The Perfect Example Of News Media BLATANTLY Lying For Israel!

Fox News has been blatantly spreading a false narrative, blaming the UN for starvation in Gaza, while ignoring overwhelming evidence of Israeli guilt, as well as actual statements from Israeli officials openly admitting to deliberately blocking aid and targeting civilians.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger criticize the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) as a “death trap,” luring Palestinians with promises of aid only to attack them. International humanitarian organizations and UN officials have condemned the GHF’s tactics and refused to participate in what they call undignified and deadly operations. The segment argues this is part of a broader propaganda campaign to deflect blame from Israel's policies and actions.

'Right-wing Israelis have planned their houses in Gaza'

Gaza is STARVING by DESIGN / Lt Col Daniel Davis

Danny delivers a forceful condemnation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, describing it as a man-made catastrophe enabled by Israeli policy and U.S. support. He argues that civilians are being starved deliberately—if they try to obtain food, they risk being shot, and if they don’t, they face death by starvation.

This is not a tragic accident, he claims, but the result of calculated policies. He acknowledges that many Americans struggle to reconcile this with their longstanding positive view of Israel as a democratic ally, but insists the evidence—including eyewitness accounts, videos, and the testimony of retired U.S. Special Forces Lt. Col. Tony Aguilar—is undeniable.

Aguilar, who served 12 combat deployments and recently visited Gaza with a humanitarian group, describes the situation as worse than any war zone he's seen. He confirms widespread starvation and extreme malnutrition, especially among children—many of whom may never recover even if the blockade ended tomorrow.

The speaker denounces official denials of starvation from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and others as dishonest and dangerous. He criticizes the U.S. for providing weapons and diplomatic cover, while failing to hold Israel accountable. The commentary also mocks those who dismiss the crisis because they don’t see “skin and bones” on every Gazan, calling it willful blindness to overwhelming evidence. He also attacks U.S. officials like Ambassador Huckabee for parroting Israeli narratives while ignoring the suffering of Palestinians. Despite claims that Hamas is to blame for stolen aid, the speaker stresses that very little aid is getting in at all, and what exists is tightly controlled.

He ends with a warning: this complicity will be remembered as a stain on the moral conscience of this generation. America’s credibility as a global defender of human rights is eroding, and future tyrants may use U.S. actions in Gaza as justification for their own abuses. The only hope, he says, is that courageous nations—or America itself—will finally intervene and halt the destruction before mass death accelerates even further.

Palestinians return to al-Zeitoun neighbourhood after 45 days

The Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City has been left in ruins after a 45-day Israeli military operation that flattened entire residential blocks. Residents of the area in northern Gaza described it as the most destructive incursion yet.

“Their goal was only destruction, nothing at all but destruction,” one said.


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Palestinians storm aid truck in desperate scene

The Associated Press has published photos of Palestinians climbing on aid trucks along the Morag corridor near Rafah.

As we reported earlier, a United Nations spokesperson has said that aid deliveries remain scant, with most cargo “offloaded by the hungry crowds before reaching its destination”.

The collapse in a central authority in Gaza amid the war has further fuelled chaos.

_{Palestinians ride on a truck loaded with food and humanitarian aid as it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip}

What ‘starvation’ really means, for the human body and for Gaza

Aid agencies say the limited amount of aid Israel has allowed into Gaza in the last week is unlikely to avert the famine experts have warned about for months.

While at first most of the starvation-related deaths were among children and infants, increasingly, older people are succumbing to the hunger that Israel has imposed upon the enclave since March.

On Sunday, six more adults died from malnutrition, bringing the number of adults to die from hunger in Gaza to 82 over the last five weeks, when such deaths were first recorded.

Ninety-three children have also been killed by Israel through the man-made malnutrition it has imposed upon the enclave since its war began.

So, how does starvation happen? Are we seeing the whole picture?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/4/what-starvation-really-means-for-the-human-body-and-for-gaza


_{Elderly displaced Palestinian man Salim Asfour, 85, suffers from severe malnutrition, which in has led to him losing over 40kg (88lb) of his body weight. When food is available, Salim gives most of his rations to his family, and his age makes him more vulnerable to the effects of malnutrition; August 3}

Hamas official calls for international intervention in Gaza

Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan has released the latest message from the group, saying “engineered starvation” and genocide is “a crime against humanity”, while calling for an immediate intervention by the international community.

“[It] will remain a stigma that haunts all the supporters of the occupation and those who fail to prevent and stop it,” he said in a statement released by Hamas’ official Telegram channel.

Hamdan accused the US and other Western countries of “double standards” due to their difference in attitude towards the Palestinian prisoners and the Israeli captives.

He said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “bears full responsibility for the lives of all prisoners held by the resistance due to his intransigence, arrogance, and evasion of a ceasefire agreement, while escalating the war of extermination and starvation against our people”.

Here’s what else Hamdan said in today’s message:

Palestinian Foreign Ministry urges UN Security Council to enforce ‘immediate ceasefire’

In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry has said that the UN Security Council has “legal and moral responsibilities” to enforce “an immediate ceasefire” in Gaza.

“The ministry expresses deep concern over the continued obstruction of the Security Council’s role in protecting over two million Palestinians in Gaza, trapped in ongoing genocide, facing mass killing, starvation, and the denial of basic human rights,” said the statement.

It added that “continued delays in ending the war only serve to further plans of forced displacement against our people”.

Israeli MP says full occupation of Gaza means captives will die

Merav Cohen of the centrist Yesh Atid party made the remarks in response to reports that Netanyahu is weighing launching a military assault to try to take full control of Gaza.

Netanyahu was set to make a final decision on the issue during a Security Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, according to Israeli media. It remained to be seen if the government was likely to move ahead with the plan.

Still, Cohen said that any plan to take full control of Gaza, including areas where Israeli captives are being held, would mean “we will bring our brothers back only in coffins”.

“Perhaps some kind of miracle will occur here, and the heroic soldiers will be able to save one or two people before the terrorists shoot them, but we will receive them only in coffins,” she said.

“We want them alive, we do not want them in coffins.”

Israeli military storms Nablus in occupied West Bank

Videos verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad Agency showed Israeli forces on Amman Street east of Nablus, while forces also stormed the village of Balata Al-Balad on the road leading to Joseph’s Tomb.

The Wafa news agency and activists on the ground said the actions appeared to be preparing for Israeli settlers to visit the tomb, which is considered a holy site for Muslims, Christians and Jews.

Israel says one missile intercepted from Yemen

The Israeli Air Force has said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen. It added that alerts were activated in southern Israel following the launch, which was not immediately claimed by any group.

Israel and Yemen-based Houthis have exchanged near-daily cross-border strikes throughout the war, with the Houthis saying they will continue fighting in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

‘There was no bringing them back,’ volunteer doctor recalls

Al Jazeera has spoken with Nour Sharaf, an emergency doctor who spent time volunteering in Gaza, about the desperate conditions inside the enclave’s medical facilities.

“From the second I stepped foot in Gaza, it was very clear that I was going into a destroyed healthcare system,” Sharaf said. “We were treating patients on the floor. We were treating patients with material that’s really only meant to be used once and thrown away, but we had to reuse it. It’s very devastating.”

Sharaf said she saw lots of injured people brought in every day from the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, where Israeli forces have repeatedly shot at aid seekers.

“Those patients would come in with gunshot wounds. They would come in with blast injuries. A lot of those injuries are unsurvivable,” she said. “Unfortunately, we also saw a lot of patients who showed up, and there was no bringing them back – they were already dead.”

_{A Palestinian girl looks on as people carry the body of a person who was killed while seeking food at a distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on Salah al-Din Street in Nuseirat}


Unpacking the numbers behind Gaza’s wounded

As we’ve been reporting, the number of wounded during Israel’s war on Gaza has today reached at least 150,027.

But that figure does not indicate the true impact:

Children in Gaza ‘taking on responsibilities they shouldn’t have to’

Nour Sharaf, an emergency doctor, has given more details on her time volunteering in Gaza.

She recounted the case of a seven-year-old boy who had been shot while trying to retrieve water for his family. The child, who ventured out without his parents asking him to, simply wanted to help provide for them, she said, but “unfortunately, in the process, he got shot in the head”.

His case speaks to the psychological toll the war is taking on children, Sharaf said.

“They are meant to grow up in a world where they’re playing, they’re learning, they’re growing, but instead, they’re worried about whether or not they’re going to have something to eat at night or whether they’re going to be able to go home to their mom and dad.”

“They’re taking on responsibilities they shouldn’t have to take on,” she said.

Palestinians distraught over relatives missing at deadly Gaza aid sites

As Israel’s forced starvation tightens its grip on Gaza’s entire population, an increasing number of Palestinian families are frantically searching for news of relatives who undertook perilous journeys to get food from aid distribution points, never to return.

Khaled Obaid has been searching for his beloved son, Ahmed, for two months, scanning every passing vehicle on the coastal road in Deir-el-Balah, hoping against all odds that one of them might bring him home.

The boy had left the displaced family’s tent in the central town to find food for his parents and sister, who had lost her husband during the war, and headed to the Zikim crossing point, where aid trucks enter northern Gaza.

“He hasn’t returned until now. He went because he was hungry. We have nothing to eat,” the distraught father told Al Jazeera, breaking down in tears with his wife under the blue tarpaulin where they are sheltering.

Palestinians rush to get aid supplies in Khan Younis

_{Palestinians climb onto trucks as they seek aid supplies in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, August 4}

Main events on August 4th

• UNICEF decried the scale of children being killed in Gaza, which it says averages out to 28 a day – “the size of a classroom”.
• Save the Children said 43 percent of pregnant and breastfeeding women examined in its facilities in Gaza in the first half of July were malnourished.
• Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said “engineered starvation” and genocide is “a crime against humanity”, and urged an immediate intervention by the international community.
• The Israeli military said its strike on Khiam in the Nabatieh governorate of southern Lebanon has killed a member of Hezbollah.
• The Palestinian Authority slammed US House Speaker Mike Johnson’s visit to the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank.
• Israeli media said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a security cabinet meeting on Tuesday, as he weighs the possibility of launching an operation to take full control of Gaza.

ISRAEL ANNOUNCES FULL GAZA OCCUPATION

US doctor in Gaza warns of starvation crisis resembling concentration camps

American pediatrician Dr Tom Adamkiewicz, currently volunteering at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, condemned the narrative in media and political circles that downplays the crisis in Gaza because it has not yet reached the visual extremity of concentration camps, where children appear as mere "skeletons."

He stressed that such scenes are no longer a distant threat but are already becoming reality, as he cares for severely malnourished children and patients with life-altering gunshot wounds arrive at the hospital, injured while simply trying to secure food for their families.

Australia’s FM warns of ‘risk there will be no Palestine left to recognise’

Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs has told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) “there is a risk there will be no Palestine left to recognise”.

However Penny Wong did not elaborate on when Australia would recognise Palestinian statehood, saying only that it was “a matter of when, not if”.

Wong’s comments came after a mass protest in Sydney on Sunday, which she said showed the “distress of Australians, on what we are seeing unfolding in Gaza, the catastrophic humanitarian situation, the deaths of women and children, the withholding of aid”.

But asked if Australia was considering taking any more concrete actions, such as imposing sanctions on Israel, Wong said: “We don’t speculate on sanctions for the obvious reason that they have more effect if they are not flagged.”

She noted that Australia had already imposed sanctions on two far-right ministers in Netanyahu’s government, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, in June this year, as well as “extremist” Israeli settlers.

‘Solidarity in a can’: Palestine Cola launches in Ireland

A new soft drink is making waves across Ireland – not just for its taste, but for the message it carries. Palestine Cola has launched in County Down, with organisers calling it “solidarity in a can”. All profits go directly to Palestinian-led initiatives in Gaza.

Garry Harper, a member of Mourne for Palestine, told Al Jazeera the project is deeply personal. “Every single penny of profit goes directly to support two young Palestinian girls, Yara and Rahaf, who stayed with our family in September 2022.

The girls visited after winning a drama competition run by the Hands Up Project. “Since returning to Gaza, their lives have been upended by conflict, displacement, and tragic losses,” Harper said. “They’ve lost family members and have been forced to live in tents, facing dire shortages of basic needs.”

Palestine Cola is now stocked in cafes, restaurants, and shops across south Down and Armagh, and has featured at protests and music festivals. Orders are coming in from Cork, Galway and Dublin.

“I’m not trying to rival Coca-Cola,” Harper added. “People just deserve an alternative that doesn’t fund a genocide.”

Harper is a member of Mourne for Palestine, a group that has helped organise mass protests across County Down, including marches under the shadow of the highest mountain in the north of Ireland, Slieve Donard.

“That backdrop has become symbolic,” Harper said. “One of the most beautiful and moving settings to show solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Palestine.”

Scientists petition CERN over Israel’s war on Gaza

More than 1,000 scientists have petitioned the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to take action over Israel’s war on Gaza, urging it to comply with its principles, including to “have no concern with work for military requirements”.

“As scientists, we firmly believe that international collaboration, the sharing of knowledge and the free movement of ideas are great drivers of human progress and peace. Middle Eastern scientists have remained steadfast in upholding these principles despite decades of regional tensions and conflict,” the petition read.

“As scientists, we cannot tolerate that the current state of war imposed by the Israeli government on Palestinians, alongside the unacceptable toll of lives and affront to human dignity, also compromises the continued peaceful collaboration of Israeli and Palestinian scientists between themselves, and with the rest of the community.”

CERN is home to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.

Over 1000 physicists and scientists have demanded @CERN to take action for Gaza.

Their statement here https://t.co/gdJa7E9iMI

At link below, the expert opinion by Prof Alessandra Annoni & I, in support, on CERN legal obligations in relation to the OPt
https://t.co/f2AO8dGvlr pic.twitter.com/rxrSoYGMaU

— Luigi Daniele (@luigidaniele10) August 5, 2025

Netanyahu ‘leaking’ arguments with military chief amid division over Gaza

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of leaking internal disputes with the military’s top commander amid division over Gaza.

His remarks come after Israeli media outlets reported that Israeli military Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir opposes Netanyahu’s push to occupy Gaza. Several ministers reportedly said Netanyahu has privately used the term “occupation of the Strip” to describe his vision for Gaza’s future.

“When the Chief of Staff knows that every argument will leak, when he knows that they will spin it against him, he won’t say everything he thinks,” Lapid wrote on X. “Decision-making is impaired.”

“I also had arguments with the IDF chief of staff, as foreign minister, and as prime minister. Some of them were not simple. Only one thing was clear to us: they need to stay behind closed doors,” Lapid wrote on X. “This also has an operational cost,” he added.

Israel’s Gantz slams minister’s attacks on army chief

Benny Gantz, an Israeli opposition politician and former member of Netanyahu’s war cabinet, has condemned government ministers’ “unrestrained attacks” against army chief Eyal Zamir over his reported opposition to the prime minister’s push to a full military occupation of Gaza.

“In the state of Israel, the chief of staff is subordinate to the political echelon, as it has always been and will be, but he is not a puppet on a string or a rubber stamp,” the chair of the Blue and White-National Unity political alliance said in a social media post.

“Instead of threatening and whining, perhaps it’s worth internalising: The problem lies with the political echelon, not the military one.”

It comes as Netanyahu is set to convene his war cabinet later today to discuss the next steps for Israel’s military in Gaza, during which Zamir is expected to outline a number of military options.

Earlier today, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on social media that the army chief must obey the political leadership’s orders even if he disagrees with them.

Israel to ‘reduce reliance’ on UN aid operations in Gaza

COGAT, the Israeli military agency overseeing aid coordination, says it will begin a gradual and controlled process to allow goods into Gaza through local merchants, in a move aimed at reducing the role of the UN and international organisations in delivering humanitarian aid.

“This aims to increase the volume of aid entering the Gaza Strip, while reducing reliance on aid collection by the UN and international organisations,” the agency said.

A “limited number” of merchants in Gaza have been approved to bring in goods, subject to security screening and other criteria. COGAT said payments for those goods will be made via bank transfers only and monitored under a new oversight mechanism. All items will be subject to inspection, and it remains unclear who the approved merchants are.

Palestinians in Gaza have increasingly turned to bartering amid economic collapse and cash shortages, while many are unable to access money from banks.

Rights groups have accused Israel of deepening the humanitarian crisis and called for the UN to resume central oversight of aid flows into the besieged enclave.

That is not aid, that is replacing aid with direct profiteering.

Israeli MP removed from Knesset podium after quoting writer who called Israel’s war on Gaza genocide: Report

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Israeli parliamentarian Ofer Cassif, from the left-wing Hadash-Ta’al party, was forcibly removed from the Knesset podium on Monday night during a plenary session after quoting renowned Israeli writer and novelist David Grossman, who acknowledged in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica last week that, with “immense pain and a broken heart”, Israel is currently committing “genocide” in Gaza.

“‘For years I refused to use the term genocide, but now, after the images I’ve seen and after speaking to people who were there, I can no longer avoid it,'” Cassif said in his speech.

Haaretz said the session was chaired by deputy Knesset Speaker Nissim Vaturi, who interrupted Cassif, saying “That’s not a quote – that’s made up,” and demanded Cassif be removed from the podium, followed by Likud member Tali Gottlieb who shouted: “He will not say ‘genocide’ in here!” before Knesset ushers physically removed Cassif from the podium.

Jewish activists protest starvation in Gaza outside Trump hotel in New York


_{Jewish activists led a protest against US support for Israel’s war on Gaza outside the Trump International Hotel in New York City on Monday}

‘Civil disobedience necessary to challenge genocidal policies’: CAGE International

Senior Director at CAGE International Moazzam Begg has warned that the UK’s anti-terror legislation is being weaponised to silence dissent, describing a planned day of civil disobedience “a defence of basic freedoms”.

His comments follow the UK government’s decision to designate Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organisation, after the group sprayed red paint on two military aircraft – an act intended to draw attention to Britain’s support for Israel’s assault on Gaza.

Since the ban came into effect, hundreds of people have been arrested for holding placards referencing Palestine Action – or Palestine more broadly – in what rights groups say amounts to a dangerous suppression of free expression.

In response, Defend Our Juries and partner organisations are calling on at least 500 people to join a coordinated protest on August 9.

“This action is not about Palestine Action, but wider issues of how anti-terror legislation curtails basic freedoms and undermines the rule of law … There can be no doubt that such laws have been, and continue to be abused and exploited, to suppress free speech,” Begg said.

“How can it be a crime to call for an end to apartheid and genocide? The planned action on 9 August is motivated by the highest moral principles that have underpinned our society and made it the envy of the world.”

_{A Palestine Action supporter is arrested and her placard confiscated during a demonstration at Parliament Square in London, on July 12}