Gaza: articles and notes where the territory is a central actor.
Israel suspended the Rafah crossing without prior notice on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, stopping aid, fuel and commercial cargo from Egypt. The October 2025 agreement set the number of trucks but never a floor on what must enter, and the 33.4 percent that arrived since then measures what that permission is worth.
The vote produced no majority and the war produced no pause. What the deadlock freezes is measured in patients waiting at a crossing that opens three days a week, in families burned out of their tents, and in a school system reduced to ruins.
According to Drop Site News, which cited a senior Palestinian official, the United Nations will stop receiving those returning from Egypt to Gaza in mid-November 2026, citing risks to returnees and repeated Israeli arrests. The UN has not confirmed the decision, which could stall medical evacuations, because the agreement requires the number of departures to equal the number of returns.
At the opening of the general debate of the 81st UN General Assembly, on Sept. 22, 2026, the Turkish president put Gaza at the center of his speech, urging pressure on Israel and an end to impunity, with no new judicial measure announced.
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that 1,134 children in Gaza have undergone amputations as of October 9, 2026. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2,300 amputees — both children and adults — were assessed between September 2024 and May 2026, and only 500 received permanent prosthetics. The nongovernmental organization (NGO) said Israeli restrictions on patient travel and medical evacuations prevent hundreds of children from seeking specialized treatment abroad. According to the organization, only eight certified prosthetics and orthotics professionals are currently available in Gaza, and there is a lack of equipment to make, fit and maintain artificial limbs. The group accused Israel of war crimes and framed the amputation of children and the obstruction of treatment as acts listed in Article 2 of the Genocide Convention.
Israel’s Defense Ministry began this month upgrading the “Hourglass” security fence along the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported, based on lessons from the October 7 attack and the war against Hezbollah. One of the five work fronts integrates technologies and methods to counter very low-altitude threats, particularly fiber-optic drones used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The 64-kilometer fence had been criticized after being breached at dozens of locations.
Israel informed the United Nations (UN) and the Egyptian committee on Monday evening that it is imposing a “complete and comprehensive” closure of the Rafah crossing, blocking humanitarian aid, commercial shipments, food, fuel and cooking gas entering Gaza through the Egyptian route, according to Drop Site News. The route handles 50 to 60 trucks a day, and fuel and gas come entirely through it, according to the outlet. The October 2025 ceasefire agreement calls for 600 aid trucks a day in Gaza, but Israel had been allowing an average of around 200.
United Nations (UN) spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Tuesday that partners supporting the collection of solid waste in Gaza warn that only half of their vehicle fleet is operational. According to him, persistent Israeli restrictions on the entry of enough engine oil and spare parts required to keep the vehicles running are increasing public health risks, as only some of the trash can be collected. He called for a wider range of critical supplies to be allowed into Gaza, with less red tape and more crossings open for deliveries.
Israeli forces prevented all cooking gas shipments from entering the Gaza Strip on Sunday and sent the trucks back empty, according to the Palestinian outlet Palinfo. Gaza’s General Petroleum Authority said no cooking gas entered the territory throughout the day and that the trucks were sent back without delivering their supplies. On Tuesday, Israeli forces blocked the entry of commercial goods and humanitarian aid from Egypt through the Rafah crossing, cutting off a route that accounts for nearly one-fifth of the goods entering the besieged territory each day. Even when deliveries are permitted, the territory receives only four or five trucks of cooking gas per day, far below the more than 20 needed to meet daily demand.
Gaza’s interior ministry said police officers were killed and wounded in an Israeli air strike near the southern city of Khan Younis. The Palestinian Health Ministry counted 19 Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since Saturday, six of them in the previous 24 hours, after 13 deaths over the weekend. Among Tuesday’s deaths were a Palestinian who succumbed to his wounds after the bombing of the displacement camp where he was staying in Khan Younis, and another killed in an air strike on a group at the University College of Applied Sciences in the same city.
The Palestinian ministry said, according to TRT World, that Israeli attacks killed 22 students and education workers in Gaza in October. Damage to schools, fuel shortages and restrictions on supplies and travel are further disrupting education across the enclave, with officials warning that the system faces collapse.
Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians in attacks across Gaza, and a fifth person died of wounds sustained in an earlier assault, according to medical sources and media reports. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,593 Palestinians and wounded 5,748 since the US-brokered ceasefire began in October 2025. Overall, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 74,609 Palestinians and wounded 175,872, according to the same ministry. Indiscriminate Israeli gunfire from military positions, tanks and quadcopter drones has killed and wounded hundreds of civilians since the ceasefire, particularly displaced families living near the so-called Yellow Line.
A report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published on Monday warns that 86 percent of crimes against the press remain unpunished, with more than 1,600 journalists murdered worldwide over the last twenty years — a 20 percent increase in the past three years; the Middle East remains by far the most dangerous region, with 97 journalists killed there over the past two years, many in connection with the war in Gaza.
Five Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes and gunfire across the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense, and the Israeli army said it had targeted “several terrorists” in the territory. The Palestinian agency Wafa counted the five deaths in different areas of the Gaza Strip since Monday morning, one of them a wounded man who succumbed to his injuries, along with several other wounded.
Prosecutors from 10 EU member states — Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and Finland — plus Australia are cooperating and sharing information on complaints of torture, kidnapping and ill-treatment of their nationals who took part in the Global Sumud Flotilla missions, intercepted by Israel in international waters. According to legal sources who spoke to El País, the investigations target Israeli politicians, officials and military commanders, including members of Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet. Those sources say the meeting took place on September 16 in The Hague, within a framework coordinated by Eurojust, the EU's judicial cooperation agency, with Australian representatives attending as guests.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least four Palestinians on Monday in Khan Yunis, Al-Mussadar and the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, according to medical teams and Palestinian health authorities. Gaza's Health Ministry, in figures released by Reuters, counts at least 1,580 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes since the ceasefire began in October 2025.
Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians and wounded several others in the Gaza Strip on Monday, November 2, 2026, the territory's health officials said. Two people were killed and six wounded in two separate air strikes in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, and a third person was killed in an air strike in the town of Al-Mussadar. The Israeli military said it carried out two strikes in the enclave targeting Palestinian militants, without giving further information.
The Arab League has called for an independent international investigation into alleged torture and systematic abuses against Palestinian prisoners from the Gaza Strip held at Israel's Ramla Prison. Several detainees in the prison's Rakevet section suffered injuries and burns due to repeated acts of repression and mistreatment. The league demanded an immediate end to the abuse and urged Israel to allow unrestricted access for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and independent monitors to the prison to document conditions and provide medical care.
At least eight Palestinians, among them a child, were killed this Sunday in two Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip that hit the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, and Al-Thawra Street in Gaza City, according to Opera Mundi. The Palestinian agency WAFA reported that five people were killed in a drone strike on Al-Mawasi and that the victims were members of the Palestinian police, citing local medical sources.
Israel’s defense establishment is implementing an unprecedented policy in the Gaza Strip that grants immunity to mayors and senior officials in Hamas’s governmental and municipal systems, according to the Jerusalem Post. Military sources told Walla that the decision not to target the heads of local Hamas authorities stems from concern that killing them could lead to the collapse of governing institutions in Gaza and to civilian chaos that Israel would ultimately have to deal with, the paper reported.
Gaza’s Interior and National Security Ministry said this Sunday that five police officers and personnel were killed in an Israeli airstrike while carrying out their regular duties in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in a report by the Saba news agency. Israeli strikes killed at least eight Palestinians, including the five police officers, in two separate attacks on Sunday, according to medics and the Hamas-run interior ministry, Reuters reported.
Eight people, including a child, were killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to emergency services and local hospitals cited by Arab News. Five people were killed in Khan Younis and three in Gaza City, according to a statement from the territory’s civil defense service, which operates under the authority of the Hamas movement that runs Gaza.
Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service has allegedly adopted a practice of threatening targets in Gaza by phone, offering them a choice between having their family bombed and being killed alone, according to a report by the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper carried by the Jerusalem Post. The most recent case cited is that of Muhammad Al-Bayouk, allegedly targeted by an Israeli military drone on the roof of a displaced-persons shelter in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, after receiving a phone call from a Shin Bet officer. The Jerusalem Post says the Israeli military and the Shin Bet have not been approached for comment on the matter.
A Palestinian man died on Sunday morning from wounds sustained when Israeli occupation forces shot him in al-Musaddar village, in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye. Also on Sunday, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters near the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, according to Wafa.
Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has set out four conditions for forming a new government, including recognizing Hamas as a “terrorist” organization and committing to dismantling its military and governing capabilities in Gaza, according to Middle East Eye.
Habiba Mohammed Zanoun, two months old, and Aseel Abu Suhayban, seven months old, died of severe burns on Saturday morning at Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza after a fire tore through a displacement tent in Al Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to TRT World. Sources told the Anadolu Agency the fire started on Friday afternoon while food was being cooked inside the tent, and that severe shortages of cooking gas and basic supplies force displaced families to prepare meals over open fires.
Egypt's National Alliance for Civil Development Work (NACDW) launched its 14th humanitarian aid convoy for the Gaza Strip on Saturday, with more than 100 trucks and about 1,400 metric tons of relief supplies, according to Egypt Today and Xinhua.
Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday included shelling of the Nuseirat refugee camp, and al-Awda Hospital confirmed the death of Palestinian teacher Diaa Abu al-Rous, according to Al Jazeera. The enclave’s Ministry of Health recorded at least six Palestinians killed over the past 48 hours, bringing the total since the October 2025 ceasefire to 1,580.
An Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed the Palestinian Diaa Abu al-Rous, according to the Quds News Network (QNN), cited by Middle East Eye. Another Palestinian, Arafat al-Ar’eer, died of wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike on the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City, according to the same network.
The Israeli military said in a statement on Friday that it killed two Hamas commanders in an airstrike on the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip the previous day. One of the commanders was identified as Ihab Jamil Abu Taqiya, a squad commander in Hamas’ military wing, who, according to the statement, was involved in holding Israeli hostages at the beginning of the war. Xinhua reported.
At least 14 Palestinians, including children, were injured on Friday when an Israeli drone struck a phone-charging point in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Middle East Eye. According to the WAFA agency, at least 12 Palestinians, including a man, his wife and their children, were injured in the drone strike in the al-Maslakh area west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The United Nations (UN) human rights office warned that Israel’s actions in Gaza continue to raise concerns of ethnic cleansing, with Palestinians displaced repeatedly, according to Al Jazeera. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) cautioned that the Israeli military is destroying the remaining civilian infrastructure and attacking displacement sites while pursuing its stated aim of expanding its military deployment area to 70 percent of Gaza’s territory.
The United Nations (UN) Commission of Inquiry found that Israeli authorities and forces continue to commit genocidal acts in Gaza even after the ceasefire agreement, with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, according to the commission's report. The commission pointed to at least 196 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since the ceasefire was signed in October 2025, and to Israeli control over Gaza going from 53% to at least 60%, according to the Associated Press (AP). The same commission accuses Israeli soldiers and prison guards of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the West Bank, including extermination, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, according to AP.
Gaza's health ministry said Thursday that six Palestinians were killed and 38 wounded over the previous 24 hours, according to Middle East Eye. Since the ceasefire that took effect on October 10, 2025, the ministry has counted at least 1,574 Palestinians killed and 5,687 wounded, and another 845 bodies have been recovered from the rubble.
Twelve former officials who quit Joe Biden’s administration between late 2023 and 2024 signed a joint statement titled “Gaza Resignees,” published on Wednesday, saying they had resigned over its “illegal and unconditional support for Israel’s actions in Gaza”. The group calls on candidates for the 2028 Democratic nomination to commit to not hiring any administration official directly responsible for enabling Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera, which cited medical sources, and ambulance and emergency services reported that a drone strike hit a vehicle in the Maghazi camp, according to Middle East Eye.
Israeli attacks in Gaza killed at least four Palestinians and wounded more than 30, including one Palestinian who died from wounds sustained in an Israeli attack on a checkpoint in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, according to Mehr News.
Israeli attacks killed five Palestinians and wounded 32 in the Gaza Strip, in Palestine, on Tuesday, according to medical sources cited by Anadolu, while a six-year-old girl and a man succumbed to wounds sustained in earlier attacks. The girl died on Tuesday morning after being shot by Israeli forces in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the WAFA news agency.
Three Palestinians were killed and 10 others injured on Wednesday when Israeli warplanes struck a government facility in al-Mawasi in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Middle East Eye. In central Gaza, three people were wounded in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp, some of them seriously.
Israeli attacks killed two Palestinians and wounded five others across Gaza on Tuesday, according to TRT World, citing medical sources. In northern Gaza, Israeli troops shot dead Mahmoud Samih al-Harsh, 28, on al-Hawja Street in the Jabalia refugee camp, medical sources told Anadolu. In Khan Younis, six-year-old Tahani Mohammed Saeed Shalalfeh died from wounds sustained in an Israeli attack in al-Mawasi the previous day.
Bezalel Smotrich said he will not let Palestinian citizens of Israel celebrate the projected electoral gains and promised that Jewish settlements will be established in Gaza, according to the Middle East Eye, also claiming that Palestinian parties will not reverse settlement expansion.
A UN independent commission of inquiry concluded that Israel committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including extermination, persecution, torture and rape, and that it continues to commit genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians. In a report released Monday, the group of experts commissioned by the UN said the ceasefire agreement in Gaza has not stopped what it describes as genocide and accused Israeli forces of torture and rape in the West Bank. The document submitted to the General Assembly compares airstrikes in the West Bank: six Palestinians killed between 2008 and October 6, 2023, against 254 between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2026.
The Israeli military has carried out a new series of strikes on the Gaza Strip and says they killed four members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, according to the army press service, as cited by TASS.
Israel kept committing genocide in Gaza after last October's US-brokered ceasefire, a UN commission said in a report published on Monday, according to Reuters. The report says Israeli authorities kept committing genocidal acts with the genocidal intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel's Foreign Ministry called the report a propaganda document detached from reality aimed at undermining the country's right to self-defense. The commission also recorded almost 500 Palestinians killed annually in the West Bank since 2022, the highest numbers since the UN started collecting that data, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The Israeli army killed five people, including a girl, in bombardments in the Gaza Strip, according to Le Monde.
Israeli quadcopter drones set off a fire that destroyed tents in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, displacing about 800 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Public Works Ministry, cited by Middle East Eye. The same ministry said more than 200 families were forced to leave the camp at the Shujaiya intersection in eastern Gaza City, Palestine Chronicle reported.
The death toll from the Israeli air strikes on Gaza on Sunday rose to eight, and the Islamic University of Gaza suspended in-person classes for the rest of the week, according to the Middle East Eye, citing Al Jazeera.
An Israeli strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City killed three people and wounded eight on Sunday, according to hospital staff, despite a truce agreement that has failed to end the violence fully. Two sources at the university identified the dead as administrative staff and said students are among the wounded. In Khan Younis, at least two Palestinians were killed and four injured in Israeli air strikes, according to the Middle East Eye.
Hamas leaders in Gaza conveyed to the UN humanitarian coordinator in the Strip, Ramiz Alakbarov, a message that the group is prepared to carry out another attack like the one of October 7, 2023, and asked for it to be delivered to Israel, according to the Times of Israel, which cites Ynet. The message was passed on to the Israeli army’s chief liaison to the Palestinians, Major General Yoram Halevy, who wrote an urgent letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz stating that it is an unusual threat, which had never been conveyed with that level of bluntness and directness. The excerpt of the letter was published on Saturday evening by Channel 13, according to the same outlet.
Two Palestinians, including a girl, were killed and three others injured on Saturday morning in Israeli drone and artillery attacks on Gaza City and Beit Lahia, according to PressTV. An Israeli drone fired a missile at a gathering of civilians near Palestine Stadium in the al-Rimal neighbourhood, killing a young man identified as Mohammed Annan al-Rawagh, medical sources told the Wafa news agency.
More than 10,000 people are missing in the Gaza Strip, and more than 8,000 are believed to remain under the rubble, according to estimates by the Palestinian National Team for Monitoring Missing Persons cited by El País. The paper also reports on Colombian teams teaching search techniques in Gaza.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee questioned whether the Board of Peace would have enough staff to carry out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza without additional planning and resources from the US government, according to a cable obtained by Politico and cited by The Jerusalem Post. Huckabee wrote that the embassy in Jerusalem is not currently staffed to assume the Gaza coordination center roles without defined human, financial and logistical resources.
An Israeli air strike on a vehicle in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood killed at least one Palestinian and wounded others, according to the Middle East Eye. Another Israeli strike killed one Palestinian in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to an Al-Awda Hospital source cited by Al Jazeera, also according to the Middle East Eye.
The UN has told Palestinian officials it will stop receiving Palestinians returning from Egypt and coordinating their entry into Gaza from mid-November, citing security risks and repeated Israeli arrests, according to Drop Site News, which quotes a senior source, in a report carried by Middle East Eye. The decision followed Israel's arrest of a Palestinian cancer patient and her daughter on Tuesday, when the Rafah crossing reopened after a suspension of about 10 days prompted by the detention of another returnee.
Senior Israeli military officials presented intelligence to their US counterparts indicating that Hamas has no intention of disarming and is instead rebuilding its forces in the Gaza Strip in preparation for possible renewed fighting, the Haaretz daily reported on Thursday, according to The Times of Israel. According to the report, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) believe Hamas will not hand over its weapons to an international body and could be disarmed only through military operations, including entering areas of Gaza not currently under Israel’s control.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says the Israeli war on the enclave has killed at least 74,498 people and wounded 175,616 since October 2023, according to Mehr News. The same toll records 1,538 Palestinians killed and 5,498 wounded since the October ceasefire.
Four Palestinians were killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including a 17-year-old girl shot in the head in the al-Faluja area of northern Gaza, according to Middle East Eye. Two more Palestinians, including a teenage girl, were killed by Israeli fire in areas of northern and southern Gaza, Al Jazeera and the Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.
Qatar and France called for a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza under the agreed ceasefire arrangements and an end to settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, according to TRT World. The two countries reaffirmed the need to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz without constraints or fees, according to a joint statement from the Élysée Palace. Macron and Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani backed full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire and a diplomatic way out of tensions with Iran, according to Al Jazeera.
Israeli attacks killed at least seven Palestinians in Gaza, including two children and a married couple, and wounded 10 others, according to TRT World, which describes the attacks as the latest breaches of an agreed ceasefire. In western Gaza City, an Israeli attack helicopter launched a missile at a residential home near Al-Shifa Hospital, killing a married couple and wounding four others, including three women.
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on a podcast that Israel should annex the territory it occupies in Gaza and Lebanon so that they “truly feel the cost of their mistake”, according to the Middle East Eye. According to the outlet, he said the annexation should go “at least up to the lines we’re currently holding” and that, if Hezbollah attacks again, it would go “all the way to Beirut” and, if they attack again, “even beyond that”.
At least four Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said. Medics said an Israeli air strike killed Akram Yassin and his wife Dina Abu Baker in an apartment in Gaza City, while in Khan Yunis a 17-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire near the Qizan Al-Najar neighbourhood, according to the Middle East Eye.
An Israeli attack on an apartment in Gaza killed two people and injured others, according to The Associated Press. The Israeli military says it targeted a Hamas militant.
Egyptian construction firms surveyed sites in the ruins of the southern Gaza Strip for a housing project dubbed “Green Rafah”, Egyptian sources told Middle East Eye. The proposed neighbourhood would initially house around 20,000 Palestinians and be supervised by a multinational force expected to be deployed in several parts of the Gaza Strip under the Sharm el-Sheikh peace agreement.
Up to 500 Moroccan personnel have undergone training in Morocco to join the International Stabilization Force in Gaza, a Board of Peace official told The Times of Israel on Monday. According to the official, the training began in late August and was conducted by the US-led force, which he could not confirm had been fully completed. Morocco committed in February to sending police officers and military personnel to postwar Gaza, becoming the first Arab country to do so publicly, and is slated to be the first to deploy personnel, ahead of Albania, Kazakhstan and Kosovo, according to the newspaper.
The State of Israel told the High Court of Justice that journalists should still be barred from entering Gaza without military escort, citing security risks, the Jerusalem Post reported. In a September 27 request, the Foreign Press Association (FPA) argued that conditions had changed substantially, including through arrangements allowing international aid workers to enter and move within Gaza.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has cut food assistance in Gaza by around one-third because of funding shortages, and half a million people will lose access to critical assistance, the agency said. From this month, WFP is supporting 1.1 million of the most vulnerable people in Gaza with food and cash assistance, down from 1.6 million last month. An estimated 1.4 million people, or 67 percent of Gaza’s population, are experiencing acute food insecurity at crisis levels or worse. The agency says it needs more than £300 million over the next six months to restore and maintain critical programs in Palestine, the Guardian reported.
Palestinians in Gaza City held a mass funeral for 75 people whose bodies were recovered from the rubble on Sunday, according to Middle East Eye. Gaza Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said teams face severe shortages of equipment and heavy machinery, hindering efforts to retrieve those killed since 2023.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says 1.4 million people in Gaza are suffering acute food shortages and that funding gaps are forcing cutbacks in critical aid, despite the U.S. brokered Hamas-Israel ceasefire, according to NPR.
Hundreds of Palestinians on Sunday attended the funeral of 75 people, including women and children, whose remains were recently recovered from beneath the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli forces in Gaza, according to TRT World. The victims belonged to around 20 families and the buildings were bombed while residents were inside during the early months of the war. In Gaza City, large crowds attended on Sunday morning the funerals of those 75 Palestinians recovered beneath the rubble in the al-Daraj neighborhood, according to the Palestinian agency WAFA.
Israeli drone attacks killed at least six Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to Palestinian medical and emergency workers, and Gaza’s Health Ministry said 1,511 Palestinians had been killed and 5,375 injured since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on October 10, 2025. Medical sources in Gaza said Israeli attacks had killed six Palestinians since dawn on Saturday, according to Middle East Eye.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged Israel to halt and reverse the establishment of settlements in the occupied West Bank, calling the Palestinian issue “the greatest historical injustice of this century”, according to Russian state broadcaster RT. Wang said the immediate priority is to fully open access to Gaza, where two million civilians must not be left struggling to survive or exposed to a worsening humanitarian catastrophe. According to RT, he met Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday on the sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.
At least one Palestinian has been killed and another wounded after Israeli drones struck a vehicle in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Middle East Eye, citing Al Jazeera and ambulance and emergency service sources. Four other Palestinians have been killed by Israeli drones in Gaza since Saturday morning.
Some Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced as many as eight times, according to Karl Baker, regional crisis coordinator for the Gaza response at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Materials needed for stronger roofing, concrete floors and more substantial walls are affected by Israel’s “dual-use” restrictions over security concerns, according to TRT World.
The Nachala settlement movement said more than 700 of its activists established “a new community” in southern Israel overlooking Gaza City on Friday, and demanded the government move it into the north of the Strip, according to the Times of Israel. Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi of the Likud party said in a video at the site that, “with God’s help”, the next right-wing government “will keep planting and putting down roots in every part of our fatherland”.
UNICEF said more than 340 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire was announced, a little over a year ago. In the past two weeks alone, five boys and two girls were killed and at least 33 children were seriously injured in Israeli air strikes, drone strikes and gunfire across the Strip, and two more boys died of earlier injuries, according to Middle East Eye. UNICEF Global Deputy Spokesperson Ricardo Pires said in Geneva that some 800,000 children are still displaced, most living in tents or in dangerous bombed-out buildings, and called on the Israeli authorities to allow the entry of materials, equipment, spare parts, generators and engine oil.
Prosecutors in Rome have placed Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Eyal Zamir, and military, police and prison officials under investigation over the treatment of Gaza flotilla activists, Italian prosecutors said on Friday, according to the Times of Israel. The case concerns alleged torture, kidnapping, personal injury, robbery and damage when Israeli forces intercepted small fleets of boats headed toward Gaza in 2025 and 2026.
Over 1.4 million Palestinians face crisis-level food insecurity or worse through the end of 2026, as the UN warns that recent gains remain fragile, according to TRT World. At least 466 Palestinians, including 157 children, have died from malnutrition and starvation since 2024, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
More than 700 people took part in establishing the “Pioneers of Gaza” outpost, according to the Nachala movement, which says it formed a “new community” next to the Gaza Strip fence, overlooking the ruins of Gaza City — the Israeli army blocked routes near kibbutzim Netzarim and Kfar Aza on Friday, citing concerns that civilians might enter Gaza to establish unauthorized settlements.
The Israeli army said it killed a Hamas commander who took part in the October 7 massacre and a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) member in Khan Yunis in two separate Thursday strikes — those killed were identified as Mohammed Mohammed Abd al-Khalek Hala, a commander in Hamas’ military wing, and Ahmad Jabrin Tawfiq Dalhan, of Islamic Jihad’s military wing, who, according to the military spokesperson, had recently attempted to attack Israeli troops or civilians in violation of the ceasefire and were eliminated to remove the threat.
The Nachala settlement group says it has formed a new community next to the border with the Gaza Strip, overlooking the ruins of Gaza City, according to the group in a text by The Times of Israel. The action reportedly brought together over 700 people, including bereaved families, people injured in the war, rabbis and public figures, and the group demands that the government authorize the transfer of the community into the northern part of the Strip, where there were settlements until the 2005 evacuation.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, announced they had killed Basel Nabil Abd Al-Rahman Kashta and Ahmad Raja Al-Shaer in Khan Yunis for alleged involvement in smuggling weapons and other military assets into Gaza, according to a joint statement. According to the statement, the two were killed to eliminate “an immediate threat to Israeli civilians and IDF troops operating in the Yellow Line area”. The IDF and Shin Bet added that precise munitions and aerial surveillance were used to mitigate unnecessary harm to civilians.
Nickolay Mladenov, director-general of the Peace Council, said on Thursday that he had received a letter from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) informing him of the suspension of coordination for private-sector goods entering Gaza. Mladenov called the suspension unacceptable and said that “civilian supplies, humanitarian assistance and commercial activity must be protected from coercion, exploitation and interference”. Gazan merchants told COGAT that they had made the decision in response to a 10,000 shekel ($3,220) fee imposed by Hamas on each truck entering Gaza and a demand that 30% of all their sales in Gaza be carried out in cash, according to The Jerusalem Post.
Israel barred a US contractor from Gaza, blocking the base for Moroccan and Kosovan troops, according to Middle East Eye. The contractor was building a fortified compound for approximately 150 international troops, according to Ynetnews, citing the Guardian.
Former US vice president Kamala Harris criticized the administration of former US president Joe Biden over its response to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza during the 2026 Asan Memorial Lecture in Seoul on Wednesday. Harris said the United States needed to uphold its obligation to international law and that the Biden administration’s response was a failure in that regard. She also criticized the current US government, under US President Donald Trump, saying it “offers Netanyahu a blank check.”
An Israeli drone strike targeting a group of Palestinians in Gaza City killed one man and wounded dozens, Wafa reported, according to the Middle East Eye. The strike hit the group of civilians near the Ibad al-Rahman School on al-Jalaa Street, in the city’s northwest.
The contract for the first Board of Peace base in Gaza was issued in August to Louisiana-based Arkel International, which would build a base for 150 international troops serving as the vanguard of an international stabilisation force, according to Middle East Eye, citing the Guardian. Contractors and trucks are not being allowed to cross into Gaza to begin the work, and “Israel won’t open the border,” a source told the Guardian, according to the same report.
Norway is expected to overhaul the ethical rules for its $2.3 trillion wealth fund following the findings of a state-appointed commission due on Thursday, according to Reuters; the review follows the Trump administration’s protest against the divestment from Caterpillar shares over the use of the US company’s bulldozers in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, according to Reuters.
Israel has still not allowed the contract for the first Board of Peace base in Gaza to move forward, two months after it was issued, the Guardian reported, citing a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The organization, authorized by the UN in 2025 and chaired by US President Donald Trump, issued its first construction contract for Gaza in early August: Louisiana-based Arkel International would build a military outpost for 150 international troops, the vanguard of an international stabilization force. Contractors and trucks are not being allowed to cross into Gaza and begin the work. “Israel won’t open the border,” they said.
Four Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said, in an AFP text republished by Arab News, days after the anniversary of the declaration of a US-mediated ceasefire. Two young men died when Israeli forces struck a vehicle near Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal and Nasser Hospital. The Israeli military did not immediately give details on the strikes.
US officials and representatives of the Board of Peace are preparing a field survey and mapping operation in Gaza to identify locations where Hamas members would hand over weapons under Trump's 20-point plan, according to Walla, in text republished by The Jerusalem Post. Israel approved the entry into Gaza of an American company, under the Board of Peace, to identify Hamas arms handover sites, according to the public broadcaster Kan, in text republished by The Times of Israel.
A Palestinian woman was killed in an Israeli strike targeting an apartment near the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera reporters cited by Middle East Eye.
The US claimed on Tuesday that “real progress” is being made toward a demilitarized Gaza Strip, on the one-year anniversary of the ceasefire, according to The Times of Israel.
At least four Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip, according to regional media. The strike targeted a fuel depot this evening in the Al-Buraq Al-Janoubi area, west of Khan Younis, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, cited by Al Jazeera.
US Security Coordinator Lt. Gen. Sean M. Salene criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government for stalling measures in Donald Trump's plan that strengthen the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, especially the training of a new Palestinian police force. Top US officials have accused Netanyahu of delaying aspects of the October 2025 ceasefire plan designed to replace Hamas with new Palestinian political and security mechanisms in Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck three Hamas weapons storage facilities, a command center and a missile launch site in the Gaza Strip, according to TASS. The IDF said advance warnings were issued to the population and precision munitions and aerial surveillance were used, according to the same source.
A seven-year-old Palestinian child died on Sunday after being shot by Israeli forces in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the WAFA news agency. Middle East Eye reported on Sunday the killing of a Palestinian child by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza. The victim was identified as Jihad al-Ghandour, shot on Saturday near al-Houja Street in Jabalia camp, according to medical sources cited by WAFA.
At least six people were injured by Israeli gunfire in Khan Younis, according to the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, cited by Al Jazeera, in a text by Middle East Eye. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces closed all entrances to the village of Madama, south of Nablus, on Sunday morning, preventing residents from entering or leaving, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
A senior Israeli security official told Walla that Hamas is showing signs of preparing for attacks against Israeli forces, according to the Jerusalem Post. Israeli intelligence had identified indications that Hamas was planning to confront IDF troops along the Yellow Line, according to the same official. Asked about the possibility of a large-scale confrontation before Israel's October 27 elections, the official assessed the likelihood as low.
Thousands of people marched across Europe to demand an end to Israel’s war on Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric said she met former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar on two separate occasions to arrange a visit to Israeli hostages held in Gaza, according to The Jerusalem Post. Spoljaric said the ICRC had no access to the hostages.
Former Biden administration official Phil Gordon said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced a series of new conditions against the advice of his own security chiefs, making a hostage deal impossible for another six months after July 2024, in a post cited by the Jerusalem Post. According to Gordon, during that period nearly 9,000 additional Palestinians were killed and more Israeli hostages died, including the six executed by Hamas in August. Among the new demands cited by Gordon was retaining Israeli forces along Gaza's entire border with Egypt — a stretch the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had seized only after the original proposal had already been made — as well as a screening mechanism for Palestinians returning north.
Neomi Neumann, former head of the Shin Bet research headquarters, told KAN News that Hamas still controls Gaza, according to the Jerusalem Post. She said Hamas generates between 2 and 5 million US dollars daily through heavy taxes on goods in the Gaza Strip, and that it “boycotts some of the humanitarian aid and sells the products at high prices on the black market”.
Jared Kushner marked one year since an agreement was reached on Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza, saying significant progress had been made in implementing it over the past year, according to the Jerusalem Post. Among the milestones he cited were the return of the 20 living hostages to Israel in October 2025, the return of the remains of the final hostage in January 2026 and the formation of a technocratic Palestinian administration for Gaza. Kushner said humanitarian aid to Gaza has increased significantly since the ceasefire and that Hamas signed in July a phased disarmament framework that has not been fully implemented.
Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded others across Gaza on Thursday and Friday, according to local medical sources and rescue workers cited by RT. Since the US-brokered ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Gaza’s Health Ministry counts more than 1,450 Palestinians killed and over 5,000 wounded, according to RT.
About 245,981 buildings, or 74.5% of all structures existing before October 7, 2023, are likely to have been damaged or destroyed in the Gaza Strip, according to a satellite radar-driven structural analysis by the Conflict Ecology lab, published by The Hindu. The analysis used satellite data from October 7, 2023, to August 3, 2026, with 258 Sentinel-1 radar images in 12-day observation windows. The lab said it completed a three-year assessment in Gaza with active monitoring of repeat damage every 12 days.
Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and issued fresh expulsion orders in several areas, according to local reports compiled by Middle East Eye. A woman and a child were killed in strikes on two houses in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, minutes after residents were told to leave. According to Shifa and Al-Ahli hospitals, the strike on a house in Sabra killed a woman and a child and wounded 10 other people, while another strike in the city wounded six.
Israeli attacks have killed or wounded a Palestinian in Gaza every 90 minutes on average since the ceasefire was announced, according to Islamic Relief. The group reports at least 1,454 Palestinians killed and more than 5,000 wounded over the period. The Gaza Health Ministry says 1,471 Palestinians have been killed and 5,189 wounded since the ceasefire.
Seven people were killed in separate Israeli strikes across Gaza, six of them in Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defence. According to the same civil defence, two people, a woman and a child, were killed and others wounded when Israeli aircraft bombed a residential building in Gaza City. The Israeli army said three of the victims were “military operatives”. Middle East Eye recorded seven killed in separate Israeli strikes across Gaza.
The Israeli military announced it had killed Muhammad Muhsen Nimr Yazji, a commander of Hamas’s Shati Battalion, in strikes in Gaza City on Monday, according to the Jerusalem Post. The announcement was made on Thursday evening. Yazji held Emily Damari, Romi Gonen and Matan Angrest as hostages, according to the military. In separate strikes on Tuesday, the military said it killed Muhammad Fawzi Muhammad Awad Gamal, of Hamas’s Daraj Tuffah Battalion.
Three people have been killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City and northern Gaza since early Thursday, according to Al Jazeera, citing medical sources. In a separate attack, two people were killed and three wounded when an Israeli strike hit a vehicle in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, according to the Middle East Eye.
Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the territory’s health ministry reports. The latest deaths bring the toll from the war in Gaza since October 2023 to 74,254, with 175,306 injured, according to the ministry.
Yedioth Ahronoth compared a 55-page document released by Netanyahu in February with original records, meeting summaries and testimonies, finding omissions and changes in wording and context, according to the newspaper, in a text republished by Middle East Eye. According to the report, the original records indicate that Netanyahu repeatedly sought calm and rejected approving attacks despite warnings from security officials.
The death toll among Palestinians in Gaza rose to five after an Israeli air strike targeted a house in the Khan Younis refugee camp, according to Al Jazeera, injuring several others, one of them critically.
Israel carried out new strikes in Gaza on October 7, 2026, on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, and Palestinian officials reported three people dead. In Gaza City, Al-Shifa hospital reported two people killed in an Israeli strike overnight. The Israeli military said it struck and killed two Hamas members who had exited Kamal Adwan Hospital. In Khan Yunis, Nasser Hospital said that Hisham Ibrahim Abu Mustafa, 60, was killed in an Israeli strike and that others were injured, according to AFP, in a report published by The Hindu.
Daily life for Palestinians in Gaza has been reduced to finding food and water while coping with loss and displacement, according to the Middle East Eye. One displaced woman said she sold all her gold — except for one piece — to feed her children during the starvation.
Three years into the war in Gaza, US military aid to Israel remains unconditional, according to Al Jazeera. Washington has provided nearly $300bn in aid to Israel since its creation in 1948, adjusted for inflation, more than to any other country. At least 74,243 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, which killed at least 1,139 people.
Israel marks on Wednesday the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, weeks before a general election and after a ceasefire in Gaza last year, according to France24. The attack killed 1,221 people, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally based on official Israeli figures. Israel’s military offensive in response left most of Gaza in ruins and killed more than 74,200 people, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Since the ceasefire, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,430 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s health ministry.
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz put the military on alert for the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack, according to The Hindu. According to Katz’s office, the move came after intelligence about Hamas’s intention to attempt attacks against Israeli forces in Gaza on that date, and the statement warned that if forces are harmed, Hamas and the population of Gaza will pay a heavy price — beyond all proportion, according to France 24.
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza on Monday, October 5, ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack, The Hindu reported. “It is time for the ceasefire to become permanent. It is time to allow humanitarian assistance at scale. And it is time to respect international law,” he said.
A basic item is among the essential goods Israel continues to prevent from entering the Gaza enclave, according to Middle East Eye. Under the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, Israel was required to lift its restrictions and facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, according to Middle East Eye.
The United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, dismissed the Israeli claim that 170 journalists killed in Gaza were “terrorists”, saying there is “not a shred of evidence”, and said she will soon publish a report on the matter, accusing Israel of disinformation.
Ireland players wore black armbands in recognition of Palestinians killed in Gaza and bowed their heads during the Israeli national anthem, according to Al Jazeera. The Nations League match ended in a 1-1 draw, on neutral ground and behind closed doors.
Israel said it killed the director of a Turkish NGO in a strike in the Gaza Strip. Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah had earlier announced the death of Saqr al-Qaisi, who led the Turkish humanitarian organisation Deniz Feneri, in a strike on a vehicle in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Hindustan Times.
Gaza is facing worsening shortages of medical equipment for diagnosing and monitoring thousands of patients, according to medical sources cited by the Palestinian agency Wafa. According to the sources, 52 percent of medical laboratory equipment, including chemical analysis equipment, has been destroyed, making it impossible to maintain essential daily services.
A judge at the immigration court known as the Upper Tribunal quashed the British Home Office decision blocking mothers and children in Gaza from joining families in the UK, finding the home secretary acted unlawfully in the way the policy was applied to two families. Both are young mothers with five children between them aged seven and under, hoping to reunite with their husbands granted refugee status in the UK. The Home Office said it is looking to appeal.
An Israeli airstrike on a vehicle south of Deir al-Balah killed one person and injured at least nine, one of them in critical condition, according to the Palestinian Information Center. Six-year-old Suha Mohammed Nasser died after being shot inside her family's tent in Wadi al-Salqa, south of Deir al-Balah, according to the WAFA news agency, in a report republished by Middle East Eye.
Connie Chan, the US Democrat endorsed by former House speaker Nancy Pelosi to succeed her in California’s 11th congressional district, called for a “full arms embargo on the Israeli government” in a televised debate on Thursday night, according to Al Jazeera. Chan said that “on day one in Congress” she would vote to “end a genocide in Gaza and to end an apartheid state”. The candidate said humanitarian aid must be prioritised and that she would not support funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system.
Israel said on Saturday it attempted to kill Hamas’s top leader in the Gaza Strip, Ali al-Amoudi, in an airstrike on an apartment. Local officials say the strike killed five people, and an official at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital told AFP it received at dawn the bodies of five people and a number of injured in the Rimal neighbourhood. The Israeli military said it aimed to kill al-Amoudi, describing him as the right-hand man of slain Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar and saying he was involved in planning the October 7 attack.
An Israeli airstrike killed at least five Palestinians, including four women, in a residential building in Gaza City on Saturday, according to health authorities and the territory’s Civil Defence, cited by G1. Among the dead are a Christian woman and her daughter, according to medical teams. There was no immediate comment from Israel’s armed forces on the strike. A witness, Ahmed Al-Dahdouh, told Reuters, in a text republished by G1, that residents were sleeping when they heard continuous attacks and strong explosions, and that the children woke up scared and started running and screaming.
The Palestinian legislative elections are scheduled for November 28, the first since 2006, according to Al Jazeera. The Palestinian Central Elections Commission estimates that about 1.24 million Palestinians in Gaza will be eligible to vote and is preparing to hold the vote in the occupied West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and Gaza. Unemployment in Gaza stands at about 80 percent, according to Al Jazeera. Election authorities are preparing up to 110 polling centers in Gaza for about 1.25 million voters, according to Anadolu Agency.
Reserve Major General Nitzan Alon, the former government point person on hostage negotiations, said the Israeli hostages in Gaza could have been brought home up to a year earlier, according to Middle East Eye. Alon pointed to “political and personal considerations” as an obstacle during a conversation hosted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Friday, according to the outlet.
The death toll from the Israeli attack on the al-Asala building in the Remal neighbourhood of western Gaza City rose to five, including three women and a young girl, according to Middle East Eye, citing Palestinian medical sources who spoke to Al Jazeera. The attack hit the building early on Saturday without prior warning, killing at least five people and severely wounding at least six, according to medical staff at al-Shifa Hospital.
Palestinian medical sources said an Israeli air attack on a residential apartment complex west of Gaza City killed four people, including a young girl, and wounded several others. Health officials in Gaza said an Israeli airstrike killed at least four Palestinians in an apartment building in Gaza City early on Saturday, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported repeated delays in bringing lifesaving medicines, prosthetics and other supplies from Israel into Gaza and called for the unimpeded and predictable entry of humanitarian and health supplies into Gaza at scale, according to UN News.
The Israel Defense Forces said that 170 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who were identified as journalists after their deaths were members of armed groups, according to The Times of Israel. According to the military, 118 were active in Hamas's military wing and 49 operated in Islamic Jihad, two were members of the Popular Resistance Committees and one was in the Mujahideen Brigades.
Israeli opposition leader Lapid said he heard from young Israelis that there are no innocent people in Gaza and that they all need to be killed, in an interview. Asked about babies, Lapid says they replied that babies too, because they would eventually grow up and become terrorists.
A closed-door meeting of the US-led Board of Peace for Gaza descended into a shouting match between Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Israeli representative Michael Eisenberg, according to Israeli Channel 13, cited by Middle East Eye. The report, which cites no sources, says the altercation began when Fidan accused Israel of genocide in Gaza and that Jared Kushner had to step in.
Israeli attacks on Wednesday night killed a 33-year-old Palestinian and wounded others, including a minor, on Salah al-Din Street, north of Khan Younis, according to Middle East Eye, citing the Wafa news agency. Gaza's government media office reported that Palestinian journalist Muhammad Abdel Aziz al-Najjar was killed in a separate attack on Wednesday.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor) said Israel has turned Gaza into the “largest and harshest ghetto” in modern history, pointing to the use of starvation as a lethal weapon, the diminishing health care system and severe shortages of equipment, aid and humanitarian needs, according to Middle East Eye.
Rescue teams recovered the remains of one hundred five Palestinians from beneath the debris of a residential building destroyed by Israeli strikes in the central district of Gaza City after a seventeen-day search operation, and relatives assembled on Wednesday in the al-Taj district for farewells, with the shrouded bodies arranged in rows among the rubble, according to Press TV. Palestinians will bury the remains of 105 people killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.
Two children are among six Palestinians wounded in fresh Israeli attacks in Gaza despite the ceasefire, according to local sources cited by the Wafa news agency, Middle East Eye reported. A drone targeted a shelter housing displaced people in southern Gaza, injuring four people, including the children; one of the wounded was reportedly in a serious condition. The Wafa news agency also reported several Palestinians injured in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza City.
At least eight people were killed on Tuesday in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, the enclave’s Health Ministry said in a post on X. The Ministry said three bodies were taken to hospitals after the shelling of the Halawa camp for displaced people in the north of the strip, and two others died in an air raid on the Al-Nasr area west of Gaza City. The death toll since October 2023 rose to 74,030, with 175,980 injured, according to the Ministry.
Qatar’s prime minister said, in an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, that whoever is responsible for the situation in Gaza is a “war criminal” and that nothing justifies the acts, according to Al Jazeera. He said that more than 1,400 Gazans have been killed since the ceasefire came into effect. He further conditioned ending the war with Iran on agreement on Tehran’s right to peaceful nuclear power with removal of sanctions, freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz under international law and reform of regional security arrangements.
An Israeli air strike and gunfire killed two Palestinians and injured several others in Gaza on Tuesday, according to the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye. The victims’ bodies and several casualties, including children, were brought to Al-Shifa Hospital after the strike on an apartment in the al-Nasr neighbourhood, in Gaza City, according to medical sources cited by Middle East Eye. In the occupied West Bank, more than 100 Israeli settlers attacked the village of Jalud, preventing a Palestinian family from returning home and clashing with troops, witnesses said, in a Reuters text republished by The Hindu. The Israeli military said the settlers set the Tubasi family’s homes on fire, blocked access roads and hurled rocks at Israeli officers, three of whom were injured, and that it arrested two settlers and launched an investigation, Reuters reported.
An Israeli drone targeted a residential apartment in the al-Nasr neighbourhood, west of Gaza City, according to Middle East Eye, which cites Al Jazeera and medical sources at al-Shifa Hospital. Footage showed medics treating children with severe wounds after the attack, and the total number of casualties remained uncertain at that time. Anadolu Agency reported that two Palestinians were killed and several others, including children, were injured in an Israeli airstrike and gunfire in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, amid daily violations of a ceasefire in effect since October 10, 2025.
Israel’s army killed Izz al-Din al-Beik, head of the Hamas armed wing in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera, citing Palestinian sources and Israeli officials. Al-Beik was killed in a strike on an apartment building in Gaza City’s Nassr neighbourhood early on Tuesday, according to medics and Hamas sources. Local sources identified the two Palestinians killed in the strike as al-Beik and Muhannad Abu Foul, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz claimed al-Beik was a commander, according to Anadolu (AA).
During a meeting in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to refute a report that he had warned Israel of an impending Hamas attack, according to Middle East Eye. The report, in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, said the Emirati leader had warned Netanyahu days before the Hamas-led attack. The UAE Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the latest report and said it maintains “open and direct lines of communication” with Israel and shares “all relevant intelligence”.
Israel says it killed in Gaza the October 7 attacker who abducted a hostage couple, according to Le Monde.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing a potential case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking to use it as leverage in their escalating dispute, according to i24NEWS, cited by RT. According to RT, Netanyahu reportedly instructed an Israeli interministerial team and the head of Israel’s International Law Department to prepare a dossier focused primarily on alleged attacks against Kurdish minorities, along with accusations that Erdogan’s government finances Hamas. The move would follow Türkiye’s request last month for an Interpol Red Notice for Netanyahu, after a Turkish court issued an arrest warrant on charges including genocide over Israel’s interception of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla earlier this year.
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for Israel to go to war in the occupied West Bank and do there what it did in Gaza, according to the Middle East Eye. In a podcast interview, he also renewed his demand to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in parts of the occupied West Bank, according to The Times of Israel.
Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously annulled the government’s ban on Red Cross visits to Palestinian security prisoners, according to the Times of Israel. The court said that the state failed to present a legal foundation for its blanket policy, in place since October 7, 2023, according to the Times of Israel. The government’s central justification for the ban was that Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza were being denied Red Cross visits, a justification that no longer applies, according to the Times of Israel.
The United States-led Board of Peace (BoP) said the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) will have no role in Gaza. According to the board, “we will only work with trusted partners who will deliver for the people of Gaza and contribute to a deradicalised Strip. UNRWA fails on those litmus tests”. On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the BoP unveiled a 66-project reconstruction blueprint, with $2.4bn proposed to begin Gaza’s recovery.
Gaza's Health Ministry said on September 26, 2026, that the Palestinian death toll had risen to 74,016, with 175,068 wounded, according to The Hindu. Since the ceasefire, 1,145 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Ministry. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and militants and says women and children account for around half the total.
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Israel to “go to war” in the West Bank and “do what we did in Gaza”, according to Middle East Eye. He said the Palestinian Authority, which he called a “terror authority”, must be dismantled.
Gaza's Health Ministry said, in a report cited by TASS, that seven people were killed and another 38 wounded over the past 48 hours in Israeli army strikes on the Gaza Strip. An Israeli air strike on a tent in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of northern Gaza City injured several displaced people, according to the Palestinian Information Centre. Israeli Air Force fighter jets resumed on Saturday attacks on mountainous areas near the Lebanese towns of Jezzine and Nabatieh, north of the Litani River. The targets were said to be underground shelters, command posts and Hezbollah depots on the heights of Jebel al-Rafi, Rayhan and Sajoud, according to the Janoubia portal.
Hamas condemned the Board of Peace’s decision not to work with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and its statement that the agency will have no role in Gaza. In a post on X, the Board said it will only work with trusted partners who will deliver for the people of Gaza and contribute to a deradicalized Strip, and that UNRWA fails on those litmus tests. The Associated Press reported on Friday that Board members had been more willing to work with UNRWA behind the scenes than their public stance suggested.
The Republic of Ireland will play Sunday’s Nations League match against Israel in Debrecen, Hungary, after the squad voted by a significant majority to go ahead with the fixture, Football Association of Ireland (FAI) CEO David Courell said Saturday, according to Middle East Eye. The vote followed reports that some players, including custodian Gavin Bazunu, had considered refusing to play in protest at Israel’s actions in Gaza, the Telegraph reported. The Ireland team’s press conference and training session the day before the first of its Nations League games against Israel were delayed Saturday as pressure to boycott the matches grew, according to the Associated Press, in a text republished by Local10.
Families in Gaza are still sheltering in war-damaged buildings at risk of collapse, with few safe alternatives, according to Al Jazeera. A joint assessment by the United Nations, the World Bank and the European Union found that 371,888 housing units had been destroyed or damaged as of October 2025, 76.6 percent of the housing stock. On 16 September, a six-storey, already war-damaged residential building in Gaza City collapsed, killing 21 people, including 12 children, according to the UN and Gaza Civil Defence.
Forty-one US lawmakers called on Secretary of State Mark Rubio to press Israel for the release of Palestinian healthcare workers, according to Middle East Eye. The letter, led by Representatives Mark Pocan and Mike Quigley, says the detainees are being held arbitrarily, without formal charges or due process. According to the letter, the detentions do further harm to Gaza’s devastated healthcare and erode access to care in the occupied West Bank.
Ed Sheeran’s shows at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, have been cancelled. The promoter Messina Touring attributed the decision to severe weather warnings in Boston and across New England, in a statement cited by Middle East Eye. The venue’s billionaire owner Robert Kraft had threatened to cancel Sheeran’s stadium concerts if Macklemore, who was to open the tour, stayed, and lobbied other stadium owners, according to Middle East Eye. At the start of a concert at Lincoln Financial Field, Sheeran called Israel’s war on Gaza “catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate”.
Delegates left the hall of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Friday, September 25, 2026, before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium, in a walkout coordinated at the request of the Palestinian Mission to the 193 member states, according to India Today. Netanyahu rejected the genocide allegations over Gaza, calling them “the biggest lie of the century”, defended Israel’s actions against Iran and called those who had not left the hall “moral cowards”, asking them to leave.
New York police arrested 103 people for disorderly conduct during protests against the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, and all of them were released, Al Jazeera reported. The arrests rose above 100, among demonstrators demanding accountability over the war in Gaza and an end to United States military support for Israel. Netanyahu left the visit without being detained, while some of those protesting against him were arrested, according to Middle East Eye.
Israel’s official government mapping site, govmap, published 2025 aerial imagery of the northern Gaza Strip without the blurring it used to apply there, revealing at least 11 Israeli military positions inside the buffer zone and massive destruction to Palestinian towns in the area, The Times of Israel reported. The change, first spotted on Monday, 21 September 2026, by an open-source intelligence (OSINT) account, has no official explanation: the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the imagery.
The U.S.-created Board of Peace, which leads the reconstruction of Gaza, says there is no place for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the territory, but board members have met multiple times with agency officials, The Associated Press reports. Philippe Lazzarini, the agency’s outgoing commissioner-general, told AP that members of the Palestinian technocratic committee want to work with UNRWA, and a Board of Peace official confirmed the meetings.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the U.N. General Assembly tribune on Thursday, September 24, 2026, to attack Iran, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, critics and allies such as the United Kingdom and France, and rejected accusations of genocide in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported. Dozens of delegations walked out as the speech began, some jeering and booing, while Netanyahu’s own team stood and applauded; SBS News put the number of delegations that walked out at 77.
Gaza’s economy is going through the worst economic crisis on record, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said, according to France24. The report finds 92% of economic establishments damaged or destroyed and daily per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of $0.58, according to the Times of Israel liveblog.
The outgoing commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said in Geneva in his last press conference before leaving office that the agency must be part of a political solution for the population it serves, and warned that UNRWA is near collapse, with funding for water, health and education services expected to last only until September, according to Geneva Solutions. On 1 July 2026, the Board of Peace (BoP), the body created by Donald Trump’s peace plan with a central role in Gaza’s reconstruction, had already said UNRWA “has no place” in the territory’s future, according to The Jerusalem Post.
Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, condemned Israel’s declared rejection of the roadmap to complete the implementation of the plan to end the war in Gaza, at a closed meeting of heads of state and government convened by French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, according to Mehr News, citing Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the ministry, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman urged the international community to press Israel to meet its obligations under the Gaza ceasefire agreement and to halt violations of Palestinian rights, and reaffirmed Qatar’s support for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israel rejected the 15-point plan put forward by the mediators in August and conditions any withdrawal from Gaza on Hamas disarming, according to Mehr News.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, in his debut at the United Nations General Assembly, that violence in Gaza and Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank were pushing the two-state solution towards a “point of no return”, according to Middle East Eye. Burnham cited the E1 settlement project, which he said would sever East Jerusalem from the West Bank, and urged action to match the international support states declare for a Palestinian state. The speech came two weeks after Britain, France and Canada announced, on September 8, 2026, sanctions on goods from Israeli settlements, to which Israel responded by ordering the closure of the British consulate in East Jerusalem within 30 days, according to France 24.
Israeli restrictions have held up more than 900 wheelchairs donated by two Australian charities for children injured in Gaza, according to Australian public broadcaster ABC News, as reported by Middle East Eye. Two shipments from New South Wales-based Kids on Wheels Alliance reached Jordan in February 2025 and a third, from Western Australia’s Wheelchairs for Kids, arrived in October 2025; all three remain in warehouses run by the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation (JHCO). The JHCO says the block comes from the Israeli agency coordinating aid into Gaza, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), while an Israeli government source denied that an application for the Australian wheelchairs had been rejected. COGAT did not answer ABC’s specific questions about the Australian donations and said in a general response that it had let thousands of wheelchairs into the strip during the war.
According to the UN’s official record of the debate and Middle East Eye, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened the general debate of the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) saying that “generations of Palestinians will carry the pain and trauma left by the genocide of women and children perpetrated by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Gaza.” In the same speech, on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, Lula said that “Israeli civilians paid the price for the radicalism and intolerance of Hamas’ terrorist acts” and that illegal settlements in the West Bank are making a two-state solution increasingly unviable, according to The New Republic. He criticised the persecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its members and said that the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, must not be “silenced for telling the truth,” according to Al Jazeera, The New Republic and Israel Hayom.
Colombia’s government withdrew the declaration of intervention it had filed on 5 April 2024 in the case over genocide in the Gaza Strip brought by South Africa against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The court made public on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, the decision Colombia notified on 18 September, according to the court’s official case page and Anadolu Agency. The intervention rested on Article 63 of the court’s statute, which allows a state that is not party to a dispute to make submissions when the case concerns the interpretation of a convention it has also signed. Colombia was never a party to the main proceedings, and the withdrawal does not affect them. The decision reverses the policy of Gustavo Petro, who severed relations with Israel in May 2024 and halted Colombian coal exports to the country. Abelardo de la Espriella, who took office on 7 August 2026, restored diplomatic and economic ties, according to Middle East Eye and Anadolu Agency: the government plans to reopen its embassy in Jerusalem, set up a bilateral economic commission and send a delegation to Israel in October. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar thanked Colombia for the withdrawal, according to ColombiaOne.
Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, said on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, that Gaza City will be evacuated and destroyed if a single Israeli is abducted, and that the military will not make partial withdrawals from the 63% of the territory it holds until Hamas is disarmed. He spoke at the Yom Kippur War memorial in Jerusalem, according to Agence France-Presse, The Jerusalem Post and i24NEWS. “If a single Israeli soldier or civilian is kidnapped, the entire city of Gaza, with its houses and terror towers, will be evacuated southward with its million residents,” Katz said, addressing the warning to Hamas and, explicitly, to the governments of Iran and Turkey. Gaza City’s municipality puts its population at about 1.1 million.
Hundreds of thousands of children returned to in-person classes in Gaza on Saturday, for the first time in nearly three years, in damaged buildings and tents, according to Reuters. Gaza education officials say about 660,000 students were deprived of in-person, regular schooling during the war, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says 98 percent of schools in the territory were destroyed or damaged. According to Ibrahim Ramadan, director of education for East Khan Younis, the conflict killed about 22,000 students and more than 770 education workers, including 532 teachers — figures from a local authority, with no independent verification.