(2025-12-17). Using the Slain: Israel Exploits the Bondi Beach Shootings. dissidentvoice.org Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely passes an opportunity to comment upon the way Jews in other countries are treated. While the manic hatred directed against Jews remains one of history's grotesque legacies, opportunism in the Netanyahu government is a ready instinct. With a customary sense of perversion, Netanyahu has managed to mangle Israeli policy, …
(2025-12-17). How Your Engagement Ring Helps Fund Genocide In Gaza. popularresistance.org Did your engagement ring help fund a genocide in Gaza? Quite possibly. Despite possessing no mines of their own, Israel is a major player in the world's diamond business, buying up minerals across Africa and selling them to the West, netting billions in the process. Diamonds are Israel's most important export, and directly bankroll the country's ongoing genocide against the people of Gaza. MintPress explores the dark world of Israeli blood diamonds. | Any visitor walking through Tel Aviv's exclusive Ramat Gan district will be struck by its wealth. Skyscrapers are everywhere, and expensive jewelry stores lines the…
(2025-12-17). Ticketless Israeli teen sneaks onto flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna, casting doubt on Ben-Gurion Airport security. haaretz.com The 18-year-old managed to pass through four separate airport checkpoints without a ticket and board the plane. A former transport security official said the incident — the second in recent months — warrants an external investigation…
(2025-12-17). Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer fans petition top court over police ban on anti-police, anti-nationalism shirts. haaretz.com The Association for Civil Rights and Hapoel Tel Aviv supporters say the Israel Police lack authority to bar fans over protest shirts, arguing the policy violates freedom of expression, and urged the High Court to hear the case before the next match, when thousands are expected to wear them…
(2025-12-17). Gaza militia leader says Israel funds, feeds, protects his group. newarab.com 
A militia leader operating in Gaza against Hamas authorities has said his group is funded and backed by Israel, as Tel Aviv continues efforts to tighten its control over the besieged enclave. | Speaking to Israel's right-wing Channel 14, "They provide us with weapons, food, drink and clothing. We have security coordination at the highest level," Abu Nassira told Channel 14 reporter Ahikam Himm…
(2025-12-17). Zionist lobbyists may use Sydney terror act to polish Israel's image: Lebanese analyst. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN – In an exclusive interview with Tehran Times, Hikmat Amhaz, a Lebanese political analyst and member of the International Association of Political Analysts and Experts, examines the political and media ramifications of the deadly mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach.
(2025-12-17). Afghanistan under Taliban a "society of gender apartheid" aljazeera.com "The Taliban now post guards at UN offices to prevent women from going to their jobs."
(2025-12-17). UN Warns as Gaza Infant Freezes to Death: Aid Delays Turn Winter Cold Lethal. thinktank.pk In a heartbreaking illustration of Gaza's deepening humanitarian catastrophe, a two-week-old Palestinian baby named Mohammed Khalil Abu al-Khair froze to death from severe hypothermia. The infant's tragic passing, confirmed by Gaza's Health Ministry, highlights how harsh winter conditions—combined with restricted access to essential shelter materials—are turning the cold into a lethal threat for the enclave's …
(2025-12-17). Israeli strikes hit eastern Gaza City amid preventable flooding. newarab.com 
The strikes hit sites east of
(2025-12-17). Pakistan's Army Chief Asim Munir Faces Defining Test Over Trump's Gaza Plan. moderndiplomacy.eu Pakistan's most powerful military chief in decades is confronting a defining foreign policy test as the United States pushes Islamabad to contribute troops to a proposed Gaza stabilisation force. The request, tied to President Donald Trump's 20-point plan for post-war Gaza, places Field Marshal Asim Munir at the centre of a decision that carries significant …
(2025-12-17). Gaza's fishers tempt fate to feed the hungry. electronicintifada.net Gaza's fishing sector, once a crucial source of livelihoods, is operating at just 7.3 percent of its pre-genocide capacity.
(2025-12-17). Headlines for December 17, 2025. democracynow.org Trump Orders Blockade on Sanctioned Oil Tankers Entering and Leaving Venezuela, ICC Rejects Israel's Bid to Block War Crimes Probe in Gaza, First Funerals Held Today for Victims of Bondi Beach Massacre, Manhunt Still Underway for Brown University Shooting Suspect, MIT Professor Fatally Shot in His Home, Trump's Chief of Staff Wiles Says He Has an "Alcoholic's Personality" in Explosive Vanity Fair Interview, Speaker Johnson Says He Will Not Call for a Vote to Extend Healthcare Subsidies, Trump Expands Travel Ban to 20 More Countries, NYT: Trump Admin Transfers 22 Cuban Immigrants to G…
(2025-12-17). Despite ceasefire deal, Israel refuses to open the Rafah border crossing, cutting Gaza off from the world. mondoweiss.net 
Gaza's Rafah border crossing was supposed to reopen in October as part of the ceasefire agreement. But the border remains closed, keeping Gaza shut off from the outside world and preventing families from reuniting with loves ones.
(2025-12-17). Gaza death toll reaches 70,668 since Oct. 07. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) — The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has said that Israeli forces have killed 70,668 Palestinian people in the enclave since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas on October 07, 2023.
(2025-12-17). Israel's genocide in Gaza puts Eurovision 2026 in crisis. newarab.com 
The Eurovision organisers announced Monday that 35 countries would take part in the world's biggest live televised music event in May ⚪ the fewest since entry was expanded in 2004. | The number would have been even lower, but for Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova rejoining the glitzy annual extravaganza. | Once the lights go up in…
(2025-12-17). Winter storms cause war-damaged buildings to collapse in Gaza. aljazeera.com Heavy rain and strong winds are causing buildings weakened by Israeli bombardment to collapse across Gaza.
(2025-12-17). As Israel Gears Up for Another Lebanon War, FM Claims Hezbollah Is the One Violating Lebanese Sovereignty. news.antiwar.com In a far-reaching interview with al-Arabiya English, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar tried to downplay Israel's security issues with their various neighbors, which broadly boil down to a claim that Israel's regional issues are anywhere and everywhere Iran's fault. With respect to Lebanon, which Israel has conducted thousands of attacks on since a ceasefire was …