Gaza death toll surges to 34 as relentless attacks continue

At least 34 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip since dawn as Israel pounds the coastal enclave, medical sources tell Al Jazeera. The Health Ministry said 77 people were killed and 222 wounded over the past 24 hours.

A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the streets as ambulance and civil defence crews are unable to reach them because of Israeli army fire or restrictions.

Gaza City residents forced to flee, then hunted down by air strikes

The reason Palestinians are not leaving Gaza City now is the fear and intimidation created by the Israeli military’s ground offensive.

There are major parts of the city that the army is now reaching, where it is carrying out deadly attacks on the civilian population. The military is sharply ordering people to leave their homes, but at the same time targeting them with sky-predator drones and quadcopters.

Those who manage to get to al-Rashid Street and move towards central and southern Gaza face aerial surveillance and bombardment. Last night, an army helicopter flew low and fired at the road, causing mayhem and panic among displaced families.

Imagine people are fleeing for their lives and at the same time being chased by the Israeli military. It’s all part of the Israeli tactics to depopulate the area.

‘Last opportunity’: Israeli military seals off battered Gaza City

Israeli tanks have blocked the main road into Gaza City and soldiers are preventing those who left the besieged urban centre from returning.

Tanks and troops set up sand barriers on the road south out of Gaza City. People are being allowed out but those who left in search of food are no longer being permitted to return, residents said.

“This is the last opportunity for Gaza residents who wish to do so to move south and leave Hamas operatives isolated in Gaza City itself in the face of the [army’s] continuing full-scale operations,” Israeli Defence Minister Katz said in a statement.

Those leaving would be subjected to vetting by the military, Katz added.


_{Forcibly displaced Palestinians move south from besieged Gaza City}

Israeli attack kills more Palestinian women in Gaza

In war-battered Gaza, nine people – almost all women – have been killed when a house was hit by Israeli fire in Deir el-Balah. Three people died in an air raid on a tent for forcibly displaced Palestinians in the city, according to Al-Aqsa Hospital.

In Gaza City to the north, health officials at al-Shifa Hospital said they received one body and several injured people, adding staff members are having difficulty getting to the main health centre because of Israel’s ground invasion and heavy bombardment.

Three ships currently being held in Israel’s Ashdod port

At least three Gaza aid flotilla ships are currently being held at Israel’s Ashdod port, Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad confirms.

Tracking data from the website Marine Traffic shows Capten Nikos, sailing under a Greek flag; Estrella y Manuel and Adara, both flying under the Spanish flag, have been towed to southern Israel.

The Sumud Flotilla said Israeli naval forces intercepted and boarded the Capten Nikos and other boats “illegally” while en route to Gaza.

Rima Hassan, a European Parliament lawmaker and one of the passengers aboard the Capten Nikso, shared footage of Israel’s interception earlier. She also said the activists have been detained “illegally” by Israeli troops in international waters.

Amnesty International condemns ‘unlawful’ flotilla interception

The human rights group says Israel’s detention of flotilla activists is an unlawful act meant to penalise acts of solidarity with Gaza, where Amnesty has said Israel is carrying out a genocide.

“Israel’s forceful interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels and detention of its crew off the coast of Gaza is a brazen assault against solidarity activists carrying out an entirely peaceful humanitarian mission,” Agnes Callamard, Amnesty’s secretary-general, said in a statement.

“This seizure comes after weeks of threats and incitement by Israeli officials against the flotilla and its participants and after several attempts to sabotage some of its ships,” she noted.

“By continuing to actively block vital aid to a population against whom Israel is committing genocide, including by inflicting famine, Israel is once again demonstrating its utter contempt for the legally binding orders of the International Court of Justice and its own obligations as the occupying power to ensure Palestinians in Gaza have access to sufficient food and lifesaving humanitarian assistance.”

Flotilla interception required more Israeli resources than previous efforts

What’s going to happen to the humanitarian aid is unclear, but all 40 vessels that have been intercepted by the Israeli military are now in the Port of Ashdod just north of the Gaza Strip.

All of the activists on board have been detained and taken into the Israeli prison service, where they will then be deported to countries in Europe or wherever else they come from.

It’s worth mentioning that for months since the Global Sumud Flotilla was announced [and] since preparations were made, the Israeli military and navy alike were making preparations of their own, saying they were carrying out drills on how they were going to intercept so many vessels.

[That’s] because it’s much different than the other flotillas we’ve seen in the past where it was just one single ship. This one was more than 40. So the Israeli navy deployed many more resources to try to intercept these boats, nearly 130 nautical miles [240km] away from the Gaza Strip.

Territorial waters are only 12 miles out, plus it's not even Israel's territorial waters.

Across Europe, demonstrators stand in solidarity with flotilla


<sub>Students take part in a protest during a strike to support Palestinians in Gaza, in Madrid, Spain


People denounced Israel’s interception of the aid vessels, in Berlin, Germany</sub>

White House says Trump will draw ‘red line’ on Gaza proposal

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that the US president expects Hamas to accept his Gaza proposal, and could impose consequences if the group does not do so.

Since Israel’s war on Gaza began nearly two years ago, the US has often pushed Israel-backed proposals unlikely to garner Palestinian support and then blamed Hamas as the primary obstacle to ending the conflict.

“It’s a red line that the president of the United States is going to have to draw, and I’m confident that he will,” Leavitt said in an interview with Fox News.

On Tuesday, Trump said he was giving Hamas “three or four days” to respond to his Gaza plan.

French foreign minister says Hamas must accept ‘surrender’

Jean-Noel Barrot says the Palestinian group, which is studying Trump’s Gaza proposal, “has lost” and must surrender.

As we’ve been reporting, the 20-point US plan says Hamas must have no role in the future governance of Gaza, which will undergo a “demilitarisation” process.

Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty, the plan also states, while members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries.

“Hamas bears a very heavy responsibility for the catastrophe experienced by the Palestinians,” Barrot told the AFP news agency. “It has lost. It must accept its own surrender.”

No, you must abide by the Geneva conventions and end the genocide. Hamas is merely the excuse for continued ethnocide.

Ask the original people of the USA / Canada / Africa / Australia / New Zealand what this 'peaceful co-existence' is like...

Egypt says trying to convince Hamas to support US proposal

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has said his country is working alongside Qatar and Turkiye to convince Hamas to support Trump’s Gaza plan.

“We are meeting with them,” Abdelatty said during an event in France. “We are coordinating with our brothers in Qatar and also our colleagues in Turkiye, in order to, you know, convince Hamas to respond positively with this plan.”

Abdelatty says Cairo will not allow Palestinians to be displaced from the Gaza Strip “under any circumstances”.

“Displacement will not happen. It will not happen because displacement means the end of the Palestinian cause,” Abdelatty said at the French Institute of International Relations. “We will not allow this to happen under any circumstances.”

Israel has been pushing to displace Palestinians from Gaza City and other areas as part of what observers said is a plan to ethnically cleanse and seize control of the territory. Trump previously floated the idea of pushing people out of Gaza to turn the enclave into the “Riviera of the Middle East”, but his recent 20-point plan states that no one will be forced to leave the Strip.

Egypt doesn't care about the so called 'peace' plan, only cares about refugees and keeping their payouts from the USA.

Trump says ‘Middle East could very well be solved’

The White House has shared a short clip of an interview Trump gave to the far-right news outlet One America News Network, touting his efforts to end global conflicts.

“It looks like the Middle East could very well be solved after 3,000 years approximately,” he said. “We’re going to have more than Gaza. We’re going to have Gaza plus peace – overall peace. That would be an amazing achievement.”

This isn’t the first time Trump has falsely said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes back thousands of years, with the US president making a similar comment earlier this week.

Israel was established in 1948. The first Arab-Israeli war took place that year, which also saw the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their towns by Zionist forces.

The first half of the 20th century did see clashes between Palestinians and Zionist colonists. But the Zionist movement itself was founded in the 1800s, and the First Zionist Congress was not held until 1897 – far from 3,000 years ago.

"We've put out seven wars — now it could be eight... It looks like the Middle East could very well be solved," says @POTUS.

"We're going to have Gaza plus PEACE, overall peace. That would be an amazing achievement." pic.twitter.com/8iVc6Ff641

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 2, 2025

FIFA president says football association cannot solve geopolitical problems

Gianni Infantino has sought to sidestep criticism that the global football governing body has refused to suspend Israel over atrocities in Gaza, despite suspending Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

“At FIFA, we are committed to using the power of football to bring people together in a divided world,” Infantino told a FIFA Council meeting in Zurich, adding that the association cannot solve geopolitical issues.

“Our thoughts are with those who are suffering in the many conflicts that exist around the world today, and the most important message that football can convey right now is one of peace and unity.”

So let Russia back? Boycott FIFA.

The most important message that anyone can convey right now is that genocide and starvation can not be tolerated.

EU welcomes Trump’s plan for Gaza

The European Union has hailed Trump’s plan for Gaza as a “way out of this devastating conflict”.

“The EU supports the principles outlined by President Trump on a demilitarised Hamas with no role in future governance, the removal of any threat to Israel and its people, that Gaza will not be occupied and that Palestinians will not be displaced,” the European Council said in a statement.

“Respect for international law, including international humanitarian law, is a must,” it added.

The council also said it welcomed Israel’s acceptance of the plan and urged Hamas also to agree, noting that the EU “is ready to offer a valuable contribution to this plan through the variety of tools at its disposal”.

Err, Israel has not accepted the plan... You only see it as a way out of your responsibilities under the Geneva Conventions.

WHAT ABOUT THE THREAT TO PALESTINE AND ITS PEOPLE.

Fuck the EU. Dead beat has been colonial scum suckers. They can't even protect their own (Ukraine).

US plan fits into historical refusal to acknowledge Palestinian national rights

Trump’s Gaza proposal is the latest Western effort that ignores Palestinian national rights while seeking to isolate the Strip from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory, says Wadie Said, a law professor at the University of Colorado.

Israel and its top ally, the US, have for decades “been trying to ‘solve’ the Palestinian issue without in any way acknowledging Palestinian national rights in these lands and in these territories”, Said told Al Jazeera.

“This idea of separating Gaza has been floated before, and it’s just a repeat of many proposals that have been in existence that deny Palestinians their right to national self-determination,” he explained.

“The West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem have been declared as occupied illegally by the International Court of Justice,” he added.

Hamas says will respond to Trump’s Gaza plan ‘soon’

Hamas political bureau member Mohammed Nazzal has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the Palestinian group will soon announce its position on the US proposal.

Nazzal said Hamas, as representatives of the Palestinian resistance, has a right to express its views “in a way that serves the interests” of the Palestinian people.

The group is discussing Trump’s plan with the goal of stopping Israel’s war on Gaza, he added. “We are not dealing [with the plan] under the logic that time is a sword pointed at our neck,” Nazzal said.

As we’ve reported, Trump said on Tuesday that Hamas had “three or four days” to respond to his plan.

Gaza City ground invasion: ‘We’re not leaving’

As Israeli forces prevent besieged residents from returning to Gaza City, some Palestinians say the move only increases their determination to stay.

“We are not leaving. Yesterday a drone dropped grenades on the rooftop of our building, but we are not leaving,” said Hani, 24, who asked to be identified only by his first name over safety concerns.

“We are afraid if we leave we will never see our Gaza City again.”

The United Nations estimates between 600,000-700,000 people are still inside Gaza City, after about 400,000 fled in the past few weeks as Israeli forces have advanced, destroying buildings in their path.

Watchdog calls for immediate release of 32 detained media workers

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has criticised Israel for seizing news workers travelling with the Global Sumud Flotilla as it tried to reach Gaza and break Israel’s devastating blockade.

The media watchdog said it identified 32 journalists on board the vessels, but it remains unclear who has been detained by Israeli forces at sea.

Al Jazeera’s Hassan Massoud was on board one of the flotilla’s 44 boats on the Mediterranean Sea.

“Detaining members of the press while reporting on a humanitarian mission is a clear violation of international maritime law and a dangerous escalation in Israel’s pattern of attacks against journalists,” said Sara Qudah, CPJ’s regional director.

“World leaders must act now to defend press freedom, protect journalists and demand accountability.”

‘Collapsing lifelines’ as Israeli attacks force NGOs out of Gaza

The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has issued a list of the latest calamities facing the besieged people of Gaza. It includes:

‘No guarantees’ of safety in Gaza City mass exodus

Thousands of people are trying to flee south under the escalating military pressure resulting from ground operations in Gaza City. Families are taking what little they can in order to quickly and easily move from Gaza City to the central and southern parts of Gaza.

But places they have arrived at are already saturated with families previously forced to flee their homes and villages after the expansion of Israel’s ground activities.

People were given a very short time to flee — especially those who refused initially under the extensive Israeli pressure, and now have no luxury of time, and no guarantees for their safety.

UNRWA chief says Israel preparing for ‘large scale massacres’ in Gaza City

As we’ve been reporting, Israel has threatened that any Palestinians who remain in Gaza City will be defined as “terrorists or terror supporters”.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has condemned that announcement as an ominous signal that anyone who cannot or will not leave the area will be targeted by the Israeli military.

“Labeling the nearly 250,000 people currently trapped in Gaza City and the north as ‘terrorists or terror supporters’ by the Government of Israel is a statement suggesting planned large scale massacres: killing more women, children, elderly and vulnerable people unable to move out,” Lazzarini said in a social media post.

“No one has the license to kill civilians. Ongoing international crimes in Gaza cannot continue to be implicitly tolerated. More inaction will lead to more complicity to what the UN Commission of Inquiry has already concluded is genocide. Time to act.”