The Emmys In Memoriam pays tribute to major television and entertainment figures who have recently passed away and this year it featured Ozzy Osbourne, Vince Gill and other stars
Gene Hackman, who died in February, was not part of the Emmys broadcast tribute(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Fans of Gene Hackman were left fuming after the Hollywood legend was omitted from the In Memoriam segment at the 2025 Emmy Awards on Sunday night.
Hackman, 95, died in February after a journey with Alzheimer’s disease. However, the veteran actor was not featured in the Emmy tribute which honours major television and entertainment figures who have recently passed away. The montage was played during the ceremony in Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles, and included nods to the likes of Vince Gill, Lainey Wilson, Ozzy Osbourne and David Lynch.
Viewers were puzzled – and outraged – at the omission of Hackman, as well as other major stars, such as Jonathan Joss, Connie Francis and Val Kilmer. They took to X, which was known as Twitter, to express their ire.
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Both Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead at their home(Image: AP)
One fan asked: “Where was Gene Hackman in the In Memoriam?” Another posted: “Did they leave out Gene Hackman? Ugh.” A third said: “Did I miss GENE HACKMAN? Was he included?” A further tweet stated: “Only turned it on to see the In Memoriam and they left out way too many people.”
While he wasn’t part of the broadcast tribute, Hackman is part of a more comprehensive list of fallen stars on the Emmy’s website. Other actors, including Polly Holliday and Graham Greene, are on that list.
But Hackman had an extensive career, which included significant TV credits such as the 1965 series I Spy. He won two BAFTAs and three Golden Globe Awards, including a latter for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role in The Royal Tenenbaums in 2002.
The performer, born in San Bernardino, California, was also in blockbusters, such as Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and The French Connection (1971), and is considered one of the greatest actors of his generation and had a career that spanned over four decades.
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Gene and Betsy had been married for more than 30 years (Image: Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Hackman picked up several awards during his long career(Image: Corbis via Getty Images)
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Hackman and classical pianist wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, were found dead and partially mummified in their Santa Fe mansion in February. It was revealed Arakawa had died from Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) in their bathroom days before Hackman passed.
Arakawa also had fluid accumulation in her chest and mild hardening of the vessels that supplied blood to the heart and body at the time of her death, per her autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press.
Israel has bombed and destroyed the tallest residential building in Gaza, the Al-Ghafri high-rise, as it launched a massive wave of strikes on Gaza City on Monday evening, forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to continue to flee the city.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, says Israel is using unconventional weapons to forcibly evict Palestinians from Gaza City, the largest urban centre in the enclave.
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Israeli media source Channel 12 reported that “exceptionally intense air strikes” were concentrated in the city’s north and west, while the Palestinian Civil Defence said at least 50 multistorey buildings had been levelled in recent weeks as Israeli forces intensified attacks to seize the city.
Other neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble. In Zeitoun, more than 1,500 homes and buildings have been destroyed since early August, leaving entire blocks with nothing left standing.
For the third day in a row, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz has posted videos of the attacks. “The terror tower… crashes into the sea off Gaza. Sinking the centres of terror and incitement,” he wrote on X. Katz offered no evidence for his claim that the residential tower was being used by Hamas.
Israel has repeatedly attacked residential areas, schools and hospitals during its 23 months of genocidal war.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health said that 51 Palestinians, including six-year-old twins, were killed in Gaza City in the past 24 hours.
Three journalists were also killed in separate Israeli strikes: reporter Mohammed al-Kouifi in the Nassr neighbourhood, photographer and broadcast engineer Ayman Haniyeh, and journalist Iman al-Zamili. These killings take the number of journalists and media workers killed in Israel’s war on Gaza to nearly 280. Media watchdogs say this war is the deadliest conflict for journalists.
Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 64,905 Palestinians and wounded 164,926, with thousands more still buried under rubble.
‘Striking every area’
Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan in August to seize Gaza City, which has led to relentless bombardment, forcing residents south towards al-Mawasi.
Many Palestinians say they do not believe they will ever be allowed to return, and fear the journey itself.
“For more than three days, they have been hitting every school and emptying Shati camp [near north Gaza’s coast], striking every area. You cannot even move,” one resident told Al Jazeera.
“That is why I decided to leave with my family – my daughters and my wife – and head to Khan Younis. I don’t even have a tent. I only took a few things; I couldn’t take anything from my home.”
Being pushed into al-Mawasi, the area Israel has designated a “safe zone”, offers no safety as Israel continues to attack the site. The Health Ministry has also said the area lacks the “basic necessities of life, including water, food [and] health services”, and warned of “dangerous” disease outbreaks.
It added that displaced people are subjected to “direct targeting and killing both inside the camps and when attempting to leave them”, in violation of international law.
Israel continues to block aid
Israeli forces shot dead at least five Palestinians waiting for food assistance near al-Mawasi, according to the Nasser Medical Complex.
Meanwhile, the famine is deepening in the Strip. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared a famine in northern Gaza on August 22.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that out of the 17 humanitarian missions coordinated with Israel on Sunday, only four were permitted. A mission to deliver water tanks to the north was also denied entry.
Albanese, the UN special rapporteur, told Al Jazeera on Thursday that Israel must be held accountable.
“This is a genocide that could have never happened without the support and involvement of a number of actors,” she said, pointing to Israel’s allies and private sector partners.
Here is how things stand on Tuesday, September 16 :
Fighting
A Ukrainian drone attack killed two women in the village of Golovchino in Russia’s Belgorod region, Russia’s state TASS news agency reports.
A man who was seriously injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia’s Belgorod region in April has died in hospital, TASS reports.
TASS also reported that Russian forces shot down 82 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour period.
Russian forces have captured the village of Olhivske in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Monday.
Ukraine’s Air Force said it shot down 59 of 84 Russian drones fired overnight, while Russia also fired three guided missiles.
The commander of Ukraine’s drone forces, Robert Brovdi, reported that a Starlink outage affected the entire front line for about 30 minutes, starting at 7:28am local time (04:28 GMT). Ukraine’s forces are heavily reliant on SpaceX’s Starlink terminals for battlefield communications and some drone operations.
Regional security
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland’s State Protection Service “neutralised a drone operating over government buildings” and the Presidential Palace. Police are investigating the drone incident, and two citizens of Belarus have been detained, Tusk added in a post on X.
Announcing that the United Kingdom will deploy fighter jets to Poland, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, “Russia’s reckless behaviour is a direct threat to European security and a violation of international law, which is why the UK will support NATO’s efforts to bolster its eastern flank.”
The UK Foreign Office on Monday called the recent Russian drone incursions into Polish and Romanian airspace “utterly unacceptable”, and summoned Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin.
“Russia should understand that its continued aggression only strengthens the unity between NATO allies,” the Foreign Office said in a statement.
Drones fly with flags of Russia and Belarus during the ‘Zapad 2025’ (West 2025) Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground near the town of Borisov, east of Belarus’s capital, Minsk, on Monday [Olesya Kurpyayeva/AF]
Russia and Belarus continued their Zapad 2025 joint military drills on Monday, with Russia launching a Kalibr missile from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
United States military officers observed the joint war games in Belarus, where they were told by Belarusian Minister of Defence Viktor Khrenin that they could look at “whatever is of interest for you”.
Denmark’s defence minister attended a military exercise in Greenland on Monday with his Icelandic and Norwegian counterparts, the Danish Ministry of Defence said. The US did not send observers.
Danish Minister of Defence Troels Lund Poulsen said in a statement: “The current security situation requires us to significantly strengthen the armed forces’ presence in the Arctic and North Atlantic.”
Tariffs and sanctions
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that the administration of President Donald Trump would not impose additional tariffs on Chinese goods to halt China’s purchases of Russian oil unless European countries hit China and India with steep duties of their own.
“We expect the Europeans to do their share now, and we are not moving forward without the Europeans,” Bessent said.
Russia warned on Monday that it would go after any European state that sought to take its assets after reports that the European Union was looking for new ways to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.
An emergency summit of Arab and Muslim countries held in Doha has declared its solidarity with Qatar and condemned Israel’s bombing of the Qatari capital last week.
The extraordinary joint session between the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) gathered nearly 60 member states on Monday. Leaders said the meeting marked a critical moment to deliver a united message following what they described as an unprecedented escalation by Israel.
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The Israeli attack targeted senior Hamas leaders who were meeting to discuss a United States-backed ceasefire proposal. At least six people were killed in the unprecedented attack, which has drawn condemnation from around the world, including Arab and Muslim countries.
Here is what leaders said at the summit:
Qatar
“My country’s capital was subjected to a treacherous attack targeting a residence housing the families of Hamas leaders and their negotiating delegation,” Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said in his opening speech.
Sheikh Tamim added that Israel was not interested in ending the war in Gaza, as it was trying “to thwart the negotiations”.
“If you wish to insist on the liberation of hostages, why then do they assassinate all negotiators? How can we host in our country negotiating delegations from Israel while they send drones and planes for an air raid against our country?”
Qatar’s emir added that Netanyahu dreams of the Arab region becoming an Israeli sphere of influence.
This is a dangerous illusion, he said.
“The negotiations between Israel and Hamas were about to reach an achievement with the help of the sisterly country of Egypt and the United States of America. This has resulted in the liberation of many hostages.
“Israel continues its intransigence and insistence on continuing the war,” he said.
Turkiye
“We are dealing with a terrorist mindset that thrives on chaos and bloodshed, embodied in a state. This mindset, which openly violates the UN charter and challenges the rules-based international system, survives because its crimes go unpunished,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
“There is a greedy, bloodthirsty mentality among Israeli officials,” he added, accusing the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to continue massacres and drag the region into chaos.
The Doha attack has taken “Israel’s banditry” to a new level, Erdogan said.
“Economic pressure must be exerted on Israel, and past experience has proven the success of such pressure,” he said, adding that “we cannot accept the displacement of the Palestinian people, their genocide or partition”.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani poses for a group picture with leaders and other officials at the 2025 Arab-Islamic emergency summit in Doha on September 15, 2025 [Qatar News Agency/ AFP]
Egypt
“The heinous attack on Qatari territory is a grave violation of international law and sets a dangerous precedent. I warn that Israel’s uncontrolled behaviour will exacerbate the conflict and destabilise the region,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said.
“I say to the people of Israel that what is happening now is sabotaging the existing peace agreements, and the consequences will be dire.”
El-Sisi added that Israel must understand that its security and sovereignty will not be achieved by force, but rather by respecting the law and sovereignty of other states.
Iran
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said leaders should reinforce their “unity and solidarity” to stand up against Israel.
“We should stand up to these threats, reiterating that any further crimes cannot be tolerated, and shall not remain silent towards what is unfolding now in Gaza or what has taken place in Beirut or Yemen,” he urged.
Pezeshkian said that unity must not only be based on shared religion but on the “shared tenets of humanity”.
“It is possible that Islamic countries cut their ties with this fake regime and maintain unity and cohesion as much as possible,” Pezeshkian said.
Iraq
“The security and stability of any Arab or Islamic country [are] an integral part of our collective security,” said Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.
“The current conditions call for moving from condemnation to coordinated collective action”, he added, and proposed forming “a joint Arab-Islamic committee to convey our position to the UN Security Council and General Assembly, the European Union and other international fora”.
“We have a real opportunity to send a clear message confirming that the security of our countries is not a matter of negotiation,” he said.
He urged leaders at the summit to issue “a unified Arab and Islamic position condemning the attack” on Qatar, which he said had “exceeded all limits and violated every humanitarian principle”, and to develop a comprehensive roadmap for a ceasefire.
Failure to deter Israel would “lead to further instability and will not achieve security for any party”, he added.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on the sidelines of the 2025 Arab-Islamic emergency summit in Doha on September 15, 2025 [Qatar News Agency/AFP]
Jordan
King Abdullah II of Jordan said the strike on Doha was “living proof” that the threat Israel poses is “without limits”.
“Our response must be clear, decisive, and, above all, deterring,” he said.
The king criticised Israel’s ongoing expansion in the occupied West Bank, which undermines the so-called two-state solution, and stressed that the summit must deliver practical measures to confront Israel, halt the war in Gaza, and prevent further Palestinian displacement.
Palestine
“We call upon the international community to live up to its responsibility, to hold Israel liable and responsible for their crimes, and the repeated assault on our countries and peoples, and in this direction, we call for practical measures to prevent any recurrence of these violations,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said.
“The radical far-right government of Israel cannot be a partner to peace and security in our region. This demands a firm Arab and Muslim position and firm intervention by the US and the UN Security Council to bring the rogue state and its behaviour to an end,” he added.
Malaysia
“Our people have become wary of words. They have watched us issue condemnation after condemnation, declaration after declaration, while Israel escalates with impunity, as future generations will ask whether we found the courage to act. We do not ask nations to go beyond their basic obligations,” Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said.
“Condemnations will not stop the missiles. Declarations will not free Palestine. Severe, punitive actions must be put in place. Diplomatic engagements must cease, and so must relations with Israel,” he added.
Indonesia
“The Palestinian question is not solely about Palestine. It’s about the survival of our nations, the dignity of our people, and the sanctity of international law,” Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka said.
The summit “must not only issue collective condemnation against Israel, but also urge the United Nations Security Council to fulfil its mandate by taking firm and urgent measures to ensure accountability and prevent any recurrence”, he added.
Pakistan
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif affirmed his country’s full solidarity with Qatar and condemned the attack in the strongest terms.
“In my statement, I strongly condemned Israel’s aggression in the Middle East, reaffirmed Pakistan’s unwavering solidarity with Qatar, and reiterated our firm commitment to peace in the region, including our resolute support for a just and lasting two-state solution,” he said.
Gulf Cooperation Council
“We expect our strategic partners in the US to use their influence on Israel for it to stop this behaviour – we really do expect that,” said Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, the secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
“The summit and its proceedings reflect “the status, respect, and appreciation enjoyed by Qatar”, he added.
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
“The summit is an opportunity to take a unified and firm stance against the heinous Israeli aggression,” said Hissein Brahim Taha, secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
“We reiterate our strong condemnation of the blatant attack on the State of Qatar and its territorial sovereignty,” he added.
He called for the Arab and Islamic states present to take “firm decisions” against Israel, and for the wider international community “to assume its responsibilities and hold Israel accountable for its crimes”.
“We affirm our support for the outcomes of the international conference to resolve the Palestinian issue and the two-state solution,” he said, adding that “we are confident that the outcomes of this summit will strengthen Arab and Islamic solidarity”.
Arab League
“The message says ‘enough silence’ to the acts of thuggery by this rogue state, which has been wreaking havoc, destruction, killing and starvation within the region,” Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, said.
“Second, silence to criminality is per se a crime. Silence to the violation of international law undermines the international system,” Gheit said.
Doha, Qatar – An emergency summit of Arab and Islamic country leaders held in Doha has condemned Israel’s “cowardly” attack on Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital, but the participants made no promises of concrete action.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)’s pledge to “activate a joint defence mechanism” may have been the most actionable result of the summit, which was opened by Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who called the Israeli bombing “blatant, treacherous, and cowardly”.
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The GCC countries, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have formed a defence pact to address the security concerns of the member states.
“My country’s capital was subjected to a treacherous attack targeting a residence housing the families of Hamas leaders and their negotiating delegation,” Sheikh Tamim said in his opening speech. The Hamas leaders had been meeting to discuss the latest United States-backed proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Sheikh Tamim called for “concrete steps to address the state of madness of power, arrogance, and bloodthirstiness obsession that has befallen the government of Israel, and what resulted and continues to result from it”.
The attack on mediators proved that Israel had “no genuine interest in peace” and was seeking to “thwart negotiations” to end the war in Gaza that has killed more than 64,800 Palestinians, he said.
The emergency summit was organised after fury swept the region following Israeli strikes on September 9, which killed six people.
The GCC said that consultations were already under way among the bloc’s military bodies to build up “Gulf deterrent capabilities”, with a meeting of the group’s Unified Military Command to take place soon in Doha, according to Majed Mohammed Al-Ansari, spokesman for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
No further details were available about the new defence mechanism, which states that an attack on one member state is an attack on all.
“The joint statement obviously called for a meeting of the high command to be held here in Doha to discuss further steps to ensure that the safety and the joint security of the GCC countries is addressed,” Al-Ansari told Al Jazeera.
“The GCC stands in one line,” he added.
Israel’s expansionist vision
The Qatari emir also warned against Israel’s expansionist vision of the region, with repeated bombings of Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Israel has also grabbed Syrian land and refused to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is dreaming of making the Arab region “an Israeli sphere of influence”, Sheikh Tamim said, adding that it “is a dangerous illusion”.
No immediate political or economic measures were announced against the Israeli aggression at the summit.
But Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, the secretary-general of the GCC, urged US President Donald Trump to rein in Washington’s closest ally, Israel.
“We expect our strategic partners in the US to use their influence on Israel for it to stop this behaviour – we really do expect that,” Albudaiwi said.
“They have leverage and influence over Israel, and it’s about time that this leverage and influence are used”.
Despite expectations of more forceful measures, the summit’s final communique largely consisted of condemnations and pledges of solidarity.
“We condemn in the strongest terms Israel’s cowardly and illegal attack on the State of Qatar. We respond with absolute solidarity with Qatar and support for its steps,” read the memo issued by member states of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
The communique also praised Qatar’s response to the attacks, voiced solidarity with Doha’s mediation role alongside Egypt and the US, and rejected any justification for further aggression.
The member states also rejected “Israel’s repeated threats of the possibility of targeting Qatar again”.
When questioned about these threats, as well as Israel’s resolve to target Hamas “anywhere”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Al-Ansari said Qatar would make use of the international system to hold Israel to account.
“We will hold Israel accountable in the international community, and our tool in doing that is our belief in international law and international organisations,” he said.
“This is why we went to the [United Nations] Security Council and now, of course, to the Arab and Islamic Organisations and GCC … we are working very closely with all our partners to make sure that we deter Prime Minister Netanyahu from attacking sovereign states again.”
Tougher calls by individual states
While the joint communique stopped short of hard measures, several Arab and Islamic leaders tabled stronger, more actionable responses to Israel.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Arab and Muslim leaders to apply economic pressure on Israel, arguing that “past experience has proven the success of such pressure”.
He also called for Israeli officials to be brought to justice through international legal mechanisms.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said that “the heinous attack on Qatari territory is a grave violation of international law and sets a dangerous precedent”.
“I say to the people of Israel that what is happening now is sabotaging the existing peace agreements, and the consequences will be dire,” he said. Egypt was the first Arab country to establish diplomatic relations with Israel in 1979.
Pakistan, meanwhile, urged the UN to suspend Israel, and also called for an Arab-Islamic task force.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the task force should “adopt effective measures to ward off Israeli expansionist designs”.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, meanwhile, stated that “condemnations will not stop the missiles, declarations will not free Palestine”.
He pressed for strict sanctions and the suspension of diplomatic and commercial relations with Israel.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian earlier on Monday had also urged Muslim nations to cut ties with Israel.
“We should act together to stand up to Israeli behaviour because Israel has violated the sovereignty of a number of Arab and Muslim states under the false pretext of self-defence,” he said.
Andrea Dessi, assistant professor of international relations at the University of Rome, said the Doha summit marked a change of tone among Arab Islamic states.
“At the rhetorical level, we are seeing the beginnings of a coming together, of a change of tone and a change of mind – the actions will have to follow,” Dessi told Al Jazeera.
The professor said the event was important, as Arab and Muslim leaders agreed that “something has to change in terms of the security architecture of the region. We are far away from this, but there are movements”.
As the summit was being held in Doha, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio travelled to Israel to meet Netanyahu, who again threatened to target Hamas leaders if Qatar did not expel them. But Trump on Monday repeated his assertion that Israel would not strike Qatar again.
Al-Ansari said that Qatar has “been engaging very closely with the Trump administration”.
He told reporters that Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani had “excellent” meetings in New York in the past week, and that discussions on next steps between the allies are taking place.
