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October 18, 2025
300,000 students resume classes in Gaza amid Israel’s blockade
Classroom in a temporary educational center in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, September 19, 2024. (AFP photo)
Press TV
About 300,000 Palestinian students were set to resume classes in Gaza on Saturday under the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), officials say.
The resumption comes despite Israel’s blockade, which continues to prevent hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from entering the besieged territory.
UNRWA’s media advisor, Adnan Abu Hasna, said around 10,000 students will attend in-person classes in schools and shelters, while most will receive remote instruction. He added, “It is absolutely impossible to have two years without schooling, preceded by two years of Corona.”
Some 8,000 teachers will take part in the program, UNRWA said.
Schools in Gaza have been largely suspended since Israel’s military campaign began on October 7, 2023. Most UNRWA and government schools were converted into shelters, while many others were destroyed or heavily damaged.
The Palestinian Education Ministry reported that 172 government schools were destroyed, 118 damaged, and more than 100 UNRWA-run schools were struck.
It also said 17,711 students have been killed, 25,897 injured, and 763 education workers killed, with 3,189 others injured.
Abu Hasna said UNRWA had prepared hundreds of millions of dollars in supplies that remain stuck outside Gaza. He condemned Israel for blocking basic necessities, including shelter materials, blankets, winter clothing, and medicines.
He warned that 95% of Gaza’s population now depends on humanitarian aid and that conditions are deteriorating rapidly.
“Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are living in the open after returning to Gaza City following the ceasefire on October 10.”
UNRWA, the largest humanitarian organization in Gaza, has struggled to provide basic education and support for Palestinian children, making the resumption of classes a critical step in addressing the humanitarian emergency.
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Netanyahu says Rafah crossing to remain closed until further notice
Trucks loaded with aid supplies move from the Egyptian side, en route to the Kerem Shalom crossing into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, early on October 15, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
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The crossing between Gaza and Egypt will remain closed “until further notice” in a clear violation of the recently brokered ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
In a statement released on Saturday, Netanyahu’s office emphasized that the reopening of the Rafah crossing is contingent upon Hamas fulfilling its obligations as per the ceasefire deal, including the return of all dead captives and the implementation of the agreed-upon framework.
Conversely, the Palestinian Embassy in Egypt has indicated that the Rafah border crossing will reopen on Monday, allowing people to return to Gaza.
However, the embassy noted that the crossing will continue to be closed for individuals seeking to leave the besieged territory.
Israel had sealed all border crossings, blocking the entry of humanitarian aid and further deepening Gaza’s already dire humanitarian crisis since March 2, when the regime violated a previous ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
A US-mediated ceasefire went into effect last week. Aid deliveries were expected to begin on October 12, once the Rafah crossing with Egypt reopens under the terms of the ceasefire.
Israel seized the opportunity on Tuesday to tighten its grip on Gaza by violating the terms of the ceasefire, using delays in the return of captive bodies as justification for keeping the Rafah crossing closed and halving the flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged territory.
Hamas has already fulfilled its part by releasing all 20 remaining living Israeli captives and 11 dead Israeli captives.
The resistance group said it needs heavy machinery and excavating equipment to search for the remaining bodies under the rubble.
Hamas confirmed Saturday evening that it will hand over the remains of two more Israeli captives tonight under the ceasefire agreement.
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MD Whistleblower Warns Trump of Statin Prescribed Drugs Harming The President
Top US Department of Health and Human Services Doctor Warns President Trump’s Life Is In Danger Because Of The Drugs He Is Being Prescribed By The White House Physician.
Dr. Aseem Malhotra joins Alex Jones to blow the whistle in a attempt to get the word to Trump to change course. Watch this interview here.
Indigenous Nations Issue Order: mRNA Nanoparticle Injections Are Biological Weapons
NZ Rising
Alliance Of Indigenous Nations International Tribunal Issues Order: “mRNA nanoparticle injections, are in biological and technological weapons of mass destruction”
The world’s first this governing body and judicial authority declares MRNA weapons of mass destruction! The alliance calls on mankind to unite to stop global biowarfare, depopulation, and transhumanism. The Alliance of Indigenous Nations (A.I.N.) International Tribunal is the first governing body and judicial authority in the world to issue an “order” of this type.,
In addition to legal briefs and scientific studies, the Alliance reviewed affidavits filed in a current case in the Florida court system by Ana Mihalcea, M.D., PhD;… Read the rest of this article here.
Cell Towers Under Attack in Wanaka
NZ Rising
A reporter at the scene on Wednesday morning said there were two towers in the area, with one completely damaged while the other only partially.
Police and staff from contractor Downer were still at the scene by 10am today.
One NZ head of sustainability & corporate affairs Nicky Preston said the attack was the second mobile site in as many weeks to be deliberately damaged by arson.
She said the tower had been “completely destroyed”, and it would be at least four weeks before it was rebuilt. See the story here.
And see Clay Drummond’s coverage of the event here.
Via https://nzrising.co.nz/newsletters/
October 17, 2025
Gaza tribal leaders support Hamas crackdown on Israeli-backed gangs
An armed Hamas resistance fighter stands guard as a Red Cross vehicle arrives to receive from Hamas fighters the corpses of slain captives, who had been held in Gaza, in Gaza City, on October 14, 2025. (Photo by Reuters)
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The head of the Higher Commission for Palestinian Tribes, the largest tribal assembly in Gaza, says the resistance movement Hamas has only been targeting Israeli-backed “gangs”, refuting Western media claims of a crackdown on innocent civilians.
“I challenge anyone, on your channel right now, to name a single innocent person who was attacked. Just one name,” Mukhtar Abu Salman al-Mughni said in an interview.
In response to claims from Western media that Hamas is executing innocent Palestinians, he stressed that the Gazan security forces didn’t harm innocents, “they went after the gangs.”
Al-Mughni noted that those gangs had armed posts in several areas across Gaza, including Rafah, Khan Younis, Shuja‘iyya, and the north, and refused to surrender to the authorities, killing a number of security forces.
“When the police moved to clean out those posts, the gangs fought back and killed police officers too.”
The official emphasized that the security campaign launched by Hamas after the halt of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza prevented the eruption of civil war.
“Had the police not intervened, people themselves would have taken revenge — and that would have become a civil war. The security forces prevented that.”
On Tuesday, the Deterrent Force, affiliated with the security forces in the strip, announced in a brief statement that its members had “seized bastions of armed militiamen, mopped up terrorists of various neighborhoods, and carried out operations aimed at hunting down elements involved in the shooting and killing of displaced persons.”
That came a day after Gaza’s security forces purportedly neutralized a leading member of an Israeli-backed gang associated with the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group, which has been responsible for contributing to Tel Aviv’s genocide in the coastal strip.
An unnamed security source speaking to Quds News Network on Monday identified the targeted individual as “A.T.,” whom the strip’s Resistance Security Apparatus successfully confronted as part of “a precise security ambush.”
A.T. had been recruiting militants for the gang run by Yasser Abu Shabab, the source said, adding that the Israeli regime began providing Abu Shabab’s clan with weapons and equipment earlier this year amid Tel Aviv’s war of genocide on Gaza, which had begun in October 2023.
The support further enabled the gang to wage deadly violence across Gaza, especially in the southern city of Rafah.
In June, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that the regime had been arming and supporting the Daesh-associated gang to “counter the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.”
Prior to his headship of the gang, Abu Shabab had spent time in prison in Gaza. He began running the gang in 2024, prompting the elders and leaders of the prominent Abu Shabab family to distance themselves from his clan.
Hamas’ mop-up operations come as a fragile ceasefire has taken effect in Gaza, after nearly 70,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israel’s genocide.
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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/10/17/757047/Hamas-targets-Israel-backed-gangs-Gaza
Putin aide proposes direct Russia-US tunnel
FILE PHOTO: Aerial view of the Bering Strait connecting Alaska, US, and Chukotka, Russia. © Getty Images / Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2018/Gallo ImagesRT
Kirill Dmitriev has invited Elon Musk to join the project, saying his infrastructure firm could build the 70-mile route in under eight yearsRussia and the US should build a direct rail tunnel under the Bering Strait to link the two countries, Russian presidential aide Kirill Dmitriev has suggested.
In a post on X on Thursday, Dmitriev, who also serves as head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund (RDIF), said both nations would benefit from the route and invited billionaire Elon Musk to join through his Boring Company, which builds underground “Loop” transport systems.
“Elon Musk, imagine connecting the US and Russia, the Americas and Afro-Eurasia with the Putin-Trump Tunnel – a 70-mile link symbolizing unity,” Dmitriev wrote on X, saying the project would spur resource exploration, create jobs, and boost both economies. “Let’s build a future together… The time has come to connect Russia and the US.”
Dmitriev’s remarks followed Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna’s release of declassified Soviet files on the assassination of JFK, shared by Moscow this week. In addition to documents on the killing, the 350-page trove included a “Khrushchev-Kennedy Bridge” project to link the two nations.
Dmitriev reposted a drawing marked “Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge could and should be built between Alaska and Russia at once,” calling the vision of a US-Russia link via the Bering Strait “enduring.”
Dmitriev said that while the tunnel project could cost over $65 billion, Boring Company technology could cut it by 90% to under $8 billion and finish it within eight years. He added that the RDIF, which helped build the first Russia-China rail bridge, was ready to take part.
Musk has yet to respond. Dmitriev previously invited the billionaire to join a US-Russia partnership for Mars exploration following Musk’s announcement of a 2026 mission to the Red Planet. Russian President Vladimir Putin also voiced support for cooperation with Musk, saying Russian companies could benefit from joint projects.
Dmitriev’s proposal comes amid a thaw in Moscow-Washington ties after years of tension over Ukraine. Since Donald Trump’s return to office in January, the sides have held several high-level meetings, including a Putin-Trump summit in Alaska in August.
The leaders signaled plans to expand economic cooperation and are expected to meet again in Hungary within two weeks for further talks.
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Via https://www.rt.com/russia/626605-putin-aide-russia-us-tunnel/
When a Volcano Cut This Country’s Fragile Internet Cable, Life Snapped Back to 1880
By Brian Shilhavy
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In an article published today by PCMag (https://www.pcmag.com/articles/when-a-volcano-cut-this-countrys-fragile-internet-cable-life-snapped-back) about a new book out, they document that this very thing has already happened, in Togo in 2022 from a volcano, and it did NOT send the technology back to the 1980s, but to the 1880s with many people dying, so dependent are we on the Internet today.
From PCMag (https://www.pcmag.com/articles/when-a-volcano-cut-this-countrys-fragile-internet-cable-life-snapped-back):
A single underwater cable the size of a garden hose connected Tonga to the outside world—until a natural disaster struck. And it could happen to anyone.
It all started with an underwater volcanic eruption. Debris shot into the air, gathering force as it cascaded down the volcano’s flanks, plunged back into the ocean, and sliced Tonga’s only international internet cable in two places, like cutting out the middle of a submarine sandwich.
Now, Tonga was officially alone, with no physical or digital connection to the outside world and no way to call for help.
“I initially thought Tonga would be thrown back, to say, the 1980s, before it had broadband internet,” says Samanth Subramanian, who tells the full story in his new book, The Web Beneath the Waves, out this week.
“But it was more like they went back to the 1880s, around the time they first laid a telegraph line to Tonga, and they would only receive occasional visitors by ship.”
Thrown back in time, residents resorted to paper record-keeping for banking (no credit cards), traveled door-to-door to speak to each other, and grew their own food.
About the size of a garden hose, subsea cables snake along the seafloor, transporting 95% to 99% of internet traffic, depending on the estimate. They support nearly every aspect of our internet-connected world, making them increasingly critical.
“Over the past 10 years, the internet has grown so central to our lives,” Subramanian says. “If a cable were cut in 2002, it would be a lot easier to recover from it. But now, there are a lot of things in our lives that depend on it, and for the internet to be taken away would be a big disaster.”
The first few days after the eruption were the most challenging for Tonga’s roughly 100,000 residents. Without the ability to call or text anyone, they struggled to confirm the death toll.
“The first 48 hours were chaos,” Subramanian says, as residents walked door to door in the hot, humid weather to check on each other.
“The biggest anxiety was not whether the internet would work, it was whether everyone was alive. One government official had to choke back tears when telling me about this time.”
Credit cards no longer worked for purchasing food, and the cash on hand ran out, given the defunct ATMs. The government set up centralized food distribution sites on Tonga’s main street.
There, people would “buy” items on credit, with hand-written records of what they took. Those in rural areas continued to grow their own food, including those on Vava’u, an example of how those who were less reliant on central, modern systems were most resilient.
Read the full article (https://www.pcmag.com/articles/when-a-volcano-cut-this-countrys-fragile-internet-cable-life-snapped-back).
New Cyber Attack Threatens to Bring Down U.S. Government and Corporate America’s Networks
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
A new cybersecurity emergency directive has just been issued by the U.S. Federal Government, through their Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), warning that thousands of networks operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group.
The CISA emergency directive can be read here.
This is being widely reported in the media today, mostly in the Tech sector, although it is not headline news as it should be.
From Ars Technica:
Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s networkThousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach of a major maker of software, the federal government warned Wednesday.
F5, a Seattle-based maker of networking software, disclosed the breach on Wednesday. F5 said a “sophisticated” threat group working for an undisclosed nation-state government had surreptitiously and persistently dwelled in its network over a “long-term.” Security researchers who have responded to similar intrusions in the past took the language to mean the hackers were inside the F5 network for years.
Unprecedented
During that time, F5 said, the hackers took control of the network segment the company uses to create and distribute updates for BIG IP, a line of server appliances that F5 says is used by 48 of the world’s top 50 corporations.
Wednesday’s disclosure went on to say the threat group downloaded proprietary BIG-IP source code information about vulnerabilities that had been privately discovered but not yet patched. The hackers also obtained configuration settings that some customers used inside their networks.
Customers position BIG-IP at the very edge of their networks for use as load balancers and firewalls, and for inspection and encryption of data passing into and out of networks. Given BIG-IP’s network position and its role in managing traffic for web servers, previous compromises have allowed adversaries to expand their access to other parts of an infected network.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security agency has warned that federal agencies that rely on the appliance face an “imminent threat” from the thefts, which “pose an unacceptable risk.” The agency went on to direct federal agencies under its control to take “emergency action.” The UK’s National Cyber Security Center issued a similar directive.
CISA has ordered all federal agencies it oversees to immediately take inventory of all BIG-IP devices in networks they run or in networks that outside providers run on their behalf. The agency went on to direct agencies to install the updates and follow a threat-hunting guide that F5 has also issued. BIG-IP users in private industry should do the same. (Source.)
Here is some more information from PCMag and their coverage of this threat.
‘Imminent Threat’: Nation-State Hackers Hit Cybersecurity Provider F5F5 warns that a ‘highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor’ was able to maintain long-term access to the company’s systems, and steal data, including details about undisclosed flaws.
Yikes. Cybersecurity provider F5 is warning that state-sponsored hackers breached its systems and stole data, including details about undisclosed flaws for its products.
Seattle-based F5, which supplies application and cloud security, revealed this morning that it discovered the hackers inside its systems on Aug. 9. Although F5 has contained the breach, the hackers achieved “long-term, persistent access to certain F5 systems,” including BIG-IP, which is used to securely deliver app services on behalf of clients to users.
“Through this access, certain files were exfiltrated, some of which contained certain portions of the Company’s BIG-IP source code and information about undisclosed vulnerabilities that it was working on in BIG-IP,” the company said in an SEC filing.
The breach prompted US cyber officials to issue an emergency directive over fears the hackers would move quickly to exploit F5’s products and software. The Seattle company has said it supports:
“over 23,000 enterprise customers in more than 170 countries, including the largest banks, auto manufacturers, and telecommunications providers in the world.”
Whether an attack on government and corporate networks is imminent or not, this is a REAL threat, and is not hyperbole. There are speculative reports that China is behind this, but China vehemently denies this.
Our current day use of technology where just a handful of American Big Tech companies control the flow of information through the Internet through their “cybersecurity” products, shows the extreme danger of consolidation in the tech sector, where the same “security” software products are used by most of the governments and corporations around the world, making them easy targets by well-funded hackers.
As the U.S. corporate media fixes their attention on potential “hot war” scenarios in places like Venezuela, Russia and Ukraine, and in Gaza and the rest of the Middle East, a major cyber attack like this could be far more catastrophic. A cyber attack that brings down the major networks needed to run this country and keep the lights on for everyone will be far more devastating and disastrous than bombs and bullets flying through the air.
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DNA Tests: Who’s Getting Rich with Data from Our Genes
DNA Tests: Who’s Getting Rich from the Data from our Genes
DW (2025)
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Although DNA links to national origin have never been scientifically validated, 50 million people worldwide have submitted DNA samples to “trace their ancestry.” Turing over over $2 billion annually, the three main DNA testing companies are Ancestry.com, 23andMe and My Heritage.
All three companies base conclusions about a client’s national ancestry by comparing their DNA profiles to those in their database. The conclusions they offer are purely theoretical as there is minimal peer-reviewed research to support them.
The complete decoding of human DNA in 2000 made it possible to link a handful of genetic diseases to specific DNA codes. This inspired the Icelandic government to do DNA testing on 160,000 volunteers who voluntarily submitted health histories. Six years later a Silicon Valley startup launched 23andMe, the first private DNA testing company. The co-founder and CEO Anne Wojiski was married to Google’s co-founder, who used Google’s massive compilation of data to assist her.
In addition to submitting saliva DNA samples, clients completed a health questionnaire covering medical history and lifestyle factors. In 2008 her DNA test was awarded the Time magazine Invention of the Year.
In 2013, the FDA ordered 23andMe to stop offering testing for genetic disease risk after they issued several false reports on individuals who turned out to have rare genetic illnesses. The bad publicity forced them to drop their prices. They eventually sold testing kits at a lost and secured most of their revenue from selling the data they collected (much of it to pharmaceutical companies).
In 2019, 23andMe won the Big Brother Award, a mocking award recognizing “the government and private sector organizations doing the most to threaten personal privacy”.
After 23andMe launched a partnership with Glaxo Smith Kline in 2023, the value of their individual data sets dropped from $60 to $17.
In New Zealand current regulations allow insurance companies to require anyone with DNA testing to hand over the results to qualify for medical and life insurance. Women with the BRACA 1 gene are at 70% increased risk for breast cancer and 60% increased risk for ovarian. This means many of them can’t get private health insurance.
New Zealand is the last country in the world to allow this kind of “genomic” discrimination. At present Kiwis frequently shun “life saving” DNA tests for genetic illnesses because their afraid of losing their insurance.
The event that eventually bankrupted 23andMe was the hacking of 7 million users’ data, subsequently offered for sale onthe Dark Web. After paying $23 million in damages, the company filed for bankruptcy in March 2025. A non-profit organization led by Wojiski TTAM Research Institute ultimately bought it for $305 million.
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