Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including 17 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,560 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
Additional statistics below. For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Friday, go here.
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For more critical context, skim this, this, and this.To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.)
UNRWA: ONE IN THREE CHILDREN IN GAZA HAVE GONE A FULL DAY WITHOUT FOOD: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says one in three children in Gaza did not eat at all during the past 24 hours due to severe food shortages caused by Israel’s crippling blockade. Many have been forced into child labour or begging to survive.
UN: ISRAEL STRIKES GAZA EVERY 8-9 MINUTES: UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference that “Israeli forces have stepped up their operations over the past 24 hours, with devastating consequences for civilians. On average, this meant an airstrike every eight or nine minutes.”
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UN still facing Israeli ‘obstacles, impediments’ to delivering much-needed aid in Gaza
UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher has reiterated that Palestinians in famine-struck Gaza are starving. “We’re still facing these terrible obstacles, impediments to delivering aid, coming from the Israeli authorities,” Fletcher told Al Jazeera.
While there have been cases of looting on the ground by “desperate, starving, civilians”, the majority of aid trucks are still being blocked from entering the Strip. That contradicts Netanyahu’s comments earlier at the UN, implying that Israel was not starving Gaza, but instead feeding the people of the Palestinian enclave.
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“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces… This is the last thing we wanted.”
We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.https://t.co/rhCiKAirbo
— MSF International (@MSF) September 26, 2025
Hamas is willing to step away from ruling Gaza, but is inseparable from Palestinians
GAZA HEADLINES:
‘Psychological warfare’: Netanyahu orders loudspeakers into Gaza to blast UN speech
NETANYAHU AT UNTED NATIONS:
WASHINGTON POST: Netanyahu tells UN that war will continue amid global backlash
Over 100 diplomats from more than 50 countries staged a mass walkout as Netanyahu entered the assembly hall, crowding into aisles to file out through the room’s exits. Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s supporters cheered the prime minister from the assembly room’s upper gallery, and some broke out into song.
Much of Netanyahu’s speech lashed out against Israel’s critics in Western governments and the media that have decried the enormous death toll in Gaza and widespread accounts of starvation, which Netanyahu called “libelous lies” fueled by “antisemitism*.”
Netanyahu blasted efforts to recognize a Palestinian state, which he said he would never allow to happen. “Israel will not allow you to shove a terror state down our throats,” he said (continue reading here).
*NOTE: Actual antisemitism is not as prevalent as Netanyahu would like us to think. A large portion of what he calls antisemitism is simply criticism of Israel, the self-proclaimed “Jewish State,” in other words, opposition to Zionism.
RELATED: Netanyahu’s UN Speech Targeted Two Audiences Only: His Right-wing Base in Israel and Donald Trump
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‘Arrest Netanyahu’: Israeli PM gets a New York welcome outside the UN
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a half-empty room at the UN General Assembly, thousands of protesters were gathered in Times Square to condemn his presence in New York City.
Netanyahu was issued an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in November 2024, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Gaza since October 2023.
Towards the end of the “Arrest Netanyahu” protest, Colombian President Gustavo Petro and English musician Roger Waters joined in on the protest.
The last time Netanyahu was in New York, in September of last year, he reportedly approved the pager attacks in Lebanon from his hotel in Manhattan. Dozens of Lebanese were killed, and over 3,000 were injured.
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS & HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this. For information on the significance of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, read this and this.)
UN reports 43% surge in foreign firms ‘illegally operating’ in West Bank settlements since 2023
“The UN Human Rights Office issued an update to our database of businesses involved in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank,” UN spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said on 26 September.
“The database lists a total of 158 business enterprises from 11 countries. The report was mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, and today’s release updates the database that was first issued in 2020, then updated in 2023,” the spokesperson added.
Shamdasani revealed that “a total of 68 new companies were added to the list published in 2023, while seven of those listed in 2023 were removed as they were no longer involved in any of the activities concerned” (continue reading here).
The firms include travel businesses Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, and TripAdvisor, as well as the US tech company Motorola Solutions (see the full UN report with the list here).
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Israeli Army Abducts 26 Palestinians, Injures 2 In West Bank
Army Shoots a Child Near Bethlehem, Detains Dozens Near Ramallah
ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil and contradictions within the country. Often, our news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
UEFA set to vote on suspending Israel’s membership over Gaza war
The European football body UEFA is reportedly preparing to vote on suspending Israel’s membership because of the war in Gaza. This comes two weeks before Israel is due to resume its qualifying matches for the 2026 World Cup.
Sources told the agency that “a majority of UEFA’s 20-member executive committee is expected to support any vote in favor of suspending Israeli teams from international play. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.
It remains unclear whether world soccer body FIFA would support such a move. Questions have been raised because of the close ties between FIFA president Gianni Infantino and US president Donald Trump.
ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Israeli raids hit east Lebanon ahead of first anniversary of Nasrallah assassination
Death toll in Israeli strikes on Yemeni capital rises to 9, say Houthis
WHAT ISRAELIS ARE READING:
Netanyahu’s Shticky UN Speech Will Be Forgotten. His Grotesque Theatrics Will Not
Netanyahu Declares a Spartan Israel – and Then Runs to Trump Begging for Cover
Arrest warrant for Bashar Assad shows Syrian courts’ accountability, but can it be enforced?
After Trump rejects West Bank annexation, right-wing MKs urge PM to do it anyway
FLOTILLA NEWS:
(Read about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2025 missions here and here; learn about the deadly mission in 2010 here; and find out about the global flotilla here. Get live updates on the Global Flotilla from Al Jazeera here.)
Greece backs aid flotilla to Gaza with naval ship providing safe passage
A Greek naval warship has reached the Global Sumud Flotilla to guarantee the safe sailing of the boats currently in its waters, Greece’s Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis has said.
Gerapetritis said Athens has informed Israel that Greek citizens are among the dozens of activists on board the flotilla. Italy and Spain also dispatched naval vessels to support the aid boats after repeated attacks, including a drone attack early on Wednesday.
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UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY AIRCRAFT FLY OVER GAZA AID FLOTILLA FOR 2ND TIME IN A WEEK: The Gaza-bound Global Sumud flotilla’s Maghreb branch said Friday for the second time this week, the flotilla witnessed unidentified military aircraft flying at low altitude over its ships while in Greek territorial waters.”
FLOTILLA HEADLINES:
Gaza flotilla: The tide of defiance against Israel is now an unbreakable wave
Is Egypt blocking its own Sumud Flotilla from sailing to Gaza?
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
US to revoke Colombian president’s visa over Gaza comments
The US State Department said it would revoke Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s visa for his “reckless and incendiary actions” after he took to New York’s streets on Friday in a pro-Palestinian demonstration and urged US soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump’s orders.
Petro, addressing a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters outside the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, called for a global armed force with the priority to liberate Palestinians, adding, “This force has to be bigger than that of the United States.”
“That’s why from here, from New York, I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity,” Petro said in Spanish (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES:
Over 40 percent of US citizens believe backing Israel ‘not in national interest’: Poll
Starbucks to shut down hundreds of stores amid global boycott
NYC mayor meets Netanyahu, Dem candidate Mamdani blasts ‘genocide’
How pro-Israel money captured Starmer’s Labour Party
Dockworkers from across Europe gather to plan trade squeeze on Israel
From docks to cities, Italians challenge Meloni’s complicity in Gaza genocide
Germany’s arms exports to Israel drop to zero after partial restrictions imposed
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Civilian injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds
Israeli Forces Assassinate Two Palestinians Near Tubas
Support for Israel in U.S. Drops Sharply, Netanyahu Unpopular, New Poll Shows
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – SEPTEMBER 26, 2025*:
- At least 66,973 Palestinians killed, 177,783 injured – including:
- at least 65,926* killed in Gaza (~20,000 children)
- at least 1,047 killed in the West Bank (~212 children)
- at least 167,783 injured in Gaza
- more than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
- at least 442 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 147 children
At least 2,560 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
*NOTE: 300 martyrs have been added to the cumulative martyr statistics, whose data has been completed and approved by the Judicial Committee following up on the Reports and Missing Persons file.
Since the Israeli army unilaterally broke the January ceasefire on March 18, 2025, it has killed at least 13,060 people. 64 Israeli soldiers (most recent Sept. 24) have been killed during the same time period.
*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble. Additionally, the numbers of injured and starved are very conservative estimates.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 26, 2025: ~1,657 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 466 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, about 52 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 268 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 203 and 322 Palestinian journalists killed – depending on the criteria used).
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
- Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
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