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SvennoJ on 10 October 2025

Foreign Press Association reiterates call for media access to Gaza

The Foreign Press Association (FPA), which represents hundreds of media workers, has called on Israel to allow foreign journalists entry into Gaza as the ceasefire is now in effect.

“With the halt in fighting, we renew our urgent call for Israel to open the borders immediately and allow international media free and independent access to the Gaza Strip,” it said.

“These demands have been repeatedly ignored, while our Palestinian colleagues have risked their lives to provide tireless and brave reporting from Gaza.”

The FPA has repeatedly asked for access to Gaza over the past two years, but Israel has denied any entry of foreign journalists to the besieged enclave. On October 23, Israel’s top court will hear the FPA’s petition demanding access, but the association said there was “no reason to wait that long”.

“Enough with the excuses and delay tactics. The restrictions on press freedom must come to an end.”


Thousands of Palestinians crowded into Gaza’s remaining hospitals

Mohammed Zaqout, director general of hospitals in Gaza, has addressed the state of the health sector after more than two years of Israeli bombardment.

Here are some of his translated remarks:

  • About 1,700 medical personnel have been killed during Israel’s war on Gaza.
  • Thousands of patients are seeking care at the limited hospitals still functioning in Gaza.
  • Health workers cannot find the necessary medicine to treat cancer and diabetes patients, as well as pregnant women.
  • Teams have requested the entry of essential medications, medical supplies, and materials for radiology departments; some may be arriving tomorrow.


Head of Gaza’s health system calls for specialised doctors, supply convoys

Munir al-Barsh, director-general of Gaza’s Health Ministry, has described the “major challenges” facing the destroyed healthcare system in the Strip.

Al-Barsh told Al Jazeera that a little girl died today because of a lack of medical supplies, as aid has yet to reach the war-battered Palestinian enclave.

“Continuous supply convoys and the entry of specialised doctors into the sector are required. It is necessary to provide drinking water and bring generators to hospitals. The world must act quickly to deliver aid and medical supplies,” al-Barsh said.

He added that 10,000 people remain missing throughout Gaza, with many bodies still under the rubble. Al-Barsh also called for support for civil defence crews in searching for unexploded ordnance left by the Israeli army.



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SvennoJ on 10 October 2025

When the bombs in Gaza stop, the true pain starts

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/10/when-the-bombs-in-gaza-stop-the-true-pain-starts

After US President Trump announced the ceasefire deal, for a moment it seemed as if Gaza’s long nightmare was coming to an end.

But the ceasefire didn’t bring peace; it only shifted the suffering into a quieter, more insidious form, where the real damage from the rubble began to settle into Gaza’s weary soul. Years of relentless shelling had built up fear and heartbreak that no outsider could erase.

During those two brutal years of bombing and near-total destruction, everyone in Gaza was focused on one thing: Staying alive.

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Then, when the explosions finally eased, a quieter kind of pain crept in: All the grief we had buried to get through the chaos. Almost everyone had someone torn away, and those pushed-aside memories came rushing back with a force that took the breath out of us. As soon as the rockets fell quiet, another fight began inside people’s chests, one full of mourning, flashbacks and relentless mental anguish. On the surface, it looked like the war was over, but it wasn’t. It was far messier than that. Even when the shelling eased, the emotional wounds kept bleeding.

When the noise finally faded, people began to ask the questions they had forced themselves to ignore. They already knew the answers – who was gone, who would not be coming back – but saying the words out loud made it real. The silence that followed was heavier than any explosion they had survived. That silence made the truth impossible to avoid. It revealed the permanence of loss and the scale of what had vanished. There were holes everywhere, in homes, in streets, in hearts, and there was no way to fill them.

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It will take several generations to heal from genocide, it will be a long painful process.

Basically everyone in Gaza has been stuck in the first stage of grief, denial. Focus on survival. Next comes anger :/


Relief and disbelief greet Gaza ceasefire announcement in Israel

Across Israeli society, the reaction to the news of a Gaza ceasefire deal has been almost uniform: Joy.

Two years of war on Gaza have fractured Israeli society. The minority who have openly opposed Israel’s killing of more than 67,000 Palestinians say they have been ostracised, while those who cheered on what experts have confirmed is a genocide have been left angered by growing international condemnation of Israel’s aggression.

“I cried when I got the news,” Israeli political analyst Nimrod Flaschenberg said. “It’s really big. It’s like there’s a complete emotional unravelling across Israel; it’s like people are decompressing. There’s just massive, massive relief.”

Maybe next will come the realization of what they have done... And then anger as well :/ Israeli society has been in denial for 2 years as well.

It will be a long road to acceptance.



SvennoJ on 10 October 2025

Israel declares Hamas defeated ‘every place we fought them’

Hamas is no longer the armed group whose invasion of Israel triggered the two-year war on Gaza, the Israeli military says.

“Hamas is not the Hamas of two years ago. Hamas has been defeated every place we fought them,” Brigadier-General Effie Defrin, the army spokesperson, told reporters at a briefing.

He urged Palestinian residents of Gaza to avoid entering areas still under control by Israeli forces in the enclave.

Thousands of displaced Palestinians began flocking towards their abandoned homes after a US-brokered ceasefire took effect on Friday and Israeli troops began pulling back from parts of Gaza.

Turkiye says Gaza truce must hold to prevent ‘return to massacres’

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has warned against any Israeli provocation that could reignite the war on Gaza and prolong civilian suffering.

“It is vital that the agreed-upon deal proceeds without disruption,” Fidan told a news conference. “There must be no provocations from Israel that could restart the war, continue the genocide, or further the displacement of civilians. If the process stalls, it could mean a return to massacres.”

He added to prevent that, “we are working with the international community and our regional partners to ensure the next stages proceed without interruption”.

The next stage of the truce will address Gaza’s governance and efforts to restore internal security, he said.

“This process demands continuous attention and diligence,” Fidan said. “We will continue to manage it with care and determination as we have done so far.”


Will the Israelis cite ‘security threats’ to ignore full troop pullout?

Enforcing the Gaza truce benchmarks will be critical to the deal’s survival, a security analyst says.

“One of my concerns going forward is do the Israelis reach a point where they fail to withdraw to a certain line because they claim there’s a ‘security threat’ and that leads to a breakdown?” Colin Clarke, executive director of The Soufan Center, told Al Jazeera.

“Conversely, are there hardline Hamas elements, splinter groups that break off, that refuse to move forward on certain sequences. That gets into a whole separate challenge, which is Hamas disarmament. That, in my mind, is one of the most challenging aspects over the weeks and months.”

Clarke noted that in such peace deals, there’s usually “political inclusion” involved, but that’s not the case with Hamas.

“When you talk about carrots and sticks, that’s one of the carrots for a group to go forward with disarmament – that they’re going to be included in some kind of post-conflict political settlement. The Israelis said already Hamas can’t be part of that, so then why would Hamas disarm?” he said.



SvennoJ on 10 October 2025

Hamas, Palestinian factions reject any foreign guardianship

In a joint statement with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Hamas has reiterated that any decision on the future governance of Gaza is “an internal Palestinian matter”.

The Palestinian political factions commended the steadfastness of people in Gaza and thanked the mediators involved in reaching a ceasefire deal.

“We are working, in cooperation with generous Egyptian efforts, to convene an urgent comprehensive national meeting for the next step after the ceasefire,” they said. “This will unify the Palestinian position, formulate a comprehensive national strategy, and rebuild our national institutions on the foundations of partnership, credibility, and transparency.”

US President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan includes the creation of a new international body dubbed the “Board of Peace” that is tasked with overseeing a temporary transitional government of technocrats to govern Gaza.

Trump himself will chair the board, which is also expected to include former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to the proposal.


Hamas presses mediators after Israel refuses to free key Palestinian prisoners

The Palestinian group is in contact with mediators about several leaders whom Israel has refused to free under the US-brokered truce deal, including Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat.

“The movement [Hamas] is insisting on their release and negotiations are still ongoing,” senior official Mousa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera TV network.

He said Israel turned down several other proposed names. When asked if those included Abdullah Barghouti, Hassan Salama, Ibrahim Hamed and Abbas al-Sayyed, he replied, “Yes. These are the most prominent names that the occupation always rejects.”

Marwan Barghouti, 66, is widely popular and considered a potentially unifying Palestinian political figure. He’s serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail.


Israel holding bodies of 735 Palestinians, says advocacy group

The National Campaign for the Retrieval of Palestinian and Arab War Victims’ Corpses and the Disclosure of the Fate of the Missing said Israeli authorities are holding the bodies of 735 people in cemeteries and refrigerators.

The cemeteries are made up of mass graves marked with numbers rather than names, and some of the bodies have been there since the 1967 war.

It is widely known that Israel employs the practice as a tactic for leverage in negotiations. The practice has long pained Palestinian families, who sometimes have to wait decades before receiving the bodies of their loved ones.



SvennoJ on 10 October 2025

US lawmaker urges ‘accountability for war crimes committed’

Democratic Congresswoman Summer Lee has hailed the Gaza ceasefire as “a critical step to ending the genocide, surging aid, and reuniting Palestinian and Israeli families”.

“We owe it to every Palestinian killed, every home and hospital destroyed, to demand accountability for the war crimes committed, and we must keep pushing for an end to the occupation,” she wrote on X.

Recent public opinion polls in the US show a majority of Americans believe Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, while a large proportion also said Israel is carrying out a genocide against Palestinians in the enclave.

Despite that, Washington has continued to provide billions of dollars in military aid to Israel.

Satellite images show widespread destruction of Gaza cities


This handout satellite image, courtesy of Vantor, shows a view of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Friday


Rafah, near Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, also has been a frequent target of Israel’s bombardment

Israel failed to achieve goal of ‘ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from all of Gaza’

That’s according to Forensic Architecture, a research group at Goldsmiths, University of London, that has documented the devastation of Israel’s two-year assault on Gaza.

“Israel has successively occupied North Gaza, Rafah, and Khan Younis, sealing them off, and razing them to the ground,” the group said in a post.

“Any ceasefire must protect what remains of Gaza City, and dismantle the military corridors so that Palestinians can return to their land. Without support for Palestinian-led reconstruction, the genocide will continue.”




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SvennoJ on 10 October 2025

Trump says captive exchange to happen on Monday

Speaking to reporters at the White House, the US president has confirmed that Israeli captives held in Gaza are set to be released on Monday.

Asked about where agreement on the ceasefire plan currently stands, Trump said: “There is consensus on most of it and some of the details, like anything else, will be worked out, because you’ll find out that when you’re sitting in a beautiful room in Egypt, you know, it’s easy to work something out. But then sometimes it doesn’t work from a practical standpoint.”

Trump also mentioned there are 28 bodies of Israeli captives to be recovered and confirmed he will be travelling to Cairo and then later speaking at the Israeli Knesset before returning to the US.


How the ceasefire agreement is expected to unfold

  • Israel is set to release around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the remaining captives, but a list Israel published did not include high-profile prisoner Marwan Barghouti.
  • Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official and lead negotiator, said all women and children held in Israeli jails will be freed.
  • The hostage and prisoner releases are expected to begin on Monday.
  • The plan from US President Donald Trump calls for Israel to maintain an open-ended military presence inside Gaza along its fence with Israel.
  • An international force, comprised largely of troops from Arab and Muslim countries, would be responsible for security inside Gaza.
  • The United States would lead a massive internationally funded reconstruction effort.
  • The plan envisions an eventual role for the Palestinian Authority – something Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long opposed.
  • The Trump plan is even more vague about a future Palestinian state, which Netanyahu firmly rejects.

EU-monitored Gaza pedestrian crossing to reopen next week: Italy

An EU mission at the Rafah border point between Gaza and Egypt will resume following the ceasefire, with the pedestrian crossing set to reopen on Tuesday, Italy says.

The EUBAM monitoring mission is intended to provide a neutral, third-party presence at the key crossing and involves police from Italy, Spain and France. It was deployed in January but suspended in March when Israel broke the last ceasefire.

In a statement, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said he authorised the resumption of Italian operations within the EU mission.

“On October 14, 2025, in compliance with the Trump agreement, in coordination with the European Union and the parties, the Rafah crossing will be opened alternately in two directions, exiting towards Egypt and entering towards Gaza,” Crosetto said.

Crosetto said about “600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid will flow into Gaza from other [non-Rafah] crossings every day”.



SvennoJ on 10 October 2025

Main events on October 10th

  • A US-brokered ceasefire has come into effect in the Gaza Strip, with Israeli forces withdrawing to an agreed-upon line and tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians returning to their war-ravaged homes and communities.
  • Under the terms of the deal, Hamas has 72 hours from the time the ceasefire began to release Israeli captives held in Gaza and the bodies of slain captives.
  • United Nations agencies have called on Israel to immediately open all crossings into Gaza to allow in desperately needed humanitarian aid. Scaled-up deliveries will reportedly begin on Sunday.
  • The Gaza authorities have called for an independent, international committee to launch an immediate investigation into war crimes and genocide during Israel’s two-year war.
  • At least 36 people, including journalists, have been injured in attacks by Israeli military forces and Israelis from illegal settlements in areas near Nablus in the occupied West Bank.


Setback for Trump ahead of Middle East trip; Netanyahu’s role under scrutiny


Donald Trump is set to visit the Middle East over the weekend ahead of the scheduled release of captives by Hamas in Gaza as part of the deal. Meanwhile, the US president faced rejection from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee on Friday. And if that was not enough, the justification to not consider Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize must have been even more hurting. Rifat Jawaid looks at the twists and turns in the Gaza peace deal and fresh revelation on Netanyahu’s role.

 

Gaza Ceasefire: "Massive Political Pressure" Needed to Prevent Israel from Restarting the War


A ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on Friday after the Israeli government approved the first phase of the U.S.-backed plan to end two years of war in the Palestinian territory. "This is a deal that really should have been made long, long ago," says Amjad Iraqi, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group. "We've known that the parameters of this truce have been on the table for well over a year, if not since the very beginning of the war."

Kidnapped, Ziptied & Detained in Cages: Greg Stoker Released from Israeli Jail


Greg returns homeand speaks out after being kidnapped, ziptied, denied medication and detained in cages along with his fellow veterans who were aboard the Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to break the illegal siege on Gaza.

 



SvennoJ on 11 October 2025

Israeli military says it bombed Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon

The Israeli military has said that its fighter jets bombed “infrastructure of the Hezbollah terror organisation” in southern Lebanon.

In a post on X, the military claimed that Hezbollah continued in its “attempts to rehabilitate terror infrastructure throughout Lebanon”, and the popular movement was using civilians as “human shields”.

The post did not specify when or where the strikes took place.

Israel has repeatedly violated its ceasefire with Lebanon – agreed in November last year – and has carried out near-daily strikes and targeted assassinations against Hezbollah targets inside Lebanese territory.

Video shows large explosions in southern Lebanon following Israeli strike

As we reported a short while ago, the Israeli military has bombed what it claims are Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, saying they were storing equipment being used to restore infrastructure belonging to the Lebanese armed group.

Footage published by the Hezbollah-run TV al-Manar outlet shows a large explosion following that attack, which hit the village of al-Najariyah in southern Lebanon’s Sidon district.

The news outlet said that a “series of violent air strikes” targeted an “exhibition for selling bulldozers and excavators”.



Translation: Al-Manar correspondent – A series of violent air strikes launched by the enemy warplanes targeted an exhibition for selling bulldozers and excavators on the #Musaylih road in the outskirts of #al-Najariyah.


At least 1 killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon

At least one person has been killed and two others injured by Israel’s strike on the village of al-Najariyah in southern Lebanon’s Sidon district, according to the TV al-Manar satellite channel.

The news outlet said that a large number of fire trucks are heading to extinguish the flames at the scene of the attack, with the adjacent al-Mseileh road cut off due to extensive damage.



SvennoJ on 11 October 2025

One dead, seven wounded in Israel’s latest attack on Lebanon

We are receiving updates on the Israeli attack on southern Lebanon that we reported earlier. The attack has killed one person, wounded seven and briefly cut a highway that links Beirut with parts of southern Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry.

The predawn air attacks on the village of Msayleh struck a place that sold heavy machinery, destroying a large number of vehicles. A vehicle carrying vegetables that happened to be passing by at the time of the strikes was hit, killing one person and wounding another, according to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV.

The Health Ministry later said that the person killed was a Syrian citizen, while the wounded were a Syrian national and six Lebanese.

Since the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war ended in late November with a US-brokered ceasefire, Israel has carried out almost daily air strikes, killing dozens of people. Israel accuses Hezbollah of trying to rebuild its capabilities after the group suffered heavy losses during the war.


Lebanon’s president condemns latest attack as ‘Israeli aggression against civilian facilities’

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun has condemned Israel’s attack earlier today in the village of al-Najariyah, which killed at least one person.

“Once again, southern Lebanon is under fire from a blatant Israeli aggression against civilian facilities, without any justification or pretext,” Aoun was quoted as saying by Lebanon’s National News Agency.

“However, the danger of the latest aggression is that it comes after the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, and after the Palestinian side agreed to the mechanism included in this agreement to contain weapons and render them out of service.”

Israel has claimed it struck Hezbollah targets storing equipment used to restore infrastructure belonging to the Lebanese armed group.



SvennoJ on 11 October 2025

Israeli military shoots Palestinian man during West Bank raid

The Israeli military has stormed the neighbourhood of al-Tabaqa in the occupied West Bank city of Dura, located in Hebron governorate, shooting a Palestinian man and preventing ambulances from reaching him, according to the Palestinian Information Center news outlet.

Israeli forces have also arrested Palestinian photographer Israa Ashraf Khamees in the town of Taffouh, near the city of Hebron, according to the same outlet.
We will bring you more information on these Israeli military operations when we have it.



Translation: A young man was injured by live ammunition in al-Tabaqa in Dura city in Hebron, south of the West Bank, and the occupation prevents medical teams from reaching the injured.

Israeli army blocks ambulance from reaching wounded man in West Bank

Wafa news agency now reports that Israeli forces wounded the man in the thigh before preventing ambulances from reaching him for an hour. The man’s injuries have been described as “moderate”.

Israeli forces arrested another Palestinian man after raiding his family’s home in Dura. Three others were detained by the army in the nearby town of Bani Naim, one man in the city of Hebron, and one man in the town of Taffuh, west of Hebron.


Settlers attack Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank

A group of settlers attacked a number of farmers in the town of az-Zawiya, west of the Salfit Governorate in the West Bank, and forced them to leave their land, Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting.

Sources quoted by the agency stated that settlers vandalised a number of vehicles belonging to residents and fired bullets at them, forcing them to leave.

Settlers are often armed and frequently accompanied or protected by Israeli soldiers. In addition to destroying Palestinian property, they have carried out arson attacks and killed Palestinians.

According to official Palestinian figures, more than 1,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been killed by settlers and Israeli army, and at least 20,000 have been arrested since the start of the genocide in Gaza two years ago.

There were about 1,800 settler attacks across the occupied West Bank between October 7, 2023, and December 16, 2024, according to data collected by Tech for Palestine, a collective of tech volunteers that monitors rights abuses.


Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers near Nablus: Report

Dozens of Israeli settlers have assaulted Palestinian farmers and olive pickers in the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

The attack forced the Palestinians off their land, a local activist told Wafa.

Palestinians have faced a surge in Israeli settler and military violence in the shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza.

As we reported earlier today, Israeli settlers also attacked Palestinian farmers in az-Zawiya, a town in the Salfit governorate, and soldiers shot a Palestinian man during a raid in Dura in the Hebron area.