January 11, 2026
Kyle Anzalone
According to The Telegraph, “Trump has been warned that the US military needs more time to prepare for strikes against Iran.” Military commanders in the Middle East stated they need to “consolidate US military positions and prepare defences” in anticipation of an Iranian retaliatory attack.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that if it attacks Iran, the Islamic Republic will strike Israel and US bases in the Middle East.
Trump has threatened Iran several times in recent weeks. “If Iran [shoots] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” Trump said earlier this month.
Demonstrations began in Iran two weeks ago, and some protests have escalated into riots. Some groups report that 200 people have been killed during the demonstrations, including over 40 members of Iranian security forces.
Iranian authorities have reportedly used live ammunition to break up protests, and Tehran has cut off internet service in an attempt to quell the movement.
Israel Hayom spoke with American officials who said the White House is preparing a range of actions against Iran, including using Starlink to provide protesters with internet access, a cyber attack, new sanctions, and kinetic military action.
The Telegraph reports that potential targets of US strikes include non-military targets in Tehran and Iranian security forces.
At the end of last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to the US to lobby Trump to restart the war with Iran. In June, Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran that ignited a 12-day war.
During the conflict, Trump ordered American bombers to strike three Iranian nuclear sites. The Islamic Republic responded by striking a US military base in Qatar. The Iranian response was viewed as symbolic, and a ceasefire between the US, Israel, and Iran was reached shortly after.
The Wall Street Journal spoke with people familiar with the planning in Tel Aviv, who explained that the IDF has new battle plans for ground operations in Gaza. A ground invasion in Gaza would destroy the ceasefire and peace deal that was brokered by President Donald Trump.
Israel has violated the truce over 1,000 times in three months and blocked aid from entering Gaza. While over 425 Palestinians have been killed by Israel during the truce, Israel was killing scores of Palestinians daily before the ceasefire.
At least three Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Sunday.
The Times of Israel reports speaking with an Israeli official who said the new operations would begin in March and start with an invasion of Gaza City. One Arab diplomat told the outlet that he believes President Donald Trump could prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from resuming negotiations in Gaza.
Netanyahu and Trump are demanding that Hamas give up power in Gaza and disarm as a condition for continuing the ceasefire. Hamas has stated it is willing to hand over power to an independent Palestinian government in Gaza and would disarm in the process of creating an independent Palestinian state.
While Israel has decimated the Strip, its forces are likely to face stiff resistance from Gaza if it restarts the invasion. Tel Aviv estimates Hamas has at least 20,000 fighters and 60,000 rifles.
Four babies have died from the
cold since November, as power cuts disable incubators and families in flooded
tents struggle to keep their children alive.
In the bitter cold of a Gaza winter, two-month-old Mohammed Abu Harbid has become the latest victim of Israel’s genocidal war that has stripped Palestinians of shelter, warmth and survival.
Zaher al-Wahidi, director of health information at the Ministry of Health, told Al Jazeera the infant died from severe hypothermia at al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital.
His death brings the number of children who have frozen to death in the enclave since November 2025 to four, and 12 since the start of the genocidal war in October 2023.
As severe depression brings torrential rain and freezing winds to the coastal enclave, thousands of displaced families are facing a catastrophic humanitarian emergency, with the most vulnerable paying the highest price.
Incubators without batteries
At al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp, a newly opened neonatal ward is fighting a losing battle to keep premature babies alive.
The ward, established in early 2026 to meet soaring demand, receives about 17 infants daily. But Ahmed Abu Shaira, a medical staff member, says they are operating with one hand tied behind their back.
“We face many dilemmas, including a scarcity of medical equipment,” Abu Shaira told Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Talal al-Arouqi. “Some incubators come to us without batteries … the occupation forces the entry of incubators without batteries.”
This is a death sentence in a facility plagued by chronic power outages. During Al Jazeera’s visit, the electricity cut out more than five times in less than an hour.
“We try to reach a certain temperature for the child, but every time we do, the power cuts,” Abu Shaira explained. Without the internal batteries that Israeli restrictions have banned, the incubators go cold the instant the generator fails.
Compounding the crisis is a lack of medication to help premature lungs develop and a severe shortage of baby formula.
“We are now receiving babies born before 37 weeks … due to early labour caused by the mothers’ poor health,” Abu Shaira added. “These babies are prone to hypothermia … which can lead to death.”
Standing like pillars
Outside the hospitals, the situation is equally dire. In western Gaza City, the Kafarna family’s struggle for survival is measured in sleepless nights spent holding up their tent against the wind.
“When we hear the word ‘depression’, we start shaking … it’s like the horrors of doomsday,” the father told Al Jazeera Mubasher’s Ayman al-Hissi, standing inside a tent with balding fabric that offers little protection from the elements.
“Our bedding is soaked … My daughters are sick from the cold,” he said. “Illness is spreading among the children.”
The storm on Saturday night nearly destroyed their fragile shelter.
“I stood all night holding this pole, and my wife and daughters leaned against the wooden beams to brace against the wind,” the father recounted. “We took turns holding the tent … water was coming in from above and below.”
‘Just a piece of cloth’
The mother, exhausted and surrounded by sick children, described their shelter as a “piece of cloth” that hides them from view but protects them from nothing.
“I can’t even get medicine for my sick daughter … every time the wind blows, the tent snaps,” she said.
Their daughter, Waad, huddled in a tracksuit donated by a charity, has only one wish: a better tent.
“I wish they would bring us a ‘dome tent’ to protect us from the cold and rain,” Waad told Al Jazeera. “We [nearly] drowned last night … I wish I could go back to school.”
Her mother recalled a terrifying moment when Waad fell ill at night. “She was vomiting from her mouth and nose, and I couldn’t even find a light to see her … I didn’t know how to help her.”
As the winter conditions worsen, the family’s plea is simple yet desperate: “We appeal to anyone with a conscience … send us caravans, send us tents … anything to cover us from the cold.”
Kyle Anzalone
Military commanders in the Middle
East want more time to prepare for Iranian counterattacks
Senior Department of War
officials have told President Donald Trump they need more time to consolidate
American troops deployed to the Middle East before the US launches an attack on
Iran.
According to The Telegraph, “Trump has been warned that the US military needs more time to prepare for strikes against Iran.” Military commanders in the Middle East stated they need to “consolidate US military positions and prepare defences” in anticipation of an Iranian retaliatory attack.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that if it attacks Iran, the Islamic Republic will strike Israel and US bases in the Middle East.
Trump has threatened Iran several times in recent weeks. “If Iran [shoots] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” Trump said earlier this month.
Demonstrations began in Iran two weeks ago, and some protests have escalated into riots. Some groups report that 200 people have been killed during the demonstrations, including over 40 members of Iranian security forces.
Iranian authorities have reportedly used live ammunition to break up protests, and Tehran has cut off internet service in an attempt to quell the movement.
Israel Hayom spoke with American officials who said the White House is preparing a range of actions against Iran, including using Starlink to provide protesters with internet access, a cyber attack, new sanctions, and kinetic military action.
The Telegraph reports that potential targets of US strikes include non-military targets in Tehran and Iranian security forces.
At the end of last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to the US to lobby Trump to restart the war with Iran. In June, Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran that ignited a 12-day war.
During the conflict, Trump ordered American bombers to strike three Iranian nuclear sites. The Islamic Republic responded by striking a US military base in Qatar. The Iranian response was viewed as symbolic, and a ceasefire between the US, Israel, and Iran was reached shortly after.
As
Trump threatens that Washington will 'help' protesters in Iran, speaker of
Iranian parliament warns against 'miscalculation'
Iran has warned that it will
strike Israel and US military bases, in the event of strikes on Iranian
territory following weeks of escalating protests in the country.
At least 192 people have been
killed in the largest protest against the Iranian government for over three
years, according to Iran Human Rights.
The Norway-based NGO warned that
the deaths "may be even more extensive than we currently imagine".
Iran has been under an internet
blackout for over 60 hours, according to monitor Netblocks, making it difficult
to verify information, including the death toll.
US President Donald Trump has
threatened to intervene in recent days, warning Iranian leaders against using
force on protesters. He warned on Saturday that the US stood "ready to
help".
"Iran is looking at FREEDOM,
perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help!!!" he wrote on
Truth Social.
Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, the
speaker of Iran's parliament, warned on Sunday against "a
miscalculation".
"Let us be clear: in the
case of an attack on Iran, the occupied territories [Israel] as well as all US
bases and ships will be our legitimate target," said Qalibaf, a former
commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Iran's President Masoud
Pezeshkian said on Sunday that the US and Israel want to "sow chaos and
disorder" in Iran by ordering "riots", and called upon Iranians
to distance themselves from "rioters and terrorists".
Three Israeli sources who were
present at Israeli security consultations over the weekend told Reuters that
Israel was on high-alert footing, but did not elaborate on what that entailed.
Israel and Iran fought a 12-day
war in June, during which the US joined Israel in striking Iranian soil.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the possibility of US
intervention in Iran, according to an Israeli source cited by Reuters present
for the conversation.
A senior US intelligence official
described the situation in Iran to Reuters as an "endurance game".
The official said that the
opposition was trying to keep up pressure until key government figures either
fled or switched sides, while the authorities were trying to sow enough fear to
clear the streets without giving the US justification to intervene.
Israel has not, as yet, expressed
any desire to intervene.
Netanyahu told the Economist on
Friday that there would be horrible consequences for Iran if it were to attack
Israel. Referring to the protests, he said: "Everything else, I think we
should see what is happening inside Iran."
'Massacre unfolding'
The demonstrations began two
weeks ago over rising inflation, but quickly turned political and became a
movement against the Islamic Republic.
Despite the blackout, videos of
large demonstrations in Tehran and other cities have filtered out. On Saturday
night, footage showed rallies in the capital as well as Mashhad in the east,
where vehicles were set on fire.
State television reported that
"rioters" torched a mosque in Mashhad overnight.
Ali Larijani, Iran's security
chief, said he drew a line between protests over economic hardship, which he
called "completely understandable", and "riots", saying
those actions were "very similar to the methods of terrorist groups",
Tasnim news agency reported.
The US-based Center for Human
Rights in Iran said it had received "eyewitness accounts and credible
reports indicating that hundreds of protesters have been killed across Iran
during the current internet shutdown".
"A massacre is unfolding in
Iran. The world must act now to prevent further loss of life," it said.
It said hospitals were
"overwhelmed", blood supplies were running low and that many
protesters had been deliberately shot in the eyes.
At least 37 members of Iran's
security forces have been killed, according to the US-based NGO, HRANA.
State television broadcast
funeral processions in the cities of Gachsaran and Yasuj for security forces
killed during the protests, and reported that 30 members of the security forces
would be buried in central Isfahan.
Israel has killed 400
Palestinians since the ceasefire went into effect, but is planning to return to
larger-scale military operations later this year
Multiple outlets report that
Israeli leaders are drawing up military plans to launch an invasion of Gaza
City in March.The Wall Street Journal spoke with people familiar with the planning in Tel Aviv, who explained that the IDF has new battle plans for ground operations in Gaza. A ground invasion in Gaza would destroy the ceasefire and peace deal that was brokered by President Donald Trump.
Israel has violated the truce over 1,000 times in three months and blocked aid from entering Gaza. While over 425 Palestinians have been killed by Israel during the truce, Israel was killing scores of Palestinians daily before the ceasefire.
At least three Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Sunday.
The Times of Israel reports speaking with an Israeli official who said the new operations would begin in March and start with an invasion of Gaza City. One Arab diplomat told the outlet that he believes President Donald Trump could prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from resuming negotiations in Gaza.
Netanyahu and Trump are demanding that Hamas give up power in Gaza and disarm as a condition for continuing the ceasefire. Hamas has stated it is willing to hand over power to an independent Palestinian government in Gaza and would disarm in the process of creating an independent Palestinian state.
While Israel has decimated the Strip, its forces are likely to face stiff resistance from Gaza if it restarts the invasion. Tel Aviv estimates Hamas has at least 20,000 fighters and 60,000 rifles.
In the bitter cold of a Gaza winter, two-month-old Mohammed Abu Harbid has become the latest victim of Israel’s genocidal war that has stripped Palestinians of shelter, warmth and survival.
Zaher al-Wahidi, director of health information at the Ministry of Health, told Al Jazeera the infant died from severe hypothermia at al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital.
His death brings the number of children who have frozen to death in the enclave since November 2025 to four, and 12 since the start of the genocidal war in October 2023.
As severe depression brings torrential rain and freezing winds to the coastal enclave, thousands of displaced families are facing a catastrophic humanitarian emergency, with the most vulnerable paying the highest price.
Incubators without batteries
At al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp, a newly opened neonatal ward is fighting a losing battle to keep premature babies alive.
The ward, established in early 2026 to meet soaring demand, receives about 17 infants daily. But Ahmed Abu Shaira, a medical staff member, says they are operating with one hand tied behind their back.
“We face many dilemmas, including a scarcity of medical equipment,” Abu Shaira told Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Talal al-Arouqi. “Some incubators come to us without batteries … the occupation forces the entry of incubators without batteries.”
This is a death sentence in a facility plagued by chronic power outages. During Al Jazeera’s visit, the electricity cut out more than five times in less than an hour.
“We try to reach a certain temperature for the child, but every time we do, the power cuts,” Abu Shaira explained. Without the internal batteries that Israeli restrictions have banned, the incubators go cold the instant the generator fails.
Compounding the crisis is a lack of medication to help premature lungs develop and a severe shortage of baby formula.
“We are now receiving babies born before 37 weeks … due to early labour caused by the mothers’ poor health,” Abu Shaira added. “These babies are prone to hypothermia … which can lead to death.”
Standing like pillars
Outside the hospitals, the situation is equally dire. In western Gaza City, the Kafarna family’s struggle for survival is measured in sleepless nights spent holding up their tent against the wind.
“When we hear the word ‘depression’, we start shaking … it’s like the horrors of doomsday,” the father told Al Jazeera Mubasher’s Ayman al-Hissi, standing inside a tent with balding fabric that offers little protection from the elements.
“Our bedding is soaked … My daughters are sick from the cold,” he said. “Illness is spreading among the children.”
The storm on Saturday night nearly destroyed their fragile shelter.
“I stood all night holding this pole, and my wife and daughters leaned against the wooden beams to brace against the wind,” the father recounted. “We took turns holding the tent … water was coming in from above and below.”
‘Just a piece of cloth’
The mother, exhausted and surrounded by sick children, described their shelter as a “piece of cloth” that hides them from view but protects them from nothing.
“I can’t even get medicine for my sick daughter … every time the wind blows, the tent snaps,” she said.
Their daughter, Waad, huddled in a tracksuit donated by a charity, has only one wish: a better tent.
“I wish they would bring us a ‘dome tent’ to protect us from the cold and rain,” Waad told Al Jazeera. “We [nearly] drowned last night … I wish I could go back to school.”
Her mother recalled a terrifying moment when Waad fell ill at night. “She was vomiting from her mouth and nose, and I couldn’t even find a light to see her … I didn’t know how to help her.”
As the winter conditions worsen, the family’s plea is simple yet desperate: “We appeal to anyone with a conscience … send us caravans, send us tents … anything to cover us from the cold.”
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