Israel weaponises winter in Gaza and must allow the immediate entry of temporary housing

Palestinian Territory – The international community, including the United Nations and its member states, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions, must take all necessary measures to pressure Israel to lift its ban on the entry of temporary housing units (caravans) and essential shelter materials into the Gaza Strip, and to ensure their unrestricted entry and distribution without political or security conditions.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor warns of an imminent catastrophe with the onset of winter, including the potential collapse of hundreds of severely damaged homes on their inhabitants due to the absence of safe and liveable housing. Thousands of families are forced to live in cracked buildings or under fragile tents that offer no protection from cold or rain, exposing them to collapse, injury, death, and an increased loss of life.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6948

A new #US travel ban blocks entry based on nationality and political status, not individual assessment. Framed as security, it enforces collective punishment and deepens discrimination against people already living under war and displacement

Several Palestine Action activists are on hunger strike in #UK prisons after more than 40–50 days without food, detained for advocating against human rights violations.

Their lives are under state responsibility.

Euro-Med Monitor is set to release a new field investigation tomorrow into a massacre carried out by the Israeli army against the Abu Nahal family in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, in February 2024. The investigation, conducted over nearly 21 months, relied on an on-site examination of the targeted location, testimonies from survivors and eyewitnesses, technical analysis, and precise temporal and spatial mapping. It reveals that Israeli military aircraft deliberately targeted a displaced family, killing 15 civilians, including 13 children and women, without issuing any effective prior warning or taking meaningful precautionary measures.

*A wedding turned into a massacre*.. A new Euro-Med Monitor investigation documents how the Israeli army killed 15 members of the Abu Nahal family in Rafah, southern #Gaza, most of them women and children, in a deliberate strike with no warning and no military justification

Full investigation: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6950

Sweeping ban on international aid groups: Israel escalates genocide in Gaza as 2026 begins

Occupied Palestinian Territory — Israel’s decision to halt the operations of dozens of major international humanitarian organisations working in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in the Gaza Strip, as 2026 begins constitutes a grave escalation aimed at suffocating the humanitarian response and severing life-saving support pathways.

This is being carried out through a licensing regime that contravenes international law and violates the obligation to allow and facilitate rapid, unimpeded humanitarian access to civilians.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6953

The ‘Green City’ in Rafah: a US–Israeli plan to impose a forced ghetto on Palestinians in Gaza

Occupied Palestinian Territory — Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reiterates its serious warning over the dangers of the Israeli–US agreement to establish what is termed a “green city” in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, presented as a solution for housing Gaza’s population forcibly displaced for more than two years and still living in deteriorating displacement tents.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6954

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During their most recent meeting, US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to move forward with a plan to build a so-called “green city” in Rafah, southern Gaza. The project envisions confining Palestinians to roughly half of the Gaza Strip, effectively creating a ghetto for residents who would be forcibly displaced from their homes and made to live in caravans

As 2026 begins, Israel is moving to shut down the backbone of the humanitarian response in Gaza by banning dozens of international aid organisations. Through an unlawful licensing regime, life-saving medical care, food, water, shelter, and protection services are being deliberately cut off, accelerating the collapse of an already devastated health and relief system and deepening conditions calculated to destroy the population and force displacement.

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As Israel plans to remove the rubble of Rafah, international intervention, specialised teams urgently needed to recover victims’ bodies

Occupied Palestinian Territory — Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor calls for urgent international intervention to halt the crimes of widespread destruction and land levelling being carried out by the Israeli army in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, until specialised teams and the necessary equipment are allowed to recover the bodies of victims, identify them, and ensure their dignified burial.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6958

A ceasefire that still kills: Gaza is under fire, homes and tents are bombed, children are killed, and survival is denied