### Under-reported news from Israel, Palestine, the Middle East and North Africa: October 10, 2025 *These roundups are, and will always be, free. No paywalls. If you find them useful, you can buy me a cup of coffee [here](https://paypal.me/ridaaburass?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US). Thanks!* [Subscribe](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct2B1Mm-SuaoJe5WkVn1HW1CSYkWnrXgLlOeg2JLLSEnqz2g/viewform?usp=header) to get these roundups (and just these roundups) by email. No spam. **TL;DR**: A ceasefire is quickly announced, and enacted, in Gaza. Dozens of Palestinians were still killed in Israeli attacks across the Strip despite the ceasefire announcement. In the West Bank, Israeli settlers - backed by soldiers - have stolen crops, cut down trees, attacked, and in some cases severely injured, Palestinian olive-pickers - on a daily basis. Organized crime and gun violence continue to run rampant within the '48 Palestinian community - the result of [systemic neglect](https://abrahaminitiatives.org/victims-of-violence-and-crime-in-arab-society-in-2024/). Gen Z protests continue in Morocco, demanding an end to corruption, as well as health care and education reform. --- ##### Gaza: - 2025-10-07 - [At least 10 people were killed](https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-pounds-gaza-war-anniversary-truce-talks-continue) in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip today, the second anniversary of the Gaza War. - 2025-10-08 - [At least eight Palestinians were](https://aje.io/rkts8q?update=4017195) killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip today, despite ceasefire [talks](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/7/hamas-lays-down-conditions-for-peace-deal-as-israel-continues-bombing-gaza). - 2025-10-08 - Ceasefire deal has been announced. - 2025-10-09 - Marwan Barghouti, a popular leader who is touted by some as the Palestinian Nelson Mandela, [will not be released](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/marwan-barghouti-will-not-be-released-gaza-deal-says-israeli-spokesperson) as part of the deal. - 2025-10-09 - Despite the ceasefire announcement, [nine Palestinians were killed](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163199) in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today. - 2025-10-10 - [At least 17 Palestinians were killed](https://www.newarab.com/news/ceasefire-begins-palestinians-move-north-gaza?blockId=block_64225) across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. - 2025-10-10 - [Tens of thousands of Palestinians returned](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/10/gaza-city-residents-set-to-return-as-israel-bombs-before-ceasefire-starts) to Gaza City once the ceasefire entered into effect. ---- ##### West Bank, inc. East Jerusalem: - 2025-10-07 - [A 12-year old Palestinian child was shot by Israeli forces](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163117) today during a military raid on the West Bank town of Arraba, south of Jenin. - 2025-10-07 - [A Palestinian man was injured](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163112) by Israeli gunfire during confrontations with Israeli forces today, while another was detained, in Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem. - 2025-10-07 - [Israeli military forces and settlers stormed the town of Turmus Ayya](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163110), north of Ramallah. - 2025-10-08 - The number of Palestinians detained in Israel (excluding Palestinian citizens of Israel) [surpasses 11,000](https://aje.io/rkts8q?update=4017052), up from 10,800 [[2025-07-11#West Bank, inc. East Jerusalem|in July]]. - 2025-10-08 - A 22 year-old Palestinian man [has died in Israeli custody](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/death-toll-palestinian-detainees-rises-78-two-years-after-start-genocide) after being held without charge or trial for five months. He is the 78th identified Palestinian prisoner to die in Israeli custody over the past two years. - 2025-10-08 - [Ben Gvir leads an incursion of hundreds of ultra-nationalists](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-ben-gvir-leads-settler-incursion-al-aqsa-mosque) into the al-Aqsa mosque compound. Such provocations are highly incendiary; nevertheless, they have become routine over the past few years. - 2025-10-08 - [Israeli settlers assault](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163173) Palestinian man in the northern Jordan Valley. - 2025-10-08 - Dozens of settlers, accompanied by IDF soldiers, [attack Palestinians harvesting their olive trees](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163168) near Nablus. - 2025-10-09 - [Israeli settlers attack, injure](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163200) 75-year old Palestinian man. - 2025-10-09 - [Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian couple](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163193) as they harvested their olive trees, and stole their produce. - 2025-10-10 - [This important report](https://www.newarab.com/news/how-israel-forcibly-reshaped-west-bank-october-2023) outlines Israel's escalating territorial expansion and settlement construction in the West Bank over the past two years. - 2025-10-10 - Settlers and soldiers [continue to disrupt](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163216) the Palestinian olive harvest, [assaulting](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163219) and [arresting](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/163222) olive-pickers. ---- ##### '48 Palestinians: - 2025-10-06 - Israel's Ministry of the Interior [threatens to suspend budgets](https://www.davar1.co.il/631014/) to the Palestinian town of [Arrabeh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arraba,_Israel), following a speech given by its mayor in which he condemned Israel's actions in Gaza as barbaric. The ministry's threats [drew widespread condemnation](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/10/07/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%B6-%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B6%D8%AF-%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9) among Palestinian citizens of Israel. #hebrew #arabic - 2025-10-06 - A Palestinian man, who the police suspected to be involved in criminal activity, was killed in a police shootout. - Organized crime and gun violence is allowed to run rampant among the '48 Palestinian community. [This is a systemic problem](https://abrahaminitiatives.org/victims-of-violence-and-crime-in-arab-society-in-2024/), the result of decades of neglect, lack of investment in Israel's Palestinian communities. Crimes are rarely solved; perpetrators are rarely brought to justice. The death toll from murders among the '48 Palestinian community so far this year [has reached 195](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/10/06/%D8%A5%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A5%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B5-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%B7%D8%A9), including 20 women. - 2025-10-09 - [Another victim of gun-violence](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/10/09/%D8%A5%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%B4%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88) within the '48 Palestinian community, bringing the total number of victims this year to 197. #arabic --- ##### Israel: - 2025-10-07 - In [this important article](https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-10-04/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000199-9b58-df33-a5dd-9f7fd3650000) (which will hopefully be translated into English soon), Adam Raz and Assaf Bondi detail the ways in which a criminal, cover-up culture has permeated Israeli institutions at all levels, including (of course) the IDF Military Advocate General. Israel has a long history of illegal orders being given with a nod-and-a-wink - including the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre, and the 1948 Nakba itself - but the scope and scale of the cover-up are on a completely different scale, today. #hebrew - 2025-10-08 - Worth reading: [an excellent deep-dive](https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-settlers-bursting-tel-avivs-bubble/) into *Garinim Toraniyim* - government funded settler outposts within Israeli cities and in Palestinian-majority neighborhoods - by Lisa Goldman @ New Lines Magazine. --- ##### MENA + geopolitical: - 2025-10-07 - Not quite MENA, but noteworthy, given current political context: [ICC finally convicts Janjaweed militia leader](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-convicts-janjaweed-commander-landmark-sudan-case) [Ali Kushayb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Kushayb) on 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur. - 2025-10-07 - [Gen Z protests enter their 10th day in Morocco](https://en.hespress.com/122696-gen-z-protests-enter-10th-day-in-rabat.html). Protesters, mostly young, [called for an end to corruption, health care reform, and the government's resignation](https://www.newarab.com/news/gen-z-moroccans-protest-9th-night-call-pm-resignation). - 2025-10-07 - [According to a new academic study](https://www.arabnews.com/node/2618003/middle-east), the US has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of the Gaza war two years ago. - 2025-10-07 - As Iraq recovers, and foreign investment continues to pour into the country, [the World Bank predicts the Iraqi economy will grow at the fastest pace among Arab countries in 2026](https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/world-bank-forecasts-iraqi-economy-to-grow-by-6-7-in-2026/), reaching 6.7 percent. - 2025-10-08 - [An important report](https://www.thenation.com/article/world/saudia-arabia-executions-dissent/) on capital punishment in Saudi Arabia. 283 individuals were beheaded this year alone, "mainly for charges related to terrorism, treason, and drugs". - 2025-10-10 - [Algeria's military expenditures continue to rise](https://www.newarab.com/news/defence-remains-algerias-top-yearly-expenditure-2026), far surpassing its neighbors, amid escalating tensions in the Sahel region. --- Sign up [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct2B1Mm-SuaoJe5WkVn1HW1CSYkWnrXgLlOeg2JLLSEnqz2g/viewform?usp=header) to get an email notification when the weekly roundup is posted.