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They called it a truce but on the ground it looks more like a blueprint for permanent displacement. As Israel tightens control beyond the yellow line, bans return to the north, and leaves Gaza’s center in ruins, hundreds of thousands face winter without shelter. Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was not born overnight. It erupted from the rubble of Gaza, from prisons filled without trial, from a generation that watched non-violence met with bombs.

US President Donald Trump's so-called Gaza Plan has been promoted as a roadmap to peace, but beneath the polished rhetoric lies a far more dangerous design. What's framed as reconstruction and humanitarian relief is, in truth, a political trap meant to legitimize occupation and dismantle resistance. Today, we unpack how this plan seeks to reshape Gaza's future, not for its people, but for the powers that destroyed it. As Gaza endures the weight of siege and starvation, ordinary people from across the world took to the sea, determined to break a blockade that governments have long normalized. The Sumud Flotilla carried doctors, activists, and aid; a living testimony that solidarity can sail even through gunfire. Today, we speak with one of the 1000 Madleens crew members, whose boat was still docked for repairs, about what truly happened at sea, and why the struggle to reach Gaza is far from over.

On The MidEaStream this week: Marwa Osman sits for an exclusive conversation with Sayyed Mohammad Mahdi Nasrallah; son of Martyr of the Ummah Sayyed Hasan Nasrullah, who is a witness and voice of a community forging its path after a monumental loss. Watch this interview for an unflinching discussion about legacy, resilience, and the future of resistance.

On this edition of The MidEaStream, Marwa Osman speaks with Lebanese MP Paula Yacoubian. At a time of Israeli entity bombardment and escalating threats, Yacoubian stands firmly behind the Nawaf Salam government’s call to place all arms under state authority, a position that raises urgent questions of policy versus peril.

n September 5, Lebanon's cabinet narrowly avoided political self-destruction, as Prime Minister Nawaf Salam's attempt to push Washington's disarmament agenda collapsed under resistance pressure and the national army's refusal to be dragged into civil war. We unpack the fallout of that confrontation, the American reaction it may provoke, and what it means for the balance of power inside Lebanon. Meanwhile, from Tel Aviv to the Red Sea, Yemen has proven it is no longer a bystander but a decisive actor shaping the regional battlefield. With hypersonic missiles hitting deep into Palestinian occupied territory and Ansarullah challenging US naval power, the Yemeni front has become central to the resistance equation.

They said Gaza was finished; flattened, cleared, erased from the map. Yet Gaza still breathes, still resists, still writes history with every stone, every tunnel, every heartbeat that refuses to surrender. Tonight, we reveal how the occupier's war of extermination has only dug for itself a deeper grave, as resistance turns devastation into defiance, and defiance into victories the world can no longer ignore.

In Beirut, the government staged what it called a historic disarmament of Palestinian factions; a pickup truck of old rifles paraded as "progress". But behind this theater lies a dangerous question: is this the first step toward stripping the camps of their real weapons and eventually turning that same gaze toward the Lebanese resistance Hezbollah? Meanwhile in Gaza, hunger has become a weapon of war, with Zionist Israel tightening its grip on a starving population. Yet even as the world looks away, the resistance refuses to surrender, proving that dignity and conviction can outlast siege and starvation.

Tonight, on The MidEaStream, Marwa Osman speaks with Lebanese MP Najat Aoun Saliba. At a time of Israeli entity bombardment and escalating threats, Saliba stands firmly behind the Nawaf Salam government's call to place all arms under state authority, a position that raises urgent questions of policy versus peril.

As the bombs keep falling and new threats gather on our borders, Beirut hosts a visitor whose words carry weight far beyond diplomacy.

In the shadow of daily Zionist bombardment, Lebanon's cabinet has taken a decision that could change the course of our nation; adopting a US-backed plan to strip the resistance of its arms.