Rashida Tlaib hails Democrats who voted to end funding for Israel

Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has praised the lawmakers who voted in favor of ending $3.3bn in military aid to Israel, though the amendment was defeated in the House, 314 to 104.

Some 103 of the House’s 212 Democrats supported the measure, while just one Republican – Thomas Massie, the Kentucky libertarian who introduced it – voted in favor.

“Proud of my colleagues who voted to stop funding Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people,” Tlaib wrote on X.

“When folks talk about this vote, remember it’s been over 3 years of this violent ethnic cleansing campaign where over 73,000 Palestinians have been killed, millions made homeless, and thousands of amputee children,” she said.

“The genocide continues. Keep talking about Gaza. Never stop.”

A ‘shift in the party’ as ‘record’ number of Democrats vote to end Israeli military funding

Some 103 of 212 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill to end US aid to Israel.

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar hailed the vote as unprecedented.

“A record number of Democrats” voted in support of the amendment “because millions of people spoke out, organized, and refused to stay silent,” she wrote on X. “Our movement is making a difference. Keep organizing. Keep building power.”

Congresswoman Summer Lee described the vote as a “shift in the party” but said it was “still unconscionable for any member of Congress to justify sending any aid to fuel Israel’s genocide”.

Meanwhile, Congressman Ro Khanna said he wanted to recognise the “courage” of former lawmakers Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush who lost their seats for for taking the same stand two years ago.

“As a colleague told me, Black martyrdom is normalized in America,” he added.

House vote to strip Israel of US aid ‘unheard’ of 3 years ago

This would have been unheard of before its Gaza war, where you saw bipartisan support for Israel. Politicians who even spoke out against Israel were targeted by their very powerful lobbying arm and often lost.

So now we’ve seen this vote on Wednesday evening. The bill was to strip Israel of $3.3bn in US funding. So there’s 212 Democrats in the House of Representatives – 103 voted to strip that aid. One Republican joined.

The interesting thing is going to be, where do the Republicans go? They have so far been in lockstep in their support for Israel.

But there are reports that in a phone call between Netanyahu and Trump, the president told the prime minister he wanted Israeli troops out of Syria and Lebanon. Israel is sending the message they’re not going to do that.

Is the president going to be OK with that? He has been vocal in the past with his criticism of the Israeli prime minister.

Israel frees 12 Palestinian prisoners

The International Committee of the Red Cross has facilitated the arrival of 12 Palestinian prisoners who were released by Israeli authorities and they arrived at the Al Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza.

The atmosphere was filled with joy and happiness [as the prisoners reunited with their families].

According to officials there are more than 9000 Palestinians [prisoners] in Israeli jails at the moment. ‏

There are also families here who are waiting for any of information of their beloved ones who are in jail right now.

So today some families will go home with their beloved ones who were just released, while others will return with pieces of information and many more will return home empty handed.

Israeli forces attack homes and neighborhoods in central Gaza

Israeli air attacks have hit central Gaza following a forced displacement order.

A home was targeted in the Maghazi area. Separately, two people were injured after a residential building came under attack in central Gaza’s largest city, Deir el-Balah.

Israeli forces have issued at least four forced displacement orders for parts of central Gaza within just two hours. Israel has continued to attack Gaza despite a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in October.

Israeli forces arrest three Palestinians in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have arrested at least three Palestinians from the Aida refugee camp north of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency.

Security officials told Wafa that Israeli forces stormed the camp and arrested 44-year-old Jumaa Nahed al-Juju, 33-year-old Ahmed Adel Hajahra and 35-year-old Raafat Riyad Malash after raiding and searching their homes.

Israel is expanding colonies in the occupied West Bank

Israel has approved $2.3bn for settlement infrastructure and 12,000 new housing units, including a 104th illegal settlement – this time in Sanur, near Jenin.

Since the occupation began in 1967, nearly 220 such settlements have been built across the West Bank.

Israeli officials have described the move as a “colony revolution”, while colonists have escalated attacks and land seizures near Hebron and Ramallah. Western nations say the expansion breaches international law and further undermines prospects for Palestinian statehood.

Israeli army says Hamas sniper commander killed in Gaza

The Israeli military says a strike on central Gaza has killed Omar Ahmed Abu Qasem, the battalion officer overseeing the Qassam Brigades’ sniper unit.

Medics at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said the strike hit the family’s apartment in Deir el-Balah, also killing Abu Qasem’s wife, Asma, and their six-year-old daughter, Habiba. Their young son survived with injuries.

The military claimed Abu Qasem participated in attacks on Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip throughout the war.

Israeli air strikes have killed at least a dozen people in Gaza over the past two days during the “ceasefire” that began in October 2025.

At least 1,123 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the deal took effect, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.

Our archive on the genocide in Gaza is increasingly containing videos showing, what we call depraved-heart murder by the Israeli war belligerent, as it conscious disregard for human life by also killing people nearby the selected and targeted person without proving that the targeted person is a member of the international lawfully resistance.

See tab 6 on this front page.

When this murder concerns a family in whole or in part

Dozens of Palestinian patients evacuated from Gaza for treatment

The Palestine Red Crescent Society has helped evacuate 40 patients and 62 companions for medical treatment outside the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

“The patients and their companions were prepared inside the al-Mawasi field hospital belonging to the association before being transferred by ambulance crews to the Rafah land crossing, in coordination with the World Health Organization and the competent authorities,” it said.

“Great challenges” continue to plague the besieged territory’s healthcare system as hospitals face continuous pressure and difficult conditions because of Israeli military attacks and the devastating blockade, it said.

Israeli forces continue to violate the ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza

A vehicle was hit in Khan Younis in the south of the Strip.

According to locals, the car was surrounded by tents in which displaced Palestinians were sheltering. In the early hours of the day, Palestinians woke up to a huge explosion in the Gaza port that killed one person.

Two Palestinians were killed in the Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza. Israeli forces have been expanding the area they control and taking more land from the Gaza Strip.

Whoever approaches the area controlled by the army is hit with live ammunition.

Israeli army says it destroyed 4 weapons depots in Gaza

A military update says Kalashnikov-style assault weapons, RPGs, grenades and other combat equipment were stored in the depots in central Gaza that belonged to Hamas.

The arms were intended for use against Israeli troops occupying areas of Gaza and Israeli citizens, the army said.

The Government Media Office in Gaza said on Wednesday that 3,689 violations by the Israeli military have been recorded since the “ceasefire” came into force in October 2025.

GLOSM/PARES disregards the labeling of Hamas as a "terrorist organization," as it has always been about the colonization from 1967 until 2005, and the occupation of Gaza since 2007., which is part of the occupied Palestinian Territories.  Read more in Tab 6: History of Gaza on this page.

PARES has been collecting, archiving and documenting claims recorded on videos by the Israeli war belligerent since October 2023. None of the videos contain clear visible evidence which support claims they are making.

Hamas calls on Palestinians to confront West Bank settlement expansions

Hamas official Abdul Rahman Shadid has urged people across the occupied West Bank to establish a presence in areas targeted for Israeli settlement expansions to fight forced displacement.

“Settler violence will not succeed in breaking the will of the Palestinian people or uprooting them from their land,” he said in a statement.

“Resistance and steadfastness remain the most effective means of confronting Israeli occupation policies and settlement expansion.”

The current situation “requires greater national unity and mobilization”, Shadid added.

More than 500,000 Israeli colonists live in the occupied territory, excluding occupied East Jerusalem. About three million Palestinians also live there.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday that the security cabinet approved a budget of 1.3 billion shekels.

Palestinians fight fires after colonist terror attacks in occupied West Bank

Israeli colonists set farmland ablaze in Masafer Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank, and burned vehicles near Tulkarem in the north.

Palestinian villages across the territory continue to face a growing wave of colonist terrorism and land loss.

Increasing death toll from Israeli attacks in Gaza

Three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on the war-battered Gaza Strip over the last 24-hours, according to the health ministry.

Another person injured in a previous Israeli attack died from their wounds.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 73,250 people and wounded 173,751 since October 7, 2023, it added.

Ongoing attacks – in violation of the “ceasefire” agreed last October – have killed at least 1,127 people and wounded 3,643 since then.

Israel approves $356m for settlement road construction

Israel has allocated $356m to construct roads serving dozens of new settlements in the occupied West Bank, Palestine’s Wafa news agency reports.

The plan, submitted by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, will be allocated over three years and includes constructing new roads, upgrading existing ones, and connecting others, as well as funding for military projects.

The Israeli government is spending billions on a new illegal settlement expansion plan, approving 12,000 new housing units on Palestinian land across the occupied West Bank.

Projectile hits near Qeshm Island: Report

A US projectile has hit near Iran’s Qeshm Island, reports the Mehr news agency.

US forces have struck Qeshm, Kish and Abu Musa islands in recent days as part of an escalating campaign that has also pounded port cities along Iran’s southern coast, including Bandar Abbas.

Armed forces around the Middle East remain on high alert

The concern here in the Gulf is if the United States does choose to attack Iranian civilian and energy infrastructure, then the Iranians may respond in kind in the region.

You only have to remember back in March the Israelis targeted Iran’s South Pars gas field, and within hours, the Iranians retaliated by launching a missile attack on Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, which destroyed two LNG trains and knocked out around 17 percent of Qatar’s LNG production capacity.

Gulf countries and Jordan do not want to return to what happened in February, March and April. That’s why you have seen Qatari negotiators in Iran and talks hosted by Oman.

US or Iran – who needs a new truce deal more?

The US and Iran are locked in an escalating cycle of attacks after the fifth consecutive day of US strikes and Iranian retaliation against Gulf nations and Jordan.

Both have declared the memorandum of understanding they signed in June to extend a ceasefire is no longer in force, although both have indicated a readiness to pursue diplomacy.

In public statements, leaders of both nations have suggested they’re in no rush to compromise. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed Tehran is “desperate” to cut a peace deal with Washington, but he does not trust it to stick to an agreement.

Happened in the occupied West Bank

Reported by the official Palestinian Wafa news agency:

• A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was shot in the chest by Israeli forces during a raid on the town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron. Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics transported him to hospital, where his condition was described as stable.
• Israeli forces detained dozens of Palestinians during a military raid on the town of Beit Ummar.
• A Palestinian man was injured after being assaulted by Israeli colonists in the Abu Njeim area, southeast of Bethlehem.
• Israeli colonists set fire to a vehicle and a tractor during an attack in the town of Ramin, east of Tulkarem.

Three Palestinians injured in settler attack in occupied West Bank: Report

Three Palestinians have been injured in an attack by Israeli colonists in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

The attack was in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, which has seen intensifying violence by colonists against local Palestinians in recent months.

Earlier on Thursday, a Palestinian teenager was injured by Israeli army gunfire during a raid on Bani Naim, east of Hebron. Thirty-two Palestinians were detained during the raid, according to medical sources and witnesses.

Hamas leadership run-off expected between Meshaal and al-Hayya

Hamas is set to hold a decisive run-off election next week to choose its new political bureau chief. This will complete a complex transition process initiated to fill leadership vacancies left by Israel’s assassinations of some of the group’s top figures, such as Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar.

The highly anticipated vote represents a critical juncture for the Palestinian group as it attempts to renew itself, even as it faces the ongoing Israeli war.

According to a Hamas source, the internal ballot to select a chairman has narrowed down to what is likely to be a close contest between former Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal and former Deputy Chairman Khalil al-Hayya.

Five Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza

At least five Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Thursday, according to health officials speaking to Qatar News Agency.

One Palestinian was killed in a drone strike on a vehicle in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis.

Another Palestinian was killed in an Israeli air strike on a tent sheltering displaced people along the beaches west of Gaza City. Israeli gunfire in Zeitoun neighborhood southeast of the city killed one Palestinian.

A separate air strike east of Gaza City, targeting Tuffah neighborhood, killed two Palestinians.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said five people were injured in an Israeli strike on Zeitoun neighborhood, which coincided with an advance by Israeli tanks along as-Sikka Street.

The latest casualties came after Israeli forces issued forced displacement orders in Bureij, Maghazi, and Nuseirat refugee camps, as well as Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza.

According to Gaza health authorities, the death toll from the Israeli military campaign since October 7, 2023, has risen to 73,250, while 173,751 people have been injured.

UN chief alarmed by Israeli recognition of illegal settlement as a city

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply alarmed” by Israel granting city status to the illegal settlement of Givat Ze’ev in the occupied West Bank.

His spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, told a news conference that Israel’s administrative designation “does not alter Givat Ze’ev’s legal status under international law as part of the occupied Palestinian territory”.

Israeli army central command chief, Avi Bluth, declared on Sunday that Girat Ze’ev, five kilometers northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, is “an Israeli city”.

Israeli media reports suggest 35,000 Israeli settlers live there. Around 500,000 Israeli settlers live illegally across the occupied West Bank, in addition to 250,000 living in occupied East Jerusalem.

Israel threatened to bomb family in Gaza during a wedding

A Palestinian family in Gaza was about to celebrate their daughter’s wedding when Israeli forces called to order their evacuation for an imminent bombing.⁣
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Despite a so-called “ceasefire”, Israel continues to bomb and kill in Gaza – making nowhere safe.⁣