Clashes with Israeli forces erupt in West Bank’s Tubas, Aqaba, Beit Ummar

Clashes have broken out between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces after they stormed the city of Tubas and the town of Aqaba, in the occupied West Bank, our colleague from Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Moreover, the Wafa news agency reported that dozens of Palestinians have been tear gassed after clashes erupted with Israeli forces in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.

According to the report, citing activist Mohammed Awad, Israeli soldiers fired sound bombs and tear gas at residents and their homes.

Israeli settlers storm mosque in West Bank village near Nablus

Israeli from illegal settlements have vandalised the inside of a mosque in Khirbet Tana, near the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

Thaer Hanani, an official of the Committee for the Defence of Tana Lands, told the Wafa news agency that the settlers stormed the Bayt al-Sheikh Mosque, damaging the carpets inside and the remaining solar power units.

Hanani warned that the repeated raids by Israeli forces and the protections given to settlers were evidence of a growing effort to forcibly push Palestinians out in preparation to take full control of the land.

Prominent Palestinian activist says Israeli troops raided West Bank home

Issa Amro says Israeli soldiers raided his home in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank.

“They showed me a false military zone order claiming that my house is a ‘closed military zone.’ They forced all my friends and neighbors to leave … my house,” Amro wrote in a social media post.

The post included what appears to be surveillance footage from the courtyard of the home. One of the videos, which don’t include any audio, show at least four Israeli soldiers in the courtyard.

Amro, a prominent Palestinian human rights activist and founder of the group Youth Against Settlements, has been a frequent target of Israeli military and settler attacks in the West Bank.

Clashes erupt in Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem

Clashes have erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces after they stormed the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem.

A local source told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that soldiers were stationed in several neighbourhoods of the town, which led to clashes where live ammunition and tear gas were fired.

The source added that a number of children and young men were detained during the raid.

Main events on October 24th

• At least two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli army shelling east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, a source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital tells Al Jazeera.
• After a meeting in Egypt, Palestinian political factions, including Hamas, have agreed to hand the administration of Gaza over to a transitional committee of technocrats, according to a statement published by Hamas.
• UN agencies and humanitarian groups have called on Israel to immediately reopen all the crossings into Gaza as Palestinians face dire conditions amid continued Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Hamas and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) can have no role in Gaza, as he tells reporters during a visit to Israel that Trump’s 20-point plan is progressing well.
• Israeli military and settler violence has continued across the occupied West Bank, with an 18-year-old Palestinian teenager dying of wounds sustained during an army raid in Nablus.

ICJP applies for UK court summons over British-Israeli national’s involvement in Lebanon, West Bank

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), an independent organisation of lawyers, politicians and academics, have applied for a court summons to “privately prosecute” a dual-national British-Israeli citizen who is alleged to have joined the Israeli armed forces.

In a statement from the ICJP, the suspect is alleged to have served in a unit on the Lebanese border and in the occupied West Bank.

The ICJP claimed that Section 4 of the UK’s Foreign Enlistment Act is an offence for a “British subject to accept any engagement in ‘the military or naval service’ of a foreign state which is at war with a friendly state”.

ICJP’s head of legal, Mutahir Ahmed, said that this was a “significant step in holding suspected war criminals accountable within domestic jurisdictions for offences that they have committed outside of their home countries”.

“War criminals must be held accountable for their role in the genocide, from the most senior generals to the most junior foot soldier,” Ahmed added.

Israel: American Colony or Billionaire Elite's Pet Project?

Hamas official slams Smotrich’s ‘brazen’ remarks on Saudi Arabia

Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, has condemned Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for saying that Saudi Arabia should “keep riding camels” if it asks for a Palestinian state as a condition to normalise relations with Israel.

In a statement on Telegram, Risheq said Smotrich’s “brazen and reprehensible statements against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are not a slip of the tongue”.

He added that “this racist lens has been used by the Zionist movement since its inception to view all Arabs and Muslims”.

Smotrich had said: “If Saudi Arabia tells us ‘normalisation in exchange for a Palestinian state,’ friends – no thank you.

“Keep riding camels in the desert in Saudi Arabia, and we will continue to develop with the economy, society and state and the great things that we know how to do,” added Smotrich at a conference organised by the Zomet Institute and the Makor Rishon newspaper on Friday.

He apologised for his remarks later in the day.

And he only apologized because he was forced to, Trump/Witkoff/Kusner need Saudi Arabia to sign the Abraham accords, the key to all their plans.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-kushner-and-steve-witkoffs-extended-60-minutes-interview/

LESLEY STAHL: Well, part of the plan is the reconstruction, the building, rebuilding of Gaza. And-- you're builders. You've been in real estate. As you said, it's extremely complex. Tell us more about the plan and how-- how much it's gonna cost. Where is the money gonna come from? And who's gonna award the contracts? Three questions.
STEVE WITKOFF: I think it's going to cost a lot of money.
LESLEY STAHL: What's a lot of money?
STEVE WITKOFF: You know, the estimates are in the $50 billion range. It might be a little bit less; it might be a little bit more. I happen to think that that's not a lot of money in that region. You have governments that are gonna jump on in and--
LESLEY STAHL: So the-- Middle East countries are gonna--
STEVE WITKOFF: I think--
LESLEY STAHL: --provide the money?
STEVE WITKOFF: I-- yeah, well, you'll see European participation and so forth. I-- I think the beginning of this plan is how to get it going. And that's-- that's what me and-- what me and Jared work on all the time. The money raising we think is the easy part. We think that happens re-- relatively quickly. But it's the master plan, and we're working with a group of people who have-- been working on master plans for the last two years.
LESLEY STAHL: So there are plans already?
JARED KUSHNER: Yeah--
STEVE WITKOFF: We have plans already. We have a master plan already. And by the way-- and Jared's been pushing this and we're working together on it and I think if the world saw the progress so far they'd be pretty impressed.

Jared Kusner is a vile human being, he has been planning the Riviera in the ME since Oct 7, possibly before. As a long time friend of Netanyahu he can't be a neutral party, plus he's in real estate deals, not rebuilding a country.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/19/the-enormous-conflict-of-interest-at-centre-of-jared-kushners-gaza-ceasefire-deal

LESLEY STAHL: What about a Palestinian state? That's in the 20-point plan.
JARED KUSHNER: Oh. Well, what--
LESLEY STAHL: Th--
JARED KUSHNER: --what the plan says is that there could create a pathway to it. But, you know, these-- what I learned when I got involved is that the-- the word "state" means different things to different people.
So right now what we're focused on is creating a situation for joint security and economic opportunity for Israelis and Palestinians so that they can live peacefully side by side in a durable way. What you end up calling it over time we'll allow the Palestinians to determine that themselves. But right now, it's just focused on making this functional. There's been a long war. The war's over. Hopefully we keep it that way. And-- we wanna create conditions for a long term success.
LESLEY STAHL: Okay. So do you have any-- responsibility, or do you feel it, to-- unite Gaza and the West Bank?
JARED KUSHNER: We'll see. You know, it's interesting. What a lot of the Arabs have been telling me is that it's-- there's very different cultures. The people haven't been connected in a long time. And ultimately, I think you need to create the right leadership in both places, and then let them decide if they wanna be connected or not. But you need both places to be functioning-- in a good way, where they can thrive before you can-- connect them.

Yeah he has no intentions for a unified Palestinian state. Already spreading propaganda to keep the West Bank and Gaza separate. They're not different cultures and both overwhelmingly want Marwan Barghouti to lead a Palestinian state.

It's clear the pushback against 'annexation' of the West Bank is just for show again, to get MBS onboard and unlock Arab money for all his real estate plans and other business deals. Jared still expects Gazans to leave or be moved out of the way for his master plan.

What did Marco Rubio say about the ceasefire process during Israel visit?

UN out, Israel aligned forces into Gaza, PA is still not controlled enough to 'run' Gaza. The genocide simply continues, erasure of the Palestinian identity / ethnicity goes on, aid blockaded goes on, ethnic cleansing still in effect, winter, infectious diseases and starvation will continue killing, just not be added to the official death toll...

Top US diplomat promises return of all Israeli captives’ bodies to Israel

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has promised to secure the return of all deceased captives still held in Gaza, as he met the families of two dead Israeli-American captives during his visit to Israel.

“We will not forget the lives of the hostages who died in the captivity of Hamas,” Rubio said on X.

“Today, I met with the families of American citizens Itay Chen and Omer Neutra. We will not rest until their – and all – remains are returned,” he said, hours before wrapping up his three-day visit to Israel.

The Israeli campaign group, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, welcomed Rubio’s remarks.

“Thirteen hostages need to come home. Thirteen families need closure,” the group said on X, thanking the US secretary of state. “Please don’t stop – until the last hostage is released,” it added.

Trump to meet Qatar’s emir, PM during Doha stopover

As far as we understand, the US president will be meeting with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, along with the Qatari prime minister, on board Air Force One while it is refuelling here on his way to Malaysia.

We understand Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be joining that meeting.

The secretary of state has been spending the past two days in Israel, where he has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as US forces, about 200 of them on the ground there, facilitating this group that is in charge of overseeing the implementation of the ceasefire in Gaza.

He has also been meeting with the families of the remaining captives, whose bodies they are waiting for Hamas to return – there are 13 remaining bodies that Israeli families are waiting for. The next stage of the ceasefire really remains to be seen when it will be implemented because until those bodies are returned to their families, that is not going to happen.

What are the chances Hamas can find the remaining 13 bodies without the proper equipment (that Israel won't let into Gaza), without the proper experts (which Israel won't let into Gaza) with 53% of Gaza a kill zone (behind the yellow) cutting off access to even search for bodies.

Meanwhile Kushner, Rubio etc will go on to start reconstruction behind the yellow line for 'Palestinians in fear of Hamas'. Which are those clans Israel has been funding and supplying weapons to to disrupt civil order and loot aid, sold as the new De-Ba'athification process.

Gaza faces months of cleanup under 61 million tonnes of rubble

After two years of war, Gaza is buried under more than 61 million tonnes of debris, and three-quarters of buildings have been destroyed, according to UN data analysed by AFP news agency.

As of July 8, 2025, the Israeli army had damaged or destroyed nearly 193,000 buildings in the densely populated territory, representing about 78 percent of existing structures before the conflict began on October 7, 2023, according to satellite analysis by the United Nations’ UNOSAT programme.

In an assessment of images from September 22-23 of Gaza City, the UN agency estimated that an even higher proportion – 83 percent – of buildings there had been damaged or destroyed.

The total 61.5 million tonnes of debris is nearly 170 times the weight of New York’s Empire State Building and is equivalent to more than 169 kilogrammes of debris for each square metre of Gaza’s small territory.

Nearly two-thirds of the debris was made in the first five months of the war, according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The destruction of buildings also accelerated in the months leading up to the current ceasefire.

Eight million tonnes of debris were generated from April to July 2025, mostly in the southern part of the territory between Rafah and Khan Younis.

_{Palestinians walk through the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in the Shati camp, in Gaza City, on Friday, October 24}

A preliminary analysis published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in August warned the debris poses a serious health risk to the exposed population.

The UN agency suggests that at least 4.9 million tonnes of debris could be contaminated with asbestos from old buildings, particularly near refugee camps such as those in Jabalia in the north, Nuseirat and Maghazi in the centre, and Rafah and Khan Younis in the south.

UNEP also reports at least 2.9 million tonnes of debris could be contaminated with “hazardous waste from known industrial sites”.

Gaza health official says medical systems still in dire shape

The director of Medical Relief in Gaza, Muhammad Abu Afesh, has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the “suffering continues” in Gaza’s health centres, even after Israeli bombs have stopped falling.

“Primary health services remain faltering due to continued scarcity of resources. Mobile clinics and field hospitals are an urgent necessity for the population of the Gaza Strip,” he said.

Israel continues to delay and block shipments of aid promised in the ceasefire agreement, now just over two weeks after its implementation on October 10.

“We are very hopeful that the necessary equipment will be brought in and the sector will become better than it was,” Abu Afesh said.

UNRWA sounds alarm on coming winter season for Palestinians in Gaza

The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees says that displaced people in the Gaza Strip are in desperate need of shelter and supplies as winter is only weeks away.

Winter in the Levant is marked by chilly temperatures and severe rainstorms, often lasting days. “Shelter materials and winter supplies for displaced families are sitting in UNRWA warehouses in Jordan and Egypt, blocked from entry”, the agency said in a post on X.

The Israeli government is refusing to allow full access to aid organisations seeking to provide relief to Palestinians, and has also banned UNRWA from participating in any relief efforts.

Palestinians dig through rubble to find what’s left of homes – and loved ones

With the current lack of proper equipment to clear the rubble, many Palestinians are resorting to using their hands to search through what’s left of their properties.

“We’re in one of the areas that has been completely destroyed, and we have been seeing Palestinians trying to fix whatever they [can] fix, and trying to get back to their houses,” said Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from the Nuseirat refugee camp.

“We have been talking to Mahmoud, and he was telling us that he has been trying to fix his house and make a cover for the winter for the past four days.”

Mahmoud al-Abed was piling planks of steel and digging through the rubble outside his home. “I am trying to repair what I can repair. … I’m trying to fix whatever I can because the situation is very tough,” Al Abed told Al Jazeera. “We can’t stay like this, and winter is coming soon.”

Elsehwere, Mahmud Abu Nabhan has so far recovered seven members of his family from what’s left of their home. He’s continuing to search for his wife and children.

“This is our home. It was destroyed by the Israelis without warning. They bombed the house over the heads of the family,” he told Al Jazeera. “They dropped rockets and missiles, and they couldn’t get out. Innocent children and women – they are all right here under the rubble.”

Israeli military activity reported across Gaza, Palestinian wounded

A source at al-Awda Hospital has told Al Jazeera that a Palestinian was wounded by Israeli army bullets in the central Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military destroyed residential buildings southeast of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli artillery shelling was also reported in the eastern areas of Deir el-Balah.

Three Palestinians, including child, wounded by Israel in southern Gaza

A child has been seriously wounded by Israeli fire northwest of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the enclave’s ambulance and emergency services.

Another two people were wounded in an Israeli air strike on a civilian vehicle in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, also in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.

Israel arrests 3 Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coast: Report

Israeli Navy boats arrested three fishermen after destroying their fishing equipment off the coast of Gaza City, Wafa reported, quoting local sources.

The Israeli Navy has long targeted fishermen off the coast of Gaza, shooting at them, arresting them and seizing their boats. However, since October 7, 2023, it has barred Palestinian fishermen from going out to sea at all, killing many.

Israeli drone attacks car in south Lebanon

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports that the attack destroyed a civilian vehicle in the town of Harouf in the Nabatieh governorate. Reports indicate that at least one person was killed in the attack.

Israel arrests 3 in occupied West Bank

Wafa news agency reports that Israeli forces arrested three people from the Tulkarem governorate in the occupied West Bank.

Muhammad Abdul Rahim Ajouli and Muhammad Wasfi Harsha were arrested in the town of Qaffin after their homes were raided, and Maazuz Jaroun from his home in Shuweika.

Hamas slams Israeli settler attacks as ‘organised terrorist policy’

Senior Hamas official Abdul Rahman Shadid has criticised “the continued and escalating brutal attacks” carried out by settlers in the occupied West Bank as they target Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season.

He called these attacks “an organised terrorist policy” that targets land, people and all aspects of Palestinian life in the West Bank. Shadid stressed that the assaults are “an attempt to expand the settlements, terrorise residents and force them to abandon their lands”.

Settler attacks on farmers have increased in recent days in attempts to keep them away from olive trees during the harvest season.