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Israeli aircraft carried out air raids and an airdrop operation on Wednesday evening, targeting Jabal al-Manea in the Al-Kiswah area of rural Damascus. The strikes were followed by loud explosions, marking the second such attack within 24 hours amid ongoing daily incursions into areas and towns in southern Syria. Syrian media reported that more than nine Israeli raids struck sites and vehicles belonging to the Ministry of Defence, with no confirmed details yet on the scale of the damage. According to Syrian reports, Israeli forces carried out an airdrop in Al-Kiswah, alongside heavy helicopter, fighter jet and reconnaissance aircraft activity in the area. Other sources also reported Israeli helicopters landing in Sweida, southern Syria. Reuters quoted two Syrian army sources […]

The Assistant Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Abdel Hakim El-Waer, said on Wednesday that the entry of 600 trucks a day into Gaza before 7 October 2023 can no longer be considered a standard. El-Waer explained that Gaza had previously been self-sufficient in food and agricultural production and exported many products, but the situation has changed completely since that date. He told Al-Mamlaka TV that even 1,000 trucks a day are not enough to meet current food needs, stressing the importance of opening the crossings, allowing large quantities of food in, and ensuring their delivery to all population centres. He added that the fifth phase of hunger means a family does not receive at least one […]

As deportations, land confiscations, and settler violence—shielded by the Israeli army—escalate in the West Bank, and as Gaza endures widespread destruction in an asymmetrical war whose primary victims are Palestinian civilians, European capitals have seen massive demonstrations. Protesters wave Palestinian flags and call for justice and freedom. This wave of mobilisation reflects a genuine expression of solidarity with a people subjected to blockade and systematic violence. Yet Europe’s official policies paint a starkly different picture. Calls to respect international law and halt settlement expansion coexist with deepening economic, technological, and military ties with Israel—even during its bombardment of Gaza. This contradiction is not accidental; it reflects a political system where capital, trade, and the arms industry take precedence over moral […]

Israel’s role as one of the major contributors to the rise in global Islamophobia was further highlighted this week when the self-proclaimed Jewish state, founded through ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism, described the presence of Muslims in Europe as the “true face of colonization.” The incendiary statement came in a tweet from the Israeli government’s Arabic-language Twitter account. Referencing the increase in mosques across Europe, from fewer than 100 in 1980 to more than 20,000 today, the post framed this demographic and religious presence as a looming threat.  Israel’s tweet went on to describe mosques as breeding grounds for violence and hate, and Muslims as an ungrateful and hostile population, accusing them of forming a “fifth column” within European societies. […]

A Palestinian health official accused the Israeli army on Thursday of deliberately targeting a hub for journalists at Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza before striking humanitarian workers who rushed to rescue them, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists, Anadolu reports. In a video statement, Dr. Mohammed Saqer, the director of nursing at the hospital, said Israeli forces claimed there was a hidden camera on the fourth floor of the surgery building, but stressed this was false. “This area, the stairs next to the operating theater, is a hub for journalists. All of us know this is a central hub for journalists. They put their cameras upstairs and deliver the news to local and international agencies. So it’s […]

Algeria’s envoy to the UN on Wednesday broke down as he read a farewell letter by Palestinian journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa to her son Gaith, written before she was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital earlier this week, Anadolu reports. Abu Dagga, 33, was one of the five journalists killed in Israel’s strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza that left 20 Palestinians dead. In a social media post days before her death, she wrote a farewell message to her 13-year-old son, words that Algeria’s UN envoy Amar Bendjama said “carried more truth than any official statement.” “You are the heart and soul of your mother … when I die, pray for me, not cry for me. And […]

Two US senators this week visited a historic church in Taybeh in the central West Bank, a Christian town often facing attacks by illegal Israeli settlers, Anadolu reports. Extremist settlers set ablaze one of the outer walls of the Church of St. George in July, drawing a global wave of condemnation from Christian leaders worldwide. “We’re here overall because we want to focus on the really terrible situation throughout this area, including the war in Gaza,” Senator Van Hollen told Qatari Al Jazeera television. The US senator stressed the necessity of ending Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza and settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Hollen said he and Senator Jeff Merkley visited the families of five Palestinian Americans killed […]

Hungarian-Canadian physician and Holocaust survivor Gabor Mate on Thursday voiced his support for the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which is scheduled to set sail from Barcelona this Sunday in a renewed attempt to deliver aid, Anadolu reports. “I’m here to give whatever support I can to that flotilla,” Mate said in a social media video. “I wish I could be there with you.” Mate recalled Israel’s record of intercepting previous aid convoys at sea. “Israel has committed piracy in the open seas, seizing these boats of aid and support to the most needy people on Earth, arresting the participants. This time, more boats will leave from many different countries,” he said. The upcoming flotilla brings together four initiatives: the Maghreb Sumud […]

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent remarks regarding the so-called “genocide” have no connection to Armenia, Anadolu reports. The comments were made during a press briefing in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, in response to an interview in which Netanyahu mistakenly claimed that the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, had adopted a resolution recognizing the so-called “Armenian Genocide.” Pashinyan characterized the Israeli leader’s statement as merely a “bargaining chip.” “We need to figure out whether we want the recognition of the Armenian Genocide to become a geopolitical bargaining chip for those who have no connection to our reality and the interests of our people,” Pashinyan said. The Armenian leader also expressed doubt that his […]

US-based coffee chain Starbucks’ sales in Malaysia fell 36% year-on-year in the financial year ended in June due to protests and boycotts of Israel’s attacks on Gaza, according to financial results the Malaysian franchiser Berjaya Food Berhad released on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. In the whole financial year ended in June 2025, Starbucks’ revenue was down to 477 million Malaysian ringgits ($113 million). The firm also saw a net loss of $69 million in the whole financial year. In the April-June period, the company’s revenue was down to $27.4 million in the second quarter. The coffee chain posted a total loss of $44.4 million in the same period. “The lower revenue was primarily attributed to the prolonged impact of the ongoing […]