Gaza hit with another winter storm – Not a ceasefire Day 79

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Gaza hit with another winter storm – Not a ceasefire Day 79
Displaced Palestinians struggle to survive under harsh conditions as rain and severe storms affect the Nuseirat Refugee Camp of Deir al-Balah, Gaza on December 27, 2025. (Moiz Salhi – Anadolu Agency)

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

(While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be ongoing, and in its 808th day.)

Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 414 Palestinians. Among the dead are at least 136 children. At least 1,142 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative. 

Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 875 times in 79 days. More statistics below.

Injured Palestinian children are brought to al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza following Israeli army attacks, Nov. 2025
Injured Palestinian children are brought to al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza following Israeli army attacks, Nov. 2025 (Moiz Salhi/Anadolu)

GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:

(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For more critical context, skim this, this, and this. To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.)

Gaza endures more rain, strong winds, and cold without proper shelter*

A polar low-pressure system accompanied by heavy rain and strong winds swept across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, adding to the suffering of Palestinians living in flimsy tents and overcrowded shelters that lack basic living conditions.

The system is the third polar low to affect the Palestinian territories this winter, beginning Saturday afternoon, and is expected to continue until Sunday evening, with a fourth low-pressure system forecast to hit the area starting Monday.

*NOTE: Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement and block desperately needed humanitarian aid, including shelter supplies, to the war-ravaged coastal enclave, even though these are stipulated in the first phase of the agreement.

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PJS: “706 Relatives of Journalists* Killed in Gaza”

A new report released Saturday by the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate reveals that Israeli forces have expanded their targeting of Palestinian journalists beyond killing, injuring, abducting, or obstructing media coverage.

According to the report, the pattern has escalated throughout the last 2 years into a far more brutal and alarming phase: the deliberate killing of journalists’ family members in an apparent attempt to turn journalism into an existential burden paid for by children, spouses, and parents.

Approximately 706 relatives of journalists in Gaza were killed during this period, with all available indicators showing that these incidents were not accidental or incidental to the broader conflict (continue reading here).

*NOTE: Gaza was named the deadliest place in the world to work as a journalist, with 29 killed in the past year, according to a report on the dangers facing media globally by Reporters Without Borders.

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‘There is nothing to celebrate’: Gaza’s Christians mark sombre Christmas amid fragile truce

Once marked by shared festivities with Muslims, Church leaders say Israel’s genocidal war has left little room for celebration.

OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS & HEADLINES:

(Every day, Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem endure dozens of incidents like the ones below, at the hands of Israeli soldiers and/or settlers. For background on the West Bank, read this and this. For information on the significance of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, read this and this.)

Israeli forces take over homes*, impose lockdown on West Bank’s Qabatiya

Israeli forces sealed off entrances to the West Bank town of Qabatiya, placing it under a “full curfew,” while rounding up and interrogating dozens of residents on Saturday. Soldiers displaced Palestinian occupants of several homes and converted them into military interrogation centers.

The crackdown is reportedly linked to a Palestinian resident of the town who allegedly carried out a stabbing and car-ramming attack on Friday.

*NOTE: International humanitarian law posits that no person may be punished for acts that he or she did not commit. It ensures that the collective punishment of a group of persons for a crime committed by an individual is also forbidden. The imposition of collective punishment is a war crime.

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Israeli Soldier Caught on Video Forcing Elderly Palestinian Man With Amputated Leg to the Ground:

HEADLINES ABOUT ISRAEL:

(Israel is a tiny country, about the size of New Jersey, with a population smaller than the US state of Georgia – about 10 million (of which about 20 percent are Palestinians), yet it is in the news constantly. As has been demonstrated again and again, however, mainstream media rarely covers Israel accurately. IAK passes along only factual reporting.)

A Christian Response to Netanyahu’s Half-Truths

Christians are highlighted when they serve a political narrative, and ignored when they speak for themselves.

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland slammed across world capitals

Many expect that Israel’s recognition of the breakaway Somali region is the first step in a scheme to relocate Gazans there.

UN peacekeeper injured from Israeli gunfire near patrol in southern Lebanon*

HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:

(You can learn a lot about a country from its headlines. Get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions that receives $63 million a day from America.)

Israel’s Education Ministry Gets an A in Censorship Class

Education Minister Yoav Kisch and his ‘order-obeying’ officials are trying to intimidate educators from straying from talking points issued by the government. This is how a tyrannical regime operates.

OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:

The penalty for disagreeing with UK govt policy on Palestine is 14 years in prison

“You might be forgiven for thinking that my ‘offense’ was preparing a bomb intended for the Israeli Embassy. In fact, it was disagreeing with government policy and received opinion.”

UN Security Council to Hold Urgent Monday Session on Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland

Israel is the first and only nation thus far to recognize the political entity that independently seceded from Somalia.

Iran president says US, Israel, Europe waging ‘full-fledged war’ on country

If Israel and the US were to attack Iran again, they would ‘face a more decisive response’, Pezeshkian warns.

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:

Palestinian tourism ministry says Israel destroyed hundreds of heritage sites and tourism facilities in Gaza

Report: Economy of Gaza in Near-Total Collapse Throughout 2025

“Condemnation Without Consequence”

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