GAZA STRIP (RNN) - September 30 to October 7 summary:

The IOF intensified its campaign of systematic targeting against Gaza's civilian population, with a particularly brutal focus on Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid. Multiple massacres annihilated entire families, while the IOF demolished universities, struct schools, and bombed hospitals. The IOF severed Al-Rashid coastal road and violently intercepted the Sumud Flotilla.

Monday, September 30: IOF operations intensified across Gaza with a massacre of civilians awaiting humanitarian aid near Netzarim, where 18 martyrs ascended after the IOF opened fire on those seeking food assistance. A mother and her six children were martyred in a dawn strike on their home in Deir al-Balah, with only one child surviving from the entire family. Al-Shifa Medical Complex came under repeated shelling from IOF helicopters and drone strikes, while Al-Awda Hospital's western gate was directly struck, injuring five including hospital staff. Two children ascended from starvation and malnutrition in Gaza City, bringing the total famine deaths to 453 martyrs including 150 children

Tuesday, October 1: IOF forces unleashed a devastating campaign beginning with intensive drone operations deploying explosive robots on rooftops throughout residential neighborhoods. A massacre at Al-Falah school sheltering displaced families in al-Zaytoun resulted in at least 8 martyrs, followed by targeting of Civil Defense. Multiple strikes demolished homes including the Abu Kameel family residence in al-Daraj (7 martyrs), while the IOF targeted a water truck at Al-Thalathini street killing civilians seeking water. The IOF then targeted Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital targeting journalists' tents, and IOF closed Rasheed Road, effectively cutting off northern Gaza. The IOF also intercepted the Sumud Flotilla in international martyrs

Wednesday, October 2: IOF forces carried out a devastating massacre at a food charity kitchen in Mawasi Khan Younis, resulting in at least 10 martyrs who ascended while seeking sustenance. The occupation forces systematically targeted aid seekers throughout the day, with 13 martyrs falling by IOF fire near distribution centers in southern Gaza. In a brutal strike on the Al-Bureij camp, four brothers from the Nabahin family ascended while gathering firewood, and multiple residential buildings were demolished under intense shelling and aerial bombardment. IOF forces attacked the Al-Asma school sheltering displaced families and continued their siege around Al-Shifa Hospital, firing directly at medical facilities.

Thursday, October 3: IOF forces conducted extensive operations with particularly devastating strikes in Gaza City and Khan Younis. A massacre in the Al-Sabra neighborhood claimed 9 martyrs including 3 children, while another strike on displaced persons' tents in the Mina (port) area killed 5 martyrs, most of them children. The IOF targeted Al-Maghazi camp near Duar Makki, resulting in 7 martyrs and over 30 wounded. A major clash broke out between the resistance security forces and Majayda family, followed by IOF bombing. Hamas delivered its response to the US-led proposal.

GAZA STRIP (RNN) - September 30 to October 7 summary:

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Friday, October 4: The IOF conducted a devastating massacre against the Abd al-Aal family in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, when. At least 18 martyrs ascended, mostly children, including a 3-month-old infant, with approximately 20 still missing under the rubble. Additional strikes throughout the day targeted the Shaati refugee camp where 12 martyrs from the Sha'ath family ascended, and various residential areas across Gaza City. IOF forces continued demolishing homes with booby-trapped armored vehicles in Al-Sabra neighborhood while quadcopter drones fired intensively at civilians.

Saturday, October 5: IOF continued strikes across Gaza City with multiple massacres targeting civilians. Eight martyrs ascended near the Labbaidi junction in northern Gaza City, while another strike near the Thai junction resulted in 5 martyrs. IOF shelling targeted aid seekers at Al-Shakush area northwest of Rafah, resulting in 4 martyrs among aid seekers. The IOF demolished Al-Azhar University's Al-Maghraqa branch and continued targeted demolitions using explosive-laden vehicles.

Sunday, October 6: IOF forces carried out sustained strikes throughout the day across Gaza City, targeting critical areas intensive aerial bombardment and artillery shelling. The IOF struck a school sheltering displaced families at the Greek Orthodox School in Tal al-Hawa, resulting in martyrs and injuries. IOF forces also targeted civilians waiting for aid in Khan Younis. Demolitions of residential buildings were carried out in southwest Gaza City, while the IOF prevented aid from reaching Gaza City.

343 martyrs ascended this week, including 39 aid seekers and 6 due to starvation.

Gaza Civil Defense Spokesman Mahmoud Basal:

Two full years after the start of the ongoing “Israeli” war on the Gaza Strip, we salute and express our admiration for our steadfast Palestinian people, who have faced the machinery of war and destruction with unwavering patience and unshakeable faith, despite the killing, displacement, starvation, and suffocating siege that has affected every aspect of their lives.

We in the Civil Defense Agency affirm our great pride in our heroic knights, who since the first hours of the war have been working day and night, facing the horrors of bombing and the fires of aggression with their bare chests, to save lives, recover bodies, and secure the lives of civilians, despite limited resources and extreme danger.

We also extend our thanks and appreciation to all our partners in the field, the providers of humanitarian services in all areas, who have stood with us side by side and continued their work in the darkest circumstances and most difficult moments.

This war, which has affected every home and every family in the Gaza Strip, will not break our resolve or weaken our determination to continue our humanitarian mission, in honor of our martyrs and our people, who deserve a decent life and human dignity.

In conclusion, we affirm that the Civil Defense will remain at the forefront, performing its humanitarian and national duty with integrity, and its voice will continue to speak on behalf of the people of Gaza until this tragedy ends and security and peace return to our wounded homeland.

Prisons as a Frontline of Genocide: Two Years of War Crimes Against Palestinian Political Detainees
PART 1

Fact Sheet by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

October 7, 2025
Two years since the start of the “Israeli” occupation’s escalating genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip, and the comprehensive aggression across historic Palestine, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and other prisoner institutions present a fact sheet on the issue and reality of political prisoners. This includes key data and figures as well as an overview of the horrific conditions in the “Israeli” occupation’s prisons which constitute one aspect of the genocide, whereby Palestinian political detainees are being subject to unprecedented settler-colonial violence and erasure.

Over the past two years, detainees have been exposed to deliberate murder behind bars at the hands of the Israeli occupation’s prison services. This includes direct killing such as beating detainees to death, and other indirect killings through inhumane policies including denial of the right to medical care and starvation.

These actions, which existed before but intensified greatly since the genocide in Gaza, have led to a record number of Palestinian political prisoners killed.

There have been 77 identified murdered Palestinian political prisoners since the genocide began, while dozens of other detainees abducted from Gaza were martyred and their bodies remain withheld by occupation authorities and subject to enforced disappearances.
This figure stands as irrefutable evidence of one of the most brutal periods in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement, which has long resisted a prison system designed to physically and psychologically destroy detainees.

Relying on hundreds of documented testimonies, material evidence, and public threats by Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and the far-right “Israeli” government, the PPS and other institutions affirm that the crimes against prisoners constitute large-scale war crimes and crimes against humanity. The “Israeli” judicial system, including its Supreme Court, has provided legal cover for this brutality.

These crimes include torture, killing, looting, starvation, the intentional spread of disease, denial of medical care, sexual assaults including rape, and collective isolation — all aimed at the systematic killing of Palestinian prisoners. The scale of violence over the past two years has exceeded all legal definitions, violating international laws and conventions, amid unprecedented global inaction — especially due to the protection granted to these crimes by international powers, chiefly the United States.

Nevertheless, as human rights institutions, and despite the bleakness of the reality, we cannot ignore the role of principled human rights advocates, nor the importance of activating international decisions that support our people’s right to freedom and self-determination.

While the occupying state continues to commit its ongoing crime of genocide over the past two years, we are now witnessing the continued detention of dozens of activists from the Sumud Flotilla who, in their testimonies, revealed that they were subjected to abuse, ill-treatment, and detention under harsh conditions. This has been accompanied by public threats made by the Ben Gvir against the activists, whom he described as “terrorists.”

In this context, the institutions express their salute to all the activists who attempted to break the siege imposed on our people in Gaza.

Prisons as a Frontline of Genocide: Two Years of War Crimes Against Palestinian Political Detainees
PART 2

Key Policies and Violations Documented by Prisoner Rights Institutions

We have documented an unprecedented escalation in the scale and scope of systematic crimes and violations widely practiced against Palestinian political prisoners since the beginning of the genocide.

Among the most prominent of these crimes are:

· Torture in all its physical and psychological forms.

· Systematic starvation and denial of sufficient and balanced food.

· Medical crimes, including denial of treatment and deliberate imposition of conditions that lead to the spread of diseases and epidemics.

· Collective isolation and policies of deprivation affecting all aspects of prison life.

· Systematic repression and attacks carried out by special units of the Israeli Prison Services, notably the Keter, Metzada, and Nahshon units.

· Violent physical assault, including the use of gas, stun grenades, and electroshock weapons.

· Policies of humiliation, including strip searches and sexual assault, including rape.

· Using illness as a tool of torture, as seen in the outbreak of scabies skin disease.

· Psychological terror, solitary confinement, and threats of murder.

· Enforced disappearance has also become a policy, particularly targeting detainees from Gaza.

Additionally, there has been a massive surge in the use of the policies of “administrative detention” and “unlawful combatants” both of which allow detention without trial or charge for indefinite periods without due process.
 
Martyred Prisoners: The Most Violent Era in the History of the Prisoner Movement

The number of martyred Palestinian political prisoners whose identities have been confirmed has reached 77 people, all of whom were killed through either torture, starvation, or denial of medical treatment, or a combination of them all. These are only those whose identities have been revealed; the bodies of dozens of detainees from Gaza who have been killed remain forcibly disappeared.

In addition, occupation authorities continue to withhold the bodies of 85 martyred prisoners who were killed in detention, 74 of whom were martyred since the start of the genocide. 

The total number of martyrs of the Palestinian prisoner movement since the occupation of 1967 is estimated at 314 people, according to documentation compiled over the decades.

We emphasize here that the occupation’s claims of opening “investigations” into the circumstances of some prisoner deaths and killings — following formal requests from certain human rights institutions — are nothing more than a policy of deception and deliberate stalling.