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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference after a Cabinet meeting to discuss both trade negotiations with the US and the situation in the Middle East, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on July 30, 2025. [DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed on Monday that he would uphold the decision of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, to enforce the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, should he enter Canadian territory.
In a brief press statement, Carney said his government “respects international law and the principle of accountability,” stressing that Canada “will treat the ICC’s warrant as it does any binding international judicial order.”
He added that his country would carry out the arrest if Netanyahu enters Canada, in fulfilment of its international obligations.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague had earlier issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the recent war in Gaza.
Canada is one of the signatories to the Rome Statute, which established the ICC, and is therefore legally required to execute arrest warrants issued by the court.
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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAOrcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.
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Pro-Palestinian Jewish American demonstrators rally outside the Manhattan headquarters of Pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, who accept donations from the group on February 22, 2024 in New York City, United States. [Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images]
As public anger in the United States toward Israel continues to grow after more than two years of the war in Gaza, an internal poll has found that support from pro-Israel lobbying groups has become a burden for Democratic candidates seeking to win their primary elections.
The survey, conducted by Upswing Strategies—a polling firm specialising in Democratic Party research—questioned 850 Democratic voters in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. These states include some of the most competitive primary races expected in the 2026 elections.
The poll examined voters’ views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on pro-Israel lobbying groups, most notably the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Results showed that around 48 per cent of respondents said they would “never support” any candidate who receives funding from AIPAC or other pro-Israel lobbying organisations, while 28 per cent expressed this stance firmly without hesitation.
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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAOrcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.
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Ten-year-old Mohammed Ashraf Abu Muhsin, who lost his parents and siblings in an Israeli strike on the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, struggles to survive alone with a cast on his leg and wounds on his face at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza on September 30, 2025. [Abdallah F.s. Alattar – Anadolu Agency]
In Gaza, silence has become the only language left for thousands of children who have survived the ongoing genocide but not its psychological aftermath.
In recent months, international and local organisations have documented a surge in cases of children losing the ability to speak—not due to physical injuries, but because of the unbearable psychological trauma of war.
According to a report by the Gaza Community Mental Health Program (GCMHP), increasing numbers of children exhibit severe post-traumatic symptoms, including chronic nightmares, hypersensitivity to loud sounds, and bedwetting. Many remain completely silent despite having no damage to their vocal cords.
Doctors identify this condition as “traumatic mutism”—a psychological disorder in which overwhelming fear or shock silences a child’s voice, forcing them to communicate instead through gestures, looks, or repetitive movements.
“Psychological exhaustion in Gaza has become widespread,” said Dr Yasser Abu Jamea, Director of the GCMHP. “Medical teams are working under conditions of annihilation that make the continuation of treatment nearly impossible.”
A doctor with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) described the situation starkly: “A child in Gaza doesn’t live with the memory of one airstrike—they live waiting for the next.”
Speech therapist Heba Haidar, a specialist in language and swallowing disorders, told Quds Press that reports from UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have confirmed cases of stuttering and speech loss directly linked to exposure to Israeli bombings.
“Children pulled from beneath the rubble have stopped speaking,” Haidar said. “Even adolescents are struggling to form words—as if language itself has broken under the weight of trauma.”
Before the latest escalation, more than half of Gaza’s children already showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to mental health surveys. Now, Haidar warns, those psychological wounds have deepened into a “linguistic and emotional collapse” that threatens an entire generation.
Efforts by therapists abroad to provide remote treatment have been obstructed by power cuts, communication blackouts, and continued bombardment. “Specialists in Jordan have tried to volunteer their services to children in Gaza,” Haidar revealed, “but ongoing shelling and the total collapse of communication networks have made these efforts nearly impossible.”
She cautioned that experiences from Rwanda, Bosnia, and Syria show that untreated war trauma can persist across generations if children are not provided with psychological care today.
Despite the devastation, Haidar believes that an “urgent psychological response plan” can still be implemented inside Gaza. She envisins mobile mental health units in displacement camps, child-centered play therapy, and structured pronunciation exercises for children with speech loss—alongside remote support programs coordinated with international experts. “The world must listen to Gaza’s silent children,” Haidar said. “They are not just victims of war—they are survivors losing their voices. Helping them speak again means helping them reclaim their humanity.”
Since October 2023, Israeli forces—backed by US and European support—have waged a campaign of destruction across the Gaza Strip, defying international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt the assault.
The genocide has left more than 238,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them women and children. Over 11,000 remain missing, while famine, displacement, and the near-total destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure have erased entire neighbourhoods from the map.
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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAOrcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.
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Palestinians mourn the loss of their loved ones killed in an Israeli attack despite the ceasefire agreement, at Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, Gaza on October 20, 2025. [Hassan Jedi – Anadolu Agency]
The Gaza government said that 97 Palestinians had been killed and 230 others injured as a result of 80 violations carried out by the Israeli army since the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took effect on 10 October. It added that 21 of those violations occurred on Sunday, resulting in the deaths of 44 people.
In a statement, the government’s media office in Gaza said that “the occupation has committed 80 documented violations since the announcement of the ceasefire, in a clear breach of international humanitarian law.”
The statement noted that the violations included direct shooting at civilians, deliberate airstrikes and shelling, the use of heavy fire belts, and the arrest of civilians.
It added that the Israeli army carried out these attacks using military vehicles and tanks stationed at the edges of residential areas, as well as electronic cranes equipped with remote sensing and targeting systems, and warplanes and drones of the Quad-Copter type used for direct targeting.
The statement confirmed that “these violations have been recorded in all governorates of the Gaza Strip without exception, which proves that the occupation has not complied with the ceasefire and continues its policy of killing and terror against our people.”
According to official figures, these attacks have resulted in “97 deaths and more than 230 injuries of varying degrees since the signing of the ceasefire agreement.”
The Gaza government held the Israeli army fully responsible for these violations and called on the United Nations and the guarantors of the ceasefire agreement to take urgent action to stop the assaults.
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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Vote Labour for Genocide.
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Israeli soldiers patrol on street during a raid on Salam Neighborhood in Nablus, West Bank on May 29, 2025. [Nedal Eshtayah – Anadolu Agency]
The Palestinian Authority’s Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) announced on Sunday that the Israeli army has seized approximately 17 acres (70 dunams) of land from several villages in the Nablus Governorate for “military and security purposes”.
In a statement published on its website, the Commission stated: “The Israeli occupation authorities have taken control of 17 acres and 147 square metres of land through a military order, affecting areas in the villages of Qaryut, Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya and Al-Sawiya in Nablus Governorate.”
According to the Commission, the seizure aims to “establish a buffer zone around the Eli settlement”.
The military order permits objections within one week of issuance; however, the order is dated 21 September, 2025. The Commission highlighted that “the Israeli authorities published the military order after the objection period had already expired”.
The Commission further noted that “since the beginning of 2025, the occupation authorities have issued 53 military land seizure orders for various military purposes — marking a significant increase in the use of such orders to take control of Palestinian land”.
To mark two years since what it termed “the war of extermination”, the Commission reported that Israeli authorities have seized 13590.796 (55,000 dunams) of land and established 25 buffer zones around settlements during that time.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military offensive on Gaza, the Commission stated that attacks in the occupied West Bank have also intensified. At least 1,056 Palestinians have been killed, around 10,000 injured, and over 20,000 arrested — including 1,600 children — since the start of the Gaza assault.
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