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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: Jan 14, 2026 In Today's Factual News "Dozens of Artists, Rights and Humanitarian Groups Condemn Israel’s ‘Systematic Attacks’ on Gaza Healthcare, Urge Immediate Humanitarian Access" and that's how the echoes of the voices of Palestinians - stays Crystal Clear and Resilient no matter the darkness that threatens their lives and land they Hold Ground… to be heard Loud and Clear But... "Iran, Gaza and the politics of counting the dead" and more news Israel is deliberately blocking and killing foreign journalists But no worries: the free word cannot be killed! And more updates 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.
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and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
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Videoscreen grab: Displaced Palestinians weather deadly winds, extreme cold
Al Jazeera - Jan 14, 2026
{Conditions in Gaza worsen as winds and hypothermia kill 5
Winter storms kill displaced Palestinians in Gaza left to shelter in flimsy tents by ceasefire abuses. At least four people have been killed as winter winds sent walls collapsing onto flimsy tents sheltering Palestinians displaced by the genocidal war in Gaza. Dangerous living conditions persist in Gaza more than two years after the start of the devastating Israeli bombardment and amid continuing aid shortfalls. A ceasefire has been in effect since October 10, but aid groups say Palestinians still lack the shelter needed to withstand frequent winter storms. Three members of one family – 72-year-old Mohammed Hamouda, his 15-year-old granddaughter and his daughter-in-law – were killed when an eight-metre (26ft) high wall collapsed onto their tent in a coastal area along the Mediterranean shore of Gaza City, authorities at al-Shifa Hospital said. At least five others were injured. A second woman was killed when a wall fell on her tent in the western part of the city, the hospital added. The Gaza Health Ministry said on Tuesday that a one-year-old boy died of hypothermia overnight in the central town of Deir el-Balah, the seventh person to die of cold since the start of winter. Other victims include a baby just seven days old and a four-year-old girl, whose deaths were announced on Monday. UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said at least 100 children less than the age of 18 – 60 boys and 40 girls – have been killed since the truce began, as a result of military operations, including drone and air attacks, tank shelling and the use of live ammunition. Those figures, he said, cover only incidents where sufficient details have been compiled to warrant recording, and the true toll is expected to be higher. He added that hundreds of children have been wounded. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it exchanged fire on Tuesday with six people spotted near its troops deployed in southern Gaza, killing at least two in western Rafah. The Gaza Health Ministry says more than 440 people have been killed by Israeli fire and their bodies brought to hospitals since the ceasefire came into force. It maintains detailed casualty records that are regarded as reliable by UN agencies and independent experts. Gaza’s population of more than two million is struggling to keep out the cold and weather the winter storms amid shortages of humanitarian aid and a lack of more substantial temporary housing, which is desperately needed during the winter months. The majority of people are living in makeshift tents after their homes were reduced to rubble. When storms hit the territory, Palestinian rescue workers warn people against seeking shelter inside damaged buildings for fear they may collapse. Aid groups say not enough shelter materials are entering Gaza.} Gallery - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/1/14/conditions-in-gaza-worsen-as-winds-and-hypothermia-kill-5

Al Jazeera - Jan 14, 2026 - Ola Al-Asi
{‘My leg went to heaven before me’: Israeli war extinguishes Gaza childhoods
After more than two years of a genocidal war, wounded and traumatised Palestinian children stare at an uncertain future.
Jabalia, Gaza – Omar Halawa got up from his chair, like any 13-year-old child would. But he had forgotten a devastating detail about himself: he only had one leg. “He fell off the chair,” his mother Yasmin Halawa told Al Jazeera. “It is very sad for us all, seeing him like that.” Omar lost his right leg three months ago. On October 1, 2025, as Israel intensified its ground invasion of Gaza amid ceasefire talks with Hamas, Omar was on the street with his 11-year-old sister Layan, cousin Moath Halawa, 13, and friend Mohammed Al Siksik, also 13, to get water from a tanker that had come near their camp in north Gaza’s Jabalia area. “It was impossible to pay 6000 shekels for a vehicle to get us to the south, so we had decided to stay in the north,” recalled Yasmin, adding that the family had been displaced more than 15 times during the Israeli genocidal war that began in October 2023. “The drinking water supply became very rare in the area, so the children of the camp decided to get up just after dawn to be able to get in line for a gallon of water. Moments later, the shelling started and we felt afraid for our children, Layan and Omar,” she said. As she reeled from doubts over sending the children to get water, they heard someone shouting that Omar had been hit by the shelling. “The first thing he asked when he woke up after surgery was about his friend and cousin who were in line with him for water,” said Yasmin. “They were both killed.”
The family buried Omar’s amputated leg near their tent. He visits the grave every day. “My leg went to heaven before me,” he says.
‘Worst place in the world for children’
Omar had been grappling with deaths and destructions as soon as the war started. In November 2023, as Israel bombed northern Gaza, Layan was injured by shattered glass of the windows all around their house. “After a horrific night, we left the house raising a white piece of cloth so that the Israeli soldiers don’t shoot at us, holding Hatem between my arms and walking with Omar and Layan by my side. On the way out, they saw the beheaded body of their eight-year-old cousin along with other martyrs. They froze in horror and started screaming and crying,” said Yasmin. Hatem is four. “My children have been emotionally disturbed after that experience. Layan struggled with bedwetting and Omar is afraid all the time, even from the sound of a chair hitting the floor.” Omar and Layal are among tens of thousands of children in Gaza bearing the scars of a brutal genocide that has killed more than 71,000 Palestinians, 20,000 of them children. Nearly 42,000 other children have been injured, half of them sustaining life-altering injuries, as the Israeli attacks continue in violation of a United States-brokered ceasefire. At least 39,000 children in Gaza are now left without one or both parents – the largest orphan crisis in modern history. “Instead of enjoying their childhood, Palestinian children are living in the worst place in the world for children. Even after the agreed ceasefire, more than 95 children have been killed,” UNICEF spokesperson Kazem Abu Khalaf told Al Jazeera, adding that more than 4,000 children in Gaza need immediate medical evacuation. Two years of severe Israeli blockade on food and essential aid has made the humanitarian crisis even worse. “Almost 165 children have died due to malnutrition and hunger in Gaza since October 2023,” Khalaf said. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) says 1.6 million Palestinians in Gaza, or 77 percent of its population, including about 800,000 children, will continue to face acute food insecurity in 2026.
‘On cold days, it hurts even more’
Among the children in desperate need of nutrition is Rahaf Al Najjar, who is also 13 like Omar. Rahaf was fetching food for her five siblings in northwest Gaza’s Sudaniya area in September last year when fire from an Israeli quadcopter pierced both her legs. “She is healing slowly. I am only able to provide her four eggs a week. She still has inflammation in both her legs and needs more nutritious food to heal faster. I can’t bring meat or chicken for her, I don’t have enough money for that. Sometimes, I bring her a fruit to eat without letting her siblings know about it,” Rahaf’s 35-year-old mother Buthayna Al Najjar told Al Jazeera at their tent in Jabalia. Rahaf says the ongoing harsh winter has made her injury worse. “On cold days, it hurts even more. I feel electric‑like jolts in my leg. I need to take a medicine to feel better and be able to sleep,” she told Al Jazeera. Rahaf witnessed the killing of her father Ghassan Al Najjar, who, she says, “used to pamper her more than her other siblings”. Ghassan died in an Israeli drone strike on November 5, 2024 while he was pulling the body of his cousin at Jabalia camp. Buthayna says Rahaf was able to crawl to her wounded father and dragged his body inside a tent. “Her father was still alive. He told her: ‘Be strong, my daughter, and say salam to your mom’. Then he took his last breath while she was still holding him, screaming and crying,” the mother recalled.
Rahaf says she misses her father most when she is hungry or in pain. She also misses school. “I wish I could get back to school. I miss drawing and PE classes,” she told Al Jazeera. Buthayna says she has no money left for her children’s education. “I sold my mobile after losing my husband, so I could get my kids some food,” she said.

A Palestinian teacher teaching children-Photo-Riash-Al Jazeera
Fears of losing ‘a whole generation’
Interrupted education and a loss of familiar routines has worsened feelings of uncertainty and helplessness among Gaza’s children, who have lost two years of schooling due to the bombing and displacement, and are forced to live in tents and help in fetching food and water for their displaced families. “We have lost more than 20,000 students in the Israeli war during two years of aggression,” Jawad Shiekh-Khalil, director of education in western Gaza, told Al Jazeera. “Ninety percent of the Ministry of Education’s buildings have been completely or partially destroyed in the Israeli bombardment, and the remaining ones have turned into shelters for the displaced families.” He said they have implemented a new strategy, called an ‘Emergency Plan’, to make up for the education they have misses for two years. “Since the ceasefire, Israel has restricted entry of school supplies or stationery. Students can’t find paper, pencils, notebooks, or even chalk. We have almost 400 registered educational points – most of them are tents spread across the Strip, for about 150,000 students,” Shiekh-Khalil said.
UNICEF’s Khalaf also said they are launching a back-to-learning programme to get Gaza’s children resume their education and “make sure they don’t forget what they have learned before”. “We can’t wait to lose a whole generation,” he said.
‘Traumatised children’
Bahzad Al Akhras, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that losing academic education for two years affects children’s cognitive, emotional, and social developments. “Being away from school and having schools as shelters affects how children perceive the school as related to crowdedness and harsh living conditions,” he said. “A student will not be able to develop cognitive functions adequately when away from academic environment and the peer support.” Al Akhras said the genocidal war has impacted the children of Gaza in several ways. “The direct impact is seen in children who were trapped under the rubble, children who sustained severe injuries, orphaned children, and those who had experiences with the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoints. The indirect impact is seen in the collapse of the education system as well as the ongoing starvation,” he said. The psychiatrist said children, unlike adults, are unable to express themselves verbally, often displaying behavioral manifestations of trauma. “Traumatised children show symptoms of behavioral changes. They become isolated or hyperactive, disobedient, more violent, or distracted, while some have problems with memory or forgetting. Many have to deal with bed-wetting,” Al Akhras said. Omar is undergoing such a trauma. “He has begun to lose his hair. He doesn’t sleep well at night. He gets up often, screaming of nightmares or feeling that he has his leg back, and feeling the pain of losing a limb,” Yasmin told Al Jazeera.
The Palestinian boy says he feels helpless.
“I suffer a lot when I need to use the toilet with one leg. It hurts a lot. I can’t even carry a packet of vegetables. I fall down,” he says, hoping to get a prosthetic leg soon. “First thing I wish to do after getting a prosthetic limb is to play football and swim in the sea. I love swimming.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/14/my-leg-went-to-heaven-before-me-israeli-war-extinguishes-gaza-childhoods


Systematic Attacks on Gaza Healthcare
Quds news - Jan 14, 2026
{Dozens of Artists, Rights and Humanitarian Groups Condemn Israel’s ‘Systematic Attacks’ on Gaza Healthcare, Urge Immediate Humanitarian Access
The letter also calls for the “immediate, unconditional, unhindered and sustained humanitarian access into Palestine”, including the entry of medical and humanitarian personnel.
Gaza (QNN)- Dozens of artists, including Cynthia Nixon, Mark Ruffalo, and Ilana Glazer, have joined doctors, human rights groups, and humanitarian organizations in calling for the immediate restoration of medical care in Gaza, as Israel continues to block much-needed aid and prevent medical and humanitarian personnel from entering the enclave despite the ceasefire. In a letter addressed to Israel and world leaders, reported by the Guardian, the signatories said “Israel’s systematic attacks on hospitals and unlawful blockade have collapsed Gaza’s healthcare system.” “Through its policies and military activities, the government of Israel has deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of Palestinians in Gaza and then denied the very help that could save them.” Other signatories include Brian Eno, Rosie O’Donnell and Morgan Spector. The Israeli organization B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights are among the human rights groups that signed the letter, which will be presented to UK and EU leaders in parliamentary meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The first signatory on Monday’s letter is the mother of

Hind Rajab
Hind Rajab. 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. Her story has been memorialized in the Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest film, The Voice of Hind Rajab, which has been shortlisted for an Academy Award. “Hind Rajab did not die because help was impossible, but because it was denied,” Ben Hania said in a statement to the Guardian. Ben Hania joined with Hind’s mother, Wesam Hamada, to sign the letter assembled by a group of non-profits. The letter also calls for the “immediate, unconditional, unhindered and sustained humanitarian access into Palestine”, including the entry of medical and humanitarian personnel. Israel recently banned dozens of aid agencies from work in Gaza and the West Bank, including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), claiming that they would not fulfill onerous registration requirements that the groups say would put their staff at risk. MSF says it supports one in five of Gaza’s hospital beds and one in three mothers during childbirth. The UN Human Rights Office estimates that 94% of Gaza’s hospitals have been damaged or destroyed since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began in 2023. At least 1,722 healthcare workers have been killed by Israel over two years of war, the group said. Many medical items, including wheelchairs and walkers, have been barred entry. The panel of UN experts determined that Israel’s attacks on the sector and its workers amounted to “medicide” – the systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and a component of Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians. The letter asks world leaders to take “immediate action” to restore and enable medical access for patients in Gaza and the West Bank, where increasing restrictions on movement have affected access to medical care. More than 18,500 Palestinians await medical evacuation from Gaza, (MSF) estimated in December. The humanitarian agency said that at least 1,000 people have died awaiting care. Dr. Thaer Gazawneh, a Chicago-based emergency physician who signed Monday’s letter, believes that Israel’s restrictions are designed to push Palestinians out of Gaza. “[They] are making the living conditions in Gaza so unbearable that people will be forced to be displaced again.” Gazawneh volunteers in the West Bank where he said it had become nearly impossible to dispatch emergency responders due to Israeli checkpoints and the threat of arbitrary arrests. At least 384 medical workers have been unlawfully detained by Israel’s military, according to the NGO Healthcare Workers Watch.}  Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67063&slug=dozens-of-artists-rights-and-humanitarian-groups-condemn-israels-systematic-attacks-on-gaza-healthcare-urge-immediate-humanitarian-access


Witkoff and co are liers
Quds news - Jan 14, 2026
{US Announces Launch of Phase Two of Trump’s 20-Point Gaza Ceasefire Plan
In a statement, Witkoff announced the launch of “Phase Two of the President’s 20-Point Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, moving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction.”
Washington (QNN)- US Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has announced the launch of phase two of Trump’s 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan, claiming that phase one delivered “historic humanitarian aid and maintained the ceasefire”, despite Israel having violated the agreement more than 1,000 times, killing of hundreds of civilians and blocking much-needed aid from entering the enclave. In a statement, Witkoff announced the launch of “Phase Two of the President’s 20-Point Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, moving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction.” “Phase Two establishes a transitional technocratic Palestinian administration in Gaza, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), and begins the full demilitarization and reconstruction of Gaza, primarily the disarmament of all unauthorized personnel.” He also claimed that phase one “delivered historic humanitarian aid, maintained the ceasefire,” as Israel has violated the agreement more than 1000 times, killing hundreds of civilians and blocking much-needed aid from entering the enclave. He also confirmed that the Palestinian factions in Gaza had returned all living captives and the remains of twenty-seven of the twenty-eight deceased captives.  “We are deeply grateful to Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar for their indispensable mediation efforts that made all progress to date possible.”} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67065&slug=us-announces-launch-of-phase-two-of-trumps-20-point-gaza-ceasefire-plan

Al Jazeera - Jan 14, 2026 - Ahmad Ibsais
{Iran, Gaza and the politics of counting the dead
As Western media accepts death tolls from Iran at face value, Palestinian deaths in Gaza remain endlessly questioned, revealing how belief follows power, not evidence.
RAFAH, GAZA - MARCH 7: (Editor's Note: Image depicts death) The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war were buried in a mass grave and the Gaza Ministry of Health said 47 bodies were confiscated by Israeli forces and delivered through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing on March 7, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. Negotiations being held in Cairo over a potential ceasefire deal appear to have stalled, as the current war between Israel and Hamas reaches the five-month mark. More than 30,000 people have died in Gaza as a result of the war, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. There is a crisis of belief in Western media, one that has little to do with evidence and everything to do with whose deaths align with the interests of empire. For two and a half years, Western media has scrutinised every dead Palestinian, and the ways in which their bodies were maimed, broken and burned in Gaza. Were they real people? If they were, were they truly dead? If dead, were they actually killed by Israel’s bombs, bullets, torture and siege? If they were killed, how could anyone know they were not combatants, and thus actually “deserved it”? The destruction reported by Palestinians on the ground, by those watching their loved ones fall one by one, was not believed. Even the death toll periodically released by the Gaza Health Ministry, widely acknowledged to be a massive undercount, was repeatedly questioned. As of late 2025, the Gaza Health Ministry reports that at least 70,117 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the conflict began, with a large majority of those victims civilians. The United Nations and countless independent researchers agree that the official toll is an undercount. In the first nine months of the war alone, the number of deaths from traumatic injury was estimated at around 64,000, approximately 40 percent higher than the ministry’s figure, and that does not account for deaths caused by lack of healthcare, starvation or failures in water and sanitation. All demographic modelling suggests that overall mortality is significantly higher once indirect deaths are included. A July 2024 study published in The Lancet put the figure at more than 186,000. There is no doubt that hundreds of thousands more have lost their lives to bombs, bullets, avoidable illnesses and hunger since. The Health Ministry documents deaths through hospital morgues, recording names and ID numbers, counting only the bodies it is able to identify because, as we all know, many bodies in Gaza, blown to pieces, crushed under rubble or flattened by tanks, can never be identified. Further, with every hospital in the Gaza Strip bombed or rendered inoperable, there were periods when morgues were unable to count even bodies that were identifiable. Yet Western media, to this day, refuses to report the true scale of the carnage, and even the undercount it does publish is wrapped in caveats. It is “disputed by Israel”, “cannot be confirmed”, or merely “claimed” by the “Hamas-run health ministry”, never treated as an established fact. Now, as the genocide in Gaza continues, albeit at a slower pace under the guise of a so-called “ceasefire”, another story of conflict, loss and death has emerged in the same region. In Iran, people are taking to the streets to resist the regime, and are being killed as they do so. The way this tragedy is handled by the very same media outlets that spent years questioning the scale of devastation in Gaza is markedly different. Striking death tolls emerging from Iran, in many cases based on estimates by diaspora organisations such as the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which have no ground access and no direct communication lines into the country, are being accepted as fact almost instantly. CBS reported on Tuesday that “two sources, including one inside Iran”, told its journalists that “at least 12,000, and possibly as many as 20,000 people have been killed”. The report acknowledged that foreign journalists are not allowed into Iran and underlined the ongoing communications shutdown, yet still treated the toll claimed by an anonymous source as credible. It ran with the headline: “Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue.” Videos of piled-up bodies, footage of children burning alive in their tents, and photographs of mass graves, however, were never accepted as proof of a staggering death toll in Gaza.
This is just one example.
Since the beginning of the Iran protests, Western media appears to have suddenly developed a new understanding of what counts as credible, accurate and acceptable reporting of death tolls in a crisis that it cannot directly access.
Deaths in Gaza, despite being recorded and tallied as meticulously as possible amid an ongoing genocide, were relentlessly questioned and routinely presented as unreliable by the very same journalists now ready and eager to accept figures produced by the Iranian opposition, or more precisely, by Washington-based Iranian diaspora networks.
Why?
It seems Western media applies a far lower threshold for credibility when it comes to Iranian deaths, because reporting on them, unlike reporting on Palestinians shot, crushed, starved and tortured to death by Israel, serves the interests of empire. Thousands of Iranians killed while protesting their government offer Washington an opportunity to manufacture consent for bombing or toppling that regime, this time in the name of “human rights” and “democracy”. This is not to say that Iranians resisting the regime are not dying. It is not to say they should not be believed, or that their deaths should be ignored because they are difficult to count or because the regime restricts information. Their struggle matters. Their deaths matter. Every innocent death matters. But as we listen to Iranians resisting the regime, we must not ignore the hypocrisy of media outlets that amplify their story while simultaneously transforming their struggle into a convenient pretext for imperial intervention. These same outlets refused to believe us for years as we Palestinians documented our American-enabled slaughter. They did not believe us when we said Israel was hunting us as we queued for aid. They did not believe us when we said our babies were freezing to death or starving as Israel blocked timber, tents and even baby formula from entering the Strip. They never believed our dead were really dead. They did not believe us when the Gaza Health Ministry published over 1,500 pages of names, the first few hundred listing only children under 16, nor when the United Nations said these figures, while still an underestimate, were the most credible available. Our corpses required endless verification.
This is because Palestinian deaths at the hands of Washington’s cherished “democratic” and “civilised” ally Israel expose the cruelty, impunity and violence of United States power. Our bodies pile up as evidence of an international order that decides which lives are expendable. The deaths of Iranians at the hands of a US-opposed government, by contrast, offer Washington a chance to present itself as the benevolent saviour, ready to “help” and deliver “democracy” once again.
So selective belief is perfected by the empire’s media. Reports of mass Iranian deaths, even when based on estimates by anonymous sources thousands of miles away, receive instant credibility. This is not a failure of journalism alone, but a failure of moral consistency. Death is not measured by evidence, but by political utility. Some corpses demand action, others demand silence. Until Western media confronts the role it plays in deciding which deaths are worthy of belief and which are not, it will remain complicit in the violence it claims only to observe.
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/2026/1/14/iran-gaza-and-the-politics-of-counting-the-dead

Quds news - Jan 14, 2026
{UN Chief Warns He Could Refer Israel to World Court Over Laws Targeting UNRWA
In a letter on January 8 sent to ICC-wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Guterres said the UN cannot remain indifferent to "actions taken by Israel, which are in direct contravention of the obligations of Israel under international law. They must be reversed without delay." UN Chief Warns He Could Refer Israel to World Court Over Laws Targeting UNRWA
New York (QNN)- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned Israel that he could refer it to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) if it does not repeal laws targeting the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA and return seized assets and property. In a letter on January 8 sent to ICC-wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Guterres said the UN cannot remain indifferent to "actions taken by Israel, which are in direct contravention of the obligations of Israel under international law. They must be reversed without delay." Israel's parliament passed a law in October 2024 banning the agency from operating in Israel and prohibiting officials from having contact with the agency. It then amended that law last month to ban electricity or water to UNRWA facilities.
Israel also seized UNRWA's East Jerusalem offices last month. Israel has long targeted UNRWA, which was created by the General Assembly in 1949. It provides aid, health and education to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. According to a January 5 UN report, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 382 UNRWA employees in the enclave, which is the highest number of UN casualties since the world body was founded. Some have been killed in Israel’s deliberate, repeated attacks on UNRWA hospitals and schools, which shelter more than one million displaced Palestinians in Gaza. Top UN officials and the UN Security Council have described UNRWA as the backbone of the aid response in Gaza, where the two-year Israeli genocide has killed more than 71,000 Palestinians and created a humanitraian criers amid Israeli blcokadw on aid. The United Nations' top legal body, the International Court of Justice, in October gave an advisory opinion, saying Israel is under the obligation to ensure the basic needs of the civilian population in Gaza are met. It also reiterated Israel’s obligation to ensure full respect for the privileges and immunities accorded to the UN, including UNRWA and its personnel. The ICJ opinion was requested by the 193-member U.N. General Assembly. Advisory opinions of the ICJ, also known as the World Court, carry legal and political weight, but they are not binding and the court has no enforcement power. Guterres said that UNRWA is “an integral part of the United Nations”, and highlighted that “Israel remains under an obligation to accord UNRWA and its personnel the privileges and immunities specified in the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the UN”. The convention states that “the premises of the United Nations shall be inviolable”. Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, dismissed Guterres’s letter to Netanyahu" “We are not fazed by the Secretary-General’s threats,” Danon said in a post on X on Tuesday. “Instead of dealing with the undeniable involvement of UNRWA personnel in terrorism, the Secretary-General chooses to threaten Israel. This is not defending international law, this is defending an organization marred by terrorism,” he added.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67061&slug=un-chief-warns-he-could-refer-israel-to-world-court-over-laws-targeting-unrwa


Videoscreen grab: Juliet Stevenson
Al Jazeera - Jan 14, 2026 Anealla Safdar
{Juliet Stevenson on Gaza: ‘I’m disappointed by the silence in my industry’
Al Jazeera interviews the veteran theatre, film and television actor, one of Britain’s leading voices for Palestinian rights.
London, United Kingdom – Juliet Stevenson, one of Britain’s most recognisable actors who is widely regarded as a national treasure, has taken on a new role over the past two years. She has become a leading voice for Palestinians, marching at rallies, making speeches, signing protest letters, writing columns and producing films – using every opportunity to spell out the brutality of Israel’s atrocities on Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Last week, alongside dozens of other cultural icons such as Judi Dench, Meera Syal and Sienna Miller, Stevenson wrote to the founder of Mumsnet, a popular online forum where mothers discuss a range of issues from childcare and parental leave to transgenderism, politics and global wars. The famous mothers want Justine Roberts, the founder, to pressure the United Kingdom’s government to demand that Israel allow maternity clinics stuck in Egypt into Gaza and give access to NGOs trying to deliver aid – especially items essential to women and girls, such as menstrual and hygiene supplies. Mumsnet has said Roberts will meet with the group. Al Jazeera spoke with Stevenson about why she believes British mothers should offer moral support to Palestinian parents, the roots of her activism, and her determination to keep speaking up despite the risks it carries to careers.
Al Jazeera: Why are you appealing to Mumsnet?
Juliet Stevenson: Mumsnet has about nine million users monthly in this country. So I am told that it has the ear of the government, because that’s a good chunk of the electorate. And the community of mothers on Mumsnet crosses divisions of class, faith, ethnicity. This campaign is about mothers for mothers. The situation being endured by mothers in Gaza is unimaginably brutal and horrific. We want to galvanise the mums of Great Britain to speak up for the mums of Gaza through their communities, one of which – and probably the most powerful – is Mumsnet. Many people express the desire and need to do something in relation to the suffering they see in Gaza and across the occupied territories, but they don’t know what or how. This campaign is something they can join with if they want to.
Al Jazeera: As a mother yourself, how has it felt watching the genocide unfold?
Stevenson: Honestly, unspeakable. Sometimes I feel beside myself. Everybody in the world loves their children in the same way. Palestinian parents love their children just as much as we do. How can our politicians sit back and watch what these parents are enduring? And watch the unimaginable suffering being inflicted on children? There are more child amputees now in Gaza than in any other time or place in history. There are many children who have lost all their family, young children without parents or family left. There are parents who have no children left. There are pregnant mothers who are starving, giving birth to premature and very underweight babies who struggle to survive. Most of Gaza’s healthcare system has been destroyed, and where hospitals are still functioning, they do so with a chronic lack of equipment and medicines. There are minimal resources for maternal and neonatal care. The infant mortality rate has leapt up by 75 percent, and miscarriages by 300 percent. Any mother in the world seeing this situation would be haunted and horrified, I think. I would hope so.
Al Jazeera: For many years, you’ve protested for the rights of Palestinians. What’s behind your activism, something that, as we have seen, comes with risk to careers?
Stevenson: I learned about the situation of the Palestinian people many years ago. It struck me from the very first as a narrative of extreme injustice. My husband is Jewish and his mum, my beloved mother-in-law, was a refugee from Hitler’s Vienna [Austria was annexed by the Nazis in 1938 and liberated in 1945]. I fully understand what the Holocaust left in its wake, and the need for the Jewish people to feel secure and safe – and never again to be vulnerable to the appalling ravages of anti-Semitism. But as many, many Jews are now saying, what the Israeli government is doing now, what has been perpetrated on the Palestinian people since 1948, was never a just or wise solution. The UK is deeply implicated in those historical events. I read Edward Said and other Palestinian writers, and I read Israeli writers … I’m concerned with the safety and security of Israeli citizens, too. The brutality lashed out against Gaza and the occupied territories serves nobody in the region. As for careers, my career – I honestly feel that if people don’t want to work with me because they don’t like what I’m saying about this, then I don’t think I want to work with them. And if they’re going to punish me for my belief system, then I probably don’t belong there. And most importantly, I don’t think my career is more important than the lives of Palestinian children. I really, really don’t. And when I come to the end of my life, whenever that is, I want to be able to look back at my life and say I hope I did the right thing at the right time. Of course, I want to go on working as an actor; I love the work. And I need my platform and my profile to be able to be effective – that’s important, too. But I haven’t yet felt that I’ve been penalised for activism – I’ve never worked as hard or as much as I did last year. So I’m optimistic that there are enough people in the industry who don’t want to punish me for this, and who feel the same.
Al Jazeera: How do you characterise the muted response to the genocide in Gaza from usually outspoken characters in the arts or feminists who speak up about oppression in other regions of the world?
Stevenson: I’m painfully disappointed by the silence in my industry, by the silence everywhere. I’m dismayed by how people are allowing the bullying into silence to be effective – by their yielding to that power. At this point in the genocide, silence is not a passive act. It’s active – it’s a decision to collude. We look back at Germany at the time of the Holocaust, and we harshly judge those who didn’t speak out against that barbarism, and we admire those who did. But what about the current genocide? Why do we so often look back at history and assess it in that way, but we don’t bring those judgements to bear on the world we’re living in now? I do wish more leading figures in the arts, and more arts and cultural institutions, would engage with what is happening in Palestine and use their voices and influence. It’s our job, isn’t it, to reflect the human condition, human experience? If we’re not doing that in relation to the genocide, then I don’t know what we are doing, really.
Al Jazeera: Several British actors over the years, yourself included and Vanessa Redgrave, have criticised Israeli policy that disregards Palestinian rights. Has the space for speaking up become more restrictive in recent years?
Stevenson: I’d like to acknowledge Vanessa’s astonishing legacy of always speaking out and always fighting for human rights. She’s been a really inspiring person in our industry doing that. And I would also like to acknowledge the voice and the actions of many young people in my industry now – not famous or with high profile, but who are really engaged and tirelessly support the Stop the War movement, and who call for humanity and action. It takes bravery – as it does in Hollywood, where a few have stood up and spoken out. I’m so grateful that they found the courage. … But most people have not. There was a great wave of public support that grew during last summer. My great fear now is that it’s subsiding again – the illusion of the so-called “ceasefire” has taken hold – when in fact there has been no ceasefire [and] much of the mainstream media colludes. There is, in addition, so much distraction in the news because of world events elsewhere …  and then of course there is the power of Israel’s propaganda machine, which is immense and far-reaching.
Al Jazeera: What propels you to keep going?
Stevenson: It’s vitally important to keep Palestine conscious in people’s minds – to sustain its presence in the media. To keep the movement for peace and justice alive and energised. My values have shifted, my community of friendships has partly shifted, my work and general interests have shifted. Much has changed for me in relation to this. A lot of the people I spend time with now are people who are in this community, and who will not give up hope. My mantra in life is one that I adopted when I was very young – “Despair is a luxury we cannot afford.”
Al Jazeera: Does your family join your activism?
Stevenson: My husband Hugh [Brody], though not religious, feels his Jewish identity very deeply. Our children identify as Jewish. And we have many Jewish friends, but all of them are appalled by what’s happening. Most of them would adhere strongly to those who are saying “Not in my name”. This insistence by the government of Israel that to criticise Israel is anti-Semitic, this eliding of criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, is not only ludicrous – what government in the world is beyond criticism? – but it’s very, very dangerous for Jewish people. Because if you say that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, then it means that all Jews are somehow implicated in what Israel’s doing. Which is palpably very far from the truth – and feeds the real and abhorrent currents of genuine anti-Semitism in the world. Hugh is a writer and an anthropologist, less inclined to be collective. But for a while now, he has gone on the Saturday marches and walked with the Holocaust group. He has committed to that community. I am relieved and very strengthened by that and by the support of our children. It would be very painful and difficult if we were not of like mind in this.
Note: This interview was lightly edited for brevity.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/14/juliet-stevenson-on-gaza-im-disappointed-by-the-silence-in-my-industry

Al Jazeera - Jan 14, 2026
{UK actor Juliet Stevenson campaigns for mothers in Gaza
UK actor Juliet Stevenson is one of many renowned female artists who are pleading for more help for mothers in Gaza suffering the effects of Israel’s genocidal war.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/14/uk-actor-juliet-stevenson-campaigns-for-mothers-in-gaza

Quds news - Jan 14, 2026
{NY Cracks Down on Israel’s Betar, Orders End to Anti-Palestinian Harassment Under 3-Year Oversight
New York has placed Israel’s group Betar under strict three-year oversight after investigators linked it to violent intimidation and harassment targeting pro-Palestine activists, with violations carrying a $50,000 penalty.
New York City (QNN)- New York Attorney General Letitia James has secured a major legal settlement forcing the violent Betar Zionist Organization to stop its harassment and intimidation of Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Jewish activists for the next three years under strict oversight. Violations during this period could trigger a $50,000 penalty. The civil rights settlement, filed on Wednesday, ends an extensive investigation into Betar’s extremist conduct across New York. The Attorney General’s office found that the organization repeatedly engaged in bias‑motivated violence, threats, and intimidation against people based on their national origin, religion, or political speech. Betar is a US branch of a militant Zionist movement that openly seeks to recruit and mobilize supporters to support Israel and disrupt pro‑Palestinian protests. It has boasted of aggressive street tactics and encouraged its members to confront pro‑Palestinian demonstrations.
The AG’s findings reveal a pattern of anti‑Palestinian and anti‑Muslim animosity within Betar’s leadership and membership. Investigators documented repeated use of slurs against Palestinian symbols and Muslim communities, online posts explicitly mocking Palestinian suffering, and social media posts declaring hatred toward Gazans. Betar cadres also burned Palestinian flags and shared videos of the destruction online. In multiple confrontations on New York streets and campuses, Betar‑affiliated individuals forced symbolic “beepers” on people believed to support Palestine, a reference to an Israeli war crime committed in Lebanon against hundreds of people including women and children, and physically harassed students wearing hijabs or keffiyehs.
At a February 2025 protest in Brooklyn, Betar urged members to bring attack dogs and weapons. Violence erupted, and at least one person was stabbed. Betar later celebrated the beating of protesters online. Betar also threatened activists with deportation, publicly claimed to have used facial recognition to identify pro‑Palestine students, and boasted about compiling lists of dissenters. These tactics caused fear among international students and chilled free speech. Under the settlement, Betar must immediately cease all violence, harassment, and threats against individuals and peaceful protesters. The group must report its compliance to the Attorney General annually for the next three years. If Betar violates any terms of the agreement within that period, it must pay the $50,000 suspended penalty and may face further enforcement actions. The settlement carries strong protections for free expression and peaceful assembly, especially for communities targeted because of their support for Palestinian rights. The settlement marks a rare rebuke of an Israeli group that used intimidation and threats to stifle pro‑Palestinian activism on US soil.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67059&slug=ny-cracks-down-on-israels-betar-orders-end-to-anti-palestinian-harassment-under-3-year-oversight

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