Israel-Hamas war October 2023
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Gaza residents build seawalls from discarded materials
Residents of al-Mawasi camp engineered a solution to generate electricity.
The war on Gaza has destroyed reliable power sources.
Palestinians in Gaza have made wind turbines to generate electricity using scraps found in the rubble of destroyed buildings.
Lebanese civilians stock up and prepare amid fears of new Israeli escalation
Jad Dilati, a Lebanese analyst from Nabatieh, said some families have continued to pay rent for apartments in other parts of Lebanon to secure alternative accommodation in case another war breaks out.
Israel has occupied up to 10 kilometres of territory in southern Lebanon and established a so-called 'Yellow Line'.
Hezbollah and Israel have been at war since October 2023.
Families face winter in tents on the beach in Gaza
Gaza's Winter Emergency Committee warns that Israeli authorities continue to prevent the entry of tents, caravans, critical construction materials, and fuel into the Gaza Strip.
Anas al-Shami, 33, is living in a tent near al-Qarara port on Gaza's coast with his family of six after being displaced from their home in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis.
Approximately 7,800 tents are located in extremely hazardous areas including dry riverbeds, rainwater collection ponds, and beaches exposed to winter waves, according to the committee.
Israel extends detention of Palestinian journalist Abed Abou Shhadeh
Abou Shhadeh hosts the al-Midan podcast for the Arab48 website.
An Israeli court has extended the detention of Palestinian journalist and political activist Abed Abou Shhadeh who was arrested this week.
Israeli media reported that Abou Shhadeh was arrested after taking part in an interview in Qatar with the Palestinian intellectual Azmi Bishara.
Former Israeli generals help Palestinian olive farmers
A group of former Israeli military generals offered their help to Palestinian olive farmers in the occupied West Bank.
The generals spoke out about their frustration at Israeli settler violence against Palestinians harvesting their olives.
Four people including a child killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
An Israeli drone struck a gathering of residents in the al-Baraka area of Deir el-Balah, wounding several people, one critically.
The overall toll since October 2023 is 74,618 killed and 175,920 wounded, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
Gaza's Government Media Office said Israel had committed 5,989 ceasefire violations since the truce began.
Israel restricting treatment for 1,100 child amputees in Gaza, NGO reports
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor accused Israel of war crimes.
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor claimed that Israel is restricting child amputees in Gaza from seeking treatment abroad.
The World Health Organization said 2,300 amputees, both children and adults, were assessed for treatment between September 2024 and May 2026.
Al Jazeera journalist recounts arrest during Israeli raid on his home
Israeli forces raided Montaser Nassar's home in Dura, south of Hebron.
Montaser Nassar said Israeli forces assaulted his wife during the raid.
Montaser Nassar said the raid was intended to intimidate the city's residents.
Israeli forces kill four in Gaza
Nickolay Mladenov arrived in Israel on Monday to seek permission to bring in tents and push for steps to accelerate reconstruction.
Three Palestinians were wounded when a minibus belonging to a community kitchen was hit in Zeitoun.
A third person was killed in a drone attack on the central al-Musaddar area.
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill eight including child
The Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 killed about 1,200 people and 251 were taken hostage.
A drone attack in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis killed five police officers.
A missile attack in Gaza City's Al-Rimal neighbourhood near Cairo School killed three people, including a four-year-old boy.
“My son and his child were martyred. They were sitting in their tent, bothering no one, and nothing else was happening in the area when suddenly, a missile struck them, and they were martyred,”
Lebanon charges 13 over confiscated Hezbollah explosives
Five of those charged have been identified only by nicknames because their real names are unknown.
Israel has continued carrying out attacks in southern Lebanon and demolishing homes and infrastructure in villages it occupies.
Hezbollah asked Lebanese authorities to return the shipment and release the two detainees, calling the charges against them unjust.
Gaza's children face danger on way to school
Suad Abd Rabbo, a fourth-grade student, was shot above the knee on October 21 while going to school.
Five students were injured, some critically, in an attack on the Islamic University campus in Gaza City.
Suad Abd Rabbo needs surgery abroad to fully recover, but Israel tightly controls exit and entry from Gaza.
“We are living in fear. When I go out into the streets, I swear I am afraid. Even when I am walking or sitting in a car, my heart is filled with fear … Why should our children have to live with this constant fear and anxiety, even until the last moment?”
At least four Palestinians killed in Gaza as Israeli attacks continue
The OHCHR warned on Friday that Israeli forces in Gaza were continuing to displace Palestinians and that their actions raised concerns of ethnic cleansing.
Israel maintains it will not leave Gaza until Hamas forfeits its weapons.
At least four Palestinians were killed in Gaza as Israeli attacks continued on Saturday.
UN raises ethnic cleansing fears as Israel squeezes space in Gaza
OHCHR said Israeli forces appear to treat the Yellow Line as a kill zone, preventing Palestinians from returning to their homes on the other side.
Ajith Sunghay, head of OHCHR in occupied Palestine, described the displacement in Gaza as both acute and chronic.
Since the war began in October 2023, Israeli attacks have killed at least 74,570 people and wounded 175,808 others, according to the article.
Israeli strikes hit Gaza as Health Ministry urges Rafah opening
Four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike in the al-Mawasi area of Rafah on Thursday morning.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that six Palestinians had been killed and 38 wounded over the previous 24 hours.
Abu Amra said Israeli forces stationed along the edges of the “Yellow Line” have begun firing directly at tents sheltering displaced families in the Halawa camp.
Israel tightens Al-Aqsa bans for Palestinians
Al-Natsheh said Israeli police handed him a six-month exclusion order barring him from East Jerusalem's Old City and that no specific charge was brought against him.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center says Israeli authorities have issued more than 1,000 exclusion orders barring Palestinians from Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City since the beginning of 2026.
Sabri was first detained by Israeli police in August 2024 over a sermon mourning Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Israeli soldier visiting UK faces war crimes complaint
Khaled al-Shouli is an international lawyer registered with the Jordanian Bar Association who represents Palestinian victims before the International Criminal Court.
The Hind Rajab Foundation is based in Brussels.
The foundation filed a criminal complaint in Poland against a state-owned TNT producer.
“That arrest matters beyond the two individuals involved. It demonstrated that universal jurisdiction is not a theoretical instrument but one that puts suspects in a police station within hours, and the Belgian federal prosecutor has since referred the case onward to the International Criminal Court,”
Gaza families brace for fourth winter of floods in camps
Israel's war on Gaza began in October 2023.
About 30 members of Mohammed al-Jamal's extended family live in the displacement camp.
Khitam Salman is 39 years old and is originally from Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
“We follow the weather reports, and whenever there is a warning of a storm, we start preparing. But once the storm comes, everything gets torn apart, and we have to start all over again. It is continuous suffering throughout the winter.”
Israeli air strike on Gaza City university campus
UNESCO reports that nearly 95 percent of Gaza's higher education campuses have been destroyed or damaged since October 2023.
Two people were killed as a result of Israeli shelling in al-Mawasi in Khan Younis.
One of the injured female students was seriously injured and transferred to a nearby field hospital.
Severe hunger in Gaza as bakeries close
Bakeries across Gaza are struggling to find flour to make bread.
Families in Gaza are queuing for dwindling food supplies.
Aid agencies in Gaza are unable to provide basic supplies due to a lack of funds.
Battling breast cancer in Gaza (Al Jazeera feature)
Al Jazeera spoke to breast cancer patient Hiba Musbah.
Hiba Musbah is a breast cancer patient.
The campaign aims to educate and support women with breast cancer in Gaza.
Israeli attacks kill four as famine risk looms in Gaza
Israeli attacks across Gaza killed four Palestinians, including a child, in the past 24 hours.
Israeli authorities suspended commercial goods deliveries to Gaza on October 13.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor warned that Gaza could face another famine as Israeli restrictions on incoming goods leave residents struggling to obtain food.
“I kept thinking about ordinary women who don’t have the medical knowledge or connections that I have. If it was this difficult for me, how much harder must it be for them?”
Jerusalem Daily roundup: half a million Palestinians lose food aid
Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly moves to sideline Bezalel Smotrich.
Al Jazeera's Marah Rayan reported on this event.
Funding shortages threaten food aid for half a million people in Gaza.
Italy probes Israel's Katz over abuse and sexual assault of flotilla activists
Prosecutors held talks at Eurojust, the EU’s judicial cooperation agency, as other similar investigations are under way in other European countries.
Israeli forces began intercepting the second mission's vessels near the southern Greek island of Crete on April 30.
Activists on the second mission in 2026 reported beatings in the dark and the use of tasers and rubber bullets.
Gaza malnutrition and starvation at catastrophic levels
A UNICEF report stated that a scaled-up food and nutrition response helped avert a prolonged famine after it was declared in August 2025.
More than 1.4 million Palestinians are projected to face crisis-level food insecurity or worse through the end of 2026.
UNICEF stated that gains in tackling Gaza’s hunger crisis were fragile and could worsen due to the disruption of supplies entering the Strip.
Iran's president condemns environmental impact of Middle East war
A UN biodiversity summit was held in Armenia.
Masoud Pezeshkian called for international solutions while addressing leaders at a UN biodiversity summit in Armenia.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian decried the ecological damage caused by conflict in the Middle East, calling it "environmental genocide."
Palestinian man left alone in Gaza after family killed
A ceasefire was announced for Gaza in October 2025.
Mahmoud Khalla left his home shortly before the strike to search for food and is the only survivor of his family.
Mahmoud Khalla began recovering the remains of his family members himself around May 2026, a process that took three months.
BBC Verify: hundreds of IDF investigations into killings have no public outcome
The IDF published a report in August detailing internal probes into five incidents, including the killings of Hind Rajab and 15 Palestinian emergency workers, which it said had been escalated to criminal investigations.
Israeli forces reportedly killed 16-year-old Lujain Musleh during an Israeli operation just outside of Jenin in September 2024.
Freedom of Information data obtained by Yesh Din showed that between October 2023 and August 2024, at least 1,456 Gaza-related incidents were referred to the FFAM.
Israeli ad-tech firm helped place spyware on Al Jazeera devices
Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the spyware attacks targeting a number of its staff.
Candiru is an Israeli spyware firm that was blacklisted by the United States government in 2021 for malicious cyber activities.
Israeli advertising technology company Discover-Tech helped place spyware on dozens of devices used by Al Jazeera and other companies.
Delegates walk out as Israeli president addresses summit
Officials from more than 10 countries walked out during an address by Israeli President Isaac Herzog at a summit in Azerbaijan.
Delegations from Turkey, Pakistan, Kuwait, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Iran were among those reported to have left the hall during the address.
The summit where the walkout occurred was a CICA event.
Mother's touch helps premature babies grow strong in Gaza
Rania Fadel gave birth to twin boys on September 25.
By November 2024, the number of available incubators in Gaza had fallen to about 54.
Linda Abu Nasira lives in a tent in al-Mawasi in Khan Younis.
“It can help babies grow, gain weight and leave the hospital earlier, but some babies need other interventions, such as respiratory support,”
Israel halts commercial goods from entering Gaza; Hamas denies tax claims
Israel is obliged under a US-mediated agreement to allow a minimum of 600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter Gaza each day.
Nahed Sheheiber said the number of trucks entering Gaza each day was closer to 300, with two-thirds carrying commercial goods.
Israeli authorities say no commercial goods have entered Gaza for two days.
“The Israeli coordinator is claiming that Gaza’s merchants are responsible, but the truth is that the Israelis are the ones who imposed the restrictions.”
Girl rescued from flaming apartment after Israeli attack on Gaza
An Israeli attack struck a building in Gaza City.
The attack occurred in the morning.
The girl was stranded in an apartment engulfed with flames and thick smoke.
Israeli attacks kill one in Gaza, wound journalists in West Bank
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was preparing for a scenario in which Palestinian Authority forces turn their guns against Israel in the West Bank.
A four-year-old boy named Osama Ahmed Abed died in az-Zawayda, central Gaza, of wounds from an Israeli attack three weeks prior.
Israeli forces have seized more territory in Gaza rather than withdrawing further as planned.
Suspected Israeli online operations cause alarm in Iran and Lebanon
The Instagram account's profile features pinned highlight reels with Arabic titles including 'Lebanon', 'Israel', 'Mossad wants you!', 'Protection', and 'Think about your future'.
In December 2025, L'Orient Today reported that Lebanon's security agency had warned residents against interacting with a social media page calling itself 'Unit 504'.
Former Israeli Energy Minister Gonen Segev was arrested in 2018 on accusations of spying for Iran, pled guilty, and was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2019.
Jerusalem Daily roundup, October 14, 2026
Netanyahu's opposition dismissed his warning of a planned attack as political tactics.
Netanyahu warned that Israel's enemies are planning an attack before elections.
The UN demanded Israel do more to stop settler violence against Palestinian farmers.
Israeli air strike kills Palestinian woman in Gaza City
An Israeli air strike on an apartment block in Gaza killed a woman and wounded two other people, according to hospital officials.
Reem Asaad Awad, 33, was killed in the attack early on Wednesday in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Israel has killed 1,501 Palestinians in Gaza since it agreed a “ceasefire” with Hamas last October.
Air France says it will follow Israeli rule barring crew from some nations
The union Alter persuaded Air France management to forgo asking flight crew members to come forward if they were affected by the directive, stating it would amount to discrimination based on nationality.
The Israeli restrictions list 31 Muslim-majority countries whose nationals are no longer allowed to fly into Israel's airspace.
Clara Gandin said the discriminatory measure could be punishable under French criminal law by up to three years' imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros.
“We received the directive from the Israeli authorities in September 2026. We have carefully reviewed the directive and continue to monitor and comply with all applicable requirements issued by the relevant authorities. At present, the directive does not have any impact on our operations, crew management procedures, or the deployment of crew members on flights to and from Israel,”
Israel's Yellow Line in Gaza advances, displacing residents
Israel now controls about 65 percent of Gaza according to the United Nations, up from 53 percent agreed a year ago.
Israel has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians since the war started in October 2023.
Mahmoud Harzeen, a 35-year-old displaced resident, has moved approximately six times as the Yellow Line advanced.
“About six times – every time the line advanced a little – I would feel that it was dangerous, so I would move back a little and try to live there for a while,”
Israeli strike on tent in Gaza's Khan Younis kills three
Palestinians attended funerals on Monday for those killed in the airstrike.
Three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent in Khan Younis.
The latest strikes come amid mounting tensions over the Gaza ceasefire.
Netanyahu demands probe into sources for Gaza film NAZA
Netanyahu and Culture Minister Miki Zohar have threatened to revoke the Israeli citizenship of NAZA directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
Netanyahu stated that the film NAZA presents a false, misleading, and biased narrative that defames the State of Israel and the Israeli military internationally.
The Israeli military stated that it categorically rejected the whistleblowers’ allegations.
Jerusalem Daily: Palestinians flee Israeli attacks on Gaza
Israeli attacks have forced Palestinians in Gaza to flee.
Al Jazeera's Nour Hegazy reported on these events.
Settler violence is occurring across the occupied West Bank.
Israel pushes 'Yellow Line' deeper into Gaza
Palestinian families were forced to flee under heavy gunfire and shelling.
Israeli forces have pushed their so-called Yellow Line deeper into Gaza.
Doctors demand World Medical Association suspend Israel
The IMA Out! coalition accused the Israeli Medical Association of breaching almost every ethical principle in the WMA's Code of Medical Ethics.
Mejrem Ahmetaj is a general practitioner and member of IMA Out!.
Dr Hussam Abu Safia is the head of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital.
“Our Palestinian colleagues are being killed and imprisoned, where they are starved and tortured. Their hospitals have been destroyed and patients driven out or murdered. The IMA has said and done nothing about these war crimes against health workers, patients and hospitals,”
Thousands march across Europe demanding end to Israel's war on Gaza
Israel’s war in Gaza has killed more than 74,200 Palestinians since October 2023.
In Berlin, about 3,500 people joined a march organised by United for Palestine.
London’s Metropolitan Police made several arrests during the protest.
Protest playbook to vilify Israel on global day of action
The international steering committee for the protests includes former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, and former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams.
Fox News Digital identified 179 organizations in the coalition organizing anti-Israel protests.
CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans joined an anti-Israel protest in New York City where activists from Revolutionary Communists of America chanted, "Long live the intifada."
Israeli air strike hits Gaza apartment, father grieves
More than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed since a ceasefire took effect in October 2025.
The air strike killed several people, including children, as they slept.
An Israeli air strike hit a residential building in Gaza City's al-Sabra neighbourhood.
US charity to use AI to monitor Gaza classrooms
A US charity announced it will use AI software to monitor Gaza classrooms for anti-Semitism and hate speech.
Israeli airstrikes killed Palestinians across the Gaza strip.
Three years after October 7, prolonged war takes toll on Israelis
About 1,200 people died in the October 7 attacks on southern Israel.
Israeli parliamentary data recorded 279 suicide attempts among serving soldiers between January 2024 and July 2025.
UNICEF estimated that 770,000 children in Lebanon have experienced psychological distress.
Gaza school photograph feature story
Aya Adnan's brother Yasser was killed by a missile strike on December 12.
Lina Yunis Abd al-Qader enrolled in medicine at the Islamic University of Gaza on September 10, 2023.
Lina al-Hour was killed in an Israeli air strike on November 17, 2023.
Gaza war's effect on India-Israel relations under Modi
Modi's February visit to Israel appeared as almost a personal favour to Netanyahu by boosting his image as an international statesman, according to Max Rodenbeck of the International Crisis Group.
The European Union announced bloc-wide sanctions against Smotrich and Ben-Gvir in late September 2025.
Rasheed Kidwai is a political analyst in New Delhi.
Al Jazeera Jerusalem Daily roundup: Remembrance and mourning
Thousands protested worldwide in solidarity with Gaza.
A settler pogrom targeted the olive harvest.
Reem Takieddine is an Al Jazeera reporter covering this segment.
Israeli attacks across Gaza kill at least four Palestinians, October 7
Israeli attacks across Gaza killed at least four Palestinians on October 7, 2026.
The body of a 17-year-old Palestinian was brought to Nasser Hospital after he was killed in an Israeli drone strike in the Qizan Abu Rashwan area south of Khan Younis.
A girl was injured by Israeli gunfire directed at displaced Palestinians' tents in the Al-Amal neighbourhood.
Kibbutz destroyed on October 7 grapples with rebuilding
On 7 October, the first Israeli soldiers arrived at Nir Oz approximately 40 minutes after the last Palestinian attackers had left.
Gadi Moses was a co-founder of Nir Oz and the oldest living male hostage released during the Gaza war.
The last living hostages from Nir Oz were returned to Israel on 13 October 2025.
Gaza child's autoimmune condition triggered amid Israel's war
Lana Al-Sharif is 12 years old.
Lana Al-Sharif's autoimmune condition changed her appearance.
Al Jazeera attributes the triggering of Lana Al-Sharif's autoimmune condition to Israel's war on Gaza.
Opinion: Gaza mass killing does not mean Israel is winning
The article states that of the 250 captives taken to Gaza, the Israeli army managed to free just eight and recovered the bodies of another 12.
The article states that the Israeli army's point man for the captives issue said that the captives could have been released a year earlier and some of those who died could have been saved.
The article states that the Israeli army has killed more than 74,000 people and injured more than 180,000 in Gaza.
US military aid to Israel three years into Gaza war
Trump announced plans to sanction the ICC in a February 2025 executive order.
The US has approved at least $33.16 billion in arms transfers to Israel since October 7, 2023, according to an Al Jazeera analysis of State Department notices to Congress.
A ceasefire in Gaza went into effect on October 11, 2025.
Jerusalem Daily roundup (Al Jazeera)
Al Jazeera's Mohammad Saleh reported on these events.
Israelis marked three years in the Jewish calendar since the October 7th attacks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave voters an election ultimatum: vote for him or vote for Palestine.
WMA urged to call for release of detained Palestinian medics
Dr Hussam Abu Safia was the head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza until Israeli forces stormed it in December 2024.
Roughly 90 percent of Gaza's health infrastructure has been destroyed or damaged.
Dr Mohammed Hassan Ali Obeid is a 43-year-old Palestinian orthopaedic surgeon who has been detained under the Unlawful Combatants Law in Israel for more than 600 days without charge.
Gaza mothers seek breastfeeding support amid hunger and siege
Palestinian mothers are finding it increasingly difficult to breastfeed their babies in Gaza.
Women in Gaza strive to nourish their infants.
Women in Gaza suffer malnutrition, displacement and poor healthcare.