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Main events on October 31st

  • Israel returned the bodies of 30 Palestinians to health authorities in Gaza, completing an exchange after Hamas handed over the remains of two captives.
  • Despite the ceasefire, the Israeli army carried out air strikes across Gaza, killing at least three people across the Strip.
  • Israel has carried out two air strikes on southern Lebanon despite an ongoing ceasefire there, killing at least one person.
  • The United Nations was able to deliver 840 pallets of “life-saving medical supplies” to Gaza, including insulin and surgical kits, but a senior official said the health system in the enclave “continues to face a significant challenge in addressing the immense need faced by people in Gaza”.
  • Ahmed Radwan, the Palestinian Civil Defence’s media officer in Rafah, southern Gaza, told Al-Aqsa TV that more than 10,000 Palestinians were trapped under the rubble.
  • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that this year’s olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank has seen the “highest level of damage” by settlers in five years.
  • Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi condemned far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for reiterating his call for the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel.
  • The US’s highest-ranking military officer met his Israeli counterpart and took a helicopter tour over Gaza, US military sources told Al Jazeera.