’Israeli’ Insiders Expose Gaza Genocide System in New Film

By Al Ahed Staff, Agencies

Testimonies from 24 "Israeli" military and intelligence insiders have revealed details of the systems, policies, and surveillance methods they say were used in Gaza, including AI-assisted targeting and strikes carried out despite anticipating the loss of entire families.

The revelations feature in NAZA, a documentary by Oscar-winning "Israeli" filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor that premiered Thursday at the Venice International Film Festival. Produced by The Guardian, the film takes its title from an “Israeli” military acronym for civilians expected to be killed in an attack and examines how intelligence gathering, automated targeting, and predetermined civilian casualty estimates shaped aggression in Gaza.

The interviewees, including intelligence officers and soldiers involved in surveillance and remote targeting, were filmed anonymously at night on "Tel Aviv" rooftops, with their faces and voices digitally altered.

According to their testimonies, "Israeli" occupation forces [IOF] used AI systems to identify large numbers of suspected low-ranking Hamas members and often targeted them in their homes at night despite knowing family members could also be killed.

The film also describes Palestinians’ phones being hacked to track their locations and conversations with relatives monitored shortly before strikes.

Other insiders recount neighborhoods being destroyed even when forces estimated that up to 25% of residents remained inside, as well as the systematic burning of Palestinian homes and the killing of civilians at a food distribution site.

The filmmakers said the documentary focuses on the broader military system rather than isolated actions by individual soldiers, examining its orders, policies, accepted practices, and mechanisms. Several interviewees reportedly worked in a secret intelligence unit answering directly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, with one saying its mission was to “thwart peace.”

NAZA builds on investigations published between 2023 and 2025 by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian into AI-assisted targeting and mass surveillance. The Guardian’s Paul Lewis described it as the culmination of years of work to uncover and verify the systems used by "Israeli" military intelligence in Gaza.

Venice festival artistic director Alberto Barbera called the film “truly groundbreaking” and “politically disruptive,” while its screening reportedly drew a nearly 25-minute standing ovation, with some audience members raising Palestinian flags.

The documentary was co-produced by James Wilson and executive produced by Jonathan Glazer. Abraham and Szor also directed No Other Land, which won the 2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary. They said NAZA, like their earlier film, seeks to connect individual testimonies and incidents to a broader system of occupation, adding that UN and human rights bodies have described the Gaza campaign as genocide.

Since October 2023, "Israeli" attacks on Gaza have claimed the lives of more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounded over 174,000, while destroying or damaging most homes and civilian infrastructure across the Strip.

Trump’s $5,000 Gamble: When Propaganda Meets a War That Won’t End

By Mohamad Hammoud

US President Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas was less a governing address than a political performance designed to distract Americans from problems his administration has failed to solve. CNN’s Daniel Dale documented a series of false and misleading claims, including Trump’s assertion that more than $20 trillion has been invested in the United States during his second term. CNN noted that even the White House’s own figure of $11.2 trillion referred largely to investment announcements and pledges, not money actually invested. Trump also repeated the false claim that he had won the presidency three times, when he won in 2016 and 2024 and lost in 2020. He further claimed that 25 million migrants entered the country during the Biden administration, a figure CNN said was nowhere close to federal encounter data.

The pattern matters because these are not isolated exaggerations. CNN’s fact-check makes clear that Trump repeatedly turns political claims into supposed facts: economic promises become achievements, an election defeat becomes a victory, and immigration statistics become whatever number best serves the argument. When facts become obstacles, Trump simply replaces them with assertions delivered with enough confidence to sound authoritative.

The $5000 Election Dividend

Then came the most revealing promise of the night: $5,000 for every adult American if Republicans retain control of both chambers of Congress. Reuters reported that the proposed “Trump dividend” could cost approximately $1.35 trillion, while its legality, funding and implementation remain unclear. Trump did not offer Americans $5,000 now. He offered it after the election, and only if voters deliver the political result he wants.

That distinction is central. Tying a government payout to the electoral success of one political party turns economic relief into an electoral inducement. Trump is effectively telling voters that their reward depends on keeping Republicans in power. At a moment when Americans are struggling with inflation and rising energy costs, the proposal looks less like a carefully designed economic policy than a campaign tactic dressed up as a dividend.

Iran and the Limits of Trump’s Victory Narrative

The same disconnect appears in Trump’s description of the war with Iran. He continues to present the conflict as evidence of American dominance and predicts that the war will end immediately after the midterm elections. Reuters reported that Trump made that prediction on Wednesday even as the conflict entered its seventh month and oil prices climbed above $100 a barrel. Yet the battlefield is producing a far more complicated picture. Reuters reported that Iranian attacks damaged multiple US military aircraft at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. One A-10 reportedly lost a wing, while roughly eight F-15s sustained lighter damage.

The same week, Reuters reported that Iran captured a US Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, an advanced system built by California defense company Anduril. The Pentagon acknowledged the loss while saying that the vehicle was older and lacked classified payloads, but the incident nevertheless represented a notable demonstration of Iran’s ability to challenge U.S. military operations in its own strategic neighborhood. The point is that a country Trump portrays as thoroughly dominated is still capable of striking American assets and disrupting the assumptions behind Washington’s strategy.

Even more damaging to Trump’s political narrative is the warning from inside the conservative movement. Tucker Carlson has argued that Republicans are heading toward a midterm wipeout because Trump abandoned voters who expected an “America First” agenda and instead became associated with another costly foreign war. Carlson’s criticism matters not because he speaks for all Republicans, but because he is speaking directly to voters who once formed part of Trump’s coalition.

A President Cannot Declare Victory into Existence

Trump can declare victory, inflate investment figures, promise trillions in future benefits and insist that Iran is on the verge of defeat. But reality does not become obedient simply because the president speaks with certainty. The damaged aircraft in Jordan, the captured underwater vehicle and Iran’s continuing ability to retaliate expose the gap between political messaging and military reality. And when a president responds to economic anxiety with a conditional $5,000 dividend tied to Republican control of Congress, Americans have every reason to ask whether they are being offered sound policy- or simply an extraordinary political incentive at election time.

The war on Iran has failed to reorder West Asia

by Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Streets and squares reflect a sense of normalization in Tehran, Iran on June 18, 2026. [Fatemeh Bahrami – Anadolu Agency]

Six months after the United States and ‘Israel’ launched their war against Iran on 28 February, the conflict can be assessed not only by the damage inflicted or the number of missiles fired, but by the objective fact that Washington and Tel Aviv have failed to achieve their strategic objectives.

The project was far more ambitious than striking Iranian military and nuclear facilities. It sought to break the Islamic Republic’s deterrent capacity, trigger internal destabilisation, decisively weaken the Axis of Resistance and pave the way for a new regional architecture under Israeli hegemony and US military protection.

None of this happened as planned.

The Iranian government did not fall, the state did not collapse and Iran retained sufficient capacity to continue imposing heavy military, economic and strategic costs on its adversaries.

The war that was supposed to demonstrate the supremacy of the United States and ‘Israel’ has turned into a protracted war of attrition.

More importantly, the very regional system that the war was intended to consolidate has begun to reveal its weaknesses.

For decades, the Gulf monarchies have organised a significant part of their security around the US military umbrella.

The war exposed the limits of that guarantee. Bases, strategic installations, energy infrastructure and maritime routes became vulnerable precisely when the US had deployed enormous military power to the region.

The Strait of Hormuz encapsulates this strategic reversal.

The waterway through which one fifth of the world’s oil has historically passed became one of the main arenas of confrontation. If the objective was to demonstrate the ability of the US to control the region’s energy routes militarily, the outcome showed that Iran possesses the means to turn its geography into strategic power.

The consequences have already extended beyond the military sphere. Exports of oil, petroleum products and liquefied natural gas have been affected. Investment in alternative routes has accelerated. Tourism, aviation and industrial activity have also suffered.

This helps explain why the war against Iran cannot be understood merely as a bilateral confrontation. It has called into question the model of regional order constructed by the United States over decades.

Iranian strategic doctrine is also undergoing an internal transformation.

As I argued previously when defining this period as a third phase of the Islamic Revolution, Iran appears to have moved beyond the logic of so-called ‘strategic patience’.

Deterrence no longer means simply absorbing attacks, avoiding a larger war and responding in a calibrated manner. It also means retaining the initiative and imposing costs high enough to alter the adversary’s calculations.

This does not mean that Iran has abandoned the regional dimension of its strategy. Quite the opposite.

Palestine remains central, while the Axis of Resistance is adapting to the conditions created by the direct confrontation between Iran, the United States and ‘Israel’.

It is precisely here that another fundamental contradiction of the war emerges.

The United States and ‘Israel’ sought to sever Iran from its regional strategic depth. Yet six months of conflict have shown that the resistance does not depend exclusively on a vertical structure commanded from Iran.

Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen and other fronts have their own dynamics, even as they form part of a broader regional confrontation.

Nor did the memorandum signed in June amount to an Iranian capitulation.

On the contrary, its very existence showed that, after months of military operations, the United States had to negotiate with the very state it intended to subjugate.

The subsequent difficulties in turning that understanding into a definitive settlement merely confirm that none of the war’s fundamental issues has been resolved.

It would, of course, be wrong to conclude that Iran emerged unscathed. The Islamic Republic suffered significant human, military, economic and infrastructural losses. A war of attrition also imposes enormous sacrifices on Iranian society.

But strategic survival matters. In a war conceived to bring about regime change and reshape the balance of power in West Asia, surviving while retaining deterrent capacity is in itself a significant political outcome.

Six months on, therefore, the question may need to be reversed.

The issue is not merely how much damage the United States and ‘Israel’ managed to inflict on Iran, but how far the war has changed the region in a direction opposite to that imagined by its architects.

Iran remains standing. Hormuz has become a concrete demonstration of the limits of US power. The Gulf monarchies are reassessing their vulnerabilities and security partnerships. The Axis of Resistance has not disappeared. And the promised Israeli regional supremacy remains distant.

The war intended to create a new West Asia may indeed be producing one — but not the one the United States and ‘Israel’ planned.

Iran Demands End to Yemen Blockade, Urges Immediate Dialogue

By Al Ahed Staff, Agencies

Iran has called for the immediate resumption of dialogue over Yemen, saying the country’s issues can’t be resolved through a continued blockade or military confrontation.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated Tehran’s position that Yemen’s independence, national sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected and that the “illegal and inhumane blockade” imposed on the country must end.

The ministry said security and stability in West Asia and the Red Sea region could not be achieved without respecting the legitimate rights and dignity of the Yemeni people.

The statement added that the current developments in Yemen must be understood in the context of events unfolding over more than a decade.

It stressed that the Yemeni people, as heirs to a “brilliant civilization and history,” have the right to live in dignity, free from pressure, intimidation and an unjust blockade, with their national sovereignty and territorial integrity fully respected.

Iran also emphasized the need to consider the interests of the Islamic nation, particularly as West Asia faces “unprecedented aggression, oppression, and expansionism” by the Zionist entity, with the complicity of the United States.

Furthermore, the statement called for the immediate resumption of dialogue under the agreed-upon roadmap and urged the implementation of its provisions, adding that Tehran was prepared to offer “any good offices” to help advance the process.

This comes as Yemeni forces have taken control of key areas and military positions in the coastal district of Al-Mokha, west of Taiz Governorate.

Putin: BRICS is “Not Against Anyone” As Summit Opens

By Al Ahed Staff, Agencies

Russian President Vladimir Putin said BRICS is “not against anyone” and is instead focused on the development and prosperity of its members, as world leaders gathered in New Delhi for the group’s 18th summit.

Speaking Friday at the BRICS Business Forum, Putin said the bloc’s work serves the common goal of sustainable development and prosperity for its countries and peoples.

He said BRICS seeks to unlock its members’ potential through “business diplomacy” by facilitating cooperation and investment among companies and entrepreneurs.

Putin contrasted this approach with what he described as the West’s “ugly forms” of competition, including unilateral “illegal restrictions” and secondary sanctions targeting countries unwilling to follow others’ interests.

At the same time, he stressed that Moscow remains open to cooperation beyond political blocs, saying, “We are open to working with the whole world.”

On Friday, Putin held meetings with New Development Bank President Dilma Rousseff, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. He also met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss trade, energy, defense, space, and other areas of cooperation.

The diplomatic meetings preceded two days of leaders’ discussions on trade, investment, energy, and global challenges.

BRICS, which began as a four-country forum, has expanded into an 11-member economic grouping with growing global influence amid rising geopolitical tensions and pressure on the Western-led international order.

Ansarullah: Riyadh Must Reckon with Yemen’s New Reality

By Al Ahed Staff, Agencies

Ansarullah political bureau member Ali al-Emad said Friday that Yemeni Armed Forces [YAF] advances across Yemen are aimed at expelling foreign forces from the country, describing the recent operations as part of a carefully calculated plan.

Al-Emad said local communities played a key role by providing intelligence and logistical support while building a broad popular support base. He said Yemenis increasingly understand the nature of the war and can distinguish between allies and adversaries.

Al-Emad accused Saudi Arabia of failing to grasp developments on the ground, arguing that Riyadh continues to promote outdated narratives despite losing local influence and its former tools inside Yemen.

As the YAF entered areas they had retaken, the Sanaa government declared an amnesty to stabilize the areas and prevent reprisals. Al-Emad said the YAF’ presence there was “clear and unmistakable,” contrasting it with what he described as the diminishing US presence.

Meanwhile, Yemen’s Foreign Ministry in Sanaa said Saudi Arabia’s failure to acknowledge the changes on the ground would bring further losses for Riyadh. It urged Saudi Arabia to recognize that Yemen had broken free from its influence and said ending hostilities and pursuing peace would be the less costly path for Riyadh.

A Yemeni military source also told SABA that Saudi forces were targeted east of al-Jawf, with dozens of military vehicles reportedly set ablaze.

Earlier, the YAF said an operation launched on September 3 along Yemen’s western coast drove Saudi-backed forces from six districts across Taiz and Hodeidah, covering 5,400 square kilometers.

The operation, supported by local tribes, reportedly resulted in hundreds of Saudi-backed personnel being killed, wounded, or captured, while several Yemeni detainees held for years were freed.

YAF spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree said the offensive followed years of attacks on local communities and aimed to expel Saudi-backed forces and prevent efforts to impose Saudi control over Yemeni territory.

He said the YAF struck seven military divisions comprising 38 brigades and secured the retaken areas.

Despite intensive Saudi air support, the YAF said its ground operations continued, while its air defenses carried out 32 operations and reportedly downed nine aircraft.

The YAF also reaffirmed that maritime navigation remains safe for all vessels except Saudi ships covered by its announced ban, pledging to maintain its “blockade for blockade” policy and respond to escalation with escalation until the aggression and blockade on Yemen end.

Saree reaffirmed the YAF’s commitment to Yemen’s liberation, independence, and national sovereignty, while praising Yemeni fighters, tribes, and civilians for their support.

Pezeshkian: Iran will Neither Surrender nor Bow to US Bullying

By Al Ahed Staff, Agencies 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian confirmed that Tehran will not bow to US bullying, noting that Washington does not want an independent Iran so as to impose its sinister intentions on the country. 

“If Iran is standing up to America and Israel today, it is only because they want to bully us. We do not want to bow to bullying,” Pezeshkian told a meeting with Indian businesspeople, religious leaders and intellectuals in New Delhi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit.

He further stated that the United States and “Israel” claim to defend human rights while carrying out attacks that have killed civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure, noting that these same claimants try to portray Iran as a “terrorist country”.

“Are we terrorists that killed 168 innocent children at once? Are we terrorists that bombed and destroyed universities, scientists and human beings?” he asked.

Pezeshkian was referring to a double-tap US-“Israeli” attack on an elementary school in Minab on February 28, which martyred 168 people, mostly children and school staff. He was also referring to several US-“Israeli” strikes against multiple Iranian universities, residential areas and civilian infrastructure in the past six months. 

He questioned why, if the adversaries were seeking a military confrontation, they were targeting civilian infrastructure and people’s livelihoods.

“If they are men of war, they should fight with the military,” Pezeshkian stated. “What do they have to do with people’s infrastructure, people’s bread and people’s livelihoods?”

He also questioned restrictions on access to essential supplies and communications. “If they are human beings, why do they block the way for water, food, bread and communications in society?” he said.

Pezeshkian said the aim was to pressure Iranians into submission by depriving them of basic facilities and cutting communications.

“Because they cannot force the Iranian people to surrender through bullying, they want to do something that will make people surrender,” he said.

“The Iranian people will not surrender,” he highlighted. 

The remarks come as Washington has resorted to increased economic pressure against the Iranian nation after failing to achieve war objectives.

Pezeshkian underlined that Iran’s position was rooted in its “human and ideological beliefs,” stressing that Iranians regarded themselves as human beings and believed all people were entitled to equal rights.

“Iran will never trample on the rights of the oppressed; rather, it will always be a supporter and ally of the oppressed,” he said.

Pezeshkian also noted that Washington is seeking to prevent Iran from remaining independent and from serving its own people.

“America does not want us to remain independent,” he said. “It is doing everything it can to prevent us from serving our own people and … to impose its sinister intentions on Iran.”

“Who has said that a government in the world has the right to force other governments to surrender to its sinister intentions?” Pezeshkian asked, referring to the bullying behavior of the US. “Who has said that it should decide for the whole world and that everyone else must obey whatever it wants?”

“This is something we will not accept, and we are paying the price for it,” he emphasized.