🟥 UPDATE NUMBER ONE | 29 JANUARY 2026
🔳 Sources: journalists on the ground / medical sources / UN officials / israeli media / regional reporting
🟥 GAZA
🔳 Medical sources confirmed the arrival of 15 Palestinian martyrs’ bodies at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City after the israeli occupation released them as part of the prisoner exchange deal, transferred via the Red Cross.
▪️ The Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that this brings the total number of recovered martyrs’ bodies to 360, many of whom were held for prolonged periods before release.
▪️ Medical teams continue forensic examination, documentation, and preparation for handover to families in coordination with relevant committees.
🔳 The Ministry of Health confirmed multiple killings across the Gaza Strip by israeli occupation forces.
▪️ In the Sheikh Nasser neighbourhood, east of Khan Younis, two Palestinians were shot and killed outside declared israeli deployment zones:
▪️ Ahmed Ramzi Said Barbak (32)
▪️ Mohammad Osama Rajab Imran (19)
▪️ In Al-Jeneina, east of Rafah, Anwar Fawzi Al-Satari was martyred by israeli fire.
▪️ In Al-Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza, two martyrs and several injuries were reported after an israeli reconnaissance drone targeted a group of civilians sitting at the entrance of a home near Mekki roundabout.
🔳 israeli military vehicles and artillery opened fire east of Khan Younis, while helicopters and drones were reported operating over central Gaza, continuing daily ceasefire violations.
🔳 A young man was injured in Al-Zeitoun, Gaza City, by stray israeli gunfire originating from military positions east of the city, highlighting the constant danger posed to civilians even far from active fronts.
🔳 A fire broke out in a charitable bakery on Al-Wahda Street, central Gaza, after it was forced to use wood as fuel due to the acute shortage of cooking gas.
▪️ The incident underscores how siege conditions are pushing basic food production into unsafe and improvised methods.
🔳 The spokesperson for Gaza City Municipality warned that the city is facing a catastrophic water crisis, with a shortfall exceeding 90% after the destruction of the main supply line.
▪️ More than 85% of the city receives no water, leaving residents facing extreme thirst amid winter conditions and disease risk.
🔳 The israeli occupation has given preliminary approval for the operation of 4G mobile communications in Gaza.
▪️ The move again highlights how even basic civilian infrastructure is treated as a matter of political permission rather than a civilian right.
🟥 THE “BOARD OF PISS” IS ALREADY DOING WHAT IT WAS BUILT TO DO: DELAY, SMEAR, CONTROL
🔳 The first clip is the tell. Trump and Witkoff publicly sell a headline that sounds like progress “Phase Two” while quietly shifting the centre of gravity away from withdrawal, aid, and reconstruction, and onto a single permanent excuse: “disarmament.” This is not accidental framing. It is a deliberate pivot designed to stall every material obligation while manufacturing a condition that was never part of the original agreement.
▪️ Hamas’ position has been consistent, explicit, and public: weapons are a Palestinian national decision and will not be surrendered while israeli occupation persists. Washington says “they will.” Hamas says “we won’t.” That contradiction is not a misunderstanding. It is the mechanism. It creates an open-ended justification for delay, pressure, and punishment while pretending negotiations are still alive.
🔳 The second clip shows the next move in the same playbook: pre-emptive incitement and delegitimisation. As the US-backed technocratic committee is scheduled to enter Gaza, Hebrew media begins priming the public to treat its head as an enemy. Youth history is dredged up. Language is policed. Basic, factual statements calling israel a colonial entity, pointing to gas theft are reframed as security threats.
▪️ This is how “Phase Two” becomes time-delay tactics. You appoint a committee, then undermine it before it arrives. You manufacture “security concerns,” then claim the process cannot proceed or can only proceed under tighter israeli control. The committee becomes a prop, not a vehicle for governance.
🔳 Underneath the media theatre, the architecture remains unchanged. “Demilitarisation” is tied to withdrawal. Aid is tied to compliance. Movement is tied to monitoring. Sovereignty is replaced with inspection regimes, leverage mechanisms, and conditional relief. This is not transition. It is containment.
▪️ That is why the disarmament line is so useful. It can be invoked to justify throttling aid, delaying withdrawal, imposing inspections, and restoring israeli “freedom of action” even while Gaza remains under siege, under fire, and structurally starved.
🔳 And this is not theoretical. The mask slipped immediately. israeli military officials publicly recommended cutting humanitarian aid from the agreed 600 trucks per day down to 200, a third of what was promised. This was not leaked. It was published openly. Aid is no longer even framed as humanitarian. It is a lever. Food, medicine, fuel, and shelter are treated as bargaining chips the moment israel secured the return of its last captive.
🔳 Alongside this, plans are being discussed for what is cynically described as a “city” in Rafah. In practice, it is a fenced, surveilled zone under full israeli military control, with residents monitored at all times and movement tightly regulated. This is not reconstruction. It is incarceration by design. A prison camp rebranded as governance.
🟥 WHAT HAMAS HAS ACTUALLY SAID
🔳 Hamas has not said it is “heading toward disarmament.” It has said the opposite. Disarmament demands are rejected so long as occupation continues. Weapons are tied to national rights and self-determination. Any attempt to impose surrender from outside is illegitimate.
▪️ So when Trump and Witkoff say “they have no choice,” they are admitting something in plain sight. This is not negotiation. It is coercion, dressed up as diplomacy.
🟥 UPDATE NUMBER FIVE | 27 JANUARY 2026
🔳 Sources: journalists on the ground
🟥 GAZA
🔳 Despite political declarations about “phase two” and partial crossings, the israeli occupation escalated its military assault across Gaza throughout the day and into the night.
▪️ Airstrikes, artillery shelling, and drone activity targeted eastern and central Gaza, including repeated strikes on Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and al-Tuffah, often inside the so-called “yellow line” and outside declared deployment zones. Warplanes struck residential homes with multiple missiles, while heavy artillery fire and gunfire continued without pause.
🔳 Residential destruction intensified under occupation control.
▪️ israeli occupation forces carried out wide-scale demolitions and explosive demolitions of residential buildings east of Khan Younis, east of Gaza City, and near al-Batsh cemetery, leaving entire neighborhoods flattened. Civil defense crews repeatedly warned that victims remain trapped beneath rubble as rescue teams are denied access.
🔳 New martyrs and injuries were recorded as violations of the ceasefire continued.
▪️ Medical and ambulance sources confirmed additional martyrs from shelling and gunfire, including children injured by drone fire in Beit Lahia, and casualties in al-Tuffah, Jabalia, and central Gaza. Gaza’s death toll continues to rise amid an inability to retrieve bodies under ongoing bombardment.
🔳 Gaza’s humanitarian collapse deepened amid siege and deprivation.
▪️ Gaza has now been without running water for over 11 consecutive days, while electricity remains cut. Health officials warned that more than 70% of essential medicines are depleted, including life-saving drugs, cancer treatments, and emergency supplies. Over 20,000 patients remain on medical transfer lists, including 4,500 children, 4,000 cancer patients, and 440 critical cases, while 1,268 patients have died waiting for permission to leave Gaza for treatment.
🔳 Civil defense and medical officials issued urgent warnings.
▪️ Hospital directors confirmed the spread of viral infections, collapse of hospital capacity, destruction of medical equipment, and exhaustion of staff after more than two years of sustained assault. Appeals were made for immediate international intervention, medical delegations, and the unconditional opening of all crossings.
🟥 UPDATE NUMBER ONE | 28 JANUARY 2026
🔳 Sources: journalists on the ground
🟥 GAZA
🔳 israeli army radio confirms that entry and exit from Gaza now require Egyptian approval, with names supplied to israel for clearance, while israeli security personnel supervise those leaving via the Rafah crossing.
▪️ Departures are monitored using facial-recognition technology, while returnees are transferred to israeli-controlled inspection points for identity verification.
🔳 Reuters reports that israel wants the number of Palestinians leaving Gaza to be greater than those allowed to enter.
▪️ This reflects demographic intent rather than humanitarian or administrative policy.
🔳 Hebrew media report that the Rafah crossing may open for pedestrian movement from Sunday, pending final approval by Benjamin Netanyahu.
▪️ Any so-called “opening” remains conditional, surveilled, and fully reversible.
🔳 For the first time since the ceasefire, israeli authorities allowed UNICEF to bring a limited number of humanitarian aid trucks into Gaza through the Zikim crossing in the north.
▪️ Aid entry remains tightly restricted and does not alter the wider siege.
🔳 Airstrikes were reported near Khan Younis as displaced families, including children, continue to live in torn tents among rubble amid severe shortages of food, water, shelter, and medical care.
▪️ Living conditions remain life-threatening.
🔳 Al-Batsh cemetery in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood east of Gaza City was excavated, with graves destroyed and bodies of martyrs exhumed by israeli occupation forces.
▪️ The dead themselves are not spared.
🔳 Gaza’s health sector warns of a growing outbreak risk after nine cases of meningitis were recorded this month.
▪️ Doctors cite overcrowding, forced displacement, malnutrition, and the collapse of medical capacity, with hospitals lacking medicines, testing equipment, staff, and supplies.
🔳 UNICEF warns that 100,000 children in Gaza are suffering from acute malnutrition requiring long-term care, while more than one million people, many of them children, remain in urgent need of shelter.
▪️ Families are living in tents or damaged buildings under extreme conditions.
🔳 Civil Defence teams rushed to rescue a young man who fell into a deep hole in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood near Bank of Palestine.
▪️ Infrastructure collapse continues to cause daily injuries.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is financially backed by Israel’s Mossad and Ministry of Defense, according to Israeli opposition politician Avigdor Lieberman.
The GHF was approved by the Israeli government to begin distributing food aid inside the Gaza Strip amid a series of controversies, resignations, and incidents—including the wounding of dozens of Palestinians after Israeli soldiers opened fire at an aid distribution site on May 28. On June 1, at least 31 people were killed and many more were wounded near a GHF distribution site in Rafah.
The organisation reportedly secured $100 million from an undisclosed donor, according to the Washington Post. Lieberman’s admission adds to evidence that the Israeli military is directly funding and managing the aid distribution infrastructure.
The program serves two purposes: distributing basic supplies, while forcing civilians still in northern Gaza to move into tightly controlled “sterile zones” in the south. One GHF planner reportedly warned these zones would be seen as “concentration camps” due to the use of biometric tracking and confinement.
🚨 BREAKING: Eyewitnesses report that the Rafah massacre occurred after Israeli drone loudspeakers instructed displaced Palestinians to head to the area to receive aid. Once they gathered, Israeli forces opened fire and shelled them, killing and injuring hundreds.
🚨BREAKING: Horrific testimony from Dr. Ahmad Abu Sweid, an Australian emergency medicine specialist currently volunteering in Gaza:
“Women, children, and youth are dying before our eyes at Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. Medical teams are unable to save them amid an unprecedented catastrophe, worsened by a severe shortage of essential medicines and equipment”
Irish fighter Paddy McCorry defeated Israeli Shuki Farage, raised the Palestinian flag, and repeatedly shouted “Free Palestine” inside the cage while beating Shuki who is a soldier in the ‘IDF’.
Do you see the areas highlighted in the map which is 77% of Gaza’s size?
That’s the area designated by Israel as a “Kill Zone”.
Credit for map: @gazamaps
The Guardian has played a central role in the weaponization of antisemitism. It does not even do the most basic fact checking before slandering @Pal_action.
The media’s day of reckoning will come in just the same way as those who have murdered, those who provided the arms & intelligence & those who denied the slaughter will face the consequences of their actions.
We will never forget and we will never forgive!
"Even though she's in prison, she's in a way more free than many of us"
Clare Rogers, mother of jailed @Pal_action's actionist Zoe Rogers, recounts how and why her daughter joined the group.