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UNRWA warns Gaza tents offer no protection as Israel blocks vital winter aid

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A view of the Shujaiya neighborhood after rainfall that flooded tents and left puddles of water and mud throughout the area in Gaza City, Gaza on November 25, 2025. [Khames Alrefi – Anadolu Agency]

Adnan Abu Hasna, media adviser to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said the agency has procured large quantities of food, medicine and winter shelter materials — including hundreds of thousands of tents, tarpaulins, blankets and clothing — but has been unable to deliver them to the Gaza Strip due to Israeli restrictions on aid entry.

Speaking to journalist Suzanne Sharara on the Extra News channel, Abu Hasna said the tents currently in use across Gaza are worn out and provide little protection from strong winds, heavy rainfall or rising tides. He noted that thousands of tents have been erected only five metres from the shoreline, leaving displaced families exposed to severe weather.

He added that UNRWA has been waiting for six months for permission to bring the supplies into Gaza, but Israel has allowed in only a fraction of what is needed, despite the “critical humanitarian situation” facing nearly 1.5 million Palestinians who are living in the open or in makeshift, damaged tents.

According to Abu Hasna, conditions in the Gaza Strip remain catastrophic. Around 9,400 children are suffering from acute malnutrition, the health system has collapsed and water sources have become contaminated — problems now compounded by winter rains and flooding.

He stressed that Gaza’s geography is predominantly sandy, with Israel controlling roughly 60 per cent of its territory, leaving more than two million Palestinians crowded into a very limited area amid extensive destruction and rubble.

READ: Trump urges Netanyahu to implement phase 2 of Gaza deal and halt killing of Hamas members as pardon prospects emerge

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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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Israeli professor launches hunger strike after arrest for calling Netanyahu a traitor

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Israelis gather outside the home of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to protest Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s request for a presidential pardon over corruption charges on November 30, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency]

An Israeli university professor has declared a hunger strike in protest at her arrest for calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “traitor”, according to Israeli media.

The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday that Yolanda Yavor, a lecturer at Tel Aviv University and a resident of Or Akiva in northern Israel, was detained on Friday on suspicion of “incitement to violence” over posts she published on Facebook targeting Netanyahu and other officials.

Yavor is currently being held at the Kishon detention facility in northern Israel. Her lawyer, who was not named, told the newspaper that the investigation is “politically motivated”, adding that she “poses no danger” and that her continued detention “endangers her life”.

According to the report, Yavor was arrested after urging a “rebellion” against Netanyahu, writing: “The only option is to fight the traitor, the mouthpieces and the damned collaborators with all our might and by all means – or we cease to exist.”

The Prime Minister’s Office has not commented on the arrest. Netanyahu has repeatedly claimed in recent years that he and his family are the targets of incitement.

READ: Herzog says he will consider Netanyahu’s pardon request only in the state’s interest

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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves discuss wasting money including David Lammy spending £1MILLION on private jets.

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4 Israeli soldiers injured in clashes in southern Gaza, military says

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Israeli soldiers organize military equipment while standing on armored personnel carriers near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 6, 2025 in Southern Israel, Israel. [Amir Levy/Getty Images]

Four Israeli soldiers were injured in clashes with Hamas fighters in Rafah the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the army said, Anadolu reports.

A military statement said that one of the soldiers was severely wounded, while three others sustained moderate injuries in eastern Rafah.

Channel 14 said that clashes erupted after three Palestinian fighters allegedly emerged from a tunnel in Rafah and fired anti-tank rockets at Israeli forces.

Israeli forces responded with fire from helicopters, with two fighters killed in direct fire, while a third Palestinian allegedly attached an explosive device to an Israeli armored vehicle before fleeing back into the tunnel, the channel said.

The public broadcaster KAN said an Israeli helicopter attacked the area to which the third Palestinian fled.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas on the reports.

According to Israeli media reports, there are around 200 Hamas fighters who are trapped inside underground tunnels in Rafah, and Tel Aviv has not yet responded to demands by Hamas and mediators to allow them safe passage to areas under the group’s control.

Separately, the Israeli army claimed that it had killed more than 40 Palestinian fighters over the past week in operations targeting tunnels in the area under its control in Rafah.

READ: Israel stages drone strike in Damascus countryside, raids in southern Syria

On Monday, US President Donald Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call to clarify the crisis of the fighters trapped inside the Rafah tunnels.

According to Channel 12, Washington has attempted to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas in recent weeks to let the fighters surrender in exchange for amnesty and a “safe corridor” to an area under Hamas control or to a third country.

“The US administration viewed this as a potential model for disarming Hamas, and it did not appreciate Israel’s refusal to cooperate with this approach,” it added.

A fragile ceasefire agreement has been in place in Gaza since Oct. 10, mediated by Türkiye, Egypt, and Qatar, backed by the US.

Phase one of the ceasefire deal includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. The plan also envisages the rebuilding of Gaza and the establishment of a new governing mechanism without Hamas.

Israel has killed more than 70,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured nearly 171,000 others in attacks in Gaza since October 2023.

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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.
Keir Starmer justifies why he has to travel abroad so much
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UK using more wood to make electricity than ever, Drax figures show

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Biomass provided almost a fifth of the UK’s electricity for the first time during one morning in September when renewable energy resources were particularly low. Photograph: Lee Smith/Reuters

Giant biomass plant reveals burning of wood pellets made 9% of UK’s electricity in July, its largest ever monthly share

Britain’s reliance on burning wood to generate electricity has reached record highs, even as the government moves to curb the controversial use of biomass power.

The latest figures supplied by the owner of the huge Drax biomass plant in North Yorkshire have revealed that power generated from burning biomass wood pellets provided 9% of the UK’s electricity in July, its largest ever monthly share.

Weeks later, biomass provided almost a fifth (17%) of the UK’s electricity for the first time during one morning in September when renewable energy resources were particularly low.

Britain’s record reliance on biomass generation has reached new heights as the government set out its plans to dramatically reduce the controversial energy source under a new subsidy agreement with the FTSE 250 owner of the Drax power plant.

Under the deal, Drax will continue to earn more than £1m a day from energy bills in exchange for burning wood pellets at its power plant. However, it will only be supported to run just over a quarter of the time, down sharply from almost two-thirds of the time currently.

When the deal was agreed in February, the energy minister, Michael Shanks, said the company’s subsidies had been cut because it “simply did not deliver a good enough deal for billpayers and enabled Drax to make unacceptably large profits”.

Drax has also faced a backlash from green groups amid criticism of the company’s claims that it sources wood only from “well‐managed, sustainable forests” to manufacture the pellets burned at its power plant.

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Palestine Action ban marks Britain as ‘most repressive’ towards anti-genocide protests, international groups say

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Campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, where Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori is taking legal action against the Home Office’s decision to proscribe the group under anti-terror laws, November 27, 2025

PALESTINE Action’s ban under terror laws shows Britain has the “most repressive and dangerous response” to civilian protests threatening Israeli arms sales, 18 international organisations said yesterday.

The groups, including Campaign Against Arms Trade, signed a solidarity statement on British state repression on the last day of the judicial review against the Home Office proscription of the direct action group.

But Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori faces a wait to discover whether her legal challenge has been successful.

After a three-day hearing at the High Court in London, which concluded yesterday, the judges hearing the challenge said they would give their decision at a later date.

More than 2,700 people have been arrested at sit-in protests against the banning of the direct action group in July.

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Palestine Action joke that appeared in the UK satirical magazine 'Private Eye'.
Palestine Action joke that appeared in the UK satirical magazine ‘Private Eye’.
Keir "I support Zionism without Qualification" Starmer supporting genocide.
Keir “I support Zionism without Qualification” Starmer supporting genocide.
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