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Israeli strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians in Gaza; infant dies of malnutrition

Israeli strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians in Gaza; infant dies of malnutrition
By Stephen Quillen, Faisal Ali, Tim Hume and Caolán Magee
Published On 28 Sep 2025

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28 Sep 2025 - 22:55
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28 Sep 2025 - 22:45
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Recap

Here are the day’s major developments:

  • The Israeli army shelled Al Helou Hospital in Gaza City, hitting the facility with two artillery rounds. The army also flattened a multistorey building in Gaza City.
  • Doctors inside al-Shifa Hospital have described “horrific scenes” as Israeli attacks forced many patients to flee despite needing urgent care.
  • In his latest social media post, Trump said that “all are on board for something special” in his efforts to negotiate peace in the Middle East.
  • The Israeli army said it hit Hezbollah weapons warehouses in its latest attack on southern Lebanon.
  • A group of Israeli settlers established an illegal outpost on Palestinian-owned lands west of the town of Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit.
  • Mahmoud Hassan Akkad, a 24-year-old Palestinian, has died after being shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
28 Sep 2025 - 22:35
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‘Everybody wants to make the deal’: Trump

Trump says he is close to securing Israeli backing for a plan to end the nearly two-year war in Gaza, claiming he has received a “very good response” from both sides.

Speaking to the Reuters news agency, Trump said he will press Netanyahu to endorse the deal when they meet at the White House on Monday.

His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who handled Middle East talks during Trump’s first term, and special envoy Steve Witkoff have already been in discussions with Netanyahu in New York.

“Bibi wants to make the deal, too. Everybody wants to make the deal,” Trump insisted, using Netanyahu’s nickname.

28 Sep 2025 - 22:30
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Palestinian ministry says al-Shifa Hospital operating despite Israeli assault

The Health Ministry in Gaza has confirmed that al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City remains operational, and continues to provide services to patients “despite the difficult current situation and the major challenges facing the health sector”.

Gaza’s largest hospital has been repeatedly hit and raided during the war, with medical staff warning of critical shortages of fuel, medicine and equipment due to Israel’s blockade on the enclave.

Earlier, Israeli drones dropped bombs in the vicinity of the hospital.

28 Sep 2025 - 22:15
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Netanyahu says working on ceasefire plan on eve of meeting with Trump

On the eve of meeting President Trump, Netanyahu said that Israel is working on a new ceasefire plan with the White House, but details are still being sorted out.

In Monday’s White House meeting, Trump is expected to share a new proposal for ending the conflict.

“We’re working on it,” Netanyahu said. “It’s not been finalised yet, but we’re working with President Trump’s team, actually, as we speak, and I hope we can – we can make it a go.”

Arab officials briefed on the plan say the 21-point proposal calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all captives within 48 hours, and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.

28 Sep 2025 - 22:00
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Analysis

How is Hezbollah regrouping after war with Israel?

By Justin Salhani

A year on from Israel killing Hassan Nasrallah, reports say Hezbollah is regrouping.

Analysts believe that while a weakened Hezbollah can no longer pose a significant threat to Israel, it can still create chaos and challenge opponents domestically as it tries to find a political footing to preserve its clout.

Long viewed as the strongest non-state armed actor in the region, Hezbollah found its star waning in the past year, culminating in an international and domestic push for it to disarm entirely.

Handled recklessly, analysts believe, pressures to disarm the group could lead it to lash out and create internal strife that could outweigh international and regional pushes.

Read the full story here.

28 Sep 2025 - 21:45
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Hamas says no new proposal received from mediators

As Trump and Netanyahu prepare to meet at the White House on Monday, Hamas said earlier on Sunday that negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza have been suspended since Israel’s attack on Hamas’s negotiating team in Qatar earlier this month.

The Palestinian group added that it has not received any new proposals from mediators.

28 Sep 2025 - 21:30
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UK police make arrests at Labour conference protest over Palestine Action ban

Police in the UK have arrested dozens of people outside the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool after a sit-in against the government’s ban on Palestine Action.

The demonstration began on Sunday afternoon, with about 100 people holding signs that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

The UK government banned Palestine Action in April, deeming it a terrorist organisation, weeks after activists sprayed red paint over a Royal Air Force plane allegedly carrying weapon parts bound for Israel. The group targets arms factories and government sites, saying it is resisting UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza.

The “terrorist” designation, rare for a domestic protest network, makes even expressions of support punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Civil liberty groups, the UN and Amnesty International have condemned the ban, while critics across the political spectrum say it is an unprecedented attack on free speech.

28 Sep 2025 - 21:15
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Palestinians in Nuseirat struggle without water, basic necessities

By Hind Khoudary

Reporting from Nuseirat, Gaza

We’re here in the western parts of Nuseirat, where Palestinians who were forced to evacuate from Gaza City came and set up their tents. But those Palestinians are now saying that they don’t have any of the basic necessities.

People here are saying that they have not been receiving any water for the past week. They have been calling and appealing for organisations to have a water truck daily. They’re saying they have not been able to get clean water to drink or cook.

Palestinians came all the way from Gaza City to the western parts of Nuseirat after they went to al-Mawasi, Deir el-Balah, az-Zawayda, and did not find any space to set up their tents.

They came without any of their belongings. Most of them walked here, but they did not have any choice other than escaping death and air strikes, and now they are suffering.

28 Sep 2025 - 21:00
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Israel shells Gaza City hospital treating premature babies

The Israeli army shelled Al Helou Hospital in Gaza City, hitting the facility with two artillery rounds, according to medical sources cited by the Wafa news agency.

The hospital’s departments include a cancer ward and a neonatal unit where 12 premature babies are being cared for.

Medical staff told Wafa that more than 90 people – doctors, nurses and patients – remain trapped inside the hospital. Israeli tanks have surrounded the facility, blocking both the entry and exit.

The attack is the latest in a series of strikes on Gaza’s already decimated healthcare system, where hospitals continue to be besieged, targeted and deprived of essential medical supplies.

28 Sep 2025 - 20:45
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WATCH: The truth about Netanyahu’s speech at the UN

28 Sep 2025 - 20:30
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Israeli military storms gym in West Bank camp during youth training session

By Caolán Magee

Israeli soldiers have stormed the Aclaí Palestine Gym in the Aida refugee camp in the occupied West Bank in the middle of a youth training session.

Armed soldiers ordered the coach and trainees to evacuate on Saturday evening, pressing them about who owned the facility and what activities took place inside, according to a post by the gym.

An Irish activist who helped establish the gym described the raid as part of a wider incursion into Aida camp.

“The [Israeli army] came into the gym as part of an invasion. They were looking for someone they wanted to arrest,” he told Al Jazeera. “It was part of a sustained campaign of invasions, intimidation and arrests of people in the camp.”

He said soldiers regularly raid Aida between 2am and 4am to carry out home invasions and arrests. After disrupting the training, the soldiers moved on to search other parts of the Lajee Center, an NGO, and the wider refugee camp.

28 Sep 2025 - 20:15
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‘Horrific scenes’ inside al-Shifa as patients flee under Israeli fire

Doctors inside al-Shifa Hospital have described “horrific scenes” as many patients are forced to flee despite needing urgent care.

According to testimonies obtained by researchers at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, the Israeli army used fire belts, which are incendiary weapons that cause flames to rise across a strip of land, and deployed explosive-laden vehicles around the hospital as military units advanced from the northern and eastern sides of the hospital.

Medical staff said the bombardments led to the suspension of many procedures as doctors and nurses could not reach the hospital and some were killed in the attacks.

Dr Hasan al-Sha’ir, the medical director of al-Shifa, told researchers that staff continued working “despite the harsh conditions and overwhelming fear”, recalling earlier sieges of the hospital when Israeli forces killed and arrested medical personnel.

He said at least 100 patients are currently receiving treatment in “extremely difficult circumstances” with shortages of life-saving drugs and medical equipment.

28 Sep 2025 - 20:00
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Draft of peace deal reveals Arab leaders’ influence

By Marwan Bishara

It seems like the meeting between a number of Arab leaders and President Trump led to something because the original plan that was drafted apparently did not work for the Arab leaders.

So they weighed in and changed a number of things. The last draft that I’ve seen seems to reflect a bit more of Arab influence or Palestinian influence, which is reflected in two or three important points.

The immediate one is that Gaza will be developed for its own residents, that aid will be flowing in as it was before October 7 [2023] through UN agencies and not that infamous GHF. Three, for the first time I think, Trump is talking seriously about the Palestinian state.

Where is that Palestinian state? Will it be sovereign? Will it include Gaza and the West Bank and East Jerusalem? None of that is mentioned there, but there are a number of elements to the liking of those other participants who want to see a pathway to a Palestinian state.

28 Sep 2025 - 19:45
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Israel’s policies endanger its own people and captives in Gaza: France’s foreign minister

The Israeli government’s current policies endanger its own people and obstruct efforts to free the captives held in Gaza, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot says, warning of possible European sanctions.

“We will not achieve peace. We will not achieve stability in the Middle East without the Israeli government contributing,” Barrot told the broadcaster TF1 Info.

Barrot urged Israel to lift the humanitarian blockade on Gaza, end its financial pressure on the Palestinian Authority and stop restricting media coverage from the enclave.

“All of this the Israeli government must comply with. Otherwise, it obviously exposes itself to European sanctions that we could support.”

28 Sep 2025 - 19:30
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Here’s what happened in Gaza while world’s focus was on UN General Assembly

As world leaders talked about acting against Israel at the UN General Assembly, more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza were killed and many more were wounded, starved and displaced by the ongoing genocide.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 66,000 Palestinians across Gaza.

28 Sep 2025 - 19:15
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Jordan’s king says there is consensus around much of Trump’s Gaza plan

Jordan’s King Abdullah II has expressed optimism about a proposal by Trump to end the Gaza war, saying many of its details align with “what has been agreed upon”.

Abdullah’s comments, reported by Jordan’s state news agency, did not go into detail on the content of the plan.

On Tuesday, Trump presented Arab and Muslim leaders with a 21-point plan for Gaza, reportedly designed to bar Hamas from any future role in governing the territory. It reportedly includes a promise from Trump that Israel will not annex the occupied West Bank and involves military contributions from Arab and Muslim countries to guarantee security.

Trump is due to meet with Netanyahu on Monday.

28 Sep 2025 - 19:00
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Footage shows moment Israeli attack flattens building in Gaza City

This is the moment the Israeli army bombed the Mecca Tower in western Gaza City after issuing an evacuation threat earlier today.

28 Sep 2025 - 18:45
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Israeli army confirms carrying out attack on southern Lebanon

The army says it has hit Hezbollah weapons warehouses in its latest attack on southern Lebanon.

The statement comes after local media showed videos of Israeli strikes targeting the Jarmaq and Mahmoudiyah areas in southern Lebanon.

 

28 Sep 2025 - 18:30
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Far-right UK politician arrives in Israel

Richard Tice, deputy leader of the far-right political party Reform UK, has arrived in Israel.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar wrote on X that Tice expressed his party’s opposition to the British government’s recognition of a Palestinian state, adding that he thanked Tice “for standing by Israel”.

Their meeting came days after the UK, alongside nine other nations, formally recognised a Palestinian state.