Archiv: the „EVERY SINGLE GOVERNMENT ON THE PLANET IS WORTHLESS – EVERY SINGLE ONE!“ department (notable exception: Pakistan and Oman) status: September 2026)


12:14 [ Jacobin ]

Israel’s Rogue State Behavior Is Somehow Only Worsening

Let’s just keep it to things that have happened roughly this past week; otherwise this piece could end up being the length of a medium-sized book.

There was the incident where illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank — who are financed, armed, enabled, and otherwise supported in every possible way by the Israeli government — viciously attacked a Washington Post photojournalist, breaking her ribs and fracturing her vertebrae, and a day later attacked a group of European diplomats from Belgium, France, and Poland (countries that, unlike Israel, actually are US treaty allies).

The reaction was, well, muted.

20.10.2026 - 21:18 [ VovWorld.vn ]

Gaza death toll nears 75,000

Palestinian health authorities said Monday that Israeli attacks in Gaza in the past 24 hours killed 5 people and injured 22.

16.10.2026 - 11:51 [ Wafa.ps ]

Israeli groups receive testimonies of 22 Palestinian prisoners shot at close range in Israeli detention

JERUSALEM, October 15, 2026 (WAFA) – Two leading Israeli human rights groups revealed on Thursday that they received testimonies of 22 Palestinian prisoners shot at close range in Israeli detention centers, according to Arab News.

Physicians for Human Rights Israel and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) said that they have documented “22 testimonies and reports from attorneys, prisoners’ families, and released prisoners point to the dangerous practice of firing rubber- or plastic-like bullets at close range inside prison wings.”

The testimonies span seven detention facilities, including Ofer, Ganot, Ktzi’ot, Gilboa, Megido, Nitzan and Eshel.

16.10.2026 - 11:47 [ Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) ]

Torture in Israel Today

Does torture exist in Israel?
It definitely is.
Every year, the public committee against torture in Israel (PCATI) receives dozens of complaints alleging to physical and psychological torture used by ISA (Shabak) interrogators. Torture methods reported include painful shackling, sleep deprivation, exposure to extreme heat or cold, threats, sexual harassment, and religion- based humiliation. In addition, instances of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by the Israel police and Israel prison service are regularly reported.

Is torture legal?
No.
Torture and cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment are absolutely prohibited, both by international as well as Israeli law. However, Israel has yet to enact a law explicitly prohibiting torture, despite its previous commitment to do so.

16.10.2026 - 11:34 [ Physicians for Human Rights Israel ]

Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Persists One Year into the So-Called “Ceasefire” | Report

(October 8, 2026)

A year ago, on October 10, 2025, a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip was announced. For a moment, we at PHRI had a glimpse of hope that this would bring relief and rehabilitation to Palestinians and allow the recovery and reconstruction of the decimated healthcare system.

The analysis we’re releasing today exposes Israel’s continued prevention of any meaningful recovery of Gaza’s healthcare system.

16.10.2026 - 11:21 [ Wafa.ps ]

Gaza death toll rises to 74,396 since start of Israeli assault

GAZA, October 15, 2026 (WAFA) — The death toll from Israel‘s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip has risen to 74,396, with 175,449 people injured, since October 7, 2023, according to medical sources.

Health authorities reported that hospitals across the Gaza Strip received four fatalities and nine injured people over the past 24 hours.

05.10.2026 - 20:34 [ Amnesty International USA / X ]

Nearly 240 dead in this illegal campaign of extrajudicial killings, i.e., murder at sea. Where is Congress to stop the horror?

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05.10.2026 - 20:32 [ Common Dreams ]

‘More Performative Killing at Sea’: Another Trump Boat Strike Leaves 4 Dead

Citing a federal memo that it aims to keep concealed from the public, the Trump administration claims to be at war with drug cartels and that the killings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean are justified. Legal experts and human rights advocates argue the bombings are at least war crimes, if not outright murder.

Sunday’s strike was the administration’s first confirmed boat bombing since Ben Saul, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, said last month that even if the targeted vessels were engaged in drug trafficking, there are no “international legal rights to unilaterally use military force” to counter cartels.

27.09.2026 - 14:39 [ Middle East Eye ]

‚Comprehensive closure‘: Israel to shut down all West Bank crossings, Wafa reports

Israeli forces have tightened restrictions around the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, closing roads and entrances to several towns and villages, Wafa news agency reported.

The development comes after Israeli authorities decided to impose a “comprehensive closure” on the occupied West Bank and close crossings into the territory until Saturday for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

27.09.2026 - 14:19 [ Türkiye Today ]

Israeli minister calls for war in West Bank, says Israel should ‚do what it did in Gaza‘

„I certainly have solutions. I think we need to go to war in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). To do there what we did in Gaza. To dismantle the Palestinian Authority, which is a terror authority,“ he said.

Asked what war would mean, Smotrich pointed to earlier Israeli operations in West Bank refugee camps.

„We already did it. There are three refugee camps there that are empty, that we evacuated the population from for its protection and cleansed of all the terror. I want to kill all the terrorists and collect all the weapons,“ he said.

27.09.2026 - 12:57 [ Ynetnews.com ]

Smotrich: Israel should ‘go to war’ in West Bank, ‘do what we did in Gaza’

Religious Zionist Party leader calls for dismantling Palestinian Authority and eliminating terror infrastructure; accepts ‘collective responsibility’ for Oct. 7, defends government’s wartime record and vows crackdown on illegal weapons and crime

27.09.2026 - 12:52 [ Associated Press ]

Palestinian death toll in Gaza war rises above 74,000 since the war began and other Mideast news

The Palestinian death toll from the nearly three-year Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 74,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

While a ceasefire that took effect last Oct. 10 has halted the heaviest fighting, Israeli strikes have continued in what the military has said are responses to threats or attacks.

25.09.2026 - 23:32 [ Shehbaz Sharif / United Nations ]

Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

We live at a dangerous moment.
But our future is not predetermined.
War is a choice.
Peace is also a choice.
And sometimes —
the greater courage, lies, not in starting a war —
but in preventing one.
Pakistan has made its choice.
We have chosen dialogue over confrontation.
We have chosen cooperation over coercion.
We have chosen peace over war.
Let this eighty-first General Assembly make it unanimous choice.
For ourselves.
For our children.
And for generations yet unborn.
Let us restore trust. Let us preserve peace.
And let us prove that even in a divided world —
humanity can still choose to stand together.

I thank you.

25.09.2026 - 23:24 [ United Nations ]

Pakistan: His Excellency Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif Prime Minister

Transcript & summary

25.09.2026 - 22:17 [ Al Jazeera ]

Pakistan’s Sharif condemns Israeli attacks in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria

After denouncing what he called Israel’s “genocidal agenda” in Palestine, Sharif also condemned “Israeli aggression against Lebanon and Syria”.

“This, too, must stop immediately,” he said.

25.09.2026 - 22:12 [ Al Jazeera ]

Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb ‘must remain open’: Pakistan’s PM

Continuing his remarks to the UNGA, Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif called the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandeb strait “arteries of the global economy” that should remain free and safe.

“They must remain open, connecting nations, not becoming chokepoints of confrontation,” said Sharif. “These waters must carry the promise of prosperity, not the perils of war.”

20.09.2026 - 13:05 [ France24.com ]

Cuba hit with another nationwide blackout amid US fuel blockade

Cuba suffered a total blackout after the collapse of its electrical grid on Friday. The blackout is the latest of at least six partial or total grid collapses since the beginning of this year, as the island grapples with an ongoing US fuel blockade.

20.09.2026 - 12:44 [ CBS News ]

4 killed in U.S. strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in Caribbean, Pentagon says

The U.S. military attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, killing four people, as the Trump administration continues its monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.

The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 231 in 69 strikes since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls „narcoterrorists“ about one year ago.

18.09.2026 - 11:09 [ Wafa.ps ]

Death toll in Gaza Strip rises to 73,821 and injuries to 174,897 since the start of the aggression

GAZA, September 17, 2026 (WAFA) – The death toll from the war of extermination waged by Israeli occupation forces on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,821, and 174,897 others were injured since October 7, 2023.

Medical sources reported that hospitals in the Gaza Strip received five slain people—including two who succumbed to previously sustained wounds—and 28 new injury cases over the past 24 hours.

18.09.2026 - 11:06 [ CBC.ca ]

At least 21 killed in Gaza, including many children, as unstable building collapses

A building damaged by Israeli strikes collapsed suddenly in Gaza City early Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in their sleep, including 11 children, in a disaster that forced rescuers to dig through the rubble with bare hands.

The sudden collapse of the building, which was known to be unstable due to damage from Israeli strikes earlier in the war, underscored how perilous and desperate living conditions have grown for the majority of the enclave‘s population as a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas stalls.

18.09.2026 - 10:42 [ Al Jazeera ]

Nearly 9,000 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since 2023

(September 6, 2026)

The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon over the past three years has exceeded 8,900, while the number of injured has reached nearly 30,600, according to Lebanese health authorities.

Israeli attacks from October 2023 to September 2026 killed 8,920 people and injured 30,595 others, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said in a statement on Saturday.

18.09.2026 - 10:40 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel conducts ‘massive explosion’ in southern Lebanese village as death toll rises to 4,386

The number of people killed since Israel escalated attacks on Lebanon on 2 March has risen to 4,386, with 12,407 others wounded, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health.

14.09.2026 - 18:51 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Automatisierte Todeslisten

netzpolitik.org: Wie sieht die zugrundeliegende technische Infrastruktur aus und wer stellt sie bereit?

Rainer Rehak: Der gesamte Datensatz zu Gaza umfasst schätzungsweise 13,6 Petabyte, also umgerechnet 13.600 Terabyte. Diese Datenmenge ist nicht einfach zu handhaben, besonders wenn man damit statistische Modelle trainieren möchte oder gar große Sprachmodelle, die ebenfalls erstellt werden. Die digitale Infrastruktur wird von Google und Amazon unter dem Projektnamen Nimbus bereitgestellt und kostet 1,2 Milliarden US-Dollar.

Die Integration der heterogenen Datenquellen macht Palantir. Microsoft, Cisco, Dell und Red Hat/IBM bieten zusätzliche IT-Dienstleistungen rund um die „kill-chain“ an. Dies zeigt die enorme Rolle, die der private Sektor bei der Integration und Nutzung von KI-Systemen in bewaffneten Konflikten spielt.

10.09.2026 - 13:31 [ Drop Site Mews ]

Israeli Strike in Lebanon Kills 12 People From a Single Family, Including 6 Children

(September 9, 2026)

KFAR REMMAN, Lebanon—“They are killing children. That’s what they’re doing,” Baker Malak said, pointing to the tiny coffins being carried through the streets of the town of Kfar Remman in southern Lebanon on Tuesday. He walked alongside hundreds of mourners in a funeral procession to bury 12 members of a single family, half of them children, killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home a day earlier.

Nearby, mourners carried the coffin of 18-year-old paramedic Ali Shahrour, killed in a separate strike on the town the same day. The procession wound through streets scarred by months of bombardment as an Israeli drone buzzed incessantly overhead

06.09.2026 - 19:12 [ Middle East Eye ]

Death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon climbs to 4,362 despite ceasefire

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israel has killed 4,362 people and wounded 12,378 in attacks across the country since 2 March.

Israel has continued bombing Lebanon and occupying parts of its territory despite a ceasefire that took effect on 17 April and was renewed on 26 June.

06.09.2026 - 19:07 [ LBCI Lebanon ]

Israeli strike kills three in south Lebanon: Health ministry

06-09-2026 | 19:06

An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed three people on Sunday, the Lebanese health ministry said, bringing the day‘s death toll to seven despite a fragile ceasefire between the two countries.

06.09.2026 - 19:05 [ LBCI Lebanon ]

Lebanon says Israeli strikes kill four in south

06-09-2026 | 13:14

Lebanon‘s health ministry said Israeli strikes on Sunday killed four people in the south, while Israel said it carried out raids after Hezbollah launched drones at its soldiers.

05.09.2026 - 18:58 [ LBCI Lebanon ]

Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill at least three

Israeli strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon late on Friday killed at least three people and injured 23, the Lebanese health ministry said.

The ministry said in a statement that strikes hit five locations in the southern Tyre and Nabatieh regions and the Bekaa region in the east.

It updated an earlier toll given by Lebanese official media, which had reported two of the deaths in the south.

05.09.2026 - 18:41 [ Wafa.ps ]

Gaza death toll rises to 73,651 since October 2023

GAZA, September 5, 2026 (WAFA) — Health authorities in the Gaza Strip said today that the death toll from Israel‘s ongoing aggression on the Strip has risen to 73,651, while 174,575 Palestinians have been injured since October 7, 2023.

Hospitals in Gaza reported that they received 17 bodies over the past 48 hours, including five newly killed Palestinians, one who succumbed to injuries, and 11 bodies recovered from under the rubble, in addition to 27 injured Palestinians.

05.09.2026 - 18:32 [ Wafa.ps ]

Rescue teams recover remains of 55 Palestinians from destroyed home in Gaza

GAZA, September 5, 2026 (WAFA) – Rescue teams in the Gaza Strip recovered on Saturday the remains of 55 Palestinians from beneath the rubble of a home destroyed by Israeli forces in the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, on November 19, 2023, during the genocidal war.

The rescue teams said they recovered the bodies and remains of 55 Palestinians from beneath the rubble of the Malka family home, which Israeli forces destroyed while more than 60 people had sought shelter inside after being displaced from their homes in fear of intense Israeli bombardment nearly two years ago.