mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06The UN report, entitled "Anatomy of a Genocide", says Israel has violated three of the five acts listed in the UN Genocide Convention.
Israel is on the UN's “black list” of countries and organizations that harm children. On the so-called “list of shame”, Israel is listed alongside “terrorist groups” such as Daesh/ISIS, al-Qaida and Boko Haram.
The UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories “as rapidly as possible”.
Pro-Palestinian protesters marched through the French capital Paris on Saturday, carrying olive branches and kites in support of Palestine, Anadolu reports.
The demonstrators gathered near the historic Bastille Square before marching through central Paris toward the direction of the Fontaine des Innocents despite rainy weather.
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Jewish Writer and Palestine solidarity campaigner Tony Greenstein, who was recently charged with terrorism in the UK over a tweet, gives a detailed comparison of modern day Israel to Nazi Germany.
Tony Greenstein is a British left-wing activist, writer, and founding member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyeaSr5xUv8
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The “civil war” currently playing out in the Democratic Party is usually thought of as a battle between socialists and progressives on the one hand, and centrists on the other. Which it is. But it’s also a battle between the Democratic establishment and its own voters.
If you need proof, look at party leadership’s plans to install Jared Moskowitz and several other right-wing Democrats.
https://jacobin.com/2026/08/moskowitz-democratic-establishment-israel-iran
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After visiting the West Bank, the group of public figures known as "The Elders” has concluded that Israel “aims to make Palestine disappear physically, economically, culturally and politically”.
Mary Robinson, former president of the Republic of Ireland and one of the leading members of The Elders, tells host Steve Clemons that the delegation was “shocked” at how the situation has deteriorated since 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDeHpfs4a0w
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Following the US preemptive strike on Iran's Larak Island and Iran's missile retaliation against US bases in Jordan, Sina Azodi, director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Washington University, told Al Jazeera that it is "really up to the American side" whether the conflict escalates further.
He warned that if the US responds, Iran will be "left with no choice" but to respond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFwL0QBJh78
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Protesters gathered in Stockholm on Saturday, to denounce Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, despite a ceasefire in Gaza, Anadolu reports.
Demonstrators gathered at Odenplan Square following a call by several civil society groups, carrying banners calling for an end to attacks, food shortages and the killing of civilians.
The death toll from Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,449.
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South Africa submitted a detailed dossier to the ICJ on 25 August, formally accusing Israel of defying legally binding provisional measures requiring it to prevent genocide and safeguard essential aid in Gaza.
“The Court's orders are binding on Israel, and the international community also has an obligation to protect the Palestinian people from genocide, including to take all necessary action,” South Africa's Foreign Ministry said.
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An Israeli rabbi has called for Palestinians to be expelled from the occupied West Bank, claiming that non-Jews have no national rights in what he described as the “land of Israel.”
In footage published Sunday by Al Jazeera English, Menachem Ben Shahar is heard telling a group that Arabs who refuse to accept Jewish sovereignty should leave the territory.
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JOHN Swinney has been urged to include plans to fully implement boycott and sanctions against Israel.
The First Minister will announce his plans for the coming year on Tuesday as Holyrood returns after summer recess.
The Scottish Greens are calling for all contracts with companies identified by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as complicit in Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank to be ended.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26507661.john-swinney-urged-fully-implement-sanctions-israel/
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The UK Foreign Office says it has raised the detention of a British national in the occupied West Bank with Israeli authorities.
Finn Joughin, a 22-year-old activist, was arrested in Umm Al-Kheir on Saturday after he was forcibly detained by Israeli settlers who had advanced on the Palestinian village.
There has been a surge in attacks by settlers on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank since the start of the war.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3d7xgge7vgo
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A memorial display in Berlin has recreated the scene of the killing of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab by Israeli forces in Gaza. Activists displayed a vehicle representing the Rajab family car, which was found with 335 bullet holes.
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United States President Donald Trump has said Washington is relying on economic pressure rather than new military strikes to push Iran towards making a deal.
“We are low-keying it,” Trump said in an Axios interview on Sunday, pointing to a more cautious approach after months of conflict and adding that Washington is “only semi-negotiating” with Tehran while monitoring the toll the war has taken on Iran’s economy.
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Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied West Bank said occupiers in army-affiliated regional defense units increasingly act as an “independent force” and exert control on the ground, while senior military commanders seek to appease them, the daily Haaretz said Sunday.
Since October 2023, the Israeli army has increasingly relied on reserve units composed of local occupiers to protect illegal settlements and their surroundings.
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Israel’s military on Sunday closed the West Bank village of Taybeh to non-residents, saying it aimed to prevent growing attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers across the West Bank.
The order, the military said, only applies to Israelis and not to Palestinians. A spokesperson said turning Taybeh into a closed military zone was “due to some violent attacks by Israelis in the region.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2654046/middle-east
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated an alleged quote attributed to a senior Iranian commander about Tehran's determination to develop nuclear weapons, even though the statement had no identified primary source and was later traced to an Indian pro-Israel account on X.
An investigation [..] found that Netanyahu used the alleged quote, in an official address to warn Israelis about Iran's nuclear plans.
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The Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced on 9 August a series of new military operations targeting Saudi Arabia and its assets in response to Riyadh’s continued escalation and mobilization of its proxies and troops against the Yemeni resistance.
The operations included an attack targeting “Saudi enemy force concentrations” and weapons sites in Al-Mokha, southwestern Yemen, according to a YAF statement.
https://thecradle.co/articles/new-yemeni-operations-target-saudi-forces-key-aramco-site
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ISRAELI settlements are becoming an “existential threat” to Palestinians, according to a charity worker based in the West Bank.
Aseel Baidoun told The National that state-backed violence is now combined with the strangulation of the Palestinian healthcare system and “dismantling the system that keeps us alive”.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26448962.medical-aid-palestinians-warns-existential-threat-israel/
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Israel has confirmed, nearly two years after the fact, that a Palestinian detainee from Gaza died in detention, according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.
The Israeli Prison Service informed the commission on Sunday that Ihab Mohammed Abdel Qader Diab, 36, had died while detained. Palestinian officials say the case fits a broader pattern of Israel concealing the fate of detainees.
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Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said on 9 July that there are no current talks with Washington, and that Tehran “sees no possibility” of resuming negotiations if the US continues violating the Islamabad agreement – coming after new conditions declared by the Islamic Republic.
“Intermediaries are still making efforts to find ways to resume negotiations,” Araghchi told reporters in Tehran on Sunday.
https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-says-no-talks-with-us-sets-new-conditions-for-reopening-hormuz
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US Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said Sunday that President Donald Trump has “lost this war” with Iran, arguing that continued fighting is weakening the US while strengthening Tehran.
“America is weaker. Iran is stronger,” Murphy told NBC, saying he would support even a “bad deal” to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
He said the cost of reopening the strategic waterway was rising as negotiations remained stalled.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-senator-says-trump-has-lost-iran-war/4022698
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A former head of Israel’s National Security Council has called for Gaza to remain devastated for decades.
Retired Major General Giora Eiland told Israel’s 103FM radio station on Sunday that rebuilding Gaza would run against Israeli interests.
“Israel has no interest in Gaza being rebuilt, it is better for us that it be destroyed for generations to come,” Eiland said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-general-says-gaza-should-remain-destroyed-generations
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A Brussels-based advocacy group has filed a criminal complaint with Vietnamese authorities against Israeli reservist Matan Jerafi, accusing him of war crimes, genocide and incitement to genocide during Israel’s wars in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon.
The Hind Rajab Foundation said in a statement that Jerafi is the CEO of the Israeli organization Im Tirtzu and served with the 920th Infantry Battalion of the 769th Brigade.
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Throughout history, almost every national liberation struggle has been labelled “terrorism” by the powers exercising colonial rule or foreign occupation. This strategy is nothing new.
History, however, vindicated these movements and condemned the colonial regimes that sought to perpetuate their domination.
This pattern reveals a constant: those who occupy a territory seek to strip the occupied people of any legitimacy to resist.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260808-when-the-coloniser-calls-resistance-terrorism/
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Tehran has transferred $7.5 billion in oil revenues to its central bank since March, despite Washington’s blockade, sanctions, and the deadly US-Israeli war that killed thousands, Iranian media reported on 29 August.
Iran’s Fars News Agency said the funds are sufficient to cover the government’s foreign-currency expenditures from July through December.
The report cites information from the Iranian Oil Ministry.
https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-oil-revenues-surpass-7bn-despite-us-war-siege
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On Tuesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent drew back the curtain on what President Donald Trump called his “Economic D-Day” plan to strangle Iran’s economy instead of using warfare to destroy the state.
It’s very easy to dismiss this plan as another Trump public relations ploy, an effort to convince his dwindling MAGA base that the United States is not suffering a humiliating defeat in the Persian Gulf.
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Murtaza Hussain, covering national security and global affairs at Drop Site News, joins to discuss his piece: “For Your Eyes Only: Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations”
On Feb. 20, 2015, an official of the United Nations Population Fund sent two Israeli diplomats an email containing a confidential report about a trip two weeks earlier to Washington, D.C. by Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, then the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvf46DoNIQ
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The UK Charity Commission has launched a major inquiry into eight British charities that have sent donations to illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank.
The commission will examine whether the charities are using the funds for “legitimate charitable purposes” after receiving “serious allegations” about multiple charities.
The specific charities have not been named.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/08/08/israeli-settlements-charity/
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US Democrats on Friday slammed the Trump administration for dragging out the war on Iran to its six month anniversary, warning Republicans would pay the price in the upcoming midterm elections.
The joint US-Israeli attack on Iran, beginning on 28 February, was initially meant to last a few weeks, by President Donald Trump's own estimates.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/no-end-sight-democrats-slam-trump-iran-war-marks-six-months
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Journalist and congressional candidate Sam Husseini explains how JFK pressured Israel over its secret nuclear program and why the US government still refuses to acknowledge Israel’s arsenal while threatening war over Iran’s.
Sam Husseini is an independent journalist currently writing at husseini.substack.com. Husseini has also written for a variety of publications, including CounterPunch, The Nation, The Washington Post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7iUYFt0wQ
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By Sami Mshasha - I was born and raised in Jerusalem, and I still live here. Growing up, I do not remember my generation or my father’s sorting friends and neighbors by religion. I never thought of Issam, my friend, as “the Christian,” or Nizar, my next-door neighbor, as “the Muslim.”
At some point, however, a strange new phrase entered our vocabulary: “our Christian brothers, our partners in the homeland.”
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/08/palestinian-christians-are-disappearing-warnings-are-not-enough/
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The Israeli commander who ordered the 2024 drone strikes that killed seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers in the Gaza Strip has defended his decision, saying he does not regret authorizing the attack.
“I’m not sorry for what I did,” Col. Nochi Mendel, who was dismissed as chief of staff of the Israeli army’s Nahal Brigade after the attack, told Australia’s public broadcaster ABC News.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected the 15-point plan for Gaza promoted by US President Donald Trump and stressed that the Israeli military would not withdraw from the Palestinian territory until Hamas is "genuinely" disarmed.
In Iran, the Revolutionary Guards said the Strait of Hormuz would not be reopened until the US accepts Tehran's conditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iei5xtU6JvA
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A supertanker caught fire and was brought to a complete halt after being struck by two naval mines in the southern Strait of Hormuz, Iran state TV reported on Monday, citing a statement by the Revolutionary Guards.
The Guards said the tanker had been attempting to pass through the waterway illegally. It did not identify the vessel or provide information about its crew.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2656391/middle-east
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Masked Israeli occupiers attacked and injured a Palestinian woman and three members of an NBC News team in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the US broadcaster reported, Anadolu reports.
The journalists were interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah, 51, and her family in the Palestinian town of Jalud, near Nablus, when the attack occurred.
Abdullah told the team that Israeli occupiers had forced her family from their home.
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Footage shows Israeli military vehicles and personnel deployed across Nablus city in the occupied West Bank. Two Palestinians are reported to have been killed and one detained, according to Israeli media.
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Iran and the US have traded strikes after American forces attacked two rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
The first known US strikes on Iran since late July killed two people and injured two others, according to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which vowed "response and punishment".
US Central Command (Centcom) said its had taken "limited, precise action" against "minelaying forces".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2z72x5z1po
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the peace plan for Gaza announced last month by the US President’s Board of Peace.
He says an Israeli pull-out will not happen until Hamas is fully disarmed.
In an interview with Al Jazeera Phyllis Bennis, a Middle East specialist and fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, said Netanyahu’s rejection is “not surprising” and that US pressure has been only “in the arena of words”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sNXWKGi1xw
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected US President Donald Trump's 15-point plan for Gaza, stating that no military pull-out will happen until Hamas is "genuinely" disarmed.
Trump's Board of Peace said last month it had reached an agreement for the "complete disarmament" of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yw4lpe0yeo
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Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Sunday that he is “pleased” with the harsh treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, adding that he is directly responsible for the prison conditions, Anadolu reports.
His remarks came in a video released on the US social media company X during which he was talking to Palestinian female prisoners.
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Iran’s national security chief has outlined a list of demands for the US to meet before Tehran reopens the Strait of Hormuz.
They include lifting the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, compensation for war damages and the release of frozen Iranian assets. Separately, Iran and Oman say they are close to reaching a deal on managing the strategic waterway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5meqOCpGYOs
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