The Weekly Edition

At least 41 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)

2025 Gaza City offensive

Israel intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters and detains hundreds of activists from 44 countries carrying humanitarian aid bound for Gaza, sparking international condemnation and accusations of violations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. (BBC News) (The National)

Hamas says it has agreed to part of the 20-point plan proposed by U.S. president Donald Trump to end the war, including the release of hostages and handing over administration of the enclave. (The Hill) (Reuters)

United Nations human rights experts warn that multiple portions of the plan contradict international law and the ICJ ruling on Israel's occupation of Palestine. (OCHR)

At least 72 Palestinians are killed from Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including 42 killed in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)

The Israeli Navy intercepts and seizes the Polish-flagged Marinette, the last vessel of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an international humanitarian flotilla seeking to break the Gaza blockade. (Al Jazeera)

Ukraine allegedly shoots down a Russian Air Force Mil Mi-8 on combat search and rescue duties with an FPV drone in Nadaeyvka, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, killing several people and injuring several others. (ASN)

Volodymyr Leontiev, the former Russia-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, is killed in a Ukrainian drone strike. (The Kyiv Independent) (The Moscow Times)

Russian forces launch more than 600 drones and dozens of cruise missiles at Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring 70 others. (BBC News)

The Ukrainian Energy Ministry declares an "emergency situation" at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as the New Safe Confinement structure meant to prevent radioactive material from spreading into the environment experiences a three-hour power outage due to a Russian drone strike on an energy facility in nearby Slavutych, Kyiv Oblast. (The Kyiv Independent)

A Ukrainian missile strikes a power station in Belgorod causing a massive power outage in the Russian city. (Reuters)

An overnight Russian drone strike kills four people, all members of the same family, in Chernechchyna, Okhtyrka Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (BBC News)

French journalist Antoni Lallican is killed and photographer Hryhoriy Ivanchenko is injured by a Russian drone strike in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (RFE/RL)

Gaza war hostage crisis, Israeli–Palestinian peace process

2025 Gaza City offensive

A Houthi anti-ship missile attack on Dutch-flagged cargo ship Minervagracht injures two people and forces the crew to abandon the ship. (AP)

Unidentified gunmen kill at least twelve forest security guards in Oke-Ode, Kwara State, Nigeria. (AP)

Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings

A Palestinian man rams into Israeli pedestrians near Al-Khader in the West Bank, injuring two children, before being shot. (The Times of Israel) (Haaretz)

September 2025 Quetta bombing

As El Fasher's humanitarian crisis continues to drastically deteriorate, the Rapid Support Forces reportedly makes further gains against besieged garrison units mainly composed of former Darfuri rebels and their Sudanese Armed Forces allies. (BBC News)

Two people are killed and four others are injured in a vehicle-ramming and mass stabbing attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, United Kingdom. The perpetrator and one of the victims are shot dead by police. The attack is later declared a terror attack. (CNN) (The New York Times) (Reuters)

With Ugandan support, the Somali National Army and other pro-federal forces reportedly recapture two villages from al-Shabaab. Government sources claim that al-Shabaab's forces suffered heavy casualties from the fighting. (Somali National News Agency)

The United States Navy conducts a strike targeting an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Venezuelan coast. According to U.S. defense secretary Pete Hegseth, at least four crewmembers were killed in the attack. (Reuters)

More than 5,000 people flee from Borno State, Nigeria, to Cameroon after Boko Haram fighters seize the border town of Kirawa and burn multiple buildings. (Reuters)

Seven terrorists are killed and a huge cache of weapons and ammunition is recovered in an operation by security forces in Sherani District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Xinhua News Agency)