<article data-history-node-id="432063" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-13-syria" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-13-syria" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli raid kills 13 in Southern Syria</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli troops have killed 13 people and injured 25 others in a strike on Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside, Syrian state media reported.</p> <p>According to reports from Al Jazeera, Syrian Civil Defence said that they were unable to enter Beit Jinn for rescue operations due to sustained targeting from the Israeli military.</p> <p>The Al Jazeera report mentioned that most of the casualties from Friday’s attack were civilians.</p> <p>UN Deputy Special Envoy to Syria, Najat Rochdi, condemned the attacks as a “grave and unacceptable violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432066" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/syrian-foreign-minister-condemns-israeli-raid-beit-jinn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/syrian-foreign-minister-condemns-israeli-raid-beit-jinn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Syrian foreign minister condemns Israeli raid in Beit Jinn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani condemned the Israeli raid in Beit Jinn in a statement on X (formerly Twitter), referring to it as “an attack that deliberately targeted innocent civilians”.</p> <p>The raid in southern Syria left 13 people dead and 25 others injured earlier today.</p> <p>Shaibani also called on “the United Nations, the Security Council, and all Arab and Islamic nations to shoulder their responsibilities in the face of these repeated violations”, adding that “international silence only boldens the aggressor”.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432070" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-who-breached-syria-border-returned-military" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-who-breached-syria-border-returned-military" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli settlers who breached Syria border returned by military</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A group of settlers who crossed the border from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>&nbsp;into southern&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/syria" target="_blank">Syria</a>&nbsp;in an attempt to establish new settlements have been apprehended and returned by the Israeli military.</p> <p>On Thursday, some 13 settlers belonging to a group called the "Pioneers of the Bashan" cut through the border fence in two locations using angle grinders and drove into Syria with the aim of settling there.</p> <p>Five of the group breached the border in the Mount Hermon area, and another eight&nbsp;near the Syrian village of Bir Ajam in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.</p> <p>The Israeli military said in a statement that troops "rushed to the&nbsp;two locations, and shortly afterward the civilians were found" and&nbsp;that some "clashed" with the soldiers.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-who-breached-syria-border-returned-military">Israeli settlers who breached Syria border returned by military</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A member of Syria's security forces stands near Quneitra in southern Syria, on the edge of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on 21 September 2025 (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="3529104e-6a95-4ea9-8e79-69e4ec3a0be3" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/Quneitra-Syrian-security-forces-army-base-southern-Syria-21-September-2025-AFP.jpg" width="1400" height="788" alt="A member of Syria's security forces stands near Quneitra in southern Syria, on the edge of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on 21 September 2025 (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A member of Syria's security forces stands near Quneitra in southern Syria, on the edge of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on 21 September 2025 (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> </div> </div> </article>

Het oorspronkelijke 28-puntenplan om de oorlog in Oekraïne te beëindigen is geen aberratie van een Amerikaanse president die zich voor Poetins karretje …

The US president's 'Riviera' project to take over Gaza is being revived under international cover and continues a centuries-old American effort to colonise Palestine

<article data-history-node-id="432058" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-journalists-go-gaza-still-cover-israels-genocide" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-journalists-go-gaza-still-cover-israels-genocide" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UK journalists go to Gaza, but still cover up Israel’s genocide</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>or more than two years,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>&nbsp;has carried out a remorseless campaign of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">erasure in Gaza</a>, reducing the territory to rubble. Many&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>&nbsp;in the enclave have been turned into accidental journalists.&nbsp;</p> <p>Amid Israel’s ban on foreign journalists, the only sources of information have been the citizens living through and live-streaming the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/meaning-definition-what-genocide-israel-gaza" target="_blank">genocide</a>. Even so, their courageous efforts were not widely appreciated.</p> <p>“There are no journalists in Gaza,” David Lammy, then the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">British</a>&nbsp;foreign secretary,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-david-lammy-blasted-claiming-no-journalists-gaza" target="_blank">asserted</a>&nbsp;late last year. The same sentiment was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/christiane-amanpour-says-there-are-no-journalists-gaza" target="_blank">expressed</a>&nbsp;by prominent CNN presenter Christiane Amanpour.&nbsp;</p> <p>The implication was that Palestinians could not be trusted to narrate their reality accurately or objectively, and that only mainstream journalists could serve as credible truth-tellers to aid public understanding.</p> <p>Rooted in hubris, this theory has been put to the test and comprehensively shattered, as journalists from Britain’s main broadcasters - including ITV, Sky News and the BBC - recently entered Gaza, and characteristically obscured the reality. They upheld the fiction that Gaza represents the site of complex warfare, not meticulously orchestrated mass slaughter.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a data-qa="message_attachment_title_link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/even-gazas-ruins-uk-journalists-are-still-sanitising-genocide" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UK journalists go to Gaza, but still cover up Israel’s genocide</a></h3> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/Mourners%20react%20as%20they%20attend%20the%20funeral%20of%20Palestinians%20who%2C%20according%20to%20medics%2C%20were%20killed%20in%20Saturday%27s%20Israeli%20strikes%2C%20in%20Al-Aqsa%20Martyrs%20Hospital%2C%20in%20Deir%20al-Balah%2C%20central%20Gaza%20Strip%2C%20November%2023%2C%202025-reuters.jpg.jpg?itok=t-icwlAX"></p> </div> </div> </article>

Kamran Ahmed is one of six prisoners observing a rolling hunger strike over their detention conditions and the proscription of Palestine Action

<article data-history-node-id="432060" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/belgiums-foreign-minister-condemns-israeli-soldiers-killing-two" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/belgiums-foreign-minister-condemns-israeli-soldiers-killing-two" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Belgium’s foreign minister condemns Israeli soldiers for killing two Palestinians</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="716" data-start="512">Belgium’s foreign minister has sharply criticised Israel after footage from the occupied West Bank showed two Palestinians being shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Jenin, even as they appeared to surrender.</p> <p data-end="1057" data-start="718">Maxime Prevot said he was “shocked” by the video, describing it as “images showing Israeli soldiers cold-bloodedly shooting two surrendering civilians”. He stressed that the killings defied international law and demanded accountability from Israel, which continues to carry out lethal operations across Palestinian towns and refugee camps.</p> <p data-end="1233" data-start="1059">“This violence must stop,” Prevot wrote, adding to the growing diplomatic pressure on Israel as its forces and armed settlers intensify attacks across the occupied territory.</p> <p data-end="1629" data-start="1235">His remarks came shortly after the foreign ministers of France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany issued a rare joint statement warning of a “massive increase of settler violence” in the West Bank. The ministers urged Israel to rein in armed settlers, who operate with near-total impunity under military protection, and said the escalating assaults risk further destabilising the territory.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Tasneem al-Hams says she was used by Israeli prison guards to pressure her detained doctor father during interrogations

<article data-history-node-id="432052" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-vehicles-bombard-areas-southeast-khan-younis" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-vehicles-bombard-areas-southeast-khan-younis" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli military vehicles bombard areas southeast of Khan Younis</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="359" data-start="217">Palestinian media reported that Israeli military vehicles unleashed heavy fire on areas southeast of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.</p> <p data-end="517" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="361">Residents said the bombardment caused panic among civilians and added to the mounting destruction in a region already battered by sustained Israeli attacks.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432053" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-execute-two-surrendered-palestinians-point-blank-range" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-execute-two-surrendered-palestinians-point-blank-range" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces execute two surrendered Palestinians at point-blank range</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;forces executed two unarmed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>&nbsp;at point-blank range after they surrendered in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.</p> <p>The killings were captured on video, which showed the two men emerging from a building&nbsp;with their arms raised and their shirts lifted, clearly indicating they were unarmed and posed no threat to the soldiers.</p> <p>The troops then shoot them dead.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Palestinian health ministry identified the victims as Al-Muntasir Billah Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah, 26, and Yousef Ali Yousef Asa’sa, 37. They were shot in the Abu Dhahir neighborhood&nbsp;of Jenin.</p> <p>Israeli forces withheld their bodies after the killings.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="Israeli forces execute two surrendered Palestinians at point-blank range" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-bank-israeli-forces-execute-two-palestinians-point-blank-range">Israeli forces execute two surrendered Palestinians at point-blank range</a></h3> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/jenin-killed-2025.jpg.jpg?itok=PFSZbCj3"></p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432054" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-nine-palestinians-trapped-tunnels-eastern-rafah" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-nine-palestinians-trapped-tunnels-eastern-rafah" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel kills nine Palestinians trapped in tunnels in eastern Rafah</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="125" data-start="0">Israel’s military said it tracked down and killed what it claimed were nine fighters trapped inside underground tunnels in Israeli occupied parts of eastern Rafah in southern Gaza.</p> <p data-end="598" data-start="389">In its statement, the army claimed the men were killed after Israeli forces destroyed tunnel sections “through air strikes and engineering means,” part of what it described as ongoing operations in the area.</p> <p data-end="762" data-start="600">The military said the latest deaths raise the number of fighters killed while stuck in tunnels in southern Gaza to 30, adding that its “manhunt” would continue.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="432056" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-seizes-parts-ibrahimi-mosque-hebron-officials-warn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-seizes-parts-ibrahimi-mosque-hebron-officials-warn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel seizes parts of Ibrahimi Mosque, Hebron officials warn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="115" data-start="0">Mu'taz Abu Sneineh, director of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank, said Israeli authorities have issued a decision to seize the mosque’s inner courtyard, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.</p> <p data-end="115" data-start="0">He added that the occupation also took control of the site’s electricity and water systems, in what he described as a blatant violation of international conventions.</p> <p data-end="790" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="549">Hebron’s acting mayor, Asma Sharabati, warned that the move poses a direct threat to a site recognised as a World Heritage Site, saying the decision forms part of Israel’s ongoing attempt to tighten its grip over sacred Palestinian heritage sites.</p> </div> </div> </article>