The 'peace' plan was signed October 9th, came into effect October 10th, now exactly 4 weeks ago:

Israel’s daily mass killing stops, but aid flow remains a trickle: NGO

The US-brokered ceasefire has stopped Israel’s daily “mass killing” with bombing attacks in Gaza, but it has failed to deliver on food and other essentials, a nongovernmental organisation on the ground says.

“Israel still imposes a blockade on Gaza as it controls more than 50 percent of the Strip,” Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, told Al Jazeera.

“Very limited amounts of aid are getting in. Only 10 percent of medical supplies needed are being let in, so it’s a very critical moment.”

At least 1.5 million Palestinians have lost their homes and are displaced, unexploded ordnance is everywhere, and thousands of bodies remain buried under the vast debris of destroyed buildings, Shawa said.

At least 16,500 people in Gaza need urgent medical care: WHO

More than 16,500 Palestinians in war-battered Gaza are in urgent need of medical care, the World Health Organization chief says, pleading with the international community to immediately take them in for treatment.

“We urge more countries to receive patients from Gaza as over 16,500 people still need urgent medical care that is not available in the Strip,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

He also called for all evacuation routes – particularly those from the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem – to be opened to facilitate the transfer of patients in need.

The WHO recently evacuated 19 critically ill patients and 93 companions from Gaza to Italy for medical treatment, he noted, expressing his gratitude to the Italian government for its solidarity and support.

20% of children in Gaza missing ‘essential vaccines’: UNRWA

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has announced an upcoming immunisation campaign for children in Gaza, one out of five of whom it says lack “essential vaccines”.

The campaign, aiming to reach 44,000 children, will also offer malnutrition screening.

“From its side UNRWA will contribute through 24 health centres and medical points across the Gaza Strip – supporting this vital effort to restore essential care for Gaza’s children,” said the agency.

Nutritional food still in short supply in Gaza amid Israeli restrictions

Since the ceasefire took hold, there has been a lot of talk about humanitarian aid flowing into Gaza. But the amount Israel has allowed in is a trickle compared with what’s needed to sustain a population under siege for more than two years.

Many of the trucks that have been greenlighted are carrying non-essential, non-perishable dry goods. There are stacks of instant noodles, biscuits, chocolates and sugary stuff in the shops.

But the essentials are still in short supply, including nutritional products like vegetables, protein and dairy products. Eggs, for example, you don’t see anywhere.

Earlier, we saw a long queue of about 500 people at one shop that happened to sell chicken, an extreme rarity. The gap between need and reality is enormous, and it continues to unfold daily.

Aid efforts in Gaza stymied by Israel’s ‘bureaucratic impediments’: NGO

Caroline Willemen, project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, in Gaza, has told Al Jazeera the medical charity brought in just 15 aid trucks since the truce came into effect nearly four weeks ago.

A number were denied entry, which she called part of a “pattern” over the past two years, where “bureaucratic impediments” by Israeli authorities are used to stifle humanitarian efforts.

She said this goes against the ceasefire agreement that states 600 trucks a day should be allowed to enter the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.

Willemen said MSF has witnessed “a genocide in Gaza” for the last two years, with civilians killed and the health system deliberately destroyed. “People have been denied access to water, access to food, access to medication,” she said.

Charity launches new kitchen in starving northern Gaza

World Central Kitchen (WCK) has restarted food services in besieged northern Gaza and prepared more than 3,000 meals for hospitals and hungry Palestinians on its first day at its newest facility.

“The new kitchen expands WCK’s capacity in the region with plans to scale up to 40,000 meals per day in the coming weeks,” it said in a statement.

Last year, seven World Central Kitchen staff were killed in central Gaza in a “targeted attack” by Israeli forces that drew global condemnation and forced the charity to suspend operations.

The charity’s network of kitchens across Gaza serves more than 600,000 meals daily. Since October 2023, WCK has distributed more than 150 million meals in the war-torn territory, it said.

Israeli artillery and air attacks target Gaza’s Khan Younis

Al Jazeera correspondents in Gaza report a series of air raids and artillery fire in and around the second-largest city of Khan Younis.

Artillery shelling occurred on the outskirts of the town of Bani Suheila, just east of Khan Younis, while aerial bombardment also took place to the east of the southern city.

Despite the nearly monthlong ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Israeli forces continue to carry out attacks in Gaza, killing more than 240 Palestinians since early October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Israeli drone attack injures child in Gaza City: Report

Israeli forces have fired a bomb from a drone in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, wounding a child, reports the Wafa news agency.

The child has been hospitalised at al-Ahli Arab Hospital, the agency said.

Talks ongoing to get dozens of Hamas fighters out of south Gaza

Negotiations are under way to allow about 150 Hamas fighters trapped in tunnels in southern Gaza behind Israel’s “yellow line” to hand over their weapons and walk free.

Securing safe passage for the Hamas soldiers in Israeli-controlled territory is a serious issue seen as a risk to the month-old Gaza truce, news reports quoted unnamed sources as saying.

Egyptian mediators have proposed that, in exchange for safe passage, fighters still in Rafah surrender their arms to Egypt and give details of tunnels there so they can be destroyed, an Egyptian security official told the Reuters news agency.

Israel and Hamas have yet to publicly accept mediators’ proposals. Far-right ministers in Israel’s government – including hardline Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich – are vehemently opposing any deal, the Financial Times reports.

Israeli attacks in Rafah spiralled into some of the worst violence since the ceasefire took hold on October 10, with three Israeli soldiers killed, prompting further Israeli attacks that killed nearly 150 Palestinians.

‘Problem is huge’: Waste build-up in Gaza causing more disease

With no reliable rubbish collection and hazardous waste from bomb sites, Palestinians in Gaza say pollution has created a putrid atmosphere rife with environmental and health risks.

“The scale of the waste problem in Gaza is huge,” said Alessandro Mrakic, head of the Gaza office of the UN development agency UNDP.  “We’re talking about 2 million tonnes of waste – untreated – all across Gaza.”

People in the war-battered enclave are reporting higher rates of gastric diseases and skin complaints, from diarrhoea to rashes, sores, lice and scabies – conditions doctors blame on pollution.

“Skin diseases have spread a lot because of overcrowding in tents and the tents are next to garbage dumps,” Sami Abu Taha, a dermatologist at the Kuwaiti field hospital in Khan Younis, was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.

“I don’t smell any fresh air. I smell a foul odour in my tent. I can’t sleep. My children wake up in the morning coughing,” added Mahmoud Abu Reida, a resident in the southern city.

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad says will release Israeli captive’s body

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, the al-Quds Brigades, says it will hand over the remains of a deceased Israeli captive tonight.

Israel’s Channel 15 also reported that the International Committee of the Red Cross is preparing tonight to receive the body of one of the captives in Gaza. 

Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, says the Israeli captive’s remains were found today in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The group said the handover will take place at 9pm local time in Gaza (19:00 GMT).

Israel’s military kills 2 Palestinians in occupied West Bank

Israel’s military says its forces shot dead two Palestinians whom it claims threw Molotov cocktails towards a road near the village of al-Judeira, between occupied East Jerusalem and Ramallah.

The military shared footage on X appearing to show the incident, which it said occurred last night. It said its forces sustained no injuries.

“Terrorists threw Molotov cocktails at a central civilian thoroughfare – and were eliminated within seconds last night,” a statement said.

Courts are slowly catching up

German court rules in favour of banned Palestinian-British surgeon

A court ruling in Germany, which declared a ban on political activity against prominent British-Palestinian surgeon and academic Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah unlawful, has been confirmed.

In July 2025, the Berlin Administrative Court ruled that the Berlin Immigration Office wrongly prohibited Abu Sittah from entering Germany to speak at the Palestine Congress held a year earlier.

It also noted Abu Sittah witnessed Israeli air attacks in October and November 2023, emphasising his testimony before the International Criminal Court should have been taken into account.

The Palestine Congress in Berlin, organised by pro-Palestinian activists, was shut down by police shortly after it began. The three-day event had been expected to address Germany’s alleged complicity in Israel’s actions, along with other topics.

Abu Sittah, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon and rector of the University of Glasgow, travelled to Gaza on October 9, 2023, where he worked for 43 days during Israel’s initial attack. He had been invited to the Berlin conference to share his experiences in Gaza, but was denied entry into Germany.

Italian news agency called out after journalist fired for ‘uncomfortable’ Israel question

Journalist Gabriele Nunziati says he was fired by the Italian news agency Nova after asking a European Commission official if Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza – since the EU has already called for Russia to pay to rebuild Ukraine.

The International Federation of Journalists and the European Federation of Journalists condemned the dismissal.

“It is unacceptable that a question, no matter how uncomfortable, could cost him his job,” said the National Federation of the Italian Press.

‘It’s a lie’: US lawmaker says ‘there is no ceasefire’ in Gaza

Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American Congress member, has slammed continued Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the Strip.

“More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli government since Trump claimed a ceasefire was achieved,” Tlaib wrote in a social media post. “The Israeli government never even stopped bombing Lebanon. They are still committing war crimes.”

She has been one of the most prominent voices in Congress defending Palestinian rights and calling on the US government to suspend its unwavering military and diplomatic support for Israel.

There is no ceasefire. It's a lie.

More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli government since Trump claimed a ceasefire was achieved. The Israeli government never even stopped bombing Lebanon. They are still committing war crimes. https://t.co/3YfICafKv7

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) November 7, 2025

Trump’s expansion of Abraham Accords ‘whitewashing’, Hamas says

The Palestinian group has decried Kazakhstan’s decision to join the Abraham Accords – a series of US-brokered normalisation deals with Israel – as “reprehensible”.

The Abraham Accords, first signed in 2020, saw Israel normalise relations with the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan. Trump has been pushing to expand the deal to more countries amid global outrage over Israel’s war on Gaza.

“It amounts to whitewashing the genocidal crimes committed by the occupation against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, at a time when the fascist entity and its war criminal leaders, wanted by the International Criminal Court, are facing increasing international isolation,” Hamas said in a statement.

Hamas urged all countries to “sever all forms of relations” with Israel and “refrain from engaging in any normalisation projects with it”.

Kazakhstan and Israel have held diplomatic ties since 1992, shortly after Kazakhstan gained independence from the Soviet Union.

Biden administration ignored warnings of potential Gaza war crimes: Report

The Reuters news agency is reporting that the US gathered intelligence last year of Israel’s military lawyers warning that the country’s war on Gaza could amount to war crimes, but Washington continued to support its ally despite those concerns.

Citing five unnamed former US officials, Reuters said there were concerns Israel was intentionally targeting civilians and humanitarian workers in Gaza. US officials expressed alarm that Israeli operations may have breached international legal standards on acceptable collateral damage.

The intelligence prompted a debate between officials in then-President Joe Biden’s administration. But the government ultimately concluded that it was still legal for the US to continue supporting Israel with weapons and intelligence because Washington had not gathered its own evidence that Israel was violating the law of armed conflict, according to three former US officials.

A US finding that Israel was committing war crimes would have required the country, under US law, to block future arms shipments and end intelligence sharing with Israel.

Genocide Joe aka The butcher of Gaza.

Istanbul prosecutor issues arrest warrants for 37 Israeli officials, including Netanyahu

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued arrest warrants for 37 Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defence Minister Israel Katz, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Turkish media outlets are reporting.

The office accused the targeted officials of committing crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza.

It cited systematic Israeli military attacks on civilians, hospitals, and infrastructure in the enclave since October 2023, including the killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab and the bombing of medical facilities. It also referenced Israel’s assault on the Global Sumud Flotilla, one of the largest aid missions that sought to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.

Turkiye has long been a vocal opponent of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, suspending diplomatic and trade relations with the country over the conflict.

The Istanbul prosecutor’s move follows the International Criminal Court’s decision in November 2024 to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on war crimes charges.

Israel’s President Herzog to visit Zambia as part of ‘growing’ friendship

Zambia will receive Israeli President Isaac Herzog for a two-day state visit next week amid Israel’s renewed efforts to deepen ties in Africa.

The visit on November 10 and 11 “underscores the warm and growing friendship” between the two countries, the Zambian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

In August, Gideon Saar, Israel’s foreign affairs minister, flew into the Zambian capital of Lusaka to celebrate the reopening of the Israeli embassy after decades without ties. “Israel is returning to Zambia. Israel is returning to Africa,” he wrote on X at the time.

Analysts say Israel’s interest in Zambia is an attempt to erode regional support of South Africa, which was the first country to take Israel to the International Court of Justice on genocide charges over its war on Gaza.

Israel has reopened its embassy in Zambia, after a 52-year closure, in a move seen as part of a wider effort to expand its influence in Africa. The embassy was inaugurated by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar and his Zambian counterpart, Mulambo Haimbe. This diplomatic push comes as Israel faces significant international backlash over its military offensive in Gaza. Several African nations, including Algeria and South Africa, have been vocal critics, with South Africa even filing a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. The reopening of the embassy signals Israel's need for new allies as criticism mounts from both friends and foes, but it remains to be seen whether this diplomatic outreach will translate into genuine support or be overshadowed by the ongoing conflict in Gaza.


Some facts:

The territory of Zambia was known as Northern Rhodesia from 1911 to 1964. It was renamed Zambia in October 1964 on its independence from British rule.

Population of over 19 million people, with a majority identifying as Christian and a large, diverse ethnic makeup. The population is young, with over 40% under 15, and the official language is English, though numerous indigenous languages are spoken. The most common ethnic groups are the Bemba and Tonga, and religious life is characterized by a strong Christian majority, sometimes combined with traditional beliefs.

The government is sensitive to any opposition and criticism and has been quick to prosecute critics using the legal pretext that they had incited public disorder. Libel laws are used to suppress free speech and the press.

Same-sex sexual activity is illegal for both males and females in Zambia. A 2010 survey revealed that only 2% of Zambians find homosexuality to be morally acceptable.

Israel knows how to pick their friends...


Zambia Presents Oral Arguments at World Court on Occupied Palestinian Territory

https://www.mofaic.gov.zm/?p=2402

Mr. Muchende submitted that Zambia recognises the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination as well as the legitimate security needs of the people of Israel.

Mr. Muchende further submitted that both Israel and Palestine have a duty to respect international human rights law and International humanitarian law, adding that any recourse to the conflict should not be one that puts the blame squarely on one party, but advances a negotiated solution that culminates in a two-state solution.

Mr. Muchende also submitted that Zambia proposes that the final determination in this matter would be for the two parties to resolve their dispute through settlement means of their choice, which is negotiations, adding that the just and sustainable two-state solution cannot be imposed from the outside through an advisory opinion.

I guess Mr Muchende forgot how his own country had to fight for independence

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Azerbaijan to send peacekeepers to Gaza only if fighting stops completely: Report

An unnamed Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry source has told the Reuters news agency that any such deployment would need to be approved by the country’s Parliament, however.

“We do not want to put our troops in danger. This can only happen if military action is completely stopped,” the source said.

The head of Azerbaijan’s parliamentary security committee told Reuters that it had not yet received any draft bill on the matter.

As we’ve been reporting, the Trump administration has been holding talks with several countries, including Azerbaijan, to try to secure commitments for troops to take part in the Gaza “international stabilisation force“.

Yeah wrong place, UNIFIL in Lebanon is still routinely under fire from Israel and Israel has no plans to withdraw completely from Gaza.

UN reiterates call to open all Gaza crossings for aid

A spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres has reiterated that more crossings must be opened to allow unimpeded humanitarian assistance to reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking to reporters at UN headquarters in New York, Farhan Haq noted that only two Gaza crossings are currently operating: al-Karara (also known as Kissufim) and Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom).

“At this stage, our point is that now that the ceasefire has taken hold, we need to be able to use all of the crossing points,” Haq said.

He added that this includes crossings along the border with Egypt and into northern Gaza, which has been particularly hard-hit by Israel’s two-year bombardment. “We want all the others to be opened up as soon as possible,” Haq said.