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SvennoJ on 07 October 2025
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Hamas slams ‘unprecedented Arab failure’ for the situation in Gaza

Hamas has released a statement on the second anniversary of the unprecedented attack it led on October 7, 2023. Here are some of the major talking points from that statement:

  • The battle and its repercussions continue to “cast their political shadows”, with military aggression on the region, as it marked “a major turning point in the political and military landscape” of the Middle East.
  • Israel continues its brutal war against the Palestinian people, “committing massacres against defenceless civilians, amid shameful international silence and complicity and unprecedented Arab failure”.
  • “Popular steadfastness, support around the resistance and the heroism of the people of the country and its people continue, confronting the occupying foreigners and scum of the earth.”
  • “Two years on, our people remain rooted in their land, clinging to their legitimate rights in the face of plans for liquidation and forced displacement.”

UNRWA calls for immediate ceasefire after two years of war in Gaza

UNRWA has urged an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, marking two years since the start of the devastating war.

“Two years of war in Gaza. Two years too long,” the agency said in a post on X. “It’s time for a ceasefire now.”

UNRWA called for the release of all Israeli captives and Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons, and for Israel to lift its siege on the enclave to allow “a standard flow of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies” through a UN-supervised mechanism.

Israel carrying out ‘health genocide’ in Gaza: Health Ministry

The Health Ministry says what is happening in Gaza is not just “a humanitarian crisis” or “long record of crimes” committed by Israel, but “a complete and deliberate collapse of the foundation of human existence represented by the health services system”.

In a statement on Telegram, the ministry said the healthcare system has been subjected to “devastating and fatal blows that have struck at the very nerve of the nation”. “These crimes have earned the description of health genocide, given the catastrophic indicators that have ravaged the health and humanitarian landscape in the Gaza Strip,” it stressed.

  • At least 67,173 people have been killed, including 20,179 children, and 169,780 wounded in the war.
  • The number of medical personnel killed has reached 1,701, with 362 detained under the threat of forced disappearance, deprived of their rights.
  • Israel-forced famine in Gaza, which has been worsening each passing day, caused 460 deaths, including 154 children. More than 51,100 children below the age of five suffer from severe malnutrition.
  • Twenty-five out of 38 hospitals are out of service, while the rest operate partially under difficult conditions.
  • Israel has destroyed 103 of 157 primary healthcare centres, and the remaining are partially operating.
  • More than half of the needed medicine is not available, while 66 percent of the medical equipment needed is not there.
  • Hospital bed occupancy increased to 225 percent by the end of September, compared with 82 percent during the same period last year.