal Court arrest warrant - if he visited New York. He has decried Israel as an apartheid state, said it should ensure equal rights for followers of all religions instead of favoring Jews in its political and legal system, and has supported the BDS movement.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66985&slug=zohran-mamdani-revokes-executive-orders-that-adam-signed-to-support-israel


Videoscreen grab: Searching for my existence
Al Jazeera - Jan 2, 2026 By Eman Abu Zayed - Palestinian writer from Gaza.
{The ceasefire did what it was meant to do – make Gaza invisible
Mass death in Gaza continues and yet the world no longer pays attention, having been convinced that the genocide is over.
When rumours about a ceasefire started circulating in October, it felt like a distant dream. We clung to any thread of hope, even though deep inside we feared believing it. For two years, we had become accustomed to hearing about “ceasefires” that never lasted. When the announcement was finally made, the streets erupted with ululations and cheers. Yet, fear crept into my heart that this calm might just be a pause before another round of attacks. My fears were justified. Israel’s daily deadly attacks have continued; more than 400 people have been killed so far by its army. Many others have died in circumstances caused by Israel’s decimation of the Strip. And yet the level of global attention began to decline. In November, I noticed that engagement with what I wrote about Gaza started to diminish, whether on social media or media outlets – something other Palestinian journalists and writers also observed. The world’s interest waned because the global public was easily convinced that the war had ended. It became clear to me that the real goal of the ceasefire was not to stop the violence or death, nor to protect people or limit bloodshed and genocide. The real goal was to stop the world from talking about Gaza, about the crimes being committed there, and about the daily suffering of people. Gaza has now become mostly invisible, as other news and other “hot spots” have taken the global media spotlight.
Meanwhile, mass death continues.
A little more than two weeks after the ceasefire was announced, on October 28, the Israeli army carried out a huge bombing campaign, killing 104 people. The overwhelming fear for the future and for my loved ones returned. On November 20, Israel struck closer to my heart. The Israeli army attacked the home of the Abu Shawish family in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. My friend Batoul Abu Shawish lost her whole family – her sisters Habiba, 11, and Tima, 16; her brothers Youssef, 14, and Mohammed, 18; and her mum, Sahar, 43, and dad, Rami, 50. They were massacred despite the fact that the family had no political affiliation; they were all civilians. Batoul now has to face the genocide alone. The Israeli attacks continue, and so does mass death by other means: Collapsed buildings, unexploded bombs, floods, hypothermia, starvation and illness – all creations of the Israeli genocidal strategy. We continue to struggle with no proper shelter or food, no heating, electricity or potable water.

Videoscreen grab: Baby in Gaza dies from cold
The situation is so bad that winter itself is killing people.
We just had another storm. Tents were flooded and blown off again. Thirty-year-old Alaa Juha was killed by a wall that the rain collapsed onto her. Two-month-old baby Arkan Musleh died from hypothermia. In total, 15 have died from the cold weather this month. My family’s tent was flooded again; it is hard to describe the feeling of helplessness that overwhelms you when you can find no escape from the water and the freezing cold. Israel continues to violate the ceasefire not only with its attacks but with its refusal to comply with its obligation to allow in the negotiated number of aid trucks, a full supply of necessary medicines and tents, shelter materials and mobile homes. Israel is also curbing access to international organisations that try to provide some relief for the people of Gaza. New rules are making it hard for NGOs to register, including some as big as Save the Children. This, along with Israel’s continuous denial of requests to bring in aid by NGOs, is stifling international efforts to provide some relief to us. Meanwhile, Palestinian organisations that try to ease our suffering are facing a collapse of donations. For example, the Samir Project, a donations-based initiative that provides material support for impoverished families and students, has lost a large number of individual donors and followers after the ceasefire was announced. Dr Ezzedine al-Lulu, the project’s director, confirmed to me that the decreased flow of donations has hindered their ability to provide essential assistance. Israel is also keeping the Rafah border closed. There is no opportunity to travel outside unless you pay an exorbitant amount of money to Israeli-linked war profiteers and agree to never return. More than 16,000 people who urgently need medical evacuation are prevented by Israel from leaving; more than 1,000 have died waiting to be allowed to leave. Gaza has entered a new stage of genocide – low-grade mass killing which does not make headlines because it is not as explosive as carpet-bombing campaigns. But the ultimate result is the same: The extermination of Palestinian life in Gaza. It is no wonder that Israeli politicians have not stopped talking about colonising our land. They still see Gaza free of Palestinians as a very real possibility that is within reach. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/2/the-ceasefire-did-what-it-was-meant-to-do-make-gaza-invisible


Hungerstrike
Al Jazeera - Jan 2, 2026 Caolán Magee
{Belfast rallies for Palestine hunger strikers as memories of 1981 return
For many in Belfast, the pro-Palestine hunger strikes are a reminder of what Irish republicans endured 44 years ago.
Belfast, Northern Ireland — On New Year’s Eve, as fireworks lit the Belfast sky, the city’s streets were abuzz — and not only in celebration. Hundreds gathered in solidarity with activists from the Palestine Action group who are on hunger strikes in prison. Their chants echoed past murals that do not merely decorate the city, but testify to its troubled past. Along the Falls Road, Irish republican murals sit beside Palestinian ones. The International Wall, once a rolling canvas of global struggles, has become known as the Palestinian wall. Poems by the late Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer, killed in an Israeli air strike in December 2023, run across its length. Images sent by Palestinian artists have been painted by local hands. More recently, new words have appeared on Belfast’s famed walls. “Blessed are those who hunger for justice.” Painted alongside long-familiar images of Irish republican prisoners like Bobby Sands are new names now written into the city’s political conscience: the four pro-Palestinian activists currently on hunger strike in British prisons, their bodies weakening as the days stretch on. “This is not a city that will ever accept any attempt to silence our voice or our right to protest or our right to stand up for human rights,” said Patricia McKeown, a trade union activist who spoke at the protest. “These young people are being held unjustly and in ridiculous conditions – and they have taken the ultimate decision to express their views … and most particularly on what’s happening to people in Palestine – why would we not support that?” she asked
A hunger strike reaches Belfast
The protest in Belfast is part of a growing international campaign urging the British government to intervene as the health of four detainees deteriorates behind prison walls. All are affiliated with Palestine Action and are being held on remand while awaiting trial, a process campaigners say could keep them imprisoned for more than a year before their cases are heard. With legal avenues exhausted, supporters say the hunger strike has become a last resort. The Palestine Action members are being held over their alleged involvement in break-ins at the United Kingdom subsidiary of Elbit Systems in Filton near Bristol, where equipment was reportedly damaged, and at a Royal Air Force base in Oxfordshire, where two military aircraft were sprayed with red paint. The prisoners deny the charges against them, which include burglary and violent disorder. The prisoners are demanding release on bail, an end to what they describe as interference with their mail and reading materials, access to a fair trial and the de-proscription of Palestine Action. In July, the British government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer banned Palestine Action under a controversial anti-terrorism law.

Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, Teuta Hoxha and Lewie Chiaramello
Heba Muraisi is on day 61 without food. Teuta Hoxha is on day 55. Kamran Ahmed on day 54. Lewie Chiaramello on day 41. Hoxha and Ahmed have already been hospitalised. Campaigners describe it as the largest hunger strike in Britain since 1981, one they say is explicitly inspired by the Irish hunger strikes. In 1981, Irish Republican Army and other republican prisoners went on hunger strike in Northern Ireland, demanding the restoration of their political status. Ten men died, including their leader, Bobby Sands, who was elected to the British parliament during the strike. Margaret Thatcher took a hardline public stance, but behind the scenes, the government ultimately sought a way out as public opinion shifted. One prisoner, 29-year-old Martin Hurson, died on the 46th day. Others, including Raymond McCreesh, Francis Hughes, Michael Devine and Joe McDonnell, died between days 59 and 61. Sands died after 66 days on a hunger strike. Sue Pentel, a member of Jews for Palestine Ireland, remembers that period vividly. “I was here during the hunger strike,” she said. “I went through the hunger strikes, marched, demonstrated, held meetings, protested, so I remember the callous brutality of the British government letting 10 hungers die.” “The words of Bobby Sands, which are ‘Our revenge will be the laughter of our children’. And we raised our families here, and they’re the same people, this new generation who are standing in solidarity with Palestine.”
‘If this continues, some will die’
Standing beneath a mural of Bobby Sands, Pat Sheehan fears history is edging dangerously close to repeating itself. He spent 55 days on a hunger strike before it was called off on October 3, 1981. “I was the longest on that hunger strike when it came to an end in 1981, so in theory I would have been the next person to die,” he said. By that stage, he said, his liver was failing. His eyesight had gone. He vomited bile constantly. “Once you pass 40 days, you’re entering the danger zone,” Sheehan said. “Physically, the hunger strikers must be very weak now for those who have been on hunger strike for over 50 days.” “Mentally, if they have prepared properly to go on hunger strike, their psychological strength will increase the longer the hunger strike goes on.” “I think if it continues, inevitably some of the hunger strikers are going to die.” Sheehan, who now represents West Belfast as an MLA for Sinn Fein, believes that Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers are political prisoners, adding that people in Ireland understand Palestine in a way few Western countries do. “Ireland is probably the one country in Western Europe where there’s almost absolute support for the Palestinian cause,” he said. “Because we have a similar history of colonisation; of genocide and detention.” “So when Irish people see on their TV screens what’s happening in Gaza, there’s massive empathy.”
Ireland’s stance
That empathy has increasingly translated into political action. Ireland formally recognised the state of Palestine in 2024 and has joined South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice, alleging genocide in Gaza, a charge Israel denies. The Irish government has also taken steps to restrict the sale of Israeli bonds, while Ireland has boycotted the Eurovision Song Contest over Israel’s participation and called for its national football team to be suspended from international competition. But many campaigners say the government’s actions have not gone far enough. They argue that the Occupied Territories Bill, which seeks to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements, has been stalled since 2018, and express anger that United States military aircraft transporting weapons to Israel are still permitted to pass through Ireland’s Shannon Airport. Meanwhile, in the northern part of Ireland that remains part of Britain, the war in Gaza has dominated domestic politics. The Stormont Assembly was thrown into crisis after Democratic Unionist Party education minister Paul Givan travelled to Jerusalem on a trip paid for by the Israeli government, prompting a no-confidence vote amid fierce criticism from Irish republican, nationalist, left-wing and unaligned political groups. Belfast City Hall’s decision last month to fly a Palestinian flag was also fervently opposed by unionist councillors before it was eventually approved. For some loyalist and unionist groups, support for Israel has become entwined with loyalty to Britain, with Israeli flags also flying in traditionally loyalist parts of Belfast. With a legacy of identity rooted along sectarian lines, the genocide in Gaza has at times been recast along the old fault lines of division.
‘Solidarity reaches Palestine’
Yet on the streets of Belfast, protesters insist their solidarity is not rooted in national identity, but in humanity. Damien Quinn, 33, a member of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, said hunger strikes had always carried a particular weight in Ireland. “We are here today to support the hunger strikers in Britain. But we are also here for the Palestinian people for those being slaughtered every single day,” he said. Palestine Action, he said, “made it very clear they have tried signing petitions, they have tried lobbying, they’ve tried everything”. “So when I see the way they are being treated in prison, for standing up against genocide, that’s heartbreaking.” For Rita Aburahma, 25, a Palestinian who has found a home in Belfast, the hunger strike carries a painful familiarity. “My people don’t have the luxury of speaking out, being in Palestine – solidarity matters,” she said. “I find the hunger strikers are really brave – it’s always been a form of resistance. It does concern me, and many other people, how long it has taken the government to pay attention to them, or take action in any form. “Nothing will save those people if the government doesn’t do something about them. So it is shocking in a way, but not that surprising because the same government has been watching the genocide unfold and escalate without doing anything. “Every form of solidarity reaches the people in Palestine.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/2/belfast-rallies-for-palestine-hunger-strikers-as-memories-of-1981-return


Hind Rajab
Quds news - Jan 2, 2026
{Photo of Palestinian Hind Rajab, Killed by Israeli Forces in Gaza, Seen at Mamdani’s Inauguration
Hind’s story went viral on social media in 2024 around the world following a phone recording of her and her family’s final moments while they were trying to flee Israel’s attacks.
New York City (QNN)- An attendee at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's inauguration on Thursday held up a picture of Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian child who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza after hours of pleading for help. Hind’s story went viral on social media in 2024 around the world following a phone recording of her and her family’s final moments while they were trying to flee Israel’s attacks. On the call, which lasted for about three hours, Hind begged rescue workers to come save her after the family’s car came under Israeli fire and she became the sole survivor, stranded inside with her dead relatives. Two dispatchers with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) sent to save her were also killed by Israeli forces. When Hind picked up the phone and spoke to the PRCS, she identified Israeli military vehicles near the family car. “The tank is next to me. [It’s] coming from the front of the car,” she said. Around three hours later, the connection with Hind was cut off. Later, 335 bullet holes were found in the family’s car. Hind's photo was waved in the air as the national anthem was sung outside New York City Hall, where hundreds gathered to mark the beginning of the new administration. Mamdani promised on Thursday to be a mayor for all New Yorkers, and has made it clear that antisemitism will not be tolerated, while also saying he will advocate for Palestinians. Mamdani was sworn in as the first Muslim mayor of New York City on Thursday during a private ceremony where he took his oath using his grandfather's Quran and a 200-year-old copy of the Quran on loan from the New York Public Library. The 34-year-old, who is also New York's first mayor of South Asian descent and the first to be born in Africa, is among only a handful of US politicians to be sworn in with the Quran. Mamdani drew global attention to his campaign because of his strong stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Recently, he stated that the United States is funding the genocide during a meeting with President Donald Trump. It was the first known occasion that Israel’s genocide in Gaza was mentioned within the walls of the White House. At one point he said that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - per the International Criminal Court arrest warrant - if he visited New York. } Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66984&slug=photo-of-palestinian-hind-rajab-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-gaza-seen-at-mamdanis-inauguration

Al Jazeera - Jan 2, 2026 Maram Humaid
{Gaza cousins face lost youth, and family tragedy, after amputations
Despite losing limbs and loved ones, Gaza’s Abdullah and Diaa hold onto hope for prosthetic limbs and a better future. Abdullah Nattat was once an energetic young man working as a singer and a performer, hosting wedding celebrations and entertaining children. The 30-year-old now sits in a wheelchair, both of his legs amputated. “At this time every year, I would usually be busy performing at Christmas and New Year’s celebrations held by Gaza’s hotels and restaurants before the war,” Abdullah told Al Jazeera with a sad smile. In September, as an Israeli military ground operation began in northern Gaza, Abdullah was displaced from Beit Lahiya in the north to an apartment belonging to relatives in central Gaza City. There, as he walked among a group of pedestrians near the as-Saraya Junction, an air strike hit. Abdullah survived, but his injuries would be life-changing. “I was returning from the market with a friend and had bought a few things for the house,” said Abdullah, who is married and the father of a four-year-old child. “Suddenly, there was a huge explosion. I didn’t wake up until I found myself lying on the ground, surrounded by black smoke. I tried to stand up, but I couldn’t. I looked at my legs, one had been completely severed at the knee, and the other was badly torn apart,” he recalled. “I couldn’t comprehend what had happened. I looked beside me and found my friend lying there, torn apart, his legs injured just like mine. We were both soaked in our own blood.”
Not alone
After the injury, Abdullah lost consciousness. He later woke up in the hospital to the devastating news that both of his legs had been amputated above the knee. White bandages were wrapped around the wounds. “That moment was extremely harsh and difficult for me,” Abdullah said. “But what could I do? This is God’s will, and I forced myself to accept it, no matter what.” “I’m not alone, as you can see. My cousin Diaa, who lives with us, is suffering like I am. We share the same burden.” Abdullah continued speaking, as he welcomed his cousin Diaa Abu Nahl, 30, his close friend and former colleague with whom he hosted wedding celebrations. Diaa endured an even more devastating tragedy. In July, he was injured in a direct Israeli strike on their family home in Beit Lahiya, killing 22 people, including his wife and two daughters: Hala, five, and Sama, three.

Picture of Diaa's two daughters Hala and Sama-Photo-Riash-Al Jazeera
Diaa’s right leg was amputated, while the other sustained severe injuries and requires more surgeries to save it. “The strike happened at about 2:30am. We were all asleep, lying next to each other: my wife, my daughters and I,” Diaa told Al Jazeera. “I didn’t feel anything. I just woke up in a room filled with black ash and screams all around me. I tried to stand up, but I couldn’t. When I looked at my legs, I saw they were torn apart, each in a different direction,” he added. “I stopped focusing on my legs and started searching for my wife and daughters around me, but I couldn’t see them. Then I lost consciousness due to the severe bleeding.” At the hospital, Diaa realised he had lost his two daughters and his 26-year-old wife. “I keep thinking about how they died and I didn’t, even though I was right beside them,” Diaa said. “I completely lost my sense of life after losing them, and my injury has made everything much harder.” As Diaa recounted his story spontaneously to Al Jazeera, Abdullah’s face filled with deep sadness and compassion for his cousin and friend. “His story is incredibly painful,” Abdullah said quietly as Diaa struggled to hold back tears. “He lost his leg and he lost the most precious people in his life: his wife and children.” “In Gaza, when you see someone else’s tragedy, your own pain feels lighter,” he added.
‘Live on wheelchairs’
After two years of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a ceasefire was declared in October, although Israel continues to attack periodically, killing hundreds of Palestinians. Abdullah and Diaa are trying to move on, and currently receive some physiotherapy sessions at a medical centre run by the Gaza Municipality. The two young men spend most of their time together and are now living in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza City, at Diaa’s family home. In their shared wounds and suffering, they find comfort and solidarity, though they do not hide their sorrow over their lost youth and the reality of living with amputations in a devastated Gaza. “After our legs once raced the wind, we now live on wheelchairs,” Abdullah said, as he turned the wheels of his chair from side to side. “We need help with every step. Someone has to push us from behind. Our bodies are weak and greatly affected by the cold. We need intensive treatment and prosthetic limbs, and none of this is available in Gaza right now.” According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, about 6,000 limb amputations have been recorded since the start of the Israeli war on the strip in October 2023 through the end of 2025. Children account for about 25 percent of these cases, while women make up approximately 12.7 percent. The ministry says the amputees require urgent and longterm rehabilitation programmes that are not currently available in Gaza, including advanced prosthetics.

Abdullah Nattat and his cousin Diaa Abu Nahl- Photo-Riash-Al Jazeera
Better future?
Abdullah and Diaa now share the same wish: to stand on their feet again. “All my thoughts and dreams now revolve around standing on my feet with prosthetic limbs,” Abdullah said. “Every night, when I lie in bed, I imagine myself with complete legs and that the next morning I will stand on them again,” he added emotionally. Abdullah and Diaa hope they will soon be given a chance to travel abroad to receive treatment and be fitted with prosthetic limbs. “As you can see, our most basic rights have become mere dreams and wishes – in a war we had no hand in,” Abdullah said. “We have lost so much over these past two years. We hope the coming year will bring compensation and better days.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/2/gaza-cousins-face-lost-youth-and-family-tragedy-after-amputations


A Mothers' Grief
Quds news - Jan 1, 2026
{Mother and Child Killed in Tent Fire as Another Child Freezes to Death in Gaza
Recently, more than 100 aid groups accused Israel of obstructing life-saving aid from entering Gaza and called on it to end its “weaponisation of aid”.
Gaza (QNN)- A Palestinian mother and her child died on Thursday night in Gaza City after a fire broke out in their makeshift tent. Meanwhile, another child froze to death in central Gaza due to severe cold, as the humanitarian crisis deepens amid an Israeli blockade on much-needed aid with a major storm and low temperatures hitting the enclave. The Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza confirmed that a mother and her child were killed, while others were injured, after a fire erupted in a tent sheltering a displaced family at Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza City. Local sources said the fire started when the family lit a candle inside the tent to stay warm due to the freezing temperatures and the lack of electricity. Earlier, a child, Malak Rami Ghneim, who lived inside a tent for displaced people in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, also died as a result of the severe cold. Heavy winter rains and strong winds have brought new challenges to displaced Palestinians in the war-torn Gaza Strip. Over the past weeks, flimsy tents were flooded and blown out and makeshift camps engulfed in mud following heavy winter rains lashing the enclave. At least 25 people, including babies, have died this month from hypothermia following the rains and plunging temperatures and collapsed buildings, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Videos circulating on social media show tents being blown away, strong winds scattering belongings, displaced people pleading for help, and children shivering from the cold over the past days after a polar low-pressure system accompanied by heavy rain and strong winds battered the Strip. More than 27,000 tents housing displaced families have been destroyed or swept away by flooding and powerful winds, affecting over 250,000 people across Gaza, the Gaza Civil Defense said. Israel’s two-year war has destroyed more than 80 percent of the structures across Gaza, forcing hundreds of thousands of families to take refuge in flimsy tents or overcrowded makeshift shelters. Now, the humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate as winter deepens amid an Israeli blockade despite the ceasefire with limited access to shelter materials, fuel, and medical care. Humanitarian groups have immediately urged Israel to allow unimpeded deliveries of aid to Gaza. But the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said the Israeli occupation government has blocked it from bringing aid directly into Gaza. “People have reportedly died due to the collapse of damaged buildings where families were sheltering. Children have reportedly died from exposure to the cold,” UNRWA said on Tuesday.
“This must stop. Aid must be allowed in at scale, now.”
Despite the ceasefire which took effect in October, Israel has continued to kill Palestinians in Gaza and restricted the entry of much-needed aid, violating the agreement. “Entry of distribution and aid in the Gaza Strip will proceed without interference from the two parties through the United Nations and its agencies, and the Red Crescent, in addition to other international institutions not associated in any manner with either party,” Trump’s “20-point peace plan” says. On Tuesday, Israel said it will suspend more than three dozen humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, for allegedly failing to meet its new rules for aid groups working in Gaza} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=66982&slug=mother-and-child-killed-in-tent-fire-as-another-child-freezes-to-death-in-gaza

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Al Jazeera - Jan 2, 2026 - By various reporters and excluding israeli propaganda
{Israeli bulldozers destroy farmland, uproot olive trees near occupied West Bank’s Ramallah
Israeli forces have bulldozed agricultural land and uprooted olive trees in the occupied West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, according to the Wafa news agency. Witnesses told Wafa that Israeli forces stormed the area around the home of the Abu Awwad family on Friday, destroying farmland and uprooting dozens of ancient olive trees. The bulldozing is part of a wider campaign in the area, Wafa reported, with Israeli authorities having uprooted around 4,000 olive trees over the past three months. Thousands of dunums of land have been levelled during that time, reportedly to benefit a newly established Israeli outpost west of the town.
& Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes near Bethlehem: Report
A group of Israeli settlers have surrounded Palestinian homes in the Khala’il al-Luz area, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and hurled stones at them, according to the Wafa news agency. According to local sources quoted by the agency, the settlers were shielded by Israeli forces who fired sound bombs and tear gas in the area. As we’ve reported, Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank has surged in recent months. As of December 24, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had recorded more than 1,770 settler attacks in 2025 that caused casualties or damaged property.
& ‘Trapped between two fears’: Winter storms hit displaced families in Gaza
Displaced from northern Gaza to the centre of the territory, Ahmad is now living in a tent with his daughter after losing their two homes. “I no longer remember how many times I have been forced to flee,” he said, in a post on X by UNRWA. As winter conditions worsen, he described a daily struggle to keep his child safe. “I am trapped between two fears: The cold that seeps into my daughter’s small body at night, and the fear for my own life when the rain comes and the tent can no longer protect us.” The update comes as the Palestinian Meteorological Department warns of cold, unsettled weather and flooding across Gaza. The United Nations said a Palestinian boy drowned after floodwaters engulfed a tent camp, highlighting the growing dangers facing displaced families sheltering in makeshift tents.
& Israel prepares for possible return to intense fighting in Gaza: Report
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has instructed the military to prepare for the possibility of a return to intense fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to The Jerusalem Post newspaper. The report said the Israeli security establishment has clarified that it has not received instructions from political leaders to prepare for the reopening of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. According to a security source quoted by The Jerusalem Post, there is only a slim chance that Israel will allow goods to enter Gaza under current conditions. The source said doing so would amount to enabling reconstruction while key Israeli demands remain unmet. These include the return of the remains of Staff Sergeant Major Ran Gvili, described as the final Israeli captive, as well as the demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip and the disarmament of Hamas. Israeli officials have repeatedly linked any easing of restrictions on Gaza to progress on these issues, the report added.

Palestinians living in the Bureij refugee camp-Photo-Bilal-Anadolu
& Palestinian weather service warns of flash floods amid cold conditions
The Palestinian Meteorological Department has warned of cold and unsettled weather across Palestine, with a risk of flooding in some areas. On Friday, conditions are expected to be cloudy to partly cloudy and cold to very cold, with scattered showers continuing until the evening. Westerly to northwesterly winds will be moderate to brisk, and sea conditions are forecast to be moderate to rough. Very cold temperatures and a chance of further showers are expected overnight. The department cautioned that heavy rainfall could cause flash floods in valleys and low-lying areas, while strong winds may lead to slippery roads and reduced visibility. Weather conditions are expected to stabilise over the weekend. Saturday is forecast to be clear and cold to very cold, with a slight rise in temperatures and calmer sea conditions. On Sunday, skies will be partly cloudy to cloudy, with another slight increase in temperatures. By Monday, temperatures are expected to rise again, though conditions will remain cold under partly cloudy skies. } Video  Source :https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/1/2/live-survivors-of-israels-war-on-gaza-brace-for-harsh-weather-in-tents

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