Israel’s Aggression Against Occupied Palestine: December 2025

By the end of December, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) remained deployed in more than 58% of the Gaza Strip, extending beyond the so-called “Yellow Line,” which remains largely unmarked on the ground. Satellite imagery also indicates the presence of 40 active Israeli military positions outside this line. Access to humanitarian facilities, public infrastructure, and agricultural land in these areas remains heavily restricted or entirely prohibited. For example, in northern Gaza, four of the six previously operational hospitals are now inaccessible: the Indonesian, Al Awda, and Beit Hanoun hospitals (located beyond the “Yellow Line”), as well as the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Human rights organizations, monitoring groups, and UN experts describe these actions as violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement and of commitments to protect civilians. Additionally, amid Israel-imposed starvation and restrictions on aid entering Gaza, the World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed that delivering assistance to northern Gaza has remained difficult since the ceasefire took effect because border crossings remain closed. Currently, only two border crossings are operational, significantly hindering aid delivery and efforts to ensure food security and meet the needs of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Also, severe winter weather has led to the complete collapse of 18 residential buildings previously weakened by Israeli shelling. Displacement camps have suffered further destruction, with nearly 90% of tents damaged by high winds or flooding. Thousands of families remain without shelter, facing life-threatening exposure to extreme cold. From 11 October 2025, when the ceasefire began, through the end of December 2025, the IOF killed 425 Palestinians in Gaza.

In the occupied West Bank, the Israeli occupation authorities continue to impose arbitrary measures against the Palestinian people, notably through ongoing day-and-night raids across cities, refugee camps, and villages, especially in the governorates of Jenin, Tulkarem, Nablus, Tubas, Ramallah, and Jerusalem. In December 2025, the occupation authorities persisted in violating Palestinian national and human rights through systematic policies, including killings, arrests, expansion of colonial settlements, demolitions of Palestinian homes, and support for settlers’ terror attacks against Palestinians and their property. The occupation authorities also informed dozens of international humanitarian organizations operating in occupied Palestine that they must shut down their offices and cease all activities, a move that could severely affect the delivery of humanitarian aid to affected Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.