Israel-Hamas war, Gaza genocide

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Main events on September 4th

• Israeli forces have carried out intensified attacks across Gaza, killing at least 75 Palestinians, including 44 people in Gaza City, and 14 aid seekers in central and southern Gaza.
• The attacks included strikes on Gaza City as the army expands its assault on residential homes and displacement camps, claiming it now controls 40 percent of the city.
• The director-general of Gaza’s Health Ministry has said at least 30 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza have been children, amounting to 28 children killed each day since October 2023.
• The Palestinian rights group Al-Haq has decried sanctions imposed by the US against it, as well as other Palestinian NGOs, for their involvement in the ICC’s attempts to investigate and arrest Israeli officials for war crimes.
• Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned that Palestinians face a “risk of ethnic cleansing” in the occupied West Bank as Israeli army and settler attacks continue to forcibly displace residents.
• The first day of a two-day “Gaza tribunal” event in London examining the United Kingdom’s role in Israel’s war on Gaza, hosted by former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, has wrapped up.
• The event concluded with Labour MP Richard Burgon saying he plans to introduce a “sanctions on Israel” bill in Parliament next week.

Houthis threat sends Netanyahu into hiding; minister invokes biblical plagues

The Houthis have vowed to avenge Israeli strikes that left almost the entire Yemeni cabinet members including the prime minister dead. Yemen’s Ansarallah fighters have since fired a series of ballistic and hypersonic missiles aimed at Israeli targets. The Houthis’ threat to avenge their PM’s death prompted Benjamin Netanyahu to hold his cabinet meeting into hiding as the security cordon around him was further beefed up. Rifat Jawaid looks at the tension between the Netanyahu regime and Ansarallah fighters amidst Israeli threats to repeat ten Biblical plagues in Yemen.

We gave evidence at Corbyn's historic Gaza tribunal

Declassified’s John McEvoy gave evidence at a historic tribunal to determine the extent of UK complicity in the Gaza genocide.

The initiative by British MP Jeremy Corbyn brings together expert witnesses, including surgeons that worked in Gaza, Palestinian journalists, lawyers, weapons experts and genocide scholars to understand how Keir Starmer’s government has supported Israel as it commits war crimes against the Palestinians.

One surgeon, Dr Nick Maynard, who had been in Gaza over the summer, told the tribunal how groups of teenage boys were coming into his surgery room with bullet holes in the same parts of their bodies. One day they had all been shot in the head or neck, the next day in the chest and, the following day, the bullet wounds were all in the testicles. Dr Maynard described it as clear evidence that Israeli soldiers were using the boys as target practice.

Declassified chief reporter John McEvoy told the tribunal how our work could implicate UK ministers in war crimes and crimes against humanity: how the UK continues to sell weapons and training equipment to the Israeli military, continues to train Israeli soldiers, continues to allow senior Israeli generals to visit with diplomatic immunity, and continues to conduct surveillance flights over Gaza for Israel. 

Israel Threatens Gaza Aid Flotilla | Greg Stoker

Greg Stoker, a US veteran and anti-imperialist activist currently participating in The Global Sumud Flotilla sailing with aid to Gaza, speaks to Emma Vigeland about his experiences on the flotilla, the challenges faced, and the heinous tactics employed by Israel to deter activists. The discussion highlights the parallels between Israeli military actions and US domestic policy, particularly concerning ICE, and explores the potential psychological toll on Israeli soldiers.