Skip next section Deaths reported, multiple people injured in Jerusalem shooting
09/08/2025September 8, 2025
Deaths reported, multiple people injured in Jerusalem shooting
Israel’s emergency services said at least four people have been killed and multiple others injured in a shooting attack in .
“At 10:13 am (0713 GMT), reports were received… about approximately 15 injured, apparently from gunfire, at the Ramot Junction on Yigal Yadin Street in Jerusalem,” a statement by Magen David Adom said.
According to police, two attackers were “neutralized” shortly after the shooting began.
Local media reported that two attackers entered a bus and then opened fire.
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Skip next section Spain banning weapons shipments to Israel via ports
09/08/2025September 8, 2025
Spain banning weapons shipments to Israel via ports
‘s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced a ban on Israel-bound ships and planes carrying weapons from using Spanish ports.
Sanchez said vessels transporting fuel for Israel’s military would also be under the embargo as part of efforts to pressure Israel’s government.
“We hope that they will serve to add pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government to alleviate some of the suffering that the Palestinian population is enduring,” Sanchez said in an address aired on local TV.
Spain will also ban anyone who has participated directly in what Sanchez qualified as “genocide” from entering the country.
Netanyahu’s government has faced increasing international pressure, with calls among a growing number of EU countries for sanctions over Israel’s conduct in Gaza.
While Germany hasn’t backed such a move, in August, German Chancellor said that Berlin would not approve weapons exports to Israel for use in the Gaza Strip “until further notice.”
This marked a major change of course for Germany, which has been one of Israel’s staunchest international allies.
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Skip next section WATCH — Thousands flee Gaza City to ‘humanitarian safe zone’
09/08/2025September 8, 2025
WATCH — Thousands flee Gaza City to ‘humanitarian safe zone’
Thousands of people are fleeing from Gaza City, as dozens have been killed in multiple airstrikes over the weekend. The Israeli army is expanding its offensive with the country’s prime minister insisting that the operation is necessary to defeat Hamas.
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09/08/2025September 8, 2025
Israel’s defense chief threatens total destruction of Gaza City if Hamas doesn’t surrender
‘s Defense Minister Israel Katz issued an ominous warning in a post on social media.
“Today, a powerful hurricane will strike in the skies of Gaza City, and the roofs of the towers of terror will shake,” Katz said on X.
Katz said it was “the last warning” to Hamas and demanded they release hostages being held in the Palestinian territory and lay down arms.
The Defense chief threatened the destruction of Gaza and that Hamas would be “obliterated” if this did not happen.
Over the weekend Israel issued so-called “evacuation warnings” to residents of certain areas in Gaza City to move to humanitarian zones to the south of Gaza as it presses on with an offensive to capture it.
A high-rise building was struck and Katz shared footage of the multi-story structure collapsing after the strike.
Israel’s military said that civilians had received advanced warnings, but international organizations have called out the danger civilians are under any time they move within Gaza.
More than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
The UN considers the ministry’s figures to be reliable and independent studies suggest the .
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Skip next section READ — ‘My heart weeps’: Voices from Gaza City amid Israel’s attack09/08/2025September 8, 2025
READ — ‘My heart weeps’: Voices from Gaza City amid Israel’s attack
As Israel intensifies its attack on Gaza City, residents are increasingly left with no place to go. Amid evacuation orders, “red zones,” dwindling aid and razed buildings, some say they will not leave their home.
DW spoke with residents on the ground, among them renowned archaeologist, Fadel al Otol.
He says he fears entire neighborhoods and their lived history — such Gaza’s old Zaytoun neighborhood, with its ancient Al Omari Mosque and two churches — are being destroyed.
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Skip next section Trump says he’s given Hamas ‘last warning’
09/08/2025September 8, 2025
Trump says he’s given Hamas ‘last warning’
US President said that he has issued the Palestinian militant group his “last warning” to accept a ceasefire deal that would see the release of hostages from Gaza.
“The Israelis have accepted my terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
“I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. This is my last warning, there will not be another one!” Trump said.
Hamas said in a statement that it was prepared to “immediately sit at the negotiating table” following what it described as “some ideas from the American side aimed at reaching a ceasefire agreement.”
Trump’s statement comes as Israel continues its , which Israeli Prime Minister says is a Hamas stronghold.
Israel’s leader says its occupation is necessary to defeat the Islamist militants who led the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israeli civilians.
More than 64,000 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, most of them civilians.
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Skip next section Palestinian prisoners not receiving enough food, Supreme Court rules
09/08/2025September 8, 2025
Palestinian prisoners not receiving enough food, Supreme Court rules
‘s Supreme Court has found that Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails are not receiving enough food and ordered that they be supplied with sufficient amounts of sustenance.
The court ordered an end to a food reduction policy that had been put in place by , which has seen prisoner rations cut.
That matter was brought to the court’s attention by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI).
The group said that a change in the food policy enacted after , has caused prisoners to suffer malnutrition and starvation.
The organization has previously highlighted the state of Palestinian prisoners with regards to food and basic healthcare.
ACRI called for the verdict to be implemented immediately and said in a post on X that the prison service has “turned Israeli prisons into
torture camps.”
“A state does not starve people,” the group said. “People do not starve people, no matter what they have done.”
Ben-Gvir slammed the ruling, accused the court of protecting “abominable murderers, kidnappers and rapists” in a post on X.
“We will continue to grant prisoners the minimum conditions required by law,” Ben-Gvir said.
Last week, leaked Israeli government data showed that only about one quarter of Palestinians in Israeli prisoners are believed to have connections to Hamas or other militant groups.
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Skip next section Welcome to our coverage09/08/2025September 8, 2025
Welcome to our coverage
‘s top court has accepted a petition by a civil rights group that highlights the dire state of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
The government of Prime Minister has been ordered to supply those held prisoner with more food following reports of hunger and starvation amongst detainees.
That’s as US President Donald Trump issued what he say was his “last warning” to Palestinian militant group , to accept the terms of a ceasefire deal that would see the release of all hostages.
Stay with DW for more updates from Israel, Gaza, and the wider Middle East.
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