Palestinian boy killed in Far’a was ninth-grade student: Ministry of Education

The boy who was shot dead by Israeli security forces earlier today in the Far’a refugee camp was a 15-year-old ninth grader, education officials say.

Security sources have identified the boy as Jadallah Jihad Jumaa Jadallah, Wafa news agency reported. The Ministry of Education confirmed he attended ninth grade at a UNRWA-run school in the Far’a camp.

As we reported earlier, Israeli forces invaded Far’a, located south of the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, shot the boy and injured two others. Soldiers refused to allow ambulance crews to assist him, and later claimed without evidence he was a “terrorist”.

Israeli forces are still holding the boy’s body, Wafa reported.

Israeli settlers steal agricultural equipment near Ramallah

The council head of al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, has told Wafa that Israeli settlers have attacked the village’s eastern plains and taken off with residents’ agricultural equipment.

As we reported earlier, the UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) has documented 167 settler attacks related to this year’s olive harvest season, affecting 87 Palestinian communities.

In August, the Israeli military destroyed 3,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir in an attack that also saw troops storm more than 30 homes.

Netanyahu defends most Israeli settlers as ‘law-abiding’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that the escalating wave of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank “does not represent the large community of settlers who are law-abiding and loyal to the state”, The Jerusalem Post is reporting.

Netanyahu said the uptick in settler violence is “caused by a minority”, according to the outlet.

The UN’s humanitarian office tracked more than 260 Israeli settler attacks in October alone in the occupied West Bank – the highest number in a single month since the agency began tracking them in 2006.

Israel is pushing to formally annex the Palestinian territory in violation of international law.

Netanyahu does ‘not know’ how long Gaza ceasefire will last: Report

More details are emerging from an Israeli cabinet meeting today over the future of Gaza, a day before the UN Security Council is slated to vote on a draft plan for the besieged enclave.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet he “did not know” how long the Gaza ceasefire would hold, according to The Jerusalem Post. He emphasised to ministers that Israel is “working to conclude Phase A” and that Israel is still expecting the remains of three captives to be returned by Hamas.

“We did not go to war only to free hostages,” National Missions Minister Orit Strock reportedly shot back. The prime minister went on to say that foreign forces are “reluctant” to enter Gaza, the paper reported.

Although the Gaza stabilisation force could theoretically include up to 20,000 troops, it is not yet clear which countries may commit to sending them, and Israel has roundly rejected the possibility of Turkish participation.

Netanyahu demurred when asked about the timing of the stabilisation effort. “We cannot ignore our managing of a seven-front war … the amount of time left cannot be quantified,” he said.

Israel pushes US to close door on Palestinian statehood before UNSC vote

Israel is engaged in a last-ditch bid to change the wording of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution on the next phase of United States President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan that was recently amended to mention a “credible pathway” to Palestinian statehood.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that his opposition to a Palestinian state had “not changed one bit”, one day before the UNSC votes on the US-drafted resolution, which would mandate a transitional administration and an international stabilisation force (ISF) in Gaza.

Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported on Sunday that Netanyahu’s government was engaged in a last-minute diplomatic push to alter the draft resolution, which the US had changed to include more defined language about Palestinian self-determination under pressure from Arab and Muslim countries expected to contribute troops to the ISF.

The draft now says that “conditions may be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” after reforms to the Palestinian Authority are “faithfully carried out and Gaza redevelopment has advanced”.

Netanyahu will do everything to prevent both a Palestinian state and to prevent giving over control of Gaza.


Meanwhile pushing out Palestinians, dumping them anywhere in the world for a fee

Haaretz investigation uncovers Al-Majd Europe’s role in facilitating Gaza families’ exit

The Haaretz investigation reveals that Al-Majd Europe is a phoney company; the address it provides in occupied East Jerusalem is false; It doesn’t have registration in Germany, as it claimed; and its connection to another, shady individual, a dual Estonian-Israeli citizen Tomer Janar Lind.

This man is linked to several phoney companies, some listed in London, Dubai and so on, all having the wrong number or no registration.

Now, this man spoke to Haaretz, and he confirmed that he is facilitating the one-way exit of families out of Gaza in coordination with the Israeli army. But he declined to give out more information. Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli army has established a department run by the vice director-general of the Ministry of Defence in charge of so-called voluntary migration of Palestinians out of Gaza, and what that unit does is facilitate the exit of any Palestinian who wishes to leave the Strip.

As far as they’re concerned, that means they will not return. This is, of course, not the intended target of Palestinians wishing to leave for education, for medical treatment, or like those families who ended up in Johannesburg. They had no idea where they were going to be. They just wanted to be out of Gaza, some of them having visas to other third countries.

Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon kills school principal: NNA

An Israeli drone strike has killed one person after targeting Lebanon’s town of al-Mansouri, near Tyre.

The Lebanese government’s National News Agency confirmed that “an attack by an enemy drone” in al-Mansouri has “resulted in the martyrdom of its school principal, Muhammad Shweikh”.

The drone targeted an area near the football grounds of Imam Musa al-Sadr Stadium, the agency added, and spawned a fire.

A correspondent for Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar said Shweikh was the principal of al-Mansouri Public School, and that the drone targeted his car.

Main events on November 16th

• An Israeli drone strike killed one person after targeting Lebanon’s town of al-Mansouri, near Tyre.
• The Israeli government announced the establishment of an independent investigative committee – and not a state commission of inquiry – to look into the failures that led to the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel in 2023.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet he “did not know” how long the Gaza ceasefire would hold, according to The Jerusalem Post.
• Israeli forces have shot dead a 15-year-old ninth grader in the Far’a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, education officials have said.
• The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has said Israeli soldiers have fired at its peacekeepers from a tank near an army position in southern Lebanon. Israel said its soldiers fired due to “poor weather conditions” and mistook the UN patrol for “suspects”.

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Iran Just Took Down Washington’s Israel Claims In Four Moves

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi has torn a strip off US-Israeli relations and exposed something else in the process.

Iran has finally said the quiet part out loud, and of course it lands like heresy in Washington because the accusation is not that the United States is biased or heavy-handed or looking the other way, it’s that the world’s self-appointed guardian of international law has stripped the wiring out of the system to let Israel run a regional free-fire zone.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is standing there in Tehran saying the US is replacing the entire post-war legal order with a force-based model designed to protect a state whose prime minister has been talking up Greater Israel as if it’s a family heirloom he’s polishing.  And when you put that beside the strikes on Iran, the strikes in Syria and Lebanon, the UN vetoes, the stockpiled American munitions and the rest of it, well, it sounds less like Iranian bluster and more like someone describing the map as it already looks.

Iran is not just shouting at the clouds here, they are laying out a prosecution case, and the charge sheet is simple enough that you can follow it without having to buy into every bit of Tehran’s rhetoric. Abbas Araghchi is saying that the United States has stopped even pretending to run the post-war legal order and is now running a force-based system instead, and that system exists to protect Israel while it throws its weight around the region. You do not have to agree with Iran on anything else to see what he is doing there, because once you put the recent strikes, the public statements and the diplomatic wreckage in order, you end up with something that looks less like a conspiracy theory and more like a description of how power is actually working right now. The question is not whether the US likes Israel, that has been obvious for decades.

Cited many times by different outlets for example:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/10/israeli-soldiers-breaking-ranks-gaza-civilians-human-shields

The full documentary got released on YouTube:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38937581/

Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War | Full Documentary by ZANDLAND

This special feature documentary goes inside one of the most closed institutions in the world: the Israel Defense Forces during the war in Gaza.

Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War presents first-hand accounts from IDF soldiers who served in Gaza after October 7th 2023. Speaking openly – many for the first time – they describe what they recall seeing on the ground: the bombardment, the civilian impact, the pressure, the confusion, and moments that raise difficult questions about conduct, culture and accountability inside the military ranks.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Ben Zand, the film pieces together rare testimony that was never meant to be heard publicly. It also hears from Palestinians in Gaza about the consequences of the campaign, offering as full a picture as possible of a war largely shielded from view.

This documentary was produced by ZANDLAND for ITV and is being made available here due to the significant public interest and the global debate around the conflict.

Gaza authorities say 300,000 tents needed for displaced families

The Gaza Government Media Office says in a statement on Telegram that “tens of thousands” of tents were swept away during the first major winter storm of the season, which hit the area days ago.

It said that “288,000 Palestinian families live a harsh tragedy under difficult climatic conditions”, blaming Israel for failing to allow in sufficient temporary shelters to house those made homeless by its two-year all-out bombing campaign.

Among the other things needed in Gaza as winter takes hold, the office said, are:

‘From the movies’: Sami Hamdi details ‘aggressive’ ICE detention

British journalist Sami Hamdi, who says he was held illegally for more than two weeks by United States immigration authorities for his pro-Palestinian commentary, has described his detention as “like something from the movies”.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Hamdi accused the US Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of using “loopholes” to abuse people, and he directed attention towards the plight of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli detention.

The 35-year-old British citizen was stopped at San Francisco International Airport in California on October 26, midway through a speaking tour discussing Israel’s war on Gaza.

Hamdi said he and 20 other men were held in a small cell with no facilities. Inmates repeatedly had their cases delayed through bureaucracy, he said. One Latino man named Antonio whose wife and children are US citizens had been in detention for 10 months without charge, Hamdi said.

“This is the tragedy. You have these people who are illegally detained, who shouldn’t be there longer than six months, according to all habeas corpus rules, but who stay there longer because of bureaucratic loopholes,” said the journalist, who returned to London on Thursday.

ICE agents were “particularly aggressive” and most displayed “little sympathy for the people they were dealing with”, Hamdi said. They appeared to feel that they could act with “impunity”, he continued.

The journalist noted that while his case has received much attention, he believes it is important to remember that thousands of Palestinians remain incarcerated in Israeli military prisons in appalling conditions.

The imperial boomerang in action

While the genocide, displacement and ethnic cleansing in the west bank still goes on

Germany to resume arms exports to Israel from next week

The German government says it will lift an order suspending some weapons sales to Israel from next week, following the ceasefire agreement reached last month.

“The government will, as a general rule, revert to case-by-case reviews in decisions on arms exports and respond to further developments,” a spokesperson said. The decision will allow the resumption of exports suspended in August, from November 24, they continued.

Germany, the second-largest exporter of arms to Israel after the United States, announced a suspension of some arms exports to Israel in August, amid mounting popular pressure over the war in Gaza.

The decision affected weapons and systems that could be used in Gaza but not others deemed necessary for Israel to defend itself from external attacks.

‘Flying Palestinians to South Africa a desperate attempt to depopulate Gaza’

On Thursday morning, 153 Palestinians from Gaza – many without the required travel documents – landed in the South African city of Johannesburg.

It subsequently transpired that their charter flight had been organised by a group called Al-Majd Europe, with investigations alleging that the enterprise is linked to Israel’s Defence Ministry.

Speaking about the development, Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, said it was “unsurprising” that a few hundred Palestinians had wanted to leave war-torn Gaza, given the level of destruction wrought there by the Israeli military over the past two years.

“What is surprising is the continued Israeli effort to push as many Palestinians as possible outside Gaza,” he said from Paris.

Bishara called it a “desperate attempt” to depopulate Gaza after Israel’s failure to do so during the war. “The idea of pushing Palestinians into the Sinai has failed, the idea of getting [United States President] Trump on board into ethnically cleansing Gaza totally and sending them to African and Asian countries has also failed,” Bishara noted.

Israeli forces dismantle West Bank settler outpost

Israeli security forces evacuated and demolished an illegal settler outpost in the occupied West Bank, with the authorities citing “severe incidents of violence”.

A large force was deployed to the Tzour Misgavi outpost in the Gush Etzion area, south of Jerusalem, video footage broadcast by Israeli media showed. Heavy machinery could be seen preparing to demolish the structures, with one clip showing a bulldozer knocking into the side of a building with people standing on top.

Israeli media said 25 families were evacuated from the site.

In recent weeks, attacks attributed to Israeli settlers, notably those living in outposts, have multiplied in the West Bank, targeting Palestinians, Israeli and foreign anti-settlement activists and sometimes Israeli soldiers.

“The evacuation is being carried out in accordance with the law and the applicable regulations,” said COGAT, the Israeli body that runs civil affairs in the Palestinian territories. “Criminal activity and severe incidents of violence at the site affected the security of the area,” it said in a statement.

This is a rare instance of Israeli authorities taking punitive actions against settlers, more than 500,000 who illegally live on Palestinian lands and in their homes in the occupied West Bank. October was one of the worst months ever recorded for settler violence against Palestinians, as they tried to conduct their annual olive harvest. Many attacks take place under the observation of, or even with direct aid from, Israeli troops.

Probably the ones that have been attacking IDF soldiers as well. 

Israel’s Ben-Gvir calls for assassination of PA officials if UN supports Palestinian statehood: Report

Palestinian Authority (PA) officials should be assassinated if the UN supports Palestinian statehood, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has said.

Multiple Israeli media outlets reported the far-right politician’s comment, which was made today at an Otzma Yehudit party meeting.

“If they accelerate the recognition of the Palestinian terrorist state, and the UN recognises a Palestinian state, targeted assassinations of senior Palestinian Authority officials, who are terrorists for all intents and purposes, should be ordered,” the Jerusalem Post newspaper cited Ben-Gvir as saying.

The Israeli minister added that PA President Mahmoud Abbas should be detained if the UN moves to back a Palestinian state. Israel has a solitary confinement cell “ready for him”, Ben-Gvir claimed.

His remarks came shortly before a UN Security Council vote on a Gaza ceasefire plan brought by the United States. The proposal would support the formation of an international stabilisation force.

The resolution also suggests that the UN would support a “credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood”, something that the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said it strongly opposes.

The PA expressed its support for the US-drafted proposal on Friday.

The irony is, Palestinians do no want the PA nor Abbas either as they see it as a collaborator with Israel. Abbas' approval rating is 18% in the West Bank.

Why I’m accusing 63 nations of complicity in genocide | Francesca Albanese

In this episode of the Expert Witness podcast, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, unpacks her latest report on third-state responsibility for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Speaking to Middle East Eye News Editor Sondos Asem on 3 November, Albanese said that despite overwhelming evidence of genocide and mass atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank, Europe’s most powerful states continue to provide diplomatic, military and political cover for Israel. She added that they must face accountability.

Why Is Trump Really Threatening to Bomb Nigeria?

Donald Trump has threatened military action in Nigeria, citing the protection of Christians, but the real story, as Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin explains, is money, power and geopolitics. Hundeyin breaks down how U.S. intervention is tied to Nigeria’s vast resource wealth and longstanding geopolitical strategies, contrasting it with China’s approach of infrastructure investment and non-interference. Hundeyin provides essential context on Nigeria’s security situation, the role of Boko Haram, and why "the long-term economic development of Nigeria is considered to be a threat to US national security interests."

Democratic Leaders Ignore The Real Issue: Zionism

"They're always trying to go around the problem and make Palestinians pay the price for zionism, rather than address the problem—which is zionism."

Diana Buttu responds to letter from Democratic lawmakers about the next phase for Palestinians and statehood. "This is what the 'Trump Plan' is about, and this is what this letter in DC is about." Buttu described it as, "if you prove yourself worthy of freedom, then we will think about giving you your freedom. But until that time, we're going to treat you as though you're a child."