„Das ist eine vollkommen neue Situation.“
| Daniel Gerlach zum Nahost-Krieg Nahostexperte über Gaza-Plan: „Das ist ein teuflischer Mechanismus, der sich da einstellt“ Video Das Gelingen des Friedensplans, den Donald Trump und Benjamin Netanjahu im Weißen Haus vorgestellt haben, hängt an der Zustimmung der radikal-islamistischen Terrororganisation, die Israel vernichtet sehen möchte, und einem in Teilen rechtsextremen Kabinett, das den Begriff „Zwei-Staaten-Lösung“ nicht über die Lippen bekommt. Wie viel näher ist ein Frieden in Nahost seit Montagabend wirklich gerückt? Dazu spricht Alev Doğan mit Daniel Gerlach. Er ist Experte für den Nahen Osten und Autor des Buches „Die Kunst des Friedens: Eine andere Geschichte des Nahen Ostens“. Gerlach hat Zweifel, dass es jetzt schnell zu einer friedlichen Konfliktbeendigung kommt – und er verrät, welche besondere Rolle der britische Ex-Premier Tony Blair dabei spielen soll. Donald Trump und Benjamin Netanjahu sprechen von einem „historischen Tag für den Frieden.“ Doch ist ihr 20-Punkte Plan wirklich ein Ausweg aus dem Gaza-Krieg oder nur Inszenierung? Nahost-Experte Daniel Gerlach ordnet ein, wie realistisch ein Ende des Krieges ist. Alev Doğan 03.10.2025 |
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza return north as ceasefire takes effect; NY Attorney General Letitia James indicted
| Drop Site Daily: October 10, 2025 The Genocide in Gaza Over the past 24 hours, 17 dead and 71 injured Palestinians arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s health ministry, while five Palestinians were injured while seeking aid. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 67,211 killed, with 169,961 injured. Among the Israeli attacks on Gaza on Thursday was the bombing of the Ghabboun family home in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, according to the Civil Defense spokesperson. At least four Palestinians were killed and 40 trapped under the rubble. News outlets reported heavy Israeli bombing across Gaza up until the ceasefire went into effect at 12 p.m. local time on Friday, hours after Israel’s Cabinet approved the deal. The Israeli military announced that its troops have withdrawn to lines still deep within Gaza agreed upon in the plan and warned Palestinians not to approach them. Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians who had gathered near Wadi Gaza and along the coastal Al-Rashid road in the south began making their way north on Friday. Palestinian journalist and Drop Site contributor Abdel Qader Sabbah, who returned to Gaza City on Friday after being displaced to Deir al-Balah last month amid Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign, told Drop Site: “People are returning to Gaza City any way they can, on foot, by motorized rickshaw, by truck but the level of destruction is difficult to explain—Sheikh Radwan is destroyed, so is Tel al-Hawa, Nafaq street—many of the neighborhoods in the city are ruined. But some features of life are returning.” |
John Mearsheimer: Hamas Did NOT Kill 1200 Civilians on Oct. 7th
| 10.10.2025 Political scientist John Mearsheimer and Palestinian-American writer and activist Susan Abulhawa break down how Israeli firepower, propaganda, and the Hannibal Doctrine shaped the real story of October 7 — a version almost no one in Western media discusses. 00:00 Susan Abulhawa talks October 7 and media narratives 01:50 How Israeli helicopters and the Hannibal Doctrine shaped the real death toll 03:43 Mearsheimer on Israel’s panic, firepower, and killing its own civilians 06:39 The breakout from Gaza concentration camp Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian-American writer and activist whose novels, including Mornings in Jenin and Against the Loveless World, have been translated into dozens of languages and widely acclaimed. She is also the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the Palestine Writes literary festival. John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a leading realist scholar of international relations. A West Point graduate and former U.S. Air Force officer, he is the author of numerous influential works on U.S. foreign policy and power politics. Watch the video |
Gaza doctors warn of “wholesale extermination”; Trump to meet with Netanyahu; Feds to target “anti-capitalist” groups under new terrorism directive
| Drop Site Daily: September 29, 2025 Fifty Palestinians killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours as confirmed death toll tops 66,000. Israel continues its destruction of Gaza’s medical infrastructure, with doctors warning of “wholesale extermination” amid growing famine and health care collapse. The Knesset advances a bill that would allow the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in cases that constitute “racist or hate-motivated crimes.” Trump will meet with Netanyahu in the White House to discuss the 21-point ceasefire plan for Gaza; Hamas has not yet been presented with the plan. Eric Adams drops out of the New York mayoral race. Trump signs a directive vastly expanding federal powers to target those expressing anti-capitalist views or anti-Christian views, Ken Klippenstein reports. Hundreds of drones are launched into Ukraine by Russia overnight. Snapback sanctions hit Iran. The U.S. contemplates further military incursions into the Caribbean. |
Gaza Genocide: Stop This Terror and Horror
| By Mark Taliano and International Doctors Global Research, September 26, 2025 The hideous truth about Gaza is being smothered by the genocide. Western-supported Zionists are and have been targeting everything that supports Life and Civilization as they continue to destroy and “clear” the territory of its indigenous Palestinian population. Reports from International doctors are amongst the rare voices that manage to escape, and their reports are consistent. The doctors in the video below report the following: 70-80 percent of their patients are kids and pregnant women. There is no water or food and people are living in the hospital. It is common for one person to be the only survivor of his or her family. International doctors are not allowed to bring baby formula or money into Gaza. Doctors themselves admit they are “hardly surviving”. “We might die at any time”. There is no equipment, “We are down to the very basics.” There is neither soap nor gloves in operating theatre rooms. Travelling from the middle to the north, the doctors witnessed people evacuating and “bombing after bombing.” Zionists are bombing civilians with Apaches, F-35s, F-16s, robots, attacking everywhere around the hospital. They bombed the main entrance to the hospital. There are more than 1,500 dead under the rubble at the hospital. There is no internet of electricity. Displaced people can not return. “Anyone who stays here they know will be killed.” |
Trump’s 20-Point Gaza Plan: A Rubber Stamp of Legitimacy on Israel’s Subjugation of Palestine
After his White House speech, Netanyahu said Israel will never withdraw from Gaza and promised to resume the genocide if Hamas does not disarm.
| Jeremy Scah and Jawa Ahma Sep 30, 2025 |
Trump’s Gaza Blueprint Won’t End Palestine’s Historical Resistance. It Will Lead to Enhanced Solidarity: Rima Najjar
| By Rima Najjar Global Research, October 01, 2025 |
Trump gives Hamas days to respond to Gaza “peace plan”; German chancellor says Europe no longer “at peace” with Russia
Drop Site Daily: September 30, 2025
Confirmed Gaza death toll exceeds 65,000, Israel bombs children’s hospital, Israeli forces demolish 40 homes in West Bank village
| Drop Site Daily: September 17, 2025 Israeli attacks across Gaza today kill at least 51 Palestinians, including 38 in Gaza City amid an intensifying air and ground assault. The confirmed death toll in Gaza rises above 65,000. The Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Commission reports that the internet has gone down in northern Gaza as crews work to repair the connection. A new evacuation corridor in Gaza City along the main north-south highway opens, with only a 48-hour window and for only the next two days. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to justify his attack on Doha, arguing that Qatar “harbors Hamas.” Republican members of congress push the Treasury Department to investigate left-wing organizations, particularly those attached to a single funder, as the administration grows more brazen in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder. Democratic PR firm SKDK terminates its contract with the Israeli government a day after reports emerged about its contracted promotional work. Syria is presented with a plan by the Israeli government to demilitarize its border regions. The UN accuses he South Sudanese government of corruption, and Ecuadorians resist Canadian mineral extraction operations that endanger their environment. |
„We Will Not Be Silent:“ Hearing Stilled Voices of the Gaza Genocide
| CODEPINK Sep 08, 2025 Kathy Kelly In his last minutes of freedom before Israeli Defense Forces arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, clad in a medic’s white coat, walked alone toward two Israeli tanks. His captors awaited him amid the rubble of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital. An artist swiftly created a dramatic poster showing Dr. Safiya striding through the ruins of the hospital he directed. The artist, David Solnit, recently updated the poster’s caption. It now reads: Free Dr. Abu Safiya Eight months in prison Dec. 27, 2024 – August 27, 2025. Dr. Safiya had already endured agonizing losses at the Kamal Adwan hospital. In late October 2024, an Israeli drone attack killed his son, also a doctor. In a November 2024 attack on the hospital, Dr. Safiya was wounded by shrapnel, but continued working, insisting he would not close the hospital. He witnessed his colleagues being humiliated, beaten, and marched off to prison. By December 27, 2024, when Dr. Safiya’s ordeal as a prisoner began, most hospitals in Gaza were non-functional. |
How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza
| Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK Sep 03, 2025 One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months. The General Assembly voted, by 124 votes to 14, with 43 abstentions, for a strong resolution that not only “demanded” an end to the occupation within a year, but called on all countries to refrain from trade involving Israeli settlements and from transfers of weapons “where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that they may be used in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” |
Let Them In: Opening Gaza to the Foreign Press Corps. IDF Slaughter of Journalists. Binoy Kampmark
| The Fourth Estate may not be in a good way, corrupted and compromised as it is, but in some instances, it remains the only light cast over the predations and ghastliness of power. For that precise reason, the state of Israel has been most cautious, to the point of folly, of shutting out foreign journalists from covering the Gaza conflict. A job most dirty needs to be done – levelling, disabling, dispossessing and crushing of a strip with over 2 million Palestinians – and it shall only be witnessed, controlled and invigilated with utmost care. Only the friendliest of the friendly need apply for access to Gaza, and the call by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in August that the military bring in more foreign journalists is heavily contingent on control. The Gaza campaign is proving frustratingly long for the Netanyahu government. During this time the Israeli Defense Forces have become routine killers of journalists. Given the international press ban, the number of those slain by the IDF are overwhelmingly Palestinian. Since the start of the Gaza War, 189 have been killed. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) puts the death toll for all journalists and media workers between October 2023 and August 2025 at 197. Data from Reporters Without Borders puts the figure of journalists killed in Gaza at over 210, claiming that 56 of them were intentionally targeted by the IDF, while the UN Secretary General António Guterres offers 242 as the more accurate figure. Between 2020-22, 165 journalists were killed across the globe, a statistic bound to move even the coldest of analysts. |
As the world’s leading experts declare genocide in Gaza, the UK government still won’t
| Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media Sep 02, 2025 The International Association of Genocide Scholars has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Now I’m no legal expert, but I didn’t have to be part of the world’s most respected genocide scholars‘ group to figure this one out, and it didn’t take me 23 months either. Still, if you needed to hear it from the world’s leading experts, … |
Two Incendiary Bombs dropped on Gaza Flotilla Ships in Past Two Days
Israel Has a History of Dropping Incendiary Devices on Civilians in Gaza
| By Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright For the past two nights around 11:30pm Tunisia time, Israeli forces have dropped incendiary bombs from quadcopter drones on boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla in the waters near Tunis, Tunisia. On the night of September 8, 2025, the first incendiary bomb hit the deck of the lead ship of the flotilla, the “Familia,” causing a fire. A crew member onboard “Familia” told me that he saw the quadcopter hovering about 20 feet above the ship and then going higher and moving to the bow of the ship. The quadcopter then dropped the incendiary device. The second incendiary bomb dropped from a quadcopter drone hit the “Alma” ship in the night of September 9, 2025 and again caused a fire to break out. The Global Sumud Flotilla will not Stop the Mission |
Gaza’s People Are Not Just Starving – They Are Being Starved
Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK Alert Aug 23, 2025
| Medea Benjamin In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when I worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization, famine swept across large swaths of Africa. Drought and crop failure devastated Ethiopia, Sudan, and the Sahel. Crops withered, herds died, and families walked for miles in desperate search of food. International agencies scrambled to respond, setting up emergency feeding and rehabilitation centers. I worked in some of those centers. I can still see the wasted bodies of children, their limbs like sticks, their bellies swollen with malnutrition. I remember holding babies as they slipped away, too weak to keep breathing. It is a kind of human suffering that never leaves you. And yet, as devastating as those famines were, they were caused by failed rains and ecological disaster. They were not intentional. A UN-backed report just declared that famine is currently occurring in Gaza. But unlike the African famines I witnessed, this one is not caused by nature. It is man-made by Israel. It is deliberate. Two days after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, then–Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced: “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.” The famine in Gaza today has been building since then. The results are catastrophic. The UN reports that more than 500,000 people—one quarter of Gaza’s population—are in famine conditions. At least 70,000 malnourished children need immediate therapeutic food, yet most cannot get it. Over 12,000 children under five are acutely malnourished, with more than 2,500 in severe condition. These are not abstract numbers. They are children with names, families, and futures—being starved before our eyes. For months, hundreds of tons of food and medicine have sat languishing on the Egyptian side of the border while Israel blocked convoys or refused to pause airstrikes to let them through safely. Israel has systematically undermined the institutions that actually could deliver food. UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency mandated by the UN to provide food, education, and healthcare to people in Gaza, has seen its facilities bombed, its staff murdered, its reputation smeared, and its ability to deliver aid blocked. Under global pressure, Israel resorted to dangerous food airdrops—pallets so inadequate they equaled less than a single truckload, and in some cases, people were injured or killed scrambling for them. Then came the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, promoted by Israel and the U.S., a sham mechanism whose distribution points have become death traps. Over 1,000 people have been killed at these sites, gunned down or shelled by Israeli military or armed international contractors as they lined up for food. Never before have we seen anything like this. Israel is not failing to feed Gaza. It is deliberately ensuring Gaza cannot be fed. This is the systematic use of starvation as a weapon of war. It is collective punishment. And collective punishment is a war crime. The United States is a partner in this cruelty. Israel could not enforce this siege without U.S. weapons, U.S. dollars, and U.S. political cover. Every member of Congress who votes for more military aid is effectively voting to starve Palestinian children. I have seen famine before. I know what it looks like when hunger steals the lives of children. Gaza’s famine can be ended—if we force it to end. That means demanding that Israel open the borders immediately and allow the United Nations to flood Gaza with food and medicine. Not trickles, not fake “foundations,” not publicity stunts—but real aid, now. It also means demanding a ceasefire so aid can come in and be distributed safely. As the UN report warns: “If a ceasefire is not implemented to allow humanitarian aid to reach everyone in the Gaza Strip, and if essential food supplies, and basic health, nutrition, and services are not restored immediately, avoidable deaths will increase exponentially.” That warning is critical, because while people are desperate for food, they are also desperate for other basic human rights: clean water, medicine, shelter, and an end to the killing. After all, the right to life is primordial. History will not remember excuses. It will remember whether we allowed an entire people to be starved–and murdered–when we had the power to stop it. |
