A Palestinian youth walks past tents in a makeshift camp for displaced people during a dust storm in Zawaida, in the central Gaza Strip, February 14, 2026
BRITISH and US medics are raising the alarm after they were denied re-entry into Gaza after they spoke out against Israel’s genocide.
They have claimed that rates of refusal have increased for medical organisations providing critical humanitarian aid to the survivors of Israel’s brutal military assault on Gaza since October 2023.
Medics described having their applications to enter the strip arbitrarily denied without being given a clear reason for being blocked.
Many have since said Israel has denied them entry after they have first-hand experience of their time in Gaza since 2023, while others told the Guardian they believed their identity of prior experience in the territory played a factor in the refusal.
Israel is bound by international law to allow and facilitate the unimpeded and rapid passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Its registration guidelines for NGOs and foreign staff include questions asking if applicants have participated in a boycott of Israel.
Emergency doctor James Smith travelling with Medical Aid for Palestinians has not been able to return to the territory since 2024 following two entry refusals in 2025 without being given a reason.
“I can only assume that it was elements of my public profile, because I’m otherwise a white, middle-class, British man with no Palestinian heritage, no criminal convictions,” he told the Guardian.
He added that he had recently spoken to media outlets “in a particular way” which may have “rattled them.”
Consultant surgeon Khaled Dawas said it was clear that anyone who had been outspoken about the brutality of the conflict was denied entry.
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Mourners carry the body of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen during his funeral in the West Bank Bedouin village of Umm al-Khair, August 7, 2025
ISRAELI prosecutors plan to charge a settler over the killing of a Palestinian activist during a confrontation caught on video, launching a rare action against Jewish settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
Attacks by settlers and home demolitions by the Israeli authorities have spiked dramatically over the past two years, but the death in July of Awdah Hathaleen has drawn particular attention, due to his involvement in last year’s Oscar-winning film No Other Land, which chronicled Palestinian villagers’ fight to stay on their land.
The case also stands out because the confrontation between Palestinians and Yinon Levi, an internationally sanctioned settler, was captured on video from multiple vantage points.
In footage that family members say was taken by Mr Hathaleen himself, Mr Levi can be seen firing at the person holding the camera.
Another video showed Mr Levi firing two shots without showing where the bullets struck.
An Israeli judge released Mr Levi from custody six months ago, citing a lack of evidence that he had fired the shots that killed Mr Hathaleen.
The attorney general’s office confirmed in a statement on Monday that it had initiated proceedings to charge Mr Levi. It did not specify the charges.
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Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai speaks at a rally outside the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority alongside labor and tenant organizers in support of a statewide eviction moratorium on January 31, 2026 in Minneapolis. (Screenshot from a video posted by Twin Cities Tenants/Instagram)
“Tenants in Minnesota are in a crisis,” said Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai. “The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home and devastated our local economy.”
Tenant and labor unions in Minneapolis and St. Paul have announced plans to carry out what they said would be the “largest rent strike in the United States in the last 100 years.”
Beginning on March 1, if Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz does not meet their urgent demands for an eviction moratorium and rent relief, a coalition of nearly 26,000 workers has pledged to withhold rent, which they said could create a massive economic disruption.
The plans were announced on Tuesday by the tenants union Twin Cities Tenants, which is joined by five labor unions: Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 26, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota/Iowa, UNITE HERE Local 17, the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) 1005, and Communication Workers of America (CWA) 7250.
They argued that a freeze on rents is desperately needed after “nearly three months of federal occupation” under President Donald Trump’s “Operation Metro Surge,” which sent nearly 3,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other immigration agents to the area, resulting in multiple fatal shootings and a wave of civil rights violations, including explicit racial profiling.
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The unions said the daily presence of militarized agents “has taken a painful economic toll on poor and working-class tenants across the Twin Cities.”
“Over 35,000 low-income Twin Cities households were already unable to afford the rent before the federal siege,” they said. “Estimates show over $47 million in lost wages among people who have not been safe to go to work, and at least $15.7 million in additional rental assistance needed due to lost household income—leaving many of those households at imminent risk of eviction.”
Evictions in Hennepin County spiked by 45% between this January and last, while requests for financial assistance have nearly doubled, according to a report this month from the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.
As the federal siege wore on and immigrants remained trapped in their homes, community members raised tens of thousands of dollars through GoFundMe campaigns. But it proved far too little to help the thousands of families suddenly at risk of losing their homes.
Twin Cities tenants formed a union and are demanding a state-wide eviction moratorium to keep tenants housed amidst mass ICE raids.
On January 30, tenant organizers, union members, and other local activists staged a sit-in at the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority and called for an immediate halt to evictions. Another group gathered outside the governor’s mansion in St. Paul.
“We’re here today because federal immigration enforcement, eviction courts, and the police power of the state are converging to terrorize the same families,” said Jess Zarik, co-executive director of HOME Line. “Housing instability is being used as a weapon, and the scale of this crisis is unlike anything we’ve seen in our 34-year history.”
While city and state leaders have fought back rhetorically against the Trump administration’s highest-profile abuses—including the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by agents last month—and called for accountability, organizers said they’ve been slow to remedy the wider effects it has had on working-class residents across the Twin Cities.
“A lot of people just can’t get to and from work because ICE has been stopping random cars on the road, largely based on what they think the skin color of the driver is,” said Klyde Warren, a Minneapolis renter and Twin Cities Tenants organizer. “How are you supposed to go to work and make money to pay your rent in those conditions? The answer is a lot of people just can’t right now, but the eviction courts are still operating as if things are normal and they’re not normal.”
Last week, Walz’s office toldAxios that the governor “does not currently have the legal authority to enact an eviction moratorium.”
Walz enacted an eviction moratorium in early spring 2020, which tenant organizers said allowed renters to stay home safely to avoid risks from the Covid-19pandemic. He did this using what is known as a “peacetime emergency” declaration, which allows the governor to circumvent typical rulemaking procedures during extraordinary circumstances.
The city councils of both Minneapolis and St. Paul voted unanimously last month for nonbinding resolutions calling on Walz to take similar action to protect vulnerable residents from displacement.
“Tenants in Minnesota are in a crisis. The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home and devastated our local economy,” said Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai (D-10). “We need real solutions for the cliff of the rental crisis we are facing on March 1.”
“I will be going on rent strike on March 1, and I call on my constituents to join me, until we can get a real solution from our state government for this crisis,” she said.
Even as ICE’s operation draws to a close, some agents are still deployed and arresting Twin Cities residents. Organizers said that even after the surge itself ends, the economic fallout will need to be addressed.
“We absolutely need an eviction moratorium,” said Geof Paquette, the internal organizing director at UNITE HERE Local 17. “Our members were struggling to keep up with housing costs before ICE occupied our streets. It has now become an emergency as many of our members are behind in their rent. It’s well past time for some relief.”
The unions have estimated that if just 10,000 of their members withheld their rent, it could cause $15 million in economic disruption and pressure the city and state government into action.
“The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul have shown the way, fighting a federal invasion and caring for their neighbors; their fight and their care continue in this historic rent strike,” said Tara Raghuveer, director of the Tenant Union Federation. “Tenants and workers have decided that… they have no other choice but to strike. In taking this step, they join a storied tradition of struggle. The struggle can end whenever the governor steps in to do what’s right.”
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2-Month-Old infant Juan Nicolás has been detained at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas since January and was hospitalized on February 16, 2026. (Photo: @lidiaterrazasnews/Instagram)
The hospitalization came two days after the baby had a previous medical episode in which he was reportedly “choking on his own vomit.”
As advocates including US Rep. Joaquin Castro demanded the immediate release of a 2-month-old baby, Juan Nicolás, who has been detained with his mother at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas for close to half of his young life, the infant was rushed to a hospital early in the morning on Tuesday after suffering from respiratory issues and vomiting in recent days.
Lidia Terrezas, a reporter for Univision, spoke to officials at the Dilley detention center and reported in an Instagram video that Juan Nicolás had been transported via ambulance at about 7:00 pm Central time. KABB Fox News 29 in San Antonio reported Tuesday morning that the baby had been “treated and released.”
“It’s unclear what happened for them to take him to the hospital,” said Terrezas. “It is my understanding that he was taken by ambulance. So at some point the decision was made that he should be taken to a hospital immediately.”
The reported hospitalization came two days after the baby had “a medical episode at approximately 3:00 am Saturday,” according to the San Antonio Current, and hours after Castro (D-Texas) provided an update about the infant’s condition after being detained at Dilley nearly a month ago.
“He’s been sick consistently,” said Castro in a video posted on X. “He was vomiting, he’s been having respiratory issues. They came to check on him when he was having these issues, but they couldn’t take him to see a doctor because there was no doctor in the early morning hours at Dilley.”
During an earlier visit to Dilley, Castro saw the facility’s medical wing, complete with beds for children and families who need medical attention at the center built to hold up to 2,400 people—but witnessed no actual medical providers working there.
“These kids should be released, and these folks who have committed no crime should not be in this trailer prison,” said Castro.
In his earlier medical episode, Juan Nicolás was described as “choking on his own vomit.”
“This baby in particular is very vulnerable,” said Castro Monday. “For those of you that are parents… you know how vulnerable kids are at the age of 2 months. And so I have been pressing [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement] hard to let Juan Nicolás go free… They are on notice that he has been sick, that they don’t have the medical capacity to treat him properly, and that his life, if this continues, could be in danger.”
CoreCivic, the private prison company that runs Dilley, claims the medical wing is fully staffed and offers 24/7 care, according toNBC News Channel 4 in San Antonio.
But Castro’s report of the facility’s failure to provide medical care is not incongruous with numerous reports of medical neglect at other detention centers where ICE is detaining tens of thousands of people, including about 170 children on any given day, on average.
Detainees have reported being unable to access medical care at facilities including Krome North Service Processing Center in Florida; North Lake Processing Center in Michigan, where an immigrant named Nenko Stanev Gantchev was found dead in his cell in December; and Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, where at least three people have died in 44 days recently.
El Paísreported on Monday on medical neglect of children at Dilley. A 5-year-old boy suffered acute appendicitis “with severe pain,” according to the newspaper.
“The staff member responsible for attending to him told his mother to come back in three days if the pain continued,” reported El País. “He lay on the floor in agony for hours until, after they saw him vomiting, he was finally taken to a doctor and eventually underwent surgery. After he was discharged from the hospital, it was difficult to obtain the medication he had been prescribed.”
The 1997 Flores Agreement set a 20-day maximum for children to be held in immigration detention, but with Juan Nicolás detained for about three and a half weeks, according to Castro, the baby is one of hundreds of children who have been held at Dilley for at least a month.
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Jesus Flores, who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement on February 12, 2026 in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota is surrounded by his family. (Photo from Dionisia Leyva/GoFundMe)
“They lied to my dad that they needed help with their car,” his son said. “My dad’s a generous guy, he’s willing to help anybody.”
When two women knocked on the door of Jesus Emmanuel Flores-Aguilar, begging for help with their car, the father of six didn’t hesitate to help. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ensured that his good deed would not go unpunished.
Minutes after Flores walked out of his home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on Thursday and got to work looking under the hood of the car, three unmarked SUVs sped toward him, tires screeching behind him.
A horde of officers hopped out, raced toward Flores, and tackled him to the ground, footage recorded by a neighbor shows.
By Friday, Flores was already in an ICE detention facility in Texas, awaiting deportation.
“They lied to my dad that they needed help with their car,” said Flores’ son Miguel, who—like his siblings—is a US citizen. “I mean, they figured out that he was a mechanic. You know, my dad’s a generous guy, he’s willing to help anybody.”
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Though he is undocumented, Flores, who is from Mexico, has lived in the US for more than 15 years.
In a statement to the Independent, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), claimed that Flores was “a criminal illegal alien [from] Mexico and former Vatos Locos 13 gang member who was removed TWICE from this country, a felony.” She added that “his criminal history includes an arrest for felony assault.”
Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul previously reported that when it searched for Flores’ criminal history, it found only parking violations.
The vast majority of those who have been swept up in President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” campaign have not had any criminal records. According to data from DHS on January 25, just over 74% of those held in ICE detention have no criminal convictions.
“The main reason he came here to the United States and was willing to come back is to give us a better life, and that’s what he’s done. He’s sent me and my sister to college,” Miguel told Fox 9. “There’s no other reason to deport my dad, he’s a hard-working individual.”
Miguel’s father was the victim of the sort of deceptive tactics that have become a hallmark of ICE arrests and have often been deployed during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis and the surrounding area.
As the Associated Press reported earlier this month, ICE has regularly relied on what the agency calls “ruses” to pursue targets.
According to Minnesota’s large network of citizen observers, agents have shown up at construction sites in hard hats and yellow vests to lure laborers into their clutches. They’ve disguised themselves as delivery drivers or electricians to trick home and business owners into coming outside. They’ve been filmed leaving scenes with Mexican flag decals on their bumpers and stuffed animals on their dashboards. And in some cases, they’ve even posed as anti-ICE activists.
These tactics are not new. An agency memo from 2006 described them as “an effective law enforcement tool that enhances officer safety” and claims they are used “to prevent violators from fleeing and placing themselves, officers, and innocent bystanders in a potentially dangerous situation.”
But Naureen Shah, the director of immigration advocacy at the ACLU, argues that they have only sown chaos.
“If you have people afraid that the electrical worker outside their house might be ICE, you’re inviting public distrust and confusion on a much more dangerous level,” she told the AP. “This is what you do if you’re trying to control a populace, not trying to do routine, professional law enforcement.”
These tactics became more common during Trump’s first term, prompting a lawsuit from the ACLU, which claimed they violated the Fourth Amendment.
In August, a settlement banned agents from misrepresenting their identity and purpose in Los Angeles, but the practice continued elsewhere in the US.
Shah said ICE appears to be using these tactics in Minnesota to a “more extreme degree than we’ve seen in the past.”
Jesus’ arrest comes as Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, who was put in charge of Metro Surge, said the operation was drawing to a close, with thousands of agents leaving the Minneapolis area.
However, this and other incidents in recent days have left residents on edge.
During the operation, CBS News Minnesota reported that Flores had been hunkered down in his home for weeks, hoping to avoid arrest.
Miguel said his family fears they may never see their father again.
Flores had already been deported once, 15 years ago. Miguel said lawyers have told him that getting his father out of detention would be a long shot.
Because immigration offenses are handled in civil court, Flores is not entitled to a government-paid public defender, as in criminal cases.
Miguel said his family is in desperate need of money, not just to pay for a lawyer but also to cover the cost of living and his siblings’ medical expenses. Flores’ wife, Dionicia, has described her husband as the family’s “lifeline.”
“This unexpected situation has left our family shocked, scared, heartbroken, and searching for answers,” Miguel wrote. “Jesus is leaving behind four children who depend on him every day. My older brother, who is 25 years old and was diagnosed with autism from a very young age, my little brother—9 years old—who was born with a whisper in the heart, my other little brother who is 6 years old is in therapy and requires extra care and support and was diagnosed with autism, and lastly my little sister who is 7, who is in need of multiple surgeries and ongoing medical care.”
In just three days, the family’s fundraising campaign has received more than $13,000.
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A Palestinian youth walks past tents in a makeshift camp for displaced people during a dust storm in Zawaida, in the central Gaza Strip, February 14, 2026
