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SvennoJ on 27 August 2025
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Main events on August 27th

  • Israel’s attacks across Gaza have continued, killing 51 Palestinians since dawn on Wednesday, including 12 waiting for aid.
  • Ten more Palestinians have starved to death, including two children, days after famine was declared in Gaza.
  • A joint statement from 14 of the 15 members of the UN Security Council has called for Israel to stop further expansion of its military operation in Gaza and backed the IPC global hunger monitoring system that confirmed a famine in Gaza.
  • The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee says residents of Gaza City, which the Israeli military plans to seize, will inevitably be forced out.
  • Israeli forces are continuing a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, which has injured at least 80 Palestinians.
  • Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Trump Middle East envoy Jared Kushner have attended a meeting with US President Donald Trump over the war in Gaza, according to a senior White House official.
  • Israeli forces conducted a two-hour operation in a former army base in Kiswa, south of Syria’s capital Damascus, a day after an Israeli attack in the same area killed at least six soldiers.

Israeli forces conduct two hour operation on the ground in former Syrian army barracks

As we reported earlier, Israeli forces conducted a series of strikes on a former army barracks in Kiswa, southwest of Damascus, according to Syria’s state-run al-Ekhbariya TV.

A Syrian military source has now told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army carried out a landing operation, with the use of four helicopters, in the army barracks in Kiswa and spent more than two hours there.

According to the source, the Israeli army brought in dozens of soldiers and an unspecified amount of search equipment. No clashes took place between the Israeli forces involved in the landing and the Syrian army forces.



Starvation strategy: How Israel created famine in Gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/27/starvation-strategy-how-israel-created-famine-in-gaza

A new investigation (PDF) by research group Forensic Architecture (FA) has found that the Israeli military has pursued a deliberate strategy of starvation that has pushed Gaza towards famine.

The report details how Israel has weaponised aid, forcing Palestinians to travel long distances to reach military-run distribution centres in the south of the Strip, while opening fire on those same civilians as they seek aid.

Researchers documented attacks on civilians, the destruction of infrastructure such as food warehouses, and looting by Israeli-backed gangs.

Between March 18 and August 1, 2025, each incident was geolocated and verified using video and satellite imagery, creating a detailed picture of how aid is being manipulated to kill, rather than save, Palestinians.