A former senior US official has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of delaying a captive exchange and ceasefire deal in Gaza in 2024 by "so many of his own conditions", which prevented an agreement for "another six months".

More than 2,000 Palestinians have died while waiting to be evacuated from Gaza for medical treatment since the closure of the Rafah crossing in May 2024, the territory's health ministry said on Wednesday, as Israel's siege continues to prevent thousands of critically ill patients from accessing treatment abroad.

Israeli attacks have killed at least 15 Palestinians in Gaza over the past three days, according to numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry, as the IDF has intensified its strikes on the besieged Palestinian territory one year after a ceasefire deal was signed.

Over the course of September, Israel carried out no less than 280 separate incursions into southwest Syria, and they currently hold at least 49 Syrians in detention, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reports.

Israeli forces carried out a strike against a car inside northwestern Lebanon near the Syrian border, wounding six people. Five of the wounded were Syrian nationals and two of them were women. The sixth person was a Lebanese citizen.

Hundreds of thousands of people joined coordinated pro-Palestine marches worldwide on Saturday to condemn Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and stand with Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid in the occupied West Bank.

The Global Alliance for Palestine said the mobilisation involved at least 325 events worldwide, including 176 in Europe alone. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has conveyed Tehran's position to Washington on a possible resolution to the war between the US and Iran, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on 10 October.

Putin discussed the US-Iran conflict with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during a meeting in Turkmenistan ahead of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit.

Israel is so evil that it's actually illegal for Israelis to tell the truth about it.

Israel expelled 20 British diplomats and downgraded the East Jerusalem post after London moved to ban goods from Israeli settlements, drawing a sharp line against foreign pressure on its sovereignty.