Despite Israeli restrictions, 35,000 Palestinians lined up for night and tarawih prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque. It is said that the Israeli forces beat and arrested a young man who tried to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Prominent American Jewish scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein has compared the French newspaper La Liberation, which laughed at the hunger in Gaza, to the Nazis' World War II publication Der Stürmer.

42 years ago, a great massacre was committed in Sabra and Shatila camps of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. On September 16-18, 1982, the Lebanese Christian Phalangists, in cooperation with the Zionists, organized massacres in these camps, resulting in the brutal killing of about 3,500 Palestinians, mostly women, children, and the elderly.