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Four Palestinians were killed in strikes targeting separate areas of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, while the Israeli military announced the killing of Saqr al-Qaisi in Khan Younis, accusing him of belonging to Hamas’s elite unit. The escalation coincided with the announcement of the closure of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip crossings on 5 and 7 October.
More than 100,000 Palestinians who left Gaza during the war are waiting for the chance to return, while the accounts of three men in Cairo for treatment or safety reveal the scale of family losses and the difficulty of reunification amid limited crossings, continuing air strikes and delays to reconstruction.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced the closure of the West Bank and crossings into the Gaza Strip to coincide with the anniversary of the 7 October events, amid tightened military measures and the arrest of 15 Palestinians. The Palestine Red Crescent reported the death of a young man after he was detained at the Anab checkpoint, while attacks by settlers on agricultural land and farms were recorded during the olive harvest season.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz approved the army’s recommendation to impose a comprehensive closure on the West Bank and close crossings into the Gaza Strip on 5 and 7 October, based on a security assessment linked to the third anniversary of the 7 October attacks. Exceptions to the restrictions will be limited to specific cases subject to approval by the relevant authorities.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is accelerating settlement projects and land registration in the West Bank and East Jerusalem ahead of the 27 October election, amid rights warnings that the next government may struggle to reverse them. This has coincided with escalating settler attacks and the displacement of more than 6,500 Palestinians, according to UN and rights data.
Israeli media reported that the Israeli army attempted to assassinate Ali al-Amoudi, deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau and the movement’s leader in the Gaza Strip, in a strike on a residential building west of Gaza City. Palestinian sources said the strike killed at least five people and injured more than five others, while al-Amoudi’s fate remained unclear.
The World Health Organisation has condemned successive delays in bringing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, saying large medical shipments await approval for an average of 74 days. It said the territory’s hospitals are not operating at full capacity, and called for additional crossings to be opened, restrictions to be eased and procedures for admitting shipments to be clarified.
Israeli forces carried out raids in several areas of the West Bank, arresting 6 Palestinians. A Palestinian body documented 2,051 attacks during September, including 647 carried out by settlers that resulted in the deaths of 3 Palestinians, as well as damage to thousands of trees and attempts to establish 21 settlement outposts.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that Mashhour Shahir Mohammad Yassin, 51, had died from gunshot wounds sustained during an attack by Israeli settlers on the village of Yasuf, east of Salfit, on Thursday 1 October 2026. Red Crescent teams took Yassin and another injured person to Salfit Government Hospital, while the Israeli army said it was investigating the incident.
