Cuts force World Food Programme to end support for half a million Palestinians in Gaza 19 October 2026 at 05:54

Cuts force World Food Programme to end support for half a million Palestinians in Gaza

By: Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem and Seham Tantesh in Gaza

19 October 2026 at 05:54

Two-thirds of population face crisis levels of food insecurity and 200,000 people are in danger of famine

This winter is likely to deepen hunger for Palestinians in Gaza, after sweeping aid cuts forced the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) to end support for more than half a million people each month, the agency’s director for Palestine said.

More than a year after a Trump-brokered ceasefire came into force, promised reconstruction has not begun, there are few jobs and the vast majority in Gaza still rely on aid to eat.

Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist 18 October 2026 at 06:39

Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist

The Guardian

By: Kiran Stacey Policy editor

18 October 2026 at 06:39

Green leader in England and Wales calls ‘debates about words’ unhelpful and denies recent motion was controversial

Zack Polanski has said Zionism in its current form is racist, that no country has a right to exist, and that the Green party motion on the issue was not controversial.

The leader of the Green party in England and Wales gave an unapologetic interview to the BBC on Sunday two weeks after his party approved a motion equating Zionism with racism.

Jonathan Glazer was ‘shocked into silence’ by NAZA documentary 17 October 2026 at 18:30

Jonathan Glazer was ‘shocked into silence’ by NAZA documentary

The Guardian

By: Sammy Gecsoyler

17 October 2026 at 18:30

Film’s executive producer talks about first time he watched film detailing Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza

The director Jonathan Glazer said he was “shocked into silence” the first time he watched NAZA, an award-winning documentary about Israel’s systems of mass killing in the war on Gaza.

Glazer appeared on a panel at NAZA’s UK premiere in London on Thursday night alongside key figures behind the documentary, including its Israeli co-directors, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.

‘I cannot carry all of this alone’: the couples kept apart by the war in Gaza 17 October 2026 at 03:00

‘I cannot carry all of this alone’: the couples kept apart by the war in Gaza

The Guardian

By: Aseel Mousa

17 October 2026 at 03:00

Families have been scattered, fathers separated from their children, and couples unable to reunite and marry

Wijdan Abu Matar, 43, was forced to leave Gaza in November 2023 with her eight children for medical treatment, while her injured husband, Hatem, remained behind.

Wijdan and her family were living in the Nuseirat refugee camp when the Gaza war began with the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. Ten days later, on 17 October that year, an Israeli strike hit the al-Muhandseen tower, near their home, injuring Wijdan and every member of her family.

‘Tough to watch, impossible to ignore’: reviewers on NAZA documentary 16 October 2026 at 11:42

‘Tough to watch, impossible to ignore’: reviewers on NAZA documentary

The Guardian

By: Sammy Gecsoyler

16 October 2026 at 11:42

Film interviewing military insiders about mass killing of civilians in Gaza wins widespread praise around the world

Critics around the world have hailed the award-winning documentary NAZA as a “brilliant and harrowing” film that is “impossible to ignore”.

NAZA, which is produced by the Guardian and details Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, was released in UK cinemas this week and will be shown in more than 50 countries. As well as its global cinema releases, NAZA will be available free on the Guardian’s website from late November.

I’ve debated with Israel’s most fervent defenders – NAZA debunks their talking points | Mehdi Hasan 16 October 2026 at 08:00

I’ve debated with Israel’s most fervent defenders – NAZA debunks their talking points | Mehdi Hasan

The Guardian

By: Mehdi Hasan

16 October 2026 at 08:00

The film’s testimonies from Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers expose years of baseless propaganda. Don’t take my word – take theirs

I watched the extraordinary new Guardian-produced documentary from Oscar-winning Israeli film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor the other night, and I have struggled to stop thinking about it ever since. The film’s title comes from a Hebrew military term for collateral damage, and it consists of eye-opening interviews with two dozen Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers sitting in darkness, often on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, their voices “digitally altered to disguise their identities”.

At one point, Abraham asks one of the soldiers a remarkably blunt question.

NAZA: the film Israel does not want you to see - video 16 October 2026 at 05:55

NAZA: the film Israel does not want you to see - video

The Guardian

By: Annie Kelly · Laurence Topham · Alex Atack · Ben Kape and Homa Khaleeli

16 October 2026 at 05:55

Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor discuss their new documentary, NAZA, which exposes the AI systems that the Israeli military uses to rain down strikes on Gaza, causing the mass killing of civilians. Based on the testimony of 24 military insiders, the documentary caused uproar in Israel, with the government threatening to strip the filmmakers of their citizenship. The Guardian's Annie Kelly talks to the directors about how the film was made, and the price they paid for speaking out

Unpolished, anti-Bibi, but evasive on peace: who is the Israeli opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot? 15 October 2026 at 00:00

Unpolished, anti-Bibi, but evasive on peace: who is the Israeli opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot?

The Guardian

By: Peter Beaumont Senior international correspondent

15 October 2026 at 00:00

The ‘menschy’ former general contrasts with the current PM when it comes to style and character – yet on key policy points retains a studied ambiguity

He has been called the man who is everything the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is not.

Gadi Eisenkot, a former general and the main opposition candidate in Israel’s elections this month, is unpolished where Netanyahu is slick.

How Gaza changed Europe, exposing cracks that grow bigger by the week | Shada Islam 15 October 2026 at 00:00

How Gaza changed Europe, exposing cracks that grow bigger by the week | Shada Islam

The Guardian

By: Shada Islam

15 October 2026 at 00:00

Solidarity with Palestine’s suffering is punished but MEPs allow a witch-hunt of European Muslims

For three painful years, Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, in retaliation for the Hamas terror attacks on 7 October 2023, has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, wounded thousands more and reduced most of the territory to rubble. It has changed views of Israel across the world, increased support for Palestine and raised questions about US power.

Europe’s failure to hold Israel’s government to account has cost it global credibility and influence. But I fear something even more consequential than that: Gaza is changing Europe itself.

Shada Islam is a Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs. She runs New Horizons project, a strategy, analysis and advisory company

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Israel blocks construction of key Gaza base created by Trump peace board 14 October 2026 at 15:19

Israel blocks construction of key Gaza base created by Trump peace board

The Guardian

By: Aram Roston in Washington

14 October 2026 at 15:19

Exclusive: Israel has not permitted US-led project to house 150 international troops to move forward

Israel is refusing to allow a key military outpost project for Donald Trump’s Board of Peace to proceed in Gaza, the Guardian has learned.

In early August, the Board of Peace, the international organization authorized in 2025 by the UN and chaired by the US president, issued its first construction contract for Gaza: Louisiana-based Arkel International would construct a military outpost for 150 international troops that would be the vanguard of an international stabilization force.

Judge blocks US sanctions on rights groups helping ICC Gaza war crimes inquiry 14 October 2026 at 13:53

Judge blocks US sanctions on rights groups helping ICC Gaza war crimes inquiry

The Guardian

By: Anna Betts in New York

14 October 2026 at 13:53

Blow for Trump administration as Dawn and Taag hail ‘important step in unraveling the ICC sanctions regime’

A US federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from placing sanctions on two US-based human rights groups for working to help the international criminal court’s (ICC) investigations into war crimes in Gaza.

In a 30-page order issued on Tuesday, Jesse M Furman, a judge at the US district court for the southern district of New York, granted a preliminary injunction to the two groups, Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) and Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (Taag).

What will drive American voters to the polls in the midterm elections? - video explainer 14 October 2026 at 06:50

What will drive American voters to the polls in the midterm elections? - video explainer

The Guardian

By: Fabiola Cineas · Hazel Tang · Karif Wat and John Farrell

14 October 2026 at 06:50

Recent polls show that American voters across the political spectrum are deeply dissatisfied with the Trump administration, and the upcoming midterm elections will provide them an opportunity to express how they feel. The Guardian's reporter Fabiola Cineas breaks down the four key issues that will drive voters to the polls

Zack Polanski signals Green party overhaul after row over Zionism vote 11 October 2026 at 11:00

Zack Polanski signals Green party overhaul after row over Zionism vote

The Guardian

By: Aletha Adu Political correspondent

11 October 2026 at 11:00

Rapid growth means structures need to change and give leaders greater control, Polanski says in Guardian article

Zack Polanski: How we’re transforming British politics

Zack Polanski has signalled a potential overhaul of the Green party’s cherished grassroots democracy, calling for leaders to have greater control over strategic direction after a divisive vote equating Zionism with racism.

The Green party leader has also questioned whether political parties should seek to define what members believe, in his strongest criticism yet of a motion that has provoked bitter divisions, international condemnation and calls for his resignation.

Thousands gather in London to express support for Palestinians after three years of ‘genocide’ 10 October 2026 at 12:52

Thousands gather in London to express support for Palestinians after three years of ‘genocide’

The Guardian

By: Sammy Gecsoyler

10 October 2026 at 12:52

Twenty arrested in first march since Ed Miliband declared UK’s position was that Israel’s occupation of West Bank was unlawful

Thousands of people have gathered in central London to express their support for Palestinians after three years of “genocide” carried out against them by Israel.

The demonstrators, many wearing keffiyehs and holding Palestine flags, gathered on the Embankment at midday on Saturday. Some carried placards reading “End the genocide” and “Free Palestine” as they marched towards parliament. A bride and groom appeared to be among those in attendance and a two-minute silence was held to reflect on the lives lost in Gaza.

'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking 10 October 2026 at 02:45

'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking

The Guardian

By: Presented by Aditya Chakrabortty with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor , produced by Frankie Tobi and Luke Smith, graphics by Natalie Gegan · the executive producers are Maz Ebtehaj, Kirsty Major and James Tindale

10 October 2026 at 02:45

Are we really living through ‘end times fascism’? The authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor think so.

In a new series from the Guardian, the pair speak to Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty in an extended interview. From Trump 2.0 and the rise of the tech billionaire to Gaza and the ongoing climate emergency, Klein and Taylor argue we are not just lurching from crisis to crisis, but are in a new and dangerous moment in history. However, they haven’t given up hope of a fightback.

Radical Thinking will be published every Saturday in the Politics Weekly feed

UK accused of giving people of Gaza false hope over new refugee safe route 10 October 2026 at 02:00

UK accused of giving people of Gaza false hope over new refugee safe route

The Guardian

By: Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

10 October 2026 at 02:00

Only ‘very small number’ of people already in Lebanon or Jordan will be referred, says organisation running scheme

The Home Office is facing claims it gave false hope to the people of Gaza after it emerged that a new safe route for Palestinian refugees will only be open to those who have already escaped to Lebanon or Jordan.

Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, announced the reopening of a resettlement scheme for refugees at Labour’s annual conference last month. A statement from her department said: “Around one in four referrals will be for Afghan women and girls and Palestinian refugees, fleeing war and persecution.”

How do human beings rationalize genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look | Omer Bartov 9 October 2026 at 05:00

How do human beings rationalize genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look | Omer Bartov

The Guardian

By: Omer Bartov

9 October 2026 at 05:00

It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable

Werner Best, a senior SS official and jurist who helped organize the Nazi death squads that murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, is also known for his statement: “We must destroy the enemy without hating him.” He belonged to a younger generation of Nazi technocrats, who despised the foul-mouthed, beer-bellied, brown-shirted “old fighters” of the Nazi party in the 1920s, and believed in organizing genocide neatly and dispassionately. After the fall of the regime, Best escaped justice for the rest of his long life, dying peacefully in Germany in 1989. His chilling statement came to my mind while I was watching the film NAZA.

I grew up in Tel Aviv and have visited there often in recent years. That is why the interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers, which make up this documentary, felt strangely familiar. The conversations are conducted at night on rooftops, and the camera scans the cityscape, lingering on apartment windows as their inhabitants watch TV and make dinner. The landscape was intimately recognizable, and I felt a natural affinity with those people living their lives. I also recognized the way the interviewees talked – their speech patterns and choice of words. They reminded me of my son, who served more than a decade ago in the intelligence unit many of them might have belonged to.

‘Self-imposed irrelevance’: why the EU is failing to act on growing public criticism of Israel 9 October 2026 at 05:00

‘Self-imposed irrelevance’: why the EU is failing to act on growing public criticism of Israel

The Guardian

By: Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

9 October 2026 at 05:00

While Israel’s actions against Palestinians intensify public anger, the bloc remains paralysed along familiar fault lines

When the British government announced sweeping sanctions on trade with illegal Israeli settlements and condemned “ethnic cleansing” in the West Bank by state-backed “settler terrorists”, some EU diplomats hoped this dramatic shift in UK government policy towards Israel would have a galvanising effect on the rest of Europe. So far, it has not.

Although France and Canada joined the UK in pledging to ban goods from illegal settlements and impose sanctions on “those who facilitate them or profit from them”, there has not yet been a wider ripple effect.

Israel promotes film that mimics NAZA documentary 8 October 2026 at 13:52

Israel promotes film that mimics NAZA documentary

The Guardian

By: Louisa Loveluck

8 October 2026 at 13:52

Embassies post links to hastily produced online film echoing style of real Guardian documentary about mass killings of Gaza civilians

The Israeli government is promoting an online film project that mimics the style of NAZA, the award-winning documentary that details Israel’s mass killings of civilians in Gaza, in an attempt to counter the real film’s findings.

The real documentary, directed by the Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, and produced by the Guardian, is in cinemas and will be shown in more than 50 countries.

Ben Jennings on the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ – cartoon 8 October 2026 at 13:10

Ben Jennings on the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ – cartoon

The Guardian

By: Ben Jennings

8 October 2026 at 13:10

‘Neither war nor peace’: Palestinians in Gaza on existing amid disease, despair and ruins 7 October 2026 at 17:00

‘Neither war nor peace’: Palestinians in Gaza on existing amid disease, despair and ruins

The Guardian

By: Seham Tantesh in Gaza and Jason Burke

7 October 2026 at 17:00

People tell of lives changed beyond recognition after the 7 October attacks by Hamas three years ago and the subsequent Israeli offensive

Ahmed Ishtaiwi has six chairs. They are cheap and plastic and battered, but they are among the 43-year-old driver and mechanic’s most valuable possessions.

Ella Baron on the Greens’ new ‘Zionism is racism’ policy – cartoon 7 October 2026 at 13:37

Ella Baron on the Greens’ new ‘Zionism is racism’ policy – cartoon

The Guardian

By: Ella Baron

7 October 2026 at 13:37

Mourners gather at Nova music festival site as Israel marks three years since 7 October attack by Hamas – live 7 October 2026 at 05:58

Mourners gather at Nova music festival site as Israel marks three years since 7 October attack by Hamas – live

The Guardian

By: Taz Ali

7 October 2026 at 05:58

1,200 died in attack that led to launch of devastating war in Gaza

‘All I want to do is cry’: trauma of 7 October survivors three years after the attacks

The Israeli military said it launched several security operations across the West Bank overnight, arresting dozens of people suspected of being involved in terrorism, including expressing support for the 7 October attack, the Israeli military said.

A young man was shot and wounded by Israeli soldiers during one of the campaigns in Jenin, according to Wafa, the Palestinian news agency.

Three years on from the 7 October attacks, antisemitism has taken hold in Britain: Jews aren’t safe | Dave Rich 7 October 2026 at 03:00

Three years on from the 7 October attacks, antisemitism has taken hold in Britain: Jews aren’t safe | Dave Rich

The Guardian

By: Dave Rich

7 October 2026 at 03:00

Britain cannot call itself a diverse democracy when communities are living with such fear. A line must be drawn. Let it be now

On another anniversary of the 7 October attacks, the lasting impact on Britain’s Jews is found in the essential daily decisions we now have to make. Beyond the simple fear that you or your children might get killed the next time you go to synagogue or visit your local kosher shop, Jews are hiding the fact they are Jewish.

This has gone beyond the choice of whether to wear your Star of David necklace inside or outside your shirt. It is found in the job applicants who remove their Jewish community volunteering from their CV; the people who use false names when ordering an Uber; the parents who move their children from mainstream schools to Jewish ones.

Dave Rich is director of policy at the Community Security Trust. His new book, From Be’eri to Bondi: Global Antisemitism After October 7, is published by Routledge

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‘All I want to do is cry’: trauma of 7 October survivors three years after the attacks 6 October 2026 at 16:00

‘All I want to do is cry’: trauma of 7 October survivors three years after the attacks

The Guardian

By: Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Nir Oz

6 October 2026 at 16:00

Israeli communities shattered by Hamas massacres are torn between rebuilding their lives and remembering lost friends and relatives

Keith Siegel spent many of his long hours in Hamas captivity in Gaza etching everything that happened after 7 October 2023 into his memory. For 484 days, he recited to himself every place he was held, the dates he was moved and every attack or humiliation he endured or witnessed.

He aimed to store intelligence that could help Israeli forces free other hostages if he was released, to keep track of time as the days slid by and be able to tell his family what happened to him. Now his body is free, but he cannot loosen those memories.

"57% of Dems want Biden officials in jail over Gaza" 22 September 2026 at 10:12

"57% of Dems want Biden officials in jail over Gaza"

MetaFilter

By: kmt

22 September 2026 at 10:12

According to Liberal Current's poll conducted together with the Center for Strategic Politics the question "Should the next Democratic administration pursue criminal prosecution of [M]embers of the Trump and Biden administrations for actions taken related to Israel's genocide in Gaza" has a 57% support among Democrats. (data source) That's good news, as we have some new stuff in the accountability department.

The Officials:

Drop the Genocide 20

These are the top 20 officials most responsible for promoting, lying about, and covering up the Gaza genocide in the Biden White House. The purpose of the #DroptheGenocide20 pledge is to demand these officials be removed from future Democratic administrations, think tanks, and academic and liberal spaces.

Statement on Genocidal Incitement by Israel's Minister of National Security (Lemkin Institute)

The Lemkin Institute strongly condemns the recent inhumane statements of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in which he called for the deliberate killing of "30 to 40" Palestinians every night in Gaza, even if they pose no immediate danger, because, according to him, "[t]here are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn't live. They're not even people." We will be very clear: This statement, which has garnered some outrage in Europe, is an unambiguous declaration of genocidal intent and incitement to genocide.

Israel will 'finish the job' in Gaza and seek Palestinians' migration — defense minister (Jerusalem Post)

Defense Minister Israel Katz says it is only a matter of time before the country resumes full-scale war in Gaza and moves to encourage the emigration of its two million Palestinians.

UK Lawyers for Israel calls to proscribe Doctors Without Borders as terror group

UKLFI appears 128 times in the European Legal Support Centre's Britain Index of Repression database, which documents what it describes as the systematic repression of Palestine solidarity activism across Britain. The centre argued that UKLFI has helped to create a "chilling environment" in which individuals and organisations withdraw or modify lawful Palestine-related activity due to fears of legal escalation.

The Media

Adam H. Johnson: How to Sell a Genocide - The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza (Pluto Press)

How to Sell a Genocide is a thorough indictment of US corporate media's role in enabling—and, at times, directly inciting—one of the most devastating campaigns of mass killing in modern memory. Johnson unpacks how major news outlets like The New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC systematically sanitized Israel's war crimes, hid the US's central role, and dehumanized the Palestinian people.

Radio War Nerd EP 621 — US Media Complicity in the Gaza Genocide, feat. Adam Johnson + Guest co-host Aamer

The passage of another death penalty law shows the one issue Israelis can unite behind: death for Palestinians

After passing two death penalty laws in six weeks, Israel is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to try to execute Palestinians on live TV. Unanimous support for the laws shows that Israeli society can unite around "death to Palestinians."

The Sources

Gaza is Too Graphic For Community Standards

On January 30, 2025, I uploaded a video to Instagram I filmed in Gaza showing a mother sitting beside the bodies of her children after an airstrike. She was not screaming. She was silent in a way that felt heavier than any sound. Within minutes, the post disappeared from both Instagram and Facebook. The notification read: "This content violates Community Standards on graphic violence." There was no context in the message, no acknowledgment of where the video came from, and no distinction between documentation and harm. Only erasure. And then, silence.

Archive Genocide — War Crimes Archive

We archive what others erase. Permanently. We are a group of researchers dedicated to archiving war crimes footage from Gaza and the West Bank. Our team submits all evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hind Rajab Foundation, and the South African legal team at the ICJ. If you'd like to contribute or join the effort, connect with us on Twitter or Telegram. (Warning - Graphic footage! - the same data is available as a graph for exploring connections.)

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