(2025-08-05). U.S.-Backed Occupation: Can the World Stop Israel's Gaza Grab? thinktank.pk The Middle East stands on the brink of a seismic shift as reports confirm Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to pursue a full occupation of the Gaza Strip. This bold move, backed by Israeli media outlets like i24NEWS, The Jerusalem Post, and Channel 12, signals an escalation in the nearly two-year conflict with Hamas, …
(2025-08-05). Israel's "final decision" for conquest and occupation of Gaza. wsws.org Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that Israel had made the "final decision" to carry out the full conquest and annexation of the Gaza Strip, beginning with a murderous barrage of artillery and air strikes across the Palestinian enclave.
(2025-08-05). Dynamics of Israel's Northern Cyprus Threat. Ret. Adm. Cem Gurdeniz. globalresearch.ca On July 30, 2025, the ƒ∞sraeli Hayom newspaper, which is a right-wing nationalist newspaper known for its closeness to Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel, published an article by Israel Aerospace Industries Vice President for Foreign Relations and Analyst Shay …
(2025-08-05). Israel's Netanyahu has decided on full occupation of Gaza, reports say. aljazeera.com Netanyahu's war cabinet set to approve military operations across entire enclave, according to Israeli media.
(2025-08-05). Reports: Netanyahu Orders Israeli Army To Conquer All Of Gaza. progressivehub.net QASSAM MUADDI | MONDOWEISS…
(2025-08-05). Israeli ex-security chiefs urge Trump to help end Gaza war. dawn.com • Say conflict is leading Israel to 'lose its security, identity'
| • Aid seekers among 19 more killed over 24 hours | JERUSALEM: More than 600 retired Israeli security officials have urged US President Donald Trump to pressure their own government to end the war in Gaza. | "It is our professional judgement that Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel," the former officials wrote in an open letter shared with the media on Monday, calling on Trump to "steer" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decisions. | "At first this war was a just war, a defensive war, but…
(2025-08-05). Houthis launch hypersonic missile targeting Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- The Yemeni Armed Forces, led by Ansar Allah (Houthis), announced the launch of a hypersonic ballistic missile named Palestine-2, targeting Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. In a televised statement on Monday, Houthi military spokesperson General Yahya Saree confirmed the strike, claiming it caused widespread panic, forcing millions of Israeli settlers into shelters and disrupting air traffic.ÿ®ŸäÿßŸÜ ÿߟџǟàÿßÿ™ ÿߟџÖÿ≥ŸÑÿ≠ÿ©…
(2025-08-05). Retired Security Officials Warn Israel On 'Precipice Of Defeat'. popularresistance.org Over a dozen former Israeli security officials issued a joint video statement on 3 August demanding an end to the war in Gaza and warning that Tel Aviv is on the brink of "defeat." Former officials have also demanded that US President Donald Trump pressure Israel to end the genocidal campaign which has raged since October 2023 — in a separate letter accompanying the video and signed by 550 former security officials. | The video statement was made by 19 retired army chiefs, intelligence heads, Shin Bet and Mossad directors, and police commissioners.
(2025-08-05). As Gaza Starved, NPR Coverage Grew but Didn't Get Any Better. scheerpost.com
(2025-08-05). Self-Assured Destruction, The Climate Impacts of Nuclear War. Mass Starvation, Ozone Depletion. globalresearch.ca The greatest threat to humanity is nuclear war. | While public opinion is largely misinformed, US "decision-makers" including president Trump are also unaware and misinformed as to the consequences of their actions. Multi-billion dollar bonanza for the Military-Industrial Complex: "Scientific opinion" …
(2025-08-05). Gaza's Starvation, Israeli Lies and the Tail that Wags the Dog. counterpunch.org 
(2025-08-05). With Gaza starving and in ruins, Israel seeks total conquest. newarab.com 
The world is watching as Gaza starves, with famine taking the lives of Palestinians, including children, on a daily basis in the coastal enclave, as Israel continues to Nearly 22 months after the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, the group still holds 20 living Israeli captives and…
(2025-08-05). Cholera threatens starved IDPs in war-torn Darfur. peoplesdispatch.org Cholera stalks hundreds of thousands taking refuge in the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps in the Tawila area of war-torn Sudan's North Darfur state. | Fleeing from its besieged capital, El Fasher, and the famine-stricken IDP camps on its outskirts, they had survived a perilous 70 km journey, often on foot, to reach the relative safety of Tawila, which is now in the grip of a cholera outbreak since July 21. | By Monday, August 4, the cumulative daily cases here exceeded 3,150, including 65 deaths, said Adam Rojal, spokesperson of the General Coordination of Darfur Displaced People and Refugees. Most cases…
(2025-08-05). Solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla and people of Gaza! cpusa.org 
Since 2007, the people of Gaza have lived in what can only be described as an open-air prison, surrounded and blockaded on all sides by the Israeli regime. For nearly two years, the government of Israel has used this blockade to systematically starve Gaza's population. As former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated on October 9th, 2023: "There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything is closed." | Today, according to the United Nations and international humanitarian experts, Gaza is entering the most extreme phase of famine. Its people face irreversible harm and a rising death tol…
(2025-08-05). Michael Burawoy: Palestine through a South African Lens. newleftreview.org In a draft text sent to NLR before his tragically early death, the sociologist reflects on the reasons for the starkly different outcomes of Afrikaner and Zionist settler colonialisms: in South Africa, a unified democratic republic, with all its problems; in Israel, ongoing war.
(2025-08-05). Community on hunger strike over the murder of Awdah Hathaleen by far-right Zionist. thecanary.co 
More than 60 women have been on hunger strike since last Thursday in the occupied West Bank village of Umm Al-Kheir, Masafer Yatta, to demand the body of community leader Awdah Muhammad Khalil Al-Hathaleen is returned: "You said you'd be back soon. But you never came back" Just 6 hours ago we were together. Now […] | By
(2025-08-05). PEN America Claims To Support Free Speech. popularresistance.org On March 25, PEN America fired me for living up to their mission. This termination came only three days after I published an article in Mondoweiss titled "Why was I investigated for sharing an article critical of Zionism by the 'free speech' organization PEN America?," three years into my tenure on the membership and National Engagement team. Nine months earlier, after I shared an article on unlearning Zionism to our internal listserv, PEN leadership sent my colleagues and me an email stating that workers could be terminated for discriminatory action.
(2025-08-05). Chris Hedges Report: This Is Not A Drill. popularresistance.org Fame and fortune are often corrupting forces, ones that beget power and comfort. To stand with the afflicted requires sacrificing this privilege and few embody that sacrifice more profoundly than the legendary musician of Pink Floyd Roger Waters. | For years, through his music and political action, Waters has amplified the voices of the oppressed. | He has championed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, defended attorney Steven Donziger, demanded the closure of Guantánamo Bay, has long stood against the apartheid state of Israel and now unwaveringly against the genocide of Palestinians.
(2025-08-05). Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC president calls for urgent collective action by states to end abhorrent suffering in Gaza. icrc.org The following is a statement attributable to ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric on the humanitarian situation in Gaza…
(2025-08-05). Israel and the Occupied Territories: ICRC appalled by harrowing videos of Israeli hostages in Gaza. icrc.org
(2025-08-05). UK's Royal Opera pulls production in Israel over Gaza genocide. newarab.com 
The Almost 200 staff members had signed a petition calling on the organisation to cancel current and future productions, and boycott institutions that support a state "engaged in the mass killing of civilians" in The decision to pull the production was first reported by the campaign group Artists for Palestine UK, which sa…
(2025-08-05). EXCLUSIVE: Egypt warns US, Israel against 'full Gaza occupation'. newarab.com 
(2025-08-05). Israel lobby chief admits Gaza assault meets genocide definition. newarab.com 
(2025-08-05). At Hague Group Emergency Summit, 30+ Nations Seek to 'Halt the Genocide in Gaza'. cadtm.org
(2025-08-05). Thursday 8/7: Power Half Hour for Gaza. indybay.org
(2025-08-05). Australian workers and youth condemn US-Israeli ongoing genocide in Gaza. wsws.org "Our right to protest is fundamental and they'll gradually whittle it away until there's nothing left, and we'll have an authoritarian government. I really believe that."
(2025-08-05). Tuesday 8/5: Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Aid as a Weapon. indybay.org Online | www.crowdcast.io/c/gaza-aid-weapon-ghf…
(2025-08-05). New Peace Plan increases Pressure on Israel and US as Momentum grows for Palestinian Statehood. juancole.com By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin (The Conversation) — A new vision for Middle East peace emerged this week which proposes the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza and the West Bank, the disarming and disbanding of Hamas and the creation of a unified Palestinian state. The plan emerged from a "high-level conference" in New York …
(2025-08-05). 1,500 Killed While Seeking Aid in Gaza Since May: UN. scheerpost.com
(2025-08-05). German club backs out of signing Israel striker after backlash. newarab.com 
Bundesliga 2 side Fortuna Duesseldorf has pulled out of signing Israel striker Shon Weissman in response to fan anger about his social media posts on the Gaza war, German tabloid Bild reported Tuesday. | Fan furore erupted online on Monday when news emerged Weissman was on the cusp of joining Duesseldorf from Spanish side Granada FC. | On Tuesday, the club tweeted: "We looked into Shon Weissman intensively, but ultimately decided not to sign him". | The club did not reveal the reasons for the decision, but Bild reported the club reacted to fan anger about social media statements from Weissman, who was already…
(2025-08-05). Saturday 8/23: Seeds of Resistance: A Fundraiser to Feed Gaza. indybay.org Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (1924 Cedar St, Berkeley CA 94709)…
(2025-08-05). German hesitation could encourage Israeli atrocities: academics. newarab.com 
More than 100 Israeli academics have warned in a letter that a failure by Germany to put pressure on Israel could lead to new atrocities in Gaza. | "Further hesitation on Germany's part threatens to enable new atrocities – and undermines the lessons learnt from its own history," the academics wrote in the letter, addressed to senior Social Democrat (SPD) lawmakers Rolf Muetzenich and Adis Ahmetovic and seen by Reuters on Tuesday. | On July 22, the two men, whose party is in the ruling coalition, had called for Germany to join an international coalition pushing for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, sanctions…
(2025-08-05). Video: Food aid dropped into Gaza contaminated with mould. aljazeera.com Palestinians collecting food aid parachuted into Gaza report some of the packages are covered in black mould.
(2025-08-05). ICRC mourns colleague killed in Gaza. icrc.org
(2025-08-05). August 9, 2025: WORLDWIDE DAY OF ACTION FOR OCCUPIED PALESTINE! wibailoutpeople.org 
Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- ÿ≠ÿ±ŸÉÿ© ÿߟÑÿ¥ÿ®ÿßÿ® ÿߟџşÑÿ≥ÿ∑ŸäŸÜŸä GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION: Activists across the world are calling for a Global Day of Action on Saturday, August 9th. Join us in taking to the streets and demanding an end to the brutal US-backed Israeli siege and genocide in Gaza. We call on all people of conscience …
(2025-08-05). When is Genocide in Gaza not genocide? indybay.org GENOCIDE, PROPAGANDA AND MANUFACTURING CONSENT FOR BARBARSIM…
(2025-08-05). It's Not Okay to be a Grown Adult in August 2025 and Still Believe Lies About Gaza. caitlinjohnst.one
(2025-08-05). "A united call to end genocide" : 300,000 march for Gaza in Sydney, Australia. peoplesdispatch.org 
After police attempted to stop their mobilization, hundreds of thousands of Australians marched across Sydney's Harbour Bridge demanding a ceasefire and for Australia to take concrete action against Israel.
(2025-08-05). Israel kills an average 28 Palestinian children daily in Gaza. aljazeera.com Israel has killed more than 18,000 children since the start of its genocidal war on Gaza.
(2025-08-05). Israel has mastered the playbook of famine denial in Gaza. newarab.com 
(2025-08-05). Celebrating Nicaragua's Gains And Feeling Anguish For Gaza. popularresistance.org The image is forever seared in my mind: Francisco was two years old, his thin legs and swollen feet were covered in sores. Straw blond hair stuck to his head as he listlessly nursed from his teenage mother's breast. He weighed 13 Ω pounds. | It was the summer of 1999, and I was weighing babies in Nueva Vida. I'd come to Nicaragua in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch to help in any way I could through the Jubilee House Community and its project in Nicaragua, the Center for Development in Central America (JHC-CDCA). | With its main office located just a mile down the road from the largest Hurricane Mitch reset…
(2025-08-05). Hamas to Witkoff: "We will not disarm unless an independent Palestinian state is established" peoplesdispatch.org The Trump administration has intensified its pressure on the resistance movement to lay down arms to reach a Gaza ceasefire deal, while supporting Israel's plans to continue with its 22-month genocide.
(2025-08-05). Kurdistan oil is the Bermuda Triangle of international politics. responsiblestatecraft.org In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio A relentless campaign of drone attacks targeting Iraqi Kurdistan's military, civilian, and energy infrastructure escalated dramatically in July, as a swarm of Iranian-made drones
(2025-08-05). Fascist mobilisations in Britain: For a socialist defence of asylum seekers and refugees! wsws.org The far-right danger does not flow primarily from the social dust that makes up the various fascist outfits, but from a lurch to the right of the entire capitalist political system as it seeks to impose a deepening social catastrophe and expanding agenda of war on the working class.
(2025-08-05). Monday 9/1: Oakland: Stop the Fascist Billionaires! Labor Day Protest Supporting Freedom & Democracy. indybay.org Frank H. Ogawa Plaza | 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza | Oakland, CA 94612 | This is a peaceful, nonviolent protest…
(2025-08-05). Defying Israeli army opposition, Netanyahu pushes to escalate an unwinnable war in Gaza. haaretz.com The prime minister announced an expansion of the fighting in the Gaza Strip, despite opposition from the IDF General Staff, growing fatigue among soldiers, and a lack of public legitimacy. Those close to him have adopted an increasingly wild tone and are now even goading the IDF chief…
(2025-08-05). 2025 military exports to Israel already outstrip record-setting 2024. haaretz.com Serbia exported more ammunition to Israel in the first half of 2025 than the whole of 2024. During Netanyahu ally's investigation in Belgrade this month, a gag order was imposed regarding Serbian aid to Israel…
(2025-08-05). Hamas-run Health Ministry reports 94 deaths in 24 hours amid worsening crisis. haaretz.com Hunger-related deaths rise as aid shortages persist, with 29 killed seeking aid. A senior doctor warns, 'basic food has disappeared, access to clean water is extremely limited.' Local officials call for urgent international intervention as famine deepens and emergency services falter…
(2025-08-05). Handcuffed Gaza prisoner 'falls to death' in Israeli detention. newarab.com 
An unnamed According to Haaretz, which reported the incident on Tuesday, the death occurred in January 2024, but the man's identity has been withheld. Israeli sources claim he "fell while attempting to escape" during interrogation. The Shin Bet has refused to…
(2025-08-05). Israel to allow Gaza merchants to bring aid into Strip for first time since fighting resumed in March. haaretz.com