IT WOULD appear that United States President Donald Trump’s invitation to Hamas leaders to meet and discuss his latest ceasefire proposal in Doha, Qatar was a setup to gather them all together, so Israel could kill them at once. But to their shame and embarrassment, the airstrike failed to eliminate the entire leadership.
Trump’s greatest desire is to win the Nobel Peace Prize, as he apparently envies former US president Barack Obama, who was awarded the honor in 2009 because of his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
However, Trump is enabling Israel to wage a genocidal war against Gazans, and he has failed to stop the war in Ukraine.
‘Humanitarian catastrophe’
An Associated Press report quotes Gaza’s Health Ministry as saying, “64,231 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war,” adding that “women and children make up around half the dead.” As of Sept. 11, 2025, over 163,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been wounded in bombings of tent cities.
As many as 4,400 scientists from 87 countries have called for an immediate end to the “man-made humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.”
The signatories of the declaration dated Aug. 21, 2025, are 14 Nobel Prize winners. They declared that “nothing in this historical record” can “justify” the devastation inflicted on Gaza’s civilian population.
The group also included 85 Israeli scientists, among them David Harel, president of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Italy contributed the highest number of signatories with 921, followed by Spain (449), the US (429), France (326), India (310), Brazil (267), the United Kingdom (247), Switzerland (138), Japan (112), and the Netherlands (104).
The scientists denounced the “artificial shortage of food… leading to a famine-like situation,” the “enforced denial of medical facilities,” the “absence of even a modicum of education for children,” and the “systematic annihilation of civil infrastructure (including universities).”
They also underscored the pervasive “disregard for the rights, well-being and life of the civilian population of Gaza,” and the killing of “tens of thousands of innocent lives” in Gaza, including nearly 1,000 months-old infants.
The killings go on with Israeli forces now assaulting Gaza City, destroying the high-rise buildings there, one by one. About 20 Palestinians, including teenagers, are shot daily while collecting food at distribution centers controlled by Israel with private security guards recruited by the heavily armed, notorious US bikers’ clubs known as the Infidels MC. They were recruited by the US private security contractor UG Solutions, which is working for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. They describe themselves as “modern crusaders” and [having] a strong anti-Muslim ideology./PN
