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Al Jazeera Media Network condemns in the strongest terms the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Zaher, and Mohamed Noufal, by the Israeli occupation forces in yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom.

Israel has murdered five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif. They were targeted by a drone strike on their press tent outside al-Shifa Hospital. Al Jazeera Media Network has called on the international community to halt Israel's targeting of journalists. Earlier on Sunday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to allow journalists into the Gaza Strip to cover events there but stressed that ensuring the safety of media personnel was a key priority. This was just hours before his army murdered five Al Jazeera journalists.

Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, described Gaza’s starvation crisis as "a package of suffering" during an Al Jazeera interview. Over 100 children have died from acute malnutrition, with 55,000 infants lacking milk and 350,000 under-fives at risk. He condemned Israel’s aid restrictions, noting only 10% of needed supplies enter, while diseases spread due to polluted water and collapsed sanitation. Recent small aid increases are "death traps", he argued, designed to forcibly displace Palestinians. Gaza requires 1,000 daily trucks—not the current 80—to avert famine. Without urgent action, he warned, conditions will worsen as Israel blocks tents, food, and NGO access. "This is pure starvation," he said, demanding accountability.

At an emergency UNSC session addressing Israel's planned seizure of Gaza City and forced displacement of 1 million Palestinians, Algeria's Ambassador Amar Bendjama delivered a blistering condemnation. He accused Israel of "genocidal ethnic cleansing", citing 22 months of atrocities - 18,000 children killed, 12,000 women dead, and starvation deployed as a weapon. "Israel treats Palestinians as 'human animals'," he declared, lambasting the UNSC's silence as complicity. "This council must act decisively under Chapter 7 - sanction the enemy of humanity," Bendjama demanded, invoking the UN's strongest enforcement powers. While the ICJ investigates genocide, he vowed: "Palestinians, like olive trees, will regrow from their roots."

Speaking at an emergency UN Security Council session convened to address Israel’s planned military seizure of Gaza City and the forced displacement of nearly one million Palestinians, Ramesh Rajasingham, head of UN OCHA, issued a stark condemnation of the crisis. He demanded an immediate end to the "unacceptable catastrophe," warning that Israel’s expanded operations would exacerbate atrocities and civilian suffering. Over 500 aid workers have been killed—a "grim milestone"—while famine spreads and Gaza’s humanitarian system collapses. Hospitals, stripped of supplies and staff, are barely functional, and rampant desperation has triggered looting of aid convoys. Rajasingham stressed that such chaos could be curbed with rapid, large-scale assistance and reiterated the UN’s operational readiness—but only if the world acts.

A warning that some of the images in this report may be disturbing. Rights groups have condemned what they say was the massacre of more than 600 Rohingya civilians in western Myanmar. Survivors say entire families were burned alive or executed last year, by the Arakan Army - a powerful rebel group

The countries that have called today’s session of the UN Security Council have issued a joint statement that condemns Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City, saying that it risks “violating international humanitarian law” and will “only endanger the lives of all civilians in Gaza”. “We call on Israel to urgently reverse this decision and not to implement” the plan, the statement reads. It goes on to say that Israel’s decision will do nothing to secure the return of the remaining captives still held in Gaza, and would even endanger their lives. The countries also called the current starvation of Gaza a “manmade crisis”, and said that “urgent action is needed to halt starvation and to surge aid into Gaza”

Israeli forces have bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church, killing three people and wounding at least ten others, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, as the military continues its assault across the besieged enclave. At least one person is in critical condition as a result of Thursday’s strike on the Church of the Latin Monastery in Gaza City – known as the Holy Family Church, the Patriarchate said in a statement. The church’s priest was also lightly wounded, it added. Among those killed were the parish’s 60-year-old janitor and an 84-year-old woman who was receiving psychosocial support inside a Caritas tent in the church compound, according to the Catholic charity Caritas Jerusalem. Footage of the Holy Family Church attack published by a Palestinian activist and verified by Al Jazeera shows Father Gabriel Romanelli, the church’s pastor, following the Israeli attack. The video shows the priest with his right leg bandaged but otherwise in good condition. Pope Leo, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, said he was “deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and injury caused by the military attack” on the Gaza church, according to a telegram signed on his behalf by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state. Pope Leo “assures the parish priest, Father Gabriele Romanelli, and the whole parish community of his spiritual closeness”, the telegram said. The pontiff renewed his “call for an immediate ceasefire, and he expresses his profound hope for dialogue, reconciliation and enduring peace in the region”.

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa says protecting the rights of the Druze minority is a priority and has accused Israel of trying to sow divisions in the country. Israel is threatening to continue its attacks on Syria, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims is to protect the Druze community. Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said all sides involved in the fighting in southern Syria have agreed to "specific steps" to end the violence. Mohamad Elmasry, professor of media studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, said Israel’s attacks are not truly about protecting the Druze, but about expanding Israeli control and weakening Syria. He views Israel’s actions as part of a wider strategy to divide and fragment the region, using the Druze issue as a pretext for territorial ambitions. He also notes that the Druze community is diverse, with many rejecting both separation and Israeli narratives.

senior political analyst Marwan Bishara condemned Israel's strikes on Syria as "vulgar exhibitionism" aimed at asserting regional hegemony, speaking from Paris. He argued Israel exploits minority divisions under false pretexts of protection, just as colonial powers historically did, while deflecting from Gaza's genocide. Bishara noted Damascus' Druze community prefers Syrian unity despite Israeli interference, comparing it to failed attempts to divide Kurds. He warned Arab states' predictable rhetorical condemnations mask dangerous impotence against Israeli aggression. Bishara highlighted Israel's decades-old doctrine of weakening Arab states through minority manipulation, now escalating to challenge US dominance in the region.