• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas tells the UNGA that Israel’s policies go beyond undermining a two-state solution and now threaten the “very life and existence” of Palestinians.
• Hamas has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s UNGA address as “rife with lies”, saying that his denial of systematic genocide is contradicted by UN reports.

Israeli army says two soldiers killed in Gaza

Reservist Staff Sergeants Nadav Kali, 24, from Har Halutz, and Ofir Moalem, 23, from Jerusalem have been killed in combat in Gaza, according to an Israeli army statement.

Israeli local media reported that the two soldiers were killed by an army explosive drone in the northern Gaza Strip. On its second flight, the drone crashed inside the post and exploded after the soldiers approached it.

The Israeli army halted all drone operations pending the conclusion of the initial debriefing, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

Two Palestinians injured in Israeli shelling near Gaza’s Khan Younis

At least two Palestinians have been injured in Israeli artillery shelling just outside Gaza’s Khan Younis, according to medics at Nasser Medical Complex.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its latest update that at least 73,922 Palestinians have been killed and 174,995 wounded since Israel’s genocidal war began in October 2023.

Since the so-called “ceasefire” was established in October, at least 1,402 Palestinians have been killed and 4,881 injured.

Palestinian killed in attack by an Israeli drone on vehicles in Khan Younis

Ambulance and emergency services have told our colleagues on the ground that a Palestinian has been killed by an Israeli drone attack on vehicles in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli army claims two Hamas operatives killed in Gaza City

The Israeli army says it has killed two Hamas operatives in two strikes in Gaza City.

An Israeli strike on Wednesday killed the commander in Hamas’s military wing, Hassan Mahmoud Siam, according to the army statement.

Israeli police shoot 10 Arab citizens this year

Israeli police have killed an Arab man in his thirties in the town of Yafa an-Naserah, situated in Israel’s Lower Galilee region, reported the Palestinian Wafa news agency.

This latest incident brought the death toll to 10 Arab citizens killed by Israeli police gunfire since the start of this year.

Families of victims and local groups frequently questioned the police narrative regarding the circumstances of such shootings, and previous investigations into similar incidents were closed without any charges brought against Israeli police personnel.

Netanyahu calls Al Jazeera a ‘toxic media outlet’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Al Jazeera a “toxic media outlet” and described the media as an “eighth front” in Israel’s war.

But Israel has killed Palestinian journalists, shut down Al Jazeera’s operations and restricted media access to Gaza.

West Bank

Happened in the occupied West Bank

Based on reports from the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli troops and colonists have kept up a wave of arrests, military raids and property demolitions throughout the occupied West Bank on Thursday.

Here are some of the reported incidents:

• Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were wounded by live fire during a raid by Israeli forces on Qalqilya.
• Israeli forces arrested 19 Palestinians across various parts of the West Bank after raiding and searching their homes. Thirteen Palestinians from the town of Azzun were among those detained.
• Israeli colonists stormed the West Bank village of Atara, north of Ramallah, and burned two vehicles and wrote racist slogans. In the village of Farkha, west of Salfit, colonists attacked a flock of sheep and assaulted two young Palestinian men, inflicting head injuries.
• Israeli forces blew up the house of Palestinian prisoner Dawas Hassoun in the village of Beit Imrin, northwest of Nablus. They destroyed the property after besieging and evacuating it, which led to damage to the neighboring houses.

Happening in the occupied West Bank

Israeli forces continue to carry out raids and arrest Palestinians across the occupied West Bank.

Some of the latest developments reported by the Palestinian news agency Wafa:

• Israeli forces stormed the cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, and raided several homes in the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, at dawn.
• Israeli soldiers have maintained the closure of most of the military checkpoints and iron gates surrounding the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate and the surrounding villages and towns since Thursday.
• Israeli forces boarded up the home of a prisoner in the town of Biddu, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, at dawn, and issued a demolition order for it.
• Israeli colonists set fire to three vehicles and wrote racist slogans on the walls of several homes in the village of Rantis, west of Ramallah.
• Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian child from the town of Beita, south of Nablus, during a dawn raid.

Israeli forces raid homes in Beit Sahour and Nahalin in the occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have raided homes in the city of Beit Sahour and the town of Nahalin in the Bethlehem Governorate in the occupied West Bank, reported Wafa.

No arrests were made, the Palestinian news agency added.

Images of sealed-off checkpoints in West Bank used by Israeli politicians to lobby for election

From Nida Ibrahim:

Israeli authorities need no real reason to seal off checkpoints to prevent Palestinians from moving from one place to another in the occupied West Bank. And this is just another example: The Ein Synia checkpoint has been closed over the past week. Israeli forces also do a lot of checks at the checkpoint near the illegal Israeli settlement of Beit El, which causes major traffic jams around that area.

Some checkpoints are reopening, including the Yabrud-Silwad road checkpoint, northeast of Ramallah. The Israeli forces stationed in Ramallah sometimes close them to exert collective punishment and other times because they are raiding the town and to continue disrupting Palestinians’ lives.

All of this is happening before Israel’s elections. All these images help Israeli politicians lobby and get more votes because they can show that they are trying to enhance security for Israelis, that they are cracking down on what the Israelis call “Palestinian terror”.

Palestinians here say that even if one attack were to happen, the Israelis would seal off the whole area to remind Palestinians that if anyone tries to resist Israel’s military occupation, then everyone in the vicinity will pay a heavy price.

Israeli colonists storm Khirbet Safa village in the West Bank

Israeli colonists have stormed the village of Khirbet Safa, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, under protection from the Israeli army, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports.

Israeli forces uproot olive trees, detain several Palestinians in West Bank: Palestinian news agency

Israeli forces have detained several Palestinians and destroyed Palestinian property during raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

One man was detained in the northern Jordan Valley, while a girl was briefly detained and questioned in Khirbet Safa, the agency said.

Israeli forces also used bulldozers to tear down dozens of olive trees in the village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa and issued notices of plans to destroy more land in the area, reported Wafa.

UN expands list of firms involved in illegal Israeli settlement activities

The United Nations human rights office has added 61 more companies to its database of businesses engaging in activities linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

The majority are Israeli businesses, with others based in China, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom.

The activities include, among others, facilitating the construction and expansion of settlements, supplying surveillance and identification equipment, providing banking services, and providing services and utilities.

Israeli forces arrest six Palestinians, including a teen

Wafa news agency reports that Israeli forces arrested six Palestinians across the occupied West Bank today, including 17-year-old Mahmoud Daher Mahmoud Daoud from the town of Beita, south of Nablus.

Also arrested were Majed Dabas and his 20-year-old son Ahmed, after soldiers raided their home in the Shuweika suburb of Tulkarem.

In the village of Masliya, in Jenin, Israeli forces arrested three additional Palestinians: Issam Rasem Abu al-Rub, Khaled Farouq Abu al-Rub, and Hani Abu al-Rub.