Epal European Palestinian Media Center Bulletin, Issue No. 2351, Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026

1. The occupation continues its violations: 3 martyrs and wounded in the bombing of a residential apartment west of Gaza

Three citizens were killed and others injured in an Israeli strike targeting a residential apartment near Al-Suwaidi Al-Nasr, west of Gaza City.
Local sources reported the killing of three citizens and the injury of others in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential apartment in the same area.

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**2. #Video | The occupation forces a child to demolish his own home in Jerusalem**

#Watch… A child, along with his family, was forced to demolish their own home in the town of Sur Baher in occupied Jerusalem after Israeli authorities issued a demolition order under the pretext of lacking a permit.
Palestinians in Jerusalem are compelled to demolish their homes by their own hands after receiving demolition notices, due to the extremely high demolition costs imposed by the occupation.

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**3. Israeli decisions to expand settlement activity and land purchases in the West Bank**

The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Political and Security Affairs (the Cabinet) approved new decisions to expand settlement activity and land purchases in the West Bank, including the repeal of the Jordanian law that prohibited the sale of Palestinian land to Jews in the West Bank.
According to Hebrew media, the decisions also include lifting secrecy from land records and transferring authority for issuing building permits in the settlement area of Hebron from the Palestinian municipality to the Israeli Civil Administration.
These decisions will bring profound changes to land registration and purchase mechanisms in the West Bank, allowing the public disclosure of landowners’ names and enabling Israeli buyers to contact them directly.
The Cabinet also abolished the requirement to obtain a “transaction permit” to complete land purchases in the West Bank and reduced the professional oversight role of the Israeli Civil Administration, limiting procedures to basic registration requirements.

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**4. Gaza Civil Defense warns of fire hazards and calls for the entry of safety equipment**

The Safety and Prevention Department of the General Directorate of Civil Defense called for the urgent entry of safety and prevention equipment needed for workshops and industrial and commercial facilities in the Gaza Strip.
The Director of Safety and Prevention at the Civil Defense, Brigadier Mohammed Shreir, warned of the dangers of fires threatening the commercial sector, which is attempting to recover after being destroyed by the Israeli occupation during its ongoing war on Gaza.
Shreir confirmed that the Gaza Strip is currently devoid of safety and prevention equipment after it was destroyed by the occupation, adding that owners of workshops and facilities—especially hazardous ones such as fuel and gas stations—face great difficulty in obtaining safety equipment due to the occupation’s continued refusal to allow its entry into Gaza.

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**5. Law on executing prisoners: an Israeli crime turning prisons into killing grounds for Palestinians**

The issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons has entered a new phase that poses a direct threat to their lives, after Hebrew media revealed preparations to implement the “death penalty” bill against them following its approval in the first reading in the Knesset.
The law constitutes a clear violation of international law and human rights and opens the door to what legal experts consider a systematic crime against prisoners.
It allows the issuance of death sentences even in cases where there is no premeditated intent and excludes any application to Israelis who commit similar crimes against Palestinians, making the punishment blatantly discriminatory. This places prisoners under direct threat and turns occupation prisons into execution tools, in an organized crime unprecedented in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ issue.

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**6. The occupation orders a halt to construction of 10 homes in Bethlehem and bans citizens from Al-Aqsa**

Israeli occupation forces issued orders halting construction on ten homes in the village of Al-Munya, southeast of Bethlehem, while also raiding Shuafat refugee camp north of occupied Jerusalem, with a heavy deployment throughout its streets and neighborhoods.

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**7. Palestinian Prisoners’ Club: the occupation legalizes revenge against prisoners amid international complicity**

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club stated that what Israel’s Channel 13 revealed regarding preparations by the prison administration to implement the death penalty law against prisoners marks the beginning of an extremely dangerous phase, constituting “the peak of the ongoing genocide against prisoners.”
In a statement, the Club said Israel is moving rapidly toward final approval of the law amid “international complicity and a failure to protect thousands of prisoners.”
It emphasized that these Israeli steps fall within a policy aimed at “legalizing revenge” against prisoners and escalating repression inside prisons to an unprecedented level, at a time when legal and international protection for Palestinian prisoners is sharply declining.

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## **Europe**

**8. Bob Vylan chants again in the heart of Manchester: “Death to the Israeli army”**

The British band Bob Vylan once again chanted the slogan “Death to the Israeli Defense Forces,” amid strong audience interaction.
British musician Bob Vylan, one half of the London punk-rap duo, held a large concert at Manchester Academy, during which the audience joined in chanting the slogan, which had previously sparked widespread Israeli outrage.
The chant reignited the political and legal controversy that has followed the band for months, with several countries banning them from performing on their territories.

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**9. Birmingham University career fair disrupted over hosting occupation-linked companies**

Students at the University of Birmingham disrupted a careers and employment fair on campus in protest against the participation of military and technology companies involved in genocide, foremost among them Airbus, at the invitation of the “Birmingham Liberated Zone” movement.
Protesters accused the participating companies of direct complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza through supplying aircraft, equipment, and surveillance technologies used by the occupation army.
They rejected turning the university into a recruitment platform for companies that contribute to financing and enabling mass crimes and human rights violations.
Students noted that Airbus is one of the world’s largest aerospace and military corporations, with cooperation and arms-supply ties to the occupation army, playing a direct role in arming it through military transport aircraft, surveillance technologies, and components used in combat aircraft, in addition to participation in military and security cooperation programs with Israeli institutions. They considered hosting the company at university events a form of whitewashing its role in genocide.

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**10. Thousands of Australians protest against hosting the Israeli president**

Thousands of protesters gathered in Sydney today to demonstrate against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, in a march condemning Israeli crimes against Palestinians.
Protesters lost a legal challenge against the decision of the New South Wales government to grant police expanded powers during the visit, allowing crowd control and strict restrictions on protests, including fines of up to $5,500 for violations.
The area witnessed a heavy police presence and continuous attempts to disperse demonstrators; nevertheless, the march sent a clear message to the Australian government rejecting the reception of figures accused of war crimes and affirming that their voices will not be silenced despite the excessive force they faced.

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**11. #Video | Storming a Tesco store in Belfast to boycott Israeli goods**

Activists from the boycott movement in Belfast, Ireland, carried out a protest action inside a Tesco store, removing Israeli products from shelves and calling on shoppers to boycott them.
The activists stated that merely calling for a ceasefire is not enough to stop the ongoing crimes, stressing that preventing genocide is a moral and legal obligation enshrined in international law, not a political option that can be ignored.
They added that Palestine represents a test of human conscience and that popular boycotts and peaceful actions are legitimate tools to pressure complicit companies, especially in light of governments’ failure to fulfill their human rights obligations.

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**12. 250 Swiss academics call for ending the research agreement with the occupation**

More than 250 academics and researchers in Switzerland signed an open letter addressed to the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), calling for the termination of an existing research cooperation agreement with Israel.
They demanded a reassessment of academic relations that, in their view, may contribute to supporting military policies linked to the war.
The initiative was coordinated by the group “Academic Freedom, Democracy and Solidarity” (CLADS), founded in 2024 to protect university independence, defend academic freedom of research and expression, and strengthen educational institutions’ commitment to human rights.
The signatories stated that continuing research partnerships without a comprehensive review constitutes “a morally problematic stance in light of the current situation in the Gaza Strip.”

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**13. Protest vigil in Tameside condemning British support for the occupation**

Activists from “Tameside Palestine Solidarity” held a protest vigil in Tameside, UK, stressing the need to continue supporting the Palestinian people in the face of Israeli occupation and settlement expansion.
They emphasized that standing with besieged Palestinians is a moral and humanitarian duty.
The statement noted that British institutions continue to show support for the Israeli settlement project, making it necessary to strengthen global solidarity with Palestinians, respond to their demands, and contribute to rebuilding Gaza’s infrastructure. The activists also stressed the importance of weakening the financial ties linking the settlement project to the West and supporting the global struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

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## **International**

**14. Investigation reveals involvement of the world’s largest shipping company in marketing settlement products**

A joint investigation by Al Jazeera Network in cooperation with the Palestinian Youth Movement revealed the involvement of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s largest shipping company, in facilitating the transport of goods and products originating from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Syrian Golan Heights to international markets, primarily the United States.
Commercial documents and U.S. import databases showed that the Swiss company shipped at least 957 consignments from Israeli settlement outposts between early January and late November 2025.
The company is owned by Italian billionaire Gianluigi Aponte and his wife Rafaela Aponte-Diamant, who was born in the city of Haifa.

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**15. Francesca Albanese: the world did not stop Israel, but provided political, economic, and military support**

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said that the genocide in the Gaza Strip has not yet ended, noting that the Palestinian people are the most aware of this reality.
She added that most countries around the world did not stop Israel but instead provided it with political support, economic assistance, and weapons, while some Western media contributed to promoting the Israeli narrative at the expense of facts.
Albanese affirmed that the world must act immediately to achieve justice for the Palestinian people, expressing her belief that Palestine will be liberated and Palestinians will be free.

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**16. Boycott campaigns target products supporting the occupation and expand its global economic isolation**

Anas Ibrahim, general coordinator of the global campaign to boycott the occupation and its supporters “Qate’ (Boycott),” stated that the campaign is preparing to launch a series of focused boycott actions targeting key consumer products associated with the month of Ramadan, which begins next week, as part of escalating economic pressure on the Israeli occupation and companies that support it.
Ibrahim explained that the upcoming campaigns will include food products, beverages, and popular Ramadan juices and will be implemented on a country-by-country basis, taking into account differing consumer habits and popular products across societies.
He added that national campaigns operating under the “Qate’” umbrella possess detailed knowledge of local markets and companies involved in supporting the occupation, enabling effective targeting of boycotts, highlighting safe alternatives, and supporting local products.