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Microsoft requests FBI help to shut down anti-genocide protests: Report
Current and former employees say Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform is aiding the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Microsoft has asked the FBI for assistance in monitoring demonstrations by employees demanding the company cut its ties with Israel, according to documents cited in a Bloomberg report published on 26 August.

In emails seen by Bloomberg, a company director of investigations asked the FBI for intelligence on planned demonstrations.

The official highlighted former employee Hossam Nasr as “quite active in his posts targeting Microsoft and that we are complicit in genocide,” and noted the company had identified a handful of employees tied to the protests, including one of their children.

The FBI’s Seattle office said it respects the right to peaceful protest and only acts on criminal activity or threats to national security. The bureau declined to confirm any interactions with Microsoft.

Last week, 20 people were arrested at the company’s Redmond headquarters for demonstrating and blocking the plaza entrance. Protesters declared a “liberated zone,” set up tents, chanted, linked arms, refused police orders, and called on colleagues to join them.

Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company welcomed discussion but would not tolerate disruptions.

“To have them engaging in vandalism and destructive behavior obviously makes clear that this aspect of the issue is no longer about dialogue with employees. It’s a matter for law enforcement, and that’s how we’re treating it,” he told Bloomberg.

Microsoft reinforced that stance at its Build conference in Seattle, where public areas were closed, airport-style security was imposed, and employees who interrupted executive speeches, including one by Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, were removed or dismissed.

Organizers say around 200 current and former staff remain engaged enough to sustain periodic protests.

Smith noted that most protesters were not Microsoft employees, unlike No Azure for Apartheid – the protest network of current and former staff, who accuse the company of profiting from Israel’s assault on Gaza by selling software and artificial intelligence tools to its military.

“These are technological weapons. Cloud and AI are just as deadly as bombs and bullets,” said activist Vaniya Agrawal, who resigned earlier this year and was later arrested during a demonstration.

The pressure forced Microsoft to open inquiries into its contracts with Israel. In May, it insisted it found “no evidence” its software had been used to target Palestinians.

Investigations by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call revealed that Israel’s Unit 8200 stored millions of intercepted Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft’s Azure servers.

Unit 8200 sources confirmed that intelligence drawn from the repositories of calls had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza.

The unit was also directly involved in the large-scale pager terror attack against Lebanon that killed 42 people, including two children, and wounded over 3,500.

The company launched a new independent review on 15 August, pledging to release the findings once complete, though activists dismissed it as a delaying tactic.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/32787

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1960404808323489955
BREAKING: Israel’s Defence Minister Announces A Permanent Occupation Of Southern Lebanon

Israel Katz stated that the Israeli military “will not move from the security zone in Lebanon.”

Meanwhile, US officials call Lebanese journalists “animalistic” in Beirut.

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1960402817211945359
Lebanese children scream and flee as Israel launches airstrikes next to their nursery

Meanwhile, the Lebanese government greets two Zionist US officials who seek to disarm the nations resistance on behalf of Israel.

The footage was captured from Al-Batoul nursery in southern Lebanon.

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1960379668457980202
An Israeli airstrike killed 4 civilians & 6 security force members in Syria

The attack targeted the Kiswah area in the Damascus countryside, as Israel continues to occupy more land in southern Syria.

Meanwhile, the Syrian leadership continues to pursue normalisation.

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1960377598774833267
Hamas release footage killing Israeli soldiers with sniper fire & explosive devices

This occurred in Beit Hanoun, where Israeli soldiers were lured to a kill zone where an IED was detonated, then a second explosive was detonated on the evacuation force.

Israel admitted 5 dead & 20 wounded. The footage suggests the death toll could be higher.

UN Security Council to vote on future of Lebanon peacekeeping force
The UN Security Council is set to vote on a France-drafted resolution that would extend the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) until August 31, 2026, while preparing for its eventual withdrawal.

Deployed in 1978 to separate Israel and Lebanon, UNIFIL has been tasked with maintaining calm in southern Lebanon.

The latest draft text says the Security Council intends “to work on a withdrawal of UNIFIL with the aim of making the Lebanese Government the sole provider of security in southern Lebanon”.

Under the agreement that ended the most recent war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon’s army has been deploying in the south and dismantling Hezbollah’s infrastructure. Israel, however, was meant to withdraw completely, but continues to carry out attacks across Lebanon.

The draft resolution also “condemns the incidents that affected United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon premises and forces, injuring several peacekeepers”, a reference to Israeli strikes on UNIFIL positions. Israel is not specifically named in the text.

Before the vote on Monday, a senior UN official warned that “to completely eliminate [UNIFIL’s] capacity at this point, or very quickly, would not serve anybody in the region,” calling any abrupt withdrawal risky.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/25/live-israel-intensifies-attacks-on-gaza-leaving-dozens-dead-in-a-day

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1960624322193547734
Under the pressure of popular protests, US envoy Tom Barrack has canceled his visit to the cities of Khiam and Tyre (Sour) in south Lebanon.

A day earlier, the envoy told Lebanese journalists to "act civilized" and not "animalistic" during a press conference, drawing widespread backlash.

This is an interesting interview. Max Blumenthal talks to an Iranian woman, analyst Nahid Pouriesa, about the Imposed War ("12 Day War") and how the Iranian public's attitudes changed. A lot of younger people in Iran genuinely did not understand the motives of Iran, and were susceptible to western propaganda vilifying the Iranian state - they didn't understand until the Imposed War that Israel/the US are genuine threats which want to destroy them.

Nearly 40 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn
Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 37 people since dawn on Wednesday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

Among the dead, eight were aid seekers.

‘The Gaza famine is here, an engineered famine, a predicted famine, a man-made famine’: Save the Children
Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, has also told the UN Security Council that the NGO’s clinics in Gaza “are overwhelmed by need, every bench packed with malnourished children and their mothers, yet our clinics are almost silent now. Children do not have the strength to speak or even cry out in agony.”

“They lie there, emaciated, quite literally wasting away – their tiny bodies overcome by hunger and disease, the medical and specialised nutrition supplies they need all but used up,” she said.

“A few kilometres away stand ready a sea of supplies, thousands upon thousands of truckloads of lifesaving items, all blocked,” she said.

“These past few weeks, more and more children have shared that they wish to be dead. One child wrote, ‘I wish I were in heaven, where my mother is. In heaven, there is love. There is food and water.'”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/27/live-israel-destroys-entire-neighbourhoods-in-push-to-occupy-gaza-city

Israel attacks Syria for second time in 24 hours
The attack on Wednesday consisted of a series of strikes on a former army barracks in Kiswa, southwest of Damascus, according to Syria’s state-run al-Ekhbariya TV.

Israel also attacked Kiswa on Tuesday, killing six Syrian soldiers.

We’ll have more details as soon as we get them.

https://aje.io/aijcb2?update=3911866

Israeli forces assault residents in Sebastia, northwest of Nablus
Israeli forces have assaulted an unspecified number of residents during their raid on the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Village council head Mohammed Azem told the Wafa news agency that Israeli forces stormed the town more than 24 hours ago, turned some homes into military barracks and deployed snipers on the rooftops of others.

He added that Israeli forces have been raiding Palestinian homes since Tuesday evening, searching and destroying their contents.

The forces also assaulted some residents, one of whom was taken to hospital for treatment due to his critical condition, Azem said.

Israeli soldiers also raided some shops and stole money and goods from them, Azem said.

Security Council members – except US – say Israel must reverse course in Gaza
A joint statement from 14 of the 15 members of the UN Security Council has called for Israel to stop further expansion of its military operation in Gaza.

The statement, which was not signed on to by the US, also:

backed the IPC global hunger monitoring system that confirmed a famine in Gaza.
said the famine in Gaza was a man-made crisis.
warned that the use of starvation as a weapon of war is banned under international law.
called for an immediate and unconditional permanent Gaza ceasefire, and the release of captives held in the enclave.
demanded Israel immediately and unconditionally lift all restrictions on aid delivery into Gaza.

Frankfurt bans protest demanding end to war in Gaza
United4Gaza, the group behind the protest planned for Saturday in the German city, says it will go to court to overturn the ban and fight “until the last breath for our fundamental right to freedom of assembly”.

Authorities in Frankfurt banned the march as a “potentially anti-Semitic gathering”.

The city’s mayor, Mike Josef, from the left-wing Social Democratic Party supported the ban.

Pro-Palestinian campaigners in Germany accuse the country’s authorities of taking a hard line against criticism of Israel and limiting pro-Palestinian speech.

Former British PM Blair, former Trump Middle East envoy Kushner attend White House Gaza meeting: Report
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Trump Middle East envoy Jared Kushner attended a meeting with US President Donald Trump over the war in Gaza, a senior White House official said.

The official told the Reuters news agency that the meeting discussed all aspects of the situation in the enclave, including increasing food aid deliveries, the captives, post-war plans and more.

According to the official, the session was “simply a policy meeting,” the type frequently held by Trump and his team.

A second White House official said Trump has been “clear that he wants the war to end, and he wants peace and prosperity for everyone in the region”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/27/live-israel-destroys-entire-neighbourhoods-in-push-to-occupy-gaza-city

Video shows Israeli air attacks in Syria
Video verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency shows Israeli aircraft attacking sites in Kiswa, to the south of Damascus.

https://aje.io/aijcb2?update=3911954

Israeli forces conduct two hour operation on the ground in former Syrian army barracks
As we reported earlier, Israeli forces conducted a series of strikes on a former army barracks in Kiswa, southwest of Damascus, according to Syria’s state-run al-Ekhbariya TV.

A Syrian military source has now told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army carried out a landing operation, with the use of four helicopters, in the army barracks in Kiswa and spent more than two hours there.

According to the source, the Israeli army brought in dozens of soldiers and an unspecified amount of search equipment.

No clashes took place between the Israeli forces involved in the landing and the Syrian army forces.

https://aje.io/aijcb2?update=3911985

Why does ICJ Judge Sebutinde face calls to quit from Israel genocide case?
The International Commission of Jurists has filed a formal request for an investigation into International Court of Justice (ICJ) Vice President Julia Sebutinde over her recent comments about Israel.

The commission, which advocates for human rights and rule of law worldwide, argued that Sebutinde’s position on Israel reveals a bias that brings judicial integrity into question. Sebutinde, who is one of the 17 judges in the ICJ genocide case against Israel, also faces other critics.

Sebutinde, 71, is a Ugandan judge who is currently serving her second term at the ICJ, where she has sat since March 2012. She is the first African woman appointed to the The Hague-based ICJ. She was elected as the vice president of the top United Nations court in February 2024.

https://aje.io/aijcb2?update=3911948

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1960996556481401036
VIDEO | Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Rashidin School in Hebron and raided several other schools in the West Bank, detaining multiple teachers.

https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1960873144484552712
The U.S. House Oversight Committee has opened an investigation into the Wikimedia Foundation for allegedly hosting “anti-Semitic” and “anti-Israel” information on Wikipedia.

The letter cites “systematic efforts” to insert content critical of Israel and demands records of any coordination between volunteer editors, academic institutions, and “nation state actors.”

Stripped of its euphemisms, this is a formal attempt to discipline the global encyclopedia into the same pro-Israel narrative lockstep that governs mainstream media. “Neutral point of view” becomes code for aligning with the foreign policy consensus.

Even an open-edit knowledge commons is being pulled into the siege economy, policed not just for facts, but for thought crimes against the regime in Tel Aviv.

https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1960772371494920230/
New Quinnipiac Poll — 50% of voters say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Includes *77%* of Democrats, 51% of independents, and 20% of Republicans.

60% of voters oppose sending more aid to Israel.
Includes 75% of Democrats, 66% of independents, and 37% of Republicans.

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1961092973447278627
BREAKING: Yemen’s Ansarallah announces Israel’s assassination attempt failed against their leadership

Instead, the Yemeni officials are stating that Israel, just an hour ago, had bombed densely populated civilian areas in a new crime that won’t end Sanaa’s support for Gaza.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1961076658842063094
Breaking: Israel strikes Yemeni capital Sana’a and northern provinces

➤ Sky News Arabia reports Israeli warplanes bombed the Al-Sabeen area in Sana’a, which houses the presidential complex and a central Houthi security camp.

➤ Al-Hadath says the strikes targeted residences of Houthi leaders. An Israeli source told the outlet both the Air Force and Navy took part in the operation.

➤ A Yemeni source reports Israeli attacks also hit Al-Hudaydah and Amran provinces. Al Mayadeen says over 10 airstrikes struck Sana’a while Houthi leader Abdul-Malek al-Houthi was giving a speech nearby.

TOMORROW we gather in Detroit for the Second Annual People’s Conference for Palestine!

From every city and every sector, people are coming together to strategize, organize, and carry forward the struggle against Zionism and U.S. imperialism.

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https://x.com/timand2037/status/1961008377896771668
Tim Anderson - Zionist Murdoch gutter media confirms that Mossad was behind the ASIO scam report on supposed Iran security force activity in Australia. "Confidential sources have confirmed that Israel provided ASIO with a tip off". Other than the headline the report is garbage.

Who could have guessed?

Unknown virus spreading at Al-Shifa Hospital
This news comes from the director of al-Shifa Medical Complex, Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, who said the hospital lacks the correct equipment to determine its origin, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.

Fallen Israeli drone explodes, kills two military personnel in southern Lebanon: Report
The Lebanese army’s media branch reports that two military personnel have been killed when a fallen Israeli drone they were inspecting exploded in the southern area of Naqoura, according to a statement cited by Lebanon’s National News Agency.

The victims include an officer and a soldier, and two other personnel were injured, the statement said.

Israeli forces hit Yemen capital: Report
The Israeli army has attacked Sanaa for the second time in less than a week, Houthi-affiliated media outlet Al Masirah TV is reporting.

Multiple explosions heard across Yemen’s capital Sanaa
We now have more information for you on the Israeli attack on the Yemeni capital previously reported by Houthi-affiliated media.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces targeted Mount Attan, west of the capital Sanaa.

According to our reporters on the ground, at least 10 explosions were heard across the city.

A dozen aid seekers killed today
At least 12 Palestinians killed across Gaza today in Israeli attacks were aid seekers, medical sources at Gaza hospitals say.

Since dawn, Israeli forces have killed at least 24 people, they said.

UN experts decry ‘enforced disappearances’ at Gaza aid sites
UN rights experts voiced alarm at reports of “enforced disappearances” of starving Palestinians seeking food at distribution sites run by the GHF, urging Israel to end the “heinous crime”.

The seven independent experts said in a joint statement they had received reports that a number of individuals, including one child, had been “forcibly disappeared” after visiting aid distribution sites in Rafah.

Israel’s military was reportedly “directly involved in the enforced disappearances of people seeking aid”, they added.

Houthi spokesman claims Israeli attack near Sanaa targeted ‘civilian sites’
Israel’s military has claimed its attack near Sanaa, Yemen, targeted a Houthi “military site.” The Israel Hayom newspaper, citing a security source, reported the attack was aimed at “senior Houthi officials” gathered for a meeting.

But Houthi spokesperson Nasruddin Amer rejected those claims, saying the strike instead hit “civilian sites.” In a post on X, Amer called the attack “a failure like previous ones” and insisted it would not deter “Yemen’s support for Gaza”.

Pressure mounts on UN high commissioner after staff letter calls for genocide acknowledgement
By Gabriel Elizondo
Reporting from New York City, US

This letter was transmitted from staff members of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the high commissioner, Volker Turk, in Geneva.

The letter says, “the High Commissioner for Human Rights has a strong legal and moral responsibility to denounce acts of genocide, failing to denounce an unfolding genocide undermines the credibility of the UN and the human rights system itself.”

We’re being told that about 515 staff members of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights globally have signed this letter. If true, that would be about a quarter of the global staff from this office.

This is part of a growing movement, if you will, within the UN: Staff members urging the UN as a body to call what’s taking place in Gaza a genocide.

So, this is all part of that, that we’ve been seeing building momentum in the last few weeks and months.

After nearly 5 decades, UN to draw down Lebanon peacekeeping force in 2027
The UN Security Council has unanimously extended a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon until the end of 2026 when the operation will then begin a yearlong “orderly and safe drawdown and withdrawal”.

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), established in 1978, monitors cessation of hostilities in southern Lebanon, supports the Lebanese armed forces, facilitates humanitarian access, and helps ensure the area is free of unauthorised armed personnel, weapons and infrastructure.

In a statement, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam welcomed the decision, thanking the council for the additional year and four months of operations.

He encouraged more international support for the Lebanese army after the drawdown and said that today’s council resolution called on Israel to withdraw from the five positions it still occupies in southern Lebanon.

Protesters spill red paint in front of Israeli military chief’s home: Report
Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that five protesters have been arrested after dozens demonstrated in front of the home of Israel’s army chief Eyal Zamir, spilling red paint on the street while calling on Zamir not to go ahead with the goverment’s plan to retake the Gaza Strip.

The demonstration was organised by the Israeli NGOs Standing Together and Soldiers for Hostages, Haaretz said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/28/live-israel-demolishes-all-buildings-in-gaza-citys-southern-zeitoun-area

GDF - Israel in Movies
A really interesting look at the longstanding zionist role in Hollywood. Some notable things include the bit about the terroristic attacks carried out by the "Jewish Defense League" against Vanessa Redgrave, the influence of Israeli propaganda on Cecil B. Demille's Biblical epics (Samson and Delilah is apparently based partly on something by Mussolini collaborator Jabotinsky, the creator of "revisionist zionism"), Jane Fonda's disturbing zionist leanings, and much more.

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>>491191
Good video. The interesting part is I had never even heard of like 90% of these movies. Really demonstrates the lack of time-tested artistic merit in propaganda projects.

>>491196
Eh, those Demille movies have done pretty well.

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Qassam might have just taken more IOF POWs

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https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1961557835738759298
Hebrew sources concede that Hamas fighters are rising from beneath the rubble like ghosts, hitting occupation forces with precision kill-shots, and melting back into the underground before a counterstrike can land.

This is Gaza’s insurgent warfare at full force, pre-set kill zones, tunnel-fed strike teams, and fire patterns calibrated to shred any unit foolish enough to push forward.

Every street is a choke point, every ruin a sniper’s nest, every approach a death corridor. The occupier advances under the illusion of control, only to be cut down and left grasping at an enemy that refuses to be fixed, broken, or erased.

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https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1961527016379084966
BREAKING: A Third Ambush On Israeli Forces In Northern Gaza

Israeli soldiers dead & wounded at all. Hebrew Media is talking about the triggering of the Hannibal Directive, meaning attempts to capture soldiers.

https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1961584260881510413
Officially, Israeli soldiers were captured

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BREAKING

Al-Qassam Brigades publish:

We remind those who forget – death or captivity

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1961565072720855050
According to Hebrew reports:

- 4 'security incidents' reported in Gaza (3 in Gaza City, one in Khan Yunis) amid clashes with the resistance.

– 4 Israeli soldiers reported missing in Gaza with no updates on their whereabouts.

– At least one Israeli soldier killed, 9 injured, 2 in critical condition.

– Unconfirmed reports of Israel deploying Hannibal Directive.

– Fortified positions and rescue helicopters targeted by Palestinian fighters.

– Battles at close range

https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1961566688794554437
⚡️A convoy 30 vehicles loaded with israeli occupation soldiers entered Syrian territory from the Golan. (Syrian media)

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1961361605507104877
Germany urges citizens to leave Iran
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Germany has urged its citizens to leave Iran and avoid traveling there, warning of "countermeasures" by Tehran in response to Berlin’s role in activating UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.

"As Iranian government representatives have repeatedly threatened with consequences in this case, it cannot be ruled out that German interests and nationals will be affected by countermeasures in Iran," the foreign ministry said in a statement on its website Thursday.

Genocide Denial "Journalism" | Noah Samsen

Thousands gathering in Detroit for People’s Conference for Palestine
Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi is in the US city of Detroit for the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine, a three-day series of seminars and other events aimed at strengthening support for Palestinians.

“It really feels larger than last year. Some 4,000 people have registered,” Rattansi said from one of the conference halls, which has been named after Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, who was killed in a targeted Israeli attack in Gaza this month.

“There is a very interesting discussion under way right now about how to turn … [a] new understanding of the Israeli genocide into more practical calls not just for a ceasefire but for an arms embargo,” Rattansi said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/29/live-israel-2

Yemen’s Houthis confirm PM, ministers killed in Israeli strike
A statement from the Houthi group in Yemen has confirmed reports that the PM of the areas controlled by the group, Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahwi, was killed in Israeli air strikes on Thursday.

The politician was killed along with an unspecified number of his cabinet ministers while holding a routine meeting in the capital, Sanaa, the Houthi presidency said.

Israeli offensive increases chances of capturing more soldiers: Qassam Brigades
Abu Obeida, the spokesman of Hamas’s military wing, said Israel’s plans to occupy Gaza will be a “disaster for its political and military leadership”.

“This will increase the chances of capturing new soldiers. Our fighters are in a state of alert, preparedness and high morale,” he said.

On the fate of Israeli captives held in Gaza, Abu Obeida said they will safeguard them “as much as we can”.

“They will be with our fighters in places of confrontation, in the same conditions of danger and living. We will announce every captive killed by the acts of aggression, providing their name, photo and proof of their death.”

Israeli army losses in Gaza City a ‘significant tactical setback’
The ambush on Israeli forces in Gaza City that killed one soldier and left four missing is a “significant tactical setback” for the Israeli army, which undermines the Israeli government’s messaging about the strength of Hamas, says a Middle East security expert.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Rodger Shanahan said the fighting in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, in which 11 Israeli soldiers were also seriously injured, showed clearly that Hamas’s capabilities had not been destroyed, which was a stated aim of the Netanyahu government.

“Areas like that favour the defender,” he said, adding that the clashes showed “just how difficult it is to conduct urban warfare.

“Capturing Israeli soldiers appears to be one of the tactical aims of Palestinian fighters at the moment.”

He said the fallout from any setback in the military campaign would have political ramifications for Netanyahu and his cabinet, given that the Israeli military had voiced opposition to the Gaza City campaign.

Seven Israeli soldiers injured in IED attack
Israeli media is reporting that at least seven soldiers have been injured, three in serious condition, in recent attacks in Gaza, one of which involved an IED blast targeting an armoured personnel carrier.

Baby girl dies of malnutrition in Gaza
A baby girl has died of malnutrition, a source at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital has told Al Jazeera, becoming the latest victim of the Israeli-forced famine in Gaza.

Ten Palestinians starve to death in Gaza in 24 hours
Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded 10 deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” in the past 24 hours. Those killed by the Israeli-forced starvation include three children.

This brings the total number of hunger-related deaths since the war began in Gaza to 332, including 124 children.

A total of 54 hunger-related deaths, including those of nine children, have been recorded since a global hunger monitor confirmed famine was occurring in parts of Gaza earlier this month.

Iran arrests eight accused of spying for Israel
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps says it has arrested eight people suspected of trying to transmit the coordinates of sensitive sites and details about senior military figures to Israel’s Mossad.

They are accused of having provided the information to the Mossad spy agency during Israel’s air war on Iran in June, when it attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and killed top military commanders as well as civilians.

An IRGC statement alleged that the suspects had received specialised training from Mossad via online platforms. It said they were apprehended in northeastern Iran and that materials for making launchers, bombs, explosives and booby traps had been seized.

Israeli attack on bakery kills 11 people
As we’ve reported, at least 44 Palestinians, including eight aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn.

Local sources reported that 11 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a bakery in the Nassr neighbourhood, west of Gaza City.

The Civil Defence said the air strike hit the bakery and a nearby tent, as well as a group of civilians, including children.

Death toll in Gaza rises to 50
At least 50 Palestinians, including 10 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, sources in the territory’s hospitals say.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/30/updates

US denies visas for Palestinian officials before UN assembly
As we’ve been reporting, the Trump administration said it is denying and revoking visas for members of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority (PA) before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September.

The PA and the PLO serve as representatives for the Palestinian people and push for recognition of a Palestinian state on the global stage.

The US Department of State said it would grant waivers to the PA Mission to the UN, currently helmed by Ambassador Riyad Mansour.

Speaking to reporters shortly after the announcement, Mansour said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas planned to attend the UN gathering next month, which is set to include a September 22 segment on Palestinian rights.

https://aje.io/rup22d?update=3915376

https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1961801835003404573
Yemen: The President of the Supreme Political Council appoints Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Miftah as Acting Prime Minister.

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https://x.com/warfareanalysis/status/1961800263964012961
Per user Warfare Analysis on Twitter: As of now, there is no confirmation from Hamas’s military wing regarding the capture of 4 soldiers.

Hebrew media reported that 4 Israeli soldiers went missing following a “security incident” in the Zaytoun area of Gaza City and that the Israeli army was searching for them. They also reported that the Hannibal directive was activated.

This suggests either the soldiers were captured and then bombed by Israel, killing them along with their captors, or they were captured and somehow survived the Hannibal directive, which is highly unlikely given that no statement has been issued by Al-Qassam.

Gaza City has witnessed 4 “security incidents,” AKA Hamas ambushes.

Hebrew media reported that 11 soldiers were “wounded” and 1 was sniped and killed by Hamas in Gaza City. At the same time, the Israeli army imposed censorship on the publication of any information regarding the case of the 4 “missing” soldiers.

The only Al-Qassam statement regarding last night “incidents” is: “We remind those who forget – death or captivity”

No official statement from the Israeli army yet.

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https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1961901330173251600
Al-Qassam Brigades officially announce the martyrdom of their Chief of Staff, Commander Mohammed al-Sanwar, brother of the martyred Hamas political bureau head, Yahya al-Sanwar.

From Gaza’s tunnels to its front lines, al-Sanwar carried the command torch through the most punishing phases of the war, inheriting it after his brother’s assassination. Today, he falls on the same path, the road to Jerusalem.

Hamas affirms: the leadership may be struck, but the chain of command is forged in blood, not paper. Each martyr in the Sanwar line cements the movement’s oath: the fight continues until the banner flies over Al-Aqsa.

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Yemeni Officials killed:

Prime Minister: Ahmed Ghaleb Al-Rahwi.

Minister of Social Affairs: Samir Mohammed Ahmed Bajaala.

Minister of Agriculture: Radwan Ali Ali Al-Rubai.

Minister of Economy: Maeen Hashim Ahmed Al-Mahaqri.

Minister of Justice: Mujahid Ahmed Abdullah Ali.

Minister of Information: Hashim Sharaf Al-Din.

Minister of Education: Hassan Al-Saadi.

Minister of Foreign Affairs: Jamal Ahmed Ali Amer.

Deputy Minister of Interior: Abdul Majeed Al-Murtada.

Commander of Military Operations: Sakher Al-Sharqabi.

https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1961859527797522616

Houthis signal defiance after assassination of government officials
The political arm of the Houthis emphasised its government and institutions are still capable of carrying out duties after members of the cabinet were assassinated by Israel.

“The blood of the great martyrs will be fuel and a motivator to continue on the same path,” the Houthi presidency said in its statement.

“We affirm to our great Yemeni people, to the sons of the oppressed Palestinian people, to all the sons of our nation, and to all the free people in the world, that we are continuing in our original stance in supporting and aiding the sons of Gaza, and building our armed forces and developing their capabilities to confront all challenges and dangers, as is the stance of our great Yemeni people, present in all fields and arenas with all determination, will, and faith.”

On Friday, Israeli media reported, quoting unnamed sources, that the Israeli army assessed the entire Houthi cabinet, including the prime minister and 12 other ministers, were likely killed in Thursday’s strikes on Sanaa.

The Houthis have not confirmed the total number of those killed.

Houthis vow to increase military capability, exact ‘vengeance’ on Israel
Mahdi al-Mashat, a Yemeni politician and military officer who serves as the chairman of the Supreme Political Council of the Houthis, has released a defiant video message to mourn the assassinations of the prime minister and other members of the cabinet in Israeli strikes this week.

He said “the treacherous enemy has pained us with this calamity”, but pledged that “we shall take vengeance, and we shall forge from the depths of wounds a victory”.

“To our people in Gaza, our stance is steadfast, and will remain so until the aggression ceases and the siege is lifted, no matter the scale of the challenge,” al-Mashat said.

The commander said the Houthis will “continue the path of building our armed forces and developing their capabilities”.

Major General Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi, Houthi minister of defence and military production, also released a statement and said the group’s armed forces are ready “at all levels to confront the Zionist enemy supported by America”.

Israeli military claims to have targeted Abu Obeida: Reports
Israeli media is reporting that the Israeli military and domestic security agency Shin Bet have said that an Israeli drone attack in Gaza City targeted Abu Obeida, the longtime masked spokesperson of the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing.

It did not provide any further details, and there has been no response from Hamas at this time.

People are still being pulled from the rubble after an Israeli strike on an apartment block in Gaza
By Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Gaza City

There’s more harrowing footage coming from the bomb site.

In fact, rescue workers arrived at the scene and are still searching under the rubble.

This is a five-storey building, located just more than half a mile (about 1km) from the home where we had to take shelter.

Many of the children had to be pulled from under the rubble, under the debris of those apartments, or from the street where the intensity of this bombing threw them out of the building.

This attack happened without any warning whatsoever.

What is particularly concerning is that it’s a very densely populated area.

As many as seven people were killed, and now the injured are arriving at the hospital with shrapnel wounds and severe bleeding.

Qassam Brigades reports attacks on invading Israeli soldiers in Gaza City
The armed wing of Hamas reports that its fighters used mortar shells to target a gathering of Israeli soldiers and armoured vehicles pushing into the southern part of the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City.

The Qassam Brigades also said that on Friday, its fighters succeeded in “destroying” an Israeli armoured personnel carrier with a powerful explosive device near Gaza University, located around the same area of southern Gaza City.

The fighters observed an Israeli helicopter arriving at the scene to evacuate casualties, the group said in a short statement.

Another Israeli soldier killed in southern Gaza
The Israeli army says that Ariel Lubliner, a major from the army’s reserve force, was killed in the southern Gaza Strip today. According to Israeli Army Radio, this is the 900th soldier killed since the start of the war on the enclave.

Two soldiers with the Golani Brigade of the Israeli army were also lightly wounded during an “operational accident” in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.

Today’s death toll in Gaza rises
77 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip today, according to sources in Gaza’s hospitals.

47 of those were killed in Gaza City alone, while 19 were killed whilst seeking aid in the centre and the south of the Gaza Strip.

Child dies in central Gaza days after being shot by Israeli sniper: Report
Local Palestinian media is reporting that a child has died in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, days after being shot by an Israeli sniper.

The child, whom the reports named as Ahmed Nader Yusuf al-Luhh, was shot near the camp’s ad-Dawa neighbourhood.

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Global Sumud Flotilla set to sail tomorrow
The International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza said the “Global Sumud Flotilla” will begin its journey from Barcelona on Sunday, followed by a second departure on Thursday from Tunisia, to challenge Israel’s siege of the coastal enclave.

In a statement, the committee described the flotilla as a worldwide protest against “the siege and genocide” in Gaza, accusing international institutions of “failure and complicity”.

It stressed the convoy is “not just symbolic boats carrying aid, but a powerful humanitarian message” reflecting global determination to end the siege.

“Every ship carries a cry of hope for Gaza and a global voice demanding an immediate end to the blockade and injustice,” the statement said.

Pro-Palestinian chants in Brussels, German police beat more protesters
Footage released by pro-Palestinian activists, verified by Al Jazeera, showed a demonstration organised by many medical professionals in front of the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels, demanding sanctions on Israel.

Participants chanted slogans condemning the attacks against Palestinians and emphasising the need for international action to stop crimes against civilians in Gaza.

After the demonstration in Frankfurt that we reported on earlier, another protest took place in western Germany’s Cologne.

Protesters marched through the city’s streets holding banners that read, “We will not die in your wars” and “No to military mobilisation”. The protesters gathered at Heumarkt Square in Cologne, and German media reported that the police demanded the protesters remove their masks and leave, and violently attacked several demonstration sites, resulting in injuries among the protesters.

Israeli army announce recovering body of another captive from Gaza
The Israeli military has confirmed recovering the body of Idan Shtivi, who was killed at the Nova music festival near Gaza’s borders during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023.

This comes after the Israeli army reported on Friday that in cooperation with Shin Bet, it recovered the bodies of Ilan Weiss and another unnamed captive in a “complex operation” in Gaza.

Weiss was reportedly an armed guard of the Kibbutz Be’eri and was also killed on the same day.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/30/updates

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Church bells toll in Gaza as bombs keep falling

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Israel claim to have assassinated Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for the Qassam Brigades in Gaza

This was his last message to the Muslim and Arab World, condemning the complicity with Israel’s actions. [video]

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