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The Palestinian Journalists' Bloc has called for urgent international intervention to protect detained Palestinian journalist Bushra Al-Taweel, who has been held in solitary confinement in Israeli prisons for nearly 50 days.

She has been subjected to beatings, pepper spray inside her cell, deprivation of basic necessities, and practices causing severe dehydration, raising serious concerns about her physical and psychological well-being.

The bloc urged international press bodies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and human rights organizations to assess her condition, end her isolation, ensure her protection, and secure her immediate release.



Mike
 
❗️Israeli security minister weaponizes mosque raids and home demolitions in aggressive bid to suppress votes

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has weaponized punitive measures against Palestinian communities to bolster his standing ahead of the 27 October parliamentary elections, boasting about police raids and fines imposed on mosques.

Ben-Gvir highlighted a recent police raid on the Al-Rahma Mosque in the southern town of Tel Sheva (Tel as-Sabi), where officers issued fines over alleged loudspeaker volume violations—a policy he touted as part of a broader crackdown on religious calls to prayer across the country.

According to Anadolu Agency, the Joint Arab List alliance has filed an urgent petition with the Central Elections Committee seeking to halt the political exploitation of home demolitions and evictions, citing campaign media published by Ben-Gvir featuring bulldozers flattening a residential building in occupied East Jerusalem’s Al-Tur neighborhood.

The legal petition further revealed that authorities have deliberately reactivated eviction orders dormant for over two decades, scheduling enforcement dates to coincide directly with election day.



Mike
 
The World Food Programme announces the suspension of food assistance to half a million people in Gaza.

October 19, 2026

The World Food Programme (WFP) announced on October 19, 2026, that it would suspend food assistance to approximately half a million people in the Gaza Strip due to a funding shortage.

Acting Executive Director Carl Skau explained that the number of beneficiaries had fallen from 1.6 million to 1.1 million, with food rations cut in half, cash assistance reduced for 75,000 families, and 100,000 daily hot meals discontinued.

The UN official warned that the humanitarian crisis could worsen as winter approaches, urging donors to provide the necessary funding to prevent conditions from deteriorating further.



Mike
 
What kind of cruelty is this? For a little girl from Gaza to reach the age of dreams, only to find herself dreaming of having a foot instead of dreaming of running and playing

Sama Abu Khudwan had her foot amputated in July 2025. She still goes to school and continues to endure her pain, but she is waiting for a prosthetic limb that will give her back her steps

In Gaza, there are children who have been forced to grow up too soon, little dreams weighed down by pain, and a childhood that has been denied its right to joy

This is Israel’s target list in Gaza



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Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank are escalating during the annual olive harvest, with Palestinians, foreign activists, journalists and even European diplomats among those targeted. The latest attacks have drawn EU condemnation, raising renewed questions over accountability as attacks on Palestinian communities continue.



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The Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies says more than 1,500 Palestinian detainees are ill, with some suffering from life-threatening conditions and inadequate treatment. It calls for urgent international medical visits and investigations into deaths linked to medical neglect.



Mike
 
I don’t know how to describe how I feel as I write this. I don’t even know who I’m writing for or how to explain what’s inside me. I feel an indescribable sense of anguish and helplessness, as if I’m writing the same words dozens of times without anything changing.

I’ve written dozens of times about the military cranes and vehicles positioned on elevated sandy berms, firing every night at displaced people’s tents and homes across Gaza City. Every day, people are killed and injured, including children.

Today, a 7 year old girl died. She was playing with stones with her friends outside her tent when a bullet struck her directly, ending her life. At the same time, another person was injured, and then another.

A seven year old child was simply playing outside her tent. How will her family come to terms with the fact that the little girl who was right before their eyes moments ago will never return?

We have literally become a shooting ground. Every night, we live through the same fear, and every day, we hear of another person injured or killed. How can our lives be treated with such disregard? How can people be left at the mercy of gunfire, even in the places they fled to escape death?

It’s a tent, just a worn-out piece of fabric that cannot protect a child from a bullet or a family from death. And yet, even these tents are no longer safe.

Where are these people supposed to flee? Where can a little girl play without being killed?

I swear, I no longer know what to write. What breaks me most is knowing that tomorrow, I may have to write the same tweet again, about another child, another family, and another life taken while all they were trying to do was survive.



Mike
 
Via trtworld Children in Gaza are not just caught in the crossfire.

A UN commission says Israel deliberately targets Palestinian children, including with snipers and drones, describing the impact as severe atrocity crimes.

More than 74,245 Palestinians have been killed while repeated displacement tears families and communities apart.



Mike
 
It began with one man digging a grave for his wife inside Al-Shifa Hospital. Dr Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of Gaza’s Health Ministry, remembers asking him what he was doing. “I’m digging a grave for my wife,” the man answered. “Am I supposed to leave her like this?” With the hospital under Israeli occupation siege and no way to reach a cemetery, Al-Bursh called on the young men around him to help dig for all the martyrs. Doctors and health workers climbed down with shovels too, among them Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, Dr Murad Al-Qawqa, Dr Yusuf Abu Al-Rish and Dr Ashraf Al-Qudra. Together they dug a pit roughly 20 metres by 15, divided it with a partition for men and women, and laid around 80 bodies inside.

They planned to finish the burials the next morning, he says, but the Israeli occupation gave them no time. Its forces stormed Al-Shifa soon after, in the first of the sieges that would leave Gaza’s largest hospital in ruins. Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, one of the doctors who helped dig that grave, was later kidnapped by the Israeli occupation army, tortured, and killed in Israeli custody.



Mike
 
"He kept threatening me: I will beat you"

Masked Israeli settler militias from the extremist Hilltop Youth group stormed a Palestinian home in Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, while a woman was inside alone, pelting the house with stones and attempting to set it on fire with her trapped inside.

“I was home alone. I couldn’t cope. I didn’t know what to do,” the woman recounted, describing how more than 10 masked settlers terrorized her home with a barrage of stones. She also said one settler repeatedly returned over 24 hours to threaten her, leaving her living in fear.



Mike
 

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