Updates: Israel kills 59 in Gaza; Hamas reviews Trump’s plan to end war

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You can read more about Trump’s comments setting a deadline for Hamas’s response to his 20-point proposal, here.

To find out more about Israel’s reaction to the proposed Gaza peace plan, and whether Netanyahu is really happy with its terms, read our story here.

And you can watch here to see how Palestinians received Trump’s proposal to end the genocidal war against them.

We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of the day’s main events:

• Trump told reporters that Israeli and Arab leaders have accepted his Gaza plan and that Hamas has three to four days to respond.
• Qatar says Hamas officials received the full plan late on Monday night and have promised to “responsibly examine” it.
• Netanyahu has released a video message, claiming that the Israeli military will “remain in most of Gaza”, just hours after he agreed to a Trump proposal that stipulates its withdrawal.
• The UN special rapporteur on the right to housing has raised concerns about some of the details included in Trump’s plan, such as a proposed “permanent buffer zone”.
• Amid talks of peace, Israel is continuing its attacks across Gaza, killing at least 59 Palestinians since dawn.
• In the so-called safe humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi, an Israeli strike hit a tent, killing a father, a mother who was seven months pregnant and their child.
• The Global Sumud Flotilla has entered an area classified as “high-risk” where activists and crew members are expecting an interception by the Israeli navy.

Turkish broadcaster TRT has confirmed that photojournalist Yahya Barzaq, who was a TRT freelancer, was among the six people killed in an Israeli air strike in Deir el-Balah earlier today.

Barzaq, who once worked as a photographer of newborns, had turned to documenting the war, capturing images of destruction and survival.

TRT director-general Mehmet Zahid Sobacı has been quoted by local media as condemning Israel’s “brutal” attack.

Israeli attacks have killed at least 253 journalists in Gaza since the start of the war, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

An Israeli air strike killed TRT freelancer and photojournalist Yahya Barzaq in besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza earlier today.

Barzaq had previously worked as a newborn baby photographer before the Israeli military offensive pushed him to turn into storyteller of his people pic.twitter.com/x3GlB6SJS0

— TRT World (@trtworld) September 30, 2025

Marking the International Day of Older Persons, the Palestinian Health Ministry warned that elderly Palestinians are being deprived of their basic right to food, medicine and treatment under Israel’s ongoing genocidal war and blockade in Gaza, as well as restrictions in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

According to 2023 statistics, about 321,000 Palestinians are aged 60 or older – roughly 6 percent of the West Bank population and 6 percent of Gaza. The ministry said that 76 percent of them suffer from chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, making their need for consistent care and essential medicines more urgent than ever.

The ministry described conditions in Gaza as “catastrophic”, with older people facing acute shortages of food and medicine due to Israel’s blockade on aid.

In the West Bank, many are unable to reach hospitals or clinics because of Israeli checkpoints and restrictions.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah has been speaking to residents about Trump’s proposal to end the war.

One man pleaded directly with Trump: “For two years, we have been bleeding in the Gaza Strip. People are dying. People are being torn apart. Massacres are being committed. I ask President Trump to stop the war in the Gaza Strip.”

Another resident said the plan had both positive and negative sides.

“The good side is that it includes a ceasefire. It stops the bleeding. It stops displacement,” he said. “But the negative side is that there are no deadlines or timetables” for the army’s withdrawal, he said.

There is no clarity on who will govern Gaza afterwards, and without this, the suffering will not end, he added.

The Global Sumud Flotilla has so far rejected calls to unload aid in Cyprus and turn back, including an authoritative intervention by Italian President Sergio Mattarella and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

In a video posted on X, European Member of Parliament Emma Fourreau said the activists were refusing the offer for several reasons.

“First, because we cannot trust a state – Israel – that has been orchestrating a famine in Gaza for months and that has been perpetrating a genocide for the past two years,” Fourreau said.

Additionally, “we are not a humanitarian mission but a political mission”, she said.

“We don’t simply want to deliver humanitarian aid, we want to breach Israel’s blockade that Israel has put into place since 2007.

“Gaza is not only living a dramatic humanitarian situation, but its population is locked up and not sovereign. This is what we’re denouncing and therefore we need to go till the end, until we reach Gaza.”

Yemen’s Houthis have claimed responsibility for an attack on a Dutch-flagged general cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden on Monday.

In a statement, a Houthi spokesperson said the attack was carried out by a cruise missile.

Humanitarian agencies in Gaza say that Israeli strikes have destroyed kilometres of water supply networks.

The destruction of the wells and pipelines is worsening the daily hardships faced by Palestinians, who are already struggling to meet basic needs.

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili, reporting from Gaza City, said that “Israel’s intense ongoing attacks have disrupted water supplies, leaving many with limited access to clean water”.

He added that “more than 75 percent of Gaza’s central water wells are out of service”.

Asem Alnabih, a Gaza municipality spokesperson, said: “People in Gaza are really suffering from water scarcity now. That’s as a result of the destruction of the water wells in the city. People are getting less than a quarter of their daily needs of water.”

Nahla Ayoub, a Palestinian queueing up for water, said: “Gaza is gasping for water. We wait in line for hours, but we still don’t get enough. We are suffering, and the children are the ones who feel it the most. It’s heart-wrenching to see this happen to our people.”

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warns in its latest situation report that Israel’s escalating military assaults have further crippled life-saving services in Gaza, where famine and displacement are worsening.

UNRWA said escalating Israeli attacks on Gaza City, including on tents sheltering displaced people, homes and civilian infrastructure, are causing heavy casualties, blocking aid efforts and forcing more people to flee.

In southern Gaza, families are crammed into makeshift tents along the coast, overcrowded schools, or sleeping in the open amid rubble.

In the occupied West Bank, it warned that Israeli military incursions have stretched past nine months, with about 32,000 Palestinian refugees from Tulkarem, Nur Shams and Jenin camps still unable to return home.

Greenpeace International has called on world leaders to ensure the safety of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is approaching Gaza in an attempt to break Israel’s blockade.

The group said the flotilla is a “lifeline and a symbol of hope in action” and urged the international community to guarantee safe passage for the mission’s volunteers and humanitarian aid.

Greenpeace said governments have failed in their obligations to prevent genocide and war crimes in Gaza, and that “people are stepping in where leaders have turned away”.

The Trump administration violated the Constitution when it targeted non-US citizens for deportation solely for supporting Palestinians and criticising Israel, a federal judged has found.

In a ruling that sharply criticised the US president’s policies as serious threats to free speech, US District Judge William Young in Boston backed university associations that had accused Trump of violating the First Amendment, which protects fundamental freedoms.

“This case – perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court – squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us,” Young, a nominee of Republican President Ronald Reagan, wrote.

“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally: Yes, they do.”

Israeli forces are continuing their months-long assault on the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem and its two refugee camps, seizing Palestinian homes in the eastern neighbourhood and converting them into military outposts, Wafa news agency reports.

Troops forced families from several homes at gunpoint, smashed belongings and threw them from windows as vehicles deployed throughout the area. Snipers have also been positioned inside the seized homes.

The siege on Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps has barred residents from entering, with soldiers firing on anyone approaching. An explosion was reported in Nur Shams camp earlier today, though details remain unclear due to the blockade, the report said.

The offensive has displaced more than 25,000 people from the two camps, leaving them nearly empty. At least 14 Palestinians have been killed since the campaign began, including a child and two women, one of them eight months pregnant.

Dozens more have been injured or detained, while homes, shops, and infrastructure have suffered heavy damage.

Just hours after Trump presented his proposal to end the war in Gaza, Pakistan, one of several countries whose leaders spoke to the US president about it on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last week, seemed to distance itself from the plan.

“This is not our document which we sent to them,” Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar said at a news conference in the capital, Islamabad. “There are some key areas that we want covered. … If they are not covered, they will be covered.

“The document has been issued by the US.”

Earlier, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tweeted his agreement to the plan presented by Trump at the White House on Monday.

“I welcome President Trump’s 20-point plan to ensure an end to the war in Gaza,” Sharif had said on X.

“It is also my firm belief that President Trump is fully prepared to assist in whatever way necessary to make this extremely important and urgent understanding to become a reality.”

I welcome President Trump’s 20-point plan to ensure an end to the war in Gaza.

I am also convinced that durable peace between the Palestinian people and Israel would be essential in bringing political stability and economic growth to the region.

It is also my firm belief that…

— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) September 29, 2025

Trump’s 20-point ceasefire proposal in Gaza includes many ambiguous provisions that could be decisive for the future of Palestine and the region.

When presenting it in the White House on Monday, alongside Netanyahu, Trump hailed the plan as historic but figuring out the details for some of its elements will likely be a major challenge to its implementation.

The unresolved questions focus on who will govern Gaza, what role the Palestinian Authority will play, how an International Stabilisation Force will be structured and empowered, when Israel will withdraw and whether these steps could open the door to Palestinian statehood.

Read more here.

The detention of a five- and a six-year-old in Hebron in the occupied West Bank demonstrates “the cruel daily realities on the ground for Palestinians”, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in occupied Palestinian territory says.

“Every day, children are killed, injured or arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces,” the office said, calling for accountability, an end to Israeli occupation and the implementation of a two-state solution.

Israeli soldiers were filmed detaining the two Palestinian children on Monday. When a passer-by intervened and urged their release, a soldier replied: “I don’t care.”

Israeli media is quoting Foreign Minister Gideon Saar as saying that any amendment to the plan presented by Trump means its rejection.

Another government official quoted by Channel 15 said the plan presented in Washington, DC, is not up for negotiation but for acceptance or rejection.