Released Palestinian Hostages accompanied by teams from the International Red Cross, arrive at the European hospital for treatment in Khan Yunis, Gaza Mega Concentration Camp on February 27, 2025
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
More than 700 bodies have been recovered from various areas of Gaza Mega Concentration Camp, with most remaining unidentified due to the severity of their injuries, according to the Gaza Civil Defense. Most of the remains “consist of dismembered body parts or mere bones.”
Israel Green Shirts killed a Palestinian teenager, on Wednesday, near the Apartheid Wall in Qalqilia, in northwestern West Bank Mega Concentration Camp. Hamed Fadl Muwafi, 17, was shot in the back of the head for the crime of not being a Jew.
Also on Wednesday, Abdul Rahman Khaled Nawas, 20, succumbed to wounds he sustained in December after an Israeli airstrike in Nur Shams, where he sustained missile fragments injuries to the head and chest.
An Israeli drone strike hit eastern Lebanon on the afternoon of 26 February, killing one person and injuring another.
Palestinian prisoners released overnight – majority Gazan noncombatants
More than 600 Palestinians prisoners were released overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, most of them in Gaza, a Hamas official told the AFP.
According to Al Jazeera, 115 of the prisoners were serving life and long sentences. Of those, 43 will be released in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, 11 will be returned to Gaza and 97 Palestinians will be exiled out of the occupied Palestinian territories.
An additional 445 Palestinians forcibly disappeared from Gaza were released, along with 46 Palestinian women and children, Al Jazeera reported.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (Asra) reported that most who arrived in Gaza were suffering from skin diseases, according to Al Jazeera.
The prisoners were in a state of extreme emaciation, and many were unable to walk due to severe beatings and torture, said Saleh al-Hams, head of the nursing department at the European Hospital in Khan Younis.
One of the prisoners was kept overnight for treatment of lung fibrosis, while all the released prisoners received medication for scabies. The majority had suffered severe chest beatings, resulting in fractured ribs, al-Hams added.
One former prisoner arrived with an amputated hand, and another with an amputated foot due to untreated diabetes.
The Palestinian Red Crescent in Jerusalem received Palestinian prisoner Kazem Zawahra early on Thursday morning, as part of the prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel.
In a brief statement, the organization confirmed that its crews transferred the wounded prisoner, who has been in a coma for months, from the Israeli Hadassah Ein Kerem to Al-Hussein Hospital in Beit Jala, Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank.
Hamas handed over the bodies of 4 Israeli hostages to Israel on Wednesday night.
Yet another Gazan detainee dies in Israeli detention
Photos of freed Palestinian reveal Israel’s brutal torture: Lost eye, severe burns after 1 year in prison
Israeli forces used brutal torture methods on Palestinian prisoners, including electric shocks, severe beatings, and exposure to corrosive chemicals, as one of those released recently lost an eye and suffered extensive burns on his skin during custody.
Palestinian Mohammed Abu Tawila is currently hospitalized, with doctors describing his condition as both physically and psychologically traumatized.
Abu Tawila, a professional engineer, has visible signs of torture on his skin, indicating that he was subjected to harmful chemicals while in detention.
He was detained in the Gaza Strip during Israeli attacks and subjected to brutal interrogation, including physical and psychological torture.
He was tortured with electric shocks, high-pressure cold water, severe beatings, and exposure to corrosive chemicals, and due to this, he lost an eye and sustained severe burns to his skin.
Abu Tawila was tortured by Israelis until his release, as he was forced to walk a long distance in handcuffs and stripped naked before being freed.
By the time he arrived at the Karem Abu Salem crossing, also known as the Kerem Shalom crossing in Israel, his condition was reported to be extremely critical.
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US House committee told to use Hebrew term for Israeli-occupied West Bank: Report
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) instructed committee staff to refer to the Israeli-occupied West Bank by its Hebrew name Judea and Samaria, according to a copy of an internal committee memo obtained by Axios.
The international community, including the U.S. government, refers to the territory Israel occupied in 1967 as the West Bank and doesn’t recognize Israeli sovereignty there. Roughly 3 million Palestinians and half a million Jewish settlers live [illegally] in the West Bank.
A source with direct knowledge of Mast’s directive said the congressman sent the memo to the 50 Republican staffers on the committee on Tuesday. It is not binding for the Democratic staffers.
He wrote that “in recognition of our unbreakable bond with Israel and the inherent right of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland, the House Foreign Affairs committee will, from here forward, refer to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria in formal correspondence, communication and documentation.”
NOTE: Israel has illegally built around 280 settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are home to more than 700,000 illegal settlers. Israeli settlements and settlers on Palestinian land are a violation of international law, and considered by many Palestinians to be the main barrier to any lasting peace agreement.
Some settler groups, moreover, have a history of violence against Palestinians, often with the assistance of Israeli military forces.
In a landmark advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Columbia’s Barnard College is first to expel students over Gaza war
Two students on Friday were expelled from Barnard College, which is part of Columbia University, for disrupting a class as an act of political protest.
The students were part of a group of four who walked into a “history of modern Israel” class on the first day of the spring semester on 21 January to “provide a discursive alternative” to a class they say “dodged questions of Palestinian self-determination and whitewashed the ongoing genocide” in Gaza.
The students distributed fliers, which interim president Katrina Armstrong says contained “violent imagery that is unacceptable on our campus”.
Three days later, two of the students faced interim suspensions and were banned from all campus facilities, including dorms, libraries, health services, and dining halls. According to the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (Cuad) Collective Defense Working Group, all of this took place without an investigation or hearing.
On Friday, they were formally expelled less than a month after they were suspended.
Cuad says that students were not granted a representative during the investigative process and were left to prove their innocence instead of the authorities providing evidence they were guilty.
According to the group, the expulsions took place under the auspices of the Barnard Office for Student Intervention and Success, a “new disciplinary body” which issued “interim suspensions” which don’t require investigations or hearings unlike formal suspensions.
Cuad says the new office has been used “almost exclusively” to target pro-Palestine students (continue reading here).
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New York Governor Orders CUNY Take Down Job Posting for Palestinian Studies
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has reportedly ordered a City University of New York (CUNY) college to remove a job posting for a professorship in Palestinian Studies, sparking outrage among advocates who say she is contributing to the censorship and dehumanization of Palestinians amid widespread repression of anti-Zionists across the U.S.
The New York Post, quoting Hochul’s office and CUNY officials, reported that the Democrat ordered the takedown along with an investigation into the institution, Hunter College, to “ensure that antisemitic theories are not promoted in the classroom,” seemingly without substantial cause.
CUNY complied with the order, and postings for two positions within the social sciences and arts and humanities departments have been taken down.
The order came after fervently Zionist groups waged a campaign accusing Hunter College of spreading “blood libel” in posting the jobs — a common accusation hurled by Zionist groups, often without substantial evidence to back it up — and likening the posting to Nazi propaganda. The job listing did not mention Israel or Jewish people.
“We seek a historically grounded scholar who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to: settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender and sexuality. We are open to diverse theoretical and methodological approaches,” the posting said.
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