Yves here. Thanks to Israel’s success in murdering journalists, reporting on the horrors in Gaza and savagery in the West Bank and Lebanon is down markedly. But tweets like this attempt to tell the tale:
Israel is pure evil in a way the world just has never seen before https://t.co/yhSnBIZHrt
— fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧 (@fbhutto) January 4, 2026
Never forget that Israelis were having a “right to rape protest” in Israel to allow soldiers to rape Palestinian hostages. pic.twitter.com/9jg6qM83VS
— Censored Humans (@CensoredHumans) January 6, 2026
But due to Israel’s successful reduction in ongoing documentation, we hope you will forgive us for running this classic:
People who believe in the Israel’s Promised Land theory probably won’t have an issue with this. pic.twitter.com/iv0IZYlKZ2
— Ounka (@OunkaOnX) December 30, 2025
By Jessica Corbett, staff writer at Common Dreams. Originally published at Common Dreams
With the world captivated by and concerned over the Trump administration’s weekend abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Israel bombed the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, continuing its devastating US-backed response to the Hamas-led October 2023 attack.
In Gaza, where Israel faces widespread accusations of genocide, an Israeli strike on Monday “hit a tent housing displaced people, killing a 5-year-old girl and her uncle and wounding two other children,” the Associated Pressreported, citing officials at Nasser Hospital. “Family members wept over the bodies as they were brought to the hospital.”
The Israel Defense Forces used one of its common claims for when it kills civilians. According to the AP, the IDF said that it struck a Hamas militant who planned an imminent attack on Israeli troops in Gaza, the strike complied with the ceasefire agreement, and it was conducted in a targeted way to limit civilian harm.
The tent strike in the Muwasi area northwest of Khan Younis came a day after Israeli forces shot and killed at least three Palestinians in that city on Sunday. According to Reuters, “Medics reported that the dead included a 15‑year‑old boy, a fisherman killed outside areas still occupied by Israel in the enclave, and a third man who was shot and killed east of the city in areas under Israeli control.”
Gutting the most basic norms of #InternationalLaw to facilitate a genocide in #Gaza has made possible the kidnapping of a sitting head of state & the commandeering of a sovereign state & describing it as “self-defense”The atrocities committed in Gaza cannot b contained #Venezuela
— Noura Erakat (@4noura) January 3, 2026
Israel has killed at least 422 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 1,189 since reaching the ceasefire deal with Hamas three months ago. The overall death toll in the strip has climbed to at least 71,388, with another 171,269 people injured, according to local health officials. Global experts warn the true counts are likely far higher.
Meanwhile, according to Al Jazeera, journalists on the ground in the illegally occupied Palestinian territory observed that the IDF “has spent the past 24 hours expanding the so-called ‘yellow line’ in eastern Gaza,” or the boundary behind which Israeli forces officially withdrew as part of the October deal.
Al Jazeera‘s Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City:
The ongoing Israeli attacks on the ground, the expansion of the “yellow line,” are meant to eat up more of the territory across the eastern part, really shrinking the total area where people are sheltering.
Everyone is cramped here. The population here not just doubled but tripled in many of the neighborhoods, given the fact that none of these people is able to go back to their neighborhoods. We’re talking about Zeitoun, Shujayea, as well as Tuffah.
It was not until the past few minutes that the sounds of hums, the drones buzzing, faded away, but it had been going on for the past night and all of yesterday. Ongoing explosions that could be heard clearly from here.
Mahmoud also reported that “there’s nothing on the ground other than the headlines we’ve been reading over the past couple of days, the expectation now that within days the Rafah crossing is going to open and allow for movement in and out of Gaza. So far, we know the Israeli military is pushing for Rafah to be just a one-way exit.”
Throughout the Israeli assault, far-right officials in Israel have ramped up calls to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinian population and recolonize the territory. There has also been a surge in violence from Israeli settlers and soldiers against Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank over the past two years, as well as renewed settlement-building efforts there.
Laila Al-Arian, an American journalist and executive producer for Al Jazeera‘s documentary series “Fault Lines,” saidon social media Sunday, “With eyes on Venezuela, Israel is bombing Gaza and escalating its assault on the West Bank.”
In November 2024, nearly a year before the ceasefire agreement in Hamas, Israel struck a deal with the Lebanese political and paramilitary group Hezbollah—and, since then, as with Gaza, has repeatedly violated it.
Israel launched strikes on eastern and southern Lebanon on Monday after an IDF spokesperson said the military would target alleged Hezbollah sites in Kfar Hatta and Ain el-Tineh, and Hamas sites in Annan and al-Manara.
Al Jazeera reported that “Lebanon’s Health Ministry said a drone strike on a car in the southern village of Braikeh earlier Monday wounded two people. The Israeli military said the strike targeted two Hezbollah members.”
The longer this goes on, the more convinced I become that Israel successfully decapitated Hezbollah. Perhaps they’re resisting in ways that I don’t see, but, … in the meantime their country is being destroyed.
Seems like Israel took out most of Hezbollah’s capacity to attack Israel with drones and missiles and such, but obviously there are still many soldiers available to defend territory in the case of an actual Israeli incursion. Seems clear that Israel would be sending in troops like crazy and stealing Lebanese land if there was any possible way they could do it.
Sadly for them they are too incompetent and cowardly to do anything but fly overhead and drop bombs on innocent people.
Hezbollah has respected the ceasefire, as they were asked to do, in keeping with the notion that Lebanon’s sovereignty was being defended at this time by the national government, which signed onto the ceasefire agreement with the “guarantees” of the Americans and French. It’s not Hezbollah’s fault that the national government is incapable of defending, and the guarantors are incapable of guaranteeing.
Israel saw Hizb’ullah’s weakness in a way that I didn’t expect. A guerilla army can hide and fight, which Hizb’ullah still seems to do well. But a political organization with a mass social movement cannot hide: its leaders must be highly visible and its activists active out in the open. These made Hizb’ullah extremely vulnerable in a way a pure military group would not have been.
For a short time, using the most brutal methods, France completely suppressed the insurgent resistance in Algeria. The French ultimately left because they could not sustain their colonial occupation. Israel will ultimately end up a small secular state, or it may cease to exist. Israel cannot sustain an indefinite war against its more powerful neighbors, even with the backing of an increasingly dysfunctional U.S.
It’s far more likely to end up as a large, ethno-facist, theocratic loony bin first.
Isn’t Israel a small secular state now?
Why else does anybody think Trump is making the world the fool.
The JewishState, Israel’s empire is the West, the UK (the IsraelProject), the RF, the Arab royalty, the money, the media, expect even the Chinese to do business with them if they have to. + This money site has to take care what it says
Israel’s yankee Jews have given Trump billions, bought his election, own Washington.
Everything is to protect the Jewish State, the Jewish empire. To make the world forget the Israeli genocide. Nothing else matters.