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Thursday, September 25, 2025

What do the ICC arrest warrants mean for Israel and its allies? | Inside Story

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Israel and its biggest ally, the US, again isolated, furiously attacking the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. Most European nations say they'll execute the warrants if either man steps on their soil. So what might happen next? 

Italy, Spain send navy ships to protect Gaza flotilla after drone attacks


Sept. 25, 2025 - Spain and Italy have sent naval ships into the Mediterranean Sea, charged with protecting the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which is carrying aid towards Gaza.

Italy said on Thursday that it is sending a second ship, while Spain said its navy will also act. Rome dispatched a frigate the previous day following a drone attack on the GSF in international waters after it came under drone attack en route to Gaza to deliver aid.

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Global Sumud Flotilla Update: September 25, 2025

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The Global Sumud Flotilla is currently moored off the Greek island of Crete, preparing for the last leg to Gaza.

Monday, September 22, 2025

‘It is a bloodbath’: Australian medic describes situation at Gaza hospital

For doctors at Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital, leaving is not an option [File: Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
Sept. 22, 2025 - An Australian medic working at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital says she has lost count of the number of amputations she has had to perform, as two more hospitals were shut down amid Israel’s relentless bombardment of the enclave.

“On the first day, I started off thinking I’ve never seen anything like this, and then in the following days I’ve seen … more. I’ve lost count of the number of amputations I’ve done,” Dr Saya Aziz, an anaesthesiologist, told Al Jazeera.

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Update: The Global Sumud Flotilla is well on it's way to Gaza: Sept. 22,2025

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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Israeli attack kills at least 25 from the same family in Gaza City homes

Mourners gather for a funeral around body bags containing the remains of the Dugmosh family, who were killed in an Israeli strike on homes in the Sabra neighbourhood, according to medics, at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, September 21, 2025 [Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]



The Israeli military has killed at least 25 members of the same family in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City as it ramps up strikes across the besieged enclave.

A group of homes were bombed in the early hours of Sunday by Israeli warplanes in the Sabra neighbourhood, where Israeli tanks began advancing in late August as part of a plan to destroy and seize the area.

At least 17 people have been rescued in the aftermath of the strike, and rescue work was ongoing as people and emergency responders dug with their hands and family members at the scene said they feared as many as 50 people were trapped under the rubble.

The Palestinian family made an urgent appeal for help to try to free others still trapped. Family members at the scene said they could still hear voices from the rubble.

“I appeal to the whole world: Please lend us a helping hand,” one family member said. “Our relatives are buried alive. We keep hearing their screams from under the rubble, but we cannot reach them.”

He said Israeli drones were firing on rescuers working in the rubble.

“Every time we try to reach them, the Israeli drones open fire on us. For every five men making an attempt, four are killed, and only one survives.”

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UK announces recognition of State of Palestine


Sept.21, 2025 - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced the United Kingdom’s formal recognition of Palestinian statehood, joining Canada and Australia in a move aimed at reviving the push for a two-state solution. The US and Israel have criticised the decision.

Israel unleashes horror in relentless attacks on Gaza City


Sept. 21, 2025 - Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza City has obliterated families, flattened homes, and stretched hospitals to breaking point. As Palestinians flee with nowhere safe to go, children are collapsing from exhaustion and rescue workers are still trying to save people from the rubble.

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Gaza's Government Media Office Press Releases for September 20, 2025


Government Media Office
⭕*Press Release No. (972) issued by the Government Media Office:*

📢*The occupation is forcibly displacing 270,000 Palestinians from Gaza City to the south under the threat of bombing and genocide, while more than 900,000 are steadfast and refuse to leave*

We confirm that more than 900,000 Palestinians are still steadfast in Gaza City and its north, categorically refusing to be displaced to the south, despite the brutal bombing and genocide committed by the "Israeli" occupation as part of its implementation of the permanent crime of "forced displacement" that violates all international laws and conventions.

Government crews have monitored the escalation of forced displacement from Gaza City towards the south as a result of the brutal crimes of the occupation since the start of the forced evacuation crime, as approximately (270,000) citizens were forced to leave their homes under the pressure of bombing. In contrast, the crews also recorded a reverse displacement movement, as more than (22,000) returned to their original areas inside Gaza City until Saturday noon, after they moved their furniture and belongings to secure them in the south, and then returned to their city due to the lack of the most basic necessities of life in the south.

As for the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Yunis and Rafah, which currently includes about one million people and is falsely promoted by the occupation authorities as "humanitarian and safe" areas, it was exposed to more than (110) air strikes and repeated shelling that left more than (2,000) martyrs in successive massacres committed by the occupation army inside Al-Mawasi itself. These areas are completely lacking in the basic necessities of life, with no hospitals, no infrastructure, and no essential services such as water, food, shelter, electricity, or education, making living there almost impossible.

The area designated by the occupation as "shelter" in its maps does not exceed (12%) of the area of ​​the Gaza Strip, and it is trying to cram more than (1.7) million people inside it, as part of a plan to establish "concentration camps" within the systematic policy of forced displacement, with the aim of emptying northern Gaza and Gaza City of their residents, in a fully-fledged war crime and a crime against humanity that violates international law and international humanitarian law.

We condemn in the strongest terms the continued crimes of genocide and forced displacement carried out by the "Israeli" occupation against Palestinian civilians, and we denounce the shameful international silence and failure to assume legal and moral responsibilities towards these crimes.

We hold the "Israeli" occupation and its strategic ally, the US administration, in addition to the countries involved in the crimes of genocide, fully responsible for what is happening and the international legal consequences that will result.

We also call on the international community, the United Nations, and international courts and legal institutions to take effective and serious action to halt these crimes, hold the occupation leaders accountable before competent courts, and ensure the protection of civilians and their right to remain on their land in security and dignity.

✍️*Government Media Office*
📍Gaza Strip - Palestine
📅Saturday, September 20, 2025

Government Media Office
⭕*Press Release No. (973) issued by the Government Media Office:*

📢*International Organization: 94% of victims killed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip were unarmed civilians in a systematic genocide crime*

The Government Media Office emphasizes the seriousness of the documented data revealed by the independent, conflict-monitoring organization ACLED, which demonstrated with evidence that the "Israeli" occupation army is waging a war of genocide against civilians in the Gaza Strip.

According to the data collected by the organization, approximately 15 out of every 16 Palestinians killed by the occupation forces were unarmed civilians. Based on these figures, it becomes clear that 94% of the total martyrs killed by the "Israeli" occupation were civilians, equivalent to 61,100 civilians out of 65,174 martyrs. This constitutes damning evidence of the occupation's deliberate and systematic targeting of civilians in a war crime and full-fledged genocide.

This is consistent with what was published by the British newspaper The Guardian last month, based on internal data from the Israeli occupation army itself, which confirms that the percentage of civilian casualties has exceeded 83% since the outbreak of the war in October 2023.

We condemn in the strongest terms these heinous crimes, and hold the occupation, the United States of America, and the countries involved in the genocide fully responsible for them. We demand that the international community, the United Nations, and international courts take serious, effective, and real action to hold the criminal occupation leaders accountable, stop the mass killing of civilians, and ensure the protection of our Palestinian people in accordance with the provisions of international law and international humanitarian law.

✍️*Government Media Office*
📍Gaza Strip - Palestine
📅Saturday, September 20, 2025

Government Media Office
⭕*Press Release No. (974) issued by the Government Media Office:*

📢*We deny the occupation's allegations about targeting UN teams and hold it fully responsible for obstructing humanitarian work and creating security chaos*

The Government Media Office condemns the allegations issued by the "Israeli" occupation authorities, which allege that our Palestinian people and their resistance are targeting UN teams and preventing them from opening a new humanitarian corridor in the southern Gaza Strip. It affirms that these allegations are completely false and aim to mislead and distort the facts.

For many months, we in the Gaza Strip have been demanding that UN organizations, especially UNRWA, be enabled to carry out their relief tasks with complete freedom, while the "Israeli" occupation continues to obstruct the arrival of aid, imposes severe restrictions on the work of the United Nations, bombs its headquarters and warehouses, and targets its workers. It has even killed dozens of local and foreign UN employees as a result of its direct and deliberate bombing.

Furthermore, the criminal gangs that the occupation protects and provides with fire, air, and logistical cover; It is the occupation that attacks relief convoys and seizes aid with its approval and planning, while preventing and targeting government security personnel from protecting these convoys, as part of a joint security plan through which the occupation aims to achieve criminal goals.

The occupation's attempts to pin the blame on our Palestinian people and their resistance aim to cover up its systematic crimes and justify its continued policy of starvation and deprivation. It seeks to confuse matters and cover up the crime of starvation it is committing against civilians, but these practices have now been exposed to international public opinion.

✍️*Government Media Office*
📍Gaza Strip - Palestine
📅Saturday, September 20, 2025

Civilians made up 15 of every 16 people killed by Israel in Gaza since March, data suggests

People outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City mourn for victims of an Israeli attack on 3 September. Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

Sept. 19, 2025 - About 15 of every 16 Palestinians the Israeli military has killed since its renewed offensive in Gaza began in March have been civilians, data collected by the independent violence-tracking organisation Acled indicates.

The civilian death rate implied by a report from Acled, which stands for Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, is one of the highest recorded during the conflict, and will increase international pressure on Israel as its forces advance into Gaza City, forcing up to a million people to evacuate and threatening further large-scale civilian casualties.

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