“Oct 7 2023”

The BBC understands that mediators have made contact with the head of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, who indicated he does not agree to new US ceasefire plan.

Izz al-Din al-Haddad is thought to believe the plan was designed to finish Hamas, whether the group accepts it or not, and so is determined to fight on.

US President Donald Trump’s 20-point framework to end the war – which has already been accepted by Israel – stipulates that Hamas disarm and have no future role in governing Gaza.

I’m shocked.

Israel’s navy intercepted the large flotilla attempting to break its maritime blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, after the military issued a final warning for the pro-Palestinian fleet to change course.

The Israeli Navy operation, which came as the country marked Yom Kippur, began on Wednesday evening and continued overnight and into Thursday.

Greta Thunberg’s Falestine Flotilla has landed on the eve of Yom Kippur.

Because nothing says “Human Rights” like dancing on a Hamas funded party boat for a month and then forcing fasting Israelis to break their indigenous holy day to deal with you and your bullshit. pic.twitter.com/L9l0gRhpVH

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) October 1, 2025

The flotilla participants are taken into custody at the port of Ashdod and from there are deported from Israel. The Foreign Ministry publishes photos of them and writes: "The passengers are healthy and safe."

You can see Greta Thunberg and Thiago Avila, organizers of the… pic.twitter.com/dC1JiHSrzS

— Iris (@streetwize) October 2, 2025

BREAKING:

The Gaza Flotilla has announced that they have spotted around 20 unknown ships a couple of nautical miles in front of them and that they believe that Israel will board their boats imminently.

Greta Thunberg just released a video calling for help pic.twitter.com/3TdXgynrs4

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 1, 2025

The Israeli Navy has begun to intercept the large flotilla attempting to break the Israeli maritime blockade on the Gaza Strip, according to activists.

Footage shows a Navy vessel close to one of the boats. According to the organizers, Israeli soldiers have boarded Alma, the flotilla’s lead boat, along with two others, Adara and Sirius.

BREAKING:

The Gaza Flotilla reports that the Israeli military has just boarded their first ships.

Looks like Greta is about to receive another Israeli sandwich pic.twitter.com/JlQW2DYKNZ

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 1, 2025

Activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla shared video they said showed Israeli vessels approaching to intercept before reaching Gaza, an act deemed illegal in international waters. pic.twitter.com/c6AS5du0sC

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 1, 2025

Military ships surround them, communication is cut — but the songs of resistance rise louder than the engines pic.twitter.com/FjdbxcFBy0

— Global Sumud Flotilla Commentary (@GlobalSumudF) October 1, 2025

h/t MP

Numbness. Disbelief. Very wary hopefulness.

These words best capture the reaction in Israel to the extraordinary press conference held on Monday afternoon in the State Dining Room of the White House.

Following two years of war with Hamas, sparked by the savage slaughter of October 7, Israelis are ground down; by grief, hardship, anger, fear and the intensifying hostility of what was the civilized world.

President Trump has said he will give Hamas “three or four days” to accept a US-brokered plan to end the war in Gaza after the Israeli prime minister agreed to the proposal.

Speaking a day after announcing that he was close to achieving “eternal peace in the Middle East”, the US president suggested on Tuesday he would “let Israel go and do what they have to do” if Hamas rejected the terms.

Whether or not Hamas accepts a new proposal to end the war in Gaza, the Jewish diaspora should brace for antisemitism “for at least some time,” says a top American rabbi.

Antisemitism is a “behemoth backed by all sorts of nefarious types,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean and director of global social action at Jewish human rights activist organization, Simon Wiesenthal Center.

I can’t see Hamas signing on, at least not in good faith.

Has the prospect of peace ever been greeted with such gloom? No sooner had President Trump unveiled his peace plan for Israel-Gaza than the opinion-forming classes were frantically sowing cynicism. The possibility that the ghastly war in Gaza will be brought to a close gave rise not to optimism but to sarcasm, suspicion, even an eerie grumpiness unbecoming of a deal that might save thousands of lives. From the BBC to Sky News to the Israelophobic swamp of social media, the cry went up: ‘It’ll never work.’

A collection of documents found in the Gaza Strip, unveiled by the Israeli Foreign Ministry on X, has sent shockwaves through diplomatic circles. The documents indicate that Hamas is directly funding and managing the upcoming the so-called Sumud flotilla, a mission that includes nearly 50 ships and climate activist Greta Thunberg.

The evidence paints a detailed picture of a sophisticated international network run by Hamas, designed to orchestrate provocations against Israel under the guise of civilian activism.

h/t XC

I’m old enough to remember when being a peacenik meant you wanted less Western meddling overseas, not more. Seems things have changed. Exhibit A: the Gaza flotilla. These smug sea-farers pose as peace activists, like Mother Teresa in a keffiyeh. Yet behind the humanitarian pantomime there lurks a brutish neo-colonial urge to rally the mighty nations of the West against the uppity little state of Israel. Some on the flotilla are openly calling on powerful states to send their warships to help ‘break’ Israel’s blockade of Gaza. You can call that ‘aid’ if you like – I call it warmongering.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed Monday to a deal to end the war in Gaza that was proposed by President Donald Trump, amid a fresh push by the White House to halt two years of bitter war. The step toward peace still requires agreement by Hamas.

Trump called it “a beautiful day, potentially one of the great days ever in civilization,” speaking alongside Netanyahu following hours of meetings at the White House. The deal, which the White House published Monday, foresees hostilities ceasing immediately and hostages being released within 72 hours of both sides agreeing to the deal.

“Today is a historic day for peace,” the president said, even as he acknowledged that Hamas had not yet agreed to the deal.

That’s a BIG IF.