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<article data-history-node-id="429964" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-drone-strike-kills-two-people-gaza-ceasefire-breach" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-drone-strike-kills-two-people-gaza-ceasefire-breach" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli drone strike kills two people in Gaza in ceasefire breach</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>An Israeli drone strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killed at least two people around 6 pm local time on Friday, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="429777" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trumps-plan-gaza-rewards-israels-genocide-and-punishes-its-victims" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trumps-plan-gaza-rewards-israels-genocide-and-punishes-its-victims" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Trump’s plan for Gaza rewards Israel’s genocide and punishes its victims: Opinion by Joseph Massad</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A few days ago, on the eve of the second anniversary of <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>'s genocide in Gaza, the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/trump" target="_blank">Trump</a> administration issued its latest <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70155nked7o" target="_blank">ultimatum</a> to the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> people, framed as a "<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-trumps-20-point-plan-end-war-gaza-0" target="_blank">peace plan</a>".&nbsp;</p> <p>It threatens Palestinians with more genocide unless they acquiesce in the US-Israeli project to continue to destroy their lives and homeland.&nbsp;</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/29/trumps-gaza-peace-plan-welcomed-by-arab-and-islamic-countries-the-west" target="_blank">Palestinian Authority</a> (PA), along with European, <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trump-gaza-plan-great-betrayal-arab-muslim-leaders-rewarding-israel-genocide" target="_blank">Arab</a> and Muslim-majority states such as <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/turkey" target="_blank">Turkey</a>, Pakistan and Indonesia - and even the <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165995" target="_blank">United Nations</a> and the Vatican's <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-09/pope-leo-xiv-peace-plan-gaza-war-pro-life-migrants-vatican-trial.html" target="_blank">American pope</a> - joined the chorus of support for this genocidal American threat, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, its ostensible <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/01/trump-peace-plan-fantasy-us-president-gaza" target="_blank">co-author</a>, agreed to under the guise of an Israeli "<a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/09/30/netanyahu-accepts-trump-s-gaza-peace-plan-under-pressure-but-sets-conditions_6745930_4.html" target="_blank">compromise</a>".&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Evidently, this international consensus on supporting, or at least accepting, Israel's right to be and remain a Jewish supremacist state agrees that Israel's genocide of the Palestinians is not only justified as a means of safeguarding Israel's <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/jewish-self-determination-or-jewish-supremacy" target="_blank">Jewish supremacy</a> but also deserves to be rewarded.&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us" target="_blank">US</a> President Donald Trump and the governments backing his latest plan to complete the genocide demand that the Palestinian resistance surrender to the genocidal state, sparing the Israeli military the arduous effort and cost of continuing the slaughter and the expulsion of survivors.&nbsp;</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/world/middleeast/hamas-arab-states-palestinians.html#:~:text=Gaza's%20Wounded-,Arab%20States%20Call%20for%20Hamas%20to%20Disarm%20Amid%20Push%20for,conflict%20between%20Israelis%20and%20Palestinians." target="_blank">Arab League</a>, under US orders, had already called last July for the Palestinian resistance to disarm and leave Gaza.&nbsp;</p> <p>Unsurprisingly, it is the victims of genocide who must surrender their few weapons, while the war criminals slaughtering them must continue to be armed to the teeth by the US and Europe - with the notable recent exception of <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/spain-approves-total-arms-embargo-in-israel/" target="_blank">Spain</a>.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trumps-plan-rewards-genocide-punishes-victims">Read more:&nbsp;<span class="field field-title">Trump’s plan for Gaza rewards Israel’s genocide and punishes its victims: Opinion by Joseph Massad</span></a></h3> <div alt="Nuseirat" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7bf7adfb-86d1-493e-a072-c9c2531f1ede" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/2025-09-29T000000Z_1860556740_MT1NURPHO000XTGRRZ_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS%281%29.jpg" width="1920" height="1080" alt="Nuseirat" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="429775" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-child-wounded-israeli-fire-during-raid-near-jenin" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-child-wounded-israeli-fire-during-raid-near-jenin" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinian child wounded by Israeli fire during raid near Jenin</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A 12-year-old Palestinian boy has been shot and wounded by Israeli forces during a raid on the occupied West Bank tank of Arraba, south of Jenin, Wafa news agency is reporting.</p> <p>The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said their teams transferred the boy to hospital.</p> <p>Israeli forces stormed the town earlier on Tuesday, firing live ammunition at civilians.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Local media report heavy bombing in Gaza City and Khan Younis as death toll tops 67,000

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