Haaretz.com

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, an American specialist in abdominal injury rehabilitation, has already visited Gaza twice and received preliminary approval from the IDF to enter again. However, when he arrived in Jordan about a week and a half ago, he was informed that his entry was prohibited – and has been waiting there ever since.

After receiving preliminary approval from Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), he traveled from the United States to Jordan. But at midnight – just hours before the team was to leave Amman at 5 A.M. – COGAT notified the delegation that his entry had been denied. He has now been stranded in Jordan for roughly ten days.

Attorney Yotam Ben-Hillel, who represents Sidhwa, argues that Israel's refusal is endangering many wounded patients in the Strip. A significant share of the injured in Gaza have suffered abdominal trauma and undergone colostomy surgery. According to estimates, tens of thousands of patients – among them thousands of children – have received this procedure, and to recover, they need a reversal surgery to restore normal bowel function.

After returning from Gaza, he gave interviews to numerous media outlets describing what he had seen in Gaza's hospitals, wrote articles in newspapers and medical journals, and even appeared before the UN Security Council. International humanitarian officials believe this may be the reason his entry was blocked – Israel, they say, wants to signal to doctors and international personnel entering Gaza that they should avoid speaking publicly about their experiences.

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by Roger Harris, antiwar.com

Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives.

Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Department calls Operation Southern Spear.

The notion that the US – the world’s leading consumer of illegal narcotics, the major launderer of trafficking profits, and the cartels’ favored gun runner – is concerned about the drug plague is ludicrous.

In reality, Venezuela is essentially free of drug production and processing – no coca, no marijuana, and certainly no fentanyl – according to the authoritative United Nations World Drug Report 2025. The European Union’s assessment of global drug sources does not even mention Venezuela.

Most inconveniently for Mr. Trump, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment does not list Venezuela as a cocaine producer and only as a very minor transit country. Nor is Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro cited as a drug trafficker.

https://original.antiwar.com/Roger_Harris/2025/11/24/venezuela-under-siege-a-hundred-deaths-at-sea-hundreds-of-thousands-by-sanctions/

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Israel is allowing no more than 200 aid trucks into Gaza per day out of the 600 agreed upon under a ceasefire deal with Israel, local authorities have said.

Ismail Al-Thawabteh, who heads Gaza’s Government Media Office, told Anadolu on Monday that Israel allows only “less than one-third” of the aid supplies needed for Gaza’s 2.4 million population.

“Israel is managing hunger in Gaza deliberately, slowly, and cumulatively,” he said, warning that malnutrition levels among Gaza’s population have exceeded 90 percent.

https://www.trtworld.com/article/afa9ea711105

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