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Daily Archives: 10. August 2025
Mass Rallies Across Israel, Speakers Urge Soldiers to Refuse to Occupy Gaza, Calls to Launch General Strike
Following a big gathering at Hostages Square, hostages’ families begin a march around the army headquarters in protest of the Gaza occupation plan, joining protesters and other hostages’ families from the anti-government protest outside the Begin Street entrance to the army headquarters.
During that protest, speakers urged soldiers to refuse to serve in Gaza and called on opposition heads as well as business, labor and academic leaders to bring the country to a general strike. At the same time, dozens of activists split from the main march in Tel Aviv and are blocking the central Ayalon highway in both directions in several points. The activists burned tires in one of their blocking points and three were arrested by police.
Masses rally against Gaza City takeover plan, urge soldiers to refuse, seek general strike
Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway shut down as protesters light bonfires in the road; relatives of hostages bewail ‘eternal war-mongers’ for choosing to ‘sacrifice’ their loved ones
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Nearby, at the anti-government, pro-hostage deal protest in front of the Begin Street entrance to the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, speakers urged soldiers to refuse to serve in the expanded fighting, and called on opposition heads as well as business, labor and academic leaders to bring the country to a standstill.
“An entire county is held hostage by Hamas and the government of Israel,” said Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker. “What needs to be done? The country needs to grind to a halt, now.”
Security Council to Discuss Israel‘s Plan to Take Over Gaza City
Live updates will be posted on a blog page during the meeting, with the full summary to be published on Monday, 11 August.
The Security Council will hold an emergency meeting at 10 a.m. today to discuss the developing situation in Gaza — in response to Israel’s plan for its defence security forces to take control of Gaza City. Briefings will be delivered by Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia, and the Americas, and Ramesh Rajasingham, Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva and Director of the Coordination Division. The Council’s European members — Denmark, France, Greece, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom —requested the meeting.
In Swipe at UK, Huckabee Cites Allied Bombing of Dresden to Defend Israel‘s Gaza Genocide
U.S. and British warplanes indiscriminately bombed Dresden with munitions including 4,000-pound „blockbusters“ and incendiary explosives over two days in February 1945. The heat generated by the inferno melted human flesh, turning many victims into piles of goop. Men, women, children; the sick and the elderly; refugees and Allied prisoners of war—even the animals in the city zoo—were incinerated together.
Acclaimed author Kurt Vonnegut—an American POW imprisoned in Dresden at the time, whose seminal novel Slaughterhouse-Five was inspired by the firebombing—later described the attack as „carnage unfathomable.“ After viewing images of the bombing, then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked: „Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?“
As the old adage posits, „history is written by the victors,“ and no Allied officials were ever held accountable for atrocities committed against their Axis enemies. However, after the war, the Nuremberg trials, Fourth Geneva Convention, and Genocide Convention sought to ensure that horrors like Nazi and Japanese war crimes and what the British described as the „terror bombing“ of Germany never happened again.
Umfrage: Mehrheit der Deutschen für Anerkennung eines Staates Palästina
(August 9, 2025)
In einer Forsa-Erhebung für die außenpolitische Fachzeitschrift Internationale Politik bejahten 54 Prozent der Teilnehmer die Frage «Sollte Deutschland jetzt Palästina als eigenen Staat anerkennen?». 31 Prozent lehnten dies ab. Forsa befragte für die Erhebung Ende Juli dazu 1001 Menschen in Deutschland.
Merz in den tagesthemen: „Kein Wechsel in der deutschen Israel-Politik“
Merz‘ Schritt hatte in der Union teils heftige Kritik ausgelöst. Mehrere Politiker sprechen von einem riskanten Kurswechsel. Außerdem wird dem Kanzler mangelnde Kommunikation vorgeworfen.
Israel-Politik: In der Union rumort es
In der Union gibt es großen Unmut wegen des Kurswechsels von Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz (CDU) in der Israel-Politik. Noch am Sonntag kommen die Außenpolitiker der CDU/CSU-Fraktion zu einer Videositzung zusammen. Die AG Außen werde die aktuelle außenpolitische Entwicklung besprechen, hieß es aus Fraktionskreisen. Zuvor hatte die „Bild“-Zeitung über das Treffen berichtet.
Netanyahu tells Merz Germany ‘rewarding Hamas’ by placing arms embargo on Israel
(August 8, 2025)
“Instead of supporting Israel’s just war against Hamas, which carried out the most horrific attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Germany is rewarding Hamas terrorism by embargoing arms to Israel,” the Prime Minister’s Office says in a statement.
Joint Statement from the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom and the High Representative of the European Union.
(August 9, 2025)
The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom, and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, strongly reject the decision of the Israeli Security Cabinet on 8th August to launch an additional large-scale military operation in Gaza. It will aggravate the catastrophic humanitarian situation, endanger the lives of the hostages, and further risk the mass displacement of civilians. The plans that the Government of Israel has announced risk violating international humanitarian law. Any attempts at annexation or of settlement extension violate international law.
We urge the parties and the international community to make all efforts to finally bring this terrible conflict to an end now, through an immediate and permanent ceasefire that enables the provision of a massive, immediate and unimpeded humanitarian assistance, as the worst-case scenario of a famine is unfolding in Gaza. Hamas must release all hostages without further delay or precondition and must ensure they are humanely treated and not subject to cruelty and humiliation.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains catastrophic. We call on the Government of Israel to urgently find solutions to amend its recent registration system of international humanitarian organisations, to ensure these vital actors of humanitarian aid can continue their essential work again in line with humanitarian principles to reach the civilians in need in Gaza. Their exclusion would be an egregious signal.
We are united in our commitment to the implementation of a negotiated two-state solution as the only way to guarantee that both Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace, security, and dignity. A political resolution based on a negotiated two-state solution requires the total demilitarisation of Hamas and its complete exclusion from any form of governance in the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian Authority must have a central role.
Australia joins UK, Germany, Italy and New Zealand in condemning Israel’s planned Gaza City takeover
(August 9, 2025)
Joint statement warns Netanyahu’s new ground offensive will worsen ‘catastrophic humanitarian situation’ as international outrage grows
Palestinian boy killed in Gaza aid drop as starvation toll rises to 217
Medical sources in Gaza, meanwhile, said that Israeli forces killed at least 47 people in attacks across the Strip on Saturday, including dozens who were waiting for aid.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Health said that at least five more Palestinians had starved to death in the previous 24-hour reporting period, including two children.
The latest toll brings the total number of deaths from malnutrition to 217, including 100 children, since the war began.
The Arab League emergency meeting kicks off at Palestine‘s request
Cairo (UNA/WAFA) – The Arab League Council kicked off its extraordinary session on Sunday at the level of permanent delegates, chaired by Jordan, the current president of the Council, at the request of the State of Palestine and the support of member states. The session was attended by the Assistant Secretary-General for Palestine and Occupied Arab Territories, Ambassador Saeed Abu Ali
Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Gulf bloc, Arab League condemn Israeli plans to occupy Gaza
(August 9, 2025)
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and the Arab League Ministerial Committee on Saturday issued a joint condemnation of Israel‘s plan to take complete control of the Gaza Strip.
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The statement called for “an immediate halt to Israel‘s attacks on Gaza and serious violations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem” while demanding that humanitarian aid be allowed into Gaza unconditionally and immediately.