UN envoy Albanese calls for sanctions after journalists killed in Gaza attack

Francesca Albanese has posted on X after Israeli strikes killed four journalists and members of Gaza’s civil defence.

“Rescuers killed in line of duty. Scenes like this unfold every moment in Gaza, often unseen, largely undocumented. I beg states: how much more must be witnessed before you act to stop this carnage? Break the blockade. Impose an Arms Embargo. Impose Sanctions,” she wrote.

Her remarks came after she shared a video appearing to show a second Israeli air strike during a live broadcast on Al-Ghad TV – just minutes after the first strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

Gaza’s Government Media Office has now confirmed that four journalists were among those killed in the strike – Hussam al-Masri, Mohammad Salama, Mariam Abu Daqqa and Moaz Abu Taha.

Slain journalists recently reported on malnutrition, aid site killings

Let me remind you that these people are not only journalists, they’re fathers, mothers and human beings. I’ve been checking their Instagram pages to see the last things they reported on – malnutrition, Palestinians wounded while seeking aid near GHF sites.

They’ve covered a lot of stories. They’ve been active since day one. They’re all young, in their 20s or early 30s, running from one place to another, trying to cover as much as they can. Because Israeli authorities have not let any international journalists into Gaza, these journalists have been their eyes and ears, the source for millions of people following the news across the Strip.

And this is not what they deserve. They did not deserve to be killed in this violent way.

Reuters appeals for urgent medical assistance for wounded journalist

In a statement, a Reuters spokesperson has said the agency is “devastated to learn of the death of Reuters contractor Hussam al-Masri and injuries to another of our contractors, Hatem Khaled, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser hospital in Gaza today”.

The spokesperson said Reuters is “urgently seeking more information” about the attack and has “asked authorities in Gaza and Israel to help us get urgent medical assistance for Hatem”.

_{Equipment used by cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who worked for Reuters, lies at the site where he was killed, along with others, in Khan Younis, August 25}

One Civil Defence member killed, 7 wounded in Nasser Hospital attack

Speaking at a news conference in Khan Younis, a spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defence said one rescuer was killed and seven were wounded while responding to the initial strike on the Nasser Medical Complex.

“Israeli forces have attacked our teams today. This was seen by the entire world,” he said, adding that the attack disabled two of the service’s few remaining rescue vehicles.

According to the spokesman, it was the 26th attack on Civil Defence teams while on duty since the war began.

Red Cross says medic attacked while tending to wounded in Nasser Hospital attack

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said one of its medics was injured while tending to the wounded inside Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis after Israeli attacks. The organisation shared a video on X showing a clearly marked PRCS rescue van with what appear to be bullet holes across the windshield and along the side of the vehicle.

Nasser Medical Complex has been struck multiple times during Israel’s war, with at least 20 people, including journalists, doctors and civil defence workers, killed in the latest attack earlier today.

https://x.com/PalestineRCS/status/1959939062137041220

Fifth journalist dies in Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital

Ahmed Abu Aziz, who worked with the Quds Network and other media outlets, has died after being wounded in the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital earlier today, making him the fifth journalist to be killed in the attack.

At least 20 people were killed in a “double tap” attack on the medical complex, one of Gaza’s last remaining functional hospitals. Those killed include journalists, doctors and civil defence workers who had rushed to help the wounded after an initial bombing.

Hospital attack is ‘criminal’, world should consider sanctions

Israeli political scientist Menachem Klein says the deadly attack on Nasser Hospital is a “criminal operation” that made possible the Israeli army’s collective dehumanisation of all Palestinians in Gaza.

“It’s a policy. It’s not an accident,” Klein, who lectures at Bar-Ilan University, told Al Jazeera. “Israel implements this kind of criminal attack time and again. It’s not the first time, and unfortunately, I assume it won’t be the last time unless there is a ceasefire.”

Klein went on to say that he “won’t be surprised” if Israel’s army later issues a statement trying to justify the attack as targeting a Hamas member. But “it’s a criminal act any way that we look at it”, he said.

“The Israeli army dehumanises everyone who lives inside Gaza. That’s the problem,” he added. “It’s morally corrupt. The international community should consider sanctions on Israel.”

Gaza death toll rises

Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 58 people and wounded 308 in the last 24 hours, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Among the victims are 28 people who were killed and 184 who were injured while seeking aid.

The latest casualties bring the war’s total death toll in Gaza to 62,744, with 158,259 injured.

Rare autoimmune diseases causing paralysis in Gaza

With Gaza’s health infrastructure decimated, rare autoimmune diseases are spreading.

Among them is Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) which turns the body’s immune system against the nerves, leaving those infected weak, paralysed and often unable to breathe.

Doctors say they are seeing more cases among young people. Their condition could be treated, anywhere else in the world, but the WHO says Gaza has no stock of the treatment they need.

For 25-year-old Mohammed al-Masri, the condition started with stomach pain and diarrhoea – before he suddenly lost the ability to walk. “I had stomach pain, then my legs stopped moving. They told me I have GBS, but there is no treatment. I am scared I will die,” he told Al Jazeera.

Another man suffering from the disease, Ahmed Hassan, described a similar deterioration. “Every day, something stopped working. First my legs, then my hands. Even breathing became difficult,” he said.

Three people, including two children, have already died from GBS.

Airdropped packages fall on Palestinian tents

Footage verified by Al Jazeera shows the moment when parachuted aid packages that were dropped from military planes fell on the tents of displaced people in Gaza.

A Palestinian activist released the clip, but it is unclear whether there were any injuries or fatalities, as with previous airdrops.

The Israeli military said it allowed Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Germany and Indonesia to drop 116 aid packages over Gaza today as part of “actions to improve the humanitarian response”. Israel continues to block most aid from reaching the enclave through land crossings.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNxcL_d0E_A

WHO says more than 50 people, including hospital patients, injured in Nasser Hospital strike

WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said Israeli strikes at Nasser Medical Complex hit the facility’s main building where the emergency department, inpatient ward and surgical unit are based.

On top of killing at least 20 people, the attacks wounded more than 50, including “critically ill patients who were already receiving care”, said Ghebreyesus.

“While people in Gaza are being starved, their already limited access to health care is being further crippled by repeated attacks,” he wrote in a post on X.

“We cannot say it loudly enough: STOP attacks on health care. Ceasefire now!”

.@WHO received reports of two strikes on the Nasser Medical Complex this morning, resulting in the deaths of at least 20 people, including four health workers and five journalists. Fifty others were injured, among them critically ill patients who were already receiving care.

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— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) August 25, 2025

Israeli drone attack kills 1 person in southern Lebanon

One person was killed in an Israeli drone attack in southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the drone hit a pick-up truck on the Ain al-Mazrab-Tebnine road in the Bint Jbeil district.

A ceasefire was reached between Israel and Hezbollah in November, but Israeli forces have continued with near-daily attacks since.

Death toll of Israel’s attacks on Yemen climbs to 10

The death toll from Israel’s attacks on the Yemeni capital Sanaa has risen to 10, according to health officials. The Health Ministry in Sanaa said 92 others were wounded, including 21 who remain in critical condition.

“This crime adds to the series and criminal record of the Zionist enemy and to the systematic violations committed by the Israeli occupation forces against civilians and civilian objects in our Arab and Islamic nation,” the ministry said in a statement.

“These attacks constitute war crimes, as they directly targeted civilians and caused casualties, in addition to the destruction of civilian facilities unrelated to military objectives.”

Israeli warplanes dropped 30 bombs over several targets in the Yemeni capital, including a fuel station and power plants. The Houthis have vowed to continue attacks on Israel in to pressure it to end the war on Gaza.


_{A fire ball rises from the site of an Israeli air strike in Sanaa, Yemen August 24}

Belgium’s deputy PM calls for tougher stance on Israel or risks major government crisis

Belgium’s foreign minister said he does not rule out blocking the government’s major decisions if political parties continue to prevent him from taking a tougher stance on Israel.

“If the government does not take a tougher stance on human rights violations by the Israeli government or recognise Palestine, there is a risk of a major crisis,” Maxime Prevot, who is also the deputy PM, was quoted as saying by De Standaard on Monday.

“For me and my party, Gaza is indeed a crucial issue. We absolutely must find a solution within the government.”

Foreign Press Association expresses outrage after hospital attack

The Foreign Press Association, which represents international media working in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, says it is “outraged and in shock” after an Israeli army attack killed five journalists and at least 15 others at Nasser Medical Complex.

In a statement, the group demanded “an immediate explanation” from the Israeli army and the Israeli PM’s office. “We call on Israel once and for all to halt its abhorrent practice of targeting journalists,” it added.

“This must be a watershed moment. We appeal to international leaders: Do everything you can to protect our colleagues. We cannot do it ourselves.”


_{People and rescuers work to recover the body of Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who worked for Reuters, after he was killed along with other journalists and people in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, August 25}

I typed in "how many different nationalities were killed on october 7" and i got this AI google response. 

The October 7 attacks resulted in the deaths of individuals from multiple nationalities. According to available data, 79 foreign nationals were killed during the attacks, including Thai workers and citizens from other countries. The victims were from at least 25 different countries, with the United States, Argentina, Germany, France, Russia, Thailand, Nepal, Tanzania, the Philippines, China, and Sri Lanka among those represented. The U.S. Embassy in Chile stated that the attack killed citizens of more than 30 countries, including 46 Americans. Therefore, the number of different nationalities killed on October 7 is at least 25, with some sources indicating the figure could be as high as 30 or more.

Citizens from at least 25-30 and possibly more nationalities. You're not just downplaying the death of your own Canadian citizens, you're downplaying the death of citizens from about 30 different other countries. You say you stand with humanity but you clearly don't stand with any of the nations that had their innocent civilians slaughtered that day. You are choosing to side with one region/culture/people above the 30 that were totally innocent. Why not show some respect to those countries instead of the one region that was responsible for all their deaths. 

I'm hopeless and I'm not even the one suffering. At this point, I don't think there is anything Israel can do to face any real reprecussions. It's just finger wagging, grandstanding, and zero policy changes. Israel make little effort to hide what they are doing abroad and no effort to hide it at home. We only know a small portion of the horrors they commit. Independent press aren't allowed in Gaza. Any press in Gaza that does report what's going is systematically slaughtered. It's an "Emperor Has No Clothes" situation. I'm tired of being tired of wanton slaughter. The people citizen are upset but the elected officals are too busy cashing AIPAC checks to care. Israel is the spoiled child whose parents tell them to "stop doing that" while never punishing them so the keep doing what they want.

How many nationalities have been killed in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the past 77 years...

Why care about nationalities. Every human being is equal regardless of nationality. I don't feel any less regret for a Palestinian, Canadian, Israeli, Ukrainian, Russian or any other life lost. 

I'm downplaying the emphasis on Nationalities, which is too close to a colonizer perspective imo. I long for a world without borders, and the most culture shock I had when moving to Canada is the border treatment I got crossing into the USA. Used to simply going anywhere in Europe without even having to stop at the border. Not get my passport confiscated and have to wait in a bunker to get interviewed just to cross into the USA from Canada with a Dutch passport.

1,139 lives were lost on Oct 7 in a most brutal way. Doesn't matter what passports they held. And that doesn't excuse killing more people in even more brutal ways.

And no I don't have respect for countries that condone or even support what Israel is doing. And by Israel I mean those in power. The people on the street have been indoctrinated since birth to hate Palestinians. They didn't start out that way. Same for the fighters in Hamas. 

It's a long standing failure of the international community. The UN created / cemented this course of events with the 1948 partition plan and it has only gotten worse since. So bollocks to your one region that was responsible for all their deaths. History didn't start on Oct 7. This particular conflict started in 1897 with the first Zionist congress.

It was clear from the start it would end in genocide:

In 1896, in The Jewish State, Theodor Herzl discussed "important experiments in colonization" concerning Palestine and Argentina as potential territories for a Jewish state. He concluded that gradual infiltration of Jews into such areas was futile and that sovereign rights under a European protectorate were necessary for continued immigration and settlement.


Btw here is my respect for the 243 countries, sovereign territories and island nations I decided to find out more about during the Pandemic.
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/exploring-the-world-in-the-beechcraft-bonanza/266981
Including several 'nations' yet to form like Kurdistan, Western Sahara etc.

Palestinian detainee dies in hospital four days after being shot by Israeli forces

Musab Abdelmoneim al-Ayadeh, 20, has died in hospital four days after being shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.

On Thursday, al-Ayadeh was shot by Israeli forces in his hometown of Hebron and taken into custody despite severe injuries.

He was brought before a military court on Sunday at Ofer prison, which extended his detention, and was held at Shaare Zedek Hospital, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said in a statement on Telegram.

Israeli authorities announced his death to the Palestinian General Authority of Civil Affairs, which in turn informed the advocacy groups.

“The killing of al-Ayadeh adds yet another entry to the ever-growing record of Israeli brutality – field executions chief among them – which have reached unprecedented levels amid a genocide now almost in its second year,” the statement said.

Israeli soldiers raid al-Mughayyir again as settlers attack West Bank towns

Israeli military forces have once again launched an incursion into the al-Mughayyir village in the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah, where they have been raiding and arresting Palestinians for several days. No further arrests have been reported so far today.

In the town of Idhna west of Hebron, the Wafa news agency said soldiers fired sound bombs and caused a fire to break out in a plot of land adjacent to a road. No injuries were reported.

Another raid was reported in the town of al-Ram north of occupied East Jerusalem, with soldiers firing tear gas canisters.

At least two new settler attacks have been reported as well, one in the Jaba town east of Jerusalem, and another in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron. Several Palestinians were injured during the settler attack on Masafer Yatta, which took place with backing from armed soldiers.

Israeli forces storm Qalqilya in occupied West Bank

Israeli soldiers stormed the city from its main eastern entrance and deployed in the areas of Kafr Saba, Sufin, al-Fath Mosque and al-Maslakh, while firing stun grenades, Wafa reported, citing local sources.

Sources on the ground also told Al Jazeera that clashes broke out between Israeli forces and young men during the raid.

Israel should begin annexing West Bank within month: Settlement minister

Israeli Settlement Minister Orit Strook says the country should begin “the application of sovereignty” in the occupied West Bank during the Jewish calendar month of Elul, which has just begun.

The Israel Hayom newspaper quoted the minister, who is a member of the far-right Religious Zionist Party of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, as saying Israeli authorities should stop construction of a separation wall in the West Bank to accommodate the country’s expanding borders.

“Only after the application of sovereignty and the determination of Israel’s new official borders, will it be possible to consider whether and along what route, security measures should be created that will allow protection against potential terrorism from the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria,” Strook said, using the Israeli name for the West Bank.

Annexing the West Bank would violate international law’s prohibition on acquiring land by force – a principle that has been the bedrock of international relations since World War II.