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Gaza
(Monday), 15.09.2025 At least 17 people, including children, have been killed and dozens injured in renewed Israeli attacks today, the state news agency Wafa, citing medical sources, said. (Source: Anadolu Agency - Turkey)
12 September 2025 In the UN General Assembly Hall today countries endorsed a declaration on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine and implementation of the two-State solution with Israel. The New York Declaration is the outcome of an international conference held in July at UN Headquarters, organized by France and Saudi Arabia, which resumes later this month. The General Assembly comprises all 193 UN Member States and 142 countries voted in favour of a resolution backing the document. Israel voted against it, alongside nine other countries – Argentina, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tonga and the United States – while 12 nations abstained. Prior to the vote, French Ambassador Bonnafont recalled that the New York Declaration ’lays out a single roadmap to deliver the two-State solution’. This involves an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, release of all hostages held there, and the establishment of a Palestinian State that is both viable and sovereign. The roadmap further calls for the disarmament of Hamas and its exclusion from governance in Gaza, normalization between Israel and the Arab countries, as well as collective security guarantees. Speaking ahead of the vote, Israeli Ambassador Danon said that ’this one-sided Declaration will not be remembered as a step toward peace, only as another hollow gesture that weakens this Assembly’s credibility.” He said that ’Hamas is the biggest winner of any endorsement here today’ and will declare it ’the fruit of 7 October’. (Source: The United Nations Office of Geneva)
12.09.2025 A pair of US Democratic senators recently returned from the Middle East and issued a 21-page report in which they said their time in the region led to them to the inescapable conclusion that the Netanyahu government’s war in Gaza has gone far beyond the targeting of Hamas to imposing collective punishment on the Palestinians there, with the goal of making life for them unsustainable. Sen. Van Hollen’s and Sen. Merkley’ report points to Israel's ongoing restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian aid, its killings of more than 63,000 Palestinians, including over half of whom were women and children, and the mass displacement of 90% of Gaza's population. Merkley said Israel's strategy is focused on two main components: the mass destruction of homes to prevent Gazans from having anything to return to, and a parallel effort to deprive Palestinians of essentials to live - food, water, medicine. The report says that Israel's policy of limiting only a handful of aid distribution sites to southern Gaza is a clear indication that their operations were designed by the Netanyahu government to use food as a method of population control. The Israeli government has made clear it wants to empty northern Gaza of its population, especially as it has now launched a fresh offensive against Gaza City, the report says. 'We, the United States, are complicit in all of this, because we're providing lots of taxpayer dollar support to the Netanyahu government to use weapons in Gaza, 2000 (pound) bombs and other weapons'. We have said that must stop, given what's happening right now in Gaza, said Van Hollen. Earlier yesterday, a UNICEF statement noted that in Gaza City, where famine was confirmed last month, the percentage of children admitted with malnutrition was at 19%, up from 16% in July, UNICEF Executive Director Russell said one in five children in Gaza now suffers from acute malnutrition. (Source: Anadolu Agency - Turkey)
Israel
September 12, 2025 Israel’s external intelligence, the Mossad had planned to use agents on the ground to assassinate Hamas leaders but declined to execute it - forcing Israel to carry out the unsuccessful airstrike in Qatar, Israelis say - partly because such an action could rupture the relationship the agency had cultivated with the Qataris, who had been hosting Hamas and mediating ceasefire talks between the militant group and Israel. On Tuesday, Israel turned to a secondary option: launching 15 fighter jets that fired 10 missiles from afar. Some Israeli officials say they calculated that Israel would repair relations with Qatar over time, much like Israel overcame the international outrage incurred during the 1970s and 1980s, after Prime Minister Golda Meir ordered covert assassinations in European and Middle Eastern countries against Palestinian militants who had kidnapped and slain 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. (Source: The Washington Post - U.S.)
Turkey
Sep 11 2025 Between August 26 to 28 and September 2 to 5, 2025, NATO’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, currently deployed to Konya Air Base, Türkiye, executed a tactical training event alongside the Turkish Air Force’s E-7T aircraft and F-16 fighter jets. The event known as NEXUS ACE is part of the Tailored Assurance Measures for Türkiye (TAM-T) mission, crucial in elevating the readiness level of NATO forces. (Source: Allied Air Command Public Affairs Office - headquarters Ramstein Air Base, Germany)
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