The latest Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) national poll, conducted October 22-252025 with a representative sample of 1,200 Palestinians (760 in the West Bank, 440 in Gaza) — shows a political landscape completely out of sync with Mahmoud Abbas’ planned succession.

In this most recent survey:
▪️ Marwan Barghouti leads with 49%, the most popular Palestinian political figure by a wide margin.
▪️ Khaled Meshal, a senior Hamas leader follows with 36%.
▪️ Mahmoud Abbas draws only 13% support.
▪️ Hussein al-Sheikh, Abbas’ designated heir, registers under 2% — and usually doesn’t appear at all in open-ended responses.

PCPSR director Dr. Khalil Shikaki says al-Sheikh “doesn’t exist in the public consciousness.”

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The poll was conducted face-to-face from October 22–25, 2025, with a representative sample of 1,200 Palestinians: 760 in the West Bank and 440 in the Gaza Strip.

For safety, PCPSR researchers operated only in areas west, north, and south of the “yellow line,” which were free of Israeli military presence. Fieldwork covered 76 sites in the West Bank and 44 in Gaza. Margin of error: ±3.5%.

🚨 BREAKING: Russia and China are pushing to remove the proposed “Board of Peace” from the U.S. draft resolution at the UN Security Council for a Gaza stabilization force, Associated Press reports, citing four U.N. diplomats briefed on the negotiations.

Russia and China are two of the five states with veto power over any resolution.

The news comes as the U.S. circulated a second revised draft to the 15-member Council today. The plan would give a UN mandate to an international force through 2027, working with a yet-to-be established colonial-style governing board chaired by Donald Trump alongside figures such as Tony Blair, which would temporarily run Gaza until the “Board of Peace” and Israel deem the Palestinian Authority has “satisfactorily completed its reform” and can govern Gaza.

Moscow, Beijing and several Arab states have raised concerns over the board, the absence of any transitional role for the Palestinian Authority, the weak language on a future Palestinian state, and the equally weak language on Israeli withdrawal, which would in practice leave the timing and conditions largely to Israel’s discretion.

One diplomat told AP that Russia and China want the draft cut down substantially — limiting it to authorizing a stabilization force that reports directly to the Security Council, without the U.S.-designed governing structure.

Here’s the document circulated today. Additional reporting is included in the thread below 🧵👇


Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk said last week that Security Council members he had spoken with indicated they would not support the U.S. draft in its current form. Abu Marzouk said he was confident the resolution would not pass as written.

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⭕️ Israel’s “Disco Room” Torture

Defense for Children International – Palestine has documented the ordeal of three boys from Gaza— ages 16 and 17 — who were abducted by Israeli forces while trying to reach food and then tortured inside Israel’s Sde Teiman military camp.

All three were seized at aid points, bound, blindfolded, stripped naked, and taken out of Gaza. In custody, they describe nonstop beatings, electric shocks, starvation, and exposure to extreme cold. Soldiers forced them into stress positions for hours, unleashed dogs on them, and blasted deafening music in the “disco room,” where interrogators slammed their heads into walls and tightened handcuffs until bones cracked.

The boys also recount staged psychological torture: threats against their families, edited photos meant to break them, and attempts to recruit them as collaborators in exchange for money and housing. Cells were filthy, overcrowded, crawling with insects, with rotten food and no medical care. Stun grenades were thrown into rooms at night, leaving children terrified to sleep.

All three were released in the October prisoner exchange, returning to Gaza with severe injuries, trauma, suffering involuntary urination, panic attacks, and crippling nightmares. DCIP says their testimony shows a detention system that targets children with brutality and humiliation, not for “security” but to break their bodies, terrify their families, and crush the next generation’s sense of safety. TRT spoke to the boys about the “disco room” torture below ⬇️ Testimony video from DCIP:

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🚨The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says it has collected new testimonies from recently released captives and documented systematic sexual torture of Palestinian detainees, including rape, forced stripping, and filming, describing it as part of Israel’s broader campaign to destroy human dignity in Gaza.

Among the cases is N.A., a 42-year-old mother from northern Gaza, who told PCHR she was raped four times by Israeli soldiers and subjected to repeated torture and humiliation in detention after she was detained while passing through an Israeli checkpoint set up in northern Gaza in November 2024.

📌 Her testimony in full:

“At dawn I heard the soldiers shouting, saying that morning prayers were forbidden, and I think it was the fourth day after my arrest from Gaza. The soldiers moved me to a place I didn’t know because my eyes were blindfolded, and they ordered me to take off my clothes. I did so. They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully. I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded. I felt the man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera—so I believe they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. After that, they left me for an hour in the same position, with my hands cuffed to the bed with metal handcuffs, my face on the bed, my feet on the floor, and I was completely naked.

Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back.

I cannot describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After they raped me, I was left alone in the same room, hands still cuffed to the bed and without clothes for many hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Later, I was raped again vaginally. I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After more than an hour, I’m not sure about the time, a masked soldier entered, removed my blindfold, lifted his face covering; he had white skin and was tall. He asked if I spoke English; I said no. He said he was Russian and ordered me to masturbate his penis. I refused, and he hit me in the face after raping me.

That day I was raped twice. I was left naked the whole day in the room where I spent three days. On the first day I was raped twice; on the second day I was raped twice; on the third day I remained without clothes while they looked at me through the door slit and filmed me. One soldier said they would post my photos on social media. While I was in the room, my period started; then they told me to put on clothes and transferred me to another room.” PCHR also documented the case of A.A., a 35-year-old father from Gaza City, who was arrested while at Al-Shifa Hospital in March 2024. He told investigators he was subjected to severe torture over 19 months in Israeli custody — including forced stripping, threats of rape against him and his family, and ultimately rape by a trained dog at the Sde Teiman military camp. He stated:

“I was moved to a section I didn’t know inside Sde Teiman. During the first weeks there, amid repeated suppression operations, I was taken with a group of detainees in a degrading manner to a place far from the cameras—a passage between sections. We were stripped completely. Soldiers brought dogs that climbed on us and urinated on me. Then one of the dogs raped me—the dog did it deliberately, knowing exactly what it was doing, and inserted its penis into my anus, while the soldiers kept beating and torturing us and spraying pepper spray in our faces. The dog’s assault lasted about three minutes; the overall suppression lasted about three hours. Because of the severe beating, all of us sustained injuries across our bodies. I suffered a severe psychological breakdown and deep humiliation; I lost control because I could never have imagined experiencing such a thing. Afterward, a doctor stitched a wound in my head caused by the torture—seven stitches without anesthesia. I also suffered bruises, fractures in my limbs, and a rib fracture.”

🚨 Hamas has released a statement detailing the “violations by the occupation of the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm El-Sheikh one month after its implementation.”

It reads in full:
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We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, reaffirm our thanks and appreciation to the efforts of the brotherly mediators, all the countries, international and humanitarian organizations, as well as the free people of the world who took a brave moral and humanitarian stand by rejecting the genocide carried out by the occupation against our people in Gaza. We also value the efforts of the mediators who contributed to reaching the ceasefire agreement.

As part of the Movement's and the resistance forces’ commitment to implementing the agreement, based on our national and humanitarian responsibilities, we call on the brotherly mediators, guarantors, countries, and international organizations to continue exerting pressure on the occupation and obliging it to stop its repeated violations and breaches, which aim to undermine the agreement and sabotage the efforts to solidify and sustain it, which have been as follows:

First: Hamas's full and thorough commitment to the agreement

Since the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm El-Sheikh came into effect, the resistance forces have fully and accurately adhered to implementing the agreement in good faith. They successfully handed over the twenty live captive Israeli soldiers within 72 hours of the implementation’s start. They also continued their careful search for the remains of Israeli soldiers, despite the numerous complications, through coordinating daily with the mediators and the International Red Cross. This was done despite the severe field conditions caused by the war, its complete alteration of the landscape of Gaza and destruction of its infrastructure, the occupation controlling 60% of the Strip’s territory, the work being done amidst hundreds of tons of unexploded ordnance dropped by the occupation, the lack of excavation machinery and debris removal equipment, which the occupation continues to block from entering, many of the resistance fighters guarding the Israeli captives being martyred, and the bodies of hundreds of resistance fighters and Palestinian civilians disappearing with no trace, with some of them potentially being Israeli prisoners. However, the movement managed to locate 24 bodies out of 28, and through the mediators and the International Red Cross, it provided coordinates of additional locations of bodies in areas under the occupation’s control. The movement continues its intensive efforts to locate the remaining bodies. The movement has left no pretext that the occupation attempts to fabricate unanswered, consistently proving through actions and field facts its full commitment to the terms and spirit of the agreement.

Second: Violations by the occupation one month after the agreement

The occupation has not ceased since the start of the agreement to undermine and violate it on a daily and moment-by-moment basis, as well as fabricating pretexts. These include:

1. Killing and targeting civilians: 271 Palestinians were martyred as a result of deliberate shelling and gunfire by the occupation forces. More than 91% of the martyrs were civilians, with 94% of them located inside the "Yellow Line”, with the rest near it. Among the martyrs were 107 children, 39 women, and 9 elderly individuals, meaning that 58% of those killed were children, women, and the elderly. This scene highlights the continued policy of systematic killing against defenseless civilians by the occupation.

(1/4 continues below) 2. Injuries: 622 citizens were injured from shelling and gunfire, with 99% of them being civilians, including 221 children, 137 women, and 33 elderly individuals. In total, 63% of the injured were children, women, and the elderly, confirming the retaliatory and systematic nature of the occupation’s crimes.

3. Arrests: The occupation arrested 35 Palestinians, including fishermen off the coast and several others from areas near the Yellow Line. As of now, 29 of them remain in detention.

4. Demolition of homes inside the Yellow Line: The occupation continues, on a daily and systematic basis, to demolish homes within areas it controls outside the Yellow Line. This is a clear and direct violation of the agreement, and these breaches have continued uninterrupted for an entire month, leading to widespread destruction of civilian property in these areas.

5. Exceeding the temporary withdrawal line: The occupation has failed to adhere to the agreed-upon withdrawal line in the first phase, and has pushed beyond the Yellow Line by approximately 33 square kilometers. This includes establishing fire control positions within 400 to 1050 meters inside the line, and the incursion of military vehicles into these areas. Additionally, the occupation placed concrete blocks that extend beyond the Yellow Line by 200 to 800 meters along the temporary line.

6. Blocking UNRWA aid: In a clear violation of the agreement’s terms, the occupation continues to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid provided by UNRWA. As a result, more than 6,000 shipments of vital supplies have been blocked. UNRWA is the most capable and professional agency for distributing humanitarian aid, with over 77 years of experience in relief work and serving Palestinian refugees in its areas of operation.

7. Restrictions on aid and fuel entry: The occupation has deliberately and systematically violated the agreement's provisions regarding the entry of no less than 600 aid trucks daily, including 50 fuel trucks of various types. In reality, the actual humanitarian aid provided did not exceed 40% of the total trucks entering during the first month, meaning fewer than 200 trucks daily, while 60% of the trucks were commercial, some of which were registered as aid despite being commercial in nature. Furthermore, only 38 trucks of gas and 92 trucks of diesel, representing 8.4% of the agreed quantity, were allowed in. Fuel is vital to revive life by operating hospital generators, opening roads, running transportation facilities, and rehabilitating infrastructure amidst total power outages, underscoring that the occupation is deliberately and systematically keeping Gaza in a state of paralysis to prevent the return of life. Additionally, the occupation has continuously closed the Zikim crossing, which serves as a major route to facilitate and expedite the entry of aid coming through Jordan, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis. The occupation also controls the types of materials allowed into Gaza, blocking essential food items like meat, poultry, eggs, and livestock, allowing only the minimum required. Over 31 days, only one truck of eggs was allowed, while tents and shelter supplies are also prevented from entering despite the harsh winter conditions, with only 5% of the urgent needs for the sector being met, deepening the humanitarian crisis.

8. Failure to operate the power plant: Despite a month passing since the signing of the agreement, Gaza's residents have seen no practical steps taken towards the operation of the power plant, even though the agreement explicitly states that preparations for its activation should begin immediately upon its implementation. This leaves the sector in a state of partial paralysis, affecting all aspects of daily life.

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🔴 BREAKING: Israel kills child in Gaza — says the ‘terrorist’ was an ‘immediate threat’ to its troops

The Israeli army said it “eliminated two terrorists” near the yellow line who “posed an immediate threat” to its troops in southern Gaza. Al Jazeera reports the drone strike killed two Palestinians, including a child, and came amid new Israeli air raids on eastern Gaza City and the south of the enclave. The death toll from Israel’s genocidal campaign has risen to 69,179 Palestinians killed and 170,693 injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

In the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Strip received 3 bodies—one newly killed, one who succumbed to previous injuries, and one recovered from under the rubble—along with 3 additional wounded.

⭕️ Haaretz: Israel pours millions into AI-hasbara, conservative/church targeting, and U.S. influence ops

Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign spanning artificial intelligence, evangelical churches, and right-wing media networks.

The investigation reveals that since mid-2025, Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Tourism Ministry, and Government Advertising Agency (LAPAM) have routed millions through the PR giant Havas Media Germany to American contractors linked to Donald Trump’s political machine and evangelical circles. The effort is designed to “reshape Israel’s perception” amid a historic collapse in U.S. public support following the Gaza war.

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➤ AI manipulation and chatbot targeting:

For the first time, a state is documented trying to shape discourse through generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude. A clause in Israel’s $6 million contract with Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, directs the creation of a “Search and Language Operation” to engineer outcomes in GPT-based dialogue systems — essentially teaching AI models to frame Israel-Palestine conversations more favorably.

🔴 BREAKING: Israel Launches New Wave of Strikes Across Southern Lebanon

The Israeli military has unleashed heavy airstrikes across various parts of southern Lebanon in what Al Jazeera described as the most serious escalation since the ceasefire that ended the 2024 war with Hezbollah.

Israel’s security cabinet convened today to assess the escalating situation in Lebanon, Israel’s Channel 12 reports. The outlet earlier said that Israeli officials are preparing for a potential new confrontation with Hezbollah, aimed at weakening the group and pushing both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government toward what they describe as a “stable agreement” with Israel.

Lebanon’s Army, L’Orient Today reports, submitted its second monthly report today to the Cabinet outlining operations carried out south of the Litani River to locate and dismantle Hezbollah weapons depots and other military infrastructure in the border area.

📸 Israeli airstrike hits an iron workshop and a sawmill between the towns of Tura and Al-Abbasiyeh in south Lebanon.

More details: ⬇️🧵

Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for various towns in southern Lebanon before striking them, including Taybeh in south Lebanon.

📌 Axios: U.S. Drafts UN Plan for Gaza Security Force

The U.S. has circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution to establish an International Security Force (ISF) in Gaza for at least two years, Axios reports. The U.S.-led mission would have a broad mandate to govern and secure Gaza through 2027, operating “as an enforcement force, not a peacekeeping force,” with troop contributions expected from Egypt, Türkiye and Indonesia, and deployment targeted for January 2026.

The ISF would be asked to:
▪️ secure borders
▪️protect civilians
▪️train a new Palestinian police force,
▪️and oversee Gaza’s demilitarization, including disarming Hamas.

It would operate under a unified command approved by the Trump-chaired Board of Peace (BOP) — branded by Palestinians as “Balfour 2.” Israel and the U.S. envision the BOP as Gaza’s governing authority, effectively reviving a form of foreign colonial guardianship that all Palestinian factions uniformly rejected in a joint statement after unity meetings on October 23–24.

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🔴 REPORT | Israel is preparing a coordinated media campaign ahead of foreign journalists’ entry into Gaza for the first time after two years of genocidal killing and destruction, according to Israel’s YNET. Officials say the goal is to control the narrative as reporters document the destruction firsthand.

Here’s what to know: 🧵👇 2/ Under a plan the government presented to the Supreme Court, Israeli and foreign journalists will be allowed into Gaza under IDF escort up to the “yellow line.,” ie in Israeli-controlled areas where there are just some hundreds of Palestinians reportedly residing.

The announcement came during a petition by the Foreign Press Association challenging Israel’s media restrictions.

🔴 Ben Gvir Calls for Death Penalty While Standing Over Bound Palestinian Prisoners

Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir posted a video on his Telegram channel on October 31, standing over Palestinian detainees lying face-down, bound and blindfolded, declaring: “These guys … the Nukhba who came to kill children and women … there’s still something that must be done — the death penalty for the terrorists.”

It was his second such prison visit this month, renewing calls for executions as Israel arbitrarily detains thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. Rights groups say his theatrics signal the deepening systemic torture inside Israel’s prisons, where starvation and abuse have already been widely documented.

For more details on conditions in Israeli prisons and detention sites, see report by PBS linked below.

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Israel announced on Tuesday that it will bar the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian detainees held under the so-called “unlawful combatants” law — a measure first enacted in 2002 that permits indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial of Palestinian individuals in military facilities.

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🚨 BREAKING: Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu says he has “instructed the military to immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip.”

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The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused Hamas of “staging excavations” in eastern Gaza, saying the group “knows where the remaining hostages are” but is refusing to transfer the remains.

In a statement, Israel alleged that Hamas is “moving and reburying body remains, and staging a false discovery for the Red Cross to witness.”

The video attached does not show all that. It only shows bodies being buried or recovered in Gaza.

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🟢 In a wide-ranging interview on Al Jazeera Arabic’s Al-Muqabla (“The Interview”), Hamas’s chief negotiator Dr. Khalil al-Hayya gives his most detailed public account yet of the movement’s position on the ceasefire, Gaza’s governance, weapons, the prisoner and captive files, and unity talks with Palestinian factions — including rival Fatah.

Below, Drop Site highlights nine defining moments from the conversation. Each clip is auto-translated but paired with a full cleaned English transcript for non-Arabic speakers. 👇 1⃣ Hamas believes Israel’s war on Gaza is over. Al-Hayya says the resistance will not provide Israel with any excuse to resume fighting:

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💬 Testimony of a Freed Prisoner from Rakevet Detention Center: “A Hell Beneath the Ground Devouring the Bodies of Gaza Prisoners”

📄 Published by the Prisoners’ Media Office

In new testimony, a recently released detainee, identified as M.N., recounts his journey through “layers of torment” from the Nitzarim checkpoint to the barracks around Gaza, the interrogation cells of Ofer, and finally to the infamous Rakevet Detention Center, the underground isolation wing in occupied Ramla.

“Words must leave their hiding place and reach the ears of living consciences,” he says, “so they might save what remains of the prisoners’ bodies down there.”

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Editor’s note: Photos, when not specified, are for illustration only. Taken at Ketziot Prison in February 2025, prior to the captives exchange. ▪️Journey from Gaza

M.N. recounts:

“On 16 November 2023, I was arrested at what I call the trap crossing — the so-called safe passage at Nitzarim. I aim, through this testimony, to convey the prisoners’ message and the suffering, humiliation, beatings, deprivation, and repression they endure, so it reaches media platforms, human-rights groups, and living consciences everywhere.”

He says the first stage of detention was “degrading beyond reason: constant searches, humiliation, and insults.”

“The way they transported us from Nitzarim to the barracks in Gaza was humiliating and degrading — unfit even for animals. The young men were blindfolded, their hands and feet shackled, forced to sit on their knees, forbidden to speak or move.”

Photo: Israeli soldiers stand by a truck with Palestinian detainees in the Gaza Strip, Dec. 8, 2023.

🇲🇦🇩🇿 U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said the Trump administration is working on a peace agreement between Morocco and Algeria, telling CBS News: “We are working on Morocco and Algeria right now. Our team is focused on it — there’s going to be a peace deal in the next, in my view, 60 days.”

The two countries have had no diplomatic relations since 2021, when Algeria cut ties over what it called Moroccan “hostile acts.”
Here’s what to know: 🧵🔽

📸 Photo: Massad Boulos, U.S. senior adviser for Africa, and Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, meets Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in late July. He is leading U.S. efforts to mediate between Morocco and Algeria.
2/ Their decades-long rift centers on the Western Sahara dispute, a vast territory Morocco claims as its own and Algeria supports as independent. Morocco insists its 2007 autonomy plan—which would keep the region under Moroccan sovereignty while granting local self-rule—is the only viable path forward.

Algeria, meanwhile, hosts and backs the Polisario Front, which seeks a U.N.-supervised referendum on independence.

The conflict dates back to 1975, when Spain withdrew and Morocco annexed most of Western Sahara, triggering war between Moroccan forces and Polisario fighters. A U.N.-brokered ceasefire in 1991 froze the conflict but left the territory’s status unresolved. Morocco now controls about 80% of the land, while Polisario administers desert areas near the Algerian border.

Recent years have seen tensions rise as the U.S. formally recognized Moroccan sovereignty in 2020, and several countries opened consulates in Laayoune and Dakhla (major cities in Western Sahara)—moves Algeria condemns as violations of international law.

🧵Thread: The Gaza Ministry of Health has released images of Palestinian bodies returned by Israeli authorities — some 150 so far, fewer than the 15-to-1 ratio originally agreed under the ceasefire exchange deal.

They arrived without names, tagged only with numbered labels, making identification nearly impossible. Many show signs of abuse — torture, blindfolds, bindings to hands and feet, gunshot wounds to the head, missing limbs and organs, and severe decomposition.

In the posts that follow, we are publishing the photographs released by the Ministry, accompanied by brief context for each. Viewer discretion is strongly advised. The images are deeply disturbing.

“We also have serious suspicions that Israel has stolen organs from some of these martyrs—corneas, livers, and other internal organs—which were clearly missing when the bodies were examined.”

— Dr. Ismail Al-Thawabta, Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza ⭕️ The Office confirmed receiving a total of 120 Palestinian bodies since the ceasefire took effect.

▪️“These bodies arrived in extremely poor and distressing condition.
The Israeli occupation executed many of them in cold blood. A large number were found blindfolded, with their hands and feet bound, and others showed signs of hanging or close-range gunfire.”

“We also found bodies showing clear evidence of severe torture until death.”

— Dr. Ismail Al-Thawabta, Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza

📺 “I challenge anyone, on your channel right now, to name a single innocent person who was attacked. Just one name.”

—Mukhtar Abu Salman al-Mughni, head of the Higher Commission for Palestinian Tribes (Gaza’s largest tribal assembly) defended the crackdown in Gaza on what Hamas has described as “occupation-backed gangs,” rejecting Trump and PA claims of executions of innocents.

Here are the key exchanges from his new interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher:

1. Sheikh Mughni was asked about the claims being spread in Western media about Hamas executing innocent Palestinians

🎙️Mughni:
“I challenge anyone, on your channel right now, to name a single innocent person who was attacked.”

Just one name.

The security forces didn’t harm innocents — they went after the gangs.
These groups had armed posts in Rafah, Khan Younis, Shuja‘iyya, and the north.
When the police moved to clean out those posts, the gangs fought back and killed police officers too.

Had the police not intervened, people themselves would have taken revenge — and that would have become a civil war.
The security forces prevented that.” 2.
🎙️Al Jazeera Host:
Some critics say these men should have been tried in court, not executed in the street. What do you say?

🎙️Sheikh Mughni:
“Where are the courts?
Where are the prisons?
All destroyed.
The police can’t even detain one man safely — there’s nowhere left to hold them.
Those who talk about trials are speaking from comfort, not from Gaza’s reality.
Police stations, courts, schools, mosques, hospitals — everything’s been bombed.
Even when a policeman shows his face, Israeli aircraft target him.
Many police were killed trying to stop these crimes.
That’s the truth of what happened.”

🇱🇧🧵Thread: Israeli Airstrikes Target Construction Warehouses and Grassroots Organizer in Southern Lebanon

By Drop Site News — with reporting from @ aatma.atmaa (IG) and @ tanseqeye_shaabeye_lebanon (IG, Popular Committee Lebanon).

At dawn this past Saturday (October 11, 2025), Israeli warplanes carried out over a dozen airstrikes on six construction warehouses across southern Lebanon, destroying heavy equipment and facilities vital to rebuilding border towns.

One warehouse owner, a veteran of Lebanon’s construction sector, reported the total destruction of 116 vehicles—including excavators, bulldozers, and tractors—estimating losses of $5–6 million.

The attacks were followed by an extraordinary incident on Sunday targeting engineer and grassroots organizer Tarek Mazraani, coordinator and co-founder of The Lebanese Border Towns Association, a civic initiative advocating reconstruction and the right of return for displaced residents.

According to documentation shared by @ aatma.atmaa, Israeli drones pursued Mazraani across several southern towns—Yahmor, Kferraman, and Nabatieh—broadcasting threats in Arabic that named him personally:

“Lies and treachery have engulfed Hezbollah. Today, engineer Tarek Mazraani continues their conspiracy. Drive them out to reclaim your land and so that reconstruction may begin.”

Community members describe Mazraani as a respected figure devoted to local rebuilding projects, music, and poetry. His work, however, represents a direct challenge to Israel’s goal of preventing the 80,000 residents who are still displaced from their right to return, rebuild and reclaim their homes.

The harassment was widely understood as an attempt to intimidate civilians spearheading reconstruction and sustain the displacement of Lebanon’s southern border communities.
[1/4] Pattern of Attacks on Lebanese Engineers

The intimidation comes amid what local residents describe as a targeted campaign against engineers and architects rebuilding southern and eastern Lebanon.

▪️On October 2, Israeli drones assassinated architects Ahmad Saad and Moustafa Rizk while they traveled near Khyam to survey damage.

▪️Days earlier, on September 28, a resident installing water pipes for his neighbors was also killed by a drone strike.

▪️In just two weeks, three civil engineers have been killed in southern Lebanon. Israeli forces have repeatedly re-targeted rebuilt homes and flattened infrastructure to obstruct reconstruction and prevent residents’ return. [2/4]

🧵 We’re sharing key takeaways from a briefing today with two senior advisers to Donald Trump, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity.

The advisers outlined Washington’s evolving approach to Gaza’s reconstruction, post-war governance, Hamas’ disarmament, and ceasefire implementation — signaling notable shifts in U.S. policy since the start of the Trump administration.

1. On Forced Displacement of Palestinians

Washington has done a full reversal — from previously backing plans that would have ethnically cleansed Gaza and redeveloped it into a “Middle-East Riviera” to reiterating today that Palestinians will not be forced to leave the Strip while it is being rebuilt.

One advisor said:

“These are tough people. They’ve been through a lot, and they seem to be resilient. They’re coming back to their homes, and they’re pitching tents. People feel very invested in the places where they live. It’s remarkable to see,” he says.

“While there are Palestinians who have left because the living conditions are that difficult… no one is forcing any Palestinians to leave,” the senior Trump adviser said. 2. On Disarmament of Palestinian Resistance and Demilitarization of Gaza

The senior advisers acknowledged that demilitarizing Gaza will be one of the most complex and difficult elements of the ceasefire negotiations.

“Right now we’re in the process of defining how to get there in a way where everyone feels safe,” the adviser said. “It’s not realistic to think everyone’s just going to walk in, drop their arms and say, ‘There you go.’”

He described widespread fear among Palestinians:

“A lot of the people, even on the Hamas side, are fearful of retribution from other people inside Gaza. So it’s a very complex dynamic.”

Still, he said Arab mediators and the U.S. “want to continue to work together to find a way to do it,” adding, “We’re all working very closely, creatively and aggressively to find the right outcome that satisfies everyone’s objectives.”

In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family – a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents beside her – alive, waiting, and all of them delirious with relief and joy. One of the 1700 Palestinians of Gaza who returned home today after being abducted and tortured by an illegal occupation.