<article data-history-node-id="448177" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/complaint-filed-paris-against-israeli-army-after-uprooting-centuries-old" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/complaint-filed-paris-against-israeli-army-after-uprooting-centuries-old" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Complaint filed in Paris against the Israeli army after the uprooting of centuries-old olive trees in Lebanon</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A French businessman born in Lebanon has filed a complaint against persons unknown for war crimes, targeting the Israeli army, which he accuses of uprooting 600 centuries-old olive trees belonging to his family, his lawyers told AFP on Wednesday.<br> <br> The 37-year-old Frenchman denounces the uprooting of trees, some of which he claims were half a millennium old, on land cultivated for 250 years by his family in Zawtar el-Charqiyé, his native village in southern Lebanon.<br> <br> According to his civil suit filed for theft, destruction, and damage to property constituting war crimes, and which AFP has seen, the trees were uprooted, roots and all.<br> <br> The man, whose complaint specifies that he is "neither a member nor a supporter of Hezbollah," suspects they were transferred to Israel. "There is no evidence to suggest that Hezbollah was using the house or the agricultural fields as military equipment," the document adds.</p> <p><em>Reporting by AFP</em></p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="448077" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hegseth-slammed-blasphemous-use-bible-passage-military-recruitment-drive" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hegseth-slammed-blasphemous-use-bible-passage-military-recruitment-drive" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hegseth slammed for 'blasphemous' use of Bible passage in military recruitment drive</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us" target="_blank">US</a>&nbsp;Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has come under fire for a military “Send Me Tour” that draws on biblical verses and Christian scripture to recruit new soldiers.&nbsp;</p> <p>Hegseth visited Texas A&amp;M University over the weekend as part of the tour, which is based on a well-known refrain from the Old Testament Book of Isaiah, Chapter 6, Verse 8, in which God asks, "Who shall I send?" and the prophet Isaiah replies, “Lord, I am here. Send me”.</p> <p>Isaiah is a prophet for both Jews and Christians. Although the Quran does not explicitly mention him, some Islamic literature regards him as a prophet.&nbsp;</p> <p>Hegseth was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hegseth-kicks-send-me-tour-attempt-gaining-support-war-iran" target="_blank">filmed</a>&nbsp;in front of a group of young college students, invoking Isaiah’s biblical language for a war chant.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hegseth-slammed-blasphemous-use-bible-passage-military-recruitment-drive">Hegseth slammed for 'blasphemous' use of Bible passage in military recruitment drive</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth poses for a photo during a game at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, on 19 September 2026 (Zach Del Bello/Getty Images/AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="88f6778d-0bdc-490d-8a2c-3ad51f6901e0" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/Hegseth-military-AFP.jpg" width="1200" height="674" alt="US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth poses for a photo during a game at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, on 19 September 2026 (Zach Del Bello/Getty Images/AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth poses for a photo during a game at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, on 19 September 2026 (Zach Del Bello/Getty Images/AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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Keir Starmer and Labour had a chance to end a bent system, now being exploited by Reform to allow the mega-rich to buy British politics. They blew it, and more racism and Islamophobia are the result.

<article data-history-node-id="447784" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-50-children-among-100-trapped-collapsed-gaza-city-building" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-50-children-among-100-trapped-collapsed-gaza-city-building" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">At least 50 children among 100 trapped in collapsed Gaza City building</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 50 children are among over 100 Palestinians still stuck beneath a collapsed building in Gaza City, Aljazeera reported citing a civil defence team.</p> <p>So far, 11 bodies have been recovered while 12 others were rescued.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="447407" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-drone-attack-kills-one-person-southern-lebanon" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-drone-attack-kills-one-person-southern-lebanon" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli drone attack kills one person in southern Lebanon</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><section data-testid="conversation-turn-40" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-6aa07a5b-7a58-83eb-b260-c11af0574757-14" data-turn-id-container="request-6aa07a5b-7a58-83eb-b260-c11af0574757-14" dir="auto"> <p data-end="61" data-section-id="1stblvf" data-start="0">Lebanon’s civil defence agency says an Israeli drone struck a motorcycle near Harouf, killing one person.</p> <p data-end="289" data-start="170">The attack hit a road linking Harouf and Zebdine in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon, according to the agency.</p> <p data-end="506" data-start="291">Israel has intensified its attacks across Lebanon over the past week, killing and wounding dozens of people.</p> <p data-end="632" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="508">Israeli forces also continue to occupy dozens of southern villages despite a US-brokered truce and have refused to withdraw.</p> </section> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="447345" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-action-co-founder-blasts-uk-sanctions-israel-symbolic-and" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-action-co-founder-blasts-uk-sanctions-israel-symbolic-and" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestine Action co-founder blasts UK sanctions on Israel as 'symbolic' and 'ineffective'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The co-founder of the Palestine Action&nbsp;Huda Ammori has criticised the UK’s government's hypocricy in proscribing the direct action group as a "terrorist" organisation, whilst claiming to stand up for international law by banning trade with Israeli settlements.</p> <p>“Britain has no issue with sanctioning and criminalising its own citizens for disrupting the Israeli weapons industry during a genocide,”&nbsp;Ammori said in a post to X.</p> <p>Replying to a post by a Bloomberg journalist who said British diplomats told the US that UK’s new Israeli settlements policy is “largely symbolic”, she argued that the UK’s new sanctions on Israeli settlements don’t go far enough, calling them “symbolic” and “ineffective”.</p> <p>Thousands have been arrested, mostly pensioners, for holding placards in protest of the ban on Palestine Action.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Britain has no issue with sanctioning and criminalising its own citizens as terrorists for disrupting the Israeli weapons industry during a genocide.<br> <br> However, they can only issue 'symbolic' and ineffective sanctions on the entity committing a genocide. <a href="https://t.co/4GxJRXViFP">https://t.co/4GxJRXViFP</a></p> — Huda Ammori (@HudaAmmori) <a href="https://x.com/HudaAmmori/status/2097311838715142374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="447346" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-sanctions-27-iranian-airlines" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-sanctions-27-iranian-airlines" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US sanctions 27 Iranian airlines</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The US Treasury announced new sanctions on 36 entities, including 27 Iranian airlines, for “supporting Iran’s aviation sector”.</p> <p>The US Treasury said in a statement on Tuesday that the Iranian government uses the aviation sector to “move weapons, personnel and illicit cargo” and the sanctions were following through on the US's promise to impose “sever consequences” on entities providing “financial lifelines” to Iran.</p> <p>“Let this be a warning to anyone doing business with Iran’s remaining airlines, all of which we sanctioned today,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, warning that “you are at risk of being cut off from the global financial system.”</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="447349" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/france-uk-canada-release-joint-statement-condemning-israeli-settlements" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/france-uk-canada-release-joint-statement-condemning-israeli-settlements" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">France, UK, Canada release joint statement condemning Israeli settlements</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday that Israeli settlements in the occupeid West Bank undermined prospects for a two-state solution.</p> <p>"Systematic settlement expansion in the West Bank, including the Government of Israel's latest decision to progress the E1 settlement, as well as the dramatic increase in settler violence, pose a direct and urgent threat to that vision for peace," the leaders said in a joint statement.</p> <p><em>Reporting by AFP</em></p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="447351" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-palestinian-injure-15-others-across-gaza-strip" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-palestinian-injure-15-others-across-gaza-strip" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli strikes kill Palestinian, injure 15 others across Gaza Strip</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed a Palestinian and injured 15 others across the&nbsp; Gaza Strip, Wafa news has reported, citing medical sources.</p> <p>Medical sources at Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza told Wafa that the body of a killed Palestinian and 11 casualties, including people in a critical condition, were admitted to the hospital following an Israeli drone strike that targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in a refugee camp.</p> <p>Two more casualties were admitted to&nbsp;Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, and two others to&nbsp;Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wafa reported.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="447354" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/young-palestinian-man-killed-israeli-forces-south-nablus" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/young-palestinian-man-killed-israeli-forces-south-nablus" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Young Palestinian man killed by Israeli forces south of Nablus</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A 28-year-old Palestinian man was killed by Israeli forces’ gunfire on Tuesday in the town of Aqaba, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestintian health minitry.</p> <p>The Palestinian health ministry announced the death of Abdul Karim Muhammad Khader Suleiman, who it said was "shot and killed by the occupation forces on Tuesday morning in the town of Aqraba".</p> <p>According to security sources, Israeli forces raided the western part of the town, surrounded the house, and used a bulldozer to demolish sections of the structure, Wafa news reported.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Palestinians inspect a family home destroyed by the Israel army following a military operation after a Palestinian man barricaded himself inside the house in the Israel-occupied West Bank village of Aqraba, south of the city of Nablus on September 8, 2026 JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b8932e69-9632-405c-9be2-5d1f4add7337" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_C7LY3XN.jpg" width="1920" height="1080" alt="Palestinians inspect a family home destroyed by the Israel army following a military operation after a Palestinian man barricaded himself inside the house in the Israel-occupied West Bank village of Aqraba, south of the city of Nablus on September 8, 2026 JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Palestinians inspect a family home destroyed by the Israel army in the Israel-occupied West Bank village of Aqraba, on 8 September 2026 (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="447357" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-welcomes-countries-move-restrict-trade-illegal-israeli-settlements" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-welcomes-countries-move-restrict-trade-illegal-israeli-settlements" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UN welcomes countries' move to restrict trade with illegal Israeli settlements</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The UN human rights office on Tuesday commended the plans by the 12 countries to introduce restrictions on trade in goods with illegal Israeli settlements.</p> <p>“The seriousness of the situation in the West Bank calls for urgent and concrete measures,” said the spokesperson to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk.&nbsp;</p> <p>Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Presidency also issued statements on Tuesday welcoming the measures by 11 European countries and Canada to sanction illegal Israeli settlements.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="447330" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-actions-syria-may-amount-war-crimes-says-un" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-actions-syria-may-amount-war-crimes-says-un" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli actions in Syria may amount to war crimes, says UN</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The UN has warned that some actions carried out by Israeli in Syria, including the detention of civilians, could amount to war crimes.</p> <p>Speaking to the UN Human Rights Council, Commissioner Fionnuala Ní Aolain said Israeli military operations in southern Syria had become "increasingly sustained and entrenched."</p> <p>"The Commission is deeply alarmed about continued Israeli violations," Ní Aoláin told the council.</p> <p>She said that as of June, the commission had identified 49 Syrians, including two children, detained by the Israeli military on Syrian territory and believed to have been transferred across the border.</p> <p>"Such acts may amount to war crimes," Ni Aolain said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

France and Canada will also ban trade in settlement goods, marking a significant diplomatic victory for the UK

<article data-history-node-id="447339" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/twelve-british-elected-officials-and-citizens-be-barred-entering-israel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/twelve-british-elected-officials-and-citizens-be-barred-entering-israel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Twelve British elected officials and citizens to be barred from entering Israel</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced on Tuesday Israel's response to the UK's introduction of sanctions on goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which includes banning a number of elected officials and British nationals from entering Israel.</p> <p>Among those named are former Labour Party leader and current Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn, all five Green Party MPs, and British lawyer&nbsp;Fahad Ansari.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="447340" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-will-not-follow-uk-israeli-settlement-sanctions-says-rubio" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-will-not-follow-uk-israeli-settlement-sanctions-says-rubio" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US will not follow UK on Israeli settlement sanctions, says Rubio</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that the US will not take the same action as the UK over Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, but that he would not provide any further comment beyond that for now.</p> <p>Speaking to reporters, Rubio added the US does “not want to see some uptick in violence, or an uptick in conflict or tensions in the West Bank at a very tenuous time for the region”.</p> <p>This comes after US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee&nbsp;suggested the Trump administration could retaliate against Britain over its new trade sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="447341" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/irgc-says-it-captured-unmanned-us-submersible-hormuz-entrance" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/irgc-says-it-captured-unmanned-us-submersible-hormuz-entrance" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">IRGC says it captured unmanned US submersible at Hormuz entrance</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy said it had captured an unmanned US submersible at the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian media on Tuesday.</p> <p>So far the US has not issued a confirmation of the statement.</p> <p><em>Reporting by Reuters</em></p> </div> </div> </article>

The government must look at how it can provide accountability, reparation, and investment in Palestine commensurate with the damage the UK has caused

Ed Miliband to reassert support for Palestinian rights and a two-state solution in move likely to draw fierce criticism from US and Israel

The prime minister will warn that Britain will not accept the ‘destruction of the two-state solution’

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<article data-history-node-id="447261" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-seven-palestinians-gaza-past-24-hours" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-seven-palestinians-gaza-past-24-hours" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli strikes kill seven Palestinians in Gaza in past 24 hours</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two Palestinians have died from injuries sustained in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the number of Palestinians killed over the past 24 hours to seven, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.&nbsp;</p> <p>Six-year-old Daoud Muqata was killed after being shot north of Gaza City several weeks ago, while Subhi al-Batrikhi succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli air attack on a group of civilians in the city’s Remal neighbourhood on Sunday.&nbsp;</p> <p>Massive explosions were heard across Gaza around dawn after Israeli air strikes hit residential buildings in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood, according to local media.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli jets also struck several locations overnight, including homes belonging to the al-Batsh and Habib families and the Hayfa Hospital building behind the al-Sakhra commercial complex.</p> </div> </div> </article>

New measures are expected to prohibit any investment in illegal Israeli settlement businesses

<article data-history-node-id="447265" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-reaches-73658-israeli-attacks-continue" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-reaches-73658-israeli-attacks-continue" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza death toll reaches 73,658 as Israeli attacks continue</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that at least eight Palestinians were killed and 30 were wounded in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.&nbsp;Two others were killed from wounds inflicted in earlier Israeli attacks.&nbsp;</p> <p>Palestinian man Ismail Ibrahim Qandil was killed when an Israeli air strike targeted him while he was riding his motorbike northwest of Khan Younis, Wafa reported.</p> <p>According to Gaza’s health ministry, since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 73,658 Palestinians and wounded 174,622 others in Gaza.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli forces also continued the attacks and raids throughout Gaza and the occupied West Bank, as Israeli naval forces opened fire at fishing boats off Gaza City, wounding two fishermen.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli forces also detained Palestinians in raids in Ramallah, Tulkarem, Nilin and Nablus, while settlers attacked a farming shed, damaged electricity poles and assaulted two Palestinians south of Nablus.&nbsp;</p> <p>Settlers have also started fencing off land in al-Hadidiya in the Jordan Valley, restricting Palestinians’ access to agricultural areas.&nbsp;</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A rescuer searches for survivors amid rubble following an overnight Israeli airstrike on Kfar Roummane, southern Lebanon, 7 September 2026 (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4a87289b-2a67-4f5e-abe4-34fd94a1c2d5" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/A%20rescuer%20searches%20for%20survivors%20amid%20rubble%20following%20an%20overnight%20Israeli%20airstrike%20on%20Kfar%20Roummane%2C%20southern%20Lebanon%2C%207%20September%202026%20%28Mahmoud%20Zayyat%20AFP%29.jpg" width="1341" height="754" alt="A rescuer searches for survivors amid rubble following an overnight Israeli airstrike on Kfar Roummane, southern Lebanon, 7 September 2026 (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A rescuer searches for survivors amid rubble following an overnight Israeli airstrike on Kfar Roummane, southern Lebanon, 7 September 2026. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="447185" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/top-us-military-officials-face-lie-detectors-leak-investigation-reports" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/top-us-military-officials-face-lie-detectors-leak-investigation-reports" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Top US military officials face lie-detectors in leak investigation: reports</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Pentagon has begun subjecting senior military officials to lie-detector tests as part of an investigation into who leaked details about US munitions stockpiles, US media reported.</p> <p>Reports in July said the US was rationing some munitions, particularly missile interceptors, amid concerns over supplies following months of war with Iran.</p> <p>Trump administration officials strongly rejected the claims.</p> <p>President Donald Trump said the US had "a lot of ammunition, different types", while acknowledging that the military would like more of "some of the more sophisticated stuff".</p> <p>The New York Times reported late Friday that around 50 members of the military’s Joint Staff, the Pentagon’s planning and advisory body, were being required to undergo polygraph tests as part of an investigation into the leak.</p> </div> </div> </article>