<article data-history-node-id="430015" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/video-over-500000-london-protest-against-genocide-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/video-over-500000-london-protest-against-genocide-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Video: Over 500,000 in London protest against genocide in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Over 500,000 protesters marched in London to mark two years of genocide in Gaza.</p> <p>They told MEE why they are demonstrating, despite the latest ceasefire agreement.</p> <p>The ceasefire agreement struck by Hamas and Israel stipulates an increase in aid deliveries into the Strip, as well as the opening of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, although questions remain around how the aid will be distributed and which agencies will be permitted to do it.</p> <p>London has been a regular site for marches since October 2023, with demonstrators protesting for a ceasefire, an end to Israeli arms exports, and the sanctioning of the Israeli state.</p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPro6oBAMav/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; 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Muslim civil rights organisation said if Machado does not renounce far-right beliefs, she should be stripped of the prize

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<article data-history-node-id="429654" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-more-children-die-starvation-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-more-children-die-starvation-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Two more children die of starvation in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two children have died over the past 24 hours due to starvation and malnutrition in Gaza, according to medical sources cited by Wafa news agency.</p> <p>That brings the total number of deaths in Gaza due to starvation since October 2023 to 459, including 154 children.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="429653" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-continues-attacking-gaza-despite-trump-order-immediately-stop" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-continues-attacking-gaza-despite-trump-order-immediately-stop" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel continues attacking Gaza despite Trump order to 'immediately' stop</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel&nbsp;continued military operations in Gaza on Saturday even after&nbsp;US&nbsp;President Donald Trump ordered them to "immediately" stop their assault on the enclave.</p> <p>Gaza's civil defence&nbsp;agency said Israel&nbsp;carried out dozens of air strikes and artillery shelling on Gaza City and other areas in the strip.</p> <p>Spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP&nbsp;that 20 homes were destroyed in the overnight bombardments.</p> <p>"The situation is very serious in Gaza City," he said, adding that his teams were not able to reach all the casualties due to the "presence of tanks and the ongoing bombardment".</p> <p>Gaza City's Baptist Hospital said it received at least four dead&nbsp;from a strike on a home in Tuffah neighbourhood, while Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reported two children killed and eight people wounded in a drone strike on a tent in a camp for displaced people.</p> <p>The Israeli&nbsp;military&nbsp;issued a statement in Arabic on Saturday&nbsp;warning residents of Gaza City not to return to the area as it was continuing its operations.</p> <p>"The IDF [Israeli military] troops are still operating in Gaza City, and returning to it is extremely dangerous,"&nbsp;the military's Arabic-language spokesman, Colonel Avichay Adraee, said on X.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-tells-israel-stop-bombing-gaza-hamas-mulls-ceasefire-proposal">Israel continues attacking Gaza despite Trump order to 'immediately' stop</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A pro-Palestine demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a protest on a Milan highway on 3 October 2025 (Stefano Rellandini/AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="5e6dc469-6335-4b6f-b471-1d1b57a87927" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/GAZA_ITALY_AFP.jpeg" width="1400" height="788" alt="A pro-Palestine demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a protest on a Milan highway on 3 October 2025 (Stefano Rellandini/AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A pro-Palestine demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a protest on a Milan highway on 3 October 2025 (Stefano Rellandini/AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

US intelligence officials say attack on Global Sumud Flotilla in Tunisia approved by Israeli government

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<article data-history-node-id="429650" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-children-among-dead-israeli-continues-pounding-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/two-children-among-dead-israeli-continues-pounding-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Two children among dead as Israeli continues pounding Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least six Palestinians were killed, including two children, in separate Israeli attacks on Gaza on Saturday morning.&nbsp;</p> <p>Wafa news agency reported that a number of civilians were killed after Israeli forces struck a house in Gaza City and a tent housing displaced people in al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza.&nbsp;</p> <p>Local sources told Wafa that Israeli warplanes launched intense attacks on Gaza City in the early hours.&nbsp;</p> <p>Earlier, Israeli media reported that Israel's military had been instructed to reduce&nbsp;activity in Gaza after it said it was preparing for an "immediate implementation" of the first stage of US President Donald Trump's Gaza plan following Hamas' response.&nbsp;</p> <p>However, the Israeli military's Arabic spokesperson issued a warning on Saturday for residents of Gaza City, saying it remained a "dangerous" combat zone.</p> <p>He told residents in a post on X not to go north of the enclave or near any areas where Israel's military operates.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="429498" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-unlawfully-intercepting-high-profile-large-vessels-first" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-unlawfully-intercepting-high-profile-large-vessels-first" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel unlawfully intercepting 'high profile, large' vessels first</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel is intercepting large, high profile vessels first, Middle East Eye journalist&nbsp;Mathilda Mallinson said.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israel has already intercepted the Alma and Sirius, two of the largest vessels in the flotilla.&nbsp;</p> <p>Mallinson noted that those vessels are two of the larger ones, and Israel may begin to unlawfully intercept smaller vessles as the night progresses.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Sumud Flotilla comprises at least 45 boats with 497 sailors and 46 nationalities.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Als Soldat war er bei der Befreiung des KZ Dachau dabei. Nun ist der österreichische Schriftsteller Georg Stefan Troller gestorben.

Die USA entziehen dem linksgerichteten kolumbianischen Präsidenten Petro nach eigenen Angaben das Visum.

<article data-history-node-id="428998" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/will-not-allow-global-sumud-flotilla-break-gaza-blockade-says-israel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/will-not-allow-global-sumud-flotilla-break-gaza-blockade-says-israel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel will not allow Global Sumud Flotilla to break its Gaza blockade, says Israel&nbsp;</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel said on Monday that it would not allow <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/gaza-flotilla-what-you-need-know-about-sumud">the Global Sumud Flotilla</a> carrying aid to Gaza to break its blockade of the Palestinian territory, news agency AFP reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>"Israel will not allow vessels to enter an active combat zone and will not allow the breach of a lawful naval blockade," the foreign ministry said in a statement.</p> <p>The ministry said the vessels would be allowed to dock at Ashkelon from where the aid could be delivered to Gaza.</p> <p>The Global Sumud Flotilla, also carrying prominent pro-Palestinian advocates including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, set sail for Gaza earlier this month from Tunisia after repeated delays.</p> <p>The flotilla aims to break Israel's siege of Gaza and deliver aid to the territory. The crew has said that two of its boats were targeted by drone attacks.</p> <p>Israel blocked two earlier attempts by activists to reach Gaza by sea in June and July.</p> <p>Foreign ministers of 16 countries <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-spain-others-warn-against-attacks-gaza-sumud-flotilla">have expressed</a> concern about the safety of the flotilla headed to Gaza, and warned against “unlawful or violent” acts against it.&nbsp;A joint statement was signed by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/turkey" target="_blank">Turkey</a>, Spain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Ireland,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/libya" target="_blank">Libya</a>, Malaysia, the Maldives, Mexico,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/pakistan" target="_blank">Pakistan</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/qatar" target="_blank">Qatar</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/oman" target="_blank">Oman</a>, Slovenia and South Africa.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>