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SvennoJ on 03 August 2025

Netanyahu calls on Red Cross to help feed captives held in Gaza

The Israeli prime minister says he has spoken to the regional head of the Red Cross, Julian Larson, and requested his “immediate involvement” in providing food and medical treatment to captives still held in Gaza.

In a post on X, Netanyahu wrote in Hebrew that he told Larson that Hamas was propagating a “lie of starvation” in the enclave but the reality was that “systematic starvation is being carried out against our hostages”.

“Men and women who are subjected to severe and cruel physical and psychological abuse. The world cannot remain indifferent to the shocking images that are reminiscent of Nazi crimes,” Netanyahu said.

The Israeli leader called on the world to condemn Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and stop all forms of “support for them, direct or indirect”.

Netanyahu’s comments came after the two Palestinian groups released videos of captives Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David, who looked emaciated as the people in Gaza struggle to survive an Israeli-induced starvation crisis.


Starves the entire population of Gaza, bombs the Red Cross killing over 50 PRCS staff and volunteers in the genocide, then demands that the red cross feed the hostages Netanyahu doesn't want back / end the genocide for. 

But he's right "The world cannot remain indifferent to the shocking images that are reminiscent of Nazi crimes" Although it's actually inspired by UK crimes...

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/britain-forced-famine-ireland-now-its-taking-part-gaza-genocide

Note that tweet is from October 2023, starvation policy has been ongoing since 2005, now we're in the final stage.

Israel again claims no obstruction of aid, blames UN

Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), its military entity in charge of managing aid to Gaza and the West Bank, claims 1,200 aid trucks have entered Gaza and have been collected by the UN and other international organisations over the past week.

“Despite this progress, hundreds of trucks remain inside Gaza, waiting to be picked up and distributed by the UN and international organisations,” it said in a statement while also pointing to aid airdropped by several countries.

Gaza authorities and international agencies have said the besieged enclave requires at least 600 trucks of humanitarian aid per day to stave off famine and support about two million Palestinians. Israel blocked all aid from entering Gaza for months after it unilaterally broke a ceasefire with Hamas in March.

Even if it was 1,200 over the past week, that's 600 full trucks over the past week (trucks are half empty when entering for inspection then get reloaded), that's 85 a day avg out of 600 needed. And in reality less made it actually into the strip and none made it to distribution points...

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/17/israeli-military-calorie-limit-gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/the-mathematics-of-starvation-how-israel-caused-a-famine-in-gaza

The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza. Palestinians cannot leave, war has ended farming and Israel has banned fishing, so practically every calorie its population eats must be brought in from outside.

Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation.

“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.

Cogat, the Israeli agency that still controls aid shipments to Gaza, calculated then that Palestinians needed an average minimum 2,279 calories per person per day, which could be provided through 1.836kg of food.

Today, humanitarian organisations are asking for an even smaller minimum ration: 62,000 metric tonnes of dry and canned food to meet basic needs for 2.1 million people each month, or around 1kg of food per person per day.

62,000 tons per month, 103 fully filled trucks daily of just dry and canned food, 193 daily to meet the 2,279 calories per person per day. That's just net weight of food, no packaging, no way to cook it, no water to cook with. Plus special food is needed now to treat malnutrition, baby formula is needed, medicine is needed and so much more.

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SvennoJ on 03 August 2025

Belgium hopping on the performance theater air drop bandwagon

Belgium begins Gaza aid airdrops

Belgium’s military has carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza, its Defence Ministry says.

The delivery is part of a broader effort to get food and medical supplies into the besieged territory via Jordan.

UNRWA has been critical of aid airdrops, which it said are at least 100 times more costly than trucks.

Meanwhile, Belgium is facing legal pressure at home for allegedly failing to act against Israeli violations during the war. On July 7, the Belgian state was formally summoned to appear before the French-speaking Court of First Instance in Brussels.


‘Humanitarian pauses’ not reflected in ground reality as more Palestinians starve to death

There’s a very, very small amount of trucks coming into Gaza – about maybe 80 to 100 trucks every single day – despite the fact that this “humanitarian pause” was for more aid to enter the Gaza Strip.

This was supposed to be a pause where Palestinians would reach and receive aid, distribution points would open, hot meal kitchens would operate again, but what we’re seeing on the ground is totally different.

Palestinians are struggling to get a bag of wheat flour. They’re struggling to find a food parcel. And this shows the fact that this pause and all the Israeli claims are not true because on the ground, Palestinians are starving.

More Palestinians die every single day due to the forced starvation and malnutrition.

The whole population was completely relying on UN agencies and other partners to distribute food.

Since the blockade started, those distribution points have not been operating, and now nothing’s back to normal. Palestinians are still struggling, and not only that, they’re being killed now for the fact that they’re approaching trucks, the GHF, because they want to eat.



More than 22,000 aid trucks blocked by Israel: Gaza media office

The Government Media Office in Gaza says Israel is deliberately blocking more than 22,000 humanitarian aid trucks from entering the territory, calling it part of a systematic campaign of “starvation, siege, and chaos”.

In a statement, the office said: “We confirm that there are more than 22,000 humanitarian aid trucks currently parked at the Gaza Strip crossing gates, most of which belong to UN and international organizations and various entities.

“The Israeli occupation is deliberately preventing their entry as part of a systematic policy of engineering starvation, siege, and chaos.”

The media office described the situation as a “full-fledged war crime”, adding that it violates international law and contributes to what it called the ongoing crime of genocide against Gaza’s residents.

“We hold the Israeli occupation, along with the states involved through silence or complicity, fully responsible for the worsening humanitarian catastrophe,” the statement added.

The office called for the immediate and unconditional entry of all detained trucks, the full reopening of border crossings, and the safe delivery of aid to Gaza’s civilians “before it is too late”.


Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid await permission on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip on August 3

Gaza death toll rises to 92 since dawn

Since dawn, Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 92 people, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

Among those, 56 were aid seekers, including nine in Rafah and seven at Netzarim, northern Gaza.



SvennoJ on 03 August 2025

Protest in Jakarta against Israel’s war on Gaza


Protesters gather at the National Monument in Jakarta, calling on Egypt to open the Rafah crossing to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza

West Bank protests condemn Israel’s starvation of Gaza

Footage published by Palestinian social media accounts and verified by Al Jazeera shows marches and demonstrations across the occupied West Bank in support of Gaza. Protests took place in cities and towns that included Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Tulkarem and Tubas.

Protesters chanted slogans rejecting genocide and Israel’s starvation and forced displacement policies and promised to resist the ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people.


Translation: Scenes from the march that took place in the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank today, in condemnation of the war of extermination and starvation against the residents of the Gaza Strip.


Young Palestinian man dies in Israel’s Megiddo prison

Ahmad Saeed Tazaza’a, a 20-year-old Palestinian who was being detained without trial or charge since May, has died in Israel’s Megiddo prison.

Tazaza’a was from Qabatiya in the Jenin governorate, in the occupied West Bank. The Prisoners’ Media Office said he died under mysterious circumstances earlier today with no clear details available, which, it added, reinforces the conviction that “what happened to him was a full-fledged crime tied to the systematic slow-killing practices pursued by the Israeli prisons administration”.

The monitor said those practices include severe physical and psychological torture, deliberate starvation, medical neglect, and the spread of infectious diseases, adding that Megiddo prison has become a prominent centre for systematic abuse, including against detained minors.

This brings the death toll of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention since the start of the war on Gaza to at least 76 people, most of whom were held in harsh conditions and subjected to systematic torture.


Hebron residents suffer tear gas inhalation during Israeli operation

Israeli forces have stormed central Hebron, firing tear gas and sound bombs at residents and shops, according to the Wafa news agency. Quoting security sources, the Palestinian news outlet reported a number of people suffered tear gas inhalation.

Israeli troops also stormed the town of Yatta, south of Hebron. So far, no arrests have been reported.



SvennoJ on 03 August 2025

Palestinian shot as Israeli forces expand West Bank raids

Israeli forces have intensified the raids in the occupied West Bank’s city of Hebron that we reported on earlier, resulting in the wounding of a young Palestinian man.

Security sources told Wafa news agency that during the raid in the central areas of Hebron, Israeli soldiers fired live bullets, tear gas and sound grenades at people and shops, hitting a man in the thigh with a bullet, who was transferred to hospital.

Israeli forces also stormed Kafr Qaddum, located east of Qalqiliya. Footage verified by Al Jazeera showed raids taking place in the towns of Sebastia in Nablus and Anabta in Tulkarem.



Translation: [Israeli] forces storm the city of Yatta, south of Hebron, and fire tear gas canisters.


Israeli forces launch more raids across occupied West Bank

Israeli soldiers and armoured vehicles have launched more incursions into the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency and other local sources report.

Israeli soldiers stormed the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, firing sound bombs and tear gas, without any injuries reported so far.

They also stormed Burqin, west of Jenin, deploying infantry in the streets and searching a Palestinian store. Several areas in the Ramallah governorate were hit as well, including the town of Silwad and a neighbourhood of el-Bireh.

Translation: Occupation forces storm the town of Beita, south of Nablus.



SvennoJ on 03 August 2025

Hamas says open to requests from Red Cross to deliver food to captives

The spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, says in a statement that the group is “ready to act positively and respond to any request from the Red Cross to deliver food and medicine to enemy prisoners”.

This comes after videos of two Israeli captives were released this week by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, showing them emaciated and talking about their lack of enough to eat, prompting calls from Israeli leaders for intervention.

The spokesman, known as Abu Obeida, said that in order for requests to aid captives to be accepted, “humanitarian corridors must be opened in a normal and permanent manner for the passage of food and medicine to all our people in all areas of the Gaza Strip, and the enemy’s aerial sorties of all forms must cease during the receipt of packages for the prisoners”.

He added that the Qassam Brigades is not intentionally starving the captives it holds, but gives them the same amount of food as is eaten by its fighters.

Israeli energy minister: There is no genocide in Gaza

Eli Cohen has taken to X to claim that anyone in Israel who says the country is committing genocide in Gaza is “blatantly lying, distorting reality, and spitting in the faces of our heroic soldiers who are doing sacred work”.

In 2024, a UN committee’s report found that Israel’s methods of warfare in Gaza were “consistent with genocide“, and the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for PM Netanyahu and then-Defence Minister Gallant for “war crimes” committed in Gaza.

“We must not surrender to Hamas”, Israel’s Energy Minister Cohen continued, saying this is the only way Israelis can live without fear.

Netanyahu claims captive videos show Hamas does not want a deal

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has released a video message in Hebrew saying the videos of emaciated captives held in Gaza show Hamas is not interested in a ceasefire agreement.

“I understand exactly what Hamas wants. It doesn’t want a deal. It wants to break us through these horrific videos, through the false horror propaganda it spreads around the world,” he said.

“But we will not break. I am filled with even stronger determination to free our kidnapped sons, to eliminate Hamas, and to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to the state of Israel.”

Netanyahu claimed that Hamas captors have “thick, fleshy arms” and they are starving the captives “just as the Nazis starved the Jews”.


Israel organises UNSC meeting over captives as it hosts US officials

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold a special session on Tuesday to discuss captives held in Gaza after a request by Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, his office is reported as saying by Israeli media.

The move comes as Israel has demanded global condemnation over the videos of captives released by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and as Saar hosted a US congressional delegation headed by House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican.



The world doesn't believe your lies anymore. 



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SvennoJ on 03 August 2025

Israel’s former top military, security officials call for end to Gaza war

Israeli Army Radio has published an unprecedented video featuring 11 former top military and security officials who called for an immediate halt to the war on Gaza, saying Israel is losing more than it is achieving.

The former leaders, who include chiefs of staff and senior officials in the Israeli security apparatus, along with former heads of Mossad, Shin Bet and military intelligence, said Israel is at “the dawn of defeat” as it has turned legitimate defence into a strategic impasse.

The army is “stuck” in Gaza, they said, adding that it risks losing its achieved gains. They added that the recent military operation dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots” did not achieve tangible results, and the costs are high, while no progress has been made on releasing captives held in Gaza.

The former officials said PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is leading the country based on an “extremist religious vision” and must end the war and “save what can be saved”.


Translation: Chiefs of staff, police commissioners, heads of Shin Bet, Mossad, and military intelligence, in a joint call to end the war: “It has ceased to be a just war and is leading the state of Israel to a loss of its identity”.


Poll: Majority of Israelis support ending war for captive release

A new poll conducted by Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 has found that 62 percent of the Israeli public would favour ending the war on Gaza completely in exchange for the return of all captives held there, while 29 percent said they would prefer that Israel escalate the fighting until Hamas is defeated.

Among those who support PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his ruling coalition, 65 percent favour escalating the fighting. Also, 45 percent of those polled said that the prime minister had abandoned the Israeli captives.


Captives’ families say further military action in Gaza endangers their loved ones

The families of the Israeli captives still held in Gaza have responded to the statements of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he repeatedly said that the release of captives was tied to a “military resolution” in Gaza, describing the comments as “repeated deception and misleading of public opinion”.

“For 22 months, the public has been sold the illusion that military pressure will bring back the hostages, and today, even before reaching a comprehensive draft agreement, it is said that an agreement is futile. This is a direct danger to the lives of our sons, who live in the hell of tunnels and are threatened by starvation and immediate death,” a statement from a group representing the families reads.

The statement added that expanding the war would directly endanger the captives, noting that recent images of hungry captives confirm a catastrophic humanitarian situation for them that they cannot withstand for much longer.

Israeli police clash with protesters in Tel Aviv

Footage posted by Israeli media shows protesters being manhandled and arrested by police in Tel Aviv.

Netanyahu’s government is reportedly set to approve a decision to dismiss Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, a move that it said would decrease “politically motivated” legal restrictions placed on it.

Protesters are gathering in Tel Aviv tonight, voicing their discontent. For the past two nights, they have also been on the streets calling for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza and the return of the captives still held there.



SvennoJ on 03 August 2025

‘A pattern to silence voices who speak out against atrocities in Gaza’

The head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has denounced Israel’s moves to stop facts from getting out of Gaza as much as possible, including by banning international media and killing journalists.

Philipphe Lazzarini was himself banned from entering Gaza, as were other senior United Nations leaders organising aid delivery to Palestinians.

“It’s our duty to speak out on the atrocities and any breaches of International humanitarian law,” he wrote in a post on X.



Gaza city’s Zeitoun left ‘like tsunami hit’ after 45-day Israeli assault

The Zeitoun neighbourhood in northern Gaza lies in ruins following a 45-day Israeli military operation described by residents as the most destructive they’ve ever witnessed.

Entire residential blocks and infrastructure have been flattened, with locals comparing the devastation to the aftermath of a tsunami.

This marks the seventh Israeli incursion into the area, leaving families sifting through rubble to salvage belongings from bombed-out homes.

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili reports from the Zeitoun neighbourhood in northern Gaza:



SvennoJ on 03 August 2025

Main events on August 3rd

  • The Israeli military killed at least 92 Palestinians, including 56 aid seekers, during its attacks on the Gaza Strip, as the enclave continues to grapple with famine and mass starvation.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the videos of emaciated captives in Gaza show that Hamas does not want a ceasefire deal, while Hamas said it is open to accepting food and medicine for the captives from the Red Cross, once permanent “humanitarian corridors” are opened and aid is delivered to the people of Gaza.
  • Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir drew condemnation from across the region again after he stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound with settlers, this time to personally lead prayers, a severe violation of the status quo governing the third-most holy site in Islam.
  • A group of former Israeli military and intelligence heads said the government must immediately end the war as it faces a strategic impasse and “defeat”.
  • France deported a Gaza student who was due to join a university in Lille with a government scholarship and halted all Gaza evacuations because she allegedly reposted “anti-Semitic” content.
  • The Houthis in Yemen said they launched three drones at military targets in Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Haifa, with the Israeli army saying it shot down one drone and encountered no others.
  • One Palestinian was shot during raids by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians also organised more demonstrations to condemn starvation in Gaza.

It made the mainstream news now

Whistleblower: 10-year-old Palestinian boy ‘gunned down’ after receiving food aid


Anthony Aguilar, a former Gaza Humanitarian Foundation contractor, describes what he saw on the ground in Gaza while trying to distribute aid to hungry Palestinians, including meeting a young 10-year-old boy, Amir, who thanked him and his colleague for the aid he was able to retrieve. Moments later, he says Amir was “gunned down” and killed. "We have no excuse as a nation...as a world to look at this and say we didn't know," he says.

“Israel’s Military Operation is COMPLETELY Wrong”—US Lt Col Daniel Davis


Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis shares his journey to realizing that Israel is committing a holocaust in Gaza. Lt Col Davis criticizes the Trump admin’s denial of Gaza’s starvation, and challenges conservatives who claim to care about the “right to life” to care about ALL human life, including the lives of Palestinians.

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis is a four time 4x combat veteran, the author of Eleventh Hour in 2020 America and the host of the Daniel Davis Deep Dive on YouTube. He was one of the earliest military officers to publicly criticize the war in Afghanistan. In 2025, Davis was selected by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for appointment as deputy director for mission integration. Gabbard withdrew the selection prior to Davis' appointment after news of its pendency leaked, possibly over his criticism of Israel.



SvennoJ on 03 August 2025

Netanyahu’s huge confession on Gaza amidst request to Red Cross for food supply


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday made a spectacular admission of guilt as he requested the International Red Cross to supply food to captives held by Hamas fighters. Rifat Jawaid explains why this should come to haunt Netanyahu, who is facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.

Elsewhere, over 300,000 Australians took part in ahistoric protest march in Sydney in solidarity woth thenpeople of Gaza. Also joining them was the wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.



“We Were ORDERED To Stand Down On October 7th!” -Says IDF Soldier

A former Israeli soldier testified that on October 7th 2023, the day of the Hamas attacks, troops were unexpectedly ordered to cancel all border patrols and stand down between 5:20 and 9:00 a.m., despite Gaza being one of the most heavily surveilled areas in the world. this strange directive raised serious doubts, especially since the attack began just over an hour later, and the official explanation about a sniper threat didn’t add up for soldiers stationed close to the fence.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger present a broader theory that Israeli leadership, including Netanyahu, intentionally empowered Hamas over more moderate Palestinian factions to justify military action and territorial expansion. The soldier, now injured and reflecting on the events, expressed confusion, betrayal, and a desire for the truth, believing that the attacks were used as a political pretext at great human cost.

Who Killed This Palestinian-American Journalist – And Why?


Zeteo uncovered the hidden identity – and fate – of the Israeli soldier who killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022.

Watch this 8-minute preview of ‘Who Killed Shireen?’, Zeteo’s investigative documentary that, for the first time, identifies Abu Akleh’s killer – a closely guarded secret Israel had refused to divulge, even to top US officials, according to our sources.

To watch the full, 40-minute documentary, go to https://zeteo.com/s/who-killed-shireen

 Watch the full film to hear groundbreaking revelations about the killing, as well as a shocking Biden administration cover-up, with former US officials divulging exclusive new information and telling us that the Biden administration “failed” Shireen in order to maintain its relationship with the Israeli government.



SvennoJ on 04 August 2025

60 women on hunger strike over Israeli settler killing of West Bank activist

Sixty women from the Palestinian community of Masafer Yatta are now on hunger strike as Israeli police refuse to return the body of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, a week after he was shot dead by an Israeli settler.

Yuval Abraham, the co-director of No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary Hathaleen helped create, says “police [are] still refusing to give the body of Awdah Hathaleen, who was murdered by a settler, back to his loved ones.”

In a video shared by Abraham, Hathaleen’s mother-in-law, Fatme Hathaleen, says the women have been on hunger strike since Thursday and will continue until his body is returned and they can give him a proper funeral.



Israel arrests four at protests over killing of West Bank activist: Report

Dozens of people participated in marches through the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Sunday, demanding Israeli police release the body of Palestinian Awdah Hathaleen, who was allegedly shot dead by an Israeli settler last week.

Participants in the protests also demanded the immediate release of a number of village residents, arrested by Israeli forces in a campaign across the community in the occupied West Bank in the days since Hathaleen was killed.

Oren Ziv, a journalist at +972 magazine, said four activists were arrested at the protest in Tel Aviv.


Israeli forces kill two Palestinians near Jenin

Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians in a raid near the Qabatiya neighbourhood south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, sources have told Al Jazeera.

Their bodies were taken away by the Israeli military, the sources said.

In videos posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera, Palestinian residents are seen inspecting the aftermath of an Israeli army attack on an agricultural barn near Qabatiya.