News roundup for Wednesday, September 9, 2026, Day 1,070 since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people.
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM GAZA:
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.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The number of Palestinians being killed in Gaza is lower since the October 2025 “ceasefire” began, over 320 days ago – about 4 per day, vs. over 100 per day during the 733 days of the “war.” But Israel is actively working (with Trump’s “Board of Peace“) to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinian population, even as the low-level killing continues. Genocide experts, along with organizations like the United Nations and Amnesty International, maintain that the genocide is ongoing.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said seven bodies arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the previous twenty-four hours: two Palestinians killed in new attacks, one who died from earlier wounds, and four whose bodies were recovered.
‘Is it safe to have a child?’: How Israel’s war is reshaping fertility, pregnancy and parenthood in Gaza: Israel’s genocide is forcing women in Gaza to rethink pregnancy and family size as displacement, hunger, trauma and healthcare collapse reshape their dreams.
Gaza resumes secondary exams after two-year disruption and extensive damage to schools
GAZA DEATH TOLL (tentative) since “ceasefire” began Oct. 11, 2025:
- 1,358 (35% of those killed, 49% of those wounded were children, women, and the elderly)
- 5 Israeli soldiers – one by friendly fire, and four others in incidents during the first three weeks of the ceasefire.
- More statistics below
💢 “Who told you that the war had stopped?”: Israeli strikes hit homes across northern, central and southern Gaza
An Israeli strike hit a house belonging to the Al-Masri family in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, after the family was ordered to evacuate.
“They called… pic.twitter.com/rX5tSNJQRi
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) September 9, 2026
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM:
Every day, Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem endure dozens of incidents like the ones below, at the hands of Israeli soldiers and/or settlers. 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.)
Israel has cut off water to 47 Palestinian families in the northern West Bank: Since Israel severed the water lines feeding Ras al-Ahmar over a month ago, its 47 farming families have been rationing what little they have and weighing whether to sell their livestock and leave.
RELATED: West Bank: Israel-Backed Settler Violence Drives Displacement
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Wednesday announced plans for 1,000 new settlement housing units in the northern occupied West Bank, a day after 12 Western countries said they intended to impose trade restrictions on goods from illegal Israeli settlements.
Israeli forces arrest 20 Palestinians, including 2 children, in occupied West Bank
Smotrich says Israel demolished 35 Palestinian structures in northern West Bank
West Bank Invasions, Abductions, and Demolitions
Israeli military court sentences Palestinian journalist to 4 years for ‘incitement’
DEATH TOLL SINCE OCT. 7, 2023 – WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM (tentative):
Under the E1 plan, Israel demolished Palestinian shops to make an Israeli-only road between the illegal Ma’ale Adumim settlement and Jerusalem.
E1 will displace 4,000 Palestinians to build settler homes and cut the West Bank in two.
Al Jazeera’s Leila Warah reports. pic.twitter.com/0baU7FXiz0
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) September 7, 2026
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAEL:
Israel is a tiny country, about the size of New Jersey, with a population smaller than the US state of Georgia – about 10 million (of which about 20 percent are Palestinians), yet it is in the news constantly. As has been demonstrated again and again, however, mainstream media rarely covers Israel news accurately. IAK gets the facts – sometimes from Israeli media sites, where we can get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions, and that receives $63 million a day from America.
ISRAELI MEDIA: ‘Baby, an Update: He’s Just Died’: Israeli Prison Guards’ Texts Expose a Routine of Abuse
‘Judaize medicine’: Palestinian doctors are under attack in Israel: Israeli politicians and pundits want Arabic driven from hospital wards in a country where Palestinian citizens make up a quarter of doctors.
‘Kahanist’ figure poised to enter Israeli parliament on Ben Gvir’s party list: Tzachi Eliyahu, who wears a tattoo of the banned Kach movement, secures eighth place on Otzma Yehudit’s party list ahead of October elections.
*NOTE: Meir Kahane, born Martin Kahane in Brooklyn in 1932, was an Orthodox rabbi who espoused a virulently racist ideology, founding a violent Jewish extremist movement and fascist political party (labeled terrorist organizations in the US) in Israel. Itamar Ben Gvir has been an open follower of Kahane for years – but Eliyahu appears to be even more extreme. Read more about Kahane here, and Ben Gvir here.
Israeli army conducts military exercises near borders with Egypt, Jordan
IRAN, LEBANON, & SYRIA – NEWS & HEADLINES:
IRAN
It can not be overemphasized that Israel is the impetus behind US policies and actions vis-a-vis Iran. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing the US to attack Iran for decades, using lies and deception. Under President Trump, he got his wish.
Iranian forces reportedly launched a massive missile attack on US assets in Jordan early on 9 September, while also targeting multiple oil tankers as well as warships belonging to Washington.
What is Jordan’s Al-Azraq base and why is Iran targeting it?
The conflict with Iran could continue for years, senior White House advisers privately warned Trump, potentially lasting through the remainder of his term, according to a report Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal.
LEBANON
Israel has invaded Lebanon seven times in the last half century. Between 1978 and 2000, Israel maintained an 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon — Hezbollah was formed to fight that occupation.
One person was killed Wednesday in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon, according to a medical source.
Lebanese army: Nearly 7,700 Israeli violations since framework agreement signed on 26 June
SYRIA
Although Israel is not at war with Syria, the Israeli army has reportedly carried out over 1,600 violations inside Syrian territory since August 2025, and demanded the demilitarization of southern Syria – but also vowed to permanently occupy some areas.
Syria condemns Netanyahu’s ‘illegal entry’ into occupied Syrian territory:
Syria on Wednesday condemned Israeli PM Netanyahu’s entry into occupied Syrian territory, calling the move a “provocative” violation of its sovereignty and international law. Netanyahu visited the Israeli-occupied area of Mount Hermon earlier in the day alongside Defense Minister Israel Katz. Damascus urges halt to Israeli incursions and return to 1974 disengagement deal.
During the visit, Netanyahu claimed Israel had established unprecedented “absolute control” over the area stretching from Mount Hermon toward the Yarmouk River.
Israeli forces shell village in Syria’s Quneitra governorate
DEATH TOLL – WARS ON IRAN & LEBANON (tentative):
- United States: 18 since Feb. 28, 2026
- Iran: at least 3,636 since Feb. 28, 2026
- Lebanon: at least 4,381 people since March 2, 2026
- Arab states: at least 154 (including Palestine, excluding Lebanon)
- Israel: at least 60 people (Iran killed 20 civilians; Hezbollah killed 40 soldiers, 4 civilians)
MORE NEWS & HEADLINES
Trump allies push ‘Israel First’ retaliation against UK at Americans’ expense: Prominent American Zionist commentator and ally of President Donald Trump, Mark Levin has called on nearly 40 US states to retaliate against Britain using controversial anti-BDS laws, raising fresh questions over the willingness of Israel’s most vocal supporters to impose economic and constitutional costs on Americans in defense of a foreign state.
CUNY Discloses Investments in Israeli Apartheid After Years-Long Campaign: CUNY has direct investments in weapons manufacturers enabling Israel’s genocide, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Democratic lawmakers urge US to follow UK’s lead on Israeli settlement sanctions: Lawmaker calls settlement expansion ‘an ugly land grab carried out through violence and terrorism.’
‘It’s a good start’: prominent Israelis welcome UK sanctions on illegal settlements: Ed Miliband’s intervention was ‘inevitable’ after Israeli government and security failures, say former ministers and diplomats (original story: see SPECIAL FOCUS ON UK here).
Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements: Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence.
United Airlines Ships War Materiel to Israel Aboard Passenger Flights: The unfriendly skies: On United, your checked bags might be riding alongside some tank parts bound for Israel, enabling the commission of war crimes.
Thousands protest in Ljubljana as Slovenia opens Israel’s first embassy
Tunisian flotilla activists remain jailed as hunger striker worsens: The four have been held since March in a financial investigation linked to organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
ICYMI, A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israel starved Gaza. Now doctors fear it has permanently damaged a generation
Israeli Army Kills Palestinian During Home Siege Near Nablus
Israeli opposition leaders demand state inquiry after report Netanyahu ignored pre-Oct. 7 warning
Israeli violations in Syria may amount to war crimes: UN inquiry
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – SEPTEMBER 9, 2026*:
- At least 74,871 Palestinians killed, 187,652 injured – including:
- Gaza: at least 73,669 killed (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls), 174,652 injured.
- West Bank/East Jerusalem: at least 1,202 killed (~251 children), 13,000 injured
*NOTE: Thousands of remains in Gaza have yet to be identified, and as many as 15,000 more are still buried under rubble; others are reportedly missing.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 9, 2026: ~1,663 – including ~1,139** on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 472 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, about 52 military and civilians (by one count, there have been 59 victims) in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel (these numbers do not include deaths from the conflicts with Lebanon or Iran).
**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)
- ISRAELI MEDIA: Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn’t Brief Israel’s Security Chiefs
- “Israel is a wonderful, safe place,” according to this totally objective expert
- The UK just announced it will comply with Int’l Court of Justice ruling from 2024. What does the ICJ ruling require states to do?
- Israel’s Quadcopter Drones Have Become a Weapon of Everyday Killing in Gaza
- Israel’s grip on American politics is finally being questioned
- Photos: Palestinians rebuild Gaza’s ruins with mud bricks, scrap
- Front Row At the Revolution: Angry Americans are demanding liberation from the Israeli yoke
- Evangelical Zionist Huckabee attacks Jewish Ed Miliband, accuses UK government of ‘Jew hate’
- Macklemore Responds to Backlash Over “Free Palestine” Plea: “Wanting All Humans to Be Treated Equal Should Never Be Controversial”
- Massie, Kent join ex-officials lighting up Ron Paul ‘revolution’
- How the Oxford Union Censored author Susan Abulhawa
- The Keeper’s Daughter: In Defense of Rula Jebreal
- Gaza Education Crisis Deepens Amid Israeli Destruction, Violations
- Liberal Zionists Are Evil S***Bags
