UK calls on Israel to ‘allow much more aid’

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has called on Israel to “allow much more aid in and open all the routes and crossings immediately”. The Foreign Office announced that more than 1,000 tents have been allowed into Gaza following months of delay.

Cooper’s announcement comes amid repeated calls from human rights groups and protesters for the government to end its alleged complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, as it provides vital components of F-35 jets and operates Shadow R1 surveillance flights over the enclave.

Qatar says hopes to push Hamas, Israel to next phase of talks ‘very soon’

Qatar says it hopes Israel and Hamas could be brought to a new phase of negotiations for a continued peace deal in the Palestinian territory. “We think that we should be pushing the parties to stage two very, very soon,” said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari.

“That includes, of course, the issues that are complicating the situation, like the fighters in the tunnels behind the Yellow Line, like the incidents that take place every couple of days,” Majed al-Ansari said.

All but the bodies of two captives remain in Gaza, but Israel has accused the Palestinian groups of dragging their feet on handing over the remains. Hamas has said the process of retrieving the bodies has been slow because the bodies have been under the vast piles of rubble left by two years of war.

“As we have always said, the logistical situation in Gaza would certainly make it difficult to reach this result,” Ansari said, referring to the return of the bodies. He added that the return of the remains should not be a hindrance to reaching stage two.

Egypt’s FM calls for international efforts on continuation of Gaza ceasefire

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has called for coordinated international efforts to consolidate the Gaza ceasefire agreement and have it reach the second phase, which includes an international stabilisation force to be deployed in the Strip.

Abdelatty stressed the need to ensure the flow of humanitarian and medical aid to Gaza’s population and to preserve the Strip’s territorial integrity, according to a statement released during his visit to the German capital, Berlin.

Although I firmly believe Zionism started as a political movement, it has been very successful in rallying US Christian support / using religion to further their goals.

Christian Zionism: The Most Violent Belief in America

As told by an exchristian, this combined 3-part series is an in-depth explanation of the most violent belief in America: Christian Zionism. (You might've seen these segments published separately, but here's a refresher!)

After growing up indoctrinated as an Evangelical Christian in the United States - and, therefore, an unquestioning Zionist - I've learned a lot about the origins, applications, and monetary assets of the Christian Zionist movement. From the theological beginnings to the modern money behind it, let's take a look at how this belief system is manipulated to manufacture consent for ongoing violence.



Here is some of the 'indoctrination', just a week ago

This Is What Christian Zionism ACTUALLY Is...

Media influencer Tucker Carlson, listened to by millions, recently fired a shot heard around the world by labeling Christian Zionism a heresy and a brain virus. However, Christian Zionism has a history that goes back centuries, and its adherents say its roots are found in the Bible. Carlson later apologized for saying he despised "Christian Zionists" and called them "some of the nicest people I know," but he did not retract his statement that Christian Zionism is Christian heresy and a brain virus. Tricia Miller from the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) wrote an article tracing the history of Christian Zionism.


Ironically this freedom for Christians to go to Jerusalem is being met with Ultra Orthodox Jews harassing them and spitting at Christians. As reported by the US department of State: https://www.state.gov/report/custom/7dccc5dc7b
Christian churches are under attack as well.


The drive behind the genocide and ethnic cleansing is political, yet the political movement has successfully latched on to Christian theology for support. All this would have looked much differently if Herzl had gone with Argentina for the creation of a Jewish state.

"Herzl discussed Argentina's fertile land and a constitutional clause welcoming European immigration as reasons to consider it, though Palestine remained the ultimate goal due to historical and cultural ties. Ultimately, the World Zionist Organization's focus settled on Palestine"

Hence I consider Zionism a political movement (ab)using religious backing rather than the other way around. If it had started as a religious movement, Argentina would never have been considered by Herzl.

There were many destinations at first to escape Europe's anti-semitism in the 1800s
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-colonization-association-ica


I'm glad younger generations are starting to break out of Zionist indoctrination. That will only expose the political drive more while the religious support starts to falter, and with that part of the monetary support that keeps the Settler colonialism going.

This is from before the current genocide
https://theconversation.com/us-giving-to-israeli-nonprofits-how-much-jews-and-christians-donate-and-where-the-money-goes-201920

Billions donated a year

Israeli nonprofits amassed US$35.3 billion in total income in 2015, roughly $45 billion in 2023 dollars, from all sources. That total included revenue like university tuition and concert ticket sales, as well as $4.4 billion – roughly $5.6 billion in 2023 dollars – in donations from all sources, foreign and domestic.

Donations from outside Israel accounted for $2.8 billion of those gifts, about two-thirds of this kind of funding. We analyzed Guidestar’s database of nonprofit tax records to identify U.S. organizations sending money to Israel.

Israel receives possible captive remains from Gaza

The Israeli prime minister’s office has said authorities have received “findings” from Gaza, which could be the remains of two captives who have not yet been transferred from the enclave.

In a post on X, the office said the findings were transferred via the Red Cross and would be received in a military ceremony. They will then be transferred to Israel’s centre for forensic medicine for identification, the office said.

Hamas agreed to return the bodies of captives held in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement, but has said widespread destruction in Gaza has made recovery operations difficult.

Main events on December 2nd

• An Israeli drone attack in Khan Younis has killed Palestinian photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi and wounded journalist Muhammad Abdel Fattah Aslih.
• Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says authorities have received “findings” from Gaza, which could be the remains of two captives who have not yet been transferred from the enclave.
• Qatar says it hopes Israel and Hamas could be brought to a new phase of negotiations for a continued peace deal in the Palestinian territory “very soon”.
• Healthcare workers in Gaza say they are still facing critical shortages of medication and equipment despite a ceasefire having been in place for seven weeks.
• Hamas has praised the “heroic stabbing operation” carried out earlier near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ateret, in the occupied West Bank.
• Two Palestinian teenagers have been killed by Israeli forces in separate incidents in Hebron and Ramallah.

‘It’s a Massive Crime’ — Jeremy Scahill on Extrajudicial Killings in Gaza

In this Dropsite conversation, Jeremy Scahill joins Ryan Grim to break down his new reporting on Trump’s Gaza plan, the Beijing Declaration, and the growing political crisis inside Palestine.

Scahill explains how major Palestinian factions — from Hamas to secular parties — have reached an unusual level of unity around rejecting the colonial terms of Trump’s proposals. He walks through the little-reported changes Mahmoud Abbas just made to Palestinian electoral law, why human rights groups across Palestine are calling it blatantly undemocratic, and how these moves could shape any future elections. Scahill also discusses the power struggle over who speaks for Palestinians, the role China played in hosting the 2024 unity talks, and why the U.S. and Israel have resisted a genuinely representative Palestinian leadership.

Toward the end of the interview, he highlights a story receiving almost no mainstream coverage: Israel’s killing of Palestinian fighters trapped in tunnels during an active ceasefire. It’s a detailed look at the internal Palestinian political landscape, the international maneuvering around Gaza, and the reporting that’s been missing from western media.

Blow to UK MPs, lobby as Birmingham Police vindicated on Maccabi Tel Aviv ban

A group of UK MPs and a section of media owing allegiance to the Lobby did their best to keep the issue of the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans by the West Midlands police alive. But, Rifat Jawaid explains, this resulted in a spectacular own goal for them as subsequent events established that the Birmingham Police were right to ban the entry of Maccabi fans into the city for the match against Aston Villa on 6 November.

Please someone allow me a way to block/mute this thread of just mute posts @SvennoJ 

It seems this thread is working, it's keeping your attention on the genocide ;) If it was working for the rest of the world, maybe the genocide would have been ended for real by now. Not 'legitimized' and ignored again.

Is it so hard to ignore one little line in the hot topics. Don't give me ideas of changing the title daily for the latest info ;)

I will be without power today (road construction) so you'll get a 12 hour break!

What is happening in the occupied West Bank?

Israeli forces arrest three Palestinians in Bethlehem

Israeli forces have arrested three people, including a former prisoner, from the Bethlehem governorate in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported, citing security sources.

Those arrested included Khader Elias Balout, 60, from the city of Beit Jala in the west, Issa Muhammad Al-Harimi, 26, from the Abu Nujaym area southeast of Bethlehem, and released prisoner Muhammad Ibrahim Ubayat from the Wadi Abu Fariha area in the east, after raiding and searching their homes.

‘Every aspect’ of life controlled in West Bank

Amid ongoing attacks and demolitions in the occupied West Bank, Guy Shalev, executive director of Physicians for Human Rights, explains that the Israeli government is “committing genocide in Gaza and committing ethnic cleansing and horrendous attacks in the occupied West Bank”.

“I think it is valid to be worried that the mass scale of killings and destruction that we’ve seen in Gaza, we will witness them also, unfortunately, in the occupied West Bank,” Shalev told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, added that “every aspect” of life in the West Bank is “controlled and violated”.

Firyal Abu Rjeileh, a resident of the village of Attarah in Ramallah, explained that even going to get something for her children from the bookshop, which would normally take a few minutes, now takes hours due to military blockades.

“Time has no value here,” Rjeileh said.

Israeli military helicopter fires on open fields near Qabatiya

An Israeli military helicopter has been seen shooting on open fields near Qabatiya, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank as raids and interrogations continue.

The town of 29,000 people was raided three days ago, with Israeli forces taking over 10 homes and transforming them into military posts. In an escalation yesterday afternoon, soldiers imposed a curfew on residents and started conducting searches, arrests and field interrogations.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, at least 13 Palestinians were arrested during overnight Israeli military raids. In the past two years, the daily raids have nearly quadrupled since the genocide in Gaza began, with an average of 46 such raids every day last month, compared with a dozen two years ago.

Israeli forces prevent journalists from covering operations in Qabatiya

Israeli forces have prevented journalists from covering Israel’s ongoing operations in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. Wafa news agency reported that soldiers forced journalists to leave while they were covering the ongoing aggression in the town for a third day.

Israeli forces also beat up a child after storming his house as soldiers continue to raid and search homes in Qabatiya, detaining and interrogating residents.

Israel says remains handed over are not of captives

PM Netanyahu’s office says the National Centre of Forensic Medicine has determined that the findings that Hamas delivered yesterday were not linked to any of the remaining bodies of captives in Gaza.

In a post on X, the office wrote that an update was sent to the families of the two deceased captives, and efforts will not stop until all bodies are returned to be properly buried.

Following the completion of the identification process at the National Center of Forensic Medicine, it was determined that the findings brought yesterday for examination from the Gaza Strip are not linked to any of the fallen hostages.

— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) December 3, 2025

Al-Quds Brigades resumes search for captives’ remains in northern Gaza

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad says its fighters have moved their search for the remains of a captive to northern Gaza.

Two people killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City

At least two people have been killed by Israeli fire outside the yellow line in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City, a source at al-Ahli Hospital told our colleagues on the ground.


_{Mourners at the funeral of Palestinians who, according to medics, were killed in an Israeli attack on Tuesday, at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City}

All municipal facilities destroyed by Israeli forces: Mayor of al-Qarara

The mayor of al-Qarara in Gaza has told Al Jazeera that “all municipal facilities, half of its machinery and everything related to agriculture have been destroyed” by Israeli forces over the course of the war.

Palestinian groups to release body of captive today

The armed wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have announced that they will hand over the body of a captive at 5pm (13:00 GMT) today.

Rafah crossing to open ‘exclusively’ for Palestinians to leave Gaza

Israel has announced that the Rafah crossing, on the Egypt-Gaza border, will be open in the coming days, but “exclusively” for Palestinians wanting to leave Gaza.

This move is designed to empty the enclave rather than allow the freedom of movement.

In a post on X, Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) posted that the exit through the crossing would be facilitated with coordination with Egypt after those wanting to leave gain security approval by Israel and under the supervision of the EU mission.

📍UPDATE:

In accordance with the ceasefire agreement and a directive of the political echelon, the Rafah Crossing will open in the coming days exclusively for the exit of residents from the Gaza Strip to Egypt.

The residents' exit through the Rafah Crossing will be facilitated…

— COGAT (@cogatonline) December 3, 2025

Yep the 'peace' plan is nothing but an ethnic cleansing plan.

Ceasefire terms under scrutiny with ‘one-way’ opening of Rafah crossing

It’s hard to see this statement on the Rafah crossing as something that is meant to restore freedom of movement for Palestinians rather than restricting it.

It’s directed to give less mobility to Palestinians because it does not guarantee their return after being forced out of Gaza, having to flee the ongoing genocidal acts over the course of the past two years. It’s rather accelerating the process of depopulating the Gaza Strip.

As a reminder, point number eight of the ceasefire terms talks exclusively about the reopening of the Rafah crossing both ways, allowing people who were stranded outside to return and those who wish to leave or reunite with their families to be granted this freedom of movement.

This is not a full reopening of the crossing, it does not allow people to return, it restricts their movement, as well as it does not allow the free flow of humanitarian aid.

How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire?

Since the ceasefire agreement on October 10, Israel has violated it at least 591 times through the continuation of attacks by air, artillery and direct shootings, the Government Media Office in Gaza reports.

The office said Israel:

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 70,117 since start of war

At least 70,117 people have been killed across Gaza since the start of Israel’s war on the besieged enclave in October 2023. An additional 170,999 people have been wounded.

Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that five bodies, including four new deaths and one recovered body, and 13 wounded people were brought to hospitals across Gaza in the last 48 hours.

Since the ceasefire on October 11, at least 360 people have been killed, 922 wounded, and the bodies of 617 people have been recovered.