Israeli strikes killed at least two Palestinians and damaged medical supplies in Gaza after Hamas accepted a US-backed disarmament roadmap. The plan remains caught between Hamas’s demand for an Israeli withdrawal and Israel’s insistence on disarmament first.
On 22 September 2025, Luxembourg recognised the State of Palestine, joining a wave of more than 150 countries. Eight months on, the test is sober: no annexation has been halted, the EU has again refused to suspend its trade pact with Israel, and a fragile Gaza ceasefire has stalled. The gesture was right. Its limits are the real story.
Israeli forces have advanced into western Gaza and expanded the so-called yellow line by 37 km, now controlling around 60% of the enclave despite a Phase 2 ceasefire that requires withdrawal. 1.8 million Gazans are displaced; the cumulative death toll has passed 72,000.
Satellite imagery shows southern Lebanese towns being completely levelled in what observers describe as the Gaza playbook applied to Lebanon. Over a million people have been displaced.