Main events on November 12th
- The Israeli military says it shot and killed a person whom it accused of crossing the yellow line and approaching Israeli soldiers operating in the area of Khan Younis in the south of Gaza.
- Israeli warplanes launched three air strikes on the northeastern area of Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip.
- Gaza’s civil defence says its crews recovered 51 bodies from a mass grave in the courtyard of the Sheikh Radwan clinic in western Gaza City.
- Israeli forces carried out several raids across the occupied West Bank this evening, leading to confrontations and further restricting Palestinian movement.
- A young man and a child were wounded after Israeli forces raided the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported.
- A Palestinian has been injured after Israeli settlers threw stones at passing vehicles in the village of Rashayida, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported.
- US President Donald Trump has called the corruption trial against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “political, unjustified prosecution” while requesting that the country’s president pardon him.
- The White House has dismissed a report that the US is considering building a temporary military base on the border of the Gaza Strip.
"The killing of Palestinian women is not merely femicide—it is femi-genocide” UN Special Rapporteur
On 30 October 2025, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People organized a virtual briefing titled “Safeguarding Human Rights, Ensuring Accountability and Ending the Unlawful Occupation of Palestine”. Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, began by expressing that it was “alarming and shameful” that Palestinians, including women and girls, continued to be killed despite a ceasefire. She described documenting the past two years as “a challenge beyond description,” and concluded that existing legal language does not adequately capture the “monstrosity and scale” of violence against Palestinian women and girls. She argued their deliberate targeting served the intent to destroy Palestinians “in whole or in part,” and therefore required terminology beyond “femicide.” She adopted “feminicide” to reflect mass killing rooted in racial, colonial, and patriarchal structures and linked to genocidal objectives.
Ms. Alsalem underscored widespread sexual violence, torture, forced disappearance, reproductive violence, and the systematic destruction of maternity and reproductive health services. She cited South Africa’s ICJ filing and COI findings that reproductive violence was used “as a genocidal tool,” noting that targeting reproductive capacity meets legal thresholds under the Genocide Convention. She warned that silence and hesitation from states, including those with feminist foreign policies, expose “double standards” and a global regression in protecting women’s rights. She stressed that accountability mechanisms must address the specific experience of Palestinian women, noting ICJ and General Assembly decisions have been “sex and gender blind.” She closed by emphasizing consequences beyond Palestine, warning that “what happens in Palestine does not stay in Palestine,” and that normalization of brutality is already visible in other crises, such as Sudan.
TRUMP PLOTS $500 MILLION OCCUPATION OF GAZA
