Israeli attacks on south Lebanon continue
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports that Israeli artillery shelling has hit the area around Kilometer Nine, which is located between the villages of Airatoun and Blida, very close to Lebanon’s border with Israel.
The report made no mention of casualties.
While Israeli air strikes, like the one seen yesterday on Beirut, are common in Lebanon, this kind of cross-border shelling has not been seen regularly since prior to the ceasefire last November.
OCHA gives weekly update on occupied West Bank
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released its weekly update on the humanitarian situation in the occupied West Bank. Here are key highlights:
- Three Palestinian children and one man were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank between November 11 and 17, raising the 2025 child fatality toll to 49.
- Israeli forces continued large-scale operations across the northern occupied West Bank, resulting in casualties, displacement, school closures, and movement restrictions.
- Thirty Palestinians are at risk of displacement in Qalandiya village in an area where the Israeli authorities have reactivated decades-old expropriation orders and approved the construction of a waste treatment facility.
- Within a week, 29 documented settler attacks across the West Bank caused injuries and damage to Palestinian homes, mosques, vehicles, and agricultural assets.
What happened in the occupied West Bank today
Nearly every day, there are episodes of violence, arrests and killings across the occupied West Bank perpetrated by Israeli soldiers or settlers. Wafa news agency has documented a number of incidents that took place today:
- The Israeli army issued a military order to seize more than 77 dunams (about 19 acres) of Palestinian-owned land in the towns of al-Za’im and Isawiya, east of occupied Jerusalem.
- Local sources told the Palestinian news agency that bulldozers and military vehicles have been leveling dozens of dunams of Palestinian-owned land in the town of Hizma to pave a new road to expand Adam, an illegal settlement northeast of Jerusalem.
- Israeli settlers have torched Palestinian-owned farmlands between the towns of Birzeit and Atara, north of Ramallah.
- Israeli forces have raided the towns of Anin and Meithalun, west and south of Jenin, respectively, storming residents’ homes and commercial shops.
