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Rafah crossing to open Monday for Palestinians returning to Gaza, says Palestinian Embassy in Cairo

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General view of the Rafah Border Crossing on October 9, 2025 in Rafah, Egypt. [Photo by Ali Moustafa/Getty Images]

The Palestinian Embassy in Cairo announced on Saturday that the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip will reopen on Monday to allow Palestinians wishing to return to Gaza to cross, Anadolu reports.

Since May 2024, the Israeli army has blocked the movement of Palestinians through the Rafah border crossing, the territory’s only window to the outside world that was not controlled by Tel Aviv before the start of the Israeli war in October 2023.

In a statement, the embassy said: “The Rafah border crossing will open starting Monday to enable Palestinians residing in Egypt who wish to return to Gaza to travel, according to the established coordination mechanism.”

The embassy also urged Palestinian citizens in Egypt who wish to return to register their information through the designated online application, noting that they will later be informed of the dates and assembly points before moving toward the Rafah crossing, without giving further details.

Hamas released 20 living Israeli hostages and handed over the remains of 11 more captives in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under the ceasefire agreement.

The deal was reached between Israel and Hamas last week, based on a plan presented by US President Donald Trump. Phase one included the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. The plan also envisages the rebuilding of Gaza and the establishment of a new governing mechanism without Hamas.

Since October 2023, the Israeli genocidal war has killed 68,116 people and injured 170,200 others, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Saturday.

READ: Unloading of 900 tons of humanitarian aid for Gaza underway from Turkiye’s 17th ‘Goodness Ship’

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Venezuelan Ambassador Warns Trump Admin Is ‘Bloodthirsty’ Killer ‘Roaming Around the Caribbean’

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Original article by Brad Reed republished form Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

US President Donald Trump looks on as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers remarks during a joint news conference at the White House on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The Venezuelan ambassador accused the Trump administration of “killing everyone who is on the sea working.”

Venezuelan United Nations Ambassador Samuel Moncada on Thursday delivered a scathing denunciation of US President Donald Trump’s drone attacks on purported drug boats off the coast of his country.

While holding up a copy of Thursday’s edition of the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, which highlighted two Trinidadian citizens who were killed by a US drone strike while on a boat, Moncada lambasted the Trump administration and compared it to a serial killer.

“There is a killer roaming around the Caribbean!” he declared. “He’s bloodthirsty! He’s killing everyone who is on the sea working! And people from different countries—Colombia, Trinidad, etc.—are suffering the effects of these massacres!”

According to Reuters, Moncada this week also sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council asking it to rule on the legality of the US strikes, while also releasing a statement affirming Venezuela’s sovereignty.

The two Trinidadian citizens mentioned by Moncada were killed in a Tuesday drone strike that also reportedly took the lives of four other men.

In interviews with the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, friends and relatives of 26-year-old Chad Joseph, one of the men killed in the strike, denied that he was involved with any drug trafficking.

“I find it wrong because it have—people will be innocent and they will still do and say otherwise,” Joseph’s mother, Lenore Burnley, told the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. “The sea law is they supposed to stop the boat and intercept it, not blow it up like that.”

With the Tuesday strike, the total number of people killed by the Trump administration’s attacks on suspected drug boats totaled at least 27.

The administration carried out yet another boat strike on Thursday, and Reuters reported that at least two crew members had survived the attack, marking the first time that an attack on suspected drug vessels had left any survivors.

Reuters noted that “the development raises new questions, including whether the US military rendered aid to the survivors and whether they are now in US military custody, possibly as prisoners of war.”

The Trump administration so far has provided no legal justification for the strikes on boats, nor has it provided any evidence that any of the boats it has targeted were involved in the trafficking of illegal drugs.

Many legal experts believe that the strikes on the boats would be illegal even if they were found to have been carrying drugs, however, and some critics have accused the Trump administration of extrajudicial murder.

Moncada said Thursday that the Trump administration, which has also reportedly approved “lethal operations” by the CIA in Venezuela, is “looking for wars.”

“Everybody knows what’s going on here,” he said. “They are fabricating a war. The emperor is naked. Stop pretending this is complicated.”

Original article by Brad Reed republished form Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

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Pro-Democracy Americans Gear Up for ‘No Kings’ Day Nationwide

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People take part in a “No Kings” protest outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, on June 14, 2025 as US President Donald Trump presides over a military parade in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)

“Don’t miss this chance to be part of the largest expression of free speech we’ve ever had,” said progressive filmmaker Michael Moore.

Organizers are expecting Saturday’s nationwide “No Kings” rallies to be among the largest single-day demonstrations in US history, and many activists and politicians on Friday sent messages of encouragement to demonstrators.

Leah Greenberg, the co-founder and co-president of Indivisible, which is one of the main organizers of the demonstrations, told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on Friday that she and her group are “engaging in the most American activity in the world, which is coming together in peaceful protest of our government.”

Greenberg then addressed attacks from President Donald Trump and other Republican lawmakers over the last week that the “No Kings” events were a “hate America” rally.

“This is a classic exercise of the authoritarian playbook, to try to create fear, to try to threaten, to try to make people back off preemptively,” she said. “We’re not going to do that… we won’t be cowed.”

Former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich also hit back at GOP claims that the “No Kings” rallies were anti-American, and he argued that the people attending them will be doing so out of a deep sense of patriotism.

“We’re rallying tomorrow because we LOVE America,” he wrote in a post on X. “It’s an opportunity for all of us who love this country to express our determination that our nation’s ideals not be crushed by the Trump regime.”

Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore encouraged his supporters to take part in Saturday’s demonstrations, and he wrote on his personal Substack it was of the utmost importance for Americans to make their voices heard in the face of authoritarian threats from the Trump administration.

“Don’t miss this chance to be part of the largest expression of free speech we’ve ever had,” he said. “Time has run out. One year from now, don’t find yourself wishing you had done something. Said something. This is our last chance, the final moment to stop the madness. I implore you to join us.”

Several Democratic politicians also expressed support for the demonstrations.

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) blasted Trump and the GOP for attacking the patriotism of the “No Kings” protesters.

“I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let the Draftdodger-in-Chief tell me what a patriot is,” he wrote in a social media post. “We’re STANDING UP, SPEAKING OUT, and FIGHTING BACK. No Kings in America. See you Saturday.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sent out a video message expressing solidarity with Chicago and Portland, Oregon, two cities in which Trump has tried to deploy National Guard soldiers, and let them know that they fighting against authoritarianism by themselves.

“The people everywhere are standing up, in all 50 states and thousands of towns and cities across America,” he said. “We have no kings here, no crowns, no thrones.”

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) accused Trump and Republicans of waging a campaign of intimidation aimed at frightening Americans out of exercising their rights to peacefully demonstrate.

“The Republicans’ attacks on the No Kings protests are sickening,” he wrote in a post on Bluesky. “To them, only pro-Trump speech is protected. If you oppose Trump, you ‘hate America’ or you’re a ’terrorist.‘ What they’re trying to do is simple: suppress turnout this weekend. Don’t let them win.”

Original article by Brad Reed republished form Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

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UNRWA: Every delay in delivering aid to Gaza means more deaths

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Trucks carrying food and medical supplies belonging to the World Food Programme (WFP) enter Gaza through the Kerem Shalom border crossing, as limited humanitarian aid continues to reach the Gaza Strip following the ceasefire agreement, on October 16, 2025 in Gaza City, Gaza. [Abed Rahim Khatib – Anadolu Agency]

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that any delay in allowing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip will cost more lives, as the humanitarian situation remains catastrophic despite the ongoing ceasefire.

Jonathan Fuller, UNRWA’s Acting Director of Communications, said on Thursday that the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was a welcome but insufficient step toward addressing the deep humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

“The ceasefire is a crucial step, but it is only the beginning of addressing the profound humanitarian crisis facing the people of the Gaza Strip,” Fuller said.

He stressed that the volume of aid entering Gaza must be dramatically increased to meet the overwhelming needs of the population.

Fuller warned that each day of delay in facilitating aid delivery results in more deaths from malnutrition and preventable diseases, adding that the priority now is to prevent the spread of illness and worsening food shortages while supporting displaced Palestinians to rebuild their lives.

READ: Israeli army chief admits failure to prevent Hamas’ 7 October attack

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.
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.
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Egypt FM: Recovering bodies of Israeli captives will take considerable time

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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aty speaks during a press conference with the EU Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs at Tahrir Palace in the centre of Cairo on September 9, 2024 in Cairo, Egypt. [Sayed Hassan/Getty Images]

In an interview with CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour, Abdel Aty explained that many bodies remain buried under the rubble, with explosive materials and improvised devices posing additional risks to recovery teams.

“Reaching them will be difficult, but we are doing our best on the ground to collect the bodies of the dead and hand them over to the Israeli side, as part of implementing the first phase of the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement,” he said.

The minister added that Egypt had informed the American side that retrieving the remains “would take a long time” due to the situation on the ground.

Abdel Aty said that the first phase of the ceasefire agreement was “going well,” while stressing the urgent need to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza and to reopen border crossings as soon as possible.

Regarding the next phase of the agreement, the minister cautioned that it would be “more difficult,” but expressed optimism that with “political commitment, US involvement, and international cooperation,” the parties could reach an understanding that would pave the way for a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue, which he described as “the core of the conflict in our region.”

READ: Hamas says Israeli bodies are seven floors underground near unexploded bombs

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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.
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.
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