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Who is Going to be on ‘The Board of Peace’

CrossFireArabia
December 11, 2025

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the members of his Gaza “Board of Peace” will be announced early next year, adding that they will be comprised of global leaders.

“We’ll do it early next year, and the Board of Peace are going to…it’ll be one of the most legendary boards ever,” he told reporters at the White House. “They want to all do it. Basically, it’ll be the heads of the most important countries. They all want to be on (it).”

The board is a key component of Trump’s ceasefire deal for the besieged Gaza Strip, though key details including its membership have yet to be announced. It is slated to play an assisting role in the administration of Gaza under the terms of Trump’s ceasefire deal.

The US president has said that he will serve as the group’s chairman.

Since October 2023, Israel has killed more than 70,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured nearly 171,000 others in Gaza in a more than two-year war that came to a halt under a ceasefire deal that took effect on Oct. 10 according to Anadolu.

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Yasser Abu Shabab: Israeli Collaborator Killed in Rafah

CrossFireArabia
December 4, 2025

Yasser Abu Shabab, a militia leader who collaborated with Israeli occupation forces throughout the genocide, was killed on December 4 by unknown fighters in Gaza, according to Israeli media reports.

His death comes after months in which he became one of the most controversial figures of the genocide, operating openly under Israeli military protection and playing a central role in aid theft, extortion, intimidation, and killing of civilians in areas occupied by Israeli forces.

Abu Shabab, 32, was originally detained by Hamas authorities on drug trafficking charges and he escaped prison in the aftermath of October 7, 2023.

By early 2024, he had aligned himself with Israeli occupation forces and assumed command of an armed group in eastern Rafah, later known as the “Popular Forces.”

The Israeli-backed militia was responsible for overseeing territory on behalf of the occupying army.

Multiple humanitarian officials and journalists documented how the group operated near the Kerem Shalom and Rafah crossings, where it controlled the movement of aid convoys entering the Strip.

Humanitarian workers accused the militia of seizing or diverting relief supplies, demanding payments from organizations, and contributing to the collapse of aid distribution at a time when famine conditions were intensifying. UN officials stated that criminal gangs, including Abu Shabab’s, had been able to operate “under the watch of Israeli forces.”

During the temporary ceasefire in January 2025, Israel deepened its support for Abu Shabab’s faction by providing uniforms, tactical gear, weapons, and vehicles.

Israeli media later confirmed that members of these militias, including Abu Shabab’s, received direct orders from Israeli officers during operations targeting Hamas and other resistance factions. The Israeli government acknowledged the policy publicly after domestic criticism, framing it as an effort to reduce Israeli military casualties.

Western outlets subsequently began portraying Abu Shabab as the leader of a local anti-Hamas movement. One high-profile example was a July 2024 Wall Street Journal op-ed attributed to him, despite reports that he did not speak English and had limited literacy in Arabic.

Videos verified by international media showed his men accompanying Israeli soldiers in areas that were militarily occupied by Israel.

Inside Gaza, resentment toward Abu Shabab was significant. Residents and clan representatives accused him of exploiting the humanitarian crisis, collaborating with an army responsible for mass civilian casualties, and strengthening Israel’s control over key areas in Rafah. His own family eventually issued a statement formally disowning him and condemning his collaboration with Israeli authorities.

Abu Shabab’s influence grew alongside Israel’s broader strategy of supporting local armed groups in Rafah, Khan Yunis, and northern Gaza during renewed operations in 2024 and 2025.

These groups were tasked with conducting raids, gathering intelligence, and confronting Palestinian resistance fighters in territories Israel sought to secure.

By late 2025, Abu Shabab had become a primary target for Palestinian resistance groups as well as a polarizing figure among civilians. Hamas declared that it would seek to kill him, and Israeli media reported several earlier attempts on his life.

His killing on December 4 leaves open questions about the future of other Israeli-backed militias operating in Gaza and the extent to which those networks will persist without their most prominent commander.

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No Ceasefire: Israel Kills Photojournalist in Gaza

CrossFireArabia
December 2, 2025

A Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, despite a ceasefire agreement sponsored by US President Donald Trump.

Medical sources told Anadolu that photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi lost his life in an Israeli drone strike in central Khan Younis, an area that does not fall under the Israeli-controlled yellow zone.

Wadi’s father, Issam, described the Israeli strike as “an earthquake that struck the tent.”

“I never expected to lose Mahmoud, who was not just my son but a friend, as he grew up in a photography studio,” the grieved father told Anadolu.

“Mahmoud was photographing in a safe area (not under Israeli control according to the ceasefire agreement), but the Israelis respect no pledges or promises; their entire life is treachery and deceit,” he said.

Criminal act

The Palestinian father called his son’s killing “a criminal act carried out by the Israeli occupation.”

“They (Israelis) will continue until destroying the whole world,” he said.

A colleague of the slain journalist, Muhammad Abu Ubaid, a correspondent for Al-Alam TV in Gaza, said Wadi was “known for his humanitarian work and helping people.”

“He may not be known to everyone, but the poor and afflicted know him well, because he devoted his time to assisting them,” he told Anadolu.

“Wadi was a pure-hearted person. I sat with him last night, we talked a lot, and he told me about his plans to raise his young son, who is his whole world.”

“We had an appointment today at Nasser Hospital (in Khan Younis), but I found out he had been martyred,” Abu Ubaid said in tears.

“The world is silent and watching, and the (Israeli) occupation continues to kill us and kill journalists despite the agreement.”

Systematic killing

Gaza’s Government Media Office said Wadi’s death brought the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza to 257 since October 2023.

It decried Israel’s “systematic attacks and assassination of Palestinian journalists” and held Tel Aviv and the US administration, the UK, Germany, and France “fully responsible for committing these heinous and brutal crimes.”

The media office appealed to the international community and press organizations around the world to “condemn the Israeli occupation’s crimes.”

International media institutions have repeatedly called on Israel to stop fatal attacks on Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, but Tel Aviv has ignored these appeals.

Palestinians see the deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip as an attempt to cover up its atrocities in the territory.

The ceasefire deal took effect in Gaza on Oct. 10 under Trump’s Gaza plan, halting two years of Israeli attacks that have killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured over 171,000 others since October 2023.

Israel has repeatedly violated the agreement by opening fire on Palestinian civilians in areas it does not control under the deal, while the Palestinian group Hamas has announced its full commitment to the terms of the agreement and urged the US to pressure Israel to comply.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 356 Palestinians have been killed and more than 900 others injured in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire.

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2025: Deadliest Year For Palestinians

CrossFireArabia
December 2, 2025

Israeli human rights organizations on Tuesday deemed 2025 the “deadliest and most destructive” year for Palestinians, with Israel doubling its killing and displacement of civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

This came in a joint report released by 12 Israeli human rights groups: Bimkom (Planners for Planning Rights), Gisha, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, HaMoked (Center for the Defence of the Individual), Yesh Din, Combatants for Peace, Ir Amim, Emek Shaveh, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, Breaking the Silence, and Torat Tzedek.

“In 2023 and 2024, grave violations were documented in Gaza (during the Israeli genocide), but the outcomes in 2025 reveal a sharp deterioration, with the death toll nearly doubling, displacement becoming almost across the entire enclave, and hunger becoming a cause of mass death,” the report said.

“Violations that were considered exceptional at the start of the war became part of daily practice” in the current year, the rights groups said.

“The second year of the war in Gaza was the deadliest and most destructive for Palestinians since 1967.”

Figures released by the Israeli rights groups showed that the death toll from the Israeli war reached over 36,000 in March 2024 and rose to 67,173 by October 2025, including more than 20,000 children and around 10,000 women, in addition to an estimated 10,000 bodies still under the rubble. The number of wounded surpassed 170,000.

According to the report, Palestinian displacement in 2025 reached 1.9 million people—around 90% of Gaza’s population—up from about 1 million in 2024.

Many were displaced multiple times, the report said, as entire neighborhoods and vital infrastructure, including water and electricity, collapsed.

Regarding Israeli-induced starvation, the report said that 461 people, including 157 children, died of hunger by October 2025.

The rights groups said that 2,306 Palestinians were killed and 16,929 injured while waiting for aid delivery in a “daily tragedy” created by the Israeli mechanism in 2025.

Settler violence

According to the rights groups, about 1,200 attacks by illegal settlers were recorded between 2023 and 2024 in the occupied West Bank, while large-scale violence escalated in 2025.

The report found that 44 Palestinian herding communities were fully displaced, and 10 communities were partially emptied, taking the total number of displaced Palestinians to 2,932, including 1,326 children.

It added that the number of administrative detainees, who are held without charge, rose from 1,000 in 2023 to 3,577 in 2025, three times the prewar average.

The report documented at least 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody due to torture, denial of medical treatment, and inhumane detention conditions.

“2025 revealed a reality previously unimaginable: a state operating without limits, systematically violating international law, dismantling the very values it claims to uphold. Israel cannot claim morality or self-defense.”

Palestinian and Israeli rights organizations have repeatedly reported torture of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including beatings, starvation, and sexual abuse.

The Israeli army has escalated its attacks in the West Bank since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023.

More than 1,085 Palestinians have since been killed, and 10,700 others injured in attacks by the army and illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied territory.

Over 20,500 people have also been arrested.

In a landmark opinion last July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and called for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem according to Anadolu.

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US-Palestinian Tipped For The Moon

CrossFireArabia
November 27, 2025

Palestinian-American Najoud Al-Fahoum has entered the space world with a huge bang. Born in the United States to parents who once lived in Nazareth, she is today a spacecraft engineer and director of rocket and spacecraft flight operations.

The US space agency, NASA has announced that Al-Fahoum, head of the agency’s Exploration Mission Planning Office, has been appointed to lead the Artemis 1 mission, which aims to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon.

Al-Fahoum posted on her Instagram account about her new role as a Palestinian space scientist, saying, “As a Palestinian-American, I am proud to lead this mission.”

Al-Fahoum’s family originates from Nazareth, and she was born in the United States. She has visited the Palestinian territories several times.

Prior to her current position, she worked as a spacecraft engineer at NASA in Houston, Texas.

Al-Fahoum is proud of her Palestinian heritage and has previously worn traditional Palestinian dress at NASA headquarters for the first time in the agency’s history.