Sunday, 25 October 2026
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Gaza & Palestine

Head of the National Relations Department in the Hamas movement abroad Ali Baraka:

▪The passage of thirty-three years since the signing of the Oslo Agreement has clearly shown that it did not achieve freedom, independence and security for our people, did not end the occupation and did not guarantee the refugees' right of return, but rather the occupation governments used it to continue settlement, Judaization, land confiscation and imposing facts on the ground. ▪The West Bank has turned, as a result of occupation and settlement policies, into fragmented cantons, while the crimes of Judaization and incursions continue in Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the occupation continues its war of extermination, destruction, siege and starvation against our people in the Gaza Strip. ▪The Oslo Agreement, which was presented as a five-year transitional phase paving the way for establishing the state and resolving the refugee issue, ended in practice by entrenching the occupation, strengthening security coordination, weakening the Palestinian national position and besieging the resistance forces, while the promises of an independent state and the return of refugees were not fulfilled. ▪We warn against the continuation of the political approach based on unilateralism, exclusion, appointments and monopolizing Palestinian representation, as it represents a repetition of the mistakes that weakened our cause, and we call for rebuilding the Palestine Liberation Organization on national democratic bases through free, fair and direct elections with the participation of all forces, factions and components of our people at home and abroad. ▪We call for giving priority to the supreme national interest over narrow partisan interests, and for arranging national priorities to confront occupation, settlement, displacement and Judaization, defend Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic and Christian holy sites, stop the aggression and lift the siege on the Gaza Strip, and adhere to our people’s national rights, foremost among them the right to self-determination, the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the refugees’ right to return to their homes and properties. ▪National unity, political partnership and genuine democratic representation are the way to protect the Palestinian national project and restore our people’s rights, not exclusion, unilateralism and monopolizing decision-making.

Islamic Resistance Movement- Hamas:

▪We welcome the New Delhi Declaration 2026 issued by the eighteenth summit of the BRICS group, for the advanced and positive positions it included toward the Palestinian cause and the clear affirmation of the legitimate and inalienable rights of our Palestinian people. ▪We especially appreciate the declaration’s affirmation of our people’s right to self-determination and return, its support for the establishment of an independent sovereign Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, its call to grant the State of Palestine full membership in the United Nations, and its firm rejection of any forced displacement of Palestinians, temporary or permanent, or any geographic or demographic change in the Gaza Strip. ▪We value the BRICS countries’ affirmation of the need to end the illegal occupation and to reject unilateral measures aimed at changing the legal and historical status of occupied Jerusalem, to respect the sanctity of its holy sites, and their adherence to international and humanitarian law, their condemnation of the use of starvation as a means of war, the targeting of civilians and civilian facilities, and the obstruction of access to humanitarian aid or its politicization and militarization, in addition to their support for UNRWA and its UN mandate. ▪We express our appreciation to the BRICS countries for these positions in support of our people’s rights and the rejection of occupation and displacement, and we call for translating them into practical steps that contribute to stopping the occupation’s violations and ending it, and enabling our people to exercise their right to freedom, self-determination, and the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Israeli artillery shelling next to Umm al-Fahm School in the al-Salatin area, northwest of Gaza

Israeli artillery shelling northwest of the Gaza Strip

A citizen was injured by fire from occupation vehicles in the Beit Lahia Project, north of Gaza

Israeli artillery shelling west of Beit Lahia town, northern Gaza Strip

The martyr Abdul Rahim Al-Hour who was killed in the occupation's shelling of a vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza

The martyr Abdul Rahim Al-Hour who was killed in the occupation's shelling of a vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza

Gaza Ministry of Health:

▪ A corneal transplant procedure was performed at Nasser Medical Complex for a 64-year-old patient. ▪ The family of the martyr, may God have mercy on her soul, Iman Muhammad Abu Shaluf (25 years old), donated her two corneas to serve as ongoing charity on her behalf and contribute to restoring sight to those in need. ▪ The National Corneal Transplant Program, through the Eye Bank, the Organ Transfer and Transplant Unit, the Qirtan Association, and specialized medical teams, is working in coordinated steps to identify and prepare cases and carry out precise medical and laboratory tests. ▪ The Eye Bank renews the urgent call to all international and humanitarian institutions to intervene and enhance the provision of medical tools and supplies.

Eyewitnesses: 3 injuries were transferred after an occupation raid near the home of the Al-Banna family in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip

Two killed in the Israeli bombardment of a civilian vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood southwest of Gaza City:

▪ Mahmoud Hassan Abu Nada ▪ Abdul Rahim Ahmed Hour