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SvennoJ on 26 September 2025
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Main events on September 26th

  • At least 60 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since morning, including 30 people killed in Gaza City alone.
  • A 17-year-old boy has died from starvation as a result of Israeli policies in Gaza, and a lack of available treatment at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, a medical source told Al Jazeera.
  • Medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) said Friday it had been forced to suspend its work in Gaza City because of the ongoing Israeli offensive there.
  • Dozens of members walked out as Israel’s increasingly isolated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly, promising to continue the war on Gaza.
  • But US President Donald Trump said he was close to forging a deal to end the war in Gaza and bring the captives home, without revealing any details or timetable.
  • Gaza’s Government Media Office said more than 250 journalists have been killed, dozens wounded, and media infrastructure systematically destroyed during the now almost two-year war.

Netanyahu’s UN speech backfires; Caribbean, European nations slam Israel on Gaza


Leaders from Ireland, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Malta and Barbados (PM Mia Mottley) didn’t mince words as they spoke passionately about the plight of Palestinian victims of Israeli war in Gaza. They came to speak after Benjamin Netanyahu but they chose to target Israel with their harshest criticism on the conduct of the IDF in Gaza and the West Bank. Earlier, the Slovenian president has used the UN platform to launch an extraordinary attack on Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump.

Netanyahu's UN Speech Derailed




“Most Israelis want to see Gaza ethnically cleansed” Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov


The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry recently declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in a new report. With more than 60,000 Palestinians killed, calls for accountability and an end to the assault are mounting.

But how is the determination of genocide made? And within Israel itself, how is Netanyahu’s assault on Gaza seen?

This week on an Upfront special Marc Lamont Hill speaks with genocide scholar and professor at Brown University, Omer Bartov.