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Crisis in the Middle East
Welcome! Here's the relevant humanitarian news headlines rundown 2025-SEP-15 - 14:00 CEST
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#Gaza #WestBank #Lebanon #Yemen #Syria 🔔 with updates
📰 HEADLINES: ++ 📢 Widespread criticism of draft resolution at Arab-Islamic summit in Qatar: REPORT MEMO ++ 🛑🕯Gaza death toll from Israeli war tops 64,800 as 7 more Palestinians die of starvation: REPORT MEMO ++ 🏛️ Yemen’s Antiquities Authority pleads with UNESCO to protect heritage from Israeli bombing: REPORT YPA ++ 🛑🕯 Yemen: 46* dead, 165* wounded due to Israeli aggression on Sanaa, Jawf - REPORT YPA ++ 📢 Israel's attacks in Qatar: Algeria Calls for Security Council Emergency Meeting: REPORT AL24 ++ Yemeni drone vanishes from radar, military helicopters, causing chaos in Israel: REPORT YPA ++ 🔔 UPDATE Al-Quds /Jerusalem shooting: Seven settlers killed, several critically injured - REPORT Al Mayadeen ++🕯Budapest holds candlelight vigil honoring 20,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ South Sudan denies any deal with Israel to resettle Palestinians: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++
⚖️ GENOCIDE IN GAZA: ++ 🛑🕯Gaza death toll surges to 64,905* amid ongoing
Israeli genocide ++ 🛑📢 Israel’s mass displacement order for the entirety of Gaza City is unlawful and inhumane: Amnesty International - REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️ SEP-10 ISR army issues evacuation warnings in Gaza
City: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯 20* Palestinian civilians, including five* journalists, killed in Israeli strike on Nasser Medical Complex:
REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯Israel’s killing of Palestinian farmers part of systematic policy to enforce starvation in Gaza: PRIME SOURCE Euro-Med HR Monitor
++ 🆘 98.5 percent of cropland unavailable for cultivation as famine looms: PRIME SOURCE 🟦 UN FAO ++ 🆘
97 % of Gaza’s animal wealth destroyed by Israeli bombing, starvation, and looting: PRIME SOURCE Euro-Med Monitor ++ 🛑🟦 Israeli school strikes magnify civilian peril:
PRIME SOURCE HRW ++ 🆘 Nearly half of mothers screened by MAP’s local partner in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition: REPORT MAP UK ++ *updated by MoH
⛔ WEST BANK INVASION: ++ 🛑 Israel issues decision to seize roof of inner Ibrahimi Mosque courtyard: REPORT WAFA ++ ⚠️ ISR forces issue land seizure order to build fence near Salfit: REPORT WAFA ++ SEP-14 🛑 540 Palestinians detained in the West Bank in August, over 19,000 since start of war: REPORT WAFA ++ SEP-11 ISR forces impose siege on Tulkarm, shut down southern and eastern entrances: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 🆘 Palestinian journalist Ali al-Samoudi faces severe, deliberate medical neglect in Israeli prison: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑 Israeli colonists vandalize plant nursery south of Nablus: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑📢 MSF: Palestinians in West Bank facing mass forced
displacement by Israeli forces and colonists: REPORT WAFA
++ 🆘🚰Humanitarian Situation Update #314 | West
Bank by 🔵 OCHA: REPORT ++ 🚰 ISR forces seal off seven
water springs in southern West Bank: REPORT WAFA
++ *updated
🛡 SECURITY LEB (local time): SEP-14 ⚠️VOT ISR drone targeted a house in the Al-Kharzeh neighborhood of Aita al-Shaab (Bint Jbeil District) shortly after midnight: REPORT NNA -- SEP-12 ⚠️VOT ISR drone drops bomb toward bulldozer at Aitaroun’s Maghariq junction: REPORT NNA -- SEP-08 VOT🕯ISR airstrikes kill 5, wound 5 in Bekaa and Hermel REPORT Al Mayadeen -- SEP-05 VOT 🔥 Sound bomb causes field fire in Yaroun, no injuries reported: REPORT NNA -- Death toll in total: 🛑🕯4195* people killed, more than 17,000* wounded since the beginning of the Israeli aggression: MoH -- 🛑🕯 Israel kills more than 231* 👩🏽⚕️👨🏾🚒 medics, emergency workers: WHO *updated
MEDIA WORKERS: ++ SEP-02 🛑🕯 ISR airstrikes kill journalists Rasmi Salem and Iman
Al-Zamili: REPORT MEMO ++ AUG-31 🛑🕯Death of Al-Quds journalist Islam Abed raises Gaza
media toll REPORT MEMO ++ AUG-25 🛑🕯 Six* journalists killed in ISR strike on Nasser Medical
Complex and another drone attack: REPORT WAFA ++ AUG-23 🛑🕯Palestine TV’s
Khaled Al-Madhoun killed by Israeli forces in northern Gaza: REPORT WAFA ++ AUG-19 🛑🕯 Number of killed journalists has risen after the
assassination of journalist Islam al-Komi ++ AUG-10 🛑🕯 Israel kills six* (five of Al Jazeera) journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike:
REPORT CPJ ++ JUL-10 🛑🕯 Journalists Syndicate: Killing of journalist Ahmad Abu Eisha a new
crime in Israel’s war on truth: REPORT WAFA ++ JUN-05 🛑🕯 ISR
drone strike on Baptist Hospital kills four journalists, critically wounds
fifth: REPORT WAFA ++ MAY-25 🛑🕯Journalist and family members killed in Israeli airstrike on Jabalia: REPORT WAFA ++ MAY-18 🛑🕯
Five more Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza: REPORT MEMO ++ MAY-13 🛑🕯
Journalist Hassan Eslaih killed in Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ APR-07 🛑🕯 ISR strike on media tent kills journalists Helmi al-Faqawi and Ahmad Mansour ++ 🛑🕯 Mohammad Mansour of Palestine Today TV killed in an airstrike: REPORT WAFA ++ 🛑🕯Anadolu freelance cameraman Saed Abu Nabhan killed by Israeli army: PRIME SOURCE *updated
✈️ AIR SPACE: ++ ❌🛬 Ryanair comments it may not resume Israel operations after Gaza war ends ++ ✅🛫 Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways resumes direct flights with Syria after 13-year hiatus: REPORT NNA ++ JUN-13 ❌🛬 Lufthansa stellt Flüge nach Teheran ein: REPORT aero.de ++ ✅🛫 Emirates Airlines set to restart flights to Damascus in mid-July: REPORT Al Maydeen ++
🗄️ Recent breaking news: ++ ⚖️ The Gaza Tribunal: Jeremy Corbyn launches investigation into UK complicity in war on Gaza - REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 🛑🕯Sanaa officially announces death of Yemeni Prime Minister, several government members assassinated by Israel: REPORT YPA ++ 🛑🕯 Israel holds bodies of 726 Palestinians, including children and detainees: REPORT WAFA ++ 🔵 UN experts alarmed by reports of enforced disappearances at US funded Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution sites: PRIME SOURCE UN ++ 🛑🕯 Israel kills doctor, civil defence worker and five journalists at medical complex in southern Gaza Strip: PRIME SOURCE Euro-Med Monitor ++ Alawites primarily targeted in fatal Syrian coast violence: 🔵 UN probe - REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ 🟦 Israeli killings of Palestinians seeking food are war crimes - PRIME SOURCE HRW ++ ⚖️ Karim Khan investigation: Former ICC judges criticise handling of complaint against prosecutor: REPORT MEE ++ 🆘 IPC ALERT: Worst-case scenario of Famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip - PRIME SOURCE IPC ++ 🔵 UN's Türk calls for immediate steps to ensure protection of people in Suweida and across Syria: PRIME SOURCE UNHRC ++ 🛑 New attack reaffirms GHF’s role in killing and starvation in Gaza, underscores need to stop its operations: PRIME SOURCE Euro-Med Monitor ++
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Warfare at the speed of thought: can brain-computer interfaces comply with IHL?
Statement by Anna M. Gielas for the ICRC
The convergence of neuroscience and warfare in China and the United States reflects a new kind of arms race – one focused not only on weapon systems but on the human brain itself. This intensifying competition has spurred interest among other technologically advanced militaries. Seeking to avoid strategic disadvantage, countries such as Israel and Russia are also developing BCI technologies for military purposes.
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Killer Robots: UN vote should spur treaty negotiations
Report by Human Rights Watch
Urgent action needed to address Autonomous Weapons Systems: The record number of countries voting in favor of the second-ever United Nations General Assembly resolution on lethal autonomous weapons systems, or “killer robots,” highlights the urgent need to open negotiations on a new treaty to ban them, Human Rights Watch said in a statement from DEC-05 in New York.
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ICRC Law & Policy Blog
The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based military decision support systems
Algorithmic bias has long been recognized as a key problem affecting decision-making processes that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The increased use of AI in making
military decisions relevant to the use of force has sustained such questions about biases in these technologies and in how human users programme with and rely on data based on hierarchized
socio-cultural norms, knowledges, and modes of attention.
In the latest ICRC blog post, Dr Ingvild Bode, Professor at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark, and Ishmael Bhila, PhD researcher at the “Meaningful Human Control: Between Regulation and Reflexion” project, Paderborn University, unpack the problem of algorithmic bias with reference to AI-based decision support systems (AI DSS). They examine three categories of algorithmic bias – preexisting bias, technical bias, and emergent bias – across four lifecycle stages of an AI DSS, concluding that stakeholders in the ongoing discussion about AI in the military domain should consider the impact of algorithmic bias on AI DSS more seriously.
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Justice Reports Europe
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared that trade agreements between the European Union (EU) and
Morocco cannot include goods or resources originating from Western Sahara.
The ECJ emphasized that Western Sahara is considered a “non-self-governing territory” under international law and, therefore, it is
distinct from the Kingdom of Morocco. As such, any trade agreements that include products from Western Sahara must explicitly recognise this status and cannot be automatically considered as part
of agreements involving Morocco. Read the report by Middle East Monitor:
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Indie Journalism
In the largest public analysis of ISR military strike footage, Airwars reviewed hundreds of clips of strikes in Gaza posted on official military media accounts in the first month of the war. Despite the grainy videos published with few details on targets or locations, Airwars matched 17 strikes to specific geo-coordinates where researchers had tracked Palestinians killed or injured. In these strikes alone, more than 400 civilians were reported killed. Source: Airwars Org
Lawyers for the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq went back to court to challenge Keir Starmer's failure to ban all arms sales to Israel. Declassified UK spoke to lawyers Dearbhla Minogue and Ahmed Abofoul.
For the 32nd year, the entire world voted at the UN General Assembly to demand an end to the illegal US embargo against Cuba. The USA and Israel opposed the
international community in a vote of 187 to 2. Ben Norton explains why the US empire has waged such a vicious economic war on Cuba for six decades.
Source: G/E
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Debunking Human Shields Claim: A Video Chronicle of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity - presented by GDF US 2024 (YT)
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History will judge the ICC's inaction. Judges must act now or step aside - Every hour that passes sees more lives lost and defenceless children falling victim to atrocities that, according to the ICC prosecutor, meet the threshold for war crimes. By Tayab Ali for Middle East Eye (Published 2024-OCT-08) PRIME SOURCE
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Nubian Language Code: Invaluable intelligence tool in Egypt’s Strategic Deception Plan for October 6 War - The idea of using the Nubian language as a code for the Egyptian Army is credited to Nubian Sergeant Ahmed Idris. The code was employed by the Egyptian army until 1994. Feature
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Offshore Gaza: gas in deep-water sedimentary reservoir rocks as another element in the conflict -- The conflict between the Israeli state and the Palestinian people revolves not only around the control of land but also extends to the ocean, particularly the sedimentary rocks beneath the seafloor. Article by senior geo-scientist Ramon Lopez for EGU Blogs SSP (Published 2023-DEC-01) PRIME SOURCE