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‘This is kidnapping’: Freedom Flotilla Coalition slams Israel’s interception of aid ships
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which has tried to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza itself seven times, has accused Israel of attacking the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters and abducting those on board.

In a statement on X, the group said: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”

The coalition described the incident as “piracy” and “kidnapping”, saying: “Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping. The flotilla did not break any laws.

“What is unlawful is: genocide, the deadly blockade of Gaza, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the piracy of civilian vessels and abduction of all those on board.”

The statement urged supporters to pressure governments to act, writing: “Demand your government cut ties with Israel.”

Italy’s largest union announces general strike over flotilla handling
Italy’s largest union says it is calling a general strike for Friday in protest over the treatment of the Sumud flotilla.

Earlier, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said he had been assured by his Israeli counterpart that Israeli forces will not use any violence on the flotilla.

Protests erupt across Italy after Israel intercepts flotilla ships
Protests have sprang up in a number of Italian cities after reports that the flotilla vessels had been intercepted by military personnel.

In the southern city of Naples, demonstrators got into the main railway station and halted train traffic, while police surrounded the Termini railway station in Rome after protesters gathered close to entrances.

Meanwhile, Italian unions have called for a strike to protest the treatment of the flotilla.

“The aggression against civilian ships that were carrying Italian citizens is an extremely serious matter,” the CGIL union said, calling the strike which other smaller unions said they would join.

The announcement comes after a previous general strike in support of Gaza and the GSF called by the grassroots Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) on September 22.

In the northwestern city of Genoa, the USB announced that it intended to block the port and called on all protesters to gather at 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) at one of the main entrances.

Israel, Sumud Flotilla release videos of communications as interception begins
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has released a video purportedly showing an Israeli navy officer telling the flotilla to change its course to the Israeli port of Ashdod “where the aid will undergo a security inspection” before being transferred to Gaza.

The Global Sumud Flotilla released its own video showing a response from steering committee member Thiago Avila.

“You say that we are entering an active warzone. You are saying that we are entering a place where you are committing war crimes,” Avila said. “This is against international law. Once again, the International Court of Justice made a provisional ruling that any attempt to hinder a humanitarian mission to Gaza is prohibited by international law, and [the flotilla] is complying with the request to make you accountable for the crime of genocide.”

“It is our moral duty to refuse any attempt of an occupying force to control humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people in Gaza who have … the right to control their own borders,” he added. “Therefore, we do not recognise you as a legitimate agent to bring aid to the Palestinian people in Gaza.”

https://twitter.com/GSMFlotilla/status/1973456085475533259

Six vessels confirmed intercepted
At least six of the flotillas ships have been intercepted by the Israeli Navy, according to the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The names of the vessels are Deir Yassin/Mali, Huga, Spectre, Adara, Alma and Sirius, it said.

Israeli forces using ‘active aggression’ on fleet: Gaza flotilla organisers
The organisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla say that Israeli navy forces are using “active aggression” on their fleet trying to deliver aid to Gaza.

“Florida vessel has been deliberately rammed at sea. Yulara, Meteque and others have been targeted with water cannons,” the Global Sumud Flotilla said in a post on Telegram.

All passengers on board are unharmed, it added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/2/live-geta-thunberg-once-more-on-board-sumud-flotilla-sailing-for-gaza

>>491741
Protesters shut down Berlin train station
Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are reporting that demonstrators closed the central train station in the German capital, Berlin, in protest against the attack on the flotilla vessels.

Protests have erupted in several major cities around the world, including Athens, Rome, Istanbul, and Tunis.

Irish senator ‘illegally detained’ aboard Gaza flotilla, Sinn Fein says
Sinn Fein Senator Chris Andrews has been “illegally detained” by Israeli forces while on board the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, Irish political party Sinn Fein has said.

It called on the Irish government to “act now” and “demand the immediate and safe release of Senator Chris Andrews and all Irish citizens”.

“The flotilla is a peaceful humanitarian mission carrying food and aid to Gaza. This violent interception is a blatant violation of international law,” it added.

There are a total of 22 Irish citizens on board boats carrying aid towards Gaza, coordinators of the Global Sumud Flotilla have said.

Irish President Michael D Higgins has reportedly said international law has been breached by Israel in relation to the interception of the vessels.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/2/live-geta-thunberg-once-more-on-board-sumud-flotilla-sailing-for-gaza

>>491743
Eight flotilla boats confirmed intercepted
The Global Sumud Flotilla says eight of its vessels have now been intercepted by Israeli forces while attempting to sail towards Gaza.

The boats confirmed as seized by Israel are the Deir Yassine/Mali, Huga, Spectre, Adara, Alma, Sirius, Aurora and Grande Blue.

The convoy was carrying international activists and humanitarian aid in an attempt to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, which has been described by the International Court of Justice as unlawful.

More than 70 killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza since dawn
As Israeli forces intercept activists attempting to deliver aid by sea to a starving population in Gaza, Israel’s onslaught against the enclave continues to kill Palestinians.

The death toll in Gaza has just risen, with Israel’s bombardment killing at least 73 people since dawn on Wednesday, most of the victims in Gaza City, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

Earlier, we reported that two missiles struck a school that had been converted into a shelter for displaced people east of Gaza City, killing dozens of people.

As Gaza’s civil defence crews rushed to the scene, another strike critically injured many of the emergency workers and killed six more civilians.

Elsewhere, at least seven people were killed in an attack on a house in the Daraj neighbourhood of the city.

Israel’s assault on the enclave shows no sign of easing, with strikes continuing to pound densely populated areas.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/2/live-geta-thunberg-once-more-on-board-sumud-flotilla-sailing-for-gaza

https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1973505544892633405
Thomas Keith - A major security lapse happened in New York:

Despite strict protocols to keep the blinds closed during high-level meetings, someone managed to film Netanyahu and his delegation through an open window for hours during his visit. The Israeli and American flags are clearly visible behind him, exposing the Prime Minister to anyone with a line of sight.

Col. (res.) Ronen Cohen stated: “The Prime Minister was left exposed, no protection, just days after a targeted attack on a high-profile figure. I am deeply worried.”

For all the posturing about national security, it only took a neighbor with a phone to compromise the entire operation.

https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1973533132877078765
Ahmed Hassan - Demonstrations in Tunisia condemning the Zionist attack on the Steadfastness Flotilla.

Chants included: "Oh Yemen, oh Yemen… no warships, no ships."

🫡 consider it done

So Greta is being held by Israel again. The cynic in me is thinking that this whole flotilla thing was designed to pacify people by giving them some false hope for a bit. Because how could this work? Even if Israel let them on land they don't form much of a supply chain. Probably a single container ship could carry more supplies than their entire fleet of boats. And they were never going to let them in anyway.

Good on them for trying I guess, but to free palestine we must first free ourselves from our ruling class.

>>491734
Something like 30 boats in the flotilla haven't been intercepted.

https://x.com/GSMFlotilla/status/1973550848170230107
BREAKING!!!!!!

#GlobalSumudFlotilla BOAT, MORGANA, HAS EVADED CAPTURE AND IS AROUND 50 KILOMETERS FROM #GAZA!!!!

https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1973517138267689277
Tunisia: The Secretary-General of the Workers' Party, Hamma Hammami calls to besiege the US Embassy:

What happened today with the "Fleet of Steadfastness" is a crime that started from Tunisia

Gaza has mobilized the people and the protest movement in various parts of the world, we must take advantage of it to escalate pressure on the occupation

I call for besieging the US embassy in Tunisia

It is necessary for the unions to move to criminalize normalization and we in Tunisia put this criminalization at the forefront of our activities

>>491752
https://x.com/gbsumudflotilla/status/1973602176288055489
SOUND THE ALARM – INTERCEPTION 🚨
BREAKING: On Oct 1, 2025
Israeli naval forces illegally intercepted and boarded the Global Sumud Flotilla’s vessel Morgana along with other boats in international waters.

Live-streams and communications have been cut…

https://x.com/GlobalSumud/status/1973638871138078861
Mikeno ship successfully broke through the Israeli blockade and entered Gaza's territorial waters!!

>>491756
Wow some actually good fucking news for once! Thanks for the updates

>>491759
It sounds like there's now only one boat the IOF haven't attacked sailing towards Gaza.

>>491760
This is some One Piece shit

>>491760
I hear the last boat got boarded by IDF. I also heard that 45 Turkish boats (civilian) are headed to Gaza after the flotilla was intercepted.

Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel, Hacked Emails Reveal
The billionaire Oracle founder is on track to take control of the American media.

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As the nation’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also played a role in the TikTok talks that steered the company toward Ellison, after playing a lead role as a senator in demonizing the app; he was also closely involved in the rollout of Trump’s plan for Gaza’s future, which hands the enclave to Blair. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner tasked the Blair Institute in the spring with coming up with a post-war plan for Gaza, which was recently completed, the Times of Israel reported.

That Rubio finds himself in such a central position is in part thanks to Ellison, who has been a major patron of the Cuban-American former senator from Florida. Ellison first vetted Rubio for his fealty toward Israel back in early 2015, according to previously unreported email correspondence reviewed by Drop Site. Rubio rose to prominence as a Tea Party-backed conservative Senate upstart in 2010, launching a presidential campaign in the 2016 cycle. As secretary of state, Rubio launched an unprecedented crackdown on speech, detaining and attempting to deport critics of Israel precisely for the crime of their criticism of Israel.

In early 2015, Ellison was emailing Ron Prosor, who was serving in the tail end of his time as Israeli ambassador to the United Nations; he currently serves as the Israeli ambassador to Germany.

At the time, Rubio was seen as a strong challenger in a GOP presidential field that would ultimately include underdog candidate Donald Trump. The emails show the Israeli diplomat and Ellison arranging to meet with one another, with Prosor soliciting Ellison’s views on Rubio as a potential candidate who would advocate on behalf of Israel.

On April 26, 2015, Prosor sent Ellison an email titled “Rubio speech,” asking the Oracle founder and CTO to send him a copy of a speech from the then-candidate. (The emails don’t specify which speech, but Rubio had kicked off his campaign a week earlier with a speech that criticized the Obama administration’s “hostility to Israel.”) The next day the two traded messages indicating that Prosor and Ellison had had dinner together, and that Ellison would soon be meeting Rubio directly. “I had a great time too Ron. I’m looking forward to the next time,” Ellison said, adding, “PS – I’ll tell you how dinner goes with Senator Rubio.”

On April 30, Prosor sent another message to Ellison to follow up, sharing his phone number and thanking him again for the evening they spent together. “How was the conversation with Mario Rubio. [sic] Did he pass your scrutiny? Did you have a chance to talk about Israel ? Would love to chat.”

A few hours later Ellison responded in the affirmative. “Hi Ron. Great meeting with Marco Rubio. I set him up to meet with Tony Blair,” adding, “Marco will be a great friend for Israel.”

A month later, Ellison, who had backed Mitt Romney in 2012, hosted a fundraiser for Rubio at his mansion in Woodside, California. That would be only the beginning of a broader range of support that the tech billionaire would offer in attempting to bolster Rubio’s campaign. Over the course of the 2015-2016 primary Ellison plowed $5 million into the Conservative Solutions super PAC which supported Rubio, who, as Ellison privately hoped, advocated vocally for Israel throughout the course of his presidential bid and beyond.

Ellison’s support for Rubio perplexed some political observers at the time. The CEO of the political crowdfunding platform CrowdPac (now known as Crowdblue) Steven Hilton, told the San Francisco Chronicle that that he found it “interesting” that Ellison, who was not then well-known as a supporter of right-wing causes, “should support a candidate as conservative as Marco Rubio,” speculating that it could “reflect Rubio’s past effort to implement immigration reform, a crucial issue for Silicon Valley leaders like Ellison.”

Requests for comment about the exchange to Ellison, the U.S. State Department, and the Israeli Embassy in Germany where Prosor is currently stationed were not returned.

The correspondence between the Israeli diplomat and Ellison is part of an archive of emails released by Handala, a hacking group suspected of having connections to the Iranian ministry of intelligence. The documents were then obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a non-profit whistleblower and file-sharing website, where they are presently available to a select pool of verified researchers and journalists. While the emails were posted without metadata that would allow their authenticity to be verified, they contain hundreds of photographs, documents, and other information from Prosor and his contacts, including non-public information verified as accurate by Drop Site.

The archive ends in 2016, suggesting that the data had been exfiltrated prior to being posted by Handala in October 2024. The announcement by the “Handala Hack Team” that it had gained access to Prosor’s emails was made around the same time it announced a trove of emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. (Drop Site published a story on September 28 about Jeffrey Epstein brokering an Israeli security agreement with Barak.)

read more:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/larry-ellison-vetted-marco-rubio-israel-hacked-emails-ron-prosor

https://x.com/MSF/status/1973813667004350474
This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

https://x.com/RepublicanMLM/status/1973767794123808952
Dublin Port has been totally shut down for 2 hours by Palestine protesters in solidarity with the Sumud Flotilla

Naturally, no coverage in Irish media

https://x.com/jonelmer/status/1973866316563165547
Qassam vs IDF in Tel al-Hawa: i) fighter hand-delivers a Barq guerrilla action device into turret gap of an IDF Merkava tank; ii) 2nd fighter hand-delivers 2x IEDs to Namer troop carriers during a raid on an IDF outpost in a school in SW Gaza City Monday. [Qassam Brigades 2/10]

>>491766
The Marinette is reportedly still going.

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel
A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

According to a 2020 medical paper co-authored by Keck and Navy trauma surgeons, the “combat trauma surgery skills course” attended by IDF medical personnel used “fresh human cadavers.” These cadavers were provided by the L.A. County Office of Decedent Affairs, which manages cremation and burial for the county’s unclaimed bodies. Relatives might not claim a body for any number of reasons, including the cost of burial.
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While the partnership between USC and the Department of Defense that mentions “IDF personnel” and “fresh dissection training” began in 2017, the IDF surgical courses started in 2013, as reported in an archived Navy press release and medical paper.
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The federal contracts cover the costs of the cadavers — three bodies per IDF course, with multiple courses occurring each year, according to inactive contracts from 2023 and 2021. The funding also covers antibody tests for the bodies, refrigerator storage space, “cadaver perfusion services” to replicate blood flow and circulation, 96 hours of lab coordinator or “surgical technician time,” and disposable medical supplies, including scalpels, gloves and gauze.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/usc-sold-dead-bodies-to-us-military-to-train-idf-medical-personnel/

Hamas says ready to release all Israeli captives, discuss details of Trump plan
The Palestinian group says that, in order to end Israel’s war on Gaza and a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the enclave, it is ready to release all Israeli captives – both those who are living and dead – according to the exchange plan outlined in Trump’s proposal.

“In this context, the movement affirms its readiness to immediately enter into negotiations through the mediators to discuss the details of this agreement,” Hamas said in a statement shared on Telegram.

It also said it agrees to hand over the administration of Gaza to an independent body of Palestinian technocrats, “based on Palestinian national consensus and Arab and Islamic support”.

“Other issues mentioned in President Trump’s proposal regarding the future of the Gaza Strip and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people are connected to a unified national position and relevant international laws and resolutions,” Hamas said.

They “will be addressed through a comprehensive Palestinian national framework, in which Hamas will participate and contribute responsibly”.

Trump plan cannot be implemented without negotiations: Hamas official
Mousa Abu Marzouk has spoken to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic about Hamas’s response to Trump’s Gaza proposal.

Here are the key takeaways from the Hamas official’s remarks:

Hamas agreed to a regional and international vision presented by Egypt.
Trump’s plan cannot be implemented without negotiations.
The group dealt positively with the points that concern Hamas in Trump’s proposal.
Plans for a peacekeeping force for Gaza require greater understanding and clarification.
The priority is to stop Israel’s war and massacres in Gaza.
The handover of Israeli captives within 72 hours is theoretical and unrealistic under the current circumstances.
Hamas will enter into talks on all issues related to the group and its weapons.
Hamas has reached a national consensus to hand Gaza’s administration over to independents, with the Palestinian Authority responsible for that.

Hamas’s Abu Marzouk rejects Trump-led ‘Board of Peace’
Mousa Abu Marzouk has rejected a tenet of Trump’s Gaza proposal that says the US president will head a transitional oversight body for Gaza – the “Board of Peace” – alongside other officials, including ex-UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera that Palestinians will never accept any kind of outside body having control over them. “Palestinians should control themselves,” the Hamas official said.

Under Trump’s plan, the board would set a framework and handle the funding for Gaza’s redevelopment until the Palestinian Authority completes reforms and can take over.

“We will never accept anyone who is not Palestinian to control the Palestinians,” Abu Marzouk said, adding that Blair specifically is unwelcome.

“We can’t bring someone like Tony Blair to be governor in Gaza because this man, he destroyed Iraq,” he said, referring to the former British leader’s decision to join the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Hamas wants deep talks on major questions left by Trump’s plan
Trump’s plan for Gaza “lacked a clear political horizon” and will require deep negotiation before it becomes operational, a political analyst has told Al Jazeera.

Sultan Barakat, a public policy professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, told Al Jazeera the 20 points are better likened to “principles” and have left major questions about the future of Gaza up for debate.

“For it to be made operational, they need to sit together and they need to talk together,” Barakat said, adding that such discussions must place Palestinians “right at the centre”.

Longer-term questions range from the end of the Israeli occupation to linking the West Bank and Gaza, Barakat said.

“These are legitimate demands – these are all what would actually lead to a peace plan,” he continued. “So in effect, what [Hamas has] done, is said, ‘Let’s now stop the killing, you take your hostages, and let’s talk about what can happen in the future.'”

Trump says Hamas response means Israel must stop bombing Gaza to get captives out
“Based on the Statement just issued by Hamas, I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE. Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza, so that we can get the Hostages out safely and quickly!” the US president has written on his Truth Social account.

“Right now, it’s far too dangerous to do that. We are already in discussions on details to be worked out. This is not about Gaza alone, this is about long sought PEACE in the Middle East.”

Even if Gaza deal reached, history shows pattern of Israeli violations
Lara Elborno, an international lawyer and human rights activist, explains that Israel has unilaterally violated Gaza ceasefire agreements multiple times in the past – and there has been no political will to hold the country to its commitments.

“That’s what we saw in the last ceasefire that should have continued to the next phases several months ago,” Elborno told Al Jazeera.

“Instead, what we’ve seen is Israel continuing to engineer famine in the Gaza Strip, scaling up its attacks and invasion of Gaza City and ordering all the residents of Gaza City to be expelled so that it can complete [the city’s] destruction … and the continued preventing of unfettered humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.”

Against that backdrop, Elborno said her concern is that, if Hamas agrees to Trump’s 20-point Gaza proposal, there won’t be a mechanism to compel Israel to comply with its obligations.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/3/live-israel-blows-up-gaza-city-homes-as-palestinians-ordered-to-flee

>>491784
and to no one's surprise:

Israel strikes Gaza despite Trump order that bombing stop ‘immediately'
Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi, reporting from the White House in Washington, DC, said Trump was clear in his post on the Truth Social platform: “Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza”, and yet Israel continues to bomb the Palestinian territory.

“So, it’s an insult. It’s a slap in the face to Donald Trump. Is he being told about the bombing?” Rattansi asked.

“Another major issue here is the information flow to Donald Trump; the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and others, who actually are perhaps even closer to Trump when it comes to information flows – Steve Witkoff – are they telling him that that was Israel’s immediate response?”

“’Stop the bombing’; Israel bombs – immediately,” Rattansi said.

https://aje.io/53m8zq?update=4006545

https://x.com/Partisan_12/status/1974061113567215953
NAPLES PORT BLOCKED!

Activists shut down Port Elizabeth in New Jersey to block military cargo being sent to "Israel."

https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1974253116598952082
Thomas Keith - For those pushing rumors that the war on the Gaza Strip is over: the reality on the ground couldn’t be further from that narrative.

The bombing is ongoing, demolition hasn’t let up, and the massacres continue unabated. Every signal coming out of Gaza points to an unbroken chain of airstrikes, artillery, and relentless destruction, with civilians still being targeted and infrastructure shattered.

There has been no official statement or declaration of a ceasefire from Netanyahu or the Zionist government; the silence from their side is deliberate, weaponized, and intended to create confusion as they prolong the campaign of collective punishment.

https://x.com/PAME_Greece/status/1974388068925812754
PAME Greece International - 📌 On the big strike in Italy and the Ports of Europe

🔴 PAME salutes USB
@usbsindacato
and the big strike of the workers in Italy, who for the second time in ten days, with their unwavering struggle, show the way, raising a wall of solidarity against the genocide in Gaza and the imperialist plans that plunge peoples into poverty and misery for their wars. Their message echoes today across Europe and reaches the ports of the Mediterranean.

🟥 Alongside them, dockworkers in Greece, France, Turkey, and other European ports are on strike. The common denominator is the confrontation with the war economy, which crushes wages and rights, dismantles working time, and feeds billions into the war machines of NATO and the EU.

🔴 The ports will not become launching pads for war! From Piraeus to Genoa, Livorno, and Marseille, dockworkers unite their voices and condemn the criminal assault of the murderous state of Israel against the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. They denounce the dirty machinations of the imperialists for the uprooting of the Palestinian people from their land, aiming to turn Gaza into an American protectorate, undermining every possibility of an independent and viable Palestinian state.

🟥 In particular, the strike at the COSCO docks in Piraeus continues the message of the general strike of October 1st: the workers will not accept 13-hour workdays and “flexibility.”

🔴 A 13-hour workday means more exploitation, so that money is spared for arms, wars, and deals with the murderous state of Israel. Governments, capitalist parties, and the EU, who deprive us of wages and rights, are the same ones who cover up the genocide and massacre of the Palestinian people.

🟥 We take the baton from the strike of October 1st and escalate our struggle with a new strike against the monstrous 13-hour workday bill, to stop the genocide and to support the Palestinian people.

🔴 The next milestone is the rally on October 10th at the Embassy of Israel.

🇵🇸 History has one right side: with Palestine until freedom!

#GlobalSumudFlotilla
#freepalesti̇ne #StrikeForGaza

At least 66 Palestinians killed in last 24 hour-reporting period; death toll tops 67,000
A statement by the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says 265 people have also been wounded by Israeli attacks in the past day.

The total death toll in the enclave since October 7, 2023 has risen to 67,074 after the ministry said it added more than 700 names to the list whose data had been verified.

The actual number of the dead is likely to be far higher, with thousands of bodies believed to be buried under the vast debris of blown-up buildings throughout Gaza.

Another 169,430 have been wounded in Israeli attacks since the start of the war.

Two children die in Gaza due to Israel-induced starvation
Two children in Gaza have died of starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, our colleagues on the ground are reporting.

The deaths raise the toll of victims in Gaza due to the Israeli-induced famine to 459, including 154 children.

Hundreds of flotilla activists remain in Israel’s custody
On Friday, four Italian activists detained on board the Global Sumud Flotilla were deported after they were forcibly taken to Israel.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said procedures were under way to send all remaining participants to other countries.

Some 450 activists are in Israeli detention, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.
The Global Sumud Flotilla, which aimed to break the Israeli blockade in Gaza, said on Friday that Israeli naval forces had “illegally intercepted all 42 of our vessels”.
The boats were carrying “humanitarian aid, volunteers, and the determination to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza”, the group said.

Iran executes six people accused of ties to Israel: State media
The official Islamic Republic News Agency said six “separatist terrorist elements” with ties to Israel were executed on Saturday morning.

The six were accused of “carrying out a series of armed operations and bombings” in Iran’s Khuzestan province on the border with Iraq.

The men allegedly “confessed to planning and carrying out sabotage actions such as making and planting bombs, exploding a gas station in Khorramshahr, armed attacks on banks, throwing grenades at a military centre and shooting at mosques,” the news agency said.

Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on flotilla aid boats moored in Tunisia: Report
Prime Minister Netanyahu directly approved an illegal drone attack on two vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla docked in Tunisia, US outlet CBS News reports, citing American intelligence officials briefed on the matter.

The officials, who spoke to CBS anonymously as they were not authorised to speak publicly, said Israeli forces launched drones from a submarine and dropped incendiary devices onto the boats, which were moored outside Tunisian port Sidi Bou Said, causing a fire.

No one was killed or injured in the attacks, which targeted a Portuguese-flagged vessel and a British-flagged vessel in separate incidents on September 8 and 9.

The use of incendiary weapons against civilian populations or objects is prohibited in all circumstances under international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict.

The Israeli military and Netanyahu have yet to comment.

This week, Israeli forces intercepted more than 40 civilian boats and arrested about 500 activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla as they attempted to break Israel’s siege on Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/4/live-trumps-tells-israel-stop-bombing-gaza-after-hamas-ceasefire-reply

https://x.com/The_Aftershock_/status/1974918371012677734
BREAKING: An autonomous group target the offices of security firm, Securitas, in Scotland.

Securitas provide security and cover for Leonardo's Edinburgh factory, which makes laser targeting systems for Israel's F-35 fighter jets.

https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1974865915565973690
Thomas Keith - From Yemen, with love, a drone strike just hit the Hotel again, and occupation forces are rushing to the scene, according to Hebrew media. The last strike successfully targeted the Jacob Eilat Hotel. What was once the pride of Zionist escapism, a playground for the settler elite on stolen coastline, has become a failed project, collapsing under precision blows from Yemen.
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https://x.com/The_Aftershock_/status/1974846611500249528
Oct 5: This morning, direct action group 'DISMANTLE' targeted Wells Fargo's offices in the City of London.

Wells Fargo is partially financing a $500million loan to Israel's Elbit Systems.

Without such financial assistance, Elbit would be unable to arm the Gaza genocide.

>>491808
Now they're getting to the heart of the problem.

Demonstration in NYC in front of NewsCorp today.

How many Palestinians killed in West Bank since October 7?
As the war on Gaza rages, regular raids by Israeli forces and attacks by settlers have continued in the occupied West Bank.

In two years, 1,048 Palestinians, including 212 children, have been killed in the territory. More than 10,151 have been wounded.

At least 19,000 Palestinians have been detained, with 11,040 incarcerated as of October 1. Of those detained, 3,577 have been held without charges.

Israeli attacks kill 118 people in Gaza since Saturday
The Government Media Office in Gaza has released a statement saying Israeli forces have launched 230 air attacks on Gaza since Saturday, killing at least 118 people.

The dead included women and children, and 72 people in besieged Gaza City alone.

“The Israeli occupation continues its brutal aggression against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, ignoring the calls for a ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, and the positive response offered to the proposal,” the office said in a statement on Telegram.

Trump urged Israel to “immediately stop bombing Gaza” on Saturday morning, saying Hamas is “ready for a lasting peace” after the Palestinian group responded to his proposal to end the war.

Six activists from Gaza aid flotilla remain in Israeli detention
The Israel-based Adalah legal centre says the jailed aid activists are citizens of Norway, Morocco, and Spain and promised to continue “to demand their immediate release”.

“Six participants who were aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, unlawfully intercepted and detained on their way to Gaza amid the ongoing genocide, remain in Israeli detention,” a statement said.

Lawyers submitted requests to Israeli authorities to visit the detainees on Wednesday if they remain in custody. Israeli media earlier reported that authorities extended the detention of Spanish activist Reyes Rigo Cervilla for one week.

Last week, Israeli naval forces seized a flotilla of more than 40 boats heading to Gaza to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade of the enclave, detaining more than 470 activists from more than 50 countries.

Hamas seeking release of prominent Palestinian Marwan Barghouti
Hamas is demanding the release of high-profile Palestinian inmate Marwan Barghouti from an Israeli jail as part of ongoing negotiations on a hostage-prisoner exchange, Egyptian state-linked media report.

Al-Qahera News, which is close to Egypt’s intelligence services, reported talks in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh are focusing on lists of Palestinian inmates to be freed by Israel under a potential ceasefire deal.

Barghouti, a leading member of the Palestinian Fatah party and imprisoned since 2002, is among several high-profile detainees whose release is being sought by Hamas. Other names mentioned include Ahmad Saadat, Hassan Salameh, and Abbas al-Sayed.

Indirect talks have been under way since Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh as part of a 20-point plan proposed by US President Donald Trump to secure a ceasefire in Gaza.

Palestinian detained by Israel dies from hunger and illness
Ahmad Hatem Muhammad Khdeirat, 22, an administrative detainee, was arrested on April 23, the Commission for Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society say.

He was taken by Israeli forces from the town of Adh Dhahiriya in Hebron governorate.

According to the two groups, his health deteriorated sharply in recent months from low blood sugar and extreme weakness due to hunger and illness, leaving him unable to move or care for himself. He also suffered from scabies.

The total number of Palestinians who have died in Israeli prisons since the beginning of the war on Gaza has risen to 78, according to the organisations.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/7/live-israels-genocide-continues-across-gaza-two-years-since-start-of-war

US activist from Gaza flotilla alleges ‘psychological torture’ by Israel
By Ali Harb

A US citizen detained by Israel on the Global Sumud Flotilla, which tried to deliver aid to Gaza, says he and other activists endured abuse and “psychological torture” in Israeli custody.

David Adler, who was released and deported to Jordan on Tuesday, said after Israeli forces intercepted the flotilla in international waters, they took the activists to a prison complex in the Negev desert in southern Israel.

“We were kidnapped, stripped, zip-tied, blindfolded and sent to an internment camp on a police van without any access to food, to water, to legal support,” he said. “And for the next five days, on and off, we were psychologically tortured.”

read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/7/us-activist-from-gaza-flotilla-alleges-psychological-torture-by-israel

Italy’s PM Meloni says she’s been reported to the ICC
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she and two ministers have been reported to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged complicity in genocide in connection with Israel’s war on Gaza.

Meloni made the statement during an interview with state television company RAI. It is the first public comment on the situation, which has not been confirmed by the international court.

Meloni said Defence Minister Guido Crosetto and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani have also been “denounced”, referring to when the court is officially alerted to a possible crime. Meloni did not provide further details about what the complaint alleged.

The ICC has standing arrest warrants for Israeli’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant related to the war, as well as several since-deceased members of Hamas.

Meloni’s statement comes during an outburst in protests over the war in Italy, led in part by influential labour unions.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/7/live-israels-genocide-continues-across-gaza-two-years-since-start-of-war

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Police prevent hundreds of furious protesters from breaking through the barrier in front of the Israeli embassy in Tokyo, Japan. Octorber 7, 2025

https://x.com/WOLPalestine/status/1975719892512039020
NYPD keeps trying to silence us by banning mics, muting sound, and arresting anyone who uses one. It’s been almost two years of this. But we keep showing up for Gaza and Palestine. The more they try to silence us, the louder we’ll be.

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🚨Breaking: The Gaza Sunbirds boat, part of the Freedom Flotilla and Thousand Madleens mission to Gaza has been violently intercepted by Israeli forces. Organizers say two boats appear to have been intercepted.

Videos by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (Instagram)

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BREAKING: A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the seven outlawed words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

Israel couldn’t wage wars on Gaza, Lebanon, Iran without US support: Reports
Israel would not have been able to sustain its wars across the Middle East without the US’s significant financial backing of more than $21bn since October 2023, according to new reports.

The reports by the Costs of War Project at Brown University found that without US weapons and money, Israel wouldn’t have been able to sustain its genocidal war on Gaza, start a war with Iran or repeatedly bomb Yemen.

“US support for Israel at all levels is indispensable to the prosecution of Israel’s war both in Gaza and across the region,” Omar H Rahman, a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, told Al Jazeera.

Israeli army intensifies raids in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have arrested at least 15 Palestinians during a large-scale raid in the city of el-Bireh and the Jalazone refugee camp, which is located to the north of Ramallah, according to Wafa.
It has also tightened its military measures around Ramallah and el-Bireh by setting up checkpoints and causing large-scale traffic.
A similar scene has been reported in Qalandiya refugee camp, where Israeli forces have blocked streets and fired tear gas.
Raids are also reported in Kafr Nima, west of Ramallah, as well as surrounding villages.
Israeli settlers uprooted 150 Palestinian-owned olive trees in Umm al-Khair village in Masafer Yatta, to the south of Hebron.

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon continue in violation of truce
In the latest two attacks on its neighbour earlier today, Israel deployed forces that killed two people and wounded another in southern Lebanon.

This comes a day after an Israeli strike also killed two people in Lebanon’s southern region of Nabatieh.

Lebanon says the attacks breach a ceasefire deal that was announced on November 2, 2024 after more than a year of cross-border fighting between Hezbollah and Israel that started on October 8, 2023, the day after the latter launched its war on Gaza.

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More than 150 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon since the ceasefire agreement.

Israeli army says projectile launched from Gaza
The military says a projectile launched from northern Gaza towards Israel fell in an open area.

An army update said sirens were activated during the incident and there have been no reports of casualties.

PRCS says 29 staff killed by Israeli attacks during war on Gaza
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says 29 of its staff have been killed in Gaza while carrying out humanitarian and medical duties since the war began.

The PRCS said its teams have been “directly targeted without care or regard for their humanitarian missions or their protected Red Crescent emblem”.

Among those killed were two ambulance workers “assassinated” in January while trying to rescue five-year-old Hind Rajab and her family and eight others killed in March when their ambulances were struck by Israeli forces.

It added that several PRCS hospitals and medical centres have been forced to close due to bomb damage and orders by Israeli forces.

Israeli army says it intercepts two more drones
Two more unmanned aerial vehicles have been intercepted in the Eilat area of southern Israel, the Israeli army says.

The announcement came shortly after another drone was taken down around the same area.

Greta Thunberg acknowledges ‘mistreatment’ while held in Israel
Activist Greta Thunberg has alluded abuse while being held in Israel after arriving in Greece.

Thunberg told journalists shortly after arriving: “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment, trust me. But that is not the story.”

Instead, Thunberg urged world leaders and ordinary citizens to end their “complicity” with the “genocide” being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza, on the eve of the second anniversary of the war.

“We cannot take our eyes away from Gaza,” Thunberg said.

Israel hires US firm to ‘combat anti-Semitism’
The Foreign Ministry has hired the US-based company Clock Tower X LLC to help shape online discourse “tailored to Generation Z audiences across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and podcasts”, news reports say.

Clock Tower was contracted to “conduct a nationwide campaign in the United States to combat anti-Semitism”, documents filed with the Foreign Agents Registration Act showed.

Artificial intelligence will be used to boost exposure on search engines such as Google and Bing. The goal is a minimum 50 million impressions per month.

The $6m contract comes during declining support for Israel in the US as polls suggest a majority of Americans disapprove of its war on Gaza, which has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/7/live-israels-genocide-continues-across-gaza-two-years-since-start-of-war

Graphic video shows medical worker attending to girl shot in head
“It didn’t go deep into your head? Are you sure?” the emergency worker asks a girl whose right side of her head is bloodied.

“Yes,” the girl responds, her eyes wide as she is held in a man’s arms.

“So it just scraped your head and got stuck?” the emergency worker asks. The question is met with a slight nod.

The scene was captured during Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza City. Watch below:
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Hamas outlines key demands in ceasefire talks
Hamas has detailed its main conditions in the ongoing ceasefire talks in Egypt.

Fawzi Barhoum, the group’s spokesperson, said its delegation is seeking to “overcome all obstacles” to reach an agreement that meets “the aspirations of our people in Gaza”. Barhoum listed Hamas’s key demands as:

A permanent and comprehensive ceasefire
The complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from all of Gaza
Unrestricted entry of humanitarian and relief aid
The return of displaced people to their homes
The immediate start of a full reconstruction process, supervised by a Palestinian national body of technocrats
A fair prisoner exchange
Barhoum accused Netanyahu of seeking to “obstruct and thwart” the current round of negotiations as he had “deliberately thwarted all previous rounds”.

“Despite the brutal military force, unlimited support and full American partnership in the war of extermination in Gaza, they have not and will not succeed in achieving a false image of victory,” Barhoum said.

Israel should have already ceased fire under Trump plan for Gaza: Qatar
Israel should have already ceased operations in Gaza in line with Trump’s plan, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says.

“We await the outcomes of the negotiations in the coming days regarding the ceasefire. This question should be directed first to the Israeli occupation government. It was supposed to actually cease fire if the statements made by the PM there regarding adherence to the Trump plan were true,” Majed al-Ansari told reporters in Doha.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/7/live-israels-genocide-continues-across-gaza-two-years-since-start-of-war

Israel blocking transfer of incubators in Gaza: UNICEF
Israel has repeatedly denied permission to transfer incubators from an evacuated hospital in northern Gaza, worsening conditions in overcrowded hospitals farther south where newborns are now sharing oxygen masks, UNICEF says.

James Elder, a UNICEF spokesperson, described scenes of extreme overcrowding and exhaustion inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, where mothers and babies line the corridors.

“In one of the paediatric rooms, there were three babies and three mums on a single bed, one source of oxygen, and the mothers would rotate the oxygen 20 minutes to each child,” he told the Reuters news agency. “This is the level of desperation mums have now got to.”

Elder said vital medical equipment remains trapped in hospitals that have been shut down in the north.

“We’ve been trying to recover incubators from a hospital that was evacuated in the north, and we’ve had four missions denied simply to get those incubators,” he said, referring to supplies stuck at al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza City, damaged by Israel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/7/live-israels-genocide-continues-across-gaza-two-years-since-start-of-war

Israel intercepts Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessels en route to Gaza
The Israeli military has intercepted and boarded several boats sailing towards Gaza.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says the Israeli military attacked its convoy of boats and intercepted several vessels as they were sailing towards Gaza.

The FFC said the military had attacked The Conscience – a boat carrying 93 journalists, doctors and activists – before it attacked and intercepted three smaller boats on Wednesday.

Its passengers were “being held in unknown conditions”, it said.

read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/8/israeli-military-intercepts-gaza-freedom-flotilla-vessels-report

KernowDamo | Another Flotilla Intercepted — But Israel’s Latest Raid Has Backfired

Gaza Civil Defence reports Israeli strikes after ceasefire deal announced
Mohammed al-Mughayyir, an official with the Gaza Civil Defence, said several Israeli strikes were reported after the announcement that a deal had been reached to end fighting in the enclave, including “a series of intense air strikes” on Gaza City.

“Since the announcement last night of an agreement on a proposed ceasefire framework in Gaza, several explosions have been reported, particularly in areas of northern Gaza,” al-Mughayyir said, according to the AFP news agency.

Gaza death toll rises
At least 10 Palestinians, including two aid seekers, have been killed and 49 injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

One body has also been retrieved from the rubble of previous Israeli attacks in the same timeframe, the ministry added.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 67,194 Palestinians and injured 169,890 since October 7, 2023, the statement published on Telegram said.

At least 9 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank
The Israeli military has carried out raids and arrests in locations across the occupied West Bank over recent hours, according to the Wafa news agency. The report said:

Two men have been arrested in the city of Nablus and three men have been arrested in nearby Balata refugee camp.
In the governorate of Hebron, a man has been arrested in the village of al-Sura, and another man has been arrested in the town of Beit Ummar.
A man has been arrested in the city of Bethlehem, and a second man has been arrested in the nearby village of Hindazah.
In the governorate of Tulkarem, a man has been arrested in the town of Attil, north of Tulkarem city.

Grim daily toll of Israel’s war on Gaza highlighted by enclave’s media office
Gaza’s Government Media Office has issued a statement on the average daily toll of the two-year genocidal war on the enclave. Since October 7, 2023, Israel:

killed 18 male and female students and one teacher daily
destroyed 367 housing units daily
demolished more than one mosque daily
made 394 families homeless daily
destroyed a central water well daily
destroyed 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) of electricity networks daily
destroyed 959 metres (3,146 feet) of water networks daily
destroyed 959 metres (3,146 feet) of sewage networks daily
destroyed 4,000 metres (13,123 feet) of roads daily
targeted one shelter and displacement centre every 3 days

Relative sense of scepticism prevails in Gaza amid joy over ceasefire deal
By Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from az-Zawayda, central Gaza

There is an undeniable collective sense of relief seen here in Gaza following the ceasefire announcement.

People were celebrating, and there were very obvious scenes of jubilation across Gaza for families who took to the streets, cheering, waving Palestinian flags, and even launching fireworks.

But beneath that surface jubilation, there is a relative sense of scepticism, especially as families are quite afraid that Israel could resume the war in Gaza under one security pretext or another.

That sense is seen and felt in the words and even in the actions of Palestinians who kept asking different questions about the Israeli withdrawal and the level of commitment Israel can definitely show for the implementation of the ceasefire terms, but for now, the mood is quite filled with positivity and optimism.

People are still waiting to get the chance to return to their homes in Gaza City following the Israeli ground operation there, and they’re also demanding an urgent entry for much-needed humanitarian supplies.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad says ceasefire deal result of ‘enormous sacrifices’ in Gaza
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second largest armed group in Gaza, says the ceasefire agreement and prisoner exchange are not a “gift from anyone”, but, at the same time, does not deny international efforts in securing the deal.

“We emphasise the enormous sacrifices made by our Palestinian people, and the courage and bravery of its fighters on the ground who confronted the enemy forces and showed unprecedented courage in combat,” the PIJ said in a statement.

“In these historic moments, our people will not forget their great martyrs who played the most important role in keeping the resistance steadfast,” it added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/9/live-israel-hamas-agree-on-first-phase-of-gaza-ceasefire-deal

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⚡️🇵🇸🇮🇱BREAKING:

Footage shows Israeli tanks targeting Palestinians right now in Al-Rashid Street in Wadi Gaza area, Central Gaza Strip.

Breaking news and analysis on day 734 of the Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Opening remarks
02:04 Nora Barrows-Friedman delivers news report
32:45 Jeremy Scahill discusses ceasefire agreement
01:31:43 Donya Abu Sitta talks about the situation on the ground in Gaza
01:55:14 Jon Elmer delivers resistance report
02:28:49 Group discussion on Trump’s Gaza surrender plan

Tadgh Hickey's account of being abducted in international waters by the IOF is astonishing. A lot of it is stuff you would expect from the IOF, but the fact that so many governments, including those of Spain & Ireland which pay lip service to opposing the genocide, would not bother to do anything about their people getting abducted, imprisoned, and tortured like this is crazy.

Israeli military carries out more attacks near Khan Younis
As we have been reporting, the Israeli military has continued its attacks on Gaza in the hours since Israel’s government ratified the first phase of its ceasefire with Hamas.

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues now report that a short while ago Israeli forces carried out further rounds of shelling and heavy tank fire north of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

No casualties have been reported so far. We will bring you more information when we have it.

Israeli helicopters, artillery shelling targets east of Gaza City
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israeli attack helicopters are targeting a site east of Gaza City in the north of the enclave, and artillery shelling has also been reported.

The Israeli attack in the north follows shortly after reports of air strikes in Gaza’s southern Khan Younis area, the first reported strikes since Israel’s government agreed late on Thursday to sign on to the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan.

Gaza’s civil defence has also warned people to keep away from the border areas of Gaza City until the official announcement of the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

Palestinians arrested in Israeli military raid on Ramallah; video shows West Bank home demolition
The Israeli military has stormed the occupied West Bank town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, raiding homes and arresting three Palestinian men, the Wafa news agency reports.

Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces had demolished the home of deceased Palestinian man Muhammad Bassam Taha in the town of Qatana, north of occupied East Jerusalem.

Video clips published by Palestinian media outlets on social media show that demolition taking place earlier tonight.

https://twitter.com/PalinfoAr/status/1976470678577811469

Sounds of Israeli fighter jets a sign that Israel ‘not fully’ implementing ceasefire
By Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Nuseirat, central Gaza

Right now, as I talk to you, I can hear the hum of Israeli fighter jets over the vicinity of the Nuseirat refugee camp.

A sign that, until now, Israel has not fully implemented the first steps of the withdrawal of Israeli forces on the ground, so that aid can be safely and transparently allowed into the Strip, and reach designated UN warehouses that will be responsible for providing and delivering aid supplies to people in need.

Israeli military says soldier killed in sniper attack in Gaza City
The Israeli military has announced that a 26-year-old lieutenant-colonel in its 614th Combat Engineering Battalion was killed by a sniper in Gaza City.

The attack took place on Thursday afternoon, prior to the Israeli government ratifying the first phase of the ceasefire deal.

US to deploy 200 troops to Gaza task force – Here’s what we know
Previously, we reported that a senior unnamed US official had told The Associated Press news agency that Washington is set to deploy about 200 troops to help support and monitor the Gaza ceasefire deal.

Heidi Zhou-Castro, Al Jazeera correspondent in Washington, DC, has now also said that senior Trump administration officials have confirmed plans to send 200 troops to help ensure the ceasefire. The officials emphasised that US troops do not plan to enter the Palestinian enclave.

The Reuters news agency, citing two senior unnamed US officials, reports that the troops will form the core of a task force that will include representatives from Egypt’s military, Qatar, Turkiye and likely the United Arab Emirates.

Where exactly the US troops will be stationed is yet to be decided, but they will develop a joint control centre to coordinate with Israeli forces to avoid clashes.

Gaza’s civil defence issues warning over Israeli withdrawal process
A statement by the rescue service on Telegram has warned Palestinians not to approach the areas where the Israeli forces are present.

It particularly urged people not to get close to the border areas of Gaza City until the official announcement of the withdrawal of the Israeli forces has been made and confirmed by the authorities.

“Violating this warning puts your life at risk,” the statement said.

“We urge everyone to comply for your safety, and to facilitate the work of emergency teams and field authorities,” it added.

Circulating lists of soon-to-be-released Palestinian prisoners inaccurate: Prisoners’ group
No agreement has yet been reached on the lists of Palestinian prisoners who will be released by Israel, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA).

The office alleged that the circulating lists of prisoners to be released as part of the exchange deal are inaccurate, “promoted by the [Israeli] occupation with the aim of pressuring and disrupting the negotiations”.

“If an agreement is reached, the official lists will be announced and published on the Prisoners’ Media Office platforms,” it added.

Timely reminder: Israel has broken a Gaza ceasefire before
Israel has agreed to a ceasefire that should end its genocide in Gaza. But it has made these promises before.

The last time Israel agreed to a ceasefire in January, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza Anas al-Sharif announced the news.

Two months later, Israel unilaterally broke that agreement, killing more than 400 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day.

Anas was killed in August in a targeted Israeli attack, one of more than 270 journalists and media workers Israel has killed throughout its onslaught.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/10/live-hamas-gets-guarantees-of-end-to-gaza-war-israel-approves-ceasefire

https://x.com/SuppressedNws1/status/1976570619643765243
⚡️🇵🇸🇮🇱BREAKING: Israel just bombed a school. Five Palestinians including members of the Abu Warda family were seriously injured including one critically after Israeli airstrikes hit the Halima Al-Saadiya School sheltering displaced families in Jabalia Al-Nazla, northern Gaza.

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UPDATE: This morning, Israeli police filed an indictment against Spanish flotilla activist Reyes Rigo Cervilla, with a request for pretrial detention. If granted, this means she will not be immediately released.

Rigo Cervilla is accused of assaulting a guard in Ketziot prison. She is currently the only one of 479 people detained with the first flotilla to have been singled out in this way.

Eyewitnesses told me that, after days of abuse, Rigo Cervilla, 56, was attacked by guards for defending another woman and advocating for everybody to be allowed mattresses to sleep on. Guards dragged her into a cell by her hair and then threw her in solitary confinement,

In videos from court, she can be heard begging for help and whispering that she is being threatened.

The six other activists (three Norwegians, two Moroccans and one Nigerian) still detained from the first flotilla are expected to be deported today or tomorrow, along with some of the 145 detained with the second flotilla. Israel has not indicated otherwise, and simply isn't drawing attention to their continued detention.

At this stage, it is just Rigo Cervilla who is facing a longer detention.

March in solidarity with Palestine in Sana'a, Yemen today.

A solidarity march with Palestine in Tehran, Iran today.

Israel's latest attack on south Lebanon destroys over 300 vehicles, heavily damages electricity grid
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The Lebanese News Agency reports that over 300 bulldozers and engineering vehicles were destroyed in the Israeli overnight attack on the Musaylih road in southern Lebanon.

Electricite du Liban, Lebanon's main electricity provider, reported that the strikes inflicted heavy damage on the high-voltage transmission network. A 66 kV tower was completely destroyed, severing the Zahrani–Musaylih line and disrupting power to the main 66 kV substations in Sidon and Siblin.

The attacks also cut the primary 220 kV Zahrani–Tyre transmission line, impacting much of southern Lebanon and forcing the shutdown of several substations, including Tyre, Wadi Jilou, Sultaniyeh, and Taybeh.
https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1976952090539811023

Overnight, Israeli warplanes launched ten airstrikes on six excavation and bulldozer depots along Musaylih road in southern Lebanon, destroying vehicles and cutting off the road. One person was killed and another injured in the attack.

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1976902220659798236

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Video from Sabra shows what’s left behind by the occupation: not a regular armored vehicle, but a booby-trapped M113 “Zelda” packed with tons of explosives, what people in Gaza call a “booby-trapped robot.” The Israeli army deployed these unmanned demolition carriers in residential neighborhoods, remotely detonating them to destroy entire blocks before withdrawing.