(2025-12-13). Palestine Activists Conducting Historic Hunger Strike Need Our Solidarity. popularresistance.org Seven people, all being held on remand pending trial for allegedly taking action in solidarity with Palestine, are on hunger strike in British prisons. Their names are Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed, and Muhammad Umer Khalid. An eighth prisoner, Lewie Chiaramello, who is diabetic, is also on a partial hunger strike, refusing food every other day at serious risk to his health. Today marks Day 40 without food for Qesser and Amu, who began the strike on November 2, the 108th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.
(2025-12-13). Video: Israeli tourist assaults Italians for supporting Palestine. thecanary.co In a perfect illustration of the arrogance, racism, inhumanity and sense of entitlement of Zionism and its adherents, an Israeli tourist has harassed and assaulted an Italian — in the Italian port town of Brindisi — for supporting Palestine: All too typically, local police admitted they took no action and made no arrests. Featured image […] | By
(2025-12-13). The Palestinization of the World w/ Asamblea Oaxaqueña por Palestina. counterpunch.org Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with members of the Asamblea Oaxaqueña por Palestina on Día de los Muertos in Oaxaca, México. They discuss local issues of gentrification, militarization, narco-violence, and religious Zionism, and Mexico's political and economic ties to the colonial occupation of Palestine. Asamblea Oaxaqueña por Palestina is an autonomous, non-partisan, solidarity space formed by
(2025-12-13). Iranian researcher wins Mahathir Mohammad Award 2025. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — Iranian researcher, Seyed Hadi Borhani, has won the fifth edition of Mahathir Mohammad Award for Intellectual Creativity, which honored outstanding researchers on the theme 'Palestine: A Pillar of Civilizational Renaissance'.
(2025-12-13). Saturday 12/13: Virtual Coverage of The Campaign to Free Dr. Abu Safiya. indybay.org Zoom | us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qY5v……
(2025-12-13). Palestine, Syria reach 2025 FIFA Arab Cup Quarter Finals. ummid.com Palestine and Syria have reached the 2025 FIFA Arab Cup Quarter Finals knocking out Asian Champions Qatar and 2021 Runners up Tunisia in an extraordinary display of sports skills and performance.
(2025-12-13). Palestine out of 2025 FIFA Arab World Cup, but wins hearts. ummid.com Palestine National Football Team's dream to play Semi Finals of the 2025 FIFA Arab World Cup ended after it got defeated by Saudi Arabia Thursday.
(2025-12-13). Desperate children in Gaza try to keep floodwater out of tents. aljazeera.com Video shows children in Gaza desperately trying to sweep floodwater away from their makeshift tents.
(2025-12-13). Gaza: 9,300 children treated for acute malnutrition in October. thecanary.co 
9,300 children in the Gaza Strip were treated for acute malnutrition in October, according to UNICEF. This is despite a so-called 'ceasefire' which started the same month. Aid agencies had hoped food, medical supplies and shelters would now be reaching the population, but there has been no sign of any rapid improvement. Acute malnutrition in […] | By
(2025-12-13). 13 Gazans dead as heavy rains batter territory. tribune.com.pk 
Gaza's civil defence agency on Friday said at least 13 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory. | Heavy rain from Storm Byron has flooded tents and temporary shelters across the Gaza Strip since late Wednesday, compounding the suffering of the territory's residents, nearly all of whom were displaced during more than two years of war. | Gaza's civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas authority, told AFP three children had died from exposure to the cold — two in Gaza City and one in…
(2025-12-13). Gaza flooding: Child dies as winter storms drown displacement camps. thecanary.co Medical sources reported on Thursday that a nine-month-old baby girl died as a result of the severe cold inside a tent in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. While a civil defence spokesperson revealed that Gaza flooding left thousands of tents damaged and blown away. Activists on social media shared a photo of the infant who died […] | By
(2025-12-13). Israel says killed 4 in Gaza attack, including Hamas commander. newarab.com 
The Israeli military said it killed senior Hamas commander Raed Saed on Saturday following a deliberate airstrike on vehicle in Gaza City. | Israeli officials said Saed was driving along the al-Rashid coastal road. Three others were reportedly killed in the incident, which is Israel's biggest violation of the October ceasefire so far. | The Israeli military claimed that Saed was "operating tore-establish Hamas's capabilities". | Hamas have yet to comment on the incident. | Israel has carried out multiple ceasefire violations on Saturday, carrying out several attacks on Saturday morning, including the killing of a…
(2025-12-13). President, there will be no pardon for October Thousands of Israelis rally against Netanyahu. haaretz.com While in Tel Aviv thousands called to establish a state commission of inquiry for October 7, in Jerusalem, protesters demanded the president refuse to pardon Netanyahu. In the south, people gathered to call for the return of the last hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili…
(2025-12-13). Sources: Italy tells U.S. it commits to sending troops to the Gaza stabilization force. haaretz.com Italy is the only country so far to make such a commitment. Indonesia previously said it would participate in the stabilization force, but only with medical and construction teams. Turkey, which periodically announces its intention to participate, faces strong objections by Israel…
(2025-12-13). Nikolay Mladenov being touted for Gaza 'board of peace': reports. newarab.com 
Bulgarian politician and diplomat Nikolay Mladenov could be one of the candidates to represent Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" to administer Gaza in the second phase of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement, recent reports reveal. | News of his possible inclusion on the board — which will be led by the US president — was reported by some American media outlets and comes after former British prime minister Palestinians, Arab and Muslim 'guarantor states' of the ceasefire, objected…
(2025-12-13). Eurovision legends to surrender trophies as boycott over Gaza intensifies. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — Reflecting a growing momentum in the cultural boycott against Israel, legendary Irish singer Charlie McGettigan has announced he will surrender his 1994 Eurovision trophy.
(2025-12-13). Israeli claims to have killed senior Hamas commander, Raed Saad, in Gaza. aljazeera.com There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas or from medics that Saad was among the dead.
(2025-12-13). LIVE: Israel says it killed Hamas' Raed Saad in Gaza; group condemns attack. aljazeera.com Israel says 'key' Hamas member targeted in north Strip as army threatens to bomb southern Lebanon.
(2025-12-13). Israel claims martyred senior Hamas commander. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 13 (MNA) — The Israeli occupying regime claimed on Saturday to have martyred Qassam Brigades commander Raed Saad in a strike in Gaza Stripe.
(2025-12-13). Ayaz Sadiq mourns Gaza rain deaths, condemns aid restrictions. tribune.com.pk 
National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has expressed deep sorrow over the loss of life and property caused by torrential rains in Gaza, saying the difficulties facing homeless Palestinians have reached alarming levels. | In a statement issued by the National Assembly (NA) Secretariat on Saturday, the speaker extended condolences to families affected by the severe weather and emphasised that Pakistan's parliament and people stand in complete solidarity with the people of Gaza. | Read: 13 Gazans dead as heavy rains batter territory | "Innocent civilians in Gaza are bearing the dual burden of severe weather…
(2025-12-13). Gaza students return to war-damaged colleges, holding onto hope amid ruins. independent.co.ug 
GAZA, ISRAEL | Xinhua | Among the rubble of Gaza City's Islamic University, Ahmed Totah approached his first classroom with a mix of fear and hope. The campus was badly damaged, but the 19-year-old was finally starting the university education he had dreamed of. "I never imagined this moment would come so quickly," he said, …
(2025-12-13). Over 1,000 Palestinians died awaiting medical evacuations: WHO. newarab.com 
More than a thousand Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip while waiting for medical evacuation permits from Israel between July 2024 and late November this year, the World Health Organisation said Friday. | Rick Peeperkorn, the WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territories, told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York that 1,092 patients died between July 2024 and 28 November 2025, citing Gaza's health authorities. | But he said the figure was likely an underestimate, based only on reported deaths. He added that the WHO "has called on more countries to accept patients from Gaza and for medi…
(2025-12-13). This Palestinian Town Holds 5,000 Years of History. Israel Is About to Seize It. truthout.org Israel's creeping annexation of an ancient West Bank village and its archaeological site stands to upend the lives of its Palestinian inhabitants and dispossess them of their lands. Israeli settlers and the Israeli army have stepped up efforts to make life "unbearable" for Palestinians, according to the town's residents, in order to compel them to leave. Many of them face expulsion… |
(2025-12-13). Palestinians in Jordan Valley will lose 11,000 acres because of fence 'Israel' is constructing. thecanary.co According to Haaretz, the Israeli occupation army is erecting an internal separation wall deep inside the Northern Jordan Valley — at least 12‚ÄØkilometres west of the Jordanian border. This barrier is intended to separate the illegal colonial settlements from Palestinian villages in the West Bank. Israeli occupation to construct a 22 km wall in Jordan […] | By
(2025-12-13). In the courtroom, they cry out for their murdered children and vow to hound Netanyahu. And terrified. haaretz.com On the witness stand in a Tel Aviv courtroom, amid a tedious corruption trial that skirts his far graver sins, Netanyahu was forced to face reality, if only for a moment…
(2025-12-13). The Golan Heights: From Demilitarization To A Pursuit Of Peace Analysis. eurasiareview.com By Kabir Taneja and Samidha Jain | The dramatic collapse of the Ba'athist Syria under the Bashar al-Assad government in December 2024 triggered a dramatic recalibration of the Golan Heights' status in West Asia. Israel rapidly asserted military control over the remaining Syrian portions of the territory, leaving little space for ambiguity in its strategic calculus. | Benjamin Netanyahu asserts the stance that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) presence in the region acts as a
(2025-12-13). Germany slams Israeli plan to build 764 settler housing units. newarab.com 
The statement from the foreign ministry urged Israel to immediately halt the illegal construction, writing: "In 2025, nearly 30,000 new units were approved — a new record and a cau…
(2025-12-13). hid in trash cans and garbage Unhoused people in Tel Aviv struggle to survive inclement weather. haaretz.com While some unhoused Israelis search for shelter in the street, others do so in temporary shelters. 'Anything that affects an ordinary person affects unhoused people tenfold. They're extremely susceptible to the cold,' says a doctor who volunteers in an NGO operating in the Tel Aviv area…
(2025-12-13). Hannibal directive: Israel admits killing the Bibas family. thecanary.co 
Israel's propaganda machine has long pushed — hard — a narrative that Hamas killed Israeli citizen Shiri Bibas and her two young children 'by hand' and that their deaths were only discovered early this year. It lied. UK PM Keir Starmer avidly reinforced this false narrative in his statement about the return of their bodies […] | By
(2025-12-13). Israeli police screen Hapoel Tel Aviv shirts for slogans. haaretz.com In videos captured by fans, police officers are seen at the entrance to the stadium asking Hapoel Tel Aviv fans to show them their shirts. At a game last week, fans who wore shirts with anti-police slogans were removed…
(2025-12-13). Israeli troops advance into Syrian village near Golan Heights border. tehrantimes.com Israeli troops have advanced towards the village of Saida al-Hanout in the countryside of Quneitra, in southern Syria, near the border of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Al Jazeera reported Saturday, citing the Syrian state news agency (SANA).
(2025-12-13). Friday 12/12: Protest against the israeli consulate in SF. indybay.org israeli consulate – 456 Montgomery St SF…
(2025-12-13). Israeli forces launch new attacks on southern Lebanon. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 13 (MNA) — Israeli forces carried out renewed attacks on southern Lebanon, including artillery shelling and naval fire, in a continued violation of the ceasefire agreement and UN Security Council Resolution.
(2025-12-13). Hezbollah will never accept surrender, Qassem stresses. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 13 (MNA) — Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem stressed Saturday "The resistance is not prepared to accept any framework that leads to surrender to the Israeli occupation entity or US hegemony."
(2025-12-13). 42 Lebanese 'missing', 23 captured by Israel: prisoners' group. newarab.com 
The fate of at least 42 Lebanese citizens remains unknown after last year's war with Israel, while 23 others are still in Israeli imprisonment, according to a memorandum delivered to President Joseph Aoun. | Among the 23, 11 men were captured during the Israeli offensive, nine were captured after a US-brokered ceasefire, and three were taken decades ago, according to the letter sent by the Lebanese Association for Prisoners and Released Detainees. | Cross-border hostilities since October 2023 between the Hezbollah militant group and Israel spiralled into a full-scale war in September 2024, when Israel launched a…