Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Civil defense teams have retrieved the bodies of 66 Palestinians from sand mounds constructed by the Israeli military in northern Gaza, the agency said on Thursday.
Israel kills Palestinian near central Gaza’s Nuseirat despite ceasefire
A Palestinian man has been shot and killed by Israeli forces in the town of al-Maghraqa, north of the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Wafa news agency.
The report identified the victim as Salman Rushdi Salman Abu Ghoula.
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Trump claims Israel will ‘hand over Gaza’ to Washington
President Donald Trump said on 6 February that Gaza will be “turned over” to the US by Israel, as part of his plan to expel the strip’s residents to neighboring countries and take it over.
“The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the US by Israel at the conclusion of the fighting,” the president said on his social media platform Truth Social.
“The Palestinians would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region. They would actually have a chance to be happy, safe, and free,” he added.
Trump went on to say that “the US, working with great development teams from all over the world, would slowly begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on earth,” adding that “No US soldiers would be needed” and that “Stability for the region would reign.”
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Palestinians have been sharing images of Gaza before Israel’s war and its US-funded bombs, after President Trump used the destruction to justify his plan for taking over and rebuilding the Strip.
Doctors Without Borders new report: “Inflicting harm and denying care” in the West Bank
Israeli forces and settlers have increased the use of extreme physical violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the all-out war on Gaza began in October 2023, according to a new report by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). In total, at least 870 Palestinians have been killed and over 7,100 injured between October 2023 and January 2025.1
According to the MSF report, Inflicting harm and denying care, the escalation of violence in the West Bank has severely hindered access to healthcare and is part of a pattern of systemic oppression by Israel, which has been described by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as amounting to racial segregation and apartheid.
The report which covers a one-year period from October 2023 and 2024, provides in-depth interviews from 38 MSF patients and personnel, hospital staff, paramedics and volunteers supported by MSF who report prolonged and violent Israeli military incursions and stricter movement restrictions, all of which have severely hindered access to essential services, particularly healthcare.
The situation has further deteriorated since the ceasefire in Gaza, and has exacerbated dire living conditions for many Palestinians who are paying an immense physical and psychological toll.
“Palestinian patients are dying because they simply cannot reach hospitals,” says Brice de le Vingne, MSF emergency coordinator. “We’re seeing ambulances blocked by Israeli forces at checkpoints while carrying critical patients, medical facilities surrounded and raided during active operations, and healthcare workers subjected to physical violence while trying to save lives.” (Continue reading here.)
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Israeli soldier jailed for seven months for abusing Palestinian detainees
An Israeli military court has sentenced a soldier to seven months in prison after he admitted to “severely abusing” Palestinians at a detention facility near the border with Gaza, the army said.
“The defendant was convicted for several incidents in which he punched the detainees with his fists and used his weapon while they were handcuffed and blindfolded,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
“These acts were committed in the presence of other soldiers, some of whom called on him to stop, and were even documented on the defendant’s mobile phone,” it added, referring to the incidents which the military said took place at the Sde Teiman facility.
The military court determined that “additional masked soldiers participated in the abuse”, but said their identities remain unknown.
In October, a UN commission found thousands of detainees were subjected to “widespread and systematic abuse” in Israeli military camps and detention facilities that amounted to “war crime and crime against humanity of torture”.
In August 2024, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said more than a dozen prison facilities were being used as “de facto torture camps”.
NOTE: From time to time, Israel holds an individual accountable for an illegal action, while letting thousands of others go unnoticed (case in point: this). Analysts suggest that this is Israel’s attempt to look like it has a functioning justice system – which could keep the International Criminal Court away.
West Bank update:
The Pro-Israel Group in US Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport
On January 29, Palestinian organizers in New York City gathered at a park for a vigil to mourn the one-year anniversary of the death of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old killed last year alongside her family and paramedics by the Israeli military in Gaza. At Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, attendees laid candles, alongside photos and art of Rajab.
Emboldened by recent antisemitism and anti-immigration executive orders, Betar U.S., the American branch of an international organization founded by the early Zionist writer and settler colonialist Ze’ev Jabotinsky in 1923, took to social media ahead of the vigil for Rajab, which it derogatorily dismissed as a “Jihad rally.” Betar invited its supporters to show up and “assist @ICEgov in deportation efforts,” promising to “document all attendees” to submit to the Trump administration as a part of his recent orders.
At the vigil, a small group heckled attendees, yelling, “Show us your faces so we could get you deported” and “We’re with ICE,” then repeatedly chanting, “ICE, ICE, ICE,” according to video posted on the group’s accounts.
“We’re here for a 6-year-old girl,” one vigil attendee pleaded to an NYPD officer, before being drowned out by counter-protesters accusing them of a “fake genocide” and using “human shields.” After the vigil concluded, Betar claimed on social media to have identified the attendee using face-recognition technology and said it had reported him to the Department of Homeland Security (continue reading here).
