25 Jan 2026

The Jews Massacre Christian & Muslim Children, Journalists In Gaza During “Ceasefire”

Family and loved ones of 17-year-old Hussein Abu Sabla mourn over his body at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, after he was shot and killed by  Jewish Israel Death Forces IDF on 19 January.

Nora Barrows-Friedman: The following is from the news roundup during the 22 January livestream. Watch the entire episode here.

At least 11 Palestinians were killed and six were injured on 21 January in a series of attacks on Gaza.

An airstrike on a vehicle killed three journalists while they were working.

Al Jazeera reported that Anas Ghunaim, Abdul Raouf and Shaath Mohammad Qeshta were documenting developments on the ground in central Gaza near the so-called Netzarim Corridor when an Israeli strike hit the car.

A fourth person was also killed in the attack, Al Jazeera added.

Video footage by reporter Osama Kahlout showed the bombed-out vehicle by the roadside, smoke still rising from the wreckage.

The reporters worked for the Egyptian Committee for Gaza Relief, which supervises Egypt’s relief work in Gaza, and were filming a newly established displacement camp.

Israeli Army Radio, citing an Israeli security source, said that the Israeli Air Force had targeted a vehicle in central Gaza, claiming that its occupants were using a drone to collect intelligence on army forces.

The Gaza government media office said that as of Wednesday, the number of reporters and media workers killed since the beginning of the genocide had risen to 260.

A separate Israeli attack in central Gaza on Wednesday killed three Palestinians, including a child, in eastern Deir al-Balah.

And in southern Gaza, a 13-year-old child, Mutasim al-Sharafi, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.

Citing hospital staff, the Associated Press reported that the child was shot while collecting firewood in the eastern town of Bani Suheila. Reporter Samer Alboji recorded footage of Mutasim’s family grieving over his body, their hands and faces covered in the child’s blood.

On 19 January, a 17-year-old boy named Hussein Abu Sabla was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in eastern Khan Younis.

Israeli soldiers shot and injured several children this week. Fares Afanah, the director of emergency and medical services in Gaza reported that a 14-year-old girl was among a group of people wounded by random Israeli sniper fire that targeted tents for displaced families in northern Gaza on Tuesday.

Afanah said that emergency crews, operating with severely limited capacity and damaged ambulances, transported injured people using the only functioning emergency vehicle in the north.

Israeli gunfire injured a Palestinian child sheltering at the Halawa School in Jabaliya in northern Gaza on 17 January.

Wafa news agency said that the attack coincided with airstrikes east of Gaza City, as well as shelling of Deir al-Balah and al-Bureij refugee camp. Gunfire from Israeli military vehicles also resumed east of Khan Younis and north of Rafah.

In a statement on the passing of 100 days since the so-called ceasefire was agreed upon, the Gaza government media office affirmed on Tuesday that Israel has violated the agreement approximately 1,300 times, and that nearly 500 Palestinians have been killed.

Among the violations were 430 shootings, 66 incursions by vehicles into neighborhoods and residential areas, 604 bombings and targeted attacks and 200 demolitions of houses and various buildings.

Israel’s compliance rate for the amount of aid and commercial trucks entering Gaza is around just 43 percent. Only 13 percent of the necessary fuel trucks have entered Gaza to operate bakeries, vehicles and generators.

More infants die of hypothermia

At least two children have died this past week due to hypothermia as Israel’s blockade on proper shelters and caravans remains in place, with no end in sight.

Last week, the Gaza government media office reported that 127,000 of the 135,000 tents in displacement camps have been rendered unusable because of the recent extreme weather.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum told the network on Monday, “Hundreds of thousands of displaced families are still living in torn tents and roofless homes exposed to the rain and cold, and the freezing nights.”

On 20 January, a 7-month-old child, Shatha Abu Jarad, died due to the severe drop in temperatures in Gaza, according to Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense.

Basal warned that thousands of children remain at serious risk as the Israeli occupation, backed by the United States, continues to block the entry of caravans, safe shelters, heating supplies, and sustainable construction materials, forcing families to survive winter inside torn tents with no protection. Basal said that these are preventable deaths, and called for immediate international action before more children lose their lives.

On 17 January, a 4-week-old infant, Aisha Ayesh al-Agha, died from hypothermia in Khan Younis.

“Humanitarian city” concentration camp plans in Rafah

As Israel continued its attacks across Gaza, the Israeli army dropped leaflets onto the tents of dozens of displaced families in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, earlier this week, ordering Palestinians to leave.

A resident from the Bani Suheila area said that the expulsion orders impact at least 70 families, living in tents and homes, some of which were partially damaged.

Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Gaza government media office, stated, according to Reuters, that the Israeli military had expanded the area under its control in eastern Khan Younis five times since the ceasefire, forcing the displacement of at least 9,000 people.

Meanwhile, the research agency Forensic Architecture released a detailed analysis of Israel’s military movements in Rafah, in southern Gaza, which suggest that Israel is “beginning to build infrastructure which may be used to house Palestinians and effectively contain them in an area under full Israeli military control.”

Forensic Architecture says that the Israeli military is currently busy razing a strategic area of Rafah, compacting the ground and clearing rubble in a way that could be in preparation for construction of a so-called “humanitarian city” – essentially, concentration camps.

The area of interest, the group says, “is half a kilometer into Israel’s area of control, bound by two military corridors, and near the camp of the Israeli-affiliated ‘Counter-Terrorism Strike Force,’ several military outposts, and former Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites. This environment suggests supervision and control, rather than humanitarianism.”

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, in a report released earlier this month, warned that the so-called “green city” plan “entrenches a reality of prolonged unlawful control, de facto annexation of land by force, and the imposition of unlawful forms of collective confinement of civilians, in clear violation of international law and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.”

Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.”

“The area designated for the new city is currently under Israeli military control and hosts armed militias created by Israel, militias that have been proven to be involved in killings, intimidation and theft against Palestinians, raising serious questions about their role in the emerging landscape being prepared in the area,” Euro-Med says.

These measures “are used as pressure tools to push residents to leave their original places of residence and forcibly relocate to designated areas labelled ‘safe’ within the closed military zone, without being granted any genuine choice to remain or return home,” the group says.

Israel kills child, destroys UNRWA compound

Turning to the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces shot and killed a child, 15-year-old Muhammad Saed Sami Naasan, in the village of al-Mughayyir, on 16 January.

Defense for Children International-Palestine reported that Mohammad was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers while Palestinian worshippers were exiting the Eastern Mosque in the village.

The Israeli forces shot tear gas canisters and stun grenades as worshippers exited the mosque after noon prayers. Palestinian youths threw stones toward the soldiers. The soldiers, who were on foot, opened fire and shot Muhammad in the chest from no more than 20 meters (or 65 feet) away, DCIP stated.

Israeli forces had been routinely harassing Palestinian worshippers on Fridays at the Eastern Mosque in al-Mughayyir for weeks, the rights group added.

Thousands of residents of al-Mughayyir village joined a funeral procession for Muhammad on 17 January.

In an escalation of routine attacks on UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, Israeli forces used bulldozers and other heavy machinery to destroy the UNRWA headquarters in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on 20 January. Israeli forces, accompanied by bulldozers, raided the UNRWA headquarters and began demolishing structures inside the compound, in the presence and under the supervision of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. In an explicit expression of political support for the destruction and undermining of a UN organization, Ben-Gvir described the events as “a historic day, a day of celebration, and a day of great importance for governing Jerusalem for many years to come,” Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said.

Ben-Gvir called UNRWA “supporters of terrorism,” saying that quote “today they are being expelled from here along with everything they built. This is what will happen to anyone who supports terrorism.”

“The demolition and accompanying statements constitute a deliberate attempt to recast UNRWA from a UN agency protected by international immunity into an ‘enemy’ stripped of legitimacy through accusations of terrorism,” Euro-Med stated.

This sets a precedent “for normalizing attacks against the agency and any independent international presence, while testing the limits of international deterrence and seeking to establish a precedent that UN immunity can be violated without consequence,” the group added.

“In Jerusalem, the act carries an explicit assertion of sovereignty aimed at entrenching de facto annexation by eliminating any UN presence that reminds the world of the city’s status as occupied territory and of the refugee issue and their rights.”

Roland Friedrich, the agency’s West Bank director, said UNRWA received word that demolition crews and police arrived at their east Jerusalem headquarters early in the day on Tuesday.

Staff have not operated out of the facility for almost a year out of safety concerns, but Israeli forces confiscated devices and forced out private security guards protecting the facility, according to a report by the Associated Press.

“What we saw today is the culmination of two years of incitement and measures against UNRWA in east Jerusalem,” Friedrich said.

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said the attack came “in the wake of other steps taken by Israeli authorities to erase the Palestine refugee identity.”

He also warned that “what happens today to UNRWA will happen tomorrow to any other international organization or diplomatic mission” anywhere in the world.

An Israeli politician, Yulia Malinovsky, posed for a photo in front of the rubble of UNRWA’s headquarters, celebrating and bragging about its demolition.

Malinovsky, born in Ukraine, is a member of Avigdor Liberman’s far-right Yisrael Beitenu party and the co-author of the 2024 bill that designated the agency for Palestine refugees as a “terrorist organization.”

Later on Tuesday, Israeli forces fired tear gas at a Palestinian trade school in a second targeting of a UN facility in occupied East Jerusalem, Al Jazeera noted.

The attack on the UNRWA compound followed last week’s raid on and forced closure of the agency’s oldest health clinic inside the Old City of Jerusalem last week.

Israeli forces are planning to cut water and electricity services to all UNRWA locations across Palestine. Eli Cohen, a government minister with the Likud party, said he sent formal requests to the power and water companies, ordering them to carry out the shutdown.

Meanwhile, Israeli settlers rampaged the small Palestinian Bedouin village of Khirbet Khallat al-Sidra, northeast of Jerusalem, on 18 January.

Video footage shows homes and vehicles bursting into flames at night. Several Palestinians were injured in the attack.

And in a report for The Electronic Intifada, journalist Zena Al Tahhan investigated plans for a new wall that the Israeli military is building deep inside the occupied West Bank.

The wall, which is 22 kilometers long and 50 meters wide, includes an off-limits military-only road and is “a project that will cut Palestinian landowners off from millions of square meters of their lands, displace Palestinian farming communities whose buildings will be demolished and further sever movement between parts of the northern occupied West Bank,” Al Tahhan wrote.

Football pitch saved – for now

As we reported a few weeks ago, the Israeli military announced plans to demolish a children’s soccer field in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

A global support campaign, paired with political pressure on international professional football figures, this week forced the Israelis to suspend the demolition.

Beloved children’s television entertainer Ms. Rachel lent her support to the children in Aida camp, speaking with them recently and hearing their stories about their fight to save their field, and how they deserve to play and be safe.

Ms. Rachel stated on Instagram, “It was an honor to listen to them and hear how much it means to them that the world is rallying around them. The people hear them and the people know what is right and what is wrong. Taking joy from kids is wrong. Dehumanizing kids is wrong. Saying some kids get to play and some don’t is wrong. Listen to the children.”

On 20 January, it was reported that the president of FIFA, the international soccer federation, along with his European counterpart, intervened, suspending the field’s demolition at least for the time being, with the final decision now resting with the Israeli government.

Mohammad Abusrour, director of the youth center at the Aida pitch, said, “This is a huge success for the campaign. But we are still concerned about what could be the final political decision of the matter. We still haven’t received official confirmation from the army.”

Following the news that the soccer field would not be demolished, Ms. Rachel posted a follow-up video for the kids in Aida camp.

Though the pitch may be saved for now, international sports bodies still have not taken any meaningful action to defend Palestinian athletes in Gaza.

New report on Israeli torture camps

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem released a new report this week, “Living Hell,” which further documents the rampant abuse and torture of Palestinians inside Israeli prison camps. 

B’Tselem says that “Israeli prisons continue to function as a network of torture camps for Palestinians, with the systematic abuse even more extensive than before. This includes physical and psychological abuse, inhumane conditions, deliberate starvation and denial of medical care, all of which has led to numerous deaths.”

Some witnesses, the group says, “also described undergoing or witnessing sexual violence and abuse. The transformation of prisons into a network of torture camps is part of the Israeli regime’s coordinated onslaught on Palestinian society, aimed at dismantling the Palestinian collective.”

Some of the report’s findings detail the use, by Israeli prison guards and doctors, of extremely graphic sexual torture with objects and dogs, as well as psychological violence.

Highlighting resilience

And now, as we always do, we wanted to highlight people expressing joy, determination and resilience across Palestine and around the world.

In Gaza, a boy who goes by Ahmed the Little Farmer, along with his cat, Simba, makes videos showing the care and cultivation of plants despite constant displacements and attacks.

Earlier this month, Ahmed and his cat were happy to find a new gardening tool.

Ahmed says, “I’m Ahmed the little farmer, with my friend Simba, I want to show you something I’ve been looking for for a long time, and I finally found it, a watering can. What do you think? Is it nice or not? I’m sure my plants will be very happy with it.”

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