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Israel’s newly appointed armed forces chief, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir (C), visits the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem on March 5, 2025. Menahem KAHANA / AFP / Getty Images]
Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said on Sunday that the Israeli army must be prepared to shift swiftly from defensive operations to a large-scale offensive aimed at occupying territory beyond the so-called “Yellow Line” in the Gaza Strip.
Zamir’s remarks came during a visit to Rafah in southern Gaza, according to a statement issued by the Israeli army. Zamir conducted a situational assessment with senior commanders, including Southern Command chief Yaniv Asor, Gaza Division commander Barak Hiram and the heads of all brigades operating in the Strip.
The army said Zamir toured the Rafah area, where he reviewed operational developments across all fronts and stressed the need to maintain defensive readiness, eliminate threats and remain prepared for “a rapid transition to offensive operations”.
Zamir stated that the Israeli army currently “controls more than 50% of the Gaza Strip, without controlling its population”, adding that the Yellow Line functions as a “line of encirclement and control”. He said military efforts continue to prevent Hamas from regrouping, including maintaining control over border crossings and areas under Israeli oversight.
“In parallel with the current operational course, and if necessary, we must be prepared to move quickly to a large-scale offensive to occupy areas in the Gaza Strip on the other side of the Yellow Line,” Zamir said.
The chief of staff added that Israeli forces are continuing efforts to clear areas along the Yellow Line and eliminate remaining resistance pockets, while the Southern Command works to destroy “terrorist infrastructure”, including underground tunnels.
Zamir reiterated that Israel is committed to ensuring that “Hamas rule will not remain on the other side of the border”, saying the army’s objective is to dismantle Hamas and disarm the Gaza Strip “whether through agreements or military action”.
He also noted that the military has continued its investigation into the failures of the 7 October attack, saying he established an expert committee upon taking office to ensure “a profound process of learning and understanding”.
“We are not afraid of the consequences,” Zamir said. “All of this is for the sake of advancing the army and improving its future performance.”
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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) speaks about ending the Gaza genocide as medical professionals and activists look on, at the House Triangle on Capitol Hill on July 24, 2025. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“After over two years of slaughter, forced starvation, and mass atrocities in Gaza, the global consensus is clear: The Israeli government has committed genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.”
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and 20 Democratic colleagues on Friday introduced legislation that would officially recognize Israel’s 25-month war on Gaza as a genocide, a move that came as Israeli forces continued killing Palestinians in the coastal strip and violating a tenuous ceasefire with Hamas.
Tlaib (D-Mich.)—the only Palestinian American in Congress—introduced H.Res. 876, which, if passed, would “officially recognize that the state of Israel has committed the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza” and affirm that it is official US policy to “prevent and punish the crime of genocide, wherever it occurs.”
“The Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza has not ended, and it will not end until we act,” Tlaib said in a statement Friday. “Since the so-called ‘ceasefire’ was announced, Israeli forces haven’t stopped killing Palestinians.”
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO), Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement 282 times as of November 10, 2025—exactly one month after the US-brokered truce took effect. Alleged violations include airstrikes resulting in massacres, shootings of civilians, property demolitions, and raids beyond the ceasefire’s “yellow line” buffer zones.
GMO says Israeli forces have killed least 242 Palestinians and injured more than 620 others during the truce.
This, in addition to the at least 249,000 Palestinians who have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces since October 2023, including upward of 10,000 people who are missing and presumed dead and buried beneath the ruins of Gaza, which could take decades to clear. Around 2 million Palestinians have been starved, sickened, and forcibly displaced. Many others have been arbitrarily imprisoned, tortured, and allegedly subjected to rape and other sexual abuse.
“After over two years of slaughter, forced starvation, and mass atrocities in Gaza, the global consensus is clear: The Israeli government has committed genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” Tlaib noted.
The resolution calls for the United States to “respect its obligations under the Genocide Convention by employing all means reasonably available to it to prevent and punish the crime of genocide.”
These include:
cessation of relevant arms and equipment transfers;
investigation and prosecution of individuals and corporations in the United States implicated in the crime of genocide;
targeted, lawful sanctions with respect to the state of Israel and individuals or corporations involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide.
“Impunity only enables more atrocity,” Tlaib warned. “As our government continues to send a blank check for war crimes and ethnic cleansing, Palestinian children’s smiles are extinguished by bombs and bullets that say made in the USA.”
“To end this horror, we must reject genocide denial and follow our binding legal obligations under the Genocide Convention to take immediate action to pursue justice and accountability to prevent and punish the crime of genocide,” she added. “We must hold individual perpetrators and complicit corporations to account. We must stop sending weapons to a genocidal military. We must follow international law and use all means available to us, including sanctions, to bring this genocide to an end.”
Despite existing laws prohibiting US assistance to foreign security forces that commit gross human rights violations, the United States—which grew into a world power in part via genocide of Indigenous Americans—has provided arms and diplomatic cover to the perpetrators of genocides in Paraguay, Guatemala, Bangladesh, East Timor, Kurdistan, and Gaza over the past half-century, while turning a blind eye to other genocides.
Under the Biden and Trump administrations, the US has provided Israel with more than $20 billion in armed aid while thwarting efforts to end the genocide by vetoing numerous United Nations Security Council ceasefire resolutions.
Trump has also targeted individuals and nations who seek justice for Palestinians, acknowledge the Gaza genocide, or recognize Palestinian statehood.
Tlaib’s resolution is co-sponsored by Democratic Reps. Becca Balint (Vt.), André Carson (Ind.), Greg Casar (Texas), Maxine Dexter (Ore.), Maxwell Alejandro Frost (Fla.), Jesús “Chuy” García (Ill.), Al Green (Texas), Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), “Hank” Johnson Jr. (Ga.), Ro Khanna (Calif.), Summer Lee (Pa.), Jim McGovern (Mass.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Mark Pocan (Wis.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Delia Ramirez (Ill.), Lateefah Simon (Calif.), Nydia Velázquez (NY), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ).
The resolution—which is unlikely to get through the Republican-controlled Congress—is also endorsed by more than 100 organizations.
“This resolution is an important step towards recognizing Israel’s actions against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip for what they are—genocide,” Amnesty International Middle East and North Africa advocacy director Elizabeth Rghebi said in support of the measure.
“The US ratified the Genocide Convention which imposes a duty on states to prevent and punish the crime,” Rghebi added. “Amnesty International calls on all members of Congress to urgently support this resolution and ensure the US begins taking the actions necessary to prevent and punish Israel’s genocide in Gaza.”
Beth Miller, political director at Jewish Voice for Peace Action, said that “for over two years, the US has been a full partner in the Israeli government’s genocide against Palestinians. Presidents and members of Congress have denied and erased Israel’s ongoing atrocities in Gaza, shielded Israel from accountability in the international arena, and attempted to dehumanize Palestinians.”
“Congresswoman Tlaib and the original co-sponsors joining her on this historic resolution are making clear that this complicity must come to an end,” Miller added. “These representatives are heeding the call of the overwhelming majority of Americans who want to see an end to his genocide and a halt to US support for war crimes.”
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A view of the mosque which Israelis have set fire to, and wrote racist slogans on its walls in Salfit, West Bank on November 13, 2025. [Issam Rimawi – Anadolu Agency]
The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas has condemned the burning of a mosque in the Salfit governorate by Israeli settlers and said the arson attack “once again exposes the depth of Israeli racism and sadism toward the Palestinian people and their Islamic and Christian holy sites.”
In a statement published on its Telegram channel on Thursday, the movement condemned the arson attack on the Hajja Hamida Mosque, located between Kafr Haris and Deir Istiya, calling it a “heinous crime” and “a blatant assault on the feelings of Muslims and their freedom of worship.”
Hamas added that the escalating violence by settlers “is carried out with the full backing of the fascist occupation government,” aimed at imposing new realities on the ground and altering the historical and demographic character of the occupied territories.
The group called for urgent international action to restrain Israel, saying the pattern of attacks “violates all international laws, norms, and divine legislation.”
Earlier on Thursday, settlers stormed Deir Istiya at dawn, set fire to parts of the mosque, and spray-painted racist Hebrew slogans on its walls, eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency. Residents succeeded in extinguishing the fire, though parts of the mosque sustained damage.
The incident is the latest in a series of assaults on Islamic holy sites this year. Palestinian rights groups have documented dozens of attacks involving mosque arson, vandalism, Quran desecration, and graffiti calling for the killing or expulsion of Palestinians.
According to the Palestinian Authority’s Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, settlers have carried out 7,154 attacks across the West Bank during the two years of the Gaza war, causing 33 Palestinian deaths and the displacement of 33 communities. Joint attacks by the Israeli army and settlers have killed at least 1,070 Palestinians, injured about 10,700, and led to the arrest of more than 20,500 others.
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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/O74hZCKKdpAKeir 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.
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Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem on July 24, 2023. [Noam Moskowitz – Knesset – Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images]
The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, has condemned the Israeli Knesset’s (parliament) initial approval of a bill granting the government the power to shut down foreign media outlets without prior judicial review, calling it an effort to conceal Israel’s crimes and suppress press freedom.
In a statement on Tuesday, Izzat al-Rishq, head of Hamas’s media office, said the Knesset’s vote on the bill represents “a direct threat to press freedom and a reinforcement of the policy of silencing dissenting voices.”
He accused Israel of seeking to “prevent the world from learning the truth about the occupation’s crimes and aggression against the Palestinian people,” adding that much of the content deemed harmful to state security “actually exposes crimes of killing, displacement, settlement expansion, Judaisation, and home demolitions.”
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the proposed measure would make permanent what is informally known as the “Al Jazeera Law”—a temporary provision passed in April 2024 allowing the government to close foreign media organisations operating in Israel for national security reasons. That law required judicial approval and was originally used to suspend the operations of the Qatari network Al Jazeera.
Under the new bill, the prime minister and communications minister could order the closure of foreign outlets without judicial oversight, significantly expanding executive powers over the press.
Al-Rishq urged international governments, human rights groups, and press unions to act “to repeal this legislation,” which he described as evidence of Israel’s “intention to escalate its crimes and hide the truth from the world.”
He also called on international journalists and media organizations to demand access to the occupied Palestinian territories to report “objectively and professionally on the reality of the situation.”
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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/O74hZCKKdpAKeir 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.
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Palestinians continue their lives amid the rubble of destroyed buildings and limited living conditions after returning to Khan Yunis, which was heavily damaged by two years of Israeli attacks, on November 10, 2025. [Abed Rahim Khatib – Anadolu Agency]
The ceasefire agreements that ended the recent conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon are at risk of collapse, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
The report said it took nearly a year to reach the ceasefire in Lebanon and just over a month in Gaza. Now, both agreements have reached a “critical point” at the same time and could fall apart.
The Gaza ceasefire, which began on 10 October 2025, was part of a plan to resolve major issues following the return of living prisoners. Other contentious matters, including the disarming of Hamas, were scheduled to be addressed later. However, ongoing disputes and the failure to return all deceased prisoners have raised questions about Gaza’s future.
The newspaper added that some senior US officials under President Donald Trump reportedly fear that his peace plan for the region, which is meant to formally end fighting between Israel and Hamas, may fail due to difficulties in implementing key parts.
Under the first stage of the plan, 20 living prisoners were returned. Israel currently controls around 53 per cent of Gaza’s territory, including large agricultural areas, Rafah in the south, and parts of Gaza City. Meanwhile, nearly two million Palestinians have been displaced to camps made up of tents and the ruins of cities that remain under Hamas control.
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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/O74hZCKKdpAKeir 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.
