News and Analysis 8/24/25

Israeli war crimes continue:

At Least 64 Palestinians Killed in Gaza in the Past 24 Hours as Israel Shifts Focus to Gaza City (Euronews)
Israeli Army Database Suggests at Least 83% of Gaza Dead Were Civilians (Israel-Palestine News)
Israel Is on Notice for Using Sexual Violence Against Palestinians. It’s All Too Common as a War Tactic (The Conversation)
4 Palestinians Shot Dead by Israeli Forces While Seeking Aid near Gaza City, Witnesses Say (News10)
“THE GAZA FAMINE, CAUSED BY CRUELTY” – War on Gaza Day 686 (Israel-Palestine News)
Why It Took Palestinians Starving for Many to Finally Admit Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza (Mondoweiss)
Gaza Genocide: How the Policy of ‘Nowhere Home’ Strips Palestinians of Their Identity (Middle East Eye)
Israeli Military Uproots Thousands of Palestinian Olive Trees in West Bank (Aljazeera)
There Is Something Worse than Starvation in Gaza (Aljazeera)

After the “former deputy commander of the army’s Armoured Corps … refused to comply [with a military summons] without a written warrant, … [the military] returned, heavily armed, and detained him”:

Arrest of Sudan’s Army Ex-general Sparks Legal Questions (Sudan Tribune)

Israel expands war with Houthis by attacking Sanaa:

Israeli Airstrikes Hit Yemen’s Capital, Targeting Iran-backed Houthis (AP)

The Zionist war on free speech — and the resistance — continues …

… and, under the Trump administration, expands into a war on honest internal government data and analysis:

Hegseth Fires Top US General After Iran Assessment that Angered Trump (AP / The Guardian)

“More than a dozen Christian and Jewish faith leaders sent demand letters Friday to local elected officials urging them to denounce Tarrant County GOP chair Bo French’s “hateful rhetoric” toward a Muslim state representative”:

Tarrant Faith Leaders Urge Officials to Condemn GOP Chair’s Anti-Muslim Social Media Posts (Fort Worth Report)

“The World Food Program says a drone attack on a 16-truck U.N. convoy carrying food aid to Sudan’s famine-hit North Darfur region destroyed three vehicles that had caught fire”: