Gaza aid blocked at crossings as Israel launches sporadic attacks

November 1, 2025

• The Israeli military has attacked the Gaza Strip for a fifth day, killing at least five people in another test of the fragile US-brokered ceasefire.
• The Red Cross says it transferred the unidentified bodies of three people to Israel after they were handed over by Hamas. Israeli media report the remains were not of captives taken to Gaza.
• Gaza residents say they fear a return to Israel’s full-scale bombing as they struggle to find food, water and medicine during the US-brokered truce.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 68,858 people and wounded 170,664 since it began in October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks and about 200 taken captive.

Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate outside the main campus of Columbia University during the commencement ceremony in Manhattan in New York City, US, May 21, 2025 [Jeenah Moon/Reuters]

Apartheid police murdered first African Nobel Peace Prize winner – court

October 31, 2025

South African judges have said Inkosi Albert Luthuli died of assault-related head injuries

The Death House

October30, 2025
Chris Hedges

The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism.

'Unlawful and Un-American': Trump Claims He Can Send 'Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines' Into US Cities ‘Unlawful and Un-American’: Trump Claims He Can Send ‘Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines’ Into US Cities

October 29, 2025
Brad Reed

“Our military exists to defend the nation and protect our freedoms, not to be weaponized against American cities,” said critics.

مالیات در آمریکا

دولت‌های آمریکا، یعنی‌ دولت فدرال که این کشور را اداره می‌کند و دولت‌های زیر دست آن، یعنی‌ دولت‌های  شهری و استانی و فرمانداری، از کلیهٔ کسانی‌ که در این کشور درآمدی کسب می‌کنند، حتی اگر تابعیت آمریکا را نداشته باشند، مالیات می‌گیرند. علاوه بر مالیات بر درآمد، هر شخص حقوق بگیری و هر کارفرمایی که حقوق می‌دهد اجبار دارند که برای بیمه تامین اجتماعی و بیمه درمانیِ سنین بازنشستگی درصدی از رقمِ دریافتیِ شخص حقوق‌بگیر کسر و به سازمان‌های مربوطه پرداخت کنند. این دو پرداختی فقط به دولت فدرال است.ا

Trump is only postponing Israeli annexation

October 28, 2025
Joseph Massad

Israel's war on Palestinians continues under Trump's so-called peace plan, with Washington feigning opposition to annexation and its Arab allies pretending to believe it

An Israeli flag hangs in a Palestinian neighbourhood in Bruqin, west of Nablus in the occupied West Bank,

ANTIFA wins the Irish Presidential election

October 27, 2025
Declan Hayes

If anyone wants to know what it is like to be robbed blind, they should look at the gangsters who were at the heart of Connolly’s “independent” campaign.

Israel Kills, Wounds, and Blocks Aid to Gaza as Settler Attacks in West Bank Intensify – Day 751

October 26, 2025

• Gaza’s Civil Defense has stated that Israeli soldiers deliberately shoot at civilians who cross or are near the line by mistake.
• Meanwhile, from Nablus to Hebron, Israeli forces stormed Palestinian towns as settlers carried out arson and stone attacks, marking another night of escalating violence across the occupied West Bank.
• Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 68,519 and injured 170,382 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Gaza City residents defy Israel’s orders to evacuate: ‘We’re staying here’

October 24, 2025
Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi, Belal Awad and Leo Erhadt

“We already experienced displacement. We can’t do it again. We’re staying here. Whatever happens, happens. Even if they crush us under their tanks.”

As a Palestinian, Trump’s 20-Point Gaza “Peace Plan” Scares Me

October 24, 2025
Mohammed Samaana

Like most Palestinians, I was initially excited about the ceasefire agreement in Gaza — even though, judging by recent history, Israel has breached every agreement it signed and never lived to its commitments.

Deadly Gaza Humanitarian Foundation lobbying for 'new role' in post-war Gaza: Report

October 23, 2025

At least 1,000 Palestinians seeking food from GHF sites in Gaza were shot and killed by Israeli troops

قرن بیست و یکم؛ پایان جهان؟

این پرسشی است که باید همواره همه در ذهنمان داشته باشیم، چرا که با برتری اقتصادی چین، و نه برتری نظامی، به نظر نمی‌رسد که پر قدرت‌ترین کشور جهان که به مدت تقریبا یک قرن بر همهٔ دنیا سروری می‌کرده است، دست روی دست بگذارد و شاهد پس رفتن و افول خود باشد. اگر از نظر تاریخی‌ نیز به صعود و نزول امپراطوری‌ها نگاهی‌ بی‌اندازیم، به این نتیجه می‌رسیم که هیچ امپراطوری بدون جنگ از صحنه خارج نشده است.ا

News Headlines

October 22, 2025

The Speech a Press Club Banned

October 20, 2025
Chris Hedges

The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

The National Press Club of Australia in Canberra canceled an engagement with journalist Chris Hedges after it was announced on its website. Hedges delivered the banned speech on Monday in Sydney.

Ambulance on Oct. 7, 2023, operated by the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, after it was heavily damaged by an Israeli military airstrike in front of Nasser Hospital, carrying three injured people

The Long Road of Tariq Ali

October 21, 2025
Paul Buhle

Tariq Ali, Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (London and New York: Verso, 2024, 3rd edition), 416 pages, paperback, $29.95; Tariq Ali, You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980–2024 (London and New York: Verso, 2024), 814 pages, hardback, $44.95.

Forty-two years after the assassination of Grenada’s Maurice Bishop, can the Caribbean remain a ‘zone of peace’?

October 20, 2025
Janine Mendes-Franco

In an address to the UN, Bishop emphasised the region’s determination to be ‘free from military intimidation’

BREAKING – Israel Bombs Rafah – Developing Story – Day 744

October 19, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
68,159	170,203	9,500

Democrats finally seem ready to address the Gaza genocide, but it won’t matter if they don’t support Palestinian rights

October 18, 2025
Mitchell Plitnick

Trump’s flawed ceasefire plan has opened a door for Democrats to amend their shameful failure to end the Gaza genocide. But it requires doing something few Democrats have been willing to do: support Palestinian rights.

Gaza must decide its own political future — before the world does for us

October 16, 2025
Mahmoud Mushtaha

We cannot repeat the slow death of Oslo nor replace Hamas with another detached faction, but instead rethink the foundations of our political culture.

Palestinians watch as other families return from the southern parts of the Gaza Strip to the north, along the coastal Al-Rashid road October 10, 2025

Spineless Congress outdoes itself on Caribbean strikes

October 16, 2025
Mark Thompson

This week in The Bunker: The House and Senate give up their power, the F-35 paperweight and the Pentagon war on the press

Military Industrial Complex

جنگ‌های آمریکا

کسانی‌ که در آمریکا به عنوان رئیس جمهور انتخاب می‌شوند عموما یا از حزب دمکرات و یا از حزب جمهوری‌خواهان می‌باشند. ولی‌ آیا این کشور دو حزبی است؟ در تئوری خیر، ولی‌ در عمل رؤسای جمهور این کشور از سال هزار و هشتصد و شصت از یکی‌ از این دو حزب بوده‌ا‌ند. شاید همه از آن آگاه نباشند که در آمریکا بیش از چهار صد و بیست حزب ثبت نام کرده‌اند. البته بسیاری از احزاب محلی می‌باشند و فقط در ایالات خاصی‌، و به منظور انتخاب نمایندگان محلی، حضور دارند. حزب دمکرات از سال هزار و هشتصد و بیست و هشت، و حزب جمهوری‌خواه از سال هزار و هشتصد و پنجاه و چهار شروع به فعالیت کردند. احزابی چون حزب مستقل و یا حزب سبز طرفدارانی دارند ولی‌ نه آنچنان که بتوانند یک رئیس جمهور انتخاب کنند. جالب است که بدانیم که یک حزب مذهبی‌ نیز در آمریکا وجود دارد، به نام حزب همبستگی‌ (سالیداریتی).ا

Body Count for the American Century

October 15, 2025
John W. Dower

This essay is adapted from “Measuring Violence,” the first chapter of John Dower’s book, The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War Two.

One More Betrayal of the Palestinians

October 15, 2025
Melvin Goodman
The history of the Palestinians is a history of betrayal.  In the wake of World War I, Britain and France redrew the map of the Middle East to suit their own ends.  They created countries with artificial borders, which led to unrest and uprisings.  They had concluded a secret agreement during the war—the Sykes-Picot agreement—that dashed Palestinian hopes of independence.  The following year, the Balfour Declaration called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in what was then Palestine.

A True American Tale: Indigenous Rights vs. Corporate Greed

October 13, 2025          
Nicolle Okoren

The fight by the Western Apache people to save Oak Flat once again highlights the limits of religious freedom for non-Christians.

Members of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit organization comprising Indigenous activists and religious leaders, gather to rally against copper mining at the Oak Flat site in Arizona. (Steve Pavey)

Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2 Million Workers into the Streets

October 12, 2025
Laura Montanari

The next day, one million people joined a demonstration in Rome, which highlighted Italy’s complicity in the genocide.

Determined to reclaim their land, Palestinians return to ruined Gaza homes

October 11, 2025

• Tens of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians are returning to devastated towns and cities in northern Gaza as the Israeli military ceases fire and partially withdraws from the territory under the first phase of a peace deal with Hamas.
• Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) have said they reject “any foreign guardianship” of the Gaza Strip. Gaza officials have called for an independent, international investigation into war crimes and genocide during Israel’s war.
• US President Donald Trump says Israeli captives held in Gaza are due for release on Monday.
• UNRWA has called for all crossings into Gaza to be opened, saying that there are 6,000 aid trucks ready to reach Gaza in hours.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 67,682 people and wounded 170,033 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks and about 200 were taken captive.

Palestinians flood back to northern Gaza after Israeli withdrawal as truce holds

 October 10, 2025
Ahmed Dremly

After two years of genocide and repeated displacement, Israel and Hamas agree on deal to end the war

Displaced Palestinians return to northern Gaza after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect on 10 October 2025

Inside America's Academic Gulags (w/ Rashid Khalidi) | The Chris Hedges Report

October 8, 2025

It is now impossible, says historian Rashid Khalidi, to teach about Israel, Palestine and the ongoing genocide in elite American education institutions.

 

The Monroe Doctrine is back – dressed up as a war on drugs

October 8, 2025

The Caribbean deployment is less about cocaine and more about control, reviving America’s oldest imperial playbook

بیسوادی عار است

پاره‌ای از ضرب‌المثل‌های قدیمی‌ ما همیشه و در هر حالت مناسب نیستند. شاید یکی‌ از آنها برای زمانی‌ که آن ضرب‌المثل همگانی شد مناسب بود، ولی‌ با تغییراتی که در جوامع هر لحظه شکل می‌گیرد، آن ضرب‌المثل ممکن است کاردبُری نداشته باشد. حتی معدودی از آنها نداشتن امکانات مالی‌ و معنوی را به هیچ می‌انگاشت و سعی‌ در آن می‌کرد که انسان‌هائی را که آن امکانات را نداشتند قانع کند که در آن ایرادی نبود. در صورتی که وظیفهٔ هر کسی‌ است که حتی اگر در خانواده‌ای بزرگ شده است که این امکانات وجود نداشته است، برای آن بجنگد و آنرا به دست بیاورد. یکی‌ از آن امثال این بود که بیسوادی عار نیست، در صورتی‌ که هست! بنابراین، اگر پدر و مادری نتوانستند از نظر مالی تحمل این را داشته باشند که فرزندشان را به مدرسه بفرستند، وظیفهٔ آن فرزند است که زمانی که از اولیایش مستقل شد، خود را باسواد کند. شکی نیست که منظور از بیسوادی، عدم دانش و مهارت در خواندن و نوشتن است. ولی‌ در اینجا از آن‌هم فراتر می‌رویم و بیسوادی را عدم رغبت به مطالعهٔ اگاهی‌هائی در زمینهٔ گفتمان‌های ادبی‌، اجتماعی و سیاسی فرض می‌کنیم.ا

Warnings of ‘Irreversible’ Damage From Trump Order to Ravage Alaskan Wilderness for Corporate Profits

October 7, 2025
Jon Queally

“This isn’t economic growth, it’s a giveaway that puts corporate profit ahead of Alaska’s communities and our environment.”

A view of the Brooks Range in the Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska. (Photo: Patrick J. Endres / Getty Images)

Live: Israel deports further 171 flotilla activists after reports of ill treatment

October 6, 2025

Meanwhile, Gaza death toll rises to 67,160

LIVE BLOG: Yemen Launches Missile, Israel Keeps Bombing Gaza Despite ‘Slowdown’ Claims – Day 730

October 5, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
67,074	169,430	9,000

The ultimate shame of ‘our civilization’

October 4, 2025
Jose Goulao

Solidarity with the Palestinian people are helping to undermine the power of the lies spread by the sociopaths of liberal democracy.

Ecuador’s Indigenous movement launches ‘indefinite national strike’

October 3, 2025
Michael Fox

Ecuador’s Indigenous movement’s “indefinite national strike” is rattling Ecuador and the government of President Daniel Noboa. This is the latest episode of Stories of Resistance.

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

October 2, 2025
Ronny P Sasmita
( Middle East Monitor ) – The Gaza plan unveiled by Donald Trump and reluctantly accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been described as bold, controversial, and even theatrical. And indeed, it is all of these things. But it is also something else, perhaps the only available mechanism, however imperfect, to bring a pause to a conflict that has consumed countless lives and devastated Gaza’s infrastructure. For that reason alone, it deserves recognition, even if one cannot fully ignore its flaws or the ambitions that inspired it.

Photo of Gaza 6/10/25 by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash

Red Cross forced to halt operations as Israeli army encircles Gaza City

October 1, 2025

Israel’s defense minister warned that this is the ‘last chance’ for residents to flee, while threatening that those who remain will be considered ‘terrorists’

ارتجاع چیست؟

سالهای سال، ملاها ایرانیان را از خواندن ترجمهٔ فارسی قرآن منع می‌کردند. چرا که تا زمانی‌ که قرآن را به فارسی نخوانیم و از پیغام‌های آن آگاه نشویم، تصور می‌کنیم که مطالب مهمی‌ در آن است که دانستن آن برای ما انسان‌ها ضروری است. حتی زمانی‌ که به زبان عربی‌ آشنائیِ کامل داریم و آنرا به عربی‌ می‌خوانیم و هنوز در بُهت و حیرتیم که هدف این کتاب آگاهی‌ دادن در مورد چه چیزی است، ملاها به ما هشدار می‌دهند که این کلام خدا است و اسراری که در این کتاب است برای همه مکشوف نیست، و پس از مرگ حقایق را درک خواهیم کرد. البته چنانچه ما خاطره‌ای از زمان پیش از تولد خود داریم و می‌دانیم که چه بودیم و در چه جهانی‌ زندگی‌ می‌کردیم، می‌توانیم انتظار این را داشته باشیم که پس از مرگ نیز به دنیای دیگری مهاجرت کنیم.ا 

Trump’s Gaza Plan Is Mere “Repackaging of Genocide” for Israel’s Benefit: Diana Buttu

September 30, 2025
After a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip on Monday that aims to end Israel’s war on Gaza, free the remaining Israeli hostages and remove Hamas from power. Netanyahu expressed support for the deal, but he has already backed away from key elements, including a call for Israel to eventually pull its troops out of Gaza. Hamas has not responded yet to the deal. As part of his 20-point peace plan, Trump announced the establishment of an international transitional governing body called the “Board of Peace,” which Trump would head.

The F Word, the C Word & the N Word

September 29, 2025
Joe Lauria

They are all nouns. The F word can also be used as an adjective. They are all used as invectives. Today all these words are being overused. And misused.

September 28, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
65,926	167,783	9,000

An anti-genocide protest in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo: Nurah Tapeh, Palestine Chronicle)

DeepSeek and the digital battleground: China’s AI influence abroad

September 27, 2025
Yasemin Yam

We could see a worldwide normalization of AI technology for surveillance and propaganda purposes

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation

September 26, 2025
Hamza Hamouchene

The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation.

Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé

September 25, 2025
Yuval Abraham

The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.

Power and inequality in the 21st century

September 24, 2025
In order to understand the crisis of the imperialist world system in the twenty-first century, it is crucial to see this in terms of the present as history, that is, as an outgrowth of a centuries-long historical process (Paul M. Sweezy, The Present as History [New York: Monthly Review Press, 1953]).

پایان یک امپراطوری

یکی‌ از راه‌هائی که می‌توان سرنوشت یک امپراطوری را قدم به قدم دنبال کرد، انتخاب رهبران آن امپراطوری و روش رهبری آنان است. آمریکا برای چند دهه پُرنفوذ‌ترین و پُرقدرت‌ترین کشور دنیا بوده است. ثروتمند‌ترین و وسیع‌ترین کشور‌های دنیا تابعیت این امپراطوری را پذیرفته، و خط سیاسی خود را همواره بر مبنای سیاست‌های دولت آمریکا قرار داده‌ا‌ند. بزرگ‌ترین کشورهائی که در قارّهٔ آمریکا قرار دارند مانند کانادا و مکزیک، کشور‌های بزرگ اروپائی مانند انگلیس و فرانسه، کشور‌های بزرگ آفریقائی مانند مصر و افریقای جنوبی، و کشور‌های بزرگ آسیایی مانند عربستان سعودی و پاکستان، همه گوش به فرمان رئیس جمهور آمریکا هستند.ا

با انحلال امپراطوری شوروی در سال هزار و سیصد و شصت و هشت خورشیدی، و یا هزار و نهصد و نود و یک میلادی،

Proposed war authorization could allow Trump to target 60+ countries

September 23, 2025
Brett Heinz

An 'insanely broad' draft AUMF could provide the president with wide latitude to go after supposed 'narco-terrorists'

September 22, 2025
Ralph Nader
Some serious readers would like to see mainstream media and independent media cover several events and matters involving the Israeli war in tiny Gaza and the mass slaughter of its defenseless citizens.

LIVE BLOG: UK, Australia, Canada Recognize Palestine as Israeli Massacres Continue – Day 716

September 21, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
65,208	166,271	9,000

Israel may win in Gaza. But at what cost?

September 20, 2025
Farhad Ibragimov

Israel’s ground offensive is pushing Hamas to the wall, but also isolating the country abroad and tearing its society apart

Flames and smoke rise from the building following the Israeli army bombs the al-Ruya Tower in Gaza City, Gaza, on September 07, 2025