Former Israeli military prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has been detained by Israel following her leak of a video last year showing Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman military base.
Published On 3 Nov 2025
Turkey has urged Israel to halt its repeated violations of the United States’ ceasefire in Gaza and allow for urgent humanitarian assistance to enter the troubled Palestinian enclave.
Following a meeting with senior diplomats from various Arab and Muslim nations in Istanbul on Monday to discuss a UN mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza, as suggested in US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan to put an end to the conflict, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan made the statement.
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At the summit, Turkiye hosted the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Jordan.
After the meeting, Fidan claimed that Israel has “regularly violated the ceasefire” and prevented Palestinians in Gaza from receiving food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid as a result of “regularly violating the US plan.”
We want the ceasefire to be in effect, the genocide to stop in Gaza, and there should be a two-step, permanent peace solution, according to Fidan.
According to him, “We do think that the international community should continue to put pressure on Israel,” noting that nearly 250 Palestinians have died as a result of Israeli attacks since the ceasefire ended on October 10. At least 236 of these deaths have been tracked by Al Jazeera’s own coverage.
The top diplomat from Turkey emphasized that his country wants to see a post-war pact between Palestine and Palestine. He added that the comments reflected the “joint view” of the nations present at the summit on Monday.
He urged that any offensives against Palestinians be stopped as soon as possible.
The meeting on Monday was held as a result of Israeli attacks on Gaza and an ongoing blockade of humanitarian supplies, including food and medicines.
After discovering that one of the 13 captives that Hamas had taken from Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a strike operation across Gaza last week. In less than 24 hours, more than 100 people were killed, including 46 children.
Israel’s attacks continue, with three more fatalities reported on Monday, despite its promise on Wednesday to resume the deal.
According to a UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) survey released this week, half of Gaza’s households reported seeing the same or worsening food access since the ceasefire. Since mid-September, no food aid convoy has crossed the border into the north via a direct crossing, according to OCHA.
Just a quarter of the 600 trucks authorized by the ceasefire agreement were tracked by the Gaza Government Media Office, which reported an average of 145 aid-bearing trucks entering the Gaza Strip every day between October 10 and October 31.
A so-called international stabilization force (ISF), an international organization designed to oversee security inside Gaza, was suggested in Trump’s Gaza deal. According to the plan, the US would “work with Arab and international partners” to “train and support vetted Palestinian police forces in Gaza” after consulting with Jordan and Egypt.
As potential participants in the UN Security Council’s detailed definition and requirements are still a mystery, Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu reported from Istanbul.
What “international partners” would Israel permit joining the ISF would complicate matters even more. Gideon Saar, Israel’s foreign minister, said last week that Israel would not accept the presence of armed Turkish forces, posing questions about the availability of or rejection of peacekeepers.
Even as he consented to the plan, Netanyahu’s attitude appeared to diverge from Trump’s. The Israeli prime minister stated to reporters that “Israel will continue to bear security responsibility, including a security perimeter, for the foreseeable future,” during a press conference with Trump.
Former UN Special Coordinator’s Office for the Middle East Peace Process senior political advisor Miroslav Zafirov claimed that in order for ISF to operate effectively, it must be defined under “very clear standards under international law.”
Zafirov claimed that there are too many questions unanswered in the peace proposal.
Foreign Minister of Turkiye Fidan claimed that the international community had “overestimated” Israel’s willingness to support a two-state solution.
In Istanbul, the biggest city in Turkiye, foreign ministers from seven Arab and Islamic-majority nations met to discuss the possibility of establishing an international stabilization force in Gaza as well as the ceasefire there.
The meeting on Monday aimed to bring the nations closer to establishing the force, which would help keep the ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave, which has been difficult to maintain since it started in October.
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Israel has repeatedly broken the ceasefire during that time, most recently when it launched another round of deadly attacks, killing more than 100 people, including 46 children, before “resuming” it. Since the ceasefire started, Israel has killed at least 236 Palestinians in Gaza overall.
Along with their Turkish counterparts, they also had foreign ministers from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan, and Indonesia. Some of them may join a stabbing force with their troops.
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After the meeting, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated that discussions were still ongoing regarding the 20-point Gaza peace plan, which included the proposed international force.
The organization’s responsibilities have not yet been made known to the general public, and security inside the Gaza Strip is still expected to be managed by it.
According to Fidan, the nations participating in the meeting would “decide, based on the contents of this definition, whether to send soldiers or not.”
If they want to be involved, several nations have previously requested a UN Security Council resolution establishing the force. Additionally, potential members of the force want a clear definition of their duties.
In late September, they had a “fruitful” meeting with Trump, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Between Israel and the Arab and Islamic countries involved, there is still a fundamental lack of trust. Israel’s actions since the ceasefire’s initiation and its ongoing attacks on Gaza have a major impact on this.
Israel has largely failed to fulfill its obligations under the ceasefire agreement up until now. Hunderte more people have been hurt, in addition to the fatalities. Israel also forbids the agreed-upon number of aid trucks from entering the besieged enclave and refuses to allow Palestinians in Gaza to rebuild their homes.
Israel makes its own claim that Hamas hasn’t quickly returned the bodies of dead captives. Hamas claims that the project is challenging because of the enormous amount of rubble that Israeli attacks and Israel’s search for bodies require in its search for bodies have created. Hasso points out that Israel has stopped importing new machinery into the Strip since the ceasefire started.
Fidan claimed that the Israelis were using excuses to try to end the ceasefire and that they were breaking their obligations under the agreement, adding that this was the people’s point of view.
Another subject that was discussed at the meeting was calling on Israel to end its frequent ceasefire violations and grant access to humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Members of the proposed stabilization force are primarily concerned about Israel’s complete commitment to the ceasefire, and are concerned about sending troops there. Soldiers from the international forces would therefore be at risk of being attacked and policing on the ground as Israel continues to bomb.
According to Fidan, Turkiye is working toward peace because there are still significant differences between Hamas and Israel that may not be resolved in the near future.
Erdogan has expressed extreme disapproval of Israel’s numerous ceasefire violations.
In remarks made by Turkiye’s president, “We all see that Israel’s record on this matter is very poor,” the statement read.
Erdogan continued to cite the administration’s occupation and attacks on the West Bank as evidence that it has massacred more than 200 innocent people since the ceasefire agreement.
We object to attempts to impair the integrity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the annexation of the [occupied] West Bank, or the change in Jerusalem’s status.
Turkey is close to Israel for a long time, and it was the first state to recognize it in 1949.
However, the two countries’ ties fell dramatically as a result of Israel’s conflict in Gaza, which has resulted in the deaths of nearly 69, 000 Palestinians.
Erdogan has harshly criticized Israel’s actions during the conflict, and some analysts think Israel may be attempting to win Turkiye over time.
In the ceasefire negotiations, Turkiye has played a key role by encouraging Hamas to support Trump’s peace plan.
The artificial intelligence triumphant will be able to run AI workloads across Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure under a new $ 38 billion agreement that OpenAI has signed with Amazon.
The e-commerce giant’s first major AI push came with the seven-year deal announced on Monday, which came after a restructuring last week.
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The ChatGPT maker will have access to thousands of Nvidia graphics processors to train and test its artificial intelligence models thanks to the new agreement.
According to experts, this does not mean OpenAI can’t use AWS-hosted websites, including those hosted by The New York Times, Reddit, and United Airlines.
According to the statement, “AWS’s ability to scrape content from AWS-hosted websites [can be done for anything that is already publicly readable.” According to Joshua McKenty, CEO of the AI detection company PolyguardAI, “this is strictly speaking about the economics of rent versus buy for GPU]graphics processing unit] capacity.”
The agreement also serves as a significant endorsement of the e-commerce giant’s cloud unit, AWS, which some investors believed had lost to rivals Microsoft and Google in the artificial intelligence (AI) race. The business’s impressive growth in the September quarter tempered those fears.
By the end of 2026, OpenAI will have access to all planned capacity, with room to grow even further in 2027 and beyond.
According to the companies, Amazon intends to distribute hundreds of thousands of chips, including Nvidia’s GB200 and GB300 AI accelerators, in data clusters designed to train OpenAI’s upcoming wave of models and power ChatGPT’s responses.
On Amazon Bedrock, which offers a variety of AI models for businesses that use AWS, OpenAI models are already available.
With the most drastic restructuring, OpenAI’s previous non-profit roots were further eroded, as was Microsoft’s first right to refuse to provide services under the new arrangement.
Even though CEO Andy Jassy claimed in an earnings call on Thursday that the layoffs were not caused by AI, Amazon made the announcement about an AI investment days after the company fired 14, 000 employees.
According to Jassy, “the announcement we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, nor even not even completely AI-driven,” at least at this point.
Sam Altman, the startup’s CEO, stated that the startup is dedicating $1.4 trillion to developing 30 gigawatts of computing power, enough to power roughly 25 million homes in the United States.
According to Altman, “massive, reliable compute is required to scale the frontier AI.” The broad compute ecosystem that will power this new era and provide for everyone is strengthened by our partnership with AWS.
The sheer volume of energy needed for AI data centers to operate is getting more and more concerning. By 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, AI data centers will consume up to 12% of US electricity.
According to an AP/NORC poll conducted in October, 41 percent of Americans are particularly concerned about the impact of AI on the environment, while 30 percent are concerned as the industry expands its footprint in other US.
Fears that the AI boom may be exploding due to falling valuations of AI companies and their significant spending commitments, totaling more than $1 trillion for OpenAI, have sparked fears.
According to a Reuters report from June, OpenAI has already contracted with Google to provide it with cloud services. Additionally, it reportedly agreed to purchase $300 billion worth of computer hardware for roughly five years.
While Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership, which the two formed in 2019, has helped it to take the top spot among its Big Tech competitors in the AI market, both companies have recently started reducing their reliance on one another.
Amazon and OpenAI had no immediate comment options.
Over the past nine days, the New York City Board of Elections reported that 734, 317 early votes had been cast, more than quadrupling the number for the mayoral elections to be held in 2021.
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Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani leads RealClearPolitics on a 45.8% scale, holding a 14.7-point lead over independent Andrew Cuomo at 31.1 percent and a 28.5-point lead over Republican Curtis Sliwa at 17.3 percent.
Liberal voters in New York were drawn to Mamdani’s proposals for universal, free childcare, free buses, and a rent freeze for residents who reside in one million rent-regulated apartments because he is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Every four years, there are mayoral elections in New York City, with a two-term maximum for any candidate. Following a number of controversy, most notably his federal criminal indictment on bribery and conspiracy charges, which was ultimately dismissed by a judge in April, Democrat Eric Adams, the current mayor, who has been in office since January 2022, withdrew his candidacy earlier this year.
In the largest city in the nation, progressive, establishment, and conservative forces are pitted against one another in this year’s contest, which is notable for its three-way dynamic.
According to a number of polls from RealClearPolitics, Mamdani is currently three to 25 points ahead of Cuomo.
Every poll has some degree of uncertainty. There are margins of error, but pollsters aim to capture a representative sample and reflect the electorate as a whole. As a result, actual support falls within a few points of the reported figures, with surveyors using different language on issues like how to treat undecided voters.
Different outcomes are aggregated to reduce bias.
In the run-up to the primaries and general election, polling organizations like Emerson College, Marist College, and Quinnipiac University regularly conduct public opinion surveys.
Surveys ask voters about their candidate preferences, key issues that affect their vote, and approval ratings using random sampling, including contacting voters via phone, text, or online.
Marginal margins of error and sample sizes are included in poll results to aid in the interpretation of findings’ accuracy and fidelity.
The general election uses a first-past-the-post system, which is different from the primaries, which used ranked choice voting (RCV).
In New York City as of February, there were 5.1 million registered voters, of which 65% were Democrats and 1% were Republicans. One million people voted in the election on November 4th, but no party had registered them. Voter registration ended on October 25.
Just over 1.1 million voters cast ballots in the most recent mayoral election in New York City, or roughly 21% of registered voters.
Residents of New York must:
On November 4 (02:00 GMT on November 5), polling locations will be open between 6 am (11:00 GMT) and 9 pm (02:00 GMT).
Polling stations in the city open between 8am and 10am and close between 4pm and 9pm, but times vary depending on where you are in the city.
On October 25, early voting began and ended on November 2.
streets full of corpses, broken up families, and survivors who had to travel for days without food or water. People who fled the western Sudanese city of El-Fasher after it fell to paramilitary forces a week ago after an asphyxiating 18-month siege have reacted in these reports.
A neutral force in the conflict has arrived in Tawila, a town west of El-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur State, after Fatima Yahya has arrived. After three days of starvation, she remained traumatized. Her husband and uncle are unaccounted for. She struggled to put words to describe the memories of what transpired in El-Fasher.
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Yahya told Al Jazeera, “The dead bodies were everywhere: in the streets, inside houses, and at the gates of many homes.” “Wherever you are in El-Fasher, you will find dead bodies scattered.”
People who fled North Darfur’s capital after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary force fighting Sudan’s regular army, took control of the city on October 26 are one of several accounts. The Sudanese armed forces (SAF) were the only major city in Darfur under the RSF’s control, solidifying its hold over the vast western region.
Reports of widespread looting, sexual violence, and mass executions have risen since the city’s demise of el-Fasher, which was home to more than 1 million people before the war.
At least 31 locations in which objects resemble human bodies have appeared since the city’s capture have been identified through satellite imagery, according to Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, along with what researchers call reddish ground discoloration.
The initial fighting’s injuries made the journey for those who fled even more agonizing. Even though both of Farhat Said’s daughters were hurt in artillery fire before the RSF’s final assault on the city, they both died in the final assault. She claimed that her husband had to be abandoned because he had suffered a severe hip fracture as a result of the bombardment.
She told Al Jazeera, “We had to endure this for six to seven months while the shelling and bombardment were on us.” She continued, “It was difficult to move him at all.”
My son, who is 11 years old, requested that I flee home when the fighting got too bad and the shelling got too much,” she said. Even though her son is a male, the couple feared that he would not be able to cross RSF lines because he had to stay with his father.
Said’s husband would have had to travel by foot for two days, which involved “walking and even running” through RSF checkpoints. Without any money or items, the mother and daughter made their way to Tawila, which is about 40 kilometers west of El-Fasher. According to Said, her daughter still needs medical attention for her injuries.
Similar trauma struck Khadiga Abdalla, 46. She was also injured when the RSF bombardment happened a year ago and her husband was killed. Residents were forced to rely on what they could find to survive under the siege.
She told Al Jazeera, “We did not receive our regular food, the sorghum, for six months.” Because there was no other food in the el-Fasher, Abdalla claimed she was forced to consume ambaz, a residue left over from pressed oilseeds that are normally fed to livestock.
Abdalla and her two children arrived at Tawila after three days on the road without food. After witnessing the violence, one was immediately taken to the hospital and left with severe psychological trauma. While an uncle was killed in the shelling, her brother’s children are still unaccounted for.
These accounts complement more comprehensive evidence of systematic violence. At least 460 patients were killed in the RSF attacks on the Saudi maternity hospital in El-Fasher, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). According to WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier, health workers were also taken during the initial assault.
Those who reach safety face serious health issues. Doctors Without Borders medical teams in Tawila have screened the arrivals of children, reporting that all children under the age of five are affected by malnutrition.
The bodies of the survivors include torture, bullet wounds from their escapes, and digestive issues brought on by months of consuming livestock food.
Since October 26th, according to the International Organization for Migration, more than 70 000 people have been displaced from El-Fasher and the surrounding areas. However, more than 652, 000 displaced people have been reportedly arrived in Tawila, which according to humanitarian workers, had arrived much less slowly than El-Fasher’s population would suggest.
In recent images, there were no obvious indications of a large exodus from El-Fasher, in contrast to previous RSF takeovers across Darfur, such as the April assault on the Zamzam displacement camp.
Researchers discovered hundreds of people and donkey carts on roads away from the camp when Zamzam’s estimated 500, 000 people fled. However, according to the Yale researchers, “The majority of civilians are dead, captured, or in hiding” is true with el-Fasher.
Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of Red Cross, described the situation as “horrific” and warned that tens of thousands of people could be trapped without access to food, water, or medical care.
In el-Fasher, Pope Leo XIV attacked “indiscriminate violence against women and children, attacks on unarmed civilians, and serious obstacles to humanitarian action,” which was condemned by the growing international community on Sunday.
He demanded the opening of humanitarian corridors and an immediate ceasefire.
Senators from both parties have urged more drastic action. The RSF should be officially designated as a “foreign terrorist organization,” according to Republican Senator Jim Risch, the committee’s chairman, who also referred to the violence as being planned rather than unintended.
A commander named Abu Lulu, who appeared in videos of executions that were verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, was one of the RSF’s arrests.
Questions about accountability linger in the minds of survivors like Yahya, Said, and Abdalla, who are currently living in overcrowded displacement camps with little support.
Aid workers have found it difficult to shelter people and provide them with other essential supplies, according to Tawila camp activists who spoke to Al Jazeera.