Israeli occupation authorities have placed Palestinian writer, journalist and political analyst Rasem Obeidat, 67, under six months of administrative detention without formal charges or a public trial. Obeidat was arrested during a raid on his home in Jabal al-Mukabber, occupied Jerusalem, in the early hours of September 27, 2026, and interrogated at the Moscovia detention center. On September 29, occupation authorities issued the six-month detention order based on what they described as a “secret file.”

Gaza is becoming increasingly uninhabitable as Israel's ongoing attacks, restrictions and mass displacement push living conditions towards total collapse, UNRWA's Director of Health, Akihiro Seita, warned on Monday. Despite the October 2025 ceasefire, around two million Palestinians remain crowded into just 30% of the Gaza Strip, with most forced to live in tents amid severe shortages of clean water, sanitation and medical supplies. Seita warned that overcrowding and the collapse of healthcare services have fuelled outbreaks of skin diseases and other infectious illnesses. “Gaza is becoming more and more a place where it is impossible for humans to live,” he said, stressing that the population's living environment has collapsed.