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SvennoJ on 26 August 2025
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Main events on August 26th

  • Israel has carried out intensified attacks across Gaza, including a strike on a popular market east of Gaza City, killing at least five Palestinians and injuring many others.
  • Videos verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency show Palestinians fleeing the as-Saftawi area north of Gaza City as Israel pushes ahead with its plans to seize the city.
  • The Palestinian Authority has condemned what it calls a “dangerous escalation” by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank after a raid in Ramallah injured dozens of Palestinians.
  • Several Palestinians and international activists have been wounded after a group of Israeli settlers attacked residents in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.
  • US special envoy Tom Barrack has triggered a storm of criticism after scolding reporters during a news conference in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, telling them to “act civilised” and saying their conduct reflected the regional turmoil.



Reuters journalist pens powerful words as she resigns protesting Gaza complicity


Canadian journalist working for Reuters has resigned to express her opposition to her employer’s role in enabling the atrocities committed against journalists in Gaza. Valerie Zink’s stunning resignation came just hours after six more journalists died in IDF strikes on a hospital in Gaza. Rifat Jawaid says Gaza journalists are the bravest in his fraternity as he highlights the role played by western media outlets.



United Nations Executive EXPOSES Genocidal Gaza Humanitarian Foundation




"Time to Cut Ties with Israel": U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing


Israel's war on Gaza is the deadliest conflict for journalists in recorded history. In an attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday, Israel killed five more journalists in addition to over a dozen others. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the hospital attack was a "tragic mishap," but just hours later, Israeli forces killed a sixth journalist. "There is a pattern of targeting and killing journalists that lets us think that there is an intention," says Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory.

As countries prepare for the U.N. General Assembly, Albanese notes the complicity of Western states in the genocide in Gaza, particularly the United States. "There has been a tolerance of Israel's impunity for decades," says Albanese. "However, the United States is the single most important factor of crisis in the United Nations."