<article data-history-node-id="433250" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ten-countries-warn-israels-gaza-blockade-worsening-winter-deepens" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ten-countries-warn-israels-gaza-blockade-worsening-winter-deepens" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Ten countries warn Israel’s Gaza blockade is worsening as winter deepens</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="311" data-start="105">The foreign ministers of 10 countries have raised alarm over what they described as a sharp deterioration in Gaza’s humanitarian conditions, warning that the situation has reached “catastrophic” levels.</p> <p data-end="560" data-start="313">In a joint statement released on Tuesday by the UK Foreign Office, the ministers of Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland said civilians are facing increasingly dire conditions as winter sets in.</p> <p data-end="704" data-start="562">“As winter draws in, civilians in Gaza are facing appalling conditions with heavy rainfall and temperatures dropping,” the statement said.</p> <p data-end="704" data-start="562">The ministers highlighted the scale of the crisis, noting that “1.3 million people still require urgent shelter support”, while more than half of Gaza’s health facilities remain only partially operational and lack basic medical equipment and supplies.</p> <p data-end="704" data-start="562">They warned that the “total collapse of sanitation infrastructure has left 740,000 people vulnerable to toxic flooding.”</p> <p data-end="1721" data-start="1462">The statement called on Israeli authorities to allow international NGOs to operate in Gaza in a “sustained and predictable” manner, warning that many established aid organisations face deregistration by the end of December due to new Israeli restrictions.</p> <p data-end="1721" data-start="1462">“As 31 December approaches, many established international NGO partners are at risk of being deregistered because of the government of Israel’s restrictive new requirements,” it said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="433251" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/genocide-behind-bars-32-palestinians-killed-israeli-detention-2025" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/genocide-behind-bars-32-palestinians-killed-israeli-detention-2025" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Genocide behind bars: 32 Palestinians killed in Israeli detention in 2025</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Leading&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian&nbsp;</a>prisoner rights groups have accused&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel&nbsp;</a>of committing a "systematic genocide" against detainees, with at least 32 recorded prisoner deaths in 2025.</p> <p>According to an annual report published by the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) and Addameer, prisoners have died under "severely inhumane systematic policies".</p> <p>"These facilities have turned into sites of torture, designed to break prisoners physically and mentally through prolonged, deliberate suffering, and slow-execution policies," the report said.&nbsp;</p> <p>At least 100 prisoner deaths under these conditions have been documented since October 2023, according to information disclosed by Israel. The identities of 86 of them were released, while the real Palestinian death toll in Israeli prisons remains unknown.&nbsp;</p> <p>The report noted that 94 bodies of Palestinians – 83 of whom died during Israel's genocidal war on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza" target="_blank">Gaza&nbsp;</a>– continue to be withheld by Israeli authorities.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="Genocide behind bars: 32 Palestinians killed in Israeli detention in 2025" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/genocide-behind-bars-palestinians-killed-israeli-detention-2025">Genocide behind bars: 32 Palestinians killed in Israeli detention in 2025</a></h3> <p><img alt="Relatives of a Palestinian prisoner look on at the Ofer military prison complex in the occupied West Bank on 12 October, 2025 (AFP/Zain Jaafar)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/palestinian-relatives-prisoner-ofer-military-prison-october-2025-afp-min.jpg.jpg?itok=_QBXWdTB"></p> </div> </div> </article>

From displacement to return, and from horrific Israeli violence to tense ceasefires, 2025 pulled me decades into the past - then gave me a glimpse of a possible future

<article data-history-node-id="433275" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-officials-israeli-imposed-fuel-shortages-hit-water-sanitation" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-officials-israeli-imposed-fuel-shortages-hit-water-sanitation" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli-imposed fuel shortage hits water, sanitation services in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Khan Younis municipality on Wednesday said that it is facing a severe fuel shortage that has hit its&nbsp;operation of essential services, including water&nbsp;and sanitation facilities.&nbsp;</p> <p>"The daily requirement for running water and sanitation facilities is approximately 3,000 litres of diesel, while the available quantity, at best, does not exceed one-third of that amount," the municipality said.&nbsp;</p> <p>The fuel shortage due to Israeli-imposed&nbsp;restrictions has reduced operational capacity to only 20 per cent, it said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="433284" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/eu-says-israel-ngo-ban-will-block-life-saving-aid-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/eu-says-israel-ngo-ban-will-block-life-saving-aid-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">EU says Israel NGO ban will block life-saving aid to Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The EU on Wednesday said that Israel’s revocation of the licenses of 37 international nonprofits operating in Gaza and the West Bank will block life-saving assistance from reaching Gaza’s population, AFP reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>“The EU has been clear: the NGO registration law cannot be implemented in its current form,” EU humanitarian chief Hadja Lahbib wrote on social media company X.</p> <p>Israel has said the groups would be barred for not complying with stringent new requirements to register with the government.</p> <p>“IHL (international humanitarian law) leaves no room for doubt: aid must reach those in need,” Lahbib wrote.</p> <p>The list of organisations includes Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, the Danish and Norwegian Refugee Councils, Caritas Internationalis, an umbrella for Catholic charities, the Quaker-founded American Friends Service Committee and the International Rescue Committee.</p> </div> </div> </article>

After nearly 1,000 days of fighting, ceasefire politics, sanctions and regional calculations are managing Sudan’s collapse rather than stopping a war that has become entrenched

Israeli prime minister accused of trying to boost his popularity by giving the appearance his country is allied with Athens and Nicosia against Ankara, according to report

<article data-history-node-id="433295" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-says-israel-aid-group-ban-would-be-criminal-behaviour" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-says-israel-aid-group-ban-would-be-criminal-behaviour" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hamas says Israel aid group ban would be 'criminal behaviour'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hamas has denounced a proposed Israeli ban on a number of aid agencies as "criminal behaviour".</p> <p>"This is part of the occupation's attempt to politicise humanitarian action and use it as a tool to blackmail our Palestinian people," the group said.</p> <p>It said the international community must "take urgent and effective measures to condemn this criminal behavior."</p> </div> </div> </article>