Epal European Palestinian Media Center Bulletin, Issue No. 2541, Date: Sunday, August 30, 2026

1. Three killed and others injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza
Three civilians were killed and others were injured as a result of continued Israeli bombardment and attacks targeting civilians in various areas of the Gaza Strip, alongside a limited incursion by occupation military vehicles east of Deir al-Balah.
In Gaza, an Israeli aircraft targeted an electric bicycle in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood. Raed Adel Mohammed Alyan and Abdel Fattah Abu al-Aish were killed in the Israeli strike on the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in southwestern Gaza City, while several civilians were injured. Medical teams transported the wounded to Al-Quds Hospital.

2. Attacks, land leveling and seizures: occupation forces and settlers escalate their attacks in the West Bank
Israeli occupation forces and settlers have intensified their attacks in various parts of the West Bank, as part of an ongoing campaign targeting Palestinians, their land and their livelihoods.
The attacks included assaults on civilians, the leveling of agricultural land, the expansion of roads linked to settlement outposts, and the seizure of agricultural equipment.

These attacks come amid the continued implementation of measures by the occupation aimed at creating new realities on the ground in the West Bank, through the confiscation of land, the construction of military and settlement roads, and the expansion of settlement outposts, further restricting Palestinians’ access to and ability to cultivate their land.

3. Medicine warehouses targeted in Gaza: bombardment pursues what remains of medical supplies
The healthcare sector in the Gaza Strip is no longer facing only a crisis in the availability of medicines and medical supplies; the supply warehouses themselves have now become vulnerable to attack, while patients suffer from increasingly severe shortages of medicines and the continued disruption of medical and laboratory equipment.
Three Palestinians were injured in an Israeli drone strike on a medicine warehouse inside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. It is the latest attack targeting a healthcare facility.

4. Rubble-removal bulldozers race ahead of international investigators in Gaza: evidence of “genocide” crimes buried outside Gaza
Operations to break up and remove rubble from areas under military control to locations outside the Gaza Strip are accelerating, while the bodies of missing people and sites that have not been partially or fully forensically examined remain buried beneath the rubble.
Although rubble removal is normally associated with reopening roads and preparing for recovery and reconstruction, the ongoing operations raise concerns about the fate of evidence contained within the rubble and whether its removal is taking place before investigations can be conducted at sites that may constitute crime scenes involving war crimes and genocide allegedly committed by “Israel” in cities across the Gaza Strip during the war.

5. Occupation forces level agricultural land near a settlement outpost east of Jenin
Israeli occupation forces leveled land in the Jabal al-Salma area of the village of Raba, east of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
Local sources reported that a military bulldozer leveled land and widened a road near the settlement outpost established in the area.

The sources added that the occupation forces later withdrew from the area toward the town of Zababdeh after carrying out the leveling work.

6. More than 100 settlers surround a house in Qusra and detain four young men
More than 100 settlers attacked residents of the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, after they attempted to reach a house under construction in the town. The settlers then surrounded the house, according to Ziad Awda, a member of the municipal council.
Awda said that the Israeli occupation army fired tear gas and stun grenades toward the civilians inside the house, who were four young men, adding that their fate remains unknown at this time.

7. Brutal assault on Gaza prisoners in Ramleh prison
The Prisoners’ Information Office revealed that repression forces raided room number “13” in the “Rakefet” section of Ramleh prison a week ago. The section is a secret underground facility designated for prisoners from Gaza (“the elite”).
The office said that all the prisoners were brutally assaulted with beatings, gas and rubber bullets. Police dogs were also set upon them, and they were subjected to prolonged restraint and mistreatment.

The office explained that the assault left one prisoner injured in the testicles, while another prisoner suffered a fractured jaw. The prisoners continue to suffer physical and psychological consequences from the assault, amid repeated punitive repression operations against Gaza prisoners (“the elite”).

8. Occupation expands settlements, escalates attacks and imposes new realities in the West Bank
The weekly settlement report issued by the National Office for the Defense of Land and Resistance to Settlement reported an escalation in settler attacks and occupation measures in the West Bank.
According to the report, this coincided with steps to expand settlements and outposts, seize additional Palestinian land and water resources, and carry out attacks against civilians and their property in several governorates.

The report also addressed the debate inside “Israel” over transferring the powers of what is referred to as “law enforcement” in the West Bank to the occupation police, as well as a tender for the construction of approximately 1,200 settlement housing units in Area E1, east of occupied Jerusalem.

European
9. Calls to participate in a weekly solidarity race for Palestine and demand an end to the genocide
Sports solidarity activities in support of the Palestinian cause have continued, with activists issuing a general call to participate in a weekly running race scheduled for next Sunday on “Vambali” Street, as an expression of popular support for the Gaza Strip and a demand for the immediate cessation of the genocide.
The solidarity activity includes a 5-kilometer run along a circular route suitable for all categories and fitness levels. It will be followed by a gathering of participants aimed at encouraging interaction and discussion about ways to support Palestinian rights and activate boycott and grassroots solidarity campaigns, under slogans including “Free Palestine” and “Ceasefire Now.”

10. Public pressure forces an Australian library to return a book about Gaza to its shelves
The Waverley Public Library in the Australian city of Sydney was forced to return the book How to Market a Genocide to its shelves following a broad public petition campaign and decisive official intervention by the State Library of New South Wales.
The library administration had removed the book for a “review” following pressure from the Jewish website “J-Wire,” on the grounds that displaying it caused harm to Jewish families.

11. Protests in Ireland force AIB bank to close its Carlow branch
Activists from the counties of Kildare and Carlow forced the AIB bank branch in the Irish city of Carlow to close its doors and cite “technical problems” during a surprise protest they organized to condemn the bank’s contract with cybersecurity company SNYK, which is linked to the occupation army.
The action came in opposition to a €1.2 million technology deal, on the grounds that SNYK was founded by former soldiers of the occupation’s Unit 8200 intelligence unit and is directly involved in the genocide war and surveillance activities in the Gaza Strip.

12. More than 150 musicians call on Reading and Leeds festivals to condemn “Live Nation Israel’s” complicity in the genocide
More than 150 musicians called on the organizers of the British Reading and Leeds festivals, owned by the global company “Live Nation,” to join them in publicly condemning the company’s Israeli branch, “Live Nation Israel,” which has adopted a supportive position toward the Israeli army, stating: “We stand with… the Israeli Defense Forces and security forces.”
In an open letter launched by the “Musicians for Palestine” platform and supported by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, the artists explained that cultural spaces and music festivals have a moral responsibility that obliges them to sever ties with entities that legitimize the crimes of the occupation.

13. International artists call on the Venice Festival to raise the Palestinian flag and take action against the genocide
International artists and directors, including Roger Waters, Annie Ernaux and Guy Pearce, called on the leadership of the Venice Biennale and its film festival to take concrete measures in response to the ongoing genocidal war waged by the occupation against the Palestinian people.
The call came through an open letter launched by the “Venice4Palestine” movement, which called for the Palestinian flag to be raised throughout the festival, alongside the flags of participating countries.

14. Ireland pushes for a unified European position on sanctions against Israel and settlers
Ireland is seeking to build a unified European position in response to the Israeli escalation in the occupied West Bank, including expanding sanctions against Israel and settlers and imposing a ban on settlement products and services entering European Union markets.
Irish Minister of State for International Cooperation Neale Richmond said that his country was working to mobilize European countries to take coordinated economic measures in response to settlement expansion and Israeli measures in the West Bank. He stressed that the attacks were not limited to the Israeli government but also involved settlers.

International
15. Cornell University student union takes legal action against administration over withholding funding from anti-genocide activists
The Graduate Student Union at Cornell University in the United States has initiated a formal grievance procedure against the university administration, protesting the withholding of funding from two international PhD students whose visas were canceled because of their participation in a movement opposing the occupation and supporting Palestine.
The union said that the university’s decision violated its contractual obligations, stressing that restrictions on students and the use of immigration measures represented a dangerous precedent for restricting student activism against genocide.

16. #Video: American confronts Israelis: “You are all cowards”
#Watch: “You are all cowards.” An American citizen confronted a pro-Israel group and reminded them of the genocide and apartheid that Israel is committing in Palestine, in one of New York City’s parks.
17. Mexican coalition launches Latin American network to boycott companies complicit with the occupation
More than 300 Mexican labor unions and social organizations have joined a new regional coalition supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The “Coordination of Mexican Trade Unions in Solidarity with Palestine” announced on Monday the official launch of the “Latin American Network for Palestine of the Boycott Movement,” with the aim of unifying trade union efforts across the continent to confront the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

18. Court ruling overturns Trump administration decisions to deport university students who supported Palestine
A U.S. federal court in San Jose, California, issued a ruling declaring unconstitutional the use by President Donald Trump’s administration of immigration laws to cancel the visas of international university students and deport them because of their political positions in support of Palestine and their criticism of the Israeli occupation and its policies.
District Judge Noel Wise strongly criticized the Departments of State and Homeland Security for exploiting legal provisions to impose government censorship and suppress constitutionally protected freedom of expression.

The ruling seeks to halt the campaign launched by the Trump administration in March 2025 to arrest and cancel the visas of foreigners participating in student mobilizations opposing genocide. One of the most prominent victims of the campaign was Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate.

19. Calls in Africa for solidarity with Palestine on October 10 as part of a global campaign
South African activist Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, grandson of leader Nelson Mandela, called on civil society organizations, trade unions and grassroots movements to mobilize globally and take to the streets in solidarity with Palestine and to demand accountability from “Israel.”
He said that these mobilizations, coordinated by the “Global Alliance for Palestine” for October 10, aim to demand an arms embargo and sanctions against the occupation in rejection of the crimes of genocide in Gaza and the ongoing violations in the West Bank.

20. OCHA: Humanitarian response in Gaza remains far below what it should be
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip remains “very far from what it should be,” amid the continued deterioration of humanitarian conditions and the shrinking availability of safe areas for residents.
Laerke explained that the humanitarian tragedies in Gaza are not limited to shortages of food aid but also extend to the shelter crisis, which he described as a matter of grave concern. He noted that around 95% of the population of the Gaza Strip had been pushed toward coastal areas, whose available space is gradually shrinking as “Israel” expands the areas it occupies.