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SvennoJ on 16 September 2025
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Main events on September 15th 

  • Leaders from across the Arab and Islamic world condemned in the strongest possible terms the attack carried out by Israel in Doha and reaffirmed their condemnation of Israeli practices in Gaza at an emergency summit of Arab and Islamic countries in Qatar.
  • The Israeli army launched a massive wave of strikes on Gaza City this evening, as hundreds of thousands of residents continue to flee the city.
  • The Lebanese Health Ministry said at least 12 people, including four children, were wounded in an Israeli air strike on the Ksar Zaatar neighbourhood in Nabatieh, a city in the south of the country.
  • The Israeli prime minister’s office reiterated in an X post that Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders in Doha was a “wholly independent” Israeli operation.
  • The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that yesterday, “out of 17 missions that humanitarian teams coordinated with the Israeli authorities, only four were facilitated”.
  • Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, the secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, says he expects the US to exert its leverage to restrain Israel’s actions in the region.

US deserts Qatar as Netanyahu justifies attack on sovereignty; Rubio loses voice


US Secretary of State Marco Rubio refused to give assurance to reporters that Benjamin Netanyahu-led government wouldn’t be allowed to attack the sovereign nation of Qatar again. While Netanyahu used the opportunity to brag about his decision to attack Hamas leadership in Doha as he vowed to repeat his act again. This came in sharp contradiction with Donald Trump’s public statement assuring Qatar that Israel wouldn’t be allowed to attack its soil again. If anything, Marco Rubio’s inability to repeat Trump’s assurance in front of Netanyahu came as the final blow to the US-Qatar ties.


Gaza Doctor Pleads with World to Stop Israel's Genocide


As Israel continues its campaign to erase Gaza City by systematically bombing residential buildings, schools, homes and tent encampments, we speak with Dr. Mohammed Saqr, the director of nursing at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the south of Gaza. He says medical workers, who are starving like the rest of the population, have nothing left to give amid hundreds of deaths and injuries each day.