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SvennoJ on 24 August 2025
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Main events on August 24th

  • The Israeli army killed dozens more Palestinians, at least 51, in strikes across Gaza as it continued to destroy large parts of the Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods of Gaza City and Jabalia to the north.
  • Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said that famine is the “last calamity” hitting Gaza, calling it “hell in all shapes”.
  • The Houthis said that at least four people were killed and 67 others were wounded by Israel’s attacks on Yemen’s Sanaa, which hit the presidential palace and energy facilities.
  • Iran and Hamas condemned the Israeli attacks on Yemen, as Arab and Islamic states gathered in Jeddah for an emergency meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Gaza.
  • Israeli soldiers arrested 14 Palestinians in the village of al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah, amid ongoing military raids and violent settler attacks in Nablus and Hebron.
  • Demonstrators marched for an end to the war on Gaza during rallies in European cities, including Brussels, Copenhagen and Malmo.

 


Gantz fires back after Israel’s far right rejects his bid to rejoin government

The Blue and White–National Unity alliance leader, Benny Gantz, has written a post on X, addressed to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, after the far right strongly opposed his offer to rejoin Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to reach a deal to bring back captives from Gaza.

“It’s time to admit the truth – you have failed in the mission to destroy Hamas,” Gantz wrote. “Your conception has failed again, and extremism has met reality.”

He said it is time for the government to “sober up and act to return the hostages”, while recruiting everyone into the military, including ultra-Orthodox Jews, backed by the far-right, who have been exempt from service.

This comes shortly after the Prime Minister’s Office assured Netanyahu’s coalition partners that he has no intention of breaking up their alliance to partner with Gantz.

Gadi Eisenkot, who was a former political partner of Gantz in the Netanyahu alliance before both left and fell out with each other, also rejected the notion of a national unity government, saying that Netanyahu must “make a tough but necessary decision” to reach an agreement on Gaza.


Israel Tries to Whitewash Gaza With Influencers — And It Backfires Fast

Israel flew in Instagram influencers to deny Gaza’s famine — but the stunt has backfired spectacularly!

For decades Israel’s Hasbara — the state-backed propaganda and public diplomacy strategy — operated as one of the most successful narrative control systems in modern geopolitics. In the dominant Western press, Israel was consistently framed as a beleaguered democracy defending itself, while Palestinians were portrayed as terrorists or aggressors.

This imbalance was not accidental. It was the result of carefully coordinated government messaging, lobbying networks, and media gatekeeping that limited the voices Palestinians could bring to global audiences. Hasbara thrived on a monopoly over framing: access to journalists was restricted, dissenting views were penalised, and accusations of antisemitism were deployed to silence critics of Israeli policy.

That monopoly is now of course in utter tatters. Since October 2023, when Israel launched its genocide on Gaza, the entire apparatus of Hasbara has faltered. What has changed is not Israel’s propaganda capacity but the communicative environment in which it operates.