The War & Genocide Thread

Keep talking about Gaza!

Permanent X link to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur – the Occupied Territories.  
Francesca has her blue checkmark back.

A previous thread contains Netanyahu’s ‘spiritual needs’.  

Aug 28

Over 150 Islamic scholars from more than 50 countries will issue a major declaration from Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque this Friday. The announcement follows an eight-day conference titled Islamic and Humanitarian Responsibility: Gaza, which focused on addressing the humanitarian crisis and coordinating a unified response.

Held on Democracy and Freedom Island, the gathering included scientific consultations and workshops. Participants discussed the responsibilities of Islamic nations as well as the roles of business and media in providing aid and supporting reconstruction efforts for Gaza.

Gee, Thanks, Guys – you could not do this earlier? We wait for your statement.  Tfeh until then!

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Over 500 UN staff at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have urged Volker Turk to explicitly label the Gaza war as an unfolding genocide, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Sent on Wednesday, the letter states that the staff believes the nearly two-year Israel’s war meets the legal criteria for genocide, citing the scale, scope, and nature of documented violations.

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It took me a minute to realize this was not an AI-generated Groyper video

Turns out this is the true face of diplomacy in the Zionist-controlled Trump administration pic.twitter.com/1tp9mnvLuT

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) August 25, 2025

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Israeli occupation aircraft launch a series of airstrikes on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.

In just 24 hours, Israeli bombardment hit Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

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Eyewitnesses in Gaza City report that Israeli occupation soldiers are inventing new ways to kill, just as Nazi soldiers once sought “variety” in their mass executions to stave off boredom.

Today, quadcopter drones no longer simply fire bullets or drop small explosives. Soldiers, bored with killing two or three civilians at a time, have begun using drones to carry ladders packed with up to 20 explosive boxes. These ladders are dropped on rooftops and detonated—creating a massive explosion resembling a roaming, airborne killing machine.

It is not war. It is torture as spectacle. A deliberate search for “new thrills” in bloodshed. A system where soldiers are not merely permitted but encouraged to innovate methods of torment, without oversight, without accountability, without even the burden of shame.

Killing, for them, must not only be systematic—it must be “enjoyable.”

Aug 27

All 15 members of the UN Security Council, except for the US, issued a joint statement that included the following points.

The statement comes as Trump is holding talks today alongside Tony Blair and Jared Kushner for the “post-war Gaza plan”.

Joint statement:
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We express our deep concern about the presence of famine in Gaza Governorate.

We call on “israel” to immediately reverse its decision to expand its operation in Gaza.

Famine in Gaza must be stopped immediately and international law respected.

The use of starvation as a weapon of war is prohibited under international law.

Approximately 41,000 children are at risk of death due to malnutrition in Gaza.

We call for an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

We call for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas.

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The narrative for the live streamed double-tap massacre of journalists/rescuers shifted from: “we did not shoot on the hospital,” to “we shot it by accident with tanks,” to “we shot a Hamas camera (Reuters cameraman),” to “we can kill all journalists”

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The carnage continues in Gaza, the West Bank, and everywhere where a Palestinian can be found. From Syria there are reports that they are trying to normalize with the Zionist entity. Syria is difficult as information coming through, is highly emotional or highly propagandized.

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How Hasbara works:
Israeli media spins Nasser Hospital bombing with dual narratives: regret abroad, triumph at home, masking war crimes and legitimizing genocide through propaganda.

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Another excuse by Israel’s govt spokesman to justify killing journalists in Gaza – calling them ‘terrorists with a press vest’

However, Haaretz correspondent Yaniv Kubovic, on his X page on the double-tap strike massacre at Nasser HOSPITAL.

“Don’t hold your breath for the IDF investigation. Forget cameras, forget accountability. Field commanders completely disregard senior command. A tank crew fired two shells just because they felt like it—yes, simply because they wanted to fire into a hospital and then at the rescue teams”

Aug 26

While Netanyahu calls the Nasser Hospital strike a ‘MISHAP’ and expresses ‘regret’, Israeli media and soldiers say it was APPROVED by top brass — Channel 14

‘The strike was coordinated with senior command, and they knew before it was carried out’

Of course. Wars are planned.

Aug 25

Israeli Prime Minister and international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently publicly expressed support for the ‘Greater Israel’ (https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/22513) project twice, called yesterday morning’s double strike on Nasser Hospital and the civil defense team and photographers that later arrived a ‘mishap,’ even though the incident was caught on live camera

This comes hours after President Trump said he is ‘not happy’ with the incident.

Israel has targeted the same hospital at least on two other occasions in 2025 alone, and the hospital faced two month-long sieges and various other attacks in 2024.

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This camera should be exhibited one day in the Genocide Memorial built in memory of the innumerable victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Shame on all journalists not raising their voice against the massacre of their brave Palestinian colleagues while documenting the genocide. https://t.co/sr8KWWc3nf

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) August 25, 2025

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Zionism and Nazism are the same.

“Europe is the values of the Talmud”— EU President, Ursula von der Leyen.

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Carnage in Gaza:  The attack and double tap by Zionist Israel on Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younisis is only one of the brutal stikes over the past 24 hours.  Doctors, Medical Staff, Journalists, Civil Defense workers and patients bombed to shreds.

– During a live broadcast on Al-Ghad TV (media 1), Israeli occupation warplanes carried out two successive airstrikes on the reception department of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. The first strike targeted the fourth floor of the reception building, followed by a second strike as civil defense and ambulance teams rushed to evacuate the wounded and recover the martyrs.

The attacks led to the martyrdom of journalist and Reuters photographer Hussam Al-Masri (media 4), Al Jazeera photojournalist Mohammad Salama (media 5), correspondent for AP and The Independent Mariam Abu Daqa (media 6), and journalist Moaz Abu Taha (media 7) after succumbing to his wounds, and the injury of several others, including photojournalist for Reuters, Hatem Omar (media 8).

The Ministry Health reported that at least 8 martyrs and numerous injuries resulted from the twin strikes on the hospital.

The Civil Defense in Gaza announced that firefighter Imad Abdel Hakim Al-Shaer was martyred and 7 other members of the Khan Younis Civil Defense team were injured while attempting to rescue the wounded and recover the martyrs following the occupation’s strike on the Nasser Medical Complex.

More unbelievably horrific footage shows the aftermath of Israeli massacre at al-Nasser hospital. Bodies line stairways in rubble and ruins with at least 20 Palestinians killed — Al-Jazeera

I won’t post this, but here is the clip: https://t.me/rtnews/108404

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Zionist-approved, air-dropped aid boxes are falling directly onto the tents of displaced families in southern Gaza, destroying them.

These useless airdrops are deceptive ploys to fool people into believing that complicit regional regimes are helping Palestinians.#GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/GIh8MawQZs

— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) August 25, 2025

Aug 24

From Marwa Osman:

Zionist Israel is pushing to include the following clauses in its future security agreement with the Julani terrorist regime:

▫️Guaranteeing Israel full freedom of movement in Syrian airspace.

▫️Granting Israel the right to penetrate Syrian territory whenever it claims “security necessities.”

▫️Declaring southern Syria a demilitarized zone, with police forces only.

▫️Keeping all territories occupied by Israel under its permanent control.

Welcome to Julani’s Syria.

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TikTok updated its content guidelines to prohibit labeling Israeli forces as “terrorists,” shortly after appointing a former Israeli soldier and self-described “proud Zionist” to oversee its so-called “anti-Semitism” policies.

I mentioned during the week in the Daily Chronicles that a major Zionist online hasbara campaign is upon us.  This TikTok news is part of it.  Another part is Google.  I have not tried it, but apparently, if you search for the UN report of the Gaza formal designation of starvation and famine conditions, first up is a paid report by the Zionists to try to debunk this.  Nevertheless, we had major marches across the world to protest as it is known that the Zionists lie.  Australia’s people were out in 20 cities simultaneously, with anything from 300,000 to half a million people.  https://t.me/rtnews/108231  The Israeli press can only mumble – Numbers are contested.

Netanyahu is in front of a television screen daily to tell the world that there is no famine in Gaza, and influencers have been appointed with focused messaging.  One of these messages contains photos of many aid containers across the border in Egypt and staged in other places, saying, “Look how much food is going into Gaza.”  They of course omit to say that these aid shipments are not allowed to enter Gaza, and the few that do are raided frequently by Israeli spittle-flecked settlers.

Netanyahu accused the UN report on hunger in the Gaza Strip of lying

“It is very difficult to fight deception and lies. Photos of ‘starving’ children turn out to be pictures of children with cerebral palsy or other congenital diseases”

– he stated.

And the bombs falling on children are apparently photoshopped. Meanwhile, the total number of deaths from malnutrition amid the blockade of the Gaza Strip has risen to 281, the local Ministry of Health reported. Of these, 114 are children. And while they die, the Israeli Prime Minister stubbornly continues to insist that he is not responsible.

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GAZA CRISIS: LATEST UPDATES

◻️ Israel’s security Cabinet will meet Tuesday on plans to occupy Gaza City and a possible Hamas hostage deal (Israeli media)

◻️ Israel plans Gaza City offensive by mid-September, may order 1M residents to evacuate as soon as Sunday (Channel 12)

◻️ At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza as Israeli forces push deeper into Gaza City (media)

◻️ Footage shows Israeli tanks advancing into the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City

◻️ 22 Palestinians were killed while seeking humanitarian aid

◻️ Eight more Palestinians, including two children, died from malnutrition over the past 24 hours, raising the total death toll to 281 (Gaza’s Health Ministry)

◻️ Israeli forces in northern Gaza killed another Palestinian journalist, bringing the overall press death toll since October 2023 to 240 (Palestinian Journalists Syndicate)

◻️ 514,000 people — close to a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza—are experiencing famine, with the number due to rise to 641,000 by the end of September, according to global hunger monitor IPC

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Recent Operations in Gaza: (-23 August):

🔹 Al-Qassam Brigades

• On Wednesday, fighters struck a gathering of enemy soldiers and vehicles near Al-Rantisi Mosque in the Ma’an area, south of Khan Younis, using multiple mortar shells.
• On Thursday, two Zionist tanks were targeted with highly explosive improvised explosive devices (IEDs) east of Al-Rawda site, south of the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

🔹 Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (in collaboration with the Martyr Abdul Qader al-Husseini Brigades)

• On Friday, August 15, a Zionist quadcopter drone was shot down in the skies of northern Gaza.

🔹 Mujahideen Brigades

• Reported downing a Zionist reconnaissance drone south of the Zaytoun neighborhood, Gaza City.

🔹 Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades
(in collaboration with Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Al-Amoudi Battalion)

• Shelled a gathering of enemy soldiers and vehicles along Al-Filla Street, north of Khan Younis, with 60mm mortar shells.

🔹 Al-Quds Brigades

• On Thursday, shelled the Zionist vehicle depot around Al-Muhannad Hall in the Western Row area, north of Khan Younis, with 60mm mortar shells.

Aug 23

Israel is a rogue state—committing genocide, starving millions, and expanding illegal settlements. 🇮🇱🔥
The U.S. is fully complicit, shielding war criminals instead of stopping them. Enough. #Gaza #Palestine pic.twitter.com/uYCSCGqYgT

— SilencedSirs◼️ (@SilentlySirs) August 22, 2025

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GAZA CRISIS UPDATES

◻️ At least 71 people were killed by Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian enclave on Friday, including 37 killed in Gaza City (media)

◻️ Israeli air strike hit a school in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, killing 12 civilians (Gaza’s Health Ministry)

◻️ In at least 64 incidents, Palestinian civilians were attacked by Israeli forces while seeking aid in Gaza (joint investigation by Forensic Architecture and World Peace Foundation)

◻️ Death toll from starvation and malnutrition reached 273, including 112 children (Gaza’s Health Ministry)

◻️ “Real child survival crisis” exists in Gaza amid famine, UNICEF says

◻️ Gaza is experiencing the world’s fifth confirmed famine of such scale, UN World Food Program (WFP) says

◻️ PM Benjamin Netanyahu orders talks to free captives and end the war in response to latest ceasefire proposal (accepted by Hamas and brokered by Qatar, Egypt)

◻️ Netanyahu greenlights major Gaza City assault set to begin within days

Aug 22

YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH THE FULL 3min!

UN emergency coordinator @TFletcher says people should read the IPC report about the Israeli-made famine in Gaza “in sorrow and in anger.”

“Be in no doubt that this is irrefutable testimony. It is a famine that we could have prevented.”… pic.twitter.com/tEGfV3e0gC

— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) August 22, 2025

Aug 21

‘5 out of 6 Palestinians killed by the IDF in Gaza are civilians’.  Amazing that this report is from The Guardian, citing ‘figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database’.  They are still using the wrong numbers but the idea is correct.  It is another story that this classified Israeli military intelligence database is denied by Israel.

Only 8,900 named fighters were listed as dead in May, out of 53,000 death toll’.  The ratio changes materially if we consider that the number of dead Palestinians are more in the line of 200,000.

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War Is Netanyahu’s Political Lifeline – Palestinian Presidential Aide

Keep your eyes on Gaza, which is being subjected to hunger and extermination; the Zionist occupation has announced its invasion with sixty thousand soldiers. Spread its news and be its voice, and do not leave it alone.  The Ukraine War is a war of soldiers, and one can accept that as soldiers make war.

Gaza represents our humanity.  In my view, it is more important than Ukraine.

I repeat Mr Lavrov’s statement on the many announcements that in future some European countries will recognize a Palestinian State.  “FM Lavrov on Gaza: ‘There will be nothing to recognize’: Lavrov on West’s delay in recognizing State of Palestine.  “Why do you need to wait for these two months? Why don’t you do it immediately? […] Because they have this diplomatic hope that by the time when they have to fulfill this obligation to recognize the Palestinian state, there will be nothing (left) to recognize,” the Russian foreign minister says.

🔊 Lavrov believes “this is the essence of EU diplomacy in the Middle East.”

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GAZA CRISIS: KEY UPDATES

🔹 Airstrikes targeted the Zeitoun neighborhood as Israel begins intensifying attacks on Gaza City, which it plans to seize

🔹 Five farmers were killed in Israeli drone strikes northwest of Khan Yunis

🔹 One person was killed in an airstrike on a residential building northwest of Gaza City

🔹 Israeli strikes hit the Jabaliya al-Balad, al-Nazla, and al-Sabra neighborhoods in Gaza City

🔹Israeli military aircraft fired two missiles at Deir al-Balah in central Gaza

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A Pro-Palestinian protestor at the Egyptian embassy in New York City was physically assaulted and dragged inside by embassy staff only to be further beaten with chains.

This event comes after Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty urged Egyptian embassies abroad to ‘drag protestors inside’, (https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/22456) after a similar event occured at the Egyptian embassy in the Netherlands.

Eyewitnesses called the NYPD, who arrived on the scene and managed to get the man out of the embassy.

Commenting on this, Eva Bartlett states:

Egypt’s role in obeying Zionist and American orders to keep the gates of the Egypt-Gaza border closed.

I’ve seen, repeatedly, how Egyptian soldiers and security treat Palestinians—like sub-humans who don’t deserve to be treated with dignity, much less allowed out of Gaza for medical care, study or even the sake of travel that so many in the world enjoy.

While waiting at the Rafah crossing many a time, on either side (waiting to exit or to enter Gaza), I saw Egyptian security sneer at and abuse Palestinians, including elderly and ill.

I saw for myself a glimpse of how Palestinians are locked away underground in Cairo airport, even when they had tickets for onwards travel. There was no need to lock them away in a tiny storage room without chairs, denied of food and hygiene. You can read about that here (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/control/).

Egypt made money off of terrorized Palestinians seeking to flee Gaza under Israeli genocide, charging at least $5000/person to exit, money most Palestinians.

So, I’m not surprised by the news in the previous post.

Egypt has been enforcing the lockdown & imprisonment of Palestinians in Gaza, for a very long time, since the Israeli siege on Gaza was tightened in 2007. Egypt is complicit in the long starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, and in the current ongoing US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Thuggish indeed.

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Israel is splitting the West Bank:

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The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights is suing the Trump administration to force the disclosure of financial records for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation The lawsuit follows reports that nearly 2,000 Palestinians have been killed at its aid distribution points, described by experts as “death traps.” Human rights experts condemn GHF as a “militarized aid model” that uses humanitarian relief as a weapon of war.

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The preliminary phase of the Gaza invasion has begun with concentrated operations in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood and the Jabalia area.

The Israeli army said that five army teams, including tens of thousands of soldiers, will participate in the planned attack against the Palestinian in Gaza City.

These forces include 12 brigade-level teams, each comprising infantry, armored, artillery, and combat engineering units, alongside combat support forces. Additionally, the northern and southern brigades of the Gaza division, usually tasked with border protection, will participate in the attack, raising the total number of participating brigades to 14.

The army says the preparation stages for the attack, named “Gideon B Vehicles,” have already begun, coinciding with an ongoing offensive operation on the outskirts of Gaza City. The “Nahal” infantry brigade and the 7th armored brigade operated in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, while the “Givati” infantry brigade started a new operation in the Jabalia area north of the city.

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The ultra-orthodox Haredi are resisting attempts to draft them into the IOF. Israel’s high court lifted their draft exemption last year, now they’re threatening CIVIL WAR

Don’t get it wrong. The Haredi support killing Palestinians. It is only that they don’t want to do it.

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The complete region is in uproar and being destabilized.

-Ground preparations for attacks in Iran are ongoing at every level, including dismantling suspected Mossad-operated sites and border threats. Missile tests and naval maneuvers are underway, alongside intelligence-driven operations. Intelligence is being shared with border nations and select Arab states and their agencies.

-Israel is bombing Lebanon and South Lebanon at will while the push for Hezbollah to give up its weapons continues on every level. Takfiris and imported headchoppers are on the borders from the Syrina side.

-Syria is talking to everyone as if it is legitimate, yet Israel is still bombing them in the south and they are falling over their feet to offer more territory to Israel. Mayhem and killings against minorities continue.

Ansar Allah Political Bureau:

• We strongly condemn the actions of Syria’s ruling armed group for holding a direct meeting with the Israeli enemy in Paris.

• While Israeli hostile operations against Syria continue, the new rulers in Damascus extend their hands for open normalization with the Israeli enemy.

– Gaza itself is being massacred at a greater rate and the genocide continues.
Israel in Gaza are committing ‘WORST example of GENOCIDE that we’ve seen since WW2’ – Attorney and activist Stanley Cohen said to RT.

‘I don’t know Jews that see genocide as a spiritual mission’

‘I see Zionists who see genocide as a spiritual mission’

There is much more activity from groups like Al-Qassam fighters. They were able yesterday, Wednesday, to strike a gathering of enemy soldiers and vehicles in the vicinity of Al-Rantisi Mosque in the Ma’an area, south of Khan Younis city, in the southern Gaza Strip, with a number of mortar shells.

Israeli Prime Minister and international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu calls for mass censorship of ‘the algorithms and the social networks’ to stop criticism of Israel.

He states, ‘Israel is accused of starving children (https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/22296) in the way Jews in the Middle Ages were accused of killing Christian children for their blood.’

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There is a problem with BRICS, as they have not called or supported a boycot, divestment and sanctions regime against Israel. I can see problems with these statistics, but in general, they go in the right direction.

BRICS is reshaping a multipolar world — but how are they responding to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians?

2025 exports (Jan-July) to Israel vs. 2024:
· China & India: Top military suppliers to Israel.
· Russia, Egypt, UAE: Leading energy exporters to Israel.
· Brazil & South Africa: Slashed energy exports (rank fell from 11th and 10th in 2024 to 39th and 55th in 2025).

BRICS’ trade patterns reveal stark divides in geopolitical stances.