International News

23/08/2025

"The United Nations has recorded the killing of at least 994 Palestinians in the vicinity of GHF sites, since late May, some of the 1,760 killed trying to access aid. The UN says the majority killed were shot by Israeli troops, something corroborated by eye-witnesses we have spoken to and medics in Gaza."

Israel has systematically obstructed food entering Gaza, aid agencies say, as a UN-backed body confirms a famine.

23/08/2025

"Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians"

https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-database-83-percent-civilians-militants/

23/08/2025

"The FBI has been searching the home and office of Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton

Bolton has become a vocal critic of Trump since serving in his first administration"

Agents and police vehicles have been seen at Bolton's home in the Washington DC suburb of Bethesda, Maryland.

23/08/2025

"The report was published as Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry recorded two new deaths from malnutrition, bringing the total number to 273 deaths, including 112 children."

Israel has systematically obstructed food entering Gaza, aid agencies say, as a UN-backed body confirms a famine.

23/08/2025

"More than 62,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 2023"

‘War dashboard’ showing number of militants killed was objective in itself with no plan for how Gaza could be governed afterwards, say sources in elite Unit 8200

20/08/2025

"Israel will call up around 60,000 reservists before a planned offensive to take Gaza City but most forces that would operate in the Gaza Strip’s largest urban centre would be active duty soldiers, an Israeli military official said on Wednesday. The call-up notices could be sent in the coming days, with reservists to report for duty in September, the military official said."

Call-up notices sent as Israeli plans to increase its offensive; Israel studies Hamas’ response to proposal for 60-day ceasefire

20/08/2025

"India has said it successfully test-fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile that, when operational, should be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to any part of China."

Agni-5 intermediate-range ballistic missile also part of Narendra Modi’s defence strategy against Pakistan

17/08/2025

"For every person killed on Oct. 7, 50 Palestinians must die.." - Aharon Haliva, Israels former military intelligence chief..

Israel's Channel 12 broadcasts leaked recordings of Maj. Gen. (retired) Aharon Haliva saying, 'They need a Nakba every now and then to feel the price,' referring to 1948 mass displacement of Palestinians

17/08/2025

"The US state department announced on Saturday that it would stop issuing visas to children from Gaza in desperate need of medical care after an online pressure campaign from Laura Loomer, a far-right influencer close to Donald Trump who has described herself as “a proud Islamophobe”.

In a pair of posts on the social network on Friday, Loomer had shared video of badly injured Palestinian children and their family members arriving in Houston and San Francisco this month, along with false claims that their shouts of joy were “jihadi chants” and that they were “doing the HAMAS terror whistle”."

Program providing key aid halted after complaints from Laura Loomer, the far-right influencer close to Trump

12/08/2025

"At least 36 Alawite women and girls, aged between three and 40 have been abducted and are at risk of forced marriage, trafficking, and further abuse

In all but one of the documented cases, police and security officials failed to effectively investigate the fate and whereabouts of abducted women and girls"

At least 36 Alawite women and girls, aged between three and 40 have been abducted and are at risk of forced marriage, trafficking, and further abuse

12/08/2025

"The CCTV images show men in army fatigues shooting dead a volunteer dressed in medical scrubs at point-blank range while a crowd of other terrified health workers are held at gunpoint with their hands in the air.

The mainly Druze city of Sweida was the scene of nearly a week of violent clashes, looting and executions last month which plunged the new authorities into their worst crisis since the toppling of the country's former dictator Bashar al Assad.

The new Syrian government troops were accused of partaking in the atrocities they were sent in to quell between the Druze minority and the Arab Bedouin minority groups."

The footage captured in the mainly Druze city of Sweida also shows a crowd of other terrified health workers being held at gunpoint with their hands in the air.

12/08/2025

"Violence by ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers in the West Bank has risen sharply since 7 October 2023.

Ocha, the UN's humanitarian office, estimates an average of four settler attacks every day.

The International Court of Justice has issued an advisory opinion that the entire occupation of Palestinian territory captured in 1967 is illegal."

In the shadow of the Gaza war, violence is rising in the occupied territories as radical settlers seize land with the backing of the government.