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© MOHAMMED SABER/EPA
Israeli forces and settlers escalated violence across the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, with overnight raids, dozens of detentions, the demolition of homes belonging to 80 families and a settler incursion into Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to Palestinian and regional media reports.
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In a pre-dawn operation, Israeli troops entered towns including Tulkarem, Jenin, Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus, Tubas and Ramallah, according to the reports. Dozens of Palestinians were detained and civilians were wounded by gunfire in Qabatiya.
Israeli authorities have demolished 80 structures in Al-Dahiya village in Israel’s Negev Desert, claiming they were built without permits. Rahat’s mayor says the demolitions have displaced around 400 Palestinians, leaving families facing uncertainty over where to find shelter. pic.twitter.com/q1Xj1lgWBW
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 12, 2026
Under Article 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, destruction of property by an occupying power is prohibited except where absolutely necessary for military operations. Israel generally maintains that demolitions target structures built without permits or linked to security concerns.
In occupied East Jerusalem, a large group of settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, reportedly under the protection of Israeli police and soldiers, carrying out provocative tours and religious rituals on the esplanade. Palestinian sources describe the move as a desecration and a breach of the historic status quo at the holy site.
Israeli colonial settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, performing Talmudic rituals and dances, singing collectively and raising Israeli flags under heavy protection from Israeli police. pic.twitter.com/tZYxnLhT47
— The Times of Palestine (@PalTimesNews) October 12, 2026
In the southern Hebron hills, the Shinaran family, made up of five adults and five children, has been besieged by armed settlers in the village of Wadi al-Rahim, according to the reports. The attackers allegedly blocked the exits of the home, threw stones, destroyed the water pump, burned vehicles and tried to set fire to the garage door with the family inside. The family was reportedly trapped for more than a week.
Residents cannot reach their drinking water or food without coordinating through Israeli forces, the reports say. Footage cited by the newspaper Haaretz reportedly shows soldiers praying alongside the settlers and allowing them to play loud music in front of the besieged house. Although the area has been declared a closed military zone, troops are reported not to have stopped the attackers.
The accounts say this is not an isolated case. They cite attacks on the Tubasi family in Jalud, whose home was allegedly attacked by a mob of more than 100 settlers who set property on fire, and on the Ridi family in Qusra.
The seventh day of the siege in Wadi Rakhim: Settlers pursued journalists who tried to reach the Shinaran family home, which is under siege by settlers. soldiers arrived and told the journalists they are not allowed to be there
— מחוץ לעדר/ kivsa shchora (@masafering) October 12, 2026
Credit @HurainiSami pic.twitter.com/EDGZaQl0NX
The reports link the pressure on Palestinian communities to the expansion of unauthorized outposts on Palestinian-owned land. Under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, an occupying power may not transfer parts of its civilian population into occupied territory. The international community, including the UN, widely considers Israeli settlements illegal under international law, a position Israel disputes.
Press reports cited in the source claim the campaign enjoys the explicit backing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government amid the race toward Knesset elections. Settler groups and the government have rejected similar accusations in the past, and no response was included in the reports.
The order came through a statement from the Prime Minister’s office, which accused the participants of “serious crimes against information security, criminal defamation and harm to diplomatic interests.”
PM Netanyahu described the film as “a false, misleading and tendentious story that defames the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces internationally and seriously damages Israel’s reputation.” “We will always stand with our beloved and heroic fighters,” he added.
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Yet even as he dismissed the details as defamation, Netanyahu acknowledged that the documentary “reveals top-secret information.” In a letter to the Army chief, the head of the Shin Bet and the Attorney General, he demanded that they “act urgently to discover the identity of all those who are involved or appear in the film.”
Days after Netanyahu demanded the prosecution of the soldiers who spoke in “NAZA,” four more Israeli intelligence and drone soldiers have described the same kind of killing to Haaretz.
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 12, 2026
They say that after October 7, “even the lowest-ranking target justified civilian casualties”… pic.twitter.com/1DqExgCCnZ
On September 14, Israeli military chief Eyal Zamir said the army had instructed its top legal official to examine options for legal action against those involved. Zamir claimed the film “adopts narratives of those who hate Israel, defames our soldiers and commanders and seeks to portray the IDF acting deliberately in an illegal manner.”
“Naza” recounts the killing of civilians in Gaza through testimony gathered from soldiers and intelligence officers. The interviewed service members described an environment of total contempt for international law, and said troops felt hatred toward Palestinians throughout the war.
Much of the film draws on reporting since 2023 by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed it, published in +972 Magazine and The Guardian, which also produced the documentary. In those reports, intelligence sources describe how Israel moved, after October 7, 2023, from authorizing the deaths of dozens to hundreds of civilians as “collateral damage” in strikes on senior Hamas Resistance Movement figures.
The title comes from an acronym used by Israeli intelligence to estimate how many civilians could die in a strike, such as “20 Naza.” The film also describes the bombing of homes with entire families inside once a suspected Hamas member returns to sleep, and the use of artificial intelligence models that predict, with a 15 percent error rate, the probability that a Gaza resident is a militant.
The crackdown follows accusations that Netanyahu is inciting violence against the film’s directors. On October 2, The Guardian defended the investigation, saying it consulted more than 100 sources over three years, including senior commanders involved in authorizing strikes, and cross-checked testimonies against leaked classified documents and specific operations.
NAZA. The most important movie of our age.
— John Galt (@dadiani_george) October 12, 2026
Netanyahu just demanded it be banned. And that’s the loudest endorsement it could ever have wished for.
They’re so scared of you seeing it they even put out a counterfeit film on YouTube with the same name to try and bury it.
So what… pic.twitter.com/JMGsbeqqZP
Gaza’s official death toll exceeds 74,300. Medical journals and researchers say the destruction of Gaza’s health system has made counting extremely difficult and that the real number could be far higher. Nearly 1,500 Palestinians have reportedly been killed since the U.S.-backed ceasefire plan announced a year ago.
Human rights groups warn that the prosecution effort aims to silence testimony about violations of international law. For the soldiers who spoke, the order marks a turn from witness to target, while Palestinians in Gaza remain without protection and the occupation’s deadliest campaign continues without accountability.
Doctors and healthcare workers gathered in parallel to the World Medical Association (WMA) General Assembly in Rotterdam on October 8-10, demanding the suspension of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) over its breaches of medical ethics throughout the Gaza genocide.
Activists held mobilizations warning against the IMA’s attempts to obscure attacks on Palestinian health workers and infrastructure. These actions included a petition demanding the organization’s suspension from the WMA signed by nearly 6,850 health professionals.
“The petition demands that the IMA is suspended by the WMA for its gross violations of medical ethics over decades, concerning Palestinian patients and healthcare services and the complicity of Israeli doctors in the starvation, torture and medical neglect of Palestinian prisoners,” the IMA Out! coalition stated.
The coalition also called upon medical associations to follow the example of the South African Medical Association, the British Medical Association, and the Turkish Medical Association in severing ties with the IMA.
On Saturday, October 10, 81 health workers simultaneously removed their scrubs and hung them in a line facing the WMA assembly. Each was marked with the name of a Palestinian healthcare worker currently held in illegal Israeli detention.
“These scrubs should not be empty,” said general practitioner Mejrem Ahmetaj from Artsen voor Gaza (Doctors for Gaza) in the Netherlands. “Our colleagues belong with their patients, not in Israeli prisons.”
The campaign to suspend the IMA over its breaches of medical ethics has been developing for months. In June this year, a report in The Lancet reported that a petition launched by the People’s Health Movement (PHM) to hold the IMA accountable collected over 1,100 signatures. Working together with other organizations and networks, including chapters of Healthcare Workers For Palestine and Teva boycott groups, the initiative was able to expand.
Since October 2023, at least 1,700 Palestinian health workers have been killed, and many more remain imprisoned in horrifying conditions in Israeli detention centers. Among them is Kamal Adwan Hospital Director Hussam Abu Safiya, whose mistreatment and imprisonment have caused international outcry.
These crimes have been extensively documented by UN experts and human rights associations, yet the IMA – which represents over 90% of Israeli physicians – took no action. Instead, some of its leading figures backed unfounded claims that Gaza’s hospitals are used for military purposes.
“The IMA has said and done nothing about these war crimes against health workers, patients and hospitals,” said Jonathan Fluxman from IMA Out!.
Ahmetaj added that the IMA is not a bystander. “It defends these attacks and blocks international condemnation while Palestinian healthcare is being destroyed,” the physician said. “That is not medical neutrality. That is complicity.”
The protest coincided with a legal action initiated by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF). On October 7, the foundation announced it had called upon the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the involvement of the IMA, the Israeli Ministry of Health, Ministry of Defense, and medical professionals “in the death, torture, and ill treatment of Palestinian detainees held at the Sde Teiman detention facility since October 7, 2023.”
The legal submission addressed the participation of Israeli medics in crimes perpetrated at Sde Teiman’s field hospital. There, health workers and detainees documented abuses spurring from directives issued by the Israeli Ministry of Health in December 2023.
According to the Hind Rajab Foundation, the Ministry of Health guidance instructed medical staff to treat prisoners while blindfolded and handcuffed and required them to sign medical documentation using only their professional titles. It also directed them to restrict transfers to civilian hospitals and authorized forced medical treatment without protections.
“By November 2025, at least 29 detainees had died at Sde Teiman as a result of physical violence, medical neglect, or both,” the organization wrote. The IMA did not initiate any disciplinary proceedings against members involved in these practices – and even used international journals as platforms to obscure them.
“The evidence shows that medical participation in torture and abuse at Sde Teiman was structural,” Natacha Bracq of the Hind Rajab Foundation said. “The Israeli Ministry of Health built the field hospital, dictated the terms of medical treatment; doctors served under Military Police authority rather than the Medical Corps; and a professional association provided ethical cover.”
“Israeli physicians abandoned their neutrality when they agreed to treat patients in chains and erase what was done to them,” Dyab Abou Jahjah from the same organization added. “The WMA must answer why an association that provided institutional cover for torture is still welcome at its table.”
People’s Health Dispatch is a monthly bulletin published by the People’s Health Movement and Peoples Dispatch. For more articles and subscription to People’s Health Dispatch, click here.
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