Australian Senator says Blair should be ‘on trial’, not part of Gaza plan

Australian Senator David Shoebridge, a member of the Greens party, has joined others in voicing incredulity that former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is tipped to have a role in Trump’s plan to end Israel’s war on Gaza.

Blair has been named by Trump as a member of a proposed “board of peace” for the governance of post-war Gaza.

“Tony Blair’s only role in the Middle East should be as a defendant, on trial for commencing the illegal and disastrous Iraq war that destroyed millions of lives,” Shoebridge said in a post on social media.

Tony Blair’s only role in the Middle East should be as a defendant, on trial for commencing the illegal and disastrous Iraq war that destroyed millions of lives.

— David Shoebridge (@DavidShoebridge) September 29, 2025

UN relief chief says Trump’s plan ‘opens new possibilities’ for aid

In a post on social media, Tom Fletcher, the head of the UN humanitarian agency (OCHA), said that the plan would offer “new possibilities for humanitarians to deliver lifesaving aid at the scale desperately needed by civilians”.

“And hostages finally coming home,” Fletcher said.

“We are ready and eager to work – in a practical and principled way – to seize this moment for peace,” he added.

President Trump’s plan opens new possibilities for humanitarians to deliver lifesaving aid at the scale desperately needed by civilians. And hostages finally coming home. 

We are ready and eager to work - in a practical and principled way - to seize this moment for peace.

— Tom Fletcher (@UNReliefChief) September 29, 2025

What new possibilities? You mean back to the old ones, open some crossings so the UN can do their job. Desperately needed and required by international law regardless of this 'peace' plan.

Netanyahu claims Israeli military will ‘remain in most of Gaza’

The Israeli prime minister has released a video message praising the Trump-proposed Gaza plan, claiming it has “turned the tables and isolated Hamas” with terms favourable to Israel.

“We will recover all our hostages, alive and well, while the [Israeli military] will remain in most of the Gaza Strip,” said Netanyahu in the video, shared earlier this morning on his official Telegram channel.

However, his statement appears to contradict the details of the Trump plan, which stipulates that “Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza” and that its military will gradually withdraw until fully pulled out, except for a temporary security-perimeter presence.

More Zionist puppets

India’s Modi welcomes Trump’s Gaza plan

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has welcomed Trump’s “announcement of a comprehensive plan to end the Gaza conflict”, in a post on social media.

Trump’s plan “provides a viable pathway to long term and sustainable peace, security and development for the Palestinian and Israeli people, as also for the larger West Asian region”, Modi wrote.

“We hope that all concerned will come together behind President Trump’s initiative and support this effort to end conflict and secure peace,” he added.

We welcome President Donald J. Trump’s announcement of a comprehensive plan to end the Gaza conflict. It provides a viable pathway to long term and sustainable peace, security and development for the Palestinian and Israeli people, as also for the larger West Asian region. We…

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 30, 2025

EU’s von der Leyen welcomes Trump’s Gaza ceasefire push

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is the latest world leader to welcome US President Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza, saying the European Union is “ready to contribute” to the effort.

In a post on X, von der Leyen said she encourages “all parties to now seize this opportunity” and that “hostilities should end with provision of immediate humanitarian relief to the population in Gaza and with all hostages released immediately.”

She also stressed that a “two-state solution remains the only viable path to a just and lasting peace.”

Welcome President @realDonaldTrump’s commitment to end the war in Gaza. Encourage all parties to now seize this opportunity.

The EU stands ready to contribute.

Hostilities should end with provision of immediate humanitarian relief to the population in Gaza and with all…

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) September 30, 2025

German leader Merz welcomes Trump’s Gaza plan

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says US President Donald Trump’s proposal for peace in Gaza offers the best chance to end the war in the enclave.

“Germany is ready to make a concrete contribution to the implementation of the plan,” said a German government spokesperson, adding that Merz had met with families of the German hostages held by Hamas earlier in the day.

Netanyahu meets pro-Israel influencers in US, hopes TikTok sale ‘goes through’

The Israeli prime minister has met with a group of pro-Israel influencers in New York, telling them that he hopes the “purchase” of TikTok “goes through”.

“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefield in which we engage, and the most important ones are social media,” Netanyahu told the influencers.

“The most important purchase that is going on right now is … TikTok,” Netanyahu added. “TikTok, number one, number one, and I hope it goes through, because it can be consequential.”

Billionaire supporters of Trump, including Larry Ellison and Lachlan Murdoch, are reportedly involved in bids to put the Chinese video-sharing app, which has been perceived as encouraging pro-Palestinian content, into US hands.

Netanyahu also said that X is important, noting: “We have to talk to Elon [Musk]. He’s not an enemy. He’s a friend. We should talk to him.”

The Israeli leader’s comments came as the Jewish Council for Public Affairs published a report on Monday, finding that more than 679,000 posts spreading anti-Semitism were shared on the X platform between February 2024 and January 2025.

New survey finds half of US voters oppose sending more military aid to Israel

A new poll has found that US support for Israel’s war on Gaza is continuing to fall.

Conducted by The New York Times and the Siena Research Institute, the poll found that just more than half, 51 percent, of respondents opposed sending “additional economic and military support to Israel”.

Some 35 percent of respondents said they were strongly opposed to sending economic and military aid to Israel, compared with just 19 percent who were strongly in support of doing so.

Some 40 percent of respondents also answered yes when asked, “Do you think Israel is intentionally killing civilians?”

An even higher 62 percent said that they thought Israel “was not taking enough precautions to avoid civilian casualties”. By comparison, just 25 percent said they thought that “Israel is taking enough precautions to avoid civilian casualties”.

The Trump administration has continued to provide weapons and other military assistance for Israel’s war on Gaza, as well as tens of millions of dollars in funding to the controversial GHF, which runs militarised aid distribution sites where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration was seeking congressional approval to sell more than $6bn in weapons to Israel, including Apache attack helicopters, and $1.9bn for 3,250 infantry assault vehicles.

Qatar ‘upbeat’ about Trump’s Gaza plan, but says ‘too early to speculate on outcome’

Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has spoken to the press about the status of the Trump-proposed peace plan for Gaza.

He said Hamas officials received the full plan late last night and have promised to “responsibly examine” it, with meetings scheduled for today.

Al-Ansari added that it is “too early to speculate on the outcome”, but noted that Qatar is “upbeat” because the plan is “comprehensive”.

Turkiye engaged in today’s Gaza mediation meetings: Qatar

Continuing his remarks to the press in Doha, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said representatives from Turkiye plan to join a meeting of the Gaza mediation team today, as Hamas officials mull the Trump proposal.

“Turkiye now stands as part of the US initiative” and is collaborating closely on it, al-Ansari added.

Qatar ‘content’ with US security assurances after Israel’s Doha attack

Asked if Qatar accepts Israel’s apology over the attack on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said the country’s “main focus is to make sure this never happens again”.

Qatar “is content” with security assurances it has received from the US on this point, he added.

Qatar open to any role in Gaza to rebuild, assist population

Continuing his remarks at his weekly news briefing, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari says his country remains committed to providing any support that can help end the war in Gaza, rebuild the enclave and assist its people.

“That would apply to any initiative that is there on the table right now,” he said. “We will not shy away from having these roles, but obviously we are doing them in tandem with [all of our partners].”

Russia wishes success to Trump’s Gaza plan: Kremlin

Moscow has addressed the Trump-proposed peace plan for Gaza, saying it hopes it is implemented successfully. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comments, quoted by the AFP news agency, at a news briefing this morning.

“Russia always supports and welcomes any efforts by President Trump aimed at ending this ongoing tragedy,” said Peskov. “Of course, we want this plan to be implemented and for it to help bring events in the Middle East to a peaceful conclusion.”

Trump says he is giving Hamas up to 4 days to respond to Gaza peace proposal

The US president has told reporters as he departed the White House that Israeli and Arab leaders had accepted the plan and “we’re just waiting for Hamas”.

Trump also said he is giving Hamas three to four days to respond to the ceasefire proposal.

And then what? Carte Blanche for genocide? Carry on bombing and staving innocent civilians? Carry on ethnically cleansing Gaza and the West Bank?

Trump’s proposal to Hamas an ‘ultimatum’, not ‘offer’

Trump said he will give Hamas three to four days to meet his demands. He also spoke about how Hamas leadership has changed because of Israeli attacks on its members and mentioned that he sees this deal as about far more than Gaza but something leading to a wider peace within the region.

This plan is not an offer, as Trump made quite clear. It’s an ultimatum. We’ve heard an inkling of what could happen should Hamas not comply.

Trump has specifically told Netanyahu that if Hamas doesn’t accept, he has got to do what he’s got to do, which is effectively a green light for intensified Israeli action in Gaza, wiping the board clean from all the wonderful promises contained in the 20-point plan, including Israel’s phased withdrawal from Gaza, self-governance in Gaza, the return of the people from Gaza if they want … and an absolute confirmation that the people of Gaza will not be removed.

It's not a proposal or peace plan, it's terms for surrender to indefinite occupation.

Fatah welcomes US-led efforts, but senior official calls plan ‘document of surrender’

The Palestinian political movement that dominates the Palestinian Authority has welcomed efforts led by Trump to end the war in Gaza and protect innocent lives, according to a statement carried by the official Wafa news agency.

The group said it is ready to cooperate with all parties to secure a ceasefire, allow humanitarian aid into the famine-struck enclave, ensure the release of captives and Palestinian prisoners, and establish international mechanisms to safeguard Palestinians.

The statement also called for the release of frozen Palestinian tax funds, a complete Israeli withdrawal, and steps to restore unity across Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and East Jerusalem as part of a two-state solution.

Fatah added that it supports President Mahmoud Abbas’s pledge to implement reforms, including holding presidential and parliamentary elections within a year of the war’s end.

But senior Fatah official Abbas Zaki struck a sharply different tone in separate comments to local media, describing the US plan as a “document of surrender” imposed on Palestinians without their consent.

He warned that accepting such proposals would entrench humiliation, legitimise occupation, and fragment Palestinian unity, accusing Washington and Israel of plotting to “liquidate the Palestinian cause”.

Several points in Trump’s plan need clarification, negotiation: Qatar’s PM

Several points in Trump’s plan for Gaza require clarification and negotiation, Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani told Al Jazeera, while hoping that all parties would “view the plan constructively and seize the opportunity to end the war”.

“We explained to Hamas during our meeting yesterday that our primary goal is stopping the war,” he said. “Hamas acted responsibly and promised to study the plan.”

He added that what was presented on Monday was a list of “principles”, “the details of which need to be discussed”, but that Trump’s plan “achieves a primary goal of ending the war”.

Trump gave Hamas 4 days to accept this list of "principles" to indefinite occupation.

Hamas would be ‘ill-advised’ to accept Trump’s plan for Gaza

Sultan Barakat, a professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, says Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza is “problematic” and Hamas would be “ill-advised” to accept it.

“Hamas would have to give up all the leverage at the beginning of the plan to a party they don’t trust and no one in the world trusts,” he told Al Jazeera.

The way Trump presented the plan alongside Netanyahu also suggests the proposal is skewed to Israel’s advantage.

“He stood there and allowed Netanyahu to contradict the plan by saying things that clearly match his own narrow objectives, … and Trump did not stop him,” Barakat said.

Netanyahu rejected the creation of a Palestinian state and Israel’s withdrawal to 1967 borders while both are envisioned in Trump’s proposal.

UN chief calls on ‘all parties’ to commit to Trump’s Gaza plan

UN chief Antonio Guterres has called on “all parties” to commit to the 20-point peace proposal put forward by President Trump.

“Our priority must be to ease the tremendous suffering caused by this conflict,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the secretary-general, said in a statement quoting Guterres.

The UN chief called for “an immediate and permanent ceasefire, unfettered humanitarian access across Gaza and for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages”.

Guterres also hoped that the implementation of the plan “will create the conditions allowing for the realization of the two-state solution”.

Guterres who still refuses to call it a genocide despite the UN's own commission having gotten to the conclusion that Israel is committing genocide.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/middleeast/israel-gaza-genocide-un-commission-report-intl
Next to about everyone else in the world except from those paid off by Zionist organizations. 

Trump’s Gaza plan provides ‘neither justice nor accountability’

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has sharply criticised Trump’s plan for ending the war in Gaza, calling it shallow, neo-colonial and void of Palestinian voices.

The UK-based group said the plan ignores the root causes of Israel’s occupation, offers vague withdrawal terms with no enforcement, and risks giving Netanyahu tools to stall or derail peace.

It warned that the proposals entrench Gaza’s isolation, fragment Palestinian unity, and fail to guarantee justice or accountability for Israeli war crimes.

ICJP said the plan’s “Board of Peace”, to be led by Trump and figures including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, reflects a “paternalistic” approach that excludes Palestinians from deciding their own future. It also noted that Netanyahu has already confirmed Israeli troops will remain in “most” of Gaza and dismissed any prospect of a Palestinian state.

“This plan offers Israel yet another opportunity to pause, rearm, and then return to violence with renewed impunity,” said ICJP’s public affairs officer Orlaith Roe, adding that it provides “neither justice nor accountability”.

Israeli military says it killed two people in southern Lebanon

The Israeli military has said it killed two people in southern Lebanon, claiming they were both members of Hezbollah.

It claimed the victims had launched attacks on Israel “during the war”, before then claiming they had violated “the understandings between Israel and Lebanon” by trying to “rehabilitate” Hezbollah’s capabilities.

We reported earlier that one person was killed in an Israeli drone attack in southern Lebanon on Monday.

A ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel was announced on November 27 last year, but it has been repeatedly violated by Israeli forces.



And Israel is going to grant 'amnesty' to Hamas fighters as claimed in Trumps 'peace' plan...

Dutch cargo ship adrift, burning after attack in Gulf of Aden: EU military mission

As we reported earlier, a Dutch-flagged cargo ship came under attack in the Gulf of Aden, injuring two members of the crew.

The EU military maritime mission Aspides – which was set up in response to Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea region – said the vessel is now on fire and drifting in the Gulf of Aden after its crew of 19 were rescued by helicopter.

The Reuters news agency reported that it was not immediately clear whether the attack with an explosive device was carried out by Yemen’s Houthi fighters, who since 2023 have launched numerous strikes on vessels in the region linked to Israel, in retaliation for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

In a statement, the Aspides mission said that 18 rescued crew members are now on board its naval units, and one of those wounded in the attack is in stable condition. Another member of the crew was seriously injured and has been transferred to the nearby East African nation of Djibouti for medical treatment.

The rescued crew members are from Russia, Ukraine, the Philippines and Sri Lanka , the mission said. The stricken MV Minervagracht “now represents a navigational hazard. It is essential that everyone in the area exercises caution,” the mission added.

Reuters said the attack, if claimed by the Houthis, would be the first by the group on a commercial ship since September 1, when they targeted an Israeli-owned tanker – Scarlet Ray – near Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port city of Yanbu.

US Congress members tell Secretary of State Rubio to protect Gaza aid flotilla

US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has signed a letter along with 18 other members of Congress demanding that the Trump administration ensure the safe passage of the Global Sumud flotilla.

In a post on social media, Tlaib – who made history by being the first woman of Palestinian descent when first elected to Congress in 2019 – said the flotilla is bringing humanitarian aid to Palestinians starved to death by Israel in Gaza, and it must be “fully protected” from attack.

The flotilla has already come under attack on at least three occasions, the lawmakers said in their joint letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday.

“The law is clear: any attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla or its civilian crew is a clear and blatant violation of international law,” the lawmakers wrote.

“The United States has an obligation to protect its citizens from foreign attack. We call on you [Rubio] to deter any further hostile actions against the flotilla and ensure the successful completion of its humanitarian mission,” they added.

The Global Sumud Flotilla is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians who are being starved to death by the Israeli government. They must be fully protected. I’m leading a letter to the Trump Administration demanding safe passage and calling for an end to the… pic.twitter.com/VMeOjzviEP

— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) September 29, 2025