• US Senator Chris Van Hollen accuses the US ambassador in Israel of “covering up” information relating to the killing of American citizens in the occupied West Bank.

Gaza

Palestinian girl killed by Israeli drone in Gaza City

An eight-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza City, Wafa reports, quoting medical sources.

Shahd Abdul Razzaq al-Najjar was killed by fire from an Israeli quadcopter drone in the al-Jawazat area of Gaza City, the Palestinian news agency said.

A woman was also injured by Israeli fire in a separate incident in Khan Younis, Wafa reported.

Additionally, Israeli naval vessels opened fire off Gaza City while Israeli military vehicles fired on areas east of the city, the agency said.

At least 6 Palestinians killed in attacks across the Gaza Strip

Sources in Gaza’s hospitals are saying that at least six Palestinians, including an eight-year-old girl, have been killed by Israeli forces in several areas of the Strip since dawn.

One of the victims died from previously sustained injuries.

8 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on several areas of the Gaza Strip

Sources in Gaza’s hospitals have said that at least eight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in several areas of the Strip since dawn.

The deaths come on the first anniversary of a US-brokered “ceasefire“ in the strip.

Israeli drone strike kills Palestinian, wounds 3 others in central Gaza Strip

One Palestinian has been killed, and several others wounded, in an Israeli drone strike in the central Gaza Strip, Wafa reports.

The strike targeted three electric bicycles near the Abdeen Hall on Salah al-Din Street, east of Nuseirat refugee camp, the Palestinian news agency said.

Claims

Israeli military claims to have killed 2 Palestinian fighters

The Israeli army has claimed the killings of two people earlier this week in the Gaza Strip, alleging they carried out operations for Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

In a statement, the army said its forces killed Muhammad Abu Shlouf on Wednesday during an attack on the Khan Younis area, claiming he was a commander for the PIJ’s armed wing who participated in the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel.

The army killed Musa Atef Musa Abu Dan on Friday, also in Khan Younis. The statement referred to him as a “Nukhba”, or member of the Qassam Brigades’ naval commando unit.

Neither Hamas nor the PIJ have commented on these claims.

Death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza rises to 74,370, health ministry says

The number of people killed since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip three years ago has risen to at least 74,370, with 175,371 others wounded, according to the latest figures from the Health Ministry in the territory.

Ten people were killed over the past 48-hour reporting period, including one who succumbed to previous injuries, while 65 others were wounded, the ministry said in its daily update.

Since the so-called “ceasefire” in October 2025, at least 1,481 Palestinians have been killed, 5,254 wounded, and 836 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, it added.

Gaza ‘ceasefire’ ‘exists in name only’, more than 100 NGOs say

One year after the “ceasefire” in Gaza was reached with US backing, it exists only on paper, according to more than 100 humanitarian, human rights and civil society organisations.

“The ceasefire exists in name only, with Israeli forces continuing to kill and injure Palestinians daily, and restrictions on aid, equipment and rebuilding materials preventing families from recovering,” a joint statement by the NGOs said.

Amnesty International, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Save the Children, Oxfam, Greenpeace and dozens of other international groups said Israeli attacks in the enclave have killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including at least 327 children, in the year since Trump announced a deal to end hostilities as part of his Gaza Board of Peace framework.

Gaza-Israel deal is a ceasefire ‘in name only’, says rights expert

The deal struck a year ago to end fighting in Gaza and protect civilians was a “ceasefire in name only”, Mark Lattimer, executive director of the London-based Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights, says.

“There hasn’t really been a ceasefire”, Lattimer said, pointing to the Israeli Defence Forces’ killing of over 1,400 Palestinians since the deal was struck.

In reality, the deal is more akin to a “relatively successful” prisoner exchange, he said.

That’s because, soon after the deal was struck, we saw the remaining 20 living Israeli hostages released from Hamas and Palestinian armed groups in exchange for around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, he explained.

“But since then the killing has just gone on,” Lattimer said, adding that Israel’s yellow line of control in Gaza – which marks territory occupied by Israeli troops and areas where Gaza residents can go – has also been pushed incrementally further into Gaza.

He said: “If this is a ceasefire, then it’s a ceasefire in name only.”

Nearly two million in Gaza lack shelter as winter approaches, warns IOM

Nearly all of Gaza’s population of some two million people urgently require shelter assistance as winter approaches, with barely 17 percent of identified winter needs covered so far, the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has warned.

After years of displacement and widespread destruction, Palestinians are facing another winter without adequate protection from rain, cold and severe flooding. The IOM said severe funding shortages and restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities on the entry of critical aid are worsening the crisis.

“Families who have already endured repeated displacement and devastating loss must be able to face the winter in safety and dignity,” IOM Director General Amy Pope said. “Shelter materials must enter quickly, predictably and at the scale required.”

The agency, alongside its humanitarian partners, has identified nearly 1.8 million displaced people residing in high-risk flood zones. It said floodwaters could damage remaining shelters, destroy families’ remaining possessions and force people into further displacement.

Israel’s goal in Gaza remains forced displacement of the population, analyst says

The goal for Israel from the start of its genocidal war against Gaza was to force the Palestinians out of the strip, and there is no reason to believe that they have moved off that goal, Mohamed Elmasry, professor of media studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, said.

“All we have to do is listen to the Israeli leadership. It wasn’t long ago when Israel Katz, the defence minister, said that the Israeli army will never leave Gaza,” Elmasry said.

He added that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a speech a few months ago, also reinforced this idea.

“He (Netanyahu) said that Israel had gone from 53 percent occupation of Gaza to 60 percent, and he said the next step was to go to 70 percent. And then some people in the audience said they wanted all of it, and he responded by saying, ‘step by step’,” said Elmasry. “So the endgame is to force Palestinians out of Gaza.”

The professor also said that even if Netanyahu loses the upcoming elections, a major shift in this policy is unlikely.

“There are serious differences in Israel, serious political differences, obviously, between left and right and center. But on Palestinian issues, there’s actually an extraordinary level of consensus,” he said.

“There’s overwhelming sympathy for this idea of ethnic cleansing. I do think that Israel’s goal is ethnic cleansing, certainly in Gaza, and I would argue also in the West Bank.

“There’s overwhelming support for that if you look at the opinion polls, and the political parties themselves don’t really disagree on the basic fundamentals of the Israeli occupation,” he added.

Jerusalem

West Bank

Israeli forces shoot and kill Palestinian man north of Hebron

A Palestinian man has been killed by Israeli forces near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

The ministry said 32-year-old Shadi Ahmad Ibrahim Ajarma was shot and killed near the Nabi Yunis junction north of Hebron late on Friday, Wafa news agency reported.

The ministry added that Israeli forces are withholding the victim’s body.

Two injured as Israeli forces raid Jericho

Two young Palestinians have been injured by Israeli forces during an incursion into the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa news agency.

Medical sources told Wafa that one of the men sustained a gunshot wound to the thigh and the other to the foot after midnight, and both were transferred to hospital for treatment.

The sources added that the Israeli forces opened live fire towards residents after storming the city centre.

Israeli forces injure Palestinian journalist in raid north of Ramallah

Israeli forces have shot a Palestinian journalist with rubber-coated metal bullets and injured him during a raid in the village of Deir Abu Mash’al, north of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Dozens of other Palestinians suffered tear gas inhalation when soldiers fired gas canisters at farmers harvesting olives to force them off their land, Wafa reported, quoting local sources.

Journalist Issam al-Rimawi was struck in the thigh while covering the event.

Attacks by Israeli forces and settlers on Palestinian farmers and olive harvesters have been on the rise across the occupied West Bank since the start of the harvest.

Tear gas fired at Palestinian home during pogrom in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces and settlers have surrounded a house in the occupied West Bank, firing tear gas at those inside, Wafa reports.

The incident happened in the village of al-Mughayyir. Palestinians inside the house reportedly struggled to breathe because of the tear gas, the Palestinian news agency said.

Village head Amin Abu Aliya said Israeli forces and settlers knew that 20 people lived on the property and accused Israeli forces of preventing an ambulance crew from approaching the house and firing tear gas at it.

Anadolu says journalist shot in West Bank works for the Turkish news agency

The Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency has announced that the journalist reported earlier had been shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank is one of its employees.

Issam Rimawi was shot in the thigh with a rubber-coated metal bullet on Saturday while reporting on the olive harvest in the village of Deir Abu Mishal, northwest of Ramallah.

Settlers arrived and attacked Palestinians as they were gathering olives. Israeli forces then raided the village and protected the settlers while firing rubber bullets and tear gas.

Dozens of Palestinians subsequently inhaled tear gas.

Israeli settlers kidnap 3 Palestinian farmers west of Bethlehem

Israeli settlers have kidnapped three Palestinian farmers from their land near Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, our correspondent on the ground is reporting.

Israeli soldiers and settlers have been repeatedly preventing Palestinians from harvesting olives, a key source of income for tens of thousands of families.

Settler attack injures four Palestinian farmers in occupied West Bank

Four Palestinians have been injured after Israeli settlers attacked them near the town of Beita, south of Nablus, Wafa reports.

Settlers assaulted the farmers southeast of the town, Wafa said. The Palestinians were taken to a hospital for treatment.

The nature of their injuries was not immediately clear.

Happened in the occupied West Bank

• The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission has reported at least 12 Israeli settler attacks so far today in Ramallah, el-Bireh, Nablus, Qalqilya, Hebron and Jericho, with settlers assaulting olive harvesters, expelling farmers from their land and detaining them.
• At least nine Palestinians were injured in the settler attack on Deir Abu Mishal, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said, including an Anadolu journalist we earlier reported was shot in the thigh.
• In another attack west of Ramallah, two young Palestinian men were injured after settlers wielded pepper spray and assaulted them, breaking the hands of one of the men.
• Israeli forces arrested a young man from the suburb of Iktaba, east of Tulkarem, after raiding and ransacking his home.
• The Israeli military blew up a Palestinian flagpole today during a raid on the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, after claiming the flagpole might be booby-trapped.

Israeli forces leave Palestinian farmer, 64, in coma after olive harvest attack

Israeli forces have attacked four elderly farmers near Bethlehem, leaving one in a coma, Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

Israeli forces also detained the farmers for several hours while they were harvesting olives on their land near an illegal Israeli settlement south of Bethlehem in the Occupied West Bank, Palestinian sources told Wafa.

Each of the victims is reportedly in their 60s.

One man, 64, was assaulted seriously and has been transferred to a hospital, where he remains in a coma in an intensive care unit, Wafa reported.

Israeli forces and settlers regularly attack Palestinians harvesting olives, and have been known to also damage the crops and trees directly.

Life in the occupied West Bank ‘upended’

Nour Odeh

Life in the occupied West Bank has been completely upended. In the past three years, nothing has been left as it was on October 6, 2023, and already that was a record-breaking year in terms of Israeli violence and the number of Palestinian children killed before October 7.

Now we have more than 1,000 military gates and checkpoints dissecting the occupied West Bank. You have Israeli settlers who have been able to secure an unprecedented number of new illegal outposts and settlements in the occupied West Bank and a government that pledges more land grabs and warns its voters that if it is not re-elected, all of these so-called achievements will be lost.

The support for annexing the occupied West Bank is considerable among the Israeli electorate. Right now, there isn’t really talk about ending the occupation or Palestinian statehood from the opposition or the ruling coalition, and Palestinians find themselves on the receiving end of this political reality in Israel.

They are suffering during the olive harvest; suffering in terms of complete loss of security for themselves, their families and their properties; because of the unprecedented increase in Israeli settler attacks; and even in food insecurity. The number of Palestinian families who now require food assistance has nearly doubled because of these Israeli restrictions, because of the land grab and because of the destruction of properties by Israeli settlers.

Surge in violent attacks across occupied West Bank

Israeli forces and settlers have been attacking Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank as they prepare for the annual olive harvest.

Palestinian authorities documented at least 12 separate attacks on Saturday alone.

Violence against Palestinian farmers has escalated sharply over the past three years.

Other

Trump is shielding US and Israeli war criminals by sanctioning the ICC

Kenneth Roth, a senior fellow at Yale University and former executive director of Human Rights Watch, says new US sanctions on the International Criminal Court do not spell the end of the global rules-based order.

Roth argues the Trump administration is trying to “make the world safe for American and Israeli war criminals”, and notes that Washington also tried to exempt its own nationals when the court was created in 1998.

So far, 13 judges and prosecutors have been individually sanctioned. Now the court as a whole is targeted, which he says will make day-to-day operations very difficult.

He says the most important response is the European Union’s blocking statute, which would tell European banks not to comply. He says it has not been invoked because Dutch banks fear retaliation from Trump.

PA President Abbas postpones November’s legislative elections, sets presidential vote for September 2027

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has issued a decree canceling legislative elections scheduled for November 28.

According to the official news agency Wafa, Abbas set setting presidential ⁠and legislative elections ⁠for September ⁠11, ⁠2027.

The decree followed “a decision by the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and consultations with Palestinian factions and political forces, which resulted in a national consensus on obstacles posed by Israeli measures to holding elections on the previously scheduled date and the need to establish suitable political, security and field conditions for free, fair and inclusive elections”, reported Wafa.