Theme: Human rights

High Court Judge William Tam has set 9:30 a.m. this Thursday for the sentencing of Joshua Wong for foreign collusion, in a hearing lasting about 30 minutes. Wong pleaded guilty in September and faces a prison term ranging from three years to life imprisonment on the charge of conspiring with external forces to endanger national security. The 30-year-old activist is already serving a four-year, eight-month prison term. Before the new charge, lawyer Derek Chan told the court Wong had been due for release in January 2027.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog sent a warning letter last month to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials about a “highly explosive and dangerous reality” in the West Bank and the “moral disgrace” of settler violence, according to the Times of Israel, which says it obtained the letter. The letter was also sent to Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, and says that IDF commanders, police officers and Shin Bet personnel report “limited tools and a shortage of manpower”. Herzog warned that a flare-up on the ground is liable to carry “severe and far-reaching consequences” for Israel's security, its functioning as a sovereign state, its international standing, Diaspora Jewry and the Israeli economy. He called for the perpetrators to be treated as members of a criminal organization and for a plan with a mass deployment of security forces, widespread arrests, administrative detentions and the dismantling of the groups. Settler violence has surged in recent months, with near-daily attacks and harassment and few perpetrators charged or convicted.

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.

Serbian authorities detained nine active police officers and one former officer for allegedly using excessive force against detainees during last year’s anti-corruption protests in Belgrade, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times. The Interior Ministry said the suspects, from an elite unit, tortured and intimidated people detained in the garage of a government compound in downtown Belgrade on August 14-15, 2025. According to the statement, by using force and threats they inflicted great pain and severe suffering on a larger number of people to obtain information from them and to intimidate and unlawfully punish them. These were the first major arrests in connection with violence against the protesters who took to the streets over the past two years, and the ministry released only the detainees’ initials. The protests swept the country, a candidate for European Union (EU) membership, in 2025 and 2026, after 16 people died when a concrete canopy collapsed at a renovated railway station in Novi Sad on November 1, 2024.

Retired Indian judge Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said the panel’s unequivocal conclusion was that Israeli security forces continued to commit “war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide” a year after the October 2025 ceasefire brokered by the United States. The report says more than 75,000 Palestinians across the Occupied Palestinian Territory have been killed since October 7, 2023, including at least 21,500 children and 11,000 women. The document was presented by Muralidhar to the UN General Assembly on October 26; according to The Hindu, he could not present the report in person because the United States denied him a visa. The report calls on UN member states to “employ all means” to prevent the genocide, investigate and prosecute suspects, and establish clear rules for the use of artificial intelligence in conflicts.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “there are strong suspicions that foreign states have invested considerable sums to influence the results of the elections in Israel”, in a video recorded in front of an Israeli flag and the Prime Minister’s Office logo. On Wednesday morning, the Central Elections Committee announced that its post-election review, which covered protocols from 9,069 polling stations, found no irregularities or evidence that the integrity of the vote had been compromised or the results altered. MK Ayman Odeh, the former leader of Hadash and the Joint List, was identified as the senior Arab lawmaker suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of shekels in cash from a foreign source. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara publicly rebuked the attempt, attributed to Shin Bet chief David Zini, to question lawmakers without sufficient evidence, and said it is illegal to question anyone, including lawmakers, without sufficient evidence. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir declared that all Arab party leaders should be arrested and questioned “in Shin Bet basement cells,” even without the attorney general’s approval.

The British government is facing a legal challenge over its recommendation for schools to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, in a case filed on Monday by the Good Law Project. Seven of the definition’s 11 illustrations include references to Israel. The group’s executive director, Jo Maugham, said rules that conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism could be among the drivers of antisemitism. British Jewish group Na’amod said that “Jewish pupils should be safe at school, and antisemitism has to be taken seriously. The IHRA definition doesn’t do that job”.

Britain’s highest court on Wednesday heard an appeal against the ban on Palestine Action, which the British government classifies as a terrorist organization, as police moved to arrest protesters outside. A lawyer for the group’s founder argued that only three of 385 acts by the organization cross the legal threshold of terrorism. Twenty-five protesters were arrested outside the Supreme Court on suspicion of expressing support for a proscribed organization, according to the Metropolitan Police. The court heard that more than 3,000 people have been arrested since the ban came into force, and that the High Court found the ban unlawful in February, a ruling overturned by the Court of Appeal in June.

Dozens of Palestinian families returned to their homes in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday after the Israeli army announced the end of its 11-day military operation. Approximately 537 families, comprising nearly 3,300 people, had been forced to leave their homes since the operation began, according to the Support and Relief Committee in Hebron Governorate. Residents reported the theft of gold jewelry, cash and personal belongings, as well as broken doors and damaged household contents. Hebron Mayor Yousef al-Jabari estimated damage to municipal facilities and utility networks at around six million shekels (around $1.9m), and Abdo Idris, head of the Hebron Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said daily losses exceeded 12 million shekels (about $3.8 million), with infrastructure damage surpassing six million shekels. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the operation after Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers at a Hebron checkpoint on October 23, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The News.

The death toll from a Russian bombing of an aid distribution point in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Monday has risen to 37, with dozens missing, in one of the deadliest strikes on civilians this year, officials said in a Reuters report republished by The Straits Times. Ivan Fedorov, the co-head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Defense Council, wrote on Telegram that 59 people were missing. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russian forces first dropped aerial bombs on the school building in Komyshuvakha as people arrived to collect aid, then struck the shelter with more bombs. Two members of a rescue crew and four police officers were among the dead, emergency services said. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the attack targeted Ukrainian military units in Komyshuvakha and two other settlements, and that up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen were killed.

Two Uyghur men, aged 26 and 35, held in Thailand for more than a decade, wrote letters made public last week asking not to be sent to China. “Every time we are worrying from China to take back us,” one of them wrote in a letter shared by Kannavee Suebsang, a former lawmaker and founder of the Peace Rights Foundation, a human rights group that represents the men. “We aren't terrorist,” the Uyghur man wrote. On Wednesday, at the Office of the National Human Rights Commission, the two men presented their plea not to be sent back to China, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting who requested anonymity for fear of retribution. Thailand's National Security Council head Chaipruak Doungprapat said his agency will not make a decision on their deportation, unlike the case of 40 Uyghur men who were sent back to China last year, and that the process will go through the courts, where the men will be able to defend themselves.

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog formally received the official results of the election to the 26th Knesset, and consultations with the parties on forming a government begin on Wednesday evening, November 4, a date that marks 31 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Herzog urged compromise after a divisive election. On Israeli Arab society, he said that “one must not smear an entire public” and that he condemns “the vulgar and racist expressions” heard recently. He also said he respects the head of the Shin Bet, David Zini, and the attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara, and that he spoke with both of them this morning.

Thailand’s National Security Council chief Chaipruak Doungprapat said that China needs to present a formal extradition request and that the decision on the two Uyghurs will go through the courts, with the two men able to defend themselves. The council will not decide on their deportation on its own, unlike the case of the 40 Uyghur men sent back to China last year. The two were released from prison in late October and are being held at the Suan Plu immigration detention center in Bangkok. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning defended bilateral cooperation against cross-border crimes, including illegal immigration, on Wednesday, and did not comment on whether Beijing had already presented an extradition request.

According to Middle East Eye, the World Medical Association faces strong criticism for refusing to suspend the Israeli Medical Association despite documented allegations of complicity by Israeli doctors in the torture of Palestinian detainees and abuses in Gaza; a petition by 6,500 medical personnel from the IMA Out! campaign was presented to the General Assembly in Rotterdam last month calling for expulsion; the last suspension came in 1976, when South Africa was blocked from two assemblies over doctors’ complicity in torture under apartheid; and the Hind Rajab Foundation asked the International Criminal Court last month to investigate Israeli doctors, the IMA and officials from the health and defense ministries.

Israel’s Shin Bet and police arrested senior Balad activist and journalist Abed Abu Shehadeh in Jaffa on Wednesday over suspected security violations — an arrest Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh called a “grave crime,” accusing Netanyahu of trying to hijack the election result. Around 15 security personnel, some masked, stormed the house at midnight and arrested him in front of his two children, seizing electronic devices and books, in a case under the Tel Aviv Central Unit and the Shin Bet with a court publication ban as a security-related investigation; the Central Elections Committee certified the result on Wednesday with no evidence of irregularities undermining the election’s integrity.

Voters in Providence, Rhode Island, approved a ballot measure that could lead the city to divest public funds from Israel. With 81 of 82 polling locations partially reported, the state elections board tallied 75% voting in favor and 25% against. The result is preliminary: with 79 of 82 polling locations reporting, the Rhode Island Board of Elections count stood at 74.99% in favor. The text does not mention Israel and calls on the city to refrain from investing in foreign countries conducting ethnic cleansing, apartheid, illegal military occupation or genocide. The vote makes Providence the largest US municipality to approve some form of Israel divestment, following Somerville, Massachusetts, whose voters approved a nonbinding measure last year.

The United Kingdom Supreme Court began hearing the appeal on Wednesday from Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori against the government’s designation of the group as a terrorist organization. The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Permission to appeal was granted only on the argument that the proscription is compatible with Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR); the argument on the interpretation and application of the Home Secretary’s policy was refused. The proscription was announced to Parliament on June 23, 2025, and came into effect on July 5, 2025, under the Terrorism Act 2000. More than 300 supporters of the group were arrested by London police on Saturday for displaying placards bearing the now-prohibited slogan. The defense argues that only three of the 385 actions undertaken by the group over five years were assessed as meeting the definition of terrorism.

Activist Amadou Sarang Diallo, 27, was arrested on Friday after posting a video on TikTok condemning Israel’s participation in the Youth Olympic Games, according to activists. The Games began on October 31 and run until November 13, with nearly 2,700 athletes. It is the first Olympic event of any kind to take place on the African continent.

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.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule on November 19 in the case in which Gambia accuses Myanmar of genocide against the Muslim Rohingya minority, the court said on Tuesday, according to Reuters, in a text republished by U.S. News. The judges will start reading out their judgment at 8:00 GMT on November 19. Gambia argues that the 2017 offensive by Myanmar government forces, which forced at least 730,000 Rohingya to seek refuge in Bangladesh, constituted genocide. Myanmar denies the accusations and says the offensive was a legitimate counterterrorism campaign. It will be the first genocide judgment by the court in more than a decade and only the third in the tribunal's history. Gambia brought the case in 2019, and the outcome is likely to shape future cases, including South Africa's 2023 case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, a charge Israel denies.

Israeli forces accompanied by heavy machinery raided the Haska Road area northwest of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and demolished five Palestinian-owned commercial businesses, local sources said. Nearly 750,000 Israeli settlers live in 156 illegal settlements and around 360 outposts across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, according to Palestinian figures.

At the opening of the Commonwealth summit, King Charles III called the transatlantic slave trade “a monstrous injustice”. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is holding talks with leaders of the bloc about a formal apology but ruled out paying the financial reparations demanded by some Caribbean countries, saying over the weekend that he was open to saying sorry. Britain will allocate £40 million for Caribbean infrastructure and is pursuing a debt relief plan for the poorest Commonwealth countries.

Fighting between the Houthis and Yemeni government forces is concentrated around Taiz, in the country’s southwest, and the Houthis have largely blocked the delivery of goods to the city, which is under the control of government forces. Yemeni authorities have warned civilians about sniper fire from the surrounding hillsides. The International Organization for Migration said fighting had displaced around 134,000 people in Taiz governorate, almost half of the more than 319,000 displaced across western Yemen, in figures dated November 1. Niku Jafarnia, Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch, said the Houthis had blocked fuel, water and medical supplies, “basically all things required for hospitals to function properly”. The latest WHO Health Cluster situation report records at least 1,677 people killed and 7,395 injured in Yemen as of October 25.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society and the fiancée of detainee Hassan Salameh, Ghufran Zamel, said Israeli prison guards shot him nine times last month. According to them, the assault came after National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed his cell and filmed himself threatening to kill him. The type of ammunition used and the precise circumstances of the shooting remain unclear. According to Zamel, three days after the assault Salameh was taken to have his injuries photographed and was then returned to his cell without medical treatment and given only painkillers. In 1996, Israel convicted Salameh of orchestrating several bombings that killed and wounded scores of Israelis, and he was sentenced to 48 life terms. He has spent 14 years in solitary confinement since his imprisonment 30 years ago.

The United States has urged Venezuela to release the remaining political prisoners held in the country. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met his Venezuelan counterpart, Oliver Blanco, on Monday, when he called for their release and discussed reforms aimed at laying the groundwork for free and credible elections, according to the State Department. More than 1,000 political prisoners have been freed since US forces seized Nicolás Maduro in a raid on Caracas on January 3 and took him to New York, where he faces trial on drug-trafficking and torture charges. Venezuelan prisoners’ rights group Foro Penal says 322 people remain in detention. The State Department reiterated its commitment to Donald Trump’s three-phase plan, which provides for stabilization, economic recovery and political reconciliation, and democratic transition.

Congolese opposition figure Prince Epenge, arrested on October 25, was transferred on October 31 to Makala central prison, in Kinshasa, after a court rejected his request for provisional release the day before. President of the ADD Congo party, spokesperson for the Lamuka coalition and a member of the C64 platform, Epenge is accused of “spreading false rumors”, tied to his denunciation of the killing of a party activist at the September 15 opposition march in Kinshasa. He was detained at N’djili International Airport as he was about to fly to Rome, where the opposition gathered in C64 was to hold a meeting.

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.

An Israeli military order issued on October 28 placed 26,500 m² of land in the villages of Deir Nizam, Umm Safa and Atara under military control, for “military purposes,” according to the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission. The land is designated for a route called the Ateret–Neve Tzuf emergency axis, intended to connect illegal Israeli settlement sites in the area, and the order will remain in effect until the end of 2028. The commission said 5,891 m², or around 22.3 percent of the seized area, are classified by Israeli authorities as “state land,” while another 20,582 m² fall outside that classification.

Six months after their abduction, Mali junta critic Mountaga Tall and his son, Cheick Mamadou Tall, remain missing, their fate unknown and the authorities silent, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), which also records the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances’ call for Malian authorities to locate and protect the two.

Israeli soldiers blindfolded, handcuffed and arrested Al Jazeera correspondent Montaser Nassar during a raid on his home in Dura, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.

The doctor who reported the existence of a basement used to hold servicemen near Kyiv was detained by police during a live broadcast, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. She had insisted that the people held there be hospitalized.

Ukrainian National Guard Commander Alexander Pivnenko has acknowledged that the basement of a house in Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka, near Kiev, was being used to hold servicemen who left their units without authorization and newly mobilized men, according to TASS. The house belongs to the Azov group, according to Strana, and Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said there are many buildings like it in Ukraine.

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) reaffirmed at the Commonwealth summit in Antigua and Barbuda, which opened on Sunday, its demand that the United Kingdom take institutional responsibility for slavery and pay compensation. Saint Lucia’s prime minister and Caricom’s chair pro tempore, Philip J. Pierre, said in a statement that moral reparations and economic compensation cannot be left out of the negotiations or replaced by a symbolic apology, and Buckingham Palace said King Charles III will not apologize on behalf of the country.

Israel's National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, accused Police Commissioner Daniel Levy on Monday of ordering “harsh violence” against Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters to appease the opposition after last week's election. Ben Gvir also petitioned the High Court to cancel an April injunction that forbids him from interfering in the police's use of force. On Thursday, three protesters were arrested after a Haredi protest near Bnei Brak turned violent, leaving three police officers wounded and several protesters injured.

October has already recorded the highest monthly number of settler attacks resulting in casualties or property damage since documentation began in 2006, with 397 incidents between October 1 and 26, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Between October 20 and 26, 62 settler attacks were documented across 49 West Bank communities, including 38 related to the olive harvest.

Zambian police and military forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily detained, beat and threatened opposition members and supporters, as well as lawyers, journalists and government critics, in the days before and after the August 2026 general elections, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report documented 14 cases of apparent enforced disappearance involving opposition members and supporters, as well as 61 cases in which detainees, their lawyers or relatives alleged beatings or other violent abuse during arrest and detention. The group called on Zambian authorities to halt the clampdown on the political opposition launched after Hakainde Hichilema’s victory in disputed elections in August.

Cartoonist and graffiti artist Yasser Mounbir was sentenced on Friday, October 30, to four years in prison in Morocco over caricatures of the king, according to Le Monde.

UNESCO counted 189 journalists killed worldwide in 2024 and 2025, the highest number since 2014/2015, when it recorded 215 cases. Of the total, 127 deaths (67%) occurred in countries that are conflict zones, up 24% from 2022/2023. Palestine accounted for 62 deaths, one third of the total.

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.

Britain's governing Labour Party decided to stop cooperating with the Green Party in 11 councils across England after the Greens adopted a policy last month that “Zionism is racism.” Through a vote of party activists at the Green Party's annual conference in October, the Greens became the first major party in the UK to recognize Zionism as a form of racism and to back a single democratic Palestinian state with equal rights for all ethnic and religious groups, rather than a two-state solution.

Detained in the United States since January 3, 2026, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro sent a message to the Venezuelan people on Sunday, November 1, asking for prayers. “Pray for us and know that Cilia and I are with you every step of the way,” the text says, closing with embraces and blessings for families in Venezuela and elsewhere.

Human Rights Watch accused Zambia of a violent post-election crackdown on the opposition. The group’s report documented 14 cases of apparent enforced disappearance involving opposition members and supporters and 61 cases in which detainees, their lawyers or relatives alleged beatings or other violent abuse during arrest and detention.

A confirmed total of 189 journalists and other media workers lost their lives in 2024-2025, 20 percent more than during the previous biennium and the highest number since 2014-2015, according to the biennial report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). The impunity rate reached 86 percent in 2024-2025, its first rise in more than a decade, and 127 of the dead, 67 percent of the toll, were in conflict zones. Drone strikes killed 50 journalists, 40 percent of killings in conflict zones, a threat Unesco called disturbing.

The United Nations (UN) demands a thorough investigation into the death of Mohammad el-Shami, of the UN Human Rights Office, while in Houthi detention in Yemen — dead for more than a month, with his family only recently notified, after arbitrary detention since June 2024 — and Secretary-General António Guterres said he was dismayed and demanded the immediate release of all detained personnel, according to Al Jazeera.

Hebron governor Khaled Dudin announced on Monday that Israeli forces withdrew from the city after a 10-day siege. According to him, Palestinian security forces took control of the area and displaced families can return. The Hebron Governorate reports more than 3,300 Palestinians displaced or otherwise affected and 15 homes and structures demolished in the operation, which began on October 23 after a shooting attack that killed two Israeli soldiers, wounded three and ended with both attackers killed.

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.

Mohammad el Shami, a staff member of the UN human rights office in Yemen, had been arbitrarily detained by the Houthi de facto authorities since June 6, 2024, and his family says he died more than a month ago, having been told only recently, UN News reported. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the Houthis to disclose all relevant medical and detention records and demanded independent scrutiny of any stated cause of death. Yemen’s prime minister condemned the death, held the Houthis fully responsible and called for those responsible to be held accountable; he said more than 70 UN employees and dozens of humanitarian workers remained detained. Yemen’s foreign minister also demanded accountability for the death of the UN worker in Houthi custody, Middle East Eye reported.

According to Opera Mundi, the Haitian civil society group Association of the United Nations-Haiti (UNA-Haiti) reported to the United Nations bombardments and attacks with heavy weapons on civilian neighborhoods by Salvadoran troops sent to Haiti by President Nayib Bukele, and asked for an investigation into possible civilian deaths, including children, in operations in Croix-des-Bouquets, Canaan and Plaine du Cul-de-Sac. Bukele denied the accusations: in a post on X on Saturday, October 31, 2026, he said his country's troops have no bombs and that the attack helicopters reached Haiti only on Thursday, October 29, after the period cited in the complaint.

British officials initially insisted that discussions of reparations for slavery should not be on the agenda of the Commonwealth leaders' summit in Antigua and Barbuda, according to the Guardian. Currently, slavery reparations are not on the official agenda of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) summit, which begins on Sunday.

Protesters in New Delhi carried a one-kilometer banner bearing the names of people removed from India’s voter rolls, in a fresh opposition rally against the deletion of nearly 130 million names, according to Al Jazeera. In Karnataka, the final list released on October 27, 2026, recorded 4.54 crore electors (about 45.4 million), against 5.54 crore before the revision (55.4 million), a reduction of nearly 99.76 lakh voters (9.98 million), according to the Times of India.

Former Mossad chief David Barnea said Israel intentionally released images of its covert operation in Iran during the June 2025 conflict to provoke mass arrests and make it harder for Iranian forces to find real Israeli agents, according to Middle East Eye. Barnea said Iranian authorities arrested 21,000 people during the operation.

London’s Metropolitan Police said on Sunday that 325 people were arrested on Saturday at the protest outside the US embassy, 320 of them for “expressing support for a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act.” The demonstration preceded a two-day Supreme Court hearing starting Wednesday on the UK government’s July 2025 decision to outlaw Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation, according to France 24.

Five people were killed in two separate incidents in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, police said on Sunday, as fresh ethnic violence erupted in the conflict-hit region. Three men from the Kuki tribal group were killed in an exchange of gunfire between “unidentified armed miscreants” in Noney district on Saturday, according to a police statement.

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.

London’s police arrested 139 people at a demonstration outside the US Embassy on Saturday after protesters expressed support for Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group that has been outlawed in the UK, according to the Jerusalem Post. The demonstration was organized by the activist group Defend Our Juries, which is campaigning against the British government’s decision to outlaw Palestine Action.

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.

The United Nations demanded an investigation into the death of Mohammad el-Shami, a staff member of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Yemen, in Houthi custody. El-Shami died more than a month ago, and his family was only recently informed, the UN said in a statement on Saturday, according to Al Jazeera. High Commissioner Volker Türk demanded “full transparency” from the Houthi authorities and an “urgent, independent and thorough investigation”, and said the family “deserves to know the truth”. El-Shami had been arbitrarily held since June 2024, when he and more than 60 people working with the UN and other NGOs were detained and accused of being part of an “American-Israeli spy network”. Türk said seven other OHCHR staff detained alongside him remain in custody and called for their immediate and unconditional release.

Israeli authorities have issued 9,518 demolition or stop-work notices against Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank since the start of 2015, according to a report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission cited by Middle East Eye. Of the total, 9,174 notices were documented between 2015 and 2025 and another 344 in the first nine months of 2026.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “appalled” by the death of UN staff member Mohammad el-Shami in Houthi custody in Yemen, according to Middle East Eye.

Human rights lawyer Margaret Owen, 94, was arrested again on Saturday at the protest outside the US embassy in London against the ban on Palestine Action. The Metropolitan Police said the majority of those detained at the demonstration were held for expressing support for a proscribed organization, and that further arrests were expected throughout the day.

Russia and Ukraine agreed to organize regular humanitarian missions in Oleshky, a town in the Kherson region, following the completion of a joint humanitarian operation, according to Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova, in remarks carried by Xinhua. Lantratova said joint efforts would continue with Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s parliamentary commissioner for human rights, to provide assistance. Reuters reported the statement that the two sides agreed to carry out regular humanitarian missions, “a very important step”.

London police arrested 139 people on Saturday at a protest outside the US Embassy in support of the banned group Palestine Action, up from the 48 detentions announced earlier at the same rally. The majority of those taken into custody had expressed support for a proscribed organization, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement cited by AP News. Al Jazeera reported at least 139 arrests after protesters defied a warning not to attend the rally against the proscription of Palestine Action.

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.

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, demanded an independent investigation into the death in Houthi custody of a Yemeni staff member of the UN office in Yemen and called for full transparency from the group's authorities. Mohammad el Shami had been arbitrarily detained since June 6, 2024 and, according to Türk, his family was informed of the death only recently, more than a month after it occurred, with no explanation of the cause or circumstances. Türk also demanded the immediate and unconditional release of other detained UN personnel, including seven colleagues from his office.

London police arrested 48 people on Saturday at a protest by Palestine Action supporters outside the US Embassy, days before a two-day Supreme Court hearing on the ban on the group, according to Middle East Eye. “The majority of arrests have been for expressing support for a proscribed organisation,” the force said. Nearly 4,000 people have been arrested for allegedly showing support for Palestine Action since the British government proscribed it under anti-terrorism laws in July 2025.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is “open” to the possibility of the UK formally apologizing for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, but has ruled out financial reparations, the BBC reported. In a Guardian piece, he writes that listening to calls for a formal apology on behalf of the British state will form an important part of the process and that he does not see financial reparations as the right answer.

Residents of the Ain Deir Baha neighborhood in al-Khalil, in the occupied southern West Bank, had the area declared a closed military zone by Israeli forces during an offensive that reached its eighth day, according to Press TV. The al-Khalil municipality said, according to the outlet, that 4,969 Palestinians from 780 families had been forcibly displaced. The Palestinian Information Center counts Saturday as the ninth consecutive day of the siege, with military reinforcements and detentions of young Palestinians.

Rwanda has released at least 533 people convicted of crimes during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi after they completed their prison sentences, Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on Friday. National Unity and Civic Engagement Minister Jean Damascene Bizimana said the group underwent rehabilitation training before release to prepare them for reintegration into society. More than 100,000 people were convicted of crimes committed during the 1994 genocide, according to TRT World.

London’s Metropolitan Police has warned that anyone attending a demonstration in support of Palestine Action near the US Embassy on Saturday will face arrest, “as part of a robust policing operation.” The force says expressing support for the group is an offense under the Terrorism Act after its proscription in June 2025, a decision upheld by the Court of Appeal in June 2026.

Almost 5,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israel’s military siege on the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to Al Jazeera. The number of people removed from their homes stands at 4,969, including 441 elderly people, 336 infants under two years old and 312 patients with chronic diseases. The siege began on October 23, after two Palestinians shot dead two Israeli soldiers in Hebron and wounded three others, before the army killed the two attackers.

On the eighth day of the military operation in Hebron, Israeli troops kept the al-Jalda and Deir Bahha neighbourhoods sealed off and fired tear gas and stun grenades at displaced Palestinian residents trying to return home, according to the Middle East Eye. Settlers attacked a Palestinian family harvesting olives in the village of Tel Rumeida near Hebron, injuring five. More than 115 Palestinians have been detained since the operation began, and more than 780 families have been affected, 537 of them fully displaced, according to WAFA, cited by the Middle East Eye.

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.

Switzerland's Supreme Court upheld on Friday the 20-year prison sentence of former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah for war crimes, but overturned his conviction for crimes against humanity, according to Al Jazeera.

The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) voted in support of a resolution calling on workers to refuse to handle weapons and military equipment destined for Israel, the union said. The union also calls on the Government of Canada to end all direct and indirect transfers of arms and military equipment to Israel. Canada’s central labor union says workers will not handle military cargo going to Israel, according to the Middle East Eye.

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has refused for the past 18 months to sign off on the transfers of funds owed to Ramallah, which have amounted to over US$7 billion, according to the Times of Israel. For much of the past year, the Palestinian Authority has paid its roughly 150,000 public-sector employees only 50 percent of their salaries. The newspaper assesses that the extended political deadlock keeps Benjamin Netanyahu, Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir in their existing positions of influence over affairs in the West Bank, albeit in a caretaker capacity.

People living in the besieged Russian-held city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine began to be evacuated on Friday as part of a joint relief operation, the first of its kind in four years and eight months of war, the Guardian reported. The humanitarian convoy, including 25 buses and ambulances, arrived in the city to deliver food and medicine and evacuate those wishing to leave for Russia or Ukraine. The localized ceasefire in the Kherson region allowed the roads out of Oleshky to be demined, making the evacuation possible.

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.

Britain’s Home Office canceled the electronic travel authorization (ETA) of academic Andreas Malm on Wednesday, saying his “presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good”, according to Middle East Eye.

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.

At least 14 people, including children, were killed in several drone strikes on Thursday (October 29) on a camp for displaced people in Ethiopia's Amhara region, three witnesses told AFP in a report published by The Hindu. Local media and conflict monitors reported at least 16 civilians killed and 22 injured in Thursday's strike on a camp for people displaced by conflict in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region. The camp houses more than 1,800 internally displaced people, many of whom fled violence in the Oromia region, including the Wollega area, according to Anadolu.

The UK Home Office canceled Swedish national Andreas Malm's Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) on Wednesday, described as a pro-Palestine academic, according to Al Jazeera; the government said his presence in the UK “is not considered to be conducive to the public good”.

Israel revoked the electronic travel authorizations of several American rabbis and activists and of Jewish New York politician Brad Lander after the group worked with Palestinians harvesting olives in the West Bank last week, Al Jazeera reported. Emails from Israel’s immigration authority told recipients that their authorizations had been “revoked” following “a change in circumstances in your case”, with no further reason given, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Jasper Nathaniel and Andrey Kharzhanovsky, activists who are also journalists and assist Palestinians in the West Bank, were arrested by police overnight Wednesday in the South Hebron Hills after footage showed them being attacked by two settlers, at least one of them armed, the Times of Israel reported. Police said Thursday they had received a report of a clash in the area in which two Israeli citizens were attacked, and that police and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops arrested an Israeli citizen and a foreign national. No settlers were reported arrested.

Israel renewed until April 2027 the exclusion order that bars Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, a Palestinian preacher and head of the Higher Islamic Council in Jerusalem, from praying or delivering sermons at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Al Jazeera reported. The latest order, issued on October 20, is the fifth against Sabri, who has been kept away from the site for more than two years. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center, a Palestinian human rights monitoring group, says Israeli authorities have issued more than 1,000 exclusion orders barring Palestinians from Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City since the beginning of 2026, including against religious figures and Islamic Waqf employees.

France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office confirmed Thursday that Kevin T., 39, had been formally charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, after admitting he targeted people who appeared to be Muslim, African or North African, according to Al Jazeera. Last Friday he fired from his car at people in the towns of Trappes and La Verrière, west of Paris, killing one and wounding seven others, including a child; most of the victims had foreign heritage.

Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin said Thursday that 537 families, or 3,361 people, have been forced from their homes in the Israeli offensive under way in the city, according to Al Jazeera, citing the Wafa news agency. The offensive has disrupted schooling for about 262,000 students at 589 schools in the governorate, and the schools moved to remote learning this week. At Qalandiya camp, Red Crescent teams treated a 15-year-old boy shot with live ammunition in both legs and a 12-year-old child injured by bullet fragments, both taken to the hospital.

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.

Israeli gunfire wounded two Palestinian children during a raid on the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Wafa news agency, as reported by Middle East Eye.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) may exit or reduce their presence over the coming weekend in the Hebron neighborhood they have occupied since last weekend, according to the Jerusalem Post, which says the situation is uncertain and highly dynamic. Before the election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the recommendation from IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir to leave the area and allow the at least 2,000 evacuated Palestinians to return home. Adalah petitioned the High Court of Justice on Thursday on behalf of Hebron’s municipality and seven residents to halt forced evacuations and demolitions and secure the return of residents ordered out of their homes.

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.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced the human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha, a married couple, to 10 years in prison on Thursday in a security breach case, her family said, according to the Hindustan Times. The couple was accused of endangering an international cricket team's security plans by staging a protest and blocking a road in a 2024 case.

Fighting has escalated on several fronts south of Taiz, in southwestern Yemen, with media affiliated with government forces reporting a surge in hostilities with the Houthis, according to Al Jazeera. More than 281,000 people have fled their homes in Yemen since the beginning of August, according to the UN humanitarian agency cited by the broadcaster.

The United Nations human rights chief, Volker Türk, told reporters in New York on Wednesday he hopes Israel’s new government will “change course massively” and respect international law.

Cambodian police and military officers worked as private security guards in scam compounds where thousands were forced to work in the online fraud industry, according to an Amnesty International report, based on 151 survivor interviews, visits to 82 compounds and guard videos, identifying more than 20 personnel with an active presence at the sites and linking the operations to five security companies.

Nyala Teaching Hospital, supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), received 36 bodies after the Sudanese Armed Forces drone strike on Dumaya market, at about 8 p.m. on Monday, 21 of them wearing civilian clothing, according to MSF. The health ministry of the Tasees government, for its part, put the toll at 188 killed and 356 injured in the attack on the market in Nyala, according to Dabanga Sudan.

Activist Adele Shoko said Israeli settlers attacked her and two colleagues in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair, in the Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank, in Palestine,, according to social media posts. According to Shoko, US journalist Jasper Nathaniel was also beaten, pepper-sprayed and arrested, then taken away by Israeli forces.

Australian SAS officers knew that soldiers under their command were using “throwdowns” — planting weapons on dead Afghan civilians to portray them as combatants — and did nothing to stop the unlawful practice, according to a previously unpublished military report cited by The Guardian. The executive summary of a 2021 investigation into the “cultural context” of the special operations command by the inspector general of the Australian Defence Force, posted online this week, is scathing about the “breakdown of command” and the erosion of military discipline. An earlier Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF) report, the Brereton Inquiry, made public in 2020, found credible information that Australian special forces personnel murdered 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners.

More than 100 people were killed in a Sudanese military drone strike on a busy market in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, on Monday, with 113 wounded, according to the Associated Press (AP), which cites the Emergency Lawyers group. The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Nyala received 36 bodies and treated 150 wounded in its emergency room after the strike, according to NBC News.

UN experts said excessive use of force, violence and mass arrests are not appropriate responses to a social protest movement in a State governed by the rule of law, referring to nationwide marches in France. The experts condemned police crackdowns, warning they deter demonstrators from exercising their rights.

The United States on Wednesday banned imports from three Chinese genomics companies over their alleged roles in enabling the forced labor of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang region, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Investing.com. BGI Genomics, MGI Tech and Shenzhen BGI Technology, which the US says is also known as the BGI Group, were added to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

A localized truce in the devastated city of Oleshky, in southern Ukraine, held for its first 30 hours without violations, Russia’s ombudsperson Yana Lantratova and Ukraine’s human rights ombudsperson Dmytro Lubinets said on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press (AP), in a text republished by The Hill. The truce began on Tuesday and is due to last through Sunday, in a humanitarian operation racing to get about 2,000 remaining residents food and medicine and to evacuate those who want to leave.

Ten years after Mouhcine Fikri’s death sparked the Rif protests, six Hirak leaders remain in prison, including Nasser Zefzafi, sentenced to 20 years, according to Middle East Eye. The movement grew out of the fishmonger Fikri’s death; he was crushed inside a garbage truck in Al Hoceima on October 28, 2016 while trying to retrieve his confiscated catch, according to the outlet.

A drone strike on a crowded market in Nyala, South Darfur, killed more than 100 people and injured 113 on Monday evening, according to rights groups and local officials cited by The Associated Press and Radio Tamazuj, in a report published by the Times of India. Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence in Sudan, said in a statement on Tuesday that the strike hit Tanqong Market in the Dumaya neighborhood of Nyala, a city controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said 36 bodies had arrived at its hospital in Nyala and that its emergency room had treated 150 injured people.

US Southern Command (Southcom) said it killed five “narcoterrorists” in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday, saying that “confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel’s active involvement in drug trafficking,” according to G1. At least 235 people have been killed in strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific, according to an AFP tally cited by G1. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the United States to halt the strikes and cited the “extrajudicial execution of people on board these vessels”, regardless of the alleged criminal conduct against them.

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 UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, warned on Monday that Israel’s operation in the West Bank city of Hebron raises serious concerns of ethnic cleansing, as the number of Palestinians forced from their homes passed 3,000, according to UN News. Threats to empty and erase entire neighbourhoods also raise serious concerns of ethnic cleansing, UN News reported.

The United Kingdom sanctioned 15 senior commanders from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) over suspected atrocities, including conflict-related sexual violence, and allocated £5 million to support survivors of that violence in Sudan. The measures include travel bans and asset freezes, with the stated aim of ensuring that “the horrors that took place at El Fasher will be known to the world”, according to the British Foreign Office.

At least 60 Orthodox Christians were killed in separate attacks on October 20 and 24 in Ethiopia’s Oromia region — 14 people on the 20th in Gora Silingo, in Merti, and another 46 on the 24th in Tereta, Chole and Birbo, in Shirka — according to Ethiopian Orthodox Church officials. The attacks were blamed by a local official on a newly formed rebel coalition, the Alliance for Survival, which includes the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which has not commented but has denied previous attacks against civilians, according to the BBC.

Senator Chris Van Hollen called for accountability for nine US citizens killed by Israeli settlers or forces in the occupied West Bank, according to TRT World — Van Hollen renewed his call for accountability for nine Americans killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank since 2022, according to Anadolu.

Civilians in El Fasher, North Darfur, are still suffering detention, torture and limited access to humanitarian aid one year after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the city, according to Amnesty International — the city now has fewer than 70,000 people, compared with almost one million before the war, according to estimates from humanitarian organisations.

The Special Criminal Court of the Central African Republic is at risk of closure by 2028 with thousands of victims awaiting justice, Amnesty International says in a new report — the court has tried six cases since its inauguration on 22 October 2018, resulting in 19 convictions for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A United Nations (UN) commission of inquiry accused the Israeli government of committing extermination, persecution, torture and rape against Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, according to Opera Mundi. The body also said Israeli forces killed 1,080 Palestinians in the West Bank between October 2023 and September 2026, while more than 34,000 Palestinians remained displaced as of August. The independent commission accused Israel of crimes against humanity, including extermination, against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to UN News.

New rules announced earlier in October by Syria's education ministry restrict certain courses at the two new defense and security colleges exclusively to men, and almost all of them at the security university, according to DW. The colleges are the National University of Defense Sciences and the Syrian University for Security Sciences. The decision has caused controversy inside and outside the country.

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 United Kingdom sanctioned 15 Sudanese commanders for sexual violence, torture and attacks on civilians during the fall of El Fasher and allocated 5 million pounds to survivors of sexual violence plus another 10 million pounds in humanitarian aid to Sudan. The list includes commanders from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces, all subject to a travel ban and an asset freeze, according to the Guardian.

Brazil's Federal Police (PF) arrested on Monday in Santana do Livramento the Uruguayan Pedro Antonio Mato Narbondo, convicted by the Italian courts of kidnapping, torture and the deaths of four Italian citizens during Uruguay's military dictatorship, G1 reported. The life sentence handed down by the Milan Court of Appeal was converted to 30 years, since Brazil does not provide for that penalty. According to deputy prosecutor-general Artur Gueiros, it is the first time an agent of a dictatorial regime will serve prison time in Brazil for human rights violations.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel committed war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. According to the commission, Israel deliberately targets Palestinian civilians and continues to commit genocide in Gaza. The report records that six Palestinians were killed by airstrikes in the West Bank between 2008 and October 6, 2023, against 254 between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2026, and concludes that Palestinians in the West Bank are targeted on the basis of their nationality, race and ethnicity, gender and age.

Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin said on Monday that 488 families comprising 3,171 people had been displaced across the wider governorate, according to Al Jazeera. Mayor Yousef al-Jabari told the outlet that 3,043 of those displaced are from within Hebron city limits. The Israeli army said it would bar Palestinian workers from entering most areas of the West Bank through Monday and enforce a full closure of crossings on Tuesday, the day of Israel’s parliamentary election.

Three weeks ago, Hala, a Sudanese woman who used a different name for security reasons, left the Tawila refugee camp and returned to el-Fasher in a small vehicle operated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group that seized the North Darfur capital a year ago, in an account given to the campaign group Avaaz and shared with Middle East Eye. At the entrance to the city, about 60km east of Tawila, RSF fighters approached her and asked where she was going, how many days she planned to stay and where the family home was located. “They agreed and issued me an entry permit for el-Fasher. It was a piece of paper with my name, their signature, and the date,” she said. According to Hala, dealing with the fighters is very difficult: they can enter your house, threaten to rape you if you refuse to go with them, beat you and, if you argue, put you in prison. For women, traveling to el-Fasher is extremely dangerous. The day after she returned, she was threatened with abusive language in the street, with no physical assault because other civilians were nearby.

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.

Nearly 2,000 Palestinians in Hebron were displaced as Israeli forces took over homes, according to The Guardian; Hebron Mayor Yousef al-Ja’bari told Al Jazeera that 2,200 people had been forced from their homes by Israeli troops and raids, and Israel’s defence minister confirmed “about 2,000” people displaced.

Donald Trump compared Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to the 9/11 attackers at a rally in Michigan on Sunday and said Democrats would let “violent anti-American terrorists” into the United States, Reuters reported, in a text republished by The Hindu. The president told the rally he was there to keep “a jihadist, Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a United States senator” and likened a vote against El-Sayed to the response of Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to the hijackers. “Twenty-five years later, Michigan needs to stand up and fight, just like Todd did, to stop a jihadist from walking into the Capitol,” he said. El-Sayed, who would be the first Muslim elected to the Senate, dismissed the accusations and at an event on Sunday night suggested hypocrisy in Trump’s emphasis on his name: “I get that the President of the United States takes personal offence to my first name”.

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.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews, an umbrella group for British Jews, passed by 118 votes to 1 a motion declaring the Green Party of England and Wales a racist party, the Times of Israel reported. The vote took place at the body's October plenary on Sunday, after the party approved a resolution describing Zionism as racism and calling for Israel to be replaced with a Palestinian state.

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.

An Israeli settlers’ movement submitted a proposal to build a Jewish neighborhood of 122 housing units at the former site of the Shepherd Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah, according to the Middle East Eye. The application is scheduled for an initial hearing before Jerusalem’s Local Planning and Building Committee on 11 November.

The death toll in the attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, southern Jordan, rose to nine on Saturday, a day after the shooting, with nearly 40 others wounded, according to the Associated Press, in a text published by The Times of Israel. The church is in Hamoud village, in Karak governorate, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of Amman, and the attack happened as people had gathered for a funeral. Witness Saed al-Halaseh said three masked men armed with automatic weapons appeared all of a sudden and began firing indiscriminately at those standing outside. No group has claimed responsibility and no armed group has been accused of the attack, which Jordan's government described as a terrorist act. King Abdullah II directed authorities to respond with “an iron fist” against what he called the outlaws of Islam and anyone attempting to undermine the unity of the Jordanian people.

Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz acknowledged that Israeli forces forcibly displaced around 2,000 Palestinians from their homes in Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, barring residents from returning until alleged “Hamas infrastructure” is dismantled, according to TRT World. Katz said about 2,000 residents had been displaced by the operation, which centred on the Ein Deir Baha and Farsh al-Hawa neighbourhoods and targeted homes, businesses, industrial sites and infrastructure, according to the BBC. The operation was announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, in response to the killing of two Israeli soldiers by two Palestinian gunmen in an attack on a checkpoint, according to the BBC.

The Israeli military forced around 1,200 Palestinians to leave their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, a Palestinian official said, a day after a Palestinian attack killed two Israeli soldiers. The operation in the al-Jaladah and Ein Deir Baha neighbourhoods, near the military checkpoint at the entrance to the city, is meant to search for militants and weapons, and the military said it would carry out demolitions. Yousef Zouhair al-Jabari, the head of Hebron's municipality, said around 1,300 more residents faced losing their homes in addition to the 1,200 already displaced.

Israeli troops and the Civil Administration continued on Saturday to demolish buildings and infrastructure deemed illegal near the northern entrance to Hebron, as part of a large-scale military operation, according to the Jerusalem Post. During the operation, troops searched about 200 locations and arrested 10 suspects. Civilians who requested to evacuate were allowed to temporarily leave the area through designated checkpoints operated by the Shin Bet and the military.

Five Italian activists detained by Israeli forces in the West Bank this week were released and repatriated on Saturday morning, Italy's foreign ministry said, according to Reuters, in text published by The Hindu. The women were detained by Israeli police in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, next to Hebron, along with other international activists, while trying to protect Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest, according to the Times of India.

The Hebron municipality estimated that 35 hectares had been destroyed or marked for destruction, with about 1,500 people evicted from their homes in the Ein Deir Baha district by Saturday afternoon, according to The Guardian. Hebron Mayor Yousef al-Ja'bari told Al Jazeera that around 2,200 Palestinians had been forcibly displaced from their homes in the al-Jalda and Ein Deir Bahha neighbourhoods, as Israeli forces continue a military operation in the occupied West Bank. Days ahead of elections, Netanyahu said there is a “very big surprise” for the Palestinian Authority and, asked whether he would dismantle it, declined to answer directly, saying he favoured “ruse and surprise”, according to Malay Mail.

The Israeli army kept up its siege of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, for a second consecutive day on Saturday, forcing dozens of Palestinians from their homes, according to Palestinian media. Separately, Israeli forces detained 19 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank, according to TRT World.

The World Food Programme (WFP) announced in September a 50 percent cut in the number of food aid recipients in the occupied West Bank, citing “critical funding constraints” resulting from reduced funding from international donors, according to Al Jazeera. The UN agency said about 900,000 people in the West Bank are currently suffering from food insecurity, according to the report.

Two former Ukrainian prisoners held alongside freed US prisoner Stephen Hubbard said they witnessed him being beaten and humiliated by Russian guards during his four-year detention, according to the BBC. The accounts from the two corroborate statements by Hubbard’s family that he was tortured in prison.

Israel’s military launched an operation in the Hebron area expected to last several days, with systematic searches for infrastructure and weapons and the questioning of dozens of suspects, following Friday morning’s deadly Hamas attack, according to a joint statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). According to the Jerusalem Post, the searches focus on the area out of which the attackers operated. Troops from the IDF, the Shin Bet, the Border Police and the Civil Administration are carrying out “targeted and thorough searches… in the area to locate and dismantle terror infrastructure and weapons, and to interrogate many dozens of suspects,” according to the Times of Israel.

UN human rights chief Volker Türk condemned on Friday an escalation in drone strikes across Sudan this month that killed at least 306 people and injured hundreds more in the first three weeks of October alone, according to AllAfrica. The strikes, attributed to both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), hit homes, markets, hospitals, displacement sites, power stations and water sources in Kordofan, Darfur, Blue Nile, Khartoum and other states, according to the UN human rights office (OHCHR).

The population of El-Fasher, in Sudan, has dropped to about 7 per cent of last year’s high, according to Amnesty International, as reported by Middle East Eye.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed “deep concern” over escalating violence and widespread Israeli-imposed closures affecting Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, he said, according to TRT World. On Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an “immediate closure” of Hebron and instructed security forces to prepare for a “full lockdown” across the West Bank following a gun battle in the city. Israel locked down the occupied West Bank after the Hebron shooting, Al Jazeera reported. Guterres condemned the record number of attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in 2026, according to spokesman Dujarric.

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.

A BBC investigation found evidence that Sudanese paramilitary fighters systematically destroyed el-Fasher's healthcare system during the long siege and the subsequent takeover of the city in Darfur a year ago. The broadcaster documented at least 43 attacks on hospitals and healthcare sites between May 2024 and October 2025, some of them hitting the same target more than once.

Armed settlers arrived in two vehicles near the Ajja roundabout, south of Jenin, and demolished a memorial to Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. The agency reported the destruction on Friday and attributed it to Israeli colonists.

Israeli forces arrested 36 Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank, as attacks on farmers intensify during the olive harvest, according to Al Jazeera. The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission documented 17 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers on Thursday against farmers and land during the harvest.

Thousands of people protested in more than 20 towns and cities across Poland, calling for access to free and legal abortion services, according to Al Jazeera. The demonstrations come days after parliament passed two bills easing abortion restrictions that are likely to be vetoed by conservative President Karol Nawrocki, also according to Al Jazeera.

Members of the extremist Hilltop Youth group were filmed waving weapons and dancing to an anti-Zionist song at a wedding in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, according to KAN News cited by The Jerusalem Post. Later that night, Jewish rioters set fire to a vehicle in the Palestinian village of Beit Umar and spray-painted a message referencing the wedding.

The BBC found details of at least 43 separate attacks on hospitals and healthcare sites in el-Fasher from May 2024 to October 2025, according to the BBC itself, citing sources on the ground. UN human rights chief Volker Türk called the findings “deeply disturbing” and said attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) may amount to war crimes, also according to the BBC. The RSF rejected the BBC’s findings.

The European Parliament awarded the International Criminal Court (ICC) the Sakharov Prize, the European Union's (EU) top human rights honour, two weeks after US President Donald Trump vowed to dismantle the court through new sanctions. “The European Union is built on respect for multilateralism and international institutions, and this prize recognises the important work of the court in upholding international law and justice,” said European Parliament President Roberta Metsola. The ICC thanked the parliament for the honour “at a time when the Court and its officials face unprecedented challenges”, and its president, Tomoko Akane, said the prize carries particular significance by reaffirming the importance of independent judicial institutions. It is the second international recognition for the tribunal this month: former ICC judge Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Israeli forces killed a man with a disability during a raid into southern Syria on Thursday, Syrian authorities said, according to the Middle East Eye.

Beijing criticised what it called irresponsible remarks by Britain after a UK half-yearly report said Hong Kong’s national security law had further diminished the openness that underpinned the city’s success, according to the South China Morning Post. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said he was deeply concerned and disturbed by the continued imprisonment of former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, jailed for 20 years over national security offences.

Israel has released nine of the 10 Israeli settler suspects arrested over attacks on a US journalist and European diplomats in the occupied West Bank, placing them under house arrest, according to Al Jazeera. Separately, the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said on Thursday it had documented 17 West Bank pogroms by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinian farmers and their land during the olive harvest.

The son of Aung San Suu Kyi said she sounded fairly healthy after speaking to the detained leader on Thursday for the first time in more than five years, according to The Hindu. Suu Kyi, 81, is under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, where she has been held since being ousted in the 2021 military coup, according to Myanmar authorities.

Drone strikes killed at least six schoolchildren and wounded more than 20 at a primary school in Ethiopia, according to preliminary reports. The strike hit Sana Elementary School in Dera Woreda, in South Gondar Zone of Amhara, on Tuesday, October 20, between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m., according to Addis Standard, in a text republished by AllAfrica. In a separate strike in Finaruo village, Saharti Samre Woreda, in Tigray's Southeastern Zone, four people were killed and six wounded as they loaded livestock onto a truck, local residents said. Addis Standard said it could not independently establish the circumstances of either strike or obtain a response from the Ethiopian military.

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.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize, the Sakharov Prize, on Thursday, while facing United States sanctions, according to Le Monde. The court thanked the European Parliament for the award at a time when “the Court and its officials face unprecedented challenges”, the newspaper reported.

Israeli forces and illegal settlers carried out 23 attacks and violations against Palestinian farmers, their lands and crops, across seven governorates in the occupied West Bank, within 12 hours on Wednesday, according to a Palestinian commission cited by TRT World. A Palestinian farmer was shot in the hand with live fire while harvesting olives in the village of Osarin in Nablus.

Houthi rebels struck a residential area in Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, which is under attack and siege, on Tuesday, killing two teenage girls, the Associated Press (AP) reported in a text republished by PBS News. The UN human rights chief said civilians in Taiz are at grave risk and that humanitarian aid “must be immediately allowed to enter the city” with its passage facilitated, and that civilians wishing to leave must be allowed to do so “freely and safely”. The strike on Taiz came a day after a Houthi attack on a government military camp killed 73 recruits, the deadliest since the conflict’s resurgence over the summer, according to a senior Yemeni government official.

An Israeli settler was filmed shouting at and assaulting a Palestinian child during an attack on a family east of Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, where settler violence has surged in recent years, according to Al Jazeera. On Wednesday, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended the remand of a suspect arrested on suspicion of involvement in settler attacks in the West Bank over the weekend, including attacks against a Washington Post photojournalist and European diplomats, according to the Times of Israel. The suspect, Nadav Cohen Tzemach, has a documented history of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank but has never been charged with any crimes, according to the same outlet.

Brad Lander was released with a warning on Wednesday while the other detained volunteers remained held, according to Protect the Harvest. About 80 US, Israeli and British volunteers were detained near Nahalin, in the West Bank, and taken to a police station, the Guardian reported. In a later post, Lander said the IDF released him “with a ‘warning,’ apparently because of my public profile,” according to Reuters.

Azerbaijan has barred 31 Turkish citizens from entering the country over social media remarks that authorities allege threatened the country’s national security and advocated the forcible overthrow of the government in Baku, according to the Middle East Eye. The decision deepens the dispute that began last month, when Azerbaijan banned headscarves in primary and high schools. The move sparked protests in Turkey and turned into a diplomatic crisis, according to the outlet.

The terms of reference for a review commissioned by the British government into antisemitism in schools, seen by the Middle East Eye, say the work will use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which has been widely criticised for allegedly being used to target criticism of Israel. According to widely reported accounts, teachers could be told not to wear pro-Palestine badges, including the watermelon symbol, although the report is not set to advise a blanket ban on badges, the Middle East Eye reported.

Israel’s military detained about 90 volunteers with Rabbis for Human Rights in the West Bank on Wednesday, including Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander and former deputy attorney-general Yehoshua Schoffman, according to sources cited by the Jerusalem Post. The volunteers were accompanying Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest in the village of Nehalim near Bethlehem, an area farmers had been unable to access for three years, according to the group. NPR put the number at about 80 American and Israeli rabbis and activists detained as they helped Palestinians harvest olives near a settlement in the occupied West Bank.

A drone strike near the Amiet market, in Abyei, killed at least 150 people, according to Al Jazeera. The local administration reports 153 dead and blames the Sudanese Army, without providing evidence, according to The Guardian, in a text published at the address recording the toll and the accusation, while Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says it received more than 20 wounded, several in critical condition, including burns.

To US President Donald Trump, Springfield, Ohio, crystallises the country’s problems after years of unchecked immigration, according to the BBC. He once repeated the false claim that Haitian immigrants were eating pets in the city. In June, the Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some 350,000 Haitians.

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”.

United Nations (UN) experts called on Indian authorities to respect, protect and fulfil the right to peacefully protest and ensure justice for reported violations, according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. According to reports cited by the experts, over 7,000 youths, journalists, human rights defenders, lawyers and party members were reportedly arbitrarily detained in New Delhi and taken to remote centres, where their phones were allegedly seized and protest-related material deleted. In recent months, hundreds of thousands of students and supporters have gathered peacefully against decisions on the education system and, more recently, against voter-roll deletions affecting 130 million people.

Burkina Faso's justice ministry said Tuesday that the junta ruling the country reinstated the death penalty, abolished in 2018, following a unanimous vote by the unelected legislature, according to AFP, in a text republished by Nampa. The new penal code reintroducing capital punishment “aims to strengthen public order, consolidate the nation's fundamental values and guarantee security for people and property”, the ministry said.

Drone strikes killed 150 people in two areas of West Kordofan state on Sunday evening, according to sources cited by the Sudan War Observatory. In Abyei, a disputed border area between Sudan and South Sudan, 73 people were killed when drones hit a market on Monday, the region’s information minister said, according to the BBC.

Gunmen on motorcycles killed at least 40 civilians in Mali, attacking camps housing mainly members of the Daoussahak community, according to security and community sources cited by The Hindu. Hindustan Times reported more than 40 civilians killed in the same episode, also attributing the toll to security and community sources.

Three children were killed in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, on October 19, according to Emergency Lawyers, a group that tracks violence against civilians. Over the weekend, according to the group, the Sudanese military struck West Kordofan province with drones, bombing a market in al-Muglad on Saturday (October 17) and striking the Al-Dabab area on Sunday, killing dozens of civilians, including women and children.

Israeli police arrested ten suspects on suspicion of involvement in two coordinated attacks over the weekend against a US photojournalist, European diplomats and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the Middle East Eye, citing Israeli newspaper Haaretz. In a statement on Monday, the force said the detainees are under investigation over the weekend’s violence in the occupied West Bank, and that the cases include the attacks on The Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine and European diplomats, according to G1.

A court in Kenya found the leader of a Christian doomsday sect, Paul Mackenzie, guilty of murdering 191 people, all but one of them children, the BBC reported. Mackenzie and his Good News International Church organized a sect that ordered followers to starve themselves and their children to death so they could go to heaven before the world ended and “meet Jesus”, according to prosecutors cited by Al Jazeera. Twenty-nine other leaders of the sect were also convicted of murder in the same trial, the BBC reported; they had all pleaded not guilty and repeatedly insisted that nobody was forced to die.

A Bangladeshi man and woman were executed in Mecca on Wednesday after being convicted of committing an “indecent act” inside a mosque, according to the Saudi interior ministry, the BBC reported. Bangladeshi authorities said they were not informed of the execution until after it had taken place.

Israeli police said on Monday they were examining a complaint filed by the Rabbis for Human Rights NGO against Rabbi Dov Lior over a religious ruling that permits Jews to harvest olives belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank, the Times of Israel reported. In the ruling, written on Friday, Lior said Palestinian land “had essentially been stolen from Jews”, since the Jewish people never willingly relinquished its property in the Land of Israel, and that Jews were therefore permitted to harvest olive trees on Palestinian property “in order to show to the public our ownership of the land”.

Robert Kabera, a former sergeant major in the Rwandan army who became an outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame, was found beheaded in neighbouring Uganda, the BBC reported. The remains of Kabera, who served in the Rwandan army before fleeing in 2020, were discovered on Saturday in a bush in the Kamengo area, according to the Associated Press, in text republished by CP24.

Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Monday that the Malian military, armed groups and insurgent forces are committing grave laws-of-war violations while international organizations and governments “largely stand by”, AllAfrica reported. The organization urged the African Union’s Peace and Security Council to “urgently take action to prevent further atrocities” in the west African country.

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.

Israeli police arrested eight suspects over settler attacks on diplomats and a US photojournalist in the West Bank, in operation “Olive Leaf”, after settlers attacked Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine and European diplomats in separate incidents, according to The Hindu.

Malian forces and the Russian Africa Corps carried out 47 drone strikes that killed 94 civilians between April and August, compared with 22 strikes and 44 deaths in the same period a year earlier, in attacks described as apparently indiscriminate, including the August 19 attack on a cattle market in Bandiagara that killed six men, according to data from the ACLED monitor cited in a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, in a Times of India report.

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.

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee denounced the settler attack that left Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine badly beaten and needing surgery as a “despicable act of terror”, The Guardian reported.

The European Union “strongly condemned” violent settler attacks in the West Bank, including attacks against European diplomats, the bloc’s foreign policy spokesperson said on Sunday, according to the Jerusalem Post. The statement came a day after Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said Israeli settlers had attacked Palestinian civilians, European diplomats and a French mayor in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli prime minister’s office urged caution before drawing conclusions from reports of attacks on European diplomats by masked Israelis in “Judea and Samaria” — the name the Israeli government uses for the occupied West Bank — and said any violence against diplomats is unacceptable, according to the Jerusalem Post.

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.

The Trump administration asked Israel to stop settler attacks in the occupied West Bank, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine, who was attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, underwent surgery on a finger that was nearly detached in the attack, her daughter said.

Belgium condemned on Saturday an attack by Israeli settlers on a convoy of European diplomats in the occupied West Bank, during which a visiting French mayor was beaten. Witnesses told the Middle East Eye that diplomats from the French, Belgian and Polish missions had driven to Taybeh, a largely Christian village in the occupied West Bank, when settlers arrived to stop Palestinians from picking their olives. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar also condemned the attack, calling it “rioter” violence.

Police in Albania fired what appeared to be rubber bullets at protesters on Saturday, the fifth day of mass student protests demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama step down, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP). Reuters video footage showed police firing a shotgun toward crowds outside the education ministry during clashes with protesters, and reporters found rubber pellets on the ground; pellets hit two Reuters journalists and several protesters, leaving round marks. Rama rejected calls to resign on Thursday, as thousands of protesters smashed windows and fought running battles with riot police firing water cannon and tear gas in the capital.

Israeli settlers attacked a diplomatic delegation that included the French consul in the occupied West Bank village of Taybeh, according to Middle East Eye. The village’s mayor, Suleiman Khourieh, told Al Jazeera that the settlers launched the attack on Saturday afternoon, the outlet reported.

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.

Al Jazeera has ascertained that at least 51 Syrians are still detained inside Israel, many of them first at the Sde Teiman military prison and later transferred to facilities run by the Israel Prison Service. In September, the Syrian Sijil Center, which monitors Israeli activity, documented 280 Israeli violations of the 1974 agreement between the two countries, including incursions, raids and arrests, as well as artillery and machine-gun fire, according to Al Jazeera.

India rebutted allegations by UN special rapporteur Gina Romero that young people in the country face retaliation or stigmatization, according to the Hindustan Times. Six US Democratic lawmakers urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to raise concerns with India over alleged excessive use of force against student protesters. The lawmakers' letter mentions, according to the Telegraph India, a pattern of repression, wrongful detention and excessive use of force by security forces during student protests in Delhi and other localities across India.

Of 635 minors held in Israeli prisons in 2025, 351 were placed in solitary confinement at least once, the vast majority of them Palestinians, including five boys aged 13 to 14, according to the Middle East Eye. Solitary confinement was imposed 666 times, with 154 minors isolated more than once, including 42 isolated between four and eight times, according to data obtained by two Israeli human rights organizations, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Parents Against Child Detention, reported by Haaretz. The Israel Prison Service said 92% of the minors placed in isolation had not been sentenced, including 176 held pending the conclusion of legal proceedings and 115 detained without trial under Shin Bet orders in administrative detention, according to the Middle East Eye.

Hardline rabbi Dov Lior, the former chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba, issued a halachic ruling on Friday saying that Jews are allowed to harvest olives from Palestinian lands, drawing condemnation from a group of moderate Orthodox rabbis, according to the Times of Israel. Lior says Jews can harvest olives “in areas far away from Jewish communities to publicly demonstrate our ownership of the land, and in doing so fulfilling the commandment to conquer the land.” Tzohar, a group of moderate religious Zionist rabbis, condemned the ruling, writing that “theft is forbidden from anyone, Jew or non-Jew alike,” and that individuals cannot decide for themselves to confiscate others’ property for security purposes.

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.

In Azerbaijan, girls wearing headscarves have been turned away from schools, triggering unusual protests involving children, according to DW. On October 12, the Interior Ministry said 37 people had been detained in connection with the protests. Students and teachers say they were turned away, and a primary school teacher was dismissed for refusing to remove her headscarf, according to a relative’s account.

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.

Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine is one of two people injured and taken to hospitals in the Ramallah area during the attack by Israeli settlers on the annual olive harvest in the village of Abu Falah, in the West Bank, on Friday, according to Palestinian medics cited by Reuters, in a text republished by Al-Monitor. Dozens of masked settlers dressed in black burned olive trees and threw rocks at Palestinians in a coordinated attack on the village’s harvest. Le Monde reports that the Washington Post journalist was beaten by settlers.

Israeli settlers attacked olive harvesters in Abu Falah in the West Bank on Friday, injuring Palestinians and American photojournalist Heidi Levine of The Washington Post, according to The Times of Israel. From her hospital bed, Levine said she was pushed to the ground and kicked repeatedly, and that her flak jacket and helmet likely saved her.

The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) said on Thursday that it had documented 21 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinian farmers and their lands in the last 12 hours, according to the Wafa news agency, in a text by the Middle East Eye.

Six Palestinian farmers petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice to restore access to farmland blocked for three years around Nahalin, in the occupied West Bank. The petition was filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which is seeking an urgent hearing as the olive harvest begins, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Navi Pillay, former UN high commissioner for human rights and 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said the purpose of the Genocide Convention is to prevent genocide, according to Middle East Eye. Pillay also said: “That’s a legal obligation that rests on every state even if the genocide didn’t happen in their own territory.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the return of Palestinians displaced from refugee camps in the northern occupied West Bank and vowed that Israeli forces would remain in control of the area, according to Anadolu Agency. Netanyahu said that the displaced are not residents but terrorists, in response to remarks in the High Court of Justice about the return, while tens of thousands remain unable to return to the Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarm camps since January 2025, according to Al Arabiya (AFP).

The Israeli army has arrested more than 200 people in southern Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, according to the Sijil Centre, which tracks Israeli activity in Syria, in a France 24 Observers report. Witnesses have denounced the arbitrary arrests, and former detainees and their loved ones have raised concerns over detention conditions.

Israeli forces demolished between 50 and 80 homes and a mosque belonging to a Bedouin Palestinian clan on Monday, leaving about 250 people homeless, according to Middle East Eye. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the demolitions began late on Sunday near the city of Rahat after an Israeli court rejected a request to postpone the orders.

Israeli forces wounded a child with live ammunition during attacks in Ramallah and Al-Bireh, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry says. Troops entered several Palestinian nongovernmental organizations’ (NGOs) offices and the courtyard of the Palestine Medical Complex, according to Middle East Eye. Wafa identified two injured journalists: Palestine TV’s Khaled Mattawa, who sustained a hand injury from a sound bomb, and Sky News Arabia’s Firas Lotfi, who suffered a shrapnel wound to his foot.

Hungary's government submitted to Parliament late on September 14 a bill that would remove anti-LGBTQ+ rules prohibiting the “promotion of homosexuality” to under-18s implemented by Viktor Orban's former nationalist government, according to Reuters, in a text published by The Straits Times. Orban's government, which was ousted after 16 years in an election in April, promoted a Christian-conservative agenda and in 2021 banned the “display and promotion of homosexuality” and gender change in media content accessible by under-18s. Hungary's new Justice Minister Marta Gorog said in May that Hungary would need to revise legislation restricting access to LGBTQ+ content after the EU's top court ruled in April that the restrictions breached EU law.

The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms said that actions by Houthi forces killed at least five civilians and wounded more than a dozen others over the past 24 hours in Taiz, where an attack on Tuesday morning hit a hospital and left at least one person wounded, according to the Middle East Eye, which cites the state-run Saba agency for the hospital attack. The Yemeni government warned of an “imminent health and humanitarian catastrophe” in besieged Taiz, after the Houthis captured Mocha and, by October 4, At Turbah, cutting the last main road to government-held areas, according to Al Jazeera, which cites Yemen's Health Ministry for the warning.

An air strike killed at least 72 civilians who had been prospecting for gold in a border region of Sudan, the BBC reported. The attack occurred hundreds of miles from the front lines of Sudan’s devastating civil war, according to The New York Times. The Khartoum-based rights group Emergency Lawyers accused the Egyptian military of targeting civilian miners in the North Wadi area of Jabal al-Uqaydat, according to Al Jazeera.

The Palestine Information Center (Moata), in a report published on Sunday, said demolitions hit 2,143 homes and 9,477 structures and facilities in the West Bank in three years, while a United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights report cited in the same text noted hundreds of demolished residential structures and harm to transportation networks and essential service infrastructure, according to Mehr News. Israel’s Supreme Court instructed the state to detail the timetable and acceleration of measures to enable return to the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps, without ordering the immediate return of residents or the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from the camps, according to The Jerusalem Post. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz to instruct the IDF not to cooperate with the Court, according to the same paper.

72 civilian miners died in a Saturday airstrike on the Egypt-Sudan border, according to preliminary information from the Emergency Lawyers organisation, cited by AFP, in a text republished by France24, with the casualty count still being verified. The organisation blamed the Egyptian Air Force for the attack, and AFP said it could not independently confirm the account.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday evening on the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the head of the Shin Bet and the attorney general to launch a comprehensive investigation into participants in the documentary “NAZA”, according to i24NEWS. Netanyahu urged the authorities to prosecute those involved for alleged serious information security offenses, criminal libel and harm to Israel’s diplomatic and security interests. The documentary features anonymous testimony from 24 people presented as Israeli soldiers and intelligence personnel, including allegations about the use of artificial intelligence in targeting operations and the consequences for civilians.

Israeli authorities installed three iron gates across a 200-metre stretch of Hebron's Old City a few days ago, according to Al Jazeera. Approximately 40 percent of the 89 checkpoints in the West Bank and 11 percent of all 925 movement obstacles are located in the H2 area of Hebron, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Thousands of people gathered in central London in support of Palestinians after three years marked by what The Guardian describes as Israel's “genocide” against them. The Metropolitan Police said it had made 20 arrests, including for criminal damage, after demonstrators climbed on to the Battle of Britain memorial.

Yemen's Ministry of Public Health and Population said on Saturday that medicines, intravenous fluids, medical supplies and fuel at Taiz health facilities were “nearing depletion”. The ministry said emergency care, surgery, intensive care, dialysis and neonatal services could be forced to stop if the situation continued. Middle East Eye reported the alert over the “near depletion” of medical and fuel supplies in the city.

Iran's Medical Council called on the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the World Medical Association (WMA) to take immediate action against the use of patients' lives as a tool of political and military pressure, according to the Tehran Times. In an official letter to the three organizations, the council said the United States violates international humanitarian and criminal law through an economic blockade and pharmaceutical sanctions. Council head Mohammad Raiszadeh urged the leaders of health organizations to respond promptly and responsibly to what he described as inhumane acts and the weaponization of medical resources in armed conflicts.

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.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Central Command completed preparations on October 8 for the coordinated Palestinian olive harvest in the West Bank, according to The Jerusalem Post. About 200 Palestinians and activists gathered opposite an illegal outpost and a confrontation with 20 settlers developed, including stone-throwing, until the IDF arrived to separate the sides.

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.

The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) said in a statement that its founder, Abhijeet Dipke, and two other leaders were detained before disembarking from a flight in the Indian capital, according to AFP. The Hindu newspaper reported more than 5,000 protesters had been detained, a figure it was not immediately possible to verify, according to AFP. Ahead of the protest, authorities closed dozens of metro stations, cancelled more than 200 trains and temporarily shut down mobile internet around the protest site, according to AFP.

Hundreds of doctors protested outside the World Medical Association (WMA) summit in Rotterdam, calling for the suspension of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), according to Al Jazeera. On Saturday, 81 healthcare workers removed their scrubs and hung them in a line facing the WMA assembly in Rotterdam, each bearing the name of a Palestinian healthcare worker held in Israeli detention. The IMA OUT! campaign said it delivered a petition with more than 6,500 signatures from health workers around the world calling for the suspension.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Nobel Peace laureate Navi Pillay a “bigot” and the prize committee “misguided,” according to the Jerusalem Post. The Prime Minister's Office said the committee had lost its moral compass by awarding its highest honor to someone who built a career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the only Jewish state. Israel's Foreign Ministry rejected Pillay's genocide allegations.

Air France has agreed to enforce an Israeli order barring pilots and cabin crew of certain nationalities from flights to Israel, including those from Muslim-majority countries, according to a Mediapart investigation reported by Middle East Eye. The restrictions cover 31 nationalities, including Algerian, Tunisian, Iranian and Pakistani citizens, and also affect French citizens with dual nationality. Israel's Ministry of Transport issued the directive on October 1, requiring crew in Israeli airspace not to hold the nationality of a country without diplomatic relations with Israel, according to Israeli broadcaster N12.

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.

The US State Department’s 2026 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, released on October 8, downgraded Hong Kong to Tier 3 from the Tier 2 Watch List, according to the Times of India. Hong Kong rejected the assessment, calling it “entirely unfounded” and accusing Washington of double standards. According to the report, Hong Kong authorities investigated 11 human trafficking cases in 2025, all involving forced labour, compared with seven in 2024.

A drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 41 people at a camp for displaced people in the Abu Shandi area, in Blue Nile state, on Friday, according to the Emergency Lawyers group. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said it was appalled by the reports and that initial information indicated most of the casualties were women and children, according to the BBC.

Navanethem Pillay, a former UN human rights chief, is the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, announced on Friday in Oslo. Israel is angry about the honor, according to RT, because Pillay chaired a UN commission.

The Hind Rajab Foundation announced on Thursday that it had asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to investigate the involvement of Israeli medical personnel in alleged abuses at Sde Teiman. The request names medical professionals, hospital administrators, senior Health Ministry and Defense Ministry officials, and leaders of the Israel Medical Association, in connection with alleged abuses at the facility since October 7, 2023. The submission was filed under Article 15 of the Rome Statute and is not an indictment or a court decision to open an investigation, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Two young Palestinian men were shot and wounded during an Israeli military raid on the city of Jericho on Friday night, one in the thigh and the other in the foot, and were taken to hospital, according to the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye. On Saturday morning, Israeli forces prevented Palestinian farmers from harvesting olives on their land in the town of Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah, Wafa reported.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, expressed concern over the continuing impact of Israeli military operations on civilians in southern Syria, including raids on homes, restrictions on movement, harassment, arbitrary detention and destruction of livelihoods. The UN office continues to document the detention of Syrians by Israeli forces and said 49 Syrians remain in Israeli custody, a total it has not independently and comprehensively verified. According to Middle East Eye, Israel carried out 280 armed incursions into Syria in September, the highest monthly number of the year.

President Donald Trump reposted a message saying the Nobel Committee shamed itself beyond repair and demeaned the once great Nobel Peace Prize by giving it to Navi Pillay, according to Politico. The post came from the law firm of attorney David Schoen, Politico reported. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the Nobel Committee has lost its moral compass, according to Politico. Pillay is a South African human rights lawyer and judge who led a United Nations commission that stated Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, according to Politico.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, according to Al Jazeera. The committee said it was honoring her “for her efforts to promote peace and international law”, and Pillay is a former judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and former UN human rights chief, according to CBS News.

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Guterres condemned the new US sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to UN News. The court said the measure is aimed at disrupting its operations and intimidating those who work for or cooperate with it.

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.

The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, a Palestinian government body operating under the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), recorded at least 19 settler attacks on Friday against the olive harvest in the West Bank, according to Al Jazeera. According to the commission, the incidents included attacks on Palestinian olive harvesters, the burning and uprooting of olive trees, and the theft of crops and livestock. More than 50 olive trees were uprooted by settlers in Qusra, the commission said.

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jurist Navanethem Pillay, saying the prize legitimizes “hatred and anti-Israel prejudice.” In a statement, the ministry said granting the Nobel to Pillay, who chaired the committee that accused Israel of genocide, is “the grotesque instrumentalization of a prize.”

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.

Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, 85, a former UN human rights chief and a judge on the International Court of Justice, won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, according to The Guardian. The Norwegian committee recognised her for efforts to promote peace and international law, said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the committee. This year's prize drew 287 nominations and pays 12 million Swedish kronor, about $1.2 million.

Syria’s Islamist government barred women from several university and technical programs, excluding them from military engineering, legal and social sciences, management and economics at the National University for Defense Sciences, a move high-school graduate Israa Salloum rejected by telling AFP that no one has the right to force her to choose a field of study or exclude her from another, according to RT.

More than 200 organisations will mobilise mass pro-Palestine protests on Saturday, across 60 countries, according to Middle East Eye. The protests are planned in more than 250 locations worldwide.

The United States (US) Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, called Amnesty International a fraud when rejecting criticism over the war with Iran, said the group should focus on the Iranian regime, which he said murdered in cold blood tens of thousands of people in the streets, and said the US keeps a regulated relationship with Portugal and Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) allies, following the protocols every single time, according to The Jerusalem Post.

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.

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) found former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial on charges of crimes against humanity, Al Jazeera reported.

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.

Syrian general Bassam al-Hassan, who ran Syria’s chemical weapons programme and was a senior advisor to former President Bashar al-Assad, has been living in Lebanon under US protection since Assad’s government was toppled in late 2024, according to a joint NPR and BBC investigation released on Thursday, because he has provided information about the abduction of American journalist Austin Tice.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the deportation of migrants from the US to third-party African countries is against the law and exploits suffering to deter migration, according to the BBC. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, more than 500 people have been sent to African countries where they are not citizens, the group says, citing US data. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said “third country removals are an essential public safety tool that remove the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our streets”.

Federal prosecutors in the US are expected to bring new charges against Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, for allegedly torturing Americans, according to CBS News. The charges involve the torture of more than a dozen Americans wrongfully detained under Maduro's government, and additional people may be charged, according to the BBC, in a text citing CBS. Lawyers for Flores, 69, argued that she has medical issues that cannot be treated effectively in jail and that she could instead live under 24-hour guard, according to the Associated Press, in a text published by WPXI.

France’s interior minister suspended on Wednesday the use of stun grenades by police at student-led demonstrations, as allegations of police brutality mounted after days of sometimes violent demonstrations across the country.

Israeli authorities razed a warehouse and a chicken coop belonging to Yousef Zyadna, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who rescued 30 Israelis at the Nova festival on October 7, 2023, and his nephew’s home, according to Middle East Eye, citing the Israeli news site Local Call. Dozens of bulldozers arrived in the Zyadna neighbourhood near Rahat, where they demolished homes and other structures in the Bedouin community; there are 65 demolition orders against homes in the neighbourhood.

A 44-year-old Palestinian, Ali Hassan al-Bazari, was killed in an attack by Israeli settlers on farmers harvesting olives near Burqa, in the occupied West Bank, according to Middle East Eye. The Palestinian Health Ministry said nine Palestinians were wounded, one of them critically. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers were present and protected the settlers during the attack, and it was not immediately clear whether al-Bazari was killed by settler or army fire.

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.

Israeli forces launched several brigade-level operations across the West Bank overnight, arresting and questioning dozens of wanted suspects accused of involvement in terrorism and incitement, including expressing support for Hamas’s October 7, 2023 onslaught, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. The goal, per the IDF announcement, is to arrest and interrogate dozens of individuals wanted for terrorism and incitement to terror, with particular emphasis on those who expressed support for the October 7 attack.

Armed Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh on Tuesday, aged 58, leaving him requiring hospital treatment as he covered ongoing settler violence against West Bank olive farmers, according to AFP. Ashtiyeh suffered bruises to his head and torso and was taken by ambulance to a hospital; the attackers also took his camera equipment. The violence took place despite the presence of at least a dozen Israeli soldiers around 500 metres away, according to photographer John Wessels, who was also threatened with a firearm. AFP’s global news management condemned the attack and demanded a full investigation.

Witnesses describe a broad campaign of forced recruitment in Tigray, targeting men and boys between the ages of 15 and 65 — according to The Guardian. Renewed conflict erupted on September 23 between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), breaking the November 2022 Pretoria agreement. Human Rights Watch says Tigray authorities have been abducting and unlawfully recruiting civilians, including children as young as 15, since at least April 2026.

The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning drone attacks on civilians in Sudan and demanding an immediate and complete ceasefire, without preconditions, according to Al Jazeera. The resolution, which extends the mandate of the independent international fact-finding mission for Sudan, passed by a vote of 28 to 10, with nine abstentions.

Israeli forces opened fire on a vehicle carrying three Palestinians near Bani Naim, east of Hebron, on Monday, according to Al Jazeera. The Palestinian civil authority named the man killed as 38-year-old Hossam Alaa al-Din Abdul Jabbar Walad Ali. The Palestinian Red Crescent said its crews treated three people injured in an attack by Israeli settlers in the Imriha area.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) unsealed warrants against four Taliban leaders for gender persecution, issued in July and September last year, according to The Hindu. Among the targets are the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and the head of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, Abdul Hakim Haqqani. The court sees reasonable grounds to hold them criminally responsible for persecution, a crime against humanity under article 7(1)(h) of the Rome Statute. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid rejected the decision.

An Israeli mathematics lecturer from Petah Tikva in his 60s has been indicted over an alleged plan to kill hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the occupied territories and force them from their homes, according to Middle East Eye. The indictment was filed on Monday by Central District prosecutors Roy Reis and Tomer Steinberg, according to i24NEWS. The plan called for recruiting 72 Jewish attackers, including himself, divided into 12 cells of six people, also according to Middle East Eye. The university said it “condemns in the strongest possible terms” and is “deeply appalled” by the acts attributed to the lecturer, and announced his immediate suspension, according to i24NEWS.

A young man says he is not formally enlisted in the Yemeni government forces but fights shoulder to shoulder with his older brother and cousins, according to Middle East Eye. A March 2025 report by the UN secretary-general documented 564 cases of child recruitment and use in Yemen between 2021 and 2023. The SAM Organisation for Rights and Liberties documented the recruitment of 11,310 children from 2014 to February 2023.

Britain’s Green Party voted on Sunday to class Zionism as a form of racism, according to France 24. The motion passed by 1,022 votes to 813, and Israel banned the party’s leader, Zack Polanski, from entering the country after the vote, according to the Middle East Eye.

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.

Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, reported that more than 15 people were wounded and one was killed in attacks by Israeli forces and settlers on Palestinian towns and villages, according to the Middle East Eye. Israeli opposition leader Avigdor Lieberman called for dismantling the Palestinian Authority and creating an Israeli-Jordanian confederation to control parts of the West Bank currently under the PA’s control, according to Haaretz. Under the plan, Israel would apply sovereignty over Area C, which makes up about 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and remains under full Israeli control.

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.

Israel's Supreme Court unanimously overturned the Central Elections Committee's decision to ban the Arab-majority parties Joint List and Ra'am from the October 27 election, according to the Times of Israel. The court also ruled 7-2 against the committee's decision to ban Joint List MK Ofer Cassif of Hadash, the same outlet reported. The decision keeps Palestinian citizens of Israel, about 20 percent of the population, in the race after critics accused the committee of double standards, Al Jazeera reported.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said the US House Select Committee on China was “fabricating claims out of thin air for political purposes” and had no credibility, according to the Times of India, after Starbucks opened stores in Xinjiang. Starbucks opened two cafes in Urumqi this week, one at the city’s international airport and another at the Grand Bazaar.

Iran said on October 3 that it executed Jamshidi, sentenced to death on charges of moharebeh through brandishing and firing a firearm and conspiracy and collusion against national security. The case is linked to anti-government protests, according to The Hindu.

Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said the entire occupied West Bank “belongs to Israel” and vowed to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, according to Middle East Eye. In an interview with Channel 14, he said that, if appointed defence minister, he would work to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and push for Palestinians to leave the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The Anadolu Agency reported that the minister said the entire West Bank “belongs to Israel” and threatened to dismantle the Palestinian Authority.

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.

Israel launched a new wave of demolitions of olive groves in the occupied West Bank, with military orders to uproot trees on the eve of the olive harvest, which typically begins in October, according to Middle East Eye. According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, 55 such orders were issued between the start of the year and September, affecting about 2,373 dunams, compared with 47 orders covering 1,613 dunams throughout 2025.

Israeli forces detained dozens of Palestinians during a raid on the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, according to Wafa, cited by Middle East Eye. Israeli settlers attacked olive harvesters again in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, on Saturday morning as farmers picked olives, and damaged olive trees and crops in al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, after allowing their sheep to graze on agricultural land, Middle East Eye also reported.

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.

A 19-year-old Palestinian, identified by the Palestinian Health Ministry as Bahaa Sami Amin al-Natsheh, was killed by Israeli settler gunfire in Kobar, north of Ramallah; Palestinian authorities say 30 Palestinians have been killed by settlers since the start of 2026, more than in any full year since 2022.

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.

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.

The UN human rights office urged Washington on Thursday (October 1, 2026) to ensure full reparations for people affected by U.S. nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, according to The Hindu. The archipelago hosted 67 U.S. nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958, whose environmental and health impacts persist, and the local Nuclear Claims Tribunal set the total compensation to be paid at more than $2.3 billion.

British Sikh activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been released from a Delhi prison after nine years in detention, after the Indian high court warned the government it would be found in contempt of court if it continued to attempt to keep him in jail despite a September 18 order releasing him on bail, according to The Guardian. The nine-year detention on alleged terrorist offences has been a cause of diplomatic tension between the United Kingdom and India, and campaigners say the British government has not been active enough to secure his release or a full trial.

Hong Kong police arrested two people, including a journalist, for allegedly acting “with seditious intent”, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Local media identified the detainees as independent journalist Tang Ho-wing and activist Lee Ying-chi. They were detained for investigation under a homegrown national security law passed in 2024.

The village of Mansouri, occupied by Israel and perched a few kilometres from the coastal city of Tyre, in Lebanon, is slowly disappearing, day after day, according to Middle East Eye. The Israeli army presents the village as an operational stronghold of Hezbollah, and it was initially located outside the “Yellow Line”. Today the Yellow Line cuts through Mansouri and divides it in two, although officially only in part.

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.

On the fifth day of Sukkot, a Jewish holiday, hundreds of Israelis stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Al Jazeera. On Tuesday, 966 Israelis entered the compound through the Moroccan Gate alongside Israeli police, performing Talmudic rituals and singing together in the mosque’s courtyards. Jerusalem’s Islamic Waqf Department reported that about 700 Israelis, including former lawmaker Moshe Feiglin, stormed the compound under the protection of Israeli police.

Switzerland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Israeli settler violence on Wednesday after an attack on the village of Jalud by around 100 settlers the day before, according to the Middle East Eye. In a post on X, the ministry said “the unprecedented level of settler violence cannot be tolerated” and that Israel must protect Palestinian civilians and bring those responsible to justice.

About 400 inmates at Roumieh prison went on hunger strike on September 12 against the suspension of the general amnesty law, according to Al Jazeera. Lawyer Mohammed Sablouh told Al Jazeera that about 400 prisoners have been on strike for more than two weeks and ambulances enter daily to take them away because their condition is dire. Implementation of the law was suspended on September 10 after an appeal to the Constitutional Council seeking to overturn the law, according to Ahram Online.

A court in Rome sentenced three Egyptian security officials to 10 years over the abduction of Giulio Regeni, according to The Independent. Those convicted are Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif, for whom prosecutors had sought a life sentence, and Colonels Uhsam Helmi and Athar Kamel Mohamed; the fourth defendant, General Tariq Sabir, was acquitted, according to ANSA. Regeni was abducted on 25 January 2016 while researching Egypt’s independent trade unions for his PhD at Cambridge, according to the BBC.

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.

Pro-Palestine protests have spread across Moroccan cities demanding an end to diplomatic normalization with Israel as Rabat deepens ties with Tel Aviv, according to Al Jazeera. The demonstrations followed the September 16 announcement that Morocco and Israel would elevate their missions to full embassies and appoint ambassadors. In Tangier, authorities banned the planned September 27 demonstration and security forces dispersed hundreds of participants, with more than 12 detained, according to the outlet, citing its own sources.

The United States (US) Senate blocked by 47 votes to 51 the resolution requiring the State Department to report within 30 days on deaths and human rights conditions in the West Bank, according to The Guardian. The text, led by Democrat Chris Van Hollen, cited nine American citizens killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in the occupied West Bank since 2022. Democrat John Fetterman voted with Republicans against the measure, while Republican Rand Paul voted in favor.

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.

The death toll from the military airstrike on a market in Kyauktaw, in western Rakhine state, Myanmar, rose to 50 on September 29, two local aid workers at the scene told AFP, in a text republished by the Kuwait Times. Rescuer Wai Hun Aung said the death toll had reached 50 and that 58 people were injured. Witnesses said military aircraft struck the riverside commercial hub of Kyauktaw, in western Myanmar, around midday on Monday (0530 GMT).

Malaysia began on Tuesday deporting about 1,500 Myanmar nationals under a repatriation program, the first phase of a plan that could reach 5,000 people, according to Reuters. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said current conditions do not support a safe and sustainable return and that it was not involved in identifying those returned, while Malaysiaʼs Interior Ministry said the measure covers 1,476 nationals identified by the government of Myanmar.

A Myanmar military airstrike near a market in rebel-controlled territory in western Rakhine state killed at least 49 people and injured 58 others on Monday, according to the Arakan Army and a rescue official, the Times of India reported. The Associated Press (AP) reported the same toll of 49 dead and 58 wounded, attributed to the rebel group and a rescue official. According to the Arakan Army, a fighter jet dropped two bombs near a local market around noon, killing vendors, shoppers and pedestrians.

At least 33 people were killed in a military air strike that hit a market in Kyauktaw, in Rakhine State, Myanmar, according to Al Jazeera. The strike hit an opposition-controlled area of the state, where dozens of people were killed.

Israel says it killed in Gaza the October 7 attacker who abducted a hostage couple, according to Le Monde.

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir released a video in which he threatens to kill detained Hamas figure Hassan Salameh, according to Al Jazeera.

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.

Venezuelan authorities released a significant number of political prisoners from several detention centres in the early hours of Saturday, according to Foro Penal. Among those released was Wilder Vasquez, handed a five-year sentence in 2018 over claims he was plotting to kill former President Nicolás Maduro. The releases came days after the country's interim leader met US President Donald Trump in New York, according to the BBC.

According to the Wafa agency, Israeli authorities decided to impose a comprehensive closure on the West Bank and close crossings into the territory until Saturday for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Israeli forces closed roads and entrances to towns around Ramallah, including Turmus Ayya, Aboud, Nabi Saleh, Atara and Taybeh, and set up checkpoints at Yabroud and Ein Sinyah, according to local sources cited by the agency, while residents reported harassment at the entrance to Turmus Ayya.

At least 30 men have been executed in eastern Libya since late August after being sentenced to death in secretive military trials, and at least 50 others remain at imminent risk of execution. According to Amnesty International, forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar resumed executions on 23 August, the first in Libya since 2010, in trials marked by torture.

The United Nations human rights office added 61 companies to its list of firms operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in an update released on Friday. The database, first released in 2020, now lists 214 firms from 11 countries, according to AFP, in a text published by Courthouse News; most are from Israel, and there are companies from France, Germany, China and the United States, according to Middle East Eye. In this year's update, five companies were removed.

Amnesty International Austria displayed a banner reading “END GENOCIDE” inside the stadium during the Austria vs Israel match in Linz, in the Nations League, and is calling on UEFA and FIFA to suspend the Israel Football Association (IFA) for supporting illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The protest was recorded by Middle East Eye.

According to Middle East Eye, citing the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli forces detained six Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, including 17-year-old Mahmoud Daher Mahmoud Daoud from the town of Beita, south of Nablus. Israeli settlers attacked a Bedouin community on the outskirts of Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus, and stole several sheep and a tractor, local sources told the same agency.

Around 45,000 students protested in some 100 German cities against the military service reform on Friday, September 25, 2026, according to RT. The Military Service Modernization Act, in force since January, requires 18-year-old men to complete a questionnaire on their willingness and suitability for military service. The site Time News also reported more than 45,000 students walking out of classrooms in over 100 cities.

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.

Amnesty International has called for the abolition of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in a report published on Thursday, September 24, 2026, according to the organization itself. The report “We Had Whistles, They Had Guns” documents widespread human rights violations by ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies during immigration operations in Chicago, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, New Orleans and Washington, DC, the group reports. Le Monde confirms the nongovernmental organization’s (NGO) appeal, citing the documented violations.