Israel has, once again, bombarded Gaza with air strikes, killing over 100 people. And, in a classic case of not reporting the real stories, mainstream media have failed to mention Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial which was due to begin yesterday, October 28. The butcher of Palestine was due to face charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust related to regulatory favours in exchange for expensive gifts. But, the trial was conveniently cut short due to supposed “urgent security developments”.

Shortly afterwards, Netanyahu held a security cabinet session, and decided to renew airstrikes in Gaza, and also to advance plans to expand the “yellow line,” so as to expand the territory which the Israeli occupation controls in Gaza. 

Netanyahu continues genocidal rampage

Following this security consultation, Netanyahu instructed the military to “immediately carry out powerful strikes in the Gaza Strip”, blaming Hamas for allegedly violating the ceasefire agreement.

Of course, Netanyahu has been looking for an excuse to continue the slaughter in Gaza and, according to Israeli media, was yesterday discussing with the White House what to do about Hamas’ failure to, so far, return all the bodies of the Israeli prisoners.

In Phase One of Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’, Hamas was given 72 hours to return the Israeli prisoners – whether dead or alive. But the job of locating these bodies, under 80 million tonnes of rubble, has been almost impossible. Hamas says it remains committed to the ceasefire, and continues to find bodies, but needs help and more time to do so. It says that ‘Israel’ has:

explicitly refused to allow joint teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Palestinian Resistance, to enter several areas in the Gaza Strip to carry out this task. The occupation has also prevented the entry of the necessary heavy equipment to speed up the search for the Israeli bodies, but has also deepened the suffering of Palestinian families looking for their loved ones, by obstructing the recovery of the 10,000 Palestinians still buried under the rubble.

Netanyahu orders ‘powerful strikes’ on the Strip

Several hours before Netanyahu gave orders for “powerful strikes” to hit the people of Gaza, as if they knew what was about to come, Hamas released a statement saying the occupation’s claims that the Resistance has slowed down are “baseless allegations aimed at misleading public opinion.” Instead, Hamas said:

The occupation is seeking to fabricate false pretexts in preparation for taking new aggressive steps against our people, in a flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement.

Netanyahu had apparently not given go ahead for military action against Hamas yesterday. The supposed ‘attack’ on the IOF changed this.

Israeli media says discussions took place between Netanyahu and the White House throughout yesterday, about the course of action to take. They claim that Netanyahu had wanted Trump to give him the go ahead to take military action against Hamas, but this did not happen.

The Israeli occupation then, conveniently, accused Hamas of carrying out an attack on its forces in Rafah. But the group has denied any connection to the incident and says it:

reaffirms its commitment to the ceasefire agreement.

This is the second time in just over a week that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have accused Hamas of launching an attack against them in Rafah. The first time this happened, the IOF lies were exposed, and the same will likely happen again. Rafah, like more than 50 percent of the Strip, is still largely under the control of the IOF and armed gangs backed by the Israeli regime, so the claim about the attack by Hamas is surprising.  

‘Constant state of fear’

Yesterday, before the wave of strikes took place, the Canary asked Palestinian Journalist Ibrahim Khalili how Palestinans are currently feeling about the situation they have been enduring for so long now.

He told us:

Right now, people are living in a state of constant fear and exhaustion. Even though there’s talk about ceasefires or pauses, the bombings haven’t truly stopped. Every night, the sounds of drones and explosions continue. Many families have lost their homes and are struggling to find food clean water or medicine. People are emotionally drained but also resilient. There’s anger, sadness, and disbelief that the world is still watching this happen. Yet at the same time, there’s a strong sense of unity among people. Everyone is helping each other survive, sharing whatever little they have left.

Netanyahu’s order to launch renewed strikes on the enclave comes less than three weeks since the ceasefire was agreed upon. After Israel’s attack killed over 100 Palestinians, Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigade, postponed the handover of any more bodies of Israeli captives until further notice. This includes the two bodies pulled from the rubble yesterday, which were due to be returned later that same day. Unlike Netanyahu, and ‘Israel’, Hamas had been calling for a ceasefire for a long time time, and has nothing to gain from breaking the ceasefire agreement.

Since yesterday evening, intense and heavy bombardment has pounded the Gaza Strip, in clear violation of the ceasefire agreement. Homes, tents sheltering forcibly displaced people, and refugee camps have all been targeted by the IOF.

Areas that were targeted include the Al Sabra neighbourhood of Southern Gaza City, where a drone strike hit the home of the Al- Banna family, killing four Palestinians, and injuring nine more. Several people remain buried under the rubble, with the Civil Defense continuing to work without any of the necessary equipment, trying to rescue them.

More than numbers

Five people were killed when a civilian vehicle was targeted on Al-Qassam Street in Gaza City. The IOF also bombed several homes in Al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip. Children from the Abu Dalal family were murdered, along with their parents and extended family.

Also in Al- Nuseirat Refugee Camp, at dawn this morning, the IOF killed Palestinian Journalist Mohammad Al-Munirawi, along with his wife, after bombing their tent. Munirawi worked for Falesteen News. This brings the total number of journalists killed by the occupation, since October 7, 2023, to 256.

Trump: “Israel’ has a right to hit back

Meanwhile, genocide overseers Donald Trump and US Vice President JD Vance have been downplaying the current situation, and continue to insist “the ceasefire is holding.”

Vance said:

That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes.

That obscene remark stands in stark contrast to the hundreds of lives, each of them entire universes, erased by genocidal Israel. Meanwhile, Trump defended the latest death and destruction in Gaza, claiming the Israeli regime has a right to “hit back” if its troops are attacked, and “nothing” would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement.

As of Midday October 28, the Israeli occupation has systematically violated the ceasefire agreement, committing 125 violations since it came into effect, on October 11. The regime has killed around 95 civilians and injured almost 340. According to the government Media Office, occupation forces have carried out 52 shooting incidents directly targeting civilians, nine incursions by military vehicles into residential areas beyond the “yellow line”, as well as 55 bombardments and attacks and 11 demolitions of civilian buildings, as well as the arrest of 21 citizens in various parts of the Gaza Strip. And yet, Trump warned that it is Hamas who have to “behave.”

Systematic ceasefire violations by Israeli regime

Even though there is a so-called ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza, the Israeli occupation has not stopped its genocide. The bombing and war crimes have continued, and so have ‘Israel’s’ ceasefire violations. The humanitarian situation in Gaza has been rapidly deteriorating as a result.

Before the start of the genocide, an average of 500 aid trucks were entering Gaza daily. Phase One of the stipulations of the ceasefire was for an agreed number of aid trucks to enter the territory unimpeded, every day. This number is widely believed to be around 600, but the Israeli occupation has, yet again, failed to honour the ceasefire commitment, and preventing the majority of the crossings into Gaza from opening.

Between October 11, 2025 – the  date of the ‘ceasefire’ and October 28, before Netanyahu officially launched airstrikes, almost 100 Palestinians had been killed by the Israeli regime, and more than 340 injured. A total of almost 475 bodies had been retrieved.

Hamas is calling on the mediators and guarantors of the ceasefire agreement to

take immediate action to pressure the occupation, curb its brutal escalation against civilians in the Gaza Strip, halt its serious violations of the ceasefire agreement, and compel it to abide by all its terms.

Such a scenario would be a first for Israel.

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By Charlie Jaay

This post was originally published on Canary.

In a bloody escalation that has further shattered any illusion of ceasefire, Israel has carried out an intense night of bombing in Gaza. The Zionists targeted civilian homes and, outrageously, once again bombed tents for displaced people. Over 100 people have been martyred, with many wounded.

As of the 18 October, Gaza’s media office released a blistering statement outlining how Israel has violated the ceasefire 47 times since the deal came into effect:

These violations have included crimes of direct gunfire against civilians, deliberate shelling and targeting, and the arrest of a number of civilians, reflecting the occupation’s continued policy of aggression despite the declared end of the war.

However, mere days since this statement, Israel has carried out further bombing in the Strip. Early on Wednesday 29 October, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said that 104 martyrs had arrived at hospitals in the Strip since the escalation began last night. That includes 46 children and 20 women, along with 253 wounded, including 78 children and 84 women.

Violation upon violation

The ministry said that since the ceasefire agreement was signed on 11 October, the death toll has reached 211 martyrs and 597 injuries, while a total of 482 martyrs have been recovered from under the rubble.

Since the start of the aggression in October 2023, the cumulative number has risen to 68,643 martyrs and 170,655 injuries, according to the ministry’s statistics.

For its part, Hamas confirmed in a statement that it “had no connection to the shooting incident in Rafah.” Israel had claimed that the alleged incident in Rafah was a violation of the agreement. Instead, Hamas called on mediators, foremost among them Egypt, Qatar and the United States, to:

take urgent action to stop the aggression and curb the brutal escalation against civilians.

Field reports indicated that Israeli aircraft bombed tents housing displaced persons and residential homes east of Gaza City, in addition to blowing up a number of buildings, causing widespread destruction, the final toll of which is not yet known.

Halt of prisoner handover

The bombing coincided with an announcement by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, that they had found the body of one of the occupation’s prisoners during search operations in a tunnel south of the Strip, but said they had:

postponed handing it over due to violations by the occupation.

And, they warned that:

continued escalation will lead to the disruption of search operations and the recovery of bodies.

Observers believe that this escalation is part of a series of more than 120 Israeli violations over the past two weeks, including artillery and air strikes and preventing rescue teams from reaching the destroyed areas, amid warnings from humanitarian organisations of an impending disaster as camps, schools and civilian facilities in the besieged Strip continue to be targeted.

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By Alaa Shamali

This post was originally published on Canary.

A new report by Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, titled Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime, details exactly how the Israeli regime has carried out a genocide. Importantly, it also argues that the atrocity has been made possible, and is sustained, by the world’s most powerful countries.

Worlds most powerful countries provide the Israeli regime with bombs, cover and silence.

Albanese writes:

The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a collective crime, sustained by the complicity of influential Third States that have enabled longstanding systemic violations of international law by Israel’. In her report she asks how an entire population could be destroyed while those meant to protect human rights provided the bombs, the cover, and the silence.

Albanese explains that “Israel’s decades-long occupation and its culmination in genocide could not have been carried out without the active participation of other States.” She identifies “four pillars of complicity”- diplomatic protection, military support, economic integration, and humanitarian control- that together form what she calls “the infrastructure of genocide.”

She argues that these are systemic patterns that normalise the Israeli occupation’s actions, silence accountability, and keep colonial narratives going that strip Palestinians of their humanity.

Making reference to the UN Charter, the Genocide Convention, and customary international law, Albanese reminds states that they have both “positive obligations to act against mass atrocity” and “negative obligations not to aid or recognise” it. When governments continue to arm, fund, and shield ‘Israel’, this is when they become participants in its crimes.

According to Albanese, when the actions of Third States are essential and directly contribute to a crime- so that without their involvement it would not have happened- it must be examined whether those states have moved from merely assisting to actively participating in an internationally wrongful act.

The Diplomacy of Dehumanisation

For Albanese, the genocide not only started with bombs but also with language. From the moment Hamas launched its October 7, 2023 attacks, Western leaders echoed the Israeli occupations framing of the conflict in terms that ‘dehumanises Palestinians and provides political legitimacy for collective punishment’. Biden repeated unverified claims about ‘beheaded babies’, Starmer defended ‘Israel’s’ right to cut off water and electricity to civilians. Macron, Scholz and Sunak called the bombardment ‘self-defence’.

At the UN Security Council, the US vetoed or watered down every call for a ceasefire. According to Albanese, the resolutions that did pass – which were those calling for brief “humanitarian pauses” – were “an illusion of progress” while concrete action was “repeatedly stymied.”

Western sanctions, Albanese says in the report, are nothing more than:

symbolic moral theatre, as are token gestures such as banning extremist settlers while maintaining the arms trade.

In other words, they are gestures intended to disguise complicity.

UK, United States and Germany: ‘Indispensable enablers of the assault on Gaza’

Arab nations fare no better. Albanese writes:

Their manufactured outrage has been undermined by their continued cooperation, trade and security coordination with Israel.

The report documents how Egypt sealed its border, the UAE expanded trade, and Saudi Arabia moved toward normalisation. Only Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, and Nicaragua have broken ties completely.

Albanese also traces the supply chains of the genocide. Since it started, in October 2023, the United States, Germany, and the UK have been, in Albanese’s words:

indispensable enablers of the assault on Gaza.

The US shipped more than 700 weapons consignments, approved tens of billions in new arms sales, and provided intelligence and logistical support. A $26.4 billion aid package- passed in April 2024- coincided with the Israeli occupation’s planned invasion of Rafah, an attack that Biden had previously called a “red line.”

Germany, invoking its Holocaust guilt, authorised nearly €500 million in arms exports during the war. The UK facilitated American resupply routes through its bases in Cyprus and flew reconnaissance missions whose data “was shared with Israel.”

Gaza genocide- ‘A multinational military enterprise’

 Other states, including Italy, France, Canada, India, China, and also the UK provided components for the F-35 fighter jets used to level Gaza, turning genocide into what Albanese describes it as “a multinational military enterprise.” She writes that |Gaza has become a laboratory for future warfare,” while the Israeli regime’s own arms exports rose by 18 per cent, its weapons advertised as “battle-tested.”

Even humanitarian aid, the report argues, has been weaponised. Before the full siege, 80 per cent of Gazans relied on aid. After it began, the number of trucks entering the enclave collapsed, and famine spread.

‘Israel’ bombed UNRWA schools, warehouses, and shelters, killing hundreds of staff. When it accused UNRWA of Hamas ties, eighteen donor governments suspended funding without evidence. The US, instead of restoring UNRWA’s budget, helped launch the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, jointly run with the Israeli occupation – a system Albanese calls “a mechanism to manage and facilitate forced displacement of Palestinians.” Air-drops of food and medical supplies by Western powers, she adds, were “performative compassion,” and distractions from the continuing siege.

No country has suspended a trade agreement with the Israeli regime since 1967

Despite rulings from the International Court of Justice and the UN, no state has suspended a trade agreement with the Israeli regime since 1967. The European Union remains its largest trading partner, responsible for around a third of its total commerce, including dual-use materials employed in its weapons industry.

Between 2023 and 2025, trade with Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland, and Arab states such as Egypt and the UAE actually increased. Only Türkiye cut trade significantly, and even that was blunted by indirect routes. In August 2025, Egypt and the Israeli occupation signed a $35 billion natural-gas deal -the largest in the regime’s history – while Gaza was still in famine.

While the West imposes sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, in the name of human rights, the Israeli occupation is rewarded as it destroys a population, and commits genocide. Albanese calls this the

double standard of our time.

International law in ruins

By Autumn 2025, three international bodies – the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the UN Commission of Inquiry – had all found genocide either plausible or ongoing. Albanese warns that Third States, especially those supplying arms, have “actual or constructive knowledge” of these crimes. Their continued support, she says, may mean they are “jointly responsible for genocide under international law.”

The implications are serious. Western governments could one day face legal consequences not just for being complicit in war crimes or other international crimes, but for actively participating in them.

For Albanese, Gaza has laid bare “an unprecedented chasm between peoples and their governments.” She writes:

The world now stands on a knife-edge between the collapse of the international rule of law and hope for renewal.

Demand government accountability

That renewal demands action – cutting military, diplomatic, and economic ties with the Israeli regime, supporting international courts, providing reparations to Palestinians, and, if necessary, suspending it from the UN under Article 6.

The report ends with moral urgency. Albanese calls on civil society, trade unions, and ordinary citizens to monitor their governments and demand accountability through boycotts, divestments, and sanctions. She writes:

No state can claim fidelity to human rights while arming or protecting a genocidal regime.

Justice, Albanese insists, must involve not only prosecutions but reparations-restitution, compensation, and guarantees of non-repetition:

The power structures that enabled these crimes must be dismantled.

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By Charlie Jaay

This post was originally published on Canary.

In a scene that sums up an unprecedented humanitarian tragedy, Raafat Al-Majdalawi, director of the Return Health Association in Gaza, revealed shocking figures that illustrate the scale of the disaster affecting children in the Strip. After more than two years of war and siege, he confirmed that the humanitarian situation:

has reached a stage of complete collapse.

Gaza children suffer effects of malnutrition

Al-Majdalawi pointed out that 154 children have died from malnutrition. More than 51,000 children are receiving treatment for diseases related to hunger and lack of essential nutrients in their diet. And, he told the Canary that food and medicine insecurity threatens the lives of tens of thousands every day.

He further explained that the Israeli aggression has caused indescribable family tragedies. Around 77 children per day have lost one of their parents since the start of the war. Around 16 miscarriages are recorded daily due to the lack of medical care and the destruction of hospitals. He also added that 1,015 infants under the age of six weeks have died since the start of the war, while 450 foetuses have been lost in their mothers’ wombs as a result of the siege and lack of health services, at a time when recorded miscarriages have exceeded 12,000 cases.

He also pointed out that more than 500,000 children have been deprived of education for the second consecutive school year, after most schools were destroyed or converted into shelters for displaced persons, warning that:

an entire generation is threatened with intellectual and psychological loss.

Al-Majdalawi explained that 40,000 children need milk every day and 107,000 children need alternative food, while the available quantities cover “a small portion that does not exceed 10% of the actual need.” He stressed that:

children today live on the crumbs of humanitarian aid that does not arrive regularly.

Crisis beyond crisis

On another note, he warned of the escalation of psychological crises among children due to scenes of killing, destruction and loss of loved ones, calling for the urgent establishment of psychological support centres and safe shelters for affected families.

He revealed that around 5,200 wounded children need urgent medical evacuation to receive treatment outside Gaza, noting that ‘delaying their transfer means condemning them to a slow death.’

Al-Majdalawi concluded by emphasising that:

the children of Gaza are living on the brink of humanitarian annihilation, while the world stands by and watches a tragedy that is destroying childhood and killing hope for a secure future.

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By Alaa Shamali

This post was originally published on Canary.