Epal (European-Palestinian Media Center) Bulletin | Issue: 2558 | Date: Wednesday, 16/09/2026

1. Four killed and others injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza

Four citizens were killed and others injured by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll since yesterday, Monday, to eight, as violations of the ceasefire by the occupation continue.

Two citizens were killed and a number of others injured as a result of two strikes carried out by occupation aircraft against the gate of Al-Furqan Mosque on Third Street in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

A local source reported that elderly citizen Saleh Ramadan Al-Dabbour, 65, from the Halawa camp in Jabalia, was killed by gunfire from occupation forces.

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### 2\. Citizen dies from wounds sustained by occupation forces in Al-Bireh

A citizen died from wounds sustained after being shot by Israeli occupation forces in the Umm Al-Sharayet area of Al-Bireh, in the occupied West Bank.

The Ministry of Health announced the death of citizen Ziad Mohammad Jaber, 54, who succumbed to wounds sustained from occupation forces’ gunfire during their raid on the Umm Al-Sharayet area of Al-Bireh.

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### 3\. 107 killed and 6,600 arrested since the beginning of 2026: occupation intensifies its war on the West Bank

The West Bank remains under the pressure of Israeli incursions, whose scope has expanded since the beginning of the year. A new tally from the Palestinian Information Center “Ma’ata” records 6,600 arrests and 107 deaths since the beginning of 2026, reflecting an escalation in military operations, pursuit operations, and shootings in Palestinian cities, towns, and refugee camps.

The latest episode in this escalation came with the killing of Ziad Mohammad Al-Jaber, 54, during an incursion by occupation forces into the Umm Al-Sharayet area of Al-Bireh. According to “Ma’ata” data, the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank since the beginning of the year has therefore risen to 107.

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### 4\. Elderly man and wife injured, hundreds of sheep stolen: settler attacks escalate in the West Bank

Settler attacks have continued in various parts of the occupied West Bank, including assaults on residents and their homes, attempts to seize land, the establishment of new settlement outposts, as well as attacks on property and livestock.

In the village of Abu Anjim, southeast of Bethlehem, an elderly man and his wife suffered bruises at dawn today after settlers attacked their home near the university housing complex.

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### 5\. Occupation forces crack down on “Janut” prisoners following reports of successful legal appeals

Zionist repression forces assaulted Palestinian prisoners in several sections of “Janut” prison after reports circulated among them that legal appeals in the cases of several prisoners classified as “unlawful combatants” had been successful, according to the Prisoners’ Media Office.

The office said that repression forces raided sections of the prison and assaulted prisoners, beating and mistreating them in an attempt to suppress the atmosphere of joy that had spread among them following reports concerning legal developments in the cases of some of the prisoners.

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### 6\. Occupation turns arrests into field executions: 30 detained in the West Bank within hours

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club confirmed that occupation forces are escalating their use of killing and field executions during arrest operations and raids in the West Bank, warning that arrest campaigns could become a setting for carrying out killings against Palestinians.

The Prisoners’ Club reported that occupation forces arrested at least 30 Palestinians in the West Bank governorates, considering Jaber’s death part of the escalation in killings accompanying arrest campaigns and raids.

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### 7\. Occupation prepares to take full control of the Ibrahimi Mosque: 10 days without worshippers

The Israeli occupation is preparing to close the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied city of Hebron and take control of all its sections during the Jewish holiday period, a measure that is repeated annually and restricts Palestinians’ access to the mosque while reinforcing the policy of imposing a temporal and spatial division within it.

The acting director of the Ibrahimi Mosque, Munjed Al-Jaabari, said that the occupation army had informed the mosque administration of its intention to take full control of it during the ongoing holiday period. He explained that occupation forces and settlers had taken control of all sections of the mosque for several days during the previous week, under the pretext of celebrations for the Jewish holidays.

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### 8\. In the presence of a UN delegation, occupation forces target a health center in Jabalia

The Al-Awda Health and Community Association strongly condemned the repeated and deliberate targeting of the Al-Awda Health and Community Center in the Halawa area of Jabalia Al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip, after occupation forces opened direct fire at the center.

In a statement, the association said the gunfire resulted in one citizen sustaining extremely serious injuries, at a time when medical staff were inside the center accompanied by an official UN delegation visiting to observe the provision of health services to residents.

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### 9\. Occupation forces issue demolition notices for several shops and residential buildings in Qalandia

Israeli occupation forces distributed demolition notices to several shops and residential buildings in the Qalandia area north of occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources reported that occupation forces handed demolition notices to a number of commercial establishments and residential buildings on Airport Street, north of Jerusalem, citing a lack of permits.

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## _European_

### 10\. Growing European mobilization against the occupation and its settlements; Gaza children send a message of thanks

Messages of thanks from children in the Gaza Strip to supporters of their cause in the West coincide with growing legal and political initiatives in several European countries, reflecting an expanding circle of criticism directed at the Israeli occupation, amid calls for more comprehensive measures to halt economic activities linked to settlements and the occupation.

In Gaza, Palestinian children sent a video message to American journalist Tucker Carlson, urging him to continue telling their story to the world and to continue serving as a courageous voice for Palestinian children who have lived through war and destruction.

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### 11\. Calls for a boycott grow in Ireland to ban occupation team’s football matches, with media refusing to cover them

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) called on the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to take advantage of available opportunities to announce a comprehensive boycott of UEFA Nations League matches against the Israeli occupation team, reaffirming its outright rejection of using sport to whitewash genocide and apartheid.

This popular escalation coincided with a decision by employees and journalists at Ireland’s public broadcaster RTÉ to completely refrain from participating in analytical studio programs or providing commentary for the two matches, forcing the network to reduce its coverage to a minimum.

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### 12\. Israel prepares to intercept a new aid flotilla departing from Sicily to break the blockade of Gaza

Israel’s Channel 12 revealed that the security apparatus of the occupying entity is carrying out extensive preparations to intercept a new naval flotilla intended to break the blockade. The flotilla is expected to depart in mid-October from the island of Sicily in southern Italy toward the Gaza Strip.

The channel quoted informed sources as saying that the occupation is taking the threat posed by the new flotilla seriously. The flotilla is being organized by international solidarity groups and boycott movements to deliver humanitarian and medical aid. Security agencies have begun monitoring the movements of activists and supply ships in European ports in an effort to prevent them from reaching Gaza.

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### 13\. Norway considers comprehensive trade ban with Israeli settlements in the West Bank

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said that the protective shield the occupation had enjoyed for a long time by using accusations of “antisemitism” to intimidate Western countries has disappeared, noting that commercial isolation of the settlements is a response to escalating violations and breaches of international law beyond the “Green Line.”

The Norwegian move coincides with the United Kingdom’s ban on trade with West Bank settlements, as well as restrictions on arms exports and a ban on related advertising, following British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s accusation that the occupation is sponsoring “ethnic cleansing” and the forced displacement of Palestinians carried out by settlers described as terrorists.

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### 14\. Belgian university heads criticize government for obstructing entry of 13 students from Gaza

Several heads of Belgian universities strongly criticized the federal government, describing its failure to reach an agreement allowing 13 students from the Gaza Strip who had received scholarships to enter the country as “unacceptable.”

In an open letter published in the newspaper _De Standaard_, the academics stressed that these students are not “illegal immigrants,” but researchers selected on the basis of their competitive qualifications to live in university accommodation and continue their education, rather than to enter asylum centers.

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### 15\. Pro-Gaza demonstrations in Iceland, Germany and Australia

Calling for a complete end to the war of extermination, demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags and keffiyehs took part in large marches through the streets of cities in Iceland, Germany and Australia, protesting the continuation of the Israeli offensive on Gaza and expressing support for Palestinians.

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### 16\. UN commissioner: Recovery of remains in Gaza after three years deepens Palestinians’ trauma

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said that “the recovery of large numbers of human remains—most of them children and women—from the Gaza Strip, nearly three years after their homes were subjected to heavy bombardment by Israeli forces, highlights serious concerns regarding compliance with international law and the possibility of grave violations, including war crimes.”

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## _International_

### 17\. US rapper Macklemore removed from Ed Sheeran tour after condemning genocide in Gaza

American rapper Macklemore was removed from the opening acts of British singer Ed Sheeran’s tour in the United States after making pro-Palestinian statements on stage before chanting, “Free Palestine.”

Macklemore, whose real name is Benjamin Haggerty, confirmed that he had been removed from Sheeran’s tour, known as the “Loop Tour,” while standing by his position and statements. In a statement, he said that the real victims are the Palestinian people in Gaza. Ed Sheeran has not commented, and no replacement for Macklemore has been announced for the remaining tour dates.

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### 18\. UN calls for international investigators to enter Gaza: 8,000 bodies under the rubble

The United Nations called for international investigators to be allowed access to all parts of the Gaza Strip in order to collect evidence and document violations, as operations continue to recover the bodies and remains of Palestinians from beneath the rubble of buildings destroyed by the occupation during its assault on the Strip.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said that the discovery of large numbers of remains beneath the rubble in Gaza City brings renewed attention to concerns regarding war crimes and other serious violations, warning that what has been recovered so far may represent only a limited portion of the scale of the tragedy.

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### 19\. Amazon workers protest at its Washington headquarters in condemnation of the genocide

The “Amazon Workers Intifada” movement announced its outright rejection of a concert organized by the company’s management at “The Spheres” building at its headquarters, stating that musical performances would not conceal the ongoing crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The labor movement described the event as an attempt at artistic and entertainment “whitewashing” aimed at disguising the complicity and technological and intelligence partnership between Amazon and the Israeli occupation system.

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### 20\. Zionist media organization justifies incitement against “NAZA” director and calls for his family to be expelled

The Hebrew-language newspaper _Israel Hayom_ incited against director Yuval Abraham by publishing a local report conveying calls for increased public anger against his family, describing calls to hold a sit-in outside his parents’ home in the Negev as “justified.”

It also quoted the head of a local council as saying that this family “should not remain in the town.”

This came as the same newspaper was extensively publishing official statements describing the film and its directors as traitors, including explicit threats to revoke their citizenship.

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### 21\. Netanyahu attacks “NAZA” after it revealed evidence of genocide in Gaza

The investigative film “NAZA” caused alarm and anger within the political and military circles of the occupation after receiving the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival.

Prime Minister Netanyahu described the film as “horrifying,” considering it part of incitement against his army, while the Culture Minister called for the citizenship of directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Zor to be revoked.

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### 22\. Doctors Without Borders: Attack on bus carrying humanitarian workers in Gaza, one staff member injured

“Médecins Sans Frontières” (Doctors Without Borders), an independent humanitarian organization, announced that one of its buses carrying humanitarian workers was attacked in Gaza City, injuring one member of its staff.

In a statement published by the organization, it said the bus was carrying 10 humanitarian workers when it was damaged in a strike, adding that one staff member was injured during the attack.