Hungry Palestinians queue at Gaza humanitarian kitchen


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Israel is bombing homes to force mass displacement in Gaza City, civil defence says

Gaza’s civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Basal, says Israel is deliberately bombing homes and residential blocks in densely populated neighbourhoods of Gaza City to force residents to flee towards the centre and south of the Strip, despite the catastrophic humanitarian conditions in these parts of the territory.

Families who received forced evacuation warnings said they struggled to find shelter inside the city and often returned to their damaged homes within hours, risking their lives amid ongoing strikes.

He warned that forcing Palestinians into overcrowded displacement camps that lack necessities is a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law” and urged the international community to pressure Israel to halt this policy of forced displacement.

Satellite images show Israel has totally destroyed areas of Gaza City

Israel’s Gaza City invasion has caused widespread destruction across numerous neighbourhoods, including Zeitoun, Remal, Shujayea, Tuffah and Sabra, satellite images show.

“If we do not leave, we’ll be buried alive,” said Awad Abu Sharkh, one resident of the city.

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Forced evacuation orders leave starving families with ‘impossible choice’, WFP warns

The World Food Programme (WFP) warns that displacement is making families in Gaza even more vulnerable as famine spreads across the enclave.

“Many are too weak, sick, or starving to move at all. Each evacuation order brings an impossible choice: the risk of fleeing or the risk of staying,” the UN’s food agency wrote on X.

It renewed its call for an immediate ceasefire, saying “the fighting must stop” and a truce is long overdue.

More than 50,000 people left homeless in one week of Israeli bombardment, civil defence says

Gaza’s civil defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said that within less than a week, Israeli forces have caused “large-scale destruction” across Gaza City’s infrastructure and residential areas after announcing they were “opening the gates of hell” on the city.

According to Basal, Israeli bombardment has destroyed 12 residential towers of more than seven floors, containing about 500 apartments, displacing more than 10,000 people.

He said more than 120 smaller residential buildings were also destroyed, displacing 7,200 people, while partial damage to more than 500 other buildings has deprived nearly 30,000 people of shelter.

Basal added that more than 600 tents housing displaced families were burned or destroyed, leaving at least 6,000 more people homeless. Ten schools and five mosques were also completely destroyed in the strikes.

“In less than one week alone, more than 50,000 people in Gaza – including children, women, and the elderly – have been left homeless amid an escalating humanitarian catastrophe,” he said, urging the UN and international community to intervene.

Netanyahu meeting with Israeli officials to ‘push out as many Palestinians’ from Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly holding a high-level meeting to discuss what Israel is framing as the “voluntary migration of Palestinians from Gaza”, even though it has been condemned as ethnic cleansing.

Israeli officials, speaking anonymously to the media, have said that as early as next month they’re trying to put together these plans to push out as many Palestinians as they can while [offering] no promises that Palestinians are going to be allowed to come back to Gaza.

This is the same government that has been calling for the expulsion of Palestinians, to re-occupy Gaza, and to rebuild illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory.

Netanyahu signs off on E1 settlement plan, says ‘there will be no Palestinian state’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signed off on the controversial so-called E1 plan to expand settlements built on land in the occupied West Bank and surrounding East Jerusalem and said “there will be no Palestinian state”.

The plan aims to isolate occupied East Jerusalem from its surroundings, cut geographic and demographic continuity between the north and south of the occupied West Bank, and undermine the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

“We are going to fulfil our promise that there will be no Palestinian state, this place belongs to us,” Netanyahu said during a visit to the illegal Maale Adumim settlement in the occupied West Bank, where thousands of new housing units would be added.

“We will safeguard our heritage, our land and our security … We are going to double the city’s population.”

The plan includes about 3,500 apartments that would be situated next to the existing illegal settlement of Maale Adumim. Rights groups have warned that this will displace and uproot Palestinian communities, including Bedouin communities, from their lands.

The move is also expected to significantly increase the number of settlers in the area, amid a surge in settler attacks on Palestinians and their property.

Jerusalem Governorate warns E1 plan seeks ‘demographic change’

Israel’s controversial E1 illegal settlement plan would “bring about demographic change” and “consolidate the so-called Greater Jerusalem [vision] to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state,” the Jerusalem Governorate has said in a statement, shortly after the plan was signed off by Netanyahu.

“Today’s agreement aims to accelerate colonial construction and strengthen settlement schemes to link the settlement of Maale Adumim to the Mishor Adumim settlement area and E1 projects,” it added.

The plan foresees the construction of 7,600 settlement units, including 3,400 in the E1 area.

The E1 plan was authorised last month by Israel’s far-right minister of finance, Bezalel Smotrich, who also holds a key Defence Ministry position concerning the occupied West Bank, meaning that he has some say on settlement expansion.

The plan would prevent any sort of continuity from the occupied West Bank to East Jerusalem and further dismantle the prospect of a Palestinian state in the future.

Israeli forces arrest more than 100 Palestinians in Tulkarem raids

Israeli forces have arrested more than 100 Palestinians in raids on the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem and have imposed a curfew on the city, Al Jazeera Arabic reports.

As reported earlier, Israel’s military has been conducting raids in Tulkarem after it said two Israeli soldiers were wounded when their vehicle was “hit by an explosive device”.

Former EU diplomats urge bloc to suspend cooperation with Israel

More than 300 former European diplomats and officials have written to the EU to demand that it take decisive measures against Israel.

“We strongly urge the European Union to immediately impose targeted sanctions on the Israeli government and suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement,” the letter from the 314 signatories said.

The agreement – which regulates cooperation in the fields of trade, energy, the environment and research – can only be suspended unanimously.

The letter also called on all EU member states to recognise a Palestinian state.

Pro-Palestine group seeks UK High Court review after refusal to arrest Israeli president

Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA), a UK-based NGO that campaigns for justice in Palestine, has filed a claim for judicial review in the British High Court challenging the refusal to grant consent for criminal proceedings and an arrest warrant against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

The NGO had applied to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) and attorney general on September 9 to launch criminal proceedings against Herzog, who is visiting the UK, on charges of encouraging indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the Strip’s civilian infrastructure.

The group said both the DPP and attorney general rejected the request the following day without sufficiently considering widely available public evidence. FOA is now asking the court to review what it described as an inadequate inquiry into an urgent case involving a suspect “imminently within the jurisdiction”.

“How can the Director of Public Prosecution say there is not sufficient evidence? A simple Google search brings up past statements by Mr Herzog that show he is responsible for supporting genocide”, said Ismail Patel, FOA’s chair.

He added that while the refusal was “deeply disappointing”, the group’s resolve to seek justice “will not waver” and will now be “redoubled” as it pursues the case in court.

Italy tells Israel to respect rights of Italian activists on Gaza flotilla after boat attack

Italy has told Israel to respect the rights of Italian activists taking part in a flotilla that is seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, after a boat was attacked with incendiary devices in Tunisian waters.

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told parliament on Thursday that Italy would be monitoring the flotilla and providing consular and diplomatic assistance to the 58 Italians taking part, including some lawmakers.

“Our embassy in Tel Aviv, under my instruction, talked to the Israeli authorities about the respect of the rights for all the fellow citizens who are part of the flotilla, including among them several members of parliament,” Tajani said. “I also called Foreign Minister [Gideon] Saar to personally make him aware of the matter.”

Tajani spoke hours before other boats participating in the flotilla were due to set sail from Siracusa, in Sicily. About 600 people in all were sailing from Italy, Greece and Spain.

“We, the civilian population who risk our lives for a sense of humanity, are being labelled as criminals,” said Benedetta Scuderi, a European parliamentarian from Italy’s Greens and Left Alliance, who is among those taking part.

“This is unacceptable and we ask the government of Giorgia Meloni and the European institutions for full diplomatic protection.”

Five wounded in Israeli drone strike on southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said five people were wounded after an Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle in the town of Kfar Dounine in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate.

The strike is the latest in a series of Israeli attacks on the country, despite a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah agreed last November.

Yemen’s Houthis say they struck Israeli military targets

Yahya Saree, the military spokesperson for Yemen’s Houthis, said the group carried out two operations targeting Israeli positions in the Negev region.

He said a hypersonic ballistic missile struck a military target, while three drones were used to hit Israel’s Ramon Airport near the Red Sea city of Eilat, and another military site in the area.

Saree said the attacks “achieved their objective successfully” and pledged to continue operations in support of Gaza until the Israeli “aggression” stops.

Earlier on Thursday, Israel’s military reported a security alert near Ramon Airport after detecting a hostile drone and said the threat was resolved without providing further details.

Israeli authorities said another drone had been intercepted earlier, reportedly launched from Yemen, and air defences also stopped a rocket from Yemen overnight.

The attacks come a day after Israeli forces struck Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and al-Jawf province, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 100 others.

Death toll from Israeli raids on Yemen rises to 46

Yemen’s Houthi-run Health Ministry said the number of casualties in Israel’s attacks on Wednesday has risen to 46 people killed and 165 wounded.

Israel struck the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the northern province of al-Jawf, the latest in a series of attacks and counterstrikes between Israel and the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, part of a spillover from the war in Gaza.

The attack followed an August 30 strike on Sanaa that killed the prime minister of the Houthi-run government and several ministers, in the first such assault to target senior officials.

Main events on September 11th

• The UN Security Council has held a meeting to discuss Israel’s attack on a Hamas delegation in Qatar’s capital, Doha. Qatar’s prime minister addressed the council saying it would continue engaging in diplomatic efforts to “stop the bloodshed” in Gaza.
• The UNSC issued a statement agreed upon by all 15 members, including the US, which condemned the strikes in Qatar but failed to mention Israel.
• Israel bombed three homes in the heart of the Shati refugee camp, a densely populated area whose population has tripled in recent months.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signed off on the so-called E1 plan to expand settlements built on land in the occupied West Bank and surrounding East Jerusalem, saying “there will be no Palestinian state”.
• Israeli forces have detained more than 100 Palestinians in raids on the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem and have imposed a curfew on the city after two Israeli soldiers were wounded.
• Yemen’s Houthis say they carried out two operations targeting Israeli military positions in the Negev region, including an attack on Ramon airport near the Red Sea city of Eilat.

Netanyahu snubs Trump on Qatar attack; Houthis’ new plan to overwhelm Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly contradicted US President Donald Trump by going against his assurance to Qatar that Israel will not attack its soil again. Netanyahu has made it clear that he would attack Hamas leadership in Qatar if they were not expelled from this gulf country. This comes amidst the Houthis firing more hypersonic missiles aimed at Israeli targets. Rifat Jawaid explains why Iranians and the Houthis are able to respond to Israeli threats despite their economic backwardness but the rich Gulf nations are having to accept humiliation.

Digital Genocide EXPOSED: Big Tech, Surveillance and Automated Killing

Episode 2. of Occupied Tech deep dives into the world of digital rights, surveillance and the escalating cyber warfare against Palestinians. From Israel’s systemic digital apartheid to what experts now call “digital genocide,” this conversation sheds light on how tech is weaponised as a tool of oppression.

Host Paul Biggar is joined by Eric Sype, national organiser at 7amleh https://7amleh.org/ The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media. Together, they unpack how Israel routinely disrupts Palestinian ICT infrastructure with a “kill switch,” how Big Tech enables censorship and mass surveillance and how digital repression plays out on platforms like Meta, Google and PayPal.

Netanyahu’s gamble: Build greater Israel or make it a doomed pariah

“An Israel for all its citizens has disappeared, it has literally been extinguished, and it's a myth that Israel is a nice friendly state”

David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, joins us on this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC to discuss what he describes as the ‘worst evil the world is witnessing’ in the 21st century. Hearst shares his views on why Israel’s genocide is not just intentional but ‘calculated’.

He also speaks about the UK’s complicity and how Israel, through its actions, has isolated not just the global public opinion, but former reliable allies such as Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan, who are now among the most damning and articulate (if not necessarily sober and coherent) critics of Israel.

Israeli forces shoot, wound five Palestinians in West Bank village: Report

Israeli forces have opened fire on a group of young Palestinian men in the village of Deir Jarir in the occupied West Bank, wounding five of them, reports the Wafa news agency.

The forces detained one of the gunshot victims before he was able to receive medical attention, the agency quoted village council head Fathi Hamdan as saying.

Israeli forces also closed off the main entrance to Deir Jarir for several hours.

What’s happening in Tulkarem?

Israel’s military has launched an intense crackdown on the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank after two soldiers were wounded when their armoured vehicle was hit by an explosive device.

Israeli forces have since imposed a curfew on the city and rounded up hundreds of Palestinians, reportedly pulling them out of cafes, businesses and restaurants and forcing them to march to a military checkpoint.

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, who has reported extensively from the occupied West Bank, called the campaign a “show of humiliation”.

Israeli forces are “trying to remind everyone that if there’s any incident in any place in the occupied West Bank that they do not like, that they see as threatening their forces … then they’re going to crack down, not just on the perpetrators, not just on the villages, but on everyone in that vicinity,” Ibrahim said.

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Israeli forces intensify raids, make more arrests across West Bank

In addition to its intensive campaign in Tulkarem, Israel’s military has carried out raids and arrests in several other parts of the occupied West Bank, spanning the governorates of Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus.

According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli forces:

Stabbing attack near Jerusalem, two reported wounded

A man has carried out a stabbing attack in a hotel in the Israeli kibbutz of Tzova, on the outskirts of West Jerusalem, injuring guests there, according to Israeli police.

In a statement, the police said the suspect is from occupied East Jerusalem’s Shu’fat refugee camp and was apprehended by a police officer staying at the hotel.

The Times of Israel reports that two people were injured in the attack, including a 50-year-old who is in “serious condition” but conscious.

Israeli police arrest three others after Jerusalem stabbing attack

Israeli police have issued a new statement on the stabbing attack that took place in a hotel in Israel’s Tzova, near West Jerusalem.

Police said the suspect, who they identified as being from occupied East Jerusalem’s Shu’fat refugee camp, is a hotel employee who entered the dining room and stabbed two guests.

In addition to apprehending the suspect, police say they have arrested three other people suspected of being “connected to the incident”.

Israel’s Arutz Sheva reports that the two victims of the stabbing – one of whom is hurt “severely” – have been taken to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.

‘Three generations wiped out in single air strike’

It was another sleepless night in Gaza City. Israeli forces are using remotely operated explosive devices in neighbourhoods, coupled with heavy air and artillery attacks covering much of the eastern part of Gaza City.

In one attack, 14 people from one family were killed. We’re talking about three generations wiped out in one single air strike.

The Israeli military is also using the intimidating tactic of illuminating the skies above Gaza City. For the second night in a row, they used flare bombs, creating fear among displaced people already forced to seek shelter anywhere they can find it.


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What remains of Gaza City?

Israel has been demolishing Gaza City’s high-rise towers, flattening entire blocks that once housed thousands of people. The Palestinian Civil Defence said at least 50 multistorey buildings have been destroyed in recent weeks as Israeli forces press their assault on the city, all amid a wave of forced displacements.

Some neighbourhoods have faced near-total destruction. In Gaza City’s Zeitoun area alone, more than 1,500 homes and buildings have been destroyed since early August, leaving parts of the district with no buildings left standing.

‘Mayhem’ as residential tower, homes attacked in Gaza City

The past few minutes have been quite intense in the western part of Gaza City, with multiple air strikes rocking the area, including in the vicinity of a UNRWA medical centre that serves thousands of people living nearby. We counted three massive explosions.

Evacuation orders were issued, but the entire area had to scramble for shelter before the designated site was bombed. The evacuation orders did not give people enough time to gather their stuff and caused chaos and mayhem. We’ve seen this scenario repeatedly over the past months.

The attack targeted a cluster of residences, including a residential tower across the street from the medical facility. As far as we know, the tower is still standing, though it sustained a great deal of damage. But the cluster of homes was completely destroyed.

This adds to a series of long, tough hours since early this morning.

There has been a mixture of drone attacks, fighter jet attacks and heavy artillery targeting more areas, including a school that was just completely destroyed. That school was located in the Shati refugee camp. Many people had taken refuge in it, but have now been forced back into the streets one more time.

Number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza today hits 50

The number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza so far today keeps rising, with medical sources now putting the death toll to at least 50.

The figure includes at least 37 people killed in Gaza City and the north of the besieged territory.

‘Desperate reality’ in Gaza’s al-Mawasi

A sea of makeshift tents fills the sandy, barren landscape. Crammed into just 9sq km (3.5sq miles), tens of thousands of people have used fragile nylon and plastic sheaths to build shelters that do little to protect them from the harsh elements.

The intensification of air raids and ground activities by the Israeli military in Gaza City has been pushing more and more families to flee to southern Gaza, especially al-Mawasi.

There are no official aid distribution centres, toilets, or even water lines to provide services to families. Queues of young women, children, and men line up in front of the local soup kitchen to receive soup or lentils to survive.

It’s a desperate reality. Families are told to come here, but are turning back because there are no spaces left for them to ensure a dignified life, which has been stripped away by Israel’s repeated evacuation orders and mass bombing.

UN seeks better water access in ‘barren and crowded’ al-Mawasi

An official with the UN’s children agency at the so-called “humanitarian zone” in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi has told Al Jazeera that “far more needs to happen” to support the thousands of displaced families who have sought shelter under “such difficult circumstances”.

In less than a month, more than 70,000 people have made the arduous journey from northern to southern Gaza following Israel’s move to forcibly evacuate Palestinians from “combat zones”, according to UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram.

“This is already an incredibly crowded area, with hundreds of thousands of people here, with not enough services or supplies to meet their needs – let alone the influx of people coming from the north,” Ingram said of al-Mawasi.

A water pipeline runs along the western side of the encampment, but limited access to the east – where new families are now arriving – has forced women to walk for hours to fill a single jerrycan of water that has to last all week, the official added.

The UN is looking to transport water via trucks to the “really barren” eastern settlement area, Ingram said.

Israeli drone attack kills child in Gaza City

Israeli drone fire has killed a child and wounded others in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood, report our colleagues on the ground, quoting a source at the nearby al-Ahli Hospital.

In central Gaza’s Nuseirat, a separate drone attack also killed a man, our colleagues report.

Displaced Palestinians ‘smelling grief and death’ in al-Mawasi

Displaced Palestinians living in the crowded al-Mawasi encampment fear being forced further south to the Egyptian border, even as they deal with deplorable living conditions.

As we’ve been reporting, hundreds of thousands of people are crammed into makeshift tents in the so-called “humanitarian zone”, which lacks water access and sanitation, among others.

“This is not life,” Shade al-Wawi, a displaced Palestinian, told Al Jazeera from al-Mawasi. “We cannot do it any more”. “We are smelling dust, and with it, smelling grief and death,” he said.

Before he fled to al-Mawasi, al-Wawi’s home was flattened to the ground for the second time since 2004. But more concerning, he told Al Jazeera, is the prospect of being pushed out of the encampment.

“We are no longer able even to stay here, and we’ll be forced to move south toward the Egyptian border … The entire world is not listening, or even trying to do anything,” al-Wawi said. “We are not heard, we are not seen, we are not living, without any future – our God is our only shield.”

UN General Assembly to vote today on a Palestinian state excluding Hamas

The UN General Assembly will hold a vote today on whether to back the “New York Declaration”, a resolution that calls for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine – excluding Hamas.

Presented by France and Saudi Arabia, the declaration has already been endorsed by the Arab League and co-signed by 17 UN member states, including several Arab countries.

It urges “collective action to end the war in Gaza, to achieve a just, peaceful and lasting settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the effective implementation of the Two-State solution”.

It also condemns Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, demands the release of all captives and goes further by calling on Hamas to disarm and relinquish control of Gaza.

“In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority, with international engagement and support, in line with the objective of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State,” the declaration states.

Today’s vote precedes an upcoming UN summit co-chaired by Riyadh and Paris on September 22 in New York, in which French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to formally recognise the Palestinian state.

The PA is extremely unpopular. Hamas has to go but the PA is no replacement. A new government is needed, preferably led by Marwan Barghouti. The PA is mostly a tool of the occupation. Palestine needs an independent government or a 2 state solution is doomed from the start. Oslo Accords 3.0

UAE summons Israeli ambassador after Doha attack: Report

The United Arab Emirates has called in Israel’s ambassador to the country, Yossi Shelley, for a formal rebuke after Israel’s attack targeting Hamas leaders in Doha, reports Israel’s public broadcaster Kan.

There was no immediate official comment from the UAE and Israel.

Back in 2020, the UAE became the first Gulf state to normalise ties with Israel under the Abraham Accords.