News Headlines

October 22, 2025

Israel Continues Deadly Attacks in Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire

Israel is continuing its deadly attacks in Gaza despite the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Al Jazeera is reporting that hospitals in Gaza received 13 bodies over the past day and that Palestinians say they have seen no real change in their lives since the ceasefire. The Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis is reporting that Israel has handed over 30 bodies and remains of slain Palestinians. Hamas has handed over the bodies of 15 Israeli hostages as part of the ceasefire deal so far. On Wednesday, a funeral was held for 54 Palestinian prisoners after their corpses were returned by Israel–the unidentified bodies were buried in a mass grave. It comes as the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says that the amount of aid currently entering Gaza is a “drop in the ocean of what’s urgently needed.” Here’s Abeer Etefa of the World Food Programme.
Abeer Etefa: “Since the ceasefire started on the 11th of October, we now have over hundred and — over 530 trucks into Gaza, supporting bakeries, nutrition programs, general food distributions. So far, we’ve had over 6,700 tons of food. That’s enough for close to half a million people for two weeks. Daily deliveries continue, and they are now averaging around 750 tons. That’s much better than what we had before the ceasefire, but it’s still well below our target, which is around 2,000 tons every day.”
 

Israeli Forces Detain 45 People in the West Bank as U.N. Warns About Settler Violence

The Palestinian Prisoners Society says Israeli forces have detained 45 people, including a child, in raids since last night in the occupied West Bank. The group describes Israeli forces having vandalized homes and repeatedly assaulted detainees and their relatives. It comes as the U.N. Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is warning about an alarming rise in Israeli settler violence against Palestinians as the olive harvest season gets underway. So far in 2025, there were over 750 Israeli settler attacks, which is a 13% increase from last year.
 

Mahmoud Khalil Files Appeals to Prevent ICE from Detaining Him Again

On Tuesday, a panel of judges from the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s attempt to rearrest and deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. The Columbia University graduate was the first pro-Palestinian campus protester to be jailed by the Trump administration over his advocacy work. Khalil’s lawyers have filed appeals to prevent the Trump administration from detaining him again. Yesterday, Khalil spoke to supporters outside the federal court.
Mahmoud Khalil: “I absolutely think, like, this shows how my case is actually just like a test for everyone’s rights here across the country.”
 

Federal Government Shutdown Has Entered Its 22nd Day

The federal government shutdown has entered its 22nd day. Earlier this week, the federal judiciary ran out of funding to support the work of nearly 30,000 staffers and 94 district courts. Some of these courts are furloughing staff for the first time in three decades. It comes as several states are warning that they will be forced to suspend Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, benefits by November 1 if the shutdown continues, impacting an estimated 42 million people nationwide. Meanwhile, at a White House Rose Garden lunch for Republican senators yesterday, President Trump unveiled a new nickname for Russ Vought, the White House budget chief, who has been spearheading cuts to programs nationwide amid the shutdown.
President Donald Trump: “And I will say this, that we have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who I think is sitting right — is that Darth? Stand up, please, Darth Vader. Stand up. Does everybody know? This is — they call him Darth Vader. I call him a fine man. But he’s cutting Democrat priorities, and they’re never going to get them back.”
 

Federal Agents Shoot U.S. Marshal and Undocumented Immigrant in Los Angeles

As immigration raids ramp up across the country, ICE agents in Los Angeles, California, shot and wounded two people in a botched operation Tuesday. The agents reportedly shot an immigrant from Mexico they were attempting to arrest. A bullet then ricocheted and wounded a U.S. Marshal. The person ICE targeted has been identified as Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who is a popular TikTok streamer with over 100,000 followers and often documents ICE raids. He now faces criminal charges.
Here in New York, dozens of federal agents, many of them with face coverings, flooded Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon as they targeted immigrant street vendors, most of them from Africa. As news spread of the raids, several people took to the streets in protest.