(2025-08-24). "Netanyahu knew everything" — leaked audio exposes pre-October 7 warnings. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Deep flaws in Israel's political and security leadership both before and after the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack have been exposed by recently leaked audio recordings that Israel's Channel 12 has released. These recordings include shocking details from former Israeli Military Intelligence Chief Aharon Haliva. | Haliva accused the government of being careless and causing political turmoil, confirming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been given strategic warnings prior to the attack but did nothing. Haliva criticized the way the National Security Council and senior officials handled the war…
(2025-08-24). Gantz offers political truce to help secure Gaza captives deal. newarab.com 
Israeli former defence minister Benny Gantz on Saturday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to forge a unity government along with members of the opposition in a bid to help release the captives held in Gaza. | Netanyahu's coalition government depends on support from far-right members who oppose ending the war and making any deal with Palestinian group Hamas. | Gantz, a rival of Netanyahu who nonetheless joined his government in the early days of the war, proposed a temporary coalition that would side-step far-right parties and strike a captive release deal. | "I am here on behalf of the hostages who h…
(2025-08-24). The CIA, Mossad, and Epstein: Unraveling the Intelligence Ties of the Maxwell Family. orinocotribune.com 
By Alan MacLeod — Aug 22, 2025 | With speculation mounting that Trump could pardon her, MintPress profiles the family of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. From her media baron father, who acted as a high-level spy for Israel, her sister, working to push Tel Aviv's interests in Silicon Valley, her brothers, who founded a dubious but highly influential anti-Islamic extremism think tank, and nephews in influential roles at the State Department and White House, the Maxwell clan have wide-ranging ties to U.S. and Israeli state power. This is their story. | Releasing Ghislaine, Burying the Epstein Files<...
(2025-08-24). La CIA, el Mossad y Epstein: desentrañando los vínculos de inteligencia de la familia Maxwell. strategic-culture.su Ante la creciente especulación sobre la posibilidad de que Trump la indulte, MintPress presenta a la familia de Ghislaine Maxwell, convicta de tráfico sexual. Desde su padre, magnate de los medios de comunicación y espía de alto nivel para Israel, hasta su hermana, que trabaja para impulsar los intereses de Tel Aviv en Silicon Valley, sus hermanos, fundadores de un dudoso pero influyente centro de estudios antiislámico, y sus sobrinos en puestos influyentes en el Departamento de Estado y la Casa Blanca, el clan Maxwell mantiene amplios vínculos con el poder estatal estadounidense e israelí. Esta es su historia.
(2025-08-24). Eighteen Palestinians Starve to Death in Gaza Over Three Days Due to Israeli Siege. news.antiwar.com Gaza hospitals have recorded 18 more malnutrition deaths in Gaza over the past three days, according to press releases from Gaza's Health Ministry, as Palestinians continue to starve due to the US-backed Israeli siege. In its latest release on Sunday, the Health Ministry said at least eight Palestinians, including one child, had starved to death …
(2025-08-24). Israel's Assassination Of Memory. popularresistance.org As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another — the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels. Israeli tanks and fighter jets pummel neighborhoods to drive Palestinians who remain in the ruins of the city to the south. | It will take months to turn Gaza City into a parking lot. I have no doubt Israel will replicate the efficiency of t…
(2025-08-24). Gaza health director: 289 dead from starvation, including 115 children. tehrantimes.com Munir al-Bursh, director of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, told Al Jazeera that famine has claimed the lives of 289 people, including 115 children.
(2025-08-24). One million women and girls in Gaza now face mass starvation. thecanary.co The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that one million women and girls in the Gaza Strip are at risk of "mass starvation" amid Israel's ongoing blockade and war of extermination that has been raging since October 7, 2023. The agency said in a statement on the "X" platform […] | By
(2025-08-24). The Mirage of the Antiwar Right. orinocotribune.com 
By Justin Podur — Aug 19, 2025 | On the so-called (online) "civil war" | Liberals have discredited themselves supporting genocide, loosening their control over the public discussion. Right-wingers have rushed in to fill the vacuum, but the America First (& Israel A Close Second), antiwar right will not lead the US out of support for genocide. Facing massive public disgust, the antiwar right have been put forward by a Zionist media establishment as a shield for conservatives. They are here to save the right-wing from deserved contempt, not lead their people to an anti-genocide struggle. Serving as a rhetorica…
(2025-08-24). 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.
(2025-08-24). Gaza: where paintings burn so people can live. thecanary.co Palestinian artist Taha Abu Ghali never imagined that the day would come when he would reach out to his paintings, which had accompanied him for two decades, break their wooden frames, and throw them into the fire. But hunger and siege in Gaza forced him to make this harsh decision: either burn his art or […] | By
(2025-08-24). Week in Pictures: From Israeli-made famine in Gaza to wildfires in Spain. aljazeera.com
(2025-08-24). Israel Launches Heavy Strikes on Yemen's Capital, Killing at Least Two. news.antiwar.com The Israeli air force launched heavy airstrikes on Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Sunday as the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, have continued their blockade of Israeli shipping and attacks on Israeli territory in response to Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. Yemeni media said that the strikes targeted a power plant and an oil facility …
(2025-08-24). Israeli Forces Kill 64 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours. news.antiwar.com Gaza's Health Ministry said on Sunday that Israeli forces killed 64 Palestinians and wounded 278 over the previous 24-hour period as relentless US-backed Israeli attacks continue across the Strip. The Health Ministry said that among the dead were 19 Palestinians who were killed while attempting to reach aid. Witnesses told The Associated Press that Israeli …
(2025-08-24). Israeli attacks force 60 desalination plants to shutter in Gaza. newarab.com 
Sustained Israeli bombardment across the besieged Gaza Strip has destroyed at least 60 desalination plants in the enclave, making clean water hard to come by for civilians, amid already dire humanitarian conditions and a famine. | International aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) issued a statement confirming the damage to the desalination plants, adding that "Israel is deliberately depriving Palestinians of necessities to life, including food, water and healthcare". | Much of Gaza's essential infrastructure has been partially damaged or destroyed after 22 months of war. | According to MSF, the amount of…
(2025-08-24). Dutch government in crisis as ministers resign over Gaza policy. tehrantimes.com The Netherlands' caretaker government plunged into a political crisis as all ministers and state secretaries from the New Social Contract (NSC) party resigned on Friday following Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp's departure over the government's refusal to impose stronger sanctions on Israel regarding its military operations in Gaza.
(2025-08-24). Israel and the occupied territories: Intensification of hostilities threatens to worsen catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Gaza. icrc.org
(2025-08-24). "We refuse to stay silent" — Mass resignations shake Dutch government. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – The Netherlands' caretaker government is in a serious political crisis after all of the New Social Contract Party's (NSC) ministers and state secretaries said they were quitting on Saturday. The decision was made a day after Foreign Minister Kaspar Veldkamp resigned because the government had not imposed sanctions on Israel for its ongoing military offensive in Gaza since October 2023.Dutch broadcaster NOS says that the resignations include a number of high-ranking NSC officials, such as the acting Deputy Prime Minister, the acting Ministers of Interior, Education, and Health, and four other state secr…
(2025-08-24). Egyptian army boosts forces on the border with Gaza. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – The Egyptian army has reinforced its presence on the eastern border with Gaza amid fears of the humanitarian and military repercussions if the Israeli forces attempted to control areas still outside its control in Gaza City and the north at any time, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported.Egyptian authorities expect that military operations will force approximately one million Gazans to flee Gaza City toward the southern part of the Strip, opening the door to deliberate Israeli attempts to push these civilians toward the Egyptian border.An informed source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that this scenario is viewed in Eg…
(2025-08-24). Israel kills scores in Gaza as Katz threatens total destruction. newarab.com 
On Saturday morning, Israeli forces killed at least 34 Palestinians across Gaza, with eight of them queuing up to urgently see…
(2025-08-24). Amnesty demands Israel stop Gaza assault after famine declared. newarab.com 
Amnesty International has called on the
(2025-08-24). Turkish First Lady Warns of Gaza "Children's Cemetery" in Plea to Melania Trump. moderndiplomacy.eu Turkey's First lady, Emine Erdogan has urged U.S. First Lady Melania Trump to speak out on behalf of the Palestinian children suffering amid the war in Gaza. In a letter published by the Turkish Presidency, Erdogan praised Trump's previous advocacy for children impacted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and called upon Melania to "extend the …
(2025-08-24). Thursday 8/28: Power Half Hour for Gaza. indybay.org
(2025-08-24). Situation in Gaza 'Beyond Catasrophe': MSF. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — A senior official of medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) described the situation in Gaza as being beyond a "catastrophe".
(2025-08-24). What does famine look like in Gaza? independent.co.ug 
GAZA, PALESTINE | Xinhua | A UN-backed report released on Friday confirmed famine in parts of the Gaza Strip, marking the first officially declared famine in the Middle East and raising alarms about worsening humanitarian conditions in the war-torn coastal enclave and possible political repercussions. How severe is the famine in Gaza? Could the UN report …
(2025-08-24). Israel continues aid obstruction, kills dozens in Gaza camps. newarab.com 
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(2025-08-24). Israel bars doctors from entering Gaza after giving testimony. newarab.com 
Israel's American physician Dr. Mimi Syed and Dr. Catherine Le Scolin-Quere from France were set to return to Gaza this week on Thursday to volunteer in hospitals amid the famine caused b…
(2025-08-24). LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza; protesters across globe denounce Gaza City famine. aljazeera.com People protest around the world as Israel continues push to seize Gaza City where famine has been declared.
(2025-08-24). Gaza is the Compass: Second annual People's Conference for Palestine. mondoweiss.net 
From August 29-31, thousands of Palestine supporters will gather in Detroit, Michigan, for the second annual People's Conference for Palestine, guided by the principle: Gaza is the Compass.
(2025-08-24). Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City. juancole.com by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) — History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered. Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom, creating the circumstances under which a population expires to hunger is a matter of construction. As the economist and Nobel Laureate …
(2025-08-24). Sherif Mansour on defending press freedom and Gaza documentary "Journalists Under Fire" tehrantimes.com Egyptian-American advocate discusses his role in Robert Greenwald's film and calls for stronger protections for journalists in conflict zones…
(2025-08-24). At least 15,600 Gazans in need of urgent medical evacuation. newarab.com 
(2025-08-24). US sacks intelligence chief after Iran attack assessment. jagonews24.com US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon's intelligence agency chief, just weeks after a White House rebuke of a review assessing the impact of American strikes on Iran.
(2025-08-24). How Israel And Ukraine Built A Fascist, Transnational War Machine. popularresistance.org From Bandera to Ben-Gurion, echoes of ethno-nationalist revival resonate in the modern trajectories of Ukraine and Israel, two states forged through war, hardened by siege mentalities, and fueled by historical narratives of existential struggle. But these similarities are no accident of parallel development. They reflect a deepening alignment shaped by shared adversaries like Russia and Iran, backed and brokered by the same Western patrons. In 2022, an officer of Ukraine's Azov Regiment, toured Israel after surviving the siege of Mariupol. By 2025, Israeli drones were flying missions over Rafah, while American-ma…
(2025-08-23). Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal. dropsitenews.com
(2025-08-23). Netanyahu Remains Unmoved By Israel's Lurch Toward Pariah Status. menafn.com (MENAFN – The Conversation) | Israel's conduct in Gaza increasingly risks turning the state into a pariah . | Whereas world leaders initially rallied around Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre by …
(2025-08-23). Why it took Palestinians starving for many to finally admit Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net 
Why has starvation been so crucial in getting some to finally admit Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, as compared to deadlier atrocities? The answer lies in the dehumanization of the Palestinian people and the desire to find "innocent" victims.
(2025-08-23). Israeli attacks kill 63 across Gaza as troops push deeper into Gaza City. aljazeera.com Health authorities say eight more Palestinians, including two children, die of starvation after famine declared in Gaza.
(2025-08-23). Tens of thousands of Palestinian children starving in Gaza tent camps. aljazeera.com Somia Abu Naja says her 12-year-old daughter's weight has plummeted to 20kg as extreme hunger grips the Gaza Strip.
(2025-08-23). Vigil for murdered Palestinian journalist held in Dallas, Texas. iacenter.org By Alex Colwell August 19, 2025 On August 12, roughly 100 people attended a vigil in Dallas for Anas al-Sharif, a martyred Palestinian journalist murdered by the Zionist regime. Several members of the local Muslim community spoke, giving his last will and testament as well as speaking about their personal encounters with him and joining in prayer for a treasured member of the community. Anas Al-Sharif Five other journalists and camera operators— all employees of Al Jazeera — were also assassinated on Aug. 9 along with al-Sharif by an Israeli airstrike on their tent. Over 270 Palestinian journalists ha…
(2025-08-23). In Gaza, Even the Cost of a Grave Has Become a Luxury. truthout.org As we live in Gaza under the fear of rockets and Israeli bombardment, and with looming threats of an invasion by the Israeli government in full view of the world, in our markets, residents are fighting yet another war — one against soaring prices. It is a war that has drained pockets, exhausted people, and turned daily life into a burden no less cruel than the bombing. The calls of street vendors… |
(2025-08-23). Famine Officially Declared in Gaza After 2 Years of Near-Total Israeli Blockade. scheerpost.com Displaced Palestinians receive food from charitable Tekiya during Ramadan in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip. Ashraf Amra, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/i…, via Wikimedia Commons In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay …
(2025-08-23). Classified IDF Intel Reveals 83% of Palestinians Killed in Gaza Are Civilians. scheerpost.com
(2025-08-23). Dutch FM quits over Israel sanctions deadlock. jagonews24.com Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp has resigned after failing to secure cabinet support for additional sanctions against Israel over its military onslaught in Gaza…
(2025-08-23). Terrorist pots and pans banned from Gaza protest. skwawkbox.org 
Proscription of kitchen implements soon to follow? The Met Police banned demonstrators taking part in last night's anti-genocide protest outside the embassy of fascist Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely from bringing pots and pans to the protest, apparently on the basis that the noise might stop the embassy from carrying on its usual genocidal — and …
(2025-08-23). Starmer claims his 50% increase to bus fares has "cut costs for families" skwawkbox.org 
How shameless and out of touch can the 'son of a toolmaker' be? Keir Starmer can't make it to his social media to criticise Israel's confirmed overwhelming slaughter of civilians in Gaza or its use of banned weapons on Palestinian children. He can't resist keeping children hungry in this country, waging war on the poor, …
(2025-08-23). Doctors say Israel testing new, banned micro-cube shrapnel and heavy metal weapons on Gaza civilians. skwawkbox.org 
Bombs then marketed as 'battle-proven' as genocidal regime profits from its maimed and murdered victims The Israeli military is using at least two new types of weapon on civilians in Gaza, one designed to maximise deaths and injuries over the maximum area and the other to leave behind only minute chemical traces in its shrapnel …
(2025-08-23). 70 Palestinian students admitted to Canadian universities are trapped in Gaza. We need Canada to defend our right to education. mondoweiss.net 
Reem Hamadaqa is among 70 Palestinian students accepted into Canadian graduate programs who are unable to leave Gaza due to the Israeli siege and genocide. The students are calling on the Canadian government to defend their right to education.
(2025-08-23). Video: music teacher teaches Gaza kids to harmonise to the sound of Israeli drones. skwawkbox.org 
"In these moments, we forget the war" — heartbreaking and inspiring A music teacher in Gaza is teaching children how to harmonise over the sounds of the Israeli spy and bomb drones that constantly infest the air over Palestinian civilians, as a way to lift their minds out of the horror of war for a …
(2025-08-23). The Case Against a Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide. dissidentvoice.org Have you read "The Case for Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide"? I don't mind promoting it to you, since I agree with most of it (and also consider most of it to do absolutely nothing to advance any case for military intervention to stop the Gaza genocide). The enormous problem we face is …
(2025-08-23). This is what happens when money dies. aljazeera.com Israel has blocked the transfer of currency into Gaza; the result is catastrophic.
(2025-08-23). Lord, help and forgive us all/ By Reverend Andrew Ashdown. voicesfromsyria.com Andrew Ashdown 18h ∑ The genocide and ethnic cleansing continues in Gaza and the West Bank while the world watches and does nothing. I have lost all confidence that words or people of conscience will make the slightest difference to the outcome whilst our leaders and those with power and ability to make a difference have …
(2025-08-23). How can Israel engineer a famine in Gaza in the 21st century? aljazeera.com UN chief Antonio Guterres says famine in Gaza is 'a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself'.
(2025-08-24). Netanyahu is counting on Hamas to refuse his demands for deal, so takeover can begin. haaretz.com As the Israeli delegation departs for Cairo this week, Netanyahu, fearing Smotrich, Ben-Gvir and elections, will prevent Israel from showing any flexibility and continue piling on various demands to disrupt the negotiations…
(2025-08-24). will never leave Gaza. War is part of the classic authoritarian. haaretz.com
(2025-08-24). Only Liars And Manipulators Say Gaza Isn't Starving. thealtworld.com 
Israeli news outlet Haaretz has Haaretz reporters were taken by doctors on video tours of hospitals in Gaza, conducting interviews with numerous medical personnel and obtaining many photos of civilians showing signs of extreme starvation. Throughout the report we encounter story after story of severely emaciated childre…
(2025-08-23). the Thousands of Jews and Arabs rally in Tel Aviv against Gaza war, hunger. haaretz.com The protest, organized by the umbrella group for Arab citizens of Israel, was scaled back after police capped participation under threat of revoking approval. Demonstrators held images of starving children in Gaza, as a police officer warned: 'What happens in the village will not happen here in Tel Aviv'…
(2025-08-23). Gaza Health Ministry: 61 Palestinians killed, eight of hunger-related causes in past day. haaretz.com According to Gaza's health officials, two of the eight who died of starvation were children, and six others were killed while waiting for humanitarian aid…
(2025-08-23). Why Hamas is backing the Gaza deal with Israel it rejected months ago. haaretz.com Hamas' agreement to a proposal similar to the so-called Witkoff plan, which it had previously insisted on strict conditions for, reflects political pressure from former allies and Gaza's utter destruction and exhausted population. So what does ending the war mean for them?