Turkiye urges Israel to release detained lawmakers

Turkiye’s Foreign Ministry has called for the release of three lawmakers detained after Israeli forces intercepted all nine boats of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition heading for Gaza to challenge a naval blockade.

The ministry slammed the Israeli interception as an “act of piracy”, describing it as “an attack on civil activists, including Turkish citizens and members of parliament”.

“This is a serious violation of international law. Our three MPs and all activists illegally detained must be released immediately and unconditionally,” Sena Nur Celik Kanat, a lawmaker from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party, told the AFP news agency.

Celik Kanat was among more than 80 members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe who signed a letter calling for the activists’ release.

Turkish parliament demands release of citizens detained by Israel

Turkish citizens, including members of parliament, must not be mistreated and must be released and allowed to return to Turkiye, the Turkish parliament has warned. The warning came in a motion passed unanimously by the parliament condemning Israel’s attacks on humanitarian aid flotillas bound for Gaza.

“Israel, adding another to its ongoing history of genocide and other war crimes, attacked the [Global] Sumud Flotilla, a civilian and peaceful initiative, in international waters, obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, and once again recklessly violating international law,” the motion said.

Four British flotilla activists detained by Israel return home

James Hickey, Malcolm Ducker, Hannah Sharpey-Schafer and Sid Khan have arrived at London’s Heathrow airport from Amman, Jordan.

On arrival, their passports were confiscated and they were detained by border police. Hickey and Khan were released shortly afterwards, while Ducker and Sharpey-Schafer were only able to leave the airport two hours later. “We were abused and detained on arrival in the UK,” Hickey said.

Khan, reading from a joint statement, described the Global Sumud flotilla as a peaceful initiative to challenge Israel’s blockade of Gaza. He said detainees were left handcuffed in the sun for hours, deprived of medicines, subjected to strip searches, and kept in overcrowded cells.

He said consular support was minimal for the British nationals, compared to that provided by other European governments, which arranged swift repatriations for their citizens.

Vigils held across UK in solidarity with Gaza

Campaigners in the UK have renewed calls to end Israel’s assault on the enclave and to halt arms sales to Israel.

Gatherings took place outside Cardiff Central Station, opposite the Prime Minister’s Office in London, outside the Whitworth Building on Oxford Road in Manchester, at Grey’s Monument in Newcastle, and at Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh.

The events were organised by the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB), an independent group representing the Palestinian community in the UK and advocating for Palestinian rights. The organisation said the vigils were held to honour the thousands killed in Gaza and to stand in unity against the ongoing genocide.

The PFB has also called for a National March for Palestine in London on October 11, urging people nationwide to join.

Main events on October 8th

• Trump says Israel and Hamas have reached a “first phase” agreement towards a Gaza peace plan. Earlier, he said he may travel to Egypt this weekend to announce the ceasefire deal.
• Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari confirmed that mediators have agreed on “all the provisions and implementation mechanisms” of the plan’s first phase.
• Gaza’s Health Ministry reports at least eight Palestinians killed and 61 injured in Israeli strikes on the enclave.
• Al Jazeera Arabic reports that Israeli forces detonated car bombs in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood earlier today.
• Spain’s parliament approves arms embargo on Israel over what PM Pedro Sanchez called a “genocide in Gaza”.
• Israeli politician Gideon Saar criticises a planned meeting of European, Arab and other diplomats in Paris on Thursday to discuss Gaza’s post-war transition and long-term ceasefire efforts.
• Turkiye’s Foreign Ministry demands the release of three lawmakers detained after Israeli forces intercepted all nine vessels of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition attempting to break the Gaza blockade.
• In the occupied West Bank, settlers carried out multiple raids. One Palestinian man was killed and three others were wounded when settlers opened fire in the village of Deir Jarir.

Trump’s extraordinary plan on Gaza; US blames Chinese firms for helping Houthis

US President Donald Trump has just announced that he would travel to the Middle East as early as this weekend amidst ongoing ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel in Egypt. Trump expressed his optimism on the outcome of the ceasefire talks even as Hamas seeks US guarantee on some of the points of the peace deal. Meanwhile, the US has sanctioned over a dozen Chinese firms for allegedly providing military support to Yemen’s Ansarallah fighters also known as the Houthis. Rifat Jawaid returns with his sharp commentary on today’s developments.

Gaza Ceasefire: Next Stop Genocide Museum

Now that there is peace lets focus on a real genocide happening in nigeria where muslims mass murder christians.


Let the protests begin!!

There is no peace at all yet, a fragile ceasefire in Gaza (maybe)

All there is is a claimed agreement on the first phase of Trump's peace occupation plan for prisoner exchange.



Also there is no real genocide in Nigeria

No, Bill Maher, there is no ‘Christian genocide’ in Nigeria

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/2/no-bill-maher-there-is-no-christian-genocide-in-nigeria

From Boko Haram to herder–farmer clashes, Nigeria’s crises are complex. Simplistic genocide claims fuel propaganda.

In recent days, coordinated attacks on Nigeria’s nationhood have swept across social media, blogs and television outlets, alleging a so-called “Christian genocide”. These attacks, driven by foreign actors, mischaracterise Nigeria’s domestic conflicts, ignore its complexities and manipulate longstanding ethnic and resource-based tensions to advance sectarian agendas.

One of the figures driving this propaganda is American comedian and television host Bill Maher, who used his show to deliver a sensationalised account alleging the systematic slaughter of Christians in Nigeria. “I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches. These are the Islamists, Boko Haram,” he said. “This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.” His sources are largely fabricated claims and manipulated images from unverified outlets. These distorted narratives drew applause from his audience, while Fox News, true to form, amplified them.

Reps reject US Senate’s genocide claim against Christians in Nigeria
https://guardian.ng/news/reps-reject-us-senates-genocide-claim-against-christians-in-nigeria/

FG Debunks ‘False’ Claims Of Genocide Against Christians
https://www.channelstv.com/2025/10/08/fg-debunks-false-claims-of-genocide-against-christians/


But there are elements of genocide in the clashes and should indeed be watched.

You're free to make a thread about what's going on in Nigeria.




If you want to address another real genocide, look to Sudan

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/07/us-determines-sudan-paramilitary-genocide
Blinken details pattern of ethnically based violence in which RSF killed civilians and blocked access to supplies

Sudan war: A simple guide to what is happening
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjel2nn22z9o

Sudan plunged into a civil war in April 2023 after a vicious struggle for power broke out between its army and a powerful paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). It has led to a famine and claims of a genocide in the western Darfur region. More than 150,000 people have died in the conflict across the country, and about 12 million have fled their homes in what the United Nations has called the world's largest humanitarian crisis.

The civil war is the latest episode in bouts of tension that followed the 2019 ousting of long-serving President Omar al-Bashir, who came to power in a coup in 1989. There were huge street protests calling for an end to his near-three decade rule and the army mounted a coup to get rid of him. But civilians continued to campaign for the introduction of democracy.

A joint military-civilian government was then established but that was overthrown in another coup in October 2021. The coup was staged by the two men at the centre of the current conflict:

• Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the armed forces and in effect the country's president
• And his deputy, RSF leader Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as "Hemedti".

But then Gen Burhan and Gen Dagalo disagreed on the direction the country was going in and the proposed move towards civilian rule. The main sticking points were plans to incorporate the 100,000-strong RSF into the army, and who would then lead the new force. The suspicions were that both generals wanted to hang on to their positions of power, unwilling to lose wealth and influence.

Shooting between the two sides began on 15 April 2023 following days of tension as members of the RSF were redeployed around the country in a move that the army saw as a threat. It is disputed who fired the first shot but the fighting swiftly escalated, with the RSF seizing much of Khartoum until the army regained control of it almost two years later in March 2025.

The RSF was formed in 2013 and has its origins in the notorious Janjaweed militia that brutally fought rebels in Darfur, where they were accused of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the region's non-Arab population.

Soo killing tens of thousands of christians in nigeria is noo genocide? But 67k war kills are?

Lol

Double standarts.

Genocide is not defined by how many people are killed, it's defined by the intent at erasure of a people / ethnicity. 

10's of thousands of Christians is also not correct

https://www.newsweek.com/christians-killed-nigeria-religion-2116416

More than 7,000 Christians had been killed in Nigeria during the first 220 days of 2025, a civil-society watchdog said.

And it's not just Christians

The violence has displaced at least 12 million Christians since 2009, according to Intersociety. That year marked the start of Boko Haram's insurgency to establish a caliphate in Nigeria and the broader Sahel.

In the 16 years since, Intersociety estimates that 189,000 civilians have been killed—125,000 of whom were Christians and 60,000 liberal Muslims.




Yes Nigeria has many rights violations as well

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/nigeria-un-committee-finds-grave-and-systematic-violations-persist-after

Nigeria is responsible for grave and systematic violations of women’s and girls’ rights amid multiple mass abductions, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has found. The Committee highlighted that 91 Chibok schoolgirls are still held captive or missing ten years on, while survivors continue to suffer trauma and stigma without adequate support.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/countries/nigeria


Next door

Mosque attack which killed 44 should be ‘wake-up call’, says rights chief
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/1161501

In recent years, the Sahel has seen a major uptick in violence, following the expansion of armed groups linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL terrorist groups which took over territory in north Mali following the 2012 Tuareg rebellion there.

Since then, the violence has spread into neighbouring countries, Niger and Burkina Faso, and more recently into some other coastal West African nations.

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed characterised the Sahel as “ground zero” for one of the most brutal security crises in the world.

Despite efforts by Member States, terrorism-related deaths in the region have reportedly soared past 6,000 for three consecutive years, making up more than half of all global fatalities.

Oh and look at the origins

Niger shares a long, approximately 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) border with Nigeria to its south. This border, established by colonial powers France and Britain, cuts through densely populated regions and is a significant cultural and logistical connection between the two landlocked West African nations. 


It's a civil war but could indeed turn into genocide. However it's not just Christians that are under attack.


HENCE it's so important International law doesn't die with Gaza!

The ICC is dragging their feet in Nigeria as well

Nigeria: Despite a disappointing ICC ruling, northeast Nigeria’s victims and survivors are urging the Prosecutor to finally act
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr44/0143/2025/en/

In a regrettable decision on 16 June 2025, the majority of the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber found it lacked the power to make a finding on the Prosecution’s obligations under Article 15(3) of the Rome Statute in the case of Nigeria. This followed a complaint submitted by Amnesty International on 2 December 2024, on behalf of thousands of victims from the Jire Dole Networks in north-east Nigeria, where Boko Haram and the Nigerian army committed crimes under international law. The complaint argued that the Prosecutor had a duty to request the opening of an investigation after concluding in 2020 that there was a reasonable basis to proceed.

But if you believe the US / Christian propaganda then there's a white genocide in South Africa as well...

The difference with Gaza is the overwhelming consensus among human rights groups, genocide scholars, Israel's own human rights group B'Tselem, the ICJ, the UN, all agree on genocide being committed in Gaza. Next to man made famine, ethnocide, open apartheid, illegal detentions etc.


Anyway, Nigeria =/= Gaza, totally different situation. 

Careful, your mask is slipping. Then again you are probably one of those people that think "Judeo-Christian" is a thing. Between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, two religions believe Jesus will return, the other is Judaism.

Trump says Gaza deal ‘is a great day for the world’

US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire deal agreed in Egypt represented “a great day for the world”. “The whole world has come together on this one, Israel, every country has come together. This has been a fantastic day,” Trump told the Reuters news agency.

“This is a great day for the world. This is a wonderful day, a wonderful day for everybody,” he said.

Bit premature, all that has been agreed upon is phase 1, the prisoner exchange. But at least it will (should) be done under ceasefire.

UN chief hails ceasefire as ‘momentous opportunity’ to two-state solution

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has hailed the ceasefire announcement as a “momentous opportunity” to establish a “credible political path forward” towards a two-state solution and ending Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territory.

Guterres also commended the “diplomatic efforts of the United States, Qatar, Egypt [and] Turkiye in brokering this desperately needed breakthrough”, saying the UN would now “scale up” aid deliveries, as well as recovery and reconstruction efforts in Gaza.

“I urge all concerned to abide fully by the terms of the agreement,” Guterres said.

“All hostages must be released in a dignified manner. A permanent ceasefire must be secured. The fighting must stop once [and] for all. Immediate [and] unimpeded entry of humanitarian supplies [and] essential commercial materials into Gaza must be ensured. The suffering must end,” he added on X.