Jailed Gazan Doctor Nominated For Nobel
CrossFireArabia- October 8, 2025
A Dutch medical group has nominated Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the kidnapped Palestinian pediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The nomination was submitted by Doctors for Gaza in the Netherlands and announced by The Rights Forum, a Dutch human rights organization.
Dr. Abu Safiya became a symbol of courage during the months-long siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital, where he continued treating wounded civilians under relentless Israeli bombardment.
Abu Safiya’s 15-year-old son, Ibrahim, was killed in an Israeli drone strike meant to intimidate him into stopping his work, but he refused to give up.
He remained inside the besieged hospital until Israeli soldiers kidnapped him. He was used as a human shield before being detained. He is now held without trial in Israeli prisons, where reports of torture and medical neglect are widespread.
In its open letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Doctors for Gaza described Abu Safiya as “a man of extraordinary courage, unshakable humanity, and devotion to his patients.” The organization said his nomination “honors the collective sacrifice of Palestinian healthcare workers under fire.”
Israel has killed more than 1,670 medical workers in Gaza since the genocide began. Israel also Kidnapped at least 362 doctors, nurses, and paramedics.
The Rights Forum added that recognizing Abu Safiya’s heroism would send “a message of solidarity with those who continue saving lives under impossible conditions.” The petition supporting his nomination has already gathered nearly 34,000 signatures.
Doctors for Gaza called on the international community to support the petition and pressure Israel to release Abu Safiya immediately.
“Dr. Abu Safiya and his colleagues have continued their life-saving work under the most extreme conditions,” the group said. “Their dedication stands as a profound act of resistance and compassion,” according to the Quds News Network.
US Funds The Gaza Genocide With $21 Billion
- CrossFireArabia
- October 8, 2025
Israel would not have been able to sustain its wars across the Middle East, including the genocide in Gaza, without Washington’s financial support, which has exceeded $21 billion since October 2023, according to new reports.
The reports, released by the Costs of War Project at Brown University on Tuesday, found that without constant US weapons and money, Israel wouldn’t have been able to sustain its genocidal war on Gaza, start a war with Iran, or repeatedly bomb Yemen.
“Given the scale of current and future spending, it is clear the [Israeli army] could not have done the damage they have done in Gaza or escalated their military activities throughout the region without US financing, weapons, and political support,” read the report, US Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023–September 2025, by William D Hartung, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
Hartung’s findings and a companion report by Linda J Bilmes, an expert on budgeting and public finance at the Harvard Kennedy School, found that the US spent “a total of $31.35 – $33.77 billion and counting” since October 7, 2023 in military aid to Israel and in “US military operations in the region”.
They show how US support for Israel has helped it continue to wage war on multiple fronts for two years, and analysts backed up the reports’ conclusions.
The US has long been Israel’s most fervent backer. When it comes to US foreign aid, Israel is the largest annual recipient (at around $3.3bn yearly) and the largest cumulative one (more than $150bn until 2022).
Hartung’s report specifically mentions that the administrations of both US President Joe Biden and his successor, Donald Trump, committed tens of billions of dollars in arms sales agreements, including services and weapons that will be paid for in the coming years.
A second report analyzing US spending on broader Middle East activities, such as strikes on Yemen’s Houthis and Iran, puts those costs at between $9.65 billion and $12 billion since Oct. 7, 2023, including between $2 billion and $2.25 billion for the attacks in Iran and associated costs in June according to the Quds News Network.
After 13 Nuk Bombs Gaza Refuses Surrender
- CrossFireArabia
- October 8, 2025
Dr Fayez Abu Shammalah says the Israeli aggressor has up till now dropped 200,000 tons of explosives on Gaza.
He added this vast amount equals to 13 nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima in Japan.
The US bombing forced the hands of Japan and it surrendered. However Abu Shammalah says: Gaza, its people and resistance are still fighting and refuses to surrender.
Dr Abu Shammalah is a university professor, a freed prisoners after spending 10 years in Israel jails, is a member of the Palestine National Council, and previously a mayor of the Khan Younis Municipality.
Break The Siege Yemeni-Jew Cries Out
- CrossFireArabia
- October 4, 2025
A Yemeni-Jewish freelance journalist based in Paris has joined the 2025 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, saying that “determination to do the right thing overrides fear” as she and fellow activists set sail to challenge Israel’s blockade of the enclave.
Noa Avishag Schnall said she identifies herself as “an anti-Zionist Arab Jew” and renounced the citizenship of “the European colony known as Israel, or ’48 Palestine.”
“I joined the 2025 Freedom Flotilla, both out of a sense of deep-rooted responsibility to my Palestinian siblings, currently enduring a genocide and ethnic cleansing at the hands of Israel, and as an escalation of decisive action to break Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza,” she told Anadolu.
Schnall criticized what she called the “neglect” of international obligations under the Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguing that civilians are stepping in where governments have failed according to Anadolu.
“The real question is not why I joined, but rather why it’s left to civilians to act on the duties of nation-states,” she said. “Nation-states that are neglecting their clearly outlined obligations under the Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
She accused governments of offering only “lip service to Palestinian sovereignty” and said that their “strongly worded statements” have failed to stop the ongoing violence in Gaza.
“In the past 24 to 48 hours, our comrades in the Sumud Flotilla have been illegally intercepted in international waters and subsequently kidnapped and taken to Israel or ’48 Palestine,” she said, referring to another humanitarian convoy stopped by Israeli forces.
Asked whether she feared for her safety, Schnall said: “Fear and worry are human responses, but determination to do the right thing overrides all of those things. What we might go through is nothing compared to what Palestinians go through every day.”
She described Israel as “an ethnostate with a racial and cultural hierarchy” and said Palestinians have faced “genocide and ethnic cleansing” for nearly eight decades.
“For people who are uncomfortable with the word genocide, I encourage them to read the key tenets of the definition,” she said, citing the Genocide Convention’s clauses on intent, bodily harm, and conditions of destruction.
She argued that the international community has a legal and moral responsibility to intervene before atrocities occur.
“States are obligated to act to prevent genocide before it actually happens, when there’s a plausibility that it’s apparent, which clearly there has been,” she said.
“So if people are uncomfortable with the term, I really ask them to reckon with what’s actually going on.”
‘Mainstream media blackout’
Schnall said the flotilla also seeks to challenge what she described as a “mainstream media blackout” and amplify the voices of Palestinian journalists documenting the situation on the ground.
“We wish to break not only the legal Israeli siege on Gaza, but the mainstream media blackout on coverage,” she said. “Palestinian journalists are reporting on their own genocide.”
She concluded by calling on governments to enforce international law, halt arms deliveries to Israel, and end cooperation with what she described as “Israeli apartheid.”
“We want to stop arms deliveries to Israel by all countries that are themselves complicit,” she said.
“And we want to stop cooperation and support of any kind for Israeli apartheid and their genocide of the Palestinian people.”
