Meanwhile the legacy press, CNN for example, is on a full Hamas offensive:

Why Hamas remains the greatest threat to Trump’s Gaza plan

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/politics/hamas-israel-gaza-mcgurk-analysis

Netanyahu says ‘struggle is not over’ as dispute with Hamas over hostage bodies continues

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/trump-hamas-warning-gaza

Trump threatens to ‘go in and kill’ Hamas if group doesn’t stop killing in Gaza

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/trump-hamas-warning-gaza

Trump tells CNN Israeli forces could resume fighting in Gaza ‘as soon as I say the word’ if Hamas won’t uphold ceasefire deal

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/politics/hamas-warning-trump-israel-gaza


Nothing about the Aid situation, nothing about Israel still bombing Gaza and killing Palestinians, nothing about the evidence of torture and executions found on returned Palestinian bodies. 

https://www.cnn.com/world/middleeast/israel

You have to go into live updates to get a few tidbits of what's actually going on, still buried in between all the propaganda.

Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, that's all that comes out of Western Media's mouth pieces. And of course only to further dehumanize them, as well as the people still supporting Hamas as a political resistance group.

Hamas calls on mediators to push for implementation of truce deal

The Palestinian group has expressed “deep appreciation for the sincere efforts” made by Egypt, Qatar, and Turkiye over the past two years to reach an agreement to stop Israel’s war on Gaza.

“This effort included hosting meetings, working to bring viewpoints closer together, bridging the gap between positions, and their insistence on overcoming obstacles, which ultimately resulted in ending the insane war on Gaza,” a statement on Telegram said.

The group called on the mediating countries Egypt, Qatar and Turkiye to follow up on the implementation of the remaining provisions of the agreement.

Accordingly, Hamas called for the entry of aid into Gaza in the required quantities, the opening of the Rafah crossing in both directions, and the beginning of the reconstruction of the enclave.

Gaza’s Civil Defence says boy wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza City

The rescue service says Israel attacked a small bus carrying about 10 people with artillery shells, east of the Kuwait Roundabout on Salah al-Din Street in the Zeitoun area of southern Gaza City.

In a post on Telegram, the group said at least one boy was wounded and rescued from the area.

“The fate of the others is unknown due to the danger of the site. Coordination is under way with the relevant international bodies to reach the targeted location,” the Civil Defence said.

Global community must act to secure aid flow to Gaza: Top Turkish diplomat

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says the international community is “concerned” Israel might make excuses to break the ceasefire over Hamas’s slow search for the bodies of the captives.

During a news conference with his German counterpart, Fidan said there is a risk in Gaza of “widespread disease”. “The international community must take urgent action to ensure unhindered humanitarian aid to Gaza,” he added.

Turkish experts to help find bodies in Gaza amid Israel’s deadline

Turkiye has deployed dozens of disaster relief specialists to help search for bodies under the mountains of rubble in Gaza.

Eighty-one members of Turkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), who are experienced in earthquake response, will support the search and rescue efforts in the enclave, according to Turkish media.

Israel gave Hamas until next Tuesday to hand over all the bodies of the deceased captives in Gaza, despite reports of understanding on both the Israeli and American sides that the search for bodies could take weeks, even months.

The Turkish team will support the teams working to meet the deadline, reports said.

Except Israel won't allow them in.


Israel not cooperating regarding search for captive remains, Rafah crossing’s opening

The Israeli government is holding its ground, accusing Hamas of knowing where the captives’ bodies are, of refusing or procrastinating in retrieving those bodies, and that fuels the anger and the pressure domestically.

But on the other hand, everybody knew that this was going to be a difficult task. In fact, when Israeli soldiers were detonating tonnes of explosives to level entire neighbourhoods and communities, there were warnings that this was going to complicate the search for the bodies of Israeli captives, and that’s exactly what you see.

Israel is also not cooperating with countries that are lending help to possibly look for those remains. Turkiye, for example, was ready to send 81 experts in the retrieval of bodies, and Israel has not allowed it to enter. It has also not allowed it to provide equipment that could possibly facilitate that.

Meanwhile, everybody is ready for the Rafah crossing to open, except Israel.

The EU monitoring force is ready, the Palestinian Authority is ready to assume responsibility for passport control and the Egyptians are also ready. In addition to the goods that are sorely needed, 170,000 Palestinians are injured. Thousands of them require urgent medical attention outside of Gaza. Their evacuation can only happen through the Rafah crossing.

Israel’s blocking of heavy machinery complicates ability to clear rubble, find bodies

There is a clear disconnect between what the Israeli government at large is demanding from an area that has been reduced to rubble [and] has been under a complete and suffocating blockade for the past two years.

With [heavy equipment and machinery] being blocked deliberately by the Israeli military, Israel is creating a challenge for the residents of Gaza who are experienced and have the expertise to search and to dig out bodies from under the rubble.

It’s not just the bodies of deceased [Israeli] captives under the rubble; it is the thousands of Palestinian bodies buried and missing and trapped under tonnes and tonnes of rubble and debris across the Gaza Strip.

The challenge we see visibly here on the ground [is that] some of the available bulldozers are not in great shape. They have been damaged. They have been running on bad-quality fuel for the past months, clearing some of the garbage in the streets or some of the rubble-filled roads.

But at this moment, the need [is] for better equipment and high-quality equipment and larger trucks and bulldozers to move the rubble and also to dig out bodies of Palestinians missing and trapped … and bodies of captives that the Israeli military now is demanding and conditioning the sustainability of the ceasefire [on].

The challenge on the ground is quite immense. It’s not [with] magic that these bodies are going to appear and be returned; the work is massive on the ground and requires intervention and better equipment to be done properly.

‘Israelis angry at Hamas over bodies of captives’

Former Israeli ambassador Alon Liel says the return of the bodies of the dead captives is being treated very emotionally in the country, creating pressure on the government.

He said many Israelis believe that Hamas is cheating on the ceasefire agreement by not returning all of the bodies of the deceased captives. “There is a lot of anger,” Liel said.

He believes the US will stay focused on the issue of Gaza, and President Donald Trump will not lose interest in it. “The US is the mediator that we trust, unlike Qatar and Turkey,” Liel said, referring to Turkiye, and stressed that Trump is personally invested in the truce agreement as the chairman of the deal.

Yet Israel keeps a policy of withholding Palestinian bodies, 2019:
"Israeli High Court of Justice Upholds Israel’s Policy of Withholding the Bodies of Palestinians Killed" https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/15175.html


https://www.leftvoice.org/cemetery-of-numbers-israels-practice-of-withholding-the-bodies-of-deceased-palestinians/

Confusion, distress over bodies of deceased Palestinians returned by Israel

The returned bodies at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis are proving difficult to identify, with no names or formal identification available. Many families fear they may be left grieving without closure, with uncertainty about the fate of their loved ones.

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim Al Khalili reports from Khan Younis:

Huge Israeli air strikes on Lebanon despite ceasefire

Huge explosions were seen in southern and eastern Lebanon as Israeli warplanes targeted the area, killing at least one person.

Israel said it attacked Hezbollah infrastructure, despite a ceasefire deal in place since November last year.

Watch below for scenes from the ground:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y_T9vhxEMQI

Iran slams Israeli attacks on Lebanon

Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says the strikes on the south of the country are a “blatant violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

Lebanon said on Thursday that Israel had killed one person and wounded seven, while the Israeli military said it had targeted Iranian ally Hezbollah and allied groups.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the attacks had struck civilian facilities and denounced what he described as a breach of a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel negotiated last year.

Hezbollah and Israel agreed to a truce in November 2024, after more than a year of hostilities that culminated in two months of open war.

Israel nevertheless continues to bomb Lebanese territory.

Baghaei also accused France and the United States – the guarantors of the truce – of “continued inaction and appeasement” towards Israel over what he called the “repeated violation” of the agreement.

Israeli air attack hits southern Lebanon

The attack targeted a neighbourhood in the town of Khirbet Selm, according to Lebanese media. The strike was carried out by a drone that used a guided missile and hit a car, the official National News Agency said.

The NNA reported injuries in the incident.

Hezbollah and Israel agreed to a truce in November 2024, after more than a year of hostilities that culminated in two months of open war. Israel nevertheless continues to bomb Lebanese territory.

Israeli soldiers open fire at olive pickers in south Lebanon: Report

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that Israeli soldiers fired shots at people picking olives, who were accompanied by Lebanese army troops and UN peacekeepers, outside the border town of Aitaroun.

The agency said there were no casualties in the incident.

Here’s what’s been happening in the occupied West Bank

Israeli soldiers raid home of freed prisoner in occupied West Bank

Soldiers have stormed the home of former prisoner Yousef Abdel Halim Daoud in the village of Deir Ghassana in the northwest of Ramallah.

Local sources told the Wafa news agency that the soldiers searched Daoud’s home and ransacked his family’s belongings. During the raid, they fired sound grenades and tear gas around the villages of Deir Ghassana and Beit Rima, with no injuries reported, according to Wafa.

Daoud was deported to Egypt as part of the recent Israeli captive-Palestinian prisoner exchange deal. He had been sentenced to imprisonment for life and spent 22 years in Israeli prisons.

Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans barred from Europa League game in UK

Fans of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv have been barred from attending a Europa League game against Aston Villa in the United Kingdom next month because of security concerns, the English club said.

Birmingham City’s Safety Advisory Group (SAG) – the body responsible for issuing safety certificates for matches at Villa Park, where the game is to be played – informed Aston Villa that Maccabi Tel Aviv away fans will not be permitted to attend.

West Midlands Police said they had classified the match as high risk based on “current intelligence and previous incidents, including violent clashes and hate crime offences that occurred during the 2024 UEFA Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam”.

What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam

Starmer calls for Israeli football fans to be allowed at Aston Villa match

The British PM says fans of Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv should not be barred from a football match in Birmingham next month.

As we reported earlier, Aston Villa said travelling Maccabi fans – who were involved in violence a year ago in Amsterdam – would be barred from the Europa League match on November 6, after West Midlands police expressed concern about potential protests outside the stadium.

Starmer posted on X that it was “the wrong decision”.

“We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets,” he wrote. “The role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation.”

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is due to meet Home Office officials to seek a “way through” the ban, an official told Sky News.

Starmer wants the opportunity to outdo Halsema in blaming their own citizens for reacting to Maccabi's racist attacks.

UK loses bid to block challenge to Palestine Action ban

The British government has lost its bid to block the cofounder of pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action from bringing a legal challenge over the banning of the group under anti-terrorism laws.

Huda Ammori, who helped found Palestine Action in 2020, was given permission to challenge the group’s proscription, with her case due to be heard next month.

The UK Home Office (interior ministry) asked the Court of Appeal to overturn that decision and rule that any challenge to proscription should be heard by a specialist tribunal.

Judge Sue Carr rejected the Home Office’s appeal, saying Ammori’s case could proceed in the High Court.

Palestine Action was proscribed as a “terrorist organisation” by the government in July, making it a crime to be a member, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

More than 1,000 people have since been arrested for holding signs in support of the group, with more than 100 charged.

Trump says expects expansion of Abraham Accords soon

Trump said he expects an expansion of the Abraham Accords soon and hopes Saudi Arabia will join the pact that normalised diplomatic relations between Israel and some Arab states.

“I hope to see Saudi Arabia go in, and I hope to see others go in. I think when Saudi Arabia goes in, everybody goes in,” Trump said in an interview broadcast today on Fox Business Network.

The US president called the pact a “miracle” and “amazing” and hailed the UAE’s signing of it.

“It’ll help bring long-lasting peace to the Middle East,” said Trump.

That's the only reason for his 'peace' plan, to get his Abraham accords back on track.

And this:

Resolving Palestine issue key for progress in India-Europe corridor: Egypt

The US-backed transport project to connect India to Europe via the Middle East by sea and rail, known as the India-Middle East Economic Corridor (IMEC), was announced on the sidelines of a summit of the leaders of the Group of 20 major economies in September 2023.

“We have to bear in mind that connectivity is very important as part of a final settlement of the Palestinian cause,” Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told reporters during a visit to New Delhi.

He said he discussed the IMEC during talks with his Indian counterpart and added that Egypt was open to being a part of the project.

The corridor aims to extend from India across the Arabian Sea to the United Arab Emirates and through Saudi Arabia before connecting through Jordan and Israel to Europe.

India and the UAE signed a framework agreement for the project last year.

What are the Abraham Accords? Will they actually expand as Trump says?

Dubbed the “Abraham Accords”, Trump during his first term secured agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.

But analysts say an expansion of the accords will be difficult – if not outright impossible – given widespread public anger over Israel’s deadly two-year war on Gaza, which experts have said amounts to a genocide against the Palestinian people.

An August survey from the Washington Institute, a pro-Israel think tank in the US, found that 81 percent of Saudi respondents viewed the prospect of normalising relations with Israel negatively.

A Foreign Affairs and Arab Barometer poll from June came to similar findings: in Morocco, one of the Abraham Accords signatories, support for the deal fell from 31 percent in 2022 to 13 percent in the months after Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023.

Saudi Arabia has also repeatedly asserted its commitment to the Arab Peace Initiative, which conditions recognition of Israel on resolving the plight of Palestinians and establishing a Palestinian state.

UN rights chief says accountability for ‘egregious violations’ critical

Volker Turk, the UN’s human rights chief, has stressed that “all hands on deck” are needed to ensure the Gaza ceasefire translates into a lasting peace.

“Human rights are fundamentally about human dignity. It is also about accountability for the egregious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law that have taken place over the past two years,” Turk said in a video shared on social media.

He added that all Palestinians across Gaza and the occupied West Bank must be included in any future governance decisions, and the Palestinian right to self-determination also must be respected.

UN Human Rights Chief @volker_turk calls on all actors to ensure that human rights are central to recovery and peacebuilding processes, in order for the ceasefire in #Gaza to transform into an enduring peace for the peoples of #Palestine and #Israel.

— UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) October 17, 2025

Israel’s “Peace” Deal Just Backfired — BIG Time

The much-publicized “Peace 2025” summit was never about peace at all. Max Blumenthal reveals how the event served as a stage-managed spectacle designed to boost Donald Trump’s legacy rather than resolve the Israel-Palestine crisis. Netanyahu’s calculated absence, Trump’s obsession with a Nobel Prize, and revelations of political influence by powerful donors all expose the hollow nature of this so-called peace deal.

From the provocative U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem to the unraveling ceasefire and ongoing Israeli violations, the illusion of diplomacy is collapsing fast.

Blumenthal connects these failures to broader regional tensions—Trump’s dangerous posturing toward Russia, Israel’s deepening internal crisis, and delusional plans for regime change in Iran—painting a stark picture of a world where PR replaces principle and power politics masquerades as peace.

Why American Jews Have Turned Against Israel w/ Lee Camp

After two years of horrific and criminal genocide and assault on Gaza, there is now a ceasefire. Israel is committing more crimes against Palestinians, but mass public opinion has majorly shifted, changing the balance of forces. On the home front, the Trump White House is waging a war against immigrant families, and basic democratic rights.