WHO chief warns against Israel’s expanded military operations in Gaza

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that “Israel’s plan to expand military operations in Gaza is deeply worrying, given the already dire humanitarian and health situation across the Strip.”

He said further military escalation “could put more children at risk due to malnutrition and lack of access to health care”.

“We repeat our call for immediate, unimpeded and scaled-up access to food and health aid, for release of hostages, and for a permanent ceasefire,” he added on X.

It comes as Benjamin Netanyahu defends his plan to seize Gaza City, despite international fears that it would exacerbate the humanitarian situation and lead to further displacement.

Hundreds released after arrests at banned Palestine Action protest in London

All those arrested at a banned Palestine Action protest in London’s Parliament Square have been released from police custody, with none charged, according to organiser Defend Our Juries.

It comes after the Metropolitan Police said 522 people were arrested for displaying an item in support of a proscribed organisation.

In a post on X, the group said those detained had been taking part in a silent protest, sitting on the grass on Saturday with placards reading: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.”

The UK government proscribed Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organisation earlier this year after it claimed responsibility for spraying paint onto Royal Air Force aircraft to protest against Britain’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

Under the Terrorism Act 2000, membership of or support for the group is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Amnesty International has described the scale of arrests under UK terrorism law as “deeply concerning”.


_{Police officers arrest an 89-year-old protester at a “Lift The Ban” demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action on August 9}



Antiwar graffiti found on Jerusalem’s Western Wall

Graffiti condemning Israel’s war on Gaza has been found on the Western Wall, known to Muslims as the al-Buraq Wall, in Jerusalem.

“There is a holocaust in Gaza” was written in Hebrew on the southern portion of the wall. A similar message appeared on the wall of the city’s Great Synagogue.

Israeli police said a 27-year-old suspect was arrested and would appear in court later today with prosecutors seeking to extend his detention.

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, who oversees the Western Wall, called the graffiti a “desecration” and said: “A holy place is not a place to express protests. … The police must investigate this action, track down the criminals responsible for the desecration and bring them to justice.”

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir promised police would act “with lightning speed”, and far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the perpetrators “forgot what it means to be Jewish”.

Israel BRAGS After Assassinating ENTIRE Al Jazeera Crew



Krystal and Saagar are joined by Sharif Abdel Kouddous from Drop Site News to discuss the horrific Israeli assassinations of the Al Jazeera reporting team in Gaza.

"This Is Orchestrated Killing": MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites, Says They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps

Doctors Without Borders is demanding the closure of Israeli- and U.S.-backed food distribution centers in Gaza run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. About 1,400 Palestinians have been killed trying to get food at GHF sites since May. A new report from Doctors Without Borders — also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF — gathers testimony from its medics and others about the apparently deliberate targeting of Palestinians seeking food.

"The GHF is singularly disorganized, reckless, dangerous, and we cannot help but come to the conclusion that these are deliberately set-up death traps," says Doctors Without Borders CEO Avril Benoît. She stresses that the starvation crisis in Gaza is entirely a result of Israel's ongoing siege of the territory. "People are starving because Israel wants them to," says Benoît.

UK Cops Arrest 100s Of Anti-Genocide Protesters - Including Disabled Blind Man

"We are not just watching the rich peoples security force arresting the elderly …… or wheeling away the disabled …. We are watching the coffin that is now Starmers political career in this country."

"Cooper talks about risks to national security. One of the biggest risks to our security is MPs, including Cooper taking payments from a foreign power."

If ‘military solution’ for Gaza was possible, the war would already be over: Kallas

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Israel’s war in Gaza was growing more dangerous by the hour and added that conflict was not the solution.

“If a military solution was possible, the war would already be over,” she said in a statement on social media platform X.

She added that EU priorities remain humanitarian support, including access for NGOs, with an immediate ceasefire and release of remaining hostages.

EU priorities are still to support Israel / genocide first. Back up your many many many empty words for once.


More empty words

EU condemns Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza

The European Union has condemned Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in the Gaza Strip, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.

“The EU condemns the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in an [Israeli military] air strike outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, including the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif,” she said after EU foreign ministers discussed the war in virtual talks.

An Israeli military statement falsely accused al-Sharif of heading a Hamas “terrorist cell” and being “responsible for advancing rocket attacks” against Israelis.

Kallas said that while the EU took note of Israel’s allegations, “there is a need in these cases to provide clear evidence, in the respect of rule of law, to avoid targeting of journalists”.


And more empty words

Italy’s PM expresses ‘deep concern’ over Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has expressed “deep concern” over Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City, in a telephone call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Meloni shared “her deep concern over recent Israeli decisions, which appear to be leading to further military escalation”, and slammed the humanitarian situation in the Strip as “unjustifiable and unacceptable”, her office said.

In the call, Meloni “reiterated the need to immediately end hostilities in order to continue providing humanitarian assistance to a desperate civilian population”.

She also said she agreed with Abbas that “Hamas must release all hostages and accept that it will have no future in governing the Strip”, her office said.

Hamas has already repeatedly and consistently offered to release all the hostages and step down from governing Gaza. So you can stop your bothsidesism nonsense and tell Netanyahu to stop his genocide.

German police arrest people protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza

Footage shared online by local activists and verified by Al Jazeera shows German police assaulting demonstrators in capital Berlin.

German police have repeatedly cracked down on pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Berlin and other cities since the start of the war. Germany remains the second-largest provider of arms to Israel.

Yeah those are the only actions the EU is taking, arresting people protesting against genocide.

Palestinians injured in Israeli settler attack on West Bank’s Hebron

A number of Israeli settlers, under protection from soldiers, have stormed the towns of Halhul and Surif in the occupied West Bank’s Hebron, according to the Wafa news agency.

They severely beat a number of local Palestinians, causing bruises and contusions, Wafa reported.

The settlers destroyed a grape crop belonging to a family in Halhul, and set fire to the vicinity of a house in Surif in an attempt to burn it down. Fire brigades reportedly extinguished the flames before they could spread.

Another settler incursion was reported in the northern Jordan Valley, when a group grazed their cows on agricultural land belonging to Palestinians in Bardala village.

‘We want life and we deserve it’: Gaza bodies urge urgent action to stop genocide

In a joint statement, the Gaza Municipality, the Chambers of Commerce in the Gaza Strip, and the Coordinating Council of Private Sector Institutions have appealed for urgent international action to halt what they described as Israel’s “systematic plan of destruction” against Gaza.

The groups warned of a “grave threat” to the city’s people, heritage, and infrastructure, accusing Israel of violating international law through collective punishment and the erasure of cultural and historical landmarks.

They said the devastation in northern Gaza and the southern Gaza cities of Rafah and Khan Younis is only a prelude to a wider plan to “seize and destroy Gaza City”.

Calling on the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and all states to act “urgently and decisively”, the statement demanded an immediate end to Israel’s war, the opening of all border crossings, and the restoration of humanitarian aid flows.

The signatories also urged media outlets to intensify coverage to ensure “this dark chapter in human history is not written under the cover of silence”.

“Enough killing and bloodshed … Enough destruction and ruin,” the statement read. “We want life and we deserve it.”

Another child starves to death in Gaza, medical sources say

Medical sources at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said that five-year-old Mohammed Zakaria Khader has died from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, the Wafa news agency reported.

Earlier in the day, health officials reported that the total number of people who have died from Israeli-induced hunger and malnutrition in the territory had risen to 222, including 101 children.

Most of those deaths have occurred in recent weeks, as Israel continues to impose severe restrictions on aid supplies entering Gaza after partially lifting a total blockade in late May.

Extremely limited number of aid trucks entering Gaza and most of those are looted, GMO says

Gaza’s Government Media Office reports that only 124 aid trucks were allowed by Israel to enter the Gaza Strip on Sunday, far below the minimum 600 daily trucks required to fight off famine.

Most of the trucks were looted “amid deliberate security chaos created by the Israeli occupation as part of the policy of engineering starvation and chaos aimed at undermining the resilience of our Palestinian people”, it said in a statement.

Only 1,334 aid trucks out of the supposed amount of 9,000 trucks were allowed into Gaza over the course of 15 days, the office said.

_{Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid await permission on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip to drive towards the besieged Palestinian territory on August 3}

UN food agency warns Gaza hunger at record levels

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that hunger and malnutrition levels in Gaza are the highest ever recorded, with more than one-third of the population going without food for days at a time and 500,000 people on the brink of famine.

The agency said Gaza must be “flooded” with large-scale food assistance to avert further catastrophe.

So far, more than 200 people have starved to death in Gaza, according to health officials in the enclave.

Two Gaza medics wounded on rescue missions in separate Israeli attacks

Two rescue workers with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have been wounded in separate Israeli strikes while trying to help people in Gaza.

Footage verified by Al Jazeera showed how volunteer Noah Shaghnoubi was wounded while trying to rescue injured people inside a house targeted by the Israeli military south of Gaza City.

The Wafa news agency reported that Diaa Mohammed Suleiman al-Bayouk, a paramedic with the PRCS, was injured in the arm while responding to a distress call in a house in the vicinity of the University College, southwest of the besieged Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City.

إصابة صديقي وأخويا نوح الشغنوبي أثناء مهمة إنقاذ في منطقة الصبرة pic.twitter.com/yn2GFiMbST

— صالح الجعفراوي | Saleh Aljafarawi (@S_Aljafarawi) August 11, 2025

Translation: My friend and brother, Noah al-Shaghnoubi, was injured during a rescue mission in the Sabra area.

A ‘catastrophe’: UNHCR urges international community to act against Gaza killings

Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza is “a clear breach of international humanitarian law” and constitutes a “war crime”.

“Any condemnations by member states today need to be followed by action,” Al-Kheetan told Al Jazeera. Countries with “leverage” need to pressure Israel into stopping its war on Gaza, he said. “It is the responsibility of the international community to do all that it can to stop this war,” he added.

“The apparent targeting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, when combined with the fact that Israel is denying access to foreign journalists, appears to indicate a deliberate attempt by Israel to limit the flow of information from Gaza,” Al-Kheetan said.

He described the targeted killing, which took place near the entrance to al-Shifa Hospital, as a “catastrophe”.

‘Something particularly psychopathic about the lie and the crime’: Bishara

Israel’s latest killings of journalists in Gaza are an addition to a long list of criminality, said Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara.

“We at Al Jazeera do not want to be the story; we are forced to be the story because of the criminality of the Israeli government,” he said.

He said that while Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif was reporting “every minute of the day” and while Israeli claims he was a Hamas member were lies, several other journalists were killed alongside him even though Israel had not made any allegations against them.

“Why assassinate him when he is among his colleagues? How many more journalists is it acceptable to kill as collateral damage?” Bishara asked.

“There is something particularly psychopathic about the lie and about the crime.”

He said al-Sharif is part of the fabric of Jabalia, the refugee camp where he comes from, whose residents have sacrificed their lives for the past six decades. Bishara said the timing of the killings was no coincidence either, as media reports have put Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under significant international pressure as he plans to seize Gaza City.

RSF calls on international community to stop Israeli crimes in Gaza

Louise Bichet, project director at Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has condemned Israel’s “murder” and “targeted killing” of Al Jazeera’s journalists in Gaza.

RSF is appealing “very strongly and firmly” to the international community to react, condemn, and take measures against the Israeli military, Bichet told Al Jazeera.

Israel must protect Palestinian journalists, ensure medical evacuation for the wounded, and grant international reporters access to the Gaza Strip, Bichet said.

The latest targeted killing of journalists is part of a “huge and repeated tactic of defamation campaigns … without bringing tangible and serious proof,” she said.

Protesters denounce killing of Gaza journalists in several European cities

Activists organised demonstrations and vigils in several European capitals today to condemn Israel’s assassination of journalists in Gaza.

In Norway’s capital city, Oslo, a march ended with a vigil in front of the Norwegian Parliament, with protesters carrying pictures of dozens of killed journalists. One journalist set fire to his international press card in protest.

In Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, demonstrators raised Palestinian flags and carried banners denouncing the silencing of journalists.

In the United Kingdom, protesters gathered in front of the headquarters of the BBC to denounce the silence regarding the genocide in Gaza and the targeting of journalists.

Israeli crimes against journalists ‘no longer being hidden or kept under wraps’

Wadie Said, professor of law at the University of Colorado, says journalists cannot be targeted in conflicts as they are considered “protected persons” under international law.

The latest Israeli targeting and killing of Al Jazeera’s journalists is “remarkable”, he said, in that the Israeli military “engaged in a campaign of terrorisation of Anas al-Sharif directly”.

“It’s no longer being hidden, it’s no longer being kept under wraps,” Said told Al Jazeera.

Despite efforts for justice, there has been no accountability for Israel’s actions against journalists, Said added, including for the killing of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot by Israeli forces in Jenin in the occupied West Bank in 2022.

“This led us to this place where we see a direct targeting” of Palestinian journalists, he added.

The US chiefly has been “very active in protecting Israeli officials and the state of Israel as an official entity from any sort of accountability on the world stage”, Said noted.

Main events on August 11th

A Pro-Israel Mob Attacked Us While NYPD Watched. Now We’re Suing.

A violent pro-Israel mob descended on Brooklyn’s streets while far-right Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir was visiting. The NYPD stood by and did nothing. Three months later, nobody has been charged. BT's Jackie Kindall speaks with two of the survivors who are taking legal action.

Richard Madeley Humiliates Labour Minister Over “Terrorism” Claims On GMB

The Labour government’s move to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation appears to be backfiring with the mainstream press.

Ports Lock Out Israel’s Weapons — And There's More to Come

Dockworkers in Genoa have become the latest to block an Israeli arms shipment, but something even bigger is on the horizon... 

If you want to know who’s actually trying to stop the slaughter in Gaza, don’t waste your time squinting at the photo-ops from summits or parsing the careful euphemisms of “deep concern” from Western foreign ministries. Look to the quaysides. Look to the men and women in hi-vis vests, not tailored suits, who can smell a weapons shipment before the ink is dry on the shipping manifest and who don’t need a UN resolution to tell them it’s wrong to help send it.

In Genoa this past week, they didn’t just hold placards for the cameras. They boarded a Saudi-owned ship, the Bahri Yanbu, stuffed with military cargo — some of it made right there in Italy — destined, via the usual webs of plausible deniability, to fuel Israel’s war on Gaza. They documented it, made it public, and refused to lift a finger to move it, as their fellow dockworkers in France, or Spain, or Morocco or Greece have done before them, the dissent growing around the Mediterranean against touching the tools of genocide.

Meanwhile, Giorgia Meloni’s government, so fond of voicing “concerns” over civilian casualties, was busy making arms exports easier, not harder. So it fell to the dockers to enforce the very laws their leaders were gutting, to take the kind of action that can actually choke a war machine. And they did it without the theatrics of summitry or the moral cowardice of “both sides” diplomacy — just a simple, defiant, working-class “no.”