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"Israel: 'We kill Palestinians.'
USA: 'Perfectly all right.'
ISIS: 'We help Israel kill Palestinians.'
USA: 'Sounds swell and awesome.'
Hamas: 'We kill those Palestinians who helped Israel kill Palestinians.'
USA: 'Hamas must stop killing Palestinians, or we will come there and kill a lot of Palestinians. We are very worried of Palestinians being killed.'"

Israel Bombed Gaza on a Lie — And the Evidence Just Broke Open

Israel blamed Hamas for a blast in Rafah — but it was their own doing. Now the lie that unraveled the ceasefire is turning against Netanyahu.

Here we are again — Israel drops the bombs, then drops the lie to justify it and Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t leap at the chance fast enough. This time it was Rafah: two Israeli soldiers k*lled as it happens by their own bulldozer, hitting some of their own unexploded ordnance, but no, it was Hamas it was proclaimed, they’re in the tunnels!

It never ceases to amaze me how they can obliterate all of these building above grounds, yet these tunnels are ever present, never seeming to collapse! What did collapse for several hours at least, was the ceasefire itself of course, the truth buried under the same rubble that buried Israel’s victims. Netanyahu didn’t just jump the g*n; he built an entire justification to end the ceasefire, paint Hamas as breaching the terms of it, even though Israel had done that 47 times up until that point and actually, it all turned out to be a friendly fire incident.

So once again we can say it wasn’t Hamas that broke the ceasefire — it was a government so depraved and desperate to resume their genocide that it mistook its own accident for a gift from God. 

Israel Violates Gaza Ceasefire, Killing at Least 99

Israel violates Gaza ceasefire… again.

Plus: The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans continues to prove divisive, and Prince Andrew gives up royal titles as Epstein links increase.

Israeli forces arrest 4 Palestinians in occupied West Bank

The four people were arrested during a raid on the Am’ari refugee camp in el-Bireh, Wafa news agency is reporting.

Settlers ’emboldened’ by Israeli forces in targeting Palestinians

Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank during harvest season have been a regular occurrence for years now, Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim says.

“They’re emboldened by Israeli forces who often allow them to carry out their assaults. Now, they are more organised, more systematic. “Barely a harvesting journey goes by … without a settler attack,” she said, adding that international activists who come to help are not “spared either”.

Resident Yahya al-Araj, a survivor of a previous attack, says settlers “come and burn the trees or rip them up from their roots” every year. “For at least five years in a row, that’s what they did. And finally, they took the land and they put their settlers on it.”

Israeli settlers burn Palestinian tents in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers have set fire to three tents owned by Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency is reporting. The tents were unoccupied when they were set alight.

The attack came as armed settlers continued to graze their livestock and uproot trees on Palestinian land in the area.

Palestinian picking olives wounded by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank

A Palestinian man has been wounded by Israeli soldiers while picking olives in the town of Kafr Ra’i, south of Jenin. The incident comes days after a 53-year-old Palestinian woman was attacked by an Israeli settler while she was harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank town of Turmus Aya.

Israeli army, settlers carried out 158 attacks on olive pickers this season in occupied West Bank

‘Humanitarian blackmail’: Gaza aid deliveries fall far short of promised numbers

A total of 986 aid trucks have entered the coastal enclave since the ceasefire began on October 10, out of the 6,600 trucks that were supposed to arrive by Monday evening, Gaza’s Government Media Office has said.

“We note that the average number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip daily since the ceasefire began does not exceed 89 trucks out of 600 trucks that are supposed to enter,” it said, noting that it reflected “the continued policy of strangulation, starvation and humanitarian blackmail practised by the [Israeli] occupation”.

“We emphasise that these limited quantities do not cover the minimum humanitarian and living needs, and that the Gaza Strip is in dire need of an urgent and regular flow of no less than [600] aid trucks daily, including food, medical and relief supplies, operating fuel and cooking gas, to ensure the minimum requirements for a decent life.”

Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was to allow aid to enter Gaza.

Food flows into Gaza still far below targets: WFP

A World Food Programme spokesperson says that supplies into Gaza were ramping up but were still far short of its daily target of 2,000 tonnes because only two crossings into the enclave are open.

“To be able to get to this scale-up, we have to use every border crossing point right now,” WFP spokesperson Abeer Etefa said at a media briefing in Geneva.

She added that only two crossings were operational – Karem Abu Salem (known as Kerem Shalom in Israel) and Kissufim – but that none were open into the famine-hit north. The Rafah crossing in the south also remains shut.

Northern Gaza desperate for aid as supplies trickle in

In the north of Gaza, we’re not seeing aid trucks coming in. The Zikim crossing in the north has been blocked for 50 days now, with no entry of any trucks.

The only trucks we’ve been seeing since the beginning of the ceasefire are the commercial trucks, belonging to business owners and traders who were given permission by the Israeli military to enter central and southern Gaza. They send the shipments to northern Gaza where they end up being sold at a very high price, beyond the financial reach of people.

Besides this, there is no infrastructure – no warehouses, no roads for these trucks to drive on. Much of the city has been reduced to rubble, and the streets are difficult to navigate.

For over two years now, we’ve been talking about aid, and nothing has changed. There’s been a trickle that’s been allowed in by Israel only to try to evade global criticism. But when you look, the amount is nowhere near sufficient to address the humanitarian crisis across the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces arrest 3 fishermen after opening fire

Israeli forces have arrested three Palestinian fishermen after opening fire on them, the Gaza fishermen’s union has told Al Jazeera.

The incident took place as the fishermen were working off the coast of Gaza City.

Not allowed to fish either... What 'peace' plan?!

Israel identifies captive’s body returned by Hamas

Israel has said it has identified the body of a captive returned by Hamas yesterday as Tal Haimi. Hamas has now handed over the bodies of 13 of 28 deceased captives to be returned under the first phase of the ceasefire deal.

The Palestinian group says while it is committed to returning the remaining 15, it is facing difficulties reaching the remains amid the destruction in Gaza.

Israel returns bodies of 15 Palestinians killed in detention

Bodies of 15 more Palestinians have been handed over by Israel and brought to Nasser Medical Complex, a medical source said, adding that this is the sixth batch of remains to be returned.

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Delivered in plastic bags, stacked together in a truck.

Signs appear in Gaza showing location of yellow line

The yellow line separates life and death in Gaza.

It covers the 53 percent of Gaza’s area where Israeli forces are present. Palestinians that have tried to cross this yellow line have been targeted and killed by Israeli forces.

Initially, there were no signs indicating the location of the yellow line. Some people did not even know there was one. Now the Israeli forces are putting up signs to identify where this yellow line is, as well as warnings for Palestinians not to cross it.

Many Palestinians have homes beyond the yellow line and have been trying to check on them. Some have been killed. Eleven members of the Abu Shaaban family were killed on Friday evening when they were fired on by Israeli forces after unknowingly crossing the yellow line.

What are the changes this 53% becomes a permanent land grab while slowly letting the Palestinians starve in the 47% that doesn't have any farmland.

Gaza’s eastern areas emptied as Israeli military enforces ‘yellow line’

Thousands of families are forced out of their homes from the entire eastern part of the Strip. These areas are now empty because they were depopulated by the Israeli military.

This demarcation line, or the “yellow line” as described by the Israeli military, is becoming a reality on the ground.

It’s preventing families from returning to their homes. As a result, people are being crammed into the central part of the city, towards the western side near al-Shifa Hospital and other areas of the Gaza Strip. This is causing severe overcrowding and placing additional pressure on the remaining public services, including healthcare facilities.

Sick children in Gaza hospitals desperately await medical evacuations

Families of sick Palestinian children in Gaza say they are unable to receive the medical care they desperately need and are awaiting medical evacuations.

In central Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital, Nihal al-Sawwaf said her infant Ahmed needed urgent medical evacuation to receive treatment for his seizures. “My baby has spent his whole life moving between hospitals,” she told Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili. “We have the referral but we’re still trapped here.”

Asmaa, another woman at the hospital, said she was desperate to get treatment for her four-year-old daughter outside Gaza. “The war has ended yet, and we haven’t received any call or update about her evacuation,” she said. “Restrictions at the crossing continue to prevent her from getting care.”

‘Everything was black. I realised I had gone blind’

Mahmoud Abu Foul, a Palestinian recently released by Israel, says he lost his eyesight after a severe beating during an interrogation by Israeli intelligence officers.

“They asked me to confess to charges that were not true. When I refused, they beat me on the head until I lost consciousness,” he told Al Jazeera. “When I woke up, I tried to open my eyes but I couldn’t see anything. Everything was black … I realised I had gone blind.”

Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, said Abu Foul had been subjected to torture and electrical shocks during his detention.

Abu Foul, who had one of his legs amputated following an earlier attack in Gaza, said he had also had his spine and ribs broken in a beating by Israeli intelligence, and he was denied the necessary treatment and surgery, resulting in his health deteriorating further.

Israel’s war on Gaza nothing but genocide: Qatar’s emir

Israel’s war on Gaza has been nothing but genocide, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says while condemning Israel’s continued violation of the ceasefire agreement.

Speaking at the opening session of Shura Council, Qatar’s legislative council, the emir added that the international community must provide protection for the Palestinian people and ensure that perpetrators of genocide do not escape accountability.

“It is unfortunate that the international community remains incapable of enforcing respect when it comes to the tragedy of the Palestinian people,” he added.

“We reaffirm our condemnation of all Israeli violations and practices in Palestine, especially turning the Gaza Strip into an uninhabitable area, continuing to breach the ceasefire, expanding settlements in the West Bank, and efforts to Judaise the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.”

“We also affirm that the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the Palestinian territories of the unified Palestinian state,” the emir said.

Response to Israel’s attack on Qatar was strong enough to shock the perpetrators: Emir

Qatar’s emir says Israel violated all international laws and norms by attacking a state that acts as a mediator.

He was referring to Israel’s attacks on Qatar’s capital, Doha, last month that targeted Hamas officials meeting to discuss a ceasefire proposal put forward by Trump.

“Israel has violated all laws and norms governing relations between states through its aggression against a country playing a mediating role, and by attempting to assassinate members of the negotiating delegation,” he said.

“We considered this aggression an act of state terrorism, and the global response was strong enough to shock the perpetrators.”

“We make commendable efforts in mediation and humanitarian work, which has strengthened Qatar’s position and resilience,” the emir said, adding that despite the two attacks on Qatar – by Israel and Iran in June this year – it has “emerged stronger and more resilient”.

Hamas official says Trump, mediators assured them that the war is over

Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya has said that the Palestinian group has been assured by Trump as well as mediators that the war in Gaza is over.

Al-Hayya said Hamas was serious about returning the bodies of all captives, as required under the ceasefire agreement, but added that the group was finding it very difficult to retrieve the bodies.

Al-Hayya said Hamas also hoped that aid into Gaza would increase to meet the needs of the population there.

Plenty of sticking points remain before second phase of Gaza deal

Before we can even get to phase two of the ceasefire deal, the Israelis say the biggest sticking point for now is the return of the 15 bodies of captives that remain in Gaza.

Hamas says it needs assistance on the ground to fulfil this. It needs heavy machinery and specialised teams to clear the debris and unexploded ordnance so it can exhume some of these remains.

Down the line, the challenges include the disarmament of Hamas and the question of what’s going to happen to Hamas fighters in Gaza. Where will they be exiled to? What kind of amnesty might they be looking at in the future? And who is this body of Palestinian technocrats that is going to come in and take over governance of Gaza?

Israel has ruled out the Palestinian Authority; the Americans say they want reforms with the PA before it can be involved, and Israel says it wants some sort of security control over Gaza.