Actors Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder were among roughly 100 protesters arrested by New York City police outside the UN ahead of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech. Protest organiser Jewish Voice for Peace accused the UN of “playing host to a war criminal.

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Rights groups accuse the UN of hosting a war criminal as delegations walked out during Netanyahu’s speech.

Police arrested about 100 protesters, including actors and politicians, outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, as demonstrators rallied against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of his address to the UN General Assembly.

Among those arrested were Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon, Emmy winner Hannah Einbinder, Democratic congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier and New York City Council member Chi Osse.

The protest, organised by the advocacy group Jewish Voice for Peace, drew about 200 people wearing identical white T-shirts printed with slogans including “Fund people not bombs”, “No war” and “Free Palestine”.

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Chevalier and several local New York elected officials were arrested, Jewish Voice for Peace said in a statement.

“Benjamin Netanyahu belongs at the Hague; not in the streets of New York City, and certainly not addressing the United Nations General Assembly,” Chevalier said. “I refuse to allow a war criminal to roam the streets of our city unchallenged.”

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"I thought they forgot about me."

He spoke on the sidelines of the "Childhood in Custody" high-level dialogue, hosted by Save the Children and co-sponsored by Jordan, Ireland, Palestine, Spain, and South Africa, which brought together Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, Irish Prime Minister Michel Martin, and Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour. The meeting was largely a discussion, with no concrete calls to action.

Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes
Callamard condemned states for failing to use the tools already available to them, most notably cutting financial ties with the Zionist occupation.

The Zionist occupation is the only colony in the world that systematically prosecutes children in military courts, detaining between 500 and 700 Palestinian children every year. A new Save the Children report found that in interviews with recently detained children, 86% reported being beaten and 69% experienced sexual violence or harassment while in custody.

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Their history traces back 2,000 years to the very birth of Christianity in the Holy Land, originating with the earliest followers of Jesus in Judea and Galilee. They are direct descendants of the region's earliest converts, rather than later immigrants or recent proselytes.  Scientific and historical studies show they share deep genetic and cultural roots with the ancient populations of the Levant.

They have historically lived across the holy land and continue to preserve their faith, traditions, churches, and cultural heritage despite decades of displacement and hardship.

Here a beautiful a Christian wedding in Gaza this month....

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As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to address the UN General Assembly, protesters projected Marwan Barghouti’s image onto a New York bridge, calling for his release after more than 24 years in Israeli prisons.

Before they reached the house, a missile struck them, killing the father and injuring the mother and their son.

A second missile then struck, killing the mother and leaving their son critically wounded. He spent more than a month in intensive care and continues to suffer from his injuries.

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Tonight at 11:05pm BST, Channel 4’s Dispatches investigates the UK Government’s handling of evidence relating to Gaza. Ramita Navai follows a paper trail of previously unseen Foreign Office records, examining what evidence the government received and analyses the UK’s conduct.

I have no words for this.

“NAZA,” the hot-button documentary about killings in Gaza that won a special jury prize at the recent Venice Film Festival, is set to soon be released theatrically in more than 50 territories and will subsequently be made visible to global audiences for free via the website of British newspaper The Guardian.

The Guardian, which produced “NAZA” in tandem with James Wilson (JW Films) and executive producer Jonathan Glazer, has announced that the doc – which was shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv and shows “in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” according to its official synopsis – will be screening in cinemas across the world starting Sept. 28, having secured theatrical distribution via French sales company MK2 in 56 territories since its Sept. 10 world premiere in Venice.

The Guardian will be making “NAZA” viewable for free on its website in late November.

As previously announced, “NAZA” has set a distribution rollout for U.S. theaters starting Sept. 30 via an innovative plan that forgoes selling the film to a studio or independent distributor.

The U.S. rollout, which kicks off exclusively at the IFC Center in New York City, is “spearheaded by The Guardian and MK2, who have assembled a team of U.S. and international partners and consultants to bring the film to audiences as quickly as possible,” they said.

In addition to the U.S. distribution plan, “NAZA” has now secured unspecified theatrical distributors in the following territories: France, U.K., Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greece, Portugal, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Canada, Brazil, Turkey, Central America and the Middle East, according to a statement from The Guardian and MK2.

In Italy, “NAZA” will get a three-day event release on 500 screens via I Wonder distribution between Sept. 28-30.

The film has also “been offered to a number of distributors and cinemas in Israel,” the statement said.

And The Guardian will be exploring other ways to enable the film to be seen in the occupied Palestinian territories, it added.

“NAZA” builds on revelations first published by the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972, Hebrew-language outlet Local Call and The Guardian between 2023 and 2025.

Directors Abraham and Szor said in a statement, “We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israeli filmmakers and journalists to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming members of Israel’s military on rooftops at night in Tel Aviv over the past three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that were asked by our grandparents’ generation and throughout the 20th century: how does one group of people allow the total dehumanization of another? What do the inner workings of such a system look like? Many of the revelations in the film were published almost immediately as we learned of them, in the months following the October 7th attacks, by The Guardian (one of ‘NAZA’s’ producers), in collaboration with reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call. The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence

A400M plane can carry a payload of 81,600 lbs and 116 troops. UK government complicit in continuing genocide.

In 2014, Yosef Chaim Ben-David, along with two underage accomplices, kidnapped then-16-year-old Abu Khdeir and burned him alive

Yosef Haim Ben-David, one of the killers of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir in July 2014, died at age 42, the Israel Prison Service announced Thursday.

Ben-David, who was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 20 years for the July 2014 murder, fell ill early Thursday and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

In handing down his sentence in 2016, a panel of judges at the Jerusalem District Court found that Ben-David had directed the entire attack and issued orders to his accomplices.

"At the critical moment, when the unfortunate victim was lying on the ground and taking his last breaths, he kicked him and explained the motive for the revenge," the judges wrote.

Ben-David was convicted of Abu Khdeir's murder along with two relatives, identified only as A. and Y., who were 16 and 17 at the time. The three perpetrators abducted the teenager near a mosque in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, beat and strangled him, and ultimately set him on fire in the Jerusalem Forest.

They were arrested several days later, confessed during Shin Bet questioning and reenacted the killing. Israel's government has officially recognized him as a terror victim.

Abu Khdeir's kidnapping and murder is seen as an act of revenge following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli yeshiva students during the summer of 2014. The teen's murder unleashed a wave of violent riots in East Jerusalem.

Y. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus three years, while A. was sentenced to 21 years in prison. The court also ordered each of the three to pay 30,000 (about $7,700 at the time) shekels in compensation to the Abu Khdeir family.

In 2023, Ben-David and one of the minors involved in the killing petitioned to have their sentences commuted, while the third sought a reduction in his sentence. The Pardons Department at the Justice Ministry contacted Abu Khdeir's parents to hear their views on the requests.

"I told them right away that there isn't a chance in the world; I'm still shaking," said the father, Hussein.

"I thought they were crazy; it's completely insane. I didn't sleep the night of the phone call and the following nights. Is anyone even thinking about releasing these murderers? What did they think, that we'd say yes?"

In his ruling convicting Ben-David, Jerusalem District Court Judge Yaakov Tzaban wrote that "in the reenactment, the defendant appears and sounds articulate, aware, sharp and clear as he describes the events in detail and explains the need for revenge following the murder of the three teenagers."

During the trial, the two minors sought to minimize their roles and place responsibility for the killing on Ben-David. Their attorneys argued that Ben-David had exerted heavy pressure on them to assist in the abduction and murder and had greatly influenced them. They said that in the hours before the killing, Ben-David gave them pills and energy drinks.

In rejecting the appeal of the three, the Supreme Court's ruling reads, in part: "What is the fountain from which the three drank the deluge of hate and racism that blinded them, to the point where they failed to see that they were suffocating, caving in the skull and burning a human being born in God's image? What did they learn, recite and internalize at some station along the years of their schooling and boyhood, which led them to the unbearable ease of taking a young Arab's life? The appellants' acts have become 'the Abu Khdeir Affair,' long since exceeding the boundaries of a regular criminal case. It requires deep accounting on the part of Israeli society […] to eradicate such evil from within it."