#Trump urges Iran negotiations and praises #Netanyahu for conduct in #Gaza. VP #JDVance says Trump wants a deal that blocks #Iran’s nuclear program. Netanyahu, wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, signs onto Trump’s “Board of Peace.” #Hamas leadership meets with an Iranian representative. #US draft proposes gradual disarmament of Hamas. Prominent #Palestinian leader assaulted and starved in prison. #Israel revokes citizenship of two Palestinians. GHF “security provider” in talks with Trump’s Board of Peace about a future role in Gaza. Thousands of #UK passport holders served in Israeli military during Gaza #genocide, records show. #China offers support to #Cuba amid US-driven fuel shortage. Russia says it will observe expired nuclear treaty if the US does the same.
“The outrage against Francesca is engineered by politicians who for years now have done their utmost to arm and provide diplomatic cover to Israel's genocide”.
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis issued a message of solidarity with Francesca Albanese as she prepares to present her eighth report to the United Nations on the situation of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Varoufakis said Albanese is facing a coordinated campaign of “demonization,” as certain NGOs and European governments are pushing for her resignation in order to deflect attention from Israel’s genocide, corporate profiteering from occupation, abuses against Palestinian detainees, and ongoing violations of international law.
He argued that efforts to silence Albanese would fail, stating that she will continue exposing Israeli crimes whether or not she remains in her UN role, and warned her critics that removing her could amplify her impact rather than diminish it.
Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian elderly woman with batons during their attack on Khirbet Ghuwein, near the town of Al-Samu, south of Hebron, leaving her injured.
#Australia is demanding criminal charges over a 2024 Israeli airstrike on an aid convoy in #Gaza that killed seven people, including an Australian aid worker, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday in a case that has drawn sweeping condemnation and strained relations between the two countries.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he conveyed the request to visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog during a meeting earlier in the day.
Australian Zomi Frankcom was one of four #WorldCentralKitchen aid workers killed by an #Israel drone on April 1, 2024. The other aid workers were an American-Canadian dual citizen, a #Palestinian and a Polish national. Three British security staff were also killed in the same airstrike.
Today, Israeli bulldozers demolished several Palestinian homes in the village of Barta’a, west of Jenin, as part of a systematic campaign to displace and forcibly evict Palestinians carried out by the Israeli authorities.
By Carlos Aznárez, Resumen Latinoamericano
Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann
Feb. 3, 2026
Mariela Castro, in addition to being the head of CENESEX (Cuba's National Center for Sex Education), is an active militant in all aspects of internationalist #solidarity. Completely committed to the defense of the #Palestinian Resistance and against #Zionism, she now adds among her priority concerns, first, joining her people in developing to the fullest extent the political and military defense of #Cuba against imperialist attack, and then, for the same reasons, total support for Bolivarian #venezuela.
In the old city, or Casco Viejo, bills addressing the #genocide are pasted on the facades between shop windows; "Boikota #Israel" (#BoycottIsrael) are widely sprayed on the walls of apartment blocks.
On the balconies of the colourful apartments overlooking the Nervion River, #Palestinian flags are draped from every second or third apartment.
Every flag that flutters in the wet breeze announces itself as proof of life.
The level of pro-#Palestine solidarity is unlike any other city I have visited in the western world over the course of the genocide.
#US uses chartered private jets to deport #Palestinian men to the occupied #WestBank. Another US boat strike in the Pacific. Progressive challenger narrowly leads in the primary election for Mikie Sherrill’s New Jersey congressional seat. DOJ files reveal years of contact between Apollo chief Marc Rowan and #JeffreyEpstein. Local police often decline to probe shootings by federal #immigration, ProPublica investigation says. Justice Department moves to gut immigration appeals process. #Cuba prepares national defense plan and #UN chief warns of humanitarian collapse as the US moves to block any #oil supplies from reaching the country. #Israel fire strikes multiple areas across southern and eastern #Lebanon. Senior #Russian intelligence general shot in Moscow.
🚨 HORRIFIC: In a mass grave in Dair Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Palestinians bury 15 unidentified bodies abducted by the Israeli army during the genocide and returned a few days earlier.
Israeli forces shoot a man in Qalqilya, raid villages near Ramallah. #Israel holds hundreds of #Palestinian bodies. US contractor pitched #Gaza plan with massive profits. Former Israeli Prime Minister #EhudBarak warned of a one-state future in a 2013 conversation with Epstein and Summers. Released Palestinian prisoner dies after detention. #DHS expands body cameras after #Minneapolis shootings. DHS labels #Portland protester as #Antifa leader. #SEC moves to revive risky mortgage securities. Trump says the US is close to #Cuba agreement. US and #Iran plan first talks since war. #US advances Sudan peace plan via #Trump’s Board of Peace. #French judges issue warrants over Gaza aid obstruction.
Returnees to Gaza are facing severe Israeli restrictions at the Rafah Crossing, where only 12 Palestinians were allowed to enter on the first day of limited operations. Many reported hours of interrogation, invasive searches, and verbal abuse, with women facing particular humiliation and pressure to cooperate with the Israeli army.
The normally short trip into Gaza stretched into a 20‑hour journey due to repeated military stops. These measures aim to intimidate Palestinians and deter them from returning to the strip.
An armed Israeli settler was filmed yesterday trespassing on private Palestinian land in Susiya, south of Hebron. The footage shows him harassing and verbally assaulting the landowner.
About 200 artists and cultural workers in Canada signed a statement announcing their boycott of the Scotiabank Photography Award in protest against Scotiabank’s investments in the Israeli company Elbit Systems, which produces weapons used in the genocide against Palestinians.
The boycott campaign is organized by the group No Arms in the Arts (NAITA), which called on major cultural organizations and festivals, such as the Toronto Biennial of Art and the CONTACT Festival, to pressure the bank to divest from these investments.
The statement described the award’s website and the bank’s financial support as a means of whitewashing the reputation of funders who profit from the arms industry.
The boycott is part of an ongoing campaign that previously targeted the bank’s sponsorship of other awards and festivals, including the Giller Prize and Hot Docs Festival, after the bank reinvested in Elbit Systems in 2025.
‘No, That Is Not Your Job,’ Say Critics After Schumer Claims ‘Job’ Is to ‘Fight for Aid to Israel’ “75%of Democratic voters oppose sending Israel more military aid, as do 66% of independents and 60% of Americans overall" https://www.commondreams.org/news/schumer-israel-aid
Progressive critics of Chuck Schumer had fresh reasons to speak out Sunday after the powerful NY Democrat said that “one of many of [his] jobs” in the #US Senate was to fight for ongoing taxpayer-funded military and financial assistance to the Israeli government, a position that has been the focus of growing protest among party members and the public at large in the face of #Israel’s brutal genocide against the #Palestinian people of #Gaza.
“I have many jobs as [Senate] leader... and one is to fight for aid to Israel — all the aid that Israel needs,” Schumer said at a gathering of Jewish leaders and community members in NY... #FreePalestine #SanctionIsrael #news#politics#Palestine#USpol
One year ago, Israel launched Operation Iron Wall, expelling 40,000 Palestinians from the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps in the #WestBank and launching a campaign of mass demolition. Majd Jawad reported how Israel is preparing permanent control of the camps by paving military roads — while refugees wait not only to return, but to reclaim the rights the camps preserved.
Muhammad Shehada unpacked how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu is sabotaging phase two of the Gaza ceasefire. By undermining the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), a new Palestinian technocratic body supervised by #US President Donald #Trump’s Board of Peace, Israel is trying to make Gaza appear ungovernable — and prove the need for its sustained military rule.
Also:
What the Joint List’s revival signifies for Palestinian #politics in Israel
De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life
#Gaza’s healthcare destruction isn’t new. As this analysis by Al-Shabaka
@alshabaka (The Palestinian Policy Network) shows, it’s the peak of a 58-year policy.
From calculated neglect (1967-86) to weaponization during the First Intifada, bureaucratic strangulation under Oslo, siege-induced collapse (2007-23), and now systematic annihilation - #Israel has transformed #Palestinian health from a protected right into a tool of colonial control.
Laith Malas calls this “de-healthification” - a policy designed to make Palestinian life unhealable, and ultimately, impossible. This has involved 1,400+ healthcare workers killed since Oct 2023, 700+ attacks on health facilities, leaving under 1,800 hospital beds for 2 million people.
Rafah land crossing, Gaza’s only gateway to the world, has been turned by the Israeli occupation into a tool for extorting Palestinians and a place where patients face life-threatening delays.
Before the genocide war, the crossing operated daily, allowing an average of 3,000 people to exit and the same number to enter each week, meaning around 500 people could pass daily. After the genocide, the Israeli occupation restricted the number to only 150.
This small number makes travel, especially for patients, extremely difficult and requires very long waiting times.
These Israeli policies aim to humiliate, insult, and pressure Palestinians. These restrictions turn the crossing from a travel gateway into a barrier of humiliation.
Former UK Prime Minister #TonyBlair urges #Palestinian members of #Gaza transitional body to avoid politics. #Hamas says #Israel delayed the recovery of the remains of the final Israeli captive despite prior notice. Gaza City faces imminent collapse of water services. Secretary of State #MarcoRubio defends #Venezuela operation kidnapping Nicolás Maduro as “law enforcement” and details plans to control Venezuela’s domestic expenditures. Springfield officials brace for #ICE surge as Haitian TPS nears expiration. #ICE shifts to “targeted” arrests in #Minnesota after deadly clashes. #NYC Mayor #ZohranMamdani backs dismantling counterterrorism unit after it made anti-ICE arrests.
Breaking | According to Channel 14, the Rafah Crossing will reopen starting Sunday morning, but under strict Israeli controls that sharply limit Palestinian movement.
While the reopening is presented as allowing travel in both directions, the report makes clear that entry into the Gaza Strip will be capped on a daily basis, whereas exit will remain unrestricted, effectively regulating who is allowed back into Gaza.
According to the report, all movement will be conducted in coordination with Egypt, but only after prior Israeli security approval, and under the supervision of a European Union mission, reviving the same restrictive mechanism used in January 2025.
The report further states that only Palestinians who left Gaza during the war will be permitted to return from Egypt, solely after receiving advance Israeli security clearance, underscoring that the crossing’s reopening remains tightly controlled by Israel rather than freely accessible to Palestinians.