Whistleblower alleges misconduct by United Nations in Gaza
An international aid worker operating in Gaza has filed a formal whistleblower complaint to the Inspector General of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), alleging "gross misconduct and misuse of humanitarian funds by the World Food Programme and other U.N. Agencies," according to a copy of the complaint obtained by Fox News Digital.Seth Mandel: A Plea for Sanity
Details of alleged United Nations interference in the delivery of aid to Gazans have been revealed by the whistleblower who was in Gaza in July. The whistleblower confirmed to Fox News Digital the content of the complaint.
The whistleblower’s complaint claims "A firsthand eyewitnessing of senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials offering any support necessary, including security protection and coordination, to representatives from the World Food Programme (WFP) and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) only to have WFP and OCHA respond that they were not prepared to discuss such coordination."
According to the whistleblower complaint, this "raises serious questions as to why WFP and OCHA were unprepared to discuss or accept the assistance offered by the IDF, thereby preventing aid from getting to the people of Gaza."
The whistleblower confirmed to Fox News Digital during an interview the allegations outlined in the complaint. The whistleblower said in the complaint that "the IDF is actively helping the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) get food into the hands of civilians while U.N. agencies, including WFP and OCHA, through their unwillingness to coordinate with the IDF, are inhibiting the distribution of such aid."
The whistleblower continued, "As has been recently shown through openly available imagery, the IDF has provided clearance for thousands of tons of U.N. humanitarian goods that are now sitting inside of Gaza, awaiting distribution. The U.N. must be held accountable to pick up and distribute such aid. I urge you to launch an independent investigation into this matter to determine the extent to which U.N. agencies, by refusing to coordinate with the IDF on essential issues, including security, are abusing U.S. taxpayer funds rather than using them to deliver the aid the American people are donating – and whether such actions are being taken independently by U.N. officials in Gaza or at the direction of the U.N. Secretary General or other senior U.N. officials in New York. "
The GHF, with support from the U.S. and Israel, has distributed 127 million meals to Gazans since May. However, its aid distribution system has been under consistent attack from Hamas and from some unlikely quarters — the world's leading aid groups.
The whistleblower told Fox News Digital "There is a concerted effort to discredit GHF and any attempts to provide aid out of [the] U.N."
A senior U.S. State Department official sent Fox News Digital a lengthy response. The official said, "The fact of the matter remains that GHF is a threat to how Hamas functions and enriches itself because GHF provides meals to those in need with safeguards to minimize Hamas from stealing. This is why Hamas continues to attack GHF aid sites."
Regarding the aid sites themselves, Starr’s essay is well worth reading in full. Soldiers trained for warfare had to adapt to policing strategies with enemy forces, in civilian clothing, still hunting them. The IDF suddenly had a mission of preventing humanitarian disaster while also defeating Hamas, which meant not letting Hamas get hold of the aid that they were simultaneously trying to provide civilians. Nevertheless, Starr writes, “The stories told by some of the more malicious news outlets about Palestinians being shot while peacefully queuing are ludicrous not only because live-fire warning shots were only employed on the extremely rare occasion that Gazans in the aid site yard deviated toward the closed military zone that was out of their way, but also because I never once saw anything resembling a line or queue.”Seth Mandel: Gaza Disengagement’s Overlooked Villain
Instead, “the sites are controlled chaos, with Palestinian aid seekers constantly seeking to overrun the compound, save for the intervention of armed security contractors.” Those contractors would “use stun grenades to warn off belligerent men who attempt to enter the site in situations like when there are special distributions for women or children. Palestinian aid workers have also used mace to repel aid seekers who refused to leave the site.”
Because some items were more valuable on the market than others, Palestinians would set up literal trading posts off to the side of the distribution site. At the end of the day, Gazans were told to stay behind specific concrete roadside barriers to prevent the area from being overrun day and night. Still, many secretly dug trenches in the area and tried to sleep there. There was violence and theft between aid recipients, and a general atmosphere of fear and panic induced partly by Hamas’s threats against the aid seekers and the proliferating stories about the chaos.
Terrorists did mix in among the aid seekers: Starr recalls one throwing a grenade, another stabbing a soldier. At all times, the possibility of a stampede loomed; a crowd crush could kill and injure aid seekers and perhaps even overrun the security around the site. Soldiers used warning shots, which does hold some risk—but so does not firing any warning shots in many of the situations.
“Yet despite all the problems,” Starr writes, “people were getting fed by the SDS sites, and they appreciated it.” Some “Gazan aid seekers were waving, blowing kisses, and performing heart signs with their hands as they left. People in a ‘killing field’ wouldn’t act like that.”
It turns out well-meaning people are doing their best, which is still imperfect. Human, you might say. The narrative one hears from the Western press is far from the reality. A hearty dose of sanity would do everyone some good—and get more Gazans fed, too.
A new working paper by the cognitive scientist Netta Barak-Corren of Hebrew University sheds some light on this topic, though it isn’t the focus of her research. Barak-Corren was studying aid diversion in war zones, including but not limited to Gaza. But she offers crucial context about the primary aid agency, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, that paints a clear picture not only of the agency’s problems but of its quasi-governmental status.
“There is abundance of evidence to indicate … that the relationship between UNRWA and Hamas was symbiotic to a degree that UNRWA sustained much of the Hamas apparatus in Gaza, via various methods, allowing Hamas to build and sustain its war machine and authoritarian rule,” Barak-Corrin writes.
The UN agency was Gaza’s largest employer and at one point provided four out of every five Gazans with some form of aid, she writes. It is, alone among refugee agencies, a “permanent state of affairs” rather than a temporary solution to a particular postwar problem.
As such, the UN and Hamas have essentially “formalized” a system of aid diversion. The UN also insists on Hamas-linked escorts for its aid convoys rather than independent security. And it has taken steps to prevent employee-identification policies that aid groups have acquiesced to elsewhere.
Yet the aid problem is almost beside the point when looking at the UN’s activities in Gaza. As Barak-Corrin writes, “the focus on physical aid diversion and taxation is to some extent a distraction from the role UNRWA plays in Hamas finances: Hamas has used its influence to insert its operatives and their family members into UNRWA, so that they account for 49% of UNRWA employees.”
UNRWA also has successfully prevented an independent audit of Gaza aid and refused to report diversion incidents regarding Hamas. That means—and this is really the kicker—that “UNRWA should be seen as a streamlined aid diversion operation enjoying a unique level of international immunity and freedom from accountability.”
That is, the UN agency is itself designed to be an adjunct of Hamas. Except in name, the UN is essentially not only part of the Hamas government but the key to Hamas’s ability to sustain its power over the Palestinian enclave.
What does all this have to do with the 2005 disengagement? As COMMENTARY contributing editor Jonathan Schanzer has argued, Hamas’s program of “Talibanization” of the Gaza Strip began almost immediately and has smothered the enclave in the nearly two decades since Hamas took full control.
But as we see from Barak-Corrin’s analysis, Hamas had a partner in that process: UNRWA. Especially considering the various Western boycotts of Hamas after it dislodged Fatah from Gaza by force, sustaining a totalitarian regime and its war machine wasn’t easy or cheap. The UN didn’t merely abet Hamas; it was designed to be part of Hamas’s key governing infrastructure. Rather than being an aid organization that Hamas took advantage of, the UN agency was constructed as a pipeline to assets and materials and influence on the outside for Hamas.
And Hamas used those resources to take the Palestinians’ best chance at full self-government and turn it into an argument against Israeli disengagement from further territory. It became an engine of war and death, and then on Oct. 7, 2023, it became a symbol of world-historical evil. Gaza since disengagement is a profound condemnation of the UN and its entanglement with Hamas. Both must go before Gaza will ever get another chance.
Recognising Palestine is plain wrong
If a picture tells a story, then two pictures make a compelling narrative of cruelty, weaponised starvation and complicity of willingly gullible media. The first was a widely republished photo of a skeletal little boy who is allegedly the victim of deliberate starvation of Gaza’s population by Israel, despite being held by a clearly healthy mother. Other photos of his healthy brother were also ignored. It turns out he suffers from a congenital illness that accounts for his condition. The second image is a video of an Israeli kidnapped on 7 October 2023 who is being held captive in Gaza by Hamas, imagery with uncomfortable echoes of photos of emaciated Jews from Nazi concentration camps. This hasn’t received anywhere near the same global attention and was studiously ignored by the marchers on Sydney Harbour Bridge who, with characteristic lack of self-awareness, chanted slogans demanding the extermination of Israel and ethnic cleansing of Jews, while accusing Israel of committing genocide.The United Kingdom, Canada, and France Must Recognize Kurdistan’s Statehood
As a political-diplomatic tactic, should recognition precede or follow the creation of a state? The Montevideo Convention stipulates that, ‘The political existence of the State is independent of recognition by the other States’ (Article 3). Almost 150 countries recognise the State of Palestine yet this has failed to turn aspiration into meaningful reality. Articles 4 to 7 clarify that all states are juridically equal, enjoy the same rights and possess equal capacity to enjoy their rights. Recognition by a state signifies acceptance of its rights and duties, including the right to freedom from intervention in internal or external affairs by other states. This explains why Palestinians want but Israel opposes recognition of a Palestinian state.
President Emmanuel Macron has said France will recognise a Palestinian state at the opening of the annual UN General Assembly session next month. PM Mark Carney says Canada will also recognise Palestine at the UN in September on condition that the Palestinian Authority commits to governance reforms and holding elections next year that exclude Hamas, the state is demilitarised and Hamas releases all hostages: a triumph of Canadian hope over Israeli experience. PM Keir Starmer says Britain will recognise Palestine if there’s no ceasefire, no renunciation of Israeli threats to annex the West Bank and no Israeli commitment to a peace process for a two-state solution. Legally speaking, tying recognition of one state to the actions of a third state – rewarding Hamas to punish Israel – is incoherent. On the one side, Ghazi Hamad of Hamas’s political bureau said in an Al Jazeera interview on 2 August that the recognition of a Palestinian state is ‘one of the fruits of October 7’. On the other, Britain’s Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis says recognition ‘could only disincentivise Hamas from agreeing to a ceasefire’.
Of the three, Starmer’s has the most symbolic weight owing to the pivotal role of the 1917 Balfour Declaration in the events leading to the creation of Israel. However, Britain and France can no longer settle borders in the Middle East with pronouncements from Europe. President Donald Trump is right to dismiss Macron’s statement as irrelevant, for he ‘doesn’t carry weight’. Performative statements speak more to domestic political pressures but risk damaging relations with Washington and losing leverage over Israeli policy. Israel’s plan to take control of all of Gaza might well have been provoked by the recognitions. Even the domestic impact in the long term will be to consolidate the import of foreign hatreds and conflicts into previously cohesive nations.
As for whataboutery, the biggest non-recognition scandal is Taiwan. Most countries have been bribed, intimidated and gaslit by China into refusing to recognise reality. With a 36,000-square-kilometre area and 23 million people, broadly comparable to Australia, Taiwan is in the top third in the world by population and the top fifth by GDP. It goes two better legally than the fictional Palestinian state in having a capital and a national currency. It goes three better politically with stable governance, democratic institutions and economic prosperity. On the triple measure of economic success, political stability and democratic governance, Taiwan should be a poster child of nation-building and state-building success for the UN. Instead, it is not just not recognised as a sovereign state but actively shunned, even for statistical purposes; and not just by the UN but by all the Western democracies too, for all their rhetorical commitment to adhering to principles over power. Of course, we know the reason why: appeasement of China. But and contrary to commonly held fears, the simple reality is that general recognition of Taiwan as an independent state would vastly add to the diplomatic and reputational costs of any invasion by China and thereby reinforce the normative barrier to attempt unification by force. (‘Reunification’ serves China’s propaganda but is a historical misnomer). Ironically, this mirrors the pre-1971 scandal when Taiwan occupied China’s permanent seat at the UN Security Council and the People’s Republic of China was shunned. Clearly, the mythical ‘international community’ has not lost the capacity for self-delusion.
Palestine is treated as exceptional. Why? As the late international legal scholar Karen Knop once said, “It is a function of the fact that it is a Middle East case.” And yet, Kurdistan is in the same Middle East. So, why the silence?
Since the founding of the United Nations, only one resolution has mentioned the Kurds: UNSC Resolution 688, passed in 1991. It referred to “Kurdish-populated areas” and condemned Iraq’s repression. No push for Kurdish sovereignty followed. These same Western states have never proposed—even in a subcommittee—a draft resolution supporting Kurdish self-determination, let alone raised the matter before the U.N. General Assembly or Security Council, or before the International Court of Justice or at the International Criminal Court. The international community met Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey’s decades of denial, ethnic cleansing, chemical attacks, forced displacement, language suppression, and forced assimilation with indifference.
Meanwhile, the Kurdish demand for Kurdistan’s statehood is grounded in the moral and legal principles the West claims to champion. Article 1 of the 1996 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights says the right to self-determination belongs to “all peoples.”
This hypocrisy is devastating.
The Kurdistan Regional Government has governed the Kurdish regions in Iraq as an autonomous entity since 1992. After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, it emerged as a quasi-state—meeting every standard benchmark of sovereignty. With over 40 diplomatic missions and representations in its capital, and formal political and trade agreements with foreign governments, the Kurdistan Regional Government is a de facto state in everything but international recognition. It held an independence referendum in 2017, in which over 92 percent of participants voted in favor of independence. In response, Baghdad retaliated. Turkey, Iran, and Syria have imposed punitive economic and political measures. And Western democracies have remained silent, if not hostile.
Then there is Rojava, the Kurdish-led government in Syria. Since 2012, Kurds there have built one of the Middle East’s most progressive, multi-ethnic, and gender-equal governing structures —while also fighting and defeating the Islamic State. Their reward despite effective self-governance and a disciplined military force, the Syrian Democratic Forces? Turkish invasion, occupation and subsequent Turkification since 2018, isolation, and silence from states like the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Spain and Ireland. Even their basic right to internal autonomy—federalism or confederalism within Syria—is dismissed as “unacceptable.”
Both Kurdish governments are members of the international coalition against the Islamic State. The West celebrates Kurdish fighters when they die fighting terrorists and jihadists, but when Kurds demand the right to live in peace in their own sovereign state, the same governments look the other way. Western parliamentarians, congressmen, and political analysts must confront this double standard: Why are international legal norms applied selectively? Why is Palestinian statehood a matter of international justice, but Kurdistan’s statehood a political inconvenience? Why do the Kurds remain stateless despite satisfying the same benchmarks applied to other nations?
Maybe the 45 million Kurds—likely even more, since no ethnic census has ever been allowed—should stop playing by the rules. After sacrificing more than 25,000 lives fighting terrorism and extremism, after decades of being ignored, dismissed, and denied, maybe the Kurds should follow the script that seems to work: lean into Islamism, threaten Western cities, burn flags, weaponize outrage and ideology. Maybe then Canada, the United Kingdom, and France would pay attention. The Kurds are peaceful and eschew terrorism. Even in Turkey, the Kurdish military campaign was more insurgency than terror, as even European courts have acknowledged. The West should reward peace, progressivism, and construction of state capacity.
History will remember ‘Free Palestine’ as the greatest human rights scam ever pulled. pic.twitter.com/Cj65Vs5dmj
— Zach Ross (@ZachRossX) August 14, 2025
No Joke: UN “Rights Expert” Openly Defends Hamas
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 15, 2025
“Hamas, Hamas, Hamas... People have no idea what it is. Hamas is a political force that won the most democratic elections. Hamas built schools, public facilities, hospitals. Don't think of armed cut-throats. It's not like that.” https://t.co/oMCHSgYpIx
Hamas Has Left Netanyahu with No Option but to Occupy Gaza
Hamas's terrorist leadership has demonstrated unequivocally it has no interest in agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza.
One of the main sticking points in the Qatar talks was Hamas's insistence that it remains in control of Gaza, despite a number of Arab states issuing a joint declaration for the terrorist organisation to disband and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority.
Hamas's terrorist leadership was encouraged to adopt this hard-line position after a succession of naive Western leaders announced their intention to recognise a Palestinian state at next month's meeting of the UN Security Council, even though there is actually no such Palestinian state in existence.
The pitfalls of this completely unnecessary diplomatic grandstanding, which may well effectively cause the murder of the remaining 50 hostages who might still to be alive, were clearly evident when Hamas responded to Starmer's pledge by publicly hailing it as a "victory."
It is unclear how recognizing a terrorist state committed to obliterating its neighbour will bring about any kind of "peace."
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, alluding to the novel Frankenstein, responded to Macron's declaration: "Macron's unilateral 'declaration' of a 'Palestinian' state didn't say WHERE it would be. I can now exclusively disclose that France will offer the French Riviera & the new nation will be called 'Franc-en-Stine.'"
Hamas's intransigence has left Netanyahu with little option but to maintain military operations in Gaza until Israel has achieved its ultimate objective in the war -- namely the complete destruction of the terrorist organisation's military and political infrastructure in Gaza.
“Anyone who stands for Palestine” gets targeted? False: the UN has 30 rapporteurs who speak out on this, and 100 other commissioners & officials. But you're the only one denounced for antisemitism by 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇫🇷🇳🇱🇦🇷 and sanctioned by 🇺🇸. Try and pretend if you like—but it's about you. https://t.co/2FASL3mBof
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 14, 2025
IDF kills senior Hamas terrorist amid plans to take Gaza City
The Israel Defense Forces killed Nasser Musa, a senior operative in Hamas’s Rafah Brigade who headed the terrorist group’s Military Control Department, last week in a strike near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, the military announced on Friday.
Musa, killed on Aug. 9, was responsible for the operational readiness and training of the Rafah Brigade, which carried out attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians during the war.
He was a close associate of Rafah Brigade commander Mohammad Sabaneh, who was killed in May 2025. He also held multiple positions within the brigade, including in military intelligence and the observation network.
“Musa’s elimination further degrades the Rafah Brigade’s operational capabilities and Hamas terrorists’ abilities,” said the IDF.
Meanwhile, the IDF continues operations in Khan Yunis. On Thursday, it struck a structure used by terrorist groups to store rockets intended for attacks on Israeli targets. Troops also located and dismantled additional terrorist infrastructure and neutralized active terrorist cells.
In northern Gaza, IDF soldiers killed terrorists and demolished tunnel shafts, and “continue to defend the civilians of the communities near the Strip,” the military added.
Earlier this week, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir confirmed a new phase in the war against Hamas, focused on securing operational control of Gaza City.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that Israel will not occupy the enclave, saying the expansion of the war is aimed at destroying Hamas and freeing the local population from its regime of terror.
A "key terrorist" in Hamas's Rafah Brigade was killed in an airstrike in southern Gaza's Khan Younis last week, the military announces.
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 15, 2025
According to the IDF, the strike on August 9 killed Nasser Musa, who served as the head of Hamas's "control department."
As part of his role,… pic.twitter.com/H0wTFs5BIn
The IDF provides new details on its fresh offensive in the Zeitoun area on the outskirts of Gaza City, which was launched earlier this week.
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 15, 2025
The offensive is being carried out by the 99th Division with the Nahal Infantry Brigade and 7th Armored Brigade.
According to the IDF,… pic.twitter.com/zbQ3owOX6G
Seven kilometers worth of Hamas tunnels in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun were sealed with concrete, the military says.
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 15, 2025
The IDF says the engineering effort took place over the past four weeks, amid an offensive against Hamas in the town.
Over 20,000 cubic meters of concrete were… pic.twitter.com/KqBPxao63S
Israel strikes Hezbollah, warns Lebanon it’s responsible for reining in terror group
Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck a Hezbollah facility and a tunnel belonging to the terror group near the Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon on Friday, the IDF said, with Defense Minister Israel Katz warning Beirut that it was responsible for reining in the terror group.
The military said that it had identified Hezbollah military activity at the site and that the existence of the facility was a violation of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
Following the strikes, Katz said Israel would continue to strike at all Hezbollah violations.
“We will not budge from our policy of maximum enforcement and will not allow threats to arise against the residents of the north and all citizens of Israel,” he said.
In a message to Lebanon’s new President Joseph Aoun, Katz said Israel views Beirut as “directly responsible for enforcing Lebanon’s sovereignty and upholding the ceasefire agreement.”
The Lebanese government has been working to disarm Hezbollah, but has sometimes been criticized for not doing so effectively. Critics of Israeli policy, however, argue that carrying out such strikes too regularly without allowing the Lebanese government to dismantle Hezbollah on its own may risk undermining the first-ever government that has expressed a genuine willingness to address the issue.
The strikes came hours after Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem vowed to fight government plans to disarm his group, with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accusing him of making “unacceptable” threats to unleash civil war.
Qassem gave a televised address after meeting with Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani, whose country has long backed and armed the Lebanese terror group.
Hezbollah emerged badly weakened from last year’s war with Israel, and the Lebanese government — under US pressure — has ordered the army to draw up a plan to disarm the group by the end of the year.
Iran, whose so-called axis of resistance includes Hezbollah, has also suffered a series of setbacks, most recently in its own war with Israel, which also saw the United States strike its nuclear facilities.
“The government is implementing an American-Israeli order to end the resistance, even if it leads to civil war and internal strife,” Qassem said.
“The resistance will not surrender its weapons while aggression continues, occupation persists, and we will fight it… If necessary to confront this American-Israeli project, no matter the cost.”
Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck a Hezbollah facility and a tunnel belonging to the terror group near the Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon a short while ago, the IDF says.
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 15, 2025
The military says the existence of the site is a violation of the ceasefire between Israel and… pic.twitter.com/RNFoBbJw1W
Israel is facilitating unprecedented amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) August 15, 2025
Yesterday, Deputy Foreign Minister @SharrenHaskel led an important tour at Kerem Shalom with dozens of foreign ambassadors.
This crossing is one of the main points from which humanitarian aid enters… pic.twitter.com/DsTYkfjohO
This is a complete and utter lie. @UNRWA has got to stop lying.
— COGAT (@cogatonline) August 15, 2025
No surprise an organization so infested with Hamas lies too, but this has got to stop.
Out of 25,200 trucks that entered during the hostage release deal, UNRWA sent in 0. https://t.co/eesuBwacxj
This letter accusing Israel of “weaponizing aid” is a textbook case of performative self-aggrandizing posturing that does virtually nothing to actually help Gazans in need.
— Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝ (@MarkZlochin) August 14, 2025
According to UNRWA’s aid tracking dashboard, out of the 50,000 aid trucks that entered Gaza before the… pic.twitter.com/JR4kfI7Dg9
Over 100 international organizations, including the @UN, accused Israel of blocking aid to Gaza.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) August 15, 2025
In reality, there’s no blockade. Just a new screening process to keep terrorists out of the aid system.
That’s where these organizations took issue.
Some have refused to comply… pic.twitter.com/lA8fAfUZky
Yesterday, @chapinfay of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that 20 of their aid workers were wounded by Hamas and left to die in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital after Doctors Without Borders refused them care.
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) August 15, 2025
Did you hear about it?
Full clip below.pic.twitter.com/20ObNT3i31 https://t.co/HMuKsV3db5
@GHFUpdates "Al-Tina" aid distribution center in Gaza (timestamp: 11 hours ago)
— Imshin (@imshin) August 15, 2025
While large amounts of the UN aid trucks are commandeered by Hamas, some of it ending up for sale in the markets and the rest disappearing into UN warehouses (and into terror tunnels...?), never seen… pic.twitter.com/BvYVU01sDG
In partnership with @SamaritansPurse, we are distributing a new food item designed to treat severe acute malnutrition.
— Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (@GHFUpdates) August 15, 2025
📋 These Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food (RUSF) bars are packed with nutrients, including protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, and food additives for extended… pic.twitter.com/5kq0f3ght0
Gazans set fire to a relief truck while the driver was screaming for help and burned to death.
— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) August 15, 2025
No one bothered to help him…
This is who and what the Gazans really are. pic.twitter.com/GCjFGsFPvi
Call me Back Podcast: Israel's Withdrawal from Gaza, 20 Years Later (Part 2) - with Asi Shariv and Amit Segal
On Friday, August 15th, Israel marks the 20th anniversary of its 2005 disengagement from Gaza, a watershed moment in Israeli history. It’s the date when, 20 years ago, the IDF began executing the Knesset’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from all Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip, uprooting the 8,000 Israelis living there.
The plan was spearheaded by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was head of the right-wing Likud party and had been a lifelong supporter of expanding settlements. Sharon ultimately got his government, including the future Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to support the withdrawal.
On today’s episode, we are joined by Ark Media contributor Amit Segal and Asi Shariv, who served as senior advisor to Prime Minister Sharon during those dramatic days. With the benefit of hindsight, we discuss the long term impact of the Gaza withdrawal and whether or not it was a mistake.
Why do western activists love authoritarian regimes? because anti-bourgeois ire is the opiate of the bourgeoisie. pic.twitter.com/QA86QXmD55
— Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن (@elicalebon) August 14, 2025
Erin Molan: Trump WON’T Defend Australia 🇦🇺 … Unless THIS Happens! Erin Molan UNLOADS!
In a no-holds-barred interview with Peter Fegan on 4BC, Erin Molan warns that Australia is blowing its shot at securing AUKUS under Donald Trump. She says Trump will only deliver if Australia steps up — and right now, Canberra is failing to understand how Trump works.
From her unique position as an Australian broadcaster breaking into the U.S. media market with her new Salem Network podcast, Molan reveals:
✅ Why Trump’s support for AUKUS isn’t guaranteed — and what Australia must do now
✅ How she approaches real research in an era of misinformation
✅ Her blunt take on TikTok “influencers” spreading half-truths
✅ Insights from her exclusive interview with General David Petraeus on national security
… and much more on the state of global politics and media.
The dark, corrupt and antisemitic history of Mahmoud Abbas exposed
The 89-year-old Palestinian Authority leader has a chilling history of Jew-hatred.
Mahmoud Abbas has maintained a policy of incentivising terror against Israelis by rewarding the families of terrorists with lifelong payments.
Textbooks used in PA-run schools have long been condemned by international watchdogs for promoting hatred and glorifying violence against Israel.
Mahmoud Abbas is now promising new elections, an end to payments for terrorists, a demilitarised Palestinian state, and renewed recognition of Israel’s right to exist — virtually disavowing a lifetime of beliefs.
Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has come under fire for negotiating with Mahmoud Abbas ahead of recognising a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly.
Andrew Bolt lashes PM for 'comforting terrorists' with Palestine recognition
Sky News host Andrew Bolt questions Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s policy on Palestine, likening it to recognition of Taiwan.
“Prime Minister, why are you recognising a Palestinian state but not recognising Taiwan?” Mr Bolt said.
“You know what's really going on. Australia, like so many countries, is terrified of offending the Chinese dictatorship by calling Taiwan a country. It might stop buying our stuff.
“Seriously, Prime Minister, isn't it time to stand for the truth, to stand for democratic allies and stop giving comfort to tyrants and terrorists?”
‘Unprofessional’: ABC's Sarah Ferguson’s bias on full display with Israel questioning
Sky News Media Watch Dog Columnist Gerard Henderson slams ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson’s “unprofessional” questioning of US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
"I'm so tired of people blaming Israel for the fact that it's defending themselves against the monsters who raped women in front of their families, who mutilated their bodies, who burned babies, who beheaded people, who burned elderly people in their wheelchairs, who took 250… pic.twitter.com/UkvTNHwJ8w
— AIJAC (@AIJAC_Update) August 15, 2025
‘Moronic decision’: Rowan Dean rips into ‘halfwit’ PM for Palestine call
Sky News host Rowan Dean slams the “moronic decision” by the Prime Minister to recognise a Palestinian state.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Thursday blasted Australia on the government’s intention to recognise the state of Palestine, revealing the sentiment of “disgust” by the Trump administration over the move.
“Not only our reputation, but the security of this nation has now been put at grave risk, thanks to Labor, Albanese and Wong,” Mr Dean said.
“Never has Australia sunk so low.”
Australia’s politicians have become ‘tinpot dictators’
Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton has mocked the “belligerent Labor politicians” after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used a Hamas quote to attack journalism.
Australia-US relationship at ‘record low’ following ‘concerning’ Palestine move
AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie says the Albanese government’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state should “concern” all Australians.
“The relationship between Australia and the United States is at a record low,” Mr Burnie told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.
“This is just one of many issues that have happened over the past couple of months that illustrate that the very important strategic alliance between our two countries has been placed on rocks because of the ill-fated and sometimes confusing approach of this government.
“That should concern all of Australia.”
The TRUTH About Hamas, Mahmoud Khalil, and the Palestinian Deception
Mark Levin exposes Mahmoud Khalil, a radical Islamist shielded by a U.S. judge, and debunks the myth of a “Palestinian homeland.” From October 7th’s atrocities to Hamas’ manipulation of aid and media, Mark shows how the Left protects America’s enemies while betraying Israel.
After Ezra Klein’s abominable interview with Mahmoud Khalil, I can no longer watch as the media glorifies and whitewashes his extremism.
— David lederer (@Davidlederer6) August 15, 2025
The media claims there is “no evidence.”
But here it is. I lived it. Don’t let them gaslight you. pic.twitter.com/cgrcJZ89u2
WATCH: Speaking to former MSNBC host Joy Reid, Mahmoud Khalil concedes he wasn’t abused or harmed while in U.S. detention, but complains the food was “terrible.” pic.twitter.com/ec8f9RsY22
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) August 15, 2025
Sapphire, a young feminist activist from Trinidad and Tobago, opened From Classrooms to Revolution by declaring that in many societies, young people are “viewed as powerless, entitled, or in some cases even lazy” and “expected to obey authority without question.” She countered… pic.twitter.com/WiyjhqCl0P
— Stu (@thestustustudio) August 14, 2025
Khalil said his parents raised him in a Syrian refugee camp to see education not as personal achievement but as “a form of resistance.”
— Stu (@thestustustudio) August 14, 2025
He claimed knowledge “cannot be confiscated” and said education gave him the tools to challenge “dominant narratives,” organize, and connect… pic.twitter.com/DW8vIVLwiP
Khalil advised student activists to ignore those who dismiss them as “naive,” “too idealistic,” or unrealistic. He said students have “led huge movements across history” and been “the moral compass,” urging them to wear that as “a badge of honor.” Drawing from his time at… pic.twitter.com/pHzWXiWyPc
— Stu (@thestustustudio) August 14, 2025
Here’s some of the promotional artwork used to advertise Khalil’s keynote. pic.twitter.com/RVflrSmA6l
— Stu (@thestustustudio) August 14, 2025
And here’s Transform Education, featured prominently on the official website of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative. pic.twitter.com/eo238fzpjx
— Stu (@thestustustudio) August 14, 2025
Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi: We Are Fighting the Jews, Not Just Zionism; Westerners Patronize Us with Their Aid, They should Shut Up When We Talk; They Will Give Us Aid, Whether They Like It Or Not, and We Will Not Thank Them; I Wish for a Nuclear WWIII, So the Whole World… pic.twitter.com/NNn5Jf7TD6
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) August 15, 2025
So they’ll air Mehdi Hasan? The man who is about to be confirmed as taking payments from the Muslim Brotherhood?
— Jake Donnelly (@RedWhiteBlueJew) August 14, 2025
But they want air you?
What exactly is Jubilee saying?
The masks are off!
— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) August 15, 2025
Mohamed Hadid, father of the famous models Gigi and Bella Hadid, openly calls for the "end to the state of Israel"
This millionaire "palestinian refugee" has 1.5 million followers! pic.twitter.com/9enk0cRjFd
That was Cardiff. The next day, the Viceroy went to London to proffer more wisdom about the Jews sorry "Zionists".
— habibi (@habibi_uk) August 15, 2025
He really doesn't have much luck with the police, does he. Poor man.
Oh well, the high-minded back these protests, in their great wisdom.https://t.co/XA14krDqg7
Should a supporter of a proscribed terrorist group be allowed to hold roles like these? Especially publicly appointed positions?
— habibi (@habibi_uk) August 15, 2025
We know this will be a shield for many rather than a mark of shame. 2/12 pic.twitter.com/QdV5z71GGY
Alice Clack is an NHS consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. In addition to backing racist vandals, she can be found smashing the windows of banks and blocking bridges, to "save the planet". 4/12 pic.twitter.com/P2C6pv4A6r
— habibi (@habibi_uk) August 15, 2025
Giovanna Lewis is a former Labour councillor. As a serving councillor, she was sent to prison for contempt of court.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) August 15, 2025
In the chamber, she once glued her hand to a table. Yes, really. "Saving the planet" again. 6/12 pic.twitter.com/TtnOMquw5t
Jonathan Porriit, a baronet who apparently has the ear of the King, personifies the obnoxious arrogance that shields these criminals. 8/12https://t.co/XWSxwFB4d7
— habibi (@habibi_uk) August 15, 2025
For "Zionists":
— habibi (@habibi_uk) August 15, 2025
“You’re not a Jew, you’re a Nazi Zionist! So f**l off!” “Shut up, Zionist prick!” F**k off, Zionists!” “F**k off, you bastards!”
“Murdering brown babies!” “Genocide!” “It’s not your country, you have to give it back.” “You dirty bastard, you paedophile!” 10/12 pic.twitter.com/mZr7Z3Qerv
Even Christian preachers were abused.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) August 15, 2025
The only "status" these awful rallies deserve is "far beyond the pale". They are every bit as ugly as the BNP hatred and EDL rucks of yore.
Just say no. 12/12 pic.twitter.com/VYczyhTSq6
Aziz Salha, killed in an Israeli airstrike in October 2024.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 15, 2025
He just couldn’t stop himself from continuing his path as a terrorist. pic.twitter.com/7D4RNXto0y
Paris 📍
— Kosher🎗 (@koshercockney) August 15, 2025
Rioter: “I just said Free Palestine”
Policeman: “Shut the f*ck up. Go to Palestine if you've got the balls”
pic.twitter.com/QPnojAW9Ki
Uh oh…too many contradictions made @jakeshieldsajj his cover 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/z0bTMAvVFC
— Ami Kozak (@amiKozak) August 15, 2025
"He's an Anti-Zionist Too!" cartoon book (December 2024) PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism (February 2022) |
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