Israel has violated the so-called Gaza “ceasefire” more than 2,400 times in the more than six months since the agreement was reached. Al Jazeera’s Hala Al Shami gives an overview of the deteriorating situation.
Monday, April 27, 2026
Saturday, April 25, 2026
How to Launder a Siege
Aid looting ran at 92% while Israeli-armed gangs held the roads. It hit zero the month that Hamas took control of the supply chain. But nobody wants to talk about that.
April 21, 2026 - Aid trucks are barely entering Gaza. Community fundraising for Palestinian families in the Strip has slowed down. Prices continue to remain elevated by design. It’s important we return back to dynamics that are still animating this genocide and identify the tactics of divide and conquer, as they are some of the oldest instruments in the colonial toolkit. We should recognize that those carrying out this genocide rely heavily on Western racial tropes to do their work: images of warring clans, lawless tribes, native society that dissolves into predation the moment imperial order is withdrawn. Western coverage of Gaza throughout the genocide has rehearsed these images with near-liturgical fidelity to the zionist narrative.....More
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| Not the government, but Israeli activists stop aid trucks from entering Gaza. |
‘Silent suffering’: Why children in Gaza are losing their ability to speak
An estimated 1.1 million children in Gaza now need mental health and psychosocial support, as a growing number lose their ability to speak due to trauma and injuries from Israeli attacks.
After an intense bombardment struck near his home, five-year-old Jad Zohud suddenly lost his ability to speak.
He is not alone. Across Gaza, specialists are reporting a rising number of children who can no longer speak following war-related injuries or psychological trauma.
For some, the cause is physical – head injuries, neurological damage or blast trauma. For others, there is no visible wound. Their silence follows repeated exposure to violence that overwhelms their ability to process or communicate.
More HERE
Palestinians cast their ballots as Gaza holds first election in 21 years
Palestinians are voting in Gaza’s first municipal elections in 21 years. Around 70,000 people are registered to vote, with councils elected through a list system requiring female representation, as residents attempt to restore local governance despite ongoing Israeli attacks.
Israel escalates attacks in Gaza, killing 12 people
Israeli forces have killed 12 Palestinians, including six police officers, in multiple attacks across Gaza. Despite a six-month long ceasefire, Israeli forces are committing daily violations that have killed almost 1,000 people.
Inside Israel’s prison system
April 17, 2026 - As Palestinians mark Prisoners’ Day, more than 9,600 Palestinians are still being held in Israeli prisons, many without trial. Reports of worsening conditions and deaths in custody are growing, as a new death penalty law raises fears of escalation.
Friday, April 17, 2026
Israeli attacks kill several over two days in Gaza despite ‘ceasefire’
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| People mourn beside the bodies of Palestinian brothers Abdel Malek and Abdel Sattar al-Attar, who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on April 16, 2026 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters] |
Inside Israel’s prison system
April 17, 2026 - As Palestinians mark Prisoners’ Day, more than 9,600 Palestinians are still being held in Israeli prisons, many without trial. Reports of worsening conditions and deaths in custody are growing, as a new death penalty law raises fears of escalation.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Smotrich refers to Nazis as he brands Germany 'hypocrites' over Israeli settler criticism...Who are the Nazis? Who are the Hypocrites?
Far-right Israeli minister responds to Chancellor Friedrich Merz's 'concern' over 'de facto annexation' in the West Bank
April 14, 2026 - Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich has invoked the history of the Nazi Holocaust as he branded Germany "hypocrites" after Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he was "deeply concerned" about settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.
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| Bezalel Smotrich holds a map of an area near the settlement of Maale Adumim, a land corridor known as E1, outside Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, on 14 August 2025 (Menahem Kahana / AFP) |
Writing before Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, Smotrich said the German chancellor "should bow his head and apologise a thousand times on behalf of Germany" for the death of six million Jews in the Holocaust rather than "preach morality" to Israel.
"We will not accept instructions from hypocritical leaders in Europe, a continent that is once again losing its conscience and its ability to distinguish between good and evil," Smotrich posted on X.
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Meta 'financially enabling' Israeli settler violence against Palestinians, report says
Findings published by 7amleh reveal Meta's bias in the moderation of content by Israelis and Palestinians
April 14, 2026 - Meta is “financially enabling” incitement content against Palestinians from pro-settlement Israeli pages, a new report by a social media watchdog has found.
According to the 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, Meta has allowed settler-affiliated accounts and extremist media outlets to generate revenue on its platforms, despite content that violates its own policies, including violent, racist and inciting material targeting Palestinians.
In contrast, the report found that Palestinian voices “remain comprehensively excluded from eligibility for monetization on Meta’s platforms, solely based on their geographic location" in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
"This means that Palestinian journalists, content creators, media outlets, and civil society organizations are structurally denied access to economic tools available to others even when their content is professional and policy-compliant."
More HERE
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
The Global Sumud Flotilla 2026 Mission
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| Boats carrying activists and humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza reposition in the port during a symbolic send-off as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra) April 15, 2026 - In response to a direct call from Palestinians in Gaza, the Global Sumud Flotilla is preparing to mobilize again, on land and at sea, with thousands of participants, more than a hundred boats, hundreds of trucks, and expanded goals. This mission not only aims to break Israel's illegal siege and deliver life-saving humanitarian aid, but also to establish a sustained civilian presence. Teams of doctors, nurses, eco-builders, war crimes investigators, unarmed civilian protectors and others will disembark to work alongside the Palestinian people. As they continue to endure the Israeli regime's ongoing attacks, we will begin rebuilding healthcare systems and basic infrastructure destroyed over the past two years. More HERE  |
Global Sumud Flotilla 2026 Live Tracker
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| Click on the map to open the Global Sumud Flotilla Live Tracker |
Arab Barghouti says rights groups must do more for Palestinian prisoners
April 15, 2026 - “He was bleeding for hours with any medical treatment.” Arab Barghouti is challenging human rights groups to do more to stop Israel’s abuse of Palestinian prisoners like his father, Marwan Barghouti, whose lawyer says has faced escalating attacks.
As world focuses on Iran, Israel ‘engineering starvation policy’ in Gaza
Israel’s weaponization of logistics in Gaza has caused severe shortage of fuel, food and medicines, piling misery on Palestinians.
April 15, 2026 - With the global attention fixated on the diplomatic efforts to end the war on Iran, Israel has systematically escalated its attacks on Gaza and choked off vital aid, plunging the besieged enclave into what economic experts are now calling an “engineered, compounded famine”.
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| Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, March 24, 2026 [Hasseb Al Wazeer/Reuters] |
The number of aid trucks entering Gaza has dropped drastically in violation of the October 2025 ceasefire with Hamas. Since then, the Government Media Office in Gaza has recorded 2,400 military violations by Israeli forces, resulting in the killing of more than 700 Palestinians.
More HERE
Israeli attacks kill 11, including two children, in day of strikes on Gaza
A three-year-old and a 14-year-old were among those killed in Israel’s latest strikes on northern Gaza.
April 15, 2026 - Israel’s military has killed at least 11 Palestinians, including two children, in separate attacks across the war-torn Gaza Strip, the latest violations by Israel of a “ceasefire” with Hamas that came into effect on October 10 last year.
Gaza’s Civil Defence authorities and the Reuters news agency said that a three-year-old and a 14-year-old were among those killed in the Israeli strikes in the northern part of the enclave on Tuesday.
More HERE
Monday, April 13, 2026
Palestinians appalled as Israel approves settlements in occupied West Bank
April 12, 2026 - Israel has approved 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, illegal under international law, that has Palestinians terrified they will lose their land. At an inauguration event, far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich outlined plans to expand borders across Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.
Global Sumud Flotilla heads from Barcelona to Gaza as mission grows
April 13, 2026 - A group of 39 boats known as the Global Sumud Flotilla has set sail from Barcelona to deliver aid to Gaza, with organizers saying more vessels are expected to join along the route, making it their largest mission so far.
Israeli forces intercepted and detained crew from a similar flotilla last year, but organizers say rough sea conditions mean the journey will be slower this time, with the fleet expected to reach international waters later this week.
Organizers accused Israel of repeatedly violating the ceasefire and expanding control in Gaza.
They said the flotilla aims to challenge what they describe as an illegal blockade.
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Gaza families still unable to bury dead six months into ‘ceasefire’
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| A Palestinian breaks down in tears after bone fragments are found during search operations to recover Palestinians trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building following Israeli attacks on Gaza [File: Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu Agency] |
About 10,000 Palestinians remain missing, believed to be buried under collapsed buildings since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023.
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Gaza father searches for his children’s remains in the rubble for years
A father in the Al Bureij camp in Gaza survived an Israeli airstrike but four of his children died. He’s been trying for years to recover their bodies from the rubble, but he can’t do it alone.
Six months into the ceasefire, Israel is still refusing to allow heavy equipment into Gaza, leaving an estimated 10,000 people missing under the rubble.
Israeli drone attack kills Palestinians near Gaza mosque
April 11, 2026 - An Israeli drone attack near a mosque in central Gaza has killed at least 6 people. Video shows Palestinians attempting to rescue victims of the attack.
Dressed for school, returned in a shroud: Israeli forces kill Palestinian girl in class
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| Ritaj Abdulrahman Rihan, nine, was killed by Israeli forces while in a classroom in Gaza City on 9 April 2026 (MEE/Hani Abu Rezeq) |
April 10, 2026 - Ritaj Abdulrahman Rihan was practising the subtraction of four-digit numbers during a maths lesson in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.
Her teacher had given the pupils an exercise and asked them to solve it.
Ritaj wrote down the questions, but the space left for her answers remained blank - stained instead with her blood.
The nine-year-old Palestinian girl was shot in the head by Israeli forces stationed nearby while attending class alongside around 40 other pupils at Abu Ubaida Bin al-Jarrah School on Thursday.
She was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead before her parents could say goodbye.
“Every day, I take my daughter to school so she can learn like any other child in the world,” Ritaj's father, Abdulrahman, told Middle East Eye.
“Today, about an hour after I dropped her off, I received the news that my daughter had been killed. I never expected to receive news of her killing while she was in a place of learning. It was a shock beyond words.”
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| Ola Rihan holds the bloodstained notebook of her daughter, Ritaj Abdulrahman Rihan, who was killed by Israeli fire while solving a maths question (MEE/Hani Abu Rezeq) |
The family had been living in a makeshift tent after their home was destroyed in Israeli attacks. Despite this, they insisted on keeping Ritaj in school, walking about 1km to and from classes each day.
She was their first child.
“I wanted her to learn and go to school like any other child around the world. We indeed have another four-year-old child. But Ritaj was our first child, our first joy,” Abdulrahman said.
“We were happy she had grown up enough and remained alive and healthy after two years of genocide to carry a school bag and notebooks. She was finally back at school. She was clever and loved school.”
‘Supposed to be a safe area’
Over the past two years, Ritaj had been out of school due to Israel’s large-scale attacks and the repeated displacement of her family. This was the first school year she had been able to attend following the ceasefire agreement.
Although classes are held in damaged buildings or makeshift tents, her father said it was still better than keeping her out of education altogether.
The school is in what is described as a relatively safe area in northern Gaza, around 2km from the so-called “Yellow Line” enforced by Israel.
The boundary has been unilaterally imposed and marked by the Israeli military inside the Gaza Strip since the US-brokered ceasefire in October.
It designates large areas of the territory as no-go zones, barring Palestinians - under threat of lethal force - from accessing land to the north, south and east.
However, Israeli artillery units and snipers stationed along the "Yellow Line" routinely open fire on neighbourhoods within the supposedly safe zone.
“The school is supposed to be in a safe area. It is not close to the Yellow Line, and this is why we felt comfortable enough to send her there to learn,” Rihan’s mother, Ola, told MEE.
“I had dressed her, combed her hair, and tied it for school this morning. She was returned to me dead, with her face covered in blood. I still cannot process the shock.
“Ritaj was cheerful and kind. She never caused me trouble and would always say 'yes, Mama' to everything. Even now, I see her image before me. I cannot believe she is gone.”
‘This is not ink, it’s my daughter’s blood’
Along with Ritaj’s body, Ola was given her notebook. She examined it closely, searching for what her daughter had been working on before she was killed.
“This is her notebook, and here is the lesson she was studying today, but could not finish. These are the pages stained with my daughter’s blood. This is not ink; this is my daughter’s blood,” she told MEE, holding the blood-stained pages.
“This notebook is the greatest proof of Israel’s crimes against our children.”
Israeli forces have killed and wounded scores of Palestinians near the "Yellow Line" or in relatively safe areas adjacent to it since October 2025, in continued violation of the ceasefire.
As it has gradually expanded, the military boundary has swallowed more land each month, displacing thousands of residents who had been allowed to return home under the ceasefire agreement.
In several cases, Israeli forces have flattened areas brought under its control, with homes and residential buildings bombed soon after.
“It was a shock beyond words because we never imagined losing her in this way, especially since we thought that we were safe here. Ritaj was the most precious thing I had. She was a piece of my soul,” Ola said.
“We had bought her this dress and these shoes so she could wear them to her uncle’s wedding next week. She was so happy about them and excited to wear them. But she was never able to wear them. Today, she came back to me in a shroud.”
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| Ola Rihan holds a dress and shoes she bought for her daughter’s uncle’s wedding before she was killed (MEE/Hani Abu Rezeq) |
Before Rihan, Ola had already lost her mother, her sister, her sister’s children and her uncle in Israeli attacks.
“We do not want to lose any more. Shock after shock, we are exhausted,” she said.
“Our children are killed all the time. Even after they finally managed to attend school. The occupation wants to stop the educational process.
“It does not want a generation to grow up educated and capable."
~ Middle East Eye ~
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Greenpeace to join the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza
April 6, 2026 - Greenpeace has today announced that its ship, the Arctic Sunrise, will join the upcoming Global Sumud Flotilla. Sailing alongside more than seventy vessels and over a thousand participants who seek to directly challenge Israel’s ongoing blockade of aid to Gaza. The Arctic Sunrise’s role is to provide technical and operational maritime support so that the vessels safely transit across the Mediterranean before they complete the last 200 nautical miles onto Gaza’s shores.....More HERE
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