Two wounded, two arrested in Israeli army raid in West Bank

Two Palestinian women have been wounded and two brothers detained during an Israeli army raid in Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.

The Wafa news agency is reporting that “Israeli forces stormed the Juma’a family home, assaulting Fadwa Juma’a and her daughter-in-law, Sireen Juma’a, before arresting the two brothers, Qusay Juma’a and Rif’at Juma’a.”

Palestinian families displaced by Israeli settler attacks in occupied West Bank

Three Palestinian families have been forced from their homes due to Israeli settler attacks on a Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank, Wafa is reporting.

The families, from the al-Hathroura Bedouin community in the Khan al-Ahmar area, east of occupied East Jerusalem, fled due to ongoing hostility from settlers, including assaulting residents, stealing property, and harassing shepherds, all under the protection of Israeli forces, officials said.

Two other families from the community have also fled in recent weeks due to the attacks.

In other acts of settler hostility in the occupied West Bank, groups of settlers stormed the northern area of ​​Kafr Qaddum village, east of Qalqilya, under the protection of Israeli soldiers who then clashed with residents, injuring two women and arresting two men, Wafa reported.

In a separate incident, Israeli settlers bulldozed land belonging to Palestinian residents in the town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, as they continued with work on a road linking to an Israeli settlement for a second consecutive day.

Israeli forces disrupt children’s choir performance at occupied East Jerusalem theater

Israeli forces stormed the Al-Hakawati Theatre, the Palestinian national theatre in occupied East Jerusalem, disrupting a children’s choir performance on Sunday.

The Israeli security forces were acting on the orders of the country’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir. The theatre’s director said the event was disrupted for no apparent reason.

In a post on X, the Palestinian embassy in Cyprus shared footage of the incident, adding that Israeli forces “often resort to closures, threats, and extremist attacks against Palestinians who are unable to express themselves artistically”.

Israeli forces raid West Bank towns near Jenin

Israeli military units have entered two towns in the Jenin area this evening, searching homes and businesses, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports. Troops deployed through Anin and Meithalun, detaining and questioning several young residents while seizing surveillance equipment from commercial shops.

Israeli military sacks several generals over October 7 attack

The Israeli army has announced the dismissal of three generals and disciplinary actions against several other senior officers over their failure to prevent the October 2023 attack.

The move comes two weeks after the military’s chief Eyal Zamir called for a “systemic investigation” into the failures that led to the onslaught, even as the government dragged its feet on establishing a state commission of inquiry, despite public pressure.

The list of generals fired includes three divisional commanders, one of whom was then serving as the military intelligence chief. The firing comes after all three had already resigned from their posts.

A military statement released Sunday said all three bear personal responsibility for the armed forces’ failure to prevent the attack. Disciplinary actions were also announced against the head of the navy and air force, along with moves against four other generals and several senior officers.

Hamas meet Egypt’s spy chief, says Israel’s attacks on Gaza threaten truce

A senior delegation from Hamas has met Egypt’s intelligence chief in Cairo to discuss Israel’s breaches of the ceasefire agreement, the Palestinian group said.

In a statement on Sunday, the group said it reaffirmed its commitment to implementing the first phase of the ceasefire agreement in its meeting with Hassan Rashad, but accused Israel of “continued violations” that it said threatened to “undermine the deal”.

Hamas, whose delegation included its exiled Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya, called for a “clear and defined mechanism” under the supervision of mediators to document and halt any breaches of the deal.

Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement with Hamas on an almost daily basis since it was reached in October, killing more than 300 people in Gaza.

State Department shares Trump’s message promising Gaza’s redevelopment

The US State Department’s Near Eastern Affairs account has posted a message on X, attributed to Donald Trump saying, “Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.”

Recent reporting has suggested that reconstruction will occur only on the side of the Yellow Line controlled by Israel, and not in the areas on the other side of the line where many Palestinians have been displaced, raising questions about a potential de facto partition of the territory.

One former aid worker warned that such a division could lead to the creation of “zones of managed dispossession” for Palestinians, where people would be vetted and screened invasively before receiving basic services.

US-backed Gaza aid group shuts down after deadly operations

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has announced it is ending operations in the Palestinian enclave, following months of deadly violence at its aid distribution sites. The US-backed organisation made the announcement today, citing provisions in the October Israel-Hamas ceasefire that established alternative coordination mechanisms.

At least 859 people were killed around GHF sites since operations began in May 2025, according to UN experts. Israeli forces and foreign contractors regularly opened fire on Palestinians seeking aid at GHF distribution points, the experts reported.

The scheme faced widespread condemnation for bypassing UN humanitarian infrastructure.

In August, 28 UN experts called for its dismantlement, describing it as an “utterly disturbing example” of aid exploitation for military purposes.  “We built an alternative model that worked – one that saved lives and restored dignity to civilians in Gaza,” said John Acree, its executive director in a statement.

Israeli attacks on south Lebanon continue

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports that Israeli artillery shelling has hit the area around Kilometer Nine, which is located between the villages of Airatoun and Blida, very close to Lebanon’s border with Israel.

The report made no mention of casualties.

While Israeli air strikes, like the one seen yesterday on Beirut, are common in Lebanon, this kind of cross-border shelling has not been seen regularly since prior to the ceasefire last November.

OCHA gives weekly update on occupied West Bank

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released its weekly update on the humanitarian situation in the occupied West Bank. Here are key highlights:

What happened in the occupied West Bank today

Nearly every day, there are episodes of violence, arrests and killings across the occupied West Bank perpetrated by Israeli soldiers or settlers. Wafa news agency has documented a number of incidents that took place today:

Gaza winter crisis deepens as aid access remains severely restricted

More than 214,000 displaced Palestinians face extreme winter vulnerability as humanitarian access to Gaza remains critically constrained, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned.

Living conditions across displacement sites have deteriorated to “extremely dire” levels, according to OCHA. Between Sunday and Wednesday last week, only 32 trucks carrying essential shelter supplies managed to enter Gaza.

The severe bottleneck stems from newly imposed NGO registration requirements by Israeli authorities, which humanitarian agencies say are impacting their ability to deliver aid.

One child killed, many wounded in Gaza explosion caused by remnants of war

One child has died and several others were wounded in Gaza due to the explosions of remnants of war, the enclave’s civil defence team has said.

“Civil defence teams responded to an explosion at a house belonging to the al-Firi family on al-Nasr Street [in the] west of Gaza City,” the statement reads. “The multistorey house had been previously targeted and contained remnants of Israeli occupation. The explosion occurred while some children were playing with these remnants.” Among those injured, some children were in critical condition, it added.

Israel army chief hits back as defence minister orders review of October 7 probe

Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir has challenged Defence Minister Israel Katz’s decision to freeze senior military appointments and order a new review of an investigation into the army’s October 7 failures.

Zamir issued a statement today questioning Katz’s move to query a report compiled over seven months by senior figures in the army that evaluated the army’s own investigations into October 7. The external panel found the military’s self-investigations inadequate.

Katz has now ordered the defence comptroller to begin reviewing whether that external panel was right, and has frozen all senior military promotions until the review is complete. Zamir said the report was “for professional use, not political use” and said he would continue preparing appointments despite the freeze.

The clash escalates a months-long power struggle between the two men over military appointments, with critics warning Katz is politicising the army.

Main events on November 24th

• The head of Gaza’s media office has told Anadolu that of the 600 trucks meant to enter the territory under the October ceasefire agreement, “less than one-third” are actually getting through.
• Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports that Israeli artillery shelling has hit the area around Kilometer Nine, which is located between the villages of Airatoun and Blida, very close to Lebanon’s border with Israel.
• The Israeli army launched an incursion into the countryside of Quneitra in southern Syria, with five vehicles entering Syrian territory.
• The Israeli army said in a statement that its troops exchanged fire with armed men in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
• About 300 Palestinians have been allowed to leave Gaza for medical treatment, according to Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories agency.
• Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir has challenged Defence Minister Israel Katz’s decision to freeze senior military appointments and order a new review of an investigation into the army’s October 7 failures.
• The armed wing of the Palestinian group, the al-Quds Brigades, has said it has located the body of a deceased captive in an area controlled by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.

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Stuck in Gaza’s limbo: Palestinians struggle to live amid Israel’s attacks

Near a burned-out car that had been targeted in front of their home, Faiq Ajour stood with other family members cleaning up scattered debris and shattered glass.

Faiq had been on his way to buy a few items from a nearby vegetable stall when the Israeli strike hit on Saturday.

“I survived by a miracle. I had just crossed the street,” he told Al Jazeera. The Palestinian described his shock – and his fear that it was his house that had been hit by the Israeli attack.

That wasn’t the case, and as he ran back towards the scene, he found his family, physically unharmed. But his three young daughters shook with fear, worried that Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza – which was supposed to have been suspended after the introduction of a ceasefire in October – had returned.

Israel has repeatedly attacked Gaza since that ceasefire began, accusing the Palestinian group Hamas of ceasefire violations. Hamas denies that, and Palestinians point out that it is Israel that has used overwhelming force since the ceasefire began, violating it 500 times, and killing more than 342 civilians, including 67 children.

The five killed in Gaza City’s al-Abbas area, where Faiq lives, were among 24 killed on Saturday across the Gaza Strip by Israel.

“This is a nightmare, not a ceasefire,” Faiq said. “In a single moment after some calm, life turns as if it’s a war again.” “You see body parts, smoke, shattered glass, killed people, ambulances. Scenes we still haven’t healed from and that haven’t left our memories.”

_{Raghda Obeid with three of her children in front of the tent that currently houses them in Gaza City}

Powerful storms, floods bring new challenges to Palestinians in Gaza

Israel’s more than two-year genocidal war has forced nearly all of Gaza’s two million people from their homes to live in makeshift tents in displacement camps.

Added to their suffering is the prospect of harsh winter storms and flooding that might see even these temporary shelters, which are unable to withstand harsh conditions, disappear.

Gaza has already been subjected to worsening weather conditions. “Over the past 24 hours, we’ve seen strong wind, heavy rainfall and plummeting temperatures here, turning many of the displacement areas here into pools of muddy water,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City.

“We have areas that have been completely submerged by water, areas that were flooded by the heavy rainfall that was mixed with sewage water as well, making it very dangerous for people here.”

These conditions have reduced whole families to scooping muddy water from their tents using only buckets and holding down their tents using other rudimentary tools such as rocks and blocks, in the hopes of protecting the few belongings they have left.

“All the tents are destroyed. Our tents are just made of fabric. Our children are drowning. There’s nothing for us to wear, no clothes to put on,” Assmaa Fayad, a displaced Palestinian, told Al Jazeera.

_{Saja Fayyad, seven, tries to clear water from her family's flooded tent at a temporary camp for displaced Palestinians after heavy rainfall in Deir el-Balah, the central Gaza Strip, on November 25}

‘Siege policy’

The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement issued a statement, condemning the lack of supplies to help Palestinians as winter approaches.

“The suffering of our people in Gaza, especially the displaced, has worsened amid the cold and rainy weather. The flooding of the displaced persons’ tents is a direct result of the Zionist [Israeli] siege policy and the prevention of the entry of basic necessities, all while the world remains silent”.

The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement also called on the international community to “take immediate action and pressure the Zionist enemy to open the crossings and allow the entry of aid and essential supplies”.

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem wrote a message on Telegram: “All the world’s efforts to alleviate the disaster have failed because of the Israeli siege.”

The sunny and dry weather conditions on Wednesday provide little relief, said Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud, as “a lot of people worry that by the evening, winds will pick up again”.

Pro-Palestine conference leaders sue Berlin officials who shut down event

Organisers of a pro-Palestine conference are suing authorities in Berlin who shut the event down last April soon after it began.

They hope a panel of judges at the Berlin Administrative Court will rule that police acted unlawfully in cracking down on the Palestine Congress, a forum of solidarity activists and human rights experts who were gathering to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza and Germany’s alleged complicity.

The defendant, the State of Berlin, argues the police were right to act preemptively as they predicted criminal statements would be made at the conference, specifically incitement to hatred, dissemination of propaganda or use of symbols of unconstitutional and “terrorist” organisations.

The police justified this prediction in part on the basis that in a news conference held prior to the event, organisers allegedly did not distance themselves from the Hamas-led incursion into southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

On the day in question, April 12, 2024, officers in riot gear descended in their hundreds on the venue usually used for wedding receptions and pulled the plug – cutting off the power to ensure that none of the planned speeches could be heard or broadcast via livestream.

“I’m not aware of any other instance where a conference was shut down without any crime having been committed,” Michael Ploese, the lawyer representing the conference organisers, told Al Jazeera.

Palestine Action’s legal challenge against UK government ban begins

Legal action by Huda Ammori, the cofounder of Palestine Action, has begun in London’s High Court against the decision by the United Kingdom government to designate the activist group as a terrorist organisation.

The interior ministry, or Home Office, proscribed the pro-Palestinian group in July, days after activists protesting against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza broke into an air force base in southern England. Prosecutors have said they caused an estimated 7 million pounds ($9.3m) damage to two aircraft at the base.

The legal action brought on Wednesday at London’s Royal Courts of Justice is expected to last until Thursday, with a third day to be set at a later stage.

“Today marks the beginning of our legal challenge to one of the most extreme attacks on civil liberties in recent British history – a measure condemned across the political spectrum as an affront to our democracy and an unjustifiable drain on counterterror resources that should be focused on actual threats to the public,” Ammori said at the beginning of the hearing.

_{Protesters hold placards and flags during a demonstration in support of Defend Our Juries and their campaign against the ban on Palestine Action, outside the Royal Courts of Justice, Britain's High Court, in central London on November 26}