Israel, having already destroyed much of Gaza’s health system, is now pressuring 37 NGOs to hand over sensitive data on their largely Palestinian staff or face being banned from operating. Al Jazeera’s Basel Ghazoghli explains why many of the NGOs are refusing to comply.
Published On 4 Feb 2026
The launch of the Artemis II mission to send humans around the Moon is fast approaching. The Register had a go at building Lego’s latest SLS set and found it a lot of fun, particularly making whooshing noises as the rocket “launches.”
The 632-piece set uses Lego Technic elements to recreate NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). Turn the handle on the side, and the rocket rises from the launch pad, the solid rocket boosters separate, and eventually the upper stage detaches.
Lego SLS set with box
The box contains several plastic bags of Lego components (the paper bags used in other sets have yet to arrive here) and an annoying page of stickers. While the latter has long been a feature of Lego sets, its inclusion is frustrating because some pieces are pre-printed.
It takes approximately three to four hours to build at a leisurely pace and isn’t particularly challenging – its target audience is aged nine and up.
That age range is important to keep in mind since the set is a little inaccurate. The core stage, for example, only has two engines rather than the four ex-Space Shuttle units that get thrown away with every launch of the real-world rocket.
The two engines at the base hint at a larger problem with this set: it only really works when viewed from the front. Look at it from the side or back, and it becomes evident that only half of the core stage is present due to the rail on which the rocket rises.
Artemis, the half-a-rocket
It is also a shame that Lego did not take the opportunity of disguising the rail as a launch tower or similar. The larger SLS set features a more detailed launch pad as well as a tower. The addition of some Technic wizardry to that would have been great.
Then again, the larger SLS set is considerably more expensive. This version comes in at $59.99 from the Lego store, a lot less than the $259.99 Lego wants for its bigger brother. In addition, while the larger set will take a lot longer to build, we’d argue that this set has more post-build playability thanks to its moving parts.
While it is easy to pick on places where Lego has sacrificed technical accuracy for economy or scale, the educational value and sheer fun of the set outweigh the irritations. Turning the crank and watching the rocket do its stuff is quite something, and it gets over how the SLS works far better than a static display.
Not everyone gets to go to the Moon – a leftover Lego astronaut
Artemis II was scheduled to launch this month. The rocket is on the launch pad, but following a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) in which NASA’s monster Moon rocket leaked hydrogen, managers announced that the agency is targeting March for lift-off. The mission won’t enter lunar orbit, but it will fly humans around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century.
Lego’s latest interpretation of the SLS is therefore well timed and gets a thumbs-up from this writer – and from younger brick enthusiasts who are far more interested in whooshing noises than mission briefings. ®
Musk’s scathing attack on PM Pedro Sanchez comes after he announces strict new regulations for social media platforms.
Published On 4 Feb 2026
Tech billionaire and owner of X, Elon Musk, has dubbed socialist Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez a “tyrant and traitor to the people” of Spain for introducing new social media curbs for children under the age of 16.
Musk’s comments on Tuesday came in response to an announcement by the Spanish prime minister that Madrid would introduce new changes to the country’s social media laws.
The proposed measures include a ban on social media for children under 16 and a new legal framework to hold tech executives criminally liable for illegal content. Sanchez also confirmed that the government would work with the public prosecutor to investigate alleged legal infringements by platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, and Musk’s own AI chatbot, Grok.
“Dirty Sanchez is a tyrant and traitor to the people of Spain,” Musk wrote in response to the Spanish prime minister’s X post, in which he detailed the upcoming measures.
Grok has come under fire for allowing users to create sexually explicit fake images of women and minors, triggering an investigation by the European Commission.
The world’s richest man has been accused of platforming far-right and white supremacists, particularly in Europe. He has addressed a political rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the German city of Halle.
Spain’s move to tighten digital regulations comes amid a broader European push to restrict social media access for minors. Several European Union (EU) nations, including France, Greece, and Denmark, have recently proposed or approved similar bans for users under the age of 15 due to concerns related to mental health and the addictive nature of algorithms.
Madrid has also confirmed it is leading a “Coalition of the Digitally Willing” governments and regulators, comprising six European countries, to coordinate stricter cross-border enforcement against major tech platforms.
“Our children are exposed to a space they were never meant to navigate alone … We will no longer accept that,” Sanchez said at the World Governments Summit in Dubai. “We will protect them from the digital Wild West.”
Last year, Australia became the world’s first country to ban children under 16 from using social media, prompting other countries to consider similar age-based measures amid rising concerns over social media’s effects on children’s health and safety.
Madhya Pradesh’s senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader, MLA and former minister Gopal Bhargava has given a big statement regarding Brahmin community and UGC during a program in Sagar. After his statement, the stir in political circles has intensified. In fact, in the program, Madhya Pradesh’s senior most MLA Gopal Bhargava said that ‘Today all the organizations have only one goal, kill Brahmins, suppress them and marginalize them’. Expressing his pain openly, Bhargava said that the Brahmin community is in trouble in everyone’s eyes today, but now the time has come when the Brahmin community needs to unite.
Former minister Gopal Bhargava also said that till a few years ago, the CM was ours, the officers were ours and more than half of the cabinet was also ours. But now only a few people are left. He called upon the entire Brahmin community to unite to protect the religion. Also expressed concern as to why all the rules and regulations are being made only against Brahmins?
This matter becomes more serious when it is seen in connection with the statements of different IAS officers of the state. In this, first of all the controversial statement of IAS Santosh Verma regarding Brahmin daughters came to light. After this, IAS Niaz Khan also gave a statement on social media in support of Brahmins and now the statement of a senior leader. Which makes the whole matter even more sensitive.
Let us tell you that, MLA Gopal Bhargava had come to attend the ‘Release of the magazine of Brahmin society and felicitation ceremony of meritorious students’ organized on Sunday (1 February 2026) at Ravindra Bhawan in Sagar city. During this time he gave this statement from the stage. His statement is now becoming increasingly viral on social media.
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A 13-year-old boy swam over four kilometres to alert rescuers after his family was swept away by rough seas in Western Australia. Austin Appelbee says he tried to think happy thoughts as he swam for hours to reach shore.
Published On 4 Feb 2026
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New Delhi. If the person who can change the map of the match at the snap of his fingers, who has constant research going on in his mind, says that he is a little weak in remembering the figures, then it will be difficult to believe for a moment. Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has almost rejected the possibility of doing commentary, saying that he is raw in statistical matters and hence does not enter into the role which has been the most favorite job of the players after retirement.
India has won three ICC trophies under the 44-year-old but since his retirement in 2020, he has rarely expressed his views on sporting issues. His association with cricket is now limited only to playing in the IPL for Chennai Super Kings. Dhoni said during a conversation with sports broadcaster Jatin Sapru on YouTube, “It is very difficult to do commentary. I think there is a very slight difference between narrating an eye-witness account of the game and criticizing the players in that process. This difference is very delicate.
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Dhoni said, “Often, you don’t even realize that what you are doing is probably a little bit wrong and you would always like to be in a position where you are narrating the game and if you feel that something is wrong then you say it openly. Dhoni said, but presenting it is also an art, how to express one’s point politely so that no one feels bad. If the team is losing then there must be some reasons for it and you should have the skill to explain those reasons in such a way that no one feels bad, this is the art of commentary. Apart from the delicate nature of this work, Dhoni feels that he is not able to remember the figures, due to which he does not consider himself fit for this work, he does not even remember his own figures.
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Dhoni said, “I am not good at statistics but there are many people who are very good at statistics. They know the statistics. If you ask me about my statistics, I will answer like ‘hmm’. There are some people who know the statistics not only of the Indian cricket team or Indian players but of all the players of every era.
I am a better listener than a speaker
Dhoni, who took tough decisions many times during his playing days, was also asked whether he ever needed advice about cricket and life. He said, “I am a good listener and I talk to people with whom I feel comfortable but I am more of a listener than a talker. If I don’t know about a subject, I don’t speak much because I learn more by listening. Dhoni smilingly admitted that he still considers himself raw in answering the phone. He said, I am not good at communicating like that, I like to sit face to face and talk to people. I don’t feel comfortable talking on the phone because I can’t see anyone’s face, so I feel very uncomfortable talking on the phone.
Former player and broadcaster John Virgo has died at the age of 79, World Snooker has announced.
Virgo’s most notable victory was in the final of the 1979 UK Championship, where he defeated Terry Griffiths.
Other key career wins include the 1980 Bombay International, 1980 Pontins Professional and the 1984 Professional Snooker League.
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Bhojpuri Sardar Ji Dhansu Dance, did amazing moves on Tora Raja Ji Ke Dilwa Toot Jai, people became fans of Paaji
Bhojpuri Sardar Ji Dhansu Dance, did amazing moves on Tora Raja Ji Ke Dilwa Toot Jai, people became fans of Paaji
Ek Sardarji’s Bhojpuri love is going viral on social media. Sardar ji, wearing a turban on his head, danced brilliantly on Pawan Singh’s famous song Tora Raja ji ke Dilwa Toot Jaai. Seeing the way Sardar ji danced on this song in black clothes, people became fans of his energy. Sardar ji’s expressions were also amazing. As soon as the video was shared, it went viral. It has been viewed millions of times so far.
Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are “rapidly expanding” beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging cross-platform languages like Python and abusing trusted platforms for distribution at scale.
The tech giant’s Defender Security Research Team said it observed macOS-targeted infostealer campaigns using social engineering techniques such as ClickFix since late 2025 to distribute disk image (DMG) installers that deploy stealer malware families like Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), MacSync, and DigitStealer.
The campaigns have been found to use techniques like fileless execution, native macOS utilities, and AppleScript automation to facilitate data theft. This includes details like web browser credentials and session data, iCloud Keychain, and developer secrets.
The starting point of these attacks is often a malicious ad, often served through Google Ads, that redirects users searching for tools like DynamicLake and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to fake sites that employ ClickFix lures, tricking them into infecting their own machines with malware.
“Python-based stealers are being leveraged by attackers to rapidly adapt, reuse code, and target heterogeneous environments with minimal overhead,” Microsoft said. “They are typically distributed via phishing emails and collect login credentials, session cookies, authentication tokens, credit card numbers, and crypto wallet data.”
One such stealer is PXA Stealer, which is linked to Vietnamese-speaking threat actors and is capable of harvesting login credentials, financial information, and browser data. The Windows maker said it identified two PXA Stealer campaigns in October 2025 and December 2025 that used phishing emails for initial access.
Attack chains involved the use of registry Run keys or scheduled tasks for persistence and Telegram for command-and-control communications and data exfiltration.
In addition, bad actors have been observed weaponizing popular messaging apps like WhatsApp to distribute malware like Eternidade Stealer and gain access to financial and cryptocurrency accounts. Details of the campaign were publicly documented by LevelBlue/Trustwave in November 2025.
Other stealer-related attacks have revolved around fake PDF editors like Crystal PDF that are distributed via malvertising and search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning through Google Ads to deploy a Windows-based stealer that can stealthily collect cookies, session data, and credential caches from Mozilla Firefox and Chrome browsers.
To counter the threat posed by infostealer threats, organizations are advised to educate users on social engineering attacks like malvertising redirect chains, fake installers, and ClickFix‑style copy‑paste prompts. It’s also advised to monitor for suspicious Terminal activity and access to the iCloud Keychain, as well as inspect network egress for POST requests to newly registered or suspicious domains.
“Being compromised by infostealers can lead to data breaches, unauthorized access to internal systems, business email compromise (BEC), supply chain attacks, and ransomware attacks,” Microsoft said.
After the partial reopening of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt this week, the world’s attention turned to the process of allowing a small number of wounded and sick Palestinians out of the besieged territory.
But while these medical evacuations are necessary, advocates say, the core priority must be to rebuild the health system in Gaza, which has been ravaged by Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the Strip.
“The Israeli occupation has deliberately and methodically destroyed the health system,” Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Zaher al-Wahidi told Al Jazeera in a phone interview.
He outlined five key challenges the health system is facing after 28 months of blockade, bombardment and mass killings, which have not stopped after a United States-brokered “ceasefire” came into force in October: near absence of patient evacuations, lack of medical equipment, shortage of medication, destruction of facilities and need for medical workers.
He called on the “people of the free world and anyone who can lend a helping hand” to pressure Israel to fully open the Rafah crossing and allow medication and medical equipment into Gaza, as well as specialised teams to help healthcare workers.
Yara Asi, a Palestinian-American public health expert at the University of Central Florida, said the needs of the devastated health system in Gaza have not changed since the “ceasefire” took effect.
“The problem is just not in the news as much now,” she told Al Jazeera, describing how Gaza’s health and humanitarian sector is a “victim” of the “short attention spans” of donors and international actors.
“The ceasefire took the throttle off,” Asi said.
“A lot of the same needs and conditions still exist. All those tens of thousands of people with injuries still have injuries.”
The devastation and lack of access to medical care have killed thousands of Palestinians, experts say.
For example, there were 1,244 kidney patients in Gaza before the start of the war in October 2023. Now that number stands at 622, al-Wahidi said.
While 30 were documented to have been killed in direct Israeli attacks, al-Wahidi estimated that hundreds of others died from lack of access to dialysis services.
And the crisis is ongoing.
Despite the “ceasefire”, al-Wahidi said, thousands of people in Gaza are also at risk of dying due to shortages in medication.
“With medicine, the deficit has grown after the ‘ceasefire’. Although the number of injuries has gone down relatively, the lack of medicine has gotten worse, reaching 52 percent. This is a rate that we did not reach throughout the war,” al-Wahidi told Al Jazeera.
The medicine deficit for chronic illnesses is at 62 percent, he added.
“That means 62 percent of people with chronic conditions are not able to take their medication regularly, which leads to deterioration in health, which leads to death,” al-Wahidi said.
There are 350,000 patients with chronic illnesses in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry.
Al-Wahidi said people with long-term illnesses need regular medical attention, tests and visits with physicians – services that were inaccessible throughout the war due to repeated displacement and Israeli attacks on medical centres.
“I don’t think any hypertension patient has been able to see a doctor regularly since the war started. And if they managed to get medical attention, we don’t have enough medication for everyone,” he said.
According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israeli attacks have put 22 hospitals in Gaza out of service and damaged 211 ambulances.
So, beyond equipment and doctors, the physical medical buildings in Gaza have also been severely damaged.
Al-Wahidi said there are no functioning hospitals left in northern Gaza. “People have to come to Gaza City, often on foot, walking several kilometres to reach al-Shifa Hospital or al-Ahli Hospital,” he said.
Amid this widespread destruction, health advocates say restoring Gaza’s health system should go hand-in-hand with evacuating patients who need urgent care.
Mohammed Tahir, a trauma surgeon who volunteered in Gaza during the war, described the situation of the health sector in the territory as “dire”.
“The hospitals in Gaza have been destroyed. Its doctors, its nurses have been killed, imprisoned, forced to flee,” he told Al Jazeera.
“The facilities are in squalor, really. There is a huge gap in terms of the surgical equipment required – the ICU facilities, the dialysis machines, the diagnostic devices there, the provision of medicines from antibiotics to painkillers to those required for managing chronic conditions.”
Israeli officials and US President Donald Trump have repeatedly expressed plans for removing all Palestinians from Gaza.
Tahir said while concerns about ethnic cleansing in Gaza are valid, medical evacuations are necessary to treat people who need specialised care and lessen the burden on the medical system.
“What we want to do is to take these patients that need evacuation out of Gaza into other healthcare systems and create a method to repatriate them to Gaza,” he said.
Tahir stressed that transferring people with complex injuries and conditions would free up medical resources for routine healthcare services in the territory.
“That allows the people of Gaza to treat the normal, regular conditions,” he said. “People still walk in the streets. They fall over; they break their hip; they break their ankle; that needs treatment, and we need to empower them to manage these day-to-day conditions as well.”
Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO), said beyond Rafah, referral pathways must open from Gaza to Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and across the world.
“What the focus should be now is to rebuild the health system inside Gaza, so we don’t rely so much on evacuations,” Jasarevic told Al Jazeera in a TV interview.
In addition to attacking hospitals across Gaza, Israeli forces regularly ordered the evacuation of medical centres and raided them under the unfounded claim that they were used as command centres by the Palestinian group Hamas.
Public health experts say a functioning medical system is more than a place where people can get treatment; it is a tenet of a viable society – and that is exactly what Israel tried to dismantle.
One of the acts that constitute a genocide, according to the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, is deliberately inflicting on the targeted group “conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”.
Asi, the public health expert, pointed to footage of Israeli soldiers filming themselves smashing hospital equipment as further evidence that the systemic targeting of the health sector in Gaza was deliberate.
She said the Israeli campaign against the health system “should be, in and of itself, seen as part of the perpetuation of creating” conditions to destroy the Palestinian people.
Asi added that researchers know from past conflicts that many people are pushed to leave their homes and neighbourhoods when the last clinic or hospital is closed.
“People know that they cannot live without healthcare. So it’s a tool of displacement. It’s a tool of ensuring that reconstruction, rebuilding people going back to certain areas is, if not impossible, much more difficult,” Asi said.
The Health Ministry’s al-Wahidi said the medical system in the territory served as a “safety valve” for the people throughout the war.
“In any area, people were finding safety in the functioning hospitals. The medical workers would remain until the last minute in the hospitals until they are forcibly removed or detained by Israeli forces,” he told Al Jazeera.
“So, attacking the hospitals and raiding them was a recipe for displacing people. The resilience of the hospitals became the resilience of the people. As long as the hospitals remained standing, the people remained in their land.”
Layth Malhis, a Georgetown University graduate student, recently wrote a report for Al-Shabaka think tank on what he termed the “de-healthification” of Palestine – a longstanding Israeli policy intended to “render Palestinian life unhealable and perishable”.
Malhis told Al Jazeera the Israeli assault on healthcare workers – as symbols of knowledge and social mobility – aimed to psychologically and physically harm Palestinians in Gaza.
“What we saw in the genocide is that the Israelis have treated doctors and nurses and their institutions as combatants – because they understand that if you really want to eviscerate the Palestinians and remove them from their land, you have to get rid of the people that are keeping them alive and resistant and resilient,” he said.
Despite the enormous challenges, al-Wahidi said, the health sector in Gaza is trying to recover.
“Under the current standards and data and circumstances, it all seems unmanageable, but we are still providing services to the best of our ability,” he said.
Al-Wahidi said the Health Ministry is starting to restore medical buildings with local efforts and materials available on the market.
He added that officials are launching vaccination campaigns and opening new clinics while expanding services at the still-functioning hospitals daily.
“For the first time since the start of the war, we resumed open-heart surgeries at al-Quds Hospital. This is an achievement under these difficult conditions,” al-Wahidi said.
“We also activated childbirth services at 19 medical centres throughout the Gaza Strip. Humble efforts, but we are trying to rebuild the healthcare system with the resources available.”
Asi said Palestinian health workers embody the best of the profession, voicing disappointment that people in the global medical community have largely overlooked the plight of their peers in Gaza.
“The health sector is such a microcosm of Palestinian resilience,” she said.
“It is beyond comprehension for most of us that we could ever go through those conditions and have the motivation to rebuild as they have when so many of their comrades have been killed, and the threat to them is still existent. I think it’s astounding. I think it’s incredible.”