2025-09-30: Palestine Roundup

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tn.ai (2025-09-30). Iran, Cuba Urge End to Genocide in Palestine, Slam Unilateralism. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The foreign ministers of Iran and Cuba voiced concern about rising unilateralism and disregard for the international law, urging an end to the ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine and the international community's silence that enables Israel's impunity.

Committee on Academic Freedom (2025-09-30). Protesting the Suspension of a Scholar at the University of Kentucky for Statements on Palestine. juancole.com Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | — Letter to the University of Kentucky regarding the suspension of Professor Ramsi Woodcock for his statements about Palestine Eli Capilouto President, University of Kentucky elic@uky.edu James C. Duff Dean, J. David Rosenberg College of Law University of Kentucky jim.duff@uky.edu

Angela (2025-09-30). Friday 10/3: Virtual Action Hour for Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | afsc.org/events/action-hour-palestine

Palestine Justice Coalition (2025-09-30). Saturday 10/4: Free Palestine. indybay.org Ocean at Water Street, Santa Cruz…

Angela (2025-09-30). Friday 10/3: Webinar: Palestine Solidarity Announcements. indybay.org Zoom | bit.ly/FridayPSAs

Maximillian Alvarez (2025-09-30). 'If I'm killed on this mission…': Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail for Gaza despite Israel's threats. therealnews.com Calling in from the Mediterranean Sea, Iara Modarelli and Leila Hegazy speak with TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez about the current status of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the critical days ahead. | Calling in from the Mediterranean Sea, Iara Modarelli and Leila Hegazy speak with TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez about the current status of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the critical days ahead. Gaza,Israel,October 7: One Year Later,Palestine,video,Sumud Flotilla

newarab (2025-09-30). Gazan children use animation to turn trauma into stories of hope. newarab.com For the youngest members of Gazan society, storytelling starts with a drawing. Before children learn to write, they learn to draw. | It is a medium through which they express their innermost feelings, memories, desires, and dreams, and in the case of children in Gaza, life in an ongoing war. | Recognising that the children she taught were sometimes at a loss for words, stop-motion animator and teacher Prior to October 2023, 37-year-old Haneen delivered animation…

The Conversation (2025-09-30). Overwhelming Evidence of Genocide against Palestinians: a Legal Expert unpacks the UN Report on Gaza. juancole.com By Elisenda Calvet Martínez, Universitat de Barcelona The Conversation — On September 16, 2025, the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the occupied Palestinian territory including East Jerusalem and Israel issued its third report on the situation in Gaza since October 7, 2023. For the first time, the COI has recognised that genocide has …

WSWS (2025-09-30). "All Eyes On Gaza" : Biggest ever demonstration in Germany against Israeli genocide. wsws.org The mass mobilisation showed the enormous opposition among the population to Israel's war crimes and Germany's participation in them.

Agence France-Presse (2025-09-30). Colombia unveils first combat rifle amid diplomatic rift with US, Israel. scmp.com Colombian officials said on Monday that the country had produced its first combat rifle, a cheaper, lighter weapon aimed at replacing the arms that were once supplied by its former military ally, Israel. | Leftist President Gustavo Petro broke ties with Israel last year to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

aljazeera (2025-09-30). LIVE: Israel kills 37 people in Gaza; Hamas reviews Trump's plan to end war. aljazeera.com Palestinians in Gaza say the proposal raises questions around implementation as Israeli attacks continue.

Brave New Films (2025-09-30). Thursday 10/9: "Gaza: Journalists Under Fire" : Film w/ Q&A on Lives & Deaths of Palestinian War Reporters. indybay.org Online event. FREE | RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-screening-w… | Once you register, you can submit a question to the filmmaker via an email link (email address in your confirmation email) to for the film discussion…

Jack Khoury (2025-09-30). cease-fire plan gives Hamas a stark choice: accept surrender or risk Israeli occupation. haaretz.com If Hamas rejects Trump's proposal, Israel has U.S. backing to continue its systematic destruction of Gaza, even at the cost of Israeli hostages' lives. When all the rhetoric is stripped away, the peace plan offers a choice between 'soft' foreign occupation or a violent, uncompromising Israeli one…

geo.tv (2025-09-30). Trump announces Netanyahu's nod to US Gaza peace plan as Israeli attacks rage on. geo.tv

newarab (2025-09-30). Is Donald Trump's plan for Gaza a victory for Egypt. newarab.com

jagonews24 (2025-09-30). Trump proposes 20-point plan to end war in Gaza. jagonews24.com United States President Donald Trump says "we're beyond very close" to ending the war in Gaza after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House and presenting a 20-point peace plan…

Kathy Kelly (2025-09-30). An Appeal to the Vatican State: Protect the Gaza Sumud Flotilla's Safe Arrival. counterpunch.org Catholic theologian and author James W. Douglass, a co-founder of Mary's House Catholic Worker house of hospitality, describes the Global Sumud Flotilla as a miracle. Douglass believes we are living "in the heart of darkness." Yet, the Global Sumud Flotilla's witness, tenacity, and diversity astonish him. Here is a coordinated nonviolent campaign illuminating "the works of mercy" while confronting "the

Yossi Verter (2025-09-30). reluctant consent to plan to end Gaza war paves way for elections in early 2026. haaretz.com Trump realized Netanyahu was determined to block any deal and had grown weary of his empty talk. He compelled him to apologize to Qatar's prime minister and unveiled a plan to end the Gaza war, each clause a regional drama. After receiving only lukewarm praise from the president, Netanyahu now returns to face turmoil in his coalition…

Jonathan Lis (2025-09-30). How Netanyahu could thwart ambitious plan for a cease-fire in Gaza. haaretz.com Since the war broke out on October 7, 2023, Netanyahu has disrupted Gaza cease-fire talks and agreements in a variety of ways. The question now is whether he will also choose to do so in an election year…

Liza Rozovsky (2025-09-30). Arab and Muslim states back Trump Gaza plan, say ready to work with U.S. to finalize deal. haaretz.com Foreign ministers from seven countries across Asia and North Africa said President Trump's plan must create a path toward a just peace on the basis of the two-state solution, under which Gaza will be integrated with the West Bank in a Palestinian state…

asher Kaufman, Professor of History, Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (2025-09-30). Trump's Gaza peace plan: A bit of the old, a bit of the new — and the same stumbling blocks. | Asher Kaufman

Jonathan Lis (2025-09-30). Hamas to review cease-fire plan good foreign diplomat tells Haaretz. haaretz.com According to the diplomat, Trump's 'New Gaza' plan was delivered to Hamas' negotiating team during a meeting in Doha attended by the head of Egyptian intelligence…

Angela (2025-09-30). Wednesday 10/1: Power Half Hour for Gaza. indybay.org Zoom | http: //jvp.org/gazaph…

ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Middle East Studies, Australian National University (2025-09-30). The 5 big problems with Trump's Gaza peace plan. | Ian Parmeter

Codepink (2025-09-30). Wednesday 10/8: Webinar: Gaza, China & the Fight for Humanity. indybay.org Zoom | www.codepink.org/chinapal88

Avi Bar-Eli (2025-09-30). Israel approves massive budget increase to cover costs of Gaza war, attack on Iran. haaretz.com The Knesset approved a NIS 31 billion increase to the 2025 state budget to cover the costs of 'Gideon's Chariots A' and the attack on Iran ‚ñ The IDF's demand for NIS 20 billion to fund 'Gideon's Chariots B' is not covered in the budget ‚ñ This is the fifth time in two years that the government has broken the approved budget…

newarab (2025-09-30). Muslim states join European powers in backing Trump Gaza plan. newarab.com Key Muslim nations on Monday threw their weight behind a Washington's European allies urged

albawaba (2025-09-30). Netanyahu: Peace plan will allow Israeli army to stay in 'most of Gaza'. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, a day after approving the peace plan proposed by the United States, that the Israeli military would remain in most of Gaza.On Monday evening, Netanyahu announced Israel's approval of Donald Trump's peace plan, which includes a permanent ceasefire and the release of all hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023."We will recover all our hostages, alive and well, while the (Israeli military) will remain in most of the Gaza Strip," Netanyahu said in a video statement on Telegram.◊ë◊§◊í◊ô◊©◊î ◊&c…

Ben Samuels (2025-09-30). Trump forced the Gaza peace plan on Netanyahu. But a lot could still go wrong. haaretz.com A forced apology in the first act, a 20-point plan very light on specifics – and the hovering feeling that Netanyahu will get yet another chance to prolong the Gaza war…

aljazeera (2025-09-30). UN General Assembly: What did world leaders say about Israel's war on Gaza? aljazeera.com Here's what world leaders said during the 80th UNGA session about Israel's war on Gaza.

ICRC (2025-09-30). Israel and the occupied territories: Gaza families face fear and displacement as hostilities intensify. icrc.org A testimony from Ahmed Al Waheidi, an ICRC staff member in Gaza: September 17, 2025…

newarab (2025-09-30). Israel strikes continue as Gaza awaits peace plan response. newarab.com

International Solidary Activists (2025-09-30). Sunday 10/26: REPORT BACK from the West Bank in 2025. indybay.org Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore – 3036 24th St., SF, CA 94110…

aljazeera (2025-09-30). Israeli soldiers detain Palestinian children for 'spying' in West Bank. aljazeera.com Israeli soldiers were filmed detaining two Palestinian children in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank,…

Binoy Kampmark (2025-09-30). Attempts to Delegitimize: Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly. counterpunch.org It takes a lot to make UN delegates walk out from an address to the General Assembly. But this was precisely what Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, managed to achieve in his September 26 speech. His address began by attempting to show his country as a guardian of law and civilisation, fighting a lonely, unsupported

Yoram Meital (2025-09-30). Benjamin Netanyahu's Abuse of History for Politics. juancole.com Beersheba (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) — After his address to an almost empty hall at the UN, Benjamin Netanyahu found a warmer reception at a Shabbat gathering in the Israeli Consulate in New York. There, the Prime Minister chose to "reveal" what he presented as a forgotten historical truth. "The Arabs expelled us from …

jagonews24 (2025-09-30). Netanyahu insists Israel will 'forcibly resist' Palestinian statehood. jagonews24.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out recognising a Palestinian state, insisting Israel will "forcibly resist" such a move despite a new US-backed peace plan that leaves the door open to Palestinian self-determination.

Amir Tibon (2025-09-30). The that could convince Hamas to accept the Trump plan. haaretz.com Ending the war, freeing the hostages: The Trump plan answers the key priorities of the Israeli public. But the proposal also offers Hamas the chance to achieve one of its holy grails — unless Netanyahu manages to push them into refusal…

Staff (2025-09-30). Smotrich slams assent to plan: chance to break free from shackles of. haaretz.com

albawaba (2025-09-30). Netanyahu apologizes to Qatar over Doha strike. albawaba.com

aljazeera (2025-09-30). What is Israel's endgame in Africa? aljazeera.com The Israeli government appears to be on a charm offensive, dangling aid and arms. Experts say it might be working.

tn.ai (2025-09-30). Yemen Condemns Western Move to Reinstate Sanctions on Iran. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Yemen's foreign ministry denounced the European troika and the United States for reviving sanctions against Iran, slamming them for serving Israeli interests through hostile and coercive measures.

_____ (2025-09-29). The Recognition of Palestine: What It Does, What It Doesn't Do, and Why Now. transcend.org 22 Sep 2025 – The recognition of Palestine as a state is more of a symbolic gesture than a act, like imposing sanctions on Israel would be. Still, even Israel's allies have been forced to take action as the genocide in Gaza deepens.

tehrantimes (2025-09-29). The Ummah Union: A new path to Palestinian freedom. tehrantimes.com JAKARTA – A simple question that shakes the conscience. Decades of UN resolutions have been issued, dozens of negotiations have been held, but the results have always been deadlocked. Palestine remains under occupation, its people's rights still violated. The world seems busy talking, but paralyzed by action.

Human Rights Watch (2025-09-29). As Israel Escalates Assault, Germany Should Support EU Action on Gaza. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Activists set up pictures of children from Gaza in front of the Reichstag building during a protest calling for greater commitment of the German government to the children of Gaza and the defense of international law, in Berlin, Germany, July 9, 2025. | © 2025 Lisi Niesner/Reuters…

Haaretz Sports Staff (2025-09-29). will not Owner of Italian basketball team Trapani Shark calls to disqualify Israeli teams. haaretz.com Valerio Antonini of Trapani Shark plans to petition FIBA to disqualify Israeli clubs, citing 'unprecedented genocide' in Gaza. Trapani is drawn with the Israeli Bnei Herzliya team, Tofas Bursa, and Tenerife, scheduled to play in Opava, Czech Republic, on October 28…

tn.ai (2025-09-29). Thousands Rally in Luxembourg against Israeli Atrocities in Gaza. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Over 5,000 people marched through Luxembourg City on Sunday, denouncing Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza and demanding an end to genocide.

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-09-29). The Single Dumbest Conspiracy Theory In The Entire World. caitlinjohnstone.com.au The single dumbest conspiracy theory in the entire world is that every major humanitarian institution on earth is conspiring to falsely frame Israel for the crime of genocide. | And yet believing this bat shit insane conspiracy theory is the only way to think it's not a genocide. There is no other way to claim that there is no genocide happening in Gaza without treating this self-evidently ridiculous theory as true. | In order to believe that there is no genocide…

Kathy Kelly (2025-09-29). Miracle on the Mediterranean—an Appeal to the Vatican State. dissidentvoice.org Catholic theologian and author James W. Douglass, a co-founder of Mary's House Catholic Worker house of hospitality, describes the Global Sumud Flotilla as a miracle. Douglass believes we are living "in the heart of darkness." Yet, the Global Sumud Flotilla's witness, tenacity, and diversity astonish him. Here is a coordinated nonviolent campaign illuminating "the works …

en.mehrnews (2025-09-29). Israeli Navy preparing to attack Gaza-bound Sumud flotilla. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 29 (MNA) — As Global Sumud Flotilla is attempting to carry out a humanitarian mission, Zionist media outlets have reported that Israeli Navy's special forces are preparing to attack the vessels of the fleet.

newarab (2025-09-29). 'Do not forget us': Moroccans stranded in Gaza beg for rescue. newarab.com For nearly two years, a small community of Moroccans has been trapped inside the When Dounya Ait Zakour travelled to Gaza from "Life was good th…

David Swanson (2025-09-29). Miracle on the Mediterranean: An Appeal to the Vatican State: Protect the Gaza Sumud Flotilla's Safe Arrival. worldbeyondwar.org
| Photo By Kathy Kelly, World BEYOND War, September 29, 2025 | Catholic theologian and author James W. Douglass, a co-founder of Mary's House Catholic Worker house of hospitality, describes the Global Sumud Flotilla as a miracle. Douglass believes we are living "in the heart of darkness." Yet, the Global Sumud Flotilla's witness, te…

_____ (2025-09-29). Stop Funding Genocide with Your Bank Account and Grocery Bag. transcend.org 24 Sep 2025 – Francesca Albanese dismantles the illusion that ordinary people are powerless. She urges civil society to demand freedom for Palestinians and calls for universities, banks and municipalities to cut ties with Israel just as the world did with apartheid South Africa in the 1980s.

en.mehrnews (2025-09-29). Netanyahu 'apologised to Qatar PM' for aggression on Doha. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 29 (MNA) — Israeli regime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Qatar's prime minister to apologise for the recent aggression on the Arab country's soil.

newarab (2025-09-29). Egypt Sinai military build-up prompts Israeli surveillance. newarab.com

en.mehrnews (2025-09-29). Syrian resistance group says hit Israeli occupying troopers. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 29 (MNA) — A group by the name of Syrian National Resistance has claimed responsibility for an attack on Israeli occupying forces.

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