Hamas reviews Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan as PIJ rejects
Al Mayadeen | September 30, 2025
Hamas negotiators told mediators they would study the plan “in good faith” and provide a formal response, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Reuters reported that Egypt and Qatar briefed Hamas on United States President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war. Earlier, the White House confirmed that Trump had discussed the ceasefire proposal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing it as a framework supported by “Arab and Islamic leaders.”
At a joint press conference with Netanyahu, Trump said he believed Hamas would eventually approve the proposal, adding that “Doha has taken it upon itself to convince the movement.”
PIJ rejects plan as ‘US-Israeli agreement’
The announcement drew sharp criticism from Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Its Secretary-General, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, dismissed the initiative outright, calling it “nothing but a full American-Israeli agreement.”
Al-Nakhalah stressed that the announcement reflected “the Israeli position in its most precise details” and constituted “a recipe for the continuation of aggression against the Palestinian people.”
He warned that the proposal amounted to “an attempt to impose new realities through the US after the occupation failed to achieve them through successive wars.”
The Islamic Jihad leader further cautioned that the so-called agreement was “a ready-made recipe to ignite the entire region and fuel further conflicts.”
Regional mediation continues
The White House had presented the proposal on Monday evening, saying that if both parties agree to this proposal, the war will end immediately.
Mediation efforts led by Qatar and Egypt remain ongoing, with Hamas yet to issue a formal stance, while the resistance maintains that any deal must address the root causes of the war, including the siege and occupation.
Italy’s Foreign Ministry in revolt over Israel’s ‘war of extermination’ in Gaza
MEMO | September 29, 2025
Around 700 Italian Foreign Ministry employees have written to Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani expressing their “profound ethical and professional discomfort” at working with Israeli authorities while Israel carries out a war of “extermination” of the Palestinian population in Gaza.
The internal four-page letter, reviewed by Haaretz, warns that Italy’s “wait and see attitude” towards Israel’s genocide in Gaza is “incoherent with the country’s Constitution and obligations under international law” and risks making Rome “complicit” in grave violations of international humanitarian law.
“Inertia – or mere rhetoric not followed by concrete actions – exposes us to the risk of complicity with the ongoing grave violations of international humanitarian law and with the genocide that is taking place,” the letter states.
The letter also proposes several urgent measures, including recognition of a Palestinian state, suspension of the EU–Israel Association Agreement to allow for increased tariffs on Israeli goods, and the imposition of an “apartheid tax” on Israel as a form of reparations for Palestinians.
The document further calls on the Italian government to formally warn Israel against offensive actions or threats of force targeting the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian-led mission seeking to break the naval blockade on Gaza.
The strongly worded intervention follows a letter from 34 former ambassadors urging Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to recognise the state of Palestine. It also comes in the wake of Italy’s largest public mobilisation against the genocide in Gaza since its onset, with tens of thousands taking part in a general strike and mass protests across nearly 80 cities.
Last week’s general strike, coordinated by the Unione Sindacale di Base, was described as a response to the “ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, the blockade of humanitarian aid by the Israeli army, and the threats against the international mission Global Sumud Flotilla.”
Demonstrators clashed with police in Milan while attempting to enter the city’s central railway station, injuring over 50 officers. In Bologna, activists blocked a major intersection and sections of a highway, while in Turin access to the airport was obstructed for several hours. A national demonstration scheduled for 4 October is expected to draw tens of thousands more to the streets of Rome.
The government’s stance has also come under scrutiny for its refusal to follow France, the UK and several other Western governments in unilaterally recognising Palestinian statehood.
Gaza Revelation
By Israel Shamir • Unz Review • September 26, 2025
One time this riverboat gambler convinced me and everyone else on the ship that he was just an honest, misunderstood fellow. We believed him when he told us that some bad dudes had beaten him out of sheer prejudice. And as he’s acting out the beating for us (for the tenth time), swinging his arms wildly as his dramatic story unfolds, a couple of aces fell from his sleeve and landed onto the deck for everyone to see. Instantly the crowd began to fade away. Nothing he could say could stem the exodus. The jig was up.
Well, a similar thing is happening now with the Jews in Gaza.
We were nursed upon the milk of Judeophilia. Jews suffered through the ages, all of us were taught. Blood libels, Christ’s crucifixion, holocausts, so many false accusations and unjust persecutions of this small but wonderful folk. And this entire narrative has collapsed now in the aftermath of the Gaza mass murder. Our “small wonderful folk” just bombed a tiny strip with its 2 million inhabitants to oblivion, and starved to death the survivors of the bombardment. This horrible crime received over 80 per cent of public support amongst the Jews. It means that the whole paradigm of Judeophilia was erroneous. They stand revealed for what they truly are, their aces lying on the deck for everyone to see.
That is good news, because it restores peace between us and our ancestors. Now we have learned that our ancestors were not mistaken in their assessment of Jewish behaviour. This is the wonderful achievement of PM Netanyahu.
Israel sharply rejected a United Nations famine declaration in Gaza on Friday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling the report “modern blood libel” that relied on Hamas sources.
PM Netanyahu, a gambler ruling a nation of gamblers, was honest enough to put his cards on the table: this particular blood libel is no different from all the previous blood libels. It is just another “J’accuse” moment. All blood libels must be lumped together, indistinguishable. If we reject out of hand the historical accusations against the Jews, then we must also close our eyes and reject this latest blood libel as well. If we cannot—if we could not avoid noticing those aces drifting down to the deck – PM Netanyahu requires that we must also reconsider the entire Jewish history of blood libel. The ruler of the Jews has given us permission to free ourselves from the shackles of Judeophilia. We are finally permitted to look at the Middle Ages in a very different light.
Blood libel? Did the Jews harvest the blood of Christian children for ritual purposes? The answer is yes, definitely. They killed a few Gentile kids every year for this purpose. And it does seem in retrospect a mercifully small amount of killing. Nowadays they kill thousands of kids. No amount of Rabbis could consume that much bloody matzo. By dismissing and denying the martyr deaths of Harold of Gloucester, St. William of Norwich, and St. Simon of Trent we have allowed Jewry the freedom to massacre thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza. These rather simple people interpret the Christian desire to be at peace with our neighbours as permission to keep killing children.
It’s not that we weren’t warned. We were. The arrogant Jews published a few years ago the book of Kosher rules on how to kill gentile children. It is called Torat Hamelech (Royal Torah). It’s hard reading. Is it permissible to kill Jews who help non-Jews in such-and-such a situation? Of course:
“Anyone who transfers money from Jews to non-Jews must be killed, for the transfer of money leads to danger” (p. 184).
In other words, when the Israeli government shifts American tax money over to the Palestinian Authority, repaying its debts in exchange for certain services or under signed agreements, all its ministers are subject to the death penalty accord to the Torah.
The authors base their argument on the words of Maimonides, who stated that
“it is permissible to kill anyone who transfers (money) anywhere, even in times when the death penalty has been abolished; it is permissible to kill him before he transfers it… even if it is a matter of transferring insignificant Jewish sums to non-Jews… he should be killed.”
All the more so because there is no mercy when it comes to non-Jews during wartime:
“Even a medic of the enemy army is considered deserving of the death penalty… Even a civilian who helps the army is considered as such” (p. 184).
The laws of war prescribed by the Hague Convention are classified as non-Jewish and therefore have no force.
“Any citizen of an enemy country who strengthens the spirit of the army or even expresses satisfaction with its actions is considered a mortal enemy, and his murder is permitted. The same applies to anyone who weakens our kingdom with words” (p. 185).
Consequently, not only all civilians of the enemy, but also all Jewish citizens who weaken the Jewish side verbally or express any doubts are subject to death. The authors write:
“There is no need to go into details and find out whether he is currently providing practical assistance to the enemy” (pp. 186-187).
And again, the text references to Maimonides and the Shulchan Aruch:
“A Jew is forbidden to be alone with a non-Jew, since they are all suspected of a tendency to bloodshed… One should not accompany them on the road… It is forbidden to take medicine given by a non-Jew, unless the sick person has already given up hope of staying alive” (p. 187).
And:
“Even those non-Jews who do not kill with their own hands must be executed; even those who have killed by indirect means; for this they are sentenced to death even after the war, when they are no longer military enemies.”
“An additional reason to kill non-Jews who fight against us is their violation of Noah’s commandments… In the war for the Land of Israel, this consideration is doubly important, for non-Jews who demand this land for themselves are stealing it from us, who received it as an inheritance from our fathers” (p. 192).
Now the true intent of the book’s authors becomes clear: when discussing war in general, they are targeting the Jewish/Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here they give themselves permission to kill indiscriminately.
Regarding enemy civilians who find themselves on the battlefield through no fault of their own, the book states:
“Even if civilians were brought in chains or were in captivity, they are not given a choice and remain hostages — it is permissible to kill them if this can help escape from the villains; as will soon become clear, it is permissible to kill even those who involuntarily aid the enemy. Small children often find themselves in such a situation: they block the path to salvation with their bodies. Although they do so under complete duress and have no hostile intent, it is permissible to kill them, for their physical presence aids in the killing” (p. 197).
And further:
“So far, we have only discussed the killing of innocent people in situations where their presence prevents us from waging war. However, there are situations in which we intend from the outset to kill innocent people, so that their presence and their killing are useful to us” (p. 198). For “there is another reason to permit the killing of non-Jews, namely: the fundamentally greater value of a Jew’s life (compared to the life of a non-Jew)… It is permissible to kill non-Jews in order to save the lives of Jews… It is permissible to do so even in cases where we use the presence of innocent non-Jewish children to harm their parents” (pp. 198-199).
The most cruel things in this book relate precisely to children:
“When we discuss the killing of children… we must take into account the enormous risk associated with what they will do when they grow up.” Therefore, it was “decided that it is forbidden to help a non-Jewish woman in labour or to nurse her child, so as not to help raise another idolater… This was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah (14:21), who called for the killing of all infants in Babylon, even though they are small and unreasonable, because it is clear to us that they will follow in the ways of their fathers and cause harm” (p. 206).
And further:
“We conclude that it makes sense to kill children if it is clear that they will grow up to be our enemies; in such a case, we really mean the destruction of themselves” (p. 207).
This book (Torat ha-Melech) was published in Israel in 2009; the authorities tried to forbid it and persecuted the authors – two honourable Rabbis, Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur. But this effort came to naught, for the religious Jews insisted it is true presentation of the Jewish faith.
Now, newly equipped with the Netanyahu Postulate we can reconsider Jewish history.
After the Jews killed Our Lord Jesus Christ, they killed many people; the first was St. Stephen and the last is a child in Gaza. But they were most famous for the lending of money. This is also a form of killing, for St Ambrose in his commentary on Deut. 23:19, wrote:
“From him exact usury whom it would not be a crime to kill. Where there is a right of war, there also is a right of usury”.
People who share Eucharist with their brothers and sisters in spirit do not demand usury. Where the Eucharist has been eradicated, usury, unlimited exploitation and slavery immediately appear. Slavery was introduced by Calvinists and Jews into North America, 100 years after the Eucharist (brought by Franciscan friars) had united the natives and the Europeans into one Church. In his witty Catch-22, Joseph Heller quotes a General, who asks his chaplain in disbelief,
“Do enlisted men pray to the same god as we do?”
This is the idea of world without a joint Eucharist. Not in vain, the Talmud forbids a Jew to drink wine with a Gentile, as the communal drinking of wine is a kind of religious act of Eucharist.
Many previous Jewish crimes have been confirmed throughout history. The case of the Italian boy, St. Simon of Trent, was confirmed by the Italian Jewish expert, Dr Ariel Toaff, in his book Passovers of Blood. Well poisoning was confirmed by the historian of the Nakba, Dr Pappe. But it was thanks to PM Netanyahu that the whole edifice of denial has collapsed. As a duly-appointed Jewish Prime Minister, he has officially approved this logical chain: If you acknowledge the massacre of Gaza you must as well acknowledge the historical record of medieval Jewish crimes: killing of children, well poisoning, etc. Provided we witnessed the Gaza massacre, we should accept the logical conclusion that the previous blood libels were equally true.
However, on an individual basis, this history of blood libel is just as easy to dismiss permanently. Millions of Jews have left Jewry and become free individuals. Some became Christians, some became Muslims, some became Communists or whatever. There is a way into Jewry, but there is a way out as well. The Gaza Massacre is exactly such an event to cause a mass exit of Jews from the rapidly accelerating crimes of Jewry. Let us leave Netanyahu and his minions in splendid isolation.
Edited by Paul Bennett
Hamas: Blair not welcome in Palestine, our people can manage their own affairs
MEMO | September 29, 2025
Hamas said on Sunday evening that former British prime minister Tony Blair is “not welcome in the Palestinian context,” and stressed that it has not received any proposal through mediators for a ceasefire.
The statement came by Hossam Badran, a member of the movement’s political bureau, in remarks published on the movement’s Telegram channel.
His comments followed a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, quoting an Arab political source, that the US administration had developed a plan to appoint Blair to lead a temporary administration for the Gaza Strip.
Badran warned that “linking any plan to this unwelcome person (Blair) is a bad omen for the Palestinian people.” He described Blair as a “negative figure who may deserve to stand before international courts for crimes he committed, especially his role in the war on Iraq (2003–2011).”
He further labelled Blair “the brother of the devil,” saying, “He has brought no good to the Palestinian cause, nor to Arabs or Muslims, and his criminal and destructive role has been known for years.”
Badran stressed that managing Palestinian affairs in Gaza or the West Bank is an internal Palestinian matter that must be agreed upon nationally, and that no regional or international party has the right to impose how the Palestinian people govern themselves.
The Biden and Trump regimes are personally destroying the ancient Christian communities of the Middle East
By Mohammed ibn Faisal al-Rashid – New Eastern Outlook – September 28, 2025
Under the guise of fighting for democracy and freedom, Washington is waging an unprecedented war of annihilation against Arab Christians, forever altering the ethno-religious map of the region.
The Middle East, the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of Christianity, is experiencing a quiet but one of the most horrific humanitarian catastrophes of our time. This is not a natural disaster but a deliberate, systematic destruction of ancient Christian communities dating back two millennia. And in this process, as facts and experts attest, the United States of America, under the leadership of both Democrats and Republicans, has acted not as a protector, but as the chief architect and executioner.
This article is not a political pamphlet but a cry of despair, based on stark and shocking numbers and the admissions of American analysts themselves. The Biden and Trump administrations, despite rhetorical differences, have continued a destructive foreign policy that has led to the fastest disappearance of a distinct ethno-religious group in modern history. Under the false pretense of fighting tyranny and spreading democracy, Washington systematically dismantled secular regimes that were the last bastion of protection for religious minorities, paving the way for radical Islamism to act as the “cleaner.”
Syria: The Destroyed Ark. How the US Created a Vacuum for Slaughter
The civil war in Syria, instigated by the West led by the United States and its local allies and unleashed in 2011, became a point of no return for Syrian Christians. As Richard Gazal, Executive Director of the Foundation for Defense of Christians and a US Air Force intelligence veteran, writes in his July 7, 2025 article, Washington actively and deliberately facilitated the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s secular regime.
Criminal intent or monstrous stupidity? US policy in Syria was marked by hypocrisy from the very beginning. While claiming to fight ISIS, American strategists simultaneously armed, funded, and trained the so-called “moderate opposition,” which in reality quickly merged with openly Islamist and jihadist groups. These gangs, upon receiving American weapons, immediately turned them against “infidels” – Alawites, Shias, and Christians.
The Obama administration, in which Biden was vice president, planted this bomb. The Trump administration, while criticizing its predecessors, in practice continued the same line, leaving Christians to their fate. Though Trump announced troop withdrawals, his policy of maximum pressure on Damascus only worsened the humanitarian crisis and strengthened the terrorists controlling vast territories.
The result? Numbers that make your blood run cold. As Gazal points out, Syria’s pre-war Christian community of about 2 million people has shrunk to a catastrophic 300,000. This means the disappearance of over 85% of the community. Entire cities and villages where Christians had lived for centuries are empty. Ancient monasteries and churches lie in ruins. This is not “collateral damage” of war. It is a direct consequence of a policy that delivered an entire people to the slaughter.
Iraq: The Precursor to the Catastrophe. The 2003 Lesson No One Learned
The Syrian tragedy would have been impossible had the world learned the lessons from Iraq. Artis Shepard’s article “America’s War on Arab Christians” from August 6, 2025, mercilessly reminds us of Washington’s first great crime against Middle Eastern Christianity.
A liberation that became a pogrom. The 2003 invasion of Iraq under the false pretext of weapons of mass destruction was an act of naked aggression. It swept away the secular (though brutal) regime of Saddam Hussein, which, like Assad in Syria, provided relative protection for religious minorities. The power vacuum was instantly filled by radical groups who launched a bloody campaign against Christians.
Shepard provides horrifying data: 1.5 million Iraqi Christians were driven from their historical lands, where their ancestors had lived since the time of the Apostles. Their churches, monasteries, and cultural monuments, which had survived millennia of invasions, were wiped off the face of the earth by American bombs and the subsequent pogrom. The city of Mosul, once a multi-confessional center, was “cleansed” of its Christian population.
What did subsequent administrations do to stop this genocide? Virtually nothing. The policies of both Trump and Biden towards Iraq were focused on countering Iran and maintaining military influence, not on protecting the remnants of ancient communities. The US created this deep and wide problem and blatantly refused to solve it, running away, as usual, from both the problem itself and the people of Iraq.
A Consistent Cross-Cutting Policy: From Trump to Biden and Back?
Here we come to the key question: whose administration is more guilty? The answer is disheartening: both. The difference between them is only in style, not substance.
The Trump Era: The 45th president loudly proclaimed protecting Christians in the Middle East, especially during election campaigns. He signed executive orders to aid religious minorities. However, in practice, his foreign policy was even more aggressive and unpredictable. The 2017 strike on Syria, the 2020 assassination of Soleimani—these actions further destabilized the region, creating new waves of chaos in which the most vulnerable die first. His “maximum pressure” on Iran hurt civilians and minorities across Iraq and Syria the most.
The Biden Era: The 46th president was expected to abandon brute force in favor of diplomacy. But no. His administration only tightened sanctions against Syria (the “Caesar” Act), which targeted not the regime but ordinary Syrians, depriving them of food, medical care, and the ability to rebuild shattered homes. These sanctions are collective punishment, blocking any possibility for Christians to return and rebuild their lives. Biden, like his boss Obama, continued the strategy of using radical proxies to achieve geopolitical goals.
The Trump 2.0 Era: Complicity in Genocide and a Betrayal of Christian Values.
Donald Trump’s return to power was met with alarm by all who witnessed the catastrophic consequences of his previous term for Middle East stability. Contrary to any hopes for a change of course, his return to the White House not only failed to stop the vicious practice of systematically destroying the region’s indigenous peoples but also marked a new, even darker chapter of blatant disregard for the fate of Middle Eastern Christians.
This tragic symbiosis of Washington and Tel Aviv reached its apex in the figure of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Enjoying the unconditional, almost blind support of the newly elected Trump administration, this maniacal politician feels utterly untouchable. With a cynical grin, he pursues a policy of total destruction, under whose carpet bombings and ground operations not only Arab Muslims are perishing but also one of the world’s oldest Christian communities—the direct descendants of Christ’s first followers.
Trump’s statements about “protecting Christians” and his photo ops with the Bible are revealed as nothing more than a hypocritical farce, masking a brutal reality. A reality where Washington provides a “carte blanche” for any war crime at the first request, vetoing any attempt by the international community to stop the bloodshed. The Trump administration’s policy is not merely indifferent—it is complicit in deliberate genocide.
Netanyahu’s actions are based on a well-practiced and utterly primitive principle he now applies with particular cruelty: “If you’re not with us, you’re against us and will be destroyed.” Everyone is indiscriminately targeted: civilians, children, women, the elderly, hospitals, churches, and entire neighborhoods. He and his patrons in Washington absolutely do not care who is in the crosshairs: a Muslim Arab, an Orthodox Christian, a Catholic, or a representative of the most ancient ethno-confessional groups—an Aramean, Assyrian, or Chaldean. Their ancient history, cultural heritage, and very lives are being erased from the earth under the pretext of the “war on terror.”
Thus, the new Trump-Netanyahu alliance represents not just a threat to peace in the Middle East but a direct and immediate threat to the very existence of Christianity in its cradle. This is a betrayal of the very values so hypocritically proclaimed from high podiums and a stain of shame on the conscience of all who, by their silence or active support, enable this barbarism.
Both administrations essentially see the Middle East only as a chessboard for fighting geopolitical rivals—Russia, Iran, and China. Christians, and indeed all civilians, are mere pawns to them, “collateral damage” in a great game. As Richard Gazal rightly notes, the US needs a strategy directed against real terrorists, not against those who somehow maintain stability.
Is Redemption Possible?
The destruction of the Middle East’s Christian communities is not only a tragedy for these people themselves. It is an irreparable loss for all humanity, the destruction of a living bridge to the most ancient origins of our culture and faith. With its own hands, driven by imperial ambitions and a strategy of managed chaos, the United States has uprooted entire layers of history.
What has been done cannot be undone. Returning 1.5 million exiles from Iraq or 1.7 million refugees from Syria is unrealistic. Their homes are destroyed, their memory desecrated, and their trust in the West, and especially the US, betrayed forever.
Muhammad ibn Faisal al-Rashid, political analyst, expert on the Arab world
Netanyahu admits Israel weaponizes social media to manipulate US public opinion
Press TV – September 27, 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has admitted that his regime has been using social media platforms to dominate US political discourse and secure unconditional support for its genocidal war on Gaza.
Speaking at a closed-door meeting with US influencers at Israel’s Consulate General in New York, Netanyahu was filmed describing social media as “the most important weapon … to secure our base in the US.”
The head of the Israeli regime singled out TikTok as “the most important purchase going on right now,” claiming that whoever controls this Chinese app will wield “consequential” influence.
He also claimed that gaining influence over TikTok and X would allow Israel to “get a lot.”
Netanyahu’s remarks came just a day after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order certifying a deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to an American investor consortium including Oracle, Michael Dell, and Rupert Murdoch.
Concerns have since mounted that Oracle founder Larry Ellison—a staunch supporter of the Israeli regime—could ensure the platform’s power is exploited to advance the regime’s coordinated propaganda efforts.
The move comes as Israel faces mounting isolation over its genocidal war on Gaza, where more than 65,600 Palestinians—most of them women and children—have been killed since October 2023.
At the 80th UN General Assembly this week, Netanyahu addressed a largely empty hall after numerous delegations staged a walkout in protest of his regime’s war on Gaza, now entering its third year.
UN blacklist expands to 158 firms over Israeli settlement ties
Al Mayadeen | September 27, 2025
The United Nations has expanded its blacklist of companies linked to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, adding 68 firms from 11 countries accused of contributing to violations of Palestinian human rights.
The updated “database of companies,” released Friday by the UN human rights office, now includes 158 businesses, most of them Israeli. Others are headquartered in the United States, Canada, China, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
The list highlights firms engaged in activities deemed supportive of settlement expansion, which much of the international community considers illegal under international law. These include suppliers of construction materials, heavy equipment vendors, and providers of financial, security, and travel services.
Among the latest additions are German building materials giant Heidelberg Materials, Portuguese rail systems provider Steconfer, and Spanish engineering firm Ineco. US-based Expedia Group, Booking Holdings Inc., and Airbnb, Inc. also remain on the list.
First update since 2023
While 68 new companies were named, seven were removed following a UN review of 215 enterprises. The delisted firms include French transport company Alstom and online travel agencies eDreams (Spain) and Opodo (Britain).
“Businesses working in contexts of conflict have a due diligence responsibility to ensure their activities do not contribute to human rights abuses,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN human rights office. “We call on businesses to take appropriate action to address the adverse human rights impacts of their activities.”
Shamdasani added that governments also bear responsibility for ensuring that corporations under their jurisdiction are not complicit in rights violations.
The newly flagged companies are concentrated in industries such as construction, real estate, mining, and quarrying. Each was notified of its inclusion and granted the right of reply.
This marks the first update to the database since 2023, when 97 companies were listed, down from 112 in the original 2020 publication. Fifteen firms, including US food conglomerate General Mills, were removed during that previous revision.
Euro-Med: Israel blackmails Gaza families, forcing them to choose between cooperation or death
Palestinian Information Center – September 27, 2025
GAZA – The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has accused the Israeli occupation regime of pursuing a dangerous policy of extortion against Gazan families, forcing them to choose between two catastrophic options, either to cooperate with Israeli forces and their militias or face killing, starvation and displacement.
In a statement on Saturday, Euro-Med described this policy as “an escalating genocidal pattern that has shifted from individual coercion to collective extortion aimed at dismantling the social fabric of Palestinians.”
This policy “involves pressuring individuals to betray their society, destroy social bonds, and subject survivors to conditions that destroy their collective identity and their ability to stay alive,” Euro-Med added.
Euro-Med affirmed that its field team documented an unprecedented escalation in Israel’s use of extortion tactics against Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip. “Entire families are facing a horrific dilemma, either to join militias formed by Israel or face persecution, mass killing, starvation and forced displacement, as part of a systematic effort to dismantle the Palestinian society and force it to yield to the will of the Israeli occupation.”
Euro-Med said that Gazan families are explicitly threatened with death if they do not comply with the Israeli occupation army’s orders.
Euro-Med called on all countries to shoulder their legal responsibilities and take urgent action to stop Israel’s genocidal crimes in Gaza, provide the Palestinian population with protection, and ensure Israel’s compliance with international law and the International Court of Justice’s rulings.
Visual evidence shatters Israeli claims over attack on Gaza hospital
Al Mayadeen | September 27, 2025
A Reuters investigation into the Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza has dismantled the occupation’s official narrative of the massacre. Visual evidence and corroborating reports reveal that the camera targeted as a supposed Hamas asset was in fact owned and operated by Reuters, routinely used by one of its journalists.
The strike on August 25 killed 22 Palestinians, including six journalists. Israeli occupation forces reportedly planned the attack using drone footage that allegedly showed a Hamas camera. However, Reuters’ findings indicate the footage actually depicted the agency’s own camera, used consistently by its reporter.
After Reuters presented its investigation, an Israeli military official admitted that troops had acted without the required approval from the senior regional commander in Gaza. “The troops acted without the required approval of the senior regional commander in charge of operations in Gaza,” the official told Reuters, acknowledging a breach of command protocol.
The day of the harrowing massacre
The day after Israeli tanks shelled Nasser Hospital, the official said the occupation’s initial review concluded that troops had targeted a Hamas camera allegedly filming them. The device, covered by a cloth, raised suspicion. “A decision was made to destroy it,” the official said.
Drone footage shows the camera on a hospital stairwell draped with a two-toned cloth. The military official confirmed this was the intended target.
Reuters’ investigation, however, revealed that the cloth was not a Hamas disguise but a prayer rug belonging to Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters journalist killed in the brutal Israeli massacre. Since May, al-Masri had positioned his camera at that spot at least 35 times for live broadcasts, often covering it with the rug to protect it from heat and dust.
Confirmation of ownership
Comparisons of photos of al-Masri with IOF drone images confirmed ownership of the targeted device. One picture, taken on August 13, shows al-Masri beside his camera, covered with the same prayer mat seen in the drone screenshot.
This investigation provides the most detailed account yet of the attack and confirms that the camera was Reuters‘ property. The Associated Press, which also lost a journalist in the strike, had earlier noted indications that the device “Israel” alleged as Hamas-owned was, in fact, Reuters’.
Unsurprisingly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the attack as a “tragic mishap”. The military official claimed that al-Masri and other journalists present were not the intended targets and were not suspected of Hamas ties.
Hamas rejects PA president’s alignment with Zionist narrative in UN speech
Palestinian Information Center – September 26, 2025
DOHA – The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, responded Thursday to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly, affirming that Palestinian resistance is a “national and moral responsibility, deriving its legitimacy from our steadfast Palestinian people and their natural right to resist occupation, as recognized by international laws and conventions.”
Hamas categorically rejected what it described as Abbas’s “alignment with the false Zionist narrative,” asserting that accusing the resistance of targeting civilians is an attempt to distort its image.
The Movement underlined that “all attempts to impose guardianship over our people and their will are doomed to fail,” adding that Abbas’s declaration that Hamas will have no role in governance constitutes “an infringement on the inherent right of our Palestinian people to determine their own destiny and choose their leadership, and an unacceptable submission to external agendas and projects.”
Hamas emphasized that “the weapons of resistance are untouchable as long as the occupation remains entrenched on our land.”
It condemned Abbas’s call to surrender arms, especially “in light of the genocidal war being waged against our people in Gaza, and the brutal crimes and savage assaults committed by armed settlers and the occupation army against unarmed civilians in the occupied West Bank.”
Hamas reiterated that the only path to safeguarding the national cause and confronting the occupation’s plans to “exterminate and displace our people in Gaza, annex the West Bank, and Judaize Jerusalem and al-Aqsa,” lies in “national unity and consensus around a comprehensive resistance program to confront the criminal Zionist occupation, until our people’s aspirations for liberation, return, and the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital are fulfilled.”
The statement concluded by affirming that “our steadfast people are the source of legitimacy, and the weapons of resistance are a red line that cannot be compromised.”
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli occupation forces, backed by the United States and Western countries, have been waging a devastating war in Gaza, resulting in the martyrdom and injury of approximately 233,000 Palestinians to date. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, 442 Palestinians, including 147 children, have died from starvation.
White House backs plan for Tony Blair to lead interim Gaza authority
Al Mayadeen | September 26, 2025
The White House is reportedly supporting a proposal that would place former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at the helm of a temporary administration to govern the Gaza Strip, according to reports in Haaretz and The Times of Israel, which completely sidelines the demands and stances of the Palestinian people.
The plan envisions the creation of the Gaza International Transitional Authority (GITA), which would act as Gaza’s “supreme political and legal authority” for up to five years. Blair would lead a 25-member secretariat and chair a seven-person board overseeing an executive body responsible for managing the territory.
Initially based in the Egyptian city of El-Arish, GITA would later move into Gaza, accompanied by a UN-endorsed multinational force largely drawn from Arab states. The proposal is modeled on transitional administrations that previously oversaw Kosovo and Timor-Leste.
The White House argues the initiative offers a middle ground between US President Donald Trump’s earlier proposal for the US and the Israeli regime to directly control Gaza and a UN-backed plan endorsed by over 140 states calling for a one-year technocratic administration under the New York declaration.
Divisions over Blair’s role
Blair’s potential appointment is controversial, for while he enjoys credibility among several Gulf leaders, many Palestinians view him with deep mistrust due to his support for the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and his record as Middle East envoy from 2007 to 2015. Western diplomats noted it was not guaranteed that Blair would take on the role and suggested the administration could last only two years.
The proposal’s lack of a clear timeline for transferring authority to the Palestinian Authority (PA) may complicate its acceptance by Palestinians and Arab leaders. Critics fear the plan could amount to another form of foreign-imposed governance, albeit under an international framework rather than the Israeli occupation.
Details of the plan surfaced after Trump met in New York with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Trump described the discussions as “successful”, adding that “we’re close to getting some kind of deal done.”
Arab states have stressed that any international involvement must be tied to a credible timeline for Palestinian statehood. Without such assurances, some argue the Blair-led body risks being perceived as an extended foreign trusteeship.
Palestinian response
Addressing the UN General Assembly, PA President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed that Gaza remains “an integral part of the state of Palestine” and said the PA was ready to assume full responsibility for governance and security. He rejected any role for Hamas in postwar administration, echoing US and Israeli conditions after Washington revoked his visa ahead of the 80th UN session, which forced him to deliver his speech via video.
Meanwhile, Trump told reporters at the White House that he would not support the Israeli occupation’s “annexation” of the West Bank. “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. Nope. I won’t allow it. It’s not going to happen,” he said.
Arab and Muslim forces in Gaza?
Washington is pushing for Arab and Muslim states to commit troops to Gaza as part of a so-called peacekeeping force that would enable an Israeli withdrawal. The US is also seeking financial pledges from these countries for reconstruction and to support Gaza’s transitional administration.
On Monday, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced that his country was prepared to send soldiers as part of such a mission.
The initiative comes as negotiations to end the war and secure a prisoner exchange remain stalled. On the ground, “Israel” has launched a large-scale offensive, deploying three armored and infantry divisions into Gaza City, in hopes of forcibly displacing the city’s residents.
Meanwhile, at UN headquarters in New York, a conference on the “two-state solution” concluded with France and several European countries recognizing the State of Palestine. The Gaza Ministry of Health reports that more than 65,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in the Israeli assault since October 7.
An Israeli plan relayed to Washington?
A US official told Axios that “tomorrow’s meeting could be fairly significant,” stressing that the Trump administration wants “regional buy-in and support to make it successful.” An Arab official added that Trump is seeking “feedback and support for the US plan to end the war and then push it forward.”
Officials insisted the proposal would be a US initiative rather than an Israeli plan relayed through Washington. However, Israeli officials acknowledged that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is aware of its outlines.
One Israeli official admitted that “there will be bitter pills we’ll have to swallow,” particularly regarding any potential role for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza.
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RT | September 23, 2026
The US Democratic Party has embraced a transgender agenda that amounts to “the normalization of sadism,” author A.J. Rice has said, warning that radical trans policies would return if the party is allowed to regain power.
Speaking to RT’s America First host Scotty Nell Hughes about his new book, ‘The Curse of the Bearded Lady: How the Trans Mafia Whacked American Sanity’, Rice argued that activists have gained significant influence in schools, medicine, and corporate America while people who questioned the agenda have faced pressure to stay silent.
The author described the “trans mafia” as the sprawling network of people and institutions that have helped the movement gain influence. He singled out parts of academia, wealthy backers, and corporations, and stated that providers of transition-related treatment also have a financial incentive to keep young people in their care indefinitely.
Rice argued that the consequences of these policies ultimately fall on children who are being drawn toward gender-affirming medical treatments and on girls who are expected to share locker rooms or compete in sports with biological males.
He noted that while voters rejected the Democrats’ approach to gender in 2024, the party, which has been “captured by madness,” has since only doubled down and is seeking what is effectively “the normalization of sadism.” … Full report
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