Main events on November 5th

• Israel has confirmed that the body of a deceased Israeli captive has been received via the Red Cross.
• Two Palestinian men have been killed in separate Israeli attacks in central Gaza, the army said, claiming the men crossed the ceasefire’s “yellow line”.
• The Israeli army has also launched raids and intensive artillery shelling while carrying out demolitions in southern Gaza.
• In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces raided several towns, sparking confrontations with residents and detaining at least three people, while settlers assaulted residents in Hebron’s Masafer Yatta.
• The water crisis in Gaza has reached a “catastrophic level”, municipality spokesperson Hosni Mhanna said, with the central desalination plant completely out of action and with only 17 out of 88 wells still operational.
• An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed one person and injured another, Lebanese authorities reported.

US to share draft UN resolution on Gaza with elected Security Council members: Reuters

The United States will share its draft resolution on Trump’s peace plan for Gaza with the 10 elected members of the UN Security Council later on Wednesday, Reuters is reporting, citing a US official.

The official said that diplomats from Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates would join the US in sharing the plan, in a sign of “clear regional support”, the agency reported.

Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan calls, among other things, for the creation of a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF) in the enclave, the makeup and powers of which have been a subject of contention.

Israel has already said it will not accept Turkiye, a key Gaza ceasefire mediator, having any role on the ground.

A draft of the resolution seen by Reuters on Tuesday would authorise the ISF to “use all necessary measures” to carry out its mandate, an enforcement role analysts have suggested many of the Arab and Muslim countries likely to make up the force may be unwilling to perform.

Coming from the US, that includes genocide... And I guess the mandate is to 'disarm' Gaza, not to protect Gaza from Israel...

Israeli artillery shelling reported in southern Gaza

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting Israeli artillery shelling east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

"ISRÂEL FEARS MY FATHER":Barghouti's Son Accuses State of Silencing Palêstine's Legitimate Leaders.

Sudan, the (forgotten) genocide happening along the Gaza genocide and its connection to the Palestinian cause.

How The CIA & Mossad Set Up Sudan for Genocide since the 1990s

Sudan is being systematically destroyed - not by accident, but by design. This investigation reveals how US imperialism, through Israeli and UAE proxies, has engineered Sudan's collapse since the 1990s to crush the axis of resistance, block China's Belt and Road, and loot Africa's resources families are killed, children starve, and the west profits.

This is what the destruction of International law leads to.

https://www.hrw.org/breaking-news/2025/01/08/us-state-department-determines-genocide-sudan


Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/03/blood-spilled-sudan-el-fasher-space-rsf-uae-darfur

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts.

It unfolded in plain sight over 18 months. The city of El Fasher in the Darfur region of Sudan, besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fell to the militia group last week, and what has followed is a catastrophe.

Mass killings are under way. There are reports that in one maternity hospital alone almost 500 people – patients and their families – were killed. The few that managed to escape tell of summary executions of civilians. The RSF has embarked on a killing spree of civilians so severe that images of blood saturating the ground have been picked up by satellite. The speed and intensity of the killings in the immediate aftermath of the fall of El Fasher has already been compared by war monitors to the first 24 hours of the Rwandan genocide.

And Trump wants UAE in the ISF to disarm Gaza while Israel builds a new defense firm in UAE.

Genocide is unfolding in Darfur, warns Sudanese government - as it calls for the world to act

https://news.sky.com/story/genocide-is-unfolding-in-darfur-warns-sudanese-government-as-it-calls-for-the-world-to-act-13463878

Multiple reports of atrocities are emerging from Darfur once again, 20 years after it first made headlines in a conflict the world said should never be repeated.

Thousands are thought to have been killed, with women raped and civilians kidnapped for ransom.

Ambassador Babikir Elamin said the world is just standing by. "It certainly seems that the international community is either helpless or just not interested," he said. "We need to stop this mayhem."

Britain has close ties to the UAE and British-supplied weapons are reported to have turned up on the battlefield in Sudan, allegedly supplied by the UAE.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/04/sudan-rsf-militia-uae-united-arab-emirates

After mass killings in El Fasher and four years on from a coup, UAE now admits its Sudan policy has gone wrong.

Sure it's gone wrong because it's suddenly getting attention...

WHO chief announces plans to renovate 20 health facilities in Gaza

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief says it will rebuild or renovate 20 destroyed or damaged health facilities across Gaza attacked during Israel’s invasion.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the effort will take place in partnership with the UN children’s agency UNICEF and the agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.

The agencies will provide “routine vaccinations, nutrition screening and treatment, and growth monitoring” for an estimated 44,000 children.

Amount of aid entering Gaza ‘wholly insufficient’

The Norwegian Refugee Council says only 100 aid trucks are entering war-ravaged Gaza daily through the UN system as the NGO and other humanitarian organisations are “effectively barred” from bringing in desperately needed assistance.

“There may be aid coming in through governments like [the UAE and Egypt] that we don’t have oversight over, but we know the amount of aid that is entering is wholly insufficient for the tremendous amount of need in Gaza after two years of bombardment and destruction,” communication adviser Shaina Low told Al Jazeera.

“We have about $4m worth of aid sitting in warehouses in Egypt waiting to be deployed,” including shelter and hygiene supplies that will be critical for the approaching winter, she added.

“But each time we apply with the Israelis, we get rejected.”


_{Desperate people run to fill containers with water in Gaza City on Thursday}

Gaza receives less than one-third of aid promised by Israel

Gaza’s Government Media Office says only 4,453 trucks have entered the Strip since the ceasefire began last month, far short of the 15,600 expected by Wednesday. The enclave is receiving an average of 171 trucks daily, less than one-third the 600 stipulated under the ceasefire agreement, the office said in a statement.

Israel is blocking more than 350 essential food items, including eggs, meat, fish, dairy products and vegetables, while allowing soft drinks, chocolate and chips to enter, it added.

WTF?

Displaced people in Gaza sheltering in ‘unsafe’ buildings

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says most of its facilities in Gaza City have “sustained heavy damage” from two years of Israeli attacks. Many other facilities that Palestinians are taking shelter in across the Strip are also severely damaged and “unsafe”, according to UNRWA.

“Returning families also face the risk of unexploded ordnance,” it warned.

‘People who have tents are lucky’

Shaina Low, communication adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council, says even basic tents are a rare commodity for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in war-battered Gaza.

“Many people do not even have tents,” she told Al Jazeera. “The people who have tents in Gaza are the ones who are lucky.” People’s immediate needs are so great that aid workers are not even able to start planning for broader reconstruction, she added.

“We’re just calling for the entry of emergency shelter supplies like tents, like tarpaulins … which will provide the minimal amount of shelter for the winter,” said Low. “We haven’t even been able to prepare or plan for the long term.”

_{A tent city in Khan Younis, southern Gaza}

Italy evacuates children from Gaza in urgent need of medical care

The Italian defence ministry says it has evacuated children from Gaza who are in urgent need of medical care.

“Behind every mission like this there are faces, names, stories: children who have known suffering too early and who today find in Italy an outstretched hand, a safe place, a concrete possibility of care and of a future,” a statement quoting Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said.

Since October 2023, the World Health Organization has supported the medical evacuation of 8,006 patients from Gaza abroad. More than 16,500 patients still need medical treatment outside the war-devastated territory, the UN agency says.

Search continues for captives’ remains under Gaza rubble

The search for the bodies of captives continues after the release of the remains of one more person on Wednesday. Hamas is trying to locate and identify the bodies of abductees believed buried in an area relentlessly bombed by the Israeli military in eastern Gaza City.

We can’t recall a day that has passed without heavy bombardment of the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip. Footage and visuals emerging online show the immense devastation caused by more than two years of Israeli bombardment.

This is consistent with what we’ve heard from our sources in the rescue teams who joined the Red Cross to go into these areas. The vast destruction has made the whole process of returning the bodies to Israel much more difficult than expected.

Israel army raids, demolishes near surrounded Gaza City

Israeli forces have carried out a series of air raids and demolition operations to the east of Gaza City, Al Jazeera correspondents on the ground report.

People trapped after building collapses in Gaza City

Gaza’s emergency rescue agency says it’s sending teams to the site of a building that collapsed on people in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood. “There are still people trapped under the rubble,” said the civil defence.

Warnings have been issued for Palestinians returning to heavily bombed northern areas of Gaza, with homes damaged and destroyed after two years of the Israeli war.

At least one of the victims has died, according to the Gaza Civil Defence agency.


Remains handed over by Hamas identified as Tanzanian student

Israeli settlers fence off Palestinian farmland in West Bank

Israeli settlers have fenced off about 202 hectares (500 acres) of Palestinian-owned agricultural land in the Khirbet Samra area of the occupied West Bank. The official Wafa news agency quoted a village council leader as saying the farmland grows crops needed to feed livestock.

Wafa said fencing off the land marks an initial step towards seizing it.

Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli soldiers during West Bank raid

A 15-year-old boy has been killed by Israeli forces in the town of al-Yamoun, near the West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian Health Ministry says. The town was raided by Israeli soldiers overnight, the official Wafa news agency reported, during which they fired at Murad Fawzi Abu Seifen.

Israeli troops raid Kafr Qallil in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have launched an incursion in Kafr Qallil in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The official Wafa news agency reported the raid began this morning and several houses were searched, but no arrests were made.

Israeli forces conduct more raids in the occupied West Bank: Report

Israeli forces have carried out more raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank. According to the Wafa news agency, soldiers:

Israel carrying out ‘systematic destruction’ of Palestine’s natural resources

The Palestinian Environment Quality Authority has warned that the country is facing an unprecedented environmental crisis amid Israel’s war on Gaza and escalating settler violence across the occupied West Bank.

In a statement carried by the Wafa news agency, the authority said Israel’s war on Gaza has generated about 60 million tonnes of rubble and approximately 100,000 tonnes of explosives, with a destructive force equivalent to nine nuclear bombs.

It warned that the environmental and health effects could last for decades.

The Palestinian Authority body said it is working to integrate environmental recovery into Gaza’s reconstruction plans, including soil and water rehabilitation.

Meanwhile, in the West Bank, it said demolitions, land confiscations and illegal Israeli settlement expansion are degrading soil, polluting water sources and depleting groundwater reserves.

Israeli settlements discharge an estimated 40 million cubic metres (1.4 billion cubic feet) of untreated wastewater each year, it added.

The warnings come as the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA) has noted that this year’s olive harvest season in the West Bank has seen the highest levels of violence in years, with settler attacks injuring at least 17 Palestinian farmers so far.

US ambassador praises ‘historic’ UN Security Council meeting on Gaza

Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the United Nations, struck an optimistic tone after a Security Council meeting where a proposal on how to advance the ceasefire in Gaza was circulated.

Representatives for Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and the United Arab Emirates attended the meeting. Waltz described the meeting as “historic” and added it is an example of President Donald Trump’s “strong leadership” on the issue.

The US is seeking a UN Security Council mandate for a stabilisation force that could operate in Gaza for a two-year transitional period during which Hamas would disarm and more long-term governing arrangements for Gaza could be developed.

Israel’s president sends Trump a message – ‘we stand with you’

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has written to US President Donald Trump, praising him for his efforts towards Middle East peace. Herzog told Trump “we stand with you as you continue to push for the complete eradication of terror.”

The president, holding a largely ceremonial role, has urged Israel’s government to comply with the terms of Trump’s peace plan, amid fears that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a pretext to void the Gaza ceasefire and return to war.

Hamas delegation meets with Turkish intelligence chief on Gaza ceasefire

Hamas says its delegation, headed by senior negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, met with Turkiye’s intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Istanbul on Wednesday.

Hamas said the meeting focused on “Israeli violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement”, including shelling and gunfire in areas Israel still controls, and ongoing aid restrictions.

It also addressed “the needs for rebuilding infrastructure such as sewage systems, road networks and electricity”.

Al-Hayya thanked Turkiye “for its role in reaching the ceasefire agreement, emphasising the importance of Ankara’s continued support for the Palestinian people in their struggle against the occupation”, the Hamas statement added.

War crimes complaint filed against ex-Israeli PM over deadly Gaza assault

A human rights group has filed a complaint in Germany against former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, accusing him of war crimes committed during the 2008-2009 military attack on Gaza.

“Under Olmert’s leadership, the Israeli government and military high command executed a large-scale military campaign that resulted in the indiscriminate bombardment of densely populated civilian areas, the destruction of hospitals, schools, and UN facilities, and the killing of more than 1,300 Palestinians, among them over 300 children and 115 women,” the Hind Rajab Foundation said in a statement.

“The victims of Gaza deserve justice, no matter how much time has passed,” said Dyab Abou Jahjah, general director of the foundation. “Those responsible for war crimes must know that accountability has no expiration date and that the world is closing in on impunity.”

The foundation pursues global legal action against Israelis accused of war crimes in Gaza. It is named after Hind Rajab, who was five years old when she was shot dead with her family members by Israeli forces in 2024 in Gaza.

US city votes to divest from Israel

Residents of Somerville in the US state of Massachusetts have approved a nonbinding measure for their local government to divest from Israel.

The initiative in the city next to Boston was forwarded by the local pro-Palestine advocacy group Somerville for Palestine and received 11,489 yes votes and 7,920 against. The vote is symbolic, and it remains up to authorities to choose to follow through.

In recent months, several large investment funds in Europe have cut ties with Israeli companies for their involvement in either the war on Gaza or because of links to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal under international law.

In May, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, said it would divest from Israel’s Paz Retail and Energy because of the company’s involvement in supplying infrastructure and fuel to Israeli settlements.

Trump says he was ‘very much in charge’ of Israel’s attack on Iran

The US president has told reporters that Israel’s military attack on Iran in June was “very, very powerful”.

“I was very much in charge of that,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “When Israel attacked Iran first … that was a great day for Israel because that attack did more damage than the rest of them put together.”

The Israeli military launched a series of attacks on Iranian nuclear, military and civilian sites on June 13, killing more than 600 Iranians and injuring thousands more over 12 days.

When Israel began its devastating assault on Iran, Washington was quick to distance itself from the attack. But Trump has been increasingly taking credit for the outcome of the war, which subsequently saw the US bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities.

Former UN Commissioner Navi Pillay wins 2025 Sydney Peace Prize

Navi Pillay, an international lawyer and human rights advocate who co-authored a report for the UN this year accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, has won the 2025 Sydney Peace Prize.

The former United Nations high commissioner for human rights grew up in apartheid South Africa, where she was the first non-white female judge.

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, said Pillay is an “icon of justice”.

“Knowing you will fight injustice elsewhere is reassuring,” she added.

Rights group demands Gaza war crimes accountability as ceasefire holds

Civil Rights Defenders is calling on the international community to pursue justice for alleged war crimes committed during Israel’s two-year assault on Gaza.

The Stockholm-based organisation said the US-brokered truce marks only the beginning of a necessary accountability process for Palestinians and Israelis, warning impunity cannot be allowed to prevail.

Civil Rights Defenders condemned US sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling the move an attempt to obstruct justice. The organisation outlined necessary steps, including supporting ICC investigations, ensuring reparations for survivors, and allowing displaced Palestinians to return home.

‘For Palestinians ‘peace’ is a neverending bluff’: UN expert

The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory has condemned Israel’s continued deadly attacks on Palestinians in Gaza.

“In the wasteland of rubble in Gaza, Israel keeps killing Palestinians,” Francesca Albanese wrote in a social media post.

She noted that, to justify its attacks despite the Gaza ceasefire, the Israeli government is using the “baffling excuse” that Palestinians have crossed the so-called “yellow line” where Israeli forces are stationed in the enclave.

“For Palestinians ‘peace’ is a neverending bluff,” she wrote.

As we’ve been reporting, more than 240 Palestinians have been killed in the Strip since the ceasefire came into effect last month, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.