More than two months ago, Israel and Hamas signed a cease-fire agreement that offered Palestinians in Gaza a hope of respite after a punishing two-year Israeli bombardment that left much of their enclave in ruins.
The destruction has continued.
Israel has demolished more than 2,500 buildings in Gaza since the cease-fire began, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery from Planet Labs.
The LIFT (Land Inventory Fast Track) task force will identify city-owned properties suitable for housing development.
The SPEED (Streamlining Procedures to Expedite Equitable Development) task force will identify and remove bureaucratic and permitting barriers that drive up costs and slow the construction of housing.
The task forces will be overseen by the deputy mayor for housing and planning.
A sixth child has died in Gaza this month as the enclave’s people continue to endure dire living conditions linked to freezing rains and the Israel-Hamas war, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced. The development comes as aid agencies urged Israeli authorities to reconsider revoking the licences of dozens of humanitarian partners that provide assistance across the devastated enclave from 1 January.
RAMALLAH, December 28, 2025 (WAFA) – Deadly Israeli attacks continue in Gaza despite the ceasefire, as Israel has killed 401 Palestinians in the Strip, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed since the genocide began to 70,925, according to the Government Communication Center at the Prime Minister’s Office in Situation Report No. 68, covering the period between December 22 and December 29, 2025, until 08:00 a.m.
– Ceasefire in Place, Yet Israeli Violations Persist: Eighty days after the ceasefire, Israel continues large-scale military operations in Gaza, including systematic demolitions, airstrikes, blockade, and restrictions on humanitarian access, resulting in additional Palestinian casualties and widespread destruction.
– Continued Humanitarian Collapse: Severe food insecurity, winter exposure, blocked reconstruction, and restrictions on temporary housing continue to place hundreds of thousands of Palestinians at risk, underscoring Israel’s ongoing collective punishment of civilians.
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Pubs are disappearing. In Germany’s largest state, North Rhine-Westphalia, almost half of all pub owners have thrown in the towel in the last twenty years. In Brandenburg, eastern Germany, the government recently reported that in some districts more than 70 percent of pubs have closed their doors over the last decade. The much-lamented demise of pubs is the talk of the town in Germany and the world over.
(December 16, 2025)
In an emailed statement to CBS MoneyWatch in June of 2023, JPMorgan called Epstein‘s behavior „monstrous,“ and said it regretted any association with the disgraced financier.
Epstein also had financial dealings with Deutsche Bank, which in May 2023 agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the German bank „knowingly benefited“ from his sex trafficking and profited from doing business with him.
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In October, Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, pointed to $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions that had been flagged by the banks and were tied to Epstein‘s alleged sex trafficking crimes. The same month, Bank of America was sued by one of Epstein‘s victims, who alleged the bank facilitated and also benefited from his alleged crimes.
In December 2024 Amnesty International issued an extensive study concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza arguing that Israel had carried out three acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, including killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.
Today despite a reduction in scale of attacks, and some limited improvements, there has been no meaningful change in the conditions Israel is inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza and no evidence to indicate that Israel’s intent has changed.
“Israel has inflicted devastating harm on Palestinians in Gaza through its genocide, including two years of relentless bombardment and deliberate systematic starvation. So far, there is no indication that Israel is taking serious measures to reverse the deadly impact of its crimes and no evidence that its intent has changed. In fact, Israeli authorities are continuing their ruthless policies, restricting access to vital humanitarian aid and essential services, and deliberately imposing conditions calculated to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza,” said Agnès Callamard.
At least 347people, including 136 children, have been killed in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire was announced on 9 October. Israel continues to restrict access to critical aid and relief supplies, including medical supplies and equipment necessary to repair life-sustaining infrastructure, violating multiple orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for Israel to ensure that Palestinians have access to humanitarian supplies, in the case brought by South Africa to prevent Israel’s genocide. In January 2024, the ICJ found that Palestinians’ rights under the Genocide Convention, namely their survival were plausibly at risk.
The objective probability that the current conditions would lead to the destruction of Palestinians in Gaza persists, particularly considering the enhanced vulnerability of the population to sickness and spread of disease following months of famine caused by years of unlawful blockade and months of total siege earlier this year. This has created circumstances that would lead to a slow death of Palestinians resulting from the lack of proper food, water, shelter, clothing or sanitation.
Ceasefire violations by Israel, no housing, destroyed farmland and ongoing sea blockade are intended to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, report says
RAMALLAH, November 15, 2025 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Presidency has appealed to the international community, particularly the U.S. administration and the guarantor states of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, to pressure Israel to expedite the entry of mobile houses and tents into the Gaza Strip.
This request comes in response to the severe weather conditions currently threatening the lives of Gaza‘s residents. The remaining tents in Gaza are old, torn, and inadequate, failing to prevent rain from entering and offering little protection to civilians.
(November 5, 2025)
The Working Families Party is open to backing a challenger to Hochul in the 2026 Democratic primary, including Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado, who is running a longshot campaign to Hochul’s left.
“We will make that decision, likely in late January or early February, shortly after we see the governor’s executive budget proposal,” Gripper said. “She’s going to have to prove to her own party why she shouldn’t be primaried.”
Antonio Delgado has a vision for New York. A vision that allows all New Yorkers to afford to live and grow our families here. A New York that can fight back with vigilance against threats from the Trump Administration. A New York that will again lead the country as a beacon of freedom and prosperity for the people – all people.
(June 18, 2025)
Earlier Wednesday, Gov. Hochul told Pix 11, “I don’t want to lose more people to Palm Beach“ when asked about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan to raise taxes. Delgado referenced the governor’s comment when explaining his own position on taxes.
“All options should be on the table, and the notion that we wouldn’t contemplate raising taxes on the super wealthy, or that we wouldn’t contemplate making sure that larger corporations pay more into the system, to me, is the exact type of ‘maintain the status quo, do what you need to do just to maintain power’ as opposed to actually thinking about what is required,” he stated.
Hochul has raised corporate taxes, but has held the line on raising new income taxes.
(March 20, 2025)
„Ultimately, we don‘t have a unified front where everybody‘s on the same page about saying, “Hey, wait a second. We‘re all trying to make a living here. We‘re all trying to get by, irrespective of race, irrespective of gender and sexual orientation. We‘re all trying to make a living. Why is it so hard for all of us to make a living?”
We have to be able to address it, because if we don‘t address it, then we will continue to be in the stock that we‘re in, because people will not invest in the system. They will stay home; 500,000 Democrats stayed home in New York. So people are staying home.“
(June 2, 2025)
After months of open political warfare with Ms. Hochul, Mr. Delgado said Monday he would challenge her in next year’s Democratic primary.
“People are hurting and New York deserves better leadership,” Mr. Delgado said in an interview. “There’s an absence of bold, decisive, transformational leadership.”
That phrase has become the theme for Mr. Delgado’s campaign, the first official challenge to Ms. Hochul, and a message he repeats in a video announcing his candidacy.
He never mentions Ms. Hochul by name in the video, but he suggests that everyday New Yorkers deserve a governor with a vision to fight for them as they face unaffordable housing, child care and health care costs.
Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.
Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.
Israeli authorities issued demolition and evacuation orders on Wednesday for more than 13 residential, agricultural, and industrial facilities in the Wadi al-Houd area of al-Eizariya town, southeast of Jerusalem, Wafa news agency reported.
The Jerusalem Governorate said in a statement that the demolitions orders were part of a plan to create a road.
The orders come one day after approximately 14 similar orders were issued in the Wadi al-Jamal and Jabal al-Baba areas, and a few days after 13 orders were issued at the entrance to al-Eizariya. The road threatens to separate Wadi al-Jamal and Jabal al-Baba from the town and completely isolate the areas.
(August 11, 2025)
“We’re getting rid of the slums, too,” Trump said, adding that the U.S. would not lose its cities and that Washington was just a start.
(August 13, 2025)
„Homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment, to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental-health services, and if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to jail time,“ White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
(August 10, 2025)
President Donald Trump declared Sunday that homeless people in Washington, D.C., must leave the capital „immediately,“ promising they would be relocated „far from the Capital“ as part of a broader effort to make the city „safer and more beautiful.“
Because Washington is a federal district rather than a state, it falls under the constitutional authority of Congress rather than a governor, meaning any presidential attempt to take over the city would raise serious constitutional, legal, and political concerns.
Jul 3, 2023
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X-ray vision _ a comic book fantasy for decades _ is becoming a reality in a lab. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed software that uses variations in radio signals to recognize human silhouettes through walls.
(June 5, 2025)
ICE last week raided two San Diego restaurants in a search for workers allegedly living in the country illegally, setting off a confrontation with protesters outside. Immigration agents in April showed up trying to speak with students at two Los Angeles elementary schools; school administrators turned them away. That month they also detained a group of day laborers in the parking lot of a Pomona Home Depot.
The lawmakers’ proposals sailed through the Legislature so far, and passed the Senate this week with near-unanimous support from Democrats. They now head to the Assembly.
Jul 3, 2023
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watch a video and just narrate what was
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going on in the video in their mind so
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there‘s a woman she gets hit in the back
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she falls over this is what the computer
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reconstructed the person thinking
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see a girl looks just like me get hit in
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the back and then she is knocked off
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so our thoughts like are starting to be
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decoded
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yeah just think about what this means
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for authoritarian States for instance
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or if you want to generate images that
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maximally activate your pleasure sensor
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anything else okay but let‘s keep going
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right to really get the sense of the
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combinatorics of this how about can we
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go from Wi-Fi radio signals you know
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sort of like the Wi-Fi routers in your
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house they‘re bouncing off radio signals
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that work sort of like sonar can you go
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from that to where human beings are to
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images so what they did is they had
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um you know a camera looking at a space
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with people in it
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signals so sonar from the Wi-Fi router
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and they just learn to predict like this
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is where the human beings are then they
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took away the camera so all the AI had
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was the language of radio signals
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bouncing around a room and this is what
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they‘re able to reconstruct
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suddenly AI has turned every Wi-Fi
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router into a camera that can work in
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the dark specially tuned for tracking
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living beings
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Dec 22, 2015
X-ray vision _ a comic book fantasy for decades _ is becoming a reality in a lab. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed software that uses variations in radio signals to recognize human silhouettes through walls.
Jun 2, 2013
Wi-Vi is a new technology that enables seeing through walls using Wi-Fi signals. The video shows the output of Wi-Vi (blue window) when a person moves around in a room. It can track whether there is a moving human inside the room and how he is moving.
Citing Puck, The Times of Israel reported that Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, helped prepare the shock remarks the president made on Tuesday night during his press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Kushner, who has a long history of friendship with Netanyahu, served as an advisor to President Trump during his first term in office and was involved in negotiating the Abraham Accords, the deals that sought Israel’s regional integration without settling the issue of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.
This month, a small tent cost Abu Salah 700 shekels, or about $185, he said. That‘s cheap, he added: People occupying nearby shelters paid double, or more.
„Opportunists are making use of this war. They hope this war continues so they can keep making money,“ Abu Salah said.
Some people have posted on social media offering tents for rent or sale. Some may be trying to make money, Palestinians told NPR, while others say they were forced to sell shelter materials in order to pay for food and water.