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

Day 2 day update: In Today's Factual News: March 30, 2026 "We dug up medics in Gaza. A year later, international law remains buried & "Tony Blair Says Israel’s Gaza Assault Does Not Amount to Genocide" & "Knesset Approves Death Penalty Law for Palestinian Hostages and Detainees" all as part of the chris-jew magogs and other factual news And March 30, 2026 Land Day 'Between memory and the fight for what remains...'   In memory and support of our daughters Hind Rajab and Hani Naim Watch the full docu-movie - 'The voice of Hind Rajab'  here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMEtcEmmkH0

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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.

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

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

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

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

Al Jazeera - March 30, 2026 By Refaat Ibrahim A Palestinian writer from Gaza.
{Green and Yellow: Two lines that separate me from my land
Israel can draw as many lines as it wants, but we will not give up the right to our land.
It is Land Day today in Palestine, a day when we commemorate our special bond with the Palestinian land. And I cannot help but think about my grandfather, his dispossession, and the repetition of that trauma in my own life. My grandfather, Hamdan, was 12 years old when Zionist forces began the campaign of ethnic cleansing that we now call the Nakba. He lived with his family in the village of al-Faluja. They were peasants who got by working their land, raising farm animals, and selling their seasonal crops at local markets. Starting in early 1948, al-Faluja came under attack from Zionist militias. It was a strategic target due to its location at the centre of a network of roads leading north to Jerusalem and Jaffa and south to Gaza. As the brutal Zionist assaults intensified, my grandfather fled with his family to nearby villages. They did not take anything with them, thinking they would return soon. The only thing they carried was the key to the door of their home. An Egyptian brigade held on to al-Faluja, besieged by Zionist forces well into 1949. The armistice between Egypt and the newly established Israel forced them to abandon their positions. The Green Line was drawn, leaving 78 percent of historic Palestine in Zionist control and cutting off my grandfather from his ancestral village for the rest of his life. It is in the nature of colonisers to fear anything that reminds them of the land’s rightful owners, because it exposes the fact that they have taken what does not belong to them. Israeli militias therefore set out to destroy what remained of al-Faluja, along with other Palestinian villages, and in the 1950s established several settlements on its land, including Kiryat Gat, Shahar and Nir Hen. In Gaza, my grandfather’s family struggled to build a new life. Although the idea of return never left their imagination, the harsh reality forced them to adapt. They settled in an area east of Khan Younis, where they planted olive and citrus trees and built a home. My grandfather made it a point to teach his children and grandchildren about agriculture. But he did not just tell us how to plant and grow; he taught us how to root ourselves in a land that is our historical right. He always told us that if it was taken from us by force, it would not be returned as a gift. It would come at a heavy price, because Israel knows it has taken something it has no right to, and will therefore respond with brutality when we demand it back. I was just eight years old when I got a taste of what my grandfather had lived through. During the 2008-09 Israeli war on Gaza, I was displaced with my family for the first time. Five and a half years later, when I was 13, the Israeli war machine attacked again. This time, it destroyed my home and the homes of all eight of my uncles. That experience was the final blow for my grandfather, who had carried the burden of almost 70 years of displacement and destruction in his heart. He passed away just days after seeing our olive trees and homes destroyed. But we had learned the lesson well from my grandfather. We stayed on the land. We rebuilt our homes. We replanted our trees and put our roots deep into the soil once more. In October 2023, the occupation launched its genocide against the people of Gaza. Amid death and destruction everywhere, we were forced to flee our homes once again. Once again, Israeli forces destroyed our homes and uprooted the trees, killing many of our relatives and neighbours. Last year, Israel drew the so-called Yellow Line, swallowing nearly 60 percent of the Gaza Strip. This line now stands between me and my home, just like the Green Line stood between my grandfather and al-Faluja. When I think about it, my heart feels heavy with the weight of all the years of occupation, even those I did not live through. I feel the suffering of those who came before me, of my ancestors longing to go back to their homes. Today, I carry the key to my house, just like my grandfather did. I carry it even though I know my home has been completely destroyed. I have seen it myself reduced to rubble, its remains taken away by the machinery of destruction. Still, I keep the key. Despite all this loss and suffering, we have no intention of leaving. For 77 years, Palestinians have been given various incentives to abandon their homeland. Israel has offered money, tickets and promises of a better life in exile. When that failed, it resorted to terror, imprisonment, home demolitions and economic siege in an attempt to break the Palestinian will. Yet the Palestinians have stood firm. Their relationship to the land goes beyond ownership. It is an existential belonging. Perhaps the clearest response to this colonial project lies in the demographic reality. Palestinians in Gaza numbered about 80,000 in 1948; they received nearly 200,000 refugees, including my grandfather’s family. Today, even after two years of genocide, we are two million people, holding on to our land, resisting expulsion and feeling more attached than ever. No matter the lines drawn by the occupier, whether green, yellow, or any other colour, they will fade in the face of our deeply rooted existence. No matter how long it takes, no matter how violent the colonial war machine becomes, we will remain here. Palestine is us, and we are it. 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/2026/3/30/green-and-yellow-two-lines-that-separate-me-from-my-land


Screenschot: Sousan al-Jadba-photo-Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]
Sousan grows crops such as tomatoes, eggplants, and leafy greens to support her family and maintain her connection to the land.
Al Jazeera - March 30, 2026 By Maram Humaid
{Land Day in Gaza: Between memory and the fight for what remains
In Gaza, Land Day highlights the transformation from historical land rights to survival under war, siege and displacement.
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – Inside a tent pitched on a small patch of land, Sawsan al-Jadba sits with her children on the final strip of her property, just metres away from the rest of her seized land. Before Israel’s 2023 genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the 54-year-old owned three plots of about 2,000 square metres (21,530 square feet) each: One inherited from her father in the eastern Tuffah neighbourhood; another in Abu Safiya, northeast of Gaza City; and a third along Salah al-Din Street in central Gaza. “They were a paradise,” she recalls. “I planted olive trees and citrus fruits … they were the source of livelihood for me and my children. Like thousands across Gaza, al-Jadba has seen that reality change completely. Her home was destroyed, and most of her land has become inaccessible as it falls within the so-called “yellow line”, an Israeli military demarcation line that slices through more than half of Gaza’s territory. Today, only about 600 square metres (6,460 square feet) remain of al-Jadba’s land in Tuffah. She describes the loss as “a deep wound in her chest”, a nightmare she never imagined living through. Still, she is determined to stay put with her daughters and grandchildren, cultivating her remaining plot again despite limited resources. “Land is like honour,” she says. “Even if only a single metre of my land remains, I will do the impossible to stay on it.” Sousan Al-Jadba, 54, cultivates what remains of her land in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, which she has been unable to access beyond the “yellow line” during the war. Al-Jadba says her connection to the land is more than memory or symbolism. It’s a daily experience of both loss and attachment. This reality is closely linked to a not-so-distant past, when she participated in Land Day commemorations recalling the events of March 30, 1976, when six unarmed Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during protests against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian land. Fifty years on, Land Day has become a foundational moment in Palestinian national consciousness, renewing the bond between the people and the lands they lost decades ago – not merely as property, but as identity, existence and an inalienable right. “It was a day when we renewed our connection to lands occupied in 1967 and 1948, demanding our right to return,” al-Jadba says with frustration. “But today, the meaning has completely changed … now we are demanding the lands they took from us during this war, drawing new borders for us.”
During the war, al-Jadba and her family were displaced to southern Gaza, where they stayed for months. Following a “ceasefire” reached between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in October 2025, she rushed back to check on her land. “I was like someone trying to catch their breath again … what remained of my home was completely destroyed, and the land was bulldozed,” she says. “But I thanked God, now I live on what remains, and I dream of reaching the rest.” She says she has decided to continue farming as an act of survival and daily resistance. “The only solution is to live and to hold on to my land,” she says, pointing to the crops she has planted. “Eggplants, peppers, and tomatoes … During Ramadan, we planted arugula, parsley and spinach. Gaza’s land is fertile; if you give to it, it gives back.” Israel’s latest war took from al-Jadba not only her land but also two of her sons, while her husband was killed during another war, in 2008–2009. Despite the loss of loved ones, the hardships of displacement, and the scarce resources, al-Jadba has never considered leaving. “Life is very difficult, yes. But what has happened in Gaza – genocide, starvation, looting – will not stop me from holding on to my land,” she says. “I will stay on my land until the very last moment … and if I die, I will be buried in it.”

Sawsan al-Jadba-photo-Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]
Sousan works with her grandchildren to cultivate her remaining land, an act she sees as resistance and daily survival, reflecting her attachment to it.
Uprooted from the land
Land Day is traditionally marked by public demonstrations and official commemorations. However, for the third consecutive year, the anniversary comes amid harsher conditions for Gaza’s population. After more than two-and-a-half years of war, widespread destruction, and mass displacement, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have lost or been cut off from their land and homes. Large portions of the territory are now inaccessible, either due to destruction or as a result of imposed military geography. Estimates indicate that Israeli forces now control more than half of Gaza’s total area. Meanwhile, agricultural lands, once the backbone of food security, have been either destroyed or largely isolated. At the centre of this transformation is the “yellow line” that stretches from north to south, with a depth ranging from 2km to 7km (1.2 miles to 4.3 miles). Beyond this line, marked by yellow concrete barriers, stretch large areas designated by the Israeli army as “combat zones” that are off-limits to Palestinians. They include entire residential neighbourhoods and much of eastern Gaza’s agricultural lands. According to various estimates, between 52 percent and 58 percent of Gaza’s land now falls under direct Israeli control, effectively confining the population to less than half of the territory. This new reality has not only reshaped geography, but also redefined the meaning of Land Day. While the commemoration was historically tied to the right of return to lands lost in 1948, it is now also about access to lands and homes lost during the latest war on Gaza. “They destroyed our homes and uprooted us from our land,” says Bashir Hamouda, sitting outside his family’s cluster of tents in western Gaza, surrounded by destruction. “Today we are homeless … living in camps that are not fit for human life. No one feels our suffering,” laments the 68-year-old.

Bashir Hamouda, 68, is currently displaced with his extended family in western Gaza City, after losing access to his agricultural land in eastern Jabalia, now under Israeli military control. Hamouda was forced to flee his home in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, under Israeli bombardment. He left behind three houses and two plots of land filled with olive trees, palm trees, and various fruits. “When I left my home and land … I wished the house would collapse on me so I could die inside it,” he says, tearfully. “It felt like my heart was ripped out. Can a person live without a heart? I cannot live without land … the land is the heart.” For him, this year’s Land Day is not just a remembrance of history, but what he describes as “a new uprooting, a bitter experience”. “Today, the issue is no longer only about the lands of 1948 or 1976, but also about what we have recently lost in Gaza: Our land, our homes, everything,” he says, his eyes tearing. Hamouda attributes this “bitter shift” in the meaning of Land Day, from the right of return to ancestral villages to the demand to return to recently destroyed homes, to what he describes as “international silence and inaction towards the Palestinians’ suffering”. “When our grandparents’ lands were stolen in 1948 and 1976, the world stood by and did nothing.” “The same is happening now, as we endure genocide. We, our children, and grandchildren … and again, the world does nothing,” he adds. “Before, we demanded our historical right of return. Today, we are demanding to return to our homes in eastern Jabalia, just minutes away.” This shift reflects the scale of change imposed by the war that extends beyond Gaza, coinciding with escalating land confiscation and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, along with ongoing forced displacement across multiple areas. In this new reality, the relationship to land is measured not only by what has been lost, but by what remains and what people continue to fight to hold onto. “I sit with my grandchildren – more than 50 of them – and teach them what land means. I plant in them the meaning of belonging,” says Hamouda. For him, this act of teaching is the minimum he can do under displacement. “We will not forget this land,” he says. “If we do not return, the generations after us will.”}
Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/3/30/land-day-in-gaza-between-memory-and-the-fight-for-what-remains


Al Jazeera - March 30, 2026 By Fayha Shalash Reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank
{By the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians lose most of their land
Palestinians continue to face illegal Israeli settlement expansions, land seizures and restrictions on access to their land. It was a devastating experience for Abdul Rahman Azzam, 65, to recently cut down the olive trees he had planted decades ago on his land south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, following an Israeli decision to confiscate it for the construction of a road for an illegal Israeli settlement. The land slated for confiscation last December spans more than 513 dunams (51.3 hectares), 450 of which belong to the village of al-Fandaqumiya alone, with the remainder belonging to neighbouring towns such as Silat ad-Dhahr and al-Attarra. As Palestinians commemorate the 50th anniversary of Land Day this year, the challenges of illegal Israeli settlement expansions, land confiscations, and restrictions on access to their land, particularly in Area C, persist. Meanwhile, Israeli government leaders continue to declare that the annexation plan is a fait accompli. Land Day commemorates the events of March 30, 1976, when Israeli authorities announced the confiscation of vast tracts of Palestinian land in the Galilee region. In response, widespread strikes and demonstrations were organised in several towns and villages, which were met with force, resulting in the deaths of six Palestinians and the injury and arrest of hundreds. Since then, this day has become a national symbol, embodying the connection of the Palestinians to their land and the rejection of its confiscation.
Twice taken
Since childhood, Azzam had worked alongside his father, grandfather, and uncles, planting and ploughing the land with olive trees. He developed a deep connection to it, which he continued to work on until 2002, when the illegal Israeli settlement of Tarsala and the Sanur military base were established on it, and he and his family were barred from accessing it. Following the 2005 disengagement plan, the Israeli army withdrew from the camp and the settlement of Tarsala. Azzam and other landowners returned to their land, and their joy was indescribable. However, after the recent Israeli decision, the Palestinian landowners were denied access to their land, which is now entirely under Israeli military control. “Suddenly, we found the land number in the official newspaper along with a confiscation order for the construction of a road connecting the settlements of Homesh and Tarsala, to which the settlers had returned after the 2005 withdrawal. We saw the Israeli army had already begun bulldozing the land,” Azzam told Al Jazeera. To prevent the Israeli army from cutting down his olive trees during the bulldozing, Azzam went to his land and cut them down himself. He wept as he did so. He then noticed that all the other landowners had done the same, fearing for their trees. “It’s easier for us to cut them down ourselves than for the army or settlers to do it. This is our land, and our trees are like our children; we cherish them and treat them with kindness because we toiled to cultivate and care for them,” he added.
Confiscation in several ways
The Oslo Accords, signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993, divided the West Bank into three categories: Area A, under full Palestinian control, comprising approximately 18 percent of the West Bank; Area B, under joint Palestinian and Israeli control, comprising 22 percent; and Area C, under full Israeli control, comprising 60 percent. Since October 2023, Israel has been issuing confiscation orders for Palestinian lands in Area C at an accelerated pace in the West Bank, in preparation for implementing its annexation plan, which Palestinians believe is already being carried out on the ground without a formal declaration. According to data from the Palestinian Authority’s Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, Israel seized 5,572 dunams of Palestinian land in 2025 through 94 confiscation orders for military purposes, in addition to three expropriation orders and four declarations of state land. These orders were not isolated or circumstantial, but rather geographically distributed to serve the expansion of settlements, secure their borders, and construct settlement roads that further fragment Palestinian land and sever its natural contiguity, as it said. Concurrently, Israel allocated 16,733 dunams of previously confiscated land for settler grazing, a move that reveals a dangerous escalation in the tools of control, according to the commission’s annual report. In another report, the commission stated that between October 2023 and October 2025, Israel confiscated 55,000 dunams of land, including 20,000 dunams under the pretext of modifying the boundaries of nature reserves, and 26,000 dunams through 14 declarations of “state land” in the cities of Jerusalem, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Qalqilya. A total of 1,756 dunams were confiscated through 108 orders for military purposes, aimed at establishing military towers, security roads, and buffer zones around settlements. However, it has become increasingly apparent that many land seizures are carried out without official military orders. Soldiers or settlers prevent Palestinian landowners from accessing their land, leaving them surprised to find it seized without any prior notification. "The attached photos are by Mohammed Turkman. The photos of the land being bulldozed were taken on Wednesday, and the man standing is Mohammed Fouad, whose land was cleared without warning in the town of Ein Yabrud to make way for a settler road (I interviewed him in the article). Mohammed Fouad, 56, was surprised on Wednesday to find an Israeli army bulldozer razing his land in the town of Ein Yabrud, east of Ramallah. He went to the nearest point to the land and watched as the bulldozer removed trees, seemingly clearing a road for settlers. “My land is 15 dunams … and is only 1km from the Beit El settlement, which is built on land north of Ramallah. I fear this bulldozing is a prelude to its annexation to the settlement, especially since it’s classified as Area C,” Fouad told Al Jazeera. He was not notified of any decision regarding the confiscation of his land. A farmer who was nearby informed him of it. When he tried to inquire with the armed men accompanying the bulldozer, they told him they were from the Israeli army and intelligence services and expelled him from his land. “I’ve always cared for this land, and now I’m watching it being bulldozed right before my eyes, unable to reach it. It’s as if they’re forcing me to leave. But I’ll try to reach it every day,” Fouad said bitterly. Land confiscation procedures have been facilitated by several Israeli policies over the past two years to complete the annexation plan. Raed Muqadi, a researcher at the Land Research Centre, told Al Jazeera that settlers have resorted to fencing off Palestinian lands to seize them, especially in the Jordan Valley. This has affected thousands of dunams in the occupied West Bank that were used as pastures or agricultural land. Because of the fencing, Palestinians are prevented from entering or using it. “The Israeli Knesset also recently approved what is called lifting the ban on data concerning landowners in the West Bank, which makes it easier for settlers to seize land and allows them to purchase it, even in Area A, with the help of settlement associations,” he explained.
Actual expulsion
The tragedy is not limited to land confiscation and seizure in the West Bank, but extends to the expulsion of entire Palestinian communities from their homes under the weight of attacks. Qusay Abu Naim, 23, a resident of the Bedouin community of al-Khalail in the village of al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, told us that he and all other residents were forced to leave in February due to the intensity of settler attacks on the residents, some of whom were injured. On February 21, Israeli settlers attacked the community intermittently, assaulting men, women, and children, resulting in injuries to an entire family of four, including two children. The Israeli army then joined the attack after the settlers filed a complaint that the Palestinians had resisted them. The soldiers opened fire, wounding the children, aged 12 and 13, further. “This incident was the last straw. We decided to leave because the attacks were almost constant. When we returned from the hospital to dismantle our homes, we were shocked to find that the settlers had destroyed them and vandalised their contents,” Abu Naim explained. The attacks against this community began in December 2024, intending to seize the lands of al-Mughayyir. The settlers deliberately targeted women, beating them and stealing sheep to force the residents to leave. “Because of the numerous attacks, we sought help from international solidarity activists, but that didn’t stop the settlers. The activists were attacked several times in 2024 and 2025. Among the attacks, settlers broke my brother’s arm so severely that he needed a metal plate to repair the fracture. While he was receiving treatment, the Israeli army arrested him, even though he was the victim. He is currently being held in administrative detention without charge,” Abu Naim added. In addition to the attacks, the homes of this community were repeatedly robbed by armed settlers. They would break into the houses and steal food from refrigerators, terrorising women and children. The residents of the community were forced to leave for neighbouring villages, including Deir Jarir and areas within al-Mughayyir itself, but they still remember the years when they lived there in their communities, amid a beautiful Bedouin life, the images of which remain with them to this day, and they lament leaving it. “Of course, it is now forbidden for any Palestinian to access the al-Khalail community area, which is under the control of settlers and the Israeli army. We left it, but the land will return to its original owners,” he concluded. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), at least 4,765 Palestinians were displaced from 97 locations between January 2023 and mid-February 2026 due to settler violence. Most of those displaced were from Bedouin and herding communities in Area C. At the beginning of this year alone, 600 people were forced to leave a single Bedouin village, Ras Ein al-Auja, in the Jordan Valley. According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the number of Palestinian Bedouins in the West Bank is approximately 40,000. Most Bedouins are originally from the Naqab Desert, from which they were forcibly displaced or fled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, following further displacement after 1967, and then throughout the 1980s, they have continued to face waves of expulsion to this day.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/3/30/by-the-50th-anniversary-of-land-day-palestinians-lose-most-of-their-land


Screenschot: Palestinian women at mass Land Day protests-File: Abdelhakim Abu Riash
Al Jazeera - March 30, 2026 By Mohammed Haddad
{Land Day: What happened in Palestine on March 30, 1976?
Fifty years ago, six unarmed Palestinians were killed and over 100 were injured during protests against Israel’s land confiscations.
Every year on March 30, Palestinians observe Land Day, or Yom al-Ard, recalling the events of 50 years ago when on March 30, 1976, six unarmed Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, and more than 100 were injured during protests against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian land. Israel ordered the confiscation of 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres) of land belonging to Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Galilee. These plans were part of Israeli state policy to Judaise Galilee following the creation of the State of Israel. While the land confiscations affected the entire Galilee, the heart of the 1976 protests was in the Palestinian towns of Sakhnin, Arrabeh and Deir Hanna. The confiscated land is roughly the size of 3,000 football pitches or the area from the southern tip of Manhattan to the start of Central Park in New York, United States.
What do Palestinians do on Land Day?
Palestinians, both in Israel and across the occupied Palestinian territory — the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem — mark this day by holding protests and vigils and planting olive trees to reaffirm their connection to the land. The protests are often met with brutal use of force by Israel. Protest marches are also planned in cities around the world on Monday to mark the 50th anniversary.
Is Israel still seizing land?
Yes, Israel has continued to seize large swaths of Palestinian land, designating them as military zones, state land and other labels. Most recently, on February 8, 2026, Israel’s security cabinet approved a series of sweeping measures to expand its powers across the occupied West Bank, including easing the sale of Palestinian land to Israeli settlers and expanding the powers of Israeli authorities in areas under Palestinian control. Rights groups and several countries condemned Israel’s land grab, calling it “de facto annexation” and a “deliberate and direct attack” on the viability of a Palestinian state.

Area A B C - 5 - Palestine
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has ramped up both formal settlement approvals and informal outpost establishments. According to Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement group, Israel approved 12,349 housing units in 2023, 9,884 in 2024 and a record 27,941 in 2025. In December, Israel’s security cabinet approved plans to formalise 19 illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlements are Jewish communities built illegally on Palestinian land. Many of the newly approved settlements will be in densely populated Palestinian areas, further limiting Palestinian movement and threatening the viability of a future Palestinian state.

Occupied West Bank - Israel approves 19 new illegal settlements
At the same time, Israeli army raids, house demolitions and arrests in the occupied territory are at unprecedented levels, while settlers attack and kill Palestinians and rampage through their property with impunity, backed by the military and the state. The number of settler attacks has risen sharply in recent years, with 852 recorded in 2022, 1,291 in 2023, 1,449 in 2024 and 1,828 in 2025 – an average of five attacks per day. At least 1,094 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops and settlers in the West Bank since October 2023, according to the latest United Nations figures.

Settler attacks across theoccupied West Bank (2024-2025)-west bank - October 14, 2025
Smotrich urges Israel to annex southern Lebanon
On March 23, Israel’s far-right minister of finance and head of the settlement administration, Bezalel Smotrich, called for annexation of southern Lebanon, saying its bombardment “needs to end with a different reality entirely”, which includes a “change of Israel’s borders”. “I say here definitively … in every room and in every discussion, too: The new Israeli border must be the Litani,” he said, referring to the Litani River, a critical waterway that cuts through southern Lebanon, about 30km (19 miles) from the border with Israel. More than a million Lebanese, or one in five people, have been displaced from their homes, with Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz saying he would not allow the return of people to the country’s south until the safety of Israelis is guaranteed.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/30/land-day-what-happened-in-palestine-on-march-30-1976

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Videoscreen grab: death penalty law rattles imprisoned/taken hostaged Palestinians
Quds news - March 25, 2026
{Israel Advances Death Penalty Bill for Palestinian Detainees and Hostages After Knesset Committee Approval
Israel moves closer to approving a death penalty law targeting Palestinian hostages and detainees, as a Knesset committee advances the bill to final votes, raising concerns over mass killings.
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Israeli Knesset National Security Committee has approved an infamous bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian hostages and detainees, moving it forward for second and third readings required to become law. The proposal comes from the Otzma Yehudit party, led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Ben-Gvir said the revised bill removes decision-making power from the government’s legal adviser, giving courts broader authority to issue death sentences against Palestinians. The law targets Palestinian hostages and detainees accused in attacks labeled as “nationalist or security-related.” It does not apply to Jewish suspects accused of killing Palestinians. Israeli officials plan to bring the bill for final votes next week. Lawmakers introduced recent amendments after pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who warned that the earlier version exceeded even US death penalty standards and could expose Israel to diplomatic and legal challenges. According to details published by Israeli media, courts could issue a death sentence even if prosecutors do not request it. Judges would not need a unanimous decision, and a simple majority could approve the sentence. The bill states that executions would be carried out by hanging. A prison guard appointed by the Israeli Prison Service commissioner would perform the execution, while authorities would keep the identity of those involved secret and grant them full legal immunity. Authorities would place victims in separate detention facilities. Officials would restrict visits to authorized parties only, while lawyers would communicate with hostages and detainees through video calls instead of direct meetings. The law also sets a timeline of up to 90 days to carry out executions after sentencing. A prison director, a judicial representative, an official observer, and a family representative would attend the execution. The latest draft removes references to prosecuting those involved in the October 7, resistance operation. However, it expands the powers of prosecutors and introduces stricter rules, especially in the occupied West Bank, where the death penalty could become mandatory in certain cases. Ben-Gvir has long pushed for executing Palestinian hostages. His ministry has already tightened detention conditions, amid growing reports by human rights groups about abuse, torture, and denial of basic rights. The Knesset previously approved the bill in its first reading in November. It now awaits final votes before it can become law.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67434&slug=israel-advances-death-penalty-bill-for-palestinian-detainees-and-hostages-after-knesset-committee-approval
 

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

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


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

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

  Video found footage shoots: Genocidal crime scene witnesses evidence

   
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 Screengrabs: Stop starving Gaza and Foreign Doctors Uncover Disturbing Pattern of Israeli Forces Targeting Children & babies killed as Israeli strikes
   
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Fighting for Habiba - Gazanan Pieta  - Children suffering from malnutrition - USA visas for medical evacuation patients denied

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