31 oktober 2026

Humanitarian Situation Report

29 October 2026

A low-lying displacement site at risk of being flooded when heavy rains reach Gaza. Photo by OCHA

Key Highlights

• Families along the “Yellow Line” in Gaza are facing reported arson attacks and recurrent shootings as Israeli forces place additional yellow cement blocks nearby; despite shortages in humanitarian supplies, those displaced as a result of such pressures are receiving rapid support through available stocks.
• Acute respiratory infections represent 60 per cent of all medical consultations reported by the Health Cluster between 18 and 25 October, followed by skin diseases (21 per cent) and acute watery diarrhea (18 per cent).
• Amid multiple reports of strikes affecting humanitarian operations, UNOPS reported three security incidents over three consecutive days affecting its convoys and premises.
• In the West Bank, humanitarian partners are supporting local authorities in responding to the needs of approximately 3,000 Palestinians reportedly displaced during an ongoing operation by Israeli forces in Hebron city, following a shooting attack by two Palestinians who killed two Israeli soldiers. Displacement figures remain under verification.
• October has already recorded the highest monthly number of settler attacks resulting in casualties or property damage since documentation began in 2006, with a total of 397 incidents reported between 1 and 26 October.
• Between 20 and 26 October, 62 settler attacks resulting in casualties or property damage were documented across 49 West Bank communities, including 38 olive-harvest-related attacks.
• In Khirbet Ras al Ahmar, Tubas governorate, 24 Palestinian herding families comprising 94 people, including 40 children, were displaced amid increasing access restrictions and settler attacks.

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Plant an Olive in Palestine Today!

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29 oktober 2026

Right now, the House and Senate Armed Services Committee members and other congressional leaders are negotiating the final bill text of the FY27 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and making decisions about what gets cut. This is our last and best chance to get the Deadly Merger provisions removed from the NDAA before the legislation becomes law.

The Deadly Merger provisions, Section 219 in the House bill and Section 1217 in the Senate bill, would deepen U.S.-Israel military technology and surveillance ties through joint development, procurement, licensing, and weapons co-production.

Lawmakers are expected to announce the finalized bill text shortly after the midterms, which means we have very little time left to influence the process.

Call Congress now to stop the Deadly Merger.
 

This is our last chance. Let's use it.

As lawmakers reconcile the House and Senate versions of the bills, Representative Ro Khanna's office is circulating a letter calling for the removal of the Deadly Merger provisions.

This letter is the precise opportunity we’ve been waiting for to push our legislators to take a strong, clear stance against the merger.

Right now, 33 members of Congress have signed on to Rep. Khanna’s letter. We need you to push your legislators to join them. That number needs to be much higher if we’re going to stop these terrifying provisions.

Ask your representative to sign Rep. Khanna's letter and publicly oppose the Deadly Merger.
 

What we're fighting for: Not a single dime for Israel’s military or belligerent wars abroad.

Washington is proposing $1.15 trillion in defense funding for FY27. That represents a 28% increase over last years budget and would give the White House more funding for its disastrous war with Iran. As if that wasn't bad enough, the annual Pentagon funding bill also includes the Deadly Merger provisions. Backed by AIPAC and Netanyahu, these arrangements would make military support harder to track and challenge. We need to end U.S. military aid to Israel and stop the partnerships that entrench it.CALL CONGRESS NOWTogether, we can push for Palestinian freedom and resources that sustain our communities.

In solidarity,Leila N.
Adalah Justice Project

P.S. Join our phonebank next Wednesday Nov. 4th, at 7pm ET to call constituents in key districts and help them connect directly with their lawmakers.

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Rise Up Against Genocide, War, and Support Working-Class Issues

From November 10-12, CODEPINK is launching its Taxpayer Uprising in Washington, D.C., three days of peaceful protest against the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion war budget that is complicit in Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Iran, and across the Middle East. We invite AMP activists and supporters to join CODEPINK in demanding that our tax dollars fund healthcare, education, housing, and our communities, not hyper-militarism.

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Plant an Olive in Palestine Today!

Plant an Olive in Palestine Today!

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JVP ACTION WIRE

28 oktober 2026

Take action: JVP Action Power Dial

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27 oktober 2026

Lula has won Brazil's presidential election in a historic popular victory giving hope to social justice and liberation struggles. His victory opens new opportunities for Palestine solidarity, but will it bring meaningful change?

In the op-ed for The New Arab written by our Co-Director Rula, she examines what Lula's victory means for the Palestinian cause, the movements that helped secure his comeback and the political challenges ahead.

In the piece, she explores three key questions:

• How can Palestine solidarity movements build on the momentum of Lula's victory?

• What will it take to end Brazil's economic and military complicity with Zionism?

• How can we turn the next four years into concrete gains for Palestinian liberation?

_{READ THE FULL ANALYSIS IN THE NEW ARAB}

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At PIPD, we are working alongside movements and partners in Brazil to strengthen solidarity, challenge complicity, and turn political opportunities into concrete action for Palestine.

SUPPORT OUR WORK IN BRAZIL

Onwards,

Rula, Co-Director Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy

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27 oktober 2026

West Bank Monthly Snapshot
Casualties, Property Damage and Displacement

September 2026

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Humanitarian Situation Report

22 October 2026

Fresh olives undergo washing at an olive mill in the Arraba village, Jenin governorate, before being processed for oil extraction, 22 October 2026. Photo by OCHA

Highlights

• In the West Bank, 148 Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces or settlers between 13 and 19 October, including 69 in olive-harvest-related settler attacks.
• Since 1 September, 272 olive-harvest-related settler attacks have been documented, exceeding the totals recorded during the entire 2024 and 2025 harvest seasons.
• Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in Jerusalem governorate, bringing to 14 the number of mosques vandalized by settlers since the beginning of 2026 in the West Bank.
• According to WHO, 146 attacks on health care were recorded in the West Bank between January and September 2026, resulting in four fatalities and 43 injuries, alongside 131 instances of obstruction to health-care delivery.
• In Gaza, as of 22 October, eight children had been reported killed and 20 injured in just six days. These are among hundreds of children who have been reported killed since the announcement of the October 2025 ceasefire.
• According to the Gaza Market Monitoring Committee, the price of food items soared. Potatoes reportedly rose by 72 per cent, and the food basket increased by 20 per cent on average.
• Due to funding shortages, Food Security Sector partners are only being able to reach less than one million people out of an estimated 2.1 million in Gaza with monthly food aid from October 2026 onwards. Meanwhile, 60 per cent of funds required by the Shelter Cluster to help people prepare for the cold and rainy season remains unmet and 11 partners might have to cease the delivery of drinking water by truck.
• Across the Strip, trauma, surgical and rehabilitation supplies, as well as specialized medicines for noncommunicable diseases remain scarce due to ongoing aid entry restrictions. Oncology diagnostics and imaging are severely compromised.

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In less than two weeks, Providence residents will get to vote to end their city's investments in Israel and other countries committing human rights violations, including genocide.

This is an overwhelmingly popular initiative, but turnout will determine if it passes. That’s why organizers in Providence are knocking on thousands of doors before Election Day.

You can help make Providence the first city in the U.S. to pass a binding divestment ordinance by popular vote. Will you join me — and JVP members from across the country — to call Providence voters this Wednesday and Thursday?

Phonebank with us

Earlier this month, we wrote with the exciting news that a few hundred members answered our call, and donated $20,000 to JVP-Rhode Island.

That made it possible for them to send tens of thousands of mailers to Providence voters, telling them they can vote yes to divest their city from Israel and other countries committing genocide.

This was a critical intervention to get out the vote — but our work isn’t over.

With less than two weeks before Election Day, you have the power to bring this historic campaign across the finish line, no matter where you’re located.

I’ll be on the phones this Wednesday and Thursday. Please join me — sign up to call Providence voters with JVP members around the country.

In solidarity,

Dani Noble

Campaigns Manager, JVP

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26 oktober 2026

AMP Condemns Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Hebron

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) condemns Israeli occupation forces (IOF) ethnic cleansing campaign in the occupied Palestinian city of Hebron. Over the last few days, the IOF has laid siege to Hebron, forcibly displacing over 2,000 Palestinians with no prospect of ever returning. Within a moment's notice, innocent Palestinian women and children were forced to uproot their lives as the IOF continues to demolish hundreds of homes and businesses as a form of collective punishment.

Hebron is not the only Palestinian city to suffer this fate. Since 2025, the IOF has ethnically cleansed nearly 40,000 Palestinians from Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams in what human rights experts have deemed one of the largest ethnic cleansing campaigns since the occupation began in 1967. Hebron is not a one-off incident; it is an explicit feature within Israel’s campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the West Bank and entrench its fascist, apartheid rule.

What is unfolding in the occupied West Bank is a blatant violation of both U.S. and international law. Hebron is emblematic of the IOF’s desire to transform the West Bank into Gaza by replicating the same genocidal tactics that have been used for over the last three years – which was only made possible by the impunity granted to Israel by the U.S. and major western powers.

We call upon the U.S. government to break this horrific cycle of enablement and enforce accountability for Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people. The American public does not support continued U.S. support for Israel, nor do they wish to see their tax dollars contribute to the suffering of Palestinians. It is long overdue for U.S. lawmakers to catch up with the will of the American people and do what is right

In solidarity,

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)

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JVP ACTION

25 oktober 2026

In less than two weeks, Michiganders will vote in one of the most consequential races of the midterms.

If Michigan elects Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate, he will fight tooth and nail to end U.S. funding for Israel’s genocide in Gaza — and as a key battleground state, Michigan will play a critical role in determining the next Democratic nominee for President.

Right now Republicans are attempting to terrify voters with vicious, Islamophobic lies. Don’t watch from the edge of your seat to see if they work.

The most impactful thing you can do right now is call voters with JVP Action and Sunrise Movement.

Sign up to phonebank

3 reasons why you should join us on the phones

1. Organized people can beat organized money. The pro-genocide lobby group AIPAC is injecting millions into this race at the last minute to drown out Abdul’s winning message with fear-mongering and Islamophobia. We’ve out-organized big spending before, and we can do it again — but we need you with us.

2. The single most effective thing we can do is talk to voters. With AIPAC spending big to dominate the airwaves, we need to make sure voters in Michigan know Abdul will fight for the things they care about, like Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and funding our communities here at home, not war abroad.

3. No experience is required. You’ll be calling voters alongside other JVP members and supporters, and before you make a single call you’ll get an in-depth training from one of our star phone bankers.

AIPAC is spending big in the last days of this race, and you have the power right now, no matter where you are, to help close the gap. You don’t have to live in Michigan or be there in-person knocking doors — a phone call is often all it takes.

Can I count on you to join us on the phones?

Danielle

Field and Electoral Organizing Manager

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25 oktober 2026

We are reaching out with an urgent update from Hebron, where the situation has reached a breaking point.

Israeli forces are razing Palestinian neighborhoods in Hebron and forcefully expelling families from their homes. 411 families have been expelled, comprising at least 2,500 people, with many more at risk in the neighborhoods of Ein Deir Baha and Farsh al-Hawa. This includes people with disabilities, chronic illness, breastfeeding mothers, the elderly, and infants.

“We will act to destroy this place, to change it completely,” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu threatened in the wake of an attack that killed two Israeli soldiers stationed at a checkpoint near Hebron on October 23rd.

The Israeli army has placed the West Bank on lockdown, and the city’s entire population of 250,000 residents is under siege. The army has bulldozed family homes and shops, and army vehicles have been patrolling the streets, demanding immediate evacuation over loudspeakers. Soldiers are raiding and vandalizing homes and offices and using the buildings as military outposts. No shelter has been provided for families forced out of their homes at night.

Watch a video taken of the destruction on October 24th, 2026 in Hebron.

Issa Amro, renowned Palestinian human rights defender, describes being unable to leave his home in Hebron while his own sister, Hayat, was one of the people forced out of her home with her seven children. “We urgently call on the UN, international governments, and humanitarian organizations to act now: protect civilians, demand an end to unlawful demolitions and collective restrictions, and ensure safe access to essential supplies and emergency services,” Amro stated.

He and Working for Peace and Justice / Friends of Hebron call for the immediate return of families to their homes and the rebuilding of the houses that were demolished.

The targeted families have no connection to the attack, yet they are facing collective punishment. The operation can be seen as an attempt by Netanyahu to win voters ahead of the Israeli elections on October 27, while it is also a means to expand Israeli military control over Hebron in preparation for a military takeover and settlement expansion.

To support the displaced families with food, shelter and/or medical support, please click here.

Ein Deir Baha and Farsh al-Hawa are located in H1, the part of Hebron equivalent to Area A, which is under Palestinian Authority control in the wider West Bank. The military operation marks Israel’s increasing incursions into Area A, undermining the Oslo Accords and representing another step toward annexing the West Bank.

The lockdown is expected to severely disrupt daily life and to prevent the olive harvest in Hebron and the wider West Bank, which has been almost completely denied to Palestinians in the last few years.

“Hebron must not be forgotten. We need urgent action, not just statements of concern,” Amro stated.

Stay informed and take action

To receive the latest updates from Hebron, please sign up for our mailing list here.

In solidarity,

The Friends of Hebron team

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25 oktober 2026

Mattan here. In 2017, I refused to join the Israeli army because of the Israeli occupation, and I spent 110 days in prison. Since October 7th, Jewish Israeli resisters have been facing brutal police violence in Israel. The police brutality is aimed at discouraging and suppressing the resisters, but we are here to support them. This is why we launched a petition to governments’ missions to the United Nations, to force Israel to stop the violence.

Please sign the petition here and invite your friends to join.

Support War Resisters

Stand with the Resisters: Protect Jewish Activists and Protesters Fighting from Within!

As millions march against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories and the genocide in Gaza, Jews in Israel-Palestine are facing increased repression, harassment and violence by the Israeli government.

The Jewish citizens of Israel who fight for Palestinian rights are facing ongoing police brutality, political persecution, and an increased risk of aggressive reactions from their very own society. Some are being harassed and physically attacked by settlers as they volunteer in the West Bank, all under the eyes of soldiers who passively observe or actively participate in these attacks. They are being called traitors for their simple wish for freedom and equality for all.

Every passing day, the ultra-Zionist regime in Israel makes life increasingly unbearable for Palestinians everywhere: from the deadly “ceasefire” in Gaza, to the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, and the systematic oppression of Palestinians citizens of Israel within the ‘48 territories.

While most Jewish Israelis are either blind to these horrors or even openly support them, a growing minority is choosing to say “no.” Either in small groups who are fighting against the occupation locally, or larger collectives which bring Jewish and Palestinian together to call for justice throughout the country. In every capacity, activists have faced brutal arrests, and their demonstrations are often arbitrarily cancelled by the authorities. Between the river and the sea, Jewish-Israeli resistance exists, even if global media outlets won’t tell you about it.

These people are a part of the solidarity movement, too. As they face ongoing persecution by the state and the apathetic public that follows it, we must show them they are not alone. We understand that if their rights are not protected, no one will be left to oppose the Israeli government and its crimes from within.

We call on all 193 member states of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to publicly condemn and immediately act to stop police brutality and any unfair treatment of Jewish activists operating in the State of Israel.

Let's show the resisters we have their back. Please sign the petition here and send it to your friends.

In solidarity,
Mattan Helman

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24 oktober 2026

Volgende week zijn er verkiezingen in Israël. Voor de Palestijnen brengt de keuzevrijheid van de Israëlische burger slechts gevaar.

Wat ook de uitslag dinsdag zal zijn, woensdag zal de genocide verder gaan. Genocide is een systeemmisdaad. Binnen het Israëlische systeem van coalitie en oppositie is er volle steun voor het beleid van onderdrukking, verdrijving en moord.

We staan deze week stil bij het enige dat telt bij deze Israëlische verkiezingen. En dat is dat ongeacht de uitslag de Palestijnen in gevaar zijn. De situatie van de Palestijnen kan alleen verbeteren als de VS en Europa maatregelen tegen Israël nemen. Daarom kiezen wij voor BDS.

Strijdbare groet,
Het BDS team

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23 oktober 2026

This week in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers repeatedly attacked Palestinian farmers as they harvested their olive trees. Last week in Gaza, a toddler was forced to watch her mother be burned alive after an Israeli strike hit their family home. Earlier this year, we saw Israel devastate entire villages in Lebanon.

And yet, as these horrors continue, the U.S. government is considering a major expansion of military integration with Israel.

Right now, we have a rare opportunity to stop further US-Israeli military integration.

During the next two weeks, lawmakers will decide whether provisions we call the Deadly Merger remain in the annual Pentagon spending bill. If they do, they would deepen the integration of U.S. and Israeli military technology and industrial cooperation.

We need to make sure Congress hears from constituents before these negotiations end.

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22 oktober 2026

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Sign up to visit Tulkarem and meet Fadwa virtually on 10/28

Trailer: Virtual Visit to Tulkarem

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Pep Guardiola, legendary footballer and one of the most decorated football managers of his generation, has endorsed the BDS@20 Europe Conference.

“Bridges, Not Walls. We must come together in Barcelona, from November 18 to 20,

for the future of Palestine, which is the future of our shared humanity.”

This November, the BDS@20 Europe Regional Conference will convene in Barcelona, marking over 20 years of the Palestinian BDS call for ending global complicity and serving as a pivotal moment to define the movement’s next chapter.

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Click below to help us spread the word by sharing Pep's video

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At a time when governments and corporations are continuing to normalize Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and settler-colonial apartheid against all Palestinians, we need to make BDS an increasingly powerful tool for challenging complicity and building meaningful international solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle

Join us in person on 18 November for the opening session

Join us for the Opening Session taking place on Wednesday, 18 November, featuring keynote addresses from headline speakers, followed by a live Q&A and networking reception. The conference lineup features some of the most influential figures advocating across Europe and beyond in the struggle for Palestinian liberation today, including (some via video): Naledi Pandor, Francesca Albanese, Noura Erakat, Ghassan Abu Sitta, Nurul Izzah Anwar, Robert Del Naja, Hiba Abouk, Inés Hernand, Olga Rodríguez, Omar Barghouti; and more.

The future is not something we wait for. It is something we build together.

Join us from anywhere by registering for the livestream

In solidarity,

Fiona, Giorgia & Mahmoud, nn behalf of the BDS@20 Steering Committee

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21 oktober 2026

For weeks D.C. insiders have told us that our best chance to kill the Deadly Merger provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (N.D.A.A.) is during the conference period, when Congressional leadership works to bring together the Senate and House versions of the bill text. That period is here.

Members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee alongside other high-ranking lawmakers are in negotiations about the N.D.A.A. as we speak. We’ve been rallying against this provision for months -- but the pressure we’re able to mobilize over the next two weeks, up until the midterms, will be the final decider in this fight.

Call your representatives now and demand they sign onto Rep. Ro Khanna’s letter to strip the deadly US-Israel military merger provisions (Section 219 in the House and Section 1217 in the Senate) from the National Defense Authorization Act.

This work has reached new levels of urgency. Israel is ramping up its strikes across Gaza. Israeli drones killed six more Palestinians in Gaza over the weekend. Since the “ceasefire” began a year ago, Israel has violated it over 5,000 times, killing 1,511 Palestinians as of today.

At the same time, Israel’s military continues to enable pogroms in the occupied West Bank as Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest, and use mob violence and intimidation in attempts to steal more land.

If you live in the United States, right now, your representatives are deciding whether our military operations and your tax dollars will be inextricably linked with these crimes for decades to come.

Urge your representatives to sign onto Rep. Ro Khanna’s letter calling for the removal of the deadly US-Israel military merger provisions from the N.D.A.A.

What would the Deadly Merger do?
Sections 219 and 1217 would drive the unprecedented integration of the U.S. weapons industry and its military technology with that of another nation–Israel–including creating an executive agent within the Department of Defense to accelerate that integration.

What stage are we in for the process of passing the Deadly Merger?
We’ve heard from D.C. insiders that negotiations are taking place between now and the midterm elections to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the bill. These negotiations will determine if the Deadly Merger provision is included in the final version of the N.D.A.A. Once the bill text is finalized, the legislation goes back to the House and the Senate for floor votes before it becomes law.

The time to urge Congress to drop the Deadly Merger is NOW. Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie are leading a letter to their colleagues asking them to strike Section 219 and Section 1217 from the N.D.A.A. 30 members of Congress have already signed on. We need to push every other member of Congress to join them to make the letter as strong as possible.

Call Congress

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21 oktober 2026

With Israel’s elections around the corner, you likely have many people around you who have asked the same question: Wouldn’t it be good news for Palestinians if the parties opposing Netanyahu won the elections?

But would it?

PaliAnswers offers seven talking points to challenge the claim that Netanyahu is an individual problems:

1. Liberal and far-right Zionist parties may differ in rhetoric and tactics, but share a commitment to maintaining the settler-colonial system and the denial of Palestinian self-determination.

2. Israel’s system extends beyond its prime minister, who is himself a product of the system. The apartheid laws, military, courts and state institutions also sustain Palestinian dispossession.

3. The focus on Netanyahu often serves to preserve the image of Israel as a fundamentally democratic, legitimate, and moral state. It presents the solution as electoral change rather than dismantling the settler-colonial system.

4. If Netanyahu alone were the problem, he would not have been elected multiple times, nor would his government's policies enjoy such broad public support.

READ FULL 7 RESPONSES­

Palestinian-led tools like this one exist because people like you fund them. Help keep PaliAnswers free and build what comes next.

Onwards,

Aseel, Communicating Palestine Programme Manager

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 Olive Farming: Ahmad’s Story of Palestinian Identity

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Humanitarian Situation Report

15 October 2026

A Palestinian boy playing in between makeshift shelters set up next to unsafe war-damaged buildings at risk of collapse in the Gaza Strip, October 2026. Photo by UN News

Highlights

• In the Gaza Strip, Israeli airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to result in reported civilian casualties, while incursions, demolitions and reported shifts in the “Yellow Line” heightened concerns and risks of further displacement.
• About 950,000 displaced people have been assessed as living in sites at medium to high risk of flooding, including over 400,000 at high risk. Available supplies could partially assist only 18 per cent of the 294,250 families requiring shelter assistance for the rainy season.
• Daily cooked-meal production has declined by 12 per cent to approximately 614,000 amid funding constraints, while shortages of fuel, engine oil and essential supplies threaten the continuity of health and water services.
• In the West Bank, over the past two weeks, five Palestinians were killed and over 240 injured by Israeli forces or settlers, with 74 per cent of injuries occurring in the context of settler attacks.
• Over 160 olive harvest-related settler attacks resulted in casualties, property damage or both over the past two weeks. Since September, some 200 olive harvest-related settler attacks were documented.
• Demolitions displaced 96 Palestinians over two weeks, including 69 in At Tur – the largest displacement in a single demolition incident in East Jerusalem since UN records began in 2009.

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Daniel here. I refused to serve in the Gaza war after serving as a reservist for several years. Today I organize war refusers as a member of Yesh Gvul, an Israeli movement that has supported refusers since 1982.

We are currently in the process of organizing a new initiative of group refusal, which you will hear more about once it becomes public. We wrote a new refusal letter opposing the Israeli government’s policies and its destructive use of the military. We have begun circulating it and collecting signatures. We wanted to thank you, donors and supporters of Resistance Solidarity Network around the world, for the support you have given us in the past few months. It means the world to us.

We are currently seeing an increasingly desperate Israeli government doing everything it can to bring reservists back into the army. In recent months, we have received widespread reports of renewed efforts to draft reservists, including those who previously received exemptions or stepped away from military service. We are resisting this new wave. More and more soldiers are questioning whether they can continue participating in the Israeli military’s violence against the Palestinian people, and our task is to support those who choose to refuse. None of us can do this work alone, so I want to thank you for your generous help and support.

Through the hotline of Yesh Gvul that I coordinate, we have been tracking these changes, helping reservists navigate the army’s changing procedures, and supporting dozens of soldiers looking to refuse service in the unjust wars.

We are also trying to build a new generation of organized resistance. A group of us, soldiers-refusers who refused during the recent Gaza war, have joined Yesh Gvul movement, and together we have drafted a new letter opposing the Israeli government’s policies and its destructive use of the military. We have begun circulating it and collecting signatures, with the goal of building a stronger community of reservist refusers who can bring new energy into the movement and create pressure against the occupation and Israel’s policy of endless war.
This work feels increasingly urgent. Military and settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is intensifying, the destruction of Gaza continues, and Lebanon remains caught in the cycle of war. Meanwhile, militarization and the occupation are becoming increasingly normalized in Israeli society. We need a broad left movement capable of confronting Israel’s ongoing occupation and connecting the struggles against military and settler violence, the destruction of Palestinian life, and the government’s wider policy of death and destruction.

That is what we are building now: a new public soldiers-refusers letter, and a community of resistance. I believe there are many more people in Israel ready to take a stand against the occupation and against endless war than it sometimes appears. Our task is to find one another and organize.

The support you, members of the Resistance Solidarity Network, have given us throughout this period is extremely meaningful. It makes it possible to stand behind people who are taking real risks to resist the Israeli military, the occupation, and the government’s policies. 

In solidarity,
Daniel Yahalom

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15 oktober 2026

AMP Condemns Trump’s Islamophobic Attacks Against Muslim Leaders

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) condemns President Donald Trump’s Islamophobic attacks against Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. A few days ago, Trump referred to El-Sayed as "Muhammed" and a “jihadist.” He also attacked Rep. Omar and stated she “comes from a country without laws.” On that same day, her home was raided by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in what is now being described as an attempt by the administration toand deport Congresswoman Omar despite being a naturalized citizen for nearly 30 years now.

These attacks are part of an increasingly disturbing pattern of Islamophobia that has intensified since Trump’s return to office. From political advertisements invoking the trauma of 9/11 to demonize Muslim candidates, to the normalization of anti-Muslim rhetoric in our political discourse, Islamophobia is being weaponized to sow fear and division as well as undermine the political participation of Muslim Americans.

We unequivocally stand in solidarity with Ilhan Omar, Abdul El-Sayed, and others attacked by this administration. The vilification of Muslims, the weaponization of our identities, and the deliberate mockery of the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) name are repugnant and should not be accepted by anyone. 

Muslim leaders - let alone anyone else - should not be subjected to this cruel dehumanization by any administration. This dangerous rhetoric cannot be dismissed as mere political theatre, as it has real consequences for Muslim communities across the country, and those who perpetuate it must be held accountable.

Regardless of what Trump thinks, Muslims have a right to be politically engaged. No one's race or religion should be used as a tool to alienate them from participating in our so-called democracy.

In solidarity,

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)

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15 oktober 2026

Find your place in the movement.

Tell Congress to Block the Bombs.

JVP’s Executive Director Stefanie Fox shares a d’var Torah (a word of Torah) that she offered last month on the afternoon heading into Yom Kippur.

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14 oktober 2026

From Palestine: Ahmad, Returning to his Roots

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14 oktober 2026

AMP Honors Wadee Alfayoumi Three Years After His Murder

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) honors the life of Wadee Alfayoumi, a six-year-old Palestinian American Muslim child brutally murdered in an anti-Palestinian hate crime three years ago today in Chicago. We remember Wadee not simply as a victim of an unspeakable hate crime, but as a symbol of what his life could have been. Just like the children of Gaza enduring genocide, Wadee had dreams, hopes, and deserved to live a long, prosperous life. 

Although Wadee’s killer has been brought to justice, we must acknowledge that his murder was the byproduct of the anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic rhetoric perpetuated by the mainstream media and pro-Israel pundits following the genocide in Gaza. By equating Palestinians with extremism and denying their humanity, these nefarious voices manufactured consent for Palestinian Americans to be targeted based on their identity:

“Remembering Wadee is not enough. America must confront a difficult question: what have we learned from this tragedy? The answer appears to be nothing at all. We are now three years into a genocide in which the U.S. has given Israel billions to kill and maim Palestinian children across Gaza and the West Bank. President Trump has also used ‘Palestinian’ as a racial pejorative against political opponents. Our government’s foreign policy and personal beliefs are reflected by its horrid treatment of Palestinians. Until Washington sees our people as humans and imposes consequences for Israel’s crimes, both Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans will continue to have a target on their backs.” – Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid, AMP Executive Director.

As anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia continue to threaten Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities across the U.S., Wadee’s murder serves as a reminder of the real-world consequences of both Palestinian dehumanization and continued U.S. subservience to Israeli interests.

We will never forget Wadee. AMP will continue confronting the hatred that made his murder possible while pursuing accountability against those who aid and abet Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians.

In solidarity,

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)

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NietMijnSongfestival. Dat is de boodschap van honderden NPO-medewerkers in een brandbrief die vandaag naar de NPO-directie is verstuurd [1]. Daarin riepen zij op de Nederlandse deelname aan het Songfestival in te trekken. De NPO besloot onlangs namelijk om in 2027 toch weer aan het Eurovisie Songfestival mee te doen. Dat valt niet uit te leggen.

Het besluit van de NPO kwam uit de lucht vallen, juist omdat AVROTROS zich eerder opnieuw terugtrok vanwege de deelname van Israël [2]. Israël pleegt nog altijd een genocide op de Palestijnen in Gaza. Het is daarom onacceptabel om nu weer aan het Eurovisie Songfestival deel te nemen.

Zowel buiten als binnen de publieke omroep heeft het besluit van de NPO tot woede geleid. Afgelopen donderdag vroegen zeven omroepen de NPO om opheldering over de keuze om aan het songfestival mee te doen [3] en daar komt nu de massaal ondertekende brandbrief bij. Ook jij kan meehelpen om de Nederlandse deelname te stoppen! Onze petitie leverde in enkele dagen al meer dan 36.000 handtekeningen op. Teken jij ook?

NPO-bestuursvoorzitter Jet de Ranitz geeft aan dat het ‘verbindende karakter’ van het songfestival weer belangrijker moet worden [4]. Daarmee kiest de NPO ervoor om de politieke lading van het evenement te negeren. Israël gebruikt evenementen als het songfestival om het imago op te poetsen en de aandacht af te leiden van hun oorlogsmisdaden. Het feit dat Israël eerder de televoting manipuleerde om stemmen binnen te harken is daar het bewijs van [5].

De NPO heeft op dit moment de mogelijkheid om op haar besluit terug te komen. Daarom is het juist nu belangrijk dat we de druk op het NPO-bestuur nog verder opvoeren. Hoe meer mensen de petitie ondertekenen, hoe groter de kans is dat de NPO zich toch nog terugtrekt. Zolang Israël aan het Songfestival meedoet, hebben wij daar niets te zoeken.

Met strijdbare groet, 

David van DeGoedeZaak

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Roni here. As a teenager, I stood in front of the Israeli army's so-called “conscience committee” and pleaded my case as a pacifist. Today, I work at the Resistance Solidarity Network to oppose war and violence everywhere, especially the crime Israel commits in my name. If this feeling resonates with you too, please consider supporting our work via this link, and join those around the world who help those resisting on the ground from within Israel-Palestine.

These days, I am based in New York, where the Jewish community grows more and more critical of Israel and the Israeli occupation every day. Only a couple of weeks ago, as the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to speak in front of the UN, hundreds of anti-Zionist Jewish New Yorkers blocked the main avenue leading to the UN headquarters, in a direct action led by Jewish Voice for Peace.

Over a hundred were arrested, including several elected officials and Democratic candidates. Among the crowd were also dozens of anti-Zionist Israelis living in New York, some of whom risked arrest to shut down the street before Netanyahu was set to drive through it.

In the afternoon, I joined a crowd of thousands of New Yorkers protesting outside of the UN just as Netanyahu ended his speech. The protest, organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, called to enforce the ICC warrant and end the 75+ years of Israeli occupation. 

As an anti-Zionist Israeli living in New York, I felt compelled not to let the day go by as normal. Netanyahu is a war criminal with the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinians on his hands, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). He is also the prime minister of the country where I was born and is actively endorsed by the country where I currently reside.

The fact that he is able to visit New York and the UN without the enforcement of the ICC warrant is infuriating to me both as a New Yorker and an Israeli resisting occupation and apartheid. I felt a responsibility to show up and join the protests and not stay silent as Netanyahu is giving a speech meant to dehumanize Palestinians even further.

I believe it is our duty as justice-seekers around the world to not stay silent in the face of ongoing genocide, and even more so when it is being carried out in our name as Jews or Israelis. This means showing up, physically and symbolically, whenever and however we can.
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In solidarity,

Roni Zahavi-Brunner
Social Media and Ads Manager
Resistance Solidarity Network

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This past March, Palestinian protestor Leqaa Kordia was finally freed from ICE detention following more than a year in custody under horrific conditions.

Thousands of you rallied in support of Leqaa, sending emails, making calls, and taking action to demand her freedom. That pressure and the tireless work of her legal team drew the mass attention to her case necessary to push officials to act and secure her release.

Now, in a new exclusive interview with Adalah Justice Project for The Palestine Connection, Leqaa speaks about her experience in ICE detention, the parallels to life under Israeli occupation, and the moral obligation to speak out even in the face of repression.

She, along with other Columbia protestors including Mahmoud Khalil, was ripped from her community for speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza, and placed inside a system that punishes dissent and strips people of their dignity.

In her interview, Leqaa discusses her bond with the women in the Prairieland Detention Facility, the real motivations of her arrest, the realities of life in detention and under occupation, and meaningful ways to support people still imprisoned by ICE. 

Read Leqaa's interview

Here are two ways you can support immigrants in ICE detention right now:

1. Write letters to people currently in detention through initiatives like Cartas de Paz or by connecting with local immigrant rights and abolitionist organizations near you.
2. Donate to bail and bond funds to help people reunite with loved ones while they await trial. Find community-led funds in your state through Community Justice Exchange’s National Bail Fund Network. 

Leqaa's story highlights the interconnectedness of the struggles for Palestinian liberation and immigrant justice, and shines a light on the abusive conditions experienced by tens of thousands of people currently in ICE detention. It also demonstrates the power we have when we come together to have a real impact on people’s lives and secure important political victories that will impact generations to come.
 

“Solidarity isn’t about being safe and comfortable. It’s about being brave enough to stand up for the oppressed.” Leqaa Kordia
We hope you will take the time to read her words and let her courage and conviction help power you through the fights for justice that lie ahead.
 Read more on Substack

In solidarity,

Alia E.
Adalah Justice Project

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Three years of genocide.

Channel your grief into collective power: Power Half-Hours for Gaza.

Jewish Currents Live: A Day of Politics and Culture.

We’re listening to: Left at Siani.

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AMP Launches Month of Action Commemorating Three Years of Genocide in Gaza

As we mark three years of Israeli genocide in Gaza, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) is launching a Month of Action. Our chapters across the country will mobilize their communities for protests demanding an end to Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

AMP will make it clear to U.S. lawmakers that Israel’s brutality against the Palestinian people is not a new phenomenon. From the Balfour Declaration to Israeli massacres at Deir Yassin, Tantura, Qibya, Kafr Qassem, and Sabra and Shatila – Israel’s genocide in Gaza is a byproduct of successive U.S. administrations’ historical support for Israel. The evidence? The U.S. has given Israel $300 billion in aid since 1948, including over $20 billion in military aid just in the last three years, as well as diplomatic cover to pursue its crimes. That is why, as Americans, we must continue to speak out against Washington’s systematic enabling of Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity.

In the last three years, Israel has systematically murdered Palestinians in Gaza, entrenched its apartheid rule in the occupied West Bank, victimized thousands of Palestinian prisoners, and continues to brutalize Palestinian-Americans with impunity. Despite these horrific circumstances, the tide has turned. Every day, Americans bear witness to Israel’s war crimes as Palestinians document their own genocide on social media – resulting in a transformative shift in Americans’ views on Palestinian human rights. 60% of Americans now view Israel unfavorably while 41% sympathize with the Palestinians. Even some Republicans now support accountability for Israeli war crimes against Palestinians and American citizens alike. Such progress would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

However, progress does not come without costs. Salah Sarsour, Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi, Leqaa Kordia, college students, and activists across the country have been met with state-backed repression designed to intimidate them into silence. This did not happen in a vacuum. Growing support for Palestinian human rights is precisely why the pro-Palestine movement faces vicious assaults on its First Amendment rights.

Even AMP has faced sham lawsuits meant to render us ineffective. However, those attacks have fallen short. We will not succumb to defamation, intimidation, or smear campaigns. Three years of genocide have only strengthened our resolve.

That is why during our Month of Action, we call on everyone to transform their grief into action by:

• Organizing protests and activities centered on accountability.
• Demanding an end to genocide, apartheid, and constant attacks on Masjid Al-Aqsa.
• Building lasting political power to secure Palestinian human rights.

AMP will continue organizing until the Palestinian people achieve the freedom, justice, and dignity they have been denied for generations.

In solidarity,

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)

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Today marks three years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

It's a reality I have struggled to accept, yet witness everyday through the messages I receive from loved ones back home, through the photos and videos that fill my feed, and through the knowledge that the atrocities against the Palestinian people never ceased despite what the media and our politicians tell us. Like many of us, the gravity of this reality has forced me to reflect on the ravages of Israel’s violence, and our movement’s efforts to disrupt and dismantle the U.S.-Israel war machine.

While trying to process these last three years, I kept coming back to one theme: distance. The painful distance between Palestinians in Gaza, across occupied Palestine, and in the diaspora. A distance that is imposed upon us by force, used as a weapon by our oppressors to isolate us from each other, sow resentment and fragmentation, and strip us of our collective power.

I reflected on this distance, our love for each other, and our fight to close that gap in my new essay on our Substack, “On the Distance Between Us.”

Read “On the Distance Between Us: A Love Letter to the People of Palestine.”

We must not let this distance define us, but rather, recommit ourselves to one another and our struggle for freedom.

One way we do this is by using this grim anniversary to renew and step up our support for Palestinians surviving genocide.

Please consider giving to Network for Palestine this week to support evacuated Palestinians from Gaza who are now living in Egypt. 

Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, thousands of Palestinians have been evacuated to Egypt to seek safety and stability for themselves and their families. With little support from the Egyptian government, the community has worked to fill the gap.

In Cairo, Network for Palestine is a key group building community and providing support for displaced Palestinian refugees, including assistance with housing, healthcare, education, and donated goods. Their work is one small way of making sure that displacement doesn’t also mean being left alone.

With gratitude,

Sandra Tamari
Co-Executive Director
Adalah Justice Project

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On Community and Erasure: Lessons from Tulkarem Refugee Camp

Once called the “Mountain of Vineyards”, Tulkarem City stood as an agricultural hub of Palestinian life for centuries before the 1948 Nakba, after which becoming the site of the Tulkarem refugee camp and housing over 27,000 Palestinians displaced by Israel’s occupation. With increased military operations through the West Bank and Gaza over the last three years, delegations with Eyewitness Palestine have seen Tulkarem transform from an overcrowded displacement zone into uninhabitable rubble.  

Larry McCullough, Eyewitness Palestine’s (EP) Programming Coordinator, first visited Tulkarem in 2016 and returned to lead delegations after finding an unlikely community among the camp’s Afro-Palestinian residents. He recalled coming across a wedding ceremony in the camp, and instead of being asked to leave, was welcomed into the festivities as kin.

“I felt like I was amongst people that I knew. It felt familiar,” Larry said.

Larry has since led EP’s December 2024 and April 2025 delegations, stopping in Tulkarem to hear stories from Palestinian refugees, paint murals with children in the camp, and spend time with EP’s local ambassador, Fadwa Ofeh. During his 2024 visit, he noted that the camp’s limited space (approx. 0.18 km² / 0.4 mi²) meant residential structures were built upward, with generations of a family often occupying a single building. Community was key to the camp’s survival.

In January 2025, only a few weeks after Larry’s December delegation, Israeli forces destroyed over 12,000 residential structures in Tulkarem refugee camp, re-displacing its remaining residents as the genocide continues. Soldiers have remained at the site since. Nicholas Hernandez, returning member of EP’s February 2026 delegation, said that reuniting with Fadwa and seeing the decimated camp for the first time was a surreal experience.

“It became apparent to me after she (Fadwa) started explaining to us a little later that [the Israeli military] destroyed her home. It’s gone,” Nicholas said.

Both Nicholas and Larry said that bearing witness to the destruction, understanding what life is like in Palestine right now, is important for educating people and holding Israel accountable for the genocide.

“That government (Israel’s government) does not want people to come,” Larry said. “They’d rather us not, so they can continue to erase history and erase lives.”

During the February 2026 delegation, Nicholas brought a camera to not only capture the genocide but also glimpses of what Palestinian life looks like, including native plants like the Palestinian oak tree. An Indigenous person of Southern California’s Cahuilla nation, Nicholas recognized that the occupation’s erasure of Palestinian culture mirrors the actions of Western colonial projects.

Larry said that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians reminded him of America’s discriminatory policing of Black communities and that Palestine showed him how the same methods of erasure and dominance are used by oppressive regimes across the globe.

“Palestine has been able to also let me see my own history through a completely different lens,” Larry said. “‘Resistance’ and ‘perseverance’, the same words that we use for Palestinians, I see with my own people, I see with the native people here in America.”

Nicholas believes that programs like EP’s delegations not only help challenge the privileges and biases of American life but are crucial for showing solidarity with the Palestinian people.  

“It’s the bare minimum that you can do when there’s such an…injustice,” Nicholas said.  “The bare minimum you can literally do is just show up and be present. Even when it’s overwhelmingly difficult.”

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­How three years of Israel's genocidal war have changed Gaza

War has devastated Gaza’s economy, education, healthcare, infrastructure and public services, transforming how Palestinians live,­

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Zionist disinformation normalized a genocide.

Confronting narrative warfare goes beyond shifting public opinions. Distorted language continues to kill and prevent our people from staying on their land.
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Last month, HRF went a step further in its mission to bring perpetrators of genocide in Gaza to justice, exposing how states attempt to evade their legal obligations when accountability becomes politically inconvenient.

APPEALS

• Greece: HRF has appealed the Athens prosecutor’s decision to dismiss its complaint against Israeli reservist Oran Rubin, after Greece ruled that it lacked jurisdiction despite previously having opened two investigations into Israeli suspects.

• Lithuania: HRF has taken the state of Lithuania to the European Court of Human Rights after Lithuanian courts refused to investigate Israeli soldier Sean Gor, accused of war crimes, including the killing of Hind Rajab.

NEW CASES

• Italy: HRF has filed a criminal complaint against Israeli soldier Yonatan Chalich, on holiday in Tuscany, over the deadly siege of Al-Shifa Hospital and other crimes committed during the genocide in Gaza.

• Vietnam: HRF has filed its second complaint in Vietnam in two months, this time against Israeli reservist Hezi Gilboa, a D9 bulldozer operator who filmed himself demolishing Palestinian homes in Gaza.

Lithuania

In March, HRF filed a criminal complaint against Israeli soldier Sean Gor, who is studying dentistry in Lithuania. Gor served in the "Vampire Empire" company of the 52nd Armored Battalion, 401st Armored Brigade.

HRF's investigation links Gor’s unit to:

• The killing of Hind Rajab, members of her family, and the two paramedics sent to rescue them;

• The deadly siege of Al-Shifa Hospital;

• The raid and destruction of UNRWA's headquarters in Gaza City; and

• The destruction of Palestine Square.

The Lithuanian prosecutor refused to investigate Gor, calling universal jurisdiction an "exceptional" mechanism. Two courts upheld the refusal in April and May, after which HRF petitioned the Lithuanian Constitutional Court.

With every domestic remedy exhausted, HRF has now taken Lithuania to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that Lithuania's refusal to act in Gor’s case violates the European Convention on Human Rights.

Greece

On 1 September, HRF filed a criminal complaint against Israeli reservist Oran Rubin while he was on holiday in Athens. Rubin served in the 424th "Shaked" Battalion of the Givati Brigade and photographed himself on the rubble of Palestine Square and inside the destroyed Al-Taqwa Mosque.

Eight days later, the Chief Prosecutor dismissed the complaint, claiming Greece has no jurisdiction over crimes committed abroad by a foreign national. Yet, Greek authorities have already opened two investigations into Israeli suspects following complaints filed by HRF. The dismissal therefore contradicts Greece’s own previous application of jurisdiction in comparable cases.

HRF has filed an urgent appeal with the Athens Court of Appeals, arguing that:

• Greece is bound by the Geneva Conventions to investigate and prosecute grave breaches;

• Greek law provides jurisdiction over such crimes committed abroad, Greek law incorporates the Rome Statute crimes; and

• Under the Rome Statute, national courts bear primary responsibility for prosecuting international crimes, with the ICC acting only when states are unwilling or unable to do so. 

Italy

HRF filed a criminal complaint against Israeli soldier Yonatan Chalich while he was on holiday in Tuscany. Chalich served with the Tycoon Company of the Givati Shaked Battalion.

HRF's complaint states that Chalich was involved in three specific incidents in Gaza City that constitute international crimes.

• The siege and destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital, where Chalich documented himself inside the hospital complex and where mass graves containing at least 80 bodies were later discovered;

• The burning of the Haj Hamdi Harzallah mosque, while the area was under Israeli military control, and with members of Chalich’s company posing inside the mosque; and

• The systematic destruction of Palestine Square.

HRF has filed several complaints in Italy, yet Italian authorities have taken no action. HRF maintains that this continued inaction is incompatible with Italy's obligations under the Geneva and Genocide Conventions. 

Vietnam

HRF has filed a criminal complaint with Vietnamese authorities against Israeli reservist Hezi Gilboa, who served as a D9 armored bulldozer operator with the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion.

Gilboa published videos of himself demolishing, detonating, and burning Palestinian homes in Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah. Gilboa also publicly described his unit's method, stating that: even when soldiers found no military target in an area, they would "complete the demolition and flatten everything."

HRF submitted that Gilboa has been involved in:

• The destruction of the Abbas Police Station in Gaza City; and

• The destruction of Palestine Square.

The complaint concerns attacks on civilian objects and destruction of property without military necessity based substantially on evidence Gilboa himself published. Vietnam must not become a holiday destination where those implicated in the genocide in Gaza can escape accountability.

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Since 2024, HRF has initiated more than 100 legal actions in 34 jurisdictions, including 19 Article 15 submissions to the ICC. These actions have resulted in arrests, police questioning, criminal investigations, and probe orders.

But, our work does not end when a prosecutor refuses to investigate or a court dismisses a case. We challenge those decisions, exhaust every legal avenue, and pursue action against states that fail to meet their obligations under international law. Impunity will not go unchallenged.

Give monthly or make a one-time donation. Help us pursue perpetrators and hold states accountable for meeting their obligations under international law.

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Humanitarian Situation Report

2 October 2026

Children attend classes as learning resumes for the new academic year in Gaza. Photo by UNICEF

Highlights

• In Gaza, daily hot meal production and monthly household-level parcel distributions will shrink significantly from October onwards due to funding shortfalls, the Food Security Sector warns.
• Over 13 per cent of Gaza’s population lives in flood-prone displacement sites or unsafe buildings; about  279,000 people are sheltering in 400 flood-prone displacement sites and over 2,300 in unsafe buildings requiring demolition.
• Funding shortfalls and restrictions on the entry of engine oil, spare parts and equipment continue to pose challenges, reducing desalination in southern Gaza and forcing reliance on donkey carts and UN trucks for solid waste collection.
• In the West Bank, demolitions displaced 55 Palestinians, including 32 children, in Jinba on 23 September. In September, homes and other structures in three other Masafer Yatta communities were almost entirely demolished.
• More than 100 Israeli settlers damaged properties in Jalud (Nablus), thwarting an attempt by Israeli forces to bring a Palestinian family back home under a court order; the family remained displaced.
• Settler violence and access restrictions disrupted education in Hebron and Tubas, leading seven children to relocate and two to drop out in Qawawis, while seven children in Khirbet ar Ras al Ahmar remained without access to in-person education.

Overview

Briefing the Security Council on 28 September, the Acting Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Deputy Special Coordinator, UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov described the situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Alakbarov said that the Israeli authorities continued to withhold from the Palestinian authorities some US$6 billion in clearance revenues. “The Palestinian Authority is unable to deliver basic services, sustain social protection, or pay full salaries to civil servants and security personnel,” he said.

In the Gaza Strip, he noted daily airstrikes in densely populated areas. Despite increased supplies of food and sanitary items in recent months, he warned that “the health situation remains critical,” adding that “infectious diseases remain widespread amid overcrowded displacement sites and inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene conditions, while shortages of medical supplies, fuel and the overall humanitarian response are compounded by funding shortfalls.” Dr. Alakbarov said that “restrictions on the entry of critical humanitarian items continue to impede the scale-up of the humanitarian response,” including preparations for the rainy season.

Regarding the West Bank, he spoke about people being exposed to unprecedented levels of settler violence and to continued demolitions and home evictions. He highlighted concerns that Palestinians in some areas are being encircled, resulting in restrictions on their access to farmland and open space. In particular, he highlighted the recent full depopulation of three Palestinian communities following sustained settler violence and the case of three families in Qusra who “have been effectively confined to their homes without adequate supplies and systematically harassed and intimidated since 9 August amid continued presence of Israeli settlers and Israeli forces.” He acknowledged measures by Israeli officials to prosecute several perpetrators but said the vast majority had not been held accountable.

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AMP Chicago’s Palestine Fest Brings Community of Nearly 10,000 Together

We Will Not Let Provocateurs Detract from the Success of Palestine Fest

Yesterday, American Muslims for Palestine’s Chicago Chapter hosted its 4th annual Palestine Fest in Bridgeview, Illinois. The festival was a resounding success. According to SeatGeek, nearly 10,000 people attended the festival, drawing high-profile media coverage from ABC, CBS, The Associated Press, and other local news outlets. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Bridgeview Mayor Steven Landek were also in attendance alongside AMP National Chair Dr. Hatem Bazian and board member Salah Sarsour.

During the event, far-right provocateurs attempted to hijack the event and instigate responses from the attendees. AMP and its Chicago Chapter want to make it unequivocally clear: We will not let outside forces define our culture, nor will we allow bad-faith actors to gain legitimacy off Palestine Fest. Why? Because Palestine Fest and its attendees embody Palestinian culture, its diversity, warmth, and the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in pursuit of freedom and dignity. Our cause – and the people who have dedicated themselves to it – deserve that recognition more than irrelevant individuals who only thrive off hatred and the attention granted to them by the media.

All throughout the day, the festival was filled with the gathering of families, the laughter of children, and a community coming together to embrace the uniqueness of Palestinian culture and tradition. AMP will continue to work tirelessly to promote awareness of the rich culture, heritage, and traditions of the Palestinian people. We thank everyone for attending and making Palestine Fest an incredible act of solidarity and action.

“AMP Chicago is proud of our community for attending Palestine Fest and uplifting the beauty of Palestinian culture. No matter what anyone tries to do, we will stand united against hate and use yesterday’s event as a vehicle for standing up for the oppressed, honoring our elders and passing the story of Palestine down to our children.” – Amira Daoud, AMP Chicago Board Member and Palestine Fest Operations Manager.

In solidarity,

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)

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The Ireland vs genocidal Israel Nations League match is today. Let’s make sure the focus remains on Palestinians!

The match should not be happening at all. UEFA should have long ago excluded apartheid Israel.

Ireland goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu took a courageous and selfless stand, choosing to boycott both matches with genocidal Israel. Bazunu said, “There are few times where you get a chance in life to stand up for something bigger and I strongly believe that this is one of them.”

Complicit UEFA allowed the Ireland “home” match to be played in Serbia to avoid mass protests.

But that won’t stop us! 

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Join us on social media to keep the focus on Palestinians and Israel’s horrifying crimes against our people.

A significant number of players voted against playing the matches.

The Stop the Game campaign kept Israel's genocide in Gaza and apartheid rule over Palestinians and the Palestinian call for a sports boycott center field, making it an international story.

More than 200 Irish athletes, trade unions, sports journalists and personalities, 140 pubs and political parties all called on Ireland not to play the matches.

Join the campaign online to highlight the hypocrisy of sporting bodies and the people power standing up for Palestinian rights

The small group of Israeli fans allowed into last Sunday’s closed door match cared nothing about football. They focused entirely on genocide washing propaganda and chanting “IDF! IDF! IDF!” in criminal support of Israel’s military committing the livestreamed genocide in Gaza. UEFA has yet to take any action.

The Israel Football Association (IFA) itself includes teams in Israel’s illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land, created a “reservist” league of soldiers serving in Israel’s Gaza genocide, and has dedicated matches to those same soldiers.

Boycott the match. Join us on social media instead. And let’s keep pushing to kick apartheid Israel out of international sports, as apartheid South Africa was.

No normal sports with a rogue genocidal state.

In solidarity,

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

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Mattan here. In 2017, I refused to join the Israeli army, and spent 110 days in prison. At the last Venice Film Festival, the film “NAZA” won the Special Jury Prize, and continues to win awards in festivals worldwide. “NAZA” is a documentary that examines the civilian casualties of Israel's genocide in Gaza and the systems behind the targeting and killings of Palestinians. It was directed by two Israeli journalists and filmmakers, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. This event caused fury in Israel and persecution against them. Now, the Israeli government threatens to revoke their citizenship, and seeks legal action against those who participated in the film. This is the reality of any resister who wants to bring the truth to light in Israel. We must support and show them that we are here to back them up. Write a letter of support at this link and ask 3 of your friends to do the same. Let's show them they are not alone.

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“NAZA” (collateral damage in Hebrew) is a documentary film that features 24 anonymous military and intelligence insiders discussing and providing insight into the behind-the-scenes of the destruction of Gaza by Israel. The film describes three main practices: 

• Israel has increased what it considers “acceptable collateral damage” of innocent civilians in Gaza, allowing the expected death of dozens of people for every lower-ranking targeted Hamas member, and even hundreds of people for one high-ranking member. This resulted in the killing of thousands of Palestinians, approved by Israel.

   

• Israel hacked the cell phones of targets’ children to locate their targets, and knowingly bombed them in their homes while their families were present.

   

• Israel used AI to create and attack targets. The human approval became a rubber-stamp process, which dehumanised life-and-death decisions of thousands of people. Additionally, many of the targets the AI created were innocent citizens.

The film caused a huge backlash from the Israeli government, although they never watched it. The Israeli minister of culture and sport said: “I will act immediately to revoke the Israeli citizenship of these despicable creators for treason against the state”. The chief of general staff of the Israeli military said that they are examining possible legal measures concerning the film and those involved in it. Additionally, he asked the secret service for help in getting the film materials. Moreover, The Israeli media questioned their integrity as journalists, although the movie was made together with “The Guardian”. The persecution against Yuval and Rachel, the film directors, didn't end there. Graffiti of their faces with the word “traitors” was made, and aright-wing group harassed their family members at their home, calling them “traitors”.
 

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This is the reality in Israel. The people who resist the crimes of the state and uncover the truth are persecuted and threatened. We see it with every act of anti-occupation resistance: from political persecution to police brutality. Yuval and Rachel, and many others, have not backed down: ”Journalism is not betrayal. Criticism is not betrayal. It is the duty of every citizen whose government commits crimes to know, and of every soldier who witnessed them to tell,” Yuval wrote. He also mentioned that: “Threats will not make me stop. Rachel and I will be back in Israel, and we will continue to fight for the future of this place together with our many partners.” 

Yuval and Rachel are brave. They brought the truth to the world although they knew the risks. I know how hard it can be in their position, as a person who experienced that too. What helped me, and can help them, is to show them that they have support and to show them the impact of their work. Write a support letter using this link and invite 3 of your friends to do the same.

In solidarity,

Mattan Helman
Team Coordinator
Resistance Solidarity Network

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4 oktober 2026

On October 2nd, 2026, our founder and Executive Director, Issa Amro, was detained by Israeli forces. For seven hours, his condition and whereabouts were unknown. He was held incommunicado at a military base, blindfolded, handcuffed behind his back, beaten, bitten by a dog, and badly treated. He was released overnight.

Issa had been responding to a distress call from a local Palestinian family under attack by settlers when he was picked up for walking too close to a settlement.

You can hear Issa describe what happened here.

This is not the first time Issa has been arbitrarily arrested or detained. On October 7, 2023, he was abducted by a group of Israeli soldiers and settlers and held on an Israeli army base near his home in Hebron. He reported being tortured for twelve hours, including sexual assault and mock executions, before being released and placed under house arrest. For more than a decade, UN Special Rapporteurs, Amnesty International, and numerous human rights organizations have repeatedly expressed concern for his life, safety, and well-being.

Escalating Settler Violence Ahead of Elections

Hebron and the South Hebron Hills are marked by settler violence, land seizures and closures, all of which have increased in recent years.

“Settlers control everything in this area,” said Mohammad Amro, spokesman for the group Youth Against Settlements. “We need the international community to speak up to support us against land taking and violence, and to protect the Palestinian defenders of human rights.”

In an attempt to win more votes from extremists, the current Israeli government is making life increasingly difficult.

Please listen to Issa discuss the current realities on the ground in this video, including how settlers are trying to steal the locals’ olives during the harvest.

Since 2023, the number of checkpoints in the West Bank have nearly doubled, now amounting to 925 movement obstacles. Within approximately one square kilometer, Hebron city hosts nearly 40% of all checkpoints in the West Bank and 11% of all movement barriers. This is making it almost impossible to leave one community for another. Meanwhile, Israel has advanced more than 40,000 illegal settlement units and established 185 new outposts while taking over more and more land. We are seeing a “de facto annexation” of the West Bank.

International Outreach

Despite these challenges, our work continues. This summer, we met with members of The Elders in Ramallah, including former Irish President Mary Robinson, to discuss the reality for Palestinians living in the Occupied West Bank.

Family Support

We hosted a Kids Day with face painting and a full slate of activities for local children — a bright day amid a hard year.

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Ahmad Film House

Our screenings continue at our cinema in Hebron. We recently showed the film Seeds of Liberation followed by a Q&A with director Matthew Solomon.

The ’Om Project

Our work continues with the women featured in ’Om (Mother), the photography project in which women from Tel Rumeida families documented their own lives and homes. Proceeds from that project are helping these women upgrade aspects of their homes.

New Website

And finally, we are thrilled to announce that we have a new and updated Friends of Hebron website. We hope you like it as much as we do and find the resources useful.

Supporting Friends of Hebron

As the situation on the ground grows more complicated, please consider making a donation to Friends of Hebron. Your support helps our community stay resilient and safe.

With thanks for your continued support and care,

Issa and the Friends of Hebron team

2097.

2 oktober 2026

Sommige getuigenissen kun je niet zomaar van je afzetten. Dat gold woensdagavond voor Bearing Witness, de bijeenkomst van The Rights Forum over marteling in Israëlische gevangenissen. Onder leiding van Nadia Moussaid vertelden de Palestijnse advocaat Sary Khuriya, de Israëlische chirurg Daniel Solomon, Mays Medleg van Physicians for Human Rights Israel en de Nederlandse arts Salih El Saddy over wat zij zelf hadden meegemaakt en gezien.

Hun persoonlijke getuigenissen kwamen hard binnen. Sary Khuriya vertelde over de marteling die hij tijdens zijn detentie had ondergaan en over de mishandeling en dood van medegevangenen. Daniel Solomon sprak, tijdens de bijeenkomst maar ook in een interview met hem dat wij eerder publiceerden, over de autopsies die hij had uitgevoerd op Palestijnen die in Israëlische gevangenschap waren omgekomen en over de angst die inmiddels ook onder Israëlische artsen bestaat om zich uit te spreken. Dat zij desondanks spreken, vergt moed. Getuigen over marteling en andere misdaden heeft in Israël persoonlijke en professionele consequenties.

Tijdens de bijeenkomst werd ook duidelijk dat wezenlijke verandering in Israël niet van binnenuit zal komen. Israëlische en Palestijnse mensenrechtenverdedigers waarschuwden ons daar al ver vóór 7 oktober 2023 voor. Hun moed, en die van Palestijnen die ondanks alles blijven getuigen, legt daarom ook een verantwoordelijkheid bij óns. Hun getuigenissen vragen meer van ons dan alleen te luisteren. Daarom is de delegatie ook in gesprek gegaan met het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Tweede Kamerleden, maatschappelijke organisaties en beroepsorganisaties.

vlnr: Mays Medleg, Daniel Solomon, Salih El Saddy, Sary Khuriya en Nadia Moussaid. © Hanneke Vollbehr @ohbeautifulworld

Die verantwoordelijkheid om de verhalen door te vertellen voelde ik de afgelopen weken ook in Libanon. Naar aanleiding van de herdenking van Sabra en Shatila sprak ik met mensen die dit bloedbad zelf meemaakten. In Palestijnse vluchtelingenkampen sprak ik met jongeren over hun toekomst. En ik ontmoette kinderen uit Gaza die door dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta en zijn team in Beiroet worden behandeld.

Ik zag Hanan, vijf jaar oud, die haar moeder had verloren en wiens beide onderbenen zijn geamputeerd. Ik zag Mohammed, bij wie een groot deel van zijn gezicht was weggeslagen. En een andere Mohammed, die door een drone in zijn nek was geschoten en volledig verlamd raakte. Maar bij hen en bij andere slachtoffers zag ik óók een enorme wilskracht. Een wil om ondanks alles door te gaan.

Steeds opnieuw gaat het om mensen die vertellen wat hun is aangedaan en die vragen dat de buitenwereld niet wegkijkt. Luisteren alleen is niet genoeg.

Het is aan de Europese Unie en de Nederlandse regering om aan die getuigenissen consequenties te verbinden. Maar die verantwoordelijkheid ligt niet alleen bij regeringen. Ook wij moeten naast Palestijnen en Israëliërs staan die, soms met gevaar voor zichzelf, blijven spreken. Door hun verhalen verder te brengen. Door duidelijk, effectief en waardig op te komen voor internationaal recht en rechtvaardigheid, voor een einde aan de bezetting en aan de genocide in Gaza.

Getuigen vraagt moed. Het horen van die getuigenissen schept verantwoordelijkheid.

Gerard Jonkman
Directeur The Rights Forum

De genocide op Palestijnen raast door. Israël blijft aanvallen, bezetten en vermoorden. En Nederland? Nederland blijft financieren en faciliteren.

Dat accepteren wij niet. Daarom komen wij in actie, samen met heel Nederland.

Laat hier je naam en e-mail achter om als eerste een seintje te krijgen zodra we meer kunnen vertellen.

Deze week op onze website:

Tweede Kamer eensgezind over bescherming Strafhof, nog niet over het tempo
1 oktober 2026

De Tweede Kamer is het eens met de inzet van het ‘blocking statute’ om het Strafhof te beschermen tegen Amerikaanse sancties. De vraag is alleen wanneer dit ‘paardenmiddel’ wordt ingezet en wat de gevolgen zijn.

VN publiceert update van lijst met bedrijven die bijdragen aan Israëls illegale nederzettingen
30 september 2026

Op de herziene lijst staan 214 bedrijven, waaronder het Nederlandse Booking. Ook bevat de lijst namen van internationale bedrijven die in Nederland actief zijn of hier producten verkopen.

Lees meer over de 'zwarte lijst'Interview | ‘Als je genocide pleegt, hoor je niet meer mee te mogen doen’
29 september 2026

Marwan Barghouti, de ‘Palestijnse Mandela’, zit al bijna 25 jaar vast in een Israëlische cel. ‘De grootste bedreiging voor Israël zijn niet extreme leiders. De grootste bedreiging zijn gematigde leiders’, zegt zijn zoon Arab.

Deze week publiceerden we ook volop korte nieuwsberichten in onze rubriek Kort Nieuws. Zo schreven we over het besluit van de gemeente Alkmaar dat supporters van de Israëlische club Hapoel Be'er Sheva niet welkom zijn bij de wedstrijd tegen AZ, de uitzetting van Nederlandse diplomaten uit Ramallah, en nog veel meer.

Wilt u teruglezen wat er deze week verder is gebeurd, en op de hoogte blijven van het laatste nieuws?

Lees dan onze rubriek Kort Nieuws

Gezocht | Nieuwe penningmeester Vrienden Tent of Nations

Heeft u ervaring als penningmeester of een financiële achtergrond? Bent u goed met cijfers en draagt u Tent of Nations een warm hart toe? En kunt u ook nog eens strategisch denken? Overweeg dan om u aan te melden als nieuwe penningmeester bij Vrienden Tent of Nations Nederland. Een mooie kans om uw kennis en betrokkenheid in te zetten, en als bestuurslid mee te denken over de verdere ontwikkeling van de organisatie. Interesse? Bekijk de vacature en ontdek of deze rol bij u past\

Boekbespreking | De vernietigende mediakritiek in Don’t say Palestine moet tot stevige zelfreflectie leiden
2 oktober 2026

Historicus Assal Rad corrigeert al jaren koppen van toonaangevende media. De berichtgeving over Palestina ‘vertroebelt de feiten om de ergste misdaden te rechtvaardigen’, stelt ze in haar boek Don’t say Palestine.

Lees de boekbespreking van Eduard CousinFilmrecensie | Palestine 36 – epische film over geschiedenis die nog te onbekend is
26 september 2026

Palestine 36 van Annemarie Jacir draait nu in de Nederlandse bioscopen. De film toont dat de ontwrichting van Palestina al ver voor de stichting van de staat Israël begon.

Lees de recensie van Marianne Dagevos

Amsterdam & Utrecht | Actie Getuigen van Gaza

Op vrijdag 11 september 2026 begonnen Getuigen van Gaza Amsterdam en Utrecht een gezamenlijke actie om aandacht te vragen voor het lot van Palestijnse kinderen. Honderden mensen hebben de namen van ruim 21.600 Palestijnse kinderen op een groot herdenkingsdoek geschreven. Al deze kinderen kwamen tussen 7 oktober 2023 en april 2026 in Gaza om door Israëlisch geweld.

Op zondag 11 oktober wordt het doek in een stille tocht door Amsterdam gedragen, op zondag 18 oktober volgt een stille tocht door Utrecht. Bekijk de websites van Getuigen van Gaza Amsterdam en Utrecht voor meer informatie.

2096.

1 oktober 2026

You know the claim. You've heard it before. But sometimes you don't find the words to answer it.

Introducing PaliAnswers, your new smart search tool under Communicating Palestine for responding to common Zionist propaganda.

Search a claim or keyword and find brief, sourced responses curated by Palestinian experts.

Open PaliAnswers

Zionism has relied on propaganda to justify its colonial project. Three years of genocide have shown that propaganda does more than distort facts: it manufactures consent, enables complicity and makes Palestinian humanity debatable.

PaliAnswers helps us build a stronger collective response: exposing false premises, restoring context and putting compelling facts and arguments into more hands.

2095.

1 oktober 2026

The olive harvest season has arrived. Across Palestine, families, neighbors, and entire communities gather in their groves to tend to the land and harvest olive trees that have been passed down for generations.

Traditionally a festive time of year, the olive harvest is often marked by Israeli settler violence, which has only intensified in recent years as the Israeli apartheid state makes moves to steal more and more of the West Bank.

Today, Palestinian families are gathering to pick olives in spite of these dangers. This week Israel cut off the occupied West Bank from the rest of the world, while Israel’s Finance Minister threatened to completely destroy the West Bank as Israel “did in Gaza.”¹

Palestinians are often barred from accessing their own lands and harvesting the fruits of their labor. Protected by Israeli occupation forces, Israeli settlers are increasing their violent attacks on farmers and their families, poisoning, cutting down, and setting fire to centuries-old trees with complete impunity.²

As Palestinian families defend their land, you can support their steadfastness by donating to plant olive trees in Palestine and power the movement in the U.S.

As the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) marks sixteen years of partnership with the Palestine Fair Trade Association (PFTA) in Jenin, we are filled with gratitude for generous supporters like you, who have helped plant over 41,600 olive saplings across Palestine.

Our annual Rooting Resistance campaign starts today in support of farmers across Palestine. This year, we intend to plant 5,000 olive trees and you can help with a contribution today.

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