Who is part of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza?

Donald Trump unveils a complex three-tier governing structure for Gaza that places Trump and pro-Israel officials at the top, while Palestinians are relegated to municipal duties.

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, left, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, centre, and Jared Kushner attend a meeting with Ukrainian officials on November 30, 2025, in Hallandale Beach, Florida, the United States [Terry Renna/AP Photo]

Jan. 18, 2026 - US President Donald Trump has officially outlined the architecture of the “Board of Peace”, which is expected to “fulfill” Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza, days after US envoy Steve Witkoff launched “phase two” of the United States-brokered plan to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

A statement published by the White House on Saturday details a three-tiered power structure – with a US-led “Board of Peace” comprised of billionaires and figures close to Israel at the top.

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Extreme cold kills another infant in Gaza as Israel blocks vital aid

Israel continues to block vital necessities, such as mobile homes, as the Palestinian enclave is hit by harsh weather conditions.

Israel continues to limit the number of tents and other shelter supplies entering Gaza [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

Jan. 10, 2026 - A seven-day-old infant has died due to the extreme cold in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli blockade of vital necessities worsens the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera on Saturday that Mahmoud Al-Aqraa died in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza amid rapidly decreasing temperatures.

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‘We just sit and cry’: Gaza’s cancer patients die waiting for treatment

Doctors say cancer-related deaths have tripled since Israel’s war on Gaza began, as Israel blocks patients from leaving and restricts the entry of chemotherapy drugs.

Jan. 9, 2026 - According to doctors, the number of cancer-related deaths has tripled since the October 2023 start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. With no chemotherapy, no radiotherapy, and no way out, a cancer diagnosis has become, for many, an immediate death sentence.

The epicentre of this crisis is the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital. Once the sole facility providing specialised oncology care in the Gaza Strip, it now stands as a hollowed-out shell.

“It resembles a ghost hospital after being turned into a military site during the war,” Abu Azzoum reported. “Israeli forces blew it up, leaving patients to fend for themselves.”

With the main facility destroyed, doctors have been forced into makeshift clinics with zero resources.

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Israel planning renewed Gaza offensive in March, report says

Military seeks to seize more land in Gaza and push the Yellow Line further west towards the coast, Israeli media reports

Plumes of smoke rise after the Israeli army carried out house demolitions east of Jabalia, in the northern Palestinian Gaza Strip, on January 10, 2026. Bashar TALEB / AFP

Jan. 10, 2026 - The Israeli military has planned to launch a renewed offensive in Gaza in March to seize more land and push the Yellow Line further west towards the coast of the enclave, Times of Israel reported, quoting officials.

Even as the ceasefire moves closer to the second phase, the Israeli military has drawn up plans for the offensive, citing failure in getting Hamas to disarm, the report quoted an Arab diplomat as saying.

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Gaza children risk snipers to attend tent schools

Students in Beit Lahiya are attending makeshift classes in the dangerous ‘yellow zone’ near Israeli positions, as UNICEF warns that trauma has left 25 percent of children with speech impediments.

Palestinian children, mostly from displaced families, gather at an UNRWA school west of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on December 6, 2025 [AFP]

Jan. 6, 2026 - The relentless Israeli war has destroyed the vast majority of Gaza’s educational infrastructure, forcing families to create makeshift “tent schools” in dangerous proximity to Israeli forces — an area demarcated by Israel as the “yellow zone” west of the separation line, often just a few metres away from danger.....MORE

Israeli Strikes Injure Displaced Palestinians as Gaza’s Winter Shelter Crisis Deepens

Israeli airstrikes and drone attacks continue across Gaza despite a ceasefire, while tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians face worsening winter conditions in unsafe and inadequate shelters.

How Israeli quadcopters are killing Palestinians in Gaza

Jan. 3, 2026 - Four Palestinians, including a woman and two children, were seriously injured after an Israeli drone dropped a bomb on a tent sheltering displaced families in Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli forces continued airstrikes and artillery attacks across multiple areas of the besieged enclave.

A medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said the drone strike targeted a tent in the Al-Atatra area, located outside the zones where Israeli forces are officially deployed. The bombing was followed by artillery shelling of the same area, exacerbating fears among displaced civilians already living in precarious conditions.

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Is Israel’s genocide economy on the brink?

Economist Shir Hever explains how the Gaza war mobilization propped up a ‘zombie economy’ that appears to function but lacks any future horizon.

People walk through Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market, partially closed following ongoing missile attacks from Iran, June 23, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dec. 16, 2025 - Since October 2023, Israel has faced a convergence of economic shocks. Tens of thousands of residents have been displaced from border regions in the south and north as a result of hostilities with Hamas and Hezbollah, while hundreds of thousands of reservists were pulled out of the workforce for extended periods, leaving key sectors short-staffed and productivity depleted. Public services, education, and healthcare have deteriorated as state spending was diverted to the war, and almost 50,000 businesses have gone bankrupt. 

Capital flight — particularly in the high-tech sector — together with a growing reliance on foreign loans has added significant strain to the economy, with debt expected to reach 70 percent of GDP in 2025. Israel’s international standing has also weakened: Once-stable trade partners are turning away, sanctions and boycotts are expanding, and major investors are beginning to look elsewhere.

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The Gaza genocide radicalized the world — and there’s no going back

People can't unsee a live-streamed annihilation defended under the banner of liberal democracy. They know the Israeli apartheid regime can no longer exist.

An activist waves a Palestinian flag at the front a feminist march in Paris, March 7, 2025. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

Dec. 24, 2025 - October 7, 2023, marked a paradigmatic rupture in how Palestine is discussed and imagined. Until that moment, international discourse had been trapped in the vocabulary of statehood and peace processes. The Palestinian question was framed as a conflict to be managed rather than a structure of domination to be dismantled, but October 7 forced the world to confront the realities Palestinians have long named: settler colonialism, the ongoing Nakba, Zionism, and Israeli apartheid.....MORE

UN chief Guterres calls on Israel to reverse NGO ban in Gaza, West Bank

Guterres says pending ban targets groups ‘indispensable to life-saving’ work, undermines ceasefire progress.

A Palestinian man waits at the entrance of the medical clinic run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Khan Younis, Gaza [File: Ramadan Abed/Reuters]

Jan. 3, 2026 - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to reverse a pending ban on 37 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

In a statement on Friday, Guterres called the work of the groups “indispensable to life-saving humanitarian work”, according to spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. He added that the “suspension risks undermining the fragile progress made during the ceasefire”.

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Countries demand Israel lift Gaza aid restrictions as Palestinians suffer

A Palestinian woman, Nanaa Abu Jari, cooks outside her tent after it was flooded by heavy rainfall in central Gaza's Nuseirat on January 2, 2026 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Jan. 2, 2026 - Several countries in the Middle East and Asia have called on Israel to allow “immediate, full, and unhindered” deliveries of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as winter storms lash the bombarded Palestinian enclave.

In a statement on Friday, the foreign ministers of Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkiye, Pakistan and Indonesia warned that “deteriorating” conditions in Gaza had left nearly 1.9 million displaced Palestinians particularly vulnerable.

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U.S. Gifts Israel BILLIONS Of Dollars In Fighter Jets

Dec. 30, 2025 - President Trump announced a new U.S. tax-payer funded contract with Boeing to build F-15s for the IDF. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.

Former Israeli prime minister accuses government of backing 'murderous' settler violence

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert says 'Jewish terrorists', who are waging a 'war' against West Bank Palestinians, are backed by Israeli officials, the police and the army

Former Israeli Prime minister Ehud Olmert takes part in an 'Is Peace in Gaza possible?' roundtable during the La Toja Forum in Galicia, Spain, on 4 October 2025 (Miguel Riopa/AFP)

Jan. 2, 2026 - Israel's former prime minister has accused the Israeli government of actively enabling "murderous" settler violence in the occupied West Bank, days after Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to downplay the surge in attacks amid growing US scrutiny.

In an article published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Friday, Ehud Olmert said that violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians wasn't just the work of fringe extremists but a coordinated campaign enabled by politicians, police and military authorities.

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Israel escalates West Bank demolitions amid illegal settlement expansion

Bulldozers flatten refugee housing while Israel approves 126 settler housing units and targets UN agencies.

A man drives a pick-up truck loaded with furniture as residents from the Nur Shams refugee camp return to their homes on December 17, 2025 to retrieve belongings before the Israeli military's demolition of residential buildings in the camp, near Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank [File: Zain Jaafar/AFP]

Jan. 1, 2026 - Israeli forces have begun demolishing dozens of buildings housing Palestinian families in the northern occupied West Bank, forcing mass displacement as winter sets in, and leaving communities scrambling for shelter.

Israeli military bulldozers and cranes tore through residential blocks in the Nur Shams refugee camp on Wednesday, flattening homes that housed about 100 families. Thick clouds of dust rose over the camp as residents watched from a distance, according to an AFP news agency journalist at the scene.

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Somali president: Israel deal with Somaliland tied to genocide of Palestinians

Jan. 1, 2026 - In an exclusive interview, Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told Al Jazeera that the breakaway region of Somaliland has agreed to accept displaced Palestinians being relocated there in exchange for recognition. Somaliland officials have rejected the allegations.

Israel's New Rules For Non-profits Violate "Duty Of Care"

Jan. 2, 2026 - Oxfam’s Bushra Khalidi explains how Israel’s new rules for aid groups conflict with their obligations, after Israel said it will suspend organisations that fail to comply.

So Many Elements To Genocide!

Doctors fear ‘swamp fever’ spreading in flood-hit Gaza

Jan. 1, 2026 - Health authorities are warning of yet another potential health threat in Gaza: leptospirosis. Dr. Bassam Zaqout says widespread flooding and lack of basic sanitation make the devastated strip a perfect breeding ground for the bacterial disease also known as swamp or rat fever.

The ceasefire did what it was meant to do – make Gaza invisible

Mass death in Gaza continues and yet the world no longer pays attention, having been convinced that the genocide is over.

Displaced Palestinian Salah al-Mabhouh sits by the fire with his son Abdul-Razzaq next to their tent in al-Bureij camp, central Gaza Strip on December 24, 2025 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]

Jan. 2, 2026 - When rumours about a ceasefire started circulating in October, it felt like a distant dream. We clung to any thread of hope, even though deep inside we feared believing it. For two years, we had become accustomed to hearing about “ceasefires” that never lasted.

When the announcement was finally made, the streets erupted with ululations and cheers. Yet, fear crept into my heart that this calm might just be a pause before another round of attacks.

My fears were justified. Israel’s daily deadly attacks have continued; more than 400 people have been killed so far by its army. Many others have died in circumstances caused by Israel’s decimation of the Strip.

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Somaliland denies agreeing to host Israeli bases, resettle Palestinians

Residents celebrate Israel's recognition of Somaliland in downtown Hargeisa [File: Farhan Aleli/AFP]

Jan. 1, 2026 - Somaliland has rejected accusations that it agreed to host Israeli military facilities and resettle displaced Palestinians from Gaza in exchange for recognition by Israel.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday dismissed the claims as baseless, saying its engagement with Israel was “purely diplomatic” and conducted “in full respect of international law”.

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Israel to block dozens of aid groups working in war-battered Gaza

Aid groups facing bans include MSF and Oxfam as European countries sound the alarm over dire humanitarian situation.

Palestinians wait to receive meals distributed by a charity in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp [File: Moiz Salhi/Anadolu]

Dec. 30, 2025 - Israel says it will suspend more than three dozen humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules for aid groups working in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Organizations facing bans starting on Thursday didn’t meet new requirements for sharing information on their staffs, funding and operations, Israeli authorities said.

MSF – one of the largest medical groups operating in Gaza, where the health sector has been targeted and largely destroyed – said Israel’s decision will have a catastrophic impact on its work in the enclave, where it supports about 20 percent of the hospital beds and one-third of births. The organisation also denied Israel’s accusations about its staff.

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