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![Displaced Palestinians sit for a meal at a makeshift camp for the displaced in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 11, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_10-10-gaza-food-400x300.jpg)
Israel’s Blockade Bars WFP From Distributing Food “in Any Form” in North Gaza
Israel’s aid blockade has reached its worst point in months, the group warned as Israeli forces assault northern Gaza.
![Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference at the State Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee, Florida, on September 26, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2173721368-400x300.jpg)
Republicans Refuse to Extend Voter Registration as Hurricanes Strike Southeast
Civil rights groups filed emergency litigation seeking to reopen voter registration in Florida and Georgia.
![UNIFIL armoured personnel carriers depart a base to patrol near the Lebanon-Israel border on October 5, 2024 in Marjayoun, Lebanon.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_10-10-unifil-400x300.jpg)
Israel Carries Out 3 Attacks on UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon
One attack on the UN Interim Force in Lebanon’s headquarters injured two peacekeepers.
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Trump, GOP Push Misinformation on Hurricanes as Climate Crisis Intensifies
“We’re entering into a really dark new phase reckoning with the climate crisis,” says journalist David Wallace-Wells.
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Israel Has Created “Extermination Zone” in North Gaza, Advocates Warn
Israel is effectively trapping hundreds of thousands in north Gaza and is systematically killing them all.
![Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 president designate and minister of ecology and natural resources of the Republic of Azerbaijan, gives a speech in Baku, Azerbaijan.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2177721648-400x300.jpg)
Critics May Face Repression in Azerbaijan Amid COP29, Human Rights Watch Warns
The 20-page UN agreement with Azerbaijan “is replete with ... ambiguities on the protections for participants’ rights.”
![The receptacles have been the subject of two Wisconsin state Supreme Court decisions, as well as legal memos, local council deliberations, press conferences and much hand-wringing.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2171626678-400x300.jpg)
Voting Drop Boxes Have Become Flash Point for Election Fraud Conspiracies
In Wisconsin, the State Supreme Court, local councils and right-wing activists have been engrossed with the receptacles.
![Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a rally at York Exposition Center UPMC Arena on October 2, 2024, in York, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1010-walz-400x300.jpg)
As Trump Hints at 2024 Subversion, Walz Endorses Ending the Electoral College
A campaign statement later noted that ending the Electoral College wasn't an official position of the ticket.
![A Palestinian woman kisses a child who was killed in an Israeli strike outside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on October 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2176993172-400x300.jpg)
Israel Has Killed at Least 3,100 Palestinians Under Age of 5 Since Last Year
Roughly 710 children killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023, and August 31, 2024, were younger than a year old.
![Banner image for Movement Memos, a Truthout podcast, featuring guests Elliott Fukui and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and host Kelly Hayes](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1008-movement-memos-400x300.jpg)
Keeping Each Other Alive: Mental Health and Collective Survival
“We cannot become what it is that has harmed us in the first place,” says Elliott Fukui.