A major report by Oxfam released today has found that the average Australian billionaire increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day over the past year, or more than $10.5 billion altogether.

Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.

<article data-history-node-id="433362" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-uproot-olive-trees-and-bulldoze-land-near-ramallah" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-uproot-olive-trees-and-bulldoze-land-near-ramallah" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces uproot olive trees and bulldoze land near Ramallah</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="318" data-start="126">Israeli occupation forces bulldozed Palestinian land and tore up dozens of olive trees in the town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, on Friday, escalating an ongoing campaign of land seizure.</p> <p data-end="537" data-start="320">Local sources said Israeli forces pushed into the area around the home of the Abu Awad family, where bulldozers levelled farmland and uprooted long-standing olive trees, a key source of livelihood for local residents.</p> <p data-end="847" data-start="539">Residents said the destruction did not begin on Friday. Israeli authorities have been carrying out sustained land bulldozing in Turmus Ayya for around three months, during which soldiers and machinery have uprooted an estimated 4,000 olive trees and ploughed through hundreds of hectares&nbsp;of agricultural land.</p> <p data-end="1078" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="849">The cleared land, locals say, serves the expansion of a newly established illegal settler outpost to the west of the town, part of Israel’s broader policy of settlement expansion and forced displacement in the occupied West Bank.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="433306" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-blows-last-standing-house-border-town-lebanon-it-has-occupied" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-blows-last-standing-house-border-town-lebanon-it-has-occupied" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel blows up last standing house in border town in Lebanon that it has occupied</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli army has blown up the last house that was standing in a border town in southern Lebanon that they have destroyed and occupied, Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday.</p> <p>Israel conducted a series of strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon until a ceasefire agreement in November 2024, which it continues to violate on an almost daily basis.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="433308" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/west-bank-israeli-soldiers-raid-town-wound-two-people-and-take-money" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/west-bank-israeli-soldiers-raid-town-wound-two-people-and-take-money" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">West Bank: Israeli soldiers raid town, wound two people and take money</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli soldiers raided a town south of Hebron, shot and wounded two Palestinians and removed money from a gold shop, Wafa news agency reported on Wednesday.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Local sources told Wafa that soldiers stormed the town of Dhahiriya, firing bullets at residents.</p> <p>A school student and young man were wounded during the indiscriminate shooting.&nbsp;Both were transferred to a hospital in Hebron for treatment.</p> <p>The soldiers also raided a gold shop belonging to the al-Hurub family, detained several Palestinians, and took money from the store.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="433279" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/statistics-bureau-says-gaza-population-fell-106-due-killing-and" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/statistics-bureau-says-gaza-population-fell-106-due-killing-and" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Statistics bureau says Gaza population fell 10.6% due to killing and displacement</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) on Wednesday said that&nbsp;Gaza witnessed a sharp and unprecedented population decline of about 254,000, or 10.6 percent, compared to pre-war estimates.</p> <p>The current population of Gaza stands at 2.13 million, reflecting a severe demographic haemorrhage resulting from killing, displacement, and deteriorating living conditions, PCBS said.&nbsp;</p> <p>In a briefing regarding the population situation, PCBS said that the population of Palestine reached approximately 5.56 million by the end of 2025, including 3.43 million in the West Bank.</p> <p>The statistical indicators reflect a real humanitarian and demographic catastrophe, with long-term effects on population stability, development and human rights, PCBS said.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="433273" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-plough-palestinian-land-near-jericho-destroy-crops" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-plough-palestinian-land-near-jericho-destroy-crops" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli settlers plough Palestinian land near Jericho, destroy crops in Jordan Valley</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Bedouin rights organisation al-Baidar, on Wednesday, said that Israeli settlers ploughed Palestinian lands in the Shallal al-Auja area north of Jericho, as part of plans to expand the new outpost, Wafa news reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>The report said that settlers also&nbsp;destroyed agricultural crops in the community of al-Farisiya&nbsp;in the northern Jordan Valley, northeast of the occupied West Bank.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="433160" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-allows-just-over-40-percent-aid-gaza-amid-1000-ceasefire-breaches" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-allows-just-over-40-percent-aid-gaza-amid-1000-ceasefire-breaches" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel allows just over 40 percent of aid into Gaza amid 1000 ceasefire breaches: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-28" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-WEB:06dc91be-eb2c-40ff-940d-ffc7389f0769-13" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="646" data-start="271">Eighty days after a ceasefire agreement was supposed to halt Israel’s genocide on Gaza, the reality on the ground tells a very different story, Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Sunday.</p> <p data-end="646" data-start="271">Israel has systematically violated the deal hundreds of times, turning what should have been a pause in violence into a period of continued killing, deprivation and collective punishment, the&nbsp;Government Media Office reported.</p> <p data-end="825" data-start="648">Rather than easing the humanitarian catastrophe, Israel has deepened it - through military attacks, mass restrictions on aid, and deliberate obstruction of basic survival needs.</p> <p data-end="825" data-start="648"><strong>Almost 1000 ceasefire violations</strong></p> <ul> <li data-end="1060" data-start="857"> <p>969 ceasefire violations committed by Israel over 80 days</p> </li> <li data-end="1060" data-start="857"> <p>418 Palestinians killed and;</p> </li> <li data-end="1060" data-start="857"> <p>1,141 wounded since the ceasefire began</p> </li> </ul> <p data-end="1339" data-start="1302"><strong>Aid strangled, famine entrenched</strong></p> <p data-end="1429" data-start="1341">Israel has failed to meet even the minimum humanitarian commitments under the agreement.</p> <ul> <li data-end="1429" data-start="1341"> <p>Only 19,764 aid trucks entered Gaza out of 48,000 required</p> </li> <li data-end="1429" data-start="1341"> <p>Daily average: 253 trucks instead of 600</p> </li> <li data-end="1429" data-start="1341"> <p>Compliance rate: 42 percent</p> </li> </ul> <p data-end="1584" data-start="1431">The result has been ongoing shortages of food, medicine, water and fuel — worsening an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis.</p> <p data-end="1762" data-start="1716"><strong>Fuel deliveries paint an even starker picture:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-end="1906" data-start="1764">425 fuel trucks allowed in instead of 4,000</li> <li data-end="1906" data-start="1764">Daily average: 5 trucks instead of 50</li> <li data-end="1906" data-start="1764">Compliance rate: around 10 percent</li> </ul> <p data-end="2024" data-start="1908">Hospitals, bakeries, water stations and sewage facilities remain near collapse as Israel maintains its stranglehold.</p> <p data-end="2066" data-start="2026"><strong>Shelter crisis and deaths from cold</strong></p> <p data-end="2194" data-start="2068">Israel continues to block the entry of tents, caravans and mobile homes, leaving displaced families exposed as winter sets in:</p> <ul> <li data-end="2588" data-start="2196"> <p>49 damaged buildings collapsed during winter weather</p> </li> <li data-end="2588" data-start="2196"> <p>20 people killed when structures fell on families sheltering inside</p> </li> <li data-end="2588" data-start="2196"> <p>Two children died from extreme cold in displacement tents</p> </li> <li data-end="2588" data-start="2196"> <p>127,000 tents are no longer usable</p> </li> <li data-end="2588" data-start="2196"> <p>1.5 million displaced people left without adequate shelter</p> </li> <li data-end="2588" data-start="2196"> <p>Three civilians still missing under rubble from weather-related collapses</p> </li> </ul> <p data-end="2764" data-start="2735"><strong>A ceasefire in name only</strong></p> <p data-end="3075" data-start="2766">The Government Media Office describes Israel’s actions as a deliberate attempt to impose a humanitarian reality based on starvation, coercion and blackmail. These violations, it says, amount to a calculated effort to empty the ceasefire of meaning while maintaining full control over Palestinian survival.</p> </article> </div> </div> </article>