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Two children killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City school

Sources at al-Shifa Hospital say Israeli forces have bombed a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, killing at least two children and wounding several others.

Eight killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City

Israeli army opens fire on aid seekers

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that the Israeli army has opened fire on people waiting for aid near the Netzarim Corridor.

Woman killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City

An Israeli drone attack has killed a woman and wounded others in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, according to an ambulance source quoted by our colleagues on the ground.

Israeli attack kills four people in Gaza City home

Our colleagues on the ground, quoting a local ambulance source, are reporting that an air raid on a home in the northeastern Tuffah neighbourhood has killed at least four people and wounded many others.

Two girls among latest victims of Gaza City attacks

Israeli attacks on homes in western Gaza City’s Shati camp have killed at least five people, including two girls, according to an ambulance source quoted by our colleagues on the ground.

To the south, near Rafah, Israeli gunfire has also killed a person and wounded others near an aid centre.

UN chief says world should not be intimidated by Israel

Antonio Guterres says the world should not be intimidated by Israel in taking action against its war.

“What we are witnessing in Gaza is horrendous,” Guterres told the AFP news agency. “It is the worst level of death and destruction that I’ve seen in my time as secretary-general, probably my life, and the suffering of the Palestinian people cannot be described – famine, total lack of effective healthcare, people living without adequate shelters in huge concentration areas,” he said.

Guterres was speaking to the AFP before the UN’s signature high-level week, at which 10 countries will recognise a Palestinian state, over fierce Israeli objections. Israel has reportedly threatened to annex the West Bank if Western nations press ahead with the recognition plan at the UN gathering.

But Guterres said, “We should not feel intimidated by the risk of retaliation. “With or without doing what we are doing, these actions would go on, and at least there is a chance to mobilise the international community to put pressure for them not to happen,” he said.

Portugal to recognise a Palestinian state

Portugal has joined Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom in announcing plans to recognise a Palestinian state.

In a statement on Friday, the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the recognition will take place on Sunday, a day before a high-level conference on Palestinian statehood at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that Portugal will recognise the State of Palestine,” the ministry wrote in a statement on its website. “The Official Declaration of Recognition will take place on Sunday, September 21st, before next week’s High-Level Conference.”

Saudi Arabia, France, Norway, Spain launch PA fundraising campaign: Report

As Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has withheld tax revenue that it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) for four consecutive months, it has brought the Palestinian body that oversees parts of the occupied West Bank to the brink of collapse.

Preventing the collapse is “essential for a future of peace and security in the Middle East”, Saudi Arabia, France, Norway and Spain said in a letter to potential donor countries set to attend a two-state solution conference next week at the UN, The Times of Israel reports.

Participants at Monday’s conference are expected to demand that Israel release the PA’s funds. But anticipating that Israel will not budge, they have set a fundraising goal of $200m each month for six months to meet the PA’s operating expenses.

“Financial shortcoming cannot be the cause of the failure of the Palestinian State and destabilisation of the Middle East,” the letter said.

Israel boycott calls spread as celebs, artists speak out

Growing numbers of Western artists are calling for a cultural boycott of Israel over the Gaza war. With most Western governments resistant to major economic sanctions, musicians, celebrities and writers are hoping to build public pressure for more action.

“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that, globally, we’re at a tipping point,” British actor Khalid Abdalla of The Kite Runner and The Crown told the AFP news agency, after signing a petition calling for a boycott of several Israeli cinema bodies.

The open letter from Film Workers for Palestine has gathered thousands of signatories, including Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix, who have pledged to cut ties with any Israeli institutions “implicated in genocide”.

At this week’s Emmy Awards, winner after winner, from Javier Bardem to Hacks actor Hannah Einbinder, spoke about Gaza, echoing similar statements at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month.

British trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack announced they were joining a music collective called No Music for Genocide that will see artists try to block the streaming of their songs in Israel.

Israeli faces are being boycotted at the Eurovision, while Spain’s PM is leading a push to exclude the country from sports events.

Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov announced last week at a concert in the UK that he would no longer perform in his home country.

European leaders criticised for lack of action against Israel

Ever since European leaders visited Israel in the wake of the October 7 attack, “very little has been done (other than piling on the words) to mark the EU’s revulsion or to sanction Israel or Netanyahu in any meaningful way,” according to an opinion piece in the Times of Malta.

“This [act of solidarity by European leaders] despite the public knowledge of that regime’s history, Netanyahu’s well-documented ideology on Palestine, and the openly expressed assertions of extremist members of his cabinet,” wrote Colm Regan in the piece.

“While the ongoing complicity of ‘Great Again’ America and its enabling network in the genocide is plain for all to hear and see, we expect better (and have a right to demand better) from the EU, its leaders and officials and its institutions.

“Instead, we have been abysmally served by them.”

Pro-Palestine demonstrators rally in Berlin

_{Protesters hold signs during a large-scale classical music concert for Gaza children held on World Children’s Day at Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt}

‘Unprecedented massacre of journalists’ in Yemen by Israel

Israeli attacks on two newspaper offices in Yemen earlier this month killed 31 journalists, making it the second deadliest attack on the press ever recorded by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

The CPJ reported that Nasser al-Khadri, editor-in-chief of September 26, one of the outlets targeted, described the killings as an “unprecedented massacre of journalists”.

The Israeli attack also indicates that Israel’s deadly practice of targeting reporters and newsrooms labelled as spreading “terrorist” propaganda has become firmly established throughout the Middle East, the CPJ report said.

“Israel’s attack on Yemen echoes previous strikes on Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, where it has repeatedly failed to distinguish between military targets and journalists, justifying its assassinations by smearing journalists as terrorists or propagandists, without credible evidence,” read a CPJ statement.

Protesters accuse defence firms of enabling Israeli war on Gaza in Taiwan

Demonstrators have staged a protest outside the Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition, accusing dozens of participating companies of profiting from Israel’s war on Gaza.

The rally, organised by the Taiwan Alliance for a Free Palestine, coincided with the final day of the three-day defence industry gathering at Nangang Exhibition Center, where 490 companies from 15 countries showcased military hardware, robotics, and aerospace technology.

The protest comes as the UK-based Humanity Research Consultancy, along with Taiwanese labour and advocacy groups, produced a report alleging dozens of Taiwanese firms supply critical components for Israeli military systems.

“Taiwanese companies cannot hide behind claims of neutrality,” organisers said in a statement. “By exporting components that strengthen Israel’s military capacity, they risk becoming accomplices in genocide.”


_{Protesters at a pro-Palestinian rally against Israel’s war on Gaza, in Taipei}

Israeli forces continue raids across occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have stepped up their raids in the occupied West Bank, with house searches and field interrogations carried out in multiple locations in recent days. Here is what happened overnight:

Gaza death toll rises to 71 as Israel pounds the north with bombs

Hospital sources say at least 71 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip since dawn, including 56 in besieged Gaza City.

Israeli bombardment and remotely controlled robots with explosives are destroying Gaza City block by block, turning the skyline black with smoke and forcing tens of thousands to flee.


Hamas condemns Israel’s use of ‘explosive-laden drones’

Hamas has accused Israel of committing war crimes by using remotely operated, explosive-laden drones, which it says are being detonated deep inside residential neighbourhoods to inflict “the widest possible destruction”.

“The world today is witnessing horrifying crimes carried out by the government of war criminal [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu], wanted by the International Criminal Court, including the deliberate destruction of Gaza City, the forced displacement of its residents under massacres and bombardment, and the use of various methods of killing and extermination, foremost among them being remotely operated explosive drones,” said Hamas in a statement.

The group urged the international community to “act immediately to stop these disgraceful crimes”.

‘Horrifying’ attack on Gaza City people escaping Israel’s assault

A video documenting this Israeli attack shows a group of Palestinians on a truck carrying furniture as they fled the Nassr area. This was horrifying footage of people being killed.

This northern area has witnessed relentless bombardment, and remotely controlled robots loaded with explosives are operating in there. They’ve been literally wiping out entire neighbourhoods.

What we know is at least four Palestinians have been killed in this attack, and there are also dozens of Palestinians injured.

This shows Israeli forces are attacking people even as they’re fleeing following Israel’s forced expulsion orders. Because of the intensified bombardment, Palestinians are on the move.

The army is using quadcopters to kill people trying to escape their neighbourhoods and using these robots with residents saying every time they explode it feels like an earthquake.

Israel accused of creating ‘Nazi-like concentration camps of extermination’

The head of Gaza’s Health Ministry has denounced Israel’s forced expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza City saying hundreds of thousands remain trapped in the besieged urban centre.

“More than 900,000 remain steadfast and refuse to leave despite the ongoing bombardment and destruction,” Director-General Munir al-Bursh said.

“The so-called ‘humanitarian zones’ are being used by the occupation to try to confine one million people in overcrowded areas with no water, no basic supplies, and no proper shelter,” he added.

“The occupation has allocated only 12 percent of Gaza’s territory as shelter areas, and is attempting to forcibly cram at least 1.7 million people into these zones. This amounts to a plan to create Nazi-like concentration camps of extermination, aiming to forcibly displace people into areas that lack the most basic conditions for life.”

‘Beyond desperation’: Gaza’s displaced struggle to survive with nothing

Michail Fotiadis from medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says the situation in al-Mawasi where Israel ordered hundreds of thousands of people is “heartbreaking”.

“Everybody is looking for a place to pitch a tent, but the materials are not available. The situation is really dire for the population. Access to water is very difficult,” Fotiadis told Al Jazeera from al-Mawasi, described by Israel as a “humanitarian zone”.

He said more Palestinians continue to arrive from northern Gaza with nothing after escaping Israel’s military onslaught.

“Usually, in a situation like this, survival prevails. But Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have had to endure so many different displacements, so many situations of fear. They are beyond desperation.”

Children killed in Israeli air strike on school in Gaza City

A deadly air attack has hit al-Mu’atassim School in western Gaza City, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians sheltering there. The victims include children and women, and the strike came without prior warning.

It destroyed tents that housed displaced families seeking safety, with survivors describing waking up to explosions, fire, and chaos.

Victims pulled out of al-Shifa Hospital doctor’s bombed home

A statement on Telegram says civil defence teams recovered three people from the Abu Salmiya family home in western Gaza, which was targeted by Israel in the morning. “A missing person is still under the rubble, and our crews are trying to reach him,” the statement by the rescue agency said.

As we reported earlier, several people were killed in the attack on Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya’s family home, including his brother and sister-in-law.

France’s Palestine recognition a ‘very concrete action’

French President Emmanuel Macron scored a major diplomatic coup by declaring his intention to recognise a Palestinian state, but the move risks being followed by bitter retaliation from Israel while not providing concrete benefits to the Palestinians, analysts say.

Macron sent a shockwave through the international community with his pledge a few months ago. His announcement in a speech in New York at a conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Monday is now to be matched by recognition by nine other states, including Australia, Belgium, Canada and the UK.

The recognition marks the growing international frustration with Israel over its assault and aid blockades on the Gaza Strip. The implications are historic.

“This recognition is not the end of our diplomatic efforts. It is not a symbolic recognition. It is part of a broader and very concrete action,” said French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux, pointing to the French-Saudi roadmap that is to accompany the recognition.

Western recognition of Palestine unlikely to alter Netanyahu’s stance

Recognition by some Western countries of a Palestinian state won’t have a significant impact on the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or its conduct, a political analyst says.

“Will it change his [Netanyahu’s] calculus? Not at the moment. But I think he is beginning to feel the pressure, and I think Israel generally is beginning to feel the pressure,” Ori Goldberg told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv.

Israel faces a paradox, Goldberg added. “It keeps going as though it has nothing to contain it or limit its efforts to carry out the genocide of the Palestinian people … On the other hand, circumstances are changing and they’re changing quite rapidly, not necessarily in terms of political results in the field, but in the sense that the Palestinian question is becoming a liability to existing leaders around the world, not just in Europe but in the US also.”

Imposing sanctions and boycotting Israeli activities could result in having an impact as these actions would “breach the Israeli public and allow the Israeli public to view Netanyahu as a dysfunctional prime minister, not as a valiant prime minister who, despite being disliked and despite his many personal issues, is doing all he can to fight an impossible battle that’s closer to the way most Israelis view Netanyahu right now,” he said.

Protesters rally in Sweden demanding end to Israel’s war on Gaza



Lively crowd lol, can't get my eyes of my phone...

Protesters march in Spain in support of Gaza healthcare workers


_{The rally in Madrid for beleaguered healthcare professionals was organised by the platform PararLaGuerra}