More than 800 Palestinians lost their homes after a fire gutted a displacement camp in the Shujaiya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City, in an attack the Gaza Ministry of Public Works and Housing blamed on Israeli military drones.

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The blaze consumed the camp’s tents and nearly everything inside them, according to the Gazan Ministry, which said quadcopter drones operated by Israeli forces ignited the fire on October 26.

The fire affected more than 200 families, made up mostly of women, children, the elderly and people with vulnerable health conditions, the Gaza Ministry of Public Works and Housing detailed. The flames caused panic among residents, who have no housing alternatives.

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The Shujaiya camp sheltered families who had already fled their homes in other parts of the territory. Many had moved more than once since the war began, carrying whatever they could salvage each time.

💢🇵🇸 Over 800 Palestinians have been forced to displace yet again from Shujaiya, an eastern neighborhood in Gaza City, after Israeli forces set fire to a displacement camp, according to Al Jazeera.

Israeli quadcopter drones set the camp ablaze at around 8 p.m. local time on… https://t.co/9nyw5g9DGe

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) October 26, 2026

Drones Blamed

Palestinian authorities called the fire a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions. They framed it as part of a deliberate policy of forced displacement designed to push people out of the territory.

The Ministry of Public Works and Housing demanded urgent action from the international community, the UN Security Council, and the United Nations, and it asked those bodies to halt the attacks on civilians without further delay. It also pressed humanitarian agencies to deliver tents, temporary shelters, and essential supplies immediately to families left without roofs or belongings.

Local spokespeople linked the persistence of military operations to the tense electoral climate inside Israel, where security politics have hardened. Security operations have long featured in Israeli campaigns, and commanders face domestic pressure to show results even as international criticism mounts.

A ceasefire agreement announced on October 10, 2025, never produced calm on the ground. Israeli forces have maintained recurrent bombings, shootings, and demolition work across different parts of the Gaza Strip. Official records show the zionist offensive launched in October 2023 has now surpassed 74,000 deaths and left 175,000 people wounded.

Human rights organizations renewed their demands for a halt to hostilities and for safe, unobstructed access for humanitarian assistance. The widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure has made recovery more difficult for communities worn down by repeated strikes. Hospitals, schools, and homes lie in ruins across the territory.

Aid agencies describe the situation as catastrophic. Clean water, medicine, and fuel remain scarce, and the latest fire has multiplied the need for emergency shelter in a place where almost every building is damaged.

Palestinian officials say the fire is not an isolated event but a symptom of a broader campaign against civilian life, insisting the international response so far has fallen short of the scale of the crisis.

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El Ministerio de Obras Públicas atribuyó el ataque a drones militares israelíes.

Israeli quadcopter drones dropped incendiary bombs on a displacement camp in Gaza City’s eastern Shuja’iyya junction on Sunday night, setting fire to tents and displacing more than 800 Palestinians, local sources have told the Palestinian news agency WAFA. The camp was near the “yellow line,” the dividing line between the IDF-occupied side of Gaza and […]

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La Casa della Solidarietà “Alexander Dubček”, sede di varie associazioni di volontariato, si trova nell’edificio che ospitava l’Istituto Salvemini di Casalecchio di Reno (BO). Il 6 dicembre 1990, un aereo militare si schiantò contro l’edificio, causando la morte di dodici studenti e il ferimento di ottantotto persone tra studenti e personale scolastico. È qui che si tiene la mostra Be my voice, dedicata al genocidio della popolazione palestinese di Gaza.

Il fotoreporter e videomaker di Gaza Alhassan Selmi e l’illustratrice Marcella Brancaforte sono gli autori di un’opera unica nel suo genere, che rappresenta la tragedia di Gaza attraverso versi e disegni. L’opera, che sta girando l’Italia soprattutto nelle periferie, è il risultato di un dialogo continuo tra Alhassan e Marcella cominciato nel giugno 2024. Il giovane giornalista, che ha collaborato con diverse testate e reti televisive in Italia e in Europa, ha raccontato lo stillicidio quotidiano a cui è sottoposta da tre anni una popolazione, colpevole solo di vivere in un luogo che Israele ha deciso di distruggere fino alle fondamenta. Un folle disegno iniziato con la giustificazione di rispondere al massacro di israeliani del 7 ottobre 2023, ma portato avanti con la criminale determinazione di estinguere un’intera popolazione.

Alhassan è un sopravvissuto: a 33 anni, con una laurea e un lavoro da giornalista che ama, ha vissuto esclusivamente a Gaza. Eppure, parlando con lui, non si può che rimanere sorpresi dalla sua visione lucidamente aperta, universalistica e cosmopolita.

A Gaza si muore ogni giorno e la morte è la cosa più consueta con cui convivere; perfino i bambini ne sono consapevoli. A lui è capitato più e più volte, in questi anni, di assistere agli ultimi istanti di vita di decine di colleghi uccisi, perché l’informazione da Gaza non deve arrivare nel resto del mondo e per questo motivo sono stati sistematicamente assassinati oltre 250 giornalisti. Alhassan chiama Israele machine war, un’entità quasi impersonale (in questo si coglie anche un raffinato spirito umanistico) che uccide scientificamente, distruggendo case, scuole, ospedali, luoghi di culto e di cultura, ma anche con la fame e la privazione di farmaci e beni essenziali, perché nulla di Gaza deve restare in piedi e in vita.

Ma Alhassan crede anche nel valore della capacità di resistenza e resilienza del suo popolo, sempre pronto a ricominciare e a ricostruirsi da zero, anche da sottozero dice. È convinto che, anche se Israele riuscisse a ucciderli tutti, loro rinascerebbero e ricomincerebbero. Questa è la sua convinzione e la sua profonda speranza.

Colpisce che dalle sue parole non traspaia alcun odio verso l’oppressore: la sua visione è che la Palestina, che chiama Terrasanta, sia un luogo in cui musulmani, ebrei, cristiani e ogni tipo di umanità possano convivere in pace, nel rispetto degli human rights che sono il suo mantra. Ma sa che per ottenere questo risultato sarà necessario ancora lottare.

Marcella, affermata professionista del disegno per ragazzi, ha trasformato il racconto tragico di quelle giornate in splendidi disegni, quadri in cui flash di brevi frasi e poesie si uniscono ai suoi disegni, tragici ma allo stesso tempo dolci, con un tratto naif che rende emotivamente sopportabile il terribile contenuto della narrazione. Marcella condivide quotidianamente il vissuto raccontato da Hassan e il risultato è un film per disegni, ormai circa mille, che raccontano in modo unico, realistico ed emozionante la tragedia infinita di un popolo.

Ad Alhassan e Marcella si è unito Raffaele Oriani, firma prestigiosa del giornalismo italiano, che coraggiosamente si dimise da Repubblica per la linea editoriale del quotidiano sulla Palestina. Oriani ha realizzato due libri con Alhassan: Hassan e il genocidio e Il popolo meraviglioso, editi da People e illustrati da Marcella.

Tutti e tre hanno partecipato all’incontro promosso da Assopace Palestina, Percorsi di Pace, Teatri di Vita, Casa della Solidarietà e con il patrocinio del Comune di Casalecchio di Reno. In una sala affollata, circondati dai quadri della splendida mostra, introdotti dall’infaticabile attivista di Assopace Daniela Boldarino, Alhassan ha snocciolato, con sobria gentilezza e un inglese fluente, i tratti principali del genocidio del suo popolo che l’Occidente stenta a riconoscere, nonostante le inchieste, le prove e le sentenze della Corte penale internazionale, compreso il mandato di arresto nei confronti di Netanyahu.

Il pubblico ha partecipato con grande emozione all’incontro e ha posto molte domande, perché, come stiamo osservando da tempo e soprattutto in questi giorni, la tragedia palestinese è nella mente e nel cuore della maggior parte delle persone che credono nella pace, nei diritti umani e nell’uguaglianza, e che lottano contro l’ingiustizia. Questo è ciò che stanno manifestando soprattutto i giovani nelle piazze d’Italia e d’Europa, nonostante l’elusiva indifferenza dei nostri governi. Una mostra e un evento che meritano di essere replicati ovunque.

L'articolo Gaza, la mostra Be My Voice e la voce del fotoreporter Alhassan Selmi proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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Inquiry Panel Reports Sharp Rise in Air Strikes, Forced Displacement and Violence Against Palestinian Children.

On Monday, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory reaffirmed that Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against the civilian population in the West Bank and Gaza, including crimes such as extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence.

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The Commission will present a report to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which tasked it with focusing this phase of its investigation on killings and physical and mental harm caused by state agents.

The report confirms the sharp increase in Israeli air strikes against the West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023, the date of Hamas’ large-scale attack on Israel.

The Commission notes that while between 2018 and Oct. 6, 2023 — the eve of the Hamas attack — six Palestinians had died in air strikes, between Oct. 7, 2023, and last Sept. 30, those killed numbered 254.

“The killing and deliberate injury of Palestinian civilians, as well as the destruction of homes in the West Bank, plus Israel’s refusal to assume its responsibility, form part of a broader strategy to exterminate and displace Palestinians and impose unbearable living conditions on them,” said the Commission’s chairman, Srinivasan Muralidhar.

"I'm not a target, I want to live like you"

Today she cries for her friend, tomorrow she fears she will be the news.

What is the fault of Gaza's children? Listen to her before it's too late. pic.twitter.com/k5mawd99eH

— Palestine Daily News✌️🇵🇸✌️ (@Palestinedaily1) October 25, 2026

From January 2025 through August 2026, military operations caused the displacement of over 34,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. This forced movement of people is the largest recorded since 1967, when Israel fought the Six-Day War against a coalition of Arab countries.

Children have been main victims of Israeli military violence, which has caused them “serious physical and mental harm,” not far from what minors suffer in Gaza, which for the Commission means Israel perpetrates “acts of persecution against Palestinian children on the basis of age.”

The Commission found that Israeli authorities and forces have continued to commit acts of genocide in Gaza even after the so-called cease-fire agreement of more than a year ago, and that they did so “with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part.”

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17-year-old Mohammed Ibrahim, a U.S. citizen who was released from Israeli military prison after ten months of detainment, came to the UNGA this week to advocate for hundreds of Palestinian children still held in Israeli military detention.… pic.twitter.com/7yTTPAYxrM

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) September 24, 2026

More broadly, the investigation reaches the conclusion that Israel’s will since its very creation has been to expand its territory and to that end displace Palestinians, which it considers one of the central causes of this prolonged conflict.

“The appropriation of as much land as possible, while minimizing the Palestinian population in terms of size, autonomy and viability, has its origin in Israel’s colonizing policies,” Muralidhar said.

In its conclusions, the UN Commission calls on Israel to immediately end the illegal occupation of Palestine and, among other actions, return land and all confiscated property to Palestinians.

The Commission also denounces the Palestinian Authority for persecuting Palestinians with dissenting opinions and for failing to effectively and impartially investigate the deaths or injuries suffered by journalists and human rights defenders in actions committed by Palestinian security forces.

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Israel’s election on Tuesday (27 October) could bring a new government without changing the country’s course. Having worked as a parliamentary adviser in the Knesset and later as executive director of Peace Now, I know how that can happen.

Many of the parties seeking to replace Benjamin Netanyahu are avoiding clear positions on the Israeli-Palestinian question, but some of their candidates may end up overseeing annexation they never campaigned for.

Israel’s previous coalition, led by Naftali Bennett in 2021, offers a warning.

Called the “government of change” because it ended Netanyahu’s 12-year run in office, it brought together a variety of parties, from Bennett’s rightwing party to Labor and Meretz, leftwing parties.

Its answer to profound ideological disagreements, particularly over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was to preserve the status quo. The coalition lasted roughly 18 months, and although it changed the tone of government, it left much of the policy towards the West Bank intact.

For example, Merav Michaeli, then Labor leader and transport minister, opposed settlement expansion.

Yet her ministry continued to implement previously approved infrastructure commitments, including substantial budgets for roads facilitating that expansion.

Through my work at Peace Now, I saw how the coalition’s status-quo agreement constrained her ability to challenge projects inherited from the previous government. A minister could thus find herself implementing a vision she opposed.

Today, the stakes are higher.

Another slice of the West Bank

Consider E1, between Jerusalem and the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, where construction would threaten Palestinian territorial contiguity and the viability of a future Palestinian state.

The government has advanced tenders for all 3,401 planned housing units, with crucial stages of the tender process set to be completed before a new government takes office.

E1 exemplifies wider efforts to establish difficult-to-reverse facts: new settlement outposts, including in areas under Palestinian civil administration, expanding settlements and administrative changes that entrench Israeli control.

A successor government would have to intervene actively to reverse them.

These developments are backed by an explicit political vision. The current government’s guidelines and coalition agreements assert exclusive Jewish rights throughout the land of Israel and commit to advancing Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank.

Under Bezalel Smotrich, serving as a minister within the defence ministry, a new settlement administration and civilian positions have been established, shifting significant aspects of West Bank governance from military administration to civilian political control.

These structures will not disappear when their architects leave office. The far-right has equipped the state with both a vision and the machinery to advance it.

Inertia is not neutral when the machinery is already moving in one direction.

Parties seeking to replace Netanyahu need not necessarily agree on a final-status agreement with the Palestinians, but they must find enough common ground to commit to halting annexation and reversing the structures that enable it.

Those understandings belong in coalition negotiations, when parties still have leverage, rather than in battles left for individual ministers once they are in office.

Nor is this a distant constitutional question. Palestinians in the West Bank already face systematic violations of their basic rights and freedoms, from restrictions on movement and access to land to violence and forced displacement. Each new settlement and outpost deepens this injustice and makes the prospect of a political settlement more remote.

Facts on ground

The entrenchment of permanent Israeli control is creating a reality that is increasingly difficult to reverse, making political intervention more urgent with every passing year.

The current government’s response to growing international pressure illustrates the danger.

After the UK announced measures targeting settlements, foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar ordered the closure of its consulate in East Jerusalem. Britain considered expelling Israeli diplomats in response, and a compromise left a much smaller British mission operating.

The episode illustrates Netanyahu’s vision of a ‘Super Sparta’: an Israel preparing itself for international isolation rather than addressing the policies contributing to it.

A future government seeking to change that trajectory should start with two tasks.

‘Messianic minority’

First, it must take seriously the reasons behind international sanctions and address the policies driving them, including settlement expansion and settler violence. A messianic minority must not be allowed to drag Israel into international isolation and economic decline.

Second, the government should help European partners distinguish between Israel and the settlements, including through transparent supply chains and clear proof of origin, so that restrictions aimed at settlements do not spill over into the broader Israeli economy.

Both tasks require urgent and concrete policy changes, beyond a more moderate diplomatic tone.

European governments should not expect a new coalition, or even international sanctions themselves, to bring about these changes automatically. They need to make their expectations explicit, press prospective coalition partners to incorporate concrete commitments into their agreements, and judge the resulting government by its actions.

Without that pressure, politicians who never endorsed annexation may become useful idiots for a project they do not support, helping to consolidate a single undemocratic state in which millions of Palestinians are permanently denied equal rights and freedoms.

Preventing that outcome requires urgent political action, while a different future is still possible. Neither Israelis seeking change nor their European partners can afford to assume it will happen on its own.

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