🇻🇪 How popular was Trump’s move to intervene militarily to depose Maduro among Venezuelans?

Two pre-intervention surveys suggested a sharp split between Venezuelans inside the country and those abroad, with deep opposition at home and high support in the diaspora.

1. Datanálisis poll, Dec 2025
(Caracas-based firm)

▪️ Foreign military intervention (inside Venezuela)
➤ 55% opposed
➤ 23% supported
➤ 22% unsure / other

▪️Political alignment of those polled
➤ 60% politically unaffiliated
➤ 13% support the government
➤ 19% support the opposition

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Thread continues below ⬇️ 2. AtlasIntel Intel Poll, October 22-28, 2025, published by Bloomberg
(Brazil-based polling firm)

▪️ Support for U.S. military intervention
➤ 64% support among Venezuelans abroad
➤ 34% support among Venezuelans living in the country

🚨 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.

https://twitter.com/falasteen47/status/2007336555397222542

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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🧵 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

NEW: Internal Hamas document shows Israel has violated Gaza ceasefire every day for 80 days

Despite President Trump’s claim yesterday that Israel was “100%” compliant with the ceasefire he brokered, a detailed internal report shared with Drop Site by sources within Hamas documents daily, systematic Israeli violations of the Gaza ceasefire.

1) What this document is
▪️ A day-80 violations report compiled through daily monitoring across Gaza
▪️ Tracks killings, injuries, military activity, aid access, and withdrawal compliance
▪️ Hamas says it has consistently transmitted this data to mediators overseeing the ceasefire 2) Killings since the ceasefire began
▪️ 420 Palestinians killed over 80 days
▪️ 53.3% were children, women, or elderly
▪️ 91.6% of those killed were civilians
▪️ 96.4% killed inside the designated “yellow line”

🟢 Hamas is publicly challenging Israel and its U.S. backers to allow an open, impartial international investigation into October 7—rejecting Israeli claims about civilian targeting, killing of children, and raping of women.

In a new political document, Hamas says that “during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, the resistance did not target any hospital, school, or house of worship; it did not kill a single journalist or any member of ambulance crews,” and adds: “We challenge the entity to prove otherwise.”

The movement calls for “an impartial international investigation into the claims of Israeli civilian deaths on October 7,” alongside a parallel probe into Israeli crimes committed during Israel’s war on Gaza.

The demand appears in a 42-page narrative released by Hamas today, laying out its account of October 7, Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza, and its view of the current political moment and what comes next.
Here’s the full section:

After more than two years of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Al Araby TV hosted a rare on-air debate from the ruins of Al-Shifa Hospital, between Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem, Fatah spokesperson Munther Hayek, and veteran Palestinian writer and lawyer Mustafa Ibrahim. They discuss October 7, resistance, governance, unity, and the political “day after.”

In the opening exchange, host Islam Badr frames the central question facing Palestinians following two years of annihilation: who has the authority to decide war and peace. Hamas’ Qassem explains that Hamas has long sought a collective national decision through elections, reconciliation, and joint resistance structures, agreeing that decisions about how to confront Israel should be made through a unified Palestinian institution, not by any single faction.

@islambader_1988 | @AlarabyTV

Full discussion in thread below 🧵 Fatah spokesperson Munther Hayek pushes back, arguing that Fatah’s turn to negotiations was taken through the PLO’s national institutions, not unilaterally. He says Hamas, since the internal split, has made decisions of war on its own — pointing to the devastation surrounding them at Al-Shifa Hospital as the outcome.

Hayek stresses that while armed resistance is a legitimate right in principle, direct military confrontation with Israel has repeatedly produced catastrophic results, citing the Second Intifada, Arafat’s killing, and the construction of the apartheid wall. He calls for an “honest review” of strategy, warning that failing to account for the regional and international balance leaves Palestinians paying the highest price.

🇺🇳 UN Secretary General’s Office:
“Over the past 24 hours, and despite the ceasefire, the UN has continued to receive reports of air strikes, shelling and gunfire in all 5 governorates of the Gaza Strip.”

(December 22, 2025)

https://twitter.com/dropsitenews/status/2003245584841605589

➤ Ongoing attacks despite ceasefire:

The UN says attacks in the past 24 hours have resulted in casualties and disruptions to humanitarian operations. A rescue mission to reach an injured person in Gaza City was denied yesterday.

🇸🇩🧵We’re kicking off a detailed thread to help you catch up on the catastrophic violence and humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan. If you haven’t been following closely, this will give you the essential context.

➤ Up to 400,000 people have been killed since the civil war broke out in April 2023, including an estimated 60,000 in El Fasher in the Darfur region, in just three weeks after its fall in late October 2025. (Yale Humanitarian Research Lab)

➤ Right now, about 21 million people in Sudan face acute hunger, with roughly 375,000 at famine levels, with some 13 million people displaced. (IPC)

➤ The United States plays a key role. It has enormous leverage over the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is the chief external backer of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—one of the two main warring parties in Sudan.

➤ But experts and rights groups note the Trump administration is not using that leverage at all. In recent State Department briefings, Sec. Rubio and senior Africa officials have refused to even utter the name of the country. By not pressuring the UAE to halt its support, the U.S. is allowing the mass slaughter – “very likely genocide” according to HRW – to continue unabated.

Follow along as we break down the key aspects of the crisis and what’s driving the violence. 👇

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🔴 Video Clip: Nicole Widdersheim of Human Rights Watch, her voice audibly breaking, describes atrocities against civilians in Sudan that are now “on par, if possibly not worse,” than those during the Darfur genocide two decades ago. (U.S. House Committee on December 11, 2025) 2/ Now let’s get into the strategic picture. The RSF, heavily backed by the UAE, has been making bloody advances. After seizing El Fasher in western Sudan in October, they’ve gained ground in the Kordofan region, seizing key areas like Babnusa and the Heglig oil fields. This puts them on a direct path to the city of El-Obeid—one of the last major SAF strongholds in central Sudan.

Human Rights Watch warned on Thursday that civilians in South Kordofan now face an “imminent risk of mass atrocities to the level and the volume that we saw in al-Fashir just two months ago.”

The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab warns that with the RSF’s advantage in weapons—particularly drones and jammers—they could reach the capital Khartoum again by the next wet season if nothing changes. Meanwhile, aid groups are warning of a new wave of civilian displacement as the RSF pushes east.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1996853206823874924

🧵1/ Israel and pro-Israel allies have repeatedly claimed Hamas carried out rapes, even “mass rapes,” on October 7, routinely pointing to a UN report by Pramila Patten as proof.

That narrative was openly challenged last month by Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls (@UNSRVAW), who stated that “no independent investigation has found that rape took place on October 7.”

Her comments triggered a fierce political backlash. Senator @JohnFetterman publicly condemned her, as did a group of more than 300 rabbis and Jewish leaders, and former U.S. antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt, who issued a letter demanding her removal from the UN.

Meanwhile, U.S. political leaders and others continue to cite Patten’s report as definitive, despite Patten herself admitting:

➤ “I did not not collect evidence.”

➤ “I did not conduct an investigation.”

➤ “I received information from sources.”

More on those “sources” and what her report actually does and does not establish in the thread below. 🧵👇

🚨Watch this video first: 2/ Pramila Patten’s March 2024 report stated there are “reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence — including rape and gang-rape — occurred across multiple locations in Israel and the Gaza periphery during the attacks on October 7, 2023.”

However, it’s important to understand what these UN findings actually mean.

🔗 un.org/sexualviolence…

🧵THREAD: Drop Site journalists @JeremyScahill and Jawa Ahmad warn that Trump’s Gaza plan contains a “Disarmament Trap.”

The U.S. and Israel – now backed by a stamp of approval from the UN and the widely unpopular Palestinian Authority – are attempting to use the new resolution to secure a surrender of the Palestinian cause and the right to resist occupation. It’s an outcome Israel has failed to achieve through two years of genocide, and across 77 years of occupation and ethnic cleansing.

While Palestinian resistance groups deny ever pledging disarmament to U.S. officials, Hamas and other factions have repeatedly said they are open to a long-term, internationally enforced truce and a form of monitored decommissioning — but not the surrender of the Palestinian people’s right to armed resistance or self-defense under occupation. (Continues below👇) 1/ At a Nov. 6 Miami business conference, Trump adviser Steve Witkoff told investors the U.S. is “in the middle of standing up a decommissioning process” for Gaza’s weapons – a “demilitarization and amnesty program.”

He claimed Hamas already committed to disarmament and told Jared Kushner and him that they would “give the weapons” to an international security force. Witkoff framed disarmament not as a demand, but as a settled fact.

🇸🇩 THREAD: Why Trump Won’t Confront the UAE Over Its Support for Sudan’s Genocidal RSF

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have spent the past month carrying out a genocidal massacre in al-Fasher, where satellite analysis suggests as many as 200,000 people are now unaccounted for. The RSF’s mass executions, village burnings, ethnic cleansing, and systematic starvation rank among some of the worst atrocities of the 21st century.

Yet the United States, under Donald Trump, has shown no sign of pressuring RSF’s chief external backer: the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A recent report by Forbes details why - The UAE is Trump’s biggest foreign revenue source.

Trump’s current financial entanglements with the Emirates create powerful personal incentives for the President to look away as a genocide unfolds rather than pressure Abu Dhabi.

📸🎥 “A lot of cash. Unlimited cash.” — President Trump could hardly help himself from saying out loud as he stood next to UAE Vice-President Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt on October 13. A New York Times investigation, citing U.S. intelligence, identified Sheikh Mansour as the senior Emirati official overseeing the UAE’s outreach to Sudan’s RSF — including communications with RSF commander Hemedti and the networks moving money, supplies, and political support to the militia. The Times also published a photo of Sheikh Mansour meeting with Hemedti, as he stands accused of mass killings, mass rapes, and ethnic cleansing across Darfur and beyond. 🧵⬇️
⭕️ *The UAE is Trump’s biggest foreign revenue source*

Since 2022, Trump businesses have entered at least nine UAE-linked deals. Five are Trump Organization licensing agreements that pay ongoing fees for the use of the Trump name on golf courses, hotels, and residential projects. Licensing contracts require no construction or ownership from Trump. They are pure cash streams. New filings estimate these UAE-connected deals will bring in about 500 million dollars in 2025 alone, with at least 50 million in recurring annual income. No other foreign country provides comparable revenue to the Trump family.

The latest Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) national poll, conducted October 22-252025 with a representative sample of 1,200 Palestinians (760 in the West Bank, 440 in Gaza) — shows a political landscape completely out of sync with Mahmoud Abbas’ planned succession.

In this most recent survey:
▪️ Marwan Barghouti leads with 49%, the most popular Palestinian political figure by a wide margin.
▪️ Khaled Meshal, a senior Hamas leader follows with 36%.
▪️ Mahmoud Abbas draws only 13% support.
▪️ Hussein al-Sheikh, Abbas’ designated heir, registers under 2% — and usually doesn’t appear at all in open-ended responses.

PCPSR director Dr. Khalil Shikaki says al-Sheikh “doesn’t exist in the public consciousness.”

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1989314980202639475

The poll was conducted face-to-face from October 22–25, 2025, with a representative sample of 1,200 Palestinians: 760 in the West Bank and 440 in the Gaza Strip.

For safety, PCPSR researchers operated only in areas west, north, and south of the “yellow line,” which were free of Israeli military presence. Fieldwork covered 76 sites in the West Bank and 44 in Gaza. Margin of error: ±3.5%.

🚨 BREAKING: Russia and China are pushing to remove the proposed “Board of Peace” from the U.S. draft resolution at the UN Security Council for a Gaza stabilization force, Associated Press reports, citing four U.N. diplomats briefed on the negotiations.

Russia and China are two of the five states with veto power over any resolution.

The news comes as the U.S. circulated a second revised draft to the 15-member Council today. The plan would give a UN mandate to an international force through 2027, working with a yet-to-be established colonial-style governing board chaired by Donald Trump alongside figures such as Tony Blair, which would temporarily run Gaza until the “Board of Peace” and Israel deem the Palestinian Authority has “satisfactorily completed its reform” and can govern Gaza.

Moscow, Beijing and several Arab states have raised concerns over the board, the absence of any transitional role for the Palestinian Authority, the weak language on a future Palestinian state, and the equally weak language on Israeli withdrawal, which would in practice leave the timing and conditions largely to Israel’s discretion.

One diplomat told AP that Russia and China want the draft cut down substantially — limiting it to authorizing a stabilization force that reports directly to the Security Council, without the U.S.-designed governing structure.

Here’s the document circulated today. Additional reporting is included in the thread below 🧵👇


Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk said last week that Security Council members he had spoken with indicated they would not support the U.S. draft in its current form. Abu Marzouk said he was confident the resolution would not pass as written.

https://twitter.com/dropsitenews/status/1985836800854630872

⭕️ Israel’s “Disco Room” Torture

Defense for Children International – Palestine has documented the ordeal of three boys from Gaza— ages 16 and 17 — who were abducted by Israeli forces while trying to reach food and then tortured inside Israel’s Sde Teiman military camp.

All three were seized at aid points, bound, blindfolded, stripped naked, and taken out of Gaza. In custody, they describe nonstop beatings, electric shocks, starvation, and exposure to extreme cold. Soldiers forced them into stress positions for hours, unleashed dogs on them, and blasted deafening music in the “disco room,” where interrogators slammed their heads into walls and tightened handcuffs until bones cracked.

The boys also recount staged psychological torture: threats against their families, edited photos meant to break them, and attempts to recruit them as collaborators in exchange for money and housing. Cells were filthy, overcrowded, crawling with insects, with rotten food and no medical care. Stun grenades were thrown into rooms at night, leaving children terrified to sleep.

All three were released in the October prisoner exchange, returning to Gaza with severe injuries, trauma, suffering involuntary urination, panic attacks, and crippling nightmares. DCIP says their testimony shows a detention system that targets children with brutality and humiliation, not for “security” but to break their bodies, terrify their families, and crush the next generation’s sense of safety. TRT spoke to the boys about the “disco room” torture below ⬇️ Testimony video from DCIP:

https://twitter.com/dcipalestine/status/1988985036306100624

🚨The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says it has collected new testimonies from recently released captives and documented systematic sexual torture of Palestinian detainees, including rape, forced stripping, and filming, describing it as part of Israel’s broader campaign to destroy human dignity in Gaza.

Among the cases is N.A., a 42-year-old mother from northern Gaza, who told PCHR she was raped four times by Israeli soldiers and subjected to repeated torture and humiliation in detention after she was detained while passing through an Israeli checkpoint set up in northern Gaza in November 2024.

📌 Her testimony in full:

“At dawn I heard the soldiers shouting, saying that morning prayers were forbidden, and I think it was the fourth day after my arrest from Gaza. The soldiers moved me to a place I didn’t know because my eyes were blindfolded, and they ordered me to take off my clothes. I did so. They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully. I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded. I felt the man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera—so I believe they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. After that, they left me for an hour in the same position, with my hands cuffed to the bed with metal handcuffs, my face on the bed, my feet on the floor, and I was completely naked.

Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back.

I cannot describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After they raped me, I was left alone in the same room, hands still cuffed to the bed and without clothes for many hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Later, I was raped again vaginally. I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After more than an hour, I’m not sure about the time, a masked soldier entered, removed my blindfold, lifted his face covering; he had white skin and was tall. He asked if I spoke English; I said no. He said he was Russian and ordered me to masturbate his penis. I refused, and he hit me in the face after raping me.

That day I was raped twice. I was left naked the whole day in the room where I spent three days. On the first day I was raped twice; on the second day I was raped twice; on the third day I remained without clothes while they looked at me through the door slit and filmed me. One soldier said they would post my photos on social media. While I was in the room, my period started; then they told me to put on clothes and transferred me to another room.” PCHR also documented the case of A.A., a 35-year-old father from Gaza City, who was arrested while at Al-Shifa Hospital in March 2024. He told investigators he was subjected to severe torture over 19 months in Israeli custody — including forced stripping, threats of rape against him and his family, and ultimately rape by a trained dog at the Sde Teiman military camp. He stated:

“I was moved to a section I didn’t know inside Sde Teiman. During the first weeks there, amid repeated suppression operations, I was taken with a group of detainees in a degrading manner to a place far from the cameras—a passage between sections. We were stripped completely. Soldiers brought dogs that climbed on us and urinated on me. Then one of the dogs raped me—the dog did it deliberately, knowing exactly what it was doing, and inserted its penis into my anus, while the soldiers kept beating and torturing us and spraying pepper spray in our faces. The dog’s assault lasted about three minutes; the overall suppression lasted about three hours. Because of the severe beating, all of us sustained injuries across our bodies. I suffered a severe psychological breakdown and deep humiliation; I lost control because I could never have imagined experiencing such a thing. Afterward, a doctor stitched a wound in my head caused by the torture—seven stitches without anesthesia. I also suffered bruises, fractures in my limbs, and a rib fracture.”

🚨 Hamas has released a statement detailing the “violations by the occupation of the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm El-Sheikh one month after its implementation.”

It reads in full:
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We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, reaffirm our thanks and appreciation to the efforts of the brotherly mediators, all the countries, international and humanitarian organizations, as well as the free people of the world who took a brave moral and humanitarian stand by rejecting the genocide carried out by the occupation against our people in Gaza. We also value the efforts of the mediators who contributed to reaching the ceasefire agreement.

As part of the Movement's and the resistance forces’ commitment to implementing the agreement, based on our national and humanitarian responsibilities, we call on the brotherly mediators, guarantors, countries, and international organizations to continue exerting pressure on the occupation and obliging it to stop its repeated violations and breaches, which aim to undermine the agreement and sabotage the efforts to solidify and sustain it, which have been as follows:

First: Hamas's full and thorough commitment to the agreement

Since the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm El-Sheikh came into effect, the resistance forces have fully and accurately adhered to implementing the agreement in good faith. They successfully handed over the twenty live captive Israeli soldiers within 72 hours of the implementation’s start. They also continued their careful search for the remains of Israeli soldiers, despite the numerous complications, through coordinating daily with the mediators and the International Red Cross. This was done despite the severe field conditions caused by the war, its complete alteration of the landscape of Gaza and destruction of its infrastructure, the occupation controlling 60% of the Strip’s territory, the work being done amidst hundreds of tons of unexploded ordnance dropped by the occupation, the lack of excavation machinery and debris removal equipment, which the occupation continues to block from entering, many of the resistance fighters guarding the Israeli captives being martyred, and the bodies of hundreds of resistance fighters and Palestinian civilians disappearing with no trace, with some of them potentially being Israeli prisoners. However, the movement managed to locate 24 bodies out of 28, and through the mediators and the International Red Cross, it provided coordinates of additional locations of bodies in areas under the occupation’s control. The movement continues its intensive efforts to locate the remaining bodies. The movement has left no pretext that the occupation attempts to fabricate unanswered, consistently proving through actions and field facts its full commitment to the terms and spirit of the agreement.

Second: Violations by the occupation one month after the agreement

The occupation has not ceased since the start of the agreement to undermine and violate it on a daily and moment-by-moment basis, as well as fabricating pretexts. These include:

1. Killing and targeting civilians: 271 Palestinians were martyred as a result of deliberate shelling and gunfire by the occupation forces. More than 91% of the martyrs were civilians, with 94% of them located inside the "Yellow Line”, with the rest near it. Among the martyrs were 107 children, 39 women, and 9 elderly individuals, meaning that 58% of those killed were children, women, and the elderly. This scene highlights the continued policy of systematic killing against defenseless civilians by the occupation.

(1/4 continues below) 2. Injuries: 622 citizens were injured from shelling and gunfire, with 99% of them being civilians, including 221 children, 137 women, and 33 elderly individuals. In total, 63% of the injured were children, women, and the elderly, confirming the retaliatory and systematic nature of the occupation’s crimes.

3. Arrests: The occupation arrested 35 Palestinians, including fishermen off the coast and several others from areas near the Yellow Line. As of now, 29 of them remain in detention.

4. Demolition of homes inside the Yellow Line: The occupation continues, on a daily and systematic basis, to demolish homes within areas it controls outside the Yellow Line. This is a clear and direct violation of the agreement, and these breaches have continued uninterrupted for an entire month, leading to widespread destruction of civilian property in these areas.

5. Exceeding the temporary withdrawal line: The occupation has failed to adhere to the agreed-upon withdrawal line in the first phase, and has pushed beyond the Yellow Line by approximately 33 square kilometers. This includes establishing fire control positions within 400 to 1050 meters inside the line, and the incursion of military vehicles into these areas. Additionally, the occupation placed concrete blocks that extend beyond the Yellow Line by 200 to 800 meters along the temporary line.

6. Blocking UNRWA aid: In a clear violation of the agreement’s terms, the occupation continues to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid provided by UNRWA. As a result, more than 6,000 shipments of vital supplies have been blocked. UNRWA is the most capable and professional agency for distributing humanitarian aid, with over 77 years of experience in relief work and serving Palestinian refugees in its areas of operation.

7. Restrictions on aid and fuel entry: The occupation has deliberately and systematically violated the agreement's provisions regarding the entry of no less than 600 aid trucks daily, including 50 fuel trucks of various types. In reality, the actual humanitarian aid provided did not exceed 40% of the total trucks entering during the first month, meaning fewer than 200 trucks daily, while 60% of the trucks were commercial, some of which were registered as aid despite being commercial in nature. Furthermore, only 38 trucks of gas and 92 trucks of diesel, representing 8.4% of the agreed quantity, were allowed in. Fuel is vital to revive life by operating hospital generators, opening roads, running transportation facilities, and rehabilitating infrastructure amidst total power outages, underscoring that the occupation is deliberately and systematically keeping Gaza in a state of paralysis to prevent the return of life. Additionally, the occupation has continuously closed the Zikim crossing, which serves as a major route to facilitate and expedite the entry of aid coming through Jordan, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis. The occupation also controls the types of materials allowed into Gaza, blocking essential food items like meat, poultry, eggs, and livestock, allowing only the minimum required. Over 31 days, only one truck of eggs was allowed, while tents and shelter supplies are also prevented from entering despite the harsh winter conditions, with only 5% of the urgent needs for the sector being met, deepening the humanitarian crisis.

8. Failure to operate the power plant: Despite a month passing since the signing of the agreement, Gaza's residents have seen no practical steps taken towards the operation of the power plant, even though the agreement explicitly states that preparations for its activation should begin immediately upon its implementation. This leaves the sector in a state of partial paralysis, affecting all aspects of daily life.

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🔴 BREAKING: Israel kills child in Gaza — says the ‘terrorist’ was an ‘immediate threat’ to its troops

The Israeli army said it “eliminated two terrorists” near the yellow line who “posed an immediate threat” to its troops in southern Gaza. Al Jazeera reports the drone strike killed two Palestinians, including a child, and came amid new Israeli air raids on eastern Gaza City and the south of the enclave. The death toll from Israel’s genocidal campaign has risen to 69,179 Palestinians killed and 170,693 injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

In the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Strip received 3 bodies—one newly killed, one who succumbed to previous injuries, and one recovered from under the rubble—along with 3 additional wounded.

⭕️ Haaretz: Israel pours millions into AI-hasbara, conservative/church targeting, and U.S. influence ops

Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign spanning artificial intelligence, evangelical churches, and right-wing media networks.

The investigation reveals that since mid-2025, Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Tourism Ministry, and Government Advertising Agency (LAPAM) have routed millions through the PR giant Havas Media Germany to American contractors linked to Donald Trump’s political machine and evangelical circles. The effort is designed to “reshape Israel’s perception” amid a historic collapse in U.S. public support following the Gaza war.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1987621320201314805

➤ AI manipulation and chatbot targeting:

For the first time, a state is documented trying to shape discourse through generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude. A clause in Israel’s $6 million contract with Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, directs the creation of a “Search and Language Operation” to engineer outcomes in GPT-based dialogue systems — essentially teaching AI models to frame Israel-Palestine conversations more favorably.

🔴 BREAKING: Israel Launches New Wave of Strikes Across Southern Lebanon

The Israeli military has unleashed heavy airstrikes across various parts of southern Lebanon in what Al Jazeera described as the most serious escalation since the ceasefire that ended the 2024 war with Hezbollah.

Israel’s security cabinet convened today to assess the escalating situation in Lebanon, Israel’s Channel 12 reports. The outlet earlier said that Israeli officials are preparing for a potential new confrontation with Hezbollah, aimed at weakening the group and pushing both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government toward what they describe as a “stable agreement” with Israel.

Lebanon’s Army, L’Orient Today reports, submitted its second monthly report today to the Cabinet outlining operations carried out south of the Litani River to locate and dismantle Hezbollah weapons depots and other military infrastructure in the border area.

📸 Israeli airstrike hits an iron workshop and a sawmill between the towns of Tura and Al-Abbasiyeh in south Lebanon.

More details: ⬇️🧵

Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for various towns in southern Lebanon before striking them, including Taybeh in south Lebanon.

📌 Axios: U.S. Drafts UN Plan for Gaza Security Force

The U.S. has circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution to establish an International Security Force (ISF) in Gaza for at least two years, Axios reports. The U.S.-led mission would have a broad mandate to govern and secure Gaza through 2027, operating “as an enforcement force, not a peacekeeping force,” with troop contributions expected from Egypt, Türkiye and Indonesia, and deployment targeted for January 2026.

The ISF would be asked to:
▪️ secure borders
▪️protect civilians
▪️train a new Palestinian police force,
▪️and oversee Gaza’s demilitarization, including disarming Hamas.

It would operate under a unified command approved by the Trump-chaired Board of Peace (BOP) — branded by Palestinians as “Balfour 2.” Israel and the U.S. envision the BOP as Gaza’s governing authority, effectively reviving a form of foreign colonial guardianship that all Palestinian factions uniformly rejected in a joint statement after unity meetings on October 23–24.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1985485153922400544

Watch:

https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1976722616346882448

🔴 REPORT | Israel is preparing a coordinated media campaign ahead of foreign journalists’ entry into Gaza for the first time after two years of genocidal killing and destruction, according to Israel’s YNET. Officials say the goal is to control the narrative as reporters document the destruction firsthand.

Here’s what to know: 🧵👇 2/ Under a plan the government presented to the Supreme Court, Israeli and foreign journalists will be allowed into Gaza under IDF escort up to the “yellow line.,” ie in Israeli-controlled areas where there are just some hundreds of Palestinians reportedly residing.

The announcement came during a petition by the Foreign Press Association challenging Israel’s media restrictions.