Palestine News Today: UK Consulate Row With Israel Eases as Gaza Deaths Continue Daily
9 October 2026. Britain's diplomatic standoff with Israel over its Jerusalem consulate has been partially resolved, even as humanitarian groups report near-constant Palestinian deaths in Gaza despite the ceasefire. Meanwhile, pressure mounts on UK institutions and international bodies to end complicity with Israeli policies in Gaza and the West Bank.
UK consulate in Jerusalem to stay open, reduced
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced the British consulate general in East Jerusalem will continue operating as a UK mission, according to the Guardian and BBC News. Most British diplomats will leave the building, including the consul general, with only seven staff remaining, though Miliband said essential services will continue. The move came after Israel moved to downgrade the consulate in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements, with experts telling the Guardian the episode also reflected Israeli ambitions to tighten control over Jerusalem.
Sources: The Guardian, The Guardian, BBC News
Royal College of Pharmacy drops Israeli drug firm
The Royal College of Pharmacy has ended its sponsorship arrangement with Teva UK, the British arm of Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva Pharmaceuticals, the Guardian reports. The decision follows sustained pressure from pro-Palestine campaigners concerned about the company's activities, making it the second major UK health body to sever ties with the firm.
Sources: The Guardian
Deadly Israeli strikes continue despite Gaza ceasefire
Islamic Relief has called for urgent global action after reporting that a Palestinian in Gaza is killed or wounded roughly every 90 minutes since the ceasefire supposedly took hold, according to Al Jazeera. Anadolu Agency and Middle East Monitor report that five Palestinians were killed and more than a dozen injured in separate Israeli attacks across Gaza City and the enclave's northern and southern areas, including a strike on a civilian vehicle in Tel al-Hawa. Al Jazeera also documented an air strike that hit an apartment building in Gaza City's al-Sabra neighbourhood, killing several people including children.
Sources: Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera, Anadolu Agency, Middle East Monitor
Gaza hospitals still unable to operate fully
An Israeli rights group says no hospital in Gaza is currently functioning at full capacity, Middle East Monitor reports. Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp has suspended medical services entirely due to a severe shortage of generator fuel and unavailable spare parts, underscoring the scale of the healthcare collapse after three years of war.
Sources: Middle East Monitor
Settler violence disrupts West Bank olive harvest
One Palestinian has been killed and dozens injured in ongoing Israeli settler attacks on olive harvesters in the West Bank, according to Mondoweiss. The outlet reports the attacks continue with the Israeli army's approval, with Palestinian farmers barred from reaching their own land and olive groves for a fourth consecutive year.
Sources: Mondoweiss
Amnesty criticises France over arms deliveries to Israel
Amnesty International's French office has accused the French government of increasing military equipment deliveries to Israel, Middle East Monitor reports, continuing criticism of Western states' continued arms supplies amid the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
Sources: Middle East Monitor
Israel accused of mimicking acclaimed Gaza documentary
The Israeli government is promoting an online film that imitates the style of NAZA, the award-winning Guardian-produced documentary examining Israel's mass killing of civilians in Gaza, in an apparent effort to undermine the real film's findings, the Guardian reports. NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, has been described as a definitive account of the Gaza war, according to Middle East Monitor.
Sources: Middle East Monitor, The Guardian
Report alleges US cables on Israel were suppressed
A senior adviser to the US ambassador in Israel has systematically suppressed, delayed and rewritten internal diplomatic cables to shield the Netanyahu government, according to a report cited by Middle East Monitor and Anadolu Agency. The altered dispatches reportedly concerned sensitive matters including West Bank occupation expansion and the deaths of American citizens.
Sources: Middle East Monitor, Anadolu Agency
Solidarity campaigns grow worldwide over Gaza war
Campaigners in Indonesia are urging a boycott of a concert by Italian singer Andrea Bocelli at Borobudur over his perceived support for Israel, Middle East Monitor reports. Separately, progressive US organisations are campaigning to bar former Biden administration officials from future positions of power, citing their complicity in the US-backed war on Gaza.
Sources: Middle East Monitor, Middle East Monitor
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