Podcasts about khan younis

Dua serangan terpisah menghancurkan bangunan hunian di Jalur Gaza. Sebuah gedung di Kamp Pengungsi Maghazi dan sebuah rumah di Khan Younis dilaporkan rata dengan tanah setelah serangan yang didahului peringatan evakuasi. Sejumlah keluarga kini kehilangan tempat tinggal dan kembali menghadapi situasi kemanusiaan yang semakin sulit.

Lafi al-Najjar, palestinese cieco di trentasei anni, vive in una tenda tra le macerie di Khan Younis. Suo figlio Adel, nove anni, è stato ucciso il ventotto aprile in un attacco israeliano. A Reuters, l'undici maggio, al-Najjar ha detto: «La guerra è ancora in corso. Si è fermata negli annunci, sul terreno non si è fermata». Il dato lo conferma. Il rapporto mensile di ACLED, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, pubblicato ieri, registra ad aprile un aumento del trentacinque per cento degli attacchi israeliani sulla Striscia rispetto a marzo. Dal cessate il fuoco con l'Iran dell'otto aprile il Ministero della Salute di Gaza conta centoventi palestinesi uccisi, di cui otto donne e tredici bambini: il venti per cento in più delle cinque settimane precedenti, quando l'aviazione israeliana bombardava Teheran. Dal cessate il fuoco di ottobre, mediato da Stati Uniti e Qatar, i palestinesi uccisi sono ottocentocinquanta, contro quattro soldati israeliani. Ieri, alla Sala del Mappamondo, il ministro degli Esteri Antonio Tajani ha riferito alle Commissioni Esteri e Difesa: «Il governo continua a prestare la massima attenzione operativa nella Striscia di Gaza e in Cisgiordania, con l'obiettivo di arrivare a due Stati». Sulle misure commerciali contro Israele frena: «Otto Paesi dell'Unione hanno espresso dubbi, perché il rischio è colpire la popolazione civile israeliana, non il governo Netanyahu». Resta aperta l'ipotesi di sanzioni sui prodotti dei coloni. Stamane salpa da Marmaris la Global Sumud Flotilla: cinquantaquattro imbarcazioni e oltre cinquecento attivisti. Khdour, ricercatore ACLED: «Bombardamenti, droni e fuoco di artiglieria continuano lungo la linea di armistizio, colpendo militanti e civili, donne e bambini». La guerra si è fermata solo negli annunci. A Marmaris la Global Sumud Flotilla ha chiuso ieri l'assemblea internazionale; Saif Abukeshek e Thiago Ávila, espulsi domenica da Israele come «provocatori professionisti», sono il primo fronte. #LaSveglia per La NotiziaDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/la-sveglia-di-giulio-cavalli--3269492/support.

Di notte i topi mordono i bambini nelle tende mentre dormono. È la frase del bollettino UNRWA del 5 maggio, riferita al monitoraggio nella Striscia di Gaza. L'agenzia ONU per i rifugiati palestinesi documenta infestazioni di roditori nelle strutture sanitarie di Khan Younis. L'Ocha ha rilevato roditori e parassiti nell'81% degli oltre 1.600 siti per sfollati valutati a Gaza. Il 90% delle infrastrutture idriche è distrutto. Il 60% delle famiglie non ha acqua sufficiente. Reinhilde Van de Weert, rappresentante OMS a Gaza, il 5 maggio ha dichiarato: «Questa è solo la sfortunata ma prevedibile conseguenza di una situazione in cui le persone vivono in un ambiente al collasso.» Nei primi quattro mesi del 2026 l'OMS conta 17.000 infezioni da ectoparassiti. I nati morti sono aumentati del 140% rispetto al 2022. La carenza di rodenticidi aggrava il rischio di leptospirosi. Israele ha consentito l'ingresso di mille trappole per topi. 680.000 minori vivono in campi dove roditori e parassiti sono strutturali. Le tende che avrebbero dovuto essere riparo temporaneo sono residenza permanente: Israele ha bloccato la ricostruzione. Il Board of Peace di Donald Trump ha ricevuto 100 milioni dagli Emirati per addestrare 27.000 agenti di polizia palestinesi in Egitto e Giordania. Lo riporta il Times of Israel, citando un funzionario americano. Le reclute — inclusi gli ex funzionari civili di Hamas — devono essere approvate dallo Shin Bet. Il governo tecnico palestinese istituito per sostituire Hamas non ha ancora ricevuto da Israele il permesso di entrare nell'enclave. Le flotte della Global Sumud Flotilla si muovono da Creta verso Marmaris, in Turchia. La detenzione di Thiago Ávila e Saif Abukeshek è prorogata fino al 10 maggio. Di notte i topi mordono i bambini nelle tende mentre dormono. #LaSveglia per La NotiziaDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/la-sveglia-di-giulio-cavalli--3269492/support.

Domenica 26 aprile, sessanta imbarcazioni della Global Sumud Flotilla lasciano Augusta, in Sicilia, con attivisti di più nazionalità e con carichi di prima necessità. La nave Arctic Sunrise di Greenpeace garantisce il supporto tecnico. Destinazione Gaza, per sfidare il blocco navale israeliano. La risposta della Commissione europea arriva il 27 aprile a Bruxelles. La portavoce Eva Hrncirova usa una formula che merita lettura: «Pur rispettando l'impegno umanitario di tutte le persone a bordo della Flotilla, scoraggiamo questo tipo di consegne perché mettono a rischio la sicurezza dei partecipanti». Il diritto di navigazione in acque internazionali va rispettato. La Commissione chiede «costantemente un accesso senza ostacoli» per gli aiuti a Gaza. Si tratta di contraddizione strutturale. Bruxelles vuole accesso senza ostacoli e scoraggia l'unica azione civile che tenta di forzare quell'ostacolo. Il blocco navale israeliano non viene nominato come problema: il problema, nella formula ufficiale, sono i rischi per i partecipanti. La sicurezza di chi sfida il blocco, non il blocco. Questa è la grammatica diplomatica europea applicata a Gaza: solidarietà all'intenzione, scoraggiamento dell'azione, rinvio al dialogo con lo Stato che impone il blocco. Una formula che non produce pressione né accesso. Il carico dell'ong Music for Peace per la missione precedente è bloccato in Giordania da sei mesi per veto israeliano. Il 27 aprile, mentre la Flotilla naviga verso la Grecia, le forze israeliane uccidono quattro palestinesi nella Striscia: due uomini al Kuwait Roundabout a Gaza City, uno vicino alla moschea Saqqa, una donna quarantenne a Khan Younis. Lo riportano gli ospedali Shifa e Nasser. Dall'ottobre 2025, secondo OCHA, i morti nel cessate il fuoco sono già 786: 226 bambini, 179 donne. #LaSveglia per La NotiziaDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/la-sveglia-di-giulio-cavalli--3269492/support.

Ralph welcomes Professor Nicholas Chater, co-author of “It's on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We're to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems.” Then, as most of the media turns its attention to Iran, we return to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and welcome back Dr. Feroze Sidhwa to break down his three-part series published in Zeteo called “The Truth About Gaza's Dead.”Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. He has written and co-written more than two hundred research papers and six books, including It's on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We're to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems (co-written with George Loewenstein).I was on a UK government committee as the representative of behavioural science for six years, where my role was (at least I understood my role to be) coming up with smart-aleck ideas about what individual nudges or bits of useful information we could give to the public—how that would help people reduce their carbon emissions. And I came away from that experience extremely chastened. Because almost all the interesting issues were nothing to do whatsoever with individual behavior. They were all about big systemic changes… And the shock for me was realizing that the tools that I was hoping to wield were in fact completely ineffective.Nick ChaterI think it's absolutely true that many of the things that behavioral scientists are supposedly “discovering” [are] the things that campaigners and activists and indeed people in the political world generally and journalists intuitively have long known, and indeed probably have good evidence for. It's simply— it's sort of a sad process of trailing-along-behind which I think the academic world has been engaged in, where we've been slowly realizing that things that everybody else knew initially are actually true after all.Nick ChaterOne of the most powerful things that each of us has is the ability to propagate our own perspective and to campaign for change…I think getting people pulling together and pushing for change can be incredibly powerful. So seeing ourselves as citizens who are actively able to have our voice, make our voices heard, I think that's where the real power lies. And I think that the campaigners and political activists and so on have always known this. And of course, also, big businesses have always known this too. And they certainly don't want us to be doing too much of that. They want us to be focusing on quite the opposite. They want us to be focusing on our own gardens and not worrying about the big picture. They don't want organized opposition.Nick ChaterDr. Feroze Sidhwa is a general, trauma, and critical care surgeon in California. He is also a humanitarian surgeon who has worked in Palestine, Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso. He most recently volunteered at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, Gaza. He was blocked from entering Gaza by Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service in November 2025.In the first 25 days of the assault on Gaza, more children were killed than in the entire worst year of conflict that Airwars had ever studied previously, which was Syria in 2016. In the first 25 days in Gaza, between 2,200 and 2,600 children were killed in Gaza, compared to 1,900 in Syria. So again, if you adjust for the size of the population (because Syria is a much bigger country than Gaza is a territory), the rate of killing of children in Gaza was 71 to 142 times higher than it was in the worst year on record for children in conflict—Syria in 2016.Dr. Feroze SidhwaGaza is a place where infants freeze to death if they are not sheltered. Well, there are no sheltered infants in Gaza for any practical purposes. They're all unsheltered. So we have a list of the actual names of a dozen or two dozen children who have actually frozen to death…And there is shelter—ready-made mobile shelters for hundreds of thousands of people right outside of Gaza. It's in Egypt and it's in Jordan. The only thing that's stopping anybody from bringing it in is the US and Israel…This is just dastardly. We should think about it for a second—we (meaning Americans) [are] living in a country where neither political party seems to care that we are freezing infants to death.Dr. Feroze SidhwaRight now, the Israelis are blocking cough medicine from going into Gaza. And the reason (they say) is because it contains glycerin. Now, glycerin, in theory, can be used to make explosives. But it's one picogram or something—it's just part of a pill or the syrup that goes into it, right? This is children's cough medicine. The idea that Hamas or Islamic Jihad or anybody else in Gaza has the laboratory equipment and facilities that would be needed to extract the 0.01% of glycerin that's in a pill or a medical syrup to then make a bomb is beyond idiotic. Furthermore, we all know that there's (and I'm speaking literally) hundreds of tons of unexploded Israeli bombs—actually I should say unexploded US bombs—all over the Gaza Strip. That's where Hamas gets all of its explosives from. It just repurposes unexploded Israeli munitions. So all of this is just sheer nonsense.Dr. Feroze SidhwaNews 4/24/26* Our top stories this week have to do with people losing their jobs. First up, Apple CEO Tim Cook – the handpicked successor of Steve Jobs who has led the tech giant for the past 15 years – announced this week that he would transition away from the CEO role. While he will remain on as Executive Chairman, John Ternus, the company's head of hardware engineering, will take over at the helm, PBS reports. Cook's tenure at Apple has received mixed evaluations, with many applauding the steady handed executive for adding an estimated $3.6 trillion in market value to the company, while others have critiqued his supposed lack of innovation compared to his predecessor. Some hope his more technical-minded successor will put more emphasis on product development moving forward. Like many tech CEOs, Cook went to great lengths to ingratiate himself with President Trump in his second term, donating $1 million to his inaugural committee and gifting Trump a glass plaque set in 24-karat gold last August.* Meanwhile, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned this week amid “an internal investigation into her conduct,” which included “instructing staff to buy her bottles of sauvignon blanc on work trips… [stashing] liquor in her office, [encouraging] young female staffers to ‘pay attention' to her father and husband, [having] an affair with a member of her security detail, and [arranging] work travel to visit family and friends,” per Vox. For the time being, the Labor Department will be headed by Keith Sonderling, whom POLITICO calls a “quintessential Washington insider who is well-connected in the capital's Republican circles and his home state of Florida.” Sources quoted in this piece identify Sonderling as a key behind-the-scenes player in the administration whose accumulated influence “extends well beyond DOL.” The choice of Chavez-DeRemer, a former Congresswoman who was seen as perhaps the most labor-friendly Republican in the House, was supported at the time by Trump-aligned Teamster boss Sean O'Brien; her ouster therefore, represents the latest humiliating setback for his strategy of cozying up to Trump to win favorable treatment for his membership. In the words of a recent Current Affairs piece published before the downfall of Chavez-DeRemer, “Sean O'Brien Sold Labor to Trump, and Got Nothing.”* In the House, Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned her seat this week, just minutes before the House Ethics Committee was set to weigh punishment for the Congresswoman, whom the panel had previously found guilty of “a slew of ethics violations, including accusations that she stole millions in pandemic relief funds and used it to bolster her 2021 campaign,” according to CNN. Cherfilus-McCormick was one of the four Members of Congress included in the proposed bipartisan expulsion deal some weeks ago, along with Representatives Swalwell, Gonzales, and Mills. With the first two gone, a tremendous amount of pressure is sure to be exerted on Congressman Mills to resign as well. Prior to resigning, Cherfilus-McCormick was already facing a stiff primary challenge from young progressive Elijah Manley. Now, it seems her seat – representing hundreds of thousands in Broward and Palm Beach counties – could remain vacant until a new member is sworn in next January, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unlikely to call a special election before then.* Also in Congress, Axios reports Representative David Scott of Georgia, a powerful Black Georgia Democrat who served in the lower house for over 20 years, passed away this week at age 80. Scott, who rose to become the first Black chair of the key House Committee on Agriculture, had filed to run again in 2026 despite rumored resistance from his colleagues. His death leaves Georgia's 13th district without representation in the House and amounts to a stunning fourth death-based Democratic House vacancy in the past year. Like the ones that preceded it, this must be seen as a bright red warning signal to Democratic leadership.* In DC more broadly, the employment picture looks even worse. According to a new report in the Guardian, the combined purging of 300,000 jobs from the federal government – the piece notes this is the “region's largest employer” – by Elon Musk's absurd Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, with another 13,000 job cuts in the private sector, has left DC with the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 6.7%. With little sign of increased hiring in the public or private sectors, there is no indication this trend will reverse itself any time soon.* Elsewhere in the DMV, this week Virginia voters approved a referendum to amend the state constitution allowing Democrats to redraw the state's congressional districts in their favor. Currently, Virginia Democrats hold six districts to the Republicans' five; under the new map, Democrats are poised to hold 10 districts and the Republicans just one. This is the latest episode in the mid-decade redistricting fight begun last year, when Texas Republicans sought to redraw the Lone Star state's maps to be more favorable to the GOP. This set off a stampede of states seeking to redraw their district lines. Now, in light of the Virginia referendum passing, Florida is threatening to redraw their maps to the detriment of Democrats there. The Hill reports House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, taking a sharper tone than usual, responded to news of the Florida redistricting attempt with a statement reading “If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump's dummymander in Texas…[he vowed] maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”* In California, the downfall of Eric Swalwell has resulted in the unexpected rise of another candidate – former Congressman, California Attorney General, and Biden-era Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Between April 10th and April 22nd, Becerra surged from a polling average of under 4% to an average of 13% – and in some polls, even moved into first place. While Becerra seeks to consolidate this spike in support, progressives are airing long-held grievances. David Sirota, former Bernie Sanders campaign advisor and founder of the Lever, cited that publication's 2021 report on how “As California AG, [Becerra] demanded the HHS secretary use existing law to lower medicine prices - and then he became HHS secretary & literally refused to do that.” Others have pointed out that, according to Transparency USA, Becerra's campaign has received massive donations from the likes of Chevron. Progressive billionaire Tom Steyer on the other hand this week received the endorsement of Our Revolution, closely aligned with Bernie Sanders, which noted that “Yes, Tom Steyer is a billionaire. But it matters what he is doing with that power: pushing for taxes on the wealthy, expanding universal programs, and dismantling corporate influence in our politics.”* In another case of politics making strange bedfellows, the Chicago Tribune reports the political arm of Planned Parenthood is making an endorsement in the race to succeed retiring Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García in Illinois 4th congressional district. Except, in this case, the reproductive rights group is not endorsing the Democrat in the race. Listeners may recall that Congressman García was sharply criticized for his maneuvering to ensure his chief of staff Patty García would be the Democratic nominee. This has forced other potential aspirants to run as independents. These include DSA-aligned Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho-López and activist Mayra Macías – the latter of whom won the Planned Parenthood Action endorsement this week. The Tribune notes that Macías served on the board of Planned Parenthood Action until the beginning of this year. In a statement, Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson called Macías “a proven leader,” who “will be unrelenting in the fight to protect access to sexual and reproductive health care.”* Turning to international news, in South Africa, leftist politician and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party Julius Malema was sentenced to five years in prison this week for “firing a rifle in ⁠the air at a party rally,” Al Jazeera reports. Unsurprisingly, given that the EFF is the fourth largest political party in South Africa, this case has become a rallying cry for Malema's supporters, with those same supporters accusing the prosecution of being politically motivated. Presiding Magistrate Twanet Olivier disputes this, contending that it “is not a political party who has been convicted here … it is a person, an individual.” Malema's lawyers immediately applied for – and were granted – leave to appeal, but if these appeals fail Malema could be barred from serving as a Member of Parliament.* Finally, in more positive news from abroad, Reuters reports that the much-trumpeted summit of the global Left held in Barcelona this week – designed to help progressives rally their forces to defeat modern reactionary Right-wing nationalism characterized by figures like Trump – drew over 6,000 attendees from over 40 countries. Headline speakers included Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Brazilian President Lula, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Colombian President Gustavo Petro and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. From the United States, an ecclectic group addressed the summit, ranging from video messages of support from Hilary Clinton to Bernie Sanders to Zohran Mamdani, with an in-person address by Minnesota Governor and former Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz. A recurrent theme, hammered home by Isabel Allende, former Senate president ​of Chile and daughter of Salvador Allende, Chile's leftist president ousted in a U.S.-backed coup and replaced with the dictator Augusto Pinochet, was that the left has become too distant from the daily concerns of workers, stating in no uncertain terms that “It's unimaginable to fight against the right ‌if we can't ⁠get closer to ordinary people.”This has been Francesco DeSantis with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

When the ceasefire deal was announced more than six months ago, there was celebration and relief in Gaza and Israel. But since the US-led Board of Peace announced plans to rebuild Gaza, the Trump administration's attention has been occupied by other matters.The success of the ceasefire deal hinges on Hamas disarmament and the full withdrawal of Israeli troops. So what progress has been made?We speak to Yolande Knell, the BBC's Middle East correspondent, about life inside Gaza since the Iran War began.Producers: Sam Chantarasak, Lucy Pawle and Xandra EllinStudio managers: Dafydd Evans and Mike RegaardExecutive producer: James ShieldMix: Travis EvansSenior news editor: China CollinsPhoto credits: A displaced Palestinian woman stands on a balcony inside a building damaged during the war at Al-Aqsa University, now used as a shelter, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 5, 2026. Photo: Reuters/Haseeb Alwazeer.

Il cessate il fuoco a Gaza è entrato in vigore il 10 ottobre 2025. Ieri erano esattamente sei mesi. Il documento esiste: venti punti, mediato da Egitto, Qatar e Turchia, sottoscritto da trenta paesi con la firma degli Stati Uniti. Nelle cronache e nelle analisi internazionali, la parola "ceasefire" compare da mesi tra virgolette. Non è una scelta tipografica. Il Government Media Office di Gaza ha registrato 2.073 violazioni tra il 10 ottobre 2025 e il 18 marzo 2026: 973 bombardamenti, 750 sparatorie contro civili, 87 incursioni in aree residenziali oltre la Yellow Line, 263 demolizioni di proprietà, 50 detenzioni. Nel solo periodo dell'offensiva su Iran — tra il 28 febbraio e l'8 aprile — Israele ha attaccato Gaza in 36 dei 40 giorni. Lo certifica Al Jazeera il 9 aprile. I morti dall'entrata in vigore della tregua ammontano ad almeno 738. Il totale dall'ottobre 2023 ha superato 72.315, secondo il ministero della Salute di Gaza. L'accordo prevedeva l'ingresso di 23.400 camion di aiuti nel periodo dell'offensiva su Iran. Ne sono entrati 4.999: meno di un quinto. Le evacuazioni mediche pattuite: 7.800. Autorizzate: 625, l'otto per cento. Il 6 aprile le forze israeliane hanno aperto il fuoco su un veicolo dell'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità nell'est di Khan Younis, uccidendo il conducente Majdi Aslan, di cinquantaquattro anni. L'OMS ha sospeso le evacuazioni mediche da Gaza verso l'Egitto. L'Integrated Food Security Phase Classification certifica che il 77 per cento della popolazione di Gaza è in stato di insicurezza alimentare acuta. Il cessate il fuoco, nel testo originale prevedeva che gli aiuti completi fossero inviati immediatamente nella Striscia di Gaza. Questa frase è ancora lì, scritta. Le virgolette nelle fonti internazionali non sono una scelta tipografica. #LaSveglia per La NotiziaDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/la-sveglia-di-giulio-cavalli--3269492/support.

Majdi Aslan, 54 anni, guidava un veicolo dell'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità lungo via Salah al-Din, a est di Khan Younis, quando le forze israeliane hanno aperto il fuoco in modo indiscriminato sui mezzi in transito. Era la mattina del 6 aprile, alle 9:15. Aslan, residente nel campo profughi di Bureij, è stato colpito alla testa. Dichiarato morto all'ospedale Al-Aqsa. Un medico dell'OMS è rimasto ferito. Sette altre persone, civili su un mezzo commerciale che precedeva il veicolo onusiano, sono state colpite nella stessa sequenza. Lo ha ricostruito il corrispondente di Al Jazeera Hani Mahmoud, presente nell'area. La conseguenza è stata immediata: l'OMS ha sospeso tutte le evacuazioni mediche da Gaza verso l'Egitto via Rafah, a tempo indeterminato. Quel corridoio — l'ultimo rimasto — è chiuso. Il direttore generale Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ha scritto su X che «una persona impegnata a fornire servizi all'Organizzazione a Gaza è stata uccisa in un incidente di sicurezza». Nel comunicato inviato ad Al Jazeera, l'OMS ha definito l'accaduto un "incidente di sicurezza critico, in esame da parte delle autorità competenti", senza nominare chi ha sparato. Le autorità competenti, ha precisato, stanno conducendo un'indagine. Mentre le agenzie seguono gli attacchi su Teheran, Gaza continua. Dal cessate il fuoco raggiunto nell'ottobre 2025, il Ministero della Salute palestinese ha registrato oltre 720 persone uccise nella Striscia e quasi 2.000 ferite. Dall'ottobre 2023, secondo il rapporto UNRWA al 25 marzo 2026, i morti sono 72.265, i feriti 171.959. Il corridoio medico era l'ultimo che restava: trasportare fuori i pazienti che non potevano ricevere cure dentro. Ora è sospeso «fino a nuovo avviso», ha comunicato Tedros. Le autorità competenti stanno esaminando l'incidente. #LaSveglia per La NotiziaDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/la-sveglia-di-giulio-cavalli--3269492/support.

Nel maggio 2025 un drone israeliano ha colpito Mohammed Yasin Suhaib Al-Farra mentre camminava lentamente, da solo, verso casa sua a Khan Younis. Aveva la paralisi cerebrale e un'andatura compromessa da un incidente infantile. L'esercito israeliano lo ha definito «sospettato di fungere da palo di avvistamento per attività militanti». Haaretz ha pubblicato la documentazione medica. Sette suoi familiari erano stati uccisi in un raid precedente, tra cui il padre e quattro sorelle. Nel luglio 2024, Mohammed Bhar, 24 anni, con sindrome di Down e autismo, incapace di muoversi senza assistenza, era rimasto nell'abitazione di Shuja'iyya, quartiere di Gaza City, dove l'unità israeliana ha fatto irruzione il 3 luglio. Il cane da combattimento lo ha aggredito al petto e alla mano. I soldati lo hanno separato dalla famiglia promettendo cure mediche. Quando la famiglia ha potuto rientrare, una settimana dopo, ha trovato il corpo in decomposizione sul pavimento con un laccio emostatico al braccio. Questi non sono incidenti. Sono casi documentati in un contesto in cui le persone con disabilità non possono obbedire agli ordini di evacuazione, non possono spostarsi in tempo, non possono dimostrare la propria innocenza prima di essere colpite. L'UNRWA, nel Rapporto 215 aggiornato al 31 marzo 2026, documenta 34.251 persone con disabilità assistite psicologicamente nella Striscia dall'ottobre 2023. È la dimensione misurabile di una popolazione che il sistema militare israeliano continua a classificare, caso per caso, come minaccia. L'esercito israeliano, sulla morte di Mohammed Yasin Suhaib Al-Farra, aveva dichiarato che il bersaglio era stato «identificato come terrorista in osservazione delle truppe israeliane». Haaretz ha pubblicato la documentazione medica della sua paralisi cerebrale. #LaSveglia per La NotiziaDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/la-sveglia-di-giulio-cavalli--3269492/support.

Agallamh le Laura Heeney faoi Ionad Hind Rajab - ionad lonnaithe i Khan Younis, Gaza, atá ag cur tacaíochta ar fáil do pháistí díláithrithe de bharr na coimhlinte ann. Tuilleadh sonraí: https://www.ionadhindrajab.org/ Eadra: Clár nuachta agus cúrsaí reatha á chur i láthair ag Cara Nic Giolla Chomhaill. Craolfar é Luan go hAoine ag a 10:00 ar Raidió na Life 106.4FM

 Inca 4200 de conationali au solicitat asistenta, transmite Ministerul de Externe. In prezent, peste zece state membre ale UE printre care și România, au făcut apel la Mecanismul de Protecție Civilă pentru a-și aduce acasă cetățenii aflați în zona de conflict. Cum functioneaza acesta, aflati imediat.    Protest la Cotroceni față de propunerile ministrului justiției de procurori-șefi Mai multe organizaţii civice protesteaza in aceasta seara, în faţa Palatului Cotroceni, faţă de propunerile ministrului Justiţiei pentru şefia marilor parchete si ii cer preşedintelui Nicuşor Dan să refuze numirile. Aflat ieri, in vizita in Polonia, seful statului a declarat ca ”e în dezacord cu ce se spune pe rețelele sociale despre oamenii care au fost selectați”.  Situaţia din Liban se îndreaptă spre o catastrofă umanitară Sudul capitalei Beirut răvăşit de bombardamentele israeliene este asemănat cu situaţia de la Khan Younis, din Fâşia Gaza, după doi ani de conflict. În acest moment sunt trei divizii de militari israelieni pe teritoriul Libanului pe o suprafaţa tampon de 6 km, iar obiectivul acestora este protejarea populaţiei din nordul Israelului şi anihilarea grupurilor care ţin de mişcarea Hezbollah. Scandal diplomatic între Kiev și Budapesta Ungaria a anuntat că a reținut șapte ucraineni care transportau aproximativ 82 de milioane de dolari în numerar și aur, sub suspiciunea de spălare de bani. Ungaria acuza insa autoritatile maghiare că au luat ostatici angajați ai unei bănci, pe fondul unei dispute legate de livrările de petrol. Ungaria acuza Ucraina că întârzie în mod deliberat, din motive politice, reluarea fluxurilor de petrol rusesc prin conducta Drujba avariată.     

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, the head of Realign For Palestine, an Atlantic Council project that challenges entrenched narratives in the Israel and Palestine discourse. We begin the conversation with a bleak update on how Gazans are faring on the ground and hear anecdotes of poor hygiene and price gouging in the Strip. As the festive holy month of Ramadan begins, the lack of basic necessities becomes more stark for those who must fast all day but cannot feast at night. We then turn to the sudden announcement this week from Doctors Without Borders that it has suspended non-critical medical activities at Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis due to the presence of armed men at the medical facility and “a recent situation of suspicion of movement of weapons.” Alkhatib brings multiple examples of prior knowledge of the "armed men" in the hospital since Hamas's October 7, 2023, onslaught on southern Israel. He accuses the NGO of looking the other way as the terror organization took over hospital wings and turned them into prisons and torture chambers. So why did the international humanitarian group in Gaza decide to take notice now? And so this week, we ask Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, what matters now. What Matters Now podcasts are available for download on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by Ari Schlacht. IMAGE: Palestinians hang decorations beside the rubble of destroyed homes as they prepare for the holy month of Ramadan in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, the head of Realign For Palestine, an Atlantic Council project that challenges entrenched narratives in the Israel and Palestine discourse. We begin the conversation with a bleak update on how Gazans are faring on the ground and hear anecdotes of poor hygiene and price gouging in the Strip. As the festive holy month of Ramadan begins, the lack of basic necessities becomes more stark for those who must fast all day but cannot feast at night. We then turn to the sudden announcement this week from Doctors Without Borders that it has suspended non-critical medical activities at Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis due to the presence of armed men at the medical facility and “a recent situation of suspicion of movement of weapons.” Alkhatib brings multiple examples of prior knowledge of the "armed men" in the hospital since Hamas's October 7, 2023, onslaught on southern Israel. He accuses the NGO of looking the other way as the terror organization took over hospital wings and turned them into prisons and torture chambers. So why did the international humanitarian group in Gaza decide to take notice now? And so this week, we ask Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, what matters now. What Matters Now podcasts are available for download on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by Ari Schlacht. IMAGE: Palestinians hang decorations beside the rubble of destroyed homes as they prepare for the holy month of Ramadan in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Jaser Abu Mousa, a 2025 Yale Peace Fellow and past Program Officer working for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Gaza. The two discuss life and death in Gaza on personal and collective levels. They look at Hamas, which Jaser calls a "symptom" of the problem of occupation; at how the past two-plus years of war have destroyed not only all the infrastructure needed for life in Gaza but also the social fabric, as starvation and deprivation have broken human bonds and relationships; and the ways in which Israel works to make Gaza unlivable. On a personal level, Jaser speaks of his experiences in Gaza, from the violence he witnessed as a child during the second Intifada to the devastation he experienced on and since October 7, 2023: his wife, Heba, and two of his children were killed by Israeli missiles in mid-October 2023; after two years of starvation and deprivation, his mother, sister, and sister's children were killed in the war in July 2025; and his family suffered other losses, including the killing of a nephew in the beginning of the war, injuring of his father, and arrest, detention, and violence against his brother along with other medical workers. Navigating these unfathomable losses, Jaser points to his faith in God and religion as guides as he seeks to protect his living children and look towards the future. Finally, Jaser reflects on how he relates to Israelis and declares that "if I strip him from his right to tell his story, that does not make me more just, but will make me less human.” Jaser Abu Mousa is a Yale Peace Fellow examining how Gaza's postwar reconstruction can reflect Palestinians' priorities while repairing the social fabric of society. Most recently, he was a Program Officer working for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Gaza, Palestine until the breakout of the current war in October 2023. During the war, Jaser lost his wife, Heba, and two children, Hmaid (18) and Abdulrahman (8), and left Gaza with his remaining two children, Abdallah and Sham, for treatment in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to his work with Swiss, Jaser served in the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), working under immense pressure during the 2014 war to report incidents, coordinated and communicate movements and follow intense political developments. Prior to that, Jaser worked as a social worker for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the aftermath of the 2009 war, including leading a team of 50 social workers to run the poverty survey for UNRWA in the area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. He also led a team of engineers to verify the work of a European contribution 30 million Euros known as the Private Sector Reconstruction in Gaza (PSRG). Between 2006-2009, he worked extensively as a political researcher in a Gaza-based think tank; during this period he reported on and analyzed Hamas' rise to power in the Strip. Jaser holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Islamic University of Gaza and a Master of Science degree in Project Management. In addition to his work as an analyst and a development/humanitarian practitioner, he has worked as a civil engineer at private construction companies and UN agencies. Peter Beinart is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He is also a Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York, a Contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, an Editor-at-Large at Jewish Currents, and an MSNBC Political Commentator. His newest book (published 2025) is Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

London Case - Not about Truth and AccountabilityIn May 2022 a civil case was launched against me in England. The civil trial will begin on 9 March in London, and conclude on St Patrick's Day.There are some aspects of the case I can comment on and others I cannot at this time. Suffice to say that this is an unorthodox claim against me about events which occurred 29 and 53 years ago. In short, three Claimants, seek to hold me personally liable for three bombings committed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in March 1973 (at the Old Bailey), in February 1996 (at London Docklands) and in June 1996 (at the Manchester Arndale Shopping Centre).Many innocent people were seriously hurt, three were killed in the bombings. The Claimants were injured and have suffered as a result. They deserve nothing but sympathy for what they have gone through. So do all those who were killed or injured in the conflict. And their families.  I regret all the deaths and injuries.People are entitled to use the law. However, this case is brought decades after these incidents and decades after the Good Friday Agreement brought peace to us all.   I anticipate, from public statements made by the Claimants' solicitors, that a number of former British Army, and RUC/PSNI witnesses will give hearsay evidence that because I was a senior republican during the conflict I must be responsible for these specific events.Stand-up to a Genocidal BullyAs the world ponders the implications of US President Trump's talk of an ‘armada' heading for Iran; or his latest threat of tariffs against Canada; or his ongoing threats against Cuba, Greenland and Europe; the so-called ceasefire in the Gaza Strip which he brokered in October has been breached over 1300 times by the Israeli apartheid regime. 509 Palestinians have been killed.In just one morning last week, Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis left 31 Palestinians, including six children, dead. The limited medical facilities were overwhelmed with the dead and wounded.Streets of MinneapolisI have been very fortunate over the years to see Bruce Springsteen live. The concerts and the music are amazing. The Boss's lyrics are sharp and he is unafraid to sing about the politics that anger and outrage him. ‘Born in the USA' is an anthem against the War in Vietnam. ‘Streets of Philadelphia' highlighted the aids crisis.Last week he turned his ire on the behaviour of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE )agents.Springsteen dedicated the song – Streets of Minneapolis - to the “people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbours and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good”. Well done Bruce. 

Listen to the article with analysis from the author:  Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least ten people, including children. One Israeli strike hit a school.  Journalist Osama Abu Rabee reported on Thursday that the Abu Hussein School in northern Gaza was hit with an Israeli strike, killing one person. The school was being used as a shelter for displaced Palestinians.  Preliminary reports indicate one martyr and several injuries following Israeli shelling of Abu Hussein School, which shelters displaced people, in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/0VoCYuxWHB — Osama Abu Rabee أسامة أبوربيع (@dn_osama_rabee) January 8, 2026 In southern Gaza, a strike on a camp for displaced Palestinians killed four people, including three children. Another Israeli bomb dropped on the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis killed a Palestinian father and injured his son. President Donald Trump brokered the ceasefire and hostage exchange. The President has claimed the deal brought historic peace to the Middle East.  Israeli forces have violated the ceasefire over 1,000 times, killing at least 425 Palestinians, since agreeing to a ceasefire in October. Additionally, Tel Aviv has continued to restrict aid deliveries into Gaza, leading to the deaths of about a dozen children during the truce.  During a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week, Trump said Israel had “lived up to the plan 100%,” despite the daily ceasefire violations by Israel. 

Gaza: Aid teams push to step up support as rain and cold take hold UN aid teams have been responding to torrential rains and cold in Gaza by focusing on helping the most vulnerable people in the wartorn enclave. Newborns and people living in areas prone to flooding are most at risk but efforts are underway to boost the number of winter clothing kits for children. Speaking from Al Mawasi in Gaza, Jonathan Cricx from the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, described how overnight downpours had soaked the clothes and mattresses of many living in makeshift tents:  “Those children, they're really suffering not only from the rain, but as well from the cold temperature. It's 6°C or 7°C in the Gaza Strip...What we are doing with UNICEF is we're trying to bring a lot of winter clothes…We also brought shoes. We brought 8,000 tents. We brought 600,000 blankets. But all this is far from being enough because we have more than 1.5 million people here who are in dire need for humanitarian aid.” Residents have been given empty flour sacks to fill with sand to keep rising waters at bay, while it's estimated that more than 760 displacement sites hosting about 850,000 people face the highest risk of flooding. Around 200 families living on the Gaza shoreline in high-risk areas were also being helped on Thursday to relocate to “what remains of Hamad city in eastern Khan Younis”, according to the UN aid coordination office, OCHA. Gaza's humanitarian crisis continues, however, as humanitarians report that a key water pipeline is now damaged and out of service. Until last week, Bani Suhaila Mekorot channel supplied around 16,000 cubic metres of drinking water per day to Khan Younis. Fear and uncertainty in DR Congo amid heavy fighting  Renewed heavy fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed scores of civilians and uprooted communities who've fled in fear. UN aid coordinators OCHA has warned of “intense” clashes multiple territories, including Uvira, Walungu, Mwenga and Kalehe.  So far, more than 200,000 people have been displaced across South Kivu; most are sheltering in unsafe and overcrowded sites where the risk of disease is high. With more details, here's Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq, speaking in New York on Wednesday: “The humanitarian impact of the crisis is now spilling across borders. Between December 5th and 8th, nearly 25,000 people crossed into Burundi, including Congolese nationals, Burundian returnees and third-country migrants – with additional arrivals also reported in Rwanda.”  The violence has disrupted aid assistance severely and forced the UN World Food Programme to suspend its activities across South Kivu. This has left 25,000 people without lifesaving food assistance, while host families share the last of their own reserves with displaced families, the agency said.  The UN's presence in DR Congo is limited; MONUSCO – the peacekeeping mission - is no longer deployed in South Kivu, while a Human Rights Council inquiry into serious abuses in the country has been left unstaffed because of dire funding shortfalls. Venezuela's national guard linked to serious abuses, rights investigators say To Venezuela, where investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council alleged on Thursday that the country's Bolivarian National Guard carried out a decade of systematic and serious violations, including crimes against humanity. In a new report, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela detailed evidence of what it called “systematic and coordinated repression”. According to the independent investigators, the national guard's actions appear to have been steered by a centralised command structure under President Nicolas Maduro.…

Canada's Food Price Report predicts grocery prices will rise 4-6% next year. Despite trade tensions, Prime Minister Mark Carney, US President Donald Trump, and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will all be on stage together tomorrow for FIFA World Cup Draw. Ukraine's lead negotiator is preparing for a high-stakes meeting with US Envoy Steve Witkoff in Miami today. Officials say five people, including two children, were killed in Israeli air strikes near Khan Younis. Social media giant Meta begins to remove access to its platforms for young Australians, ahead of world-first social media ban. A Prince Albert retiree is speaking out, after falling victim to a cryptocurrency scam involving a deep-fake CBC news report. Steve Cropper, song writer, guitarist with Booker T and the McG's, dies in Nashville at age 84.

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Dal Parlamento ok al dl femminicidi, non ancora invece a quello sul consenso. Sentiamo Giulia Bongiorno, Senatrice leghista e Presidente Commissione Giustizia al Senato. L'appello delle ong da Gaza: dopo la tregua calano gli aiuti, mentre arriva l'inverno. Ci colleghiamo con Giorgio Monti, coordinatore medico di EMERGENCY a Khan Younis. Mentre dall'Europa arriva l'ok alla manovra, Eurostat certifica un drammatico calo dell'economia reale delle famiglie italiane negli ultimi 20 anni. Il commento di Alberto Orioli, editorialista del Sole 24 Ore.

Minstens 25 Palestyne is Woensdag dood in vier Israeliese lugaanvalle in 'n deel van Gaza onder Hamas-beheer. Medici sê 10 mense is dood in die Gazastad-voorstad Zeitoun, twee in Shejaia-voorstad en die res in twee afsonderlike aanvalle in Khan Younis. Die Israeliese weermag sê sy magte het Hamas-teikens getref nadat hulle op sy troepe geskiet het, in stryd met die byna ses weke oue wapenstilstand. Geen Israeliese magte is beseer nie. Al die aanvalle was ver van 'n ooreengekome denkbeeldige "geel lyn" wat die gebiede onder Israeliese en Palestynse beheer skei. SkyNews se Adam Parsons berig uit Jerusalem.

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Rotes Kreuz spricht von Massenmorden in der sudanesischen Stadt Al-Fasher/ linksliberale D66 Partei gewinnt Parlamentswahl in den Niederlanden/ heute wählt New York einen neuen Bürgermeister/ in Khan Younis, einer Stadt im südlichen Gazastreifen, wächst die Frustration wegen ausbleibender Hilfslieferungen/ die Vogelgrippe in Deutschland breitet sich weiter aus

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode. The IDF announced this morning that the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is now once again in effect, following “a series of significant strikes” targeting dozens of Hamas targets and operatives. The strikes came after Palestinian operatives carried out an attack on troops stationed in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing soldier Master Sgt. (res.) Yona Efraim Feldbaum. This strike on IDF soldiers, along with Hamas’s failure to return the deceased Israeli hostages -- even faking the recovery of one slain hostage -- led to Israel's retaliation, which, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, killed over 100. Horovitz weighs in on the nature of Hamas and the White House's recognition of Israel's right to retaliate. We hear how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed the US of his intention to strike, and today appears bent on continuing with the Trump-brokered ceasefire. The Haredi community in Israel is planning a massive protest at the entrance of Jerusalem tomorrow, while the High Court is hearing petitions that the IDF draft tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox young men, and at the same time, the Knesset is working to draft a bill that will allow most of the Haredi young men to continue to avoid conscription. We learn some details of the leaked bill being discussed by the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and hear about some of the Likud MKs who are speaking out against it. Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates. For further reading: IDF reservist killed in Tuesday attack in Rafah; Israel says ceasefire restored Hamas fakes ‘unearthing’ partial remains of hostage whose body IDF recovered in 2023, Israel says Trump: ‘Nothing’ will jeopardize Gaza ceasefire, Israel ‘should hit back’ if troops killed Revised ultra-Orthodox military draft bill said to reduce penalties for dodgers Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by Pod-Waves. Illustrative image: Hamas terrorists carry a white bag believed to contain a body, after retrieving it from a tunnel during a search for the remains of hostages in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, October 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode. Israel does not know the location of four of the remaining 13 bodies of hostages held in Gaza, even as Egypt is reportedly bringing 12 additional heavy vehicles into the enclave this morning to clear roads and assist in efforts to locate the deceased. Berman weighs in on the stability of the ceasefire as the US increases its rhetoric, pushing Hamas to release the bodies to begin the transition to phase two of the 20-point Trump peace plan. A transnational terror network run by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force is behind a string of recent attacks on Jewish sites in Western countries, the Mossad intelligence agency said on Sunday. We learn about senior IRGC-Quds Force commander Sardar Ammar, who heads a network of some 11,000 operatives carrying out covert operations and strikes on Jewish sites. Catherine Connolly, a veteran lawmaker on the far left of the Irish political spectrum, was elected president by a landslide margin on Saturday. She has drawn criticism for her views on the Hamas terror group, which she said in September was “part of the fabric of the Palestinian people,” as well as claims that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. Does Berman see an even rockier relationship with Israel on the horizon? Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates. For further reading: Israel reported to know location of 9 out of 13 deceased hostages still held in Gaza Israel reveals Iran’s Guards leader behind attacks on Jewish sites in Europe, Australia Far-left candidate who called Israel ‘terrorist state’ elected president of Ireland Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by Podwaves. IMAGE: Illustrative: Members of the Hamas terrorist group search for bodies of the slain hostages in an area in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Israel đang gây sức ép buộc Hamas phải tôn trọng thỏa thuận ngừng bắn và trao trả thi thể các con tin vẫn bị giam giữ ở Gaza. Điều này diễn ra trong bối cảnh ảnh vệ tinh cho thấy các đoàn xe viện trợ hạn chế đang đi vào khu vực này qua cửa khẩu Kerem Shalom, trong khi những người Palestine di tản ở Khan Younis đang phải chịu đựng điều kiện sống ngày càng tồi tệ giữa tình trạng thiếu lương thực, nhiên liệu và nước sạch. Với ước tính hơn 67.900 người Palestine thiệt mạng kể từ năm 2023 và sự không chắc chắn về việc mở lại Rafah, ngày càng có thêm những mối lo ngại rằng thỏa thuận ngừng bắn mong manh này có thể sụp đổ.

Israel đang gây áp lực buộc Hamas tôn trọng thỏa thuận ngừng bắn và trả lại thi thể các con tin vẫn còn tại Gaza. Điều này diễn ra khi hình ảnh vệ tinh cho thấy, các đoàn xe cứu trợ hạn chế đi vào vùng đất này qua Kerem Shalom, trong khi người Palestine di tản tại Khan Younis, phải chịu đựng điều kiện sống ngày càng tồi tệ do thiếu lương thực, nhiên liệu và nước sạch. Với hơn 67.900 người Palestine thiệt mạng kể từ năm 2023 và sự bất ổn về việc mở cửa trở lại Rafah, nỗi lo ngại về việc thỏa thuận ngừng bắn mong manh này có thể sụp đổ đang ngày càng gia tăng.

Israel is pressing Hamas to honour the ceasefire agreement and return the bodies of hostages still held in Gaza. This comes as satellite images show limited aid convoys entering the enclave through Kerem Shalom, while displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis endure worsening living conditions amid shortages of food, fuel, and clean water. With more than 67,900 Palestinians killed since 2023 and uncertainty over Rafah's reopening, fears are growing that the fragile truce could collapse.

Palestinians in Gaza returning to their homes following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas say they've been shocked by the scale of destruction. Also on the programme, The Venezuelan opposition leader and democracy activist, María Corina Machado, has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize; and, the green turtle has been rescued from the brink of extinction in what scientists are calling a major conservation victory. (Photo: Palestinians react near rubble following Israeli forces' withdrawal from the area, after Israel and Hamas agreed on the Gaza ceasefire, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 10, 2025. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

James Elder, UNICEF Global Spokesperson, speaks from Khan Younis, Gaza about the long-awaited ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas.

As we prepare for Yom Kippur, we speak with Joseph Gitler about his son-in-law, David Schwartz HY”D—a ben Torah, law student, and IDF reservist in Handasah Kravit (combat engineering) who fell in Khan Younis on January 8, 2024 alongside his chavrusa Yakir Hexter HY”D.Joseph shares how David wove together strong learning with real-world duty, his years in Gush Etzion, his time at Reichman University law school, his gift for connecting across communities, and what it means to mourn while still choosing life and responsibility. We also hear about ongoing projects in David's memory and the weekly Divrei Torah initiative that now reaches thousands.Links⁠To join the David Schwartz Divrei Torah chat⁠⁠To watch the video from the Azkara⁠HighlightsBen Torah in the world: David's learning (Kli Yakar chavrusas, steady seder) and his drive to serve—both in the IDF and potentially in public service.Bridging worlds: Deep ties across communities (yeshiva, Chassidus, secular campus). Seeking dialogue without blurring values.Reichman law school: Culture shock, principled debate during the judicial protests, and the value of hearing people who think differently.Army service: Training, multiple rotations in Gaza with Tzanhanim commandos; pride in the unit's work despite the dangers.January 8, 2024: The incident in Khan Younis; community and family response; what shiva looked like for parents of the almanah.National resilience: “The whole country has PTSD.” Practical takeaways: watch your friends and kids; speak up when you see someone struggling; get help involved.Living memory: A sefer of David's Torah (written in yeshiva), a growing weekly parsha sheet in Hebrew and English, shul/Beit Midrash renovations, and a loans fund for farmers and soldiers—projects that carry his light forward.

Dr. Ahmed Alfarra, the director of pediatric and maternal medicine at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, provides The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal with an eyewitness account of one of the most horrific moments of Israel's assault on his city, when it brazenly massacred journalists working for Reuters, AP and Al Jazeera and bombed the rescue team as well.Alfarra also details the injuries he's witnessed in children targeted by Israeli snipers, the many who turn up as casualties as his hospital after seeking aid at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, the growing spread of previously preventable diseases, and the Israeli-imposed famine sweeping Gazan society.

Convidados: José Hamilton Ribeiro, jornalista brasileiro que cobriu a Guerra do Vietnã, e Artur Romeu, diretor para América Latina da ONG Repórteres Sem Fronteiras. Segundo o escritório de Direitos Humanos da ONU, 247 profissionais de imprensa morreram em Gaza desde o início do conflito entre Israel e o grupo terrorista Hamas, em outubro de 2023. O Comitê para a Proteção de Jornalistas contabiliza 197 mortes. São números maiores do que a soma de todos os jornalistas mortos nas guerras do Vietnã, Iugoslávia e Afeganistão e mais as duas guerras mundiais. E é uma conta que não para de crescer: na segunda-feira (25), um novo ataque israelense ao Hospital Nasser, em Khan Younis, assassinou 20 pessoas, cinco delas profissionais de imprensa. Neste episódio, Natuza Nery conversa com José Hamilton Ribeiro, autor de “O Gosto da Guerra”, livro em que narra sua cobertura da Guerra do Vietnã para a revista Realidade, em 1968. Jornalista da Globo por mais de quatro décadas, ele carrega no corpo a marca da cobertura de uma guerra: ao pisar em uma mina terrestre, perdeu uma perna. Participa também do episódio Artur Romeu, diretor para a América Latina da ONG Repórteres Sem Fronteiras. Ele aponta quais são os principais direitos garantidos a jornalistas em zonas de conflito e explica por que o trabalho da imprensa é fundamental para que o mundo saiba o que acontece numa guerra, para além dos relatórios oficiais divulgados pelas partes envolvidas.

The Israeli prime minister has expressed deep regret at what he called a tragic mishap at a hospital in southern Gaza, in which at least 20 people were killed. Five journalists were among the dead as a result of an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. We speak to a journalist who knew one of those killed, Mariam Dagga.Also in the programme: As the Russian army edges forward into eastern Ukraine, we'll hear from people living on the frontline; and why an American reality TV dating show has a booming fanbase in Nigeria.(Photo: Freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, 33, who had been working with the Associated Press and other outlets since the start of the Gaza war, poses for a portrait in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 14, 2024. She was among those killed Monday in an Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Credit: AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Several journalists are among the dead after Israeli air strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis; that means nearly 200 media workers have now been killed since the war in Gaza began. A Canadian-Ukrainian dual citizen living in Kyiv shares his reaction after Prime Minister Mark Carney makes a surprise trip to Ukraine. DC students went back to school today, as armed National Guard troops patrol the city. One parent tells us what she's doing to keep her kids safe in the newly militarized environment.A California Democratic state senator tells us why her party is responding to Republican re-districting tactics first by decrying them -- and then by matching them. It's been a year since the satirical publication The Onion returned to print -- and it's been a lot easier, and a lot more successful, than anyone imagined. A South Korean fraudster might still be ripping people off, if he hadn't attracted police attention by throwing a cigarette butt away in the wrong place.As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that warns: you can bust your butt, only for your butt to get you busted.

Palestinian media say many people were killed by Israeli strikes on a camp for displaced people in southern Gaza's Khan Younis. An entire family is said to have died when their tent was hit. Other strikes were reported in central and northern Gaza - while the Israeli military is continuing its offensive on Gaza City. Also: Nigerian forces have attacked a bandit camp in the north of the country, and would you consider leaving Earth to spend a year in a simulated Mars environment? The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk

The UN's top humanitarian official Tom Fletcher says the report on the famine in Gaza City is 'irrefutable testimony'. But Israel categorically denies any claims of famine. Also in the programme: the FBI raids the home of President Trump's former advisor John Bolton; and the Indian government cracks down on online gambling.(Image: A child reacts surrounded by pots as Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on 21 August 2025. Credit: Reuters/Hatem Khaled)

A report by the internationally recognised body for determining global food insecurity has confirmed that there is now famine in Gaza City. The IPC warns that the dire situation is likely to expand to other parts of the territory by the end of next month - with half-a-million people in Gaza facing catastrophic conditions. Israel denies there is famine in the territory.Also in the programme: Spain's most famous architect on the path to sainthood; and the dinosaur with the 'eye-catching sail'.(File photo: Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, August 21, 2025. Credit: Reuters/Hatem Khaled)

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Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is an American trauma surgeon who has served in multiple volunteer medical delegations to war zones around the world, including delegations to Ukraine and Gaza. In this urgent episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Dr. Sidwha about the unfathomable carnage of Israel's genocidal destruction of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. “70% of structures in the Gaza Strip, human-built things, have been destroyed. That didn't happen with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This is insane. We're just leveling a whole society for the sake of doing it.”Guest:Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is a general, trauma, and critical care surgeon in California. He is also a humanitarian surgeon, having worked most extensively in Palestine, but also in Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso. Dr. Sidhwa most recently volunteered at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, from March 25-April 8, 2024 with the World Health Organization, and again from March 3-April 1, 2025 with American NGO MedGlobal.Additional resources:Mark Perlmutter & Feroze Sidhwa, Politico, “We volunteered at a Gaza hospital. What we saw was unspeakable”Credits:Producer: Rosette SewaliStudio Production: David HebdenAudio Post-Production: Stephen FrankFollow The Marc Steiner Show on Spotify Follow The Marc Steiner Show on Apple PodcastsHelp us continue producing The Marc Steiner Show by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on:Bluesky: @therealnews.comFacebook: The Real News NetworkTwitter: @TheRealNewsYouTube: @therealnewsInstagram: @therealnewsnetwork

The Senate approves President Trump's rescission package.Donald Trump has spent much of the week admonishing members of his MAGA base for raising the alert about his administration's failure to release information about Jeffrey Epstein.At least 20 people were crushed to death at Gaza Humanitarian Fund aid distribution site in Khan Younis.And Britain lowers its voting age, in the largest expansion of voting rights in the country in decades.Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Gaza's largest remaining hospital, the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, has stopped admitting casualties because of Israeli troops operating nearby. We speak to a doctor who is an emergency physician there. Also on the programme: Kurdish PKK rebels have begun disbanding after a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state; and scientists say the mystery interstellar object spotted last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen, possibly more than seven billion years old. (Photo: Medical personnel work in an operating room at Nasser Hospital, which Gaza's health ministry says is at risk of shutting down due to the Israeli blockade of fuel, as the ongoing shortage has already forced the facility to reduce its capacity. Credit: Reuters)

More Palestinians are reported to have been killed waiting for food near an aid site run by Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The head of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation tells us that it is the victim of a disinformation campaign.Also on the programme: Tonga's minister of health has a message for the hackers demanding a $1m ransom; and the Argentine-born composer, Lalo Schifrin, the man behind the Mission Impossible theme, has died at the age of 93. (Photo: A Palestinian carries a sack as he and others gather to collect aid supplies from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. Credit: Reuters)

Tommy and Ben discuss President Trump's policy changes on Syria and his man-crush on its president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, what lifting sanctions on Syria could (and should) look like, more details on how Qatar's plane bribe came together, and Tulsi Gabbard's shocking politicization of the intelligence community. They also talk about the continuing crackdown on journalists and human rights activists by Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, the dire–and indefensible–humanitarian situation in Gaza, the lack of any meaningful progress in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and elections in Portugal, Romania and Poland. Then, Ben speaks with Dr. Feroze Sidwha, a trauma surgeon who has volunteered twice in Gaza, about his experience treating patients in Khan Younis. Finally, Ben and Tommy are forced to endure some selections from this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

Unpacking President Trump's hourslong conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In Gaza, Israeli forces ordered the evacuation of Khan Younis, but residents have nowhere to go. Plus, a look at how Trump administration budget cuts have left the National Weather Service scrambling to cover basic forecasting needs amid climate change. Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter.Today's episode of Up First was edited by Neela Banerjee, Ryland Barton, Carrie Kahn, Ally Schweitzer and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Ben Abrams and Christopher Thomas. We get engineering support from Arthur Laurent and our technical director is Carleigh Strange.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy