Israeli army bulldozes streets, raids homes in Tubas

The Israeli army has bulldozed streets in Tubas, a city in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, and has raided houses.

The southern entrance to the city was closed by Israeli military units, accompanied by snipers, Wafa reported.

Armed settlers attack Palestinian farmers near Turmus Aya

Armed Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian farmers near the village of Turmus Aya, northeast of Ramallah, sources told Al Jazeera.

Wafa reported that settlers also attacked olive pickers, forcing them to leave. It said the army had set up checkpoints at either end of the village, searching vehicles.

This is among the latest in a string of incidents which have taken place across the occupied West Bank today.

Palestinian man killed by Israeli forces near Nablus

A Palestinian man has been killed by Israeli forces in the al-Ein refugee camp, near Nablus. Majed Mohammad Dawood, 42, was shot several times during an Israeli raid, the Wafa news agency reported.

Palestinian Red Crescent teams treated two other people who were wounded in the raid.

Palestinian authorities say detainee died in Israeli hospital

A Palestinian detainee, Mahmoud Talal Abdullah, has died at Israel’s Assaf Harofeh Hospital, the General Authority of Civil Affairs said. The 49-year-old Palestinian was from Jenin refugee camp, according to a statement by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society on Telegram.

Israeli forces arrested him on February 1, added the statement, which stressed Abdullah’s health seriously deteriorated after his arrest, and it was discovered he was suffering from cancer.

“Despite medical tests confirming that he had advanced cancer, the occupation refused to release him and maintained his detention,” the statement said.

He died one day after being transferred to the hospital, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. Abdullah was a former prisoner who spent two years in Israeli jails in the early 2000s, the organisation said.

Hamas officials arrive in Cairo ‘to follow up on implementation of’ truce

A Hamas delegation, headed by senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya, has arrived in the Egyptian capital. The group aims “to follow up on the implementation of the ceasefire agreement with mediators, Palestinian factions, and forces”, it said in a statement.

Hamas’s armed wing said earlier it that located the body of another captive, which it said will be delivered to Israel on Sunday “if field conditions were appropriate”.

The group said any Israeli “escalation” would hinder search operations, shortly after Israel said it launched air strikes and artillery fire at targets in southern Gaza amid disputes over ceasefire violations.

Transitional government plans for Gaza ‘not clear’

It’s still unclear how a transitional government for Gaza would be formed and who would run it, academic Adnan Hayajneh says, amid Hamas’s long-term control of the devastated enclave.

“It’s not very clear how it’s going to happen, because Hamas has been controlling Gaza for the past 20 years … they run everything,” Hayajneh, professor of international relations at Qatar University, told Al Jazeera.

“Now the US … wants to bring a new government where they’re going to bring all these people to run and establish new institutions, establish a new bureaucracy to run schools, hospitals and everything else.”

Hayajneh warned that those ideas were not very realistic or practical.

“In reality, you have to have an interim government dealing with Hamas or having a transition period in order to have a transfer of power. Bringing a new government will take time.”

‘Situations in Palestine and Lebanon have similarities’

What is going on in Gaza has similarities to the situation in southern Lebanon, where Israel carries out regular attacks, an analyst says.

Samuel Ramani, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said the core issues that define the border demarcation have not been resolved in Lebanon, along with Hezbollah’s role in politics and water rights.

“The same thing is happening in Palestine – there is no agreement on the Palestinian state or who will replace Hamas in Gaza,” he said, speaking to Al Jazeera from London.

“As long as the core issues in Palestine are not resolved, like in Lebanon, there is always likely to be escalations, and we are seeing Israel escalate here in the same way as they have in Lebanon.”

UK gov’t working to allow Maccabi Tel Aviv fans at Birmingham: Gov’t official

Ed Miliband, the UK energy secretary, has said the government is working towards ensuring that fans from the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv are permitted to attend the match in Birmingham against Aston Villa.

The issue has stirred the UK for several days, with PM Starmer voicing his opposition to the decision by West Midlands Police to ban the away fans.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are known for making offensive and racist chants. In a match against Ajax in Amsterdam last year, they were filmed chanting “Death to Arabs” and “No children left in Gaza”, among other things, and vandalising the city.

A YouGov poll last week found that almost double the number of people polled supported the ban on the Maccabi fans than opposed it.

When an artist says “Death to the IDF” — ‘appalling hate speech.’
When Maccabi thugs chant “Death to Arabs” — ‘we will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets.’

Starmer’s moral compass is so broken it points to Tel Aviv. https://t.co/oVmDTZUsb2

— Leyla Hamed (@leylahamed) October 17, 2025

Ceasefire restored in Gaza, Palestinian officials say

Palestinian sources have confirmed to Al Jazeera that the ceasefire in Gaza has been restored. The mediators’ contacts played a role in bringing it back into effect after a day of mass casualty attacks by Israeli forces.

Egypt, Turkiye, Qatar and the United States are the main mediators involved in negotiations.

Discussions are now under way to establish a binding mechanism to address any future violations of the truce in Gaza, sources said.

Is aid still being blocked though?

UK’s top diplomat calls escalation in Gaza ‘deeply concerning’

The UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says “the ceasefire must hold and humanitarian aid must get through to those in need”.

“We call upon all parties to uphold President Trump’s peace plan to avoid any further bloodshed,” said Cooper.

The statement comes after the Israeli military launched attacks on Gaza that killed dozens of people after claiming two of its soldiers were killed in a Hamas attack, an accusation Hamas denied.

The escalation today in Gaza is deeply concerning.

The ceasefire must hold and humanitarian aid must get through to those in need.

We call upon all parties to uphold President Trump’s peace plan to avoid any further bloodshed.

— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) October 19, 2025

Gaza Media Office says 97 killed since truce entered into force

A statement on Telegram says the Israeli army has committed 80 violations since October 10, killing 97 people and wounding another 230.

The office called the actions “flagrant and clear violations of the ceasefire decision and the rules of international humanitarian law”. These violations have been monitored in all governorates of Gaza without exception, it added.

Main events on October 19th

• Palestinian officials confirmed to Al Jazeera that Israel’s announcement that the ceasefire in Gaza has been restored, after it was breached multiple times when Israeli army fire killed dozens throughout the Strip since dawn.
• Israel’s military committed 80 violations since the truce took effect on October 10, killing 97 people and wounding another 230, Gaza’s Government Media Office said.
• The Israeli army said two of its soldiers were killed and three others wounded in southern Gaza, but it gave no information on the incident.
• Hamas said it needs a DNA testing device to identify the bodies returned by Israel, noting that some show signs of torture.
• A Hamas delegation arrived in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to follow up on the implementation of the truce as negotiations begin on the second phase of the deal.

UN rapporteur denounces settler attack on olive farmer

Earlier, we reported an attack by an Israeli settler who beat a woman unconscious as she tried to harvest olives in the occupied West Bank.

The attack occurred in the town of Turmus Aya, east of Ramallah. Images showed a masked settler wielding a stick, repeatedly striking the woman in her 50s on the head until she collapsed to the ground, before assaulting two foreign activists who came to assist.

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned the attack. “For two years, the world has seen scenes like this from the West Bank. I wonder where decent Israelis are…?”

For 2 years, the world has seen scenes like this from the West Bank. I wonder where decent Israelis are; those who protest in Tel Aviv. Hatred of Hamas is one thing, but do they not feel some obligation to act to stop their fellow citizens behaving like criminals on the loose? https://t.co/N9fT4mVc60

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) October 19, 2025

Massive Geneva Protest: Thousands Demand End to Gaza Genocide

Thousands of protesters filled the streets of Geneva, Switzerland, on October nineteenth, twenty twenty-five, demanding an immediate end to what they call the genocide in Gaza. Marchers waved Palestinian flags, carried banners, and chanted in French, English, and Arabic, urging global leaders to impose sanctions on Israel and hold it accountable for the violence in Gaza. The rally, organized near the Swiss Post Office and moving through the city center, reflected growing international anger and calls for justice for Palestinians. Demonstrators accused Western countries of complicity in the ongoing conflict. This powerful protest highlights a rising wave of global solidarity with Gaza and the demand for peace and accountability.

Blow to Trump’s reputation as Netanyahu breaks Gaza peace deal with impunity

In a major setback to Donald Trump, the peace deal that he signed with a huge fanfare last week in Egypt was broken by Netanyahu once again today as he ordered strikes on several targets across Gaza. This, according to Rifat Jawaid, is yet another challenge to the Us president’s authority by Netanyahu who has previously faced zero consequences for similar excesses.



Here's the Canadian news. My country downplaying today's death toll (8 instead of 40), repeating Israeli propaganda, lying about the 'promised' aid (not 400 to 600, at least 600 unrestricted) never mentioning Israeli backed Popular Forces in Rafah or anything about what actually happened. But at least they reported on it :/

Israel strikes Gaza, orders halt to aid after accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire

Israel has renewed deadly airstrikes on Gaza, and ordered a halt to all aid shipments after accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire by shooting at Israeli troops in Rafah. Karling Donoghue reports.

Where are the observers of the ceasefire, not allowed inside Gaza.

Their Ceasefire Lie Just Got Busted — Now Israel’s Narrative Is Crumbling

Leaks have revealed Israel’s secret armed militias inside Gaza. The chaos they caused is being blamed on Hamas but it’s not cutting through...

So here we are again — another “ceasefire” in being rigged to collapse, with an added dose of desperation to seize the narrative back for Israel as the real victims we should all feel sorry for, as if two years of genocide can so easily be scrubbed from our minds.

Washington and Tel Aviv are now saying they have credible evidence that Hamas is plotting to end it, even though their drones have never left the sky and Palestinians are still dying at Israel’s hands, having never actually ceased the firing bit. You could almost admire the choreography if it weren’t still soaked in so much blood. The US State Department posts a warning about an allegedly impending Hamas attack, Israel calls that proof, but their bombs have never stopped falling and they are still arming gangs within the Strip to destabilise it.

It’s a blame game so polished it could have been scripted — because it no doubt was. What we’re watching isn’t a truce; it’s a performance. The genocide still hasn’t stopped; it’s just going through some script changes. Israel wants its victim status back, but that cat has long ago got out of the bag and no matter what they do, they’re never getting it back. If this ceasefire is getting derailed, we know who’s behind it, the same people behind every other collapsed ceasefire.

When this latest apparent Gaza ceasefire took effect on 10 October, diplomats sold it as a turning point. This time it was different. After two years of aerial bombardment, starvation, and mass displacement, mediators from Egypt, Qatar, and the United States announced what they called a “comprehensive cessation of hostilities.” The text required Israel to end military operations, free captives, open the Rafah Crossing, and permit unrestricted humanitarian aid. For Gaza’s two-million residents it was meant to mean survival.

Eight days on the figures tell a different story. Gaza’s Government Media Office confirmed forty-seven documented Israeli violations: thirty-eight Palestinians killed, one-hundred-and-forty-three wounded, attacks recorded in every governorate. Civil-defence teams documented one-hundred-and-twenty-nine individual attacks since the truce began. In Shujaiya five civilians died inspecting the ruins of their homes. In Al-Fukhari, east of Khan Younis, another was killed by a drone. The deadliest incident came in Gaza City’s Zaytoun neighbourhood when an Israeli tank shell destroyed a car carrying the Abu Shaaban family — eleven killed, seven of them children. Gaza’s Civil Defence said the family had tried to cross the “Yellow Line,” an invisible boundary the Israeli army now uses to designate where civilians may move. There are no physical markers. No warning signs. Only risk of death for guessing wrong.

Every one of these actions breaches the ceasefire. Yet Western governments continue to call the truce “fragile,” implying symmetry between occupier and occupied.

I wonder, are the public excecutions by hamas part of the genocide? Or will that be the second genocide on its "own" people?

Were the executions of collaborators in WW2 part of the genocide?

I'm not saying its right, far from it. This falls in the Hiroshima bomb category, not necessary but sending a message, in this case to prevent further clan warfare. It has nothing to do with genocide, but is still a war crime. PoWs are protected under international law.

The 1949 Geneva Conventions mandates humane treatment, adequate housing, food, and medical care. Under the Third Geneva Convention, PoWs must be treated with respect for their honor and person, have a right to communicate with their families, be paid for work done, and be released and repatriated as soon as active hostilities end.

(Now look at how Israel treats all the people they take from Gaza...)


A genocide is:

Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
a. Killing members of the group;
b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c.  Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Hamas does not have the intent to destroy Palestinians as a group / ethnicity. So no, field executions of gang members (working for Israel) do not fall under genocide. They're also not out to destroy the clans, they are taking their weapons to restore order. 

If you read the article further
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/middleeast/gaza-public-execution-gaza-city-hamas-intl

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CNN previously reported that Hamas-affiliated Telegram channels said the violence started after a son of a senior Hamas military commander was killed.

The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, a Palestinian NGO, said it received reports that gunmen clashed with armed men from a local family in the Sabra and Tel al-Hawa neighborhoods in Gaza City after the ceasefire came into effect on Friday.

It said that according to the information it gathered, the attackers claimed they were trying to arrest a group of suspects.

“The clashes resulted in casualties among both the family members and the attacking force. After the arrest of several family members, the video showing the execution of several citizens was circulated widely on social media,” the center said, adding that no official statement from local authorities was released about the incident. 

Radaa said in a statement on Monday that it was carrying “wide-ranging security operations resulting in the arrest of a large number of collaborators and individuals operating outside the law.”

In the statement, Radaa said it arrested a group of “lawless elements” who fired at security forces in central Gaza, and that it detained a number of people “implicated in cooperating with an armed militia and recruiting collaborators during the war” in southern Gaza.

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The video of the executions was widely shared online, including by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which said the footage showed why Hamas “must go.”

The video surfaced after US President Donald Trump suggested that he gave an approval to Hamas to police the territory for “a period of time.”

Trump was asked about Hamas reasserting itself in Gaza following the ceasefire he helped to broker between the group and Israel as he was traveling to the Middle East on Monday. “They do want to stop the problems. They’ve been open about it and we gave them approval for a period of time,” Trump said in response.


It's the ugly side of war and why the Geneva conventions are so important as well as upholding international law. The perpetrators of these executions deserve to stand trial for their actions. Yet if it prevents civil war, the peace plan might still have a chance to get to phase 2 (I highly doubt it, the peace plan that is, Hamas is still too powerful for civil war to erupt between the various clans)


But why the focus on Hamas executing a few clan members, and not on the IDF executing thousands of civilians, some by driving over them in tanks (as admitted by IDF soldiers themselves)

And then the truth comes out...

Reports Israeli bulldozer running over unexploded ordnance caused ceasefire breakdown

Within hours of Israel resuming its bombardment and threatening to shut down the Rafah crossing and so on, the leaks started.

[Trump] administration officials told a select few outlets – one on the non-interventionist left, one on the non-interventionist right – their side of things. Within hours of Israel reporting a breach of the ceasefire, [claiming] that Hamas militants emerged from a tunnel and so on, the US realised that simply wasn’t true.

This was an Israeli settler’s bulldozer that ran over unexploded ordnance and caused an explosion.

So the US called the Israelis and told them to knock it off, basically. The message really was: We decide what happens in Gaza right now. Stop the bombing and get back to resuming the aid that is coming in on Monday.

Soon after the explosion in Rafah, I’m told by a source familiar, the White House and Pentagon knew that the incident was caused by an Israeli settler bulldozer running over unexploded ordnance — contradicting Netanyahu’s claim that Hamas had popped up from tunnels.

After… https://t.co/Xwy63sEL3M

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) October 19, 2025

Never ever trust anything Israel says. And really, if Hamas had actually killed 2 IDF soldiers on Sunday, Israel would not have backed down and gone back into 'ceasefire' mode. They ran over their own fucking bombs and 40 innocent Palestinians paid with their lives for it.

Of course the mainstream media will not report this correction.


BBC (3 hours ago)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxk8k4xlv1o

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of deadly strikes across Gaza, after two soldiers were killed in the southern city of Rafah in an attack it blamed on Hamas. Hamas said it was not responsible because it had not had contact with fighters in the area since communications were cut off in March.

An Israeli security official announced the suspension of aid deliveries as a result of the attack.

It appears US pressure ensured the truce was not derailed and that Israel's crossings with Gaza reopened on Monday. Now it is clear mediators must stay closely involved to shore up the deal and settle key issues on the future of Gaza and Hamas.


Again if Hamas actually killed 2 IDF soldiers, the ceasefire would be gone, out the window.