Despite the horror and brutality of life under the relentless torture of occupation, the world is astonished that Gazans still hold on to hope. We create hope for others when we insist on believing that Gaza can rise again from the rubble, even as we hear the sounds of bombardment destroying our homes, snatching the lives of our loved ones, and shattering our dreams. Painter Frans Al-Salmi…
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An independent international commission of inquiry established by the United Nations has urged member states to use all available legal and diplomatic means to maintain the ceasefire in Gaza. Member states are to provide broad support for the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state according to the UN report.
The commission, formed by the Human Rights Council, submitted its report on Tuesday to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, which deals with social, humanitarian, and human rights issues. The findings, initially published on September 16, accuse Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The report states that Israel carried out four acts that meet the definition of genocide as outlined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, with the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza. It also notes that the Israeli president, prime minister, and former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, “publicly incited” the commission of this crime.
In a recorded video statement, the Chair of the Commission, Navi Pillay, stressed the need for member states to prioritise holding perpetrators of violations accountable by supporting the International Criminal Court’s investigations and applying the principle of universal jurisdiction to pursue those implicated among their dual nationals.
Pillay added that the recent ceasefire:
may postpone the implementation of Israel’s territorial objectives in Gaza, but it has not ended the changes it has imposed on the ground.
And, Pillay noted that statements by Israeli leaders “confirm their continued intention to impose a new demographic reality in the Gaza Strip.”
The Commission explained in its report that Israel has sought to impose permanent military control over Gaza, destroying civilian infrastructure and essential resources vital to the population’s survival, while carrying out forced displacement and the geographic fragmentation of the Strip. It also noted that Israeli officials have publicly supported plans for settlement construction and the annexation of territory.
Pillay concluded by stating that the international community has both a moral and legal obligation to end these grave violations and to “ensure justice and accountability for all Palestinian victims.”
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By Alaa Shamali
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A journalist from the local “Palestine” newspaper, Mohammed Al-Manirawi, and his wife were martyred in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their tent in the Al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
Al-Manirawi — not to be confused with Mohammed Al-Qrinawi, another journalist Israel assassinated back in December 2024, also along with his wife — refused to leave Gaza despite the continuous bombing, hunger and destruction.
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Waheed Al-Manirawi, who devoted more than 15 years of his life to documenting the truth, was martyred on Wednesday morning along with his wife and daughter after Israeli occupation aircraft targeted their tent in the Nuseirat camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip.
He died because his voice was stronger than bullets — because his eyes remained open to a pain that the world would rather shut its eyes to.
Since the outbreak of the war of extermination against Gaza, Al-Manirawi remained in the field — writing, sending photos, and witnessing endless massacres.
On his last night, he returned to his family’s tent to take them to Gaza City, but the occupation’s missiles were faster than his steps — assassinating his body and leaving behind a memory heavy with courage and resistance.
His friends said his smile never left him, even on the darkest nights. He believed that a true journalist resists with words.
He became part of a long list of journalists silenced by Israel. Their words were more than an obituary — they were a testimony to an entire era of oppression and resistance, to a generation of journalists who discovered that no protective gear could keep them safe.
Al-Manirawi’s martyrdom is not an isolated incident.
According to the Palestinian Journalists’ Protection Centre (PJPC), more than 257 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israeli aggression — the highest toll in the world in decades.
They were not killed by accident, but because they reported what the world did not want to see.
The centre described the targeting of Al-Manirawi as a “full-fledged war crime” and called for an urgent international investigation, stressing that:
The blood of journalists in Gaza will remain a testament to the world’s inability to protect the truth.
Al-Manirawi’s death is not only a loss for his family and colleagues, but also a slap in the face of a silent humanity.
The world that claims to defend press freedom watches in silence as cameras become charges and microphones become military targets.
At a time when Europe’s shores are closed to refugees, the skies over Gaza remain open to missiles that kill both words and people.
Mohammed al-Manirawi is gone, but his voice still echoes among the rubble of Gaza — among his colleagues who continue to work with the same conviction: journalism is not a profession for survival, but a path to truth, no matter the cost.
The blood of journalists in Gaza remains the last ink that writes the truth.
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By Alaa Shamali
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People Before Profit (PBP) MLA Gerry Carroll has announced he will be submitting a motion of no confidence in the Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) Education Minister Paul Givan, due to the latter’s current “fact-finding mission” to so-called Israel.
On his Facebook page, Carroll said:
His whitewashing trip to Israel – a state responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of children – is abominable and must be challenged. I hope all MLAs who have rightly called what Israel is doing a genocide — there are over 50 of us — will sign up to this motion.
In reality, motions of no confidence have little chance of passing in the Assembly, as they require strong support from both unionist and nationalist parties to pass. It is likely Gavin would receive the backing of other unionist MLAs. He has been joined on his trip to the genocidal regime by Steve Aiken, finance spokesperson for Ulster Unionist Party (UUP); Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) deputy leader Ron McDowell and DUP MP Sammy Wilson.
However, Carroll is confident he will have the backing of the 30 MLAs required to debate the motion, and potentially a majority ready to back it. This would at least be a symbolic show of disgust at the visit to an overt land theft project whose leaders are wanted by the International Criminal Court.
Carroll concluded by saying:
The Department of Education has been actively promoting the Minister’s visit, which is completely inappropriate. This trip is clearly politically motivated, as demonstrated by the fact that some of the most vocal Zionists in the Assembly and Belfast City Council have joined the Minister on this trip.
The fact that the Minister and his colleagues set off on this junket just as the Education Authority revealed a £300 million black hole in its budget adds further insult to injury.
I’ve submitted an Assembly motion expressing no confidence in the Minister and calling on him to resign. I hope other parties will support this call.
The trip will not have increased the black hole Carroll refers to, due to it being paid for by the Zionist regime. A DUP spokesman said:
The visit comes at no cost to UK taxpayers
In a political culture with functioning norms of propriety, accepting such hospitality would be treated as a form of bribery, as elected representatives supposed to represent the interests of their own constituents are wined and dined by a foreign government hoping to win favourable treatment. Such sleaze is obviously compounded by the fact that the foreign regime is engaged in crimes that some have suggested surpass those of the Nazis.
Paul Givan has filled his social media timeline with propaganda from his travels, including a visit to the heart of barbarism — the Knesset — where he said:
Today I had the opportunity to visit the Knesset. The only democratic Parliament in the Middle East.
Given how often this lie is repeated by Western Zionist politicians and media, it’s important to be clear – ‘Israel’ is not a democracy, it is an apartheid pseudo-state. It subjects Palestinians within its borders to unfair treatment, including discriminating against them in terms of land purchases, voting access and suppression of the Arabic language. Those in Gaza and the West Bank are subjected to military law, with constant surveillance and a web of checkpoints that make free movement impossible. Meanwhile, land thieves (sometimes called settlers) in the West Bank fall under Israeli civilian law.
McDowell continued the theme when taking a pop at Sinn Féin’s supposed move away from ‘Israel’:
I am happy to make friends and forge relationships with democracies that have something to offer Northern Ireland. Countries who can teach and invest here. I met with Ministry of Foreign affairs representatives today, Ministry for education projects and held meetings with Israels [sic] version of MPs in the Knesset.
On that economic front, there may actually be good news, as Sammy Wilson reported:
The mention of the word ‘Ireland’ immediately provoked a negative reaction. For all their attempts to present themselves to the rest of the world as friendly and affable in Israel, they are seen as enemies to the extent that Israel has even withdrawn its embassy on the grounds they can’t do business with Ireland.
So the limited pressure applied by Ireland to the Zionist fake state may be bearing fruit, as tensions calcify. This is the kind of untethering that is necessary to ostracise the genocidaires in Tel Aviv and West Jerusalem from the rest of the world. Wilson, however, like McDowell, bemoaned the “useless economy minister” (Sinn Féin’s Caoimhe Archibald) for her tentative steps away from the genocide economy.
Paul Givan has been criticised by the Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council (NITC), who represent the major teaching unions. They said:
The minister’s actions in promoting this visit on these platforms is an overtly political and divisive act that serves to diminish confidence in his judgement and respect for the views of the wider education workforce and community.
The NITC also hit out at him for his use of the Department of Education’s social media accounts to post material whitewashing the genocidal apartheid regime. The group said the “inappropriate social media posts” were wrong and that “official governmental online platforms should be politically neutral”. They also stated that Givan and co.’s tour was being taken:
…in the context of what has been recognised by the UN as a genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Even narrow-minded zealots such as Wilson and Givan may have thought it tone-deaf to travel to the Zionist entity — while it was massacring civilians on a daily basis.
They may have hoped the lull in mass murder would have enabled them to pass off an ethno-supremacist society as vaguely normal. However, Zionist bloodlust is such that they have restarted their project of extermination in Gaza before the politicians could jump back on the plane home, thereby bringing unionist complicity in genocide into even sharper relief.
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Israel killed at least 104 Palestinians in a barrage of airstrikes on Gaza overnight on Wednesday, in a major violation of the ceasefire agreement that Israel has said is back on after the strikes. At least 46 children were among those killed by the strikes, which also wounded 253 Palestinians, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said. Gaza’s Civil Defense teams were forced to use small tools and their…
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On Monday, the hugely popular children’s entertainer and educator Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms Rachel to millions of children, was named as one of its Women of the Year by Glamour magazine for her “contributions to children’s entertainment and her activism” on behalf of Palestinian children. Accurso has been targeted by the US Israel lobby for months for her outspoken empathy with the children of Gaza being maimed and slaughtered by the occupation during Israel’s genocide.
But on the same day that her award was announced, Accurso also shared that she had attempted to hire no fewer than three venues in New York City to celebrate the birthday of Rahaf, a 3 year old Palestinian girl she has befriended and supported and who suffered double amputation because of Israel’s bombing.
But Accurso and Rahaf were refused by all three venues, despite guaranteeing to them that there would be no press, no photos, no videos – and that she was renting the venue for the birthday of a little girl who had been evacuated from Gaza because of her injuries and that Accurso and her family wanted to make it extra special.
The Wear the Peace clothing brand that publicised the refusals described what happened:
The first business owner stated that she would have to think about it because it’s ‘really complicated’, leaving Ms. Rachel heartbroken trying to find another spot. The second spot agreed, but then canceled just two days later due to “the safety of our staff.” She said the venues didn’t want Palestinians from Gaza there, which is illegal. Finally, on the fourth try, a business was ecstatic to have Rahaf, where they ended up having the birthday party.
The racism of many in the West toward Palestinians runs deep, as does the fear of the Israel lobby. All this cowardice is in spite of Israel now being the most hated nation on Earth for its arrogance, its contempt for the lives and rights of the people whose land it stole, and its endless lies to justify its crimes against them.
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By Skwawkbox
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Caution: this article contains extremely graphic images and video of dead Palestinians
Wanted Israeli war criminal used a ‘security’ situation as an excuse to avoid (yet again) having to stand trial for corruption and give evidence to the Israeli court yesterday – then left the court and ordered a mass bombing campaign on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
The Times of Israel reported that Netanyahu’s testimony in the case was ‘cut short’ over ‘security developments’ and he was allowed to leave the trial. He later claimed that his order to bomb Gaza was because a ‘Hamas sniper’ had killed an Israeli soldier.
The bombing killed over 100 Palestinians, many of them – as usual – children.
But, reports seem to indicate that Israeli tanks and artillery had opened fire in Gaza before the shooting of the Israeli soldier, making the shooting – assuming it happened at all, which is not a given in the context of Israel’s constant lies to justify its crimes – retaliation or self-defence. Associated Press reported that
witnesses – including an Associated Press reporter and health officials – reported explosions and tank fire in Gaza City and Deir al Balah.
Lebanon-based journalist Qassem S Qassem noted that a previous resistance attack – even according to Israel’s parliament – had occurred because the isolated resistance fighters had not been aware that there was any ‘ceasefire’ in place:
A week ago, during a discussion in a session of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, the representative of the Israeli army stated that the internal investigations into the incident in which an anti-armor shell was fired at an engineering vehicle in Rafah, resulting in the killing of two Israeli soldiers, show that “the militants were isolated from the world and did not know that there was a ceasefire, and therefore they carried out the attack.”
Perhaps today’s sniping operation in Rafah comes in the same context. And perhaps the enemy army needs to repeat what it did in Beirut in 1982, when it set up loudspeakers and said: “O people of Beirut, do not fire, we are withdrawing,” to become today: “O resistance fighters of Gaza, do not fire, the war is over.”
Netanyahu is said to have ‘vowed’ that Gaza would ‘pay’ for the alleged violation of the ceasefire. Israel has bombed Gaza almost every day during the ‘ceasefire’, killing and maiming hundreds of civilians and specifically targeting civilian tents.
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By Skwawkbox
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In a withering address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has wiped the floor with misogynistic Israeli representatives and called out UN member states to their faces for enabling and participating in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Speaking from Cape Town after delivering the Nelson Mandela Lecture in Johannesburg, Albanese reminded UN delegates of South African apartheid and compared it to Israel’s crimes in Gaza. And, she called out the culture of intimidation that Israel uses to try to intimidate critics into silence.
Albanese is a relentless and formidable advocate for Palestine who in the spring saw off desperate Israeli attempts to oust her from her Special Rapporteur post. And, she has accused UK PM Keir Starmer directly of collaborating in Israel’s genocide whilst remaining undeterred by the Trump regime’s punitive sanctions on her for her criticism of Israel – which prevented her travelling to New York in person to deliver her report. As she connected online with gathered delegates she made it clear:
constitute an assault on the UN itself — its independence, its integrity, its very soul.,
Israel scraping through barrel-bottoms in their rants at the UN is nothing new, but it might have been a new low when Israel’s representative accused Albanese of “witchcraft” – and was promptly rinsed by Albanese’s intelligent and principled response:
If I had the power to make spells I’d use it to stop your crimes once and for all.
Small wonder the genociders are so desperate to silence her.
Featured image via YouTube screenshot/UN Human Rights Council
By Skwawkbox
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John Woodcock – a.k.a. lord Walney – has called for the government to further clamp down on protesters:
Arms lobbyist Lord Walney wants to introduce another level of proscription so groups can be banned without having to label them as terrorists
Porritt: “Lord Walney has a long record of seeking to introduce ever more repessive legislation.. curtailing peoples right to protest”
pic.twitter.com/KXIMIFNFR3
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) October 28, 2025
Woodcock made a similar argument in February this year when the government sacked him from an advisory role.
If you were around in the Corbyn years, you’ll remember that Woodcock was one of the leadership’s biggest critics. This is how the BBC described his exit:
Lord Walney, a long-time critic of Jeremy Corbyn, left the Labour Party under his leadership, saying the party had been “taken over by the hard left” and “tolerated” antisemitism.
What they fail to mention is that Labour was investigating Woodcock over sexual harassment claims. Woodcock stopped cooperating with the investigation before he made his exit, claiming that the investigation was ‘politically motivated’ – a claim that’s easy to make when you’re part of a political party.
Boris Johnson made Woodcock a lord in 2020; he then made him an adviser on political violence and disruption. The ‘violence and disruption’ in question was that which comes from those who oppose government actions – not the state violence which gives people reason to protest in the first place.
Here’s what Woodcock said in 2024 as part of a report into ‘extreme protest groups’:
Militant groups like Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil are using criminal tactics to create mayhem and hold the public and workers to ransom without fear of consequence.
Banning terror groups has made it harder for their activists to plan crimes – that approach should be extended to extreme protest groups too.
In Woodcock’s world, every worthwhile protest movement in history would be prohibited.
People want to know why the media give Woodcock so much air time:
This guy was sacked from his advisory role in February. No-one elected him, he is a member of no political party, he is an arms company lobbyist, he has sexual harassment allegations looming over him and yet he is never off my TV. https://t.co/fYYGgFLsKf
— Tom Hatfield (@WordMercenary) October 28, 2025
Arms company lobbyist Lord Walney on Palestine Action being banned
Well done to Sky for introducing him as a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel, & Porritt was spot on – PA was banned because it was so effective in its campaign against the UKs complicity in Israels genocide pic.twitter.com/24XILjBqPk
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) October 28, 2025
“The government decided to ban Palestine Action precisely because it was so effective in the campaign that it brought against arms manufacturers”
Jonathan Porritt opposes the proscription of Palestine Action on Sky News, against ‘Lord’ Walney, who is funded by the arms industry. pic.twitter.com/AelRsC39kA
— Defend Our Juries (@DefendourJuries) October 28, 2025
It seems like Woodcock just hates the thought of people protesting against (or investigating) unseemly behaviour.
It’s almost as if he condones the things that people protest against, isn’t it?
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By Willem Moore
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Israel has, once again, bombarded Gaza with air strikes, killing over 100 people. And, in a classic case of not reporting the real stories, mainstream media have failed to mention Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial which was due to begin yesterday, October 28. The butcher of Palestine was due to face charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust related to regulatory favours in exchange for expensive gifts. But, the trial was conveniently cut short due to supposed “urgent security developments”.
Shortly afterwards, Netanyahu held a security cabinet session, and decided to renew airstrikes in Gaza, and also to advance plans to expand the “yellow line,” so as to expand the territory which the Israeli occupation controls in Gaza.
Following this security consultation, Netanyahu instructed the military to “immediately carry out powerful strikes in the Gaza Strip”, blaming Hamas for allegedly violating the ceasefire agreement.
Of course, Netanyahu has been looking for an excuse to continue the slaughter in Gaza and, according to Israeli media, was yesterday discussing with the White House what to do about Hamas’ failure to, so far, return all the bodies of the Israeli prisoners.
In Phase One of Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’, Hamas was given 72 hours to return the Israeli prisoners – whether dead or alive. But the job of locating these bodies, under 80 million tonnes of rubble, has been almost impossible. Hamas says it remains committed to the ceasefire, and continues to find bodies, but needs help and more time to do so. It says that ‘Israel’ has:
explicitly refused to allow joint teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Palestinian Resistance, to enter several areas in the Gaza Strip to carry out this task. The occupation has also prevented the entry of the necessary heavy equipment to speed up the search for the Israeli bodies, but has also deepened the suffering of Palestinian families looking for their loved ones, by obstructing the recovery of the 10,000 Palestinians still buried under the rubble.
Several hours before Netanyahu gave orders for “powerful strikes” to hit the people of Gaza, as if they knew what was about to come, Hamas released a statement saying the occupation’s claims that the Resistance has slowed down are “baseless allegations aimed at misleading public opinion.” Instead, Hamas said:
The occupation is seeking to fabricate false pretexts in preparation for taking new aggressive steps against our people, in a flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement.
Netanyahu had apparently not given go ahead for military action against Hamas yesterday. The supposed ‘attack’ on the IOF changed this.
Israeli media says discussions took place between Netanyahu and the White House throughout yesterday, about the course of action to take. They claim that Netanyahu had wanted Trump to give him the go ahead to take military action against Hamas, but this did not happen.
The Israeli occupation then, conveniently, accused Hamas of carrying out an attack on its forces in Rafah. But the group has denied any connection to the incident and says it:
reaffirms its commitment to the ceasefire agreement.
This is the second time in just over a week that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have accused Hamas of launching an attack against them in Rafah. The first time this happened, the IOF lies were exposed, and the same will likely happen again. Rafah, like more than 50 percent of the Strip, is still largely under the control of the IOF and armed gangs backed by the Israeli regime, so the claim about the attack by Hamas is surprising.
Yesterday, before the wave of strikes took place, the Canary asked Palestinian Journalist Ibrahim Khalili how Palestinans are currently feeling about the situation they have been enduring for so long now.
He told us:
Right now, people are living in a state of constant fear and exhaustion. Even though there’s talk about ceasefires or pauses, the bombings haven’t truly stopped. Every night, the sounds of drones and explosions continue. Many families have lost their homes and are struggling to find food clean water or medicine. People are emotionally drained but also resilient. There’s anger, sadness, and disbelief that the world is still watching this happen. Yet at the same time, there’s a strong sense of unity among people. Everyone is helping each other survive, sharing whatever little they have left.
Netanyahu’s order to launch renewed strikes on the enclave comes less than three weeks since the ceasefire was agreed upon. After Israel’s attack killed over 100 Palestinians, Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigade, postponed the handover of any more bodies of Israeli captives until further notice. This includes the two bodies pulled from the rubble yesterday, which were due to be returned later that same day. Unlike Netanyahu, and ‘Israel’, Hamas had been calling for a ceasefire for a long time time, and has nothing to gain from breaking the ceasefire agreement.
Since yesterday evening, intense and heavy bombardment has pounded the Gaza Strip, in clear violation of the ceasefire agreement. Homes, tents sheltering forcibly displaced people, and refugee camps have all been targeted by the IOF.
Areas that were targeted include the Al Sabra neighbourhood of Southern Gaza City, where a drone strike hit the home of the Al- Banna family, killing four Palestinians, and injuring nine more. Several people remain buried under the rubble, with the Civil Defense continuing to work without any of the necessary equipment, trying to rescue them.
Five people were killed when a civilian vehicle was targeted on Al-Qassam Street in Gaza City. The IOF also bombed several homes in Al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip. Children from the Abu Dalal family were murdered, along with their parents and extended family.
Also in Al- Nuseirat Refugee Camp, at dawn this morning, the IOF killed Palestinian Journalist Mohammad Al-Munirawi, along with his wife, after bombing their tent. Munirawi worked for Falesteen News. This brings the total number of journalists killed by the occupation, since October 7, 2023, to 256.
Meanwhile, genocide overseers Donald Trump and US Vice President JD Vance have been downplaying the current situation, and continue to insist “the ceasefire is holding.”
Vance said:
That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes.
That obscene remark stands in stark contrast to the hundreds of lives, each of them entire universes, erased by genocidal Israel. Meanwhile, Trump defended the latest death and destruction in Gaza, claiming the Israeli regime has a right to “hit back” if its troops are attacked, and “nothing” would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement.
As of Midday October 28, the Israeli occupation has systematically violated the ceasefire agreement, committing 125 violations since it came into effect, on October 11. The regime has killed around 95 civilians and injured almost 340. According to the government Media Office, occupation forces have carried out 52 shooting incidents directly targeting civilians, nine incursions by military vehicles into residential areas beyond the “yellow line”, as well as 55 bombardments and attacks and 11 demolitions of civilian buildings, as well as the arrest of 21 citizens in various parts of the Gaza Strip. And yet, Trump warned that it is Hamas who have to “behave.”
Even though there is a so-called ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza, the Israeli occupation has not stopped its genocide. The bombing and war crimes have continued, and so have ‘Israel’s’ ceasefire violations. The humanitarian situation in Gaza has been rapidly deteriorating as a result.
Before the start of the genocide, an average of 500 aid trucks were entering Gaza daily. Phase One of the stipulations of the ceasefire was for an agreed number of aid trucks to enter the territory unimpeded, every day. This number is widely believed to be around 600, but the Israeli occupation has, yet again, failed to honour the ceasefire commitment, and preventing the majority of the crossings into Gaza from opening.
Between October 11, 2025 – the date of the ‘ceasefire’ and October 28, before Netanyahu officially launched airstrikes, almost 100 Palestinians had been killed by the Israeli regime, and more than 340 injured. A total of almost 475 bodies had been retrieved.
Hamas is calling on the mediators and guarantors of the ceasefire agreement to
take immediate action to pressure the occupation, curb its brutal escalation against civilians in the Gaza Strip, halt its serious violations of the ceasefire agreement, and compel it to abide by all its terms.
Such a scenario would be a first for Israel.
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By Charlie Jaay
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In a bloody escalation that has further shattered any illusion of ceasefire, Israel has carried out an intense night of bombing in Gaza. The Zionists targeted civilian homes and, outrageously, once again bombed tents for displaced people. Over 100 people have been martyred, with many wounded.
As of the 18 October, Gaza’s media office released a blistering statement outlining how Israel has violated the ceasefire 47 times since the deal came into effect:
These violations have included crimes of direct gunfire against civilians, deliberate shelling and targeting, and the arrest of a number of civilians, reflecting the occupation’s continued policy of aggression despite the declared end of the war.
However, mere days since this statement, Israel has carried out further bombing in the Strip. Early on Wednesday 29 October, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said that 104 martyrs had arrived at hospitals in the Strip since the escalation began last night. That includes 46 children and 20 women, along with 253 wounded, including 78 children and 84 women.
The ministry said that since the ceasefire agreement was signed on 11 October, the death toll has reached 211 martyrs and 597 injuries, while a total of 482 martyrs have been recovered from under the rubble.
Since the start of the aggression in October 2023, the cumulative number has risen to 68,643 martyrs and 170,655 injuries, according to the ministry’s statistics.
For its part, Hamas confirmed in a statement that it “had no connection to the shooting incident in Rafah.” Israel had claimed that the alleged incident in Rafah was a violation of the agreement. Instead, Hamas called on mediators, foremost among them Egypt, Qatar and the United States, to:
take urgent action to stop the aggression and curb the brutal escalation against civilians.
Field reports indicated that Israeli aircraft bombed tents housing displaced persons and residential homes east of Gaza City, in addition to blowing up a number of buildings, causing widespread destruction, the final toll of which is not yet known.
The bombing coincided with an announcement by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, that they had found the body of one of the occupation’s prisoners during search operations in a tunnel south of the Strip, but said they had:
postponed handing it over due to violations by the occupation.
And, they warned that:
continued escalation will lead to the disruption of search operations and the recovery of bodies.
Observers believe that this escalation is part of a series of more than 120 Israeli violations over the past two weeks, including artillery and air strikes and preventing rescue teams from reaching the destroyed areas, amid warnings from humanitarian organisations of an impending disaster as camps, schools and civilian facilities in the besieged Strip continue to be targeted.
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By Alaa Shamali
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Israel’s genocide is being powered by Microsoft. From creating a massive digital dragnet, aiding in the production of A.I.-generated kill lists, hiring hundreds of Israeli spies to run its internal affairs, and suppressing figures opposing the slaughter, the Seattle-based tech corporation has played a key role in the violence.
MintPress has detailed the deep collaboration between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Amazon, Google, TikTok, Apple, Palantir, and Oracle, but Microsoft’s relationship with the government and armed forces of Israel is potentially the closest, leading then-CEO Steve Ballmer to state that “Microsoft is as much an Israeli company as an American company.”
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A former US military policeman who investigated the killing of US-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqla says an Israeli soldier deliberately shot her, but his superiors at the State Department changed the conclusions of his report to claim the killing was unintentional, the New York Times (NYT) reported on 27 October.
Abu Aqla was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier in Jenin in the West Bank in May 2022 while reporting for Al Jazeera on clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinian resistance forces.
Israel initially claimed that Palestinian fighters had killed Abu Aqla, but belatedly apologized for her death a full year later.
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More than 150 New York Times contributors have signed a pledge not to write for the US newspaper’s opinion section, citing its “biased coverage” of the Israel-Palestine conflict and war on Gaza.
“Until The New York Times takes accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the US-Israeli war on Gaza, any putative ‘challenge’ to the newsroom or the editorial board in the form of a first-person essay is, in effect, permission to continue this malpractice,” the signatories to the letter wrote.
“Only by withholding our labor can we mount an effective challenge to the hegemonic authority that the Times has long used to launder the US and Israel’s lies,” the writers added.
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Protests to end Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians are getting louder and larger.
Seeing the livestreamed genocide Israel perpetrated in Gaza has had an effect globally, with the call to boycott Israel at an all-time high.
Quiet boycotts, which started in supermarkets nearly two decades ago, have turned into widely used apps that help millions make choices about purchases.
Campus protests and encampments in the US and Canada have led some major education institutions to cut ties with Israeli counterparts, while investments into Israel have dipped, and some of the world’s largest economies have recognised Palestine as a state.
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On June 24, 2024, an Israeli airstrike targeted the Al-Daraj clinic in Gaza City, killing five, including key medical personnel. Recovered from the ensuing rubble was the remnant of a Hellfire missile, strewn amidst the chaos of destruction it unleashed on the clinic in moments prior. The AGM-114 Hellfire, a brand of precision-guided weaponry, is manufactured by Lockheed Martin, funded through U.S. federal contracts, and often purchased by Israel through American foreign military sales. While Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor responsible for manufacturing the Hellfire missile, it procures key components from Mini-Circuits, a company specializing in the manufacture of radio frequency (RF) and microwave components.
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Hundreds of people took to the streets in Malaysia on Sunday, October 26, to oppose US President Donald Trump’s visit to the country. Protesters raised slogans in support of the Palestinian resistance and condemned US support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Protesters also opposed various interventionist policies followed by the US across the globe with chants of “down with imperialism” and demanded Malaysia break its ties with it.
The call for the demonstration was made by the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), along with several other organizations who gathered at Kuala Lumpur’s Independence Square and Ampang Park with banners and posters denouncing imperialism and shouting slogans in support of the Palestinian people.
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As Israel’s genocide in Gaza intensified in late 2023, a small number of U.S. labor unions began calling for a ceasefire. Others soon joined in, and many also started calling for a halt of military support to Israel. For many union members, statements didn’t go far enough, so they formed new national networks or pushed their unions to divest from Israel. Some even went on strike.
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A new report by Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, titled Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime, details exactly how the Israeli regime has carried out a genocide. Importantly, it also argues that the atrocity has been made possible, and is sustained, by the world’s most powerful countries.
Albanese writes:
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a collective crime, sustained by the complicity of influential Third States that have enabled longstanding systemic violations of international law by Israel’. In her report she asks how an entire population could be destroyed while those meant to protect human rights provided the bombs, the cover, and the silence.
Albanese explains that “Israel’s decades-long occupation and its culmination in genocide could not have been carried out without the active participation of other States.” She identifies “four pillars of complicity”- diplomatic protection, military support, economic integration, and humanitarian control- that together form what she calls “the infrastructure of genocide.”
She argues that these are systemic patterns that normalise the Israeli occupation’s actions, silence accountability, and keep colonial narratives going that strip Palestinians of their humanity.
Making reference to the UN Charter, the Genocide Convention, and customary international law, Albanese reminds states that they have both “positive obligations to act against mass atrocity” and “negative obligations not to aid or recognise” it. When governments continue to arm, fund, and shield ‘Israel’, this is when they become participants in its crimes.
According to Albanese, when the actions of Third States are essential and directly contribute to a crime- so that without their involvement it would not have happened- it must be examined whether those states have moved from merely assisting to actively participating in an internationally wrongful act.
For Albanese, the genocide not only started with bombs but also with language. From the moment Hamas launched its October 7, 2023 attacks, Western leaders echoed the Israeli occupations framing of the conflict in terms that ‘dehumanises Palestinians and provides political legitimacy for collective punishment’. Biden repeated unverified claims about ‘beheaded babies’, Starmer defended ‘Israel’s’ right to cut off water and electricity to civilians. Macron, Scholz and Sunak called the bombardment ‘self-defence’.
At the UN Security Council, the US vetoed or watered down every call for a ceasefire. According to Albanese, the resolutions that did pass – which were those calling for brief “humanitarian pauses” – were “an illusion of progress” while concrete action was “repeatedly stymied.”
Western sanctions, Albanese says in the report, are nothing more than:
symbolic moral theatre, as are token gestures such as banning extremist settlers while maintaining the arms trade.
In other words, they are gestures intended to disguise complicity.
Arab nations fare no better. Albanese writes:
Their manufactured outrage has been undermined by their continued cooperation, trade and security coordination with Israel.
The report documents how Egypt sealed its border, the UAE expanded trade, and Saudi Arabia moved toward normalisation. Only Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, and Nicaragua have broken ties completely.
Albanese also traces the supply chains of the genocide. Since it started, in October 2023, the United States, Germany, and the UK have been, in Albanese’s words:
indispensable enablers of the assault on Gaza.
The US shipped more than 700 weapons consignments, approved tens of billions in new arms sales, and provided intelligence and logistical support. A $26.4 billion aid package- passed in April 2024- coincided with the Israeli occupation’s planned invasion of Rafah, an attack that Biden had previously called a “red line.”
Germany, invoking its Holocaust guilt, authorised nearly €500 million in arms exports during the war. The UK facilitated American resupply routes through its bases in Cyprus and flew reconnaissance missions whose data “was shared with Israel.”
Other states, including Italy, France, Canada, India, China, and also the UK provided components for the F-35 fighter jets used to level Gaza, turning genocide into what Albanese describes it as “a multinational military enterprise.” She writes that |Gaza has become a laboratory for future warfare,” while the Israeli regime’s own arms exports rose by 18 per cent, its weapons advertised as “battle-tested.”
Even humanitarian aid, the report argues, has been weaponised. Before the full siege, 80 per cent of Gazans relied on aid. After it began, the number of trucks entering the enclave collapsed, and famine spread.
‘Israel’ bombed UNRWA schools, warehouses, and shelters, killing hundreds of staff. When it accused UNRWA of Hamas ties, eighteen donor governments suspended funding without evidence. The US, instead of restoring UNRWA’s budget, helped launch the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, jointly run with the Israeli occupation – a system Albanese calls “a mechanism to manage and facilitate forced displacement of Palestinians.” Air-drops of food and medical supplies by Western powers, she adds, were “performative compassion,” and distractions from the continuing siege.
Despite rulings from the International Court of Justice and the UN, no state has suspended a trade agreement with the Israeli regime since 1967. The European Union remains its largest trading partner, responsible for around a third of its total commerce, including dual-use materials employed in its weapons industry.
Between 2023 and 2025, trade with Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland, and Arab states such as Egypt and the UAE actually increased. Only Türkiye cut trade significantly, and even that was blunted by indirect routes. In August 2025, Egypt and the Israeli occupation signed a $35 billion natural-gas deal -the largest in the regime’s history – while Gaza was still in famine.
While the West imposes sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, in the name of human rights, the Israeli occupation is rewarded as it destroys a population, and commits genocide. Albanese calls this the
double standard of our time.
By Autumn 2025, three international bodies – the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the UN Commission of Inquiry – had all found genocide either plausible or ongoing. Albanese warns that Third States, especially those supplying arms, have “actual or constructive knowledge” of these crimes. Their continued support, she says, may mean they are “jointly responsible for genocide under international law.”
The implications are serious. Western governments could one day face legal consequences not just for being complicit in war crimes or other international crimes, but for actively participating in them.
For Albanese, Gaza has laid bare “an unprecedented chasm between peoples and their governments.” She writes:
The world now stands on a knife-edge between the collapse of the international rule of law and hope for renewal.
That renewal demands action – cutting military, diplomatic, and economic ties with the Israeli regime, supporting international courts, providing reparations to Palestinians, and, if necessary, suspending it from the UN under Article 6.
The report ends with moral urgency. Albanese calls on civil society, trade unions, and ordinary citizens to monitor their governments and demand accountability through boycotts, divestments, and sanctions. She writes:
No state can claim fidelity to human rights while arming or protecting a genocidal regime.
Justice, Albanese insists, must involve not only prosecutions but reparations-restitution, compensation, and guarantees of non-repetition:
The power structures that enabled these crimes must be dismantled.
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By Charlie Jaay
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On Tuesday 28 October, Defend Our Juries and Prisoners For Palestine jointly announced plans to launch what they aim to be the:
most widespread mass civil disobedience across the UK in modern British history.
Defend Our Juries has plans for actions in 18 towns and cities across every nation in the UK. The group will be challenging the ‘terror’ ban on Palestine Action ahead of and during the judicial review (25–27 November). Protesters will hold Lift The Ban demonstrations in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Oxford, Leeds, Aberystwyth, Nottingham, Northampton, Gloucester, and Truro on Tuesday 18 November. Following this, the group will host protests in London (Thursday 20, Saturday 22, Monday 24, Wednesday 26), Belfast (Saturday 22), Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, Cambridge, Bristol, Sheffield, Exeter and Lancaster (Saturday 29 November).
So far, the state has arrested over 2,000 people under terrorism legislation for taking part in these actions in which people sit silently holding handwritten cardboard signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”. Around 170 of these, police have so far charged with section 13 offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. These offences carry a maximum six month prison sentence.
At the Court Of Appeal ruling on 15 October, Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori won two more grounds for her Judicial Review. This was at the same time as the government lost its attempt to block the legal challenge of the ban. Defend Our Juries said this made the Judicial Review “twice as likely to succeed” as she now has four grounds on which to appeal rather than two.
Last week the UN issued its draft report Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime. It detailed the complicity of states including the UK in the destruction of Gaza. Amongst other things, the UK continued to supply arms including components for F-35 stealth bombers, undertook daily surveillance flights over Gaza for Israel, maintained normal trade relations, and enabled Israel to undertake international crimes with impunity.
A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said:
Today, we’re announcing a significant escalation. This is set to be the most widespread mass civil disobedience across the UK in modern British history, stretching from city centres to small towns across the country, in open defiance of this authoritarian and unjust ban.
These historic mobilisations will honour those already imprisoned for risking everything to disrupt the flow of arms to Israel and stands in unwavering solidarity with them.
As the latest UN report makes devastatingly clear, both Conservative and Labour governments have been shamefully complicit in the horrors unfolding in Gaza. The use of counter-terror legislation to silence and criminalise people acting to save lives and expose the UK Government’s violations of international law must end now. The Filton 24 and Brize Norton 5 must be granted immediate bail and full access to the evidence they need to defend themselves.
Our movement to defy this draconian ban is growing by the thousands and we will not stop until it is overturned.
The action in Belfast Saturday on 22 November will be the first Lift The Ban action in the city. Local campaigners have held regular independently-organised sign-holding actions in Derry, but police have brought no arrests or charges to date in the North of Ireland. Legal experts say that Police Service Northern Ireland need the proscription “like a hole in the head”. They suspect that the home secretary did not consult PSNI on the proscription.
Police Scotland have similarly made no arrests at Lift The Ban actions in Edinburgh. However, they have subsequently arrested and charged a seemingly random ten people from the 85 who took action in September. The Scottish Counter-Terrorism Board CONTEST has concluded that Palestine Action:
has not been close to meeting the statutory definition of terrorism.
Earlier this month, former diplomat Craig Murray filed a legal challenge against the ban in Scotland. It means there is the potential for a constitutional crisis if Scottish and English courts reach different decisions.
In Cardiff, Welsh police took an alarmingly extreme approach back in July. Cops arrested sign-holding sitters originally under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (maximum penalty of 14 years in prison). They held the protesters in custody while raiding their houses. The same sitters were subsequently charged with lesser section 13 offences (maximum penalty of six months in prison).
In tandem, Prisoners for Palestine have announced that prisoners the state is holding in British jails without trial will go ahead with a rolling hunger strike on 2 November. The decision comes after the home secretary failed to respond to their demands. This included immediate bail, access to documents necessary for the right to a fair trial, and the de-proscription of Palestine Action.
The prisoners are part of the Filton 24 and Brize Norton 5 who are alleged to have taken part in actions in the name of Palestine Action designed to save lives by degrading weapons and machinery facilitating Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The Crown Prosecution Service claims there is a “terrorism connection” to the alleged offences. This is despite the fact that the state has brought no charges under the Terrorism Act against them, and the activists carried out their actions before the government proscribed Palestine Action.
Francesca Nadin, spokesperson for Prisoners for Palestine said:
It’s no great surprise that the government has ignored the prisoners’ demands, this is simply a continuation of the corruption and violence enacted by the British state – not only upon the prisoners, but most importantly on the Palestinian people. It seems that they believe that they can act against the wishes of the people, but we are here to tell them otherwise. The prisoners lead the way with their resolve and moral clarity and we must heed their call. We are here today with Defend Our Juries to show the British state that we will not be intimidated into silence, on the contrary, we are fighting for the same cause and will continue to escalate. For justice, for freedom, to stop the genocide in Palestine.
T Hoxa, one of the Filton 24 who ended a 28-day hunger strike on 7 September after winning most of her demands, said:
For me, the hunger strike is about autonomy. Your body is one way you can fight against the system, because in every other way they’ve taken everything from you. They lock you up when they want, give you red warnings just because they’ve got that power. So, for me, hunger strike is a very important and necessary tool, and the notion that this is one area they can’t control gives me strength.
Dr Asim Qureshi, research director at CAGE International, who are negotiating partners for the hunger strikers alongside Prisoners for Palestine, said:
This hunger strike will be the first of its kind in at least two decades. It brings into sharp focus the violence of the carceral system in the UK, a violence we often associate with places afar. From Guantánamo to Gaza, the infrastructure of authoritarian terror laws built to imprison, silence, and suppress action for Palestine and voices challenging wars and genocide must be dismantled. Prisoners are the beating heart of our movement for justice. We must honour their sacrifices and stand up to challenge the injustices they face.
The hunger-strikers are members of Prisoners for Palestine, which include the Filton 24 and Brize Norton 5. Some of these prisoners have now spent over a year in custody without trial. With their treatment having deteriorated following the proscription of Palestine Action, they feel they have no option but to go on hunger-strike to fight for their rights.
The prisoners will start their hunger strike on 2 November, Balfour Day, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. It will also mark just two weeks before the start of the first of the three Filton 24 trials. The hunger-strike aims to highlight the conditions of the prisoners’ incarceration, and set out a series of demands to the British government. These demands include the right to a fair trial, release on bail, and the dropping of all terror-related charges.
The Filton 24 are alleged to have been involved in an action on the Research, Development, and Manufacturing Hub of Israel’s biggest weapons maker Elbit Systems, located at Filton, Bristol. During the August 2024 action, a group of activists drove a modified prison van through the facility’s perimeter fence, and on through the shuttered entrance. Six activists then entered the building, and began dismantling production machinery, as well as Elbit-produced quadcopter drones, which Israel has used throughout the Gaza Genocide.
Police arrested the six activists at the site. However later, while in police custody, they re-arrested them under counter-terrorism legislation. This allowed the authorities to extend their detention period. Police later charged them with non-terror offences, and remanded them in custody.
Over the following months, in a series of dawn raids, police arrested a further 18 activists, often along with family members, who they later released. The police again used counter-terror laws, and while they never charged them with terrorist offences, the prosecution have alleged a ‘terrorism connection’. All have been denied bail, and been subject to various abuses by the prison authorities. The treatment of the Filton 24 has been widely condemned, not least by the United Nations.
In June of this year, activists entered RAF Brize Norton, and sprayed blood-red paint on 2 Voyager aircraft leased by the RAF. Brize Norton has served as a transport and re-fuelling hub for flights to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, from where daily flights have been dispatched to spy over Gaza. The former home secretary Yvette Cooper cited the Brize Norton action in proscribing Palestine Action as a supposed terrorist group.
However, evidence shows the government had been planning the proscription for some time previously. Five people have been remanded in custody in relation to Brize Norton, with the police following a similar modus operandi to the Filton case.
The state is currently holding 33 prisoners on remand in British prisons for Palestine-related actions.
Featured image via the Canary
By The Canary
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An image shot – and apparently posted to social media – by an Israeli soldier confirms reports that occupation troops used older Palestinians as human shields – an unequivocal war crime – during their genocide in Gaza. The image has been re-shared by Israel Genocide Tracker, an account that documents Israel’s war crimes.
The image shows two older Palestinian men, bound and stripped to their underwear, being forced into a wrecked Gaza building. The vantage point of the photographer makes clear that it was taken by an Israeli soldier:
Materials submitted by soldiers’ friends confess that troops used kidnapped Palestinians, mostly elderly, as human shields on a daily basis.
When injured or exhausted, the victims were instructed to walk into designated killing zones to be gunned down by other units. pic.twitter.com/lqv0KykvwT
— Israel Genocide Tracker (@trackingisrael) October 27, 2025
Reports suggest the men, who have been identified, were later shot dead, in line with occupation policy already reported in Israeli media that hostages used as human shields were killed once they became too weak or injured to serve their abductors’ purposes.
Further details:
After verification, the two men in the photo were identified as:
1.Haj Nadi Marouf
2.Haj Ali MaroufBoth were arrested by Israel from their home in Beit Lahiya. After being used as human shields, their relatives found them three days later executed. pic.twitter.com/L8GA4yipZR
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) October 28, 2025
Israeli troops have so frequently posted photos and videos of themselves committing war crimes that the occupation’s high command has ordered them to stop doing it – but apparently the temptation to boast is too great.
Terrorism expert Professor Richard Jackson said of the new image:
What an inhuman, brutal regime Israel is. There’s no end to its war crimes, but so many in the West still give it unwavering support. Pure racism. Sheer hypocrisy.
Israel has frequently accused Palestinian resistance – as an excuse for bombing Palestinian civilians – of using human shields in Gaza, despite Israeli military bases being embedded among civilian buildings in Israeli cities and even under hospitals.
As the saying goes, ‘Every accusation is a confession.’ This latest image is yet another that confirms it.
Featured image via X/Israel Genocide Tracker
By Skwawkbox
This post was originally published on Canary.
A new video from Matt Kennard and Double Down News (DDN) has taken the exposure of the Starmer government’s collaboration with Israel’s genocide to new heights. The findings from the video show, clearer than ever, that the UK has played a central role in Israel’s crimes.
As the video details, the UK government operated near-daily spy flights over Gaza from December 2023 onwards. Initially they claimed that these were to help locate Israeli ‘hostages’ but later admitted they were providing intelligence directly to the Israeli military using the Shadow R1 spyplane’s target-acquisition capabilities.
These flights were often not over areas where Israeli captives had been taken, instead operating directly over active combat zones where Israeli warplanes were bombing civilians, including children in tents and journalists. As long suspected, the UK government has been a participant in the Gaza genocide since its earliest days.
These RAF flights were also operating last year as Israel bombed UK citizens working with aid agencies on at least three occasions in coordinated, targeted attacks – and the Starmer regime has refused to release the footage that the spyplane shot in the area as those attacks were perpetrated.
Starmer not only continued but escalated the collaboration of the Tory government. Since getting into power in July last year the UK has allowed at least 9 separate Israeli military planes – usually air-to-air refuelling aircraft used to keep Israel’s ground attack planes in the air for long periods – to land at RAF Brize Norton. However, as the video discusses, Starmer has done everything he possibly could to keep these, and the RAF-operated (later sub-contracted to the US) flights over Gaza a secret. That includes issuing ‘D-notice’ (now officially called DSMAs) gagging orders to UK mainstream media to keep the British public in the dark about them.
Despite obeying these DSMAs not being obligatory, the the corporate media has cooperated fully with the regime’s suppression of coverage of its secret activities in Gaza, including the almost certain deployment of SAS special forces on operations in Gaza via Cyprus.
As well as hiding the number, nature and missions of Israeli warplanes landing in Britain, Starmer’s regime is also refusing to disclose how much UK public funds are being paid to US contractor Straight Flight Nevada Commercial Leasing for operating the Gaza spy flights for the RAF, which it began doing over the summer as Starmer and his front bench scrambled to put some distance between them and the Israeli crimes they were assisting.
In the video, Kennard then looks at the legal and ethical implications of the Starmer regime’s direct collaboration in Israel’s genocide, which he describes as a “crime that will echo down the ages” that should be investigated by the International Criminal Court with all the key UK accomplices in the dock for their part in promoting mass slaughter, “endless war” and the cover-up of their partnership in genocide with Israel.
Watch the full video from DDN below:
By Skwawkbox
This post was originally published on Canary.
Glamour magazine has celebrated two prominent advocates of Palestinian liberation in their Women of the Year issue:
Both anti-genocide advocates, children’s educator Ms. Rachel Accurso and actress Rachel Zegler are featured in Glamour’s “Women of the Year” issue, celebrating voices using their platforms to champion compassion, justice, and global awareness. pic.twitter.com/ZEk09ERyXN
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 27, 2025
Both have faced significant criticism for their anti-genocide stance. As such, this celebration highlights that the tide is turning on Palestinian liberation.
Ms. Rachel is a children’s entertainer who we’ve reported on in the past. In their piece celebrating her, Glamour write:
The success of Ms. Rachel is a rare and curious thing. During the past few decades, most of our early-childhood icons have been animated animals or brightly colored puppets—Barney, Peppa, Elmo, Bluey. Not since Mister Rogers has an actual adult human managed to break into that particular canon of cultural fixtures, becoming a household name and shaping the imaginations of millions while still speaking joyfully and directly to the youngest amongst us.
They add:
most recently, she’s become one of the loudest American voices for the children in Gaza. Fundraising, posting, and bringing Rahaf, a three-year-old double amputee, onto her show. Admirers from UNICEF leaders to Hollywood actors have praised her for saying what many politicians won’t. Critics, meanwhile, accuse her of politicizing childhood. She doesn’t flinch. “I have to just remind myself that kids’ lives are more important than my reputation,” she tells me.
Ms. Rachel is still fighting to support Rahaf and others like her, as she explained herself just two days ago:
Ms Rachel explains how hard it was to find a space that would welcome 3-year-old Rahaf, because she’s Palestinian.
“The person who owns the place was basically saying, because this little girl is like you, she’s not welcome here” pic.twitter.com/Ua3zJ8GENs
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) October 26, 2025
Yesterday, Ms. Rachel shared that she attempted to rent three venues in New York to celebrate Rahaf’s birthday, but was turned away three times. She made sure to state that there would be no press, no photos, no videos, and that she would rent out that whole venue for the… pic.twitter.com/wYIHHw09S4
— WearThePeace (@WearThePeaceCo) October 27, 2025
Please watch this Ms. Rachel video – yes the stories of rejection are heartbreaking and enraging, but for me, the saddest part was Ms Rachel hiding the identity of the wonderful and welcoming business to spare them the backlash for…hosting a double amputee Palestinian toddler. https://t.co/7fk8Jr8W8Z
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) October 26, 2025
When asked what she hoped to achieve with her activism, Ms. Rachel told Glamour:
I’ve seen several people comment something similar, which is seeing Rahaf made me realize that the kids in Gaza are like my kids. I didn’t know just how dehumanized Palestinians are before I started doing this work. I did have a Palestinian mom say on a Zoom really early, “Thank you for seeing our children as human,” and I just couldn’t believe she had to thank me for that. It’s just how everyone should see every child in this world. I don’t know how we can value one child’s life over another child’s life in this world. They’re all equal and we just need to treat them all like the precious, beautiful gift they are.
Ms. Rachel has continuously demanded that her government provide the Palestinians with much-needed aid:
Billie Eilish tags members of congress in Ms. Rachel’s video, urging congress to sign a letter calling for baby formula, food, and humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza. pic.twitter.com/MYPUtSC9Im
— Pop Base (@PopBase) September 1, 2025
She also believes the Palestinians should receive reparations:
Ms. Rachel calling for reparations for Israel’s genocide. pic.twitter.com/2mipe0WvBR
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) October 15, 2025
Given that Western governments – including the UK – have supported Israel’s genocide, it makes sense that we should pay to rebuild Gaza.
This is especially true given how hostile our countries are to refugees.
At the end of the day, if politicians don’t want people to come here, they need to stop blowing up their homes.
Speaking on those who have accused her of antisemitism, Ms. Rachel said:
It’s incredibly painful. Saying that I don’t care deeply about one group of children because I’m focused on children in an emergency situation isn’t right. It’s not true. My friends know who I am and God knows who I am. But nothing is going to silence me from being an advocate for children because that’s a calling, and it’s the right thing to do. And labeling people because they care deeply about all children is wrong.
In April, the widely-discredited smear group ‘Stop Antisemitism’ called on the US attorney general to investigate Ms. Rachel for her advocacy:
StopAntisemitism is calling on Attorney General Bondi to investigate if Ms. Rachel is being funded by a foreign party to push anti-Israel propaganda to skew public opinion.
Since 10/7, Ms. Rachel has transformed into an amplifier of Hamas propaganda, broadcasting to 20M+… pic.twitter.com/15bZArdX1g
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 8, 2025
The group didn’t explain why the US government should investigate a US citizen for criticising a foreign power – a foreign power conducting a genocide no less.
In the UK, the left has faced a similar smear campaign for supporting Palestinian liberation. It’s important to remember, though, that Ms. Rachel didn’t come at this from a position of politics; she simply wanted the killing to stop.
The fact that Israel’s backers attacked her so viciously exposed who they really are.
Featured image via CNN
By Willem Moore
This post was originally published on Canary.
I can never help but get excited like a child when I come back to Edinburgh. She was my first home, and she’s never once failed to make my stomach drop when I emerge from Waverley.
Once upon a time you’d have found me busking on the cobbles down at the Cowgate on a weekend or listening to The OK Social Club croon in the Royal Mile Tavern. If you know Edinburgh well enough, I definitely got fired from a bar you like.
Last weekend was a different sort of adventure, though.
On Saturday 25 October, the city hosted several thousand passionate Scots from all over the country and beyond for what turned out to be one of the largest anti-poverty demonstrations in decades. The crowd was brought together by a metric shittonne of different organisations — from women’s rights groups and anti-racism campaigners all the way through to the Church of Scotland:
In the shadow of Arthur’s Seat, all of us desperately trying to avoid being blinded by the rare Scottish sun, the throng assembled.
By the time I landed at half nine in the morning, there were already hundreds of people milling around. Watching the steady stream filing down the hill, you could tell it was going to be a big one. What struck me most was how easily people from completely different worlds were getting along.
You know things are going in the right direction when socialists with blue hair can march next to firefighters. Maybe it’s that shared Scottish bond — that quiet frustration at being ruled by Westminster — but the unity on display was a real breath of fresh air:
Something interesting is happening in grassroots politics right now — a kind of changing of the guard — and it was impossible to miss it this weekend.
Yes, the crowd was diverse, but as the march filed past, it was the young faces that stood out. Not just people in their twenties, but teenagers — bright-eyed, angry, hopeful. For many of us slightly older, we’ve realised that no amount of standing around listening to speeches is going to bring the change we need.
We can’t ask nicely anymore.
People have to demand the change they want to see and hold to account those who promise it — even if the only way to do that is with your body on the streets:
As the procession made its way through the city — up the Mile and round the corner — I’m laughing out loud to myself, thinking this is my job. I get to do this for a living. How fucking lucky can you get?
It’s hard not to get swept up in the electricity of it all. I almost feel sorry for the people standing at the side of the road, slightly flabbergasted — the Palestine flags, the shock, the horror. Such outpouring onto the streets. Why can’t you do this quietly, at home, where I don’t have to see it? Sometimes that makes me want to laugh; today it just makes me angry:
As if there’s some perfectly rational moral position you can twist yourself into, contorted in some way where you can’t see Gaza anymore. If ever you need to learn how not to give a fuck what other people think just go and stand in a group of people who think, controversially, that genocide is bad – give it five minutes and someone will come along and tell you you are wrong:
I wasn’t really sure how to do this, to be honest.
Truth be told, I’m not a writer — just a camera guy who says good words sometimes.
If you want the nuts and bolts of the day, coming to me was a bad idea. But listening to Sai Shraddha Suresh Viswanathan, president of the Scottish NUS, speak on stage to the thousands who’d finally filtered into the Meadows, it wasn’t hard to see that this wasn’t about nuts and bolts anyway.
Politics now is visceral.
It’s something I’ve always thought — we on the left really struggle to tell a story without percentages and spitting out facts. And I know over 70% of asylum claims were approved after appeals, but calculators aren’t sexy:
For people my age this just isn’t academic. I’ve paid for 18% of the house I rent in less than two years – it’s not hard to get angry anymore. And in a world of apathy, it was honestly beautiful to see people standing in a field together – peaceful, happy, but aware and properly pissed off about it:
Later, while I was doing the rounds taking shots, I got chatting to a stilt juggler from Think Circus — a Leith-based charity that uses money from their circus shows to fund community events. Leith is a beautiful place, but it’s changed so much over the past twenty years.
We were reminiscing about the squats and artist digs that used to line Leith Walk and the people who used to live in them, pouring pints a few hours a week to pay the pittance it cost to have time to find out who they were. Where do those people live now? Maybe they’re still here, but instead of discovering they’re meant to paint murals on walls, they’re selling their lives in Tesco to pay someone else’s mortgage:
It’s a thought that’s upset me for a long time, to be honest but this weekend I realised those people still exist.
Maybe if they were twenty years older, they’d have been painting on walls or playing guitar on the cobbles, living cheap while they figured out who they were.
It’s sad they haven’t had that freedom but I’m happy for society that they’ve found themselves instead as the young people pushing this scene forward – vibrant, creative, and angry in all the right ways. It makes this slightly oldish hippy a little more hopeful for the future:
Thankyou Edinburgh; as always. It was beautiful.
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By Barold
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The state has dropped its case against the ‘Nakba 3’ anti-genocide protesters arrested and charged for blocking the entrance to a factory operated by Israeli weapons factory Elbit Systems. The three accused include Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who continues to be hounded by the Starmer police state and the Israel lobby.
Fellow anti-genocide activist ‘Ani.Says’ announced the news and explained the background to the case, which is part of the Starmer regime’s war on pro-Palestinian speech and protest:
As Dr Aladwan said in response to Ani’s video:
FREE OUR POLITICAL PRISONERS!
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By Skwawkbox
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Veterans For Peace unequivocally condemns Israel’s gross violations of the ceasefire in Gaza. We demand that the Trump administration pressure Israel to abide by the ceasefire agreement: to end all attacks on Gazans; and to allow abundant aid (at least 600 trucks a day) into Gaza. We call upon the President and U.S. Congress to cut off all military aid to Israel.
We further call on U.S. political leaders to secure the freedom of Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen who was kidnapped from his bed while visiting family in the West Bank last February, and whom Israel continues to hold in a notorious torture prison.
Israel’s gross violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, including aerial bombing and artillery barrages, have killed over 100 Palestinians – including many children – in the first two-and-a-half weeks of the “ceasefire,” causing fear and panic among Gaza’s civilian population.
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US authorities detained a British Muslim journalist on Sunday, apparently due to his criticism of Israel, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair).
Sami Hamdi was held by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency at San Francisco international airport during a speaking tour in the US.
Hamdi had spoken at a Cair gala on Saturday in Sacramento, where he condemned Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
He was scheduled to speak at another Cair event in Florida on Sunday.
Cair has described the detention as retaliation for Hamdi’s criticism of Israel, calling it an “abduction”.
“Detaining a prominent British Muslim journalist and political commentator during his speaking tour in the United States simply for daring to criticise the Israeli government’s actions is a blatant attack on free speech,” the Washington-based Cair said in a statement.
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Israel is backing four militias as part of a project to oust Hamas and create a “new Gaza,” according to a report released by Sky News on 25 October.
These armed groups – which throughout the war have been engaged in hostilities against Hamas on behalf of Israel – are currently operating along the Yellow Line of Washington’s ceasefire map, in Israeli-held territory.
“We have an official project – me, [Yasser] Abu Shabab, [Rami] Khalas, and [Ashraf] al Mansi,” militia leader Hossam al-Astal, a Palestinian Bedouin with links to the Palestinian Authority (PA), told Sky News.
“We are all for ‘The New Gaza.’ Soon we will achieve full control of the Gaza Strip and will gather under one umbrella,” he added.
According to footage which was geolocated by Sky News, the headquarters of Astal’s militia in south Gaza’s Khan Yunis lies on a military road less than 700 meters from an Israeli army outpost.
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The UN Human Rights office for Palestine has warned that Israel is rapidly accelerating its campaign to annex the occupied West Bank, with settlers adding outposts at a pace 10 times higher than the previous average rate just in the past year. Recent settler attacks on the olive harvest have underscored the danger faced by Palestinian communities, the office noted, with this season alone…
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Immigration officials sparked outrage after they detained a British and Muslim commentator who frequently speaks out for Palestinian rights amid his speaking tour in the U.S. on Sunday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reports that Sami Hamdi was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday morning.
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