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Swords of Iron: sources IIIIII (view source)
Revision as of 15:44, July 31, 2025
, 15:44, July 31, 2025→Further reading
'Kill all Jews:' NYPD did not investigate brutal attack on Jews as hate crime.
The FBI is now investigating an attack at a kosher restaurant in Queens which left multiple Jewish victims hospitalized as a potential hate crime after the victims said the attackers shouted about killing Jews.
Israel National News. Jul 31, 2025, 3:45 PM (GMT+3)
...The incident occurred on July 20 at the Sezam restaurant. Bita Golbari, 51, told the Algemeiner that she and her husband were eating together with friends, including other Jewish couples, when two women entered the restaurant to join a group of men who were sitting nearby...
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412552 INN]
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‘I saw something different’: IDF reservist refutes intl. claims of intentional starvation. By Gabriel Colodro, The Media Line. July 27, 2025.
In the quiet outskirts of Tel Aviv, an active-duty soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), who, for security reasons, will be referred to only as “Y,” is between rounds of duty after completing more than 300 days of service since October 7.
In an exclusive interview with The Media Line, he recounts what he saw during one of the most contested incidents of the war, challenging headlines that claimed Israeli soldiers opened fire on starving civilians.
Another IDF reservist who was present at the scene also spoke with The Media Line and confirmed “Y’s” account of the incident, including the sequence of events and the nature of the crowd that approached the distribution site.
Access to Gaza has been limited, and the foreign press has been unable to enter the area to tell the story accurately. Since the soldier gave this account, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) has challenged Hamas’ claim of widespread starvation in Gaza with a statement on Thursday that “there is no famine in the Gaza Strip,” while acknowledging “there are issues of access to food” in certain “pockets” in Gaza.
Photos were circulated on social media showing 1,000 humanitarian aid trucks stalled outside the Gaza Strip. While the UN claims that Israel’s bureaucracy prevents distribution, Col. Abdullah Halabi of COGAT told Yahoo News, “The State of Israel allows the entry of humanitarian aid beyond the standards of international law, without restriction. As long as the international community makes an effort to bring in the aid, we will allow them to bring it in.”
The IDF announced Thursday that, in response to the humanitarian situation in Gaza, it will renew the airdrop of aid into the Gaza Strip. The effort will be coordinated by COGAT and the Israeli air force and will include seven aid pallets containing flour, sugar, and canned food provided by international organizations. In addition, the IDF said it will facilitate the movement of aid trucks within Gaza.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-862397 JPost]
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NYT Admits Famine Photo Hoax: Gaza Child Had ‘Pre-Existing Health Problems’.
29 Jul 2025 | Joel B. Pollak.
The New York Times admitted Tuesday that an emaciated Palestinian child it featured on the the front page suffered from “pre-existing health problems” that it had presented, inaccurately, as the result of starvation.
There is an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza — the result of poor food distribution, not low supply, as Hamas and armed gangs loot aid convoys. Hamas also refuses to release Israeli hostages and end the war.
As Breitbart News reported, the child, photographed by Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini of the Turkish Anadolu agency, had a muscular disorder. Few outlets that ran the photo disclosed that fact to readers.
[https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/07/29/nyt-admits-famine-photo-hoax-gaza-child-had-pre-existing-health-problems/ Breitbart]
So the source of the pallywood photo (famine photo hoax, using a preconditioned sick child- advanced by NYT (7/25/25 to whitewash genocidal Hamas/UN preventing humsmane Israel aid) is ISLAMOFASCIST DICTATOR Erdogan's 'Anadolu'... just like his 'TRT' or other Hamas mouthpiece by Qatar - via 'al jazeera' (Aj) / 'TheNewArab' and 'Middle East Eye' (MEE).
[https://myrightword.blogspot.com/2025/02/peter-beinart-goes-supreme.html?showComment=1753944724964&m=1#c5009529419852724190 at MyRightWord]
Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby:
Notice how they posted this from their account with 40k followed instead of from
@nytimes which has over 50 million.
July 30, 2025
[https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1950330018564882445 X]
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100,000 aid trucks and counting: Israeli official reveals scope of massive Gaza relief effort.
Felice Friedson / The Media Line 07.30.25
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hycfoswplg YNet]
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Unacceptable.
Leaked BBC Memo Tells Staff to Blame Israel and GHF for Gaza Food Crisis.
A leaked BBC memo instructing staff to blame Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza's food crisis has sparked outrage and accusations of bias, as critics question the broadcaster's commitment to impartiality and responsible journalism.
Gila Isaacson.
Jul 30, 2025 16:54
A leaked internal BBC memo titled “Covering the food crisis in Gaza” has ignited a firestorm of controversy, with allegations that it directs staff to blame Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) for the region’s ongoing food shortages. The document, first reported by *The Spectator* on Monday, explicitly instructs journalists to frame the aid system as nonfunctional and attribute the humanitarian failure solely to Israel and GHF, while dismissing logistical data about aid deliveries as “irrelevant.”
The memo calls for omitting or downplaying Hamas’s role in obstructing or redirecting aid. This directive has raised serious questions about the BBC’s commitment to impartiality, a cornerstone of its public service mandate. Critics argue that the memo oversimplifies a complex situation, sidelining other contributing factors and undermining basic journalistic principles of impartiality and not presenting skewed data to push a false and harmful narrative.
GHF, established earlier in 2025 with support from the U.S. and Israel, has faced international scrutiny due to civilian deaths at chaotic aid sites and its militarized coordination zones. GHF is not a perfect solution. In fact, it was never meant to be the entire solution. But it has successfully provided millions of meals to Gazans, which the UN refused to do. It's also a known fact that the UN trucks were consistently hijacked by Hamas, who either steal the food, store it in their own warehouses for personal use or re-sell it at exorbitant prices.The UN went so far as to refuse to transport trucks filled with aids to hungry Gazans, which are sitting there rotting in the punishing July heat.
Hamas has been to blame for many of the deaths at GHF zones, including stabbing Gazans waiting for aid parcels to create panic and stampeding and even shooting them. However, the leaked memo’s focus on Israel and GHF, without adequate context, has been described as a distortion of reality.
The backlash has been swift. *The Spectator*’s article highlights the memo’s prescriptive nature, suggesting a top-down editorial diktat that discards impartiality. Social media reactions have labeled the BBC’s approach as part of an “anti-Israel crusade,” with some accusing the organization of catering to a narrative that ignores Hamas’s actions. The memo’s timing is particularly sensitive, coinciding with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s July 29, 2025, announcement to recognize Palestine at the UN, unless Israel takes peace-oriented steps, further intensifying the debate.
The incident occurs amidst rising antisemitism, with the Global Terrorism Index reporting a 28% increase in incidents in 2024, and the National Institute of Justice noting the radicalizing potential of online propaganda. Critics argue that such directives not only misinform the public but also contribute to a toxic environment, inciting further conflict and Jew hatred.
The BBC has not publicly responded to the leak.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/bbc-gaza-memo-leak JFeed]
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Israeli, Syrian officials to meet in Baku as US pushes deescalation in southern Syria.
Itamar Eichner, AFP| 07.30.25
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjniltvple YNet]
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Former hostage Emily Damari slams UK PM Starmer: 'Not promoting a solution—prolonging the conflict'.
Ynet|7.30.25
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syfvh00dplx YNet]
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Netanyahu: 'Any country that truly wants to help' should join Gaza aid airdrops.
Yoav Zitun|07.30.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyifn6vdxe YNet]
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IDF Arrests 16 Suspected Terrorists | WATCH.
The IDF arrested 16 terror suspects, including those suspected of throwing stones at Israeli citizens.
Avi Woolf.
Jul 30, 2025 20:34
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-terror-suspects-arrest JFeed]
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Arab Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad placed under house. arrest after shooting incident
Police say Haddad fired from his car during traffic dispute with motorcyclist; no injuries reported, and his firearm confiscated; authorities find no prior connection between two men and continue to investigate.
Shalev Kachlon|07.30.25| 23:12
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1wmjeddlx YNet]
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US official: Trump sees recognition of Palestinian state as reward to Hamas.
A White House official says President Trump will not support recognizing a Palestinian state, as he believes it would reward Hamas.
Elad Benari. Jul 31, 2025, 2:03 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412518 INN]
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Ambassador Leiter: NYT correction on Gaza boy ‘too little, too late’.
Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter rebukes the New York Times for falsely implying Israel starved a Gazan boy, warns of a “well-funded propaganda campaign” against Israel.
Israel National News.
Jul 31, 2025, 3:12 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412519 INN]
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Canada to recognize Palestinian state, subject to PA reforms.
Canadian PM Mark Carney says Canada plans to recognize a Palestinian state in September—if the PA holds elections, disarms, and excludes Hamas. Israel condemns the move, calling it a reward for terror.
Elad Benari.
Published: Jul 31, 2025, 12:31 AM (GMT+3)
Updated: 0:52
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412517 INN]
Canada and Australia: More Countries Announce Plans to Recognize a Palestinian State.
Canada, Australia, and others join France and the UK in declaring intent to recognize Palestine at the upcoming UN General Assembly in September.
Yair Kleinbaum
Jul 31, 2025 02:45
[https://www.jfeed.com/news/palestinian-state-recognition JFeed]
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Israel Made a Huge Mistake - The West is Reapeating it.
From Tel Aviv to Toronto, a dangerous illusion repeats itself: offering a state not out of hope, but out of fear.
Yair Kleinbaum.
Jul 31, 2025 04:01
[https://www.jfeed.com/news/t08o70 JFeed]
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UK court allows Palestine Action to challenge ban.
UK judge grants Palestine Action permission to challenge its terrorism designation. The group faces accusations of violent extremism and antisemitic attacks.
Israel National News Jul 31, 2025, 5:44 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412524 INN]
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SJP banned at UW-Madison after violating campus rules.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has suspended its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter until 2026, citing rule violations during a protest of an April event featuring former UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
Israel National News. Jul 31, 2025, 6:21 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412525 INN]
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NYT building vandalized after Gaza story correction issued.
Unknown individuals spray-painted the building hours after the paper amended a controversial report on a starving Gazan boy.
JNS Staff.
(July 31, 2025 / JNS)
Unidentified individuals spray-painted “NYT Lies, Gaza Dies” on The New York Times building in Manhattan on Wednesday, with sections of the structure’s doors and windows also daubed with red paint.
The incident follows heightened criticism of the newspaper’s coverage of the Gaza conflict. The perpetrators remain unknown.
[https://www.jns.org/nyt-building-vandalized-after-gaza-story-correction-issued/ JNS]
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Sanders' resolution to halt Israel arms sales fails in Senate
US Senate rejects Sen. Sanders' bid to block arms sales to Israel, despite 12 senators reversing previous support. AIPAC applauds the vote, emphasizing support for Israel's security.
Elad Benari
Jul 31, 2025, 5:28 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412523 INN]
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For the Redemption of Zion': Rare coin the Great Revolt discovered in Jerusalem.
Bronze coin minted by Jews in Jerusalem during final year before Second Temple's destruction in 70 CE discovered during excavations in the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden - Davidson Center.
Israel National News. Jul 31, 2025, 12:13 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412539 INN]
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Israel: ‘Starving’ Gazan in viral image has genetic disorder.
“Once again, Hamas is using photos of sick children to push the ‘starvation’ narrative and blame Israel,” COGAT says.
(July 31, 2025 / JNS)
Israeli officials pushed back on Wednesday against claims by Hamas and international media outlets that children in Gaza are suffering from starvation, calling the accusations part of a deliberate disinformation campaign.
“Once again, Hamas is using photos of sick children to push the ‘starvation’ narrative and blame Israel,” said the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, a Defense Ministry body facilitating logistical coordination between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
“But the truth tells a different story,” the unit added.
COGAT cited the case of 14-year-old Abdul Qader al-Fayoumi, a Gazan who was treated in Israel in 2018 for a genetic disease. He was one of hundreds of Palestinian children from the Strip who received medical care in Israeli hospitals before Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, during which the terrorist group destroyed the Erez Crossing—the enclave’s primary pedestrian passage into Israel.
[https://www.jns.org/israel-starving-gazan-in-viral-image-has-genetic-disorder/ JNS]
COGAT debunks propaganda: Teen 'starved' in Gaza was treated in Israel for genetic illness.
COGAT reveals 14-year-old boy appearing in Hamas propaganda suffers genetic illness, received medical treatment in Israel in 2018.
Israel National News. Jul 31, 2025, 10:45 AM (GMT+3)
The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) on Thursday morning revealed that the 14-year-old boy used as pro-Hamas, anti-Israel propaganda received medical treatment in Israel in 2018.
"Once again, Hamas is using photos of sick children to push the 'starvation' narrative and blame Israel," COGAT posted. "But the truth tells a different story."
"#TheFacts: 14-year-old Abdul Qader al-Fayoumi was treated in Israel back in 2018 for a genetic disease. Abdul was one of the hundreds of Gazan children suffering from similar diseases that were treated in Israel prior to Hamas destroying the Erez Crossing on Oct. 7. "
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412537 INN]
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Witkoff meets Netanyahu after Hamas torpedoes ceasefire talks.
The U.S. envoy is meeting Israeli officials to discuss the hostage crisis and plans to expand Gaza aid after failed truce negotiations with the terror group.
JNS Staff.
(July 31, 2025 | Updated Jul. 31, 08:12 / JNS)
U.S. special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently meeting at his office with the U.S. P=president’s special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff,” the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed in a statement.
[https://www.jns.org/witkoff-visiting-israel-after-collapse-of-hamas-ceasefire-talks/ JNS]
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How Hamas lies get laundered by the UN and media as truth.
AP reported last week:
More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in the Gaza Strip, mostly near aid sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said Tuesday.
Of the 1,054 people killed while trying to get food since late May, 766 were killed while heading to sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, according to the U.N. human rights office. The others were killed when gunfire erupted around U.N. convoys or aid sites.
Thameen al-Kheetan, a spokesperson for the U.N. rights office, says its figures come from "multiple reliable sources on the ground," including medics, humanitarian and human rights organizations. He said the numbers were still being verified according to the office's strict methodology.
All the OCHA reports I have seen are very careful not to directly blame Israel for deaths, so I wanted to find the original statement. It comes from a UN News article on July 22:
[T]he UN human rights office, OHCHR, announced on Tuesday that more than 1,000 Palestinians have now been killed by the Israeli military while trying to get food in the Strip since the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) started operating on 27 May.
“As of 21 July, we have recorded 1,054 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food,” said OHCHR spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan. “766 of them were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites and 288 near UN and other humanitarian organizations’ aid convoys.”
Mr. Al-Kheetan noted that the finding came from “multiple reliable sources on the ground, including medical teams, humanitarian and human rights organizations. It is still being verified in line with our strict methodology.”
Al Kheetan did not say the were killed b y the IDF. He was as careful in his statement as OCHA normally is. But UN News assumed that they were all killed by Israel in its reporting.
UN News articles are not official UN statements, they are news articles filtered through the reporters employed by the UN. AP took the UN News article and didn't distinguish between what OCHA said and what the reporter added.
The OCHA report from the next day emphasizes the normal caution in their reporting:
According to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, between 16 and 23 July, 646 Palestinians were killed, and 3,438 were injured. Between 7 October 2023 and 23 July 2025, the MoH in Gaza reported that at least 59,219 Palestinians were killed, and 143,045 Palestinians were injured. This includes 8,363 people killed and 31,004 injured since the re-escalation of hostilities on 18 March 2025, according to MoH. The MoH further noted that the number of casualties among people trying to access food supplies has increased to 1,060 fatalities and more than 7,207 injuries since 27 May 2025.
It properly attributes the casualty numbers to the MoH and it carefully does not directly blame Israel.
The UN News reporter editorialized by assuming both the casualty figures are accurate and that there are no other possible reasons for the civilian deaths than Israel. The AP reporter did not distinguish between the actual OCHA statement and the UN News editorializing.
What other explanation is there for casualties? Haaretz reports today:
At least 48 Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded Wednesday while waiting for food at a crossing in the Gaza Strip, according to a hospital that received the casualties.
The IDF said on Thursday that a preliminary probe found no wrongdoing or IDF-related casualties in the incident, but confirmed soldiers opened non-lethal fire as a crowd control measure. Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said the dead and wounded were among crowds massed at Zikim Crossing, the main entry point for humanitarian aid to northern Gaza.
"The forces fired dispersal shots in the area, not at the gathering, in response to a perceived threat," the IDF's statement read. "Initial investigation shows that no casualties were reported as a result of IDF fire; the details of the incident are still being investigated."
An anonymous source in the defense establishment added that "during the gathering, gunshots were heard from within the crowd, and internal friction among Gazans within the gathering. This is in addition to several cases of being run over by aid trucks."
This is not the first time we have seen reports of gunfire within crowds. The idea that a professional army trained not to fire on civilians would kill 48 in a single incident is not reasonable. It is possible that some of the warning shots could have killed one or two accidentally, but 48 is only possible with direct orders to shoot at the crowd, and not only would no IDF commander make such an order, but the soldiers themselves would refuse it - and run to the media to whistle-blow it if they were given such an order without imminent risk to themselves.
But would Hamas put people in the crowds to shoot or stab them and cause chaos that would benefit them by delegitimizing Israel securing aid shipments? Yes, they would, and they have.
The relentless anti-Israel propaganda is based on a combination of ignorance of how a professional army works, willingness to believe and spread anti-Israel propaganda, and old fashioned antisemitism in assuming that Jews are shifty liars. But multiply these factors by thousands of NGO workers and reporters and politicians and the truth is the first casualty.
[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2025/07/how-hamas-lies-get-laundered-by-un-and.html EoZ]
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Court gives life sentence to Swede for killing of captured Jordanian pilot.
Osama Krayem found guilty of war crimes and terrorism in connection with Islamic State execution video.
Israel National News.
Published: Jul 31, 2025, 5:32 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412562 INN]
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==