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Rights group warns of life-threatening abuse against Palestinian detainee in Israel

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A Palestinian man pass the graffiti showing Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian imprisoned politician on December 24, 2023 in Bethlehem, West Bank [Maja Hitij/Getty Images]

The Prisoners’ Media Office warned Monday that prominent Palestinian detainee Abdullah Barghouti, 53, is being subjected to severe and prolonged physical and psychological torture inside Israel’s Gilboa Prison, describing his treatment as a form of “slow execution.”

In a press statement, the office — affiliated with Hamas — said Barghouti has endured “systematic and repeated assaults” for more than 25 months. According to the statement, prison guards raid his cell day and night, often accompanied by dogs, announcing they “missed beating him” before restraining him and assaulting him with batons. The office reported that these attacks cause bleeding and deep wounds that prisoners are forced to treat using torn clothing and minimal cleaning supplies.

Barghouti, who is serving 67 life sentences, is reportedly suffering from untreated fractures in his right elbow and hand that have persisted for three months. He also has a broken finger, fractures in two ribs on the right side of his chest, torn tendons, and has lost approximately 35 kilograms due to the “starvation” policy pursued by the prison administration.

The Office added that Barghouti has been subjected to electric shocks and deliberately doused with water during torture sessions. He has also been placed in a room infested with scabies, resulting in widespread boils across his body. The statement says he now has severe difficulty moving his hands, with one nearly paralyzed, while prison authorities continue to deny him medical care or even basic pain relief. Human rights organizations are also being prevented from contacting him.

The office said Barghouti’s case reflects an “open war” against leaders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, adding that violations have reached the level of “attempted deliberate killing.” It called on international human rights and humanitarian bodies to intervene urgently to stop the torture, ensure Barghouti receives medical treatment, and hold those responsible accountable.

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Hamas rejects UN Security Council decision on Gaza

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather outside the United Nations headquarters, in front of the U.S. Mission to the UN, during an emergency picket titled “Hands off Gaza: Reject U.S.-Israeli Occupation,” in New York City, United States, on November 17, 2025. [Selçuk Acar – Anadolu Agency]

Hamas on Tuesday rejected the UN Security Council decision on the Gaza Strip, saying the adoption of the US-sponsored draft does not meet Palestinian demands or rights, and does not reflect the suffering the territory has experienced over the past two years.

The movement said in a statement that the decision does not reach the level of the political and humanitarian rights of the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, which it said has suffered “a war of extermination and unprecedented crimes” whose effects continue despite the announcement of the end of the war under the plan of US President Donald Trump.

The statement added that the decision imposes an international guardianship mechanism on Gaza, which Palestinians reject, saying it “seeks to achieve goals that Israel failed to achieve through military operations”.

Hamas said the decision separates Gaza from the rest of the Palestinian territory and brings new conditions that undermine the Palestinian right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

The movement stressed that “resistance by all means is a legitimate right under international law”, adding that the issue of factions’ weapons is an internal national matter that can only be discussed within a political framework that ends the occupation.

Hamas also criticised any role for an international force inside Gaza that includes disarmament duties, saying this would “remove its neutrality”.

It explained that any potential force should limit its role to separating forces and monitoring a ceasefire along the borders, working under UN supervision and coordinating solely with Palestinian institutions, with no role for Israel.

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Oxford Union votes that Israel poses ‘greater threat’ to regional stability than Iran

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Israeli army’s tanks and armored vehicles are seen moving along the Gaza border as attacks continue unabated in Gaza City, Gaza on September 16, 2025. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency]

The Oxford Union, one of the world’s most renowned debating societies, has voted “overwhelmingly” in favor of a motion declaring Israel a greater threat to regional stability than Iran, following a heated debate featuring former Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh and Geneva-based NGO UN Watch’s director Hillel Neuer, Anadolu reports.

The debate centered on the motion declaring that Israel is a greater threat to regional stability than Iran, as The Telegraph reported this weekend that the society members backed the proposition by a wide margin.

Speaking for the motion, Shtayyeh argued that Israel’s actions constitute the primary source of instability in the Middle East, describing it as “an expansionist colonial state established by colonial powers.”

He went on to call Israel a “pariah state” that “acts above the law,” alleging that it violates UN resolutions and enforces “a colonial regime based on apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

“Brutal occupation, crimes and genocide, … Israel is dragging the region into repeated conflicts,” he said, adding that some Israeli lawmakers believe the country’s borders should stretch “from the Nile to the Euphrates.”

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“We all should say that Israel is the biggest cause of destabilization in the region,” he concluded.

Opposing the motion, Neuer insisted that Israel is not the destabilizing force in the region and accused Iran of arming militant proxies across the Middle East.

“Regional stability is measured by who starts wars, not by who stops them,” he said. “Israel does not arm terror proxies in five Arab countries – the regime in Iran does that.”

He cited the Iranian attack on Israel earlier this year involving drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, arguing that the coordinated response by several Arab states showed their alignment with Israel against Iranian aggression.

“You don’t intercept missiles heading towards a threat to regional stability – you intercept missiles from one,” he said.

The Oxford Union, founded in 1823, has become increasingly scrutinised over its Israel-related debates.

Last year, it passed another motion accusing Israel of being “an apartheid state responsible for genocide,” by 278 votes to 59.

READ: Israeli- run group facilitates Gazan relocations via Ramon airport: Haaretz report

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Israel destroys Gaza’s historical palace, with over 20,000 artifacts looted

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Restoration work begins on the historic Pasha Palace, a centuries-old landmark located at Old City in Gaza City, Gaza on November 10, 2025. [Khames Alrefi – Anadolu Agency]

Gaza’s historical and cultural heritage has not been spared Israeli bombardment during Tel Aviv’s two-year war, with over 20,000 rare artifacts spanning from prehistoric eras to the Ottoman period missing and looted, Anadolu reports.

“The Israeli army has systematically and extensively destroyed Gaza’s archaeological sites as part of a policy aimed at erasing Palestinian identity,” Ismail al-Thawabteh, head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, told Anadolu on Monday.

According to official data, Israeli forces fully or partially destroyed more than 316 archaeological sites and buildings in the Gaza Strip, most dating back to the Mamluk and Ottoman eras, while others trace back to the early Islamic centuries and the Byzantine period.

Qasr al-Basha, a Mamluk-era palace built on a UNESCO heritage site dating back to 800 BC, was not spared from Israel’s systematic targeting of Gaza’s history.

Located in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City’s Old City, 70% of the Qasr al-Basha palace was damaged in Israeli attacks, according to Hamouda Al-Dahdar, a cultural heritage expert at the Centre for Cultural Heritage Preservation in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

Looting

Technicians and workers continue searching for scattered artifacts under the rubble, using simple tools to recover and preserve what remains of Gaza’s historical identity.

“What happened to Gaza’s heritage was not only destruction; it was organized looting, a practice criminalized under international law and considered an assault on global cultural heritage,” Thawabteh said.

READ: Israeli- run group facilitates Gazan relocations via Ramon airport: Haaretz report

He added that over 20,000 rare artifacts spanning prehistoric eras to the Ottoman period housed in the museum had disappeared during the Israeli war.

Dahdar also confirmed the disappearance of thousands of rare and diverse artifacts after Israeli forces raided and destroyed the site.

“Each piece of these artifacts is historically significant and represents a chapter of Palestine’s civilizational history,” Dahdar said, calling the looting “a grave cultural crime that affects national identity and humanity’s shared heritage.”

The expert noted that the site had previously suffered extensive destruction during earlier Israeli military operations before its withdrawal in 1994.

After the Israeli withdrawal, the Palestinian Authority restored the palace and turned it into a museum featuring valuable historical collections.

Israel occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967 and withdrew in 1994 under the 1993 Oslo Accords with the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 2005, it dismantled its settlements in Gaza under its unilateral “Disengagement Plan.”

Once again, during the latest war that started in October 2023, the palace suffered destruction and the looting of its archaeological objects.

More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and over 170,700 others injured in the Israeli war that reduced the enclave to rubble.

READ: Hamas rejects US plan, says it does not serve stability in Gaza

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UN says at least 9 attempts to deliver tents to Gaza rejected

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Displaced Palestinians try to drain water that has flooded their tents due to heavy rain and prevent damage to their belongings in Austrian Quarter of Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 16, 2025. [Abed Rahim Khatib – Anadolu Agency]

The UN on Monday emphasised the severely difficult situation in the Gaza Strip, as its attempts to deliver tents to those in need were repeatedly rejected, Anadolu reports.

Citing the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric warned at a news conference that “the humanitarian situation remains very difficult, with many people struggling to access the basics they need to survive.”

Recalling the recent heavy rains in the enclave, Dujarric said the “humanitarian teams carried out a rapid assessment of impacted areas over the weekend and provided some initial aid.”

“Since October 10, at least nine attempts by the United Nations and our partners to bring in tents have been rejected,” he noted.

He said partners working on the food security report that “with the volume of food parcels entering Gaza having increased in recent days, they plan to resume the distribution of two food parcels and one bag of flour across the strip.”

However, Dujarric also noted that distribution in northern Gaza has recently been limited and said: “Earlier this last week, distribution in the North had to be limited to high-energy biscuits and one bag of flour because partners working to bring supplies were facing impediments, including the deprioritization of humanitarian cargo at crossings, customs clearance delays, and a lack of access to northern crossings.”

Highlighting the scale of destruction in the Gaza Strip, Dujarric said teams have “cleared 100,000 tons of debris since the ceasefire came into effect,” but added that “nearly 58 million tons of debris and rubble remain spread across the Gaza Strip, and only half of that amount is currently accessible.”

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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.
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