1) NGO Monitor reports that ‘UK Coordination and NGO Funding Continued Despite Hamas Terror Designation’.
“Newly obtained internal Hamas documents demonstrate that close cooperation between the UK government and Hamas took place before the group was designated and continued afterwards, in apparent contravention of British policies. They show that UK officials held meetings with Hamas ministries in Gaza. Representatives of UK-funded NGOs also met with Hamas to discuss their funding status.”
2) The ILF provides a report ‘Exposing Hind Rajab Foundation’s Lawfare Campaign Targeting American and Israeli Soldiers’.
“The International Legal Forum (ILF) and the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) have released a major new report exposing the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) as a dangerous lawfare proxy for Hezbollah and Hamas, weaponizing international courts to target American and Israeli soldiers.”
3) Jonathan Spyer discusses ‘The Final Act of Israel’s War in Gaza’.
“Two years of war, then, and the Iran-led regional alliance is largely in ruins. Yet of all its component parts, one remains in the field. Hamas, which started the war, is as yet undefeated in its Gaza fiefdom. The Gaza Islamists are still in control of around 25 per cent of the Strip. What explains their durability? How is it that the IDF, which crippled the more powerful Lebanese Hezbollah, which established the freedom of the skies over Iran for itself, which found and killed the Houthis’ governing cabinet, has not yet finished the small jihadi militia which set the whole thing in motion?”
4) At the JCFA, Dan Diker explains ‘Why Recognizing a Palestinian State Will Not Lead to Peace’.
“Considering the geography of the West Bank, the stakes are far higher than they were in Gaza. A prospective Palestinian state would threaten 70% of Israel’s population and 80% of its industrial capacity located on the coast, along with its main thoroughfares and transportation hubs.
Judea and Samaria’s elevated terrain — more than 3,200 feet above sea level — renders Israel’s coastal plain an easy target for terrorists. From there, basic rockets and mortars would paralyze Israel’s airport, highways, and population centers. The distance from West Bank territories to Israel’s coast measures just 9-15 kilometers — easily within reach of the types of short-range rockets used on October 7.”
5) At the FDD, David Adesnik discusses the Israeli response to the IPC report.
“A crucial finding of the IPC’s August 22 report was that malnutrition among children had grown “exponentially” in July, exceeding 15 percent — the famine threshold — in the latter half of the month. Yet closer inspection of the raw data in the IPC report showed that malnutrition actually fell slightly in the latter half of the month and did not exceed 15 percent in either half. Subsequently, the IPC acknowledged this problem. In an August 30 follow-up note, the IPC explained it had actually relied on additional data that never appeared in the August 22 report at all.”
6) At Ynet, Edmund Fitton-Brown and Ari Heistein explain ‘How the Houthis weaponize humanitarian aid in Yemen’.
“Why do the Houthis insist on aid flowing only through their ports and airports? On one level, it generates revenue. But their total rejection of routes through Aden shows the deeper strategy: starving the government of resources takes priority over efficient aid delivery to their own residents.
For a decade, the Houthis have worked to separate northern Yemen’s economy from the south, leaving the south too weakened to function as a viable state. […]
Meanwhile, humanitarian organizations, managing budgets worth billions of dollars annually, have largely complied with Houthi restrictions.”
