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SvennoJ on 30 September 2025

Global Sumud Flotilla entering ‘danger area’ near Gaza

Reporting from the Global Sumud Flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea. The flotilla is about 370km (200 nautical miles) from Gaza.

We are now entering the area classified as the “danger area”, where everybody is expecting interception [by the Israeli navy] at any moment due to the Israeli threats.

The flotilla is still ongoing, and all the participants are still on board.


Israel has no grounds to intercept Gaza-bound aid ships, says lawyer joining flotilla

Croatian lawyer Morana Miljanovic, who is on board one of the flotilla ships, has warned that any Israeli efforts to intercept their vessels would be clearly illegal.

“Israel, under international law, has no right to intercept civilian vessels in international waters, nor does it have the right to do that in territorial waters,” she told Al Jazeera. “This is a matter of customary international law that applies to all states, no matter which conventions they have signed or not signed.

“The only grounds Israel could have to intercept would be if there might be a crime committed or a threat to a state, and that reasonable doubt needs to be on evidence,” Miljanovic added.

“There is no such evidence. The flotilla around us is carrying humanitarian aid. Therefore, this is a humanitarian flotilla, and diverse political motivations of its participants are irrelevant.”


Italy’s navy to quit Gaza flotilla as risk of Israeli attack looms

Italy’s Defence Ministry says its navy will stop following the international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza once it gets within 150 nautical miles (278 km) of the shore.

The Global Sumud Flotilla, consisting of more than 40 civilian boats carrying parliamentarians, lawyers and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, aims to break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian enclave.

Once the convoy reaches the 150 nautical miles (278km) limit, the Italian frigate accompanying it will stop “as communicated several times in recent days”, the ministry said in a statement.

The ship will issue two warnings to activists, with the second and final one foreseen at about 00:00 GMT, when the flotilla is expected to get within the stated distance, the statement added.

An Italian spokesperson for the flotilla said that activists had been informed about the government’s plans to have the navy ship stop and turn back to avoid “a diplomatic incident” with Israel.

Italy and Spain deployed navy vessels last week to assist the flotilla, after it was hit by drones armed with stun grenades and irritants in international waters off Greece, but without any intention to engage militarily.

Brave brave Europe... Useless cunts. It was just for show, to appease the strikes at home, not to protect the flotilla with their own citizens on board.



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SvennoJ on 30 September 2025

Displaced Palestinians ‘desperate for a ceasefire’

People are so tired. They’re devastated and they’re waiting for any good news. Yesterday, everyone was looking forward to an announcement [about a ceasefire]. People had high hopes.

I’m at an area now where people from Gaza City have evacuated. These people could not find any place to go so they have pitched tents on the coastal road. They’ve been waiting for hours for drinking water.

There are no hot meal kitchens, no medical points. People are dying due to malnutrition. This has been the case for the past couple of months.

Palestinians were very happy with the last ceasefire – they were able to go back to their houses. Now, they’re deprived once again. So, Palestinians here are desperate for a deal, desperate for a ceasefire, even if it’s for a couple of days. They are very tired.


Israeli attack kills three members of the same family in southern Gaza

A source at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza has told Al Jazeera that three members of the same family were killed in an Israeli air attack on a tent where displaced people were sleeping, in Khan Younis.

Israeli forces have continued their attacks on the Gaza Strip overnight, with artillery shelling also reported in Gaza City and a bombing that injured five people in the Nuseirat refugee camp.


Israeli forces bomb home near Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, kill 6 people

At least six Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli bombing of a house west of Deir el-Balah city in central Gaza, according to a source in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city speaking to Al Jazeera.


Pregnant mother among latest Israeli attack victims in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi

One of the latest Israeli attacks hit a tent in al-Mawasi, the so-called safe humanitarian zone. Israeli forces targeted a tent where a father, a mother who is seven months pregnant and their child were staying.

This shows that wherever Palestinians go, they are still being targeted. And al-Mawasi is one of the places Palestinians believe is the safest because Israeli forces designated it as such, but they have been targeting it over and over as well.

There have also been a couple of attacks in central Gaza’s Bureij, but the main attacks have been in Gaza City, where Israeli forces have been wiping out residential blocks. Israeli ground forces are also present in different parts of the city, such as Tal al-Hawa and Nassr.

There are dozens of Palestinians trapped under the rubble in areas that civil defence and rescue teams are unable to reach.


Child dies of malnutrition in Gaza City

A child has died in Gaza City due to malnutrition and lack of treatment, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing the city’s al-Shifa Hospital.

Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded more than 400 hunger-related deaths in the enclave since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023.


Palestinian children gather to receive food portions from a charity kitchen in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip


Firefighters recover 3 bodies from site of bombing in Deir el-Balah

Gaza’s Civil Defence says a team of firefighters from central Gaza recovered the bodies of three people killed in an Israeli attack on a house in Deir el-Balah. It said its team also extinguished a fire caused by the bombing.



SvennoJ on 30 September 2025

Gaza death toll rises

At least 42 Palestinians, including five aid seekers, have been killed and 190 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 66,097 Palestinians and injured 168,536 others since October 7, 2023, the ministry statement said on Telegram.


Gaza’s hunger-related death toll reaches 453: Ministry

Gaza’s Health Ministry says it has recorded 453 deaths linked to “famine and malnutrition”, including 150 children, since Israel’s war on the enclave started on October 7, 2023.

We have reported earlier, based on al-Shifa Hospital, that a child starved to death in Gaza City.


Palestinians carry food supplies back to their tents after risking their lives to reach a distribution point in the so-called Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza


‘Significant Israeli army advance’ witnessed in northeastern Gaza City

Gaza is witnessing an unprecedented escalation of Israeli ground and aerial attacks.

As a reminder, the military is operating on three axes in Gaza City: the northwest axis near Nassr Street and Shati refugee camp; the northeast axis near Jalaa Street, where we have witnessed a significant army advance; and the southern axis, where the military is reducing many residential buildings to rubble.

Many Palestinians are still trapped under the rubble, and Civil Defence teams have reported being unable to access the area due to the artillery shelling and air raids.


‘Every minute, there is an explosion in Gaza City’

Despite the statements made by regional countries about their support of a ceasefire proposal that could guarantee the end of the war, we have recorded over the past few hours a relative surge of air attacks.

These air strikes have been in areas that Israel told Palestinians to flee to.

Just 20 minutes ago, there were two consecutive strikes on the Nuseirat refugee camp. One hit the western gate of al-Awda Hospital, where several civilians were injured, and now they are receiving emergency treatment inside the hospital. Another air strike targeted a group of civilians in the camp, killing three people.

Israeli ground forces in turn are blowing up entire residential neighbourhoods in Gaza City.

Every minute, there is an explosion in Gaza City as Israel’s ground activities are still expanding in light of repeated threats to escalate if Hamas refuses the new US proposal for a ceasefire agreement.

Al-Quds Brigades says fighters detonate Israeli missile in Gaza City

The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, says its fighters have detonated an unexploded Israeli missile near a group of Israeli soldiers south of Gaza City.

The group said helicopters evacuated dead and wounded soldiers after the attack on Monday.


Gaza death toll rises

At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources. Sixteen of the victims were killed in Gaza City as Israel continues its ground offensive there. Additionally, one person was reported to have died of malnutrition.



SvennoJ on 30 September 2025

Israeli forces raid village in northern occupied West Bank: Report

Israeli forces have raided several homes in the village of Anin, to the west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency. The report said, based on local sources, that a number of Palestinian men were arrested and severely beaten during the raid.


Two injured in Israeli firing in West Bank town: Report

Israeli forces have shot two people in the Palestinian town of ar-Ram in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency, citing the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

PRCS medics responded and provided the injured people with first aid before taking them to hospital, Wafa reported.

Israeli forces regularly open fire when clashes break out during their raids in the West Bank. Since October 7, 2023, attacks by Israeli forces and settlers in the territory have killed at least 1,046 Palestinians and injured more than 10,000, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.


Palestinian prisoner faces ‘starvation and medical neglect’: Prisoners’ group

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) has released a statement in which it says 50-year-old prisoner Muhammad Arman from the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah, who is serving 36 life sentences, is facing harsh health and living conditions in solitary confinement in Israel’s Megiddo Prison.

It says Arman has lost a significant amount of weight. ASRA said he is being “subjected to a systematic policy of starvation and medical neglect, and is being deprived of the necessary treatment and examinations”.

According to the office, Arman has also lost all contact with his family and lawyer.


Israel re-arrests dozens of Palestinians freed under Gaza truce deal: Monitor

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) says Israel is escalating its targeting of Palestinians released earlier this year under previous Gaza ceasefire agreements, carrying out new arrests and interrogations.

The group said the latest case was Hanan Barghouti, who was detained earlier today from her home in the village of Kobar near Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank. At least 40 people freed in January and February have since been re-arrested, with 16 still in custody, most under administrative detention – meaning they are being held without charge or trial.

The group called the campaign a deliberate policy aimed at keeping released prisoners under constant threat, noting that some have been detained and interrogated multiple times.

Israel has “institutionalised” these measures through military orders and legislation, the group said, while recent releases under previous truce deals with Hamas were marked by “organised terror”, including severe beatings before release and threats against families that continue to this day.


Israeli soldiers detain Palestinian children for ‘spying’ in West Bank

Israeli soldiers were filmed detaining two Palestinian children in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, demanding to know their father’s whereabouts. When a passer-by intervened and urged their release because of their young age, a soldier replied, “I don’t care.”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CE-G-K100sc



SvennoJ on 30 September 2025

Israeli military receives report of ‘terror attack’ in occupied West Bank

The attack is reported to have taken place in the Bethlehem governorate in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military says details are currently under review.


West Bank checkpoint incident appears to be car ramming

Medical authorities are saying the three Israeli settlers who were injured are in moderate to light condition, saying that the assailant of the ramming attack was “neutralised” by nearby security forces.

They say the person who was operating the car drove into the settlers at a known hitchhiking spot in the occupied West Bank. The incident occurred in an area between Bethlehem in the West Bank, near a checkpoint leading to occupied East Jerusalem.

Security officials say they are now at the scene and are investigating. These checkpoints run through the West Bank and are areas that Palestinians frequent as they try to get from East Jerusalem to the West Bank.

We have observed an upward trend in attacks over the past month or so.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that two people have been wounded in the reported attack.


West Bank car-ramming suspect killed by Israeli forces, Palestinian Authority confirms

The Palestinian Wafa news agency, citing information from the Palestinian Authority-run General Authority for Civil Affairs, has reported that Israeli forces shot and killed a man alleged to have carried out the car-ramming attack near Bethlehem.

The report named the man as 32-year-old Mahdi Muhammad Awad Dirieh. It also noted that Israeli forces had shut down all entrances into Bethlehem governorate following the attack.


West Bank car-ramming attack follows familiar pattern

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, who has reported extensively from the occupied West Bank, says the car-ramming attack near an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank is part of a string of attacks in recent weeks and months, prompted by resentment at Israel’s “subjugating” occupation that “controls every aspect of life” and efforts to “erase any possibility” of future Palestinian statehood.

She pointed out that the attack took place at a checkpoint leading into occupied East Jerusalem that Palestinians from Hebron or Bethlehem are only able to cross with “necessary military permits”.

“All of these towns are occupied by Israel, but even if Palestinians want to go to occupied East Jerusalem, they are going to have to cross an Israeli military checkpoint and sometimes get humiliated there,” she said.


Israeli forces raid town near Bethlehem after killing resident

Confrontations broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the village of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, after a large number of troops stormed the area.

Soldiers fired tear gas at crowds during the raid. They also stormed the home of Mahdi Mohammed Awad Dirieh, who was killed earlier today by Israeli fire after the army claimed he carried out a car-ramming attack.

Israeli snipers positioned themselves on the rooftops of residential buildings around Dirieh’s home while soldiers interrogated his family members.



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SvennoJ on 30 September 2025

Diana Buttu: Trump's Gaza Plan Is "Repackaging of Genocide"


After a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip on Monday that aims to end Israel's war on Gaza, free the remaining Israeli hostages and remove Hamas from power. Netanyahu expressed support for the deal, but he has already backed away from key elements, including a call for Israel to eventually pull its troops out of Gaza. Hamas has not responded yet to the deal. As part of his 20-point peace plan, Trump announced the establishment of an international transitional governing body called the "Board of Peace," which Trump would head.

Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu says the deal is "certainly not a plan that is going to end the genocide. What they're simply attempting to do is repackage it." Buttu also notes that while Trump met with Netanyahu before announcing the plan, Palestinians were not consulted. Buttu asks, "Why is it that Palestinians have been forced to negotiate an end to their genocide?"

 

EXCLUSIVE: Hamas Leaders VERY NEGATIVE On Trump Gaza Deal


Krystal and Saagar discuss Hamas response to Israel's latest ceasefire offer.

 

Trump Gaza "Peace Plan" Is A DYSTOPIAN Lie




SvennoJ on 30 September 2025

Global Sumud Flotilla nears Gaza amid threat of Israeli attack

The Global Sumud Flotilla is nearing Gaza in an attempt to break Israel’s siege that has pushed the bombarded enclave into famine.

Hundreds of people on more than 50 vessels are making the journey. Organisers believe the flotilla could reach Gaza within three days.

Earlier, Al Jazeera’s Hassan Massoud, onboard one of the vessels, said the boats were entering what is classified as the “danger area”, where all of its volunteers and organisers are expecting to be intercepted by the Israeli navy.

There have been multiple threats from Israel, whose forces have violently intercepted all flotillas trying to break its blockade and deliver vital aid to Gaza since 2010.

Activists have called the 150-nautical-mile mark the “Orange Line”, indicating the distance from Gaza where previous aid vessels – including the Madleen and Handala ships – were intercepted by Israel earlier this year.

They are also calling on people to demand protection and safe passage for the GSF. Some flotilla vessels have previously been attacked, including two hit by suspected Israeli drones while docked in Tunisia earlier this month.


 

Italy’s PM urges Gaza flotilla to stop, says it jeopardises peace prospects

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called on the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza to immediately stop their mission, shortly after the Ministry of Defence said its navy would stop following the flotilla to avoid “a diplomatic incident” with Israel.

Meloni said Trump’s plan had brought new hope for peace and argued that the flotilla’s mission could trigger a confrontation with Israel and upset the current “fragile balance”.

“Many would be happy to disrupt” Trump’s plan, Meloni said in a statement. “I fear that the flotilla’s attempt to breach the Israeli naval blockade could provide a pretext for this. Also for this reason, I believe the Flotilla should stop now.”

Meloni is fully complicit in genocide. The point of the so called 'peace' (occupation) plan was supposed to be cease fire and flooding Gaza with aid. So what better than an aid flotilla already on the way. Meloni showing her true colors, doing the bidding of Israel.

What jeopardizes peace prospects is greed.



SvennoJ on 30 September 2025

Greenpeace urges protection of Global Sumud Flotilla as it nears Gaza

Greenpeace International has called on world leaders to ensure the safety of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is approaching Gaza in an attempt to break Israel’s blockade.

The group said the flotilla is a “lifeline and a symbol of hope in action” and urged the international community to guarantee safe passage for the mission’s volunteers and humanitarian aid.

Greenpeace said governments have failed in their obligations to prevent genocide and war crimes in Gaza, and that “people are stepping in where leaders have turned away”.



European MEP on board Gaza flotilla criticises proposals to offload aid

The Global Sumud Flotilla has so far rejected calls to unload aid in Cyprus and turn back, including an authoritative intervention by Italian President Sergio Mattarella and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

In a video posted on X, European Member of Parliament Emma Fourreau said the activists were refusing the offer for several reasons.

“First, because we cannot trust a state – Israel – that has been orchestrating a famine in Gaza for months and that has been perpetrating a genocide for the past two years,” Fourreau said.

Additionally, “we are not a humanitarian mission but a political mission”, she said.

“We don’t simply want to deliver humanitarian aid, we want to breach Israel’s blockade that Israel has put into place since 2007.

“Gaza is not only living a dramatic humanitarian situation, but its population is locked up and not sovereign. This is what we’re denouncing and therefore we need to go till the end, until we reach Gaza.”



SvennoJ on 30 September 2025

And as widely suspected, the truth comes out from the horse's mouth.

Netanyahu refused full Gaza withdrawal hours after Trump meeting

Hours after appearing with Trump to unveil the 20-point plan to end the genocidal war on Gaza, Netanyahu told Hebrew-speaking audiences that he has no intention of pulling Israeli troops from Gaza.

“No way, that’s not happening,” he said in a video posted on his personal X account.

He told his audience that Israel had turned the tables on Hamas by rallying Arab and Muslim states to pressure the group to accept Israel’s conditions – the release of captives while Israeli forces stay in most of Gaza.

According to the Times of Israel, Netanyahu also secured key edits to Trump’s plan, slowing and limiting any withdrawal to ensure Israeli forces retain control over large swaths of the enclave.

Israel media report government ruling out changes to Trump’s plan

Israeli media is quoting Foreign Minister Gideon Saar as saying that any amendment to the plan presented by Trump means its rejection.

Another government official quoted by Channel 15 said the plan presented in Washington, DC, is not up for negotiation but for acceptance or rejection.

It's not a plan, it's an ultimatum for surrender to indefinite occupation. 



‘Not our document’: Pakistan deputy PM on Trump’s Gaza proposal

Just hours after Trump presented his proposal to end the war in Gaza, Pakistan, one of several countries whose leaders spoke to the US president about it on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last week, seemed to distance itself from the plan.

“This is not our document which we sent to them,” Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar said at a news conference in the capital, Islamabad. “There are some key areas that we want covered. … If they are not covered, they will be covered.

“The document has been issued by the US.”

Earlier, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tweeted his agreement to the plan presented by Trump at the White House on Monday.

“I welcome President Trump’s 20-point plan to ensure an end to the war in Gaza,” Sharif had said on X. “It is also my firm belief that President Trump is fully prepared to assist in whatever way necessary to make this extremely important and urgent understanding to become a reality.”



SvennoJ on 30 September 2025

UN human rights office slams Israeli forces’ detention of Palestinian children in Hebron

The detention of a five- and a six-year-old in Hebron in the occupied West Bank demonstrates “the cruel daily realities on the ground for Palestinians”, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in occupied Palestinian territory says.

“Every day, children are killed, injured or arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces,” the office said, calling for accountability, an end to Israeli occupation and the implementation of a two-state solution.

Israeli soldiers were filmed detaining the two Palestinian children on Monday. When a passer-by intervened and urged their release, a soldier replied: “I don’t care.”


Israeli raid near Jerusalem injures two Palestinians

Israeli forces have opened fire during a raid on the town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, injuring at least two people.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said one person was treated for a live bullet wound to the hand and transferred to the hospital, while a second person was injured by a rubber-coated metal bullet and received treatment on the spot.

The military stormed the town with several vehicles and closed off the street near the Sikal roundabout, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. Israeli army officers then raided a residential building in the area, but no arrests were reported.


Israeli forces resume assault and siege of Tulkarem camps

Israeli forces are continuing their months-long assault on the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem and its two refugee camps, seizing Palestinian homes in the eastern neighbourhood and converting them into military outposts, Wafa news agency reports.

Troops forced families from several homes at gunpoint, smashed belongings and threw them from windows as vehicles deployed throughout the area. Snipers have also been positioned inside the seized homes.

The siege on Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps has barred residents from entering, with soldiers firing on anyone approaching. An explosion was reported in Nur Shams camp earlier today, though details remain unclear due to the blockade, the report said.

The offensive has displaced more than 25,000 people from the two camps, leaving them nearly empty. At least 14 Palestinians have been killed since the campaign began, including a child and two women, one of them eight months pregnant.

Dozens more have been injured or detained, while homes, shops, and infrastructure have suffered heavy damage.