⚡️Drop Site Recap | October 1, 2025 A video rundown of the major stories we tracked today. For more details, read the Drop Site Daily, published Monday through Friday. Link below.

NEW from Drop Site: Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza Participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla are being detained by the Israeli military and taken into custody. Our full report ⬇️ www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-ill...

✝️ Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says I'm against abortion but says I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says that they’re against abortion but ‘I’m in agreement with the inhumane treatment of immigrants in the U.S.’ is not really pro life.” x.com/BulwarkOnlin...

Breaking: One of the Global Sumud Flotilla ships appears to be being boarded live right now by the Israeli military, with passengers raising their hands. Follow our livestream below. Israeli Channel 13 reports the navy has seized six of the flotilla’s largest vessels.

💥Breaking: Italy’s two largest unions call national general strike after Israel’s flotilla attack The Italian unions CGIL and USB announced a nationwide general strike for Friday, October 3, covering all public and private sectors. The move follows Israel’s attack on the Gaza flotilla carrying...

From IDF:

🚨 BREAKING: An Israeli naval officer — speaking with an American accent — contacted the Global Sumud Flotilla, warning their boats will be confiscated if they don’t stop and turn around. Organizer @thiagoavilabr reminded the officer that the ICJ has ruled Israel’s blockade unlawful and that...

“On Friday, October 3, a 24-hour general strike. On Saturday, October 4, a national march in Rome.” Video in replies

🚨 BREAKING: The Sirius-Haifa (carrying Drop Site editor Alex Colston) has been boarded by Israeli military...Contact with Colston has been lost; as part of security protocols, he and other... 🎥 “The Ship Sirius: A day in the life,” a video report from Alex Colston (@recolston.bsky.social)...

🚨BREAKING: Israeli Channel 12 reports explosions in Ashdod, Israel after rocket sirens were triggered as the army detected 5 rockets launched by the resistance in northern Gaza. Israel said it intercepted 4 of the 5. Ashdod is the port Israel sought to redirect the Global Sumud Flotilla to...

🟢 Al-Quds Brigades: A house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood was blown up with an Israeli engineering unit inside. Hamas’ armed wing announced that their fighters carried out a “special operation,” detonating a house in Gaza City’s Al-Nasr neighborhood while an Israeli engineering unit was inside.

⛵️Organizers Confirm: Global Sumud Flotilla Intercepted by Israeli Naval Forces At 8:30 pm Gaza time on Oct. 1, organizers say Israeli commandos illegally boarded several flotilla ships — including Alma, Sirius, and Adara — in international waters. Before the assault, Israeli naval vessels...

NEW: Qatar’s Emiri Diwan says Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani spoke by phone today with U.S. President Donald Trump about Trump’s Gaza plan. During the call, the Emir “reaffirmed Qatar’s support for efforts to establish peace,” and expressed “confidence in the ability of the countries...

🎥 Israel’s logic for justifying its killing of journalists and targeting of media facilities in Yemen, Gaza, and Iran would, if adopted by other states, usher in a far deadlier era for journalists in conflict zones worldwide. A recent CPJ report highlights one case: an airstrike in Yemen that...

WATCH LIVE: Drop Site News Livestream of Global Sumud Flotilla x.com/i/broadcasts...

⭕️Update: Drop Site News reporter Alex Colston (@recolston.bsky.social) said the Israeli navy contacted their boat, the Sirius, about 30 minutes ago and told the captain if they kept going they would be breaking what they said was a “lawful blockade,” they mentioned Oct. 7, and said if the boat...

UPDATE: Drop Site News reporter Alex Colston (@recolston.bsky.social) reports: Israeli naval vessels circled twice this morning but didn't board. The Alma’s feed has returned — no soldiers were seen on board, suggesting it was not intercepted. At the moment, no naval vessels are close to the ship.

Drop Site live from Sirius-Haifa, Global Sumud Flotilla On X: x.com/i/broadcasts...

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

⛵️Global Sumud Flotilla Update, October 1st: The Journey Reaches Day 31, as The Fleet Makes Final Approach To Gaza on The Night of Likeliest Interception With over 40 ships and nearly 500 participants, the Global Sumud Flotilla is roughly 80 nautical miles (nm) from Gaza and traveling at an…

1 Civil Defense worker was killed and 7 wounded when Israeli forces carried out a double-tap strike on a Gaza City school yesterday…mean[ing] Israel bombed the site, waiting for rescuers and medics to arrive, and then striking the same location again — deliberately targeting first responders. ⬇️

⛑️ The International Committee of the Red Cross has suspended operations in Gaza City and pulled staff to the south as Israel’s assault on the city intensifies. In a statement Wednesday, the ICRC which has been present in Gaza City for decades, warned that “tens of thousands of people still in…

🇳🇱 Dutch Pension Giant Dumps Caterpillar Over Israel Ties The Netherlands’ ABP, one of the world’s largest pension funds (€615B), has sold its €387M ($418M) stake in Caterpillar, saying investments must be “socially responsible” (Reuters). ➤ Caterpillar’s D9 bulldozers are modified and deployed by…

Breaking: After Israel’s defense minister warned in a statement that this was the “last opportunity” for Palestinians to evacuate Gaza City, Israeli forces then bombed people on the coastal road fleeing south — killing four, including a mother and two children.

⚠️ Since dawn, Israeli forces have carried out multiple massacres across Gaza, killing at least 65 people. In the latest strike, five Palestinians were killed when warplanes targeted a crowd around a water truck on 30th Street in Gaza City. Civilians slaughtered day after day.

Breaking | Gaza Civil Defense teams recovered one killed and several injured from the rubble on Al-Sinaa (Industry) Street in Gaza City. Officials say about five more bodies remain trapped beneath the debris.

“This is the last opportunity for Gaza residents who wish to do so to move south,” Israel’s defense minister Israel Katz has threatened. “Those who remain in Gaza will be considered terrorists and terror supporters.” He issued the warning this morning in a post on X, saying the army has…

🇺🇸🇶🇦 NEW: Trump has issued an executive order pledging that the U.S. will “guarantee Qatar’s security”—including possible military action—if the Gulf state comes under attack. Signed Sept. 29, the order follows Israel’s strike on Doha last month that killed 6 while targeting Hamas negotiators…

⚡️Drop Site Daily | October 1, 2025 Israel issues final warning to Gaza City and closes main coastal road; U.S. government shuts down www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...

Independent TD and Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly said government statements opposing genocide are meaningless without action, pointing to the Occupied Territories Bill— legislation first introduced in 2018 to ban the import of goods and services from illegal Israeli settlements.

Al Araby TV reports at least 17 Palestinians have been killed since midnight on Wednesday. Palestinian sources report at least 64 killed since dawn on Tuesday.

Seven paramedics and Civil Defense officers were wounded when Israeli forces struck them just minutes after they arrived at a bombed school in Gaza City’s Al-Zeitoun neighborhood. Video source: @mohammed_halabi242 (on X)

⭕️ Latest Field Updates | Ongoing Massacres: The Genocidal War on Gaza Enters Day 725 ➤ Gaza City: One person killed in a drone strike on the Mashahra area in Tuffah; several injured in a strike on an apartment near the Education Directorate in Yarmouk; more wounded in a strike near al-Shifa...

REPORT | UN more than doubles armed mission for Haiti The UN Security Council has approved a dramatic expansion of the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), more than doubling its size into a 5,550-strong “Gang Suppression Force.” The force, with military, police, and civilian...

Breaking: The Israeli army says it will shut down the last route linking southern Gaza to Gaza City. Military spokesman Avichay Adraee announced Wednesday that Rashid Street, the sole remaining corridor northward, will close to traffic from the south at 12:00 (09:00 GMT)...

⭕️ Over the past 24 hours, Israel and the United States have starved 2 more people to death in Gaza, including 1 child. ➤ Total deaths from malnutrition now stand at 455, of which 151 are children — the result of Israel and the U.S.’ systematic weaponisation of food and aid

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 51 killed and 180 injured arriving at hospitals. At least 4 aid seekers were killed and 57 were injured. This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 66,148 and 168,716 injuries (likely 3-5x higher)...

🔴NEW: A lead organizer for the Global Sumud Flotilla’s lead tells the fleet the following: “⚠️ SITUATION SECURED: Reduce alert level and instruct your teams to rest. Most likely there will be no interception tonight. :)" From Drop Site's Alex Colston (@recolston.bsky.social)

Israel is paying 14-18 year old social media influencers $7000 per post to spread pro-Israel messaging. Source: Nick Cleveland-Stout (@nick_clevelands on X): x.com/nick_clevela...

At a London screening of the documentary Gaza: Journalists Under Fire, filmmaker and journalist Richard Sanders (@PulaRJS on X) stressed the vital role of independent and social media in exposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, giving a shout-out to Drop Site.

Earlier in June, Facebook and Instagram blocked all ads for the film. Trailer below ⬇️

🚨Israeli navy vessels are reportedly moving in to intercept the Global Sumud Flotilla. No ships have been boarded yet, but CCTV has been disrupted on several boats. Participants are preparing for interception.

REPORT | Israel won’t allow Global Sumud Flotilla to break its illegal naval blockade on Gaza — Hebrew media Israeli outlets Kan and N12 detail extensive preparations to stop the flotilla of 45 boats carrying nearly 500 activists from 40+ countries expected to reach Gaza... x.com/localteamit/...

⚡️Drop Site Recap | September 30, 2025 A video rundown of the major stories we tracked today. For more details, read the Drop Site Daily, published Monday through Friday. Link below.

“They’re saying we’re going to free 1,700 Palestinians taken since October 7th, including all women and children. And, you know, first of all, why doesn’t anyone ever talk about this?… Why is Israel holding children?… Israel is holding hundreds of dead... @jeremyscahill.com | @ryangrim.bsky.social

Breaking: UEFA has paused a vote on suspending Israel from competition. The Times reports that a large majority of members had favoured a ban, citing Israel’s war crimes and the precedent of Russia’s 2022 exclusion. But senior UEFA officials told the paper that after… Additional details in 🧵below

From Galloway:

The Israeli Foreign Ministry’s propaganda against the Global Sumud Flotilla has sunk to new lows: to smear a humanitarian mission bringing aid to starving civilians, it pointed to a photo of long-time British politician, broadcaster, and activist @georgegalloway (X) and claimed the circled man was…

It's now almost 11 PM local time for the Global Sumud Flotilla, where Drop Site editor Alex Colston is aboard the ship Sirius. The fleet of 44 boats, carrying nearly 500 participants with one more vessel trying to catch up, is less than 200 nautical miles from... Report from @recolston.bsky.social