Child killed in Gaza every 71 min for 3 years; Pentagon to livestream firing squad; Human rights jurist Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize

South African lawyer Navanethem "Navi" Pillay speaks at the Nuremberg Forum in Nuremberg following the announcement that she will be awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Photo by Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images. Friday, October 9, 2026 – Palestine : Israeli attacks kill nine Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday and Friday. Israeli settlers carry out at least 19 attacks across the occupied West Bank, targeting olive harvesters and property. Palestinian Authority plans to postpone November elections until September 2027. Nearly 22,000 Palestinian children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza over three years, with more than 71,000 orphaned. Israeli military actions linked to deaths of at least 24 captives in Gaza, CNN investigation finds. Colombia to open Israel embassy in Jerusalem next week. Yemen : Three killed in Ansarallah attacks on Saudi airport. Saudi-led coalition destroys three Ansarallah missile launchers as airstrikes reported in Sana’a. Iran : President Donald Trump says U.S. will not attack Iran before the November 3 midterms. Russian President Vladimir Putin tells Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian Russia will “do everything” to help end the U.S.-led war. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps strikes LPG tanker, threatens to target vessels beyond Strait of Hormuz. At least 81 U.S. military aircraft lost or damaged in war against Iran, costing up to $3.3 billion. U.S. sanctions 17 more vessels carrying Iranian oil. Lebanon: Israeli forces uproot olive trees in southern Lebanon amid airstrikes and artillery shelling. U.S. : ICE agent shoots and wounds man in New York City with 5-year-old in car. Trump disclosed 517 securities trades in August, including up to $25 million in Meta and SpaceX debt bought two days before a space policy signing. Pentagon to livestream firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter. FBI deletes video attacking Democrats. Trump administration suspends Microsoft, seven other firms from green card program, alleging fraud. Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers leaves door open to AIPAC support in Michigan Senate race. International: Navi Pillay, who led UN inquiry finding Israel committed genocide in Gaza, wins Nobel Peace Prize. Ukrainian strikes kill two in Russia’s Belgorod; Russian bombs kill one in Zaporizhzhia. No survivors from sunken ship off Bulgaria. Ethiopia tells UN Security Council it will defend itself against Eritrean “all-out invasion.” Drone strikes hit Eritrean forces inside northern Ethiopia, conflict monitor says. Brazilian justice issues arrest warrant for Eduardo Bolsonaro weeks before runoff. France pledges 3,000 extra teachers as student protests continue; stun grenades banned from marches. Prison fight in Sinaloa kills 10, including a minor. U.S. judge orders Trump administration to facilitate return of Egyptian man deported to Equatorial Guinea. UN Security Council extends Sudan sanctions by two months. South Africa withdraws asylum intake directive after anti-migrant protests turn violent. International Criminal Court judges rule former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial; trial opens November 30. NOTE: We will be off on Monday, October 12, for Indigenous Peoples’ Day This is Drop Site Daily, our free news recap We send it Monday – Friday Subscribe Palestine Israeli attacks kill nine Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday and Friday: Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians and wounded several others across the Gaza Strip on Thursday and Friday, according to WAFA. On Friday, Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians east of the Maghazi and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza, killing one man who was shot in the neck and wounding others. On Thursday, eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks, including two men in a drone strike on a vehicle near the Jordanian field hospital in southwest Gaza City, a woman in artillery shelling northwest of the city, and two people, including a child, in a drone strike on a home in the Sabra neighborhood. Israeli settlers carry out at least 19 attacks across the occupied West Bank, targeting olive harvesters and property: Israeli settlers carried out at least 19 attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, assaulting olive harvesters, burning vehicles and trees, stealing livestock, and forcing farmers off their land, according to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission. Israeli forces also fired live ammunition and tear gas at farmers, confiscated agricultural equipment, and conducted raids and arrests. Nablus: Settlers attacked olive harvesters across several villages, including Tal, Jamma’in, Qusra, Beita, Sebastia, Beit Furik, and Deir Sharaf, forcing farmers off their land. They burned a vehicle in Tal and uprooted more than 50 olive trees in Qusra, where Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades, sparking fires. Ramallah: Settlers attacked farmers in Deir Sudan and Deir Ibzi, stealing crops and forcing them off their land. Armed settlers stole 20 sheep in Ein Qiniya under Israeli military protection, while a man and his child were assaulted and their vehicle stolen in Yabroud. Two people were injured in settler attacks in Deir Ibzi. Salfit: Israeli soldiers and settlers fired live ammunition to drive farmers from their land in Deir Ballut, while settlers injured a farmer in Kafr ad-Dik. Settlers also burned olive trees in Wadi Al-Shaer. Hebron: A 79-year-old woman was injured after settlers unleashed dogs on olive harvesters in Birin. Israeli forces confiscated a school transport vehicle, two tractors and animal feed in Masafer Yatta, and arrested nine Palestinians in Hebron, including the director of the Ibrahimi Mosque. Jenin: Settlers cut down 100 olive trees in Al-Mughayyir village overnight Thursday. Palestinian Authority plans to postpone November elections until September 2027: Palestinian Authority Vice President Hussein Al-Sheikh informed France that legislative elections scheduled for November 28 will be postponed, potentially until September 2027, citing worsening political, security and economic conditions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, according to an October 8 letter seen by Reuters. The letter pointed to a number of causes for the postponement, including expectations of an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the deployment of international forces and Palestinian police, curbs on Israeli annexation and settler violence, and the release of nearly $7 billion in Palestinian funds withheld by Israel, that had not materialized. Palestinians have not held legislative elections since 2006 or presidential elections since 2005, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has ruled by decree since his presidential mandate expired in 2009. Hamas won a majority over Fatah in the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, prompting severe Israeli economic and military measures against the Hamas-led government. Nearly 22,000 Palestinian children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza over three years, with more than 71,000 orphaned: Israeli attacks killed at least 21,976 Palestinian children in Gaza over the past three years, an average of one child every 71 minutes, according to a report by Gaza’s Health Ministry. Among those killed were 5,444 children under five and 1,125 infants under one year old. Another 45,569 children have been injured, including 1,134 who have undergone amputations, while 71,846 have been orphaned. The ministry also reported 612 children killed while seeking food or medicine, 466 deaths from malnutrition, including 157 children, and 2,027 patients who died while awaiting medical evacuation, including 264 children. The report found that all 38 hospitals and 158 primary healthcare centers in Gaza have been targeted, with 19 hospitals and 64 healthcare centers out of service. It also documented 1,723 healthcare workers killed and 216 ambulances targeted. Israeli military actions linked to deaths of at least 24 captives in Gaza, CNN investigation finds: At least 24 of the 40 Israeli captives who died in captivity in Gaza had deaths linked to Israeli military actions , including airstrikes and ground operations, as well as military advances that prompted their captors to kill them, a CNN investigation found. At least 11 were killed directly by Israeli military operations. The investigation, based on interviews with captive families and Israeli officials, also found that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly delayed ceasefire negotiations, including a potential deal in July 2024 that officials said could have saved lives. Colombia to open Israel embassy in Jerusalem next week: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Thursday that Colombia will inaugurate its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem “next Wednesday,” as he touted expanding ties with Latin America. A Colombian Foreign Ministry official told AFP that Foreign Minister Omar Bula Escobar will travel to Jerusalem on Sunday ahead of the opening. Abelardo De la Espriella, Colombia’s new right-wing president, promised close relations with Israel during his campaign. Once elected, he restored diplomatic ties with Israel that left-wing President Gustavo Petro had severed as a result of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 and annexed it in 1980 in a move largely unrecognized internationally, claiming the entire city as its capital, while Palestinians seek Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. Yemen Three killed in Ansarallah attacks on Saudi airport: Three Saudi citizens were killed and several others injured in two Ansarallah attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Thursday, according to Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority. One attack targeted airport facilities, while the other struck a Saudi Airlines aircraft on the ground, killing an airline employee and damaging the plane, which had no passengers aboard. Hundreds of flights to Riyadh were cancelled, though flight cancellations fell from 335 on Thursday to at least 103 on Friday as the airport worked to restore normal operations. The EU Aviation Safety Agency also expanded its warning against flying over parts of Saudi Arabia, citing Ansarallah’ demonstrated ability to strike targets deeper inside the kingdom, including Riyadh. Saudi-led coalition destroys three Ansarallah missile launchers as airstrikes reported in Sana’a: The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed three missile launch platforms used by Ansarallah, releasing footage of the strikes. Separately, Ansarallah-affiliated Al-Masira reported airstrikes on Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, without immediately providing details on casualties or damage. Iran Trump says U.S. will not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterms : President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday that “we will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd.” He justified this further in the post by claiming that Iran is “in very bad condition, both Economically and Militarily.” He has repeatedly tied the war to the midterms, saying he believes Iran’s leaders are trying to hold out through November to hurt Republicans, and that he expects to win the war after the vote. Putin tells Iran’s Pezeshkian Russia will “do everything” to help end the U.S.-led war: Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Turkmenistan on Thursday, ahead of the Commonwealth of Independent States summit, and said, “On our part, we are ready to do everything we can to help you resolve this situation,” according to the Interfax news service. The Russian president commended Iran for making “real efforts to end the conflict, which broke out through no fault of its own,” and noted a “positive evolution” in Iran-Russia ties. On Wednesday, Putin told Pezeshkian in a call that Moscow is ready to mediate between the U.S. and Iran, Iran’s IRNA reported. Pezeshkian said talks with the U.S. to end the war could succeed only if based on “mutual respect and reciprocal commitments” and free from “pressure and threats,” speaking at the summit on Friday. Iran’s IRGC strikes LPG tanker, threatens to target vessels beyond Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it struck a large LPG tanker named NV Sunshine attempting to transit an “illegal route” south of the Strait of Hormuz, causing a major fire in its engine room and propulsion system, according to Tasnim news agency. The IRGC subsequently warned that vessels using unauthorized routes would face “punitive measures” even outside the strait, threatening to pursue them “throughout the region” and warning against following “deception of the American aggressors.” At least 81 U.S. military aircraft lost or damaged in war against Iran, costing up to $3.3 billion: At least 81 U.S. military aircraft were lost or damaged during Operation Epic Fury, Washington’s military campaign against Iran launched on February 28, according to a Congressional Budget Office report. The report estimated losses of $1.9 billion to $3.3