PALESTINE CHRONICLE: When the suffering in Gaza finally ends, whether that is because Israel obliterates all of its regional opposition and exterminates countless other civilians in its way, or Israel is militarily shattered, the UN should be disbanded as was the League of Nations. It is a failed project just as that which preceded it. Something new must take over from it.

Read the latest analysis by Robert Inlakesh.

A Mandate for Force: What the UNSC’s Gaza Resolution Means in Practice

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes carried out new strikes behind the so-called Yellow Line east of Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera’s correspondent.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: In this FloodGate episode, Ramzy Baroud argues that Resolution 2803 risks replacing military occupation with an internationally imposed mandate over Gaza.

FloodGate Analysis: Is UNSC Resolution 2803 a New Mandate Over Palestine?

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: An Israeli airstrike on the Ein El Hilweh refugee camp in the city of Sidon late Tuesday evening killed 11 people and injured four others.

Massacre in Ein El Hilweh: Israeli Strike Kills 11 Palestinians in Lebanon Refugee Camp

JORDANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: Jordan condemned attempts by Israeli extremists to bring ritual sacrifices into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli settlers carried out new attacks targeting Palestinian homes and vehicles in multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, including Turmusayya, the Khallat al-Sidr area near Mikhmas, and roads south of Nablus.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli occupation forces have shot and wounded a Palestinian cameraman while he was covering a protest by Palestinians near the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem, in the northern occupied West Bank on Tuesday.

Palestinian Cameraman Shot and Wounded by Israeli Forces in West Bank 

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Local Palestinian media reported that Israeli artillery targeted eastern areas of Gaza City and Jabaliya.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is determined to continue the war on all fronts and to disarm Hamas, adding that Israel struck Iran and “remains ready for more,” according to Israeli media.

AL-JAZEERA: Dr. Ahmed Al-Farrah, head of Pediatrics and Maternity at Nasser Medical Complex, said the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, stating that healthcare, education, and municipal systems have collapsed.

EGYPTIAN PRESIDENCY: During a call between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, both sides stressed the need to build on momentum following the Security Council vote to solidify the ceasefire, guarantee aid flows, and begin reconstruction.

PFLP: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said the operation near Gush Etzion was a natural response to continued settler violence and asserted that comprehensive resistance remains the only path toward liberation and return.

HAMAS STATEMENT: Hamas said the Gush Etzion operation was a response to ongoing Israeli attacks and stated that Palestinians have the right to defend themselves, warning that continued Israeli aggression will face resistance.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Islamic Jihad praised the attack carried out near the Gush Etzion settlement junction and described such operations as a response to settler attacks and Israeli military violence across the occupied West Bank.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced it had killed two Palestinians accused of carrying out a car-ramming and stabbing operation at the Gush Etzion junction.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: A settler was killed and others injured in an operation near the illegal Gush Etzion settlement, followed by Israeli forces killing the suspected Palestinians and locking down surrounding areas.

Operation Near Gush Etzion Settlement Leaves One Settler Dead, Three Injured

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: The UN Security Council adopted a US-backed resolution on post-war Gaza governance, immediately rejected by Hamas as an “international trusteeship” and condemned by Russia as “reminiscent of colonial practices.”

Reactions – UN Resolution for Gaza Rebuked by Russia and China as Hamas Rejects ‘Trusteeship’

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reported that a Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation forces’ fire east of the Al-Bureij camp (central Gaza Strip) behind the yellow line.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Avigdor Lieberman, head of the “Yisrael Beiteinu” party, said the Gush Etzion operation was the result of weakness and neglect by the Netanyahu government.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli media reported that an Israeli was KILLED from injuries sustained in the Gush Etzion operation, and that two were seriously injured, and a fourth sustained minor injuries.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli media reported that three people who were in the car that carried out the ramming attack in Gush Etzion were shot at.

AL-JAZEERA: Former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, to Al Jazeera: There must be action against Israel, and condemnation is not enough. Using starvation as a weapon is a crime and a flagrant violation of international law. EU member states are still supplying Israel with weapons. All available influence must be used to reach a solution in the Gaza Strip. Yesterday’s Security Council resolution may be an opportunity that we must seize, and it serves as a starting point.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian villages have become open fields for illegal Jewish settlers operating under the protection of the Israeli army. In recent weeks, organized Jewish mobs, some armed with rifles and sticks, others carrying torches, have unleashed violence across occupied Palestinian towns and villages. It is not only that Israeli soldiers stand providing cover for the illegal Jewish mobs, but the army also blocks Palestinian farmers from accessing their farms for the annual olive harvest.

Read the latest article by Jamal Kanj.

Israel’s Silent War: State-Sanctioned Jewish-mob Terror in the West Bank

AL-JAZEERA: Al-Jazeera reported that its cameraman Fadi Yassin was shot in the leg by Israeli forces in the city of Tulkarm in the northern occupied West Bank.

PFLP: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said it rejects the Security Council resolution, describing it as a form of international guardianship over Gaza and stating that any arrangements bypassing national will are not binding.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Palestinian factions issued a joint statement condemning the Security Council resolution, saying it enables international guardianship over Gaza, undermines Palestinian sovereignty, and ties the end of the war and withdrawal of Israeli forces to Israeli conditions.

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations said that 17,000 families in Gaza were affected by recent heavy rains and flooding, noting that many children are sleeping under rain-soaked tents without proper clothing and face malnutrition and weakened immunity.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman said that allowing an international force on what he referred to as “Israeli land” would be a return to the era of the British Mandate, criticizing restrictions on the Israeli military.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli drone attacks across southern Lebanon have killed a school principal and targeted civilian facilities, vehicles, and infrastructure.

Israeli Drone Campaign Widens in Southern Lebanon; School Principal Killed

TRUMP STATEMENT: Former US President Donald Trump said he congratulates “the world” on what he called a “historic vote” approving the US-drafted resolution establishing an international “Peace Council for Gaza,” which he said he will personally chair.

HAMAS STATEMENT: Hamas said the UN Security Council decision does not meet the political and humanitarian rights of the Palestinian people, particularly in Gaza.The movement said the resolution imposes an international trusteeship framework over Gaza and serves goals Israel failed to achieve through military force.

ISRAELI MEDIA:

Israeli Channel 15 reported that the government formally requested the removal of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan and cancellation of arrest orders for Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.

Previous reports indicated that the ICC rejected earlier Israeli requests to cancel or freeze warrants related to genocide charges.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: The Security Council approved the US proposal for a stabilization force and oversight body, drawing immediate criticism from Palestinian factions.

UNSC Backs International Administration Plan for Gaza as Hamas Rejects Framework

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: A Swiss parliamentary investigation has concluded that the detention and expulsion of Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah in January were the result of a series of irregularities as well as political interference, in particular by a senior Swiss official with financial ties to Israel, according to the Electronic Intifada (EI).

Swiss Probe Finds Ali Abunimah’s Arrest Ordered by Israeli-Linked Official

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel’s Channel 12 reported that a senior security official warned that Israel is “on the verge of completely losing control” over unrest in the occupied West Bank.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for killing the Palestinian fighters currently besieged in Rafah and reiterated that he sees preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state as his mission.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A medical source at the Baptist Hospital said several Palestinians were wounded by fire from an Israeli drone near a school housing displaced families in Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.

ANADOLU NEWS AGENCY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said maintaining the ceasefire in Gaza is necessary and that Hamas is upholding its commitments despite Israeli provocations. He added that regional stability is impossible while occupation continues and Palestinian land remains seized.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Palestinian media reported Israeli artillery shelling in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: 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.

Oxford Union: Israel, Not Iran, Poses the Larger Risk to Regional Stability

AL-JAZEERA: Father Manuel Musallam, member of the Islamic-Christian Commission in Defense of Jerusalem and Holy Sites, said international delegations and “peace initiatives” are attempts to weaken Gaza and undermine its steadfastness. He added that resistance weapons cannot be taken away, asserting that accountability and justice—not force—will determine future security. He described US support for Israel as complicity in war crimes and genocide, and said resistance will push Israel toward international trial, isolation, and military defeat.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Shimon Tubul, Deputy Mayor of Beersheba, said Israel “should have entered Gaza every day and killed 100,000 to 150,000 Gazans,” describing it as a missed opportunity to “eliminate Gaza completely.”

PALESTINIAN PRISONERS’ OFFICE: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office said prisoner Abdullah Barghouti, serving 67 life sentences, is subjected to severe physical and psychological torture at Gilboa Prison. The office said Barghouti has been repeatedly beaten by guards accompanied by dogs, causing deep wounds, fractures, and untreated bone injuries, describing the situation as an attempt at “slow execution.”

ISRAELI MEDIA: Channel 12 quoted an Israeli official saying media reports about the transfer of a prisoner’s body were incorrect, adding that only belongings found yesterday during a search in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood were handed over via the Red Cross for examination.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel’s Channel 12 reported that National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrest Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying “Arrest Abu Mazen, and I will take care of the rest.”

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: In October, amid the two-year anniversary of the Gaza genocide, Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank hit an all-time high. And they will escalate – as long as they are allowed by the US-led West.

Read the latest article by dr. Dan Steinbock.

The Ultimate Goal of Jewish Settler Violence in the West Bank

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel’s Channel 12 reported that National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “arrest Abu Mazen,” stating he would “handle the rest.”

AL.JAZEERA: Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades handed over the body of an Israeli prisoner killed in Israeli bombing to a Red Cross team in Gaza City.

STATEMENT: The Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades mourned field commander Waseem Abdul-Basit Abdul-Hadi, saying he was killed in an assassination operation carried out by Israeli special forces in the central Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Channel 12 reported that an Israeli court lifted travel bans previously imposed on Israeli soldiers accused of torturing Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teiman camp.

AL-JAZEERA: Al-Jazeera reported that Israeli forces raided the town of Kafr Malik east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Hamas says the US draft resolution risks replacing Israeli occupation with foreign trusteeship, while Israel seeks last-minute amendments before the Security Council vote.

Hamas Rejects Amendments to Gaza Resolution while Israel Pressures Washington

AL-JAZEERA: Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported that Israeli forces raided the town of Kafr Malik east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Nasser Medical Complex confirmed that a Palestinian man and his daughter were injured in Israeli artillery shelling behind the yellow line in Bani Suhaila east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Haidar Eid’s Tel El- Hawa’ is a meditation about what it means to be a Gazan in a world ruled by genocidaires.

Haidar Eid’s ‘Tel El-Hawa’: A Song of Melancholy, Sorrow, and Martyrdom!

WFP: The World Food Programme said that after two years of conflict, families throughout the Gaza Strip remain in urgent need of food assistance.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that 14 Palestinians whose bodies had been held by Israeli forces will be buried after officials were unable to identify them.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli forces continued airstrikes and demolition operations behind the Yellow Line in Gaza on Monday, as severe winter conditions and ongoing restrictions on aid worsened already catastrophic humanitarian conditions.

Israeli Strikes and Demolitions Continue Beyond Yellow Line as Winter Crisis Deepens in Gaza

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A number of Palestinians were injured after being targeted by an Israeli drone behind the yellow line in Al-Sheja’iya, east of Gaza City, according to a source at the Baptist Hospital.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israel has continued airstrikes, drone attacks, and demolition operations beyond the yellow line in Gaza, resulting in new casualties despite the ongoing ceasefire framework.

Drone Attacks and Demolitions Persist in Gaza despite Ceasefire Framework

AL-JAZEERA: Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported Israeli airstrikes beyond the yellow line east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

WAFA: The Palestinian Authority said in a statement carried by the Palestinian news agency WAFA that the State of Palestine welcomes the UN resolution on Gaza and is ready to accompany its implementation and fully assume its responsibilities.

WAFA: WAFA reported that the State of Palestine welcomes the UN resolution and reaffirms its readiness to follow through on implementation and assume full responsibilities in this context.

CHINESE MISSION TO UN: China’s ambassador to the UN criticized the US-drafted resolution on Gaza adopted by the Security Council, after Russia and China abstained while 13 states voted in favor.

He said the resolution is unclear and a source of “serious concern,” adding that its post-war governance arrangements for Gaza seem to render Palestine almost invisible.

He noted that Palestinian sovereignty and ownership are not fully reflected and that the resolution fails to explicitly reaffirm a firm commitment to the two-state solution as the international consensus.

RUSSIAN MISSION TO UN: Russia’s ambassador to the UN said Moscow could not support the resolution.

He stressed that Russia had insisted the Security Council should have a clear supervisory role over the ceasefire in Gaza and said the text does not align with the “two states for two peoples” formula adopted in the New York Declaration.

He added that the resolution lacks clear timelines for transferring control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority, offers no certainty about the Peace Council or stabilization force, and could entrench the separation of Gaza from the West Bank.

TRUMP STATEMENT: Former US President Donald Trump said he congratulates “the world” on what he called a “historic vote” approving the US-drafted resolution establishing an international “Peace Council for Gaza,” which he said he will personally chair.

HAMAS STATEMENT: Hamas said the UN Security Council decision does not meet the political and humanitarian rights of the Palestinian people, particularly in Gaza.The movement said the resolution imposes an international trusteeship framework over Gaza and serves goals Israel failed to achieve through military force.

ISRAELI MEDIA:

Israeli Channel 15 reported that the government formally requested the removal of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan and cancellation of arrest orders for Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.

Previous reports indicated that the ICC rejected earlier Israeli requests to cancel or freeze warrants related to genocide charges.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: The Security Council approved the US proposal for a stabilization force and oversight body, drawing immediate criticism from Palestinian factions.

UNSC Backs International Administration Plan for Gaza as Hamas Rejects Framework

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: A Swiss parliamentary investigation has concluded that the detention and expulsion of Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah in January were the result of a series of irregularities as well as political interference, in particular by a senior Swiss official with financial ties to Israel, according to the Electronic Intifada (EI).

Swiss Probe Finds Ali Abunimah’s Arrest Ordered by Israeli-Linked Official

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel’s Channel 12 reported that a senior security official warned that Israel is “on the verge of completely losing control” over unrest in the occupied West Bank.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for killing the Palestinian fighters currently besieged in Rafah and reiterated that he sees preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state as his mission.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A medical source at the Baptist Hospital said several Palestinians were wounded by fire from an Israeli drone near a school housing displaced families in Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.

ANADOLU NEWS AGENCY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said maintaining the ceasefire in Gaza is necessary and that Hamas is upholding its commitments despite Israeli provocations. He added that regional stability is impossible while occupation continues and Palestinian land remains seized.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) on Monday said it “strongly opposes” the US administration’s intention to approve the sale of advanced US F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, citing “risks to US and Israeli security” and a violation of US law.

‘Risks to Israeli Security’ – Zionist Group Slams US Sale of F-35 Jets to Saudi Arabia

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Palestinian media reported Israeli artillery shelling in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: 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.

Oxford Union: Israel, Not Iran, Poses the Larger Risk to Regional Stability