At least 350 Palestinian children currently face “harsh conditions” in Israeli prisons.

aljazeera.com

On Tuesday, Israeli forces arrested at least six children from Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the report said.

The organisation said information regarding the number of children arrested in Gaza is unclear, given the thousands of missing persons in the besieged Gaza Strip, including children, and the ongoing policy of enforced disappearance.

Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by Alastair Crooke

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack.

If you read one thing today, make sure it is this:

In a stunning piece published by the head of one of Israel’s most prominent think tanks, Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman describes the reality of Israel’s new security doctrine:

Important to note that Hayman does not advocate for this. Rather, he contends that this already is the new security doctrine of Israel.

newsquawk.com

US President Trump said he will make a decision on Iran very soon; Israeli PM Netanyahu and Trump reportedly discussed launching a major new operation against Iran before the US and Israeli elections.

Iran reportedly stepped up attacks on shipping ahead of the US midterms. Saudi Arabia and the Houthis continued exchanging strikes.

The Mecca pact is purely defensive, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan affirmed on 8 October, amid reports that Ankara planned to deploy troops to Saudi Arabia.

Speaking at a joint news conference with visiting Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orban on Thursday, Fidan said Turkiye was considering defense assistance to Saudi Arabia.

By Karen Kwiatkowski, lewrockwell.com

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by Jason Ditz, antiwar.com

Quneitra farmers increasingly cut off from their fields

Among the towns and villages impacted by Israel’s incursions into southwest Syria, few have had more problems than Jabata al-Khashab. The village, in northern Quneitra Governorate, is within the UNDOF demilitarized zone and subsequently is de facto occupied by the Israeli military, who seized much of the UNDOF zone starting at the end of 2024.

Turkey will not send troops to Saudi Arabia to launch attacks on Yemen under the Mecca defense pact, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday.

"This is not an offensive agreement. Turkey will not send troops to another country's territory to launch an attack there," he said during a live press conference in Ankara. Fidan added that possible Turkish deployments to Saudi Arabia would be only defensive in nature.