SOMEWHERE IN THE MESS IT CREATED ARE ISRAEL'S BODIES ... 1. Maybe shoulda thought of the current problem of finding them first... 2. Y'know, might also be helpful to allow heavy equipment into Gaza ... 3. 💢💢💢

LOOKING FOR ANY EXCUSE (17:55 GMT) Red Cross to Israel: open aid routes (16:56 GMT) UN: Israel letting only 300 trucks/day into Gaza Israel: Hamas violated agreement by not handing over ALL bodies of slain w/in 72hrs ...NO deadline in agmt for handing all over--difficult to find them [Reuters]:

FYI: HERE'S THE FULL TEXT OF THE CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT BETWEEN HAMAS & ISRAEL [ "Implementation Steps for President Trump's proposal for a 'Comprehensive End of Gaza War'."]: www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-te...

I'M SURE ISRAEL WOULD RATHER THIS HERO DISAPPEAR... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? "Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement ' www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...

ISRAEL IN LEBANON REDUX... JustSecurity: Israeli forces today killed four Palestinian in Gaza City’s eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa and a medical source. The source said that they were killed “when Israeli drones fired at residents inspecting their homes.”

THIS is what is most disturbing about the trump administration: www.justsecurity.org/117267/anti-...

Nearly all employees within the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) were dismissed in Friday’s reduction-in-force, leaving only a few senior officials and administrative staff.

"Palestinian prisoner rights groups say an unknown number of Palestinians from Gaza remain in Israeli custody, though the Israeli human rights group Hamoked puts the figure at around 1,300, including doctors, journalists, and emergency rescue workers."

TRUMP AT THE KNESSET [5 takeaways] & THE TRUMP "ENDURING PEACE AND PROSPERITY" DECLARATION IN FULL: 1. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10... 2. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

HEAR! HEAR! (AJ@03:50 GMT)Palestinians in Gaza call for imprisoned doctors to be freed Among those that Palestinians hope will be freed on Monday include Dr Marwan Al-Hams and Dr Hussam Abu Safia Photojournalist:Abdallah F.S. Alattar

RELEASED...BUT NOT: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

ISRAEL CAN CELEBRATE. PALESTINIANS CAN NOT (19:45 GMT) ISRAEL WARNS AGAINST CELEBRATIONS IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK “Anyone who participates in such activities exposes himself to punishment and arrest” ___________ More on Israel's Palestinian prisoners here: www.aljazeera.com/video/inside...

(19:10 GMT) PROMINENT JOURNALIST KILLED IN GAZA Saleh Aljafarawi ("Mr. FAFO") has been killed by gunmen in GC, coinciding w/clashes between Palestine security forces & armed groups in the Sabra n’hood. He was well known in Gaza for his war videos & received numerous threats from Israel.

TYPICAL: OTHERS HAVE TO CLEAN UP THE MESS WE'VE CREATED... (19:00 GMT) ‘Gulf Arab friends’ to pay for Gaza rebuild after Israeli destruction: VP JD Vance says the US won’t be paying for Gaza reconstruction after Israel’s devastating two-year war and Gulf nations will mostly pick up the tab.

(12:30 GMT) Gaza #s •1000s wounded need long-term rehab/treatment •38 hosps/dozens health centres dest/closed •Severe famine; 1 in 4 kids w/acute mal •96% households w/o water to meet basic needs; most H2O/san infra damaged/destroyed •±300,000 housing units rubble •835 schools/univ/ed insts dest

(08:45 GMT) Med supplies needed urgently: DirGen of Gaza hosps • so far, nothing has entered. • Israel is still obstructing their entry. (10:40 GMT) ‘Extremely slow process’ as aid trickles into Gaza Israeli inspections delaying convoys at the border

(AJ@ 06:30 GMT) REPORTING FROM NETZARIM CORRIDOR "The GHF dismantled its site... we found remnants of Israeli military munitions that had been used to attack Palestinians who were seeking aid. We can see remains of the shells and a few bullets that were fired at people trying to reach the site."

DEATH TOLL NOW 67,806 w/170,066 WOUNDED (12:05&14:00 GMT) Return to GC finds utter devastation “...What has been most distressing, residents say, is the large number of bodies being recovered from the ruins of those areas.” •Gaza hosps receive 124 bodies over 24 hrs inc 117 from under rubble. [AFP]

(AJ @ 12:45 GMT 10/12/25) RETURNING HOME TO SHATI NEIGHBORHOOD IN GAZA CITY. Photos: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo

REMINDER. ...including the major agricultural lands...

⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: The Free Press Called Out "Incomplete" Reporting on Gaza's Starving Children. Here's the Complete Story. Drop Site spoke to the actual families. ✍️By Maha Hussaini & @ryangrim.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/bari-weiss...

(03:45 GMT) Dozens of bodies arrive at Gaza hosps as rescue crews search rubble. Remains of ±155 Palestinians were delivered to hosps across Gaza Friday, inc 135 recovered from under rubble of destroyed bldgs. With Israeli withdrawal, rescue crews are now able to recover those who perished...

VERY GOOD QUESTION. Really? Qatar gets its own air force facility inside the United States? Why? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

AND BACK AT HOME IN KHAN YOUNIS ... (13:45 GMT) Photos: Destruction of Khan Younis all photos: Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo

AND FROM THE GROUND ... (10:45 GMT) Photos: Palestinians return to destroyed Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City all images: Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo

GOING HOME TO GAZA CITY... (AJ@09:30 GMT 10/11/25) Gaza City Satellite images shows a view of the destruction [Satellite image ©2025 Vantor/AFP]

RETURNING HOME ... Displaced Palestinians walk with their belongings as they return to their homes in Khan Younis[Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo] Trudging there by Al-Rashid Street, which runs along Gaza’s coastal border with the Mediterranean Sea. [Stringer/Anadolu]

If Israel is constrained (for now) from bombing Gaza during this new ceasefire HERE, it isn't in Lebanon, where violating the old ceasefire THERE happens with impunity on a daily basis: www.npr.org/2025/10/11/g...

(16:25 GMT) GAZA CITY UNRECOGNIZABLE Rept from Gaza City. “On the way to Gaza City, as we approached...it was already unrecognizable...when we left the city, we counted 15 buildings either partially standing or still fully intact...On our way back, we did not see them. We thought we were lost..."

WARNING: SOME OF THE PHOTOS IN THIS ARTICLE ARE GRAPHIC. Her story is the universal story of journalists in Gaza. apnews.com/article/gaza...

THIS SHOULD CONCERN US ALL. OTHER REPORTING HAS IT THAT THE NEW OWNER IS A TRUMP SUPPORTER ... www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

(1/2) The dismantling of FBI’s public corruption squad, restructuring of DOJ’s enforcement divisions, and exodus of senior career officials mark major shifts in the federal guardrails of accountability. www.justsecurity.org/117267/anti-...

HEAR! HEAR! (AJ@01:30 GMT10/10/25) TIMELY REMINDER: ISRAEL HAS BROKEN A GAZA CEASEFIRE BEFORE Last time Israel agreed to a ceasefire (Jan.) Journalist Anas al-Sharif announced it. 2 mos later, Israel unilaterally broke that agreement, killing >400 Palestinians in a single day & al-Sharif was dead.

DO THIS!!!

(17:35 GMT) ‘REALITY ON THE GROUND HAS NOT CHANGED’: Gaza City official (18:05,18:20,19:55 GMT) Israeli air raid hit home in central GC Sabra n’hood, 4 killed, >40 trapped under rubble. Rescue efforts continuing “under extremely difficult & dangerous conditions.” Day’s death toll so far: 29 [UNHR]

(17:30 GMT) ISRAEL WILL RETAIN 58% OF GAZA UNDER THE FIRST PHASE OF THE DEAL (everything in yellow in the map below) www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

SO SOON. BUT WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? (AJ@12:30 GMT) HAMAS CLAIMS ISRAEL ‘MANIPULATING’ STEPS AGREED IN CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT ...told colleagues ... that Israel had begun to “manipulate the dates, the lists, & some of the procedures & steps agreed upon in the ceasefire agreement..."

THE LAST ONE ISRAEL SIGNED DIDN'T LAST VERY LONG BEFORE IT BROKE IT ... we'll see if this one does better...many are not very optimistic. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

BE AWARE: "The proposed merger would hand control of CNN, CBS News, HBO, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, HGTV, TNT, & more to a single mega-corporation — with Trump’s allies at the helm." Why has the media become so vulnerable to Trump, and what can we do about it? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

WATCH & SHARE Trump's plan to invoke the Insurrection Act open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

THIS WAS THE EASY PART... (AJ@23:05 GMT10/8/25) Qatar says deal reached on first phase of Gaza ceasefire ________________ We'll see what happens next ...

from Dropsite News 10/8/25

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