Main events on October 14th

• The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza continues to hold despite repeated Israeli violations.
• Israel killed at least nine Palestinians as the Israeli military warned Gaza residents to stay away from the areas it still occupies.
• Israel again failed to open the critical Rafah crossing, as stipulated by the truce agreement, and notified the UN it will reduce the amount of aid to be allowed into Gaza by half – to 300 trucks daily.
• Hamas handed the bodies of eight slain captives to Israel via the Red Cross while Israel complained the Palestinian group is moving to slow with 20 others.
• US President Donald Trump warned Hamas would be “violently” disarmed if the group refuses to give up its weapons.
• Two Israeli air strikes wounded at least three people in southern Lebanon as Israel’s daily violations of that ceasefire continue.

Trump CAUGHT On Hot Mic In CORRUPT Business Deal!



That's all Gaza is to Trump, business deals

Hamas Evidence Has Been Exposed as CGI

Israel said it had proof of Hamas tunnels under hospitals. Turns out that "proof" was CGI — and now the whole lie is unraveling.

It takes a certain level of arrogance, nerve and depravity to bomb a hospital, fake the evidence justifying such an act, and still call it self-defence. Yet Israel’s military has now been exposed as having managed to do all three.

For two years it sold the world an underground fantasy — a network of Hamas command tunnels supposedly snaking beneath Gaza’s hospitals. Many of these accusations have been debunked before, but never on the scale of the findings of a recent investigation. When investigators finally collated and analyzed the footage, the tunnels led not to Gaza but to a 3-D asset library — complete with borrowed scenes and textures from a Scottish museum. And it didn’t stop there either. What Israel called “intelligence” was in fact digital fakery, stealing images from other sites, in order to legitimise airstrikes on sites protected under international law.

And now, as Defence Minister Israel Katz has vowed to restart “tunnel destruction” once all the Israeli hostages have been freed, something that was completed yesterday, the whole performance now comes full circle. The evidence was fake, the hospitals were real, and the only thing Israel actually dug was the hole it’s now standing in.

When Israel’s deranged Defence Minister Israel Katz announced that he had instructed the army to “prepare for the destruction of all Hamas tunnels in Gaza” once the remaining hostages were freed, which could of course have jeopardised their freedom, it was presented as a statement of resolve. In practice, it was an admission that Israel’s war was never truly paused and the actions Israel are still committing in Gaza very much bear that out, further atrocities still going on, a Lebanon style ceasefire where those being attacked cease, but Israel keeps on firing.

His declaration has come out though, just as a detailed international investigation revealed that the supposed proof of those tunnels—the evidence used to justify attacks on Gaza’s hospitals—had been fabricated. The timing exposed the contradiction at the heart of Israel’s narrative: the promise to destroy what it has already been caught inventing stories about.

Setback for Netanyahu, Trump; gymnasts banned from World Championships over Gaza

In a huge blow to Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, the global court of arbitration for sports has rejected the appeal of Israeli gymnasts seeking to be allowed to take part in this year’s world artistic gymnastics championships being hosted in Indonesia from 19 October. This was after Indonesia denied visa to Israeli team citing the situation in Gaza. Rifat Jawaid looks at the consistent stand taken by Indonesia on Gaza.

Mehdi Connects the Dots Between ICE and Gaza

Mehdi Hasan sits down to talk about the latest news with Zeteo subscribers on Substack and Youtube. Watch Mehdi Hasan take YOUR questions, and give his unfiltered takes on ICE, the Gaza ceasefire deal, the connections between ICE and Israeli occupation, Donald Trump's fascistic policies, and much more.

Israel Didn’t Free Hostages — It Deported Them. And the Media Said Nothing

Israel called it a ceasefire. But many of the 'prisoners' they ‘freed’ were secretly deported — and the media won’t say a word.

There’s a certain audacity in calling it peace while the shells are still falling. Israel’s ceasefire is still being sold to the world as a turning point, but in Gaza, the only thing that turned was the camera, fixed on those hostage exchanges. Going unreported by comparison is the fact that the drones are still there, people are still being k*lled by Israel and many of the hostages Israel were releasing were being exiled instead of freed, all whilst Israeli ministers are already promising the next phase of destruction. Even Donald Trump flew in to deliver a sermon at the Knesset, congratulating Israel for a genocide it still hasn’t actually stopped fighting.

The word ceasefire has rarely been so abused. What is being presented as closure is turning out to be a bureaucratic rebranding of genocide for Western audiences desperate to believe the nightmare was over. Gaza is still burning; the only thing that has ceased was what passed for Western scrutiny.

Israel called it a ceasefire. Western governments called it a breakthrough. But in Gaza, the genocide still hasn’t actually stopped. The guns slowed sure, but are still being used. The cameras moved on, but the k*lling has continued. The truce signed was marketed as the end of a two-year campaign, yet it hasn’t actually ended yet, still, supposedly 4 days into the ceasefire period now.

By the time Israel’s cabinet ratified the ceasefire deal, Gaza’s human toll had already surpassed sixty-six thousand d*ad, likely many more than that with so many people unaccounted for. More than twenty thousand were children. The UN’s humanitarian office confirmed that roughly four-fifths of all homes in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed. Every essential service—water, electricity, sanitation—had collapsed. These numbers were not disputed. They appeared in official UN situation reports and form the factual baseline for any discussion of what Israel now calls peace.

‘Indescribable feelings’: Freed Palestinian prisoner cherishes first morning at home with family

Released Palestinian prisoner Zaid Junaidi says he feels as if he’s been “reborn” after reuniting with his family in Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Junaidi, who spent his first morning with his wife and children after two years in Israeli detention on Tuesday, told the Reuters news agency that it was an “indescribable” feeling to share a morning meal at home again.

“It’s a different kind of morning, with the children. I left Izzaldin when he was two years old, now he is a young boy of four years, who knows and jokes with me – indescribable feelings, it’s difficult to describe in words,” he said.

Junaidi, who had been in detention while awaiting trial on charges of membership in a Palestinian faction, said he had not expected to be released so soon

“When I got the news that I will be released, I could not handle it. I did not cry; I was in shock for about 10 minutes, maybe, I did not know what to do, to be happy, to cry… And in the Red Cross buses, we expected every minute to be brought back to prison, because this happened before, and we were not relieved until we got off the bus and greeted our families. We were not expecting to go home,” he said.


_{Released Palestinian prisoner Zaid Junaidi sits with his children in his home in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank October 14}

Israel’s siege of Gaza reduced food supplies available to captives: Report

The father of freed captive Nimrod Cohen says that the food rations for Israelis held in Gaza ran low when Netanyahu’s government blocked humanitarian aid into the Strip, according to the Haaretz newspaper.

Yehuda Cohen made the comments a day after his son’s release.

He said Nimrod Cohen’s “manner of speech is the same manner of speech, his mood is his mood” since his return. But he said, for him, the war “has not ended on the national level”.

“We have to make sure that those responsible for the incident, primarily the [Israeli] prime minister, step aside.”

Israel’s total blockade of Gaza triggered a famine in the territory with hundreds, including children, dying of hunger.

_{Released Israeli captive, Nimrod Cohen, greets his family in Reim, Israel on October 13, 2025}

Beating the war drums again

Netanyahu says Hamas must disarm, demilitarise

The Israeli prime minister has been speaking to CBS News in Jerusalem about Trump’s call for Hamas to disarm.

“The conditions in his 20-point peace plan are very clear. It’s not only that we get the hostages out, without getting our military out, but that we would subsequently have both demilitarisation and disarmament,” Netanyahu said.

“First, Hamas has to give up its arms, and second, you want to make sure that there are no weapons factories inside Gaza; there’s no smuggling of weapons into Gaza. That’s demilitarisation.”

The Israeli leader went on to say that he hopes the disarmament happens peacefully. “If not, I think I heard the president speak tonight, and he said, listen, they better do it, or…, he said, all hell breaks loose.”

As we’ve been reporting, phase two of Trump’s peace plan calls for Hamas to disarm, but this is something the Palestinian group has not agreed to. It remains one of many obstacles to lasting peace in the region.

Weapon factories (as in sheds / homes) for Bibi, Tunnels (under schools / hospitals) for Katz, any excuse will do to resume air strikes. 

It's just like WMD in Iraq, can't prove it's absence, too easy to sell fake 'evidence' when you own the media.

Meta removes account of slain journalist Saleh Aljafarawi

The US tech company has erased the Instagram account of Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi, less than two days after he was shot dead in the Gaza Strip.

Aljafarawi, who was 28 when he was killed on Sunday, spent the last two years documenting Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, sharing his work on his verified Instagram account, where he had more than 4.5 million followers.

According to our colleagues at AJ+, Meta said it had removed Aljafarawi’s account under its ban on “dangerous organisations and dangerous individuals” without providing any context or evidence.

Israel has accused Aljafarawi, and many other Palestinian journalists in Gaza, of belonging to Hamas, without providing any evidence.

According to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, had a “pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech, including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights”.

Meta erased Saleh Aljafarawi’s verified Instagram account, with 4.5 million followers, after he was killed on Oct. 12 - removing public access to 2 years of his work documenting Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/img3OJLTJO

— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 14, 2025

Hamas blames difficult conditions in Gaza for slow release of remains

The Israeli military says it has received the remains of four additional Israeli captives who were held in Gaza. The International Committee of the Red Cross earlier on Tuesday said that it was on its way to retrieve their remains from Palestinian fighters in the Strip.

Now, the Israeli military statement says that Hamas needs to honour its commitment and end of the deal and release the remaining 20 captives who are deceased, who are still being held in the Strip.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military has now lessened the amount of humanitarian aid trucks that will go into Gaza from 600 to 300 per day. Israeli media says it is because Israel wants the remaining deceased hostages out of Gaza. They want their remains back so that the families can have a proper burial.

Hamas says that the conditions on the ground are incredibly difficult, because much of the territory has been completely levelled.

And Israeli officials have said for some time that this was going to be an incredibly difficult task to bring about the remains of the deceased hostages.

Hamas expected to return 4 more bodies today: Report

The Times of Israel is reporting that Hamas has told mediators it is planning to return the bodies of four more Israeli captives later today.

The newspaper cited two anonymous sources, including a diplomat who it said was familiar with the discussions.

As we reported earlier, Hamas has now handed over the bodies of eight deceased captives. The bodies of 20 others remain in Gaza. The Palestinian group has said that locating and retrieving the bodies of the captives has proven difficult because of the scale of the destruction caused by Israel in Gaza.

_{International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) vehicles prepare to retrieve bodies of Palestinians held by Israel to Gaza authorities for identification at Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, Gaza on Tuesday}

Palestinian presidency condemns Hamas’s field executions in Gaza

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s office has “strongly condemned” the killings as “heinous crimes”, saying they “claimed the lives of dozens of citizens outside the framework of the law and without fair trials”.

The statement came after Hamas published a video online showing its fighters executing eight blindfolded and bound men in the street.

It said those killed were “collaborators and outlaws in Gaza City”.

Israel continues to block doctors from entering Gaza, surgeon says

Dr Ahmed Mokhallati, a former head of plastic surgery at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, says healthcare needs in the territory are immense.

“I think this time is very critical,” Mokhallati told Al Jazeera.

“In the middle of the noise of the ceasefire, people don’t notice that nothing has changed on the ground. We still have the famine… There is no electricity, no water, no petrol, no food supplies, no medicines,” he said.

“And despite all of this, Israel is still controlling the borders, with very minimal access to everything in Gaza.”

Despite the ceasefire, Israel has denied permission for most doctors who have asked to enter the territory to treat the sick and wounded, Mokhallati said.

“So, what’s happening is a continuation of the ethnical cleansing. What’s happening is a continuation of this genocide on the ground,” he added.

The surgeon said that all patients with congenital anomalies, heart disease, diabetes and cancer have not had treatment for more than two years, and many have died because of the lack of care.

“So now, we are faced with thousands of sick people who need immediate intervention and treatment in all aspects. And adding to this, more than 15,000 to 20,000 patients are awaiting evacuation out of Gaza, where the collapsed systems are unable to provide them with the services they need.”


Israel’s war collapses Gaza’s health services

Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure has been systematically targeted by Israeli forces since October 2023, leaving it in ruins.

Israeli attacks have wounded nearly 170,000 people in Gaza. Thousands need long-term rehabilitation and treatment, including hundreds with limbs amputated, paralysis and blindness.

But Gaza’s health services have almost completely collapsed.

Some 38 hospitals and dozens of health centres have been destroyed or forced to close, leaving the population with almost no access to medical care. And a severe famine is gripping the Strip, with one in four children acutely malnourished. Aid agencies are also warning that starvation is spreading rapidly.

Turkish aid ship to deliver food, baby formula to Gaza

An aid ship called “The Goodness” has departed from Turkiye’s Mersin port, carrying 900 tonnes of food and baby formula for people in Gaza, according to the Anadolu agency.

The humanitarian shipment, organised by Turkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) in coordination with 17 NGOs and Egypt’s Red Crescent, comes as the Turkish government has become a key supporter of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, including as a mediator.

Turkiye also has a history of supporting Gaza Freedom Flotillas, including the Mavi Marmara, which was attacked by Israeli commandos in 2010, leading to the death of 10 Turkish nationals.

Unlike freedom flotilla missions that have attempted to break Israel’s siege by sailing directly to Gaza, The Goodness will deliver aid to the Strip via the port of El Arish in Egypt.


_{An aerial view of Turkiye’s ‘The Goodness’ as it sets sail from Mersin International Port for Egypt’s El Arish Port on Tuesday}

Israel to reopen Rafah crossing as planned: Report

Israel’s Kan public broadcaster is reporting that Israel’s government has decided to reopen the Rafah crossing today, as originally planned under last week’s ceasefire agreement.

Earlier, we reported that Israel was threatening to delay reopening the vital aid route. However, according to Kan, the decision was reversed after Hamas returned the bodies of four more captives on Tuesday night and said it would return more later today.

Israel appears to back down from threat to restrict Gaza aid

We are hearing confirmation that the political echelon, which had really done what is viewed largely as a stunt, is backing down.

Let’s just remind our readers that the agreement does not stipulate that the return of all 28 bodies had to be done within that 72-hour window that was applicable to the living captives.

There was an admission, a recognition of the difficulty of retrieving the bodies as early as January. The head of the Mossad has met with the families of the captives and even discussed that long before the agreement was reached.

It’s not clear what role the mediators played in that, but according to the Israeli broadcasting authority and other media outlets in Israel, the Israeli government seems to have backed down from its earlier communication with the United Nations about halving the number of trucks and not allowing the Rafah crossing to open.

And of course, the Rafah crossing is essential to allowing medical evacuation of thousands of Palestinians who need treatment outside Gaza.

A timeline of Israel’s closure of the Rafah crossing

_{Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are parked on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, waiting to get access to the Gaza Strip, on Sunday}

Number of aid trucks entering Gaza remain low despite truce

From day one of the ceasefire, the number of aid trucks that have been allowed to access Gaza was not the same as that agreed upon in the truce deal.

We have heard from the World Food Programme that 137 aid trucks have been delivered by them to the Strip.

Most of those trucks were loaded with flour and much-needed humanitarian supplies that will ensure the survival of Palestinians at least for three months. But for now, the situation on the ground remains quiet.

People are still expecting a full Israeli commitment regarding the entry of aid supplies, but there is an undeniable sense of fear regarding Israel’s rhetoric once all captives, living and deceased, are handed over to them.

Negotiations, according to Trump, for the second phase of the ceasefire have started, and people are still waiting to see concrete outcomes that can guarantee the sustainability of the ceasefire.

Palestinians buy fresh food as markets reopen in Khan Younis


<sub>Palestinians begin to return to their daily lives after Israeli forces withdrew from Khan Younis in southern Gaza


Market stalls have started to reopen in between the city’s destroyed buildings following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from cities and villages</sub>

Israel limits the number of aid deliveries allowed to enter Gaza

Israel is still limiting the number of aid trucks allowed to enter Gaza, nearly a week after a ceasefire deal was made.

It has told the UN it will only permit 300 trucks – that’s half the minimum number agreed under the Trump plan.

Israeli officials accuse Hamas of violating the ceasefire deal, because there are still 20 bodies of captives being held in Gaza.

Charity kitchen provides food for hungry Palestinians in Nuseirat camp


_{Palestinians gather for food from a charity kitchen in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip}

Gaza’s Government Media Office calls on Israel to open all crossings

The director general of Gaza’s Government Media Office has called on Israel to open the crossings and allow aid into the enclave “immediately”.

Ismail al-Thawabta told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the US needs to apply pressure on Israel to ensure the opening of the crossings and stressed that Palestinians in the enclave were suffering from water scarcity, with the added difficulty of accessing it.

“The suffering faced by the people of Gaza over the past two years will continue after the war ends. Priority for travel when the crossing opens will be given to the sick and wounded. There are a quarter of a million tonnes of waste in the Gaza Strip, which constitutes an environmental disaster,” the director general said.

“We need heavy machinery to deal with waste, as the war has destroyed many machines,” he added.

Palestinian Authority says it is ready to operate Rafah crossing

The Palestinian Authority says it is prepared to operate the key crossing for aid between Egypt and Gaza.

“Now we are ready to engage again, and we have notified all parties that we are ready to operate the Rafah crossing,” said Mohammad Shtayyeh, former PA prime minister and member of Fatah’s Central Committee.

‘There is no shelter’

Israel’s war has caused a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, with nearly all inhabitants driven from their homes, a global hunger monitor saying famine was present in the enclave and health authorities overwhelmed.

“Our situation is utterly tragic,” Moemen Hassanein in Gaza City told the Reuters news agency. “We went back to our homes in al-Tuffah neighbourhood and found there are no homes at all. There is no shelter. Nothing.”

Palestinians face dire water shortages in war-ravaged Gaza City

There are still major challenges lying ahead for people coming back to Gaza City. We’re seeing people coming to check on their homes to see if there’s water, if there’s food, if there are means of life still available here.

One issue that keeps coming up for many of the displaced families is the lack of water.

We’ve heard people asking when water will be in this area. Are water tanks coming? Over the past seven days, only a couple of water trucks made it here. Compared to the number of people who returned to this area, that’s not nearly enough.

People are walking long distances to get to this area, and they don’t find water. Everywhere we go, we see people carrying plastic containers, buckets and bottles – searching for water, something that used to come just by a turn of a tap.

Three bodies of returned Israeli captives identified, say relatives

Three of the four bodies of Israeli captives returned by Hamas last night have been identified following forensic confirmation, their families said.

“It is with immense sadness and pain that we announce the return of the body of our beloved Ouriel Baruch from the Gaza Strip, after two long years of prayer, hope, and faith,” said the family of the Jerusalem resident, who was 35 when kidnapped during the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.

Moreover, the relatives of Tamir Nimrodi and Eitan Levy also announced the return of the bodies of their loved ones.

Levy, a 53-year-old taxi driver, was killed after dropping off a friend at Kibbutz Beeri. Nimrodi, 18, was captured at a military base near the Gaza fence.

Fourth body returned by Hamas does not match captives held: Israel

The Israeli army says the fourth body handed over by Hamas has not been matched to any of the captives, following the completion of an examination at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine.

“Hamas is required to make all necessary efforts to return the deceased hostages,” the army said in a statement on Telegram.

Difficulty in locating bodies due to Hamas commanders killed during war, says negotiator

Israeli captives negotiator Gershon Baskin says the difficulty in returning the bodies of the captives is in part because a number of Hamas commanders who buried the bodies of the captives are no longer alive, alongside the destruction of the Gaza Strip.

“When I brought this to the attention of [US Special Envoy Steve] Witkoff last night, I told him this is going to be an issue. The Israelis are already screaming that Hamas is breaching the agreement. Witkoff said to me, ‘We will not allow that to happen,'” Baskin told CBS News.

According to Israeli media, Hamas plans to release the bodies of four more captives, and Israel will reopen the Rafah border crossing as planned to allow desperately needed aid into the enclave.