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A new year… and the world celebrates and sends gifts, but here in Gaza we greet it with fear, the sounds of explosions and gunfire, terrified babies, and hearts that never find peace. We're not envious of the joy, but we're pained by the difference. The situation is very difficult, and we need your support and prayers. We are human beings… not numbers šŸ’”šŸ˜”
https://chuffed.org/project/mohshbairgaza

In 2025, students around the world came together to challenge their schools' complicity in the Gaza genocide. Despite heavy repression, they won major victories, including divestment and commitments to cut ties with Israeli institutions.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/12/stunning-victories-and-rising-repression-a-look-back-at-the-global-student-movement-for-palestine-in-2025/

Israel has been panned after saying it will suspend more than two dozen humanitarian organisations from working in Gaza.

The country’s ministry of diaspora affairs said the organisations that would be banned on January 1 did not meet new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25730978.israel-suspend-work-several-humanitarian-organisations-gaza/

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I see that MSF is one of the aid organisations being banned from working in Gaza. The stated reason is a failure to abide by registration rules, the real reason (imo) is the fact that the organisation provides almost a fifth of medical care in Gaza (and 1/3 of child birth care). Having provided logistics and analytic support to MSF in a number of countries (not Gaza) and seen their work at first hand this disgusts me.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/msf-expects-be-barred-gaza-after-missing-israel-deadline-2025-12-30/

Cuando decimos "practican en lo que harÔn en tu casa", hay gente que pone cara de no creerlo. Como si fuera una exageración.

En Gaza, en Palestina, practicaron el decirle "terrorista" a la gente para asĆ­ poder deshumanizarles y masacrarles. Hoy vemos que esa misma es la que aplican en y en general en el subcontinente, tildando de "terroristas" a cualquiera que les estorbe.

Si no es por mamada que lo decimos.

NEW | Sanctioning Truth: Francesca Albanese and the Price of Exposing Israel’s Genocide

Journalist Chris Hedges recounts traveling with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, now relentlessly targeted by Israel and the United States for documenting an ā€œeconomy of genocideā€ in occupied Palestine. Days after publishing her landmark report, Albanese was placed under U.S. sanctions, her finances frozen and her work criminalized, measures Hedges describes as punishment for ā€œstanding steadfastly with the oppressed.ā€

Her report names dozens of major corporations profiting from occupation and genocide, describing Israel’s rule as a system with ā€œlittle oversight and zero accountability,ā€ where war crimes become business. For this, she has been silenced, isolated, and threatened, barred even from entering the U.S. to brief the United Nations.

Despite the repression, Albanese continues her work, documenting systematic torture in Israeli prisons. ā€œIt’s that bad,ā€ she says. ā€œIt’s systemic torture… people are taken, raped and …

"Israeli forces have carried out strikes across the Gaza Strip as they continue with their near-daily violations of the ceasefire agreement, with Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave continuing apace and displaced Palestinians enduring the destruction of their few remaining possessions in flooding brought about by heavy winter rains."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/30/israeli-strikes-on-gaza-are-relentless-as-displaced-endure-flooded-camps

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"In the United States today, people refer to rising fascism here and I think about genocide there, whether in Gaza or Sudan, or genocide then, 80 or hundreds of years ago. We protest a prison at the mall here and must also remember prisons everywhere, from the Everglades to Egypt and El Salvador, while recognizing how everyday sites around us are proximal to systems of violence."

https://www.972mag.com/fascism-america-genocide-palestine-gaza/

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