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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: Jan 15, 2026 In Today's Factual News "Gaza’s ceasefire moves to next phase, but is it working?" and that's the billions of dollars question: Will the West accept its losses? 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 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

Israel is deliberately blocking and killing foreign journalists and unfortunately it means that for now there are no Live Updates But We'll be Back!! Click here for an overview of Live Updates since Oct 9 October 7, 2025 Special Report About 2 years of Genocide

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 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

 
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 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!!!!


Mahmoud Khalil
Quds news - Jan 15, 2026
{US Appeals Court Reverses Decision That Freed Mahmoud Khalil
The ruling revived the possibility that Khalil could again be detained as the Trump administration pursues his deportation.
New York (QNN)- A federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that ordered the release of the former Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestine  activist Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention, as part of Trump’s administration efforts to deport him. The Philadelphia-based Third US Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling, found that federal immigration law stripped the trial court of authority to consider Khalil’s challenge to his detention and ordered the case dismissed. The ruling revived the possibility that Khalil could again be detained as the Trump administration pursues his deportation. Khalil is a permanent resident and recent Columbia University graduate who became a prominent figure in pro-Palestinian campus activism amid the Israeli genocide, helping to organize protests and encampments calling for a ceasefire and an end to US support for Israel. His detention by the ICE last year at his department drew widespread criticism over the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech. The Trump administration claimed his presence threatened US foreign policy without providing evidence, but Judge Michael E. Farbiarz of the Federal District Court in Newark, New Jersey, ordered his release on bail in June and barred the government from detaining or deporting him. Khalil accused the Trump administration of seeking to silence pro-Palestine voices by trying to re-detain him, after his attorneys appeared in October before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge the legality of his detention. Khalil’s legal team asked judges to uphold lower court rulings that found the government’s actions likely unconstitutional and ordered his release on bail. Khalil was the first in a wave of student protest leaders and international academics arrested under a Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestine and anti-genocide activism. While in detention, Khalil missed the birth of his first child.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67071&slug=us-appeals-court-reverses-decision-that-freed-mahmoud-khalil


Videoscreen grab: Israel’s genocide
Al Jazeera - Jan 15, 2026 - By Hassan Ben Imran - Member of the Governing Council of Law for Palestine.
{The UK is taking political prisoners to evade accountability for genocide
The use of anti-terror law against Palestine Action is designed to block legal and political scrutiny of the UK’s role in Gaza. In June 2025, the UK government proscribed the UK-based group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000. This was not a security decision, but a political one, marking an unprecedented escalation in the criminalisation of Palestine solidarity in the United Kingdom. Palestine Action members have engaged in non-violent direct action aimed at disrupting the UK’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, targeting facilities linked to Israel’s arms industry operating in the UK, including Elbit Systems sites and elements of British military infrastructure. Rather than confronting its own actions, the government has sought to divert attention from the central issue: the UK’s role in the Gaza genocide. Throughout Israel’s assault on Gaza, the UK has provided sustained political and diplomatic support, supplied vital components for F-35 fighter jets, and conducted R1 surveillance flights over Gaza. Taken together, these actions render the British government not merely complicit, but materially involved in the violence itself. At the same time, the UK has sought to obstruct international accountability. It has attempted to interfere with proceedings at the International Criminal Court — conduct that may constitute an offence under Article 70(1) of the ICC Statute — by intimidating the ICC Prosecutor and creating procedural obstacles designed to delay or prevent the issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli leaders. Rather than reassessing policies that expose it to legal and moral liability, the government has turned on those who insist on holding it to its own professed values — values it readily invokes when geopolitically convenient, such as in Ukraine and Greenland.
Anti-terror laws to justify political imprisonment
The persecution of individuals on political grounds through the law is by no means new. As early as 399 BCE, Socrates was tried and executed in Athens on charges of “impiety”, “not recognising the gods the state recognises”, and “corrupting the youth”, with the law itself serving as the instrument of repression. Today, Russia’s crackdown on dissent, carried out through formally lawful means, stands as one of the most widely criticised contemporary examples of political imprisonment, routinely condemned by Western governments, including the UK. Attempts to define and legally operationalise the concept of political imprisonment have long faced resistance. While there is no consensus on what constitutes a “political prisoner” or “prisoner of conscience”, the criteria established by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), of which the UK is a member, offer clear and authoritative guidance:
“a. if the detention has been imposed in violation of one of the fundamental guarantees set out in the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols (ECHR), in particular freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression and information, freedom of assembly and association;
b. if the detention has been imposed for purely political reasons without connection to any offence;
c. if, for political motives, the length of the detention or its conditions are clearly out of proportion to the offence the person has been found guilty of or is suspected of;
d. if, for political motives, he or she is detained in a discriminatory manner as compared to other persons; or,
e. if the detention is the result of proceedings which were clearly unfair and this appears to be connected with political motives of the authorities.”  (SG/Inf(2001)34, paragraph 10).
These criteria are directly relevant to the UK’s treatment of Palestine Action. The British government is complicit in Israel’s systematic unmaking of Palestine, including its illegal occupation, its system of apartheid, and its role in the Gaza genocide, and Palestine Action has directly challenged this complicity. Where public order and civil disobedience laws once failed to suppress this activism, the state escalated to the use of exceptional anti-terror legislation. The government has since resorted to the Terrorism Act to preemptively criminalise activists and expose them to sentences of up to 14 years’ imprisonment, a level of punishment grossly disproportionate to non-violent direct action. This disproportionality and choice of legislation signal a political motive. The application of the Terrorism Act 2000 to non-violent direct action strips activists of ordinary legal protections and subjects them to an exceptional penal regime, including extended pre-charge detention, heightened surveillance powers, restrictions on association and expression, and dramatically increased sentencing exposure. Such measures are ordinarily reserved for acts involving mass violence, not protest aimed at preventing harm. Under the PACE criteria, detention may be considered political where punishment is clearly disproportionate or where legal proceedings are unfair and politically motivated. Here, non-violent activism is met with the prospect of lengthy imprisonment alongside reputational destruction through terrorist designation. This combination satisfies multiple indicators of political imprisonment, particularly criteria (c) and (e). The use of anti-terror law in this context does not merely criminalise conduct; it redefines dissent itself as a security threat, preempting fair adjudication and conditioning the public to accept extraordinary punishment for ordinary political opposition.
The broader picture
In penology, a penal system may serve several recognised purposes, including just deserts and retribution, incapacitation, and deterrence. What is unfolding in the UK fits none of these aims. Instead, the penal system is being deployed to expand executive power and suppress political opposition, deviating from the purposes a penal system in a liberal democracy should serve. The UK is complicit in grave violations of international law and has not only failed to meet its international legal obligations, but has actively breached them. Some British citizens, concerned with justice, international law, and human rights, have peacefully stepped in to challenge their government’s wrongdoing. The state’s response has been to criminalise dissent while presenting repression as democratic self-defence. Let us be clear: proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is not an isolated act. It is part of the UK’s broader complicity in Israel’s oppression and genocide, and it functions domestically to silence those who seek to disrupt that complicity. This is not the first attempt to rule by law in the UK to support Israel’s policies in Palestine. The introduction of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism was another such attempt to control and intimidate opposition through legal means. With the weaponisation of anti-terror laws, the UK government has taken a further step towards shrinking the space for dissent. The exceptional selectivity of legal tools and the disproportionality of the chosen penal regime cannot be justified when measured against the conduct in question: non-violent activism aimed at compelling the government to halt violence and uphold the international legal obligations it claims to champion. Those participating in violence are branding the non-violent as terrorists. Finally, it is striking that after all these decades, the UK continues to ignore its unique historical responsibility towards the Palestinians. The UK imposed its mandate over Palestine by force, governing the territory while systematically privileging colonial and settler interests, before abandoning its obligations and withdrawing unilaterally. This withdrawal was crucial to creating the conditions in which the Nakba unfolded, in breach of the responsibilities the UK had assumed under the Mandate. Among those obligations was the commitment articulated in the White Paper of 1939 to establish a Palestinian state for all its citizens within 10 years, a promise that was never honoured. The UK planted the seeds of Palestinian suffering and then exited Palestine without securing political self-determination for its indigenous people, leaving a legacy of dispossession that continues to shape the present. More than a century after the Mandate, it remains Palestinians — supported by allies across the world — who are risking everything to defend the values of humanity and the principles of international law. The British state, by contrast, has chosen evasion over responsibility, and repression over reckoning.
Any hopes?
Hope lies in refusing the normalisation of this moment. By challenging the proscription of Palestine Action, activists are not only resisting the UK’s complicity in Israel’s crimes, but defending the space for dissent itself. The struggle is not simply to reverse one decision, but to prevent the erosion of democratic limits through the misuse of law. In the UK right now, defending democracy and acting against complicity in Israeli atrocities go hand in hand.
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/2026/1/15/the-uk-is-taking-political-prisoners-to-evade-accountability-for-genocide


Videoscreen grab: Israel’s genocide
Al Jazeera - Jan 15, 2026
{Timeline of Israel’s genocide on Gaza
The Trump administration has announced its ceasefire plan for Gaza is now in ‘Phase Two’, following 27 months of death, displacement and destruction in Israel’s genocide.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/15/timeline-of-israels-genocide-on-gaza


Videoscreen grab: Down with America
Al Jazeera - Jan 15, 2026
{What’s behind anti-US chants, from Iran to South America
“Down with America” has been among the chants heard in global protests from Iran to Latin America. US thinking has often blamed this animosity on ‘hating our freedoms’, but that explanation ignores the US’s frequent abuse of power.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/15/whats-behind-anti-us-chants-from-iran-to-south-america

Quds news - Jan 15, 2026
{Israel Signals No Intention to Withdraw From So-Called “Yellow Line” Despite US Push for Phase Two of Gaza Ceasefire: Israeli Media
The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, known as Kan, reported on Thursday that Israeli officials consider the so-called yellow line as a strategic area that will remain under Israeli control.
Gaza (QNN)- Israel has no intention of withdrawing from the so-called “Yellow Line,” which roughly divides Gaza in half, according to Israeli media, despite the US announcing on Wednesday the launch of the second phase of Trump-brokered plan to end Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians. Until progress is made in all matters related to the disarmament of Hamas, Israel has no plans to withdraw from the Yellow Line in the eastern Gaza Strip. This was announced on Thursday on the "This Morning" program with Ilael Shahar, on Channel 2's News. The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, known as Kan, reported on Thursday that Israeli officials consider the so-called yellow line as a strategic area that will remain under Israeli control. On Wednesday, the US announced the start of the second phase of Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan, saying phase one “delivered historic humanitarian aid and maintained the ceasefire”, despite Israel having violated the agreement more than 1,200 times, killing hundreds of civilians and blocking much-needed aid from entering the enclave. US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff announced the launch of the second phase, “moving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction”. Witkoff said in a social media post that the second phase will establish a transitional administration to govern over the bombarded Palestinian territory and see the “full demilitarization and reconstruction of Gaza”. An adviser to the head of Hamas’s political bureau told Al Jazeera on Thursday that discussions in Cairo are focusing on reopening the Rafah crossings, ensuring the entry of aid currently stockpiled on the Egyptian side of the border and securing an Israeli withdrawal. Taher al-Nunu said Hamas “must work with mediators and the international community to achieve calm and a return to normalcy in Gaza” and praised the “great efforts” being made to implement what was agreed upon. Al-Nunu also accused Israel of attempting to derail the ceasefire and said Hamas was “working with mediators to open the crossings, allow aid in and secure the withdrawal of occupation forces from the Gaza Strip”.
On October 10, the Israeli forces completed the first phase of withdrawal under the ceasefire deal to the “yellow line,” a non-physical demarcation line separating the Israeli occupation forces from certain areas of Gaza, while occupying roughly 53 percent of the Strip. Israeli forces have been reportedly expanding the so-called “yellow line” in eastern Gaza, particularly in eastern Gaza City’s Tuffah, Shujayea, and Zeitoun neighbourhoods, squeezing Palestinians into ever smaller clusters of the enclave. There was no mention from Witkoff in the initial statement about Israeli withdrawal or allowing critical humanitarian aid and critical supplies into Gaza. In December, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israeli military will never withdraw from the war-torn Gaza Strip, confirming earlier comments about settlement construction. “In Gaza, Israel will never fully withdraw – there will be a significant security area inside the Strip, even after we move to stage two [of Trump’s 20-point peace plan] if Hamas disarms,” Katz said during a conference, the Times of Israel reported. Earlier, Katz spoke about establishing illegal settlements in Gaza, about 20 years after Israel withdrew from the devastated territory. “We are located deep inside Gaza, and we will never leave all of Gaza,” Katz said. “We are there to protect.” “In due course, we will establish Nahal [an Israeli infantry brigade] outposts in northern Gaza in place of the settlements that were uprooted,” Katz added.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67069&slug=israel-signals-no-intention-to-withdraw-from-so-called-yellow-line-despite-us-push-for-phase-two-of-gaza-ceasefire-israeli-media


Videoscreen grab: ceasefire - really?
Al Jazeera - Jan 15, 2026
{Gaza’s ceasefire moves to next phase, but is it working?
The US has announced the Gaza ceasefire is moving to phase two, where “demilitarisation, technocratic governance, and reconstruction” will be the focus. But did Israel and Hamas abide by phase one? Soraya Lennie breaks down what’s happened.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/15/gazas-ceasefire-moves-to-next-phase-but-is-it-working


Videoscreen grab: A mothers' Grief
Al Jazeera - Jan 15, 2026
{Israel carries out raids and demolitions, arrests dozens across West Bank
One Palestinian man is shot and wounded, and at least 80 people are detained in mass overnight raids in the occupied territory. The Israeli military has launched raids and interrogations ensnaring more than 80 people across the occupied West Bank, wounding at least one man and demolishing the home of another as Israel escalates its attacks on the Palestinian territory in tandem with its ongoing genocidal war in Gaza. In one incident on Thursday, Israeli forces surrounded a home in Dura, south of the city of Hebron, before shooting and wounding the brother of Mahmoud al-Fasfous. The al-Fasfous brothers have long been wanted by Israeli forces and have faced frequent raids of the family home and soldier assaults. In another raid in Hebron’s Khallat Nafisa area, Israeli forces sealed off the area from civilians before destroying the home of Imran al-Atrash with a bulldozer, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. Israeli forces killed al-Atrash and another Palestinian, Walid Muhammad Khalil Sabarna, in mid-November when the duo was accused of carrying out a car-ramming and stabbing attack that killed one Israeli settler and injured three. The Israeli military posted photos of the demolition on Telegram, claiming that al-Atrash was a “terrorist” and cheering the effort to destroy his home.
Escalating arrest campaign
Elsewhere in Hebron and the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces detained and interrogated at least 80 Palestinians during overnight and dawn raids, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society reported. At least one woman and two children were among those detained along with former prisoners. “This represents an unprecedented escalation since the beginning of the year, described as part of a campaign of collective punishment,” the group said, adding that field interrogations have “become the occupation’s most prominent policy”. Two arrests took place during a raid on the Arroub refugee camp, located north of Hebron, with other arrests under way in virtually all areas surrounding the city, Wafa reported. In the al-Majaz community of Masafer Yatta, a collection of hamlets in the South Hebron Hills, Israeli forces plundered homes before converting one into a military outpost, forcing its inhabitants to spend the night outside in the cold.
Meanwhile, in the Ramallah and el-Bireh governorate, soldiers stormed the town of Kobar and fanned out across multiple neighbourhoods. Townspeople told Al Jazeera that the soldiers tried to provoke residents by shouting: “Who wants to become a martyr? Where are the cowards?” Israel has stepped up its raids on the occupied West Bank – including injuring dozens of Palestinians with live rounds and grenades at a prominent university earlier this month – amid a formal push to annex the territory. Israeli settlers have rampaged in Palestinian lands, killing and beating Palestinian civilians, including the elderly, and destroying their property with impunity, often backed by the Israeli military. Throughout 2025, Israeli settlers or soldiers killed 240 Palestinians in the West Bank, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said last week. Israeli forces killed 225 people while settlers killed at least nine. The agency could not confirm whether settlers or soldiers caused the remaining six deaths.
Fifty-five of those killed – nearly one-quarter of the total – were children.
During the same period, Palestinians killed 17 Israelis in the West Bank, including one child and six members of Israeli forces, OCHA reported. All of Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, populated by about 700,000 Israelis, are illegal under international law. The UN has repeatedly called for Israel to dismantle the settlements and said the system resembles apartheid.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/15/israel-carries-out-raids-and-demolitions-arrests-dozens-across-west-bank

Al Jazeera - Jan 15, 2026 - Mohammad Mansour
{Who is Nickolay Mladenov, the diplomat tasked with ‘disarming Gaza’?
As the US launches ‘Phase Two’, the former UN envoy heads to Cairo to meet Palestinian faction leaders, leading a fraught plan to replace Hamas with a technocratic administration. The search for a figure to lead post-war Gaza, which lies in ruins from Israel’s genocidal war, has moved from diplomatic backrooms to the negotiating tables in Cairo. Following the Arab veto of the regionally toxic former British leader Tony Blair, Washington has deployed its Plan B, Nickolay Mladenov, as the push for phase two of the fragile ceasefire gains some momentum. The 53-year-old former Bulgarian foreign minister and defence minister is no longer just a nominee; he is arguably the most critical figure in the newly launched phase two of the ceasefire, which Israel has violated on a daily basis since October 10. Mladenov has been confirmed as the director-general of the United States-proposed “Board of Peace”. His mandate is to oversee the transition from Hamas rule to a new technocratic administration led by Ali Shaath, a former Palestinian Authority (PA) deputy minister. For five years from 2015-2020, Mladenov served as the United Nations’ top envoy to the region, earning a reputation as a “firefighter” who could talk to everyone. Now, he returns with a far more fraught and potentially explosive mission: Implementing a US-designed plan that explicitly calls for the “disarmament of all unauthorised personnel” – a euphemism for ending Hamas’s military power while Israel continues its occupation.
The mediator’s test
Mladenov’s immediate challenge is not just reconstruction, but high-stakes mediation. His itinerary, which includes meetings with leaders of Palestinian factions in Cairo, highlights why he was chosen: He is one of the few international figures who retains lines of communication with all sides while holding the trust of Washington and Israel. While US special envoy Steve Witkoff has framed phase two as an effort to “create the alternative to Hamas”, Mladenov’s role is to make that alternative function on the ground. He is tasked with supervising the new “technocratic committee” headed by Shaath, which will manage daily life for two million war-battered Palestinians who have lost family members, their homes, hospitals and schools in relentless Israeli bombardment. However, this structure will face a crisis of legitimacy. Mladenov must navigate a landscape where Israel controls a “buffer zone” in the east, more than 50 percent of the whole territory, and refuses to withdraw fully – all while he attempts to sell a governance plan to the very factions he is tasked with disarming.
A ‘technocrat’ in a war zone
Mladenov’s appointment signals Washington’s preference for a managerial solution to a military and political crisis. In his recent post-UN career, Mladenov has championed a “new model” for the Middle East, defined by “cutting-edge innovation” and technological partnerships. He has spoken enthusiastically about the region shifting from “oil barrels to silicon chips”. Critics, however, argue that this worldview presents a mismatch for Gaza’s current reality. As the Strip enters the second phase, the needs are existential, not technological. The displaced population is living in flimsy tents in extreme weather, dependent on humanitarian aid that Israel largely blocks, and navigating a landscape of rubble. There is a concern among humanitarian experts that Mladenov’s mandate – tied to high-level “Board of Peace” politics – may be divorced from the gritty requirements of a starving population. The risk is of an administrator focused on a “Davos-style” future while the present remains mired in catastrophe.
A shift in alignment
While Mladenov is often cited as a “fair broker” trusted by both Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the PA, his post-UN career suggests a subtle but significant realignment. Since 2021, he has served as director-general of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi. In this capacity, he has become a vocal proponent of the “Abraham Accords” – the normalisation agreements between Israel and several Arab states – framing them as a “supercharge” for regional stability. This perspective places him firmly within the strategic orbit of some Gulf states and US President Donald Trump’s administration. While this connection may help secure funding for reconstruction, it complicates his standing on the Palestinian street, where the accords are often viewed as the diplomatic architecture that allowed Palestinians’ plight to be sidelined.
The mandate: Neutrality vs enforcement
The specific nature of phase two could make Mladenov’s job nigh impossible. In his previous role, Mladenov reported to the UN secretary-general and was bound to uphold international law. In his new role, he answers to a US-led board that heavily leans into the Israeli narrative of its “security demands”, specifically the “disarmament of all unauthorised personnel”. Mladenov must now persuade Palestinian factions to engage with a “technocratic” promise of governance, overseen by a diplomat who has spent the last few years advocating for Arab-Israeli normalisation. As he engages in talks, Mladenov enters this role not merely as a mediator, but as the implementer of a complex international roadmap. It is a mandate shaped in Washington and supported by Gulf financing, yet one that will likely have to be realised under the entrenched constraints of an ongoing Israeli military presence in Gaza.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/15/who-is-nickolay-mladenov-the-diplomat-tasked-with-disarming-gaza

Al Jazeera - Jan 15, 2026 - Mohammad Mansour
{Wary of Israeli appropriation, Palestine lists 14 sites with UNESCO
Palestinian Authority submits files for Gaza’s Old City and West Bank landmarks to United Nations’ World Heritage list as it aims to protect its cultural heritage from Israeli attacks and appropriation. For Palestinians maintaining their land and heritage, which is under Israeli occupation since 1948, became a national priority.  The Palestinian Authority has formally moved to register 14 new cultural and natural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage tentative list in a bid to safeguard its cultural and historical sites from Israeli appropriation and attacks. “Palestine is not just a space of political conflict, but a civilisation rooted in human history,” Marwa Adwan, acting director-general of World Heritage at the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism, told Al Jazeera. “This diversity is the strongest response to attempts to monopolise the historical narrative,” she said, referring to Israeli attempts to appropriate symbols of Palestinian culture and history.
The submission announced by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on January 1, aims to grant international recognition to endangered landmarks across the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which has been devastated by Israel’s genocidal war. More than 200 historical sites were destroyed by Israeli bombing in what experts called a “cultural genocide“. The new list brings the total number of Palestinian sites on the tentative list to 24, covering a vast timeline from the Canaanite city-states dating back to 3,000 BC to Gaza’s Old City.
The 14 submitted sites
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed the full list of sites submitted to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list spans prehistoric caves, religious routes, and modern architecture. The sites are:
The historic centre of Gaza, including the Great Omari Mosque and the Church of Saint Porphyrius
The Byzantine Church of Jabalia (Mukheitim)
Canaanite city-states
The historic city of Nablus and its environs
The Holy Miracles of Jesus Christ in Palestine
Monasteries of the Jerusalem wilderness (El-Bariyah)
Maqamat (shrines) in Palestine
Jerusalem water system Qanat es-Sabeel
Jabal al-Fureidis / Herodium
The Lower Jordan River Valley
Archaeological Palaces of Tulul Abu el-‘Alayiq
Cultural landscape of Wadi Kharitoun prehistoric caves
Dwelling caves (Al-Maghayir) of Palestine
Modern architecture in Palestine
Marwa Adwan, Acting Director General of World Heritage at the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism [Courtesy of Marwa Adwan]
Marwa Adwan, acting director-general of World Heritage at the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism [Courtesy of Marwa Adwan]
Saving Gaza’s history
A crucial component of the bid is the protection of heritage in Gaza, which has faced catastrophic destruction during Israel’s genocidal war. The list includes the Great Omari Mosque, built nearly 1,400 years ago, and the Church of Saint Porphyrius, both targeted during Israeli bombardment. The Greek Orthodox Church was built in 425. Adwan described the move as a strategic step for the “day after” the war. “Listing sites like the Great Omari Mosque … is an initial international recognition of their global value and their urgent need for protection,” she explained. “We are counting on UNESCO not just for funding, but to document damages as an international legal source to preserve our cultural rights.”
‘Heritage is a bridge’
The initiative has drawn a sharp response from the Israeli government, particularly regarding sites located in Area C of the West Bank, such as Herodium (Jabal al-Fureidis), which is under full Israeli military control. Area C forms more than 60 percent of the West Bank. According to Israel’s Channel 14, Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, labeling the Palestinian move as “archaeological terrorism”. Eliyahu demanded the formation of a government task force to block the bid, arguing it is a “strategic arena for a political struggle” aimed at seizing sites of “Jewish historical importance”. “Lack of response will be interpreted in the international arena as silent acceptance,” Eliyahu warned, claiming the move is a prelude to “international legal interventions”. Israel has been accused of erasing Palestinian cultural heritage and weaponising archaeology to appropriate Palestinian land. It has designated dozens of Palestinian archaeological sites in the occupied West Bank as “Israeli heritage sites” to grab Palestinians land and entrench its occupation. The UN General Assembly in September 2024 passed a resolution asking Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian within a year. The resolution came after the International Court of Justice ruled that Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories was unlawful.
Palestinian officials have rejected the Israeli characterisation.
“Heritage is not a weapon, but a bridge,” Adwan told Al Jazeera. “Trying to link heritage to security or calling it ‘terrorism’ is a deliberate distortion.” She noted that the files were selected based on technical criteria to highlight Palestine’s religious and cultural diversity, including the “Miracles of Jesus” route and the Monasteries of the Jerusalem Wilderness (El-Bariyah). “This reflects a rare cultural and religious pluralism that must be preserved for all of humanity,” Adwan added.
Severing UN ties
The row over heritage unfolds as Israel moves to cut ties with the United Nations system entirely. On Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced that Israel would “immediately sever all contact” with several UN bodies, including UN Women and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, citing “anti-Israel bias”. Last year Israel banned the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which is considered a lifeline for Palestinians in the occupied territories as well as in neighbouring countries hosting Palestinian refugees. More than 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homeland leading up to the creation of Israel in 1948. This follows a recent decision from the administration of US President Donald Trump to withdraw from UNESCO for a second time. The United States, Israel’s closest regional ally, has also cut funds to UNRWA. Despite the hostile diplomatic climate, Adwan insisted the Palestinian bid is a “sovereign right”. “It is not a race against time,” she said, referring to Israeli settlement expansion. “It is a strategic step to integrate these sites into protection plans before it is too late.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/15/wary-of-israeli-appropriation-palestine-lists-14-sites-with-unesco

Al Jazeera - Jan 15, 2026
{Gaza plan phase two: US to discuss Hamas disarmament, Israeli withdrawal
Hamas says the formation of the Palestinian technocratic committee ‘is a step in the right direction’.to lead post-war Gaza. Hamas leaders and representatives of other Palestinian factions in Gaza are in the Egyptian capital Cairo for talks on the second phase of the United States-led Gaza ceasefire deal, amid a teetering ceasefire that Israel has repeatedly violated as its genocidal war continues. The Palestinian group on Thursday welcomed the establishment of a 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee that would operate under the overall supervision of a so-called “Board of Peace”, to be chaired by US President Donald Trump. “The formation of the committee is a step in the right direction,” said Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas leader. “This is crucial for consolidating the ceasefire, preventing a return to war, addressing the catastrophic humanitarian crisis and preparing for comprehensive reconstruction.” Deep uncertainty remains over the next steps involving the disarmament of Palestinian armed groups in the Strip, rebuilding and daily governance. An adviser to the head of Hamas’s political bureau told Al Jazeera that discussions in Cairo are focusing on reopening the Rafah crossings, ensuring the entry of aid currently stockpiled on the Egyptian side of the border and securing an Israeli withdrawal. Taher al-Nunu said Hamas “must work with mediators and the international community to achieve calm and a return to normalcy in Gaza” and praised the “great efforts” being made to implement what was agreed upon. Al-Nunu also accused Israel of attempting to derail the ceasefire and said Hamas was “working with mediators to open the crossings, allow aid in and secure the withdrawal of occupation forces from the Gaza Strip”. However, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, known as Kan, reported that Israeli officials consider the so-called yellow line – a buffer zone in eastern Gaza – as a strategic area that will remain under Israeli control. Israel’s current military occupation of Gaza is more than 50 percent of the besieged enclave. The leaders of Palestinian armed groups were also scheduled to meet Bulgarian diplomat and politician Nickolay Mladenov, who will likely head the Board of Peace. Trump is expected to announce the 15 members of the technocratic committee in the coming days. Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh welcomed efforts to move ‌ahead with the Gaza plan and argued that institutions in Gaza should be linked to those run by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank, “upholding the principle of one system, one law and one legitimate weapon”. In a joint statement, the other mediators of the ceasefire deal – Egypt, Turkiye and Qatar – called the announcement an “important development aimed at consolidating stability and improving the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip”. They welcomed the establishment of the Palestinian technocratic committee and said it would be led by Ali Shaath, a former deputy minister in the PA. The administrative body will be tasked with providing public services to the more than two million Palestinians in Gaza, but it faces towering challenges and unanswered questions, including about its operations and financing. The United Nations has estimated that reconstruction will cost more than $50bn. The process is expected to take years, and little money has been pledged so far. Shaath told local broadcaster Basma Radio on Thursday that the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) will be fully integrated with the PA under a “one homeland, one system” framework and that no foreign members will be included. Its jurisdiction will expand to cover the entire Gaza Strip as Israeli forces withdraw, Shaath said in the interview, and there will be no contact between its members and Palestinian armed groups. Additionally, reconstruction efforts will be financed via a dedicated World Bank fund supported by Arab and international donors, with debris used to build artificial islands through marine land reclamation or recycled for road construction.
Complete debris removal is estimated to take nearly three years under the proposed strategy, he said. Shaath added that shelters for displaced Palestinians would be established within the first six months, and that the repair of desalination plants to obtain potable water and the rehabilitation of schools and other academic institutions would be a top priority.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/15/gaza-plan-phase-two-us-to-discuss-hamas-disarmament-israeli-withdrawal


Videoscreen grab: Randa Abdel-Fattah
Al Jazeera - Jan 15, 2026 - Lyndal Rowlands
{Australian writers’ festival apologises to Palestinian author after boycott
Randa Abdel-Fattah said she accepts board’s apology as acknowledgement of her right to speak about atrocities against Palestinians. An Australian arts festival has apologised to Randa Abdel-Fattah after it was forced to cancel its entire writers’ week programme when 180 writers withdrew from the event in solidarity with the Palestinian Australian author. The board of Adelaide Festival said on Thursday it was retracting its earlier decision to exclude Abdel-Fattah “from participating as a speaker at Adelaide Writers’ Week this year”. “We have reversed the decision and will reinstate Dr Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to speak at the next Adelaide Writers’ Week in 2027,” the board said in a statement, apologising “unreservedly for the harm” it had caused to her. “Intellectual and artistic freedom is a powerful human right,” the board said, acknowledging that it had fallen “well short” of upholding that right. Abdel-Fattah, an award-winning author of 11 novels, said in her own statement that she accepted the board’s apology and would consider the invitation to participate next year. “I accept this apology as acknowledgement of our right to speak publicly and truthfully about the atrocities that have been committed against the Palestinian people” and “a vindication of our collective solidarity and mobilisation against anti-Palestinian racism, bullying and censorship”, she said in a statement shared on social media.
 Abdel-Fattah, who is also a lawyer and sociologist, said she would agree to appear as a speaker “in a heartbeat” if Louise Adler, who resigned as the director of Adelaide Writers’ Week in protest at the board’s decision, “was the director again”, but said she had not yet decided if she would accept the invitation to appear next year. Abdel-Fattah also said the board’s initial decision to cancel her participation highlighted problems, including “the need for urgent antiracism education” and “the need for public institutions to have safeguards against political interference by lobbyists”. Thursday’s apology came a day after the board said in a separate statement that this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week “can no longer go ahead as scheduled” after “many authors … announced they will no longer appear.” The statement said the initial withdrawal of Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to speak was “not about identity or dissent” but “around the breadth of freedom of expression in our nation following Australia’s worst terror attack in history”, in reference to the Bondi Beach attack, which killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration in December. Australian police have said the two men accused of carrying out the deadly shooting were “inspired” by ISIL (ISIS). The attack came five years after an Australian gunman killed 51 Muslims while they were praying at their mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Adler, who resigned as director of the writers’ week after the board overrode her decision to invite Abdel-Fattah, said this week that at least 180 authors had withdrawn from this year’s programme in protest. The authors who said they would no longer participate included prominent international and Australian writers, such as Zadie Smith, M Gessen, Yanis Varoufakis, and Helen Garner, as well as former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Writing in The Guardian newspaper, Adler questioned the considerable influence that “boards composed of individuals with little experience in the arts” could wield over programming, and being “blind to the moral implications of abandoning the principle of freedom of expression”. Adler, who is Jewish, also expressed concern that “protests are being outlawed, free speech is being constrained and politicians are rushing through processes to ban phrases and slogans” in the wake of “the Bondi atrocity”, with “alarming insouciance”.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/15/australian-writers-festival-apologises-to-palestinian-author-after-boycott

Quds news - Jan 14, 2026
{Haaretz: US May Fund New Israeli Armored Vehicle Factory at Up to $2 Billion
Haaretz revealed that US taxpayers may fund up to $2 billion for a new armored vehicle factory in Israel, as Washington’s military aid increasingly shifts from weapons transfers to long-term war infrastructure tied to Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- A report by Israel’s Haaretz says the United States may bankroll a new armored vehicle manufacturing plant in the occupation state, with costs reaching up to $2 billion. The funding would likely come from US military aid, according to internal American government documents reviewed by the newspaper, including presentations prepared by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The report says Israel’s Defense Ministry recently unveiled a project known as the “Armored Vehicle Production Acceleration Program.” The initiative aims to expand production of Merkava tanks and Namer and Eitan armored personnel carriers. Israeli officials cite heavy losses and intense wear during the genocide in Gaza and the war on Lebanon as key reasons behind the push. The Israeli ministry has estimated the project’s cost at more than five billion shekels, or about $1.5 billion. It has not publicly mentioned any foreign funding. Haaretz notes that this silence contrasts with earlier Israeli statements about reducing reliance on US military support. When asked by the newspaper, the US military said no formal decision has yet been made on the project. Israel’s Defense Ministry declined to comment on whether American funding is under consideration.
Despite the official denials, two documents from the US Army Corps of Engineers suggest Washington would play a central role in financing the plan. The documents, cited by Haaretz, indicate that the project remains under discussion, even though no start date has been set. One presentation, shown in October at a Middle East contractors’ conference, described a new project in Israel involving the “planning, design, and construction” of a “joint military systems manufacturing center.” The estimated cost ranged between $1 billion and $2 billion. The presentation said US military aid would fully cover the funding. A second presentation in November referred again to a “joint military systems manufacturing center.” It described the facility as a core pillar of Israel’s armored vehicle production acceleration program. If approved, the United States would issue official tenders for the project. The structure would channel large sums of US aid, and effectively US taxpayer money, into long-term military infrastructure inside Israel. The report explains that the US Army Corps of Engineers often manages military infrastructure projects for American allies using US assistance funds. These projects extend beyond weapons purchases and include air bases, naval facilities, and other strategic military sites. Haaretz added that billions of dollars in US aid have already gone into building and upgrading infrastructure for the Israeli military in recent years. The latest proposal emerges as the current US-Israel military aid agreement approaches its 2028 expiration. Under that deal, Israel is set to receive $38 billion over ten years. Citing a US congressional study, Haaretz reported that Washington has spent about $32 billion to support Israel in just the past two years. That figure includes $21.7 billion in direct assistance, along with a separate $26 billion military package approved last year. Against this backdrop, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he supports gradually reducing US security assistance, with the goal of ending it within a decade. His comments come as criticism grows inside the United States over the scale of taxpayer-funded military support for Israel amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza and attacks in several countries.} Video - Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67067&slug=haaretz-us-may-fund-new-israeli-armored-vehicle-factory-at-up-to-2-billion

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