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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This is how the GHF weaponised food aid in Gaza

Dec. 31, 2025 - Thousands of Palestinians were killed or injured at or near food distribution sites in Gaza this year as families risked their lives to get aid. Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Al Nuseirat refugee camp on how starving civilians became targets at GHF ‘deathtraps’.

Israeli troops kill six Palestinians, including a baby, sheltering in Gaza school

Dec. 20, 2025 - The Israeli military has killed six Palestinians, including a baby, who were in a school that sheltered displaced people in Gaza City on Friday, hospital officials said. Israeli troops fired over the ceasefire line that they have withdrawn to, killing the Palestinians and wounding a number more, the Palestinian civil defence said in a statement. Dozens gathered at Gaza City hospital to mourn those killed, with five body bags placed outside the hospital and a man cradling the body of an infant wrapped in a white shroud. The attack brings the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 401 since the October ceasefire took effect.....MORE

Israeli arms firms make record profits of the back of Gaza war

Dec. 22, 2025 - Israel’s defence industry is making record profits – with its weapons manufacturers marketing their products as “battle-tested”, using images of strikes on Gaza as proof of their purported success. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports.

Voices of Gaza: The Great Omari Mosque’s 2,000‑year history lies in ruins

Dec. 22, 2025 - The Great Omari Mosque is one of Gaza City’s most significant landmarks, with origins dating back more than 2,000 years. It was destroyed in an Israeli strike in December 2023. Hatem Haniya, the mosque’s administrator, reflects on its history and its deep significance to the people of Gaza.

‘No More Military Aid for Netanyahu,’ Says Sanders as Israel Ramps Up West Bank Takeover

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks to reporters during a news conference on November 5, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Dec. 22, 2025 - As Israeli settlers escalate attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank as part of a furious state-backed annexation push, US Sen. Bernie Sanders said it was yet another reason to suspend military aid to the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“It’s not just Gaza,” the independent Vermont senator wrote on social media Sunday. “Netanyahu’s extremist government is supporting the violent annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank. This is illegal and immoral, and decades of American silence have enabled it.”

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Israeli death penalty bill violates international law: Palestinian analysts

Palestinian lawyers have protested against an Israeli draft bill that would allow issuing death sentemces to Palestinians [Mosab Shawer/Al Jazeera]

Dec. 21, 2025 - Israel pushes death penalty for Palestinians, prompting accusations of racism and violations of global conventions.

Palestinian prisoners in Israel already face horrific conditions, with a rights group documenting the deaths of at least 94 of them in the past two years, and the rape of prisoners caught on camera.

The far-right Israeli minister responsible for prisons, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has proudly declared that conditions have gotten harsher for Palestinian prisoners under his watch. And in late October, he stood over Palestinian prisoners forced to lie face-down on the floor as he called for the death penalty to be introduced for those he termed Palestinian “terrorists”.

In early November, the Israeli parliament passed the first reading of a bill that would introduce the death penalty for those convicted of killing Israelis if they had “racist” motives or were doing it “with the aim of harming Israel”. The bill clearly targets Palestinians, even as Israelis carry out deadly attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and Israel continues its killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

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LIVE UPDATES 12/21/2025: Israel continues ceasefire violations; 1 Palestinian killed in Gaza

Gaza civil defence teams rescue 5 Palestinians trapped under rubble of collapsed house

December 21,2025

• One more Palestinian has been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza in its latest violation of a ceasefire that came into effect in October.
• Five people have been rescued in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City after the roof of a three-storey building collapsed.
• Israel’s repeated violations of the ceasefire are “creating major risks for transitioning to the second phase”, Turkiye’s foreign minister says.
• Two Palestinians, including a child, have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
• Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 70,669 Palestinians and wounded 171,165 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.

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'Every border lasts until the next war': Israel’s illegal and immoral settlers gather to ‘raise flag' in Gaza

Israeli settlers light candles for Hanukkah on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip in Sderot in southern Israel on 18 December (AFP/Ilia Yefimovich)

Dec. 19, 2025 - Settlers from the Nachala organisation gathered near Israel’s border with Gaza on Thursday for an event titled "Raising the Flag in Gaza".

As the name suggests, their aim is to establish Jewish settlements in the besieged territory, which has been razed to the ground by the Israeli army in over two years of bombing.

The event took place at the Sderot lookout point, a site overlooking the Gaza Strip from the southern Israeli city of Sderot.

The road leading to the lookout has become a popular tourist destination for ruthless Israelis wishing to watch in real time the destruction wrought by the Israeli army in Gaza.

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US sanctions more ICC judges, citing ruling on Israeli war crime probe

Dec. 18, 2025 - The United States has issued a new round of sanctions against staff members at the International Criminal Court, citing a recent ruling blocking Israel’s effort to halt a Gaza war crimes investigation.....MORE