At least 100,000 pro-Palestine marchers, including Julian Assange, the former foreign minister Bob Carr and the government MP Ed Husic, have marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in the rain to protest against Israel’s conduct in Gaza and to speak out about the children starving there.
 
The world-famous landmark was closed to traffic at 11.30am on Sunday, with protesters gathering in Lang Park in the city centre before enduring heavy rain as they walked across the bridge.
 
The march began at 1pm, with demonstrators eventually stretching the entire length of the 1.2km Harbour Bridge.
 
“It’s even bigger than my wildest dreams,” one of the main protest organisers, Josh Lees, told Guardian Australia while at the front of the march. “It’s a mass march for humanity to stop a genocide, our politicians have to now listen to the will of the people and sanction Israel.”
 

Posters reading 'Israeli not welcome' appeared in several locations in Milan, Italy on June 26, 2025. (Courtesy of Afshin Kaboli)

Footage posted to social media shows a large anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest that prevented hundreds of Israelis from disembarking a cruise ship at the Greek island of Syros, July 22, 2025.

Moshe Ben Avraham
 
From what I've read and watched, a large portion of the Israeli population is unaware of the impact that the propaganda war of Hamas and Israel's enemies has had on the world.
 
The Hebrew-language Israeli media is understandably inward-looking, covering the pain and suffering of hostages, soldiers, and everyone else, paying little or no attention to what's happening beyond its borders.  
 
Many Israelis have no relatives abroad, nor do they read or get their information from international media and outlets.
 
For all this, many unsuspecting travelers abroad are surprised and perplexed by the aggression and hatred they encounter. Incidents in Europe are multiplying and likely to spread worldwide.  
 
It's only a matter of time before Israeli companies will have difficulty creating and maintaining business partnerships and obtaining investment in Europe and the US.  
 
It's absolutely urgent to take this reality, this dramatic trend, into account when making political and military choices. Israel will pay a very high price if it makes poor decisions.

D'anciens responsables du Mossad et du Shin Bet demandent à Trump de contraindre Netanyahu à mettre fin à la Guerre à Gaza. Plus de 600 anciens hauts responsables de la sécurité ont demandé au président américain de contraindre Netanyahou à mettre fin à la guerre à Gaza.

De plus, ils ont affirmé : « Selon notre jugement professionnel, le Hamas ne représente plus une menace stratégique pour Israël, et notre expérience nous montre qu’Israël a tout ce qu’il faut pour gérer ses capacités terroristes résiduelles, à distance ou autrement. La traque des derniers hauts responsables du Hamas pourra se faire plus tard. Nos otages ne peuvent pas attendre. »

Trump said to warn Jewish donor that MAGA world ‘starting to hate Israel’

US President Donald Trump recently warned a Jewish campaign donor that his MAGA base was beginning to turn on Israel, the Financial Times reports.
 
“My people are starting to hate Israel,” Trump is quoted as having told the unnamed donor recently, citing a Mideast expert, also unnamed, with contacts inside the Trump administration.
 
The report describes the donor as “prominent.”
 
“There are people in the White House who are watching this narrative develop in the right wing, in the MAGA world, that is very anti-Israel, very anti-Jewish,” the expert is quoted saying.

Athens Mayor Haris Doukas has rejected criticism from Israeli Ambassador to Greece Noam Katz, who accused municipal authorities of failing to address antisemitic graffiti in the city.
 
In a post on X, Doukas condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide” and dismissed Katz’s comments, saying Athens needed no “lessons in democracy” from those responsible for civilian deaths.
 
“We do not accept lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians and children waiting in line for food aid,” Doukas wrote. “Athens, the capital of a democratic country, respects its visitors and upholds the right to free expression.”
 
The mayor also criticised Katz’s focus on graffiti, saying it was “appalling” to raise the issue amid what he described as an “unprecedented genocide” in Gaza. He said municipal crews were, in any case, removing the graffiti.
 
Doukas added that Golden Visas granted to Israeli citizens had increased by more than 90% over the past year.
 
Katz made the remarks in an interview published in the Sunday edition of Kathimerini, saying antisemitic graffiti made Israeli visitors feel uncomfortable and accusing city authorities of inaction.

Le Hamas diffuse une vidéo de l’otage israélien Evyatar David, détenu depuis plus de 650 jours
 
La branche armée du Hamas a diffusé samedi 2 août une vidéo d'un otage israélien, enlevé lors d'une attaque sanglante menée par ce mouvement islamiste palestinien le 7 octobre 2023 en Israël. La vidéo, d'un peu plus d'une minute, montre l'otage, amaigri et visiblement affaibli, détenu dans un tunnel. Reuters n'a pas pu déterminer l'authenticité de la vidéo, ni la date de son enregistrement.

La branche armée du Jihad islamique palestinien avait, elle, publié jeudi la vidéo d’un autre otage, identifié comme Rom Braslavski, 21 ans, un citoyen israélo-allemand enlevé également lors de l’attaque sanglante du Hamas, son allié. Dans la vidéo où il s’exprime manifestement sous la contrainte, il semble lui aussi très affaibli.

‘We are on the precipice of defeat’: Former IDF chiefs of staff, intel chiefs demand end to Gaza war

More than a dozen former senior security officials put out a joint video with a call to end the war in Gaza, arguing that Israel has racked up more losses than victories, and that the fighting has dragged on for political reasons rather than being based on strategic military decisions.

Among the 19 retired IDF chiefs of staff, intelligence chiefs, Shin Bet and Mossad directors and police commissioners are former IDF chief of staff and prime minister Ehud Barak, former chiefs of staff Moshe Ya’alon and Dan Halutz, and ex-Shin Bet director Yoram Cohen.

In the video, the men argue that the fighting in Gaza could have ended long ago, and demand that Israel end the war with a permanent ceasefire and comprehensive hostage deal that will see the release of all 50 remaining hostages in one fell swoop.

“We have a duty to stand up and say what we need to say,” former Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon says. “This war started as a just war. It was a defensive war. But once we achieved all its military objectives, once we achieved a brilliant military victory against all our enemies, this war stopped being a just war. It is leading the State of Israel to the loss of its security and identity.”

Former military intelligence chief Amos Malka posits that Israel is “well over a year past the point where we could have ended the war with a sufficient operational achievement.”
 
Instead, supplies ex-Shin Bet director Nadav Argaman, “we are now mostly offsetting losses.”
 
“We are on the precipice of defeat,” concurs former Mossad director Tamir Pardo.
 
“What the world sees today is of our own creation,” he says of the dire humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip, brought about by long months of war with Hamas. “We are hiding behind a lie that we wrought. This lie was sold to the Israeli public, and the world has long since understood that it doesn’t reflect the real picture.”
 
“There are moments that represent a black flag in which one must stand firm and say: This far and no further,” Ya’alon declares. “Right now, we have a government that the messianic zealots have pulled in a certain, irrational direction.”
 
“They are a minority,” agrees Cohen, “but the problem is that the minority controls the policy.”
He says that anyone who believes Israel can “reach every terrorist and every pit and every weapon, and at the same time bring our hostages home,” is entertaining a fantasy.

@UnxeptableD
Israeli Security Chiefs Through the Decades “End the war and bring the hostages home!”  
 
This is an extraordinary call, unlike anything we've seen in Israel. Almost everyone who was once at the wheel of a major security organization:
 
Nadav Argaman, Shin Bet Director
Tamir Pardo, Mossad Director
Yoram Cohen, Shin Bet Director
Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon, IDF Chief of Staff
Ami Ayalon, Shin Bet Director
Efraim Halevy, Mossad Director
Dan Halutz, IDF Chief of Staff
Uri Sagi, Head of Military Intelligence
Amos Malka, Head of Military Intelligence
Danny Yatom, Mossad Director
Moshe Karadi, Police Commissioner
Amos Yadlin, Head of Military Intelligence
Yaakov Peri, Shin Bet Director
Carmi Gillon, Shin Bet Director
Dudi Cohen, Police Commissioner
Asaf Hefetz, Police Commissioner
Rafi Peled, Police Commissioner
Aharon Farkash, Head of Military Intelligence
Ehud Barak, IDF Chief of Staff