15-09-2025
DOHA/ GAZA: Artillery shelling and gunfire by Israeli forces reported in Gaza City, as well as shelling from boats.
Israel continues demolishing buildings across Gaza.
Qatar is hosting a summit of Arab and Muslim leaders on Sunday and Monday to plot a course of action after Israel’s “cowardly” attack on Doha.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States is “not happy” about Israel’s air strikes on Hamas in Qatar, but it will not change Washington’s allied status with Israel.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 64,803 people and wounded 164,264 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 taken captive.
The administration at al-Aqsa Hospital is reporting that six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Amid the ongoing bombardment of Gaza, the Israeli army continues to ramp up its attacks on Palestinians across the occupied West Bank.
The escalation comes as Netanyahu advances an illegal settlement expansion plan that would all but eliminate the possibility of a Palestinian state.
Israeli forces stormed Kafr Ra’i, southern Jenin.
The Israeli military arrested a Palestinian student, Baraa Jamal Karama, from her home in Hebron.
Israeli soldiers opened fire on homes during a raid on Arroub camp, north of Hebron.
Israeli soldiers brutally assaulted a group of Palestinian youth as they stormed the town of Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah. Soldiers are reported to have beaten and shouted at a number of young men after forcing them to leave a shop in the town before detaining them.
Qatar will host an emergency Arab-Islamic summit today in response to the recent Israeli attack in its territory.
Majed bin Mohammed Al-Ansari, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, told Qatar News Agency (QNA) that “the summit will discuss a draft resolution on the Israeli attack on the State of Qatar, submitted by the preparatory meeting of Arab and Islamic foreign ministers”.
He stressed that convening the summit at this moment “has its significance,” foremost of which is demonstrating “the broad Arab and Islamic solidarity with the State of Qatar”.
Israel targeted a residential compound in Doha on Tuesday that was housing Hamas leaders. The attack killed five Hamas members and a Qatari security official, who were discussing a new deal proposed by the US to end the war on Gaza.
Stay with us as we bring you all the latest updates from the event today and tomorrow.
The US is surely going to do some damage control, saying that the strikes on Doha are not going to change the relationship with Israel but some conversations will need to be had, as Trump is not happy, according to the Marco Rubio.
So, they’re now trying to see how they can move forward because reports within Israeli media are signaling that this strike was unsuccessful.
However, Netanyahu is still vowing that this may not be an isolated incident, despite American promises that it won’t happen again but that’s not the only thing they’re going to talk about. While it might take up the majority of the conversation, there will also be discussion about annexing the occupied West Bank. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)