2025-09-07: Palestine Roundup

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newarab (2025-09-07). Dozens arrested at London protest in support of Palestine Action. newarab.com Hundreds of people demonstrated in Parliament Square in London on Saturday over the British government's Within minutes, police began arre…

greenleft.org.au (2025-09-07). Rank-and-file unionists call September 10 national day of action for Palestine. greenleft.org.au

SKWAWKBOX (2025-09-07). UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to move from NYC to Geneva after US bans Palestine reps. skwawkbox.org 154-2 vote against US-Israeli arrogance The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted overwhelmingly to move its September session from New York City to Geneva after the US government refused entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of other senior Palestinian officials — a rare show of defiance to the US regime and …

aljazeera (2025-09-07). British police arrest nearly 900 at pro-Palestine London protest. aljazeera.com Protesters chant against police actions as detentions surpass 400, prompting debates on freedom of speech in the UK.

The Cradle. (2025-09-07). Israeli Arms Maker Shuts Site After Sustained Anti-Genocide Protests. popularresistance.org Israeli arms producer Elbit Systems closed its site in Bristol, UK, after years of protests by Palestine Action, The Guardian reported on 6 September. | The facility at the Aztec West business park appeared deserted when the daily visited this week, with only a security guard present outside. | Elbit Systems UK, a subsidiary of Israel's largest arms manufacturer, has leased the site since 2019 under a contract running until 2029. The company did not comment on the status of the facility. | The site had been the focus of repeated protests, including one on 1 July, just days before the UK government banned Palestin…

Hikers for Palestine (2025-09-07). Saturday 9/6: Hikers for Palestine: Walk in Solidarity, Walk for Water. indybay.org Lake Merritt Amphitheater, located on Lake Merritt Boulevard between 12th Street and 1st Avenue.

Sotsialnyi Rukh (2025-09-07). Message of Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) to Freedom Flotilla. internationalviewpoint.org We write from Ukraine with respect for your courage and in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Having lived through invasion, occupation, forced displacement, and separation from our loved ones, many of us know too well what these mean. | – | / |

jagonews24 (2025-09-07). UK police arrest over 425 pro-Palestinian protesters. jagonews24.com More than 425 people have been arrested at the largest demonstration yet opposing the proscription of Palestine Action…

greenleft.org.au (2025-09-07). Palestine protesters continue to stand for justice and freedom. greenleft.org.au

Voices from the Holy Land (2025-09-07). Sunday 9/21: Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon: Confronting Zionism: Free Speech on Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | Tinyurl.com/VFHL-September2025

Sammy Gecsoyler, The Guardian. (2025-09-07). More Than 425 Arrested As Protesters Defy Ban On Palestine Action In London. popularresistance.org More than 425 people have been arrested at the largest demonstration yet opposing the proscription of Palestine Action. Defend Our Juries, who organised the demonstrations, said there were 1,500 sign-holders in Parliament Square on Saturday at a fresh protest in London against the ban. At the previous major demonstration last month, 532 people were arrested for taking part. Participants gathered in Parliament Square by 1pm, many holding signs that read: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." At just after 9pm, the Metropolitan police said it had made more than 425 arrests. The Met's deputy assistant com…

aljazeera (2025-09-07). UK protesters are not backing down over Palestine. aljazeera.com UK Police arrested nearly 900 protesters during another rally against the UK's ban on activist group Palestine action.

aljazeera (2025-09-07). UK police arrest almost 900 protesters at pro-Palestine Action rally. aljazeera.com Organisers say detained demonstrators include 'vicars and priests, war veterans and descendants of Holocaust survivors'.

greenleft.org.au (2025-09-07). Is the Palestine movement at a turning point? greenleft.org.au

Édouard Soulier (2025-09-07). Gaza: An undeniable genocide, a criminal complicity. internationalviewpoint.org Two years after the genocide in Gaza began, the population is suffering from relentless bombing, organized starvation and attacks on journalists and relief workers. Israeli propaganda, relayed by its allies, no longer masks the colonial and genocidal character of its policies, while Palestinian and international resistance continues. | – | / |

Radical Autonomous Tribe (2025-09-07). Friday 9/12: Israel! STOP Starving GAZA. Let the Flotilla in. Stop the Killing. indybay.org 456 Montgomery – Israeli Consulate…

newarab (2025-09-07). Israel paid Google $45m to help cover up Gaza starvation. newarab.com

Bheria (2025-09-07). Responding to Famine: Jewish Cannibalism and Palestinian Endurance. muslimskeptic.com Among the many forms of violence and oppression that Israel has perpetrated against the population of Gaza over the last two years, one of the most devastating is the deliberately manufactured famine. It must be understood that starvation is not merely being deprived from food. It is also a gradual assault in which a person's …

newarab (2025-09-07). Israel destroys second tower in Gaza as genocide continues. newarab.com

Joseph Mogul, Mondoweiss. (2025-09-07). Brooklyn Activists And Residents Are Banding Together Against Genocide. popularresistance.org Most New Yorkers are not aware that companies contributing to Israel's genocide in Gaza operate in their backyard. That is, unless they happen to walk, bike, or drive down Flushing Avenue outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a Wednesday afternoon, as I did a month ago—in which case, they are absolutely aware. | The campaign Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard (DBNY) organizes weekly noise demos and pickets, demanding the eviction of two companies from the city-owned industrial park on the East River, where 550 businesses are located. Protestors bang drums, blare airhorns, picket, chalk sidewalks, fold zines, and h…

Editor (2025-09-07). Juan Cole: Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than 500 members, passed a resolution with 86% support of those who voted, concluding that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. These scholars study genocide professionally, researching it, …

ICRC (2025-09-07). Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC appalled by strike on Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza. icrc.org

Everyone (2025-09-07). Thursday 9/25: Global Strike For Gaza. indybay.org Everywhere…

Rameen Siddiqui (2025-09-07). Israelis Appeal to Trump: "End the Gaza War and Save Hostages" moderndiplomacy.eu NEWS BRIEF Thousands of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, directly appealing to U.S. President Donald Trump to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza and secure the release of remaining hostages. Protesters expressed growing despair over the government's strategy, fearing military operations in Gaza City endanger captives and serve …

ICRC (2025-09-07). ICRC president: Mass evacuation of Gaza City unfeasible and incomprehensible. icrc.org

aljazeera (2025-09-07). America must end "complicity" in Israel's Gaza war. aljazeera.com Bernie Sanders calls Israel's Gaza aid limits "barbarism," says most Americans oppose US funding Netanyahu government…

albawaba (2025-09-07). Hamas could relocate hostages as 'Chariots of Gideon 2' advances. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Saturday that Hamas is expected to relocate more hostages to Gaza City as the Israeli army pushes forward with its "Chariots of Gideon 2" operation, aimed at seizing full control of the city.According to Israeli military assessments, Hamas plans to move the hostages primarily from Khan Younis, taking advantage of the chaos created by large crowds heading south. The estimates came shortly after Hamas released a video showing two Israeli hostages — Guy Gilboa Dalal and, for the first time, Alon Ohel.The report comes amid intensified Israeli airstri…

aljazeera (2025-09-07). Israeli forces destroy another Gaza City tower block. aljazeera.com Watch the moment Israeli forces bomb al-Soussi Tower, a high-rise residential building in Gaza City.

THINK TANK Productions (2025-09-07). Israeli Minister vows to "open the gates of hell on Gaza" thinktank.pk Footage captures the moment an Israeli airstrike destroyed the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City, reducing the high-rise to rubble within 30 minutes. Residents fled in panic as the IDF claimed the building was used by Hamas. The strike came shortly after Defence Minister Yisrael Katz vowed to "open the gates of hell on Gaza." Since …

Soul of my Soul Exhibit (2025-09-07). Saturday 9/6: Community rally for Gaza. indybay.org Delucchi Park, 4501 1st Street, Pleasanton…

aljazeera (2025-09-07). Gaza war film The Voice of Hind Rajab wins 2nd prize at Venice festival. aljazeera.com Director Ben Hania pays tribute to slain five-year old Palestinian girl, calls for accountability for Israeli killings.

newarab (2025-09-07). Hamas releases video of two Israeli hostages held in Gaza. newarab.com

newleftreview (2025-09-07). Susan Watkins: Israel after Fordow. newleftreview.org Netanyahu is building on the obliteration of Gaza to launch an external offensive across multiple fronts, aiming at cantonization in Lebanon and Syria, and regime change, if not state break-up, in Iran. What explains the West's political investment in an Israeli-centric Middle East, on conspicuous display during June's Twelve-Day War?

Rameen Siddiqui (2025-09-07). "Leave Now" : Israel Warns Civilians as Troops Push Into Gaza City. moderndiplomacy.eu NEWS BRIEF The Israeli military has intensified its offensive on Gaza City, ordering mass evacuations and bombing high-rise towers as ground forces advance deeper into the urban center. The assault—personally ordered by Prime Minister Netanyahu against some military advice—threatens to displace hundreds of thousands of civilians and has drawn sharp international criticism. Amid the escalation, …

aljazeera (2025-09-07). Ship's log: A day on board the Global Sumud Flotilla heading for Gaza. aljazeera.com For the volunteers on one boat trying to reach Gaza, crew duties and history lessons, hope and anxiety coexist.

aljazeera (2025-09-07). Why we are sailing to Gaza on the Global Sumud Flotilla. aljazeera.com We sail to sustain hope. To lose hope is to give up on the people of Gaza and surrender them to an evil regime.

Editor (2025-09-07). Palestinian American Mediator Says He Gave Hamas a US Proposal for Permanent Gaza Ceasefire. scheerpost.com

newarab (2025-09-07). Gaza film at Venice targeted by hate campaign, director says. newarab.com At its premiere, a "The Voice of Hind Rajab" from It has already garnered the support of famous Hollywood names attached as ex…

jeremy Wildeman, Research Fellow At the Human Rights Research, Education Centre, University of Ottawa, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Carleton University (2025-09-07). Canada's response to the war in Gaza raises questions about its commitment to human rights and justice. | Jeremy Wildeman

ICRC (2025-09-07). Update from the Red Cross Field Hospital, Rafah: 15-Month Operational Summary. icrc.org Rafah, Gaza Strip – 9 May 2024 to 31 July 2025…

newarab (2025-09-07). AP probe challenges Israel's account of Nasser hospital strike. newarab.com Gaza's Israel has promised to investigate "gaps" in its understanding of the attack, which killed 22 people in a succession of…

aljazeera (2025-09-07). LIVE: Israeli attacks on school, tents and homes kill at least 17 in Gaza. aljazeera.com Israel pounds Gaza City as its troops continue a large-scale offensive to seize the biggest urban centre in the Strip.

newarab (2025-09-07). Egypt calls Palestinian displacement claim 'nonsense'. newarab.com Egyptian Foreign Minister Israel earlier called on "If there is a manmade famine (in Gaza), it is to push residents out o…

newarab (2025-09-07). Israel targets school, houses as Gaza City onslaught continues. newarab.com Overnight strikes against the enclave

aljazeera (2025-09-07). Israel "will put Egypt in a very delicate situation" aljazeera.com "Absorbing immigrants from the Gaza Strip is something that, politically speaking, is not accepted by Egypt."

Associated Press (2025-09-07). Red Sea cable cuts disrupt internet in parts of Asia, Middle East. scmp.com Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access on Sunday in parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts said, though it was not immediately clear what caused the incident. | There has been concern about the cables being targeted in a Red Sea campaign by Yemen's Houthi rebels, which the rebels describe as an effort to pressure Israel to end its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. But the Houthis have denied attacking the lines in the past.

newarab (2025-09-07). Israel flattens Gaza City residential tower as civilians flee. newarab.com The residential tower, which comprised tens of housing units, has now been levelled, while the neighbourhood has also faced severe damage. | This comes as the Israeli army issued expulsion orders for Gaza City residents to leave for a

Anonymous Contributor (2025-09-07). I was brutalized by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. It was only a fraction of what Palestinians experience every day. mondoweiss.net The violence of apartheid across the West Bank isn't just physical. Israel relies on constant psychological warfare to terrorize rural Palestinian communities and make them live with the perpetual dread of army raids and settler pogroms.

aljazeera (2025-09-07). Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, Ben-Gvir fuels tensions in West Bank. aljazeera.com Two Palestinians injured as settlers target homes while Israel's national security minister participates in storming.

newleftreview (2025-09-07). Kevin Gray: Old Wine in New Bottles. newleftreview.org Though brandishing 'Stop the Steal!' placards, along with US and Israeli flags, nationalist mobilizations in South Korea draw on a different lineage to that of Trump, Bolsonaro or Farage. The latest NLR study of rising new rights locates the RoK's conservative bloc in its history of collaboration with Japanese and American imperialism, now re-gearing against the PRC.

aljazeera (2025-09-07). Why was an accused sex offended allowed to leave? aljazeera.com After being arrested in a sting operation, an Israeli official's return home raises questions…

SKWAWKBOX (2025-09-07). Ex-Israeli Shin Bet head 'involved in kidnapping of German heiress's children'. skwawkbox.org Yaakov Peri allegedly assembled team of Israelis to abduct two Block children The former head of the Israeli Shin Bet security service has been accused in German and Israeli media of involvement in the late 2023 kidnapping of the two children of German heiress Christina Block. Block, the heiress to the German 'Block House' steakhouse …

aljazeera (2025-09-07). Israeli military says drone launched from Yemen hits airport arrivals hall. aljazeera.com Flights at Ramon Airport in southern Israel have now resumed after two people were injured in a drone strike.

greenleft.org.au (2025-09-07). Critics of Antisemitism Summit 'antisemitic', says Israeli antisemitism chief. greenleft.org.au

Editor (2025-09-07). AP Jerusalem Chief Participated In Secretive Israeli Government Anti-BDS Event, Leaked Files Reveal. scheerpost.com

Jonathan Lis (2025-09-07). In a new effort to revive Gaza truce talks, U.S. signals Hamas through Israeli mediator. haaretz.com The Trump administration recently conveyed its general principles for renewing the negotiations through an Israeli peace activist, who claims he received a written statement by Hamas stating that the group is willing to relinquish control of Gaza…

Amos Harel (2025-09-07). Gaza City offensive risks lives with little chance of military gains. haaretz.com The slow flight of Palestinians from Gaza is delaying IDF plans and prompting escalated operations, as the military warns of critical readiness problems in regular units and alerts families of hostages to growing risks…

Zvi Bar'el (2025-09-07). In its search for new battlefronts, Israel has found Egypt. haaretz.com Netanyahu's suggestion to open Gaza's Rafah border crossing was rebuked by Egypt as a breach of international law, hinting at forced migration. Amidst this, a significant $35 billion gas deal between Israel and Egypt hangs in doubt…

Hagai Amit (2025-09-07). Inside the massive preparations to take over Gaza City. haaretz.com Humvees, drones, reservists mobilized at 3 billion shekels per month, and high pay for heavy-equipment operators motivated by a far-right ideology — this is the price of seizing Gaza. Yet some in the security cabinet still hope a hostage deal could halt the operation…

Ezzat Khairi (2025-09-07). How Israel can prevent Sudan — and Syria — from becoming the next Gaza. haaretz.com Some blame the Abraham Accords for leading Sudan into the downward spiral of its civil war and strengthening its Islamist factions. Here's why they're wrong, and how the same lessons can apply to Syria…

Staff (2025-09-07). Drone from Yemen hits Ramon airport in southern Israel; two lightly wounded. haaretz.com

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