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18-08-2025
GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces bomb al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, killing seven people, as the military advances plans to take over the northern city and forcibly displace more than a million Palestinians to concentration zones in the south.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says 11 more people have died of Israel-induced starvation in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 251. The victims include 108 children.
Tens of thousands of Israelis rally in Tel Aviv, calling for an end to the war on Gaza and the return of the captives held by Hamas, as global protests continue over Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera’s journalists.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,827 people and wounded 155,275. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Laura Loomer claims credit for US’s visa suspensions
The far-right activist has hailed the decision by the US Department of State to suspend humanitarian visas for Palestinians in Gaza.
In a post on social media, Loomer described the decision as “fantastic news”, and thanked US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for what she called his “prompt response to this invasion of our country by NGOS that have been accused of being pro-HAMAS”.
“Hopefully all GAZANS will be added to President Trump’s travel ban,” Loomer added, before suggesting Palestinians can get medical treatment elsewhere.
We’ve been speaking to protesters at the rally in New York City.
Miriam Osman from the Palestinian Youth Movement says that the protesters have “one clear demand, which is, ‘Stop starving Gaza’”.
“This is a mass march for humanity. Everybody needs to be out here today, because what we’re witnessing in Gaza right now is utterly unbearable,” she said.
“The people of Gaza need immediate relief, and it can happen today if the US government decides to stop funding and arming Israel,” Osman added.
Journalist Zoe Alexandra said she joined the protest in solidarity with colleagues in Gaza.
“We’re coming together as journalists and media workers to say, Israel must end its killing of journalists,” said Alexandra, who is an editor at Peoples Dispatch.
“They are simply on the ground… trying to share the story of their own people’s genocide, and for that, they’re being picked up and targeted by Israel, threatened, accused of all sorts of things, and then murdered in front of their family.”
The US Muslim rights group has joined the condemnation of the State Department’s move to suspend visas for Palestinians from Gaza.
“Blocking Palestinian children injured by American weapons from coming to America for medical treatment is the latest sign that the intentional cruelty of President Trump’s ‘Israel First’ administration knows no bounds,” the group wrote in a statement on social media.
“It is also deeply ironic that the Trump administration would ban Palestinian children seeking treatment while rolling out the red carpet for racists and indicted war criminals from the Israeli government. This ban is just the latest example of our government’s complicity with Israel’s genocide, which is increasingly rejected by the American people,” it added.
As we reported earlier, the US State Department announced it has halted issuing all visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza, including a “small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas”. (Int’l News Desk)
