In the West Bank, Israeli settlers vandalize 70 olive trees during a raid in Husan. Israeli settlers also assault a Palestinian man harvesting olives in Kafl Haris. Elsewhere, Israeli settlers assault a Palestinian man and steal his car after stopping him on a road outside of Burqa. Israeli settlers also vandalize a mosque in Khirbet Tana. Israeli undercover forces shoot and kill 4 Palestinians and injure another during a raid in Nablus. Israeli forces also shoot and kill a Palestinian man during a raid in Aqabah. Elsewhere, Israeli forces issue stop-work orders for 16 homes in Jalbun. Israeli forces also attack Palestinians harvesting olives in Sabastia, seizing a tractor. Meanwhile, Israeli forces raid Birzeit and Kobar. Israeli forces also close the Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslim worshipers until 10/12, citing Jewish holidays. Separately, Israeli forces arrest 25 Palestinians during raids in and around Hebron, Qalqilya, Jenin, Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarm, Tubas, and Bethlehem. Israeli forces also arrest 5 journalists, including American journalist Jeremy Loffredo. In Gaza, Israeli forces bomb Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza City, Nuseirat refugee camp, and al-Bureij refugee camp, killing at least 45 people, including at least 15 at Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia. Israeli forces also attack a group of journalists in Jabalia refugee camp, killing Al-Aqsa TV cameraman Mohammed Tanani and critically injuring Al Jazeera journalist Fadi al-Wahidi. In al-Khadira, 1 person is killed and 6 others wounded in a stabbing attack; the alleged perpetrator from Umm al-Fahm is shot and injured before he is arrested. In Lebanon, Israeli forces bomb Beirut, Tyre, Wardaniyeh, Joya, Mahrouna, Tebbine, Samaiya, Tayr Dibba, Khiam, and Baalbek, killing 5 paramedics in Tyre. Israeli forces also order the evacuation of parts of the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut. UNIFIL says Israeli forces deliberately target UNIFIL perimeter-monitoring cameras, disabling them. Hezbollah forces fire rockets at the Golan Heights, Kiryat Shmona, and Safed, causing fires in the Golan Heights and killing 2 people in Kiryat Shmona. An Israeli soldier is killed in combat. In Syria, Israeli forces bomb Hasiya and Quneitra, killing 1 Syrian soldier and injuring another in Quneitra. (AJ, AP, HA, HA, REU, REU, REU, REU, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA 10/9; AJ, AJ, HA 10/10; AJ 10/11)
More than 42,010 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, including at least 17,000 children and 11,487 women, and around 97,720 have been injured since 10/7/2023. At least 10,000 people are missing in rubble. 737 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 10/7/2023, including 154 children. More than 6,315 people have been injured. Israel reports that 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed and 5,400 have been injured in Israel since 10/7/2023, including Israeli soldiers. In addition, 348 Israeli soldiers have been killed and 2,298 injured in Gaza since the ground invasion began on 10/27/2023. Over 1.93 million Palestinians, nearly 85% of the population of Gaza, have been displaced since 10/7/2023. There has been a complete electricity blackout in Gaza since 10/12/2023 due to the Israeli blockade. At least 79,000 housing units have been destroyed and 370,000 have been damaged in Israeli airstrikes since 10/7/2023. (AJ, UNOCHA, WAFA 10/9)
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says Israeli forces impeded WHO’s efforts to evacuate patients in critical condition from the Kamal Adwan, al-Awda, and Indonesian hospitals on 10/8 and 10/9. (AJ 10/9)
UNRWA says at least 563 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on 200 of its facilities in Gaza in the past year. UNRWA also says it is evacuating 7 shelters in northern Gaza. (AJ 10/9)
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate evacuation of Al Jazeera journalist Ali al-Attar, who was injured in an Israeli attack on al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital on 10/7, saying he needs treatment that cannot be provided in Gaza. (AJ 10/9)
Hamas political bureau member Khalil al-Hayya meets with Fatah deputy chairperson Mahmoud al-Aloul in Cairo, discussing Israeli attacks on Gaza and moves to “unify national efforts and ranks” according to a Hamas statement. (AJ, HA, REU 10/9)
At the UN Security Council, UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini says Israel is attempting to destroy UNRWA as part of its war on Gaza, during a session on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. U.S. ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield says the U.S. is deeply concerned about Israeli legislation to declare UNRWA a terrorist organization and ban it from Israel. Thomas-Greenfield also calls the situation in Gaza “catastrophic,” urging Israel to stop “intensifying suffering” among Palestinians by limiting aid. (AJ, AP, REU, WAFA 10/9; AJ, AP 10/10)
U.S. president Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris speak with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A White House readout of the phone call says Biden condemned the Iranian attack on Israel on 10/1, said that there should be a ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza, and discussed the humanitarian situation in Gaza. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says, “there should be no kind of military action in Lebanon that looks anything like Gaza and leaves a result anything like Gaza.” Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant says Israel will attack Iran and it will be “deadly, precise, and above all surprising. They will not understand what happened and how.” (AJ, AJ, AP, AP, AX, HA, NYT, NYT, REU, REU 10/9; AX 10/10)
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Riyadh, discussing the 2 countries “growing” relationship.” (AJ, NYT 10/9; AJ 10/10)
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls Israel a “Zionist terrorist organization” for its attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, saying “[h]istory will never forgive those who applauded the monster responsible for the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinian children, women, civilians.” (AJ, HA 10/9)
130 Israeli soldiers sign a letter to the Israeli government and military saying they will not continue serving unless the government makes negotiations to bring back the captives a priority. (HA 10/9)
Brown University says it will not divest from 10 companies that student groups have said are facilitating the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The university’s advisory committee said the university had no direct investment in the 10 companies and that it is not the university’s mission to resolve or adjudicate global conflict. The Brown University pro-Palestine student encampment was dismantled in April after the university’s administration said it would consider a proposal for divestment. The Brown Divest Coalition calls the decision not to divest from the 10 companies “a moral stain” on the university. (NYT 10/9; AP, HA 10/10)
Canada pledges $11 million in humanitarian assistance to Lebanon. The EU says it has opened a humanitarian air bridge to Lebanon. (AJ 10/9)