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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israel launched strikes across the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 31 people as it presses ahead with a major offensive in the territory’s largest city, according to health officials. Leading genocide scholars ...

News outlets participating in the blackout made demands for the protection of Palestinian journalists, foreign press access to the Gaza Strip, the evacuation of Palestinian journalists seeking to leave and action from the United Nations to hold the Israeli army accountable for its killing of Palestinian journalists.

More than 2,000 film professionals have pledged not to work with Israeli film institutions they accuse of supporting genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.

The warning came as Israel pressed ahead with the initial stages of its latest major offensive in famine-stricken Gaza City.

Celebrities are speaking out on television's biggest night. Stars showed their support for Gaza at the 2025 Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 10, with actors including "White Lotus" breakout Aimee Lou Wood,

Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, urged the 27 member nations to increase tariffs on some Israeli goods and impose sanctions on Israeli settlers, and two members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet — National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. She also proposed sanctioning 10 Hamas leaders.

Frantic negotiations with the Israeli military. A last-minute scramble to find trucks in a devastated Gaza Strip, where fuel is in short supply. Six hours of frantic packing, carefully stacking cardboard boxes on open flatbed trucks.