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Sunday, January 04, 2026

UN Secretary General Antnio Guterres has condemned Israel's decision to cut electricity and water supplies to facilities owned by UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, as well as severing its banking and communication services.

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Don't forget #Gaza. Homes are still destroyed. Humanitarian aid is still restricted. UNRWA supplies are still completely blocked. Hundreds of thousands are still forcibly displaced. UNRWA is still working to support the people in Gaza. #UNRWAworks

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-- UNRWA (@unrwa.org) Jan 1, 2026 at 1:01 AM

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UNRWA employs approximately 12,000 staff members in the Gaza Strip, providing education, health, food, and aid to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. UNRWA Gaza operations support UNSC Resolution 2803 and property used by UNRWA is inviolable.

Since Israel's punitive campaign against the Palestinians began on 7 Oct 2023, the UN reports that 70,668 people were killed, mostly women and children; 171,152 were wounded or maimed in Gaza. In the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), 1,043 were killed, one in five being children.

Winter has set in and cruelty is just one of the points the nefarious Benjamin Netanyahu and the Knesset are trying to make.

Three world leaders seem to hate the UN: Dummkopf Trumpf, Vladimir Putin, and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Gosh, I wonder why?

An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for crimes against humanity remains active for Benjamin Netanyahu and the Istanbul Public Prosecutor in Turkiye issued arrest warrants for him and 32 other Israelis accused of committing war crimes. An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law or an international tribunal at the Hague.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-04 03:21 AM | Reply

While Dummkopf Trumpf is terrorizing the people of Latin America, Nigeria, Yemen, and Somalia, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu keep immiserating the Ukrainian and Palestinian people this winter.

And millions of Americans will now have trouble paying for their health insurance premiums without the ACA subsidies which were allowed to expire in Congress.

But we got Nicolas Maduro!

"Vladimir Netanyahu Trumpf, at your service."


#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-04 06:29 PM | Reply

This looks bad for Israel.

So very bad.

But PM Netyanahu seems to need to war to continue in order to avoid his trial.

So, here we are ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:16 AM | Reply

Ethnic cleansing is always a part of apartheid, think Bantustan, which were the "homelands" that the whites in South Africa established, on inferior land, sort of like the "reservations" that our racist forefathers set up during our own ethnic cleansing to steal Native American land.
Israel is, first and foremost, an apartheid nation and will do everything it can to destroy even the concept of "Palestine". That is what it means to be a Zionist these days under Netanyahu, so why lie about it.

#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-01-05 08:28 AM | Reply

Having been to both apartheid and post-apartheid Suid-Afrika and pre- and post- Oslo Accords Israel several times, the Palestinians have it much rougher than the Xhosas and Zulus did. The Afrikaaners were not ethnic cleansers, but racial and tribal dividers, exploiting cheap Bantu labor and playing one tribe off of another. They were like a modern day Confederacy, with plantations, mines, and factories.

The Israelis under the nefarious Likud regime are ethnic cleansers, as we have seen over the decades.

Years ago there were mixed Israeli and Arab neighborhoods like in Haifa; I don't know know how many such neighborhoods exist today.

There are many Israelis who believe in co-existence with Palestinians, like many in the Labor Party, but they are the minority now.

Other Israelis are fighting injustice besides the human rights lawyers of B'Tselem, like the Israeli Communist Party (AKA the Makis).


#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-05 09:40 AM | Reply

Isarel has provided those for years and I
do not believe that it is their responsibility. Let the Palestinians develop their out sources as they want to be independent of Israel.

#6 | Posted by MSgt at 2026-01-05 02:34 PM | Reply

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