In an urgent letter to the Security Council, the State of Palestine demanded that the international community take practical, irreversible, and meaningful measures to counter Israel’s colonial agenda and policies on the ground, including the "E1" plan, and not only condemn them in international fora and statements:
They are standing with our Palestinian sisters & brothers in their struggle for freedom.
None of this would have been possible without the work of our incredible volunteers, who have been out in communities across Ireland explaining BDS & helping people become AFZs. Thank you!❤️
In choosing to become AFZs these businesses, organisations & groups are asserting their collective power by stepping up and doing what the Irish government refuses to do: ending trade with Israel and companies complicit in war crimes, & refusing to normalise genocide & apartheid.
From architects to artists’ studios, trade unions to theatres, and cafés to councils, the Apartheid Free Zone movement is growing every day - in towns, cities and communities across Ireland.
Together, these 500+ AFZs are answering the Palestinian call to escalate BDS
These are businesses, unions, civil society & community groups, artistic collectives, sporting organisations, & many other spaces &d places that have pledged to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement & to end complicity with Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime.
📣 HUGE NEWS: 500+ APARTHEID FREE ZONES IN IRELAND! 🇵🇸
More than 500 #ApartheidFreeZones across Ireland are now standing in active solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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Amnesty International has called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia, citing his lawyer’s reports of ongoing torture and ill-treatment in Israeli detention.
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Faten Al-Sahhar, director of the Women’s Police in Gaza, was among those killed in the Israeli airstrike on the Municipalities Police headquarters in Gaza City.
The attack killed at least nine Palestinians and injured fifteen others, according to the latest toll.
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17 Palestinians Killed and More Than 60 Injured in #Gaza
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights strongly condemns the continued Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreement and the Cairo understandings.
https://t.co/fqz0Pgd4cx
The Gaza Government Media Office has launched an urgent appeal to address the catastrophic shelter crisis facing more than 2.15 million displaced Palestinians, warning that hundreds of thousands remain in severely deteriorated tents that are no longer fit for human habitation.
The office says 196,287 families, 867,228 people, are living in these tents, while more than 500,000 children face growing risks as winter approaches.
The displaced population also includes 46,014 elderly people, 23,584 widows, 59,795 orphans and 15,687 people with disabilities.
It called on the international community to break Israel’s “veto” on shelter supplies, demanding the immediate entry of caravans, insulation materials and weather-resistant tents, alongside the resumption of rubble removal needed for Gaza’s recovery.
At least 10 Palestinian women detainees have been confirmed to have scabies at Israel’s Damon Prison, out of more than 90 Palestinian female political prisoners, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS).
The detainees include pregnant women, girls and women with chronic health conditions.
The PPS linked the outbreak to overcrowding, poor ventilation, high humidity, and shortages of cleaning supplies, clothing and hygiene materials.
It warned that scabies poses a serious threat to detainees’ health and lives amid inadequate medical treatment and called for urgent international intervention and an investigation into prison conditions and systematic medical neglect.
Switzerland has selected “Who Is Still Alive,” a documentary by Geneva-based filmmaker Nicolas Wadimoff, as its entry for the 2027 Oscars.
The film features Gaza survivors recounting experiences of loss, displacement and belonging in an abstract setting.
It previously won Switzerland's prestigious Prix de Soleure film award. The documentary will compete for a nomination in the Best International Feature Film category, with the shortlist expected in December and the final nominees announced in January.
Palestinian nurse Mohammad Al-Matour has been left fully paralyzed after sustaining a spinal injury from Israeli settlers’ gunfire during an attack on the town of Sa’ir, north of Hebron, the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Nursing Syndicate.
The report “A Predatory State,” published by the Palestinian Feminist Collective in partnership with Progressive International, documents decades of Israel’s use of sexual violence against Palestinians, including rape, sexual torture, sexual enslavement, and humiliation, from the 1948 Nakba to the present day.