European-Palestinian Media Center (Epal) Bulletin | Issue: 2557 | Date: Tuesday, 15/09/2026

1. Continued violations: 3 killed and critical injuries in Israeli occupation attacks in Gaza**

Three citizens were killed and others were injured, some critically, after citizens were targeted in several areas of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources reported that one citizen was killed and others injured in an Israeli bombardment near the Khan Younis industrial area, around Street 5, north of the city, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation army continues its violations of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which have resulted in more than 1,369 people being killed and hundreds injured.

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**2\. Physical and sexual assaults against Gaza prisoners in Ramla prison**

The Prisoners’ Media Office revealed that a number of prisoners from the Gaza Strip have been subjected to physical and sexual assaults inside Ramla prison by the repression units of the Israeli occupation prison administration, amid harsh detention conditions and ongoing torture practices against prisoners.

The office said that the repression units in the “Rakefet” section transferred a number of Gaza prisoners to rooms without surveillance cameras before brutally beating them and deliberately targeting their genitals.

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**3\. Gaza’s agriculture under war and siege: 96% of land outside the production cycle**

The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has not left the agricultural sector untouched by destruction. The damage has affected farmland, crops, water sources, and irrigation networks, while the areas that can be accessed and cultivated have been reduced to a marginal percentage, threatening to leave the Strip dependent on imports and food aid.

Bahaa al-Agha, Director of Policies and Planning at Gaza’s Ministry of Agriculture, said that approximately 87.6% of the agricultural land in the Strip has been completely damaged, in addition to extensive damage to the soil, water wells, irrigation networks, and transmission lines.

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**4\. Simultaneous escalation: Settler attacks and a campaign of raids and arrests in the West Bank and Jerusalem**

Various areas of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem witnessed a simultaneous escalation on the ground, involving attacks carried out by settlers against Palestinians and their property, alongside campaigns of raids, searches, and arrests conducted by Israeli occupation forces, amid tightened military measures on roads, checkpoints, and the entrances to towns.

In the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, a group of settlers raided the village of Deir Jarir, east of the city, and fired live ammunition directly among Palestinian homes.

In the Tubas Governorate, occupation forces raided the town of Tammun, south of the city, and arrested several citizens after raiding and searching their homes.

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**5\. Settlement expansion plan intensifies: 12,300 new units added in the West Bank since the beginning of 2026**

Monitoring and documentation data from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission revealed an acceleration in planning activities for the expansion of settlements in the West Bank, with the cumulative total from the beginning of 2026 through September 13 reaching 100 settlement plans, comprising 12,300 settlement units.

In Jerusalem, the data showed 53 additional plans aimed at building 5,783 colonial units within the boundaries of the occupation municipality, indicating continued settlement expansion and planning for additional units.

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**6\. Abu Salmiya briefs UN delegation on the reality of Gaza’s healthcare sector**

Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, Director-General of the complex, received Paula Emerson, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Palestinian territories, and Taher Ibrahim, head of the OCHA office in Gaza. He briefed them on the deteriorating health situation inside the complex and the growing scale of needs amid the continued arrival of large numbers of patients and wounded people.

During the meeting, Abu Salmiya outlined the main challenges facing the complex, foremost among them the acute shortage of generator oil and spare parts, as well as shortages of medical equipment, supplies, and healthcare consumables. He also highlighted the increasing pressure on medical staff and medical services, stressing that the scale of needs far exceeds the available resources.

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**7\. Settlers release livestock among residents’ homes in Sinjil village north of Ramallah**

Settlers released their livestock among residents’ homes in the village of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.

Eyewitnesses said that the settlers deliberately brought the livestock into the residential area, causing concern and anger among residents, particularly amid repeated settler attacks against the village’s residents and their property.

These attacks come amid an escalation in settler attacks in the towns and villages of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, including attacks on citizens, their property, and agricultural land, in an attempt to push them to leave their lands and homes.

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**8\. Health Ministry: We warn of a catastrophe threatening the healthcare system following the suspension of fuel supplies to 13 institutions**

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip warned of a humanitarian catastrophe threatening the healthcare system in the Strip after all non-governmental health institutions were informed that their fuel supplies would be suspended as of September 19.

It said that the announcement by the aforementioned institutions was made through the Health Cluster and via the World Health Organization.

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_European_

**9\. Two activists arrested in Ireland after protesting support for the occupation**

Irish police arrested the two activists “Emma” and “Annie” after they staged an on-site protest against U.S. President Donald Trump and denounced military complicity with the occupying entity, during the Irish Open golf tournament at the “Doonbeg” course.

The two activists entered the seventh hole of the Trump-owned course wearing shirts bearing the slogan “U.S. Army Out of Shannon Airport.” They chanted slogans rejecting Trump’s presence and demanding an end to Washington’s use of Irish airports as military bases in support of the genocidal war.

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**10\. Protests continue outside AIB bank in Belfast over its support for the occupation**

The organizers confirmed that the action was part of an ongoing pressure campaign throughout Ireland aimed at preventing business as usual with institutions that finance the crimes of the occupation.

They said that the company “SNYK” was founded by former members of the Israeli occupation army’s “Unit 8200,” which is responsible for developing oppressive surveillance systems, checkpoints, and weapons used to suppress Palestinians.

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**11\. Protesters in Sydney call for sanctions against the occupation and an end to relations with it**

The Australian city of Sydney witnessed a large protest march calling on the government to take strong measures and impose immediate sanctions on the Israeli occupation entity, in condemnation of the ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Participants in the demonstration, organized by human rights activists and students, criticized the Australian government’s inaction and silence over the killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and six of her colleagues in an Israeli occupation airstrike in Gaza.

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**12\. #Video: March with crutches in solidarity with wounded victims of the genocidal war in Paris**

**#Watch:** With crutches and wheelchairs, a solidarity march took place in the French capital, Paris, in support of wounded people and amputees who were injured in Israeli occupation attacks during the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

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**13\. Scottish Green Party forces a vote to close government loopholes allowing funding for the occupation**

The “Scottish Greens” are preparing to force a decisive vote in the Holyrood Parliament this week, aimed at compelling the Scottish government, led by the Scottish National Party (SNP), to close legal loopholes and strengthen measures to boycott the Israeli occupation entity and companies complicit with it.

Gillien Mackay, co-leader of the Green Party, said that the scheduled vote represents a genuine opportunity to prevent public money from being used to support companies profiting from illegal Israeli colonies and from the repression of the Palestinian people.

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**14\. Russian activist documents occupation forces protecting settlers and removing Palestinians and journalists in Burqa**

Russian journalist and activist Andrei X documented scenes from the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, showing soldiers from the Israeli occupation army pointing their weapons at Palestinians, while settlers were attacking residents and their property.

Andrei X said in a post on his Instagram account that occupation soldiers refused to protect Palestinians from settler attacks, while declaring the area a “closed military zone” and removing journalists and activists from the scene, thereby preventing the attacks from being documented.

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_International_

**15\. Israeli incitement campaign targets a restaurant in Colorado for refusing to welcome supporters of the occupation**

Zionist organizations and lobbying groups in the United States are waging a broad incitement campaign against the Vietnamese restaurant “Sắp Sửa” in Colorado after its owners, Anna and Ni Nguyen, announced that they would not allow Zionists and supporters of the occupation entity to be present inside their establishment.

The “Stop Antisemitism” platform targeted the restaurant’s management by urging local residents to boycott and avoid it, attempting to blur the concepts by claiming that rejecting Zionist ideology constitutes the exclusion of Jews.

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**16\. Public outrage forces Pink to backtrack after inciting against pro-Palestinian singer Macklemore**

American singer “Pink” faced a wave of criticism and public rejection, forcing her to issue a justificatory statement in an attempt to backtrack and defend herself following her public and systematic calls to end rapper “Macklemore’s” career because of his advocacy for Palestinian freedom and opposition to genocide.

Pink also attempted to distance herself from the controversy in a statement claiming that reposting content does not mean officially endorsing the position, in an attempt to absorb growing public anger toward those accused of complicity with the occupation in Western entertainment circles.

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**17\. Tlaib calls on Washington to end its “complicity” in occupation crimes against Gaza**

U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib called on her country’s administration to end what she described as U.S. “complicity” in ongoing Israeli crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Tlaib said, “The genocide is still ongoing, and there has never been a ceasefire.”

She stressed that Palestinian children bear the greatest burden of Israeli attacks, adding: “Children are being killed by American-made bombs, and survivors suffer psychological trauma for the rest of their lives.”

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**18\. “New York Times”: Israel manipulates terminology to justify annexation of the West Bank**

The New York Times said that Israel’s political establishment uses language that justifies control, repression, and annexation in the West Bank. Domination over Palestinians is defined as “security,” uprooting is described as “settlement,” and widespread violence is portrayed as “self-defense.”

The American newspaper stated in its editorial that the Israeli human rights organization “B’Tselem” describes what is happening in the West Bank as an accelerating phase of a project aimed at consolidating Jewish-Israeli control over the land through violence, displacement, settlement, and the dismantling of the foundations of Palestinian life.

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**19\. 77% of Thais demand strict measures against Israeli settlers and shorter stays**

A recent opinion poll conducted by Thailand’s “NIDA Poll” institute showed that 77.49% of citizens who have followed the behavior of Israelis want the authorities to strictly enforce the law against them, amid growing public anger over their repeated violations.

Some 45.45% of participants in the survey, which included 1,410 voters in the capital Bangkok and five other provinces, supported reducing the permitted length of stay for Israelis, while 71.22% said that Israelis do not respect local laws and are involved in cases of illegal land appropriation and the operation of businesses through fake Thai fronts.

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**20\. Kite-flying event in India in solidarity with the children of Gaza**

The “Indians in Solidarity with Palestine” group and the boycott movement in India organized a solidarity event in the city of Patna, featuring kite flying and a discussion session condemning the genocidal war and the colonial practices committed by the Israeli occupation entity.

The event saw broad participation from students at various colleges in the city, focusing on supporting the resilience of Palestinian children, whom the occupation forcibly prevents from enjoying the hobby of flying kites under what it considers baseless security pretexts, treating it as an act of war.

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**21\. Israeli minister threatens to strip two filmmakers of their citizenship over a film documenting massacres in Gaza**

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar threatened to revoke the citizenship of the two filmmakers behind the film “Naza,” which documents Israeli crimes against civilians in the Gaza Strip, accusing them of “treason.”

The threat came the day after the film won the “Special Jury Prize” on Saturday at the 83rd edition of the Venice International Film Festival in Italy.

The film was directed by Israelis Oskar Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.