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![The entrance to Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, is pictured in London on October 1, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1020-bbc-400x300.jpg)
Six BBC Reporters Taken Off Air for Liking, Posting Pro-Palestine Tweets
“As Palestinians lose their lives, Western media loses the last shreds of its credibility,” one observer said.
![Israel Helped Start Hamas to Weaken Palestinian Hopes for Statehood](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/seg1-Baconi-Hamas-400x300.jpg)
Israel Helped Start Hamas to Weaken Palestinian Hopes for Statehood
Israel has a long history of enabling Hamas while designating them as terrorists to maintain tight control over Gaza.
![Protestors participate in a demonstration to support Gaza outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on October 16, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1020-ceasefire-400x300.jpg)
Unions and Workers Are Increasingly Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza
Labor groups in the U.S. and abroad are responding to a call for solidarity from a coalition of Palestinian unions.
![President Joe Biden speaks to members of the Media during his flight returning from Israel aboard Air Force One, on October 18, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1020-joe-biden-400x300.jpg)
State Dept Official Resigns as Biden Calls for Military Aid Boost to Israel
The Biden administration faces growing internal dissent over arms transfers to an ally committing war crimes in Gaza.
![Exterior view of the Axel Springer publishing house building, pictured on June 19, 2023, in Berlin, Germany.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1019-axel-springer-400x300.jpg)
Major European News App Told Its Workers to Suppress Gaza Deaths, Report Finds
Employees were reportedly told not to publish headlines that could be “misconstrued” as pro-Palestinian.
![A resident gets upset as she walks amid near the rubble of residential buildings after Israeli airstrikes at al-Zahra neighborhood in Gaza Strip on October 19, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1019-gaza-w-400x300.jpg)
Oxfam Leader Says Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Is Worst They’ve Ever Seen
“Elsewhere, my brave colleagues would be running relief services; in Gaza today they are running for their lives.”
![Gaza Death Toll Nears 3,800 as Israel Amasses Tanks on the Border](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/guest-Mustafa-400x300.jpg)
Gaza Death Toll Nears 3,800 as Israel Amasses Tanks on the Border
The game is clear: They want complete ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip, says Palestinian physician Mustafa Barghouti.
![Palestinians flee their homes to safety amid debris of destroyed buildings after an Israeli airstrike on the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza Strip on October 16, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1019-gaza-child-400x300.jpg)
Human Rights Watch Warns Gaza Siege Puts Over 1 Million Children at “Grave Risk”
The group also says a new aid agreement “falls short of meeting the needs of Gaza's population.”
![National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (2nd L), US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (3rd L) and U.S. President Joe Biden (4th L) listen to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they join a meeting of the Israeli war cabinet in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1019-biden-israel-400x300.jpg)
Top State Dept. Official Resigns Over “Immensely Disappointing” Israel Policy
“There’s no space for substantive dissent within the system on this one,” the former U.S. official said.
![Police personnel detain demonstrators as they gather in the rotunda in the Cannon House Office Building during a Jewish Voice for Peace event looking for a ceasefire in the Israel and Gaza conflict on October 18, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_1019-jvp-ceasefire-400x300.jpg)
500 Arrested at Capitol During Jewish-Led Protest Demanding Gaza Ceasefire
The demonstration was part of a weeklong effort to demand an end to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.