The News You Didn’t Hear About This Week: Friday, August 28, 2026

By: Jennifer Kouzi August 28, 2026

Famously, the slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” graces the front page of every New York Times edition. The slogan was coined at the end of the 19th century by the paper’s publisher, Adolph Ochs. Of course, in today’s hyper-globalized world, the slogan is wishful thinking. No paper could realistically cover all the important news stories of the day.

Still, it would be hard to argue that outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and others adequately cover even those stories they do print. They often devote precious space to emotive or opinionated claims, while omitting highly material and relevant information that sheds important new light.

Provided below are three important, but underreported, stories bearing on Israel and the Middle East that media consumers should know this week.

1) Yair Netanyahu Subject of Iranian Assassination Plot in Florida

For many Americans, the war in Iran feels far away, unrelatable and/or has little to do with America. But Americans should be gravely concerned that Iran’s tentacles can – and have – stretched to the United States.

This week, Newsmax and Times of Israel reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair was the target of an Iranian assassination plot while he was living in South Florida.

According to the report, Israeli intelligence learned in December 2025 that Iran was planning to kill Yair there, where he had been living predominantly in recent years. Intelligence agencies believe Iranian agents were surveilling Yair’s movements in Miami and so, Yair returned immediately to Israel in December 2025 without packing his belongings.

This event, largely unreported, is another example of Iran’s exporting of terror to the United States.

Almost two years ago, one Iranian asset and two American associates were planning assassinations, including of President Trump and Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist living in the United States. And just this month, the U.S. Secret Service launched an investigation into a $10 million bounty placed on Barron Trump, broadcasted by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) linked state media.

Another trained IRGC operative was convicted in the United States, in March 2026, of murder for hire and attempting to commit transnational terrorism when he admitted at trial the IRGC sent him to the U.S. to steal documents and arrange political assassinations.

2) United Nations Roundup: Out-of-Control Special Rapporteurs, Honoring a Hamas Commander, and More

For years, CAMERA has been documenting the outrageous anti-Israel and antisemitic positions taken by many United Nations’ agencies as well as its special rapporteurs.

As this column reported just two months ago, there are a total of 59 independent human rights experts under U.N. auspices – and only two signed a letter condemning Hamas’ atrocities on Oct. 7, 2023. One of the most notorious of the special rapporteurs that CAMERA has written about is a purveyor of antisemitic tropes and one who denied many of the atrocities that took place during the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, Francesca Albanese. As CAMERA has also documented, on many occasions when media refers to unnamed “U.N. experts,” they are frequently referring to her and her extreme, ludicrous positions.

It was newsworthy then, when, during a Financial Times interview, Secretary General António Guterres admitted that many of the United Nations’ special rapporteurs were “totally out of control” with respect to their perspective on Israel.

The only media outlets who reported on this specific aspect of the interview were Israeli and/or Jewish outlets, like The Jerusalem Post.

As reported in The Jewish Chronicle, the UN’s most senior figure in Ukraine called his own organization “no longer fit for purpose.” It is unclear whether this had anything to do with Guterres having honored, in June, Hamas commander Imad Yousif El Samhouri, who cosplayed as a UNRWA school headmaster.

While Guterres may not have known of Samhouri’s affiliation when he included him in the list of names of UN personnel for which he lit an eternal candle, Hamas has since confirmed Samhouri’s identity. When a spokesperson for the U.N. was asked by a reporter whether Guterres would apologize for honoring him and retract his name from the list of honorees, the spokesman blamed Israel for not telling the U.N. in advance and answered, “What was said was said.”

Finally, this column (Aug. 7) previously covered UNICEF’s analysis finding no famine in Gaza. Author of the recent Free Press piece, Olivia Reingold, described UNICEF’s findings in more depth and included the fact that UNICEF’s presentation revealed obesity and excess weight now affect 4% of Gazan children under age five.

Reingold then took a page out of CAMERA’s playbook when she asked why the rest of the media wasn’t reporting on the miraculous story of UNICEF finding there is no famine presently in Gaza?

3) Turning Old UNRWA Facility Into Arab Community Complex

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was formed initially to provide emergency relief to Arab refugees following Israel’s War of Independence. It has morphed into one that provides a wide variety of social services, and it confers refugee status upon the descendants of those originally displaced.

UNRWA has been the subject of many a debate over the years in terms of its function and whether it is perpetuating conflict by giving Palestinians false hope that one day they will “return” to their ancestors’ homes in Israel proper. It has also been alleged for decades that the agency employs terrorists. This allegation came into sharp focus in the aftermath of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, when an UNRWA social worker was observed on video camera kidnapping murdered Israeli Yonatan Samerano. According to the Israel Defense Forces, approximately 12% of UNRWA staff are members of terror organizations.

This week, The Jerusalem Post reported that the Jerusalem Municipality began renovations on what had been an UNRWA facility in Kafr Akab, to turn it into an Arab educational and community complex. A boys’ high school is scheduled to open next week, but additional schools, a mosque, and other facilities are planned as part of the NIS 40 million (approximately $13.3 million dollar) complex, intended to serve thousands of area Arab residents.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry says the land, upon which the complex sits, has been owned by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) since 1937 and was allocated to the municipality. It claims UNRWA has no property rights there, which UNRWA disputes, claiming the Jordanian government made the land available to UNRWA prior to 1967 and that it is a protected United Nations facility.

According to The Jerusalem Post’s reporting, the Israeli government decided in 2022 to allocate the land in Kafr Akab to a municipal educational campus which will teach an Israeli curriculum. Since 2022, the Jerusalem Municipality has advanced a broader plan for public and educational facilities to be included in the complex.

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