Palestinians gather for football amid Gaza’s ruins
Displaced Palestinians gathered to watch a friendly football match in Gaza’s Khan Younis.

Displaced Palestinians gathered to watch a friendly football match in Gaza’s Khan Younis.

![This handout picture released by the Israeli army shows (L to R) the Head of the Hostages and Missing Persons Headquarters Major-General Nitzan Alon and Israeli army Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi at the Hostages and Missing Persons situation room during the return of the four hostages from Gaza on January 25, 2025. [Israeli Army/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image-1790975634.jpg?resize=770%2C433&quality=80)







Ireland played the first Nations League game despite unease among some players over Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.
About 1,500 refugees are to be sent back in the first phase, despite criticism from rights groups.

At a youth hackathon in Gaza City, young inventors are developing robots.

Pro-Palestine protesters have marched on Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool.

As war and sexual violence rage in eastern DRC, women are joining pro-government Wazalendo fighters to defend themselves
A Pew Research poll in April indicated 60 percent of the US adult population held an unfavourable view of Israel.

Dozens of countries’ delegations walked out of or were absent for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s UNGA speech.

Global News Insight’s Emma Withrow reports from a Free Palestine march, where Jewish demonstrators rejected Netanyahu.

Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder were among about 100 protesters arrested outside the UN ahead of Netanyahu’s speech.
Co-director Yuval Abraham says documentary exposing Israeli abuses will be available online in November.