Lawsuit demands Trump administration reveal Gaza Humanitarian Foundation funding

Palestinian women return from the site of the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in the central Gaza Strip, on 4 August 2025 (Reuters)

Aug. 20, 2025 - The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) said on Wednesday that it filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its failure to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (Foia) request demanding the financial records of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

"The Center for Constitutional Rights is particularly interested in information that could reveal whether the administration's distribution of funds has any link to President Trump's 'Gaza Riviera' plan, which would cleanse the area of Palestinians and redevelop it for investors," the statement said.

US military contractors who staff the GHF have also been seen in videos shooting at aid seekers - something former US special forces soldier Anthony Aguilar confirmed after leaving the organisation.

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BBC witnesses West Bank attack by masked Israeli settlers

Aug. 18, 2025 - BBC News has witnessed an attack by dozens of Israeli settlers on Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.   The settlers in the illegal outpost of Or Nahman attacked local Palestinian farmers, setting fire to vehicles and destroying their property. 

The violence comes as the Israeli government plans to sign off the building of thousands of new homes elsewhere in the territory.  That plan, which is illegal under international law, would “bury the idea of a Palestinian state” according to one far-right minister in the Israeli government. 

Israeli settlers have been expanding their illegal seizures of Palestinian land since the start of the war in Gaza.   Israel says that it does not support the creation of unauthorised new settlements.  However many Palestinians accuse Israel’s government of complicity in the attacks and land seizures.

A BBC team was in the West Bank near the illegal outpost settlement of Or Nahman when Palestinian communities came under attack.

Israeli military says first stages of assault on Gaza City have begun

Aug 20, 2025 - The Israeli military says it has begun the "preliminary actions" of a planned ground offensive to capture and occupy all of Gaza City and already has a hold on its outskirts.

A military spokesman said troops were already operating in the Zeitoun and Jabalia areas to lay the groundwork for the offensive, which Defence Minister Israel Katz approved on Tuesday and which will be put to the security cabinet later this week.

About 60,000 reservists are being called up for the beginning of September to free up active-duty personnel for the operation.

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Israel approves illegal settlement plan that would split occupied West Bank....not even trying to hide the genocide

Palestinian hamlets are seen at the E1 area, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, between the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim and the occupied West Bank town of Eizariya [File: Nasser Nasser/AP]

Aug. 20, 2025  - Israel has given final approval for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that experts say would damage plans for any future territorially contiguous Palestinian state in the territory.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who announced the plan on August 14, hailed the decision as “historic” and framed the approval as a rebuke to Western countries that announced their plans to recognise a Palestinian state in recent weeks.

“The Palestinian state is being erased from the table not with slogans but with actions,” Smotrich, a settler himself, said on Wednesday.

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Most Americans support international recognition of Palestine: Poll

A Palestinian flag partially obscures the dome of the US Capitol building during a July 28 protest in Washington, DC, the United States [Kent Nishimura/Reuters]

Aug. 20,2025 - Most Americans believe that all countries should recognise Palestine as a state, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests, as public support for Israel in the United States continues to plunge amid the atrocities in Gaza.

A majority of respondents – 59 percent – also said that Israel’s military response in Gaza has been excessive.

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As Gaza starves, GoFundMe accused of blocking ‘millions of dollars’ raised

Jana Ayad, a malnourished Palestinian girl, rests on a bed at the International Medical Corps field hospital, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir el-Balah, southern Gaza, June 22, 2024 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

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GoFundMe has been accused of blocking “millions of dollars” of life-saving aid from reaching Gaza.

Charity leaders, activists and desperate Palestinians in Gaza have condemned the crowdfunding website for shutting down or blocking withdrawals for Palestine-related fundraising pages – and have accused bosses of having “blood on their hands”.

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Protesters go on strike in Israel demanding ceasefire and release of Gaza hostages

People take part in a protest demanding the end of the war, the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and against Prime Minister Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Aug. 17, 2025 - Protesters in Israel demanding a hostage deal escalated their campaign Sunday with a one-day nationwide strike that blocked roads and closed businesses, as police blasted crowds with water cannons and made dozens of arrests.....MORE

US suspends visas for Gaza residents after right-wing social media storm

The headquarters of the Department of State in Washington, DC [File: Mark Schiefelbein: AP Photo]

Aug. 16, 2025 - The United States has announced that it is halting all visitor visas for people from Gaza pending a “a full and thorough” review, a day after social media posts about Palestinian refugees prompted furious reactions from right-wingers.

Aid groups have urged the US to reverse its “dangerous and inhumane decision”. The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) said the new restrictions will prevent children in urgent need of medical treatment from travelling to the US.

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Israel preparing to forcibly displace Palestinians to southern Gaza

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Aug 167,2025 - Israel has announced preparations to forcibly evacuate Palestinians from “combat zones” to southern Gaza from Sunday, days after it announced a new offensive to seize control of Gaza City, the enclave’s largest urban centre.....MORE

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LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza hospital, advances plans to displace Palestinians

Aug 11, 2025 - 10:30 AM Updates

• Israeli forces have killed five Al Jazeera staff, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, in a targeted strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
• Israel’s military has claimed responsibility for the assassination in a statement, falsely claiming al-Sharif led a unit of Hamas’s armed wing.
• Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal, were also killed in the attack.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,430 people and wounded 153,213. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
• Funerals have been held for five Al Jazeera staff assassinated by Israel in a targeted attack in Gaza City.
• Al Jazeera condemns the killing of correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal, calling it a “desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza”.
• The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling for accountability, the National Press Club urged an inquiry and the Freedom of the Press Foundation appealed for action to halt further attacks on the media.
• Australia says it will recognise Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,499 people and wounded 153,575. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Aug. 12, 2025 - 1:30 PM Updates

• At least 89 Palestinians, including 31 aid seekers, have been killed and 513 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
• As Israel keeps pounding Gaza, five more Palestinians, including two children, have starved to death in the enclave, according to the Health Ministry, raising the total number of hunger-related deaths to 227, including 103 children.
• Palestinians have held funerals for four Al Jazeera journalists assassinated by Israel in Gaza as protesters rallied around the world against the killings, including in London, Berlin, Tunis and Ramallah.
• The European Union, China and Israel’s close ally Germany have condemned the targeted attack, while the United Nations has described it as a “grave breach of international humanitarian law”.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,599 people and wounded 154,088. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

August 15, 2025 12:24 PM Updates

• At least one more Palestinian child has starved to death in Gaza over the past day, raising the total number of hunger-related deaths to 240, including 107 children, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.
• At least 41 Palestinians, including 16 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.
• Israel faces international condemnation after far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announces his intention to approve the construction of more than 3,000 homes in an illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank, bisecting land that would be used for a future Palestinian state.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,827 people and wounded 155,275. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Aug. 17, 2025 - 1:30 PM Updates

• Israeli forces bomb al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, killing at least seven people, as the military advances plans to forcibly displace Palestinians to concentration zones in the south.
• The Palestinian Health Ministry says 11 more people have died of Israel-induced starvation in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 251. The victims include 108 children.
• Tens of thousands of Israelis rally in Tel Aviv, calling for an end to the war on Gaza and the return of the captives held by Hamas, as global protests continue over Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera’s journalists.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,827 people and wounded 155,275. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Israel killed at least seven people in its strike on the al-Ahli Hospital courtyard, according to a medical source [Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu]

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‘Legitimization Cell’: Israeli propaganda unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas

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Aug. 14, 2025 - The Israeli military has operated a special unit called the “Legitimization Cell,” tasked with gathering intelligence from Gaza that can bolster Israel’s image in the international media, according to three intelligence sources who spoke to +972 Magazine and Local Call and confirmed the unit’s existence. 
Established after October 7, the unit sought information on Hamas’ use of schools and hospitals for military purposes, and on failed rocket launches by armed Palestinian groups that harmed civilians in the enclave. It has also been assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of reporters — the latest of whom was Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli airstrike this past week.
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Heat and thirst drive families in Gaza to drink water that makes them sick

In the summer heat, Palestinian children carry jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

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Aug. 15, 2025 - Over the 22 months since Israel launched its offensive, Gaza’s water access has been progressively strained. Limits on fuel imports and electricity have hampered the operation of desalination plants while infrastructure bottlenecks and pipeline damage choked delivery to a dribble. Gaza’s aquifers became polluted by sewage and the wreckage of bombed buildings. Wells are mostly inaccessible or destroyed, aid groups and the local utility say.
Meanwhile, the water crisis has helped fuel the rampant spread of disease, on top of Gaza’s rising starvation. UNRWA — the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees — said Thursday that its health centers now see an average 10,300 patients a week with infectious diseases, mostly diarrhea from contaminated water.
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Smotrich announces Israeli plan to split occupied West Bank in half

Aug. 14, 2025 - “This reality definitively buries the idea of a Palestinian state.” Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a plan to effectively split the occupied West Bank in half, approving thousands of new Jewish settler homes between occupied East Jerusalem and the Maale Adumim settlement.

South Sudan denies Israel talks over forced transfer of Palestinians

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the opening ceremony of the Knesset Museum in Jerusalem on August 11, 2025 [Ohad Zwigenberg/AFP]

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Aug. 13, 2025 - South Sudan has denied holding discussions with Israel about the potential “resettlement” of Palestinians from Gaza in the East African country.....MORE

Gaza journalists vow to carry on work despite AJ staff killings

“We must continue our coverage, no matter how many journalists they kill.” Palestinian reporters who worked with the Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza say they are determined to carry on their work exposing the reality of Israel’s genocide.

Israeli army expels Bedouin community in West Bank

Aug. 13, 2025 - Israeli forces ordered the Bedouin residents of Ein Ayoub to leave after declaring their village a ‘closed military zone’. Residents had faced weeks of settler attacks, arson, and drone flights over their homes, before soldiers gave them just minutes to leave.

Justice for Journalists in Gaza

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Tampa is rising up for our martyrs. Join us FRIDAY for a picket outside FOX 13 to demand justice for journalists in Gaza murdered by the israeli occupation, expose media complicity, and call for an end to the genocide.

🗓️ Friday, August 15

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Stand with Gaza. Stand for truth.

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📍 FOX 13 – 3213 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL

قفوا مع غزة. قفوا مع الحقيقة.

 

DAMN those who claim that the Israelis are "God's people"

Aug, 13, 2025 - Israeli soldiers are proudly posting on social media videos they've taken showing their torturing of innocent Palestinian prisoners and videos of the wholesale bombings of Palestinian villages and the slaughter of civilians as a source of entertainment. Those who claim that the Israelis are God's people are horribly deranged and complicit in these barbaric, inhuman crimes.....people who have invented a deity in order to justify their most hateful and evil cravings.

US reacts to killing of journalists in Gaza: Israel 'is a nation fighting a war'

 

US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce holds her first press briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC, on 6 March 2025 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

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Aug. 12, 2025 - At the first US State Department briefing since Israel killed a team of journalists in northern Gaza on Sunday - including Al Jazeera's highest profile correspondent in the strip, Anas al-Sharif - the Trump administration appeared to brush off the attack as a mere casualty of being in a war zone before deferring to Israel for any potential investigation.
While the US has "concern about the loss of any innocent life" (I call BS), spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters on Tuesday, "many of you know of someone who's been killed, who you've worked with because of a war situation".
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Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan

Displaced Palestinians walk through a makeshift camp along the beach in Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

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Aug. 13, 2025 - TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel is in discussions with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country, part of a wider effort by Israel to facilitate mass emigration from the territory left in ruins by its 22-month offensive against Hamas.
Six people familiar with the matter confirmed the talks to The Associated Press. It’s unclear how far the talks have advanced, but if implemented, the plans would amount to transferring people from one war-ravaged land at risk of famine to another, and raise human rights concerns.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants to realize U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision of relocating much of Gaza’s population through what Netanyahu refers to as “voluntary migration” (i.e. volunteer to leave your homeland or we'll kill you, your family and all your neighbors). Israel has floated similar resettlement proposals with other African nations.
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New York protests over killing of Al Jazeera staff in Gaza and US blackout

Aug. 13, 2025 - Protesters in New York City rallied outside The New York Times over the killing of Al Jazeera journalists including Anas al-Sharif in a targeted Israeli air attack in Gaza, accusing US media of shielding Israel from genocide allegations. Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo was there.

Netanyahu pushes for Palestinians' departure from Gaza as Egypt seeks 60-day truce

By International law, Israel's refusal of RIGHT TO RETURN is Genocide

Aug. 13, 2025 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Palestinians in Gaza should be permitted to leave the enclave, remarks critics see as an effort to push residents out amid an intensifying military campaign. His remarks came as Egypt said it was working hard for a two-month ceasefire.....MORE

Netanyahu Doubles Down on Gaza Offensive After Global Backlash

Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City last month. The Israeli military is preparing to take control of the city.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

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Aug. 10, 2025 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel defended on Sunday his government’s plan to launch a renewed offensive against Hamas in parts of Gaza, following a wave of international condemnation from traditional allies and critics at home.
The Israeli military was preparing to expand its campaign to central Gaza as well as Gaza City, Mr. Netanyahu told reporters at a news conference in Jerusalem. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter in those areas, hoping they would be safer.
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UN chief warns Israel, Russia over reports of sexual abuse by armed forces

Israeli soldiers shoot rubber bullets at Palestinians in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, in May 2023 [Mussa Issa Qawasm/Reuters]

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Aug. 13, 2025 - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has put Israel and Russia “on notice” that their armed forces and security personnel could be listed among parties “credibly suspected” of committing sexual violence in conflict zones.....MORE

Israel bombards Gaza City as UK and allies demand action against 'unfolding famine'

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Gaza City has come under intense air attack, the territory's Hamas-run civil defence agency has said, as Israeli forces prepare to occupy the city.

Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman, said the residential areas of Zeitoun and Sabra had for three days been hit by bombs and drone strikes that "cause massive destruction to civilian homes", with residents unable to recover the dead and injured.

Meanwhile the UK, EU, Australia, Canada and Japan issued a statement saying "famine is unfolding in front of our eyes" and urged action to "reverse starvation".

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Art Against Murder Machines

Art Against Murder Machines

10611 Tanner Road, Tampa, FL (MAP)

Labor Day, Sept. , 2025: 10 AM to 2 PM

This event is across the street from the Tampa headquarters for the Israeli owned military drone manufacturer XTEND, maker of AI-driven combat drones used in Gaza and U.S. military and law enforcement agencies.

Israeli drone company opens new U.S. headquarters in Tampa

The founders of XTEND, an Israeli drone company, joined Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, city leaders, and lawmakers on Tuesday to mark the opening of their new U.S. headquarters and production facility.....MORE