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senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says President Trump’s optimism over the peace plan is more of a strategy than a prediction, aimed at pressuring others to deliver results. He notes that Trump’s push for the deal also serves as a distraction from domestic troubles.

US President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have “signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan”. “This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace,” he posted on on his social media platform, Truth Social. “All Parties will be treated fairly! This is a GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding Nations, and the United States of America, and we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked...

An Australian anaesthesiologist working at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital has described the horrors of working amid Israel’s offensive on the territory’s largest urban centre. Speaking to Al Jazeera from the hospital, where she had been based for less than a week, Dr Saya Aziz said the situation was “catastrophic”. “I don’t think anyone has anything quite like it,” she said. “You’ll hear a big huge bomb, then you’ll know within 5-10 minutes, you’re going to get a mass casualty. You’ll hear the wailing, the screams, the chaos … family members bringing in the patients.”

In a historic move, the UK, Australia and Canada have officially recognised the state of Palestine. The announcement comes ahead of a formal declaration at the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said this decision is part of an effort to revive a two-state solution.

Lebanon's Health Ministry says five people, including three children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern city of Bint Jbeil. An Israeli drone fired two missiles, destroying a car and a motorcycle. Israeli forces regularly carry out strikes on Lebanon, saying it is targeting Hezbollah, despite agreeing to a ceasefire in November.

A group of Israeli and Palestinian peace activists are urging the Israeli government to end the war in Gaza and secure the release of captives. "It’s Time Coalition" has released a campaign calling for an immediate ceasefire and “the building of security and dignity for both people.” It describes itself as a group of 60 organisations working together with determination and courage to bring peace.

This week: Displaced Palestinians are forced to live on garbage dumps. The US again vetoed a un resolution to end the war on Gaza. An update on Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. Today is Sunday, September 21. It is day 716 of the war in Gaza, where more than 65,208 Palestinians have been killed.

Michail Fotiadis from medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says the situation in al-Mawasi where Israel ordered hundreds of thousands of people is “heartbreaking”. “Everybody is looking for a place to pitch a tent, but the materials are not available. The situation is really dire for the population. Access to water is very difficult,” Fotiadis told Al Jazeera from al-Mawasi, described by Israel as a “humanitarian zone”. He said more Palestinians continue to arrive from northern Gaza with nothing after escaping Israel’s military onslaught.

Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani, addresses members of the UN Security Council after a vote on a resolution that would permanently lift UN sanctions on Iran, at UN headquarters in New York.

The suffering in Gaza continues as Israeli attacks intensify, targeting residential neighborhoods in Gaza City and displacing tens of thousands within just a few days. Families are being forced to flee toward central and southern parts of the Strip, often walking for hours without transportation or safe shelter. Many are now living in tents purchased at high prices, facing harsh conditions and severe shortages of food and water.

A national day of action is underway in Israel - organised by the families of captives still held in Gaza. The mass action is expected to shut down schools, businesses and public transport across the country. Several rallies are planned, including a big demonstration in Tel Aviv. Protesters say they want to pressure the government into signing a Gaza ceasefire and captive release deal with Hamas. They fear Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to seize Gaza City will endanger the lives of their loved ones.

The focus of the Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling in recent days has been the Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods, a little east of Gaza City. There have been endless Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling, and continuous bombardment. People are saying the explosions do not stop. Zeitoun neighbourhood is being wiped off the map. This is the same exact scenario that took place in Rafah, in parts of Khan Younis, in Jabalia, in Beit Lahiya, in Beit Hanoon, where Israeli forces concentrate on that area. We’re seeing houses, schools, public facilities, government buildings – everything in Zeitoun is being dest...

Israel is using “bureaucratic measures to block aid, and the impact of that means that it will only deepen starvation in Gaza”, Bushra Khalidi, policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory for Oxfam, a global charity, has told Al Jazeera. “Most major international NGOs since the second of March have been virtually unable to deliver a single truck of life-saving supplies, and we have millions of dollars of food, medicine and essential goods from multiple NGOs that are just standing there in the regional borders, just waiting to get in,” Khalidi said. “Israeli authorities are rejecting aid requests from these long-estab...

Israeli journalists held a vigil in Tel Aviv condemning Israel's killing of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, accusing the military of systematically targeting media workers to suppress reporting. Oren Ziv, an Israeli journalist with +972 Magazine, explained that while most Israeli society and mainstream media celebrated these killings, a small group was protesting to show solidarity with Palestinian journalists working under impossible conditions. He argued Israel is deliberately silencing Gaza's last remaining journalists ahead of its planned assault on Gaza City, while also blocking international media access for nearly two years. Ziv criticized the Israeli media for completely aligning with the...

Two NGOs are bringing a case before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, against senior Israeli military commanders for allegedly authorising the murder of the four Al Jazeera journalists and two freelancers. The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) have named the Israeli chief of general staff and seven others. They also accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “presiding over a strategy to eliminate journalists.” Their case is based on investigations reconstructing the attack, intelligence reports and expert military analysis.

Ian Williams, President of the US Foreign Press Association, told Al Jazeera that Israel’s deliberate targeting of Al Jazeera journalists reveals a systematic effort to control Gaza’s narrative. He condemned Israel’s posthumous smearing of reporters like Al Jazeera’s slain correspondent Anas al-Sharif as “Hamas operatives” – a tactic he compared to McCarthyism, noting over 270 journalists killed. Williams accused Western media executives (not journalists) of complicity through censorship, drawing parallels to historical repression of figures like Nelson Mandela. The veteran correspondent warned Israel’s weaponisation of “terrorist” labels – while itself negotiating with Hamas – mirrors authoritarian strategies from the Spanish Inquisition. He...

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert criticised Netanyahu’s government for rejecting a two-state solution and prolonging the Gaza war, which he called militarily aimless. While condemning ministers’ calls to restrict aid to Gaza as "unforgivable negligence", he denied claims of a deliberate Israeli starvation policy, despite acknowledging widespread suffering. Olmert admitted to "war crimes" occurring but rejected accusations of genocide, arguing failures stemmed from incompetence, not state policy. He urged Palestinian Authority reforms to enable future talks, while backing domestic efforts to oust Netanyahu. Facing pushback on Israel’s aid restrictions, Olmert conceded systemic failures but dismissed UN and NGO allega...

Gideon Levy, a journalist and columnist for Israeli news outlet Haaretz, has spoken about the Israeli army’s targeted killing of the Al Jazeera team in Gaza, including journalist Anas al-Sharif. Levy called Anas a “courageous journalist who enabled us to see what was going on in Gaza” and said his killing follows a longstanding pattern of Israel targeting journalists whose coverage it is threatened by. “Ever since the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin [in the occupied West Bank], you see that journalists are targeted,” Levy said. “It was true about Shireen Abu Akleh, even though the Israeli army denied...

Ahmed Al-Najjar, speaking from Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis, has paid tribute to five Al Jazeera staff killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, describing it as the most devastating loss the enclave’s journalist community has faced.

Israel has killed at least 237 journalists and media workers since it launched its war on Gaza. Many of them worked for Al Jazeera. Janine di Giovanni is the executive director of The Reckoning Project and a senior fellow in human rights at Yale University. She says she's worked 35 years as a war correspondent, but the genocide in Gaza is the worst she's ever seen.

Palestinians are struggling to survive on two fronts: the daily quest to find food in a strip devastated by a starvation crisis and Israel's nonstop bombardment - which has not let up. At least 13 Palestinians have been killed across the Strip so far on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, 28, was one of Gaza’s most recognisable faces for his constant reporting of the reality on the ground over the last 22 months. The father of two was born in Jabalia refugee camp and graduated from Al-Aqsa University’s Faculty of Media. His father was killed by Israel in an air strike on the family home in December 2023.

Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), stated that Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza constitutes “a clear breach of international humanitarian law” and amounts to a “war crime.” Speaking to Al Jazeera, Al-Kheetan stressed that “any condemnations by member states must be followed by action,” urging countries with leverage over Israel to pressure it into halting its war on Gaza.

Israel’s latest killings of journalists in Gaza are an addition to a long list of criminality, said Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara. “We at Al Jazeera do not want to be the story; we are forced to be the story because of the criminality of the Israeli government,” he said. He said that while Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif was reporting “every minute of the day” and while Israeli claims he was a Hamas member were lies, several other journalists were killed alongside him even though Israel had not made any allegations against them. “Why assassinate him when he is...

Irene Khan, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, said that Israel killed Anas al-Sharif over his work as a journalist and that Israeli claims he was a Hamas member are totally unsubstantiated. “If they had real evidence [of this], do you not think that they would put it out, up front, right away in the international arena? Of course they would. But why are they not doing that? Because they don’t have that evidence,” she told Al Jazeera. “They simply [say] that any journalist who is reporting on Gaza must be a ‘Hamas member’, just as anyone who criticis...

Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael Dahdouh, who has lost his wife and several other members of his family to Israeli attacks, has reacted to Israel’s latest deadly targeting of Al Jazeera journalists. “What is happening is unjustifiable and is not in line with any humanitarian law or any human values,” Dahdouh said. “This is astonishing. How can they target a tent where journalists were sheltering?” Dahdouh’s eldest son and fellow Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Dahdouh was killed by an Israeli missile strike in the western part of Khan Younis in southern Gaza in January last year. Dahdouh descri...

Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, and the author of a book called “The Palestine Laboratory”, which looks at Israel’s arms and surveillance industry. He says Western media has been largely complicit in what's happening in Gaza, including Israel's targeting and murder of journalists.

Israel has murdered five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif. They were targeted by a strike on their media tent outside al0Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, overnight. Al Jazeera Media Network has called it a “deliberate assassination” and urged the international community to act

Mustafa Barghouti is the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative. He says the lack of international action and consequences has enabled Israel to continue its campaign in Gaza, including its targeting of Palestinian journalists and civilians.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns in the strongest terms the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Zaher, and Mohamed Noufal, by the Israeli occupation forces in yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom.

Israel has murdered five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif. They were targeted by a drone strike on their press tent outside al-Shifa Hospital. Al Jazeera Media Network has called on the international community to halt Israel's targeting of journalists. Earlier on Sunday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to allow journalists into the Gaza Strip to cover events there but stressed that ensuring the safety of media personnel was a key priority. This was just hours before his army murdered five Al Jazeera journalists.

Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, described Gaza’s starvation crisis as "a package of suffering" during an Al Jazeera interview. Over 100 children have died from acute malnutrition, with 55,000 infants lacking milk and 350,000 under-fives at risk. He condemned Israel’s aid restrictions, noting only 10% of needed supplies enter, while diseases spread due to polluted water and collapsed sanitation. Recent small aid increases are "death traps", he argued, designed to forcibly displace Palestinians. Gaza requires 1,000 daily trucks—not the current 80—to avert famine. Without urgent action, he warned, conditions will worsen as Israel blocks tents, food, and NGO access. "This is...

At an emergency UNSC session addressing Israel's planned seizure of Gaza City and forced displacement of 1 million Palestinians, Algeria's Ambassador Amar Bendjama delivered a blistering condemnation. He accused Israel of "genocidal ethnic cleansing", citing 22 months of atrocities - 18,000 children killed, 12,000 women dead, and starvation deployed as a weapon. "Israel treats Palestinians as 'human animals'," he declared, lambasting the UNSC's silence as complicity. "This council must act decisively under Chapter 7 - sanction the enemy of humanity," Bendjama demanded, invoking the UN's strongest enforcement powers. While the ICJ investigates genocide, he vowed: "Palestinians, like olive trees, will regrow from their roots."

Speaking at an emergency UN Security Council session convened to address Israel’s planned military seizure of Gaza City and the forced displacement of nearly one million Palestinians, Ramesh Rajasingham, head of UN OCHA, issued a stark condemnation of the crisis. He demanded an immediate end to the "unacceptable catastrophe," warning that Israel’s expanded operations would exacerbate atrocities and civilian suffering. Over 500 aid workers have been killed—a "grim milestone"—while famine spreads and Gaza’s humanitarian system collapses. Hospitals, stripped of supplies and staff, are barely functional, and rampant desperation has triggered looting of aid convoys. Rajasingham stressed that such...

A warning that some of the images in this report may be disturbing. Rights groups have condemned what they say was the massacre of more than 600 Rohingya civilians in western Myanmar. Survivors say entire families were burned alive or executed last year, by the Arakan Army - a powerful rebel group

The countries that have called today’s session of the UN Security Council have issued a joint statement that condemns Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City, saying that it risks “violating international humanitarian law” and will “only endanger the lives of all civilians in Gaza”. “We call on Israel to urgently reverse this decision and not to implement” the plan, the statement reads. It goes on to say that Israel’s decision will do nothing to secure the return of the remaining captives still held in Gaza, and would even endanger their lives. The countries also called the current starvation of Gaza...

Israeli forces have bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church, killing three people and wounding at least ten others, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, as the military continues its assault across the besieged enclave. At least one person is in critical condition as a result of Thursday’s strike on the Church of the Latin Monastery in Gaza City – known as the Holy Family Church, the Patriarchate said in a statement. The church’s priest was also lightly wounded, it added. Among those killed were the parish’s 60-year-old janitor and an 84-year-old woman who was receiving psychosocial support inside a Caritas...

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa says protecting the rights of the Druze minority is a priority and has accused Israel of trying to sow divisions in the country. Israel is threatening to continue its attacks on Syria, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims is to protect the Druze community. Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said all sides involved in the fighting in southern Syria have agreed to "specific steps" to end the violence. Mohamad Elmasry, professor of media studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, said Israel’s attacks are not truly about protecting the Druze, but about ex...

senior political analyst Marwan Bishara condemned Israel's strikes on Syria as "vulgar exhibitionism" aimed at asserting regional hegemony, speaking from Paris. He argued Israel exploits minority divisions under false pretexts of protection, just as colonial powers historically did, while deflecting from Gaza's genocide. Bishara noted Damascus' Druze community prefers Syrian unity despite Israeli interference, comparing it to failed attempts to divide Kurds. He warned Arab states' predictable rhetorical condemnations mask dangerous impotence against Israeli aggression. Bishara highlighted Israel's decades-old doctrine of weakening Arab states through minority manipulation, now escalating to challenge US dominance in the region.



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The Israeli army has launched air attacks on the Syrian Defence Ministry and near the presidential palace in the capital, Damascus, as it continues strikes on Syrian forces in the southern city of Suwayda. The strikes come after Israel threatened to increase attacks if Syrian government forces are not withdrawn from the south of the country where there has been fighting between Druze and security forces.