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USAID staff filed an internal cable in early 2024 describing northern Gaza as an ‘apocalyptic wasteland’ with bones in the streets and catastrophic food shortages — then US Ambassador Jack Lew and his deputy blocked the cable’s circulation inside government, claiming it lacked balance.
The CPJ’s 2025 annual census ranks Israel as the world’s third-worst jailer of journalists, with 29 Palestinian journalists behind bars — most in administrative detention without charge — while at least 265 Palestinian journalists have been killed and international press access remains banned.
The UN reports that more than 37,000 Palestinians were displaced in the West Bank in 2025 — a record — driven by Israeli military operations, 1,800+ settler attacks, and demolitions. The pace has continued into 2026 as Israel advances plans to register occupied land.
Eighty-six people were arrested outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs for protesting the detention of Palestine Action hunger striker Umer Khalid — who was refusing water and had ‘days left to live’ — under a terrorist designation a British court would rule unlawful three weeks later.
The UN is calling the occupied West Bank’s current crisis the worst since 1967 — with 37,000+ Palestinians displaced in 2025, record settler violence, military operations destroying refugee camps, and a new land registry plan condemned by 80+ countries as de facto annexation.
Eight Palestinians were deported from the US to the occupied West Bank on a private jet owned by a Trump business partner — a move described as ‘highly unusual’ even by Israeli sources. The case exposes the deepening entanglement of private financial interests, pro-Israel lobbying, and US immigration enforcement.
The UN says 230,000 women and girls in Gaza — including 15,000 pregnant women — have almost no access to reproductive healthcare due to Israeli attacks on health facilities, forced displacement, and aid restrictions that continue despite a ceasefire.
Israeli rights group B’Tselem’s new report ‘Living Hell’ documents a systematic ‘network of torture camps’ in which 84 Palestinians — including one minor — have died in Israeli custody since October 2023, with abuse described as more extensive than ever.