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Red Cross, Hamas search for bodies of remaining Israeli captives in Gaza’s Shujayea

The Red Cross and members of Hamas are continuing the search for the bodies of Israeli captives in Gaza City.The remains of eight captives are still under the rubble of destroyed buildings.


Heart-warming scenes in Gaza as freed detainees reunite with families

We have received five prisoners who were unexpectedly released by Israel. They were transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital for medical checkups. There were heart-warming scenes here as family members reunited with the former detainees and hugged them.



But there were also Palestinians who went home heartbroken, as they did not find their loved ones among those who were freed.

Earlier in the day, the Israeli authorities also handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians who had been held by the Israeli military. The process to identify them is going to start tomorrow.

Despite these developments, Israeli forces are also continuing to attack different areas across Gaza. They’ve targeted a school in the Shujayea neighbourhood of northern Gaza City that has been sheltering thousands of displaced families. There was a wedding at the school, and three Palestinians, including a child, were injured.

In southern Rafah, three more Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, who are also continuing attacks on eastern parts of nearby Khan Younis, including by demolishing and destroying residential houses.

Palestinians say they know they will continue to be targeted wherever they go in Gaza, despite a ceasefire being in effect.



Overcrowded shelters in Gaza leave thousands struggling for ‘dignity, safety, basic hygiene’


Nearly 75,000 displaced Palestinians are sheltering in UNRWA-run buildings, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says, adding that many of those structures are “damaged and overcrowded”.

“Overcrowded shelters in Gaza leave little space or privacy,” it said.

“For many displaced women and girls, daily life means coping without dignity, safety, or adequate hygiene. Limited access to healthcare and basic hygiene supplies makes each day a struggle,” UNRWA said in a social media post.


Displaced Palestinians shelter in tents in Gaza City



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Israeli aircraft carry out raids east of Khan Younis

Israeli aircraft have carried out raids on Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Al-Quds TV is reporting.


Heavy Israeli shelling in Khan Younis as drones circle Gaza’s skies

We are still witnessing a surge of Israeli army activity across Gaza, but mostly this has taken place beyond the yellow line in areas under Israeli control.

Since midnight into this morning, we have seen massive Israeli activity conducted in the eastern parts of Khan Younis.

We have witness reports describing constant artillery shelling and a campaign taking place on what’s left of homes in Khan Younis. Farms and houses are being destroyed in eastern parts of Gaza City.

We have also been hearing drones and jets since early morning. These activities are banned by the terms of the ceasefire agreement, but the Israeli military says such activities are to eliminate potential threats that can encircle Israeli troops beyond the yellow line.


Israeli forces arrest 5 fishermen off Gaza City’s coast

Israeli forces have arrested five Palestinian fishermen working off the coast of Gaza City, our colleagues are reporting, citing the Gaza fishermen’s union.

The union said the men had been taken to an unknown location.


Israeli drone attack kills one person in Gaza City

One person was killed and one wounded after an Israeli quadcopter opened fire on the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City. The wounded person was taken to al-Ahli Hospital. Medical crew has been unable to retrieve the body due to continued fire in the area.

The attack comes amid ongoing Israeli bombardments across the Gaza Strip, where health workers have repeatedly warned that access to affected areas remains perilous due to damaged roads and the risk of renewed strikes.


One Palestinian killed by Israeli attack in Jabalia

A source at al-Ahli Arab Hospital tells Al Jazeera that one Palestinian has been killed by Israeli army fire in Jabalia in northern Gaza.

Earlier today, one person was killed and one wounded when an Israeli quadcopter opened fire on the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.



UN chief says Gaza ceasefire violations ‘must stop’

Antonio Guterres has voiced “deep concern” over the continued violations of the fragile, nearly monthlong ceasefire in Gaza.

“They must stop, and all parties must abide by the decisions of the first phase of the peace agreement,” he told reporters at the Second World Summit for Social Development in Qatar’s capital, Doha.

“Let’s not forget the need to establish a credible political path towards ending the occupation, realising the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, and leading to a two-state solution that enables Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace and security.”

Despite the ceasefire, Israeli attacks on Gaza have continued, killing dozens of Palestinians.

Last week, Israeli army attacks across the enclave killed more than 100 people, including 46 children, within 24 hours.



Qatar’s emir urges international community to step up support for Palestinians

Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, has called on the international community to “double down on efforts” to support the Palestinian people in rebuilding from the devastation caused by Israel’s occupation and “apartheid system”.

“It’s impossible to achieve social development in any society without peace and stability,” he said at the opening of the Second World Summit for Social Development in Qatar’s capital, Doha.

“It goes without saying that the Palestinian people need all forms of aid to be able to recover from the devastation that was caused by the Israeli occupation and the apartheid system in Palestine.”

He also urged the international community “to double down on efforts and to provide support to the Palestinian people for reconstruction and to secure the basic needs for the people until justice is administered”.



Israeli settlers set fire to olive trees near Bethlehem

Israeli settlers have set fire to olive trees in the village of Marah Rabah, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency is reporting. The attack happened at midnight, it reported.

It is the latest incident in an intensifying wave of violence by Israeli settlers targeting the Palestinian olive harvest.

Since the harvest began in the first week of October, there have been at least 158 attacks across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to figures made public by the Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) at the end of that month.

The CWRC says more than 15,000 trees have been attacked since October 2024.

Olives are the backbone of Palestinian agriculture, a sector that accounts for about 8 percent of gross domestic product and more than 60,000 jobs, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Agriculture Ministry.


Israeli forces raid Balata camp in West Bank

Israeli forces have raided the Balata refugee camp, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, local sources tell our colleagues on the ground.

Israeli forces arrest 8 Palestinians near Nablus in West Bank

Israeli forces have arrested eight Palestinians in raids across Nablus governorate in the occupied West Bank this morning, Wafa news agency is reporting.

Five men were arrested in the town of Beit Furik, with arrests also in Nablus city and the Balata refugee camp.


Israeli forces demolish homes of Palestinians near Jericho and Ramallah

The Israeli army has demolished a tourist villa and a house in the Matar area east of Jericho, according to Wafa news agency. The demolitions are part of a broader Israeli policy to displace Palestinians in the Jordan Valley and Jericho, aiming to empty the region of its residents.

In a separate incident west of Ramallah, Israeli forces demolished an agricultural structure and bulldozed land in Budrus village. Local sources said troops, accompanied by a bulldozer, also uprooted trees on a farm.

Israeli forces entered Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, distributing threatening leaflets to residents.


Israeli settlers attack Palestinian olive pickers south of Bethlehem

Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian olive pickers south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency is reporting.

A family was attacked as it was heading to its olive groves west of the town of al-Khader. A man said he was punched and hit with rifle butts by the settlers, who also detained his wife and daughter and forced the family at gunpoint to leave the area.

The man said the family was followed pursued by the settlers and Israeli forces as they left. The family was also threatened with an arrest if it returned to the land.

The attack is the latest incident in a wave of violence by Israeli settlers targeting the Palestinian olive harvest in the occupied West Bank.


Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque under police protection

Israelis have stormed the courtyards of al-Aqsa Mosque. Footage published by Quds News Network showed what appears to be a group of settlers entering the compound under the escort of Israeli police.

Wafa news agency reported that dozens of Israelis carried out the incursion, while the Jerusalem Governorate said a total of 465 settlers entered the courtyards, taking what it described as “provocative tours” of the area.

The visits are deeply controversial as they are seen by Palestinians and much of the Muslim world as an attempt to assert Israeli control over the al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, known to Jewish people as the Temple Mount.



Are we closer to a Gaza international peace force after Istanbul meeting?

Foreign ministers from seven Arab and Islamic-majority countries have met in Turkiye’s largest city, Istanbul, to discuss the possibility of establishing an international stabilisation force in Gaza as well as the ceasefire in the territory.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan addressed reporters after the meeting and said conversations were still ongoing over the proposed international force for Gaza, which was included in United States President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan.

The body, which is expected to manage security inside the Gaza Strip, is still unformed, and its responsibilities have still not been publicly defined.

Several countries involved in Monday’s meeting have previously called for a United Nations Security Council resolution establishing the force if they are to be involved. And the potential members of the force want its mandate to be clearly defined.

They had previously had what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described as a “fruitful” meeting on the topic with Trump in late September.

US seeks UN approval for Gaza security force: Report

The US news website Axios is reporting that Washington has sent several UN Security Council members a draft resolution for the establishment of an international force in Gaza for at least two years.

Axios cited a US official as saying the draft document will be the basis for negotiations over the coming days between UN Security Council members with the goal of voting to establish it in the coming weeks and deploying the first troops to Gaza by January.

The official stressed that the security force will be an “enforcement force and not a peacekeeping force”, according to Axios.

The draft document states that the force would be tasked with securing Gaza’s borders with Israel and Egypt, protecting civilians and humanitarian corridors, and training a new Palestinian police force, Axios reported.

The force would also “stabilize the security environment in Gaza by ensuring the process of demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, including the destruction and prevention of rebuilding of military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, as well as the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups”, the outlet reported.

Occupation force like I said, a resolution to legitimize Israel's continuous breaking of the ceasefire by putting an international 'mandate' behind the continued enforcement of the blockade as well as the continued destruction of Gaza's land and continued starvation and killing of civilians.


Arab, Muslim states unlikely to embrace ‘enforcer’ role in Gaza

The Trump administration’s proposals for an international stabilisation force to operate in Gaza under phase two of the US-backed ceasefire are likely to face significant challenges, says Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

He said the US vision for the force, outlined in a draft document reportedly sent to several UN Security Council members as a basis for negotiations, suggested the force would be “an enforcer”.

“In other words, they would be given some significant latitude to carry out military operations. The language that I’ve seen suggests that they are going to seek to disarm Hamas,” Elmasry told Al Jazeera.

He questioned whether the Arab and Muslim countries that would potentially make up the international force “understand what they’re actually signing up for based on Trump’s vision because there would be significant likelihood of … violent conflict”.

“I don’t know that any of those countries want that,” he said. “These Muslim and Arab states don’t necessarily want to sign up for fighting against Hamas on behalf of Israel."



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Police fire pepper spray, arrest demonstrators at Sydney defence expo protest

Police in Sydney have fired pepper spray and arrested 13 people as pro-Palestinian protesters tried to blockade a defence expo over the presence of Israeli weapons companies, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is reporting.

Dozens of protesters from the Palestine Action Group gathered outside the International Convention Centre to protest against the presence of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the Australian subsidiary of Elbit Systems at the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition.

ABC reported riot police and mounted officers clashed with protesters and fired pepper spray.

Palestine Action Group organiser Josh Lees said the protesters were “trying to say that this kind of abomination should not be held in our city”.

Israeli weapons contractors have been the target of protests at other defence exhibitions around the world. In September, representatives of Elbit Systems and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems at an exhibition in Kielce were reportedly called in by Polish police for questioning after a journalist filed a complaint about their involvement in the war on Gaza.


A pro-Palestine protester rinses out her eyes after being pepper-sprayed by police at a demonstration against the presence of Israeli weapons companies at a defence expo in Sydney, Australia



Foreign minister says Israel aiming to build long-term ‘strategic partnership’ with India

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has reiterated his country’s commitment to strengthening ties with India, saying its “goal is to build the long-term strategic partnership” with New Delhi.

He made the comments at the start of a meeting with his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. His remarks came after Israel and India signed an investment agreement in September.

We have previously reported that Israel has been receiving Indian weapons as it wages war on Gaza.

In December 2018, Adani Defence & Aerospace, the defence arm of the Indian multinational Adani Enterprises Ltd, and Israel’s Elbit Systems inaugurated the Adani Elbit Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Complex in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

In a joint statement, the facility was described as “the first outside Israel to manufacture the Hermes 900 Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAV”, an unmanned aerial vehicle that can fly for up to 36 hours at an altitude of 9,000 metres (30,000ft).

The use of Hermes drones has been documented by Human Rights Watch and other organisations in previous conflicts in Gaza.



Israeli far-right minister accused of verbally abusing lawmaker in parliament

Israeli politician Pnina Tamano-Shata has accused far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of verbally abusing and threatening her inside Israel’s parliament.

Tamano-Shata, a former minister and the first Ethiopia-born woman to serve in Israel’s cabinet, said Ben Gvir approached her closely and called her “f**ked up and stupid” after she criticised police conduct towards members of the Ethiopian Jewish community.

“After I confronted the minister regarding the violent arrests of two children of Ethiopian descent, he pressed up against my face in a violent and threatening manner, even though I asked him to step back,” she wrote on X. “The incident was not captured on camera, but there are plenty of witnesses.”

The Ethiopian community in Israel has long accused authorities of discrimination and excessive use of force. Ben Gvir, an ultranationalist and illegal settler of the occupied West Bank, has faced repeated criticism over discrimination against both Palestinians and marginalised groups within Israel.





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Qassam Brigades cross front line to retrieve Israeli bodies in Gaza

They found one of the Israeli captives’ bodies after three days of relentless digging and searching. We also highlighted the fact that the armed wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, crossed the yellow line without any weapons to help retrieve those bodies.

They are going to hand the body over to the Red Cross, who will hand it over to the Israeli authorities in the next couple of minutes. Seven bodies are left, and there are a lot of retrieval efforts underway.

The Palestinians themselves are waiting for the seven bodies to be handed over because they want to see the ceasefire on the ground.


Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks reaches 240 since ceasefire began

The bodies of four Palestinians have been brought to hospitals across Gaza over the past 24 hours, including one recovered from beneath rubble, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Israeli attacks have killed a total of 240 people and wounded 607, the ministry said.


Palestinian detainee shown in alleged rape video returned to Gaza

The Palestinian detainee shown in an alleged rape video leaked to the Israeli outlet Channel 12 last year has been returned to Gaza, the Associated Press is reporting, citing a document from the military prosecutor’s office.

The fallout from the leak has led to the resignation and arrest of the Israeli army’s top lawyer, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, on suspicion of allowing the clip to become public. She is currently under investigation, and the army is preparing her replacement.


Only 7 percent of families in Gaza have returned home post-ceasefire: UN

Only 7 percent of displaced families in southern Gaza have returned home since the start of the ceasefire, with the majority remaining in temporary shelters.

A survey carried out by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Palestine found that the small number of families had returned mostly to partially habitable homes. They were motivated by access to services and family reunification.

However, most continue to stay in displacement sites due to widespread destruction and lack of options. A recent analysis by the UN’s satellite agency found that approximately 81 percent of homes in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed.



Humanitarian agencies warn of inadequate aid reaching Gaza weeks after ceasefire

Nearly four weeks after a ceasefire, humanitarian agencies warn that far too little aid is reaching Gaza, leaving residents exposed to hunger and deteriorating shelters.

Since mid-October, only half the required food has arrived, according to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), while local Palestinian agencies report overall aid at a quarter to a third of expected levels.

The UN humanitarian office, OCHA, notes that tents are fraying, fuel is scarce, and more than 60 percent of Palestinians in Gaza are cooking with burning waste.

WFP spokesperson Abeer Etefa called the situation a “race against time,” highlighting the urgent needs for food, nutrition, fuel and winter shelter. “The winter months are coming. People are still suffering from hunger, and the needs are overwhelming,” she told Reuters news agency.

Shaina Low of the Norwegian Refugee Council said 1.5 million people still lack adequate shelter, with much aid delayed awaiting approvals.


Palestinians struggle with lack of nutritious food in markets

The people in Gaza currently have no money. They have spent everything they have and sold all their property to pay for trucks to help them evacuate from the north to the south. That is why they are entirely reliant on food aid and distribution points.

But the food available in the markets consists of non-essential items. We do not see eggs, white meat, or other nutritious foods for Palestinian children. Most of what is available is chocolate, crackers, and other items that are also expensive for Palestinians to afford.

Palestinians say this is not what they need.


UNICEF calls for urgent increase in aid to Gaza

Tess Ingram, the Middle East communications manager at UNICEF, the UN’s children’s agency, tells Al Jazeera that although UNICEF was able to bring aid into Gaza even prior to the ceasefire, the amount is “nowhere near enough”.

“We need to bring in more items, including those that have been banned for many, many months now, such as education kits that UNICEF wants to bring in to help children get back into school,” Ingram said.

She added that the materials rejected by Israeli authorities, who have placed Gaza under siege for much of the war, were dismissed because they are not considered “life-saving”.

“Education can be life-saving,” Ingram added, “particularly after the atrocities that children have experienced over the last two years.”


Jordan, UK officials stress urgency of Gaza humanitarian aid

Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi met with UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Tuesday as part of Cooper’s tour of the Middle East.

In a post on X following the meeting, Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said they “discussed regional developments and stressed the need to coordinate efforts to maintain the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, ensure the implementation of all terms of the ceasefire agreement, and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the area”.

On Monday, in an interview with UK news outlet Channel 4, Yvette Cooper raised alarm about hold-ups in aid from a warehouse full of UK supplies intended for Gaza, saying Israel had “no excuse” not to allow it to reach people in the territory.