Updates: Israel kills at least 24 in Gaza as negotiators head to Egypt

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As negotiators head to Egypt for negotiations on Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan, check out this video explainer that breaks down the main issues.

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This live page is about to close. Here’s a recap of the day’s main developments:

• Hamas says its delegation, headed by Khalil al-Hayya, has arrived in Egypt ahead of negotiations on Trump’s Gaza plan; Israel says its negotiators will leave on Monday for the talks in Sharm el-Sheikh.
• Trump says discussions with Hamas, other countries this weekend have been “very positive”, adding that the first phase of his proposal “should be completed this week”.
• One in five Gaza babies is born prematurely or underweight, the UN has said, urging critical humanitarian access to the bombarded enclave.
• Israel has killed at least 94 Palestinians across Gaza over the past two days despite Trump calling on Israel to stop its bombing campaign, the enclave’s Government Media Office says.
• During a visit to Israeli troops inside Gaza, the head of Israel’s army, Eyal Zamir, says that while there is no ceasefire, there is a change in the “operational situation”.
• The Global Sumud Flotilla says dozens of participants detained in Israel have started a hunger strike in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Lawyers for the flotilla say the Israel Prison Service plans to deport about 170 activists on Monday.

Thomas Pickering, a former US ambassador to Israel and the UN, says that while there is evidence of a real push from Trump to end the war in Gaza, the US president’s plan also shows “some serious inexperience in handling negotiations with two warring parties in the Middle East”.

He noted, for instance, that most of the US proposal’s 20 points will need to be negotiated. “So the optimism is hopeful, but at the moment, I think somewhat unrealistic, but I’m perfectly pleased if I’m proved wrong,” Pickering told Al Jazeera.

It is also not clear, the former diplomat added, what the plan envisages for the recognition of a Palestinian state since Netanyahu has been clear about opposing any such move.

Trump’s plan offers a vague nod to Palestinian statehood, saying: “While Gaza re-development advances and when the PA [Palestinian Authority] reform programme is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognise as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.”

For more on the proposal, see our explainer here.

The Israeli military has killed at least 94 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip over the past two days despite Trump calling on Israel to stop its bombing campaign, according to the enclave’s Government Media Office.

It said in a statement that from dawn on Saturday until the end of the day on Sunday, at least 131 Israeli air and artillery attacks targeted densely populated civilian areas and killed displaced Palestinians, including 61 in Gaza City.

“This ongoing crime falls within the framework of the ongoing genocide crime against our Palestinian people, confirming that the occupation disregards all international calls for calm and insists on continuing the systematic killing of civilians and destroying the means of life,” the media office said.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry says any decision on the future of Gaza must lay with Palestinian people and resistance fighters, warning that Israel may once again renege on a ceasefire deal and continue its killings.

But it welcomed “any decision by them that provides for the cessation of genocide against Palestinians, the withdrawal of the Zionist occupying army from Gaza, respect for the Palestinian people’s right for self-determination, the entry of humanitarian aid, and the reconstruction of Gaza”.

The international community has a legal and moral responsibility to “confront the ongoing genocide in Gaza” under the 1948 Genocide Convention, the ministry said in a statement, adding that countries also have a responsibility to back Palestinian self-determination in the face of illegal Israeli occupation.

Regardless of any ceasefire agreement, Iran added that countries and international institutions must pursue legal and judicial accountability for the “crimes” committed by Israel in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, ending the “impunity” enjoyed by Israel with US support.

Since the start of the war in Gaza, violence in the occupied West Bank – including Israeli settler and military attacks, arrests and home demolitions – has sharply increased.

Here’s a quick look at some of what happened today, according to reports from the Palestinian news agency Wafa:

• Israeli forces carried out a wide-scale raid and detention campaign at dawn today in occupied East Jerusalem, targeting several members of Fatah, the dominant party in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
• Israeli authorities approved a plan to seize 35 dunums (8.6 acres) of land from the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the northwestern city of Qalqilya, to construct 58 new settlement units.
• In the same village, settlers from Kedumim uprooted about 50 ancient olive trees owned by Palestinian residents.
• Israeli settlers have also raided Palestinian-owned lands in an-Naqura and Deir Sharaf, villages northwest of Nablus, where they stole olive crops.
• Israeli soldiers have closed the metal gate at the entrance to the village of Atara, north of Ramallah, severely disrupting Palestinian traffic in the area.
• In a report, the Jerusalem Governorate said that, since October 7, 2023, the Israeli army has killed at least 97 Palestinians and is still holding the bodies of 49 of them. Israeli soldiers have caused 591 injuries to Palestinians, including through the use of live and rubber-coated steel bullets and severe beatings. The report also mentioned 742 demolitions, most of which targeted Palestinian homes and structures.

Nada, a displaced Palestinian widow and mother of three, is living in a makeshift camp in southern Gaza with her children – but longs to return to Gaza City.

“We don’t know where to go or what to do. I’m alone with my children, separated from my family. We don’t have food, water or even clothes,” she told Al Jazeera.

Nada said she is praying that a deal will be reached to bring an end to Israel’s bombardment. “We will be the first to rush back to the north,” she said. “Although my home was destroyed in the early days of the war, I’m prepared to live in a tent … on the ruins of our home in Gaza City.”

See more in our video below.

Adalah, a legal centre for Palestinians in Israel, says the Israel Prison Service has informed the group’s lawyers that it plans to deport about 170 flotilla activists on Monday.

“Adalah attorneys made several [prison] visits today but were denied access to all participants,” the group said in a statement shared on WhatsApp.

Adalah said conditions inside the prison was “relatively stable”, but concerns around the health of activists – particularly those on hunger strike – persist.

One of the key provisions in Trump’s 20-point plan is the establishment of a temporary international stabilisation force to “immediately deploy” to Gaza to provide security and train Palestinian police.

But the plan doesn’t provide many additional details about the proposed force, including who its members will be, who will guarantee its security, and what kind of mandate it will have.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has commented on the possible setup, telling Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat that Cairo encourages such a deployment but with a UN Security Council resolution “clearly” defining the force’s functions.

Without providing much detail, the top diplomat said Egypt’s contribution to the force would be tied to the US’s respective contribution. Abdelatty also said the force should be deployed in the occupied West Bank.

The footage below, which has been verified by Al Jazeera, shows German police arresting a protester earlier today in the Neukolln district of the capital, Berlin.

As we’ve been reporting, thousands of people have taken to the streets across Europe in recent days to demand an end to Israel’s war on Gaza and the release of international activists detained aboard a flotilla trying to bring aid to the enclave.

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The UN has reiterated its call for humanitarian assistance to be allowed into the enclave, stressing that Palestinian newborns are particularly vulnerable.

“Aid at scale is critical to save lives,” it said in a post on X.

1 in 5 babies in Gaza is born prematurely or underweight.

Earlier this week, @UNICEF delivered urgently needed hygiene supplies to hospitals & health centres in Gaza City.

But that’s far from enough.

Aid at scale is critical to save lives. pic.twitter.com/whwPHE4L94

— United Nations (@UN) October 5, 2025

Israel’s Foreign Ministry says the activists, who held Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch citizenship, were deported to Spain.

As we’ve been reporting, Israel detained hundreds of participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla after seizing their ships in international waters and preventing them from reaching Gaza.

Several activists have accused the Israeli authorities of mistreating them in detention. Read more about that here.

To mark two years of attacks by Israel, the Government Media Office in Gaza has released a series of figures detailing the devastating toll the war has taken on Palestinians:

• About 90 percent of the Gaza Strip has been totally destroyed by the Israeli military, which controls more than 80 percent of the territory through ground invasion, armed attacks and forced displacement orders.
• Israel has dropped more than 200,000 tonnes of explosives on the besieged enclave – and has bombed the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi at least 136 times.
• At least 1,015 children under one year old have been killed by Israel, along with 1,670 medical staff, 254 journalists, and 140 civil defence rescue workers among over 77,000 Palestinians.
• More than 2,700 families, comprising more than 8,500 people, have been wiped off the civil registry. At least 56,348 children are orphaned.
• Israel has bombed 38 hospitals out of commission, with another 96 healthcare centres destroyed, and 197 ambulances and 61 civil defence vehicles also targeted.
• More than 835 mosques have been destroyed and another 180 are damaged, while three churches have been targeted multiple times. Forty cemeteries also were destroyed and bodies taken.
• The total value of initial direct damages as a result of the genocide is estimated at $70bn, including $28bn worth of damage to housing, $5bn to healthcare, and $4bn to the education sector.

The AFP news agency has collected the harrowing testimony of an Australian doctor who returned earlier this morning from a four-week mission in Gaza.

There are certain things that pictures or footage on global media do not capture, said anaesthetist Saya Aziz. “The things that you didn’t get through the video were the smell, the wailing, the distress of the parents crying, witnessing their children dying, suffering in pain.

“Torn, disintegrated bodies, blood, broken heads, broken arms, chopped limbs – not just chopped, like disintegrated,” she said. “You would never see such scenes in your life, blood everywhere … It’s like a slaughterhouse.”

Palestinian children in Gaza were suffering the most, she continued.

“The hardest has been for the children who are unwell, unconscious, bleeding – you’re having to anaesthetise them knowing they’ve got no surviving family members left,” she said. “Who’s going to tell them, who’s going to look after them?”