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Feb 4

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Human Rights Watch shelved a report concluding that Israel’s decades-long denial of Palestinians’ right of return constitutes a “crime against humanity,” prompting the resignation of its entire Israel-Palestine team: Israel-Palestine director Omar Shakir and assistant researcher Milena Ansari.

Drop Site News spoke directly with Shakir and reviewed internal HRW emails and other documents. The story: 🧵🔽

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The 43-page report had completed Human Rights Watch’s full internal review process over seven months, including sign-off from HRW’s legal team and divisions covering refugees, international justice, women’s rights, and children’s rights.

It was halted roughly two weeks before its scheduled publication on December 4.

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Shakir said the report traced Israel’s policies from the 1948 expulsions through the present-day emptying of refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank.

It was based on interviews with 53 Palestinian refugees and fieldwork across Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

Shakir said he hoped it would open “a path to justice for Palestinian refugees.”

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Feb 3

⭕️ Only 12 of 50 Palestinians approved to return to Gaza were allowed through the Rafah crossing on Monday, as returnees described being transferred by the armed Abu Shabab militia to Israeli checkpoints and subjected to hours-long interrogations, threats, and confiscation of personal belongings.

Israel blocked 38 of the 50 Palestinians attempting to enter Gaza and sent them back to Egypt, various outlets report today. On the outbound side, just five patients were allowed to leave for medical treatment. Reuters reported that ten companions accompanied them, while Gaza’s Ministry of Health said the total number of people who exited was just eight. An Israeli security source confirmed to Haaretz that members of the Israel-backed Abu Shabab militia, operating as the so-called “Popular Forces” now under Ghassan Duhine, escorted civilians from Rafah and handed them over to Israeli authorities at a newly installed inspection point.

Palestinian National Initiative Secretary General Mustafa Barghouti said returnees faced “horrific inspection procedures.” One woman, Sabah al-Raqab, said Abu Shabab gunmen beat, humiliated, strip-searched, handcuffed, and threatened women with arrest and death. Of six buses waiting to enter Gaza, she said, only one was allowed through.

The 12 who entered, nine women and three children, told Arab media they were questioned at multiple locations along the crossing. Several said masked Abu Shabab gunmen handed them over for Israeli interrogation. One woman said Israeli officials seized all their belongings, “even the children’s toys,” and denied them food and water. Another said she was questioned for more than two hours and told: “We won’t let you in. We’ll take you as prisoners until you tell us who entered on October 7.”

Middle East Eye shared footage of a Palestinian woman who said Israeli forces blindfolded and restrained returnees. “They don’t want large numbers to return; they want large numbers to leave,” she said.

https://twitter.com/MustafaBarghou1/status/2018647378664857882

Read Mustafa Barghouti’s full comments below documenting the ordeal for the 12 Palestinian returnees:

https://twitter.com/MustafaBarghou1/status/2018647378664857882

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Testimony from MEE of a Palestinian woman who was blindfolded and restrained after entering through the Rafah crossing:

https://twitter.com/middleeasteye/status/2018567080359149910

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Feb 2

⚡️🧵 NEW at Drop Site:

In February 2024, the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed an internal report meant for wider circulation among senior Biden administration officials, saying it “lacked balance.” Reuters recently reported that the internal cable included photos from northern Gaza warning the area had become an “apocalyptic wasteland,” but U.S. ambassador to Israel Jack Lew and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked the images from distribution.

Jonathan Whittall @_jwhittall, who was on the UN fact-finding trip and is the former head of UN OCHA in the OPT, now shares a selection of those photos with Drop Site for the first time.

The images were taken during the January 2024 visit, which followed a three-month total siege on northern Gaza. Whittall says the mission’s purpose was to reflect reality, not political balance. “Many of these scenes had already been captured by Palestinian journalists, but they too had been dismissed as biased,” he writes. 🧵

📸 Photo 1: A partially destroyed school with piles of garbage and rubble lining the streets in Jabaliya. The school had no clean water or sanitation available and was being used as an emergency shelter by displaced Palestinians. January 31, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Whittall.)

📸 Photo 2: The same partially destroyed school in Jabaliya. January 31, 2024.

📸 Photo 3: The inside of the school in Jabaliya with burnt out vehicles and rubble in the courtyard.

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Jan 22

🚨 Jared Kushner presented a “master plan” for redeveloping Gaza into a high-tech metropolis during a speech at the Board of Peace charter signing ceremony in Davos, Switzerland, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.

Watch his full remarks here. We break down some key points in the thread below: 🧵

1/ Senior White House adviser and Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner said the administration has moved from securing a ceasefire to what he described as the far harder task of implementing peace, framing the effort as a shift in mindset after years of war in Israel and decades of despair in Gaza.

He credited President Donald Trump’s “first principles” approach for pushing the team to aim for outcomes others considered impossible, arguing that peace required changing behavior, habits, and expectations on both sides.

2/ Kushner said the next phase centers on security and demilitarization, arguing that no reconstruction or investment is possible without it. He said the United States is working with Israel and a new technocratic Palestinian governing committee to “work with Hamas on demilitarization,” describing security as the foundation for rebuilding Gaza’s economy and ending what he called long-term dependence on aid.

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Jan 3

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🚨 BREAKING: New footage shows explosions around Caracas, Venezuela, as parts of the city’s south near a major military base lost electricity. Low-flying aircraft were seen and heard from across the capital, according to Reuters.

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Agence France-Presse and Associated Press said the blasts were heard around 2 a.m. local time, with an AP reporter counting at least seven explosions over several neighborhoods. Residents rushed into the streets, some watching the sky as aircraft flew at low altitude. The site of the explosions remains unclear, and Venezuelan authorities have not issued an official explanation or confirmed any casualties.

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https://twitter.com/mundoeconflicto/status/2007335012073656828

Additional footage here:

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Jan 1

🧵 THREAD: What Day 81 of the Gaza ceasefire shows, according to field data shared with Drop Site by sources inside Hamas

⭕️ A daily field monitoring report submitted to mediators by Hamas recorded 22 Israeli military violations of the Gaza ceasefire on Dec. 31, 2025 (Day 81), with two people killed — including a 5-year-old child — and multiple injuries reported across Gaza.

⭕️ The report cites 1152 injuries since the ceasefire began, with “all of the wounded were targeted inside the yellow line, without exception.”

⭕️ The thread below details casualties, military activity, aid entry, and overall compliance with agreed terms after 81 days 🧵👇🏼

1️⃣ Killings under the ceasefire

➤ 422 people killed since the agreement began
➤ 53.5% are children, women, or elderly
➤ 91.7% are civilians
➤ 96.4% were killed inside the “yellow line”, an area meant to be protected
➤ 2 people killed on Dec. 31 alone

2️⃣ Injuries

➤ 1,152 people wounded over 80 days
➤ 58.1% are children, women, or elderly
➤ 99.1% are civilians
➤ 100% injured inside the yellow line

Every recorded injury occurred west of the yellow line, in areas that should have been shielded by the ceasefire.

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