Mourners gather around the flag-draped remains of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes after they were recovered from the rubble, during their funeral in Gaza City, October 1, 2026
CAMPAIGNERS have accused Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government of being “hot on talk but cold on action” when it comes to weapons sales to Israel.
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) spoke out today after it emerged that the “double lock” on arms sales to Israel announced by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on September 8 had no impact whatsoever.
In response to a parliamentary question, the government confirmed that the first lock, a review of arms sales to ensure compliance with UK and international law, introduced in September 2024 had led to 29 licences being suspended and 56 licences being refused.
The same answer, however, reveals the new second lock, which aims to weed out exports used in illegal activities such as Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, has seen no further licences suspended since it was introduced last month, despite Mr Miliband’s claims at the Labour conference his government had reset its approach.
CAAT spokesman Leo Verity said: “Government recognition of ethnic cleansing, Israeli settler-terrorism and of the illegality of the occupation is the first step to ending UK complicity.
“But for the brutalised Palestinian people, all that matters is action, on arms sales and beyond.
“Right now it seems that the Burnham government is hot on talk but cold on action, with the ‘double lock’ on arms to Israel looking more like ‘doubling down’.”
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Smoke rises after Israeli forces carried out air and artillery attacks on towns in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, despite a ceasefire, on September 21, 2026. [Ramiz Dallah – Anadolu Agency]
The Israeli army continued attacks Thursday in southern Lebanon, carrying out airstrikes, blowing up homes, firing artillery and conducting machine-gun sweeps, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA), Anadolu reports.
The attacks targeted the towns of Al-Mansouri and Majdal Zoun in the Tyre district; Zawtar al-Sharqiyah and Nabatieh al-Fawqa in the Nabatieh district; Haddatha in the Bint Jbeil district; and the Zahrani area in Sidon district.
In the Tyre district, Israeli warplanes struck Al-Mansouri as Israeli forces carried out massive explosions in the town, according to the agency.
The blasts caused powerful tremors and were heard in the city of Tyre and surrounding villages, it said.
Israeli forces had earlier rigged several homes in Al-Mansouri with explosives before blowing them up, the agency added.
The Israeli army also carried out a large explosion in the town of Majdal Zoun in the district.
In the Nabatieh district, NNA said Israeli warplanes struck the outskirts of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah overnight and carried out another strike near the Scout City on the town’s outskirts.
The Ali al-Taher heights on the outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa also came under intermittent Israeli artillery fire.
In the Bint Jbeil district, Israeli forces carried out machine-gun sweeps toward the town of Haddatha as Israeli military vehicles moved through the area.
An Israeli drone was also seen flying at low altitude above the Zahrani area in the Sidon district.
The agency did not report casualties from the Israeli attacks.
On June 26, Beirut and Tel Aviv signed a US-sponsored “framework formula” in Washington providing for a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory and the deployment of the Lebanese army in areas vacated by Israeli forces.
Despite the agreement, Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have continued, while Israel still occupies areas in the south, some for decades and others seized during recent wars and military operations.
Since March 2, Israel’s offensive on Lebanon has killed at least 4,386 people, injured 12,413 and displaced more than 1 million, according to Lebanese authorities.
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Global Alliance for Palestine
LONDON — More than 200 civil society organisations, trade unions, student federations, human rights networks and grassroots groups across six continents will mobilise for Palestine on Saturday, 10 October, in a coordinated day of action spanning more than 60 countries.
Convened by the Global Alliance for Palestine, with the support of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) and the Global Coalition against Occupation of Palestine (SANED), this coordinated action seeks to create a unified, direct civil intervention intended to interrupt public complicity and demand systemic accountability against Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Global Day of Action brings together markedly different forms of mobilisation under a shared international framework.
The scale of the mobilisation is reflected not only in the number of countries taking part, but in the variety of actions being organised. From major demonstrations in cities including London, Sydney/Warrane, Cape Town, São Paulo, Rabat, Quito, Mexico City, Istanbul, Santiago, Reykjavík and Bangkok, to blockades and interventions targeting government and commercial sites, multi-day cultural programmes, teach-ins, film screenings, vigils and student-led educational actions, the mobilisation will take markedly different forms across the countries taking part.
In Athens, Modena and Kuala Lumpur programmes will extend over several days and include cultural sit-ins, public teach-ins and visual projections. Elsewhere, mass street mobilisations will take place alongside locally organised community, cultural and educational actions, from film screenings in Nigeria and commemorative vigils in the Democratic Republic of Congo to student-led educational activities in Trinidad and Tobago. Other participating groups are planning direct civil interventions around government institutions, public spaces, companies and financial institutions linked by organisers to military supply chains.
The 10 October mobilisation connects movements already organising for Palestine in their own countries, bringing ongoing local campaigns together through a coordinated global weekend of action by providing a shared framework through which organisations can act in ways that reflect their own political and social contexts. This is intended to make visible both the scale of existing Palestine solidarity organising and the connections between movements operating across different regions.
The mobilisation is organised around two linked calls: Defend the Land and End the Genocide, addressing both Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza and escalating state-sponsored settler violence, land seizures and military raids across the occupied West Bank. Organisers cite official records showing at least 73,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza, while published independent studies have reported substantially higher estimates.
‘After three years of relentless genocide and mounting state-sponsored settler violence, the fiction of restraint and the hollow promises of international diplomacy stand completely exposed. 10 October is a decisive intervention built upon the tireless work of our global movement. We are assembling across every continent under one clear mandate: to defend the land, end the genocide, halt military supply lines, and enforce universal international law.’
Dr. Anas Altikriti, Secretary-General, Global Alliance for Palestine
Alongside public mobilisation, the Global Alliance for Palestine is also calling for coordinated legislative action. Participating organisations have taken up the campaign by calling on lawmakers to receive constituent delegations, submit parliamentary inquiries on arms exports, push for emergency debates, and support arms, energy and trade restrictions against Israel.
Participating organisations include established anti-war, Palestine solidarity, human rights and grassroots organisations from across the globe. Participants include the Stop The War Coalition and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the United Kingdom; the Federation of Palestinian Entities of Latin America; the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network; Viva Palestina Malaysia and MyCare in Southeast Asia; CODEPINK and Labor for Palestine in North America; and the Palestine Solidarity Alliance in South Africa.
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People gather at the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City, Gaza, Palestine on October 01, 2026, to conduct mass funeral prayers and burial for more than 100 Palestinians whose bodies retrieved from the rubble of destroyed residential buildings in the southern Yarmouk neighborhood. [Abdalhkem Abu Riash – Anadolu Agency]
Israel continues to kill Palestinians, attack healthcare facilities and block vital supplies nearly a year after the Gaza ceasefire was announced, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has warned.
The charity said Israeli forces had killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and injured over 5,000 since the agreement announced on 10 October 2025, citing Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Hospitals remain short of medicines, fuel and essential supplies, leaving the health system struggling to recover.
“A year ago, Palestinians were told that the killing would stop and they would have a chance to rebuild their lives. Instead, they have spent the past year living with continued death, displacement and destruction,” said MAP’s Gaza Director, Fikr Shalltoot.
“Palestinians should not have to spend another year simply striving to stay alive as this genocide continues with impunity,” Shalltoot added.
MAP said Israeli forces had advanced beyond the “Yellow Line”, established under the agreement as the line behind which they were to withdraw, and now control around 70 per cent of Gaza. More than two million Palestinians are confined to the remaining areas.
The advances have displaced families and cut off access to homes, healthcare and sanitation facilities.
MAP communications assistant Mona Ramadan said the line had moved beyond her destroyed family home in Beit Lahia, where her father and brother remain buried beneath the rubble.
“Killing them was not enough. Their graves have been erased, too,” Ramadan said.
Now displaced in Deir al-Balah, Ramadan fears she may never return home. “We see homes and neighbourhoods disappearing, totally effaced. We see what is being destroyed, and we know that erasing the evidence does not erase what happened. We are still here. We witnessed it. We remember.”
Haitham Al Saqqa, MAP’s Nutrition Programme Officer, lives around 700–800 metres from the line. He described daily gunfire, bullets striking his home and restrictions on which rooms his children can enter because of the danger.
“Almost every day, my family asks whether we should stay or look for somewhere else. But where would we go? We have already lost and left so much,” Al Saqqa said.
MAP cited World Health Organisation figures recording 56 attacks on healthcare between January and August 2026, killing ten people and injuring 49. Only 35 of Gaza’s 57 hospitals and field hospitals remain partially functional, with none fully functioning.
On 15 September, a 65-year-old patient was killed when an Israeli military quadcopter fired at a MAP-supported medical point in Jabalia, the charity said. The following week, another medical point in central Gaza was evacuated after Israeli gunfire seriously injured a woman and child nearby.
Israeli advances have also forced the suspension of MAP’s neonatal project at Kamal Adwan Hospital. Its rehabilitation project at the European Gaza Hospital was relocated to Nasser Hospital after the former became inaccessible and was taken out of service.
MAP urged world leaders to enforce a permanent ceasefire, ensure unrestricted humanitarian access and support international investigations into attacks on healthcare.
It called for an immediate suspension of arms sales to Israel, including F-35 components, an end to military cooperation and the suspension of the UK-Israel trade agreement until Israel’s widespread violations of international law end.
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Muslims visit Al-Masjid an-Nabawi after completing the hajj pilgrimage, in Medina, Saudi Arabia on July 16, 2022. [Ashraf Amra – Anadolu Agency]
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on Thursday blamed the Houthis for a drone attack earlier this week on an electricity distribution station in the Saudi city of Medina, Anadolu reports.
Coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki said the attack targeted the Taibah electricity distribution station at 5.11 am local time on Tuesday.
An operational review and examination of debris from the drone established Houthi involvement in planning and carrying out what he described as a “cowardly terrorist act,” Al-Maliki said.
The attack knocked one transformer out of service but did not affect the electricity grid, he added.
Al-Maliki said the facility provides electricity to the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina.
He accused the Houthis of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure and attempting to provoke Muslims by targeting the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
Al-Maliki said the coalition would continue taking measures to deter Houthi attacks and protect the two holy mosques and visitors to Mecca and Medina.
The Houthis did not immediately comment on the coalition’s statement.
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Mourners gather around the flag-draped remains of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes after they were recovered from the rubble, during their funeral in Gaza City, October 1, 2026
