Palestine factions refuse foreign guardianship on Gaza

Hamas and allied Palestinian factions have reiterated that any decision on the future governance of Gaza is “an internal Palestinian matter” as the ceasefire in the territory takes effect.

In a joint statement on Friday, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine joined Hamas in lauding the steadfastness of Palestinians, which they said foiled Israel’s plans for mass forced displacement in Gaza.

“We renew our rejection to any foreign guardianship, and we stress that the nature of the administration of the Gaza Strip and its institutions are an internal Palestinian matter to be determined by the national component of our people directly,” the statement said.

Anti-Israel protesters head to Pakistan’s capital

Several thousand members of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) have begun marching towards Islamabad after violent clashes with police during anti-Israel protests in the eastern city of Lahore.

TLP began its protests in Lahore on Thursday and announced plans to march to the US embassy in Islamabad to voice its opposition to the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after two years of war in Gaza.

The demonstrations turned violent, with clashes between police and protesters on Friday. Traffic was disrupted in Lahore and in Islamabad, about 370km (230 miles) to the north, with authorities also suspending mobile internet connections and closing major roads.

Shipping containers were being placed as barriers across major roads in the capital in anticipation of the arrival of the protesters.


_{Pakistani policemen gather in front of a burning road tax collection point after it was set on fire by protesters}

Captives’ families seek large turnout at tonight’s rally in Tel Aviv

There is a lot of anticipation tonight as the family members of the Israeli captives are calling on the rest of the Israeli public to come out in a big show of support.

This is the first demonstration since the Israeli government ratified the deal within the larger Netanyahu cabinet to accept the ceasefire and move forward with the release of the captives from Gaza.

Now the Israeli media says that the US envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff is set to give an address at tonight’s rally to discuss the successes of the Trump administration in securing this deal between both parties.

But the family members say that until their loved ones are back, these protests are going to continue.

Kushner thanks Witkoff, Trump for efforts in securing ceasefire

Jared Kushner has begun his address in ‘Hostage Square’, thanking Witkoff for undertaking this “impossible task”.

“When things got tough and we ran into brick walls every time that happened, we just said, ‘let’s make a new plan, let’s try again.’ And that’s what being partners with Steve [Witkoff] is like,” Kushner said.

“Working with President Trump on this, his commitment to seeing peace, to seeing the hostages return home, to seeing Israel secure and safe and to seeing the entire Middle East stable and thriving, is unmatched,” he added as the crowd chanted “Thank you Trump”.

Kushner said seeing some of the acts committed on October 7, 2023, made him think of how “fortunate we are to have a society with rules and laws and people with morals”.

“Since then, my heart has not been complete, and it’s been a tremendous burden that I’ve felt to see these hostages come home, to see their families get the closure they deserve and to end this nightmare,” he added.

LIVE: Families of Hostages Speak in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square

Families of Israeli hostages gathered in Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, delivering an emotional public statement urging action for their loved ones’ release. The gathering highlighted the growing frustration, unity, and sorrow as families continue their plea for humanitarian intervention and political pressure to bring all hostages home safely.

Israel SHOCK: “Multicultural” City Branded “Most Racist”

What’s becoming so obvious to people now is that colonialism has never ended just rebranded with different terms.

From Natives indigenous people being called “savages” in the old days to now being called “terrorist” by neocolonialists who are neoliberals, neoconservatives, and zionist.

1) Savages is now “terrorist”
2) Civilizing them is now “bringing them democracy”
3) Colonies is now “territories”

We can all see Israel is a colonial project being supported by former and current colonials such as U.S, UK, Germany, and others who also control territories of indigenous natives in Caribbean Islands, Pacific Islands, Hawaii, and many more.

The liberation of Palestine will definitely give RISE to many indigenous natives around the world to free themselves from western domination. This is the underlying ripple effect that the U.S government and its puppet allies don’t want to happen

The REAL Truth Behind Gaza Ceasefire

No, Gaza Protests WON'T STOP

Israel Kidnapped Us: U.S. Musicians on the Gaza Flotilla Tell All

Global Sumud Flotilla activists Carsie Blanton and Leila Hegazy speak out for the first time after being illegally kidnapped and detained by Israeli forces while trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. They describe their detention, the plight of over 11,000 Palestinian hostages, and the ongoing struggle to break Israel’s genocidal siege. Hegazy says, “For two years, governments have failed to stop the genocide– we said, ‘no more’”

Destruction of Gaza homes key part of Israel’s genocide: UN expert

Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, says the destruction of homes in Gaza has been a central component of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the territory.

Rajagopal, who has used the term “domicide” to describe the decimation of homes across the Strip, told Al Jazeera that the Israeli government’s goal has been to render it uninhabitable.

“Ninety-two percent of homes have been destroyed,” he said. “Even as people are streaming back to northern Gaza – which is actually destroyed far more than southern Gaza – all they’re finding is rubble.

“So the immediate question is, where can they live? Is the territory inhabitable? And the answer plainly is that it is not, and that is exactly the goal of Israel – to destroy everything,” said Rajagopal.

He added that tents and caravans must be allowed into Gaza immediately to provide shelter for displaced Palestinians, hundreds of thousands of whom have been forced out of their homes in Israel’s two-year assault.


_{Palestinians walk amid the destruction in Gaza City on October 11}

Recovery process will likely take generations in Gaza, says UN’s Rajagopal

Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on housing, has stressed that Palestinians in Gaza will be forced to cope with the lasting psychological effects of seeing their homes and entire communities destroyed across the enclave.

“Home is far more than four walls and a roof. Home is basically a repository of peoples’ hopes and aspirations and dreams and particularly, memories … Those are the things that make people into humans ultimately,” he told Al Jazeera.

“What happens when homes are destroyed on a massive scale and an entire community is forced to flee or scatter to the wind, is that it destroys the possibility of the members of the community becoming human again.

“The psychological impacts and trauma are profound, and that’s what we are seeing right now as people are returning to northern Gaza.”

He added that the recovery process will likely take generations. “It’s like another Nakba,” said Rajagopal, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine when Israel was created in 1948, which still affects Palestinians today.

“What has happened in the last two years is going to be something similar.”

Hamas working with ‘friendly countries’ to ensure entry of aid into Gaza: Official

Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, has affirmed the group’s commitment to provide relief to people in Gaza “despite the massive destruction caused by the war of extermination and despite the lack of all components of normal life in the Strip”.

In a statement, al-Rishq said Hamas is continuing its efforts by communicating with “various friendly countries and parties” to ensure the entry of aid and relief into the enclave and “following up on obligating the occupation to implement all provisions of the agreement to ensure recovery, reconstruction, and the return of a decent life for all our great Palestinian people”.

WFP says ‘62,000 metric tonnes’ of aid need to enter Gaza monthly

Antoine Renard, World Food Programme representative and country director for Palestine, says in the north of Gaza, they managed to have one of their teams do reconnaissance for ordnance at the Zikim crossing to check if it can be used to bring in goods.

“What is most important now for us to reach the north is crossings to be opened,” Renard told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah.

He explained that in the January ceasefire, the WFP enabled “practically a third of all the different goods that managed to enter into Gaza”.

“The conditions should be the same [now]. We expect that the good practices that we had in January 2025 will be again applied in this ceasefire,” Renard said.

“In the last two months, we’ve been bringing more volume into Gaza, but it was insufficient. We were covering only 40-45 percent of the staple food that was in Gaza … We need now to have the full 62,000 metric tonnes getting every month into the Gaza Strip,” he added.


_{Palestinians make their way to Gaza City through the so-called Netzarim Corridor from Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip}

That's not that much, 104 20t trucks daily. That's just the WFP ofcourse. And a lot more than food is needed.

Global Outcry for Gaza: Protests Erupt Across Europe as Aid Finally Reaches Gaza

From Oslo to London and Berlin, thousands take to the streets demanding freedom for Gaza as a fragile ceasefire holds. Demonstrators call for Israel’s suspension from international sport and denounce the ongoing war.

Half a MILLION March In London For Palestine ft. Denise Gough, Mothin Ali & Claudia Webbe

Something is really off about this press conference...

Scale of destruction shows Israel wanted to make Gaza City unliveable

The pattern of devastation and destruction feeds into one conclusion: Make the whole place unliveable by removing the population. Create very difficult conditions on the ground, so they can pack up and leave.

That’s exactly the results that we are seeing.

But despite all of this, we’ve seen people walking back. When we talk to them, they tell us that they don’t have any other options but to go back to their homes because they belong to this area.

UN estimate for Gaza reconstruction costs ‘very conservative’

Yousef Daoud, an economics professor at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, says primary attention in Gaza should be focused on allowing in aid and medicines.

“The next priority would be the basic necessities of water, electricity, energy and housing. Obviously, the housing issue is a very demanding issue because it cannot be resolved quickly. It’s not something that you can fix overnight,” Daoud told Al Jazeera from the West Bank.

Daoud added that he did not think the UN’s estimation of $50bn for rebuilding the Strip would be “sufficient”.

“If you say there’s 1.9 million people with an average family size of five to six people, that requires about 350,000 units, and at current prices prevailing in the West Bank, that means more than $50bn just for housing,” he said.

“Then you need to have the roads, the water, the power, the schools, the hospitals, the universities. All that adds up. So 50 is a very conservative estimate,” Daoud explained.

Israeli army redeployment line cuts Palestinians off from most of Gaza’s agricultural land

Eyal Weizman, who heads the UK-based research group Forensic Architecture, says the so-called “yellow line” to which Israeli forces have withdrawn under the ceasefire deal roughly matches Gaza’s “coastal sand dune”.

That leaves Gaza “without the absolute majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east”.

An August report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization found that, as of July 28, more than 86 percent of Gaza’s cropland – totalling nearly 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) – was damaged by Israel’s war on the enclave.

You can see more about how Israel destroyed Palestinians’ ability to feed themselves in our interactive report from July 2024, here.

This aerial image from the 1960s shows that the 'yellow line' of Israel's redeployment in Gaza is roughly matching with the border of the area's coastal sand dune, leaving Gaza without the absolute majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east. pic.twitter.com/pwZLO5OyeO

— eyal weizman (@weizman_eyal) October 11, 2025