RE: Posted by: JB | Aug 17 2025 12:26 utc | 1
Exactly what I was thinking when article appeared.
Could “pen a letter” to Nuttyahoo about Palestinian children.
Only good news, she’ll be lambasted publicly on her X feed.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 17 2025 12:34 utc | 3

Israel has bombed a power station in Yemen:

Resistance Committees in Palestine:
– We condemn in the strongest terms the new criminal Zionist aggression on the city of Sana’a in Yemen and the bombing of a power station there, which clearly reflects the state of bankruptcy and confusion that the Zionist entity is experiencing, and confirms the failure of all its attempts to confront the qualitative strikes directed by the Yemeni armed forces deep inside the Zionist entity.
– The continuous Zionist targeting of civilian targets in Yemen proves that the Zionist entity is incapable of confronting the Yemeni armed forces and that this criminal entity is only good at attacking civilian capabilities, which demonstrates a major intelligence failure that has dogged it since the launch of the Yemeni Support Front for the Palestinian People and their Resistance in Gaza.
“>https://t-me.translate.goog/s/hossamsshbat?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

Just this morning in Gaza:

Updated | 14 aid-seekers killed by Israeli forces near Morag and distribution centers in the Gaza Strip.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/hossamsshbat?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
[…] In the same period [last 24 hours], at least seven people have starved to death, bringing the total count of hunger-related deaths to 258, including 110 children, the ministry said. […]
The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, the day Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism through the US-backed GHF, has reached 1,938 with more than 14,420 injured, the statement said.
https://aje.io/u4dnh6?update=3893298
Psychological trauma affects more than one million children in Gaza: Health official
Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, has spoken to Al Jazeera Arabic about the humanitarian situation in the coastal enclave and says:
About 52 percent of medications are out of stock, and there is a severe shortage of blood bags.
There are 44,000 orphaned children and more than one million children suffering psychological trauma in Gaza.
“>https://aje.io/u4dnh6?update=3893311

Israel freezes the bank accounts of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. The only country to notice and object so far is Jordan:

Jordan on Saturday sharply condemned Israel’s decision to freeze all bank accounts of the Greek Orthodox in Jerusalem, calling it part of a broader campaign of violations against Christians in the occupied city.
In a statement, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry denounced “in the strongest terms Israel’s continued assaults — as the occupying power — on Jerusalem’s Christians and the restrictions imposed on them, the latest of which is the freezing of bank accounts belonging to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate.”
The ministry said the move represents “a clear violation of the historical and legal status quo at the Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem.” 
It reaffirmed Jordan’s “absolute rejection and strong condemnation of Israel’s illegal measures amid its ongoing assaults on Palestinian cities and their holy sites in occupied Jerusalem, in blatant violation of international law and international humanitarian law.”
Amman stressed that “Israel has no sovereignty over the West Bank and its Arab, Islamic, and Christian holy sites.” […]
“>https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tensions-rise-after-israel-freezes-greek-orthodox-patriarchate-accounts-in-jerusalem/

Freakish and abnormal people are making the decisions in the US. Laura Loomer, who is a nobody “influencer” has made a decision about who should be allowed into the US for humanitarian reprieve, and Rubio and Trump actually take her advice. Of course, Trump goes to her for guidance on who to fire or hire in governmental positions. That was funny for about 5 minutes, now it’s just strange and scary:

Washington (Quds News Network)- The US State Department has suspended all visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza. The move came hours after Zionist far-right influencer Laura Loomer raged online against the arrival of severely wounded children in US hospitals.
The children traveled to America for life-saving treatment through HEAL Palestine, a US-registered nonprofit that arranges specialized care.
In a statement on Twitter, the State Department said: “All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days.”
Loomer tagged Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the department in several posts, demanding that injured Palestinian children be denied care. She published several racist and anti-Palestinian posts targeting injured children, calling them “Hamas.” She wrote: “We don’t want Gazans imported here. They have doctors in other countries.”
HEAL Palestine has worked with American hospitals for years to provide surgeries and long-term treatment for children critically injured in Gaza. The group covers medical costs, housing, and basic needs until recovery.
Dr. Steve Sosebee, founder of HEAL Palestine, told Quds News Network the suspension will cause lasting harm.
“This is very unfortunate, to say the least, because there are tens of thousands of injured children in Gaza who need medical care that’s not available to them there. The United States is one of the few countries that had permitted NGOs like ours to bring kids here for care. Denying these children access to treatment is against all humanitarian and American values,” he said.
Sosebee explained that the organization provides hospitals with sponsorship letters and guarantees that children return to Gaza after recovery. He warned that blocking visas will mean more preventable deaths.
“Denying injured children access to medical care is against all humanitarian and American values. We have traditionally many people that cares for the sick and suffering children of the world, and this decision will result in many more innocent children, dying endlessly”, he said.
The suspension highlights the contradiction in US policy. While it halts medical access for injured children, Washington continues to arm Israel and facilitate more killings in Gaza.
According to Brown University’s Costs of War Project, the US provided $17.9 billion in military aid to Israel from October 2023 to October 2024. A Wall Street Journal report in December 2023 revealed that shipments included 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells.
“>https://qudsnen.co/us-suspends-medical-visas-for-gaza-children-wounded-by-us-weapons-after-zionist-influencers-outrage/

Posted by: teri | Aug 17 2025 13:07 utc | 5

@6….and “teri”, I am in no way saying you are one of the in-house dreamers….they are self promoting and evident…..they hang on every little slight handed to the Apartheid State as if it was the Last Act……the tit for tat is extremely disproportional and one sided…..the Apartheid State has a Super Power behind it……the Palestinians…..they have most people’s best wishes….and not much else.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 17 2025 13:56 utc | 7

A spectacular failure of the UN to prevent yet another genocide. It might as well pack up and go to the void. 🙄
The World needs a global body with some teeth and none of this UNSC BS 😤

Posted by: Dingleberry | Aug 17 2025 14:05 utc | 9

This is the Palestine forum. Ukraine has its own.
Posted by: Mary | Aug 17 2025 14:34 utc | 10
These are valid points to the Palestine thread.
How many children did israel kill? Where’s netanyahu’s letter? What’s the necessary threshold to get a stop killing the children letter?

Posted by: Meh | Aug 17 2025 15:51 utc | 11

Posted by: Meh | Aug 17 2025 15:51 utc | 11
Which points could have been made with a sentence or 2 instead of distracting with many paragraphs in 2 Palestine posts about Melania’s letter to Ukraine. (On top of which, we don’t know that she didn’t try to pass a letter to Nutty only to have it dumped in the trash.)

Posted by: Mary | Aug 17 2025 16:09 utc | 13

“What about Oct 7th?”
October 7th – when Netanyahu killed as many Israelis as he could.

Posted by: Otto Penn | Aug 17 2025 17:04 utc | 15

As usual business takes precedent over lives.
“German military contractor Renk Group, which supplies tank components to Israel, has threatened to bypass the European country’s recent decision to impose an arms embargo on the occupying regime over its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
The company’s CEO, Alexander Sagel, made the remarks in an interview with the Financial Times, days after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced that his administration will not authorize “until further notice” any sale of military equipment that could be used in Israel’s Gaza onslaught.
Sagel said his company had a “responsibility” to ensure Israel can maintain its military capabilities.
He added that Renk was still trying to understand the consequences of Merz’s announcement, noting, however, that the firm was considering other ways of fulfilling its contracts if the ban was confirmed by Germany’s security council.
“It is also clear that we are discussing a plan B. The plan B is that we relocate production of these specific transmissions to the US,” he pointed out.
Asked about the morality of supplying weapons to the Tel Aviv regime, Sagel said it was “a difficult discussion”.
He further said Renk had a contract to provide Israel with “hundreds” of tank gearboxes.
Merz’s announcement was part of a wave of international backlash after the Israeli cabinet voted for an illegal plan to occupy Gaza City.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 17 2025 17:18 utc | 17

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 15th August 2025: May be Useful to Some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-d42 Covers the Middle East and Gaza.

Posted by: The Busker | Aug 17 2025 17:51 utc | 19

@18 RoS
Reminds me of a few years back when an “Israeli” mil raped a brit tourist in Cyprus. She ended up with the judiciary turned against her and the accused, slandering her, he (or it?) allowed to leave the island. Was an important turning point in that it showed who had control or sympathy of the authorities there, i.e. the british were relegated.
Some would rejoice at that, saying it was a form of justice. Not a justice I would choose, and to expect it to serve in the current reality would be to excuse it.
Just look at what the judiciary of the world accept now.
At some point, the populations have to become the law, given that the established versions are absent or totally corrupt.

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 17 2025 17:59 utc | 21

“This afternoon I escaped from the hell of thinking and obsessions.
I walked alone for a long time, observing and contemplating the city, from the Sabra neighborhood to the Rimal, then the neighbourhoods of Daran and Tuffah.
I sat at the door of the shrine of Sayyid Hashim, contemplating the smallest detail, then I went to Fahmi Bey Street and the square. Every day the feeling of grief increases inside me. I do not want an evening without the face of the city.
May God not deprive us of you, Gaza, the love of my heart and a piece of my soul.
Journalist Youssef Fares – Gaza City”

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 17 2025 18:49 utc | 23

Majority of Germans back arms ban, pressure on ‘Israel’ over Gaza
The survey, commissioned by public broadcaster ZDF, indicated that 83% of Germans support halting the supply of weapons that could be used in the Gaza Strip.
It also found that a majority of respondents want Berlin to exert greater political pressure on “Israel” to end its genocide in Gaza. 62% supported increasing pressure, while 30% opposed.

Posted by: Apollyon | Aug 17 2025 19:18 utc | 25

https://x.com/Bannons_WarRoom/status/1949966018056434166
Three weeks ago Erik Prince accused the IDF of murdering three Christians by deliberately shooting at the Christian cross on the steeple of the church in Gaza (go to 1:50). In his anger, Erik Prince showed disgust towards the IDF and called for US support for the IDF to come to an end.
Now comes the negative media coverage of Erik Prince in the MSM. Benoit Faucon, Middle East Correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, just wrote a hit piece about EP’s new activities. https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/erik-prince-mercenaries-vectus-global-5a166dca
Just about all MSM is biased in favor of Israel, but is Faucon a lot worse than others? I noticed he wrote a story asking for the tariffs against Morocco to be lifted because they were such a loyal ally in the Arab world for Israel. It made me think he might not just be biased but taking orders from the Israeli government communications wing. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-tariffs-trade-war-markets-04-05-25/card/moroccan-good-deeds-don-t-go-unpunished-by-tariffs-yjo6kuyr35rhgh0EiBAD

Posted by: air_bullseye | Aug 17 2025 19:41 utc | 27

“We were told you enjoyed being featured on our platform, thinking a blurred face would hide your identity as you gloated over the killing of Palestinian journalists.
For this, you will no longer hide behind your amateur war-crimes fan page, Kfir mercenary Aaron Gregory Khalfin.”
Pix of Khalfin at link.
https://t.me/TrackingIsraeliGenocide/1826?single

Posted by: Mary | Aug 17 2025 20:25 utc | 29

@ air_bullseye | Aug 17 2025 19:41 utc | 27
You have a point. After all, just because Erik Prince is Christofascist* mercenary scum doesn’t mean we shouldn’t acknowledge when his loyalties compel him to take the right side of an issue.
(*Catholic fascist even — the original fascists; accept no substitutes!)

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 17 2025 20:38 utc | 31

Seems the CEO of Renk GMBH just confirmed your Merkava tally.
Posted by: Exile | Aug 17 2025 19:49 utc | 28
Great spot, Exile.
I do admit I’ve lost count though.
It’s spiked in the past few months.
Be prepared for a huge jump if this ‘invasion’ goes ahead.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 17 2025 21:40 utc | 33

According to this, Hamas caved.
Unknown if Israel will accept, but mostly likely will and put all their forces for Lebanon/Iraq war.
Amazing how every time USReal is at its wits end militarily, a life-line is thrown to them.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 17 2025 17:16 utc | 16
All smoke and mirrors.
israel can’t accept anything offered by Hamas, even complete surrender.
Genocide is it’s only way forward.
Hamas is not the enemy.
The Palestinian people are the enemy.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 17 2025 21:50 utc | 35

The Palestinian people are the enemy.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 17 2025 21:50 utc | 35
______
Ultimately we’re all the enemy. The Palestinians are first up because they’re most immediately “in the way”.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 17 2025 21:53 utc | 37

@ JB | Aug 17 2025 12:26 utc | 1
I’ll always remember the year 2018, migrant children separated from their parents, provisioned aluminum blankets in a hellish Texas detention facility. The incessant wailing must be driving the staff nuts, but there’s hope. Here comes First Lady Melania to virtue-signal for all-round compassion. Almost all-round, at any rate, as the rearview of her coat conveyed her inner sentiments, in an all-caps scrawl down her back:
I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?
This memory sticks hard with me, as people in my own family displayed similar callousness toward migrant children at the time — a deep, painful shock. Melania shows no evidence of being a human with concerns for US American or Mexican or Palestinian or Ukrainian children. If Melania were at least capable of an adequate performance, we could call her peace letter performative.
Every time I see another picture of a starving Palestinian baby, I can’t understand how anyone can stand it. Human beings are too profoundly hard-wired with primal compassion for fellow humans. (The starving baby component of the Palestinian holocaust, finally, renders any future for Zionism impossible.) Normal human beings cannot tolerate mass-torture of infants. But Melania is nothing like a normal human being.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Aug 17 2025 22:22 utc | 39

At some point, the populations have to become the law, given that the established versions are absent or totally corrupt.
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 17 2025 17:59 utc | 21
Truly the only progressive option for the working masses of the world.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 17 2025 22:40 utc | 41

Apparently Melania has never seen the photos of Palestinian children being blown to bits by the IDF or Palestinian children starving to death soon after birth, or Palestinian children buried alive under tons of debris after an IDF airstrike.
Pleas me a huge break from the BS hypocracy………….

Posted by: tobias cole | Aug 17 2025 23:34 utc | 43

Arch 34 – there are literally thousands of unexploded US manufactures bombs and bomblets that have dropped on Gaza by the IDF.
Hamas and the PIJ have become very skilled in converting this ordinance into powerful IED’s in Gaza, fully capable of destroyed Merkava’s, APC’s, IFV’s, etc.
The IDF KIA combat toll is now estimated at 5,000 plus, with the WIA count at about 20,000. This is by far the most costly war session since Israel illegally expropriated land from the Palestinian people in the 1947-49 period.

Posted by: tobias cole | Aug 17 2025 23:41 utc | 45

see the 54-second video at the first link
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1957069180294816089
RT @RT_com
Israeli drone TARGETS AND KILLS little girl carrying a water container — Al-Jazeera footage
https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1956300541971091883
Tiberius @ecomarxi
Yes Israel is burning families alive and starving them and shooting them as they collect aid because they’re not Jewish, but did you take the time to consider how pointing this out hurts Jewish feelings?
No?!
What a disgusting racist you are
———-
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1954961427380502861
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
🚨 Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister:
“We will arrest Netanyahu and execute the international arrest warrant against him if he comes to our lands.”
https://x.com/ayshaahmeds/status/1954947001331908772
Aysha @ayshaahmeds
Norway’s $2T wealth fund cuts ALL ties with Israel dumping 11 companies over Gaza atrocities & settlement support.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 18 2025 0:42 utc | 47

Apologies for above – This instead
Mahmood OD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfFaAeaa-4
“Hizbullah gives final answer as Israel prepares to attack Iran.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 18 2025 1:03 utc | 49

“The Jews are evil.
Not all Jews are evil.
Both statements are true.”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 17 2025 21:52 utc | 36
All rules contain their contradictions within them. Yet Jews remain evil.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Aug 18 2025 1:13 utc | 51

Peter Cronau
@PeterCronau
A million people are about to be ethnically cleansed—and this is the first paragraph:
“Gaza residents will be provided with tents &shelter equipment ahead of relocating them from combat zones to ‘safe’ ones in the south, according to the Israeli military”
https://x.com/PeterCronau/status/1956992748739018835

Posted by: Menz | Aug 18 2025 2:42 utc | 53

Craig Mokhiber
@CraigMokhiber
I’ve noticed an increase on this platform in recent days of a particular kind of troll. Anonymous accounts with no name or photo, with ostensibly pro-Palestine content, but who spend all their time attacking people in the Palestine solidarity movement. Clearly these are Zionist trolls posing as Palestine supporters but dedicated to creating divisions in the movement. It’s an old tactic. Don’t fall for it.
https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1956818333921157206

Posted by: Menz | Aug 18 2025 2:45 utc | 55

Brandon Streussnig
@BrndnStrssng
Claiming to be frightened by the name “Gaza”, a real place that exists where real people live, kinda gives the game away that you simply think the place and its people shouldn’t exist
Aug 16
Queens bodega named ‘Gaza Deli and Grill’ ignites fear among Jewish New Yorkers — including Oct. 7 survivor: ‘I’m still not safe’ https://trib.al/o0Msbvr
https://x.com/BrndnStrssng/status/1956929651026133108
See the comment to this post with a Tel Aviv cafe and kebab Shop in NY that are ok, right?

Posted by: Menz | Aug 18 2025 2:51 utc | 57

“The Jews are evil.
Not all Jews are evil.
Both statements are true.”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 17 2025 21:52 utc | 36
All rules contain their contradictions within them. Yet Jews remain evil.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Aug 18 2025 1:13 utc | 51
Most American and Jews have an almost innate Predatory psyche that harmful behavior on others is a necessary evil, that is justified or aligns their immoral actions with a sense of righteousness.

Posted by: Menz | Aug 18 2025 2:58 utc | 59

Re. demonstrations in Israel;
A bit off topic – but the general theme is that of populations do have some say –
A story of the Peasant Uprising in Germany in 1525 – as told by Lyndal Roper (history professor at Oxford) – is a masterful description of how the oppressed can revolt – and have power to change history. that Uprising, which happened during the early years of Reformation, can be read as today’s situation – the title is “Summer of Fire and Blood”.
The socio-economic forces, the usury, the Jewish financiers in collusion with religionists – and the massive perception of inequality, of neo-feudalistic practices, are all here today.
The neo-colonial genocide of Palestinians is a symptom of world malaise.

Posted by: fanto | Aug 18 2025 4:08 utc | 61

This is, I think, Abby Martin explaining where she sees things are right now for the Zionist state.
https://x.com/KerryBurgess/status/1957148904472117429
(1 minute 35 seconds)
As we’ve said here before, Israel is screwed. They did it to themselves, and kudos to Sinwar (RIP) for having the foresight and courage to activate the process of self-destruction.
Some folks don’t like my tone at times. Fair enough. I truly believe that you can’t get through to people over uncomfortable or emotional topics by tone policing. Be loud about the uncomfortable facts about Israel and the West, specifically America’s role in committing a genocide, and that, IMO, makes every American who supports the regime complicit. Someone either opposes genocide or they don’t. Very simple moral mathematics.
Anyone who feels offended about talking about genocide and their country’s complicity is not someone whose opinion should matter.
If they put their national tribalism over murder…

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 18 2025 5:27 utc | 63

The effects of the genocide continue to build…

More people are realising…
If a politician has taken money from AIPAC or the Zionist lobby, don’t vote for them.
THEY HAVE SOLD THEIR SOUL‼️

1-minute 53-second video
https://x.com/hippyygoat/status/1956989539177701744
I am too cynical to think this will make a difference, but it is good to see genocide enablers come under scrutiny.
If you’re on Twitter and American, this account is a must follow
https://x.com/TrackAIPAC

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 18 2025 6:07 utc | 65

see the 42-second video at the first link
see the 46-second video at the second link
see the photo at the third link
https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1957087268914548795
Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman
“While I was just sitting, both of my children were just gone”
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1957129909715026382
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
Watch: This video captures an Israeli regime drone deliberately targeting a young girl as she carries a water container. It is clearly visible in the footage that she is a child.
Zionists are monsters.
#GazaHolocaust
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1957154218839863664
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
7 children dead in an airstrike. Guess who did that. (Hint: Only one nation, one people does that.)

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 18 2025 6:58 utc | 67

Zachary Foster
@_ZachFoster
Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein on the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” aid sites:
“How do they distribute the food? You know how they distribute it? They throw it on the floor and then people are supposed to run for it, to reduce them to rats.
Whenever I read about that, it reminds me in the concentration camps, the food they put in the giant vat, it’s almost all water. I’m referring to World War II now. It’s almost all water, but there are few vegetables, a few vegetables in that vat of soup.
And so, what can you imagine? the people who are lining up, they’re pushing each other. They’re shoving each other because you have to get to the head of the line or it’s just water.
And that’s what they do to the people of Gaza, reducing them to scurrying rats. And then as they go for the food, the Israelis because they’re scared, they’re afraid, they start shooting at the people, killing them as they scramble and scurry for the food.”
Full talk: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T8KXQB
https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1957286251742007434

Posted by: Menz | Aug 18 2025 9:06 utc | 69

70 wonks

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 18 2025 10:34 utc | 71

I’m not a fan of Amnesty, usually reports with weak condemation of Israeli crimes against humanity… more aid for the “MARKETPLACE”, as if to say, Israel is paying for the Aid and making it available for sale…
Israel ‘deliberately starving’ Palestinians in Gaza, Amnesty says amid famine warning
The human rights group says that starvation is ‘part and parcel of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza’
Reading Time:2 minutes
Agence France-Presse
Published: 3:46pm, 18 Aug 2025
Rights group Amnesty International on Monday accused Israel of enacting a “deliberate policy” of starvation in Gaza, as the United Nations and aid groups warn of famine in the Palestinian territory.
Israel, while heavily restricting aid allowed into the Gaza Strip, has repeatedly rejected claims of deliberate starvation in the 22-month-old war.
In a report citing testimonies of displaced Palestinians and medical staff who treated malnourished children, Amnesty said that “Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip”.
The group accused Israel of “systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life”.
“It is the intended outcome of plans and policies that Israel has designed and implemented, over the past 22 months, to deliberately inflict on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction – which is part and parcel of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” Amnesty said.
The report is based on interviews conducted in recent weeks with 19 displaced Gazans sheltering in three makeshift camps, as well as two medical staff in two hospitals in Gaza City.
The Israeli military and foreign ministry did not immediately comment on Amnesty’s findings.
In a report issued last week, the Israeli defence ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, a body overseeing civil affairs in the Palestinian territories, rejected claims of widespread malnutrition in Gaza and disputed figures shared by the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.
In April, Amnesty accused Israel of committing a “live-streamed genocide” against Palestinians by forcibly displacing Gazans and creating a humanitarian catastrophe in the besieged territory, claims that Israel dismissed at the time as “blatant lies”.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric last week warned that starvation and malnutrition in Gaza were at the highest levels since the war began.
The UN says that nearly 12,000 children under five were found to have acute malnutrition in July – including more than 2,500 with severe malnutrition, the most dangerous level. The World Health Organization says the numbers are likely an undercount.
In the past three weeks, Israel has allowed around triple the amount of food into Gaza than had been entering since late May. That followed 2½ months when Israel barred all food, medicine and other supplies, saying it was to pressure Hamas to release hostages taken during its 2023 attack that launched the war.
The new influx has brought more food within reach for some of the population and lowered some prices in marketplaces, though it remains far more expensive than pre-war levels and unaffordable for many.
While better food access might help much of Gaza’s population, “it won’t help the children who are severely malnourished”, said Alex DeWaal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, who has worked on famine and humanitarian issues for more than 40 years.
When a person is severely malnourished, vital micronutrients are depleted and bodily functions deteriorate. Simply feeding that person can cause harm, known as “refeeding syndrome”, potentially leading to seizures, coma or death. Instead, micronutrients must first be replenished with supplements and therapeutic milk in a hospital.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3322206/israel-deliberately-starving-palestinians-gaza-amnesty-says-amid-famine-warning?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article

Posted by: Menz | Aug 18 2025 10:51 utc | 73

My last words on this subject:
He has crystallised a sleeping world into intellectual fervour and powerful action.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 18 2025 11:12 utc | 74
“He” hasn’t prevented the horrific deaths of innocent Palestinian babies and children.

Posted by: Menz | Aug 18 2025 11:40 utc | 75

Resistance:
Lord Bebo
@MyLordBebo
🇧🇦🇮🇱 47 Israelis stranded in Bosnia on Sunday after their passports were accidentally thrown in the trash, then accidentally taken to a landfill.
Hotel staff then took the trash to a landfill, disposing of the passports.

Posted by: Mary | Aug 18 2025 13:15 utc | 77

If I had good news, I’d share it happily. I have none, so I’ll just post what I have this morning…I guess I feel compelled to at least state the truth as I find it and to bear witness. Skip the comment if you are tired of this daily summary of human atrocity.

MSF: Gaza casualties have tripled daily since the start of the Gaza Humanitarian distribution centers.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 17 Palestinians since dawn on Monday, Al Jazeera reported, citing medical sources.
Eight of those killed today were aid seekers.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-least-17-people-across-gaza-dawn?nid=427184&topic=Israel%2527s%2520genocide%2520in%2520Gaza&fid=547258
Five people, including two children, died of starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, according to the health ministry in Gaza.
The deaths bring the number of people who have died of hunger in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war to 263, including 112 children.
“>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/five-people-die-starvation-gaza-last-24-hours-including-two-children?nid=427184&topic=Israel%2527s%2520genocide%2520in%2520Gaza&fid=547258

Huh, funny use of the words “evacuation”, “relocation”, “encourage”, and “humanitarian”:

Israel’s army chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, said that “the evacuation process of residents from Gaza City will take less than two months,” according to Channel 12.
Zamir said Israel is “preparing for the complexities in relocating residents” and “preparing a set of tools to encourage them to leave the city” and go to what he called “humanitarian areas”.
The army chief said the Israeli military will enter and occupy Gaza City once the forced evacuation process is complete.[…]
“>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-city-residents-will-be-forcibly-displaced-within-two-months-report?nid=427184&topic=Israel%2527s%2520genocide%2520in%2520Gaza&fid=547258

The UN has already said it is illegal, you Zionist dimwit:

Huckabee says Israel’s settlement plan in occupied West Bank ‘not a violation of international law’: Report
Israeli Army Radio is reporting that the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has said he does not oppose the Israeli government’s plan to illegally build thousands of homes in a highly controversial development in the occupied West Bank.
The plans for the E1 area settlement project that would connect occupied East Jerusalem with the existing illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, located several kilometres (miles) to the east, “is a decision for the government of Israel to make”, Huckabee said.
“We would not try to evaluate the good and the bad of that, but simply just say that, as a general rule, it is not a violation of international law,” he is reported as saying.
“>https://aje.io/em96uu?update=3894693

Doctors in one Palestinian hospital are now forced to take care of patients while standing in sewage:

Video: Israeli Attacks Destroy Septic System at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, Flooding Facility with Sewage
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The management of Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza said the raw sewage is obstructing the work of staff due to ongoing Israeli attacks, further worsening the suffering in Gaza’s already devastated healthcare system.
Severe damage to the sewage lines, resulting from ongoing Israeli attacks, has caused the waste to flood directly into the hospital and its surrounding complex, the management said.
Iyad Barhoum, the hospital’s administrative director, said that the Israeli army is preventing technical crews from reaching these lines for repair, exacerbating the crisis and negatively affecting the health services provided to patients.
The Israeli military has repeatedly targeted southern Gaza’s largest hospital since the start of the assault.
On Wednesday,UN experts stated that Gaza’s healthcare system has been the subject of targeted destruction by the Israeli military, which amounts to “medicide”, accusing Israel of deliberately attacking and starving healthcare workers, paramedics and hospitals to wipe out medical care in the enclave. […]
“Health and care workers have been continuously targeted, detained, tortured and are now, like the rest of the population, being starved,” they added.
[Includes brief video of doctors working while standing in waste water covering the entire floor.]
“>https://qudsnen.co/video-israeli-attacks-destroy-septic-system-at-gazas-nasser-hospital-flooding-facility-with-sewage/

The US Congressmen who visit Israel are given automatic Israeli citenzenship. I wonder how many of them will volunteer to serve, and if they do so, will they be tried for treason for serving in a foreign army?

Israeli army seeks Jewish youth from abroad amid soldier shortage
Israel’s military is weighing a plan to enlist Jewish youth from abroad to offset what officials describe as a severe shortage of soldiers, Army Radio reported Monday.
The broadcaster said the army is exploring outreach to Jewish communities in the diaspora to convince young people to join its ranks.
The move comes as the military struggles with a shortfall of 10,000 to 12,000 troops, driven largely by the refusal of ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredim, to serve. […]
According to the Army Radio, the military intends to target major Jewish communities abroad, particularly in the US and France, with the aim of adding around 700 recruits each year. […]
“>https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250818-israeli-army-seeks-jewish-youth-from-abroad-amid-soldier-shortage/

How Palestinian women are treated as prisoners in the Israeli system:

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported a series of abusive practices perpetrated by Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian female detainees in the notoriously harsh conditions of Damon Prison.
The report documents four separate incidents that occurred during the first half of August, highlighting the physical and psychological torture inflicted upon these women.
According to the PPS report, Israeli forces utilised police dogs, deployed tear gas, and engaged in degrading practices intended to break the detainees’ spirits. The incidents were recorded on 4, 8, 10, and 14 August. Testimonies collected by the PPS during field visits reveal that the women were shackled, forced to bow their heads, and paraded around the prison yard in a manner designed to humiliate and degrade them.
In addition to these direct assaults, the living conditions for Palestinian women in Damon Prison remain dire. Chronic food shortages, substandard meals, and infestations have led to widespread skin diseases among the prisoners. These issues are exacerbated by oppressive heat, high humidity, and insufficient ventilation. Access to essential hygiene and personal care items is heavily restricted by Israeli authorities, further magnifying the suffering of the detainees.
Currently, 48 Palestinian women are held in detention, including teenagers and one pregnant prisoner nearing her due date. The PPS asserts that these attacks are not isolated incidents but rather indicative of a longstanding and systematic policy employed by the Israeli prison system against Palestinian prisoners—a policy that has intensified in severity since the onset of the Israeli military actions in Gaza.
The Prisoners’ Society warns that conditions for female detainees are tragic and increasingly untenable. Despite their efforts to resist these oppressive measures through collective resilience, they continue to endure significant violations of their most basic rights.
“>https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250818-report-israel-used-police-dogs-to-attack-palestinian-female-detainees/

Israel is literally shooting pregnant Palestinian women in the uterus.

“An exploded fetus with a bullet through its neck — that’s not something a human should ever have to see.”
—American doctor, Aziz Rahman, upon returning from a medical mission in Gaza
“>https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1956834371345781035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1956834371345781035%7Ctwgr%5E0188d755a4e859f677d1abc7955d73fd6d9bebc8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F2025%2F08%2Flinks-8-18-2025.html

Aw, lookie here; Israel offers humanitarian aid to South Sudan if they will take the Palestinians. Why would South Sudan ever believe that Israel would give them anything? The whole world watches as South Sudan starves to death along with Palestine – the only difference being that Israel/US is causing the starvation of Gaza on purpose, while they simply could not care less about South Sudan. The US is involved in the split between Sudan and South Sudan – we wanted to divide the oil-rich area from the oil-deficit area. And given that neither north nor south can feed the people they have, why would they take in a million more people?
“Israel stands by its friends in their time of need.” It is to retch.

Israel will deliver “urgent humanitarian aid” to South Sudan to tackle the country’s health crisis, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said in a press release, amid reports that Tel Aviv is in discussions with the country over the possible resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza.
“South Sudan is currently struggling with a cholera outbreak and facing a severe shortage of resources,” Haaretz reported the Foreign Ministry saying in a statement.
“The aid will include essential medical supplies for treating patients, water purification equipment, gloves and face masks, as well as special hygiene kits to prevent cholera,” the statement said.
“Israel stands by its friends in their time of need.”
Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel visited South Sudan last week, a day after the reports on the talks to discuss the resettlement of forcibly displaced Palestinians. South Sudan denied the reports.
“>https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-announces-urgent-humanitarian-aid-south-sudan-amid-reported-talks?nid=427184&topic=Israel%2527s%2520genocide%2520in%2520Gaza&fid=547258

Posted by: teri | Aug 18 2025 13:31 utc | 79

Inevitability now…

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 18 2025 13:39 utc | 81

I respect Finkelstein quite a bit. It takes tremendous courage and resolve to confront your ethnic in-group as he does.
But he is still a Jew and struggles to reconcile that Judaism is and always has been toxic due to the Talmud.
The history of the Jews goes back much further than WW2.
Their reputation was already well established a thousand years ago (two thousand?).
Torah, from God.
Talmud, from men.
That is why I am a Muslim. The Quran is obviously divinely inspired. No human, and certainly at that time, could reveal such scientific insights.
When men try to perform as God, madness and tragedy ensues.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 18 2025 13:48 utc | 83

robin 82
I don’t mean to be flippant, but in Democratic systems the level of USUKIS lies that are now in the public domain is unsustainable. Maybe you don’t live in a Democracy , but I do. Lying in public is only sustainable if the majority of people are ignorant or deliberately silent. In Britain, that is no longer the case. Couples are on holiday and have time to discuss reality, which in their workplace they’re forced to deny.
Maybe you live in the US, where money and lies are printed like QE and nobody has any control over it.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 18 2025 14:04 utc | 85

Posted by: Mary | Aug 18 2025 13:58 utc | 84
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Twitter is a cesspool but I follow those and similar channels there.
Every free speech platform eventually gets silenced which tends to spawn new platforms. Information wants to be free.
Maybe there is something newer and less adulterated now?
And then something new again in a year and on and on…

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 18 2025 14:11 utc | 87

Nobel only gives the Peace Prize to those that tow-the-Western narrative – I wouldn’t surprised if Netanyahu was awarded it, after all they gave it to Obama in 2009, his entire two-terms he was at war, and before that they gave it to Kissinger, who help keep the Vietnam war going – and that cost many more lives.
“The organizers of one of Italy’s most prominent international trade exhibitions have barred the Israeli regime from this year’s event on grounds of ethical and political concerns over Tel Aviv’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The decision was reported by the Italian news agency ANSA on Sunday.
Nuova Fiera del Levante, as the exhibition is named, is scheduled to be held in the southern Italian city of Bari from September 13 to 21. The ban was confirmed after the city’s mayor, Vito Leccese, demanded that the regime be excluded.
In a July 1 statement, Leccese had declared the fair should “not let Israel participate in the event, institutional, and economic activities.”
The event’s organizing committee not only endorsed the mayor’s call, but also went further, issuing a condemnatory statement.
“For a commonality of ethical and political views, the Nuova Fiera del Levante has from the outset expressed a clear distancing from the atrocities of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and has supported the initiative to propose the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to the children of Gaza,” it wrote.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 18 2025 14:53 utc | 89

After a shower, I have more thoughts on Finkelstein.
Max Blumenthal has grown on me slowly. I have mad respect for him for finding Iranian Jews during a visit there and praying among them.
I don’t know a lot about his religious convictions, but he clearly isn’t all-in on the Talmud.
Bad (antisocial and dangerous) ideas can cause as much havoc as a massive detonation. It is certainly more insidious.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 18 2025 15:34 utc | 91

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 18 2025 14:11 utc | 87
Saba.ye is a Yemeni news outlet. I’m just wondering if anyone else can open it, or if I am being blocked.
I don’t belong to twitter or telegram, but have been able to view some of their content.
Telegram “open” channels, such as intel slava, presstv & middle east spectator, do periodically close to nonmembers & then re-open a few weeks later.
But Saba.ye is a private website.
And what struck me was they all closed to me simultaneously. Including Saba.ye.
Also “fortros” telegram channel. Forgot that one!

Posted by: Mary | Aug 18 2025 17:27 utc | 93

Update from Hani…still operating! Sadly, he lost 2 cousins: 1 collecting aid & 1 protecting aid from looting. Dreading the threatened invasion.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-in-gaza-daily
A quick update from me — and from Gaza. I know it’s been a little while, and I appreciate your patience. Things remain unbearably hard.
There’s a little good news: for the first time in months, rice is back in our kitchens. It feels like a feast here. On any given day, up to eight community kitchens are cooking, and when one takes a day off, another keeps going. People are fed because you make it possible.
We’ve also restarted distributing food parcels. Yesterday was our first run — about $35 each, filled with half a dozen essential groceries for families too far from our kitchens to get a hot meal.
And then there’s our Gaza Solidarity Klinic. Every single day, about 80 people walk through its doors. They come for first aid, primary care, or relief when there’s no hospital bed and no medicine elsewhere.
One father came in after being hit with shrapnel while waiting for aid distribution; our nurse cleaned and stitched his wound so he could walk home alive. Another mother brought her child, malnourished, feverish, and weak from days without proper food. The Klinic gave the child care and attention — and gave the mother hope.
And our classroom with Ms. Fatma keep teaching the little ones and giving them a safe space to grow and learn. These are just two stories. There are dozens more every day.
But grief is never far. We recently laid our cousin Sameeh to rest — killed alongside 15 others while waiting for aid. And earlier this month, another cousin, who had volunteered to protect aid from being looted, was shot dead by Israeli fire. The cruelty is relentless.
People now brace for what everyone fears: another invasion. We’ve seen this pattern before. Headlines fade. The world looks away. And then, when Israel thinks no one is watching, the bombs return with even greater force. It’s a cruel rhythm — perfected over decades — where suffering becomes background noise, and the next massacre comes once the “reset” has happened. That is why I keep telling these stories, even when the media won’t.
Silence is the soil where violence grows. Still, through all of this, our team is mobilized, motivated, and deeply human. They keep cooking, delivering water, handing out food parcels, and staffing the Klinic — because families have nowhere else to turn.
UNRWA remains active on the ground, responding, but not at the scale or level it wants to be.

Posted by: Mary | Aug 18 2025 17:39 utc | 95

The decision by Hamas not to insist on adherence to the existing ceasefire agreement, which stipulated an end to the conflict, which was broken by “Israel” and US, and the acceptance of a partial ceasefire, appears reasonable given the subsequent:
– Implementation of an open policy starvation on the whole population of Gaza
– Complete international unwillingness and failure to address that in any meaningful way, and to respond to a continuing genocide.
Neither of those can have been foreseen by Hamas, and the only reasonable reaction is to attempt to assure a stabilisation of the means of the population.
Needless to say, there are those in “Israel” and amongst its supporters who are reluctant to allow any pause in the current direction.
As noted somewhere, we will now be hearing of:
Members close to
Sources in
Unnamed officials
Representatives involved
Etc.
It appears that:
“Israel” was involved in the proposal without sponsoring it.
The proposal is close to identical to previous “Israeli”/US proposals that followed their breaking of the original ceasefire.
“Israel” will approach the proposal as if it were a new offer to it, meaning to study its acceptance with no relation to anterior agreements, offers or similar.
Meaning, Hamas agreement is with Arab initiative, ostensibly with “Israeli” and US oversight. It is not agreement to an openly presented “Israeli” or US offer.
And so we are obliged to be patient, and also must remain skeptical. We have that luxury, the population of Gaza do not, are pushed and pulled by every announcement and suggestion that might mean an end to the suffering and atrocity.
Below are excerpts from various sources that give a sense to what is occuring:
• Journalist Hossam Shabat (martyred)
– In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Press release
Hamas and the Palestinian factions have announced their approval of the proposal presented to them yesterday by the Egyptian and Qatari mediators.
Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Monday: Safar 24, 1447 AH
Corresponding to: August 18, 2025 AD
Official website – Hamas Movement
• Pal74press
– After Trump’s last speech,
I said that what is happening is nothing more than a suspicious Arab effort. And here this effort appears at a time when Israel is experiencing the largest wave of demonstrations to end the war. Suddenly, speeches and proposals are pouring in… but the strange thing is that they are all directed only at the Arabs, as if they are calming recipes to please whom?!
Is it to silence the people of Gaza who are searching for hope amidst the destruction?
Or to please Netanyahu so that news gets out in Israel that there are cooked and ready proposals, so that the Israeli street will shake off its anger and the anger of the families of the prisoners who have become a burden on Tel Aviv’s economy after their last strike will calm down?
It’s a vortex more complex than the vortex of an atheist… You don’t understand that they are traitors who are selling us out, you don’t understand that they are deceived, you don’t understand that they are involved, and you don’t even understand who is playing with whom.
But the one constant is: everyone is working on us, and Palestinian blood has become a bargaining chip between politicians.
– Channel 12, citing an informed security source:
It is appropriate to return to negotiations after Hamas’s response.
– An Egyptian source told Al-Arabiya TV:
Israel will receive Hamas’s response through mediators tonight.
• Journalist Ayman Hanideq
– Channel 12, citing a political official:
Israel’s position has not changed—the release of all prisoners and adherence to the remaining conditions set for ending the war

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 18 2025 18:17 utc | 97

Giyane and LoveDonbass,
I apologise for my reply at #72. I usually avoid religious comments, my emotions got the better of me. You and most on MOA are on the right side of the ledger.

Posted by: Menz | Aug 18 2025 21:13 utc | 99