Israel launches new attacks on Gaza

Israeli drones dropped a large number of munitions on the al-Kateeba district west of Gaza City.

At least 10 explosions occurred in the area. Sources at al-Shifa Hospital say casualties are arriving.

Meanwhile, in the southern Gaza Strip, there are reports of ongoing clashes in the city of Khan Younis near the American Hospital.

 

Israel orders hospital evacuation in Gaza during ‘unfolding’ attack

Israel’s military says it attacked several targets in the Gaza Strip area “with the aim of removing threats”.

Two vehicles have been struck by drone missiles, it said in a statement.

“The American field hospital has been ordered to evacuate due to the ongoing strikes. The incident is still unfolding and the situation remains highly volatile,” the army said.

At least 3 killed including children in latest Israeli attacks on Gaza

At least three Palestinians have been killed, including two children and a woman, in Israeli army attacks.

Another eight people were wounded in strikes on the al-Kateeba area west of Gaza City, a source at al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera. Two vehicles were hit and reduced to twisted wreckage.

Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Government Media Office, said Israeli commandos attempted to carry out an operation in Gaza City but were discovered. Israel then launched heavy air raids involving more than 10 warplanes, killing and wounding the Palestinians.

In a separate incident, medics said a ⁠girl, Israa al-Hissi, was killed and two other people ⁠were wounded when Israeli forces operating east of Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, opened fire.

At least 2 Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire in Khan Younis

The Nasser Medical Complex says two Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Separately, al-Shifa Hospital said the death toll from Israeli attacks in the al-Kateeba area, west of Gaza City, has risen to four, including two children and a woman.

Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 1,318 people since a “ceasefire” came into effect in October 2025. More than 73,000 Palestinians – more than half women and children – have been killed in the ongoing genocide.

Israeli minister claims senior Hamas member arrested in Gaza City

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says a senior Hamas member has been captured during attacks on Gaza City.

Attacks in Gaza City have killed at least four Palestinians, including two children and a woman, since this morning.

Katz did not provide further details about the person’s identity or the circumstances of the reported capture. An Israeli security source, cited by the Times of Israel, claimed the person was the head of Hamas’s internal security apparatus.

However, sources in Gaza gave a different account, with one telling the AFP news agency the Israeli mission against a prominent Hamas figure was thwarted, and special forces withdrew “on motorcycles under Israeli cover”.

Ismail al-Thawabta, head of Hamas’s media office in Gaza, said Israeli commandos were “exposed during the mission”.

Israeli military claims it hit Hamas commander in attack on northern Gaza’s Jabalia

Israel’s military says it has carried out an attack in northern Gaza’s Jabalia area, hitting a Hamas commander, without identifying the victim or providing any evidence.

In a statement, the military said it would continue to operate in Gaza “to remove any threat”.

Hamas condemns Israeli attacks as continuation of ‘war of genocide’ against Palestinians

Hamas has condemned Israeli attacks on Gaza today that have killed at least five people and wounded numerous others, calling it a “systematic, fascist escalation by the government of war criminal [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu”.

In a statement, the group said that the attacks confirm the continuation of the “war of genocide” against Palestinians and a “renunciation of obligations under the ceasefire agreement”.

“What is unfolding is no longer a series of sporadic violations or isolated incidents; it has become a policy of systematic aggression and an ongoing war manifesting in various forms,” the statement reads.

“We reiterate our call upon the mediators and guarantors of the ceasefire agreement to shoulder their responsibilities regarding these Zionist crimes against our people. We urge them to take immediate action to pressure the occupation government to halt its aggression and to compel it to honour the agreement signed under international auspices,” it added.

Hamas said the daily attacks demanded international, including UN-level, action to hold Israel accountable.

Hamas holds talks with mediators and Board of Peace head Nickolay Mladenov

In a statement released today, Hamas said it held talks with mediators and Board of Peace Director-General Nickolay Mladenov, during which the group condemned “the criminal operation carried out by the Zionist occupation army today in the Gaza Strip, as well as the accompanying attacks and bombardment that resulted in the killing of martyrs and the injury of a number of our people.”

Hamas urged the mediators and guarantors of the ceasefire agreement “to exert the utmost pressure” on the Israeli government to stop attacking Gaza.

The group added that the recent attacks are “deliberate escalatory steps by the occupation”, which are aimed at “undermining the ceasefire agreement, thwarting efforts to complete its implementation, and creating the conditions for the continuation of the war of genocide and aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip”.

WHO warns upcoming rainy season in Gaza threatens public health

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the forthcoming rainy season in Gaza risks worsening the already-dire public health crisis, as most displaced Palestinians continue to cope with overcrowded tent camps and sewage overflows.

“Whilst we fail to provide people with the minimum quantities of water, water quality and water contamination remains a major issue,” said Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the WHO’s representative in the Palestinian territories.

Speaking from Gaza, Van de Weerdt told reporters in Geneva that testing about 6,700 water samples over the first eight months of the year indicated that “microbiological contamination almost tripled”.

She said that it was not surprising that cases of acute watery diarrhea had nearly doubled since March, from about 27,000 cases to over 48,000 in August.

“Flooding in these very overcrowded places will [send] the sewage, the waste and contaminated water into the places where people sleep, cook and care for their loved ones,” she warned.

Van de Weerdt maintained there was still time to prevent a public health disaster and called for the “unimpeded and expedited entry of humanitarian supplies”.

Dublin’s MEP criticizes EU ‘inertia’ on Israel’s policies and illegal settlements in West Bank

Barry Andrews, a member of the European Parliament for Dublin, commented on the situation in the occupied West Bank:

“What I saw on the ground was a very clear policy of apartheid at almost every level of life in the West Bank,” he said, naming access to schools, decisions on permitting, and “the suffocation of Palestinian businesses”.

He added that the plan for the E1 settlement would not only divide the occupied West Bank, but would also make “the prospect of a Palestinian State almost completely unviable”.

Andrews said that the situation was particularly “depressing against the backdrop of the inertia of European policy in reacting to everything that has happened there in the last couple of years”.

When asked about why the European Union hasn’t imposed trade restrictions on Israel, Andrews said that “some member states” are “standing in the way of creating the qualified majority that is required to bring an end to trade with the illegal settlements”.

Meanwhile, the situation is worsened by the “widespread mislabeling of goods coming from the illegal settlements”, and countries cannot impose their own sanctions separately “given the free movement of goods within the European Union”.

Israel threatens to ‘act against Britain’ if London imposes sanctions on illegal E1 settlement project

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says that the country will use “tools” to act against the United Kingdom if it issues sanctions on Israel’s illegal E1 settlement project.

“If Britain acts against Israel, Israel will act against Britain,” the minister said to Israeli news outlet Ynet.

Saar’s threat comes shortly after UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told British lawmakers that London will set out a “comprehensive” package of measures on ⁠Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying that Israel’s action “risks making a Palestinian state unviable”.

“There is a government there that is systematically acting against Israel,” Saar remarked. “It has already harmed defence exports to us and imposed sanctions on ministers. What guides it is its domestic politics, and at the end of the month the Labour Party conference is convening.”

He added that London will “be making a major mistake” if it acts.

Israeli’s E1 settlement project aims to create a continuous Israeli settlement “corridor” between occupied East Jerusalem and the large settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, 7km (4.5 miles) east of Jerusalem. Settlements and outposts on occupied land are illegal under international law.

Israeli checkpoint leaves Qusra residents trapped, settlers move freely in ‘closed military zone’

Four Palestinians remain trapped in the West Bank village of Qusra, near Nablus, as an Israeli military checkpoint prevents Palestinian-American Loui Abu Ridi and his family from leaving their home. What had been three besieged residents turned into four following the August 29 attack on the village.

“[The military] is blocking our family members from providing us with food, supplies and medicine,” Abu Ridi said. “They keep saying we have to coordinate for [our family members] to be allowed to come here, which takes days.”

“Every time we talk to [Israeli] soldiers, they keep saying it’s a closed military zone and no one can be here. On the other hand, the settlers can freely walk around. Actually, the last attack was 300 yards from my house,” he said.

Over the past month, Qusra has faced escalating pogroms by Israeli settlers; three houses have been besieged since August.

“My mother is 83 years old, and her medicine is getting low. My sister is a schoolteacher and is supposed to go to school next week… My brother and neighbors have been unable to go to work for a month now, trapped in their houses,” he said.

Elderly Palestinian woman hospitalized after severe beating by Israeli settlers near Ramallah

Fatima Muqattam, an elderly Palestinian woman, has been hospitalized after being severely beaten by Israeli settlers east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian medical sources.

Settlers assaulted the woman and her husband, Wajih Hamdan, as the couple resisted the settlers’ attempt to steal their livestock in the village of Burqa, hospital sources said.

‘Not another nickel for the extremist Netanyahu government,’ US senator says

US Senator Bernie Sanders has condemned Israeli military policies and settler pogroms in the West Bank, sharing a New York Times report on X that highlights testimonies from retired military officials.

“Listen to the words of retired Israeli generals speaking out against Israeli settlers terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank,” Sanders wrote, quoting figures featured in the coverage.

Among those cited was Ephraim Sneh, a retired brigadier general and former health minister, who stated, “This is ethnic cleansing.”

Asaf Agmon, a retired Air Force general, added in the report, “Once a society behaves this way, that society is doomed.”

Sanders reiterated his opposition to the bilateral support in the US for Israel, saying, “Not another nickel for the extremist Netanyahu government.”

‘The Nakba never ended’: Zachary Foster on settler violence in the West Bank

Israeli settler violence and land confiscation in the occupied West Bank have reached record levels. In an interview with Al Jazeera, historian Zachary Foster said this is “the most right-wing government in all of Israeli history”, with right-wing parties competing to be “the most violent and the most genocidal towards Palestinians”.

He said “the Nakba never ended”, arguing that Israel has been on a “58-year project of expelling Palestinians” since 1967 through policies that strip Palestinians of residency and physical displacement.

Foster said change will not come from within Jewish-Israeli society, citing polls which he said showed significant support for the expulsion and killing of Palestinians. He argued that pressure must come from outside through sanctions, boycotts, divestment, protests and direct action, pointing to Palestine Action’s campaign against arms factories supplying Israel.

Happened in the occupied West Bank

• The Israeli military arrested two Palestinians after raiding and searching their family homes in Bethlehem.
• Israeli forces arrested two young men during dawn raids on the Old City of Nablus and Balata al-Balad east of the city. Several homes were also stormed.
• A Palestinian man was injured after being assaulted by the Israeli army during the Nablus raid and taken to hospital for treatment.
• Israeli military vehicles entered the village of Beitunia, west of Ramallah. No arrests were reported.
• Israeli forces raided Tammun, in the north of the occupied West Bank, and searched homes. They later withdrew with no arrests reported.

Funding shortfall forces UN to cut West Bank aid in half

The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) said funding cuts are forcing it to slash the number of aid recipients in the occupied West Bank by half, warning of dire consequences.

Assistance was reaching 400,000 of the most vulnerable Palestinians, but this will be scaled back to 200,000 starting this month, it said in a statement.

“WFP is being forced to reduce the number of people we assist in the West Bank by half, and this is happening as the food needs in the West Bank are more than double what they were two years ago,” Shaun Hughes, the agency’s representative in the Palestinian territory, told reporters.

“Families who were once thriving and earning a living from their land are now unable to afford enough food.”

Increased settler violence, pogroms and forced displacement against Palestinians have disrupted livelihoods, “deepening hunger and pushing families further into crisis”, WFP said.

WFP says funding shortages cut food assistance in occupied West Bank in half

The World Food Program (WFP) says funding shortages are forcing it to cut its food assistance in the occupied West Bank in half as settler pogroms intensify and Israeli army operations continue.

In a statement, the WFP said it has been providing food, vouchers, and cash to 400,000 people, mostly in rural areas and the south, including Hebron, but will scale back to 200,000 people starting this month.

“Severe movement restrictions, demolitions, and widespread displacement in the West Bank have eroded Palestinian livelihoods and contributed to increased food insecurity,” Shaun Hughes, WFP country director for Palestine, told a Geneva news conference.

“Right now, we should be scaling up our assistance in the West Bank, not cutting these vital lifelines,” he said.

Hughes added that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank find themselves in a “chokehold” and are unable to move freely for work to afford food for their families or access land, “they face incredible injustice and hardship”.

Israeli settlers try to torch mosque in occupied West Bank

• Israeli settlers attempted to set fire to a mosque in Bazariya, northwest of Nablus, after failing to break down its doors. They set ablaze a room near the mosque and wrote racist slogans.
• The Israeli military arrested five Palestinians after raiding homes in Rummanah, west of Jenin, at dawn.
• A Palestinian man was seized by Israeli soldiers after he passed through the Anab military checkpoint east of Tulkarem.
• Israeli settlers set fire to a vehicle and shouted racist slogans in Nahalin west of Bethlehem.
• Israeli troops detained a Palestinian from Tammun, south of Tubas, while three others were arrested across Hebron governorate.

Palestinian presidency warns of escalating ‘religious conflict’ over Al-Aqsa Mosque

The presidency of the Palestinian Authority has warned of an intensifying danger from what it calls a religious war by Israeli forces and settlers against Al-Aqsa Mosque and other holy sites.

“Systematic attacks have crossed all red lines and could ignite a wider religious conflict with serious consequences for the region and the world,” it said in a statement reported by the Wafa news agency.

Attempts to set fire to a mosque in the town of Beita, northwest of Nablus, and spray racist slogans on its walls coincided with Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s “storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque”, the statement noted.

“The continuation of the repeated attacks, and the accompanying incitement, is the full responsibility of the occupying government, which is pushing matters toward this dangerous escalation,” the presidency said.

It called on the international community to take “immediate and serious action to stop these crimes”.

Israeli bulldozers demolish residential structures near occupied West Bank’s Tubas

Israeli bulldozers have begun demolishing residential structures and livestock pens in the Ras al-Ahmar area, southeast of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

The report quoted Mutaz Bisharat, the official in charge of settlement affairs in Tubas Governorate, who said the affected properties belonged to two Palestinian families.

At the same time, soldiers stormed the towns of Qaffin and Zeita, north of Tulkarem, with several military vehicles patrolling the streets and setting up a checkpoint at the Ras Rummana intersection, according to local sources quoted by Wafa.

Soldiers stopped residents’ vehicles and checked their identities, but no arrests were reported.

Christian presence in Jerusalem ‘threatened with extinction’ by Israel, Bethlehem pastor says

As Christian schools in occupied East Jerusalem remain closed on Tuesday after Israel declined to renew entry permits for Palestinian teachers who travel from the occupied West Bank.

Reverend Mitri Raheb, a pastor in Bethlehem, called the decision an “attack on the Christian presence”.

Raheb said, “Many of these teachers are Palestinian Christians from Bethlehem who are still being prevented from entering Jerusalem”. Raheb added that, as part of the clergy living in Bethlehem, he still does not have a permit to go to Jerusalem.

Reverend Raheb said the recent restrictions are “just another step in attacks on the church presence in Jerusalem, which is really now threatened with extinction”.

Israel is planning to expand its curriculum to schools in East Jerusalem. Addressing the plans, the pastor suggested that changing the curriculum in Christian schools is “part of a pattern of settler colonialism, where an attempt is made to make native people unlearn their own history and adopt the settler-colonial narrative”.

“Genocide is happening all over historic Palestine, but in different manners. In Gaza, it is genocide as we have seen it. In the [occupied] West Bank, it is through a settler-colonial project which is trying to push us out of the country,” he concluded.

UK to unveil ‘comprehensive’ response to Israeli-occupied West Bank settlement plans, foreign secretary says

The United Kingdom will set out a “comprehensive” package of measures on ⁠Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in the coming weeks, ⁠Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband says.

Speaking to lawmakers, Miliband said that Israel’s E1 settlement project would cut across land which ‌the Palestinians seek for a state and “risks making a Palestinian state unviable”.

The E1 settlement project would ultimately create a continuous Israeli settlement “corridor” between occupied East Jerusalem and the large settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, 7km (4.5 miles) east of Jerusalem. Settlements and outposts on occupied land are illegal under international law.

“This government will not acquiesce in the destruction of the two-state solution,” Miliband said. “We will act⁠, and I will set out ⁠a comprehensive set of measures in the coming weeks.”

The UK Prime Minister and Labour leader Andy Burnham is expected to soon approve a ban on goods linked to Israeli settlements after the Israeli government issued tenders to build more than 1,200 units for the illegal E1 project.

Israel threatens to ‘act against Britain’ if London imposes sanctions on illegal E1 settlement project

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says that the country will use “tools” to act against the United Kingdom if it issues sanctions on Israel’s illegal E1 settlement project.

“If Britain acts against Israel, Israel will act against Britain,” the minister said to Israeli news outlet Ynet.

Saar’s threat comes shortly after UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told British lawmakers that London will set out a “comprehensive” package of measures on ⁠Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying that Israel’s action “risks making a Palestinian state unviable”.

“There is a government there that is systematically acting against Israel,” Saar remarked. “It has already harmed defence exports to us and imposed sanctions on ministers. What guides it is its domestic politics, and at the end of the month the Labour Party conference is convening.”

He added that London will “be making a major mistake” if it acts.

Israeli’s E1 settlement project aims to create a continuous Israeli settlement “corridor” between occupied East Jerusalem and the large settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, 7km (4.5 miles) east of Jerusalem. Settlements and outposts on occupied land are illegal under international law.