(2025-10-23). LIVE: UN urges Israel to allow medical evacuation from Gaza amid ceasefire. aljazeera.com World Health Organization says 41 critical patients evacuated yesterday as Rafah border remains shut, despite ceasefire.
(2025-10-23). Gaza "peace" deal exposed as cover for genocide and ethnic cleansing. wsws.org The "peace" agreement has sanctified the permanent Israeli occupation and annexation of a large portion of Gaza, coupled with daily mass killing and the deliberate starvation of the population.
(2025-10-23). Rubio criticises West Bank annexation move as he visits Israel. newarab.com 
Top US diplomat Marco Rubio warned that Israel's moves towards annexing the occupied West Bank risked undermining a fragile US-brokered truce in Gaza, as he headed to Israel on Thursday. | Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday "I think the president's made…
(2025-10-23). The Gigantic Task of Searching for Dead in Gaza. ummid.com There are around 10,000 bodies that lie under the rubble and wreckage as a result of the mass bombs dropped by Israel on the Gaza Strip since 7 October, 2023.
(2025-10-23). US's Rubio warns against West Bank annexation. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) — The US Secretary of State has said that a move by Israel's parliament towards annexation of the occupied West Bank would threaten Washington's plan to end the conflict in Gaza.
(2025-10-23). PDF of October 23 print issue. workers.org 
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(2025-10-23). FPA disappointed as Israel court postpones Gaza media access. newarab.com 
An organisation representing international media in Israel and the Palestinian territories expressed disappointment Thursday after Israel's top court postponed its hearing on granting journalists independent access to Gaza. | Since the Gaza war began in October 2023, Israeli authorities have prevented foreign journalists from entering the devastated territory, taking only a handful of reporters inside on tightly controlled visits alongside its troops. | The Foreign Press Association, which represents hundreds of foreign journalists, had filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking access for international journ…
(2025-10-23). Gaza command center in Israel gives the U.S. eyes on the Strip and helps Netanyahu avoid responsibility. haaretz.com The United States can boast of the multinational Civil-Military Coordination Center that it has built to secure the Israel-Hamas cease-fire, while the U.S. can keep watch of Israel and Gaza from up close. Meanwhile, Netanyahu can run things behind the scenes without being scrutinized by the public…
(2025-10-23). Saturday 10/25: Screening of film "Sitting on the Fence: Is New Zealand complicit in the Gaza Genocide?" indybay.org Zoom | us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PDxG……
(2025-10-23). As Israel's war pauses, a battle emerges over Gaza's police. newarab.com 
Amid the ruins still scattered across After nearly Subsequently, police forces reportedly loyal and linked to Hamas have been redeployed across the Gaza Strip, seeking to restore a semblance of order. Their presence is visible at key intersections, ne…
(2025-10-23). 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?
(2025-10-23). UN report affirms Israel's genocide in Gaza impossible without global complicity. radiohc.cu A new United Nations report reveals that more than 60 countries are complicit in the "collective crime" of enabling Israel's genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. | An advanced version of the report by UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, was made available on Monday. | In her second report, Albanese argues that diplomatic immunity for Israel and failure to hold it to account for violating international laws, particularly in the West, has allowed it to continue its genocide with impunity. | The report says this took place through western media and political disco…
(2025-10-23). Why The Gaza Tribunal Is Still Needed After Trump's Ceasefire. popularresistance.org The Gaza Tribunal, a people's tribunal, was formed a year ago in response to the failure of the established world order of sovereign states and international institutions to stop what experts and ordinary people increasingly recognised as genocide in Gaza. | The Gaza Tribunal will hold its final session from 23-26 October 2025 at Istanbul University. | Our initiative was inspired by an earlier civil society effort during the Vietnam War, when leading public intellectuals Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre established the Russell Tribunal, which held hearings in 1966 and 1967.
(2025-10-23). Investigation Identifies Over 20 Israeli Soldiers Behind Hind Rajab's Killing. popularresistance.org A new Al Jazeera documentary released on 20 October has identified the Israeli soldiers and officers who were directly involved in the killing of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and her family last year, as well as the rescue workers who were dispatched to the scene. | The investigation reveals the involvement of the Israeli army's 401st Brigade. This includes Lt. Col. Daniel Ela and field officer Maj. Shon Glass. | According to the report, Glass was the one who ordered Israeli troops to fire the tank shells that killed the Rajab family in Gaza City's Tal al-Hawa. He also ordered the attack on the ambula…
(2025-10-23). ICJ issues fresh advisory over Israel's crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. ummid.com The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Wednesday October 22, 2025 issued fresh advisory to Israel as "Occupying Power" asking it to protect Palestinians from forced transfer and deportation.
(2025-10-23). US plan to divide Gaza prompts fears of permanent occupation. newarab.com 
Plans under consideration by the US to divide The plans, outlined by US Vice President
(2025-10-23). Weapons, warlords, and wasteland: Israel's new strategy for Gaza. newarab.com 
As the Gaza ceasefire loomed, Israel's Islamic State-linked proxy gang leader, The Israeli army had
(2025-10-23). Island to be created off the coast of Gaza from war rubble. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – From the rubble, a new hope will rise, slowing down the misery of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian minister said an island will be constructed from the debris of the 2-year war in the enclave.Palestinian Minister of Public Works and Housing, Ahed Bseiso, unveiled a plan to build an island off the coast of the Gaza Strip, adding that the project will be overseen by the Palestinian government. The plan involves recycling 60 million tons of rubble resulting from the Israeli aggression, and placing them on an area of 14 square kilometers in the Mediterra…
(2025-10-23). Turkey in talks over Gaza task force role: defence source. newarab.com 
Turkey is in talks with its other countries over its potential participation in an international Gaza peacekeeping mission with its military "ready" if needed, a defence ministry source said Thursday. | "We are continuing contact with our counterparts regarding our participation in the task force to be established in Gaza," the source said. | The task force will operate as part of the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Centre (CMCC) for monitoring the ceasefire, which is based in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat and was inaugurated on Tuesday by US Vice President JD Vance. | "The CMCC has been established…
(2025-10-23). Nuclear bomb hit it, but not Genocide: Jared Kushner on Gaza. ummid.com Jared Kushner, the Jewish billionaire son-in-law of US President Trump, who recently visited Gaza, said it looks as if the besieged strip has been hit by nuclear bomb, but refused to call it Genocide.
(2025-10-23). Israel returns 195 dead bodies to Gaza, many mutilated with hands bound, signs of torture. mondoweiss.net 
The Gaza Ministry of Health published photos of the mutilated bodies of Palestinian prisoners. Most of them showed clear signs of torture — hands and feet bound, blindfolded, bodies showing marks of tank tracks, burns, fractures, and deep wounds.
(2025-10-23). No incubators left: Gaza's babies born into a post-genocide hell. newarab.com 
In the dim corridors of Gaza's Nasser Medical Complex, Samah Ahmed collapsed in tears as doctors told her that her newborn son might not survive. | She crumples against the hospital corridor wall, her skeletal frame shaking with sobs. At 30 years old and weighing less than 50 kilogrammes, Samah can barely stand without gripping her husband's arm. | Through the neonatal intensive care unit window at Nasser Medical Complex, her eight-day-old son Muhammad lies fighting for breath, one of three infants crowded into a single incubator designed for one. | The doctor's words, a Palestinian medical euphemism meaning the…
(2025-10-23). Modi's absence from Gaza Summit marks shrinking of India's moral footprint. ummid.com PM Modi's absence from the Gaza Summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt is less an accident and more a revelation of priorities: arms trade over human rights, alignment over autonomy.
(2025-10-23). Map of Gaza shows where Israeli forces are positioned under ceasefire deal. aljazeera.com Satellite imagery shows Israel holds about 40 active military positions beyond the yellow line.
(2025-10-23). Repression on protests in solidarity with Flotilla and Palestinian people: NGOs demand EU Council action. fidh.org The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), together with six other human rights organisations, condemns the alarming repression of peaceful protests across European Union (EU) countries in solidarity with the Palestinian people and the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF). Following the illegal interception and arbitrary detention of activists aboard the GSF, millions of people have gathered across Europe to express their support. In several countries, demonstrations were met with (…) | – | / | <...
(2025-10-23). Report: wife Sara demanded Likud ministers sign letter calling on Herzog to pardon prime minister. haaretz.com The letter, drafted by Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman and signed by all of Likud's ministers, stated that Netanyahu's criminal trial is a 'prosecution against an entire camp within the nation.' Sara told ministers that 'Trump also requested it,' according to Israel's public news broadcaster…
(2025-10-23). Sara Netanyahu presses Likud to back presidential pardon for PM. newarab.com 
(2025-10-23). Indonesia defiant after IOC calls for no events over Israeli gymnast ban. tribune.com.pk 
Indonesia vowed Thursday to play an "active role" in global sports after the IOC urged federations not to stage events there following the country's ban on Israeli gymnasts. | The International Olympic Committee's executive board said Wednesday it would "recommend to all international federations not to host any international sports events or meetings in Indonesia" until it provided guarantees over access for all participants in competitions. | The board said it also ended dialogue with the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation on hosting any future Olympic events. | It came after Indonesia denied visas…
(2025-10-23). Israeli Knesset narrowly backs West Bank annexation bills. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- In a razor-thin and highly divisive vote, Israel's Knesset on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to two bills seeking to formally annex parts of the occupied West Bank.The legislation, which passed 25—24 in the first of four required readings, would extend Israeli sovereignty over the entire West Bank under one bill and specifically over the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim under another, effectively incorporating the areas into Israel. The vote came as U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited Israel, though officials said the timing was coincidental.Knesset Advances Far-right West Bank Annexation Bill as J…
(2025-10-23). 'Keep riding camels': Smotrich rejects Saudi normalisation terms. newarab.com 
Smotrich's comments came as Israeli media reported growing signs of a US-backed rapprochement between Riyadh and Tel Aviv tied to Crown
(2025-10-23). Friday 10/24: Protest at israeli consulate in SF. indybay.org 456 Montgomery St, | San Francisco…
(2025-10-23). She converted during COVID. Israeli immigration officials say her Zoom course count. haaretz.com Facing rejection from Israel's Population and Immigration Authority, recent convert Isabella Vinci, supported by the Israel Religious Action Center, is preparing a court petition to challenge the decision, despite a Supreme Court ruling recognizing non-Orthodox conversions…
(2025-10-23). Israeli forces detain two Palestinian children in Jerusalem raid. newarab.com 
Israeli forces on Thursday detained two Video footage shared on social media showed several Israeli officers taking away the children, who were identified as Muhammad Abu Asab and Ahmad Abed. | The children were arrested after Israeli forces raided their families'
(2025-10-23). Israeli Knesset advances bills imposing 'sovereignty' over West Bank. strategic-culture.su By Al MAYADEEN | Join us on , , and . | Contact us: | The Knesset passes a bill to apply Israeli "sovereignty" over the West Bank, expos…
(2025-10-23). Israeli warplanes bomb Lebanon (+VIDEO). en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) — Israeli warplanes launch a series of airstrikes targeting the hills surrounding the town of Shmestar, west of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon.
(2025-10-23). Far-right Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich apologizes to Saudi Arabia. ummid.com Hours after making derogatory and threatening remarks against Saudi Arabia, Far-right Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich apologized to the Kingdom.
(2025-10-23). Israeli army shells village in southern Syria. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) — he Israeli army shelled an area in Syria's southern Daraa province, using three different types of munitions, local media reported.
(2025-10-23). Hamas reacts to Israel plot to annex West Bank. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) — The Hamas resistance group has condemned the Israeli parliament's (Knesset) initial nod to annex the occupied West Bank, saying the move reflects the ugly face of the Tel Aviv regime's colonization of Palestinian land.
(2025-10-23). Israeli Airstrikes Kill at Least Three in Series of Attacks on Eastern, Southern Lebanon. news.antiwar.com Continuing their near daily attacks on Lebanon, Israel conducted airstrike in the area around Hermel in eastern Lebanon Thursday, pounding multiple locations in the region. The Lebanese Health Ministry has confirmed two killed in the preliminary toll in the east. Other attacks were reported in the south, involving artillery fire. As is in keeping with …
(2025-10-23). Leaked police intel makes fools of UK politicians, further proof that Maccabi fans are hooligans. thecanary.co The ban on 'fans' of Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv attending their European match with Birmingham club Aston Villa led to a mass lie campaign by the Israel lobby to claim they were banned because they are Jewish. It also triggered an unsightly combination of pearl-clutching, condemnation, and outright lies from government ministers, particularly […] | By
(2025-10-23). Israel bombs 'Hezbollah sites' in east Lebanon air raids. newarab.com 
Israel launched a "Israeli warplanes launched a series of violent strikes on the eastern mountain range" in the Bekaa region near the border with Syria, Lebanon's official National News Agency said. | It also said two Israel strikes targeted the Hermel range, in the northernmost part of the Bekaa. | The Israeli military meanwhile said it had targeted Hezbollah sites in the same region, including a "a military camp…
(2025-10-23). Israel is still holding captive nearly 100 Palestinian healthcare workers. thecanary.co 67 doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other healthcare workers, who were seized during Israeli occupation raids on health facilities, were released during the latest prisoner swap on 13 October. Healthcare workers detained by Israeli occupation Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW) has documented 95 Palestinian medical staff still being held in the occupation's prisons. 80 of these detainees […] | By
(2025-10-23). Tommy Robinson's Israel trip has widened the far right rift. thecanary.co 
The British nationalist and racist bigot Tommy Robinson is a long-time supporter of Israel. In aid of this, he's currently visiting Israeli allies as part of a much-publicised tour. While little Tommy himself is having the time of his life, the trip is going down very poorly with his far right compatriots: Why didn't Tommy […] | By
(2025-10-23). More Than a Disagreement: Why Vance Called the Annexation Vote an 'Insult'. moderndiplomacy.eu U. S. Vice President JD Vance stated on Thursday that President Donald Trump would oppose any efforts by Israel to annex the occupied West Bank, describing recent actions by Israeli lawmakers as a "political stunt. " A bill that would apply Israeli law to the West Bank, essentially annexing it, received preliminary approval from Israeli …
(2025-10-23). 15 Arab, Muslim states condemn Israel bid to annex West Bank. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) — 15 Arab and Islamic countries condemned the Knesset's approval of two laws aimed at extending Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank and its illegal settlements.
(2025-10-23). IOC wants no sport events in Indonesia after visa ban on Israeli athletes. aljazeera.com Indonesia says it barred Israeli gymnasts from the global event to maintain 'public order and security'.
(2025-10-23). Vance Says Israeli Knesset Vote on West Bank Annexation Was a 'Stupid Political Stunt'. news.antiwar.com Vice President JD Vance on Thursday criticized the Israeli Knesset vote that advanced a bill to annex the Israeli-occupied West Bank while he was visiting Israel, calling it a "stupid political stunt." The vote on Wednesday was a preliminary step, and the bill would need to be voted on three more times before it becomes …
(2025-10-23). Banning Maccabi fans is not enough. Expel Israel from all sports. newarab.com 
The messy politics of football have been on full display in Britain over the past weeks. Our campaign to have the Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. Aston Villa match cancelled is growing, even after the government has weighed in with lies and misinformation about why the fans were banned in the first place. | This controversy is not simply about this game, or the racist fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv team, but rather a picture into one of the ways in which Israeli football is implicated in apartheid and genocide, and the growing global movement to kick Israel out of international football. | As soon as we became aware of the fi…
(2025-10-23). Hamas pledges to stop public executions, but violence against Palestinians continues. longwarjournal.org Hamas has told Arab mediators that it will not carry out any more public executions, as the acts have threatened the stability of the group's ceasefire with Israel. However, Hamas's Arrow Unit has continued to carry out violent public beatings of Palestinians who have been accused of committing a range of crimes.