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Mohammed Ibrahim wants to run and play soccer again, but the 14-year-old has had three surgeries since an accident this summer when he was run over as he tried to grab food off an aid truck for his starving family.

A nurse at this Gaza City clinic changes the gauze on his right leg. He winces in pain.

"Focus with us and calm your mind," she tells him. "You will be just fine."

"It hurts," the boy whimpers. Unable to fight back tears, he bursts out: "I can't! I can't!"

This clinic is run by Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French initials MSF, an international aid group that provides lifesaving care in war zones around the world. But this clinic and MSF's 19 other health care facilities and medical points across Gaza are facing massive pressure, and some may even have to shut down.

Israel banned MSF and dozens of international aid organizations, preventing them from bringing in aid or international staff to Gaza and the occupied West Bank under new security and transparency rules that came into effect on Jan. 1.

"It's a catastrophe. An absolute catastrophe," Ibrahim's mom, Neama Abu Ghanim, says of Israel's decision.

She tells NPR that before coming to this MSF clinic, her son spent months unable to sleep from pain, despite seeking treatment in some of Gaza's still partially functioning hospitals. Gaza's health system was shattered during two years of war.

"When I came here, they helped him with medicine to sleep for even just a few hours at night, which helped me so much," she says.

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The UK has settled out of court by paying a “substantial sum” to a Guantánamo Bay detainee who was suing the government for its alleged complicity in his rendition and torture, according to the inmate’s legal team.

Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah have accused the British intelligence services of providing questions to his CIA interrogators to put to him while they were torturing him at a string of CIA “black sites” around the world where he was held between 2002 and 2006.

They claim that the case has relevant lessons for the UK today, highlighting the legal and moral risks involved in cooperation with the US at a time it is violating international law.

Abu Zubaydah, whose full name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, is a stateless Palestinian who grew up in Saudi Arabia. He was one of the first detainees in the US “war on terror” to be tortured, and was subjected to a full range of what the Bush administration at the time termed “enhanced interrogation techniques”, in secret prisons in Thailand, Lithuania, Poland, Afghanistan, Morocco, and then the US base at Guantánamo Bay, on Cuba’s southern coast.

Now 54, he has been held in Guantánamo Bay without charge ever since, becoming one of its “forever prisoners”.

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A Maryland woman has been released and reunited with her family after spending 25 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody – despite her attorneys saying documentation showed she was born in the US and therefore is a citizen.

Dulce Consuelo Díaz Morales and her legal team maintain she was born in the US and possess records supporting that claim. ICE, however, had disputed this, asserting she is a Mexican citizen who entered the US unlawfully.

According to Díaz Morales, ICE agents detained her near her home on 14 December while her family watched. She told the DC, Maryland and Virginia news outlet WRC-TV that she attempted to explain she was born in Maryland – but said authorities did not accept her explanation. She added that her faith and the hope of reuniting with her family helped her endure the detention.

Díaz Morales said she lived in Mexico starting at age seven and returned to the US more than a year and a half ago. She believes confusion arose because she used her mother’s last name while living in Mexico, whereas US records list both her father’s and mother’s last names.

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Three Israelis were arrested after settlers wounded at least two people and set fire to cars at a Palestinian factory near Nablus in the West Bank earlier today, according to Israeli security forces and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

The IDF and Israel Police say in a joint statement that two Palestinians were hospitalized in moderate condition as a result of the attack.

According to the Red Crescent, three people were wounded in the attack on the al-Junaida dairy factory in the village of Deir Sharaf, including a 65-year-old man whose hand was broken. A 50-year-old and a 48-year-old man were also hospitalized with bruises to their bodies.

The Israeli forces say that they arrested three suspects at the entrance to the settlement of Shavei Shomron in the northern West Bank after receiving a report that “extremists” in the area set fire to four cars and assaulted Palestinians, including one who was inside one of the cars.

The suspects were taken for questioning at the Ariel police station, the joint statement says, adding that the IDF, Border Police and the Shin Bet are continuing searches in the area and investigating the incident.

TVNL Comment: No settlers are EVER held responsible for their crimes. Not ever.

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Israeli forces clashed Tuesday with students during a raid at Birzeit University, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, in what the military said was an operation aimed at disrupting a pro-terror gathering.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said 11 students were hospitalized, including five with bullet wounds. No troops were reported injured.

WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, reported that Israeli forces broke into campus buildings and seized property belonging to a Hamas-affiliated student bloc.

Israeli forces clashed Tuesday with students during a raid at Birzeit University, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, in what the military said was an operation aimed at disrupting a pro-terror gathering.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said 11 students were hospitalized, including five with bullet wounds. No troops were reported injured.

WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, reported that Israeli forces broke into campus buildings and seized property belonging to a Hamas-affiliated student bloc.

The IDF said the raid was prompted by intelligence indicating that a “gathering in support of terrorism” was expected to take place on campus.

According to the military, IDF troops and Border Police officers entered the university area as the gathering began, used crowd-dispersal measures and fired warning shots only, eventually dispersing the crowd.

TVNL Comment:  The phrase "in support of terrorism" is used to describe anyone, even a college student, who opposes Israeli oppression.  It is used to justify killing anyone, anywhere, who does not announce support of Israel in its Zionist murderers.  The world remains silent.

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The Department of Homeland Security has launched an immigration and fraud crackdown in Minneapolis amid a welfare-abuse scandal in Minnesota.

CBS and CNN reported that around 2,000 federal agents have been deployed in the Twin Cities area as part of a 30-day surge in operations.

On Tuesday, the department's official account wrote “GOOD MORNING MINNEAPOLIS!” – the first in a series of posts about operations in the region.

In a post on her own X account, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is pictured overseeing arrests, and promising to “expose and deliver accountability for the rampant fraud and criminality happening in Minnesota.”

The push comes amid new allegations of fraud by some day care centers run by Somali residents in Minnesota following claims by a right-wing influencer.

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