09-09-2025
GAZA CITY: Israeli forces continue to bombard Gaza, killing at least 17 people in overnight strikes on a school, tents and a home.
Families and supporters of Israeli captives take to the streets, demanding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sign a deal to secure the release of their loved ones.
Thousands of protesters rally in London calling for an end to the ban on the campaign group Palestine Action.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 64,368 people and wounded 162,367 others since October 2023. Thousands more are believed to be under the rubble. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.
Israeli forces have arrested seven more Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency is reporting.
In Ramallah, Israeli forces raided a home and arrested a husband and wife, while in Hebron, two Palestinian men were arrested in raids at separate locations.
In Jenin governorate, a woman was arrested following an Israeli raid on her home in the village of Kufeirit. Two more people were arrested in Jenin, and the town of al-Yamoun.
Israeli forces in Gaza City have destroyed high-rise buildings and homes, leaving Palestinians who had very little to now having nothing.
One woman told media that she was living in a tent after being displaced from Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza following an Israeli forced evacuation threat but “then they bombed a tower and the tent was completely destroyed. Now we no longer have a tent, and I have no money at all to get another one,” she said.
With the ongoing intense attacks, some Palestinians living in high-rise buildings are leaving for so-called safe zones in southern Gaza. Others refuse to do so.
Mustafa al-Jamal, a resident in Gaza City, told media that he read in the evacuation leaflets that residents should move to the southern area of al-Mawasi but “when people go there the bombing begins”.
“Where can we go? We have no money, no tents, no house, no food, I have 15 family members, where am I supposed to take them,” he said.
Israeli forces arrested three people from the Bethlehem governorate in the occupied West Bank.
Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces stormed the Handaza area in the east of the governorate and arrested Habib Salah Issa Qassem, 40, and Firas Ibrahim Ali Beit Rashid, 39.
In the western village of Husan, Israeli forces arrested 18-year-old Salah Nabil Muhammad Al-Shaer from the Al-Matina area.
At the same time, Israeli settlers stole a number of sheep belonging to resident Nazir Shalalda in the village of Al-Minya, east of the city.
The Israeli military has bombed another residential high-rise in Gaza City as it pushes ahead with an offensive to seize the urban centre and displace one million people to concentration zones in the south of the Strip.
It bombed the 15-storey Soussi Tower, located opposite a building belonging to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, after telling residents of the area to flee.
The assault is making the city uninhabitable.
According to medical sources, the toll includes six people who were killed after Israeli forces bombed a school-turned-shelter housing displaced people west of Gaza City. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)