European-Palestinian Media Center (EPAL) Bulletin | Issue: 2576 | Date: Sunday, 04/10/2026

1. 8 killed, including 4 women, in Israeli strikes on Gaza
Eight people were killed and others were injured, according to a new toll of attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in various parts of the Gaza Strip, amid escalating Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement reached about a year ago.
A local source reported that several people were injured this evening in an Israeli bombardment near the Abbad al-Rahman School in northern Gaza.

2. The extermination of a generation: 21,745 children killed in Gaza over three years
The Center for Human Rights Protection revealed a shocking toll of violations committed by the Israeli occupation against children in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. It stressed that children have been among the main victims of the ongoing war, which has left thousands dead and wounded and deprived hundreds of thousands of them of their most basic rights.
In a fact sheet titled “Extermination of the Generation,” the center said that its teams working in the Gaza Strip had documented the deaths of 21,745 children under the age of 18 since the beginning of the war, in addition to around 46,000 children who were injured, including 11,000 cases involving amputations of lower limbs.

3. Olive trees in the crosshairs: $1.75 million in agricultural losses in the West Bank in one week
With the start of the olive-picking season, Palestinian farmers in the West Bank are facing losses affecting both the trees whose fruit they depend on and the land they are prevented from accessing.
Over the course of a single week, the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture documented Israeli attacks that caused direct losses to the agricultural sector exceeding $1.75 million. Attacks targeting olive trees accounted for most of the losses.

4. The West Bank pays the price of settlement expansion in blood: 30 killed by settler gunfire since the beginning of 2026
Attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank continue to escalate, accompanied by an increase in attacks against Palestinians, their land and their property. According to figures from the Palestinian Commission for Resisting the Wall and Settlements, 30 Palestinians have been killed by settler gunfire since the beginning of the year.
The figures indicate that this toll, recorded through October 2, has surpassed the total number of people killed by settlers in any year since these figures began to be documented in 2022. It is also more than double the toll recorded throughout 2025, representing an increase of approximately 114%.

5. #Video… The Palestinian flag terrifies occupation soldiers
#Watch… Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire toward a Palestinian flag planted by a young man on land in the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, after he refused to remove it. The soldiers then cautiously approached him and proceeded to take the flag down.
6. #Video… Settlers attack Palestinian farmers
#Watch… With the support of occupation soldiers, settlers launched an attack on Palestinian farmers and prevented them from picking olives in the town of Beita, in the Nablus Governorate in the northern occupied West Bank.
European
7. French MP condemns French Armed Forces Minister’s support for the occupation
Mathilde Panot revealed, during a parliamentary confrontation on October 1, that France had sent more than 525 shipments of military equipment to Israeli war factories between October 2023 and March 2026.
Panot rejected government justifications claiming that these exports were purely defensive in nature, stressing that they included cannon components, armed drones and advanced guidance systems for military pilots’ helmets.

8. Japan’s “FANUC” faces scrutiny over the role of its robots in producing Israeli ammunition
A protest was held in Canada outside the offices of Japanese company FANUC, which specializes in manufacturing robots and industrial automation systems, over its supply of technologies used in the production of Israeli weapons.
The protest came after documentation showed the company’s robots being used on ammunition production lines operated by Israeli company Elbit Systems.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense published a video showing yellow FANUC robots operating on a production line for 155mm artillery shells. In the video’s description, it stated that Elbit’s tank and artillery shell assembly line had been operating continuously since October 7, supplying large quantities of ammunition to Israeli forces.

9. 500,000 British nurses end partnership with Israeli pharmaceutical company
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in the United Kingdom ended its commercial partnership with Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva UK. The company will no longer sponsor an event on migraines and headaches scheduled to take place at the college’s headquarters in London on October 30.
The decision followed pressure from the groups Nurses for Palestine and the UK Healthcare Petitions to Royal Colleges initiative.

10. German police violently suppress pro-Palestinian protesters
A video showed violent attacks by German police against activists at Alexanderplatz railway station who were attempting to express solidarity with Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip against the ongoing war.
German security forces intensified their repressive measures by pursuing demonstrators and arbitrarily arresting several of them on the station platform, amid protests and chants from passengers and passersby who condemned the excessive violence used against a movement calling for an end to massacres and the protection of civilians.

11. London and Minnesota take action against “Palantir,” which supports the Israeli Ministry of Defense
In London, patients, workers from the British healthcare system and activists gathered outside Palantir’s headquarters in Soho Square on October 1, as part of a day of action involving more than 40 events across England.
Protesters called on the British government to terminate the company’s £330 million contract with the National Health Service and not renew it when the review period ends in February 2027, citing the company’s partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

In Minnesota, the Minnesota Anti-War Committee and other local organizations took part in “Kick Palantir Out Week,” held from September 26 to October 1, calling for public institutions, universities, pension funds and hospitals to divest from the company.

12. British police pressure organizers to postpone student march condemning the genocide in Gaza
The British Metropolitan Police asked the University of London coalition to change the date of its protest march, which was scheduled to coincide with the anniversary of the genocide, citing the need to observe “days of mourning” and avoid causing concern among Jewish students at British universities.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman expected around 300 students to take part in the march, which was due to begin at King’s College on Strand and end at University College London in Holborn, calling for an end to the genocide in the Gaza Strip.

13. Irish trade unions and workers renew boycott of match against the occupation’s national team to reject “sportswashing”
The sports movement took a further step forward with the announcement by Irish national team goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu that he would fully boycott the match and refuse to participate.
His position received widespread support and praise from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Unite trade unions, the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation, and SIPTU, the country’s largest trade union, which maintains a firm position against whitewashing the occupation’s crimes through sport.

14. Israeli woman removed after attempting to disrupt screening of “Naza” film in the Netherlands
Audiences and solidarity activists in the Dutch city of Delft removed an Israeli woman who attempted to interrupt and disrupt a screening of the documentary “Naza.” The film contains direct, firsthand testimonies from soldiers and commanders in the Israeli occupation army who acknowledge carrying out mass killings and massacres of Palestinian civilians.
The Israeli woman attempted to appeal to those present and obscure the facts presented in the documentary by claiming that her husband and son had been killed in the events of October 7. She said she had come “to tell the truth” and defend the occupation’s narrative.

15. British Green Party leader Polanski pledges to revoke “Palestine Action” terrorist designation
British Green Party leader Zack Polanski, speaking during the party’s annual conference in Brighton, condemned scenes of pensioners and peaceful protesters being handcuffed, arrested and placed in police vans simply for holding cardboard signs supporting civil resistance activities.
The government had banned the Palestine Action movement after some of its members occupied two British air bases in protest against Britain’s arming of the occupation.

16. Scottish railway unions call for “CAF” to be excluded over alleged complicity with the occupation
The train drivers’ union ASLEF and the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), along with other railway unions, called on the Scottish government to immediately exclude Basque transport company CAF from the shortlist of companies competing to supply the country’s new suburban train fleet.
The company has faced widespread criticism over its involvement in transportation projects in Israel, including projects linked to railway infrastructure, particularly the Jerusalem Light Rail project, which passes through settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.

International
17. Judicial blow to Trump administration: U.S. judge rejects case against pro-Palestinian protesters
A U.S. federal judge rejected a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump’s administration against pro-Palestinian organizations and activists over a protest outside a synagogue in New Jersey.
The Department of Justice had based the case on a law normally used to protect abortion clinics.

Judge Kathryn Hayden, at the federal court in New Jersey, ruled that the government had failed to provide sufficient evidence in its complaint to establish that the defendants had violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act), which prohibits the use of force, threats of force or physical obstruction intended to interfere with the exercise of protected rights, including religious worship.

18. Mamdani: “The genocide in Gaza continues… Netanyahu is its architect and the funding is American”
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is still ongoing despite talk of a ceasefire, holding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for orchestrating what he described as a “horrific genocide.”
Speaking during a podcast program, Mamdani said that talk of a ceasefire does not mean that what Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are experiencing has ended, stressing that “the genocide in Gaza is still ongoing.”

19. Dismissed from the FAO after expressing solidarity with Gaza: former UN official challenges termination
A former official with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has appealed a decision to dismiss him from the organization, saying that his termination was linked to his position on the issue of starvation in the Gaza Strip. The case has sparked debate within the organization over the limits of humanitarian expression by United Nations employees.
Documents reviewed by Reuters indicated that Benjamin Davis, 62, a U.S.-Spanish official who served as a director at the FAO, was informed that his employment would end on September 30, following a request by the organization’s Director-General, Qu Dongyu.