Gaza & Palestine
She Took Up Arms Defending Her Husband… and Was Killed as She Prepared for Her Son’s Wedding
Samah Al-Khaldi was killed, and her two sons were seriously wounded, while they were confronting an Israeli special force that stormed their home west of Gaza City and arrested her husband, officer Muin Al-Arabid
Occupation warships fire in the sea off Gaza City
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya: The jailers continue to assault me and threatened to prevent me from speaking about the circumstances of my arrest
Occupation vehicles fire shells at what remains of destroyed homes in the area around the Kuwaiti Roundabout, southeast of Gaza City
Al-Arabid Family:
▪We mourn the souls of our people who rose during this crime, and we extend to their families our sincere condolences and sympathy, affirming that their loss is our loss and that Palestinian blood is one, and we also mourn the family’s martyr daughter, Samah "Umm Muhammad," the wife of Muin al-Arabid, who rose during the events while supporting her husband in confronting the special force. ▪We affirm that what our son Mr./ Muin al-Arabid was subjected to, in terms of targeting and abduction, constitutes a serious crime and an assault that requires investigation and accountability, and it also constitutes a serious violation of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and a direct threat to civilians’ lives. We hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for our son’s life and his physical and psychological safety, and for the conditions of his detention since the moment of his abduction. ▪ We affirm that our son Muin Ahmad al-Arabid works in a security apparatus with civil duties represented in maintaining security and social peace, confronting security chaos, addressing internal disputes and problems, protecting citizens and public and private property, and securing civilian facilities and institutions. ▪The apparatus also performs its role in protecting international and humanitarian institutions operating in the Gaza Strip, securing their headquarters, staff and property, and helping provide the conditions necessary for them to continue their work and provide their services to citizens. ▪Working in a security apparatus of a police and civilian nature does not make its holder a military target merely because of his job title, and international humanitarian law guarantees the protection of civilian objects. Accordingly, we reject any attempt to use our son’s job title as a pretext to justify targeting or abducting him. ▪ We categorically reject the narratives and claims promoted by the occupation that aim to justify the crime and obscure the circumstances of the operation, and we warn against its attempts to exploit what happened to stir internal disputes, strike the Palestinian social fabric, and spread security chaos among our people and their families. We affirm that our people and their families are more aware than for these attempts to succeed in undermining their unity and cohesion. ▪We call on the International Committee of the Red Cross to urgently move to reveal the place where our son Muin al-Arabid is being held, to check on his health, physical and psychological condition, to work on visiting him, and to provide the family with clear and reliable information about the circumstances of his detention. ▪We remind that the international and humanitarian institutions operating in the Gaza Strip carried out their duties over the past years under the protection and security provided by the Palestinian civil and security agencies, which helped protect their headquarters, staff and property, and prevented assaults on them or tampering with them. ▪From here, we expect these institutions to take a responsible position regarding the detention of one of the employees in the apparatus that played a role in providing security and protection for their work inside the Strip. ▪ We call on Palestinian, Arab and international human rights institutions, and institutions specialized in prisoners’ and detainees’ affairs, to open an urgent legal file for our son’s case, follow up on the circumstances of his detention and interrogation, and work to ensure that he is not subjected to torture or cruel or degrading treatment. ▪We also call on them to exert every possible effort to obtain official information about his health condition and place of detention, and to enable his lawyer, his family and the competent humanitarian bodies to follow up on him. ▪ The Al-Arabid family extends its deepest thanks and appreciation to all our Palestinian people, and to the families, clans, dignitaries, figures, and national and community institutions that stood by the family and supported it in its ordeal. This broad solidarity formed an authentic national message affirming that our people stand by one another in times of hardship, and that the bonds of blood and homeland are stronger than all attempts to sow division and strife.
Gunfire from occupation vehicles stationed east of Gaza City, in addition to gunshots from quadcopters, some of which reached Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital
The citizen Muhammad Mahmoud Murshid Al-Qadi (39 years old) was martyred after succumbing to injuries sustained in the Israeli bombing of a tent in the city of Asdaa, south of the Gaza Strip
Gaza Petroleum Authority:
▪ 5 cooking gas trucks entered today, Wednesday. ▪ The gas will be distributed to citizens from the unified 28/08 list. ▪ The distribution includes all governorates of the Strip and will benefit about 12,234 citizens.
Gaza Petroleum Authority:
▪ Today, Wednesday, 02/09/2026, a load of 5 cooking gas trucks entered. ▪ It will be distributed to citizens according to the unified 28/08 list for all governorates of the Strip. ▪ About 12234 beneficiaries will benefit from this.