Sept. 26, 2025 - Hours before Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the 80th United Nations General Assembly, Israeli strikes continued to bombard the Gaza Strip. A residential tower in Al Rimal in Gaza City was hit. Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili was there as rescue crews dug for survivors amid the rubble.
Israeli forces demolished homes in the Palestinian village of Ein Al-Hilweh, northern Jordan Valley.
Israeli forces killed 416 Palestinians between September 10 and 17, bringing the total number of confirmed fatalities since October 2023 to 65,062, with 165,697 injured — a count universally recognized as an undercount (some scholars have estimated the true count is closer to 680,000). Israeli bombardment has damaged 11 UNRWA shelters housing 11,000 displaced people in Gaza City within five days. The offensive triggered a massive forced displacement — at least 125,600 newly displaced people recorded in one week, representing 51% of the 246,800 newly displaced people since mid-August.....MORE
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, has praised the agency's staff for delivering aid in Gaza amid challenging conditions [File: Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Reuters]
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is “irreplaceable” and “indispensable” – not just for Gaza and the occupied West Bank but for the entire region.
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Government Media Office
⭕*Press Release No. (977) issued by the Government Media Office:*
⭕*The occupation exacerbates the suffering of the displaced: Lack of space in the south and the spread of tents among health hazards and on roads amidst a worsening stifling humanitarian crisis*
We are following with great concern the worsening suffering of hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the crime of forced displacement that the "Israeli" occupation continues to commit against the civilian population, which has led to an unprecedented collapse in the humanitarian situation. The central and southern governorates, especially the Al-Mawasi area, have become full, and there are no longer any empty or safe spaces to accommodate more displaced people.
In light of this severe overcrowding of the displaced, tents are scattered randomly among health hazards and on the sides of roads, in conditions that lack the minimum requirements for a decent life. The situation is exacerbated by the exorbitant rise in transportation prices, in addition to the lack of new tents coinciding with the closure of crossings and the occupation's prevention of their entry, in clear violation of the humanitarian protocol and international law. Meanwhile, the few tents available are witnessing a sharp rise in prices that exceed the capacity of exhausted citizens.
The security situation is also witnessing a marked deterioration as a result of the occupation's policy of "engineering chaos" and its support for criminal gangs backed by the occupation forces with weapons and fire cover, which multiplies the risks to the displaced and threatens their safety and stability. At the same time, the criminal targeting carried out by the occupation against the displaced continues during their movement southward, where the remaining hospitals in the south have received hundreds of displaced persons targeted by the occupation during their displacement journey, in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.
We affirm that what is happening represents a systematic policy by the "Israeli" occupation to perpetuate the humanitarian tragedy of our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. We hold the occupation, the US administration, and the countries involved in the genocide fully legally and morally responsible for these horrific crimes against humanity. We call on the international community to assume its legal, moral, and historical duties in a serious, effective, and swift manner to stop these crimes and provide immediate protection for the civilian population.
✍️*Government Media Office*
📍Gaza Strip - Palestine
📅Thursday, September 25, 2025
Sept. 25, 2025 - Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s address to the UN General Assembly as compelling in its condemnation of Israel’s crimes in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. However, he said the speech failed to address three major issues:
The US’s exclusion of Palestinian representatives – Abbas and other Palestinian parties were denied the right to participate in person at the UN gathering in New York, which Barghouti called “an act of collective punishment.”
The status of the Beijing declaration – a national unity agreement signed in July 2024 by 14 Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Fatah.
The need for sanctions on Israel – Barghouti stressed that international recognition alone is insufficient; Palestinian civil society and other pro-Palestine groups are demanding sanctions to deter Israel’s ongoing actions.
Sept. 25, 2025 - More journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023 than in any other conflict since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data on journalist fatalities in 1992. According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Israel’s onslaught has killed 250 journalists and media workers to date.
Where Israeli leaders once feigned embarrassment over such flagrant violations of international law, today they assassinate Palestinian journalists openly: tracking their movements, issuing threats, and even striking their families. In early August, an Israeli airstrike killed Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif along with five other journalists in a tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Two weeks later, Israel carried out a double tap strike at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, killing 22 people including five more journalists — apparently in order to take out a camera filming for Reuters.
The BBC and three international news agencies have released a short film calling on Israel to allow foreign journalists into Gaza.
The film, launched by the corporation with Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters, is narrated by veteran BBC journalist David Dimbleby.
He said: "International journalists must now be allowed into Gaza to share the burden with the Palestinian reporters there so we can all bring the facts to the world."
Foreign journalists have been banned from entering Gaza independently since Israel launched its 2023 offensive following the Hamas 7 October attacks. A small number have been taken into the Strip by Israeli troops under controlled access.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has previously said that to "allow journalists to report safely" in Gaza the military "accompanies them when in the battlefield".
