Rally in Israel marks assassination of PM Yitzhak Rabin

Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv to mark the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Rabin was killed by a far-right Israeli assailant in Tel Aviv in 1995 over his role in the Oslo Peace Accords, which aimed to end the conflict through a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

On November 4, 1995, Rabin was shot at a peace rally by Yigal Amir, who was motivated by his opposition to the negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).


_{A drone photo shows Israelis gathering in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv}

_{Critics say the Oslo Accords were used as a smokescreen for Israel to continue the expansion of Jewish settlements throughout the occupied Palestinian territory}

Settler violence in West Bank ‘offsets’ far-right’s disappointment over Gaza

The escalating situation in the occupied West Bank is offsetting the disappointment among Israel’s ultranationalists over the halt to the war on Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s allies in the government have hosted conferences over the past two years on establishing (illegal) Israeli settlements in Gaza. They didn’t want this war to end; they wanted to depopulate the Gaza Strip of Palestinians.

So while Netanyahu now has to play nice with Trump and to adhere to the ceasefire, as far as Israel is concerned in the occupied West Bank, the agenda of this government is to take over land, allow settlers to not only take up more arms but to use them quite freely, and to assist them by deploying the Israeli army.

All of that is meant to please the base of the right wing in Israel, to make them forgive, if you will, the misgivings they have about the situation in Gaza, and to lower the temperature of criticism of the Israeli government about how the ceasefire is going.

Israeli settlers attack school in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers have raided an educational facility in the occupied West Bank village of Khirbet Ibziq, the Wafa news agency reports.

Azmi Balawna, an education official for the nearby city of Tubas, said the gang of settlers damaged the school’s equipment and burned a Palestinian flag.

Israeli settlers, often backed by soldiers, continue daily assaults and raids across the occupied West Bank. The number of settler attacks has risen sharply since 2016, with 852 recorded in 2022, 1,291 in 2023, and 1,449 in 2024. With more than 1,000 attacks in the first eight months of 2025, this year is on track to become the most violent yet.

Israeli troops arrest 21 Palestinians in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have arrested 21 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.

The detentions occurred during extensive raids and included children, it said.

According to official Palestinian figures, more than 20,000 Palestinians have been arrested by Israel in the occupied territory since the genocide in Gaza began two years ago.

Children among 11 arrested by Israeli police in occupied East Jerusalem

Israeli police say they have arrested 11 people, including children, over the past two weeks in occupied East Jerusalem who are suspected of setting fire to bins, throwing stones and hurling firebombs at police.

The Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem reported that as of the end of 2024, 206 minors were held in Israeli custody, 113 of whom on “security grounds“.

Defence for Children International, an NGO working on children’s rights, said as of June, 41 percent of 360 detained Palestinian children were held without charge.

Palestinians face worsening conditions in Israel’s Megiddo Prison

The conditions for prisoners held in northern Israel’s Megiddo Prison have deteriorated since the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire took effect on October 10, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.

Prisoners face beatings by guards, are not receiving medical checks and are being refused outdoor exercise, it said in a statement.

There are nearly 10,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons in Israel and occupied Palestinian territory, according to the prisoners rights group Addameer.

So-called administrative detainees, including women and children, are held by the military for renewable six-month periods based on “secret evidence” that neither the detainees nor their lawyers are allowed to see.

Israel establishes new settlement outpost on Palestinian land near Jerusalem

This report comes to us from Wafa, whose source observed army activity in the town of Anata, north of occupied East Jerusalem. Soldiers accompanied by a bulldozer levelled land, setting up caravans, tents and mobile homes at the site.

Israel has issued 54 military orders for Palestinian land seizures since the beginning of the year, according to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, a settlement expansion watchdog.

Israel accuses Lebanon of ‘dragging feet’ on disarming Hezbollah

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz says “Hezbollah is playing with fire” while Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun is “dragging his feet” over the group’s disarmament.

“The commitment of the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah and remove it from southern Lebanon must be realised. Enforcement of the maximum will continue and even intensify – we will not allow a threat to the residents of the north,” Katz said in a post on X.

Israel has ramped up its attacks on southern Lebanon, the most recent one killing four people, as it violates its nearly yearlong truce with Hezbollah on an almost-daily basis.

Israeli air strike kills 4 in Lebanon as Hezbollah truce under strain

An Israeli attack has killed at least four people in southern Lebanon, putting more pressure on a nearly yearlong truce with Hezbollah. The Health Ministry said the Israeli air strikes on the town of Kfarsir in the Nabatieh district also wounded three people.

The state-run Lebanon News Agency reported one strike with a “guided missile” targeted a car at about 2:15pm (16:15 GMT).

The attack came a day after Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Israel of escalating violence in response to his offer to negotiate a more lasting end to the cross-border attacks.


_{A Lebanese soldier in the southern border village of Blida}

‘Yellow line’ won’t become permanent in Gaza: Israeli official

Ron Dermer, Israel’s strategic affairs minister, said at the Jewish Coalition in the Democratic Party in Las Vegas that the “yellow line” ceasefire demarcation will not become “a permanent separation line”.

Israel has established the “buffer zone” inside Gaza under the truce agreement with Hamas.

Dermer said the truce requires Hamas to disarm and if it doesn’t, “Israel is the one that will act and then the yellow line will shrink."

“If non-Israeli forces deal with it then the yellow line will expand,” he added.

So Israel is already announcing they'll take more territory as Hamas has already said disarming is a red line. Besides that, chance of finding the remaining 11 (9 Israeli) captive bodies is slim. The last 2 found turned out not to be captives. Phase 2 will not even start as long as Israel keeps hampering the search for bodies. 

Trump wants his deals with the Arab states to go through though, he will have to pressure Netanyahu a lot more to keep up the 'peace' plan illusion.


Gaza ceasefire’s second phase rests on US: Analyst

Ceasefire violations in the Gaza Strip are one-sided because Hamas, unlike Israel, “does not have the luxury to violate anything”, says Muhanad Seloom, an assistant professor in Critical Security Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

“They have already handed back the captives, the alive ones, and they are trying to recover the bodies of the [dead],” Seloom told Al Jazeera. The only hope for moving onto the second phase of the ceasefire rests on the US, he said.

“If the US wants to enforce this, we will be moving to phase two. If the US chooses to go along with Netanyahu, then we will be unfortunately seeing more attacks,” added Seloom.

Heavy machinery allowed to find Israeli bodies, but not to clear debris

The entry of heavy machinery and equipment such as bulldozers and trucks is being limited to the search and recovery of Israeli bodies inside the Gaza Strip. They have little authority to operate elsewhere. The process is designed for that purpose.

We’re still seeing rubble-filled roads everywhere, blocked by the debris from major buildings destroyed over the last two years. Areas across the Gaza Strip remain inaccessible, let alone public services to provide assistance to displaced families.

Palestinians feel it is about time they were treated equally – that the same attention and concern for the deceased Israeli captives is given to them.

UNRWA shelters 70,000 displaced Palestinians in Gaza

UNRWA, the UN agency tasked with providing aid to Palestinians, says 70,000 Palestinians currently reside in 70 shelters it’s operating across the war-shattered Gaza Strip.

One of the organisation’s representatives told Al Jazeera that about 8,000 teachers have begun work again in Gaza since the slowdown in Israeli strikes brought about by the fragile, US-brokered ceasefire a few weeks ago.

There is widespread damage across the #Gaza Strip, unstable structures, and unexploded ordnance.

UNRWA currently runs over 70 shelters, where tens of thousands of forcibly displaced people are living.

Our teams continue to work tirelessly to keep shelters running and to help… pic.twitter.com/sNSSxANCfn

— UNRWA (@UNRWA) November 2, 2025

Gaza media office calls US CENTCOM looting allegations ‘fabricated’

The Gaza Government Media Office has refuted accusations by the US Central Command that Hamas fighters looted an aid-carrying vehicle after the release of a video of the alleged incident.

US CENTCOM published what it said was drone footage on Saturday showing “suspected Hamas elements” commandeering an aid truck in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

“We affirm that this accusation is completely false and fabricated from its very foundation, and comes within the framework of a systematic media disinformation campaign aimed at distorting the image of the Palestinian police forces, which are carrying out their national and humanitarian duty in securing aid and protecting relief convoys,” a media office statement said.

“The police system is making every effort to control matters despite the continued ‘Israeli’ meddling in the internal arena, with several objectives including engineering starvation by obstructing the delivery of aid.”

Palestinian man killed in Israeli drone attack on Gaza’s Shujayea area

A Palestinian man has been killed in an Israeli drone attack on the Shujayea neighbourhood east of Gaza City, according to a source at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital.

Both Shujayea and the nearby Zeitoun area have been subjected to building demolitions by the Israeli army since the morning. Since the US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on October 11, at least 226 people have been killed in Israeli attacks and another 594 wounded.

The overall death toll has risen to 68,858 killed, with 170,664 injured, since October 7, 2023.

Two more bodies pulled from collapsed building in Gaza City

Gaza’s Civil Defence agency says it has retrieved the remains of two more Palestinians from under the rubble of a collapsed building in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood in western Gaza City.

The effort to retrieve Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes whose bodies are trapped beneath mounds of rubble across Gaza has been hampered by the lack of heavy machinery needed for the grim task.

Ahmed Radwan, the Civil Defence agency’s media officer in Rafah in southern Gaza, told Al-Aqsa TV that more than 10,000 Palestinian bodies remain trapped under the debris caused by two years of Israeli bombardments.

_{The heavily damaged Jabalia neighbourhood in Gaza City}

Casualty toll: Israeli attacks kill 236, wound 600 since Gaza truce began

Since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel went into effect last month, at least 236 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks and another 600 wounded.

Over the last 24 hours, hospitals across Gaza reported the deaths of three people, and received three more bodies from underneath the rubble of collapsed buildings. One person died at a hospital from wounds sustained in attacks, the Health Ministry said.

UN reports major shortfall in promised aid deliveries to Gaza during truce

Humanitarian aid delivery into Gaza remains severely restricted despite some improvement in food distribution, the United Nations says.

The UN reported last Thursday that only 149 trucks were offloaded at Gaza’s crossings the previous day, hampered by congested routes and persistent delays by Israel’s army. The Gaza media office said an average of only 145 aid trucks per day have entered Gaza since the ceasefire began, well short of the 600 agreed on.

Cargo movement is restricted by what the UN described as the “highly congested and narrow Philadelphi Corridor”, which is unsuitable for large convoys. Humanitarian organisations face continued denial by Israel of alternative routes to the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom to Israelis) crossing.

_{Aid trucks queue to enter the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip}

Thousands of critical patients in Gaza await evacuation

More than 16,500 patients requiring specialized treatment remain trapped in Gaza, despite the World Health Organization facilitating the evacuation of critically ill patients.

A UN situation update said as of September, Egypt received the most Palestinian evacuees (3,995) from Gaza, followed by the United Arab Emirates (1,450), Qatar (970), and Turkiye (437).

In Europe, Italy took in the largest number of patients and provided medical treatment to 201 people. The UN said last week that 3,800 Palestinian children still need to be evacuated for urgent healthcare abroad.

Any genuine political process ‘must integrate all Palestinian territories’: Palestine’s foreign minister

Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Shahin has met United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on the sidelines of a security summit in Bahrain’s capital, Manama.

In a post on X, Shahin said she told her British counterpart that treating the question of peace in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem – the areas that would constitute a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines – as separate issues is an “approach disconnected from reality”.

Shahin stressed that any genuine political track “must integrate all Palestinian territories”

Sami Hamdi won’t be moved from California by US immigration authorities

The British Tunisian political commentator arrested by US immigration authorities last week won’t be moved out of California, where he’s receiving legal support, a rights group says.

“A federal court has temporarily blocked ICE from transferring British journalist Sami Hamdi out of California,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement.

CAIR and Hamdi’s legal team told Al Jazeera he was granted medical attention after facing a health complication and was visited by two people. His lawyers said he was doing better on Sunday.

In a post on X, Adnan Hussain, a UK independent MP, called for Hamdi’s immediate release. “Appalling that British national Sami Hamdi has not yet been released from US detention and allowed to return home to his family.”

On Friday, a demonstration was organised by CAIR outside the San Francisco Immigration Court, calling for Hamdi to be freed.


_{Commentator Sami Hamdi was arrested by US immigration authorities last week}

Israel ‘structurally unwilling’ to prosecute Gaza war crimes

Controversy continues over Israel army prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi’s dismissal for leaking footage of a Palestinian detainee allegedly being sexually assaulted while in military custody.

The military prosecutor however, has a less than stellar record, according to a report published in September.

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights released a report in September stating that Israel demonstrates “structural unwillingness” to properly examine alleged crimes against Palestinians.

From 2017 to 2021, only 0.9 percent of 1,260 complaints filed against Israeli soldiers led to indictments, it said. From October 2023 onwards, 88 percent of suspected war crimes cases have either been dismissed or remain unresolved.

“Particularly in the context of the war in Gaza, with its massive civilian casualties and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure, it is clear that national proceedings remain inadequate and that alleged perpetrators are systematically shielded from accountability,” said the report.

More than 500 bodies have been recovered since ceasefire began

Gaza’s Ministry of Health reports that the bodies of 500 Palestinians killed during Israel’s assault have been recovered since the US-brokered ceasefire took hold.

It added that 236 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks and 600 wounded since the ceasefire began.

UNICEF calls for expanded aid access to Gaza

The UN agency for children has called for expanded humanitarian access to Gaza to ensure the timely delivery of essential medical care and supplies, warning that the territory’s health system has been devastated by the war.

The agency said it is delivering life-saving medical supplies across the enclave, including to hospitals in Gaza City, but stressed that more access is urgently needed to reach those in need.

Gaza’s health system has been battered by Israeli bombardment, raids and recurring sieges, leaving hospitals barely functioning and running out of critical supplies as an aid blockade persists.

_{A Palestinian clears out debris from a heavily damaged building}

Police in Gaza say they detained several traders accused of price gouging

Authorities in southern Gaza say they have detained five traders and taken action against others accused of hoarding goods and violating price rules, as market inspections continue in Rafah and Khan Younis.

The police’s consumer protection unit said officers seized large quantities of food items and moved against traders who were not sticking to official prices. Another 12 sellers were summoned and made to sign pledges, it added.

Officials say the seized goods were put back into the market at regulated prices to help keep costs stable for residents. Police said they will keep up market checks and warned they’ll take firm action against anyone trying to exploit the dire economic situation.

Gaza remains under tight Israeli control, with food, fuel, and medicine still in critically short supply. Prices have surged across the enclave, and while limited aid trucks have entered since the latest ceasefire, the United Nations says the deliveries are nowhere near what is needed to meet the needs of 2.3 million people.

Ahh, there's Hamas looting 'aid'...

Gaza health official says living conditions unchanged despite ceasefire

A senior health official in Gaza says that living conditions have not improved since the ceasefire took effect earlier this month, with food supplies still insufficient and lacking variety.

Raafat al-Majdalawi, director-general of the al-Awda health and community association, said essential food, medicine and supplies remain scarce across the territory, where Israeli forces continue to seal border crossings and limit the entry of aid at scale.

_{A Palestinian rests in an armchair next to the rubble of destroyed buildings}

Israeli military demolish homes in southern Gaza: Reports

Palestinian media outlets are reporting that the Israeli military is carrying out demolition operations on residential homes in the eastern neighbourhoods of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli military says Red Cross preparing to receive several deceased captives

The Israeli military has issued a joint statement with Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security and counterintelligence agency, which states that the Red Cross is on its way to a meeting point in southern Gaza.

It says that the coffins of “several” deceased captives will be transferred into the Red Cross’s custody.

The Israeli military did not state the exact number of deceased captives that were to be transferred. However, earlier, the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, said that it would hand over the bodies of three deceased Israeli captives to Israel today at 8pm Gaza time, or 18:00 GMT.

Israeli military says bodies of deceased captives have been transferred to the Red Cross

The Israeli military has issued a joint statement with Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security and counterintelligence agency. It says that according to information provided by the Red Cross, three coffins of deceased captives have been transferred to the Red Cross’s custody.

It said the bodies are now being transported to Israeli troops located in the Gaza Strip.

The search for deceased Israeli captives in Khan Younis

_{As part of a US-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, heavy machinery was deployed to Khan Younis to assist in the recovery of deceased Israeli captives}

_{Teams from the ICRC observe as search operations continue}

Identifying the 3 deceased captives can take up to 2 days: Report

The Times of Israel is reporting that the bodies of three deceased captives are now being escorted by police from the boundary with the Gaza Strip to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv for identification.

Citing officials, the newspaper says the identification process can take up to two days.

It said that if it is confirmed that they are the bodies of three captives, then the remains of eight deceased captives remain in Gaza.

Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli custody due to medical neglect, group says

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society media office has announced the death of detainee Mohammed Hussein Ghawadra, 63, from the town of Burqin near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, saying he died in Israeli custody today.

Ghawadra was arrested in August 2024 and had been denied medical care despite suffering from chronic illness, the office said in a statement.

It accused Israeli prison authorities of “systematic crimes” against Palestinian prisoners, including medical neglect and psychological and physical abuse. It said Ghawadra’s passing brings the number of detainees who have died in custody since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza to 81.

At least 318 have died in Israeli custody since 1967, it added.

The group said Ghawadra is the father of administrative detainee Sami Ghawadra, who is being held without charge or trial. He is also the father of Shadi Ghawadra, who was released and subsequently exiled to Egypt earlier this year in a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.

Family of long-term Palestinian prisoner says he faces severe health decline

The family of Palestinian prisoner Jamal al-Hoor, 55, from the town of Surif near Hebron, says he is experiencing serious health deterioration after more than 27 years in Israeli detention.

Al-Hoor was arrested in April 1997 and handed multiple life sentences, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society media office. His family says he is held in difficult conditions, suffers from diabetes, has lost significant weight and experiences repeated fainting due to poor nutrition, medical neglect and poor conditions.

Relatives told the group that he has been repeatedly denied regular family visits since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, and that communication with detainees has become extremely limited.

Al-Hoor’s family said they have endured “years of anguish”, noting the death of his mother while he was imprisoned. They called for greater efforts to secure the release of longtime prisoners.