European-Palestinian Media Center (EPAL) Bulletin | Issue: 2581 | Date: Friday, 09/10/2026

1. Four killed and 28 injured in Gaza in 24 hours

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that four people killed and 28 injured had arrived at hospitals across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression.

In its daily statistical report, the ministry stated that the total number of people killed since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, 2025, had reached 1,471, while the number of injured had risen to 5,189.

## 2. Hima Center to foreign ministers worldwide: Lift occupation restrictions that are deepening the catastrophe in Gaza

The Hima Center for Human Rights called on foreign ministers around the world to take urgent action to pressure for the removal of obstacles preventing aid deliveries and the movement of patients and goods into and out of the Gaza Strip. It warned that the continued Israeli restrictions were exacerbating the collapse of healthcare and living conditions and increasing the risks facing civilians.

In a letter it sent, the center stated that the people of the Gaza Strip were enduring extremely harsh humanitarian conditions after years of genocide, amid Israeli policies and measures restricting access to essential necessities and depriving Palestinians of their rights to health, education, and work.

## 3. Prisoners’ Media Office: Gaza detainees at “Janut” prison subjected to brutal assault on the anniversary of October 7

The Prisoners’ Media Office stated in a press release that detainees from Gaza held at “Janut” prison were subjected to a brutal assault on the anniversary of October 7. The attack included the indiscriminate firing of rubber bullets, the spraying of gas and pepper spray, beatings with sticks and batons, and the introduction of police dogs into their cells.

The office explained that the assault left several detainees with broken bones in their hands. One detainee suffered burns after a grenade struck his hand, while another detainee’s glasses were broken despite his existing vision problems. The detainees also suffered from scabies and boils.

## 4. Gaza Health Ministry: Occupation-imposed siege has caused healthcare system deterioration and the deaths of hundreds of patients

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip warned that the unprecedented and severe deterioration of the healthcare system, caused by the ongoing war and Israeli restrictions on the entry of medical supplies, had halted treatment protocols and led to the deaths of hundreds of patients.

In a statement, the ministry said hospitals across the Strip were experiencing an acute worsening of the medicine crisis. Essential medicines with zero stock levels accounted for 44% of all drug categories, while 54% of medical consumables were unavailable. Critical supplies were also lacking, including insulin pens, chemotherapy drugs, immunosuppressants for kidney transplant patients, and intravenous saline solutions.

## 5. Prisoners’ Club: Occupation forces arrest and conduct field interrogations of 95 Palestinians in the West Bank

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said Israeli occupation forces had carried out an arrest campaign and field interrogations involving approximately 95 Palestinians in several areas and towns across the occupied West Bank.

In a statement, the club explained that the arrests and field interrogations were concentrated in Aqaba town in Tubas Governorate, Madama town in Nablus Governorate, the city of Yatta south of Hebron, as well as areas in Jenin, Bethlehem, and Al-Bireh.

## 6. #Video: Occupation soldiers beat a blindfolded detainee

#Watch: After blindfolding him, Israeli occupation forces beat a young Palestinian man during his arrest in the town of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

# European

## 7. Mass sit-ins at Dutch railway stations denounce complicity in genocide

Groups and movements in solidarity with Palestine organized simultaneous protests and mass sit-ins inside major railway stations across the Netherlands, including in the capital, Amsterdam, and the cities of Rotterdam and Utrecht. The demonstrators condemned the ongoing Zionist genocidal war and called for a boycott of the Israeli entity.

Hundreds of people turned Utrecht Central Station into an open sit-in venue, raising the Palestinian flag before launching an angry march through the city center that reached the Hoog Catharijne shopping center. During the march, participants carried banners demanding an end to official Dutch complicity and the cessation of support for the occupation army.

## 8. #Video: German police assault pro-Palestinian supporters

#Watch: Citing an alleged “threat to public safety,” German police cracked down on a pro-Palestinian march in Berlin, assaulting demonstrators and arresting several of them as they protested Israel’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip and Germany’s support for Israel.

## 9. Public rally in Melbourne, Australia, condemns the occupation

Crowds gathered outside the State Library of Victoria in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, for a solemn memorial event honoring the Palestinian martyrs killed by bullets and missiles during the Zionist genocidal war.

The Free Palestine Coalition, which organized the event, stated that the gathering reaffirmed its commitment to boycotting the occupation system and applying pressure to end 78 years of ongoing ethnic cleansing campaigns that began with the 1948 Nakba.

## 10. Protests in Belgrade call for Serbia to withdraw from Eurovision in opposition to Israel’s participation

Dozens of protesters and activists gathered outside the headquarters of Serbia’s public broadcaster, RTS, in the capital, Belgrade, for an angry protest demanding that Serbia immediately withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest because of Israel’s participation.

Protesters raised the Palestinian flag and carried banners accusing Israel of committing atrocities and genocide in the Gaza Strip. They called on the public broadcaster to stop airing the contest, scheduled to take place in Vienna from May 12 to 16 next year, and urged the Serbian public to boycott the broadcast and isolate the occupation system diplomatically and culturally.

## 11. German police suppress a march in Berlin marking the anniversary of the genocide

German police suppressed a mass march organized by members of the Palestinian community and supporters of the Palestinian cause in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, arresting several participants.

German security forces used force to disperse the march and break up the demonstration, during which participants raised Palestinian flags and chanted for freedom. The crackdown comes amid increasingly restrictive measures and security persecution by the authorities against boycott and solidarity movements opposing the genocidal war.

## 12. Activists block road leading to Belfast City Hall on the anniversary of the genocide

Pro-Palestinian activists opposed to genocide blocked the main road leading to Belfast City Hall in Northern Ireland, denouncing the continuation of the Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people.

The action coincided with the third anniversary of the escalation of the occupation’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, which protesters described as the most extensively documented and livestreamed crime in human history.

## 13. Boycott movement issues urgent appeal to stop military shipment to Israel traveling via French air transport

The Boycott Movement issued an urgent appeal calling for pressure on Air France to stop a military shipment bound for Israel before it is unloaded or departs from Paris.

The movement joined French labor unions and civil society groups in an effort to prevent the shipment, which was scheduled to depart at 11 a.m. Palestine time today. It called on the French government and airport authorities to immediately comply with their obligations under international law and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

## 14. Britain refuses to close its mission in Jerusalem and maintains measures against settlements

Britain announced that its Consulate General in Jerusalem would continue operating under the name “United Kingdom Mission to Jerusalem” following talks with the Israeli government. It reaffirmed its refusal to recognize Israel’s right to close the mission and its commitment to the measures it had announced against settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The announcement came as the deadline set by Israel for closing the consulate expired. The move marks an escalation in diplomatic tensions in response to London’s announcement of its intention to ban trade in settlement goods and target entities supporting settlement expansion.

# International

## 15. Student demonstration at Columbia University in New York condemns genocide in Gaza

Hundreds of students and activists in solidarity with Palestine organized mass demonstrations and academic strikes outside Columbia University in New York City, denouncing the ongoing Zionist aggression.

The on-the-ground action was part of a series of protest marches held across New York State to mark the third anniversary of the genocidal war. Participants raised slogans reaffirming their commitment to boycotting Israel and opposing military funding for it.

## 16. Francesca Albanese: The scale of destruction in Gaza and worsening conditions in the West Bank require more than mere condemnation

United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warned against the distortion of facts and the description of Palestinians as “survivors of genocide,” emphasizing that the Zionist crimes of erasure and ethnic cleansing were ongoing and had not ended.

Marking three years since the genocidal war began, Albanese explained that the Israeli occupation army controlled 70% of the Gaza Strip and was seeking to level as much of it as possible. She questioned the absence of international accountability for policies of destruction and compared the crimes to campaigns of extermination against Indigenous populations during the colonial era in the Americas and Australia.

## 17. Miss Rachel: We must put an end to the ongoing genocide

The renowned American children’s content creator “Ms. Rachel” issued a public statement calling for an immediate end to the ongoing genocidal war against children. She criticized the discriminatory humanitarian and political treatment of children’s lives and rights based on race, religion, or place of birth.

The American influencer emphasized the need to end the ongoing genocide and provide urgent protection for children who have been failed by the international system, colonial policies, and adults who perpetrate violence and intimidation. She rejected the division of children into “our children” and “their children,” as well as the dehumanization of the victims themselves to justify their trauma and the deaths imposed upon them.

## 18. Angry protest outside the Israeli embassy in Athens denounces US support for genocide

Dozens of activists and members of the Palestinian community gathered in the Greek capital, Athens, for a mass protest outside the Israeli embassy, denouncing the continuation of the genocidal war and ongoing Zionist massacres in the Gaza Strip.

Participants raised the Palestinian flag, demanded freedom for Palestine and an immediate end to the aggression, and chanted forceful slogans criticizing the colonial policies of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

## 19. #Video: Galata Tower draped in the Palestinian flag in Istanbul

#Watch: Galata Tower in the colors of Palestine. Istanbul illuminated one of its most prominent historical landmarks with the Palestinian flag, marking three years since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

## 20. #Video: Shroud bearing the names of 20,000 children killed in Gaza displayed in Cape Town

#Watch: Demonstrators in Cape Town, South Africa’s legislative capital, raised a giant burial shroud bearing the names of approximately 20,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza during three years of the genocide committed by Israel in the Strip.

## 21. Israeli court convicts lawmaker Ofer Cassif for supporting Palestinian rights

An Israeli Magistrate’s Court in occupied Jerusalem convicted Ofer Cassif, a lawmaker who supports Palestinian rights and belongs to the Hadash-Ta’al parliamentary alliance, over allegations that he assaulted an Israeli police officer four years ago in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

The case dates back to a demonstration in the area, where Israeli police prevented Cassif from driving his car to the protest site. The indictment alleges that a verbal altercation took place during which Cassif injured the officer. However, the prosecution rejected the lawmaker’s arguments that he was protected by parliamentary immunity and had acted in self-defense after being assaulted by occupation police.