Israel is holding ceremonies and gatherings to mark the third anniversary of the 7 October attack by Hamas, in which about 1,200 people were killed and another 251 taken captive to Gaza. Israeli communities shattered by the massacres, torn between rebuilding their lives and remembering lost friends and relatives, have spoken to Emma Graham-Harrison about their experiences of that day and the days since. The Guardian is marking the day with a live blog, featuring the latest images of events taking place in Israel and around the world.
Israel’s government responded to the attack by launching a devastating war on Gaza, during which at least 74,243 people have been killed, according to the territory’s health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the UN. What is happening with the flydubai attack investigation? New Zealand authorities have launched their own investigation into the flydubai co-pilot who allegedly tried to hijack an Israel-bound plane, after police confirmed he underwent flight training there about a year after he abandoned a degree in Australia.
Disaster was narrowly averted on 30 September when passengers and crew intervened to stop the alleged attempt to take control of a flight to Tel Aviv with 182 people onboard. What it is the latest settler violence? Armed Israeli settlers beat a photographer in the presence of Israeli soldiers, hospitalising him, as he covered worsening settler violence against olive farmers in the occupied West Bank.
Jaafar Ashtiyeh, a 58-year-old veteran photographer for in Palestine, was beaten with the butts of rifles, despite him being marked as press, in view of about a dozen armed Israeli soldiers. The justice department has moved to strip the citizenship of 40 naturalized citizens accused of crimes in what authorities describe as “the largest” such initiative over a single period. Officials announced the filing of “denaturalization actions” against more than three dozen people alleged to have committed such offenses as “acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated sodomy against a special‑needs man”.
A statement attributed to the US attorney general, Todd Blanche, maintained that those at the center of Monday’s announcement “concealed critical facts from the US government and represent serious criminal offenders”. Who is the latest person taking legal action against the administration’s immigration enforcement? Marimar Martinez, a US citizen who was shot one year ago by a Customs and Border Protection agent during a sweeping immigration crackdown in Chicago, has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, alleging the agent lied about the shooting and fired into her vehicle from behind.
What has a whistleblower said about FBI investigations into LA anti-ICE protesters? Alex Padilla, a Democratic senator who represents California and serves on the Senate judiciary committee, said his office had received a copy of a complaint from a whistleblower that makes sweeping allegations about the Trump administration’s response to protests in LA in early 2025, claiming the president himself ordered the FBI to investigate protesters. Police fired teargas at protesters as more than 250,000 pupils, teachers and parents demonstrated across France on the biggest day yet of a campaign for better high school conditions that has been marred by often violent clashes with police.
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