‘We continue’: Israel Katz vows to keep striking Gaza City

Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, posted a video showing the tower that has been struck in Gaza City by the Israeli army as it collapsed in an enormous cloud of smoke.

“We continue,” read the post on X.

The strike comes after Israel hit another high-rise building in Gaza City, saying Hamas used it for surveillance, without providing evidence. Hamas denied those claims.

Israeli army confirms it struck Gaza City high-rise

The Israeli military has acknowledged it has struck the Soussi Tower in Gaza City today, claiming the high-rise was used by Hamas, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports.

Israel has used similar justification for its attacks on other residential buildings throughout its assault on Gaza.

Hamas has vehemently denied the allegations and condemned the strike as a “crime”.

It was the second high-rise hit in as many days in the city as Israeli forces pound the area in a bid to seize it and force residents to flee south. The building was sheltering displaced families who have lost their homes throughout the nearly two-year war.

Israeli army destroys more than 70 percent of Gaza City buildings: Report

The Israeli military has destroyed more than 70 percent of the buildings in Gaza City, according to local reports, as its campaign against residential towers widens.

The destruction in Gaza’s most populous city has forced dozens of families to flee once again, leaving them without shelter.

Israeli soldiers have stepped up attacks in the area as their commanders plan to seize the urban centre and forcibly displace more than one million people from the famine-stricken area.

Hamas reaffirms commitment to ceasefire proposal

Hamas says it remains committed to the mediators’ proposal for a ceasefire announced on August 18, which it had agreed to alongside other Palestinian factions.

In a statement, the group said it was open to “any ideas or proposals” that would achieve a permanent ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

It added that it was also prepared to consider proposals ensuring unconditional entry of humanitarian aid and a “genuine” prisoner exchange through serious negotiations mediated by third parties.

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Israelis protest against government while supporting its Gaza war actions

People in Israel support the government’s actions in Gaza or see them as inevitable, even when they oppose the government, Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg says.

“That is the Israeli paradox. At the moment, people who are protesting … are the same people who will show up for reserve duty when they are called to actually march into Gaza,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera.

“These people will describe themselves as opponents of the government, will say that the government has mismanaged the war in Gaza, will say that the government is responsible for the fact that the hostages are still in Gaza. They will say nothing about the fact that it is Israeli actions that have killed dozens and dozens of hostages still remaining in Gaza. They will say nothing about the genocide. They will say nothing about the plight of the Palestinians,” Goldberg said.

“And by not saying anything, they are actually affirming the political survival of the very government which they claim to oppose so vainly,” he added.

British police arrest 150 Palestine Action supporters

British police say they arrested about 150 “individuals showing support” for Palestine Action – a group that the UK government has labelled a “terrorist organisation”.

“Officers have now made around 150 arrests at the Defend Our Juries protest for a range of offences, including assault on a police officer and expressing support for a proscribed organisation,” the police said in a statement.

Officers continue to make arrests of individuals showing support for the proscribed terrorist organisation Palestine Action at the Defend Our Juries protest.

There has been a coordinated effort to prevent officers carrying out their duties which has included physical and verbal… pic.twitter.com/c3QTHQawBs

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) September 6, 2025

UK police arrest more than 425 Palestine Action supporters

As we reported earlier today, police in the UK are arresting supporters of Palestine Action – a group the government has proscribed under anti-terrorism laws.

The number of people detained has now risen to more than 425, the police said. “The majority of these arrests were made for supporting a proscribed organisation which is an offence under the Terrorism Act,” it said in a statement.

“Throughout the demonstration, there was a coordinated effort to prevent officers from carrying out their duties which escalated to violence where officers were punched, kicked, spat on and had objects thrown at them,” it added.

Main events on September 7th

• At least 67 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza today, the majority in Gaza City.
• Hamas said it remains committed to the mediators’ proposal for a ceasefire announced on August 18, which it had agreed to alongside other Palestinian factions.
• A group of armed Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian family in the Bir Arka area, west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to local reports.
• The Israeli military has acknowledged it struck the Soussi Tower in Gaza City, displacing dozens more Palestinians, as it continues its campaign to seize the city and forcibly drive all residents south.
• Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said that government ministers from Netanyahu’s Likud party support taking over the occupied West Bank, and urged the prime minister to move forward with the plan.
• Police in the UK arrested more than 400 supporters of Palestine Action – a group the government has proscribed under anti-terrorism laws.

How Europe F*ucked the Middle East: Fake Borders

Salem travels to Lebanon for the first time ever from Palestine. He explores the past and present of colonialism in the region and how lines drawn in the sand by empires ended up f*ucking this region up.

Richard Sanders on Gaza, Israel, and Palestine’s Fight for Freedom

The Israelis look like the Nazis in their rhetoric, their behavior.” Award-winning journalist Richard Sanders unleashes unfiltered truth on Out Loud, exposing the grotesque genocide in Gaza and the collapse of the “rules-based order.” Palestine might just free us all – but only if we face the racist ethno-state head-on.

Sanders rips into the West’s complicity: no sanctions, no arms halt, just humiliating servitude to empire (“Britain waits by the phone for America’s orders”). From gaslighting Palestinians’ fight for rights as antisemitism to pensioners arrested for supporting Palestine Action while kids die from British bombs, the disconnect between media elites and people is stark. “When people show you who they are, believe them. No one can say they didn’t know.”

The tide’s turning. Sanders predicts an emperor’s new clothes moment where the world wakes to Israel’s crude racism. He dives into Epstein’s impunity, Mossad shadows, and Israel’s deep ties to Western capitalism’s intelligence web – too embedded to fail? Think again. South Africa fell; so can this. “The salvation for Palestinians will be the people.”

Join us to unpack Gaza’s starvation, West Bank “concentration camps,” and the criminalization of conscience. Vote out the genocidals. Overestimate humanity. Build media that dares to call Israel what it is: a racist fist of the West. “If not, give up and go home.”

UN to move General Assembly out of US to defy Trump’s visa ban on Palestinians?

The current Donald Trump administration is increasingly getting isolated globally for its decision to impose a visa ban on the Palestinian delegation ahead of this year’s UN General Assembly session. Experts have urged the UN to move its general assembly sessions to Geneva to send a powerful message to the current US administration. Rifat Jawaid looks at the extraordinary step taken by Trump and its long-term impact on America’s global standing.

Prof. Ralph Wilde: States Have Legal Duty To Urgently Stop Israel’s Genocide In Gaza

At the Gaza Tribunal, Wilde unveils the legal imperative for states to urgently dismantle Israel's unlawful occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, as declared by the ICJ.

‘Gaza Riviera’ Plan Glosses Over Genocide With Billionaires’ Paradise

Leaked documents reveal Trump’s “Gaza Riviera” plan to forcibly displace Gaza’s population and turn the Palestinian territory into AI-powered luxury cities. Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear break down the genocidal and dystopian proposal, which includes highways named after Gulf leaders, an Elon Musk “smart manufacturing zone”, and financial planning by Boston Consulting Group. "People in suits are planning the destruction of an entire people," explains Rania Khalek.

Israel kills 17 Palestinians in Gaza City in overnight strikes

According to medical sources, the toll includes six people who were killed after Israeli forces bombed a school-turned-shelter housing displaced people west of Gaza City. They identified the school as the Al-Farabi School.

In the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, at least nine others were killed, including four children, after Israeli forces attacked a tent and a house.

Two children were also killed when Israeli forces targeted a tent housing displaced people in the Remal neighbourhood of Gaza City.


_{Palestinians inspect the site of an overnight Israeli attack on a tent, in Gaza City}

Death toll from Israel’s attack on Gaza City school rises

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are now reporting that the death toll has risen from six to eight.


_{An injured man carries a toddler as others search for their belongings in the rubble at the al-Farabi School-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, which was hit by an Israeli strike}

For people of Gaza, there are fewer places left to survive

Israeli forces destroyed al-Sousi Tower on Saturday shortly after threatening to bomb several areas. It’s becoming a familiar pattern in Gaza City.

Families who had little now have nothing and are returning to rubble and twisted metal.

The Israeli army’s forced evacuation orders have created an atmosphere of fear in Gaza City. In other high-rise buildings, people are leaving, not knowing if their homes will be next.

Israel is forcing Palestinians south, part of a major offensive to seize the last urban centre in the Strip. The orders are nothing new: “relocate to a so-called safe area in the south”, only for the Israeli military to attack there as well.

Each tower that falls doesn’t just destroy concrete structures; it shatters lives, memories and communities. For Gaza’s people, it means yet another uprooting, another displacement and fewer places left to survive.

Five Palestinians die of starvation in last 24 hours

Five more Palestinians, including three children, have starved to death in Gaza in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry says.

These deaths bring the total number of malnutrition deaths in Gaza to 387, including 138 children, since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Global hunger monitor IPC confirmed the famine in northern Gaza on August 22 and said it is spreading across the Strip. Since then, 109 deaths have been recorded, 23 of them children, the ministry added.

Israeli forces arrest 3 people in Bethlehem

Israeli forces have arrested three people from the Bethlehem governorate in the occupied West Bank.

Wafa is reporting that Israeli forces stormed the Handaza area in the east of the governorate and arrested Habib Salah Issa Qassem, 40, and Firas Ibrahim Ali Beit Rashid, 39. In the western village of Husan, they arrested 18-year-old Salah Nabil Muhammad al-Shaer from al-Matina.

Meanwhile, Israeli settlers allegedly stole several sheep belonging to resident Nazir Shalalda in the village of al-Maniya.

Israeli forces carry out further arrests in West Bank

Israeli forces have arrested seven more Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank, Wafa is reporting.

In Ramallah, Israeli forces raided a home and arrested a husband and wife, while in Hebron, two Palestinian men were arrested in raids at separate locations.

In Jenin governorate, a woman was arrested following an Israeli raid on her home in the village of Kufeirit. Two more people were arrested in Jenin and al-Yamoun.

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Nablus, Ramallah and Hebron

Israeli settlers have assaulted a Bedouin family near the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank after setting up a new illegal outpost in the area.

Two Palestinians were injured by settler gunfire during an attack on the Khallet al-Eis area in the town of Ash-Shuyukh, northeast of Hebron.

The settlers fired shots at homes and set fire to areas of agricultural land, with the protection of Israeli troops who had stormed the area and fired live ammunition.

Settlers also stormed and vandalised the Hanbali Mosque in the city of Nablus.

Far-right Israeli minister storms occupied West Bank city

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has participated in the storming of the occupied West Bank city of Umm al-Fahm, northwest of Jenin, with Israeli police and Border Police.

Ben-Gvir’s made the move as he and far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich push plans for annexing much of occupied Palestinian territory despite condemnation from European and Arab leaders.

Israeli forces have been carrying out mass raids across the West Bank this morning, arresting several Palestinians.

Israeli forces storm refugee camp south of Hebron

Israeli forces have stormed the Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, for the second time within hours, a source on the ground told our colleagues.

At the same time, Israeli settlers stormed the al-Auja community, north of Jericho, provoking citizens by filming and harassing them inside the community, Wafa reported.

According to a press release from Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, settlers’ actions are part of an Israeli policy aimed at making the occupied territory unsafe for Palestinians.

The organisation pointed out that raids on al-Auja are taking place almost daily.

Israeli settlers open fire at Palestinians in West Bank

Israeli settlers have opened fire on a group of Palestinians and their property in an attack in the town of Sinjil, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

Wafa reported that the attack took place as Palestinians were trying to prevent a settler incursion north of the town.

Local sources told Wafa that the settlers had fired bullets through the windows of Palestinian homes and shot at a vehicle. No casualties were reported.

Israeli forces bulldoze land southwest of Salfit

Israeli forces have bulldozed land in the western area of Farkha village, southwest of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, to expand an settler outpost.

Mustafa Hammad, head of the Farkha village council, told the Wafa news agency that the bulldozing operations were focused on the Jabal al-Batin area as part of Israel’s settlement expansion project.

Protesters in Hebron demand release of mayor

Palestinians in Hebron in the occupied West Bank have demonstrated against Israel’s arrest of its mayor, Tayseer Abu Sneineh.

Footage posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera showed protesters in front of the city’s Municipal Council holding a banner demanding Abu Sneineh’s release, which they considered a crime against the city and its people.

Israeli forces arrested Abu Sneineh during a raid on his home on Tuesday in a move that drew criticism from the Municipal Council and Hamas, which called it “a continuation of the occupation’s brutal and aggressive approach and its targeting of all components of our people”.

The Voice of Hind Rajab wins 2nd prize at Venice Film Festival

A harrowing docudrama about Israel’s killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during its ongoing war on Gaza has won the Silver Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival.

The Voice of Hind Rajab, by French-Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, came in second on Saturday to the movie Father Mother Sister Brother by United States indie director Jim Jarmusch.

The film tells the true story of Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli forces last year, as she and her family tried to evacuate Gaza City.

It uses real audio from Rajab’s hours-long call to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, in which rescuers tried to reassure her as she lay trapped in a bullet-ridden car with the bodies of her aunt, uncle and three cousins, who had all been killed by Israeli fire.

The girl was then also killed, as were the two ambulance workers who went to the scene to try and rescue her.

Ben Hania, accepting her award, said Rajab’s story was not just that of the young girl, but tragically that of “an entire people enduring genocide”.

“Cinema cannot bring Hind back, nor can it erase the atrocity committed against her. Nothing can ever restore what was taken, but cinema can preserve her voice, make it resonate across borders,” the director said.

“Her voice will continue to echo until accountability is real, until justice is served.”


_{Kaouther Ben Hania displays a picture of Hind Rajab as she arrives for the premiere of The Voice of Hind Rajab at the 82nd Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, September 3}

Israeli defence companies face scrutiny at Poland defence exhibition

Israeli defence companies have been questioned by Polish police about their involvement in the war on Gaza, amid concerns over their participation at a major defence exhibition in Kielce.

The Jerusalem Post reported that many employees of Israeli defence companies Elbit Systems and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems were called in by police for questioning after a Polish journalist filed a complaint about their involvement in the war in Gaza.

Two of the employees attending last week’s MSPO exhibition in Kielce had already left Poland before being summoned, it reported.

Elbit’s presence at the exhibition was also targeted with a protest, with two people arrested for throwing red paint over the company’s booth, the report said.

Gaza aid flotilla from Tunisia delayed

The departure from Tunisia of pro-Palestinian activists seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza with aid boats has been postponed, according to organisers.

It was planned for Sunday, but organisers said they rescheduled the boats’ departure from Tunis to Wednesday, September 10, due to “technical and logistical reasons beyond management’s control”.

The Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, which aimed to join boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla that had already left from Spain and Italy, had already been delayed by bad weather.

Global Sumud Flotilla marks death anniversary of activist killed in West Bank

The Global Sumud Flotilla is marking the first death anniversary of Turkish American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by Israeli forces during a protest against illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

In a social media post, the organisers said Aysenur and “hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and allies have been killed by the Israeli government and occupation over the decades, and they’ve done so with total impunity”.

“We understand that our safety and freedom as humanity are bound to that of Palestine, and we choose action, just as Aysenur did,” it said. “As we sail for Palestine, she is with us.”

The flotilla described its mission as sailing to Gaza to break the siege on behalf of those “massacred while standing for humanity and just peace” and said it views the journey as “a statement against genocide”.