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.
Archiv: the „EVERY SINGLE GOVERNMENT ON THE PLANET IS WORTHLESS – EVERY SINGLE ONE!“ department (notable exception: Pakistan and Oman) status: September 2026)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hospitals in Gaza received 17 bodies over past 48 hours, says health ministry
The latest casualties include five new fatalities, one person who died from previous wounds and 11 bodies recovered from beneath debris. Additional victims remain trapped under rubble or lying in the streets, with ambulance and civil defence teams still unable to reach them, it added.
THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA SAILS AGAIN
(September 2, 2026)
The violence and torture that Israel inflicted on hundreds of flotilla volunteers this past spring, including severe beatings, repeated tasering, and sexual assault, has not deterred the FFC, just as Israel’s murder of 10 flotilla activists aboard the Mavi Marmara, in 2010 did not stop the movement. If anything, action is needed now more than ever. While much of the world has moved on from Gaza, believing a supposed “ceasefire” has ended the genocide, Israel continues to kill Palestinians in Gaza at will; use its blockade to restrict and manipulate the entry of the food, medicine, and fuel that a besieged population depends on to survive; and deny Palestinians their fundamental right to freedom.
The new mission involves a port-to-port voyage throughout Europe, bringing together human rights advocates, union activists, elected representatives, journalists, medical professionals, and other supporters of Palestinian freedom.
‘Governments continue to fail’: Freedom Flotilla sails again, vowing to challenge Israel’s Gaza blockade
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has announced a new international effort to break Israel‘s blockade of Gaza, with ships sailing between European ports before a planned attempt to reach the besieged Palestinian territory in October.
The FFC said its latest mission would go ahead despite the violence and torture meted out to flotilla volunteers on previous attempts, including severe beatings, repeated tasering and sexual assault.
Israel/ OPT: Israel Steps up Annexation Measures with Unlawful Land Seizure Orders in the Occupied West Bank
In April 2026, UN OCHA reported 925 movement obstacles that permanently or intermittently restrict the movement of 3.4 million Palestinians in the West Bank, marking a 20-year high that is 43% more than the annual average during the last 20 years. Other land confiscation orders for the expansion of settler infrastructure and roads have been issued by the Israeli military in other parts of the West Bank, including Qusra – Nablus governorate, and Kufr Ni’meh – Ramallah governorate.
“Israel’s shameless use of land seizure orders to dispossess Palestinians and accelerate the annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory must be stopped immediately. By confiscating Palestinian land to expand its illegal settlements, Israeli authorities are escalating long-standing violations of international law and further entrenching a system of dispossession and oppression. Israel must immediately halt these unlawful land seizures and end the relentless expansion of illegal settlements,” said Heba Morayef.
“The international community must move beyond rhetoric and take concrete steps to uphold its legal obligations to bring Israel’s violations to an end.
Israel ready to ‚remove Gaza population if US gives approval‘, boasts defence minister
Forced displacement of civilians in occupied territory is considered a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
„There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration,“ Defence Minister Israel Katz told a conference hosted by Israeli news site Ynet and newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
The Israeli government „is organised and prepared to get them out—by sea, by air, by every way possible“, he said.
Pakistan works with Regional Allies to defuse US-Iran Tensions, Foreign Office says
Foreign Office spokesperson revealed that Dar held three telephone conversations with the Turkish foreign minister on August 17, 19 and 25, with the discussions centred on regional developments and the need to advance dialogue and diplomacy.
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The diplomatic push gained further momentum with Field Marshal Asim Munir’s visit to Tehran on August 24. Andrabi said Pakistan had played a sincere role between Washington and Tehran and noted that the Iranian leadership had appreciated Islamabad’s efforts.
Netanyahu says Israel to expand settlements in West Bank despite global backlash
“We cannot ignore the numbers: 104 communities that we established and legalised together, and 160 farms, with more to come,” Netanyahu said.
Israel has faced growing international outrage over its settlement expansion, as violence by settlers against Palestinians soars.
Gaza death toll rises to 73,431 since October 2023
GAZA, August 25, 2026 (WAFA) — Medical sources in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday that the death toll from Israel’s ongoing aggression on the Strip has risen to 73,431 Palestinians killed and 174,437 injured since October 7, 2023.
They said Gaza hospitals received nine fatalities over the past 24 hours.
UNIFIL says ‘entire neighborhoods’ wiped out in southern Lebanon
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Monday night that peacekeepers continue to report “extensive destruction” of civilian infrastructure across southern Lebanon, warning that entire neighborhoods have been wiped out and some destruction appears “systematic rather than selective.”
UNIFIL spokesperson Kandice Ardiel told UN Radio that peacekeepers had documented widespread damage and destruction from Kafr Kila to Khiam and Naqoura.
Occupation Soldiers Block Hadash MK from Besieged Palestinian Home in Qusra
Cassif eventually reached the families and expressed his support.
Louai Ridi, a Palestinian American, has been effectively trapped on his property since settlers first arrived in the area on Aug. 9. The settlers pitched a tent surrounding Ridi’s home before cutting water pipes and electricity lines and blocking roads leading to his property, making it extremely difficult for the Ridi family and other residents to go about the area.
Videos posted by Cassif, Zo Haderekh and the Palestinian families have brought international attention to the standoff, creating an unusual degree of pressure on the Israeli government and its military.
WATCH: Israeli soldiers block Knesset member from besieged Palestinian home
Israeli soldiers blocked Knesset member Ofer Cassif from reaching a Palestinian family home in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, where settlers have maintained a 17-day siege.
Cassif eventually reached the families and expressed his support.
Israel is a rogue nation. It should be removed from the United Nations
(October 15, 2024)
Over the past year, Israel has launched attacks on multiple countries and occupied territories: the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran.
Yet countries and territories aside, Israel has also targeted one specific organization with a series of unprecedented rhetorical and violent attacks.
Yes, the United Nations. We have all witnessed Israel, in effect, declare war on the UN.
A UN spokesperson said that three UN warehouses were damaged in an Israeli air strike on Sunday, with one significantly affected.
(August 24, 2026)
Israel accused of using kites as pretext to justify escalating Gaza attacks
A four-year-old child was among three Palestinians killed in Israeli air attacks in central Gaza on Sunday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to escalate attacks over the alleged launching of paper kites from the war-torn enclave.
Israeli forces reportedly use phosphorus shells in attacks on southern Lebanon
In 2024, images and footage shared by Human Rights Watch showed the munitions hitting residential buildings in the southern Lebanese border villages of Kafr Kila, Mays al-Jabal, Boustane, Markaba, and Aita al-Chaab.
Inhalation of white phosphorus fumes can cause respiratory injuries and asphyxiation, and inflict second- and third-degree burns to the skin.
In 2023, HRW revealed that Israeli forces had used the weapon on the densely populated Gaza Strip and on two rural areas along the Israel-Lebanon border.