Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced last week that Israel will join President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace,” which is ostensibly intended to focus on the future of Gaza and its inhabitants, but it has been widely criticized as a farce.
B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, released a report on Thursday that said from the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 to the beginning of January 2026, at least 84 detained Palestinians died in Israeli prisons or detention facilities, which the report said are more like a “network of torture camps.”
The IDF destroyed at least 2,500 buildings inside Gaza since the start of the October 2025 ceasefire, The New York Times reported, citing satellite images, because international journalists are not allowed inside the enclave.
Israel has killed over 400 Palestinians inside Gaza since the October ceasefire went into effect and injured another 1,115, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
The imaginary so-called yellow line that Israel illegally invented divides Gaza in half, with the IDF controlling the east and the Palestinians to the west, has become an albatross because of the reality that Israel has no intention of ever withdrawing its forces, which was a key component of President Donald Trump’s so-called peace plan for the enclave that Israel has bombed to ruins.
Israel is still refusing to allow foreign journalists into Gaza to inspect with their own eyes the disaster area left behind after a two-year-long punishment campaign in response to the Hamas attack in October 2023.
Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, announced last week that Israel will allow the construction of 764 new houses in three strategically important settlements inside the West Bank, which he said will ensure “continuity of life, security and growth.”
Palestinians living in the West Bank are experiencing an Israeli land-steal not seen in decades as Tel Aviv implements its plan to build 22 new villages inside settlements in the northern West Bank.
Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the IDF chief of staff, met with Israeli troops stationed inside Gaza on Sunday and informed them that the so-called Yellow Line that has been treated like the start of a No Man’s Land separating his troops from Palestinians should be treated like the new border, according to a report.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues, despite the U.S.-backed ceasefire, as the Israelis continue to inflict conditions on the Palestinian population that are “calculated to bring about their physical destruction,” Amnesty International said in a new report.