BREAKING: Flotilla leaves Barcelona in biggest attempt yet to break Israeli blockade of Gaza

Aug.31, 2025 - A flotilla of ships departed from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip Sunday with humanitarian aid and activists on board in the largest attempt yet to break the long Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory by sea.....MORE

Could Western leaders be legally complicit in the Gaza genocide?

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Aug. 31, 2025 - US and Western support have been vital in Israel’s war.

Weapons and support from the West, led by the United States, have been central to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The United Kingdom’s and European Union’s relations with Israel remain essentially unchanged despite the war.

Is this complicity? And could there be legal consequences for Western nations and their leaders?

Flotilla activists speak out before setting sail from Barcelona to Gaza

Aug. 31, 2025 - Activists addressed the media as the Global Sumud Flotilla prepared to depart for Gaza from Barcelona, aiming to deliver urgent food and supplies to the enclave. Greta Thunberg said dozens of boats have joined the effort to break Israel’s blockade and ‘deliberate denial of basic survival needs’.

Israeli settlers illegally seize land belonging to Doctors Against Genocide co-founder

Nidal Jaboor (second from left) at his home in Masafer Yatta, occupied Palestine, with members of his family (Photo supplied by Nidal Jboor)

Aug. 29, 2025 - Israeli settlers seized land in the occupied West Bank belonging to Nidal Jboor, a Palestinian-American doctor and co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), "a coalition of healthcare professionals who wanted to unite their voices in uproar against the genocide in Gaza". 

His family land is in Masafer Yatta, an area that was heavily featured in the Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land.

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How to prove Israel is not a settler colony even as it pursues 'Greater Israel'

A banner reading 'Make Gaza Jewish Again' hangs from a Jewish settlement building in occupied East Jerusalem's Old City on 12 July 2025, weeks before the Israeli government approved plans to take over Gaza City (Sally Hayden/SOPA Images via Reuters Connect)

Aug. 31, 2025 - Israel's advocates wage a propaganda war, framing Palestinians as the 'colonisers' while erasing Zionism's colonial roots and cloaking conquest in myths of return and indigeneity.

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly endorsed the project of "Greater Israel", telling i24 News that he is on a "historic and spiritual mission" of territorial conquest.

This maximalist vision builds on the existing Greater Israel and its settler-colonial control of East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and now, once again, Gaza - where the government hopes it will soon re-establish itself.

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Strikes maim children as Israel says Qassam spokesman Abu Obeida targeted

Video shows injured children in the aftermath of strikes on Gaza City as Israel’s military hit multiple apartment buildings in its campaign to force Palestinians out of the area. Israel says it was targeting Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida, from Hamas’s armed wing.

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know

Activists wash the deck of the FFC ship 'Handala' as they prepare to sail for Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid amid Israel's siege and bombardment of Gaza in Marsa, Malta on August 16, 2024 [Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters]

Aug. 31, 2025 - More than 50 ships are heading to Gaza to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade and deliver urgent humanitarian aid.....MORE

Evacuation of Gaza City would be unsafe and unfeasible, says head of Red Cross

Displaced Palestinians ride on a vehicle loaded with belongings as they flee from one area to another within Gaza City, amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City, August 29, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo

Aug. 30, 2025 - The head of the Red Cross warned on Saturday that it would be impossible to keep people safe during a mass evacuation of Gaza City, as Israel intensifies its assault.

Israel is pushing ahead with its plan to take full control of the whole Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City, with the goal of destroying Hamas after nearly 23 months of war, while facing a global outcry over starvation in the besieged enclave.

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‘A wild gamble on hostages’ lives’: Defense chiefs to urge cabinet to eschew Gaza op, take deal

L-R: Defense Minister Israel Katz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir at the IAF's command center, August 24, 2025. (Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO)

Aug. 30, 2025 - Israeli defense chiefs will present an all-but united front to the security cabinet on Sunday, beseeching ministers to accept the current proposal for a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza over the government’s desired offensive in Gaza City, Channel 12 reported Friday.....MORE

The Supreme National Committee for Ambulance and Emergency holds an emergency meeting

Aug.29, 2025 - The Supreme National Committee for Ambulance and Emergency affirms its unwavering commitment to fulfilling its humanitarian and national duty to confront the occupation's threats to Gaza City.

The Supreme National Committee for Ambulance and Emergency held an emergency meeting to discuss ways to enhance and ensure the continuity of ambulance services in light of the recent Israeli occupation threats targeting Gaza City.

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EU countries divided on Israel sanctions as foreign ministers meet

EU foreign policy chief says 27-member bloc ‘divided’ over how to pressure Israel to end its deadly war on Gaza. Foreign minister from across the European Union have tussled over what action to take in response to Israel’s deadly war on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as the bloc’s aid chief urged them to “find a strong voice that reflects our values and principles”.....MORE

Another rig is in: Palestinian Authority urges US to reinstate Abbas’s visa before UNGA

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's spokesman says US visa revocations 'will only increase tension and escalation' [File: Zain Jaafar/AFP]

Aug. 30, 2025- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s office has urged the United States to reverse a decision to revoke the Palestinian leader’s visa, just weeks before he was set to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

The Palestinian presidency expressed “astonishment” at Washington’s decision on Friday to rescind the visas for Abbas and 80 other Palestinian officials before next month’s high-level meetings at UN headquarters.

Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, a US-based think tank, accused the Trump administration is “clearly violating diplomatic protocol” in its decision to revoke the visas. As a host state, the US is meant to grant visas to UN member-state representatives and officials to visit the international body’s headquarters in New York City. “What’s going on here is clearly ideologically driven,” Duss told Al Jazeera. “There are people inside the Trump administration who are working closely with the right-wing Israeli government and their goal is to simply remove the Palestinian liberation movement from the international agenda,” he said.

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Israel's ABSURD Explanation For Double-Tap Strike On Hospital

Aug. 28, 2025 - The IDF is claiming that its double-tap on a Gaza hospital targeted what it believed was a Hamas camera.  Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks. Do you agree with TYT's take? Tell us what you think in the comments below.

New poll says 60 percent of Americans oppose US military aid to Israel

Aug. 28, 2025 - A solid majority of Americans disapprove of the US sending military aid to Israel, as it wages a genocide in Gaza, according to a new poll released by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday.

Pollsters at the university found that 60 percent of Americans are opposed to the US sending arms to Israel, while only 32 percent support additional aid.

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Gaza genocide: 'There is nothing to occupy. The city itself no longer exists'

A Palestinian boy uses a wheelchair to transport plastic bottles in Gaza City, on 24 August 2025 (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)

Aug. 29, 2025 - Gaza is not being “occupied”- it is being erased. The tanks are not entering to control, but to destroy. What happened in Rafah and Beit Hanoun is now being repeated in central Gaza: in recent days, the neighbourhoods of Tuffah, Sabra and Zeitoun have become remnants and ruins.

When people speak of the “occupation of Gaza City”, it is a term meant to deceive the world. For nearly two years, the Israeli military has been on Gaza’s territory, yet there is no form of military governance in place.

Instead, there is a policy of total destruction, aiming to erase what remains of the city and its inhabitants. In practice, one of the world’s oldest cities is being wiped off the map.

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Palestinians facing growing danger from Israel in Gaza City

Aug. 29, 2025 - Palestinians in Gaza City are facing new threats to their lives after Israel announced the suspension of ‘humanitarian pauses’ in its assaults. Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim Al-Khalili has been to Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, where displaced people are preparing to leave under fire.

The "Israeli" occupation army is promoting lies and false allegations

An aerial view of the Al-Mawasi area where displaced Palestinians live in tents, January 2025

Aug. 28, 2025 - The "Israeli" occupation army is promoting lies and false allegations and publishing misleading maps to forcibly displace the residents of Gaza and the north and create a new humanitarian crisis*

What the occupation army is promoting about the existence of "vast empty spaces", such as "Al-Mawasi" and "Al-Wusta camps" in the southern Gaza Strip is a false claim that contradicts the facts on the ground. It represents an attempt to mislead international public opinion and cover up the large-scale crime of "forced displacement."

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Top Palestinian rights group presents damning evidence of genocide in Gaza

Palestinian woman Soha Tafesh carries the body of her granddaughter Sarah Abu Daf, who was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, 13 August 2025 (Reuters/Dawoud Abu Alkas)

Aug. 28, 2025 - Palestine’s leading human rights group on Thursday presented further evidence of genocide in Gaza, accusing Israel of seeking to annihilate Palestinians in the enclave. 

In a 204-page report titled Voices of the Genocide, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) concluded that Israel has committed four of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, with the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group.

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Israeli sniper shoots Palestinian near GHF aid site in Gaza

Aug. 28, 2025 - A video appears to show an Israeli sniper shooting a Palestinian near a GHF food distribution site in Gaza. Some 1,850 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food as Israel’s famine grips the strip. Rights groups call the GHF system a ‘death trap’, accusing Israel of weaponising aid.

US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes

Not My President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. © 2017 Reuters

Aug. 26, 2025 - US military personnel could face legal liability for assisting Israeli forces who commit war crimes in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today. 

Direct participation by US forces in military operations in Gaza since October 2023, including by providing intelligence for Israeli strikes and conducting extensive coordination and planning, has made the United States a party to the conflict between Israel and Palestinian armed groups. As a warring party, US forces could be jointly responsible for participating in laws-of-war violations by Israeli forces, and US personnel implicated could be held individually responsible for war crimes. 

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Israeli army, settlers unite in collective punishment of Al-Mughayyir

Bulldozers operated by Israeli settlers and soldiers uproot olive trees near the village of Al-Mughayyir, in the occupied West Bank, August 23, 2025. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills)

Aug. 27, 2025 - On Friday, Aug. 22, a convoy of bulldozers rolled into the olive groves of Al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian village east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Most were civilian machines operated by settlers, with several armored military bulldozers in support. By Sunday, thousands of olive trees, many of them decades old and belonging to local families, had been torn from the ground.....MORE

Israeli military carries out raid in West Bank city of Nablus – Middle East crisis live

Israeli soldiers and armoured vehicles during a raid in Nablus city on 27 August. Photograph: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images

Aug. 27, 2025 - The Israeli military on Wednesday launched an operation involving dozens of soldiers and armoured vehicles in the old city of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, witnesses and Palestinian officials told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Soldiers “are storming and searching houses and shops inside the old city, while some houses have been turned into military posts,” Ghassan Hamdan, head of the Palestinian Medical Relief organisation in Nablus, said.

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Israel is committing genocide, legal and Holocaust scholars agree

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Aug. 27, 2025 - Israel’s military offensive on Gaza is nearing the two-year mark. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, and nearly the entire population has been forcibly displaced multiple times. Rising starvation deaths amid an Israeli blockade and aid sites described as "killing sites" accompany increasing warning bells from international humanitarian agencies describing this as genocide.

Yet, many countries seem reluctant to use the word. Last year, UK Foreign Minister David Lammy suggested that not enough people had been killed for it to warrant the term. Others have said it’s a matter for legal courts to determine.

So, is what’s happening in Gaza a genocide? And who gets to decide that? In this episode of Expert Witness, we asked 10 leading scholars. Here’s what they said.

Palestinian Dabke facing snipers of the occupation army on the Gaza border

Palestinian Dabke facing snipers of the occupation army on the Gaza border

Western media propaganda manufactured consent for Israel’s killing of Gaza journalists, watchdog finds

Slain Al-Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif reports near the Arab Ahli hospital in Gaza City, on 10 October 2024 (AFP)

A report on Friday by the national media watch group Fair found that UK and US media have manufactured consent for the killing of Palestinian journalists in Israel's war on Gaza.

air found they all repeated Israel’s false allegations that Sharif was a member of Hamas masquerading as a journalist, even though this claim was found to be baseless by notable organisations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the Foreign Press Association and the United Nations.

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While 100s of Palestinians are killed every day, Spineless U.S. Democratic leaders withdraw measure clarifying the party position on the Israel-Hamas war

DNC Chairman Ken Martin speaks during a news conference in Aurora, Ill., on Tuesday, Aug 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

The Democratic National Committee planned to clarify its position on the Israel-Hamas war this week. But after a surprise reversal, it may be several months before DNC officials adopt a formal position on an issue that has divided their party perhaps more than any other.....MORE

Gaza and West Bank The Human Toll - Updated August 26, 2025

Source: Gaza's Ministry of Health & Government Media Office

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In an attempt to destroy a camera, the Israeli Army obliterated 20 innocent lives

UN demands justice over Israeli double strike on Gaza hospital

How the double strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital unfolded

Aug 26, 2025 - The UN has said "there needs to be justice" following Israel's double strike on a Gaza hospital which killed at least 20 people, as an initial Israeli military probe said the strike had targeted a "camera positioned by Hamas". The camera was actually placed by Voice of Journlists, a Pakistani independent news source.....MORE

What are double-tap strikes that Israel used to hit a hospital?

Dust and debris are scattered when Israel attacks Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]

Aug. 26, 2025 - Israel’s two strikes on Nasser Hospital are part of a pattern that has run the length of the war, monitors say.

In fact, it was two strikes that hit the hospital in Khan Younis on Monday 10 minutes apart about 10am (07:00 GMT).

Essentially, it’s two strikes on the same target. The first strike is intended to kill an individual or individuals, the second to kill any rescue workers who come to help.

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Israel carries out largest occupied West Bank raid in months

Aug 26, 2025 - Israeli forces conducted one of the largest raids in months on foreign currency exchanges in the occupied West Bank, injuring dozens of Palestinians with live rounds, tear gas, and rubber-coated bullets in Ramallah and Hebron.