(2025-08-05). Scandal-hit Lord Dannatt now caught lobbying for arms industry against Palestine Action. thecanary.co A Guardian article published on 5 August 2025 has revealed that Lord Richard Dannatt, former head of the British Army and current member of the House of Lords, lobbied UK government ministers on behalf of US defence firm Teledyne, after Palestine Action activists protested — and caused over £1‚ÄØmillion in damage — at Teledyne's Welsh […] | By
(2025-08-05). As Columbia capitulates to Trump over Palestine protest, student activists are regrouping. mondoweiss.net 
Columbia University's recent suspension and expulsion of more than 70 students for a Palestine demonstration is the latest sign the school's crackdown on activism is not simply about campus conduct, but appeasing political pressure from Washington.
(2025-08-05). Yvette Cooper just doubled down on her Palestine Action lies as mass protest set to go ahead. thecanary.co Defend Our Juries has confirmed that 500+ people have committed to holding 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action' signs on Saturday 9 August in central London, as part of the Lift the Ban campaign to end the proscription of Palestine Action. The news comes as Yvette Cooper went in the corporate media to repeat […] | By
(2025-08-05). August 9, 2025: WORLDWIDE DAY OF ACTION FOR OCCUPIED PALESTINE! wibailoutpeople.org 
Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- ÿ≠ÿ±ŸÉÿ© ÿߟÑÿ¥ÿ®ÿßÿ® ÿߟџşÑÿ≥ÿ∑ŸäŸÜŸä GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION: Activists across the world are calling for a Global Day of Action on Saturday, August 9th. Join us in taking to the streets and demanding an end to the brutal US-backed Israeli siege and genocide in Gaza. We call on all people of conscience …
(2025-08-05). Communist youth report to international conference in Cyprus. cpusa.org 
Report given by Sharmain Siddiqui and Naomi Martinez on behalf of the Young Communist League USA at the occasion of the United Democratic Youth Organization (EDON) international conference. The YCL USA, along with youth from Cyprus, Greece, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Portugal, France, Germany, and Russia gave reports to the Central Committee of EDON. | Sharmain Siddiqui: I am a member of the Chicago Club of the Communist Party USA. I am a Pakistani-American Muslim and a proud daughter of immigrants. My father has been a taxi cab driver in America for 30 years, and I have grown up arou…
(2025-08-05). Houthis launch hypersonic missile targeting Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- The Yemeni Armed Forces, led by Ansar Allah (Houthis), announced the launch of a hypersonic ballistic missile named Palestine-2, targeting Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. In a televised statement on Monday, Houthi military spokesperson General Yahya Saree confirmed the strike, claiming it caused widespread panic, forcing millions of Israeli settlers into shelters and disrupting air traffic.ÿ®ŸäÿßŸÜ ÿߟџǟàÿßÿ™ ÿߟџÖÿ≥ŸÑÿ≠ÿ©…
(2025-08-05). "A united call to end genocide" : 300,000 march for Gaza in Sydney, Australia. peoplesdispatch.org 
After police attempted to stop their mobilization, hundreds of thousands of Australians marched across Sydney's Harbour Bridge demanding a ceasefire and for Australia to take concrete action against Israel.
(2025-08-05). Complicity in the genocide in Palestine — the day of reckoning will come! sonar21.com Western politicians, propagandists, media lackeys, and others are also complicit in the genocide in Palestine.
(2025-08-05). Reclaiming heritage through Zero Waste Palestine. newarab.com 
When At the time, it was simply a personal space for Najla to process her growing frustration over the environmental and waste crisis she witnessed upon returning to Jerusalem from Sweden. | It was during her time at university that she developed an interest in sustainable development and ecological awareness. | "When I was younger, I became used to the visual aspects of the waste crisis," Najla tells The New Arab. "Piles of trash, plastic b…
(2025-08-05). Friday 8/8: Webinar: Palestine Solidarity Announcements. indybay.org
(2025-08-05). Saturday 8/23: Seeds of Resistance: A Fundraiser to Feed Gaza. indybay.org Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (1924 Cedar St, Berkeley CA 94709)…
(2025-08-05). Australia's FM warns of 'risk there will be no Palestine left to recognise'. aljazeera.com Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Australian recognition of Palestinian statehood 'a matter of when, not if'.
(2025-08-05). UK's Royal Opera pulls production in Israel over Gaza genocide. newarab.com 
The Almost 200 staff members had signed a petition calling on the organisation to cancel current and future productions, and boycott institutions that support a state "engaged in the mass killing of civilians" in The decision to pull the production was first reported by the campaign group Artists for Palestine UK, which sa…
(2025-08-05). 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.
(2025-08-05). Israel kills an average 28 Palestinian children daily in Gaza. aljazeera.com Israel has killed more than 18,000 children since the start of its genocidal war on Gaza.
(2025-08-05). With Gaza starving and in ruins, Israel seeks total conquest. newarab.com 
The world is watching as Gaza starves, with famine taking the lives of Palestinians, including children, on a daily basis in the coastal enclave, as Israel continues to Nearly 22 months after the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, the group still holds 20 living Israeli captives and…
(2025-08-05). Hamas to Witkoff: "We will not disarm unless an independent Palestinian state is established" peoplesdispatch.org The Trump administration has intensified its pressure on the resistance movement to lay down arms to reach a Gaza ceasefire deal, while supporting Israel's plans to continue with its 22-month genocide.
(2025-08-05). Australian workers and youth condemn US-Israeli ongoing genocide in Gaza. wsws.org "Our right to protest is fundamental and they'll gradually whittle it away until there's nothing left, and we'll have an authoritarian government. I really believe that."
(2025-08-05). Israel lobby chief admits Gaza assault meets genocide definition. newarab.com 
(2025-08-05). When is Genocide in Gaza not genocide? indybay.org GENOCIDE, PROPAGANDA AND MANUFACTURING CONSENT FOR BARBARSIM…
(2025-08-05). At Hague Group Emergency Summit, 30+ Nations Seek to 'Halt the Genocide in Gaza'. cadtm.org
(2025-08-05). Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC president calls for urgent collective action by states to end abhorrent suffering in Gaza. icrc.org The following is a statement attributable to ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric on the humanitarian situation in Gaza…
(2025-08-05). 1,500 Killed While Seeking Aid in Gaza Since May: UN. scheerpost.com
(2025-08-05). Video: Food aid dropped into Gaza contaminated with mould. aljazeera.com Palestinians collecting food aid parachuted into Gaza report some of the packages are covered in black mould.
(2025-08-05). Retired Security Officials Warn Israel On 'Precipice Of Defeat'. popularresistance.org Over a dozen former Israeli security officials issued a joint video statement on 3 August demanding an end to the war in Gaza and warning that Tel Aviv is on the brink of "defeat." Former officials have also demanded that US President Donald Trump pressure Israel to end the genocidal campaign which has raged since October 2023 — in a separate letter accompanying the video and signed by 550 former security officials. | The video statement was made by 19 retired army chiefs, intelligence heads, Shin Bet and Mossad directors, and police commissioners.
(2025-08-05). U.S.-Backed Occupation: Can the World Stop Israel's Gaza Grab? thinktank.pk The Middle East stands on the brink of a seismic shift as reports confirm Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to pursue a full occupation of the Gaza Strip. This bold move, backed by Israeli media outlets like i24NEWS, The Jerusalem Post, and Channel 12, signals an escalation in the nearly two-year conflict with Hamas, …
(2025-08-05). Gaza's Starvation, Israeli Lies and the Tail that Wags the Dog. counterpunch.org 
(2025-08-05). Reports: Netanyahu Orders Israeli Army To Conquer All Of Gaza. progressivehub.net QASSAM MUADDI | MONDOWEISS…
(2025-08-05). New Peace Plan increases Pressure on Israel and US as Momentum grows for Palestinian Statehood. juancole.com By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin (The Conversation) — A new vision for Middle East peace emerged this week which proposes the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza and the West Bank, the disarming and disbanding of Hamas and the creation of a unified Palestinian state. The plan emerged from a "high-level conference" in New York …
(2025-08-05). German hesitation could encourage Israeli atrocities: academics. newarab.com 
More than 100 Israeli academics have warned in a letter that a failure by Germany to put pressure on Israel could lead to new atrocities in Gaza. | "Further hesitation on Germany's part threatens to enable new atrocities – and undermines the lessons learnt from its own history," the academics wrote in the letter, addressed to senior Social Democrat (SPD) lawmakers Rolf Muetzenich and Adis Ahmetovic and seen by Reuters on Tuesday. | On July 22, the two men, whose party is in the ruling coalition, had called for Germany to join an international coalition pushing for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, sanctions…
(2025-08-05). Solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla and people of Gaza! cpusa.org 
Since 2007, the people of Gaza have lived in what can only be described as an open-air prison, surrounded and blockaded on all sides by the Israeli regime. For nearly two years, the government of Israel has used this blockade to systematically starve Gaza's population. As former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated on October 9th, 2023: "There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything is closed." | Today, according to the United Nations and international humanitarian experts, Gaza is entering the most extreme phase of famine. Its people face irreversible harm and a rising death tol…
(2025-08-05). Israel's Netanyahu has decided on full occupation of Gaza, reports say. aljazeera.com Netanyahu's war cabinet set to approve military operations across entire enclave, according to Israeli media.
(2025-08-05). ICRC mourns colleague killed in Gaza. icrc.org
(2025-08-05). Israel has mastered the playbook of famine denial in Gaza. newarab.com 
(2025-08-05). Celebrating Nicaragua's Gains And Feeling Anguish For Gaza. popularresistance.org The image is forever seared in my mind: Francisco was two years old, his thin legs and swollen feet were covered in sores. Straw blond hair stuck to his head as he listlessly nursed from his teenage mother's breast. He weighed 13 Ω pounds. | It was the summer of 1999, and I was weighing babies in Nueva Vida. I'd come to Nicaragua in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch to help in any way I could through the Jubilee House Community and its project in Nicaragua, the Center for Development in Central America (JHC-CDCA). | With its main office located just a mile down the road from the largest Hurricane Mitch reset…
(2025-08-05). Tuesday 8/5: Webinar: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Aid as a Weapon. indybay.org Online | www.crowdcast.io/c/gaza-aid-weapon-ghf…
(2025-08-05). German club backs out of signing Israel striker after backlash. newarab.com 
Bundesliga 2 side Fortuna Duesseldorf has pulled out of signing Israel striker Shon Weissman in response to fan anger about his social media posts on the Gaza war, German tabloid Bild reported Tuesday. | Fan furore erupted online on Monday when news emerged Weissman was on the cusp of joining Duesseldorf from Spanish side Granada FC. | On Tuesday, the club tweeted: "We looked into Shon Weissman intensively, but ultimately decided not to sign him". | The club did not reveal the reasons for the decision, but Bild reported the club reacted to fan anger about social media statements from Weissman, who was already…
(2025-08-05). Israel's "final decision" for conquest and occupation of Gaza. wsws.org Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that Israel had made the "final decision" to carry out the full conquest and annexation of the Gaza Strip, beginning with a murderous barrage of artillery and air strikes across the Palestinian enclave.
(2025-08-05). As Gaza Starved, NPR Coverage Grew but Didn't Get Any Better. scheerpost.com
(2025-08-05). It's Not Okay to be a Grown Adult in August 2025 and Still Believe Lies About Gaza. caitlinjohnst.one
(2025-08-05). Thursday 8/7: Power Half Hour for Gaza. indybay.org
(2025-08-05). Israeli ex-security chiefs urge Trump to help end Gaza war. dawn.com • Say conflict is leading Israel to 'lose its security, identity'
| • Aid seekers among 19 more killed over 24 hours | JERUSALEM: More than 600 retired Israeli security officials have urged US President Donald Trump to pressure their own government to end the war in Gaza. | "It is our professional judgement that Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel," the former officials wrote in an open letter shared with the media on Monday, calling on Trump to "steer" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decisions. | "At first this war was a just war, a defensive war, but…
(2025-08-05). EXCLUSIVE: Egypt warns US, Israel against 'full Gaza occupation'. newarab.com 
(2025-08-05). Israel and the Occupied Territories: ICRC appalled by harrowing videos of Israeli hostages in Gaza. icrc.org
(2025-08-05). Community on hunger strike over the murder of Awdah Hathaleen by far-right Zionist. thecanary.co 
More than 60 women have been on hunger strike since last Thursday in the occupied West Bank village of Umm Al-Kheir, Masafer Yatta, to demand the body of community leader Awdah Muhammad Khalil Al-Hathaleen is returned: "You said you'd be back soon. But you never came back" Just 6 hours ago we were together. Now […] | By
(2025-08-05). Israel's annexation of the West Bank is almost complete. wsws.org None of this could have gone ahead without the complicity of Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority.
(2025-08-05). Israeli settler seen shooting OWB activist freed from house arrest. aljazeera.com Israeli settler Yinon Levi, who shot and killed Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in the occupied West Bank,…
(2025-08-05). Chris Hedges Report: This Is Not A Drill. popularresistance.org Fame and fortune are often corrupting forces, ones that beget power and comfort. To stand with the afflicted requires sacrificing this privilege and few embody that sacrifice more profoundly than the legendary musician of Pink Floyd Roger Waters. | For years, through his music and political action, Waters has amplified the voices of the oppressed. | He has championed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, defended attorney Steven Donziger, demanded the closure of Guantánamo Bay, has long stood against the apartheid state of Israel and now unwaveringly against the genocide of Palestinians.
(2025-08-05). Dynamics of Israel's Northern Cyprus Threat. Ret. Adm. Cem Gurdeniz. globalresearch.ca On July 30, 2025, the ƒ∞sraeli Hayom newspaper, which is a right-wing nationalist newspaper known for its closeness to Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel, published an article by Israel Aerospace Industries Vice President for Foreign Relations and Analyst Shay …
(2025-08-05). Hezbollah threatens missile attacks on Israel if war resumes. newarab.com 
In a defiant address on Tuesday, Speaking in a televised address, Qassem warned that no timeline for disarmament proposed under Israeli pressure would be accepted and insisted that
(2025-08-05). Israeli strikes kill one, injure four in southern Lebanon amid ceasefire violations. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- One person was killed and four others injured on Monday following an Israeli air raid on the town of Khiyam in Lebanon's Marjayoun district, in yet another violation of the fragile ceasefire agreement that has been in place since late 2024.According to a statement by Lebanon's Public Health Emergency Operations Center, "the Israeli enemy's raid on Khiyam led to the death of a wounded man due to the severity of his injuries," while four others sustained various degrees of wounds.ÿ≥ŸÇŸàÿ∑ 'ÿØÿ±ŸàŸÜ' ÿ•ÿ&g…
(2025-08-05). Norway PM wants oil fund to review stake in Israeli company. newarab.com 
Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said Tuesday he had asked the country's finance minister to look into the Norway's sovereign wealth fund, also known as the oil fund as it is fuelled by vast revenue from the country's oil and gas exports, is the biggest in the world and with a value of some $1.9 trillion, with investments spanning the globe. | On Monday, Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten repor…
(2025-08-05). Palestinian Peace Activist Killed by Israeli Settler After Being Deported by Trump. indybay.org Awda Hathaleen was described as "a teacher and an activist who struggled courageously for his people."
(2025-08-05). L'assedio israeliano di Gerusalemme. strategic-culture.su
(2025-08-05). Israel Launches Ground Raids In Southwest Syria. popularresistance.org Israeli ground troops have carried out multiple ground raids across southwestern Syria over the weekend, including overnight raids in the Quneitra Governorate overnight Saturday, which led to the capture of multiple "suspects" who have not been conclusively identified and appear to simply be local Syrians. | On Friday, Israeli troops attacked farmers near Jubata al-Khashab, first opening fire on them while they were actively farming their own land then confiscating a tractor in the area because the tractor was trying to haul away trees within the area which Israeli military bulldozers had recently knocked down. T…
(2025-08-05). Hamas-run Health Ministry reports 94 deaths in 24 hours amid worsening crisis. haaretz.com Hunger-related deaths rise as aid shortages persist, with 29 killed seeking aid. A senior doctor warns, 'basic food has disappeared, access to clean water is extremely limited.' Local officials call for urgent international intervention as famine deepens and emergency services falter…
(2025-08-05). Defying Israeli army opposition, Netanyahu pushes to escalate an unwinnable war in Gaza. haaretz.com The prime minister announced an expansion of the fighting in the Gaza Strip, despite opposition from the IDF General Staff, growing fatigue among soldiers, and a lack of public legitimacy. Those close to him have adopted an increasingly wild tone and are now even goading the IDF chief…
(2025-08-05). Handcuffed Gaza prisoner 'falls to death' in Israeli detention. newarab.com 
An unnamed According to Haaretz, which reported the incident on Tuesday, the death occurred in January 2024, but the man's identity has been withheld. Israeli sources claim he "fell while attempting to escape" during interrogation. The Shin Bet has refused to…
(2025-08-05). Israel to allow Gaza merchants to bring aid into Strip for first time since fighting resumed in March. haaretz.com
(2025-08-05). Israel puts down over 250 crocodiles at abandoned West Bank farm, tell owner. haaretz.com The farm, which had been operational for over two decades, closed to visitors during the Second Intifada, which ended in 2005, after a sharp decline in tourism. According to the owner of the farm, the IDF buried the crocodiles in an undisclosed location without notifying him…
(2025-08-05). 2025 military exports to Israel already outstrip record-setting 2024. haaretz.com Serbia exported more ammunition to Israel in the first half of 2025 than the whole of 2024. During Netanyahu ally's investigation in Belgrade this month, a gag order was imposed regarding Serbian aid to Israel…