Another baby in Gaza dies of hypothermia; call for help in retrieving bodies in Rafah; Israeli forces kill Palestinian, another dies in prison; Israeli violence against Bedouin; hunger strikers; headlines from Israel
The last family in this Palestinian village left their home last week; Yanoun now joins a growing list of West Bank communities that have been erased from existence, through the establishment of Israeli “shepherding outposts” in their place.
There are no official statistics on the number of homes seized in the occupied West Bank, but it has clearly been escalating since October 2023.
The World Council of Churches has called on the European Union to impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel over what it described as a war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and violations against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Gaza’s population drops by over 10%; Israel’s destruction in 2025, by the numbers; Israel seizes Palestinian homes, turns them into military outposts; headlines that expose Israel; World Council of Churches calls for sanctions on Israel
On Christmas Eve, latest headlines from Gaza, the West Bank/East Jerusalem, Israel, and beyond.
Administrative detention, a sentence of up to six months in prison with no charge or trial, and indefinitely renewable, is a draconian measure Israel uses against political activists and Palestinians en masse.
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
Israeli settler groups have begun bulldozing Palestinian lands in the town of Beit Sahour (Shepherds Fields) to make way for a new settler outpost. The settlement threatens the existence of the largest remaining Christian community in the West Bank
What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.