Epal (European-Palestinian Media Center) Bulletin | Issue: 2561 | Date: Sunday, 20/09/2026

1. 4 martyrs, including a child, killed by Israeli occupation fire in Gaza

Israeli occupation forces continued to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip for the 345th consecutive day, through shelling and gunfire targeting various areas of the Strip, resulting in the deaths of four people, including a child, and injuries to others. Local sources reported that citizen Yahya Hamdouna was killed and at least four others were injured after an Israeli drone struck a vehicle on Saturday evening on First Street in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, west of Gaza City.

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### 2\. “Targeting and beating a single detainee”… New testimonies reveal a policy of repression at Rakefet Prison

The Prisoners’ Media Office revealed a new pattern of repression that it said the administration of the underground “Rakefet” prison carries out against detainees from the Gaza Strip. The pattern involves selecting one prisoner from each room and subjecting him to concentrated physical assault, while the other prisoners are prevented from intervening.

The office said that repression forces storm the prisoners’ rooms and single out one of them, while using repressive measures against the others in the room. It explained that the latest raid lasted approximately 15 minutes.

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### 3\. Settler attacks target Palestinians, their property, and water sources in the West Bank

Settlers carried out a series of attacks against Palestinians, their property, and water sources in various parts of the occupied West Bank, amid escalating attacks targeting Palestinian communities and their property.

In Hebron Governorate, settlers set fire to an agricultural room and wrote slogans inciting the killing of Palestinians in the “Aghziwa” area east of Yatta, south of Hebron.

In Nablus Governorate, armed and masked settlers surrounded the home of a Palestinian resident in Khirbet al-Marajem, south of the city.

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### 4\. Second closure in days… Jewish holidays tighten restrictions on the Ibrahimi Mosque

The Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron is facing a new closure to Muslim worshippers, beginning Sunday afternoon and continuing through Monday, coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. It is the second extensive closure of the mosque in less than a week, amid Palestinian warnings of increasing restrictions on access to the site during the Jewish holiday season.

According to the schedule published for 2026, the entire mosque will be allocated exclusively for Jewish prayers beginning at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 20, on the eve of Yom Kippur, and continuing throughout Monday, September 21.

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### 5\. Despite the genocide… in-person education brings joy back to Gaza families

“Despite everything, we’re happy that our children have gone back to learning.” With these words, Umm Khaled Khalifa summed up her joy at her children’s return to in-person education, after three years during which the war of genocide kept children in the Gaza Strip away from their schools and classrooms.

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### 6\. Calls to kill Palestinians and burn their property… Settlers escalate attacks in the West Bank

Settlers carried out a series of attacks in various parts of the occupied West Bank, targeting residents’ homes, property, and water sources. The attacks included the burning of an agricultural room, the writing of inciting slogans, the destruction of a main water pipeline, and the surrounding of a Palestinian home by armed settlers.

In the “Aghziwa” area east of Yatta, south of Hebron, settlers set fire to an agricultural room belonging to a local resident before writing inciting slogans on its walls calling for the killing of Palestinians, in an attack targeting residents’ property in the area.

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### 7\. Gaza Civil Defense: 5 children evacuated after partial collapse of a previously bombed house in al-Sabra

Civil Defense crews in the Gaza Strip rescued five children who became trapped inside the second floor of their home after the staircase of the residential building, located near al-Iman Mosque in the al-Sabra area south of Gaza City, suddenly collapsed.

The General Directorate of Civil Defense reported that its crews managed to evacuate the five children and their family members and move them to a safe location outside the building, with no injuries reported. It said the family had been informed not to return to live in the house because of its extreme danger, as it had previously been subjected to Israeli shelling that weakened its structure and left it at risk of collapse.

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### 8\. #Video… Settler attacks Palestinian woman with a stick in the West Bank

#Watch… He beat her with a stick. A masked Israeli settler assaulted a Palestinian woman while a group of settlers raided the village of al-Markaz in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank.

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_European_

### 9\. Information table in Vienna seeks to break the blackout surrounding the ongoing genocide in Gaza

The event, held in cooperation with the Palestine Solidarity Platform in Austria, featured television screens and visual materials installed in the streets to broadcast the reality on the ground from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and to circumvent what organizers described as the complicity and bias of major Western media outlets.

The organizers of the campaign raised the slogan “We Are the Media Now,” emphasizing the continuation of grassroots media-resistance efforts and calling on Austrian society to continue speaking about Palestine and not allow intimidation policies to silence voices opposing genocide.

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### 10\. Iceland joins October 10 Global Day of Action to break the silence over genocide

The Boycott Movement in Iceland announced its official participation in the Global Day of Action scheduled for October 10, with a broad public call for mobilization and protests condemning the ongoing Israeli war in the Gaza Strip.

The call was launched under the slogan “Stop the Genocide,” emphasizing the need to break the international political silence and confront attempts to delay action and normalize coexistence with daily massacres and forced displacement. It warned against relying on the illusion of ceasefire negotiations while the occupation continues to destroy Palestinian communities and lives.

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### 11\. #Video… Police drag pro-Palestinian protesters during arrests in Berlin

#Watch… They dragged them along the street. German police violently arrested protesters expressing solidarity with Palestine in the capital, Berlin.

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### 12\. Calls in London for action against technology company Palantir over alleged links to genocide

The protest will begin outside the Royal London Hospital to pressure British health authorities and the National Health Service (NHS) to compel the government to activate a contractual termination clause and withdraw from the agreement with the company, valued at £330 million, before the final deadline in February 2027.

The march will proceed toward Palantir’s headquarters in London’s Soho district as part of a large national demonstration under the slogan “People Against Palantir,” expressing opposition to the privatization of health data for the benefit of security and military companies that, according to the organizers, profit from Palestinian blood, and demanding the company’s complete removal from the public-services sector.

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### 13\. San Sebastián Film Festival takes a stance against the genocide in Gaza

The San Sebastián International Film Festival in Spain’s Basque Country opened its 74th edition with 263 works from 47 countries, renewing its public opposition to Israeli aggression by screening the documentary _NAZA_, which exposes what it describes as mechanisms of systematic targeting in the Gaza Strip.

The documentary is based on 24 confidential testimonies from within the Israeli military and intelligence services. It details the hidden systems and software allegedly used in the calculated and large-scale killing of Palestinian civilians, as well as how victims are turned into bureaucratic, algorithmic numbers before airstrikes are carried out.

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### 14\. Protesters call for sanctions against the occupation and accountability for the killing of an Australian aid worker

Sydney, Australia, witnessed a large demonstration attended by hundreds of activists and supporters of the Palestinian cause, seeking to pressure the Australian government to impose decisive economic and political sanctions on the Israeli occupation.

Protesters called for an end to the policy of official silence and complicity and demanded criminal justice for Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, who was killed by the Israeli military in Gaza in 2024 along with her colleagues from World Central Kitchen after their humanitarian convoy was directly targeted.

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### 15\. UEFA rejects official Irish request to suspend matches against the occupation team in European competitions

The chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland, David Courell, confirmed that the association had explicitly objected to playing against the occupation team, citing alleged violations of UEFA regulations. He stressed that the entity should have been banned from participating in international matches.

However, the European response was a rejection, on the grounds that separation criteria apply only in cases of “direct military conflicts between states” and not in response to public opinion.

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### 16\. 5 million workers in Britain required to support the boycott

The decision does not mark the beginning of the British trade-union movement’s position on boycotts. Union support for boycotting the occupation began in 2009, when unions called for a boycott of Israeli products.

The position was later expanded to include companies operating in settlements. However, formally adopting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement at the union level elevates this position to a broader level of trade-union commitment.

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### 17\. Photos of martyred Gaza footballers displayed in protest outside Scottish stadium against Ireland–“Israel” matches

The area around Celtic Park stadium in the Scottish city of Glasgow witnessed a protest organized by activists opposing Ireland’s upcoming matches against the “Israel” national team in the UEFA Nations League.

During the demonstration, participants displayed photographs of Palestinian football players who were killed in the Gaza Strip, along with a football stained red and banners calling for an end to sporting matches against the “Israel” national team, as a protest against the continued aggression against the Gaza Strip.

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### 18\. When evidence becomes treason… The Guardian attacks the Zionist campaign against _NAZA_

The British newspaper _The Guardian_ criticized Israeli politicians and military leaders over the campaign they launched against the documentary _NAZA_ and its filmmakers, arguing that attacking and threatening the directors instead of investigating the evidence and testimonies presented by the film reflects an attempt to divert attention from the questions it raises concerning the killing of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

The newspaper said that the Israeli reaction to the film focused on its directors, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Zor, even though several of those who attacked them had not watched the film. It stressed that journalism that exposes the actions of those in power and holds them accountable is not “treason.”

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_International_

### 19\. Demonstration in Chicago condemns the American Medical Association’s silence regarding the genocide

The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), in cooperation with the Chicago Alliance Against War, organized a large protest outside the headquarters of the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago, demanding that it break what organizers described as its shameful silence and take immediate action to save Palestinian doctors who have been detained.

Participants raised slogans calling on the association’s leadership to take a decisive and public ethical position condemning crimes by the Israeli occupation and to use its full union and international influence to demand the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital.

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### 20\. Two prominent congressional Democrats temporarily freeze a $2.8 billion U.S. arms deal for “Israel”

Two prominent Democratic members of the U.S. House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees temporarily froze an arms deal that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump intends to advance for “Israel,” worth approximately $2.8 billion, amid concerns about the use of these weapons in densely populated areas of Gaza and Lebanon and whether their use would comply with U.S. and international law.

U.S. sources said that Representative Gregory Meeks, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, announced on September 16 that he would withhold approval of the deal. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had already placed the deal on hold in July and continued to withhold her approval for it to proceed.

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### 21\. Irving offers to pay fine for American player who wrote the name of martyr Hind Rajab on his face

American basketball star Kyrie Irving announced that he would cover the fine imposed on fellow American Aziz Al-Shair, a player for the Houston Texans football team, after Al-Shair wrote the name of Palestinian child Hind Rajab, who was killed, beneath his eyes during a game against the Buffalo Bills.

The National Football League imposed a fine of $11,941 on Al-Shair, alleging that he had violated the league’s rules governing players’ uniforms and equipment, which prohibit displaying unauthorized personal messages during games.

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### 22\. American book documents the Palestinian genocide… Dana Walrath devotes a chapter to Gaza and connects it to the history of displacement since the Nakba

American-Armenian writer, artist, and anthropologist Dana Machshoun Walrath devoted a separate chapter to the Palestinian genocide in the Gaza Strip in her illustrated book _The Book of Genocides_, published by Harvard University Press in the United States in September 2026.

The book, which runs to more than 400 pages, presents an illustrated account of ten cases of genocide that have occurred around the world over five centuries. It draws on the concept of genocide developed by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin and examines mechanisms of dehumanizing targeted groups and the political and social factors that enable mass atrocities to occur.