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As the Israeli restrictions on the entry of tents and mobile homes continues, Gaza endures its coldest night of the year as displaced families battle exposure and loss, January 21, 2026.	11 Palestinians civilians were killed, 4 were injured, by the Israeli occupation forces, which brings the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 71,561 and the injuries to 171,372, by January 21, 2026
3 Palestinian journalists were massacred by the Israeli occupation forces in Khan Younus today, their bodies were transferred to the Nasir hospital, on January 21, 2026.	Grieving the death of the 13-year-old boy, Mu'tasim El-Shirafi, who was murdered by the Israeli occupation forces, while he was searching for firewood for his family, on January 21, 2026.
Bodies of two Palestinian  journalists, who were murdered by the Israeli occupation forces, while they working in Al-Zahra area, arriving at Al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, on January 21, 2026.	Bodies of four Palestinian civilians, including a  journalist, who were massacred by the Israeli occupation forces, while they working in central Gaza Strip, arriving at Shuhada El-Aqsa hospital, in Dair El-Bala'h, on January 21, 2026.

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Gaza: Death toll climbs to 71,550 martyrs

Monday 19-January-2026

GAZA, (PIC)

The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 71,550 martyrs, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, on Monday morning.

The ministry added that the total number of the wounded also surged to 171,365 people.

In its daily report, the Ministry said that hospitals received two civilian bodies, and 12 wounded people over the past 48 hours.

Since the ceasefire agreement took effect on October 10, 2025, at least 465 Palestinians have been killed, and 1,287 others have been injured.

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11 Palestinians killed, others injured in Israeli attacks in Gaza

Wednesday 21-January-2026

GAZA, (PIC)

11 Palestinian civilians were martyred, including three journalists, two children and one woman, and several others were wounded on Wednesday in separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, amid different ceasefire violations persisting for the 102nd consecutive day.

A medical source reported that three citizens, including a 10-year-old child and his father, were killed by Israeli gunfire and shelling east of Dair El-Bala'h in central Gaza.

In southern Gaza, a 13-year-old child and a young woman were also killed by Israeli gunfire in separate areas of Khan Younus.

Meanwhile, additional wounded civilians were transferred to Nasir Hospital in Khan Younus after Israeli forces opened fire at them east of the city.

Earlier, Palestinian media sources reported that two citizens were shot east of Khan Younus, while a third was wounded east of al‑Buraij camp in central Gaza.

In a new development, three journalists were killed in an Israeli strike on a car in the city of El-Zahra in central Gaza on Wednesday afternoon.

Three brothers were also martyred following Israeli artillery fire east of El-Buraij refugee camp.

In the morning, the Israeli army detonated residential buildings east of Bait Lahya in northern Gaza and shelled areas east of Khan Younus and around El-Buraij camp.

An Israeli helicopter also opened fire at the Dair El-Bala'h area in central Gaza, while artillery bombardment struck western Rafa'h in the south.

More Israeli attacks were reported across various areas of Gaza during the afternoon.

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Gaza endures its coldest night of the year as displaced families battle exposure and loss

Wednesday 21-January-2026

GAZA, (PIC)

As darkness fell, night in Gaza was not just a passage of hours but a brutal test of survival.

The past night, described by meteorologists as the coldest of the year, laid bare the scale of suffering endured by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, especially those crammed into makeshift tents that resemble homes in name only.

Thin fabric walls shuddered with every gust of wind. Torn plastic sheets, gaping holes never repaired, and damp ground that drained warmth from exhausted bodies turned the cold into an all-consuming threat.

Inside his tent, 52-year-old Abu Khalil Siyam said he spent the night pressing his hands against the plastic walls to block the wind from reaching his children. “The cold bit into my fingers,” he said. “The tent doesn’t protect us. We just try to convince ourselves we’re still alive.”

In the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, a family of seven shares just two damp blankets inside a tent only a few meters wide. Umm Yazan Suroor, 29, said she wrapped her infant in her own clothes and covered the rest of the children with a single blanket. “I watched their chests to make sure they were still breathing,” she said. “I didn’t sleep for a minute. Fear was stronger than exhaustion.”

With no mattresses, the ground itself became an enemy. Cold soil seeped into bones, worsening joint pain among the elderly. “I put cardboard under my back, but it didn’t help,” said 63-year-old Abu Ali Alwan, displaced for months. “I used to complain about the cold at home. I never knew the earth could be this cruel,” he added.

There was no electricity, no fuel, no firewood. In desperation, some families burned scraps of cardboard or plastic despite the toxic smoke. “We know it’s dangerous,” said 24-year-old Medhat Al-Khatib. “But the children were shaking. We chose the lesser of two evils: smoke or freezing.”

Sleep never truly came, only brief, uneasy dozes and a long wait for dawn. When morning finally arrived, faces were pale, eyes bloodshot, and bodies drained.

For Gaza’s displaced families, survivors of genocide now facing winter, the cold has become another front in a relentless struggle to stay alive.

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One Palestinian injured, others kidnaped by IOF in the West Bank

Wednesday 21-January-2026

WEST BANK, (PIC)

One Palestinian citizen was injured and others were kidnaped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) during dawn raids in the West Bank on Wednesday.

According to local sources, the IOFs carried out arrests during raids in the town of Ajja, south of Jenin.

IOF raids also took place in the towns of Silat al‑Harithiya and al‑Yamun in the west of Jenin, where Israeli forces reportedly kidnaped a young man.

In the vicinity of Jenin refugee camp, specifically in al‑Hadaf neighborhood, another young man was kidnaped by Israeli soldiers from his home.

In Nablus, Israeli forces stormed the city from the Beit Furik checkpoint, raiding a home in the Ein Kakoub area to the east and another one in the town of Awarta southeast of the city.

Meanwhile, the Red Crescent reported that a young man was injured after being severely beaten by Israeli soldiers at the Dair Sharaf checkpoint west of Nablus.

In Jericho, the IOFs carried out a military campaign in Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, where soldiers raided homes and kidnaped three citizens.

In Ramallah, Israeli special forces stormed al-Am’ari refugee camp in al-Bireh City and kidnaped a young man from his home.

The IOFs also raided several homes in Deir Jarir village and Beitunia town in Ramallah province, without making any arrests, while similar raids were reported in other areas of the West Bank.

IOFs arrested 2,300 Palestinians over one year in Jineen and Toulkarm

Wednesday 21-January-2026

WEST BANK, (PIC)

Over the past year, the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) have arrested approximately 2,300 Palestinians in the northern West Bank governorates of Jineen and Toulkarm, as part of a campaign aimed at displacing tens of thousands and dismantling the camps urban and social infrastructure.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported on Tuesday, marking one year since the launch of the military operation in the northern West Bank camps on January 21, 2025, that 2,300 Palestinians have been detained from the camps of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams.

The arrests have targeted all segments of society and were carried out as part of a sweeping and systematically escalating campaign. This included converting Palestinian homes into military outposts and interrogation sites, in addition to brutal physical assaults, torture, and direct threats to detainees and their families.

According to the report, the IOF soldiers have used civilians as human shields and hostages, carried out looting and destruction, and demolished hundreds of homes, displacing tens of thousands and imposing a coercive reality on the population.

These arrests form part of a broader campaign that has intensified since Israels genocide in Gaza began in October 2023. Over the course of that two-year war, more than 21,000 Palestinians were arrested in the West Bank, in addition to thousands in Gaza.

The PPS emphasized that mass arrests are a key tool used to repress Palestinian society and suppress any form of resistance.

It warned that the post-genocide phase marks the most dangerous period in the history of detentions, with its impact extending across all Palestinian regions. The aim appears to be comprehensive subjugation and the erasure of Palestinian existence, especially within the camps, which have seen tens of thousands displaced and their infrastructure destroyed.

Since Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, the military and settlers have escalated violence across the West Bank, including killings, arrests, forced displacement, and settlement expansion. Palestinians warn that this may be a prelude to the annexation of the West Bank by Israel.

These attacks have killed at least 1,107 Palestinians and injured around 11,000 others, while over 21,000 have been arrested, according to official Palestinian data.

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Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian bulldozers, vehicle, equipment in southern Nablus

Wednesday 21-January-2026

NABLUS, (PIC)

Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to three bulldozers, a vehicle, and other equipment early Wednesday morning in the village of Urif, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

According to local sources, a group of settlers attacked the village and burned machinery at a quarry site owned by a local Palestinian citizen.

Meanwhile, other settlers, accompanied by their livestock, stormed privately owned Palestinian land near residential homes in the village of al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah.

The attacks are part of a broader surge in settler violence across the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem, which has escalated significantly since the start of the ongoing genocide perpetrated by Israeli forces in Gaza over the past two years.

On Tuesday, settlers also obstructed the work of Palestinian election committee teams in eastern Tubas, while another settler attacked lands in the village of al-Mazraa al-Sharqiya northeast of Ramallah.

In response, Palestinian youths pelted settler vehicles with stones near the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, as part of ongoing efforts to resist settler aggression and protect Palestinian lives and property. 

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Illegal Israeli settler attacks force 20 more Palestinian families to flee El-'Auja area near Aree'ha (Jericho)

Tuesday 20-January-2026

Aree'ha (Jericho), (PIC)

Ongoing attacks by the illegal Israeli settlers have forced 20 additional Palestinian families to flee the Bedouin community of Shalal El-'Auja, north of Aree'ha (Jericho), raising the number of displaced families from the area to 37 within days, according to El-Baidar human rights organization.

In a statement issued Monday, El-Baidar said families from El-Zayid clan were compelled to dismantle their tents and animal shelters and leave the area after escalating settler harassment and assaults carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.

The organization said the attacks are part of a systematic campaign of forcible displacement targeting Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley.

Residents have endured daily pressure, including settlers grazing livestock near and inside residential areas, blocking access to traditional grazing lands and water sources, erecting fences, and establishing nearby herding outposts to isolate the community.

Al-Baidar added that settlers also used dogs and drones to intimidate residents, particularly women and children, along with verbal abuse and direct threats, making continued presence in the area impossible on humanitarian and security grounds.

Shalal El-'Auja is one of the largest and oldest Bedouin communities in the West Bank, home to dozens of families who rely primarily on livestock herding for survival. The organization warned that the displacement deals a severe blow to the Bedouin social fabric and threatens a traditional way of life that has existed in the Jordan Valley for decades.

Earlier this month, 17 families from the same community were also forced to leave following repeated settler attacks.

A recent report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission documented the killing of 14 Palestinians by settlers in 2025 and the displacement of 13 Bedouin communities, comprising 197 families and more than 1,000 people, as part of a broader policy of forced displacement linked to settlement expansion.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written human history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of Prophets David and Solomon , peace be upon them, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus, peace be upon him, started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

No matter what the Zionists and their supporters do, they cannot change the will of God, Who promised the Holy Land to Abraham and his descendants, basically the Palestinian Muslims and Christians.

No matter how much persecution and aggression the Zionists and their supporters inflict upon the Palestinian people, they will never be able to force them out of the Holy Land, which Allah, praise to Him, promised for them, and kept His promise ever since.

This is a necessary brief background to understand the US-Backed Zionist Israeli continuous wars against the Arab nation generally, and the Palestinian people in particular, which included the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967, 1978, 1982, the brutal crushing of the two Uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2004), 2009, 2012, 2014, 2021, and the current genocidal war on Gaza (Since October 7, 2023), which has culminated a blockade of Gaza since 2007. In addition, the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime launched so many covert operations, raids, and air strikes on many Arab states since 1948.

The following news stories are just examples, not a systematic record, of the Israeli occupation government abuse, mistreatment, and violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.