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Large volumes of medical supplies for Gaza face wait times of 74 days for Israeli clearance: WHO
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Premature babies are struggling to survive due to limited fuel supplies and shortages of medical equipment in Nuseirat, Gaza, Palestine on April 15, 2026. [Moiz Salhi – Anadolu Agency]
Large volumes of medical supplies meant for Gaza wait a median of 74 days for clearance by Israeli authorities, the World Health Organization said Friday, urging “unimpeded and predictable” access for the much-needed aid, Anadolu reports.
“Not one hospital in Gaza is fully functional,” Reinhilde Van De Weerdt, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, told reporters in Geneva.
Van De Weerdt said chronic shortages of medicines and medical supplies remain a major obstacle to restoring health services, despite a year having passed since the ceasefire was announced.
“Without those items, no hospital will ever be fully or even partially functional,” she said.
According to the WHO’s latest analysis, large volumes of medical supplies wait a median of 74 days, roughly 2 1/2 months, for Israeli clearance.
“If the shipment hasn’t been approved, then we start that lengthy, cumbersome process all over again with no guarantees for a different outcome,” she said.
READ: Gaza genocide continues a year after ‘ceasefire’, Medical Aid for Palestinians warns
Medicines have an approval rate of nearly 87%, while medical equipment – including X-ray machines, sterilization equipment, and spare parts for CT scanners – is regularly rejected, she said, “often with no explanation given.”
“Every extra day in storage or in transit brings medicines a day closer to expiry, an equipment closer to being damaged before it ever reaches the person who needs it,” she warned.
She also described the security situation in Gaza as “very, very precarious,” saying collecting medical supplies from the Kerem Shalom crossing requires WHO teams to travel through an area controlled by the Israeli military using armored vehicles and personal protective equipment.
The process must be coordinated with Israeli authorities and teams often face delays in receiving the green light, she said, adding that logistical staff can leave early in the morning and return late in the evening with supplies that had been waiting at the crossing.
The WHO called for the “unimpeded and predictable” entry of humanitarian and health supplies into Gaza at scale and the use of multiple crossings.
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Ed Miliband claims that he and Andy Burnham have reformulated Blair’s triangulation strategy. Their new formulation entails acknowledging that they were wrong on Israel and Palestine but entails doing absolutely nothing about it and continuing exactly the same policies hoping that you’re too stupid to notice.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.

Andy Burnham backs Israel
3 October 2026
3 Palestinians killed, 4 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza despite ceasefire
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Emergency responders and bystanders at the scene of an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strike Palestinian group gathering near the Ansar roundabout in western Gaza City, Gaza, Palestine, on October 02, 2026. [Ali Jadallah – Anadolu Agency]
Three Palestinians were killed and four others, including a child, were injured Friday in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip amid continued violations of a ceasefire that took effect Oct. 10, 2025, Anadolu reports.
In the latest attack, a Palestinian was killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting the courtyard of a residential home behind the Al-Razi Medical Complex in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Medical sources told Anadolu that the body of Ibrahim Abu Uwaimer was brought to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp following the strike.
Earlier, a medical source told Anadolu that Ahmed al-Ramlawi was killed in an Israeli strike targeting a tent on the rooftop of a home near Palestine Stadium west of Gaza City.
In another attack, a medical source told Anadolu that Ibrahim Munir al-Masri was killed and another Palestinian was injured in an Israeli strike targeting a gathering of people near the Ansar junction southwest of Gaza City.
Earlier, three Palestinians, including a girl and an elderly woman, were injured by Israeli army gunfire targeting Street 5 in the Al-Mawasi area and the vicinity of Hamad City northwest of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the source said.
Witnesses told Anadolu that Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire on residential areas and tents sheltering displaced people in northern, eastern and southern Khan Younis.
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Israeli warships also opened fire on the coast of Khan Younis, according to the witnesses.
Earlier in the day, local sources told Anadolu that the Israeli army carried out a major demolition operation targeting homes and buildings inside areas under its control in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.
Israeli warplanes also carried out at least two strikes on evacuated buildings east of the Al-Tuffah and Shujaiya neighborhoods, with no casualties reported, according to the sources.
In central Gaza, Israeli artillery shelled eastern areas of Deir al-Balah and the Al-Maghazi refugee camp amid gunfire in the vicinity, the sources said.
Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement had killed 1,439 Palestinians and injured 5,052 others as of Thursday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Since Oct. 8, 2023, Israel has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians and injured over 175,000 others in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian figures, while around 90% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been destroyed.
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Ed Miliband claims that he and Andy Burnham have reformulated Blair’s triangulation strategy. Their new formulation entails acknowledging that they were wrong on Israel and Palestine but entails doing absolutely nothing about it and continuing exactly the same policies hoping that you’re too stupid to notice.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.

Andy Burnham backs Israel
3 October 2026
Israeli forces detain 2 Syrians during incursion into southern Syrian village
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A view of the area around Tel al-Ahmar in Syria’s Quneitra countryside, where a raid and infiltration by the Israeli army were reported, with around 30 Israeli military vehicles deployed in the area from morning until evening the previous day on September 15, 2026. [Izz Aldien Alqasem – Anadolu Agency]
Israeli forces detained two Syrians during an incursion into Maariya village in the western countryside of Daraa province in southern Syria, later releasing one of them, according to Syrian Arab News Agency on Friday, Anadolu reports.
An Israeli force comprising 12 military vehicles entered the village overnight through the northern road known as Wadi Road, coming from the direction of the plain, the news agency reported, citing local sources.
The force entered several residential neighborhoods, raided and searched homes and detained two residents, the sources said.
Israeli forces later released one of the detainees, while the fate of the other remains unknown, according to SANA.
Syrian Alikhbariah TV had earlier reported that Israeli forces detained a young man during the same incursion before the news agency provided additional details.
The incursion comes amid continued Israeli violations on Syrian territory, which President Ahmad al-Sharaa addressed in his speech at the UN General Assembly.
Sharaa said at the time that Israel had carried out around 500 airstrikes and artillery attacks and more than 1,200 incursions since late 2024, along with around 300 arrests and detentions.
He also reiterated Damascus’ rejection of attempts to impose a new reality, its commitment to the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement and its demand that Israeli forces withdraw to positions held before Dec. 8, 2024.
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Ed Miliband claims that he and Andy Burnham have reformulated Blair’s triangulation strategy. Their new formulation entails acknowledging that they were wrong on Israel and Palestine but entails doing absolutely nothing about it and continuing exactly the same policies hoping that you’re too stupid to notice.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.

Andy Burnham backs Israel
3 October 2026
Israel continues attacks on southern Lebanon with airstrikes, home explosions, artillery fire
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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.
UNICEF: 1,317 children killed or injured in Lebanon
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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Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
2 October 2026
Over 200 organisations across more than 60 countries unite in Global Mobilisation for Palestine on 10 October
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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.
READ: Global Alliance for Palestine unveils legislative advocacy initiative ahead of October day of action
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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Orcas discuss Donald Trump and the killer apes’ concept of democracy. Front Orca warns that Trump is crashing his country’s economy and that everything he does he does for the fantastically wealthy.
Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
2 October 2026