Israel kills more than 20 Palestinians as war on Gaza escalates
- The Israeli army is mobilising near the heart of Gaza City, forcing tens of thousands of Palestinians onto coastal roads in a bid to drive them out of the Strip’s main urban centre.
- People in besieged Gaza City tell Al Jazeera about nonstop attacks including strikes by drones and fighter jets and blasts from remote-controlled robots, with the Israeli military blowing up entire neighbourhoods as it advances.
- The United States vetoes a crucial UN Security Council resolution demanding an “immediate, unconditional and permanent” ceasefire in Gaza that was approved by 14 of the 15 member states.
‘Gaza is burning and the world is watching’
Khalil al-Daqran, spokesperson for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, says Israel’s policy of starvation is continuing “with children dying first” as well as pregnant women and the elderly.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, he said the situation is “very tragic” especially after Israeli forces stepped up assaults on the north of the enclave and in Gaza City, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee.
Scores killed by RSF drone strike on mosque in besieged Sudanese city
First responders say 75 worshippers dead as paramilitaries push to capture last foothold of Sudanese army in Darfur
Fri 19 Sep 2025 15.45 BST
A drone strike by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher has killed 75 people worshipping in a mosque, first responders have said, as the group continued its push to capture the last foothold of Sudan’s army in the Darfur region.
The attack, one of the deadliest this year in the city, hit the city’s al-Daraja neighbourhood, where civilians from the famine-hit Abu Shouk displacement camp had fled after it was overrun by fighters .
Taliban release British couple after seven-month ordeal
John Silk AP, AFP, Reuters, dpa
Relatives of Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbara, 76, had made repeated pleas about their deteriorating health since their arrest in February.
The Taliban on Friday released a British couple held in Afghanistan for more than seven months on undisclosed charges, an official said.
The case of Peter and Barbie Reynolds, aged 80 and 75, underlined the Western concerns over the actions of the Taliban since they overthrew the country's NATO-backed government four years ago.
‘They hit us and torture us’: Refugees accuse Libyan authorities of violence
Videos posted on social media by the NGO Refugees in Libya in early September show dozens of refugees crammed together on the floor at the detention centre in Tobruk, Libya. The videos are the latest example of the violence asylum seekers face in Libya, says our Observer, who was once detained himself.
Two videos posted online by the aid organisation Refugees in Libya show the appalling conditions in Libyan migrant detention centres. The first, published on September 1, shows dozens of people crammed into a single cell. They lie silently on the ground and have no blankets or mattresses, or even shoes. More than 900 people were detained in the same location, according to Refugees in Libya. In the video, you can see at least 100.
Another video, this one published 10 days later, shows a man handcuffed to bars across a window. These images were shared by people being held in the detention centre in Tobruk, in northeastern Libya. This region is under the control of the government supported by the House of Representatives in Tobruk and Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army.
Russian fighter jets violate Estonian airspace in third Nato incursion in two weeks
Estonia’s foreign minister condemned the incursion as ‘unprecedentedly brazen’
Three Russian fighter jets entered Estonian airspace and remained there without permission for 12 minutes, the Estonian government has said.
It is the third Russian incursion into Nato airspace in a fortnight after drones flew into both Poland and Romania, in moves condemned by the military alliance.
Foreign Minister Margus Tsakhna said that Russia had already violated Estonian airspace four times this year "but today's incursion, involving three fighter aircraft entering our airspace, is unprecedentedly brazen."
US TV hosts back Kimmel as Trump threatens TV networks
America's late-night TV hosts have rallied behind fellow comedian Jimmy Kimmel after he was suspended by ABC in a row over comments he made about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Stephen Colbert began his show by saying "we are all Jimmy Kimmel", and said the star's removal was a "blatant assault on freedom of speech".
Seth Meyers declared it was "a privilege and honour to call Jimmy Kimmel my friend", while Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon tackled the free speech issue by doing satirical sketches in which they were apparently forced to praise Donald Trump.
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