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18-10-2025
GAZA STRIP: Palestinians in Gaza say they are still desperate for food, water and other necessities of life despite the week-old ceasefire.
An Israeli government agency says the opening of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt for the movement of people will continue to be delayed.
United States President Donald Trump has threatened Hamas, saying, without providing context or evidence, that “if Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them”.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 67,967 people and wounded 170,179 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks and about 200 were taken captive.
Israeli settlers block aid to Gaza
A far-right Israeli group, Tsav 9, is blocking trucks from carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza at the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing.
The group, in a post on X, said its members were “currently obstructing the passage of aid trucks” at multiple points en route to the crossing, which is controlled by Israel.
The group claimed that “Hamas violates the agreement and refuses to return hostages, so aid that enables them to rebuild must be halted,” adding; “no aid truck will pass until the last dead is returned.”
The Israeli extremist group posted a video showing its members blocking an aid truck from passing.
Tsav 9 repeatedly disrupted aid deliveries to Gaza during the Israeli genocide by blocking roads leading to crossings, staging protests, and in some cases, looting or damaging aid shipments, according to media.
Hamas has released 20 living Israeli captives and handed over the remains of 10 more captives in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under the ceasefire agreement. The Palestinian group has said it is working to recover the remaining bodies of Israeli captives.
Wafa news agency, quoting the Palestine Red Crescent, reports that a 24-year-old man was taken to hospital in Nablus after being beaten by Israeli settlers on his land outside the town of Sebastia.
Elsewhere, in Silwad, north of Ramallah, the Palestinian Ministry of Health says five people were injured to varying degrees after being assaulted by settlers?
However, Hamas’s armed wing said that after its fighters returned from the front lines, they confirmed the “detonation of an antitank explosive device in a Hummer vehicle, killing and wounding enemy soldiers in the Qizan an-Najjar area”. It did not specify when this attack took place.
Friends, families and the Israeli public attended the funeral procession of slain captive Inbar Hayman. The UN World Food Program said it has brought an average of 560 tonnes of food per day into Gaza since the ceasefire began but the amount is still below what is needed. The UN agency said it has enough food to feed all of Gaza for three months.
Israeli soldiers raided the home of former prisoner Yousef Abdel Halim Daoud in the village of Deir Ghassana in the northwest of Ramallah.
UK media regulator Ofcom said; how to survive a Warzone, narrated by 13-year-old Abdullah al-Yazouri, broke broadcasting rules.
The Rafah crossing is a strategic element for Netanyahu, says Andrea Dessi, an assistant professor in international relations at the American University of Rome.
“Israel has no intention … at the time being, of really reopening the crossing and, let alone allowing the Palestinian Authority to return to man the crossing on the Palestinian side,” Dessi told media, speaking from Rome, Italy. (Int’l News Desk)
