RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Novel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Israel has committed the crime against humanity of "extermination" in the West Bank, while continuing to commit "genocide" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, United Nations-mandated investigators said on Monday ➡️ u.afp.com/SywJ

💢🇵🇸 Over 800 Palestinians have been forced to displace yet again from Shujaiya, an eastern neighborhood in Gaza City, after Israeli forces set fire to a displacement camp, according to Al Jazeera. Israeli quadcopter drones set the camp ablaze at around 8 p.m. local time on Sunday destroying tents housing men, women, children, and the elderly.

Trump: El-Sayed would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate. I want him to have a metal detector

Her name was Refeef Lubbad. She was 17, an 11th-grade student, shot and killed as she returned home from school. You did not, and will not, see a breaking news alert about her killing. The New York Times and other complicit media outlets will not put her face on their front pages. But here, you will see her face and know her name. May the day come when those who killed Refeef and our families are brought to justice, and when the names of journalists who justified, condoned, or dismissed their deaths as insignificant are displayed on every street, so their complicity is never forgotten.

NEW POLLS: A majority of likely voters in six states expected to decide control of the US Senate - Georgia, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas - support Senate measures to block the transfer of bombs to Israel. Our new polling, conducted by @YouGov, was first announced on today's episode of Pod Save The World with @TVietor08 and @brhodes and sampled over 3,200 voters from September 25 to October 14. State-by-state results below 🔽

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: UN abandons Rafah crossing as Israel arrests Palestinians returning to Gaza The UN informed Palestinian officials that it will stop receiving Palestinians returning from Egypt and coordinating their entry into Gaza starting in mid-November, citing the dangers facing returnees and repeated Israeli arrests, a senior Palestinian source involved in negotiations told Drop Site News. The decision follows Israel’s arrest of a Palestinian cancer patient and her daughter on Tuesday, the same day Rafah reopened after a roughly 10-day suspension triggered by the detention of another returnee. “The United Nations will ask the parties concerned to provide an alternative entity to assume this responsibility; however, its withdrawal will proceed regardless of whether an alternative is secured,” the source told Drop Site. Finding a replacement will be difficult, the source said, as transporting returnees requires coordination with Israel and passage through dangerous areas within the Yellow and Red Line zones. The Red Cross may be the only alternative, but its Gaza office previously declined, the source said saying the task fell outside its mandate. Nearly all Palestinians who leave Gaza through the Rafah crossing are medical evacuees and their companions through a process that is facilitated by the UN. While the UN will continue to facilitate medical evacuations, its decision to stop receiving Palestinians entering Gaza could affect the entire operation of the crossing, the source said, as Egypt might not agree to accept medical evacuees leaving Gaza unless they are allowed to return. Under a negotiated agreement, the number of Palestinians allowed to return into Gaza must equal the number allowed to leave. “Maybe the Egyptians will say if no one is allowed to return, we will also not be part of, of receiving one from Gaza, which means at the end that the whole process is blocked,” the source said.

🔴 Funding shortages are forcing WFP to reduce life-saving assistance in Gaza as winter approaches. Urgent support is needed to keep reaching the most vulnerable. 🔗 bit.ly/4k5tQ5L

A young girl was rescued from her burning home, narrowly avoiding the flames after an Israeli strike on the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City on October 14. At least one person was killed and multiple people injured in the strike. Local sources also reported intense Israeli artillery fire and heavy gunfire from military vehicles east of Khan Younis, Deir al Balah, and other areas across Gaza

Al Jazeera’s @nida_journo reports from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank where Israeli forces raided several NGOs, including the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees and a prison support and human rights association. They also stormed the courtyard of a government hospital.

The Trump administration imposed sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), potentially cutting off its banking, insurance and software services. The move comes amid U.S. anger over ICC arrest warrants for Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, and a previous investigation into U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the ICC a “rogue court” and warned: “Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC.” He urged U.S. allies to pressure the court into meeting Washington’s demands. The sanctions were announced hours after former ICC judge Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in international criminal justice. Source: Reuters