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In December 2025, the umbrella organization Shelter Cluster reported that Storm Byron and several other severe storms over the course of that month had damaged about 65,000 households in the Gaza Strip, in at least 537 IDP compounds. According to figures released by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, from the beginning of December 2025 to the end of January 2026, at least 39 people died in Gaza due to weather-related hazards, more than half of them minors (22).

Saturday, 10 January 2026, at around 8:45 P.M., Shaker Ja’bari, 58, was driving his daughter, Raslan Ja’bari, and her four young children in his car in the Khallet Hadur neighborhood in Hebron, when he suddenly noticed a group of soldiers walking up the street ahead of him. Ja’bari screeched to a halt, and then one of the soldiers fired three shots at the car. One of the bullets went through the windshield and hit Shaker Ja’bari in the forehead. Two of his grandchildren, Juri, 11, and Muhammad, 9, got out of the car and ran away, shouting and crying. A local resident who witnessed the incident helped Raslan Ja’bari get out of the car with her two younger children, Julia, 2, and Rayan, 5, and took them into the home of his relatives who live nearby, without their older siblings.

On Sunday, 7 December 2025, shortly after 8:00 P.M., Israeli forces shot and killed two young Palestinian men, Baraa Qablan, 21, and Muamen Abu Riyash, 19, after they got out of their car near Road 5745 leading from the village of ‘Izbat a-Tabib to ‘Azzun.

On Saturday, 20 December 2025, in the early evening, several military jeeps raided the center of the town of Qabatiyah in Jenin District. Shortly before 7:00 P.M., one of the jeeps drove back and forth through the streets of the a-Saba’neh neighborhood near the town center, repeatedly honking its horn and disturbing residents. A group of youths followed the jeep, shouting and whistling, and some of them threw stones at it from afar...

On Sunday, 23 November 2025, at around 3:30 P.M., four settlers and a soldier set out from the Hessed Le’avraham outpost, which was established in 2025 on a hill in the Tal al-‘Assur area, about 270 meters north of the village of Deir Jarir. The group walked down to the home of Sidqi M’aali, 74, which lies further down the hill, and started throwing stones at the house while the family was sitting on the porch.

The Palestinian community of Khallet a-Sidrah lies about 800 meters northeast of the village of Mikhmas. It is home to 16 families from the Ka’abneh and Jahalin tribes, numbering 59 people in total, about half of them children, who live off shepherding. The settlement of Ma'ale Mikhmas was established in 1981 about 1.5 kilometers from the community. Since 2022, three more outposts have been established nearby: Nahalat Zvi, about 1 kilometer south of the community; Sde Yonatan, about 1.5 kilometers to the north; and Kol Mevaser, established in October 2025 only some 500 meters south of community homes.

“Living Hell” follows on B’Tselem’s August 2024 report “Welcome to Hell.” It provides updated figures and new testimonies from 21 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons in recent months and indicates that Israeli prisons continue to function as a network of torture camps for Palestinians, with the systematic abuse even more extensive than before. This includes physical and psychological abuse, inhuman conditions, deliberate starvation and denial of medical care, all of which has led to numerous deaths. Some witnesses also described undergoing or witnessing sexual violence and abuse. The transformation of prisons into a network of torture camps is part of the Israeli regime’s coordinated onslaught on Palestinian society, aimed at dismantling the Palestinian collective.

On 8 January 2026, after persistent attempts, Israel succeeded in forcibly transferring 26 families, numbering 124 people, including 59 minors, from the community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja. The families were forced to abandon their homes due to ongoing violence by settler militias and official Israeli forces. The community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja, located about 10 kilometers north of Jericho, is the last remaining shepherding community in the southern Jordan Valley, and the largest remaining in the West Bank. It is still home to about 100 families numbering roughly 600-700 people. The community suffers severe and daily violence by the militias and the military, including repeated incursions into its territory with herds of camels and sheep, physical attacks on residents, destruction and theft of property, and livestock theft. In one incident, in March 2025, approximately 1,500 head of sheep were stolen...

On Saturday evening, 6 December 2025, eight soldiers advanced along Be’er Sheva Street in Hebron, stopping vehicles and searching shops in the area. The soldiers confiscated the keys of at least two of the vehicles they stopped and left the drivers sitting inside them. At around 9:00 P.M., when the soldiers reached the intersection leading to Wadi a-Tuffah Street and Bab a-Zawiya, a car passed on the street. Its driver, Ahmad Rajabi, 17, came from Wadi a-Tuffah Street and turned onto Be’er Sheva Street, on his way from his home in the Jabal a-Sharif area to visit a friend at al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron. The car belonged to relatives of his who are residents of East Jerusalem and had yellow (Israeli) license plates...

Since October 2023, the Israeli regime has been carrying out genocide in the Gaza Strip. It has killed tens of thousands of people, injured hundreds of thousands more, destroyed homes and critical infrastructure and starved most of the population – all as part of a systematic, coordinated attack aimed at annihilating all facets of life in the Gaza Strip.

For two years, Israel has repeatedly uprooted most of Gaza’s population. In addition to official evacuation orders, many have been forced to flee the frequent airstrikes raining down death and destruction throughout the Strip. They quickly discovered there is no safe place anywhere in the Strip. We followed Nibal al-Hisi, 25, who lost her home and has been displaced from one camp to another with her toddler, even while recovering from a major injury.

In the first stage of the October 2025 "ceasefire deal", Israel was to withdraw to the “Yellow Line,” leaving 58% of the Gaza Strip in its control. At first, Israel did not mark the line. Then it placed concrete blocks along it, but the moved them west, forcing Palestinians to flee again. From the start of the “ceasefire” to mid-December, Israel killed 391 Palestinians in Gaza and injured 1,063. Many were shot near the Yellow Line, including children.