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SvennoJ on 09 August 2025

Israeli forces attack civilians in central Gaza, killing at least 5

The Israeli army has targeted civilians north of the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, killing at least five people and wounding 33, sources at al-Awda Hospital told Al Jazeera.


Two aid seekers killed in Israeli army attack in central Gaza

Now, we’re getting reports that at least two Palestinians have been killed and another wounded after Israeli forces opened fired on people waiting for aid near Netzarim junction.


Displaced Palestinians gather to receive aid at a distribution centre run by the US and Israeli-backed GHF at the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza on August 4

Many choosing to stay in Gaza City despite Israeli takeover announcement

In much of Gaza City, tents have replaced homes. Life is fragile yet resilience runs deep. In Gaza, a tent is more than shelter. It’s an act of defiance.

Every damaged wall is a scar telling a story of survival.

Despite Israel’s announcement that it wants to seize control of Gaza City, many people here have chosen to stay. For them, it is more than just somewhere to live. It is their home, their history and the legacy they want to pass on to future generations.


‘We won’t leave Gaza City. We will live and die here’

Despite Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City and forcibly displace nearly a million Palestinians to concentration zones in the south, many Palestinians in the city are refusing to leave.

Umm Imran, a Palestinian from Gaza City, told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army keeps threatening them to move.

“They say go south, go to al-Mawasi, but there is nowhere safe any more, north, south, east or west. No one and nowhere is safe. We will stay here.”

Her mother, Umm Yasser, shares the same resolve.

“We won’t leave Gaza City. We will live and die here. All of our memories here we will not leave, even if we all die, even if our children die, even if they destroy our houses.”

Sayed al-Zard, currently living in a tent in Gaza City, said: “We’ve been displaced 10 times. We have nowhere else to go. Let them come. We’re in the camps. Where do we go? We have no houses. Everything is gone. I’ll die here on my land.”


We don’t see anyone leaving Gaza City

Some Palestinians are staying because they have no other choice. Wherever they go, they have been targeted. This has been the story since the war started. Palestinians have been receiving these evacuation orders. They go to the so-called safe zones, and those areas are then targeted.

Palestinians have been squeezed into very small areas of land. We’re talking about more than 80 percent of Gaza’s area being deemed a red zone, where Palestinians cannot go. Palestinians are telling us that they do not trust Israeli forces when they issue these orders.

Also, evacuations are very expensive and Palestinians do not have the money needed to move to another part of Gaza.



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SvennoJ on 09 August 2025

Airdrops continue despite being considered ‘expensive, ineffective’: UNRWA


Palestinians scramble to collect food after a parcel dropped by a military aircraft in Jabalia

The UN agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) says that airdrops from several countries have continued over Gaza “despite warnings from several international bodies that they are very expensive and ineffective”.

In an update post on X, UNRWA also said that it had not been allowed to bring in any humanitarian aid into Gaza, including medicines and medical supplies, for more than five months.



The countries participating in the air drops are complicit in the genocide and just do it to deflect from their complicity.


At least 23 Palestinians killed by airdropped aid in Gaza since start of war

Gaza’s Government Media Office reports that at least 23 Palestinians have been killed and 124 others injured as a result of airdrops of aid since the start of the war.

It added in a statement that many of the air drops fall in areas under military control of Israel or where Israeli forces have forcibly emptied or destroyed entire neighbourhoods, so people who approach them are exposed to Israeli attacks as well.

The office said some of the packages have also been recorded falling into the sea, and 13 Palestinians drowned while trying to retrieve them.

“We have repeatedly warned of the danger of these inhumane methods and have repeatedly called for the entry of aid through land crossings in a safe and sufficient manner, especially food, infant milk, medicines, and medical supplies.”

Footage shows aid package killing Palestinian child in Gaza

Footage circulating online shows some of the limited packages of aid airdropped over Gaza coming down at high speeds as desperate Palestinians gathered in hopes of finding food.

One clip showed a package hitting a person in the head. Another video, which has been verified by Al Jazeera, documented the first moments after a box fell on a child, identified by local media as Muhannad Zakaria Eid, while he was attempting to receive aid near the Netzarim area in central Gaza.

People could be seen gathering around his body, which was covered in blood, while some tried to provide him with first aid. Local media later showed footage of his body in the morgue of the hospital, with the child’s father grieving and holding him.

Jeez, those things come down fast.



SvennoJ on 09 August 2025

Israel pushes ahead with plan to allow more limited air drops over Gaza

The Israeli military reports that it allowed six countries, including for the first time Italy and Greece, to airdrop 106 packages of aid over the starving Gaza Strip.

It said in a statement that the two countries joined the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Germany and the Netherlands in today’s air drop.

The UN and international stakeholders have repeatedly denounced the air drops as ineffective and dangerous. Israel continues to block most aid from getting to starving Palestinians in the enclave, as more people die from hunger on a daily basis.

Eleven more people die due to famine, malnutrition in Gaza

Hospitals in Gaza have recorded 11 deaths in the past 24 hours due to famine and malnutrition, raising the total number of such deaths to 212, including 98 children.

Gaza death toll rises

At least 39 people have been killed and 491 wounded by Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Health Ministry says. It added that 21 of those killed died while waiting for food aid.

The number of people dying due to Israeli-induced famine and malnutrition has risen to 212, including 98 children. At least 61,369 people have now been killed by Israeli attacks since the start of the war in October 2023.

Explosion of Israeli ordnance kills Lebanese troops in Tyre district

Several Lebanese army personnel were killed and wounded when ammunition remnants from Israeli attacks exploded during an attempt to dismantle them in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency has reported.

The report said that the blast occurred in an area between Majdal Zoun and Zibqin in the Tyre district, where an army engineering team was working to neutralise unexploded ordnance.

Southern Lebanon has witnessed repeated incidents involving leftover munitions from past Israeli army attacks, which continue to pose a deadly risk to residents and security forces in the area.


One person killed in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports that the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, which is affiliated with the Health Ministry, says an Israeli air attack has hit a vehicle in the town of Ainata in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district, killing one person.

The aftermath of the strike can be seen in this video, which was posted on social media by the NBN Lebanon news outlet and verified by Al Jazeera:



SvennoJ on 09 August 2025

Israel’s policy, war goals leading only ‘to one direction – occupation’

Yossi Mekelberg, a senior consulting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, has warned Israel’s war on Gaza might go on for a very long time, even for many years.

“At least until the next [Israeli[ elections that are due in October of next year – Netanyahu is biding his time,” he told Al Jazeera, citing the Israeli prime minister’s domestic legal troubles. (The Israeli prime minister is also wanted by the International Court of Justice for alleged war crimes in Gaza.)

“Because of his corruption trial, he formed the most extreme nationalist-religious Messianic government in Israel’s history; he attacked the foundation of Israel’s democracy,” said Mekelberg.

He added that when the war started, some of the “most extreme” elements of the government saw this as an opportunity to annex Gaza, build settlements and expel Palestinians, while for Netanyahu himself it was a chance to derail his corruption trial “almost indefinitely, until something happens and maybe they will drop the charges or they stop the trial altogether”.

Commenting on the “unattainable” objectives set by Netanyahu, including “eliminating” Hamas, Mekelberg pointed out that Israel would not accept the Palestinian Authority to also run the Gaza Strip.

“So, who is going to govern? Meaning, at the end of the day, it is only leading to one direction – to occupation. “And occupation means continuous guerrilla warfare and in this sense it could last another five, 10, 20 years – who knows.”


World ‘very slow to react’

We have some more lines from our interview with Yossi Mekelberg, a senior consulting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House.

Asked if there’s ever going to be a tipping point that compels the international community to step in and stop Israel’s actions in Gaza, he said the world has been “very slow to react”.

Mekelberg acknowledged that there has been “some movement” lately from the EU, but “it’s very slow, it’s very incremental and  is not going to make an immediate difference”.

On the contrary, he noted, what could make “a huge difference” is if the US – Israel’s strongest ally – “changes its attitude” and if Trump says “enough is enough”.

Alternatively, Mekelberg said what could make a difference is if Israelis continue to stage large-scale protests or “even decide to go on a general strike and start to organically resist”.

He added: “Not only because people from the outside said this [seizing Gaza City] plan is not good for Israel – it’s the commander of the [Israeli military] saying this is a bad plan for Israel, so what needs to happen next also is for many hundreds of thousands to take to the streets.”



SvennoJ on 09 August 2025

Turkiye says Muslim countries must be united against Gaza seizure plan

Muslim nations must work in unison to mobilise the international community against Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City, Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says after talks in Egypt.

Speaking at a joint news conference in El Alamein with his Egyptian counterpart after meeting Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Fidan also said the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation had called an emergency meeting.

Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan added that:

  • In my meeting with my Egyptian counterpart, we discussed Gaza. No one wants to bear the moral burden of standing by Israel any more.
  • The whole world now knows that Israel is governed with a fascist mentality.
  • The number of countries recognising Palestine is increasing, which we find extremely valuable and promising.
  • Palestine belongs to the Palestinians. Any effort aimed at removing Palestinians from their own land is null and void.
  • Delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza is of vital importance. We will continue working with Egypt to ensure aid reaches our Palestinian brothers and sisters.



Arab League to hold extraordinary session on Gaza on Sunday

The Arab League will hold an extraordinary session on Sunday to discuss ways to confront the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Wafa news agency reports.

Palestine’s representative to the Arab League, Muhannad al-Aklouk, told the agency that “the meeting will be held … in light of the Israeli decision to reoccupy the Gaza Strip and fully control it and the resulting forced displacement of the Palestinian people inside and outside the Strip”.

The session will address mechanisms of action at the Arab and international levels to confront Israeli abuses, prevent their continuation and hold perpetrators accountable before international courts, the report added.



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SvennoJ on 09 August 2025

Israel’s expansionist ideology wants to take over Palestine: Palestinian foreign minister

Palestine expects the international community to stand for international and humanitarian law, according to Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, the Palestinian minister of foreign affairs.

“What has been going on in Palestine for the past 22 months is nothing but a genocide, and it’s part and parcel of Israel’s expansionist ideology that wants to take over the entirety of the occupied state of Palestine,” she told Al Jazeera from Ramallah.

She said, if the US and President Donald Trump want to forge peace, they need to look at the rights of the Palestinians because there will be no true peace in Israel, Palestine, the region or even the world at large if the rights of Palestinians that are protected by the UN Charter are not respected.

The Palestinians need to decide about the leadership in the Gaza Strip because the legal authority in Gaza today is the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and if Gaza “wants to come back to the core” and change governance, then it has to come under the rule of the Palestinian Authority.


Statements on Palestine should turn into actions on the ground: Aghabekian

We have more for you from Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, the top Palestinian diplomat, who said she expects “concrete steps” from Arab countries to stop Israel’s assault and its slow annexation of the occupied West Bank.

She told Al Jazeera that “their inaction has emboldened the Israelis, including the settlers, to extend the occupation for decades”.

She said the impunity Israel is enjoying should stop, and it is time that decisions that came from a New York conference earlier this month are translated into action on the ground.

“Countries can do a lot in terms of sanctions settlements, settlers and settler products, and restricting the movement of settlers in European countries or around the world,” Aghabekian said.

“That will send a clear message to Israel that ‘you are in violation of international law and these violations have a price.'”

Referring to ongoing cases against Israel at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, the foreign minister said people should not lose hope.



SvennoJ on 09 August 2025

UK police arrest 150 people at protest for Palestine Action



London’s Metropolitan Police Service said 150 people protesting against the government’s decision to ban the Palestine Action group have been arrested outside parliament.

Officers made arrests after a crowd waving placards expressing support for the group gathered in Parliament Square, the force said on X.


Yeah get those radicalized grannies off the street, wtf... Are we living in a Kafka novel.

Last month, British lawmakers proscribed Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group after it tried to stop the UK from arming Israel as it kills and starves Palestinians in Gaza.

The ban makes it a crime to be a member of the group, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. The cofounder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, last week won a bid to bring a legal challenge against the ban.


Police officers arrest a demonstrator in Parliament Square in London on August 9, 2025, during a rally challenging the British government’s proscription of Palestine Action under ‘antiterrorism’ laws

Protesters across Europe demand end to Israel’s war on Gaza

The European Palestinian Media Center has released footage of protests in several European cities denouncing Israel’s war on Gaza and the starvation of Palestinians.

Demonstrations were held in Germany’s Berlin; Norway’s Oslo; Stockholm and Helsingborg in Sweden; Amsterdam in the Netherlands; and Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark.

Participants in the protests chanted slogans demanding freedom for Palestinians, an end to the war and entry of aid into the besieged territory.


Hundreds of protesters rally at Beursplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands

More than 350 arrested at Palestine Action protest: London police

London’s Metropolitan Police say on X that “The operation in Parliament Square continues”.

“As of 6pm [5pm GMT], 365 people had been arrested for supporting a proscribed organisation”, it added.

The “proscribed organisation” in question is Palestine Action, a group banned by the country’s Parliament last month for allegedly undertaking a protest action that damaged two UK military aircraft.

Thousands gathered in London’s Parliament Square to protest the ban, for Palestine and for free speech rights.

UK has gone insane, Israel first. I applaud the people though, resisting fascism. Don't let your right to free speech get taken away like Americans are all too willing to give up.



SvennoJ on 10 August 2025

Tens of thousands of Israelis protest gov’t, call on Trump for Gaza deal

Huge crowds have gathered and marched in Israel for another weekly demonstration against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and to demand the return of all 50 captives held in Gaza.

At Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, former captives held in the enclave and the families of those who are still in Hamas captivity spoke to an estimated 60,000 supporters, and again directly addressed US President Donald Trump.

“President Trump, thank you for bringing me home, but please, help us get a deal that brings everyone home now,” said former captive Eliya Cohen.

Protesters at the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv urged soldiers to refuse to serve in the plan to seize Gaza City, based on the concern that it will kill more of the remaining captives in northern Gaza and other areas of the famine-stricken enclave.

Policemen on horses were seen clashing with protesters in Tel Aviv after crowds stopped traffic at a major highway, with at least three people reported arrested, according to Israeli media.

The organisation representing the captives’ families posted the footage below on social media:

Protests in barcelona call for end of war on Gaza


Demonstrators march to show their solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza in Barcelona, Spain, August 9



SvennoJ on 10 August 2025

Main events on August 10th

  • The number of hunger-related deaths of Palestinians in Gaza reached 212 as the Israeli army kept up attacks and expanded its ground invasion of the enclave.
  • Footage showed a Palestinian child being killed by an airdropped aid package in central Gaza, as Israel keeps up with its aid scheme despite international criticism over its ineffectiveness and frequent danger to Palestinians.
  • Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied in the streets of Tel Aviv to call for the return of captives held in Gaza, and to protest the government and its plans to seize Gaza City.
  • The Israeli army launched an air strike on an area of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, killing one person whom it claimed was a member of Hezbollah.
  • Israeli settlers attacked Hebron, Ramallah and other areas across the occupied West Bank under the protection of Israeli soldiers, who launched more raids and arrested Palestinians.
  • European football’s governing body, UEFA, has faced a backlash online after failing to address the circumstances of Suleiman al-Obeid’s death in a tribute. The Palestinian football icon was killed in an Israeli attack while he waited for food aid in Gaza on Wednesday.
  • The UN Security Council is set to hold a rare weekend session to discuss Israel’s recently announced decision to seize Gaza City.

Rania Khalek: ‘US Is Trying to Instigate Civil War in Lebanon’


The Lebanese government has approved a US-backed plan to disarm Hezbollah, a move Rania Khalek says is plunging the country into political crisis.

“Since last year’s ceasefire, Israel has violated it over 4,000 times, bombing Lebanon, assassinating people, flying constant drones,” she says, noting that the Lebanese army “does not fight Israel” and is now being used to take away the Lebanese people’s only means of defense. The proposal offers “zero guarantees” that Israel will stop its attacks, and Khalek argues it’s part of a US strategy to strip Lebanon of its defenses or stoke instability and civil war. “The only thing standing in the way of Israel occupying southern Lebanon is Hezbollah’s weapons and their willingness to fight.”



SvennoJ on 10 August 2025

IDF ROASTED By Arrested Palestine Activist: “Think They’re Playing Real-Time Call of Duty”


Katie talks to Chris Smalls, the founder of Amazon’s first U.S. labor union, the Amazon Labor Union founder, who was beaten, arrested and detained by the Israeli military for attempting to bring aid to starving Palestinians in Gaza on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. The only Black passenger on the ship, he was treated worse and was one of the last to be released from Israeli prison.

Then we are joined by Anthony Aguilar, a U.S. military veteran who worked with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as a security contractor who witnessed U.S. mercenaries and IDF members shooting and killing starving Palestinians waiting for aid.

Italian Dockworkers Put Huge Hurt On Israel!


Italian dock workers successfully blocked the unloading of military equipment bound for Israel, forcing shipping operators to return the cargo to its origin. This action adds to a growing movement of union-led resistance across Europe, where dock workers from France, Greece, and other countries have refused to participate in arms transfers tied to the war in Gaza.

As Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss, the unions emphasize that strikes against war logistics are both a legitimate right and a necessary tactic to defend collective security, opposing the involvement of workers in what they call genocide. U.S. labor leader Christian Smalls criticized American unions for complicity in arms shipments to Israel, calling for global labor solidarity with Palestinians.