Israeli attacks kill five in southern Gaza: Medical sources

According to Nasser Hospital, three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a makeshift tent for displaced people in the Asdaa area, northwest of Khan Younis.

Elsewhere in southern Gaza, the Kuwaiti Field Hospital says a woman and child were killed in an Israeli drone attack on tents, west of Khan Younis.

_{Medical staff at the Kuwaiti Field Hospital provide treatment to a wounded child brought in after an Israeli air strike hit tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the al-Mevasi area of Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip, on August 27}

Israeli attack causes injuries near Gaza City tent camp

An Israeli drone attack hit a tent housing displaced people in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood overnight, our colleagues on the ground report, citing the local ambulance service.

The strike injured several people, they said.

It comes after a wave of attacks hit areas in and around Gaza City yesterday, including one striking a popular market that killed five people.

Israeli attack kills 2 more Palestinians in Gaza City: Report

An Israeli attack on a home in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood has killed at least two people and injured others, according to the Wafa news agency.

The attack comes as Israeli forces continue to shell and remotely detonate homes in the city’s Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods, Wafa reports.

Two children among 10 Palestinians starved to death in Gaza in 24 hours

Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded 10 deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” over the past 24 hours, including two children. This brings the total number of hunger-related deaths to 313, including 119 children.

At least 26 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, medical sources at Gaza hospitals have said. Among those killed were seven aid seekers, they added.


Gaza’s death toll rises

At least 75 Palestinians, including 18 aid seekers, have been killed and 268 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. One body was also recovered from the rubble of previous Israeli attacks, the ministry said.

The latest count brought the total death toll in Israel’s war on Gaza to 62,895, with 158,927 injured, the statement said.

_{A medical team at the Kuwaiti Field Hospital tries to resuscitate a wounded child brought in after an Israeli air strike targeted tents housing displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on August 27}

Gaza residents cornered amid intensified Israeli attacks

I don’t recall sleeping last night, like everyone else. We were all awake, anxious about what was going to happen next. The sounds of armoured vehicles and tanks could be clearly heard well past midnight, accompanied by relentless attacks from heavy artillery.

These days, the Israeli military tends to intensify its assaults through the night, causing even more panic and fear among an already traumatised and displaced population.

The prospect of being displaced yet again looms over us, as the majority of people are now cornered and crammed into a small area in the western part of Gaza City.

Most people here have already been forced from the northern part of the Strip, especially from Jabalia and its surroundings.

The population has been pushed into further internal displacement and finds it extremely difficult, nearly impossible, to evacuate to the central or southern parts of Gaza, simply because there is no safe place left.

Israeli forces destroy homes in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli air strikes have destroyed two homes in the Abu Iskandar area of the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City.

The Israeli military is pushing deeper into the city, destroying entire neighbourhoods and leaving Palestinian families with nowhere safe to go, as it seeks to seize the Strip’s largest urban centre.

Israel allowing just 14 percent of food required in Gaza: Media Office

Gaza’s Government Media Office says starvation in Gaza is intensifying due to ongoing Israeli restrictions on food and aid deliveries.

“The Israeli occupation authorities continue to commit a systematic starvation crime against the population of the Gaza Strip,” it said in a statement.

“The number of victims of hunger and malnutrition has risen to 313 martyrs, including 119 children,” the statement added, cautioning that the crisis is most alarming for “children, the sick, and the elderly”.

The Media Office noted that the Israeli army has closed all crossings and banned the entry of 430 essential food items. Over the past month, only 14 percent of the required supplies were allowed in, “leaving an 86 percent shortfall in aid”, it added.

Doctor describes challenges of treating acute malnutrition patients in Gaza

Ahmed Alfarra, the director of paediatrics and the maternity department at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis, says the facility receives malnutrition cases every day.

“Severe acute malnutrition is one of the most difficult and challenging conditions for doctors to treat. It is not easy – it is unlike pneumonia, meningitis, or acute pharyngotonsillitis,” he told Al Jazeera. “Most paediatric diseases require seven to 10 days of treatment before the patient can be discharged.”

In contrast, Alfarra said those with severe acute malnutrition may need to be hospitalised for one, two, or even three months, together with long-term follow-up.

If left untreated, Alfarra said malnutrition in children could lead to “permanent” changes. “That means, even if food becomes available for this patient, they may not fully recover,” he said.

“For example, if they have an issue affecting their growth hormone – such as a growth hormone deficiency – they may experience short stature in the future. Even with food being available, they may never reach their potential height.”

‘Nobody buying’ Israel’s ‘justifications’ for deadly Nasser Hospital strikes

Abdullah Al-Arian, associate professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar, says the Israeli government’s “justifications” for its deadly Nasser Hospital strikes this week – including its claim that it targeted a Hamas camera near the facility – are largely failing to deceive the international community.

“These justifications – nobody is buying them, except for people who have already been sold essentially on the entire idea of a genocidal assault in which Israel can do no wrong,” Al-Arian said.

When considering the totality of Israel’s attacks in Gaza during the war, such justifications “not only ring hollow, but they’re actually quite nonsensical and insulting to one’s basic intelligence”, he added.

They are simply a “distraction from the never-ending assaults we’ve been seeing”, he said.

Reuters publishes obituary for its journalist killed by Israel after criticism

Reuters has published an obituary for Hussam al-Masri, the Palestinian cameraman for the agency who was killed by an Israeli military attack on Nasser Hospital.

The obituary describes al-Masri, who was born and raised in Khan Younis, as “an experienced cameraman whose positive approach in the most dangerous situations made him popular among Gaza’s tight-knit community of reporters”.

“He was strong, steady and courageous in the most challenging of circumstances,” said Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni. “His loss is deeply felt by all of those in this newsroom who worked with him.”

Al-Masri began working for Reuters, the agency notes, in May 2024, eight months into the Gaza war. Lately, he had been charged with filming a daily feed for Reuters from Nasser Hospital. He leaves behind a wife, who is suffering from cancer, and four children, aged 15, 18, 22 and 23, the obituary notes.

The obituary came after Reuters was criticised for its coverage of the deadly attack that killed al-Masri, as well as Israel’s war on Gaza in general.

“The Reuters news agency did not mention in their headline their cameraman, who had been working for them for months. In their article, they simply described him as a Reuters ‘contractor’,” Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reported from Gaza yesterday.

UNESCO condemns killing of journalists in Gaza, calls for probe into Nasser Hospital strikes

Audrey Azoulay, director-general of the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has issued a statement denouncing the killing of five journalists in two Israeli air strikes on Nasser Hospital.

“I condemn the killing of journalists Hossam Al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Mariam Abu Daqqa, Moaz Abu Taha and Ahmad Abu Aziz, and call for a thorough investigation,” said Azoulay.

She urged respect for UN Security Council Resolution 2222, which condemns all forms of violence against journalists and requires states to ensure journalists can report safely in the field.

Italy’s Meloni calls Nasser Hospital strikes ‘unacceptable attack on press freedom’

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is the latest world leader to condemn the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital that killed 21 people, including five journalists, on Monday.

“It is an unacceptable attack on press freedom and on all those who courageously risk their lives to report on the tragedy of war,” Meloni said during a conference in the beach town of Rimini.

During her remarks, Meloni also called on Israel to end its military occupation of Gaza, to allow aid into the Palestinian enclave and for a halt to the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

At least 5 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in West Bank: Report

The Wafa news agency reports that Israeli forces have carried out a wave of overnight raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank, a near-daily occurrence since the outbreak of the Gaza war.

During the incursions, it said Israeli forces:

US envoy Witkoff says Washington thinks Gaza war ‘to settle’ by end of year

Speaking to Fox News yesterday, Trump’s Middle East envoy predicted the Gaza war would wrap up “one way or another, certainly before the end of this year”.

That’s a more cautious forecast than Trump’s own claim a day earlier that he believed the conflict would be over within three weeks.

More people are dying every day from starvation, how many more have to die in 4 months. Witkoff is just enabling Israel's Gaza occupation and ethnic cleansing plan while continuing to starve everyone in Gaza.

Mediators perplexed by Netanyahu’s non-response to ceasefire proposal: Israeli opposition leader

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says he has conversed with “the highest-level mediators” in ceasefire negotiations as they seek insight on why Israel’s government has yet to respond to the latest proposal.

“In recent days I spoke with the highest-level mediators in the negotiations, and they told me, ‘We don’t understand what happened – Hamas accepted the conditions Netanyahu set’,” said Lapid in comments carried by Israel’s Army Radio.

“They called to ask me if I know why he hasn’t gotten back to them,” he added.

US appears ‘less and less interested in quick Gaza war resolution’

Abdullah Al-Arian, associate professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar, says he is doubtful a White House meeting on the future of Gaza scheduled for today will prove fruitful.

“There’s not much to it, I think,” Al-Arian told Al Jazeera. “Everything we’ve seen up to this point is the fact that the US seems to be less and less interested in any type of resolution [to the war] any time soon.”

Al-Arian said it is “dangerous to assume” that the US and Israel are continuing ceasefire negotiations “in good faith when we know that ultimately Israel is quite clear about its intentions”.

“Israel has been clear about those intentions really from the very start and has very vocally been expressing them in a way that has not gotten any pushback from its biggest ally in the US,” he continued.

“We have to get to a point where we see these efforts at negotiation, mediation as being in some way an extension of the genocide,” Al-Arian said.

Israel’s refusal to discuss Gaza ceasefire deal shows ‘massive despair’

Ori Goldberg, an Israeli political commentator, says “the fact that the Israeli government is refusing to discuss the ceasefire deal [approved by Hamas, according to mediators] definitely shows that Israel feels it has no option but to accept it”.

“And in order not to accept it, it simply doesn’t bring it up on the agenda,” he said. “Israel is showing massive despair. Nothing says they are not in control of our own reality as a complete rejection of it.”

Goldberg said, “Netanyahu’s political survival, in many ways, depends on his ability to drive out of the Gaza Strip and out of the West Bank as many Palestinians as possible, as well as to continue killing Palestinians on the regular basis.”

Netanyahu’s ‘Greater Israel’ vision is ‘an old idea’: Ex-US diplomat

Nabeel Khoury, a former US diplomat, has spoken to Al Jazeera about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vision for a so-called “Greater Israel”.

“This is an old idea that dates back to … the early rise of the world Zionist movement,” Khoury said. “The idea was that it was a compromise to establish the state of Israel on only roughly two-thirds” of Palestine, he explained, but that Israel would eventually expand “to what they think religiously appeal[s] to most Jews around the world”.



It's all outlined in Theodor Herzl's 1896 "Der Judenstaat" / "A Jewish State"
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/A_Jewish_State/woMUazF1Z4sC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover

The 2/3rds isn't mentioned, the pamphlet doesn't mention any end to expansion, but does detail all the mechanisms to achieve an ethno-state using colonial mechanisms. A pamphlet for settler colonialism to bring 'civilization' among barbarism.




Also debunks Palestinians as a new term. Already well known when still part of the Ottoman Empire. (1516-1918)

Israeli military spokesman says Gaza City residents will inevitably be forced out

The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee has said residents of Gaza City, which Israeli military plans to seize, will inevitably be forced out.

He identified al-Mawasi, where there have been near-daily attacks, as one of the southern areas residents could move to.

In a post on X, Adraee claimed families forced southward will receive “the maximum humanitarian assistance” – ignoring the Israeli military’s history of choking Gaza of aid generally, pushing Palestinians into displacement zones with meager conditions and regularly waging deadly attacks on designated safe zones and aid seekers.

“The evacuation of Gaza City is unavoidable,” Adraee said.

Belgium government faces pressure to recognise Palestine

The prime minister of Belgium has just started meeting with his deputies, who represent the five political parties that form the governing coalition in Belgium. On the agenda, the top issue is recognising the state of Palestine.

Earlier this morning, there was a great deal of anger following the Belgian prime minister’s statement yesterday that it does not make sense to recognise Palestine unless certain conditions are met, by which he meant the need to disarm Hamas, release the captives and provide security guarantees for Israel.

However, people are saying this is not up to us to decide, and that Belgium stands for international legitimacy and rights; hence, this is the moment for it to officially recognise Palestine.

Trade unions and leading newspapers published headlines today suggesting that this could be a historic moment, in which Belgium must take a stand by recognising Palestine.

This urgency explains the current political atmosphere. Today, this issue is the most prominent political story in Belgium, potentially shaping the future of the country’s governing coalition.

EXPOSED: The UN’s Hidden Power to Launch Military Action in Gaza

Former UN speechwriter Mark Seddon urges member states at the United Nations General Assembly to invoke the Uniting for Peace resolution and establish a protective international force to defend Palestinians in Gaza.

He outlines how the General Assembly can bypass the U.S. veto at the Security Council by using Uniting for Peace to form a “coalition of the willing,” capable of delivering humanitarian aid, enforcing a no-fly zone, and protecting civilians.

Mark Seddon brings deep insider experience: he served as a speechwriter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, media advisor to former UNGA President María Fernanda Espinosa, and was Al Jazeera’s first UN Correspondent.

It's not hidden, it's conveniently ignored. Instead of expanding peace forces Israel and USA are trying to disband UNIFIL.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/08/19/israel-takes-official-step-to-end-un-mission-in-southern-lebanon/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/world/middleeast/lebanon-israel-un-unifil-peacekeeping.html

Hayes reacts to ‘shocking’ footage of Gaza hospital strike that killed 5 journalists

Chris Hayes and Ayman Mohyeldin discuss the deadly Israeli double-tap strike on Gaza’s largest hospital that killed at least 20 people, including five journalists. 

"Never thought american news would cover this so well. Thank you"

Israeli settlers establish and expand illegal outposts south of Hebron

Israeli settlers have begun expanding an outpost in Khirbet Deir Razih, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Wafa reported that a group of armed settlers began expanding the outpost, which was established last December, and brought in more than 30 caravans to the area.

Israeli bulldozers and settlers razed approximately 400 dunams (40 hectares; 99 acres) of Palestinian land owned by the Amro family, uprooting trees, destroying crops, and paving a three-kilometre-long (1.86-mile-long) road.

Settlers also began establishing a new outpost in the village of Umm al-Khair, and expanding two others in Khallet al-Daba and Shaab al-Batm in Masafer Yatta, all areas south of Hebron.

Separately in the same region, a group of settlers attacked shepherds and their flocks of sheep in the at-Tarayan neighbourhood in the town of ad-Dhahiriya.

Israeli military providing no information on raids in occupied West Bank’s Nablus

The Israeli military is not sharing any details about this operation in Nablus. I spoke to them a few moments ago and said they would release details once this is finished, no justification, no objective publicly released by them so far.

It’s important, though, to point out that we’ve seen in Nablus in 2022, 2023, some massive military operations there.

Again, there was one in June that left two Palestinians killed.

They have said that after those raids, they were targeting armed fighters in the city and across the occupied West Bank. We’ve seen violence spike massively, almost 1,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces and settlers since October 7, 2023.

Israeli forces assault residents in Sebastia, northwest of Nablus

Israeli forces have assaulted an unspecified number of residents during their raid on the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Village council head Mohammed Azem told the Wafa news agency that Israeli forces stormed the town more than 24 hours ago, turned some homes into military barracks and deployed snipers on the rooftops of others.

He added that Israeli forces have been raiding Palestinian homes since Tuesday evening, searching and destroying their contents. The forces also assaulted some residents, one of whom was taken to hospital for treatment due to his critical condition, Azem said.

Israeli soldiers also raided some shops and stole money and goods from them, Azem said.

Israeli culture minister praises illegal settlements as a ‘guiding light’, hopes for expansion

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has applauded the government’s move to set up more illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying he hopes they continue to multiply – with US support – across the territory.

“Settlements are a guiding light for us; we are expanding and strengthening them,” Zohar said in comments carried by Israel’s Arutz Sheva media.

Ongoing settlement projects in the occupied West Bank are a “significant achievement”, he said, adding “perhaps soon we will do the same in Gaza”.

However, “no less important than settlements is the task of sovereignty,” he stressed, apparently referring to Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory. “Once we implement sovereignty, we can say we have accomplished something real.”

Zohar said he believes Trump is “supportive” of such plans and that “the goal is to advance this with the Americans so that we have their backing.”

Syria condemns deadly Israeli drone strike calling it violation of international law

Syria has condemned an Israeli drone strike that killed six soldiers on Tuesday, calling it a “clear violation” of the country’s sovereignty.

In a statement, Syria’s Foreign Ministry called the strike “a gross violation of international law and the United Nations Charter”. It added that the attack represented “a clear breach of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic”.

There has been no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

Following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime last December, Israel has launched hundreds of strikes targeting military sites and assets across Syria.

Israel also expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarised buffer zone, a move that violated a 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Monday claimed that Israel had sent 60 soldiers to take control of an area inside the Syrian border around Mount Hermon, near a strategic hilltop that overlooks Beit Jinn, close to the border with Lebanon in southern Syria.

Israel attacks Syria for second time in 24 hours

The attack on Wednesday consisted of a series of strikes on a former army barracks in Kiswa, southwest of Damascus, according to Syria’s state-run al-Ekhbariya TV.

Israel also attacked Kiswa on Tuesday, killing six Syrian soldiers.