Israel buying time as Gaza ceasefire ‘very close’ to collapse

The US-brokered ceasefire is “very close” to collapsing amid ongoing violations, Zeidon Alkinani, a lecturer at Georgetown University in Qatar, tells Al Jazeera.

“The question is, when will the US admit that it needs to take a firmer stance against Israel [to put an end to] Israel’s feeling of impunity,” he said.

Alkinani argued that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was hoping US President Donald Trump would set his eyes on other issues – including Asia, where he was attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit – and abandon the idea of a reconstruction plan for Gaza.

“Israel is trying to buy as much time as possible in order to normalise its actions, the annexation of lands and Israel’s colonial project,” he said.

Court rejects Netanyahu’s request to reduce hearings in corruption case: Report

Haaretz reports that the panel of justices presiding in the Israeli PM’s criminal trial has rejected his request to reduce the number of weekly hearings due to the “security situation”.

A request from his defence team to resign was also rejected, Haaretz says.

Netanyahu is up against three separate cases of corruption filed in 2019: Case 1000, Case 2000, and Case 4000, which include allegations of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.

Israel to deport Jewish women taking part in olive harvest in West Bank

Israeli authorities have ordered the deportation of two Jewish women who joined the humanitarian organisation Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) for a peacebuilding olive harvest alongside Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank village of Burin.

“The participation of Jews and internationals in the olive harvest has always been an act of solidarity and peace,” representatives of RHR and the peacebuilding platform Achvat Amim said in a joint statement.

“The decision to deport these volunteers reflects an alarming trend of silencing nonviolent human rights work and Jewish voices for justice in Israel-Palestine.”

The two individuals facing deportation previously lived in Jerusalem and have family ties to the country. It was unclear when they would be deported and to which country.

Israeli troops and settlers have carried out dozens of attacks on both Palestinians and their olive trees during this harvest season.

Israeli raids, settler attacks reported across West Bank

The Palestinian Wafa news agency is reporting several Israeli raids and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank:

Israel erected nearly 1,000 barriers in West Bank during Gaza war

Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in cities and towns in the occupied West Bank, further stifling movement for Palestinians and hindering daily lives.

According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, an official Palestinian governmental body, 916 gates, barriers and walls have been installed since the war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023.

Among the new barriers are metal gates stationed at many village and town entrances, and between cities, blocking access. Palestinians say the gates have erratic opening hours, with some staying shut for days.

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian man, son after settler attack in Masafer Yatta

A Palestinian man and his son have been arrested in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have reported.

They were apprehended after Israeli settlers attacked the area, a string of Palestinian hamlets located on the hills south of Hebron where Palestinians have fought displacement orders.

Their resistance to Israeli settler violence was documented in the Oscar-winning documentary film, No Other Land.

Israel made Google and Amazon use secret payments to dodge legal orders: Report

When Google and Amazon negotiated a massive $1.2bn cloud computing deal in 2021 with the Israeli government, a secret arrangement known as the “winking mechanism” was included, according to a new joint investigation by The Guardian and the Israeli publications +972 Magazine and Local Call.

The secret warning system obligates the companies to “send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators”, the investigation found.

The payments, under the deal known as Project Nimbus, correspond to the telephone dialling code of the foreign country, and range between 1,000 and 9,999 shekels (US $307 to $3,066).

“Israeli officials inserted the controls to counter a series of anticipated threats. They feared Google or Amazon might bow to employee or shareholder pressure and withdraw Israel’s access to its products and services if linked to human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories,” the report stated.

Both Google and Amazon’s cloud businesses have denied evading any legal obligations, the outlets reported.

“Legal experts, including several former US prosecutors, said the arrangement was highly unusual and carried risks for the companies as the coded messages could violate legal obligations in the US, where the companies are headquartered, to keep a subpoena secret,” the report stated.


Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, all in on the genocide. US government and US companies all making money off genocide.

Wife of detained UK journalist Sami Hamdi, vocal against Israel, calls for his release

The wife of UK journalist Sami Hamdi is calling for his release after he was detained earlier this week by US immigration officials when his visa was revoked for unsubstantiated “national security” reasons.

“Our beloved Sami was abducted over the weekend by the US government because of his courageous and effective advocacy for Palestinian human rights,” a statement from his wife, Soumaya, reads.

His wife stated that Hamdi’s detention appears to be a “politically motivated act of intimidation”.

“Sami was on a speaking tour across North America when a politicised group of social media influencers targeted him for his support for Palestinian rights. They have mischaracterised my husband and his views in an effort to discredit and silence him,” Soumaya stated.

She urged the UK government to provide “full consular support” for Hamdi, something it has not yet done, she stated.

“Sami’s advocacy at events across America is simple: millions of Americans are facing food insecurity and falling living standards. He argues that taxpayers’ money should prioritise healthcare, housing, and welfare rather than being depleted by providing political support for Israel,” stated Soumaya.

Israeli troops kill one in overnight incursion into southern Lebanon

The Israeli military conducted an incursion into the village of Blida in southern Lebanon overnight, where troops killed an employee inside the town’s municipality building, according to local reports.

The employee’s name was Ibrahim Salama, the reports said.

The troops were in the town for a few hours, and residents reported hearing screams during this period.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that the body of Salama was transferred to the local civil defence after the Lebanese army surveyed the site of the assassination.

While this is not the first time Israeli troops have advanced into Lebanese territory along the border, the killing of the municipal worker is seen as an escalation.

Israel has been violating its November ceasefire with Hezbollah on a near-daily basis.

Israeli military confirms overnight incursion into southern Lebanon

Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee has issued a statement confirming it has conducted an overnight incursion into the village of Blida in southern Lebanon.

In a post on X written in Arabic, Adraee said Israeli forces had identified a “suspect” inside a building and “initiated procedures to apprehend [him]”. Shots were fired by the military after “identifying an immediate threat”, he wrote.

According to Lebanese state media, a municipal employee was killed by soldiers inside the municipality building. The Israeli spokesperson alleged the building was being used by Hezbollah without presenting evidence to back up the claim.

Israeli drone hovering over Lebanese capital

Dialysis patients at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital risk lives amid shortages

The dialysis unit at the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City is experiencing a severe crisis due to a critical shortage of medical supplies and essential equipment, Al Jazeera Arabic has reported.

This threatens to halt treatment for 139 dialysis patients who need two to three treatments per day, according to medical personnel at the hospital.

Amid the ongoing deterioration of the health sector in the Gaza Strip and the general lack of medicine supplies, dialysis patients also lack blood for transfusions due to the high number of injured patients requiring this resource.

Erdogan to Germany: Does Berlin not see Israeli genocide in Gaza?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed Germany over what he said was its ignorance of Israel’s “genocide”, famine and attacks in Gaza, at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Ankara.

Erdogan said Israel had nuclear and other weapons with which it was using and threatening Gaza, adding that Hamas had none of those.

He also spoke of Israeli violations of the ceasefire in recent days.

“Does Germany not see these?” he said, adding it was Turkiye, Germany and other countries’ humanitarian duty to end the famine and massacres in Gaza.

‘Do we really call this a ceasefire?’ MSF doctor asks

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says Palestinians across Gaza are facing an “overwhelming level of death and catastrophic injuries” as a result of Israel’s recent bombardment.

The medical charity said its teams treated dozens of wounded patients yesterday at three hospitals in the enclave.

“When I got to the emergency room, it was a desperate situation,” said Dr Morten Rostrup, a Norwegian physician who works at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah. “There is no doubt this is an attack on civilians, with so many children being injured and killed. Do we really call this a ceasefire?”

Dozens of dead bodies were also brought to the medical facilities, MSF said.

“We have repeatedly called for a sustained ceasefire to stop the overwhelming level of death and catastrophic injuries suffered by civilians. So far, we are witnessing the consequences of repeated violations of this ceasefire, which perpetuate the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” the group added.

On 29 October, our teams across the Gaza Strip treated severely wounded patients from attacks by Israeli forces, which caused alarming civilian casualties. We have seen injured patients in Al-Aqsa, Nasser, and Al-Shifa hospitals.
  
Dr Morten Rostrup, a doctor at Al-Aqsa…

— MSF International (@MSF) October 30, 2025

‘Killers of journalists getting away with murder’: CPJ urges reforms

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for “radical reform” of the ways in which journalists’ killings are investigated amid global impunity for such incidents.

The media watchdog said it has recorded the deadliest three years for journalists and media workers since it began keeping records, with more than 125 killed last year alone – “the majority of them Palestinians killed by Israel”.

“Despite clear evidence of deliberate targeting in many of these cases, no one has been held accountable for their deaths, reflecting a broader and entrenched global pattern, in which the killers of journalists are getting away with murder,” the CPJ said in a statement.

Among other things, it said it would push for an independent, international “task force” to be established to investigate violence against media workers.

The CPJ also said it would bolster its work with governments “to develop targeted sanctions against perpetrators of crimes against journalists”.