SvennoJ on 02 September 2025
Main events on September 2nd
- Gaza’s Health Ministry said 13 people, including three children, died from starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of hunger-related deaths to 361, among them 130 children.
- At least 105 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 53 in Gaza City, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
- Gaza’s government reported that journalist Rasmi Salem was killed, bringing the total number of media workers killed since October 2023 to 248.
- Seven children were among 11 Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on the al-Mawasi area as they waited in line to collect water, Gaza’s civil defence and Nasser Hospital said.
- Palestinians continue to flee advancing Israeli forces in Gaza City, where about one million people had been sheltering, though no safe areas remain.
- French President Emmanuel Macron said Israel’s annexation attempts in the occupied West Bank will not halt momentum towards recognising a Palestinian state, with Belgium the latest to announce recognition in New York.
- A group of 365 Israeli reservists declared they will refuse to report for duty if called up to fight in Israel’s ground operations in Gaza City.
- In the UK, police arrested five “key spokespeople” for Defend Our Juries, a group campaigning for the government to revoke its terror designation of Palestine Action.
When the UK parliament resumed its session after the summer break on Monday (1 September), Foreign SecretaryDavid Lammy took the dispatch box to make a statement on the deteriorating situation in Gaza. But he didn’t have anything news to add except to sound like a broken record as he appeared to blame Hamas for the deaths of starving Palestinians seeking aid. A number of MPs cornered Lammy for his government’s failure to force Israel to stop its offensive in Gaza. Others demanded sanctioning of Benjamin Netanyahu.
