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By Sean Mathews. Published date: 29 September 2025 19:41 BST | Last update 430pm EDT

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Fifty Palestinians killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours as confirmed death toll tops 66,000. Israel continues its destruction of Gaza’s medical infrastructure, with doctors warning of “wholesale extermination” amid growing famine and health care collapse. The Knesset advances a bill that would allow the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in cases that constitute “racist or hate-motivated crimes.” Trump will meet with Netanyahu in the White House to discuss the 21-point ceasefire plan for Gaza; Hamas has not yet been presented with the plan. Eric Adams drops out of the New York mayoral race. Trump signs a directive vastly expanding federal powers to target those expressing anti-capitalist views or anti-Christian views, Ken Klippenstein reports. Hundreds of drones are launched into Ukraine by Russia overnight. Snapback sanctions hit Iran. The U.S. contemplates further military incursions into the Caribbean.

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An Israeli parliamentary committee has advanced a bill to allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners.

Under the bill, judges would be able to impose the death penalty on Palestinians who kill Israelis based on so-called “nationalistic” motives. The law would not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.

The bill - introduced by Limor Son Har-Melech, a lawmaker from Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party - was approved on Sunday by the Knesset’s National Security Committee, with four lawmakers voting in favour and one against.

A Russian aerial bombardment that lasted more than 12 hours has killed at least four people and injured at least 70 others in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the deaths all occurred in the capital, Kyiv, where many of the projectiles were aimed, and the victims included a 12-year-old girl.

The barrage - involving nearly 600 drones and several dozen missiles aimed at seven regions of Ukraine - is one of the heaviest in recent months.

Zelensky warned that Ukraine would retaliate and said the "vile" attack showed Moscow "wants to continue fighting and killing". Russia said it struck military facilities and industrial enterprises supporting Ukraine's armed forces.

At least 36 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a crush at a rally for a popular actor and politician in India.

The health minister in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Ma Subramanian, told the Associated Press late on Saturday that the victims, including eight children, were dead by the time they arrived at hospital. The injured were in a stable condition, he added. The rally was being addressed by Tamil actor Vijay, who is campaigning for election, Tamil Nadu’s chief minister, MK Stalin, said.

Vijay, one of Tamil cinema’s most bankable actors for three decades, has drawn large crowds to his public meetings since launching his political party, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, in 2024, which has targeted both the state ruling party DMK and prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party. He is campaigning ahead of state elections that are to be held in early 2026.

Videos from local media show thousands of people surrounding a large campaign vehicle on top of which Vijay is seen standing and speaking. During the rally, visuals showed Vijay throwing water bottles from the top of the vehicle to fainting supporters and calling for police help when the crowd became uncontrollable.

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By Samuel Granados and Aaron Boxerman
Sept. 26, 2025

This has exacerbated what was already a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, with rampant hunger, mass displacement and a collapse of health care, schools and infrastructure. Many war-weary Gaza City residents say they simply cannot or will not be displaced again, and many have no homes to return to.

While closing in on Gaza City, Israel has used existing buildings as bases, only to later destroy them with explosives before moving onward, according to satellite images and videos verified by NYT.

One video shows the military destroying AlFurqan school in the city, which it had earlier used as a military position.

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