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This Week in Palestine: Israeli Settlers Beat Elderly Woman and Defense Minister Says Expelling Palestinians From Gaza Is the Only ‘Real Solution’

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Team Zeteo. (2026, September 5). This Week in Palestine: Israeli Settlers Beat Elderly Woman and Defense Minister Says Expelling Palestinians From Gaza Is the Only ‘Real Solution’. Zeteo. https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-palestine-israeli-settlers-ee3

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Israeli defense minister has reportedly stated that expelling Palestinians from Gaza is the only "real solution", a comment raising concerns about forced displacement. In the occupied West Bank, ethnic cleansing was also an issue as a UN report highlighted the forced displacement of entire refugee camps. Israeli settlers have continued their violent actions in the region, including severely beating an elderly woman. Multiple Palestinians, including children, were killed by Israeli strikes and gunfire across Gaza this week.
Written by AI on 2026-09-05, from this article's own text only (the story summary below draws on all the coverage).

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A series of news articles have reported on the ongoing crisis in Gaza, where Israeli airstrikes and rubble-clearing operations are erasing evidence of war crimes. In 2023, Israel launched a genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, which has resulted in at least 73,651 Palestinian deaths and 174,592 injuries since October 2023.

In recent weeks, mass recovery operations have retrieved over 100 bodies from the Abu Shariah and Hassaniya families killed in a single strike, and more than 500 from the al-Taj Tower site. The victims' remains were carried by family members to be buried in known cemeteries, a process that has been delayed due to a shortage of heavy machinery.

The Israeli government's actions have been criticized by Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, who warned that large-scale rubble removal in Gaza under Israeli control risks erasing traces of atrocity crimes and preventing the recovery and identification of human remains. The Italian-born independent expert has faced harsh criticism from Israel and its allies over her long-standing accusations that Israel is committing genocide and other war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.

Meanwhile, former IDF reserve colonel Nochi Mendel has made inflammatory comments about the killings of aid workers, including Zomi Frankcom and six colleagues who were killed in 2024 while bringing food to Gaza. The Greens have criticized the Albanese government for its failure to halt military exports and impose new sanctions on Israel.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of Israel's far-right Jewish Power party, has also made headlines with his recent comments, including a video showing Palestinian prisoners being loaded onto a conveyor belt and taken to detention camps. The caption "we promised – we delivered!" suggests that Ben-Gvir is proud of worsening conditions for Palestinian prisoners.

The crisis in Gaza continues to be met with silence from the international community.

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Topics

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Narrative

As with most weeks, this week in Palestine was so horrific that it was difficult to choose what to include in Zeteo’s weekly round-up of stories out of Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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As with most weeks, this week in Palestine was so horrific that it was difficult to choose what to include in Zeteo’s weekly round-up of stories out of Gaza and the occupied West Bank. asserted
it → choose → Gaza
Israeli strikes and gunfire continued to escalate across Gaza, killing multiple Palestinians, including children. asserted
strikes → continue → children
As we reported earlier this week, an Israeli raid in Gaza City forced a kindergarten to frantically evacuate hundreds of 4- and 5-year-olds. asserted
raid → report → olds
Ethnic cleansing was also a theme this week, with Israel’s defense minister reportedly saying the only “real solution” for Gaza was clearing it of Palestinians, and a UN report raising concerns about the forced displacement of entire refugee camps in the occupied West Bank. uncertain
solution → say → Bank
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers continued their rampages across the West Bank, including severely beating an elderly woman. asserted
settlers → continue → woman
Here’s more on many of those stories and others from another troubling and deadly week in Palestine: asserted
more → ’ → Palestine
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