While it's easy to understand why politicians like Khalida Jarrar are persecuted by Israel it's important not to forget how arbitrary these detentions of average civilians are.
Another recently released hostage explains how the Israelis held her on charges which were kept a secret from her for her entire time in the Israeli torture camp. How is Israel a democracy if there is no rule of law and no due process in cases like this?
At every turn Israel is failing to stop the Palestinian liberation movement. Arbitrary jailing of random civilians and diligent politicians is all meant to undermine support for the legitimate and legal resistance of the Palestinian military.
The people can not be scared, tricked or tortured out of supporting their freedom fighters.
There's an absolute torrent of videos posted by civilians expressing love and adoration for the Al Qassam Brigades, who the IDF says they eliminated.
In more signs of support for Hamas there have been large funerals for Hamas freedom fighters whose bodies were recently recovered from what were just last week the frontlines of the resistance.
In addition reports communication lines between all of the Al Qassam Brigades factions and units have been restored and are being strengthed.
The Israelis are far from dismantling Gaza's government and military.
In more signs of abject IOF strategy failure in Gaza Hamas fighters report that they have begun collecting significant amounts of unexploded.
This is both an important operation for civilian safety and also a critical strategic operation which resupplies Al Qassam Brigades fighters with the materials needed to defend Gaza once again when the ceasefire fails.
An estimated ~10% of bombs dropped on Gaza do not explode, which is a staggering amount of free ammunition.
In another act of retribution for the start of the Gaza ceasefire IDF forces have restricted movement within the West Bank over the last 24 hours.
Civilians on the ground say this is the largest restriction in movement in recent memory.
These internal military checkpoints restrict freedom of movement between the cities of Ramallah, Hebron, Qalqilya, Salfit & Bethlehem.
Once day broke today Israel unleashed snipers in the West Bank city of Jenin, killing 9 Palestinians simply going about their day and wounding a further 98+ people.
These snipings occurred completely at random.
In this clip an elderly man cross a street as bullets land at his feet. Thankfully the sniper missed in this case.
Updated: The total dead and injured has continued to climb. 😢
Among the injured in Jenin today was a young child, a toddler. These genocidal creeps got forced into a ceasefire with Hamas and are taking it out on toddlers in the West Bank.
The Israeli "Operation Iron Wall” seems to be targeting medical staff in Jenin. The Director of Jenin Governmental Hospital told Al Jazeera that several nurses, doctors and other staff members had been injured by the IDF shootings in the West Bank.
In the video below a nurse can be seen running from IDF snipers, a man running in the same direction falls injured.
The death toll has now been increased to 9 dead and 98 injured in Jenin alone.
Whatever is happening in Israel, is not a ceasefire.
The second day of an increasingly genocidal military incursion into the West Bank city of Jenin continues.
The IOF demolished roads around the Jenin hospital and have littered the roads in and out of Jenin and other cities with new checkpoints.
Today a woman died of an otherwise survivable heart attack because the IOF would not allow medics transporting here through a checkpoint within meters of the Jenin General Hospital.
In one video a roving IOF patrol can be seen threatening ambulances, aiming machine guns with lasers in the direction of emergency services.
Throughout the West Bank gangs of zionist settlers have been burning Palestinian homes, cars and crops.
In a "leopards ate my face" moment a band of zionist settlers and Israeli cops got into a fight resulting in two zionist settlers getting shot by cops.
Palestinian sources suggest the cops and zionist mistook each other for Palestinians. It seems to be an accidental friendly fire mishap.
This accidental shooting of Zionist settlers at the hands of Israeli cops has enraged Israel's far right who held a protest of the accident in Jerusalem.
Naturally the fascist cops were doing cop shit and the Zionist seem to not like it when the boot kicks them.
In yet more challenges for Israel, a controversy was created when an American tourist carried out a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv yesterday. The American injured an IOF soldier who had reportedly already lost a limb participating in the genocide in Gaza.
This lack of internal safety and increasing mistrust of dwindling Western visitors is spurring investigations on how to prevent these sorts of attacks in the future.
I wonder if stopping the genocide will be considered? 🤔
Today Hamas and Yemen's Houthis announced the release of the crew of the Galaxy Leader. Hamas previously promised to have the crew released once a ceasefire could be reached in Gaza.
Today they made good on that promise.
The crew was made up of 25 Filipinos, Mexicans, Romanians, Bulgarians and Ukrainians who were all returned home by the Houthis once Hamas requested their release.
Attached: 1 video Yemen forces today released the crew of the Galaxy Leader vessel which was captured by Houthi forces last yr for enabling the genocidal state of Israel. The captive crew appeared to be in good health and spirits at the time of their release, unlike Palestinians held by Israeli forces. The Houthis held a ceremony to present the crew with souvenirs from Yemen and respectfully shock everyone man's hand and helped return them to their respective countries. #Yemen #Houthis #HouthiNavy #GalaxyLeader
Hamas in a statement released on Wednesday condemned the collaboration of the Palestianian Auhtorities with Israeli forces in the deadly attacks on Jenin.
Hamas decried the siege on Al-Razi Hospital and specifically called it a crime against the nation of Palestine when IOF forces carried out a shooting in the hospital while Palestinian Authority cops protected the occupation soldiers.
https://hamasinfo.info/2025/01/22/5125/
#Hamas #PalastinianAuthority #WestBank #Israel #IOF #AlRaziHospital #Jenin
استنكرت حركة المقاومة الإسلامية حماس بأشد العبارات، تواصل نزيف الدم الفلسطيني على يد أجهزة السلطة في الضفة الغربية، والتي كان آخرها إصابة الشاب محمد شادي الصباغ من مخيم جنين، إلى جانب محاصرة مستشفى الرازي وملاحقة المقاومين، واعتقال المصابين، في سلوك يتجاوز كل الخطوط الحمراء والأخلاق الوطنية. وأكدت الحركة في تصريح صحفي اليوم الأربعاء، أن مشاهد […]
In an extremely embarrassing development for Israel Hussein Fayyad(aka Abu Hamza), commander of the Al-Qassam Brigade's Beit Hanoun battalion, was seen alive and well in Gaza giving a speech on Wednesday at a funeral.
The Israelis had believed and widely reported they killed Abu Hamza in May of last year so this is a shocking turn of events.
In his remarks Hamza spoke about the meaning of victory and describes the current situation as a defeat of the IOF.
Police in the Gaza strip announced the reactivation of police stations throughout the territory. They have staffed up the police forces and will be actively manning stations to respond to security incidents and other emergencies.
Imo Hamas is doing everything they can to very visible demonstrate that the organization is a functioning popular government. The fact uniformed Hamas police can walk the streets unmolested by the IOF is a defeat for Israels stated goals in Gaza.
As reporters make their way back to Gazas north they find disturbing evidence of Israel's mass arrest of the civilian population.
In places the clothing of hundreds of people lay in neat rows, discarded at gun point during an IOF stripped and searched before a forced march.
The emaciated reporter recounts how these strip searches were conducted.
After only 2 days of ceasefire Palestinian first responders in Gaza have found hundreds of skeletal remains under the rubble in newly accessible areas.
On the 24th reports emerged of multiple instances of deliberate IOF targeting of civilians around Rafah in the Southern Gaza Strip. Palestinians documented 20 victims of these apparent Israeli breaches of the ceasefire deal.
Reports of civilian deaths at the hands of IOF in Rafah have continued to come out with the most recent I've seen just 4 hours ago.
Israel isn't only demolishing buildings and shooting random civilians, all in violation of the ceasefire deal.
Even today they are still restricting Gazans from crossing through "Netzarim" checkpoint. The Israeli's are demanding additional concessions in the next steps of swapping captives.
The Netzarim corridor is the still occupied diving area that splits the Gaza strip in half, allowing the IOF to control north-south movement.
More one the ground reporting, right from Palestinians on the ground at Netzarim checkpoint.
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Despite all of these ceasefire violations, Hamas none the less returned their second batch of PoWs on the 25th as promised.
All four of the recently returned Israeli women are IOF soldiers.
As has become a common sight, hundreds of Al Qassam Brigades troops paraded through to streets to extremely positive civilians. The PoWs were returned in good health and hygiene all with ceremonial pomp.
In exchange Israel relaesed dozens of long term hostages.
Among them, Muhammad Al-Tous, who was abducted by Israelis 40 years ago as a child!
They kept him in prison for 39 years, he's the longest held Palestinian prisoner.
He and dozens of others were deported to Egypt instead of returned home in Palestine simply because Israel is hellbent on making Palestinians stateless.
A total of 200 Palestinians were released on the 25th.
#Israel #Egypt #Palestine #FreeGaza #MuhammadAlTous #GazaDeal
The next planned part of this PoW / hostage swap is the re-opening of North-South travel in the Gaza Strip.
So now we wait to see if Israel stops shooting at people who gather to cross.
In this video civilians filmed the crack of Israeli sniper bullets flying passed them on the same day as the prisoner swap.
So that there's no mistake.
Hamas returned 4 Israeli soldiers who were captured on 10/7 from their military outpost at Nahal Oz army base.
Liri Albag even had TikTok's bopping in uniform at the base.
These were not innoccent little girls, as the Israeli press is pushing. These were the guards at the gates and they were returned with the utmost respect.
Meanwhile Israel returned emaciated, abused elders held captive since childhood.
In other news President Trump says he'll be shipping 2,000 lb bombs to Israel. These shipments were briefly paused in the final weeks of the Biden administration.
Israeli officials continue to sabor rattle about breaking the ceasefire or simply started the genocide anew once it's completed.
But evidence really points to Israel doing whatever they want.
In Lebanon Israel was schedule to withdraw today, but instead decided they won't leave.
More on Lebanon 👇🏿
Attached: 1 video In Lebanon the 60day ceasefire deal has expired and Israel was expected to leave Southern Lebanon on Sunday. So far Israel has refused to said they simply won't comply and their troops have been facing heaving protests. As is becoming common place when Israel refuses to comply with these ceasefire deals they also injured civilians and continued demolishing homes. #Lebanon
It's disappointing to hear the US again providing material support for Israel, but this is something the resistance has clearly planned for.
In the case of Yemen, they stopped their blockade of US and British ships in the Red Sea as part of the #GazaDeal. They specifically won't stop blocking ships who deal directly with Israel until the ceasefire is fully completed.
Yemen reserved the right to resume broader blockades due to breaches.
Today marks another prisoner exchange in the #GazaDeal.
As has become almost routine Hamas' Al Qassam Brigade's soldiers led a IOF soldier Agam Berger to be handed over to the Red Cross. A total of 3 Israelis were released by Hamas.
As is typical Hamas held a formal ceremony releasing their PoW who clearly has been cared for and was returned in good health despite the scene of an utterly bombed out Jabalia camp surrounding the press conference.
In addition to the freed Israelis, Hamas also released 5 Thai migrant workers who were mistakenly captured on Oct 7th.
These five workers were not part of the Gaza Deal, Hamas said they simply waited until it was safe to release them.
One Thai worker can be seen in the clip below taking selfies with Palestinian freedom fighters and even is allowed to pose holding a fighters rifle.
Iconic af
And if you've been watching these Hamas PoW release ceremonies carefully, there's an unmistakable presence of Israeli military gear in use by Gaza's Freedom fighters.
Hamas prominently deployed troops equipped with Israeli Tavor and Galil submachine guns along side troops equipped with American M16 & AR15 variants. Some even equipped with silencers and advanced sight optics.
Meanwhile the Israelis prepared for doing their part of the prisoner swap as they always have...
They started the day by raiding the homes of Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied territories whose relatives would be released later in the day.
Israel has banned celebrating releases. In this video IOF troops can be see breaking the chairs in a home's courtyard that had been setup for a private reception of a soon to be released Palestinian child prisoner Ahmed Al-Froukh.
As the Israeli buses full of child prisoners and people held without charge made their way to Palestinian neighborhoods Israeli troops opened fire on anyone who gathered to great the released prisoners.
Israel appears determined to injure or arrest just as many Palestinians as they release each time their is a swap.
Among the Palestinians freed today was Mohammed Ghali, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
He spoke tonight in Gaza saying:
“Long live the resistance, and here it is and it has not ended, and we left with our heads held high. The occupation tortured us until the last hour and could not understand that we left thanks to the resistance and its decision.
Long live the resistance! Long live Palestine free and Arab!”
In large part Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza turnedout in crushing numbers to celebrate the release of prisoners.
They largely view the Gaza Deal as a triumph of Hamas, who despite over a year of genocidal attacks from Israel not only kept their own troops and PoWs alive but also never turned their back on civilians imprisoned by Israel.
The fact that Hamas secured the release of so many average Palestinian civilians means these releases touch the lives of many.
In other news the situation in the West Bank remains extremely dangerous. Israel has been shifting its genocide to the West Bank. In the last two days an 11 year old boy was seen on video shot by an IOF sniper while I played on the sidewalk in Tulkarm. He's in critical condition.
Earlier in the week Israeli soldiers were shooting randomly into West Bank homes and murdered a two year old girl.
The news from the West Bank is such a mixed bag this week.
In another story of a released West Bank Palestinian, this father spent 20years in Israeli prison. He was abducted by the IOF while his wife was 5 months pregnant and he'd never gotten to meet his son until this week. His son is now a man and the two cried in each others arms at their first reunion this week.
It's wonderful to see all of the released prisonders but the reality remains that the genocide is on going and it's now most active in the West Bank and Lebanon.
This video below is from Jenin in the West Bank from a day or two ago. This can't be acceptable or normalized.
They'll never stop, until someone makes them stop. The whole world-- the WHOLE WORLD-- could wind up looking like this.
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