‘Disgrace to humanity’: Rescuers still trying to reach people under rubble

The Palestinian Civil Defence agency in Gaza says that, despite a lack of resources, rescuers are working to try to recover the dead and wounded from under the concrete debris after Israel’s attacks.

“The teams are still making great efforts to reach citizens trapped under the rubble, while hospitals are overwhelmed with the wounded and those in critical condition,” spokesman Mahmoud Basal said.

“What is happening in Gaza today is a disgrace to humanity and highlights the international community’s complicity through its silence in these violations.”

The agency called for an end to Israel’s attacks on Gaza, the protection of civilians, rescuers and medical staff, and deliveries of fuel, equipment and other needed supplies.

“The continuation of these crimes amidst the world’s silence is an unforgivable moral and humanitarian failure,” Basal said.

Israeli public backs PM Netanyahu on ‘targeting Hamas’ in Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will “try everything” to restart Israel’s war on Gaza, including preventing countries such as Turkiye and Qatar from sending troops for an international stabilisation force, an analyst says.

“It depends on the amount of leverage that the American administration will put on him, but I think Hamas is also playing games, playing for time, because they know down the road they will have to share responsibility with the Palestinian Authority,” said Akiva Eldar, a political commentator from Tel Aviv.

“Will Hamas coordinate with them, and will Israel allow them to function?” are major questions about the governance of Gaza, he added.

After a night of deadly attacks that killed more than 100 Palestinians in Gaza, Eldar told Al Jazeera that people in Israel are OK with the military continuing to attack despite the ceasefire.

“I think there’s public support in Netanyahu’s narrative, and his targeting of Hamas is very popular in Israel. Even in the Knesset, there’s no opposition to the use of military force. The Israeli public is actually buying the narratives that Hamas is playing games with the Americans,” he said.

Strikes on Gaza followed days of hawkish rhetoric from Israeli politicians

Over the days leading up to the latest strikes on Gaza, we saw a build-up of rhetoric from Israeli politicians.

Those comments saw Hamas accused of manipulating the guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, of withholding the bodies of Israeli captives, of foot-dragging and not doing what it was supposed to.

Some went as far as falsely claiming that Hamas was supposed to hand over all the bodies the day that the living captives were handed over, and that’s simply not the case.

There was a competition between Israeli politicians for who could sound the toughest and who could promise the harshest retribution against Hamas.

All the while, opposition leaders were taunting Netanyahu and saying that he was on a leash, that it wasn’t really his call, and that it was Donald Trump who would determine what would and would not be allowed.

‘Are these not war crimes?’: Trump ally denounces Israeli attacks

US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump ally and prominent figure in his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, has slammed Israel’s killing of more than 100 Palestinians in Gaza, including 46 children.

“46 CHILDREN!!!” she wrote on X. “Are these not war crimes?”

The Republican lawmaker has become increasingly outspoken in her criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza, describing it as a genocide. That has drawn the ire of prominent pro-Israel groups in the US, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Her remarks have highlighted a widening schism in the Republican Party as polls show growing numbers of US voters are now questioning the country’s unwavering support for Israel as it wages war on Gaza.

The US provides its top ally with billions of dollars in military aid, as well as key diplomatic support.

‘Appalling’: Israel’s mass killing in Gaza denounced by UN rights boss

United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk has denounced Israel’s attack on Gaza and called on the international community to not waste this “opportunity for peace and a path towards a more just and secure future”.

“Reports that over 100 Palestinians were killed overnight in a wave of Israeli air strikes – mainly on residential buildings, IDP tents and schools across the Gaza Strip following the death of an Israeli soldier – are appalling,” he said in a statement.

“The laws of war are very clear on the paramount importance of protecting civilians and civilian infrastructure.”

Turk urged Israel to comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law and to be held accountable for any violations.

“It is distressing that these killings occurred just as the long-suffering population of Gaza started to feel there was hope that the unrelenting barrage of violence may be at an end,” he said.

Turk also called on all parties to the war to act in good faith and implement the ceasefire.

Israeli attack kills 2 near northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya

A source at al-Shifa Hospital tells Al Jazeera that two people have been killed in an Israeli air raid that targeted the al-Salatin neighbourhood, southwest of Beit Lahiya.

The area is close to the so-called “yellow line”, the boundary to which Israeli forces have withdrawn in Gaza as part of the ceasefire deal. Israel’s military said it targeted a “storage facility for ground and air weaponry posing immediate threat to area”.

Palestinian Prisoner’s Society slams Israeli decison to block Red Cross visits

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says Israel’s Katz’s decision to prevent members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian prisoners is further cover for the crimes ongoing in the Israeli facilities, Wafa reported.

In a statement released by the advocacy group, the decision was announced hours before a Supreme Court session on a petition to resume visits by the ICRC, which had been postponed numerous times since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.

It added that the decision also came just after preliminary approvals in Knesset committees that would allow the execution of prisoners and the establishment of special courts that lack any judicial guarantees to try prisoners from the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society demanded that the ICRC resume its visits to prisoners and called on the organisation to take a clear stance against Israel’s decision to block the visits.

The Elders call for Marwan Barghouti’s immediate release from Israeli prison

The Elders, a group of world leaders and human rights advocates, has issued a call for US President Trump to demand Barghouti’s release, “capitalising on the opportunity opened up by the fragile ceasefire deal in Gaza”.

Barghouti, a prominent member of the Palestinian political faction Fatah and a unifying figure among Palestinians, has been in Israeli prison since the early 2000s. His family recently said they feared for his life amid reports that guards beat him.

“Marwan Barghouti has been a long-term advocate for a two-state solution by peaceful means, and is consistently the most popular Palestinian leader in opinion polls. But Israel has so far refused to release Barghouti as part of President Trump’s deal,” The Elders said in a statement.

“Many Palestinians refer to Marwan Barghouti as ‘their Mandela’,” the statement continued, referring to former South African president and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, who founded The Elders in 2007.

“He has a vital role to play as a unifying figure, whose reputation as a supporter of a two-state solution has grown over his 23 years of imprisonment,” the group said of Barghouti. “Freeing him now would send a signal that Israel is serious about pursuing a peaceful, political path to resolve the conflict.”

_{Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has been in Israeli prison since the early 2000s}

‘Israel cannot be trusted with American weapons’: US rights group

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says Israel’s deadly attacks on Gaza demonstrate it “will seek every opportunity to massacre Palestinians, this time including 46 children”.

“Israel’s massacre is the latest sign that Israel cannot be trusted with American weapons or bombs,” the group said in a social media post.

“We call on members of Congress to condemn this massacre and express support for an arms embargo on the Israeli government in keeping with US and international law.”

The US has provided billions of dollars in military aid to Israel since its war on Gaza began in October 2023. It also has shielded its top ally from global criticism and calls for accountability at the UN and other international bodies.

Death toll rises in Gaza after Israel attacks to 109, including 52 children

Gaza’s Government Media Office says 109 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in the past 12 hours, including 52 children, 23 women, four elderly persons, and seven people with disabilities.

In a statement, the office said Israel is continuing its “systematic campaign of misinformation, forgery, and lies aimed at distorting the truth and covering up its ongoing crimes against civilians in the Gaza Strip”.

“The occupation published a list containing 26 names, including 21 photos, claiming they belonged to people killed during its brutal recent aggression that occurred over the past 24 hours,” it said.

“Upon careful examination, it was found the list contains three incorrect names that are not Arabic and are not recorded in the official Palestinian records, in addition to fictitious names that do not exist in reality, some of which intentionally had no photos attached.”

Israel is conducting attacks on Gaza in “flagrant and deliberate violation of the principles of proportionality and distinction”, repeatedly targeting residential neighbourhoods, hospitals and shelters, the Government Media Office said.

_{Palestinians surround the bodies of members of the Abu Dalal family killed in overnight Israeli strikes on their home in Nuseirat, central Gaza}

Trump wants to see Gaza ceasefire hold

The administration of US President Donald Trump is sending the message that the ceasefire is back on and they are committed to making sure that it sticks.

A US source told Al Jazeera they do believe that Hamas was responsible for the attack that left that Israeli soldier dead. They said they believe Israel’s response was limited and targeted, and it has stopped now. They said the ceasefire is back in effect.

The source said they have eyes and ears on the ground in the area, but they’re going to be sending senior officials back to the region because this is a priority for Trump. He wants to see not only the Gaza ceasefire hold, but he wants to see a broader Middle East peace.

109 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in the past 12 hours, including 52 children, 23 women, four elderly persons, and seven people with disabilities. That's limited and targeted according to the US government. And that's not the final toll yet, still critically wounded people fighting for their life with no healthcare available.

Netanyahu tours US-led Gaza coordination centre in southern Israel

The Israeli prime minister has shared photos of a visit to the so-called Civil-Military Coordination Centre in Kiryat Gat, where US troops are overseeing Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan.

“We want to ensure that in the end, the goal that President Trump and I agreed on – of disarming Hamas and demilitarising Gaza – will be achieved,” Netanyahu said, according to one of the posts his office shared on social media.

Netanyahu’s tour of the site comes just hours after the Israeli military launched a series of attacks across Gaza that killed more than 100 Palestinians, including dozens of children.

Israel and its top ally, the US, have since said the Gaza ceasefire remains in place despite those deadly bombings.

It's not a ceasefire, it's still genocide. Trump only stepped up the propaganda machine to pretend there's a ceasefire.

Israeli settler attacks ‘part of state-backed campaign’ to displace Palestinians

That’s according to Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which has documented dozens of incidents of Israeli settler and military violence against Palestinians during the olive harvest.

“Dozens of harvesters were injured, some requiring medical treatment. Cars were set on fire, equipment was destroyed, herds were harmed, and harvests were stolen. Many reported experiencing significant psychological distress due to the assaults,” the group said.

“This is not ‘isolated violence’ but part of a state-backed campaign, carried out with full impunity, to dispossess Palestinians of their land,” BTselem stressed.

“These attacks target Palestinian livelihood and their very right to the land, and are integral to Israel’s ongoing efforts to ethnically cleanse the West Bank."

Main events on October 29th

• At least 109 Palestinians, including dozens of children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza over the past 12 hours in a major breach of the US-led ceasefire agreement.
• The US and other mediators say the ceasefire remains in place despite the gross violations, with Qatar’s prime minister saying all the parties remain committed to the deal.
• Palestinians in Gaza have held funerals for loved ones killed in the wave of Israeli bombings, while hospital staff treat dozens of patients suffering from shrapnel wounds and internal bleeding.
• Israel has banned the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Defence Minister Israel Katz announced, spurring condemnation from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society advocacy group.
• Intensified Israeli army and settler attacks against Palestinians continue in the occupied West Bank, with several violent raids, arrests and other incidents reported.

CNN doesn't want to call out Israel in any way but Shehada makes a good point:

Gaza’s new normal is a truce without peace

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/middleeast/analysis-gaza-ceasefire-israel-strikes-new-normal-latam-intl

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According to Muhammad Shehada, a Gaza expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations, that territory [the 53% behind the yellow line that the IDF occupies] includes isolated Hamas cells trapped in tunnels and outside the militant organization’s command and control. With limited resources and no connection to Hamas’ remaining leadership, each cell is “a catastrophe in the making,” Shehada says.

“The closer those IDF vehicles come to a tunnel or to a hideout to those disconnected, isolated militants or the more they run out of food, the higher the chances that they emerge in battle with Israeli soldiers,” Shehada told CNN. “They would rather die in combat than die of starvation or wait for the IDF to find them.”

After the first major violation of the ceasefire [which was a bulldozer driving over unexploded ordnance] on October 19, Hamas issued a statement saying that “contact with the remnants of our groups” in areas like Rafah had “been cut off since the resumption of hostilities in March.” It is these “remnants” that Shehada says are ticking “time bombs.”

“Hamas doesn’t even know how many are there that are still alive,” said Shehada.


Although cell phones are dangerous to use for detection, describing it as "Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle" Japanese soldiers that didn't know WW2 was over, I don't really buy it. They can hear most of the bombing has stopped... then find a safe place to check the news on a smart phone.

Not being able to stay in contact, that's believable. Who do you call when the chain of command is killed... But they must know something is up.

However there will always be lone wolfs. Indiscriminately killing over 100 civilians isn't going to stop them. And there are tons of people with literally nothing left to lose around Gaza.

The West Bank is a horror show

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the settler terror spree across the occupied Palestinian West Bank, and the overt support of the Israeli government for these violent elements.

Angry UK MPs demand action against Netanyahu for breaking Gaza peace deal

MPs cutting across party lines in British parliament on Wednesday registered their outrage over Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to break the peace deal in Gaza by ordering indiscriminate strikes across the territory. One Labour MP drew a parallel with Russia and how the UK government had swiftly acted against Putin in a similar situation. Watch the proceedings of parliament here.

Is Israel 'On the Brink?' (w/ Legendary Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé)

In spite of Israel’s military dominance over its regional foes, is the Zionist entity at its most vulnerable point in its short history? And more importantly — will its actions lead to the complete collapse of the Zionist project? Legendary Israeli historian Ilan Pappé provides some answers.

‘Where are the international guarantees that were promised?’

Palestinians in Gaza are reeling from continued Israeli attacks, which have occurred intermittently despite the ceasefire, unsure of how – or if – they can begin returning to normal.

“We’re waiting for a real chance to try and rebuild our lives. We started to pick things up again during the first week or two after the war, but then the truce was breached; thankfully, it ended quickly. We hadn’t even caught our breath when the second breach happened,” Mazen Shaheen, a Gaza resident, told Al Jazeera.

One of Shaheen’s friends was wounded in Israeli attacks yesterday – its deadliest violation yet, which killed more than 100 people, including 46 children. His friend’s condition is now stable, he said.

“The message we want to send is this: where are the international guarantees that were promised? Where are the mediating countries that helped broker the ceasefire and pledged to ensure its continuation?”


_{Smoke billows during an Israeli strike near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip}

Israel bombs Khan Younis overnight

Our correspondent on the ground reports that the Israeli army has launched about 10 air strikes on the city in southern Gaza early this morning.

This is despite Israel’s claim on Wednesday that it had returned to the ceasefire after a large wave of deadly attacks across the Strip.

Gaza civil defence reports flurry of activity after Israeli strikes

In a short statement on Telegram, the rescue group says that its teams carried out 197 missions in the past week alone. This news comes after Israel unleashed massive strikes across the enclave yesterday, killing more than 100 people, including 46 children.

Civil defence teams dealt with “15 firefighting missions, 79 rescue incidents and 103 ambulance missions”, the statement reads.

Turkish rescuers still awaiting Israeli approval to enter Gaza: Defence ministry

A Turkish disaster response team is still waiting by the Gaza border for Israeli approval to enter the beseieged enclave to help with search and rescue operations, a defence ministry source has said.

“AFAD is still waiting at the border. Israel still did not issue any authorisation” for the team to enter, the source said, referring to Turkiye’s disaster relief agency, which is waiting on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with a team of 81 specialists.

Israeli air strike destroys electricity company in Gaza

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that an Israeli air strike has destroyed the electricity company building in the town of Abasan, east of Khan Younis city, in the southern Gaza Strip.

They also reported the Israeli army carried out a demolition operation in Khan Younis itself.

_{Smoke rises in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip, after an Israeli attack}