Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a victory lap last week as President Donald Trump’s sham Board of Peace took hold in Gaza and said Tel Aviv will now “maintain security control over the entire area from the Jordan River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.”
Israel and the United States are working out a new 10-year security deal as Tel Aviv’s current “memorandum of understanding,” which provides Israel with $3.8 billion a year, nears its end in 2028.
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, laid out plans last month for a futuristic Gaza with hotels lining its beaches and skyscrapers, and he told an audience in Davos that there is no “Plan B” and he was banking on “catastrophic success,” which would include the complete disarmament of Hamas.
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.
Phillippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), called Israel’s demolition of his agency’s offices in occupied East Jerusalem an “unprecedented attack” and a “new level of open and deliberate defiance of international law” by Israel.
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.”
Palestinian health officials announced Tuesday that Israel has killed at least 71,551 people inside Gaza and injured 171,372 since the star of the genocidal war in October 2023.
The Israeli military and Shin Bet security agency released data on Monday that found a 27 percent increase in “settler” violence against Palestinians in the West Bank in 2025, according to a report.
The Lebanese Health Ministry announced Thursday that Israel killed another two people in airstrikes in the southern part of the country as Tel Aviv continues to violate the November 2024 ceasefire.
Newly released satellite images show IDF troops taking more land in Gaza—hundreds of meters past the “yellow line” that essentially cuts the enclave in half, dividing it between an Israel-controlled side and a Palestinian-controlled side, which is closer to the Mediterranean Sea, according to a new report.