Hamas responds to latest US ceasefire proposal

In a statement, the group acknowledges receiving “some ideas from the American side aimed at reaching an agreement for a ceasefire”.

It said that it welcomes “any initiative that contributes to the efforts to halt the aggression against our people”, and is open to discussing the release of all the captives it holds in exchange for a “clear declaration” ending the war and the full withdrawal of Israel from Gaza.

Hamas also says that it agreed to a similar proposal in the middle of last month, asserting again that Israel has yet to respond.

As we reported earlier, the US has put together a new proposal, and communicated it to Israel and Hamas, which would see an immediate ceasefire in exchange for the release of all captives held by Hamas, and the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

Main events on September 7th

• The US has issued a new ceasefire plan that would see the immediate release of all Israeli captives still held in Gaza in exchange for about 2,000-3,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails and a ceasefire in Gaza.
• Hamas welcomed the proposal in an official statement, while US President Trump claimed that Israel had agreed. Israel has made no official statement.
• Sources in Gaza hospitals told our team on the ground that at least 65 people have been killed since dawn today, including 49 in Gaza City and in the north of the Strip, where Israel is concentrating its assault.
• Israel’s prime minister claimed that about 100,000 Palestinians have so far left Gaza City, according to Israeli media reports, as the military pushes forward with plans to seize the city.
• Israel flattened another residential high-rise in Gaza City, displacing dozens more people and continuing its campaign of destroying the infrastructure there.

IDF, Israeli media in shock after surprise Houthis drone attack on Ramon airport

Yemen’s Ansarallah fighters also known as the Houthis on Sunday stunned the Benjamin Netanyahu government by successfully bypassing the interceptor missiles to hit the Ramon airport. The video of the damage caused by drones fired by the Houthis have gone viral on social media. Rifat Jawaid explains what it means for the new phase of the military tension between the Netanyahu regime and Yemeni fighters as they vow to avenge the death of their prime minister.

Hundreds of Thousands Join Pro-Palestine Protest in Belgium Against Israeli War in Gaza

Hundreds of thousands marched in Brussels in one of Europe’s largest demonstrations, waving Palestinian flags and demanding sanctions against Israel. Protesters rallied under the banner “Red Line for Gaza,” urging the Belgian government to act against the ongoing crisis. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News.

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Why Italian Dockworkers are THREATENING TO STRIKE to Protect Palestinians

Ron Placone discusses the Gaza flotilla that is now headed out to provide aid to the dying populace under Israel regime. Dockworkers in Italy are now threatening to strike to block all movements of product if anything were to befell the aid workers on the ship, as we discuss.

‘Gaza will be destroyed’, says Israel’s defence minister

Israel Katz has issued a threat to Gaza, warning that a “powerful hurricane” will hit the territory and destroy Hamas targets today.

“Today, a powerful hurricane will strike the skies above Gaza City, and the roofs of the towers of terror will shake,” he wrote on X.

“Release the hostages and lay down your weapons – or Gaza will be destroyed and you will be annihilated.”

Hamas says it is ready to negotiate as Trump gives ‘last warning’

Hamas has said it is ready to “immediately sit at the negotiating table” following what it described as “some ideas from the American side aimed at reaching a ceasefire agreement”.

Its statement came soon after US President Donald Trump said he had issued his “last warning” to Hamas to accept a deal to release captives in Gaza.

“The Hamas Movement welcomes any initiative that supports efforts to end the aggression against our people, and affirms its readiness to immediately sit at the negotiating table to discuss the release of all prisoners,” the Palestinian group said.

In exchange, it wanted “a clear declaration of the end of the war, a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and the formation of a committee of independent Palestinians to manage the Gaza Strip, which would begin its duties immediately”.

Earlier, Trump posted on social media: “The Israelis have accepted my terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well. I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. This is my last warning.”

Israeli forces destroy more than 50 buildings across Gaza

Palestinian Civil Defence spokesperson in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, says Israeli forces have destroyed more than 50 buildings across the Strip since yesterday morning, while another 100 buildings were partially damaged, including high-rises housing thousands of residents.

Basal said Israeli forces are deliberately targeting buildings surrounded by encampments of displaced people, and that more than 200 tents have been destroyed as a result of the bombing of adjacent buildings in the last 24 hours, in what he described as a “systematic” policy aimed at intensifying forced displacement.

He also said Israeli forces are targeting the remaining mosques and stadiums in Gaza City, and said Civil Defence crews received distress calls from citizens trapped under the rubble in the az-Zarqa area of ​​the Tuffah neighbourhood after a building was bombed.

Israeli forces, settlers attack Ramallah and Nablus

Sources tell Al Jazeera that Israeli forces demolished a well and an agricultural facility and bulldozed land in the village of al-Mughayyir, north of Ramallah. They also demolished the Beita agricultural produce market, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

Wafa reported that one Palestinian was wounded during an attack by Israeli settlers on the village of Osarin, south of Nablus. A group of settlers attacked residents of the village at dawn today. They also smashed the windows of three vehicles.

At least 15 injured in East Jerusalem shooting, Israeli ambulance service says

It says it received reports of at least 15 injuries in a shooting incident in occupied East Jerusalem.

Attack in Jerusalem injures at least 20, including 6 critically

It seems that there are at least 20 people injured and at least six of them in serious condition after Israeli police say two alleged gunmen opened fire in an area in the northern part of Jerusalem, right outside an illegal settlement and have been “neutralised”.

Israel often uses the term “neutralise”, and what they mean is they have arrested or killed the shooters involved, and they don’t really give more information until they have completed an investigation.

These are pretty main roads in Jerusalem, and police are also saying they have blocked off every single road that leads to the area. Israeli police say that roads that have been closed lead to Ramot and parts of West Jerusalem, and illegal settlements in the area will remain blocked off. There is a lot of traffic there, and that’s because those cars have nowhere to go.

The ambulance service is still looking in the area for people who might be injured.

Death toll from Jerusalem shooting rises to five: Report

The death toll in the Jerusalem shooting has risen to five, Israel’s Army Radio says. It is unclear, though, if two of those were the perpetrators in this attack.

The broadcaster reported that police now suspect the perpetrators of the attack were Palestinians from the occupied West Bank rather than occupied East Jerusalem as previously reported.

Meanwhile, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported Netanyahu has informed judges that he will not attend his corruption trial today due to the security developments.

Deadly East Jerusalem shooting ‘likely to have originated in occupied West Bank’

The shooting attack in occupied East Jerusalem in which five people were killed was most likely to have originated from the occupied West Bank, rather than from Hamas in Gaza, Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg says.

Speaking from Tel Aviv, Goldberg told Al Jazeera he “seriously” doubted it had been ordered by Hamas.

If Hamas had carried out the attack, then it would mean the Palestinian group was “trying to step up its resistance to what is beginning to look like a superimposed attempt to end the war,” he said, referring to comments from the Trump administration that it is working on a solution to the war in Gaza.

“It seems much more like that this came from the West Bank or around Jerusalem,” he said, adding that the situation for Palestinians there was “quite dire in financial and political terms”.

“Israel has been maintaining a blockade on the West Bank; it has been denying tens of thousands of Palestinians the ability to work for a living,” he said.

“The economic situation all over the West Bank is as bad as it has ever been. The Palestinian Authority is not up to the task, mainly because Israel is not allowing it to handle the situation.”

Israeli authorities trying to piece together first major attack in Jerusalem since 2023

Israeli authorities are saying the two perpetrators are from an area in the occupied West Bank that is just west of occupied East Jerusalem. They say the two worked in tandem in this attack, that two gunmen boarded a bus – witnesses say one of them was dressed as a ticket inspector – and opened fire.

We are now hearing that five people out of the initial 20 injured have been killed. Four of them are men, one is a woman in her 50s.

This attack took place near an illegal settlement of Ramot, just north of West Jerusalem, and if you look at where the Green Line is on a map, it actually bleeds into occupied East Jerusalem.

These settlements are deemed illegal under international law and are buildings and structures that infringe on the rights of Palestinians and destroy territorial continuity for a future Palestinian state.

Israeli officials are now trying to wrap their heads around how exactly this happened, saying that they haven’t seen something like this happen in years, saying that the last shooting like this in the greater Jerusalem area was back in November 2023.

‘The situation Israel finds itself in is not sustainable’

The deadly attack in Jerusalem underlines that Israel has stretched itself unsustainably thin from a security perspective as it pursues fights on multiple fronts, Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg says.

“The main message here … is that the Israeli blanket is way too short,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv. “It can’t cover everything.”

He said the number of security personnel present in the area of the attack had decreased, as greater numbers were required in the occupied West Bank to enforce the Israeli occupation.

Meanwhile, he said, the intensified offensive in Gaza had drawn further troops into that war while Israel was also embroiled in “hopeless adventures in Lebanon and Syria that also require more manpower”.

“Israel is not able to keep its act together, not in Jerusalem, not in the West Bank, in Gaza, and not in Lebanon and Syria,” he said. “The situation Israel finds itself in is not sustainable.”

Israel closes all checkpoints between East Jerusalem and West Bank

Israeli forces have closed all checkpoints between occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank following an attack that killed five people in East Jerusalem, sources tell Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, after police said the perpetrators came from the West Bank, Israeli Army Radio reported that Israeli forces imposed a military cordon on four Palestinian villages in the Jerusalem governorate of the territory – Qatana, Biddu, Beit Inan, and Beit Duqu – and are conducting raids there.

The military said it had reinforced its forces in the wider Jerusalem area and was conducting a wide-ranging search for what it described as “accomplices” of the perpetrators of the shooting.

Security officer, civilian shot perpetrators of Jerusalem attack: Police

A security officer and a civilian shot the perpetrators dead after the attack that killed five people in occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli police say. The police said the perpetrators of the shooting arrived in a vehicle and opened fire at a bus station.

Israel likely to respond to Jerusalem shootings with retribution against attackers’ homes

Israel will likely respond to the deadly shooting in East Jerusalem with acts of retribution targeting the homes of the gunmen, going by its track record of retaliation to previous attacks, Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg says.

“I would assume the response would be extremely tactical,” he told Al Jazeera. “They would try to identify the gunmen who carried out the attack, then they would go after their village or town of residence, [and] demolish their homes.”

He said, in response to a previous attack, Israel had ordered thousands of trees to be destroyed in an attacker’s home village. “They would take all kinds of punitive actions,” he said.

“Israel is not capable of carrying out anything that is broader than a … tit-for-tat, trying to show it has the upper hand by using an excessive level of force,” he added. “This is true in Gaza, it’s going to be true in the West Bank.”

After East Jerusalem attack, Israel ‘has to begin by questioning itself’

Israel has made some Palestinians feel that their only means of resistance is violence as Israel has done its utmost to ensure that they have no “sustainable model of politics”, according to Ori Goldberg, an Israeli political analyst based in Tel Aviv.

“Many Israelis ask where the Palestinian Nelson Mandela is at the moment, and the answer is either at a cemetery or in an Israeli prison. Israel has done everything it can to break any attempts on the part of the Palestinians to try and explore different paths, paths that are not violent like the ones we saw today,” he said, referring to the attack in East Jerusalem that killed at least five people.

He said that while Palestinians have also played a part in the failure of Palestinian politics, Israel is “by all means the stronger party” and bears most of the responsibility.

“Israel has done everything it can to break the Palestinian Authority, to arrest any semblance of a political leadership that might be amenable to a political process with Israel and to deny such a political process vehemently and repeatedly at all levels of the Israeli government,” he said.

“So when Israel looks for answers as to why this happened today, it has to begin by questioning itself.”

‘Palestinian Authority must disappear from the map’: Smotrich

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for the PA to be wiped from the map, and the villages of those behind the attack in occupied East Jerusalem to be reduced to ruins in retribution.

In a post on X, Smotrich condemned the “severe and horrific attack” on a bus in East Jerusalem, which Israeli officials say was carried out by Palestinians from the occupied West Bank.

“The State of Israel cannot accept a Palestinian Authority that raises and educates its children to murder Jews,” said Smotrich.

“The Palestinian Authority must disappear from the map, and the villages from which the terrorists came should look like Rafah and Beit Hanoon,” he added, referring to Palestinian cities in Gaza which have been devastated by Israel’s war.

Ben-Gvir to Israelis: ‘Go arm yourselves’

Israel’s far-right national security minister calls on Israelis to “arm yourselves” after the shooting attack in Jerusalem that has killed at least six people.

In a post on X featuring a video of Ben-Gvir speaking alongside Netanyahu near the scene of the Jerusalem attack, Ben-Gvir praised an “act of heroism” by three ultra-Orthodox men at the scene – a soldier and two civilians – for stopping the attack.

“This was an act of heroism by a soldier from the ultra-Orthodox Hashmonaim Brigade and two ultra-Orthodox men who received weapons as part of the weapons reform,” he said, referring to his policy that has loosened gun ownership laws and fast-tracked permits for Israelis.

“I said that weapons save lives. We must remember that. I call on the citizens of Israel – go and arm yourselves.”

Palestinians in occupied West Bank brace for collective punishment after Jerusalem attack

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are preparing themselves to face collective punishment from Israel in retaliation for the Jerusalem attack, a Palestinian journalist says.

Speaking to Al Jazeera from the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank, Leila Warah said Palestinians were “very much on edge, waiting to see what is going to happen”.

Netanyahu has said Israeli forces are conducting operations in the villages where the attackers hailed from in what is now a standard Israeli response to such attacks, Warah said.

“This is what a lot of human rights organisations describe as collective punishment, collectively punishing an entire population,” she said.

“Once the military comes in, it becomes very difficult for Palestinians to move,” she added. “The vast majority of Palestinian people are not armed. They’re very much civilians in their homes, scared for their lives.”

EU condemns Jerusalem shooting and says it shows need for Gaza ceasefire

The European Union has condemned the deadly shooting by suspected Palestinian gunmen at a bus stop in occupied East Jerusalem and says it underscores the urgent need for a ceasefire as Israel wages war in Gaza.

“We condemn this attack as we condemn all loss of lives,” EU spokesman Anouar El Anouni said. “We call for de-escalation, and this shows how necessary and critical a ceasefire is.

“Civilians on both sides, both Palestinians and Israelis, have suffered for far too long and far too much. And this must end now, and it is high time to break this cycle of violence.”

PA condemns ‘targeting of civilians’; UAE slams Jerusalem shooting

In reaction to the shooting in Jerusalem today, the Palestinian Authority has “reiterated its firm position of rejecting and condemning any targeting of Palestinian and Israeli civilians”.

Its presidential office said in a statement that the PA denounces “all forms of violence and terrorism regardless of their source”.

“The presidency stressed that security and stability in the region will not be achieved without ending the occupation, halting the acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, and halting settler terrorism in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem,” it said.

The United Arab Emirates also strongly condemned the “terrorist shooting incident” and expressed its “permanent rejection of all forms of violence and terrorism aimed at undermining security and stability”.

Jerusalem attack a ‘symptom of worsening repression in occupied West Bank’

The deadly attack in Jerusalem is a symptom of worsening pressures on Palestinians by Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, a Palestinian journalist says.

“What we’re really seeing is a symptom … of the Israeli military occupation,” Leila Warah said, speaking to Al Jazeera from the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem.

“The economy is crumbling. People can’t find work. People are met with military checkpoints wherever they go. It is very difficult for people to live what would be described as a normal life here in the West Bank.”

She said such repression had been a reality of life since Israel’s occupation of the West Bank began. “But since October 7, 2023, it has been significantly increasing with military raids and settler attacks.”

She said there were concerns that settler attacks on Palestinians could ramp up in retaliation for the Jerusalem shooting after calls from Ben-Gvir for Israelis to arm themselves.

“We do expect them to continue escalating and getting worse,” she said.

Israeli ministers call for deportations of families of Palestinian attackers

Two Israeli ministers have called for the families of Palestinians behind attacks on Israeli citizens to be deported to deter future violence.

In a post on X, Energy Minister Eli Cohen said Israel “must respond to terrorism with an iron fist” and “act to swiftly implement the law to deport the families of terrorists”.

Such a move, he said, would “deter future murderers and eliminate the breeding grounds from which they emerge”.

Education Minister Yoav Kisch expressed similar views. “We must shift from defence to deterrence, eliminate the terrorists, and immediately expel their families,” he said in a post on X. “This is not revenge – this is the only way to save lives.”

Last year, the Israeli parliament passed a law allowing the government to deport the parents, siblings or children of people convicted of “terrorism” offences, including Israeli citizens, despite objections by human rights organisations.

Israel’s defence minister promises to crush ‘terror camps’ after Jerusalem attack

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz warns of “the most severe and far-reaching consequences” after the deadly attack in occupied East Jerusalem.

“We will pursue terror everywhere,” Katz wrote in a post on X.

Israel’s forces are already carrying out raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank, its common response to attacks on Israelis.