Water Fact – September 8, 2025

Water Fact – September 8, 2025

While Israel’s forces level many of the remaining buildings in Gaza City and continue to slaughter Gaza’s residents seeking food from the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the word ‘humanitarian’ has again been pressed into service in a ghoulish manner.  

On Sept. 6, the army announced it was creating a new 24 square mile ‘humanitarian zone’ for Palestinians fleeing from Gaza City in the now largely destroyed southern city of Khan Yunis.  The zone would, the army claims, include hospitals, water pipelines and desalination facilities – infrastructure that it has been busy destroying throughout the Gaza Strip.  

Shortly before bombing high rise towers in Gaza City, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Avichay Adraee told the water-and-food-starved city residents on social media: "Take this opportunity to move early to the humanitarian zone and join the thousands of people who have already gone there.”  The estimated 200,000 residents remaining in Gaza City are being offered two options: move south or be killed.  

According to The Washington Post, the next phase of the planning process that created the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will be GREAT (Gaza Reconstruction, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust).  Can you get more dystopian than this?

Israel/ OPT: US sanctions against Palestinian NGOs a blatant attack on human rights

Amnesty International:

Responding to the US government’s decision to impose sanctions against Palestinian NGOs, al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in the context of sanctions imposed against International Criminal Court (ICC)- related activities, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International said:

“The Trump administration’s decision to impose sanctions against three prominent Palestinian human rights organizations is a deeply troubling and shameful assault on human rights and the global pursuit of justice.

“These organizations carry out vital and courageous work, meticulously documenting human rights violations under the most horrifying conditions. They have steadfastly continued to do so in the face of war, genocide, and the oppressive reality of Israel’s apartheid regime, as well as malicious attempts to discredit their findings and cripple their funding with spurious terrorism accusations.

“They are the voice of Palestinian victims, amplifying stories of human suffering and injustice that would otherwise remain unheard. Their work is indispensable for achieving justice and accountability for decades of atrocities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel.

Read the article here.

The Convoy heading to Gaza...

Middle East Monitor 

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Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, is set to join the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, saying his participation is a continuation of his “family legacy.”

“Our mission is simple: we are bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza to end the 18-year blockade and the siege on Gaza,” Mandla told Al Jazeera.

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Italian NGO Emergency is preparing to send its giant search and rescue ship Life Support to join the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Emergency is the largest humanitarian organisation to publicly support the flotilla. Established in 1994, it is a consultant to the United Nations and a partner in providing humanitarian and disaster response on behalf of the European Union. It has provided medical support to more than 12 million people in 20 countries.

Life Support will observe the mission and provide medical and logistical support to the participating vessels, Emergency said on social media.

The ship is currently moored in the Sicilian port of Catania and is expected to set sail with other boats to join the flotilla in a few days time.

Life Support - which at 53 metres long is more than twice the size of the flotilla’s lead boat, the Family - is usually deployed to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean sea. It’s completed 36 missions since December 2022 and saved more than 3,000 people.

Novara Media’s @kieran.andrieu is currently on board the Family, with organisers Greta Thunberg and Thiago Ávila. He says that several boats are due to leave Menorca today, having waited there overnight to regroup and check for damage following a storm that forced some of the smallest civilian vessels to turn back to Barcelona.

The remaining boats are expected to arrive in Tunis later this week, where dozens more vessels are waiting to join them. From Tunis they will sail to meet boats from Italy and Greece, including Life Support.

Emergency said in a statement:

“What has been happening in the Gaza Strip for almost two years is unacceptable. Emergency’s staff, who work in two health clinics in Khan Younis, report an extremely grave situation, never seen before.

“The boats participating in Global Sumud Flotilla are not only carrying humanitarian aid, but an unmistakable message: when a government blocks humanitarian aid, committing a war crime, people have the right and duty to take non-violent direct action.

“For this reason, Emergency’s ship Life Support will set sail alongside the Global Sumud Flotilla, a non-violent maritime mission.

Dockworkers in Genoa on Gaza

Here's the translation of the speech of one of the dockworker's leaders in Genoa, before the departure of the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

“I want this to be clear to everyone -- really to everyone: around mid-September these boats will arrive near the coast of Gaza, close to the critical zone. If we lose contact with our boats, with our comrades, even for just twenty minutes, we will block all of Europe. I’ve written it down so I won’t forget it. Together with our union, together with all the dockworkers who stand with us, together with the whole city of Genoa… from this region 13–14 thousand containers leave every year for Israel, not a single nail will leave anymore. We will launch an international strike, we will block the roads, we will block the schools, we will block everything. Our young women and men must come back without a scratch, and all this cargo, which belongs to the people and is going to the people, must reach its destination, down to the very last box. That's all I have to say.”