Courts, councils and capitals, the marches, and Palestinians abroad asking for a say.
8lines, 17 layers under them
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The commission said Israel's expanding control in Gaza keeps killing civilians near the yellow line. Israel rejected the findings as misinformation.
The UN Commission of Inquiry, chaired by Srinivasan Muralidhar, reported to the General Assembly that Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity and continues to commit genocide in Gaza.
Source: UN News
In June 2026 the same commission told the Human Rights Council that Israeli forces had deliberately targeted Palestinian children.
Source: UN News
Palestinians forced from their homes in Hebron, per Türk
UN rights chief warns Hebron operation raises concerns of ethnic cleansing
US citizens among those detained
Israel detains about 80 olive-harvest volunteers, including a US congressional candidate
Palestinians killed since the harvest began, per the Palestinian health ministry (as of 17 October)
Settlers attack European diplomats' convoy in Taybeh and beat a French mayor
UN human rights chief Volker Türk said Israel's Hebron operation, which had forced more than 3,000 people from their homes, raised serious concerns of ethnic cleansing and amounted to collective punishment.
Israelis vote on 27 October in an election framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, and France 24 reports that turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel could decide the outcome.
Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared AI-generated campaign videos mocking Gazans, including one sending a Palestinian to Paris; France's foreign ministry replied that even magic could not lift his entry ban.
UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese told Reuters in Jakarta that Indonesia should reconsider its role in Trump's Board of Peace, arguing the rules are set by Israel and Palestinians lack a voice.
Israeli forces detained US congressional candidate Brad Lander and about 80 American and Israeli rabbis and activists helping farmers near Nahalin, the largest such detention in a decade, lawyers said.
Masked settlers attacked a convoy carrying Belgian, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives in the Christian village of Taybeh, beating 78-year-old French mayor Bernard Baudoux with iron bars.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cancelled legislative elections due in November and set 11 September 2027 for both presidential and legislative votes, blaming Israeli measures and conditions in Gaza.
