In the Christian village of Taybeh, armed settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers and cheered on by Bezalel Smotrich, attack and steal with impunity

<article data-history-node-id="430446" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-launches-artillery-strikes-deir-el-balah" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-launches-artillery-strikes-deir-el-balah" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel launches artillery strikes on Deir el-Balah</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel &nbsp;launched an artillery attack on Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.&nbsp;</p> <p>The attack is just the latest in a string of Israeli ceasefire violations.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430447" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-said-rebellious-members-hamas-acting-against-us" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-said-rebellious-members-hamas-acting-against-us" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Trump said 'rebellious' members of Hamas acting against US</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>US President Donald Trump said that Hamas's security deployment against criminal gangs and Israeli collaborators was the work of "rebellious" members of the group and not the leadership.&nbsp;</p> <p>"We made a deal with Hamas that they are going to be very good, they are going to be behave, they are going to be nice...and if not they will be eradicated," he said.&nbsp;</p> <p>"I don't believe it was the leadership," Trump added, in an apparent reference to Hamas's bid to reestablish security in Gaza. He attributed the fighting to "rebellious" members of the group.&nbsp;</p> <p>Trump originally said he approved of the deployment of Hamas security forces, but has since called for the group to disarm.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

The strike will be launched on 2 November if the demands over conditions are not met, the largest prisoners' hunger strike in decades

<article data-history-node-id="430374" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-politburo-israel-continues-violate-ceasefire-agreement" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-politburo-israel-continues-violate-ceasefire-agreement" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hamas Politburo: Israel continues to violate ceasefire agreement</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hamas'&nbsp;Political Bureau affirmed the Palestinian movement's commitment to the ceasefire agreement.&nbsp;</p> <p>He stressed that Israel "continues to violate the agreement and fabricate flimsy pretexts to justify its crimes."</p> <p>"[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's attempts to evade and disavow his commitments come under pressure from his extremist terrorist coalition, in an attempt to evade his responsibilities to the mediators and guarantors," the Politburo added.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430389" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-strikes-100-targets-across-gaza-strip" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-strikes-100-targets-across-gaza-strip" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel strikes 100 targets across the Gaza Strip </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel's Channel 12 reported that the army had bombed around 100 targets in Gaza since Sunday morning, according to Al Jazeera.&nbsp;</p> <p>The wave of air strikes on the besieged enclave come after Israel made allegations that Hamas breached the ceasefire agreement.&nbsp;</p> <p>The armed wing of the Palestinian group, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, denied any knowledge of or connection to the alleged attack, which Israel said took place in an area under its control.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430390" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-asks-israel-respond-proportionately-show-restraint" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-asks-israel-respond-proportionately-show-restraint" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US asks Israel to 'respond proportionately but show restraint'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>United States officials said they are making efforts to prevent a collapse in the Gaza truce deal.&nbsp;</p> <p>This follows Israel's latest round of violations in the blockaded strip as it launched a series of deadly attacks across the territory after it alleged that Hamas had breached the agreement.&nbsp;</p> <p>Axios reported that US envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have spoken to Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and asked Israel to "respond proportionately but show restraint."</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430391" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-halts-aid-deliveries-gaza-major-breach-ceasefire" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-halts-aid-deliveries-gaza-major-breach-ceasefire" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel halts aid deliveries to Gaza in major breach of ceasefire</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="453" data-start="289">Israel’s Channel 12 reports that the political leadership has accepted a military recommendation to suspend aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip until further notice.</p> <p data-end="627" data-start="455">A security official confirmed the decision speaking to AFP, which will further tighten the blockade on a population already facing catastrophic humanitarian conditions under Israeli siege.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430393" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-kills-displaced-palestinians-sheltering-nuseirat" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-kills-displaced-palestinians-sheltering-nuseirat" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli strike kills displaced Palestinians sheltering in Nuseirat</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="524" data-start="310">A medical and emergency source told Al Jazeera Arabic that several Palestinians have been killed and others wounded after an Israeli air raid struck a tent sheltering displaced families south of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430401" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-genocide-moral-collapse-germanys-elite" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-genocide-moral-collapse-germanys-elite" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza genocide: On the moral collapse of Germany's elite</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>In a BBC&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcpcytUnWU" target="_blank">interview</a>&nbsp;in 1996,&nbsp;American intellectual Noam Chomsky was asked by presenter Andrew Marr how he&nbsp;could know that his interviewer was censoring himself.</p> <p>He replied: "I’m not saying that you are self-censoring. I am sure you believe everything you are saying. But what I am saying is that if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you are sitting."</p> <p>The voluntary internalisation of hegemonic views and the firm belief in them not only turn people into journalists in liberal media but also promotes them to the elites of society.</p> <p>In light of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/germany" target="_blank">Germany&nbsp;</a>is an excellent example of how this general social mechanism works and what catastrophic consequences it has.</p> <p>Germany’s "elites" in culture, the media, academia, politics, churches, trade unions, and social organisations&nbsp;would not be where they are if they did not submissively follow those in power.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="Gaza genocide: On the moral collapse of Germany's elite" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-genocide-moral-failure-germanys-elite">&nbsp;Gaza genocide: On the moral collapse of Germany's elite</a></h3> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/Around%2025000%20people%20protested%20in%20the%20streets%20of%20Berlin%20against%20the%20ongoing%20Israela%CC%82%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s%20genocide%20against%20Palestinians%20in%20Gaza%20Strip%20on%20Saturday%2011%20Oct-reuters.jpg.jpg?itok=059vL-YK"></p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430400" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-air-strikes-kill-least-45-across-gaza-civil-defence-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-air-strikes-kill-least-45-across-gaza-civil-defence-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli air strikes kill at least 45 across Gaza, civil defence says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="454" data-start="286">Gaza’s civil defence and hospital sources report that Israeli air raids across the territory have killed at least 45 people on Sunday.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430131" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-katz-hamas-release-four-dead-israeli-hostages-failure-meet" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-katz-hamas-release-four-dead-israeli-hostages-failure-meet" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel Katz: Hamas release of four dead Israeli hostages 'failure to meet requirements'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said in response to Hamas's anouncement that it would hand over the remains of four Israeli captives that the move is a "failure to meet requirements".</p> <p>"Any delay or deliberate avoidance will be considered a gross violation of the agreement and will be responded to accordingly," Katz said in a post on X.</p> <p>Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, all 48 Israeli captives are to be released within 72 hours of the Israeli army's redeployment. Hamas released all 20 living Israeli captives on Monday, and is yet to release the remains of 28 dead captives.</p> <p>Hamas previously indicated that recovering the bodies of some dead hostages may take longer, as not all burial sites are known.</p> <p><em>Reporting by Reuters</em></p> </div> </div> </article>