Theme: Palestine

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.

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.

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.

Surgeon Adam Hamawy, who volunteered in Gaza, won New Jersey’s 12th congressional district and will become the first Muslim and the first Egyptian-American to represent the state in Congress, according to Middle East Eye. Hamawy’s campaign was centered on Palestine, healthcare and economic inequality.

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.

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said what was happening was “an attempt to crush democracy and steal the election with the help of government plants in the security system” and called it “a direct threat to our democracy,” urging state institutions to stand firm and a government to be formed as quickly as possible. The remarks came amid reports that Shin Bet chief David Zini sought to question three Palestinian party leaders over suspected foreign interference in the election, and that authorities found no evidence for the claims. Palestinian-led parties won 19 of the Knesset’s 120 seats, which kept Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot from reaching the 61 needed to form a government.

Al Jazeera journalist Montaser Nassar was detained in raids near Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, according to the network itself.

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.

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.

United Nations (UN) spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Tuesday that partners supporting the collection of solid waste in Gaza warn that only half of their vehicle fleet is operational. According to him, persistent Israeli restrictions on the entry of enough engine oil and spare parts required to keep the vehicles running are increasing public health risks, as only some of the trash can be collected. He called for a wider range of critical supplies to be allowed into Gaza, with less red tape and more crossings open for deliveries.

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.

Gaza’s interior ministry said police officers were killed and wounded in an Israeli air strike near the southern city of Khan Younis. The Palestinian Health Ministry counted 19 Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since Saturday, six of them in the previous 24 hours, after 13 deaths over the weekend. Among Tuesday’s deaths were a Palestinian who succumbed to his wounds after the bombing of the displacement camp where he was staying in Khan Younis, and another killed in an air strike on a group at the University College of Applied Sciences in the same city.

The Palestinian ministry said, according to TRT World, that Israeli attacks killed 22 students and education workers in Gaza in October. Damage to schools, fuel shortages and restrictions on supplies and travel are further disrupting education across the enclave, with officials warning that the system faces collapse.

Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians in attacks across Gaza, and a fifth person died of wounds sustained in an earlier assault, according to medical sources and media reports. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,593 Palestinians and wounded 5,748 since the US-brokered ceasefire began in October 2025. Overall, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 74,609 Palestinians and wounded 175,872, according to the same ministry. Indiscriminate Israeli gunfire from military positions, tanks and quadcopter drones has killed and wounded hundreds of civilians since the ceasefire, particularly displaced families living near the so-called Yellow Line.

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.

Israel's Shin Bet security agency is investigating suspicions that the Palestinian Authority transferred money to members of Arab political parties in an attempt to influence Israel's October 27 election, according to N12, in a report by the Jerusalem Post. The investigation remains at a preliminary stage, with investigators yet to establish whether money was transferred, how much was involved or what its intended purpose was.

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.

Israeli security forces arrested 18 settlers who rioted and attacked troops during the evacuation of an illegal outpost in the West Bank, according to the Israeli military. The military announced on Monday evening that the detainees are suspected of assaulting security personnel working to halt construction at the outpost.

Five Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes and gunfire across the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense, and the Israeli army said it had targeted “several terrorists” in the territory. The Palestinian agency Wafa counted the five deaths in different areas of the Gaza Strip since Monday morning, one of them a wounded man who succumbed to his injuries, along with several other wounded.

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.

Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians and wounded several others in the Gaza Strip on Monday, November 2, 2026, the territory's health officials said. Two people were killed and six wounded in two separate air strikes in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, and a third person was killed in an air strike in the town of Al-Mussadar. The Israeli military said it carried out two strikes in the enclave targeting Palestinian militants, without giving further information.

At the opening of parliament, Jordan's King Abdullah said that there would be no security in the Middle East until the Palestinians' right to their homeland is fulfilled. He said the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues, as do the attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and that Israel's expansionist ambitions remain the greatest threat to the region's future and hopes.

The Arab League has called for an independent international investigation into alleged torture and systematic abuses against Palestinian prisoners from the Gaza Strip held at Israel's Ramla Prison. Several detainees in the prison's Rakevet section suffered injuries and burns due to repeated acts of repression and mistreatment. The league demanded an immediate end to the abuse and urged Israel to allow unrestricted access for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and independent monitors to the prison to document conditions and provide medical care.

At least eight Palestinians, among them a child, were killed this Sunday in two Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip that hit the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, and Al-Thawra Street in Gaza City, according to Opera Mundi. The Palestinian agency WAFA reported that five people were killed in a drone strike on Al-Mawasi and that the victims were members of the Palestinian police, citing local medical sources.

Gaza’s Interior and National Security Ministry said this Sunday that five police officers and personnel were killed in an Israeli airstrike while carrying out their regular duties in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in a report by the Saba news agency. Israeli strikes killed at least eight Palestinians, including the five police officers, in two separate attacks on Sunday, according to medics and the Hamas-run interior ministry, Reuters reported.

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.

Eight people, including a child, were killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to emergency services and local hospitals cited by Arab News. Five people were killed in Khan Younis and three in Gaza City, according to a statement from the territory’s civil defense service, which operates under the authority of the Hamas movement that runs Gaza.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday included shelling of the Nuseirat refugee camp, and al-Awda Hospital confirmed the death of Palestinian teacher Diaa Abu al-Rous, according to Al Jazeera. The enclave’s Ministry of Health recorded at least six Palestinians killed over the past 48 hours, bringing the total since the October 2025 ceasefire to 1,580.

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.

Three suspects were arrested on Saturday following a clash between Israelis and Palestinians near the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank, amid the ongoing olive harvest, according to the Jerusalem Post.

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.

An Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed the Palestinian Diaa Abu al-Rous, according to the Quds News Network (QNN), cited by Middle East Eye. Another Palestinian, Arafat al-Ar’eer, died of wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike on the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City, according to the same network.

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.

The Israeli military said in a statement on Friday that it killed two Hamas commanders in an airstrike on the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip the previous day. One of the commanders was identified as Ihab Jamil Abu Taqiya, a squad commander in Hamas’ military wing, who, according to the statement, was involved in holding Israeli hostages at the beginning of the war. Xinhua reported.

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.

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.

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.

Israel demolished on Friday the homes of the assailants who killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron last week, Reuters reported in a text published by Al-Monitor. In a statement announcing the demolitions, Israel’s military said it would “continue to operate proactively and offensively” to thwart attacks in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would “destroy” the neighborhood where the two attackers came from and that Israel was ready for “extensive action” in the occupied West Bank, the BBC reported.

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.

Israel's Border Police and military seized a weapons cache in the West Bank village of Hable, near Kalkilya, on Thursday night: three handguns, one of them an airsoft pistol, an M-4 assault rifle, components for several M-16 rifles, more than 2,300 rounds of assorted ammunition and 67 magazines, according to police, who announced the raid on Friday morning and arrested two suspects. Also on Thursday night, Israeli soldiers arrested four people in the area around Jenin. In Nablus, Israeli forces stormed Joseph's Tomb in the eastern part of the city at dawn and raided homes in nearby villages, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, cited by Middle East Eye.

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”.

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.

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.

An estimated 80 percent of Palestinian voters with Israeli citizenship turned out for Tuesday's election, a surge in participation by a community that accounts for about 21 percent of the population, according to Al Jazeera. The Israeli press recorded that Netanyahu moved to undermine the Palestinian vote on election day, according to Middle East Eye.

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.

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.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he hopes the period after the formation of a new Israeli government will create an opportunity to resume serious political dialogue, according to Xinhua, which cited the Palestinian news agency.

Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera, which cited medical sources, and ambulance and emergency services reported that a drone strike hit a vehicle in the Maghazi camp, according to Middle East Eye.

Israeli forces arrested at least 13 Palestinians on Thursday in raids across the occupied West Bank and continued raids and closures in Hebron for a seventh consecutive day, shutting iron gates around the Old City and seizing Palestinian homes, according to Palestinian sources cited by TRT World.

Israeli attacks in Gaza killed at least four Palestinians and wounded more than 30, including one Palestinian who died from wounds sustained in an Israeli attack on a checkpoint in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, according to Mehr News.

Israeli attacks killed five Palestinians and wounded 32 in the Gaza Strip, in Palestine, on Tuesday, according to medical sources cited by Anadolu, while a six-year-old girl and a man succumbed to wounds sustained in earlier attacks. The girl died on Tuesday morning after being shot by Israeli forces in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the WAFA news agency.

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.

Three Palestinians were killed and 10 others injured on Wednesday when Israeli warplanes struck a government facility in al-Mawasi in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Middle East Eye. In central Gaza, three people were wounded in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp, some of them seriously.

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher said the Holy See will continue to firmly support a two-state solution in the Middle East, according to TRT World, saying the formula retains substantial international backing, although its immediate implementation is unlikely.

Arab parties are projected to win 18 seats in the Knesset, a record, after a surge in Palestinian voting in Israel, according to Al Jazeera, with overall turnout at a historic 77.7 percent, the highest since 1999, according to the Central Elections Committee.

Parliamentary leaders from the BRICS nations expressed “deep concern” about the escalating tension and hostilities in West Asia and slammed the “unilateral coercive measures” and “unilateral economic sanctions” imposed in the region as contrary to international law, according to The Hindu. The joint declaration called for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and asserted the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, freedom and an independent, sovereign state.

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.

Israeli forces closed all entrances to Ramallah on Tuesday morning and set up checkpoints along alternative routes used by Palestinians, including the Ein Sinya and Atara checkpoints and the Rawabi gate to the north, as well as the Nabi Saleh and Aboud gates to the northwest, according to WAFA. Israeli troops also set up a checkpoint near the Ministry of Education district on the al-Bireh-Jalazone road and another on the road connecting Yabroud with Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, according to Mehr News.

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.

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.

The Israeli army killed five people, including a girl, in bombardments in the Gaza Strip, according to Le Monde.

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.

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.

Israeli forces sealed every major entry point into al-Khalil (Hebron), drove more than 2,200 Palestinians out of their homes and turned entire residential quarters into military barracks, according to the Tehran Times.

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 Israeli Army said all land crossings with the West Bank will be closed on election day, October 27, and that it would enforce a ban on the entry and exit of Palestinian workers throughout Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, including industrial zones, according to The Hindu. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to exact a heavy price for Friday's attack, in which two Israeli soldiers were killed, and said he was planning an operation on a scale not seen since Israel first occupied the West Bank in 1967, according to the same newspaper.

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.

Around 1,500 Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the occupied West Bank since Friday, and more than 200 families have been left homeless, according to Middle East Eye. Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin called for international intervention and told the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye, that the Israelis plan to force out 2,500 further people in the coming hours.

Two Palestinians, including a girl, were killed and three others injured on Saturday morning in Israeli drone and artillery attacks on Gaza City and Beit Lahia, according to PressTV. An Israeli drone fired a missile at a gathering of civilians near Palestine Stadium in the al-Rimal neighbourhood, killing a young man identified as Mohammed Annan al-Rawagh, medical sources told the Wafa news agency.

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.

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.

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.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it instructed security forces to immediately cordon off Hebron and prepare a full closure of the West Bank starting Friday, according to the Associated Press (AP). The order came a few hours after an attack near Hebron that injured at least five people, some critically, the agency reported. Netanyahu blamed Hamas, saying the group was “planning a major attack aimed at murdering innocent civilians.”

A shooting attack was reported on Friday morning near the Judea Junction, by Hebron, with several people reportedly wounded, according to The Jerusalem Post. The Israeli military said it killed the two perpetrators and launched a manhunt for possible additional attackers. The two carried a handgun and an M16 rifle and were killed after a brief pursuit as they tried to flee, with roadblocks set up in the area, according to Ynet.

An Israeli air strike on a vehicle in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood killed at least one Palestinian and wounded others, according to the Middle East Eye. Another Israeli strike killed one Palestinian in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to an Al-Awda Hospital source cited by Al Jazeera, also according to the Middle East Eye.

The UN has told Palestinian officials it will stop receiving Palestinians returning from Egypt and coordinating their entry into Gaza from mid-November, citing security risks and repeated Israeli arrests, according to Drop Site News, which quotes a senior source, in a report carried by Middle East Eye. The decision followed Israel's arrest of a Palestinian cancer patient and her daughter on Tuesday, when the Rafah crossing reopened after a suspension of about 10 days prompted by the detention of another returnee.

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.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says the Israeli war on the enclave has killed at least 74,498 people and wounded 175,616 since October 2023, according to Mehr News. The same toll records 1,538 Palestinians killed and 5,498 wounded since the October ceasefire.

Four Palestinians were killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including a 17-year-old girl shot in the head in the al-Faluja area of northern Gaza, according to Middle East Eye. Two more Palestinians, including a teenage girl, were killed by Israeli fire in areas of northern and southern Gaza, Al Jazeera and the Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.

Qatar and France called for a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza under the agreed ceasefire arrangements and an end to settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, according to TRT World. The two countries reaffirmed the need to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz without constraints or fees, according to a joint statement from the Élysée Palace. Macron and Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani backed full implementation of the Gaza ceasefire and a diplomatic way out of tensions with Iran, according to Al Jazeera.

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.

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.

Israeli attacks killed at least seven Palestinians in Gaza, including two children and a married couple, and wounded 10 others, according to TRT World, which describes the attacks as the latest breaches of an agreed ceasefire. In western Gaza City, an Israeli attack helicopter launched a missile at a residential home near Al-Shifa Hospital, killing a married couple and wounding four others, including three women.

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on a podcast that Israel should annex the territory it occupies in Gaza and Lebanon so that they “truly feel the cost of their mistake”, according to the Middle East Eye. According to the outlet, he said the annexation should go “at least up to the lines we’re currently holding” and that, if Hezbollah attacks again, it would go “all the way to Beirut” and, if they attack again, “even beyond that”.

At least four Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said. Medics said an Israeli air strike killed Akram Yassin and his wife Dina Abu Baker in an apartment in Gaza City, while in Khan Yunis a 17-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire near the Qizan Al-Najar neighbourhood, according to the Middle East Eye.

An Israeli attack on an apartment in Gaza killed two people and injured others, according to The Associated Press. The Israeli military says it targeted a Hamas militant.

Egyptian construction firms surveyed sites in the ruins of the southern Gaza Strip for a housing project dubbed “Green Rafah”, Egyptian sources told Middle East Eye. The proposed neighbourhood would initially house around 20,000 Palestinians and be supervised by a multinational force expected to be deployed in several parts of the Gaza Strip under the Sharm el-Sheikh peace agreement.

A senior Palestinian official told AFP that Israeli settler attacks risk setting off an “explosion” in the West Bank while urging that the response remain peaceful, according to The Times of Israel. “The terrorism carried out by the army and settlers, under the supervision of the Israeli government… is a prelude to a coming reaction and explosion,” Rajoub told AFP in Cairo.

The Hind Rajab Foundation said it filed an urgent request with the US Department of Justice to arrest and prosecute an Israeli commander over his alleged involvement in the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab, according to Middle East Eye.

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.

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on Monday urged companies and individuals not to submit bids for the E1 settlement project in the West Bank, the Jerusalem Post reported. The British government says it has created new powers allowing it to sanction individuals and companies involved in the construction of illegal settlements such as E1.

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”.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has decided to deploy an additional Border Police company to the Judea and Samaria Division to combat rising nationalist violence in the West Bank, the Jerusalem Post reported. The company began training in August and is expected to take on dedicated operational missions in violence hotspots beginning in late November. Police arrested 10 suspects on suspicion of involvement in the violent incidents, violating a closed military zone order and illegal construction, the Times of Israel reported — two more than the eight announced earlier.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has cut food assistance in Gaza by around one-third because of funding shortages, and half a million people will lose access to critical assistance, the agency said. From this month, WFP is supporting 1.1 million of the most vulnerable people in Gaza with food and cash assistance, down from 1.6 million last month. An estimated 1.4 million people, or 67 percent of Gaza’s population, are experiencing acute food insecurity at crisis levels or worse. The agency says it needs more than £300 million over the next six months to restore and maintain critical programs in Palestine, the Guardian reported.

Palestinians in Gaza City held a mass funeral for 75 people whose bodies were recovered from the rubble on Sunday, according to Middle East Eye. Gaza Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said teams face severe shortages of equipment and heavy machinery, hindering efforts to retrieve those killed since 2023.

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says 1.4 million people in Gaza are suffering acute food shortages and that funding gaps are forcing cutbacks in critical aid, despite the U.S. brokered Hamas-Israel ceasefire, according to NPR.

US diplomats visited a Christian Palestinian village in the West Bank on Sunday, following attacks by Israeli settlers on European diplomats and an American photojournalist in recent days. The European Union said Sunday that it “strongly condemns” an attack by a group of Israeli settlers on visiting European diplomats in the occupied West Bank, and urged full accountability and effective measures to prevent continued acts of violence and violent harassment against Palestinians, including during the ongoing olive harvest season, as well as against journalists.

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.

Israeli drone attacks killed at least six Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to Palestinian medical and emergency workers, and Gaza’s Health Ministry said 1,511 Palestinians had been killed and 5,375 injured since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on October 10, 2025. Medical sources in Gaza said Israeli attacks had killed six Palestinians since dawn on Saturday, according to Middle East Eye.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged Israel to halt and reverse the establishment of settlements in the occupied West Bank, calling the Palestinian issue “the greatest historical injustice of this century”, according to Russian state broadcaster RT. Wang said the immediate priority is to fully open access to Gaza, where two million civilians must not be left struggling to survive or exposed to a worsening humanitarian catastrophe. According to RT, he met Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday on the sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

At least one Palestinian has been killed and another wounded after Israeli drones struck a vehicle in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Middle East Eye, citing Al Jazeera and ambulance and emergency service sources. Four other Palestinians have been killed by Israeli drones in Gaza since Saturday morning.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first Palestinian legislative elections in nearly 20 years, pushing the vote to September 11, 2027, according to WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency. The election had been scheduled for next month.

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.

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.

Britain brought new regulations into force on Thursday that significantly expand its sanctions powers, enabling action against construction companies, developers and financial institutions supporting settlement expansion in the West Bank, according to the Jerusalem Post. The measures took effect four days before the deadline for submitting bids for construction in the E1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim, amid a diplomatic dispute between Israel and Britain.

The Israeli army said it killed a Hamas commander who took part in the October 7 massacre and a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) member in Khan Yunis in two separate Thursday strikes — those killed were identified as Mohammed Mohammed Abd al-Khalek Hala, a commander in Hamas’ military wing, and Ahmad Jabrin Tawfiq Dalhan, of Islamic Jihad’s military wing, who, according to the military spokesperson, had recently attempted to attack Israeli troops or civilians in violation of the ceasefire and were eliminated to remove the threat.

The Nachala settlement group says it has formed a new community next to the border with the Gaza Strip, overlooking the ruins of Gaza City, according to the group in a text by The Times of Israel. The action reportedly brought together over 700 people, including bereaved families, people injured in the war, rabbis and public figures, and the group demands that the government authorize the transfer of the community into the northern part of the Strip, where there were settlements until the 2005 evacuation.

The 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.

The Stop the Settlements Act bill reached 53 co-sponsors this week, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna, according to The Jerusalem Post. The text calls for sanctions on anyone determined to be complicit in the construction of “any Israeli settlement or outpost on or after September 30, 2026”.

Representatives from Iran, Turkey, Kuwait, Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority walked out of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s speech on Thursday at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Baku, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Former US President Barack Obama said in Belfast that Israel took land from Palestinians and was excessive, and that those people understandably said that this was injustice and that they wanted their land back. Elsewhere, Obama said that, if the attitude of Israel is that, now that it is the strongest and the most technologically advanced in the region, its security will depend on simply doing whatever it needs.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China will continue to speak up for the Palestinian cause and told his Palestinian counterpart, Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, in Baku, that the Palestinian issue should not be marginalized, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Jerusalem Post. He also urged “all peace-loving countries” to back a two-state solution.

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.

Former US vice president Kamala Harris criticized the administration of former US president Joe Biden over its response to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza during the 2026 Asan Memorial Lecture in Seoul on Wednesday. Harris said the United States needed to uphold its obligation to international law and that the Biden administration’s response was a failure in that regard. She also criticized the current US government, under US President Donald Trump, saying it “offers Netanyahu a blank check.”

An Israeli drone strike targeting a group of Palestinians in Gaza City killed one man and wounded dozens, Wafa reported, according to the Middle East Eye. The strike hit the group of civilians near the Ibad al-Rahman School on al-Jalaa Street, in the city’s northwest.

The contract for the first Board of Peace base in Gaza was issued in August to Louisiana-based Arkel International, which would build a base for 150 international troops serving as the vanguard of an international stabilisation force, according to Middle East Eye, citing the Guardian. Contractors and trucks are not being allowed to cross into Gaza to begin the work, and “Israel won’t open the border,” a source told the Guardian, according to the same report.

Four Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said, in an AFP text republished by Arab News, days after the anniversary of the declaration of a US-mediated ceasefire. Two young men died when Israeli forces struck a vehicle near Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal and Nasser Hospital. The Israeli military did not immediately give details on the strikes.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories and head of the Supreme Fatwa Council, Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, issued a fatwa on Tuesday banning the purchase of olive products from settlers, in response to escalating settler violence, especially against olive trees this harvest season, his office said. Under the ruling, it is forbidden to buy olive products “stolen from Palestinian trees and sold by [settlers], due to the great evils involved.”

Jewish settler extremists attacked the West Bank village of Mukhmas on Tuesday night, setting fire to a mosque, a vehicle and an olive tree, according to the Jerusalem Post, citing Israeli and Palestinian media. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) arrived at the area, but no suspects were found and no arrests were made.

Cairo will host on Wednesday and Thursday talks involving Palestinian groups, including the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, on internal divisions, unity and elections, according to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera, in text republished by Middle East Eye. Fatah spokesman Abdel Fattah Dawla told Anadolu that the meetings would prepare for broader dialogue and build consensus among the factions, in text republished by Middle East Eye.

A Palestinian woman was killed in an Israeli strike targeting an apartment near the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera reporters cited by Middle East Eye.

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).

An Israeli military vehicle ran over and injured three Palestinians during an incursion into Ya’bad, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, according to Middle East Eye.

The US claimed on Tuesday that “real progress” is being made toward a demilitarized Gaza Strip, on the one-year anniversary of the ceasefire, according to The Times of Israel.

A Palestinian family was attacked at home in the early hours of this Tuesday by masked men posing as Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers, near Kusra in the West Bank, according to a KAN News report published by the Jerusalem Post. The father, the mother and two teenage daughters were beaten and taken to a hospital in Nablus. According to the same report, the mother and the two daughters tried to help the father and were also beaten.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will control the territory from the Jordan River to the sea, during a visit to the separation line in the West Bank: “We are safeguarding the area from the Jordan River to the sea. Our country, our control,” he declared, according to the Jerusalem Post. During the same visit, he called the Tulkarm camp a terrorist stronghold and rejected the Supreme Court order on the return of displaced Palestinians: “I heard that someone at the High Court of Justice says the residents should be brought back here. These are not residents; they are terrorists.”

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.

Israeli forces have raided multiple locations across the occupied West Bank since late Monday, storming homes and detaining at least three Palestinian men, according to local sources cited by Middle East Eye. The raids targeted the city of Qalqilyah; the town of Idhna, west of Hebron; the al-Jalajel area in Hebron; the village of Tal, southwest of Nablus; the town of Madama, south of Nablus; and the town of al-Yamun, west of Jenin, among others, according to the outlet.

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.

US Security Coordinator Lt. Gen. Sean M. Salene criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government for stalling measures in Donald Trump's plan that strengthen the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, especially the training of a new Palestinian police force. Top US officials have accused Netanyahu of delaying aspects of the October 2025 ceasefire plan designed to replace Hamas with new Palestinian political and security mechanisms in Gaza.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas postponed legislative elections due next month until September 11, 2027 on Saturday and called a presidential poll for the same date, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Jerusalem Post. France called on the Palestinian authorities to reverse their decision and to organize parliamentary and presidential elections throughout Palestine as soon as possible, according to the same report. Hamas endorsed Abbas's decision to postpone the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, originally scheduled for November 28, until September 11, 2027, according to The Jerusalem Post.

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.

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.

Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque under police protection, according to Middle East Eye.

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.

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.

A senior Israeli security official told Walla that Hamas is showing signs of preparing for attacks against Israeli forces, according to the Jerusalem Post. Israeli intelligence had identified indications that Hamas was planning to confront IDF troops along the Yellow Line, according to the same official. Asked about the possibility of a large-scale confrontation before Israel's October 27 elections, the official assessed the likelihood as low.

Thousands of people marched across Europe to demand an end to Israel’s war on Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric said she met former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar on two separate occasions to arrange a visit to Israeli hostages held in Gaza, according to The Jerusalem Post. Spoljaric said the ICRC had no access to the hostages.

Former Biden administration official Phil Gordon said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced a series of new conditions against the advice of his own security chiefs, making a hostage deal impossible for another six months after July 2024, in a post cited by the Jerusalem Post. According to Gordon, during that period nearly 9,000 additional Palestinians were killed and more Israeli hostages died, including the six executed by Hamas in August. Among the new demands cited by Gordon was retaining Israeli forces along Gaza's entire border with Egypt — a stretch the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had seized only after the original proposal had already been made — as well as a screening mechanism for Palestinians returning north.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on Saturday cancelling the November 28, 2026 legislative elections and setting simultaneous presidential and legislative elections for September 11, 2027, according to the Wafa news agency. The decree followed a decision by the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and consultations with Palestinian factions and political forces, which produced a national consensus on obstacles posed by Israeli measures, the Middle East Eye reported.

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.

Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded others across Gaza on Thursday and Friday, according to local medical sources and rescue workers cited by RT. Since the US-brokered ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Gaza’s Health Ministry counts more than 1,450 Palestinians killed and over 5,000 wounded, according to RT.

About 245,981 buildings, or 74.5% of all structures existing before October 7, 2023, are likely to have been damaged or destroyed in the Gaza Strip, according to a satellite radar-driven structural analysis by the Conflict Ecology lab, published by The Hindu. The analysis used satellite data from October 7, 2023, to August 3, 2026, with 258 Sentinel-1 radar images in 12-day observation windows. The lab said it completed a three-year assessment in Gaza with active monitoring of repeat damage every 12 days.

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.

Palestinian Vice President Hussein Al Sheikh has informed France that a Palestinian legislative election planned for November 28 will be postponed for several months, according to Reuters. The reason cited in a letter seen by Reuters would be worsening conditions throughout the Palestinian territories.

The Royal College of Pharmacy dropped Teva UK as a sponsor of and exhibitor at next month’s annual conference, the second major UK health body to cut ties with the Israeli drug firm after pressure from pro-Palestine campaigners, with Teva saying it was disappointed and that healthcare should not become politicised, according to The Guardian.

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.

Seven people were killed in separate Israeli strikes across Gaza, six of them in Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defence. According to the same civil defence, two people, a woman and a child, were killed and others wounded when Israeli aircraft bombed a residential building in Gaza City. The Israeli army said three of the victims were “military operatives”. Middle East Eye recorded seven killed in separate Israeli strikes across Gaza.

The Israeli military announced it had killed Muhammad Muhsen Nimr Yazji, a commander of Hamas’s Shati Battalion, in strikes in Gaza City on Monday, according to the Jerusalem Post. The announcement was made on Thursday evening. Yazji held Emily Damari, Romi Gonen and Matan Angrest as hostages, according to the military. In separate strikes on Tuesday, the military said it killed Muhammad Fawzi Muhammad Awad Gamal, of Hamas’s Daraj Tuffah Battalion.

David Milstein, a senior advisor to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, used his position to quash reports on Israeli activities in the West Bank and present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light to Washington, according to the New York Times, in a report published by the Jerusalem Post on Thursday. The report is based on 12 anonymous sources who work or interact with Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington. Huckabee refuted the report and criticized the absence of any named source.

Three people have been killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City and northern Gaza since early Thursday, according to Al Jazeera, citing medical sources. In a separate attack, two people were killed and three wounded when an Israeli strike hit a vehicle in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, according to the Middle East Eye.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the time of containment in the face of hostile acts against the State of Israel is over on Thursday. Israel has removed British representatives from the International Gaza Support Center in Kiryat Gat, terminated British training activities for Palestinian Authority forces and barred 12 British elected officials and other British citizens accused by Israel of antisemitic or anti-Israel activity, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The United Kingdom announced it is closing its consulate in occupied East Jerusalem and downgrading the building to the status of a mission. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said the UK does not accept that the Government of Israel has the legal right to close the consulate and that it will try to rebuild its diplomatic presence in East Jerusalem. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the British consulate is ending its operations today and the sign has been removed.

Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the territory’s health ministry reports. The latest deaths bring the toll from the war in Gaza since October 2023 to 74,254, with 175,306 injured, according to the ministry.

The British consulate-general building in East Jerusalem will not close and will be known as a UK mission, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said, according to The Guardian. Israel says 20 diplomats and the Consul General will leave the country, while a seven-person task force may remain in the building with a very limited scope of activity, according to the BBC.

Reuters journalists saw workers remove the “British Consulate General” plaque from the consulate building in East Jerusalem, along with another sign for its consular section, on Thursday, according to the agency, in a text republished by Al Jazeera.

Israel will close the UK consulate in East Jerusalem on October 8, but will not expel British diplomats or their families, according to the Times, in a text republished by TASS — the consulate will lose its diplomatic status, and its nearly 30 diplomats will be able to continue working at the UK embassy in Tel Aviv.

The death toll among Palestinians in Gaza rose to five after an Israeli air strike targeted a house in the Khan Younis refugee camp, according to Al Jazeera, injuring several others, one of them critically.

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.

Israel carried out new strikes in Gaza on October 7, 2026, on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, and Palestinian officials reported three people dead. In Gaza City, Al-Shifa hospital reported two people killed in an Israeli strike overnight. The Israeli military said it struck and killed two Hamas members who had exited Kamal Adwan Hospital. In Khan Yunis, Nasser Hospital said that Hisham Ibrahim Abu Mustafa, 60, was killed in an Israeli strike and that others were injured, according to AFP, in a report published by The Hindu.

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.

Three years into the war in Gaza, US military aid to Israel remains unconditional, according to Al Jazeera. Washington has provided nearly $300bn in aid to Israel since its creation in 1948, adjusted for inflation, more than to any other country. At least 74,243 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, which killed at least 1,139 people.

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.

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for the dismantling of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank during an event on Wednesday morning marking the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack. Arriving at exactly 6:29 a.m. at the security fence near the Nitzanei Oz interchange, he warned that the October 7 attack could repeat itself.

Israeli forces raided Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, imposed a curfew, arrested residents and demolished memorials to Palestinians, according to the Wafa agency via Mehr News. Settlers attacked a Palestinian home and set a vehicle on fire in Deir Nizam, near Ramallah, on Wednesday, according to Palestinian reports cited by N12 via the Jerusalem Post.

Israel marks on Wednesday the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, weeks before a general election and after a ceasefire in Gaza last year, according to France24. The attack killed 1,221 people, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally based on official Israeli figures. Israel’s military offensive in response left most of Gaza in ruins and killed more than 74,200 people, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Since the ceasefire, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,430 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s health ministry.

Thursday marks 30 days since Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar's order to close the British consulate in East Jerusalem, a retaliatory move against the UK's wave of sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements, according to Al Jazeera. Former British consul Vincent Fean told Al Jazeera that Israel acts unlawfully and has no right to interfere in the diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the State of Palestine. Reports cited by Al Jazeera claimed the UK could expel 27 Israeli diplomats if the consulate closure goes ahead.

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.

A basic item is among the essential goods Israel continues to prevent from entering the Gaza enclave, according to Middle East Eye. Under the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, Israel was required to lift its restrictions and facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, according to Middle East Eye.

The Green Party of England and Wales voted at its conference in Brighton to declare Zionism a form of racism, in a motion that also backs a single democratic Palestinian state with equal rights for all ethnic and religious groups, rather than a two-state solution. The proposal has split the party, and critics claim it is antisemitic, according to The Guardian.

Lawyer Stanley Cohen told RT that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is weakened by the impotence of member states and the United Nations in the face of the warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In 2024, the Hague-based court issued warrants for Netanyahu and his then-defense minister, Yoav Gallant, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza war.

Gaza is facing worsening shortages of medical equipment for diagnosing and monitoring thousands of patients, according to medical sources cited by the Palestinian agency Wafa. According to the sources, 52 percent of medical laboratory equipment, including chemical analysis equipment, has been destroyed, making it impossible to maintain essential daily services.

A judge at the immigration court known as the Upper Tribunal quashed the British Home Office decision blocking mothers and children in Gaza from joining families in the UK, finding the home secretary acted unlawfully in the way the policy was applied to two families. Both are young mothers with five children between them aged seven and under, hoping to reunite with their husbands granted refugee status in the UK. The Home Office said it is looking to appeal.

An Israeli airstrike on a vehicle south of Deir al-Balah killed one person and injured at least nine, one of them in critical condition, according to the Palestinian Information Center. Six-year-old Suha Mohammed Nasser died after being shot inside her family's tent in Wadi al-Salqa, south of Deir al-Balah, according to the WAFA news agency, in a report republished by Middle East Eye.

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.

Connie Chan, the US Democrat endorsed by former House speaker Nancy Pelosi to succeed her in California’s 11th congressional district, called for a “full arms embargo on the Israeli government” in a televised debate on Thursday night, according to Al Jazeera. Chan said that “on day one in Congress” she would vote to “end a genocide in Gaza and to end an apartheid state”. The candidate said humanitarian aid must be prioritised and that she would not support funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited to Israel as a guest of honour the Indian captain of a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight, Smit Machchhar, and said he wanted him and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to light a flame at a national ceremony for Israel’s Independence Day next May, a role usually reserved for Israeli citizens. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked and blocked Palestinian farmers from harvesting olives, according to Al Jazeera; more than 80,000 Palestinian families rely on the olive harvest as a source of income.

Israel said on Saturday it attempted to kill Hamas’s top leader in the Gaza Strip, Ali al-Amoudi, in an airstrike on an apartment. Local officials say the strike killed five people, and an official at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital told AFP it received at dawn the bodies of five people and a number of injured in the Rimal neighbourhood. The Israeli military said it aimed to kill al-Amoudi, describing him as the right-hand man of slain Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar and saying he was involved in planning the October 7 attack.

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.

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 Palestinian legislative elections are scheduled for November 28, the first since 2006, according to Al Jazeera. The Palestinian Central Elections Commission estimates that about 1.24 million Palestinians in Gaza will be eligible to vote and is preparing to hold the vote in the occupied West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and Gaza. Unemployment in Gaza stands at about 80 percent, according to Al Jazeera. Election authorities are preparing up to 110 polling centers in Gaza for about 1.25 million voters, according to Anadolu Agency.

Reserve Major General Nitzan Alon, the former government point person on hostage negotiations, said the Israeli hostages in Gaza could have been brought home up to a year earlier, according to Middle East Eye. Alon pointed to “political and personal considerations” as an obstacle during a conversation hosted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Friday, according to the outlet.

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.

The Israel Defense Forces said that 170 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who were identified as journalists after their deaths were members of armed groups, according to The Times of Israel. According to the military, 118 were active in Hamas's military wing and 49 operated in Islamic Jihad, two were members of the Popular Resistance Committees and one was in the Mujahideen Brigades.

Israel’s Supreme Court advised Balad party leader Sami Abu Shehadeh to withdraw from the October 27 Knesset election, warning that it could otherwise issue a ruling disqualifying him, according to Al Jazeera. Court President Yitzhak Amit said a majority of the judges favoured disqualifying his candidacy and gave him until Friday to withdraw, according to the broadcaster. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara backed disqualification over an article Abu Shehadeh published a day after October 7, which she said expressed support for armed struggle. Abu Shehadeh withdrew from the race after the Court indicated unanimity for disqualification, according to the Middle East Eye.

Israeli settlers shot dead Mashhour Shaher Yassin, 51, during an attack on the village of Yasuf, in the central West Bank district of Salfit, according to WAFA. Salfit Governmental Hospital Director Mohammad Al-Ramahi said Yassin succumbed to injuries sustained during the attack by the settlers. Reuters, citing Palestinian officials, reported that Israeli settlers shot two Palestinians, killing one and injuring the other, in the village of Yasuf in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday.

Israeli attacks on Wednesday night killed a 33-year-old Palestinian and wounded others, including a minor, on Salah al-Din Street, north of Khan Younis, according to Middle East Eye, citing the Wafa news agency. Gaza's government media office reported that Palestinian journalist Muhammad Abdel Aziz al-Najjar was killed in a separate attack on Wednesday.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor) said Israel has turned Gaza into the “largest and harshest ghetto” in modern history, pointing to the use of starvation as a lethal weapon, the diminishing health care system and severe shortages of equipment, aid and humanitarian needs, according to Middle East Eye.

Rescue teams recovered the remains of one hundred five Palestinians from beneath the debris of a residential building destroyed by Israeli strikes in the central district of Gaza City after a seventeen-day search operation, and relatives assembled on Wednesday in the al-Taj district for farewells, with the shrouded bodies arranged in rows among the rubble, according to Press TV. Palestinians will bury the remains of 105 people killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.

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.

The Islamic Waqf, the body that administers the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, said that roughly 700 Israeli settlers entered the site on Wednesday morning, on the fifth day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, according to Middle East Eye.

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.

An Israeli air strike and gunfire killed two Palestinians and injured several others in Gaza on Tuesday, according to the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye. The victims’ bodies and several casualties, including children, were brought to Al-Shifa Hospital after the strike on an apartment in the al-Nasr neighbourhood, in Gaza City, according to medical sources cited by Middle East Eye. In the occupied West Bank, more than 100 Israeli settlers attacked the village of Jalud, preventing a Palestinian family from returning home and clashing with troops, witnesses said, in a Reuters text republished by The Hindu. The Israeli military said the settlers set the Tubasi family’s homes on fire, blocked access roads and hurled rocks at Israeli officers, three of whom were injured, and that it arrested two settlers and launched an investigation, Reuters reported.

An Israeli drone targeted a residential apartment in the al-Nasr neighbourhood, west of Gaza City, according to Middle East Eye, which cites Al Jazeera and medical sources at al-Shifa Hospital. Footage showed medics treating children with severe wounds after the attack, and the total number of casualties remained uncertain at that time. Anadolu Agency reported that two Palestinians were killed and several others, including children, were injured in an Israeli airstrike and gunfire in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, amid daily violations of a ceasefire in effect since October 10, 2025.

Around 100 settlers raided Jalud, south of Nablus, shortly after midnight, targeting the homes of the Toubasi family, according to Middle East Eye. The family had returned to the house hours before the attack, after an Israeli court ordered the army to secure their return, the same outlet reported. More than 100 Israelis blocked roads, burned tires and threw rocks at security personnel, and set fire to Palestinian-owned structures, vehicles and other property in the area, according to Israel National News.

Israel’s army killed Izz al-Din al-Beik, head of the Hamas armed wing in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera, citing Palestinian sources and Israeli officials. Al-Beik was killed in a strike on an apartment building in Gaza City’s Nassr neighbourhood early on Tuesday, according to medics and Hamas sources. Local sources identified the two Palestinians killed in the strike as al-Beik and Muhannad Abu Foul, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz claimed al-Beik was a commander, according to Anadolu (AA).

The Netherlands said Monday it regretted Israel's decision to revoke the accreditation of Dutch diplomats based in the West Bank, according to AFP, in a text republished by France 24. Israel retaliated after Dutch authorities began implementing a ban on imports of products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Dutch Foreign Minister Berendsen said the decision stems from the obligation, under international law, not to contribute to the illegal settlements.

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

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing a potential case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking to use it as leverage in their escalating dispute, according to i24NEWS, cited by RT. According to RT, Netanyahu reportedly instructed an Israeli interministerial team and the head of Israel’s International Law Department to prepare a dossier focused primarily on alleged attacks against Kurdish minorities, along with accusations that Erdogan’s government finances Hamas. The move would follow Türkiye’s request last month for an Interpol Red Notice for Netanyahu, after a Turkish court issued an arrest warrant on charges including genocide over Israel’s interception of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla earlier this year.

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for Israel to go to war in the occupied West Bank and do there what it did in Gaza, according to the Middle East Eye. In a podcast interview, he also renewed his demand to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in parts of the occupied West Bank, according to The Times of Israel.

Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously annulled the government’s ban on Red Cross visits to Palestinian security prisoners, according to the Times of Israel. The court said that the state failed to present a legal foundation for its blanket policy, in place since October 7, 2023, according to the Times of Israel. The government’s central justification for the ban was that Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza were being denied Red Cross visits, a justification that no longer applies, according to the Times of Israel.

Israel revoked the credentials of Dutch diplomats in Ramallah in response to the Netherlands’ ban on goods from Israeli settlements, according to the Middle East Eye. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the diplomats must return their Israeli-issued diplomatic documentation within seven days. The Netherlands began enforcing a national ban on 22 September on the import, purchase and sale of goods from Israeli settlements, according to the Middle East Eye. Israel’s foreign ministry said it revoked the diplomatic status of the Dutch at the Netherlands’ Representative Office in Ramallah, in response to the Dutch government’s ban on imports of products originating from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to the Khaleej Times.

The United States-led Board of Peace (BoP) said the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) will have no role in Gaza. According to the board, “we will only work with trusted partners who will deliver for the people of Gaza and contribute to a deradicalised Strip. UNRWA fails on those litmus tests”. On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the BoP unveiled a 66-project reconstruction blueprint, with $2.4bn proposed to begin Gaza’s recovery.

Gaza's Health Ministry said on September 26, 2026, that the Palestinian death toll had risen to 74,016, with 175,068 wounded, according to The Hindu. Since the ceasefire, 1,145 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Ministry. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and militants and says women and children account for around half the total.

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.

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Israel to “go to war” in the West Bank and “do what we did in Gaza”, according to Middle East Eye. He said the Palestinian Authority, which he called a “terror authority”, must be dismantled.

Gaza's Health Ministry said, in a report cited by TASS, that seven people were killed and another 38 wounded over the past 48 hours in Israeli army strikes on the Gaza Strip. An Israeli air strike on a tent in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of northern Gaza City injured several displaced people, according to the Palestinian Information Centre. Israeli Air Force fighter jets resumed on Saturday attacks on mountainous areas near the Lebanese towns of Jezzine and Nabatieh, north of the Litani River. The targets were said to be underground shelters, command posts and Hezbollah depots on the heights of Jebel al-Rafi, Rayhan and Sajoud, according to the Janoubia portal.

Israel's attorney general has ordered a one-month postponement of an E1 settlement construction tender in the West Bank to avoid it being used for electioneering, according to Al Jazeera. The tender, published on 18 August, covers seven residential compounds containing 1,234 housing units, out of the 3,401 units approved for E1, according to Israeli media.

Hamas condemned the Board of Peace’s decision not to work with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and its statement that the agency will have no role in Gaza. In a post on X, the Board said it will only work with trusted partners who will deliver for the people of Gaza and contribute to a deradicalized Strip, and that UNRWA fails on those litmus tests. The Associated Press reported on Friday that Board members had been more willing to work with UNRWA behind the scenes than their public stance suggested.

The Republic of Ireland will play Sunday’s Nations League match against Israel in Debrecen, Hungary, after the squad voted by a significant majority to go ahead with the fixture, Football Association of Ireland (FAI) CEO David Courell said Saturday, according to Middle East Eye. The vote followed reports that some players, including custodian Gavin Bazunu, had considered refusing to play in protest at Israel’s actions in Gaza, the Telegraph reported. The Ireland team’s press conference and training session the day before the first of its Nations League games against Israel were delayed Saturday as pressure to boycott the matches grew, according to the Associated Press, in a text republished by Local10.

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.

Families in Gaza are still sheltering in war-damaged buildings at risk of collapse, with few safe alternatives, according to Al Jazeera. A joint assessment by the United Nations, the World Bank and the European Union found that 371,888 housing units had been destroyed or damaged as of October 2025, 76.6 percent of the housing stock. On 16 September, a six-storey, already war-damaged residential building in Gaza City collapsed, killing 21 people, including 12 children, according to the UN and Gaza Civil Defence.

Forty-one US lawmakers called on Secretary of State Mark Rubio to press Israel for the release of Palestinian healthcare workers, according to Middle East Eye. The letter, led by Representatives Mark Pocan and Mike Quigley, says the detainees are being held arbitrarily, without formal charges or due process. According to the letter, the detentions do further harm to Gaza’s devastated healthcare and erode access to care in the occupied West Bank.

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.

Delegates left the hall of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Friday, September 25, 2026, before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium, in a walkout coordinated at the request of the Palestinian Mission to the 193 member states, according to India Today. Netanyahu rejected the genocide allegations over Gaza, calling them “the biggest lie of the century”, defended Israel’s actions against Iran and called those who had not left the hall “moral cowards”, asking them to leave.

The United Nations (UN) human rights office expanded on Friday, 25 September 2026, its database of companies with activities in Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories: there are now 214 firms from 11 countries, with 61 additions and five removals since the previous update, Le Monde reports. Airbnb, Booking.com, Motorola Solutions and TripAdvisor remain on the list, and the UN human rights office said the update is a reminder to companies of their human rights responsibilities, according to Le Monde.

Israel’s official government mapping site, govmap, published 2025 aerial imagery of the northern Gaza Strip without the blurring it used to apply there, revealing at least 11 Israeli military positions inside the buffer zone and massive destruction to Palestinian towns in the area, The Times of Israel reported. The change, first spotted on Monday, 21 September 2026, by an open-source intelligence (OSINT) account, has no official explanation: the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the imagery.

The U.S.-created Board of Peace, which leads the reconstruction of Gaza, says there is no place for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the territory, but board members have met multiple times with agency officials, The Associated Press reports. Philippe Lazzarini, the agency’s outgoing commissioner-general, told AP that members of the Palestinian technocratic committee want to work with UNRWA, and a Board of Peace official confirmed the meetings.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the U.N. General Assembly tribune on Thursday, September 24, 2026, to attack Iran, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, critics and allies such as the United Kingdom and France, and rejected accusations of genocide in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported. Dozens of delegations walked out as the speech began, some jeering and booing, while Netanyahu’s own team stood and applauded; SBS News put the number of delegations that walked out at 77.

Gaza’s economy is going through the worst economic crisis on record, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said, according to France24. The report finds 92% of economic establishments damaged or destroyed and daily per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of $0.58, according to the Times of Israel liveblog.

The outgoing commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said in Geneva in his last press conference before leaving office that the agency must be part of a political solution for the population it serves, and warned that UNRWA is near collapse, with funding for water, health and education services expected to last only until September, according to Geneva Solutions. On 1 July 2026, the Board of Peace (BoP), the body created by Donald Trump’s peace plan with a central role in Gaza’s reconstruction, had already said UNRWA “has no place” in the territory’s future, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, condemned Israel’s declared rejection of the roadmap to complete the implementation of the plan to end the war in Gaza, at a closed meeting of heads of state and government convened by French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, according to Mehr News, citing Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the ministry, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman urged the international community to press Israel to meet its obligations under the Gaza ceasefire agreement and to halt violations of Palestinian rights, and reaffirmed Qatar’s support for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israel rejected the 15-point plan put forward by the mediators in August and conditions any withdrawal from Gaza on Hamas disarming, according to Mehr News.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, in his debut at the United Nations General Assembly, that violence in Gaza and Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank were pushing the two-state solution towards a “point of no return”, according to Middle East Eye. Burnham cited the E1 settlement project, which he said would sever East Jerusalem from the West Bank, and urged action to match the international support states declare for a Palestinian state. The speech came two weeks after Britain, France and Canada announced, on September 8, 2026, sanctions on goods from Israeli settlements, to which Israel responded by ordering the closure of the British consulate in East Jerusalem within 30 days, according to France 24.

Spain’s Council of Ministers on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, allowed a US extradition request against activist and donor James Cox Chambers Jr., known as Fergie Chambers, 41, to move to the judicial phase, a decision his defence calls a “dangerous precedent” for the Palestinian cause, according to Middle East Eye. Chambers was arrested in Ibiza on 10 July 2026 at Washington’s request and remains in pre-trial detention in Madrid. The sealed indictment charges him with international money laundering, riot and conspiracy to riot over transfers of about $7.5 million to a company in Tunisia and over 2023 protests at the US facilities of an Israeli arms manufacturer in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, according to The National and The Straits Times, which published a Reuters dispatch. It is the first time the US has sought the extradition of a citizen over alleged support for Hamas, The National says. Government spokesperson Elma Saiz said the decision was “purely procedural” and that the final word rests with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s cabinet, after review by the Audiencia Nacional, the Spanish court that handles extradition requests. Chambers’s lead counsel, Baltasar Garzón, said: “Spain cannot defend international law, the rights of the Palestinian people and the protection of those who provide humanitarian aid while at the same time allowing a request to proceed with an extradition that shows clear signs of political persecution by the US government.” The Sumar party, a junior partner in the governing coalition, had urged the government to block the request; Podemos lawmaker Ione Belarra called Chambers “the first political prisoner in Spanish history being imprisoned because of his support for Palestine”. His defence says the transfers funded humanitarian projects in Gaza, including a bakery and a medical clinic.

Israeli restrictions have held up more than 900 wheelchairs donated by two Australian charities for children injured in Gaza, according to Australian public broadcaster ABC News, as reported by Middle East Eye. Two shipments from New South Wales-based Kids on Wheels Alliance reached Jordan in February 2025 and a third, from Western Australia’s Wheelchairs for Kids, arrived in October 2025; all three remain in warehouses run by the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation (JHCO). The JHCO says the block comes from the Israeli agency coordinating aid into Gaza, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), while an Israeli government source denied that an application for the Australian wheelchairs had been rejected. COGAT did not answer ABC’s specific questions about the Australian donations and said in a general response that it had let thousands of wheelchairs into the strip during the war.

According to the UN’s official record of the debate and Middle East Eye, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened the general debate of the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) saying that “generations of Palestinians will carry the pain and trauma left by the genocide of women and children perpetrated by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Gaza.” In the same speech, on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, Lula said that “Israeli civilians paid the price for the radicalism and intolerance of Hamas’ terrorist acts” and that illegal settlements in the West Bank are making a two-state solution increasingly unviable, according to The New Republic. He criticised the persecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its members and said that the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, must not be “silenced for telling the truth,” according to Al Jazeera, The New Republic and Israel Hayom.

Colombia’s government withdrew the declaration of intervention it had filed on 5 April 2024 in the case over genocide in the Gaza Strip brought by South Africa against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The court made public on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, the decision Colombia notified on 18 September, according to the court’s official case page and Anadolu Agency. The intervention rested on Article 63 of the court’s statute, which allows a state that is not party to a dispute to make submissions when the case concerns the interpretation of a convention it has also signed. Colombia was never a party to the main proceedings, and the withdrawal does not affect them. The decision reverses the policy of Gustavo Petro, who severed relations with Israel in May 2024 and halted Colombian coal exports to the country. Abelardo de la Espriella, who took office on 7 August 2026, restored diplomatic and economic ties, according to Middle East Eye and Anadolu Agency: the government plans to reopen its embassy in Jerusalem, set up a bilateral economic commission and send a delegation to Israel in October. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar thanked Colombia for the withdrawal, according to ColombiaOne.

Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, said on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, that Gaza City will be evacuated and destroyed if a single Israeli is abducted, and that the military will not make partial withdrawals from the 63% of the territory it holds until Hamas is disarmed. He spoke at the Yom Kippur War memorial in Jerusalem, according to Agence France-Presse, The Jerusalem Post and i24NEWS. “If a single Israeli soldier or civilian is kidnapped, the entire city of Gaza, with its houses and terror towers, will be evacuated southward with its million residents,” Katz said, addressing the warning to Hamas and, explicitly, to the governments of Iran and Turkey. Gaza City’s municipality puts its population at about 1.1 million.

Hundreds of thousands of children returned to in-person classes in Gaza on Saturday, for the first time in nearly three years, in damaged buildings and tents, according to Reuters. Gaza education officials say about 660,000 students were deprived of in-person, regular schooling during the war, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says 98 percent of schools in the territory were destroyed or damaged. According to Ibrahim Ramadan, director of education for East Khan Younis, the conflict killed about 22,000 students and more than 770 education workers, including 532 teachers — figures from a local authority, with no independent verification.