Israeli soldiers continue demolition operations in northern Gaza

The Israeli military reports that its forces continue to operate in northern Gaza. The army released aerial footage showing a demolition, claiming it shows a deep Hamas tunnel being blown up by planted explosives in the Jabalia area.

As we reported earlier, the Israeli military has been demolishing more homes and other buildings in both northern and southern Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect. Shujayea and Jabalia lay mostly in ruins after two years of relentless strikes.

Israel is using ‘no war, no peace’ Lebanonisation model in Gaza

A ceasefire was agreed to end the war, but that has not stopped Israel from attacking. On Sunday, an air attack killed four people. A few days before that, last Friday, another Israeli strike killed a man on a motorbike. And on October 17 Israeli warplanes killed at least one person.

None of these attacks were in Gaza – where Israel has also spent the few weeks since a ceasefire began on October 10 conducting attacks, many of them far more deadly than those described above.

Instead, the attacks mentioned were conducted by Israel in Lebanon, and come a year after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah began. Yet, despite that ceasefire, Israel has continued to attack sites across Lebanon periodically, much to the anger of the Lebanese people and government.

Islamic bloc condemns Israel’s proposed death penalty law as ‘discriminatory, legally untenable’

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a 57-nation bloc of Muslim-majority countries, has condemned a draft law before the Israeli parliament that could impose the death penalty on those convicted of “terrorism”, a move critics say would legalise the execution of Palestinian prisoners.

In a statement posted on X, the OIC described the proposed law as “discriminatory and legally untenable”.

It added: “The OIC has urged the international community to fulfil its obligations in halting all violations perpetrated by the Israeli occupation and to extend international protective measures for the Palestinian people.”

The bill has been forwarded by the far-right and internationally sanctioned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and is backed by Netanyahu.

The head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has described an Israeli bill to introduce the death penalty for Palestinian “terrorism” suspects as a crime against humanity.

Israel trying to influence UNSC draft on Gaza stabilisation force: Reports

Israeli leaders are trying to shape a UN Security Council draft that Washington intends to push to establish the international stabilisation force envisioned for Gaza in the future, according to reports in US and Israeli media.

Israel was reluctant to agree to a UN mandate for the force, but backed down under US pressure, an unnamed senior Israeli official told US outlet CNN.

Israel has nevertheless been involved in drafting the resolution and is still trying to influence its wording, the official said.

Israel’s Channel 12 also quoted an unnamed senior Israeli official as saying that Israeli authorities are strongly against parts of the resolution, mainly because the Israeli army would have to honour the ceasefire agreement and complete another stage of its withdrawal from Gaza.

The outlet said some Israeli officials are also critical of the resolution because they believe the stabilisation force will “internationalise” the conflict by adding oversight.

Main events on November 4th

• Israel continued sporadic, deadly attacks across Gaza, as Palestinians kept searching for food amid the limited entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave.
• Hamas recovered and handed over the body of an Israeli captive. Israel confirmed the delivery, but has not yet verified the identity.
• Israeli soldiers and settlers launched a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, including in Nablus and Ramallah, arresting, assaulting and intimidating Palestinians in their homes and on their land.
• Israel appointed a new military prosecutor after arresting the previous official and a former legal adviser because a video of Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner inside a prison was leaked to the media last year.
• The US has reportedly circulated a draft resolution among UN Security Council members for the international stabilisation force in Gaza, but Israel is trying to influence it, according to US and Israeli media.
• Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound once more under protection from soldiers and police.

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Intense Israeli artillery shelling, demolitions in southern Gaza

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that Israeli forces are conducting heavy raids, artillery bombardments and demolition operations east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

The Walla news site added that the Israeli army also targeted areas east of Khan Younis from the air and struck sites near the Bureij refugee camp overnight.

Bodies of captives found in Gaza rubble raise questions over Israeli attacks

The search continues across Gaza, in areas that have been heavily bombarded by the Israeli military over the past months. It is not a surprise that the bodies of Israeli captives were found in these areas that have been relentlessly targeted by Israeli strikes.

This raises serious questions about the actions of the Israeli military, as it continued to bomb locations where it had intelligence on the ground, only for the bodies to later be recovered from beneath rubble and collapsed buildings.

Israel simply claims they already died on October 7th and Hamas took all the effort to drag a bunch of corpses into Gaza to hide around the territory...

Red Cross, Hamas teams head to Shujayea to search for captives’ bodies

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that a team from the Red Cross, as well as the Qassam Brigades, is heading to the Shujayea neighbourhood in eastern Gaza to search for the bodies of Israeli captives.

Palestinians’ daily routine remains one of survival

Nothing resembles normal life here at all. The past two years have become part of people’s daily routine. It has reshaped every street, every home, every breath and every behaviour on the ground.

It’s not uncommon to see people breaking down in frustration or anger – collapsing as they walk through the streets, remembering loved ones and relatives who may be in hospital or under the rubble.

Survival in Gaza now begins with calculation: how much time to spend queuing for water and what food can be found in markets flooded with items that are rarely essential. Instant noodles and biscuits are among the few things available, often at exorbitant prices.

And as winter approaches, many here have no homes left to return to as only ruins remain.

_{A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches along az-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on November 4}

Israel blocks 23 Gaza aid requests since ceasefire: NRC

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza remain without proper shelter as winter rains and cold set in, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

Since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, the NRC said Israeli authorities have rejected 23 requests from nine aid agencies to bring in essential shelter materials, such as tents, sealing kits, bedding and blankets – nearly 4,000 pallets in total. Millions of items remain stuck in Jordan, Egypt and Israel awaiting approval.

The restrictions have left about 260,000 families exposed to worsening conditions.

“We have a very short chance to protect families from the winter rains and cold,” said Angelita Caredda, NRC’s Middle East and North Africa regional director. “Gaza should be receiving a surge of shelter materials, but only a fraction of what is needed has entered.”

Water crisis in Gaza has reached a ‘catastrophic level’

The water crisis in Gaza has reached a “catastrophic level”, says municipality spokesperson Hosni Mhanna, who added that:

‘These soup kitchens keep us alive’

Al Jazeera has spoken to displaced Palestinians at a soup kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, where desperate families are reliant on sporadic aid deliveries for survival.

The ceasefire agreement was supposed to open up a flow of aid into Gaza, but according to the World Food Programme, only half of the food deliveries required are getting in, while other aid organisations say it may be even less.

“Life is difficult for us, because we own nothing and we don’t have anything to buy food with,” said Majid al-Zaity, a 55-year-old father of nine originally from Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza. “There is no work. Without the soup kitchens here, we couldn’t have eaten. These soup kitchens keep us alive.”

Hind Hijazy, a 43-year-old mother of six from Gaza City, said her family depended on the soup kitchen for survival.

“Every day I come … here to be able to provide food for my children,” she said. “They say there is a truce, but it is a sham truce because the siege is still in place. Flour is still expensive; everything is expensive for us.”

_{Children eat inside a camp for displaced Palestinians at a Gaza City school-turned-shelter}

Amid war, Gaza’s young artists turn trauma into art

Thousands of Palestinian children have lost relatives during Israel’s war on Gaza. Many others have suffered life-changing injuries since October 2023. Amid all the destruction, the entire generation is experiencing severe psychological trauma. Some have been turning to art as an outlet for their emotions.

Here is the story of 16-year-old Yara Youssef Abu Kweik:

Ms Rachel wears dress embroidered with Gaza children’s artwork at awards

Children’s educator and YouTuber Rachel Accurso, known online as Ms Rachel, appeared at Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards in New York wearing a gown embroidered with artwork made by children from Gaza.

The custom upcycled dress featured illustrations by displaced Palestinian children, each stitched with the artist’s name in Arabic. “I’m thinking about all the little ones there and what we can do for them,” she told red carpet hosts Brooks and Grace Ann Nader on Tuesday.

Ms Rachel, whose educational show recently became Netflix’s biggest children’s content launch, has often come under heavy scrutiny from pro-Israel supporters after she collaborated with Rahaf, a three-year-old double amputee from Gaza evacuated by the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, to create new educational content.

Development must continue in Gaza despite blockade: NGO

Aziz Hafiz, chairman of the NGO Humanity First UK, has responded to concerns that development in Gaza is impossible without permanent peace and an end to the blockade.

Speaking at the Second World Summit for Social Development in Qatar’s capital Doha, he acknowledged that “development cannot flourish in isolation from justice and peace” but stressed it does not mean “we wait for peace to act”.

“Humanitarian and development work must proceed in parallel, even within the current restrictions,” he told Al Jazeera, saying the frustration of those living under blockade “cannot be imagined”.

“Every vocational programme, school rehabilitation or psychosocial initiative becomes an act of resistance to despair,” Hafiz added, noting that while permanent peace in Gaza remains the “ultimate enabler of prosperity”, maintaining human dignity in the present moment is “equally critical”.