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formerly known as
Women's Liberation Front
'Insight is the first step of resistance against any ideologic form of dictatorial and misogynistic oppression'
and
'Freedom is like a bird that nests in ones' soul'
Welcome to cryfreedom.net, formerly known as Womens Liberation Front.  A website that hopes to draw and keeps your attention for  both the global 21th. century 3rd. feminist revolution as well as especially for the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi uprising in Iran and the struggles of our sisters in other parts of the Middle East. This online magazine that started December 2019 will be published every week. Thank you for your time and interest. 
Gino d'Artali
indept investigative journalist - radical feminist and women's rights activist 

'WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM'
You are now at the section on what is happening in Gaza, Westbank, East Jerusalem/PALESTINE
(Updates January 8, 2026)

For the in Iran 'Woman, Life, Freedom' Women-led revolution
Jan 8 - 7, 2026
The End of The Mullahs’ Regime in Iran Is Near
where Protesters Stand Firm with the
Woman, Life, Freedom People

and
Sisters 4 each other, Sisters 4 All
Special report/tribute: Zan, Zendegi, Azadi marters for freedom sisters
UPDATE June 22, 2025
and
Narges Mohammadi - with war there cannot be democracy
May 28 - 6 and April 17 - March 16, 2025 and earlier reports
in continuation of the resistance of the 4 sisters and others and
For the 'Women's Arab Spring 1.2 Revolt news
Jan 6, 2026 - Dec 26, 2025
Oct  24 - 20, 2025
Special reports about the Afghanistan Women Revolt
Jan 1, 2026 - Dec 22, 2025

Manifest - Oct 26, 2025
Slaughterhouse Rape


Manifest - Start August 31, 2025
Matriarchism is alive and kicking
UPDATE with New Story: Sept 19, 2025:
Tunisian women react to gender remarks: A consequence of patriarchal mentality
Earlier stories embedded:

Sept 10, 2025: Rûken Nexede on ‘Jin Jiyan Azadî’: Philosophy of freedom, equality
And
“How Fiercely We Cling to Life” – A Prison Letter from Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee


Manifest - Axis of Evil - J´Accuse :-)

August 8 025

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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
Updated
Jan 8, 2026

Israel is deliberately blocking and killing foreign journalists
But no worries:
the free word cannot be killed!
And more updates

 
Jan 6, 2026
how israelis and its allies
see the genocidal war
as the ultimate joke to die for
and more uncovered truths



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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October 7, 2025
Special Report About
2 years of Genocide


 
All actual news from Palestine
comes since weeks incl.
OUT OF THE TRENCHES stories

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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.

 
VICTORY is on its way to the sea  -- Screengrab Al Jazeera: Wanted for genocide - Guilty as Charged - rubio virus

  
 
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!!!!


Videoscreen grab
Al Jazeera - Jan 8, 2026
{Israeli attack on Gaza tent kills at least three Palestinians
At least 425 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since an October ceasefire came into effect, the Health Ministry says. An Israeli attack on a tent in southern Gaza has killed at least three Palestinians and wounded three others, local rescuers say, as Israel continues to bomb the coastal enclave despite an October ceasefire. The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza said on Thursday that its teams recovered the bodies of three slain residents after the Israeli military bombed a family’s tent in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis. Three others were wounded, including one person who suffered critical injuries, the agency said in a post on Telegram. Separately, Israeli fire killed an 11-year-old Palestinian girl named Hamsa Housou in northern Gaza’s Jabalia area. Her uncle, Khamis Housou, said he woke up to screaming in the family’s building. “I saw Hamsa lying on the floor and blood coming out of her nose and mouth,” he said. The attacks come as Israel has continued its military assault on Gaza despite a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement that came into effect on October 10.
At least 425 Palestinians have been killed and 1,206 others wounded in Israeli attacks since October 11, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of displaced families have been sheltering in makeshift tent camps across Gaza after their homes were destroyed in Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the territory. Israel has refused to allow a free flow of shelter supplies into the Gaza Strip, despite warnings from the United Nations and humanitarian groups that Palestinians are suffering amid a series of deadly winter storms. Encampments have been flooded due to heavy rainfall and flooding in recent weeks, prompting calls from Palestinians for better tents, blankets and warm clothes Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said this week that Palestinians in Gaza were suffering from “respiratory infections, wound complications [and] skin diseases” as a result of harsh living conditions.

Baby in Gaza dies from cold
Babies are also “suffering from severe cold”, the group said, “all the while Israel continues to block or delay the entry of vital supplies like tents, tarpaulins, and temporary housing”. Meanwhile, Israel has moved to block international aid groups, including MSF and the Norwegian Refugee Council, from operating in the Strip. Israel has revoked the operating licences of 37 aid organisations for failing to comply with new regulations that require them to provide detailed information on staff members, funding and operations. Experts say those requirements contravene humanitarian principles and follow a longstanding Israeli government campaign to vilify and ultimately impede the work of aid groups providing assistance to Palestinians. On Thursday, the Reuters news agency reported that MSF, Medecins du Monde Suisse and the Danish Refugee Council said the Israeli authorities refused to allow their international staff to enter Gaza this week. The targeted groups have said they will be forced to stop providing key services, including healthcare, in Gaza as a result of Israel’s ban, putting Palestinian lives at risk.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/8/israeli-attack-on-gaza-tent-kills-at-least-three-palestinians


Videoscreen grab: A mothers' Grief
Al Jazeera - Jan 8, 2026
{11-year-old girl shot in the head by Israeli troops in Gaza safe zone
Israeli gunfire killed 11-year-old Hamsa Hosou in northern Gaza, her family says, despite a ceasefire in place for nearly three months. She is among more than 400 Palestinians reported killed since the truce took effect.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/8/11-year-old-girl-shot-in-the-head-by-israeli-troops-in-gaza-safe-zone


Gaza Under Israeli Attack
Quds news - Jan 8, 2026
{Gaza Under Israeli Attack
According to the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, Israel has killed eight people in less than 24 hours in attacks across the devastated territory, including five children, the youngest of whom was five years old.
Gaza (QNN)- Israeli strikes hit several areas across the Gaza Strip, including a school housing displaced families and a tent, killing at least eight civilians, among them five children, despite Trump’s ceasefire. Local sources confirmed the Israeli military struck the Abu Hussein School, which shelters displaced families, in Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza. A Palestinian was killed and others were injured. Hours later, Israeli forces attacked an area near crowded displacement camps northwest of Gaza City. At the same time, an airstrike hit a makeshift tent sheltering a displaced family in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing one man and injuring several others. Medical sources reported that three people were injured in an Israeli attack on the Khalifa School in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. According to the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, Israel has killed so far eight people in less than 24 hours in attacks across the devastated territory, including five children, the youngest of whom was five years old. Earlier, an 11-year-old girl was shot and killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza despite posing no threat. Sources have confirmed the Israeli attacks continue till this moment..} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67022&slug=gaza-under-israeli-attack


Apartheid street
Quds news - Jan 8, 2026
{UN Rights Chief Says Israeli Policies Against Palestinians in West Bank ‘Resembles Apartheid System’
"This is a particularly severe form of racial discrimination and segregation that resembles the kind of apartheid system we have seen before," High Commissioner Volker Türk warned.
Occupied West Bank (QNN)- The UN human rights office has issued a report detailing Israel's "systemic discrimination" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and said Israel’s “oppression and domination” of Palestinians resembles “apartheid”. In a new report on Wednesday, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said Israeli laws, policies and practices were having an "asphyxiating impact" on every aspect of daily life for Palestinians and violated an international convention against racial discrimination. "This is a particularly severe form of racial discrimination and segregation that resembles the kind of apartheid system we have seen before," High Commissioner Volker Türk warned. This is the first time a UN human rights chief has explicitly compared Israeli policies in the West Bank to apartheid, which was coined during South Africa’s system of racial segregation that lasted from 1948 to 1994. "Whether accessing water, school, rushing to hospital, visiting family or friends, or harvesting olives - every aspect of life for Palestinians in the West Bank is controlled and curtailed by Israel's discriminatory laws, policies and practices" Türk said in a statement. According to the 42-page report by his office, Israel treats Israeli settlers and Palestinians living in the West Bank under two distinct bodies of law and policies that result in unequal treatment on a range of critical issues.
"Palestinians continue to be subjected to large-scale confiscation of land and deprivation of access to resources. This has had the effect of dispossessing them of their lands and homes, alongside other forms of systemic discrimination, including criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated," it finds. The report says there are "reasonable grounds to believe that this separation, segregation, and subordination is intended to be permanent, indicating that these laws, policies, and practices amount to a deliberate policy of physical and juridical separation intended to maintain oppression and domination of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank". It adds that this amounts to a violation of Israel's obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) to prevent racial segregation and apartheid in territories under its jurisdiction. The reports says systemic discrimination against Palestinians has been "a long-standing concern" for the UN but that it has "drastically deteriorated" since at least December 2022 and especially since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza in October 2023. It also says that Israel's settlement expansion in the West Bank had intensified over the past two years, citing the approval last month of the construction of 19 new settlements, which Israeli ministers said will block the establishment of a Palestinian state. "Every negative trend documented in the report has not only continued but accelerated. And every day this is allowed to continue, the consequences worsen for Palestinians," Türk warned. Israel has previously rejected the apartheid accusations, saying its policies are driven by “security concerns” rather than racial or ethnic discrimination. The UN rights office said the discrimination in the Palestinian territories is compounded by continuing and escalating settler violence in many cases “with the acquiescence, support and participation of Israel’s security forces”. Last year ​was one of the most violent on record for Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to United Nations data that shows more than a thousand Palestinians were killed between October 7, 2023 and October 17, 2025, in Israeli attacks carried out by Israeli forces and settlers, including over 220 children.  In 2025, OCHA documented at least 1,680 settler attacks, an average of five per day. B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, said settlers were attacking Palestinians “daily”, including “shooting, beating and threatening residents, throwing stones, torching fields, destroying trees and crops, stealing produce, blocking roads, invading homes, and burning cars”. Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. Today, 600,000 to 750,000 settlers live in more than 250 settlements and outposts across the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. Many of these are near Palestinian towns and villages, often leading to attacks on Palestinian residents and severe movement restrictions for Palestinians.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67021&slug=un-rights-chief-says-israeli-policies-against-palestinians-in-west-bank-resembles-apartheid-system


Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed have refused food for 67 and 60 days-Courtesy of Amareen Afzal, Shahmina Alam
Al Jazeera - Jan 8, 2026 Anealla Safdar
{Palestine Action hunger strikers near death ‘intent’ on continuing protests
Remand prisoners suffering from host of dangerous symptoms will keep refusing food as the government refuses to meet their demands, their loved ones say.
London, United Kingdom – Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, Palestine Action-linked British activists on the brink of death, are determined to keep up their prison hunger strike until their demands are met, their friends and relatives have told Al Jazeera. They have refused food for 67 and 60 days, respectively, as part of a rolling protest that began in November. Five of the eight individuals who have participated overall have ended their hunger strikes over health fears. Lewie Chiaramello, who turned 23 on Thursday, is the third prisoner also refusing food. Muraisi, the longest fasting member of the group, “looks very pale and thin”, said her friend Amareen Afzal, who visited the 31-year-old on Wednesday. “Her cheekbones are quite prominent. She looks quite emaciated.” Muraisi, a Londoner who had worked as a florist and lifeguard, is reportedly suffering from muscle spasms, breathlessness, severe pain and a low white blood cell count. She has been admitted to hospital three times over the past nine weeks. Afzal has also noticed the decline of Muraisi’s memory and said it is now “more difficult for her to stay engaged conversationally”. “She speaks of herself as dying and she’s very aware and she is worried,” Afzal said. But Muraisi is “intent on carrying on until the demands are met”, she added. The group of remand prisoners are being held in various jails over their alleged involvement in break-ins at the UK subsidiary of the Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems in Bristol and a Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Oxfordshire. They deny the charges against them. Their protest demands include bail, the right to a fair trial and the de-proscription of Palestine Action, which the UK in July designated as a “terrorist organisation”, putting it on par with ISIL (ISIS) and al-Qaeda. They are calling for all Elbit sites to be closed in the UK and have demanded an end to what they call censorship in prison, accusing authorities of withholding mail, calls and books. All eight individuals will have spent more than a year in prison before their trials take place, well beyond the UK’s usual six-month pre-trial detention limit. At the time of publishing, the Ministry of Defence had not responded to Al Jazeera’s request for comment. ‘It feels like now every time you see him, it could be the last’ Ahmed, a mechanic from London, has lost hearing in his left ear, suffers with chest pains, breathlessness and dizzy spells, and has a low heart rate that intermittently drops below 40 beats per minute, said Shahmina Alam, who visited her 28-year-old brother on Sunday. He was admitted to hospital on Tuesday for a sixth time since he began refusing food in November, she said. “He’s skinny. I describe him a bit like a piece of paper,” she told Al Jazeera. “Where his body’s lost a lot of weight, he’s a bit hunched over. “His cheeks are sticking out. … When he got up to leave, it’s really like slow steps, and you can tell it takes a lot of energy to lift his legs. “It feels like now every time you see him, it could be the last.” She feels anxious as “the more time that’s going, the more resolved he is to continue it and ensure that his demands are met.” Ahmed is “aware that at this stage he could suddenly pass away”, she said, but “he’s still determined.” The group’s lawyers are calling for a meeting with David Lammy, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary, hoping to discuss the prisoners’ welfare. Despite criticism from doctors, United Nations experts, some politicians and leading barristers, the government has refused, saying hunger strikes are not unusual in prisons and policies regarding food refusal are being followed. “We wouldn’t be in this position had the government chosen to engage in a meaningful conversation with … [Ahmed’s] legal representatives or even just a mediator,” Alam said.
Doctor warns of death, irreversible health damage
Chiaramello has refused food every other day for several weeks because he has type 1 diabetes. He has been “almost perpetually quite ill”, said his partner, Nneoma Joe-Ejim, a trainee solicitor, who visited him on Wednesday. She fears he is at a higher risk of a diabetic coma. On the days he fasts, he suffers from disorientation, dizziness and sluggishness, she said, adding that she is worried about his new feelings of depression. “He does seem depleted a lot of the time,” she said. James Smith, an emergency physician who is among a group of doctors advising the hunger strikers, warned of a critical phase in which death and irreversible health damage are increasingly likely. He also criticised the manner and level of medical care within the prison system. Teuta Hoxha, who ended her hunger strike after 58 days, is understood to be in hospital while Amu Gib, who paused their protest after 50 days, remains “physically weak”, Gib’s friend Nida Jafri said. “Amu has no [doctor’s] advice on refeeding right now,” she told Al Jazeera. “They’re left to using their own judgement to figure out how much and of what food they should eat. We, as loved ones, are terrified of this. We are aware that the reintroduction of food can be deadly if done incorrectly.” Muraisi is “wasting away”, Smith said, adding that her muscle spasms as well as Ahmed’s hearing loss could signal neurological issues. Chiaramello’s diabetic state is likely worsening and could cause long-term damage, he said. “The trajectory that they are on at the moment can only end in one way, which is progressive decline and eventually death,” he told Al Jazeera. “The organs can hold out for quite some time, particularly in young healthy individuals, and then they can collapse very quickly.” Hundreds of doctors have called on the UK government to increase the frequency of medical observations of the hunger strikers.
Several of the activists are said to have been handcuffed and restrained while in hospital, leading to claims of degrading and dehumanising procedures that overreach stated prison policies. “It really is the most undignified treatment that I have ever come across in an NHS [National Health Service] environment in my career as a doctor,” Smith said. Alam concurred, saying Ahmed fears hospital admissions because he finds the experience “mentally difficult”. “He’s cuffed constantly” while in hospital, which has led to bruised wrists, and is surrounded by a larger number of prison guards, she said. On Wednesday, supporters of the protesters drew parallels with history-shaping hunger strikes. The current action is said to be the largest coordinated hunger strike in British history since 1981 when Irish Republican inmates were led by Bobby Sands. Sands and nine others died of starvation. Muraisi’s 66th day of refusing food was “significant because it was on the 66th day of hunger strike that Bobby Sands died at the hands of the state”, the Prisoners for Palestine group said. Francesca Nadin, the group’s spokesperson, told Al Jazeera that she accuses the government of “complete contempt for the safety and for the lives of these innocent young people because they are innocent until proven guilty. “The government seems to forget about that.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/8/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-near-death-intent-on-continuing-protests


Randa Abdel-Fattah
Quds news - Jan 8, 2026
{“Anti-Palestinian Racism”: Adelaide Festival Drops Prominent Palestinian-Australian Author Over Bondi Attack, Despite No Connection; Speakers Withdraw in Protest
Abdel-Fattah issued her own statement, slamming the festival board’s “blatant and shameless anti-Palestinian racism and censorship.”
“Anti-Palestinian Racism”: Adelaide Festival Drops Prominent Palestinian-Australian Author Over Bondi Attack, Despite No Connection; Speakers Withdraw in Protest
Adelaide (QNN)- The Adelaide Festival has dropped prominent Palestinian-Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah from its lineup over the Bondi attack, despite her having no link to the incident, a decision she condemned as “anti-Palestinian racism and censorship” and which triggered withdrawals by fellow writers and sponsors. The festival covers arts, music, talks and theatre and includes Adelaide’s annual Writers’ Week next month, where Abdel-Fattah was due to appear for the second time after hosting a number of panels and sessions in 2023. In a Thursday statement, the festival’s board said it had been “shocked and saddened by the tragic events at Bondi” and the “significant heightening of both community tensions and the community debate”. “As the Board responsible for the Adelaide Festival organisation and all Adelaide Writers’ Week events, staff, volunteers and participants, we have today advised scheduled writer Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah that the Board has formed the judgment that we do not wish to proceed with her scheduled appearance at next month’s Writers’ Week,” it added.
Within hours of the board’s announcement, Abdel-Fattah issued her own statement, slamming the festival board’s “blatant and shameless anti-Palestinian racism and censorship.” She said the board’s attempt to associate her with the Bondi massacre was “despicable”. “The Adelaide Writers Festival Board has stripped me of my humanity and agency, reducing me to an object onto which others can project their racist fears and smears,” she added. “The Board’s reasoning suggests that my mere presence is ‘culturally insensitive’; that I, a Palestinian who had nothing to do with the Bondi atrocity, am somehow a trigger for those in mourning and that I should therefore be persona non grata in cultural circles because my very presence as a Palestinian is threatening and ‘unsafe’.”
Abdel-Fattah also took aim at Australian arts and cultural institutions in general, accusing them of displaying “utter contempt and inhumanity towards Palestinians” since 7 October 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza. “The only Palestinians they will tolerate are silent and invisible ones,” she said. The board said while it did not suggest “in any way” that Abdel-Fattah or her writings had any connection with the tragedy at Bondi, it claimed that the decision was made “given her past statements”. “We have formed the view that it would not be culturally sensitive to continue to program her at this unprecedented time so soon after Bondi,” it said. “We understand these Board decisions will likely be disappointing to many in our community. We also recognise our request to Dr Abdel-Fattah will be labelled and will cause discomfort and pressure to other participants. These decisions have not been taken lightly.” “Our only request is that our community is respectful to our staff and volunteers who have not formed part of our decision-making process and deserve nothing but ongoing support for their excellent work.” Abdel-Fattah said she was confident that the writing community and public would respond with “principle and integrity, as they did when I was singled out in the same racist way during the Bendigo Writers Festival”. “In the end, the Adelaide Writers Festival will be left with panellists who demonise a Palestinian out of one side of their mouths while waxing lyrical about freedom of speech from the other.” By Thursday afternoon, statements of withdrawal from fellow writers and sponsors started appearing. The Australia Institute announced the withdrawal of its sponsorship for the 2026 event, which in the past had “promoted bravery, freedom of expression and the exchange of ideas”, it said in a statement. “Censoring or cancelling authors is not in the spirit of an open and free exchange of ideas.” A former director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, Jo Dyer, posted on Bluesky that she was “appalled” at the Adelaide festival board’s decision – “a shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences”. The Stella prize-winning poet Evelyn Araluen was one of the first writers to publicly withdraw. The Dropbear and The Rot author said the board’s decision was a “devastating betrayal’ of the democratic ethos that has defined the festival. “I am so disappointed to witness yet another absurd and irrational capitulation to the demands of a genocidal foreign state from the Australian arts sector,” she posted on Instagram. “Erasing Palestinians from public life in Australia won’t prevent anti semitism. Removing Palestinians from writers festivals won’t prevent anti semitism. I refuse to participate in this spectacle of censorship.” The First Nations academic and writer Chelsea Watego posted an Adelaide Writers’ Week list of 2026 confirmed writers on Instagram with her name crossed out. Abdel-Fattah had faced sustained criticism for her pro-apalestine, anti-genocide comments. The Adelaide-based publisher Pink Shorts Press said it “strongly condemns” the removal of Abdel-Fattah from programming and was now considering whether it would continue its collaboration with the festival. Last year, Abdel-Fattah was among about 30 participants who pulled out of the Bendigo writers’ festival after it issued a last-minute code of conduct that one said requires “complete self-censorship” over Israel’s war in Gaza.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67020&slug=anti-palestinian-racism-adelaide-festival-drops-prominent-palestinian-australian-author-over-bondi-attack-despite-no-connection-speakers-withdraw-in-protest


Hamsa Housou
Quds news - Jan 8, 2026
{Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Child in Gaza in Another Ceasefire Violation
Local sources confirmed that 11-year-old Hamsa Housou was shot and killed by Israeli fire in western Jabalia, northern Gaza, despite posing no clear threat.
Gaza (QNN)- A Palestinian child was killed on Thursday morning after Israeli forces shot her in northern Gaza, in yet another violation of the fragile ceasefire. Israel has continued to breach the agreement, killing hundreds of civilians and blocking much-needed aid from entering the enclave. Local sources confirmed that 11-year-old Hamsa Housou was shot and killed by Israeli fire in western Jabalia, northern Gaza, despite posing no clear threat. Meanwhile, the sources added that Israel continues to attack the Strip using airstrikes, artillery, and direct gunfire. Loud explosions were reportedly heard in northern Gaza late last night.
Since the declaration of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025, Israel has violated the agreement with near-daily attacks. It violated the ceasefire agreement at least 969 times from October 10 to December 28, the Gaza Government Media Office said The office said Israel shot at civilians 298 times, raided residential areas beyond the “yellow line” 54 times, bombed and shelled Gaza 455 times, and demolished people’s properties on 162 occasions. It added that Israel had also detained 45 Palestinians from Gaza over the past months. Israel has also continued to block much-needed humanitarian aid from entering the war-torn enclave.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67019&slug=israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-child-in-gaza-in-another-ceasefire-violation

Quds news - Jan 7, 2026
{Two Citizens Killed in Israeli Airstrike on Home in Eastern Gaza
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in a strike on a home in eastern Gaza, claiming the attack responded to an alleged Hamas assault without providing evidence.
Gaza (QNN)- Two Palestinians were killed on Wednesday evening in an Israeli airstrike on a home in eastern Gaza City in a new Israeli violation of Trump's ceasefire agreement. Others were injured in the assault, which hit al-Tuffah neighborhood. Medical sources said the victims were two young men. The strike targeted a house belonging to Alwan family on Yafa Street in al-Tuffah, east of Gaza City. The Israeli army claimed the attack followed a ceasefire violation in northern Gaza. It did not provide evidence. In a statement, the army alleged that Hamas fighters opened fire toward Israeli forces stationed in the area. The army also claimed it targeted a Hamas commander who was planning attacks against Israeli forces in northern Gaza. The attack comes amid continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire. The agreement entered into force on October 10 last year. Since then, Israel murdered at least 424 Palestinians. Another 1,199 people have been injured, according to The Ministry of Health. On October 8, 2023, Israel launched a genocide  in Gaza that lasted two years. The genocide killed more than 71,000 Palestinians. It wounded at least 171,000 others. The genocide caused massive destruction across the Strip. About 90 percent of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure suffered damage or destruction. The United Nations estimates reconstruction costs at around $70 billion. Israeli strikes have continued despite the ceasefire, raising concerns over its collapse and the ongoing civilian toll in Gaza.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67018&slug=two-citizens-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-on-home-in-eastern-gaza
Earlier news

 
Israel is deliberately blocking and killing foreign journalists
Quds news - Jan 7, 2026
{Press Association Slams Israel’s Ongoing ban on Media Access to Gaza Despite Ceasefire
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor stated that Israel is deliberately blocking foreign journalists and investigators to hide evidence of genocide and war crimes in Gaza.
Press Association Slams Israel’s Ongoing ban on Media Access to Gaza Despite Ceasefire
Gaza (QNN)- An international media association has slammed Israel’s continued ban on foreign journalists entering the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire which took effect in October, expressing its “profound disappointment”. Israel has barred foreign journalists from entering Gaza ever since the genocidal war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) has petitioned the Supreme Court against the ban twice. The first petition, submitted at the beginning of the assault, was rejected. In the second petition, filed more than a year ago, the justices granted the Israeli government nine extensions on the deadline for submitting its response. Two weeks ago, they once again agreed to its request for an extension, but gave it only an extra two weeks rather than the 30 days it requested. January 4 was the final deadline for Israel to respond to the petition seeking free and unfettered access for foreign journalists to the devastated territory. However, Israel told the Supreme Court that the ban should be maintained due to “security reasons”. The organisation, which represents journalists from international news organisations working in Israel, Gaza and the occupied West Bank, pledged to submit a “robust response” to the court in the coming days. “Instead of presenting a plan for allowing journalists into Gaza independently and letting us work alongside our brave Palestinian colleagues, the government has decided once again to lock us out. This comes even when a ceasefire is now in place,” the FPA statement said. According to Israeli news website Ynet, Israel is preparing a propaganda war ahead of allowing foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip. It plans to organize military-guided tours to justify its two-year genocide in Gaza. Despite months of preparation, Ynet said Israel admits its media readiness remains weak. Officials fear that international reporters will expose the catastrophic reality inside Gaza and fuel global outrage over war crimes and genocide reports. Israeli officials told Ynet they expect a flood of humanitarian reports once journalists enter Gaza. These reports, they said, could intensify evidence of genocide and war crimes. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the plan. It said Israeli military escorts serve as tools of propaganda, with journalists only allowed brief, highly controlled visits to pre-selected sites. CPJ noted that such restrictions violate international press freedom standards. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor stated that Israel is deliberately blocking foreign journalists and investigators to hide evidence of genocide and war crimes in Gaza. In a statement, the group said Israel runs a “systematic policy” to erase physical evidence through field operations and administrative measures. These include preventing journalists and investigation committees from entering Gaza to stop any international accountability. The monitor warned that Israel’s ban on foreign media is part of an institutional effort to keep its crimes “outside global scrutiny.” According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, Israeli forces have killed 257 Palestinian journalists since October 2023 to silence the Palestinian narrative. In December, a report by Reporters Without Borders found that Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country. Euro-Med added that Israel has completely destroyed several towns, refugee camps, and neighborhoods. Satellite images and field testimonies showed Israeli forces leveling areas, removing debris, and transporting it to unknown sites, a move aimed at wiping out traces of mass killings and explosions. The group cautioned that any delay in granting journalists access will give Israel more time to destroy remaining evidence and rewrite the story of Gaza’s devastation. “I have no doubt that the prevention of international access, the killings of journalists, the targeting of media facilities, the punishment of [Israeli] outlets like Haaretz is part of a deliberate strategy on the part of Israel to conceal what is happening inside Gaza,” said the CPJ chief executive, Jodie Ginsberg.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67015&slug=press-association-slams-israels-ongoing-ban-on-media-access-to-gaza-despite-ceasefire


Videoscreen grab: Babies in Gaza die from cold
Al Jazeera - Jan 7, 2026
{Gaza babies ‘suffering from severe cold’ as Israel keeps blocking aid
Doctors Without Borders says Israel continues to block deliveries of tents and temporary housing to war-ravaged enclave. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are experiencing respiratory infections, skin diseases, and other health problems, a humanitarian group warned, as Israel maintains strict curbs on crucial shelter supplies despite freezing winter temperatures. Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said on Wednesday that babies are “suffering from severe cold” as displaced Palestinian families live in makeshift shelters across the bombarded enclave. “People are facing torrential rain and heavy winds while living in makeshift shelters,” the group said in a social media post. “All the while Israel continues to block or delay the entry of vital supplies like tents, tarpaulins, and temporary housing.” Israel has blocked humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza during its genocidal war against Palestinians, spurring widespread starvation. Legal experts have noted this violates Israel’s obligation, as the occupying power in the Gaza Strip, to provide for the needs of Palestinians in the territory under its control. It also contravenes a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement, which came into effect in October, that stipulated Israel must allow 600 aid trucks into the enclave daily. Yet despite international condemnation and calls from the United Nations to allow more supplies in, Israel has maintained its curbs while also seeking to block international aid groups from operating in the territory. Israel revoked the operating licences of 37 aid groups, including MSF and the Norwegian Refugee Council, for failing to comply with new regulations requiring the organisations to provide detailed information on staff members, funding and operations. MSF said on Wednesday the move “is a cynical attempt to prevent organisations from providing services in Palestine and is in breach of Israel’s obligations under international humanitarian law”. Israel’s continued refusal to allow adequate aid supplies into Gaza comes as fierce winds, heavy rainfall and freezing temperatures have battered the area in recent weeks. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families have been forced to shelter in ill-equipped tent encampments or other makeshift shelters because their homes were destroyed in Israel’s war. The Israeli military’s assault on Gaza has also continued despite the ceasefire, with at least 424 Palestinians killed since October 11, according to the latest figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry. Another 1,199 Palestinians have been wounded in Israeli attacks since that date, the Gaza ministry said on Wednesday.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/7/gaza-babies-suffering-from-severe-cold-as-israel-keeps-blocking-aid-msf

Al Jazeera - Jan 7, 2026
{Israel ‘asphyxiating’ Palestinians for ‘apartheid system’ in West Bank: UN
Volker Turk’s description of the occupied West Bank’s situation as ‘apartheid’ marks first time a United Nations human rights chief has used term. The United Nations human rights office has called on Israel to “dismantle all settlements” in the occupied West Bank, saying its “oppression and domination” of Palestinians resembles “apartheid”. In a new report on Wednesday, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed Israel’s “systemic discrimination” against Palestinians, citing restrictions on movement through checkpoints, and “limited access to roads, natural resources, land and basic social facilities”. “There is a systematic asphyxiation of the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank,” said UN rights chief Volker Turk in a statement. “This is a particularly severe form of racial discrimination and segregation that resembles the kind of apartheid system we have seen before.” While UN-affiliated independent experts have described the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories as “apartheid”, Turk’s comments marked the first time a UN rights chief used the term, which was coined during South Africa’s system of racial segregation that lasted from 1948 to 1994. Turk said every aspect of life in the occupied West Bank is “controlled and curtailed by Israel’s discriminatory laws, policies and practices”, from accessing water to harvesting olives. Wednesday’s report called out the Israeli authorities for treating Israeli settlers and Palestinians “under two distinct bodies of law and policies, resulting in unequal treatment on a range of critical issues”, with “large-scale confiscation of land and deprivation of access to resources”. The laws had led to Palestinians being dispossessed of their lands and homes “alongside other forms of systemic discrimination including criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated”.
Two bodies of law
Israel has previously rejected the apartheid accusations, saying its policies are driven by “security concerns” rather than racial or ethnic discrimination. The UN rights office said the discrimination in the Palestinian territories is compounded by continuing and escalating settler violence in many cases “with the acquiescence, support and participation of Israel’s security forces”. More than 500,000 Israelis currently live in settlements in the West Bank, occupied since 1967 and home to about three million Palestinians. Violence has surged in the shadow of the genocidal war on Gaza, with Israeli attacks killing more than 1,100 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, 2023. Israeli authorities have arrested nearly 21,000 Palestinians during that period. Meanwhile, Israel’s settlement expansion continues, with Israel recently approving 19 new settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, as the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moves to prevent the formation of a contiguous Palestinian state.} Video - Source:  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/7/israel-asphyxiating-palestinians-for-apartheid-system-in-west-bank-un


Pen - Stop Mediacide
Al Jazeera - Jan 7, 2026
{Press association condemns Israel’s continued ban on media access to Gaza
Foreign Press Association pledges to submit ‘robust response’ to Supreme Court over Israel’s media lockout. An international media association has denounced the Israeli government’s continued refusal to lift its ban on unrestricted media access to Gaza, despite the ceasefire in the embattled enclave. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) issued a statement on Tuesday expressing its “profound disappointment” with the government, which had told the Supreme Court two days earlier that the ban should be maintained due to “security reasons”. Israel, which has barred foreign journalists from independently entering Gaza since the war started in October 2023, was responding to an FPA petition seeking free and unfettered access for foreign journalists to the devastated territory. The organisation, which represents journalists from international news organisations working in Israel, Gaza and the occupied West Bank, pledged to submit a “robust response” to the court in the coming days. “Instead of presenting a plan for allowing journalists into Gaza independently and letting us work alongside our brave Palestinian colleagues, the government has decided once again to lock us out. This comes even when a ceasefire is now in place,” the FPA statement said. The Israeli government, which has allowed only a limited number of journalists embedded with its military to work in Gaza on a case-by-case basis, said its court submission was “based on the position of the defence establishment”, noting that allowing journalists into the enclave could hinder the search for the remains of the last Israeli captive. The FPA submitted its petition to the court in September 2024. The court has granted several extensions to the government. Last month, it set January 4 as a final deadline for the government to present a plan for media access to Gaza. The International Federation of Journalists has reported that Palestine was the deadliest place to work as a journalist in 2025, reporting that 56 Palestinian media professionals were killed over the course of the year. Since the war broke out, nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, according to Shireen.ps, a monitoring website named after Al Jazeera’s veteran correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed in the occupied West Bank in 2022.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/7/media-body-condemns-israels-continued-ban-on-foreign-media-access-to-gaza


zionists off our campus
Quds news - Jan 7, 2026
{Israeli Weizmann Institute Falls Out of Global Top 100 Amid Academic Boycott
Once ranked among the world’s top research centers, Israel’s Weizmann Institute has now fallen outside the global top 100 as the academic boycott deepens.
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science has recorded a historic fall in global academic rankings. The prestigious Nature Index placed the institute 111th among academic institutions and 122nd overall. It previously ranked 47th among academic institutions at its peak. The sharp decline comes amid a growing academic boycott of Israel following its genocide in Gaza. It also follows an Iranian missile strike that hit the institute in June last year, as the Israeli army continues to use it for military purposes. The 2025 Nature Index marks the first time Weizmann has fallen outside the world’s top 100. This applies to both the academic institutions list and the overall institutions ranking.
In the academic category, the institute dropped from 75th place last year to 111th.
In the overall table, it fell from 82nd place to 122nd. This represents a decline of more than 25 percent in a single year. The ranking is the lowest for Weizmann since the Nature Index began in 2014. In 2017, the institute ranked 54th overall and 47th among academic institutions. Since then, the trend has moved steadily downward. The downturn has affected much of Israeli academia. Several universities reported lower research output. The Hebrew University of occupied Jerusalem fell from 119th to 144th place. The Technion in Haifa dropped from 178th to 194th. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev slipped from 296th to 301st. Israeli universities play an active role in the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. They provide academic programs tailored for soldiers and officers, including courses developed in direct cooperation with the Israeli military. These programs aim to strengthen strategic military thinking and integrate academic knowledge into battlefield planning and operations. Beyond teaching, Israeli universities contribute directly to military innovation. They have established military research centers that focus on developing combat technologies, including systems designed to reduce drone noise and improve surveillance and attack capabilities. These institutions also participate in the design and manufacture of military technologies that are supplied to the Israeli army and exported worldwide, embedding the academic sector in the global arms industry.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67017&slug=israeli-weizmann-institute-falls-out-of-global-top-100-amid-academic-boycott

Quds news - Jan 7, 2026
{BlackNest: Pro-Israel Doxxing Group Has Secret Website to Celebrate Punishing of Pro-Palestine Activism
In July last year,  The US government acknowledged its use of Canary Mission to identify pro-Palestine students for deportation, sparking anger and concern by rights advocates.
Washington (QNN)- Notorious pro-Israel doxxing website, Canary Mission, has a secret website called BlackNest, where the shadowy group celebrates the deportions and firings of pro-Palestine voices, according to a collection of unlisted websites discovered by Drop Site. BlackNest is just one of the names of several unlisted websites and content management systems used by Canary Mission. The information on these unlisted websites includes dozens of names of workers and contracted vendors, internal communications about meetings and quarterly plans, and even strategic planning documents. Canary’s non-public websites promise expansion into new avenues to continue the group’s mission of punishing Americans for pro-Palestine speech via doxxing, pressure campaigns, and now arrests and deportations carried out by the Trump administration. In July last year,  The US government acknowledged its use of Canary Mission to identify pro-Palestine students for deportation, sparking anger and concern by rights advocates. Activists have long suspected that the Trump administration is gathering information from the Canary Mission website to target students and professors. The suspicion was confirmed when a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official testified in a court case challenging Trump’s efforts to deport pro-Palestinian student protesters. Heba Gowayed, a sociology professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), said the government’s reliance on an online blacklist that posts personal information to harm and intimidate activists is “absurd and fascist”. “Canary Mission is a doxxing website that specifically targets people for language that they deem to be pro-Palestinian and therefore, they’ve decided, is anti-Semitic. Its sole purpose is to target and harass people,” Gowayed said. Before the presidential elections, the Heritage Foundation, a prominent right-wing think tank, released a policy document titled Project Esther designed to dismantle the Palestine solidarity movement in the US. Project Esther called for identifying students and professors critical of Israel who are in violation of their visas, and it cited Canary Mission extensively. The website was founded in 2015, and it has been expanding since. Nevertheless, barring a few media leaks over the years, the operators and funders of Canary Mission remain anonymous. In 2018, Haaretz reported that Israeli authorities have relied on the website to detain people and bar them from entering the country. That same year, the outlet The Forward found that Canary Mission is linked to an Israel-based non-profit called Megamot Shalom. Since then, media reports have revealed the names of a few wealthy American donors who have made contributions to the website through a network of Jewish charities. According to Drop Site revelations, BlackNest categorizes the group’s impacts into categories: “Change of behavior,” job loss, denials of entry to the U.S., arrests, and “deportation/forced to flee.” The site also collects mentions of Canary Mission in media, mostly from U.S. news outlets, and celebrates mentions of their impact. Much of the BlackNest content has a corporate business tone and offers a view into a hierarchical and professionalized operation. A “Team Overview” page lists a staff achievement of someone named “Cheri,” who “identified the activist from” a viral video, and “Nora” is lauded for completing “the Stanford Arrest Profiles.” A “Team Updates” section offers a “Branding Update,” with instructions to the team to add a tagline to all posts about New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani: “A vote for Mamdani is a vote for chaos in NYC.”  Canary Mission added several students to the site after they were arrested at pro-Palestine protests at Stanford University in 2024, and emails and Instagram posts in June from Canary Mission contained the Mamdani tagline. BlackNest also collected and posted news articles about Canary Mission, including deportations and instances of people choosing to flee the U.S. in the wake of arrests that unfolded since President Donald Trump took office. When NBC reported that the Department of Homeland Security testified in court that they used Canary Mission to choose targets for deportation in July, BlackNest uploaded a PDF of the article to the “Impacts” section of the site. Canary Mission has sections of the site dedicated to campaigns at those universities, and it has a section dedicated to grassroots organization Palestinian Youth Movement or PYM. The content team was broken down into four smaller teams—profiles, editorial, reports and social media. The social media subteam was tasked with a KPI, or key performance indicator of five posts per day, focusing on Iran and Mamdani. On the Impact section of BlackNest, the website celebrates “company impacts” to “track external influence.” In June, in a section called “profile impact tracking,” a blurb from a piece in The Nation was tagged as “High Impact,” with a subcategory button reading “self-deportation.” The excerpt was from a May editorial by Abdelrahman ElGendy, an Egyptian writer who fled political imprisonment in Egypt. He wrote about deciding to flee the U.S. after seeing the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, knowing he, too, was on Canary Mission’s site as a target. One of the categories of the Impacts page is simply called “ICE” and another is dedicated to English rap duo Bob Vylan, targeted by Canary and other Zionist voices for chanting “Death to the IDF” at a concert. Last year, Palestine Legal, an advocacy group, accused the Trump administration of racism for relying on the website. “Under Trump, ICE has now publicly admitted they are abducting pro-Palestinian student activists based on an anonymously-run blacklist site,” Palestine Legal said in a social media post. “Both the mass deportation machine, and these horrific blacklists, clearly run on racism.” J Street, a group that describes itself as pro-Israel and pro-peace, also decried the government’s use of the website. “Canary Mission is feeding the Trump Administration’s agenda, weaponizing antisemitism to surveil and attempt to deport student activists,” it said. “This isn’t about protecting Jews — it’s about silencing dissent.” Source: Drop Site, Al Jazeera, Haaretz}: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67016&slug=blacknest-pro-israel-doxxing-group-has-secret-website-to-celebrate-punishing-of-pro-palestine-activism


Childen eager to Know All
Quds news - Jan 7, 2026
{“Lost” Generation of Children in Gaza at Risk of a Decade Without Education Amid Israeli Genocide: Cambridge Study
Alongside evidence of a shattered school system, it describes how attacks, starvation and trauma have eradicated any sense of "normal’ childhood.
“Lost” Generation of Children in Gaza at Risk of a Decade Without Education Amid Israeli Genocide: Cambridge Study
Gaza (QNN)- A new study has warned that there is a severe risk of a “lost” generation emerging in Gaza, after two-year Israeli genocide through a combination of the assault’s physical and psychological effects, as well as the destruction of schools. The study found that children in Gaza will have lost the equivalent of five years’ worth of education. The genocide has come close to erasing children’s right to education, researchers from Cambridge University found. The report, which follows a similar study in 2024, provides an analysis of the impact of more than two years of Israeli genocide in Gaza, as well as escalating Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank. There are about 1.5 million children aged six to 15 in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The report said the schooling of more than 740,000 pupils had been severely disrupted and the lives of 27,000 teachers affected. It warns that there is a severe risk of a “lost” generation emerging in Gaza, through a combination of the war’s physical and psychological effects, as well as the destruction of schools. Despite the ceasefire that took effect in October,  "learning recovery" would take longer than simply replacing the time lost due to the compounding effects of trauma and starvation, the researchers said. The study estimates that children in Gaza will have lost the equivalent of five years’ worth of education due to repeated school closures since 2020, first through Covid-19, and then Israeli genocide. Although temporary and distance-learning measures were introduced by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, and the Palestinian Ministry of Education, these have been impeded by continuing Israeli attacks, damaged infrastructure and chronic resource shortages. The authors calculate that if schools remain closed until September 2027, many teenagers will be a full decade behind their expected educational level. They also estimate that children in the West Bank have lost a minimum of 2.5 years of education as schools have also been sporadically closed. There is also urgent need for education-related international aid in Gaza to address both severe learning losses and the assault’s psychological effects, the study said. It added that Israel is blocking educational and recreational materials from entering Gaza, as it does not classify these as humanitarian goods.  This has made materials available in local markets more expensive, with a single sheet of paper costing $3. Printing materials for pupils to learn at home can cost 10 times the usual amount. The researchers calculated the cost for education recovery to be $1.38bn. All schools in north Gaza and Rafah have been damaged, 98.4 per cent of school buildings in Khan Younis have been damaged and in Gaza City it is 93.3 per cent. Many school buildings that had not been destroyed were being used as shelter by displaced families. As the population forcibly displace around Gaza, either south during earlier Israeli attacks or returning north after ceasefire, this also stretches makeshift facilities, meaning learning is done online despite unstable internet connections. Education will depend on foreign aid for the foreseeable future, the researchers said, adding that, of the US$230.3 million requested by the UN humanitarian office, OCHA, for education in 2025, only 5.7 per cent had been provided by July, equating to about US$9 per child. The study was conducted by researchers at the Research for Equitable Access and Learning Centre (REAL Centre) at Cambridge University and the Centre for Lebanese Studies, in partnership with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. It draws on data from UN agencies, charities and NGOs, alongside interviews with aid organisation staff, government officials, teachers and pupils. Dr. Maha Shuayb, director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies, said, “Education and children’s services cannot be an afterthought. They are a vital source of stability and care.” Many children have been left too weak to learn or play, the report warns. Alongside evidence of a shattered school system, it describes how attacks, starvation and trauma have eradicated any sense of "normal’ childhood. Prof. Pauline Rose, director of the REAL Centre, said: “A year ago we said education was under attack – now children’s lives are on the brink of a complete breakdown.” “Palestinians have shown extraordinary desire for education during this terrible war, but the loss of faith and hope that young people are expressing should be a massive red flag for the international community. We must do more to support them. We cannot wait.” Yusuf Sayed, a professor of education at the University of Cambridge, said teachers and counsellors were displaying steadfastness and commitment to “preserving Palestinian identity through education”, but warned the scale of need was immense. "Thousands of new teachers will be needed to replace those who have been lost or to support a complete learning recovery. Investing in teachers is crucial to rebuilding and restoring education in Palestine,” he said. As of October 1, 2025, the OCHA reported 18,069 pupils and 780 education staff killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks. There were also 26,391 pupils and 3,211 teachers wounded. About 13,000 children in the enclave had been treated for acute malnutrition, while 147 died. The report found evidence of widespread despair. Teachers recounted parents asking: “Why should I care about education for my kids if I know they will die from famine?”} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67014&slug=lost-generation-of-children-in-gaza-at-risk-of-a-decade-without-education-amid-israeli-genocide-cambridge-study

Quds news - Jan 6, 2026
{Married US Envoy Morgan Ortagus Faces Scrutiny Over Alleged Relationship With Lebanese Banker
Married Republican US envoy Morgan Ortagus is under scrutiny after reports linked her to a romantic relationship with a Zionist Lebanese banker tied to US and Israeli interests.
Beirut (QNN)- US envoy Morgan Ortagus is facing growing scrutiny inside the Trump administration. The controversy centers on a romantic relationship with Lebanese banker Antoun Sehnaoui. Following the reports about the relationship, zionist US activist Laura Loomer claimed that the administration placed Ortagus on “administrative leave.” The White House has not confirmed the claim. Ortagus is married and a mother of two. She previously sparked outrage after calling on Israel to bomb the funeral of late Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. The reports intensified after a leaked receipt appeared online. The document shows more than $50,000 in jewelry purchased from Tiffany & Co. It lists Sehnaoui as the cardholder and Ortagus as the recipient. Neither party has commented on the receipt’s authenticity. Sehnaoui is the chairman of the SGBL Group, a major Lebanese banking institution accused of stealing Lebanese money. Between 2020 and 2023, several lawsuits were filed by different intities alleging that SGBL, its CEO Antoun Sehnaoui, the Mecattaf money-transfer company, and others were involved in money laundering and illicit transfer of funds abroad during Lebanon’s financial crisis. The claim said large amounts of dollars were moved overseas in ways that harmed the national currency and economy. Other civil lawsuits have been filed against SGBL in courts abroad for refusing or failing to return depositor funds and issuing checks that plaintiffs say cannot be honored because of the banking crisis. US authorities previously investigated Sehnaoui on suspicion of laundering money. He has also allegedly funded Jnoud al-Rab, an ultra-right-wing Christian militia in Lebanon. In 2025, Sehnaoui publicly declared his Zionism. The move marked a rare and unprecedented stance in modern Lebanese history. He has openly supported Israel and backed a US–Israeli opera initiative linking major opera houses. Ortagus holds sensitive positions within the US government. She served as State Department spokesperson under former Secretary Mike Pompeo. She helped promote Israel's Abraham Accords. She is also a US Navy Reserve intelligence officer and holds a security clearance. US President Donald Trump appointed Ortagus as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy to the Middle East in January 2025. She worked under Ambassador Steve Witkoff with a focus on Lebanon policy. Her term ended in June 2025 amid reported concerns over her performance. She returned to US-Lebanon policy work through a UN-related role later that month. Sources cited by CDM say US officials worry about the relationship due to Ortagus’s diplomatic access. The controversy comes at a sensitive moment for Lebanon. The US is pushing to weaken and disarm Hezbollah as part of its regional strategy. As of Tuesday, the Trump administration has issued no official statement. It has neither confirmed nor denied Ortagus’s reported administrative leave.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67013&slug=married-us-envoy-morgan-ortagus-faces-scrutiny-over-alleged-relationship-with-lebanese-banker

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

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

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