(2025-08-28). Colombia's former president under fire over trip to Israel. colombiareports.com Former president Ivan Duque came under fire after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Duque went to Israel to promote his wife's foundation and the business interests of the Gilinski oligarchy. On national television, the former president praised the ongoing collaboration between Israel and his foundation. Duque's mission …
(2025-08-28). Israel's Killing of Journalists Follows a Pattern of Silencing Palestinian Media That Stretches Back to 1967. counterpunch.org 
Five journalists were among the 22 people killed on Aug. 25, 2025, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Following global condemnation, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement saying Israel "values the work of journalists." But the numbers tell a different story. Those deaths bring the
(2025-08-28). Yemen Fires Hypersonic Missile at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The Yemeni Armed Forces launched a hypersonic ballistic missile against Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday in retaliation for the Zionist regime's brutal campaign in Gaza.
(2025-08-28). Houthis claim hypersonic missile strike on Israel's Ben Gurion airport. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- Yemen's Houthi movement announced on Wednesday that its missile forces carried out a "qualitative military operation" targeting Lod Airport in the occupied Jaffa region with a hypersonic ballistic missile.Houthi military spokesperson General Yahya Saree declared that Yemen will continue its support for Gaza "whatever the challenges and repercussions", vowing to fight until the siege is lifted and Israeli attacks are halted. He described the operation as part of Yemen's "honorable duty toward the oppressed in Palestine."ÿ®ŸäÿßŸÜ ÿߟџ&Cc…
(2025-08-28). Smotrich urges Gaza annexation if Hamas refuses to 'surrender'. newarab.com 
The far-right minister, who has vocally opposed striking a deal with Hamas to end the nearly two-year war, presented his plan to "win in Gaza by the end of the year" at a press conference in Jerusalem. | Under Smotrich's proposal, Hamas would be given an ult…
(2025-08-28). What is famine, and how is it determined? aljazeera.com Famine doesn't happen naturally. It's political. Gaza joins the short list of places where conflict starves people.
(2025-08-28). Israeli Attacks and Starvation Kill 75 More Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours. news.antiwar.com Gaza's Health Ministry said on Thursday that Israeli attacks have killed 71 Palestinians and wounded 339 over the previous 24-hour period as US-backed Israeli attacks continue across the Strip. On top of the violent deaths, the Health Ministry said that it recorded another four starvation-related deaths amid the famine caused by the Israeli siege. "This …
(2025-08-28). Death toll from Gaza mass starvation hits 313. wsws.org Ten Palestinians have died of starvation or malnutrition over the past 24 hours due to the deliberate famine created by Israel in Gaza, bringing the death toll from the famine to 313, including 119 children.
(2025-08-28). Entire UN Security Council Except US Says Gaza Famine 'Man-Made' as 10 More People Starve to Death. scheerpost.com US Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea speaks on August 27, 2025. | (Photo: US Mission to the United Nations/X) | 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 our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible By Brett Wilkins / Every member nation of the United Nations Security Coun…
(2025-08-28). LIVE: Israel starves four more Palestinians to death in Gaza. aljazeera.com Israeli attacks kill at least 17 people in Gaza, including a woman and her child in the Bureij camp.
(2025-08-28). Iran Demands Concrete International Action To End Israel's Genocide. popularresistance.org Abbas Araghchi, Iranian foreign minister, called for more concrete collective action against Israel, asserting that mere verbal condemnations are no longer enough to prevent its "insatiable" Zionist ambitions to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and expand their occupation in the region. | Araghchi reiterated that the Israeli war in Gaza "is not merely a fleeting military conflict or an ordinary humanitarian crisis: it is a systematic, full fledged genocide explicitly intended to achieve ethnic cleansing amid the complicit silence of the US and the West more broadly." | Citing the daily killing of Palestinians seek…
(2025-08-28). Jeremy Corbyn refuses to say if he is an anti-Zionist. thecanary.co Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has refused to confirm he is an anti-Zionist. In a video posted by the lobbying watchdog Spinwatch and others, he was asked if he would follow the example of Zarah Sultana. In response to what she called anti-Semitism "smears" ten days ago, Sultana said she was proudly anti-Zionist: The smears […] | By
(2025-08-28). 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.
(2025-08-28). Democratic National Committee Rejects Resolution For Israel Arms Embargo. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, Democratic National Committee (DNC) members at the party's summer meetings rejected Resolution 18, which called for the recognition of a Palestinian state, a ceasefire in Gaza, an arms embargo, and a suspension of military aid to Israel. | Instead, members backed a status quo resolution introduced by DNC Chair Ken Martin, which simply called for more aid to be allowed into Gaza and a two-state solution. Despite the support, Martin went on to withdraw the resolution. | "I know that there are some who are interested in making changes today, but as we've seen, there's divide in our party on this issue,"
(2025-08-28). Tony Blair, Jared Kushner part of Trump Gaza policy meeting. newarab.com 
(2025-08-28). Gaza Genocide deniers are no different from Holocaust deniers, except that their denial abets the genocide itself. mondoweiss.net 
The denial of the Gaza genocide has been echoed from the mainstream media to the White House. While reminiscent of Holocaust denial, today's denials have deadly consequences as they are used to justify the very genocide deniers claim isn't happening.
(2025-08-28). CAIR Designates UC Berkeley a 'Hostile Campus' for Systematic Suppression of Anti-Genocide Speech. indybay.org August 26, 2025 – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today announced the designation of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), a "Hostile Campus" due to its long and escalating pattern of targeting Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, and allied students and faculty who speak out against Israel's genocide in Gaza.
(2025-08-28). Gaza and the CBC: The Public Broadcaster Betrays Its Mandate. counterpunch.org 
Anyone who has doubted the Chomsky-Herman propaganda model of mass media has surely had their skepticism tested over the past twenty-two months. The axiom that media "serve to mobilize support for the special interests that dominate the state" by distorting or suppressing facts is nowhere more evident than in Western reporting on Gaza. Likewise, the
(2025-08-28). UN staff pressure rights chief to call Gaza a genocide in letter. newarab.com 
(2025-08-28). Half of US voters believe Israel committing genocide in Gaza, poll says. aljazeera.com Six in 10 voters also oppose Washington sending more military aid to Israel, according to Quinnipiac poll.
(2025-08-28). Israel intensifies Gaza City offensive as Trump hosts post-war talks. jagonews24.com The Israeli military pressed operations around Gaza City on Wednesday as US President Donald Trump hosted a meeting on post-war plans for the shattered Palestinian territory.
(2025-08-28). Update from the Red Cross Field Hospital, Rafah: 15-Month Operational Summary. icrc.org Rafah, Gaza Strip – 9 May 2024 to 31 July 2025…
(2025-08-28). UK Lib Dem leader to boycott banquet for Trump over Gaza war. newarab.com 
Davey accused the US president and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of "clos[ing] their eyes and wish[ing] this away" in response to The Liberal Democrat leader, who has criticised Trump in the past, announced his boycott in an opinion piece for UK newspaper The Guardian. | The Lib Dem leader explained that he and his wife Emily had "spent all summer thinking about this" and had also "prayed about it"- saying that it was "the one way" to demonstrate his condemnation of Trump and Starmer's failure to urgently inte…
(2025-08-28). Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW). juancole.com Direct participation by US forces in military operations in Gaza since October 2023, including by providing intelligence for Israeli strikes and conducting extensive coordination and plannin…
(2025-08-28). Israel has now killed over 1,000 teachers since 7 October. thecanary.co In Gaza, schools are no longer just walls and doors, but have become a distant dream that children chase every day amid the rubble and international silence. Since 7 October 2023, every new day added to the lives of children has been filled with fear and waiting, as they watch the sky before they watch […] | By
(2025-08-28). Israel obliterates Gaza City as Trump eyes post-war plan. newarab.com 
The Israeli forces intensified their assault on Gaza City on Wednesday, as Israel faces growing outrage at home and abroad over its nearly two-year campaign in Gaza, where its forces are laying siege to the enclave's
(2025-08-28). Israel Demolishes All Buildings in Gaza City's Southern Zeitoun Area. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — No buildings remain standing in the southern part of the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City as the Israeli ground operation launched earlier this month demolished more than 1,500 homes.
(2025-08-28). Hundreds of UN Staff Urge Rights Chief to Label Gaza a Genocide. moderndiplomacy.eu Background The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), created in 1993 to protect human rights globally, has seen its current head, Austrian lawyer Volker Turk, repeatedly condemn Israel's actions in Gaza, while being careful to not use the word "genocide". The term "genocide" carries severe legal and political implications, as the action …
(2025-08-28). Friday 9/19: Gaza Journalists UNDERFIRE Film Showing. indybay.org Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula | 490 Aguajito Road Carmel, CA 93923…
(2025-08-28). Aid to famine-struck Gaza still 'drop in the ocean': WFP. newarab.com 
The World Food Programme warned Tuesday that the aid Israel is allowing to enter Gaza remains a "drop in the ocean", days afte The United Nations declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming the "systematic obstruction" of aid by Israel during its nearly two-year war on the enclave. | Carl Skau, WFP's chief operating officer, said that over the past two weeks, there has been a "slight uptick" in aid entering, averaging around 100 trucks per day.
(2025-08-28). The Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 Ships Will Set Sail for Gaza. scheerpost.com The Madleen before departure. Source: Tan Safi/Freedom Flotilla Coalition | 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 our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible By Wahid Ben Ali / In July 2025, a new international maritime initiative was launc…
(2025-08-28). Israel destroys more than 1,500 homes in Gaza City's Al-Zeitoun. newarab.com 
(2025-08-28). Thursday 8/28: Global Strike For Gaza. indybay.org Everywhere…
(2025-08-28). Pope urges end to 'collective punishment' of Gaza Palestinians. newarab.com 
Leo was interrupted twice by applause as he read aloud his latest appeal for an end to the 22-month war during his weekly general audience attended by thousands of people in the Vatican's auditorium. | History's first American pope also called…
(2025-08-28). Australian pseudo-left conference: Protest politics and reformist electoral fronts to trap anti-capitalist sentiment. wsws.org Socialist Alternative's Sydney conference promoted the fraud of protest politics, that have manifestly failed to halt the Gaza genocide, and sought to justify its creation of reformist electoral fronts.
(2025-08-28). Israel builds new aid centers in Gaza while troops target Hamas. longwarjournal.org The Israeli military said on August 28 that it is building two new humanitarian aid sites in Gaza. The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that it has distributed 140 million meals since May 2025. In southern and northern Gaza, Israeli troops carried out raids in Jabaliya and areas of Khan Younis.
(2025-08-28). From displacement tents to dreams of school: this time, I am writing to you about my own children. thecanary.co 
To the world where children are preparing to open their new books and start the new school year, going to school in safety, I write this story as a journalist accustomed to telling people's stories, and as a father deprived of the most basic right of fatherhood: to see his five children walk to school […] | By
(2025-08-28). NZ media workers call for 'decisive action' by Luxon over Gaza journalists. asiapacificreport.nz Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet ministers in an open letter to "act decisively" to protect Gaza journalists and a free press. "These are principles to which New Zealand has always laid claim and which are…
(2025-08-28). Protest against Gaza war as Venice Film Festival opens. newarab.com 
Protesters against Around 20 people from a regional left-wing Italian political collective held up the hand-drawn banner and Palestinian flags ahead of the opening ceremony later Wednesday. | "We need to use the attention here during the film festival to shift the focus on to Palestine," Giulia Cacopardo, 28, from the North-East Social Centres, told news agency…
(2025-08-28). Israel and the occupied territories: Intensification of hostilities threatens to worsen catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Gaza. icrc.org
(2025-08-28). White House meeting on Gaza day after, Israel presses massacres. newarab.com 
Israeli attacks on Gaza have
(2025-08-28). Borrell calls for European action in Gaza even though he did nothing as top diplomat. infobrics.org Spain continues to take no meaningful action for Gaza despite all the rhetoric.
(2025-08-28). Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix back new film about Gaza's Hind Rajab. newarab.com 
(2025-08-28). No vacancy: Gaza's hospital bed occupancy rate is at 300%. newarab.com 
On the floor of a narrow corridor inside Al-Shifa Hospital in Pointing to his bandaged leg, Abu Salim remarked to The New Arab, "When I a…
(2025-08-28). The Voice of Hind Rajab: a film that exposes an Israeli war crime. thecanary.co In a move that reflects the convergence of cinema with major humanitarian issues, the film The Voice of Hind Rajab by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania will have its world premiere at the 82nd Venice Film Festival on 3 September, bringing back to the forefront the story of six-year-old Hind Rajab from Gaza, who Israel […] | By
(2025-08-28). Israeli double tap hit on Nasser hospital kills Gaza's truths. newarab.com 
The Israeli strike on It was a moment that seemed to rupture the collective conscience of Palestinians and the world, a double tap airstrike that claimed 20 lives, including doctors, paramedics, and at least five journalists, who died with holding cameras that documented the very war that consumed them. | Speak…
(2025-08-28). Thursday 8/28: Behind the Scenes at Rebuilding Alliance— Pinwheels for Peace in the Classrooms of Gaza. indybay.org Zoom | bit.ly/PinwheelsForPeace…
(2025-08-28). Australia Breaks With Iran; Sign Of A New War Coming? popularresistance.org The Aussies just trashed their relations with Iran based on nothing but obscure say-so. | Australia throws out Iran ambassador over alleged antisemitic attacks | Canberra expelled Tehran's ambassador after accusing Iran of masterminding at least two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil. | Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the country's intelligence services had linked Iran's military to arson attacks in Sydney and Melbourne, throwing out an ambassador for the first time since World War II, a move The Sydney Morning Herald's national affairs editor dubbed "the diplomatic equivalent of the nuclear…
(2025-08-28). The 1619 Project revisited: A retrospective evaluation in light of Trump's assault on democracy. wsws.org It is now clear that the main consequence of the 1619 Project's attack on the American Revolution and Civil War was to disarm the population in the face of the fascist threat.
(2025-08-28). Racists rush to Yorkshire Live social media to make fun of missing 14-year-old Muhammed. thecanary.co 
A group of rabid racists have flocked to their homeland — a Yorkshire Live Facebook post — to spew out their hatred at missing child Muhammed. A few days ago, Yorkshire Live posted the following image to their page: Before we get into the 8,000 comments and laugh reacts, South Yorkshire police later confirmed that […] | By
(2025-08-28). 20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still Faces Racism and Climate Injustice. democracynow.org 
Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty was in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina first hit, and both supported and reported on relief efforts in the aftermath of the storm. Flaherty explains how Katrina's devastation to the city's infrastructure accelerated the existing dispossession of its primarily Black residents, how corruption and mismanagement in the years following the storm diverted aid, and how racist media narratives contribute to the ongoing criminalization of Black New Orleanians. "It's devastating," says Flaherty, warning that the aftermath of Katrina is not only…
(2025-08-28). Report: Egypt training hundreds of Palestinians for post-war Gaza security force. haaretz.com
(2025-08-28). final images show Gaza hospital stairwell where she was killed in Israeli strike. haaretz.com Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who freelanced for The Associated Press, was among 22 people, including five reporters, killed Monday when Israeli forces struck Nasser Hospital twice in quick succession, in what Israel called a 'tragic error'…
(2025-08-28). Egypt reportedly rejects friendly soccer match with Zambia over Israeli coaches. haaretz.com The November friendly was called off after Egyptian officials objected to Zambia's Israeli coaches, including former Chelsea FC manager Avram Grant, citing the Gaza war and regional tensions…