Belgium’s top diplomat ‘shocked’ by Israel’s extrajudicial killings in West Bank

Maxime Prevot, Belgium’s foreign minister, has condemned Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and the extrajudicial killing of two Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the occupied territory’s Jenin city.

In a statement on social media, Prevot wrote he was “shocked” by “images showing Israeli soldiers cold-bloodedly shooting two surrendering civilians”, saying the incident violated international law.

“This violence must stop,” he added.

Foreign ministers from France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany denounced the “massive increase of settler violence” in the occupied West Bank in a joint statement yesterday.

Shocked that the images came out? The IDF shot their own hostages in Gaza while they were waving white flags... 

Israeli soldiers behind Jenin killings should be tried for murder

The Israeli soldiers who carried out extrajudicial killings in the city of Jenin violated international law and should be tried for murder, an international legal expert has told Al Jazeera.

Neve Gordon, a professor of international and human rights law at Queen Mary University of London, said the fact that the two Palestinian men clearly surrendered – including lifting up their shirts and being forced to lie down in front of the soldiers – made them “protected people under international law” who should have been brought to court for any alleged offences – not killed.

“The soldiers should be arrested immediately, they should be investigated and there should be a trial for murder,” Gordon said.

But as the Israeli parliament pushes a bill that would introduce the death penalty for “terrorism” – which human rights groups say refers exclusively to Palestinians – its legal system has not been arresting or punishing soldiers, despite evidence of war crimes, Gordon added.

“There’s an environment of impunity, and the soldiers know that,” he said.

UN ‘appalled’ by Israeli ‘summary executions’ in occupied West Bank’s Jenin

The United Nations Human Rights Office has condemned the extrajudicial killings of two Palestinian men during a raid in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin city, saying the Israeli soldiers’ actions amount to “summary executions”.

As we’ve been reporting, footage has circulated over the past day of Israeli soldiers shooting the two men to death as they attempted to surrender.

“We’re appalled by the brazen killing by Israeli border police yesterday of two Palestinian men in Jenin in the occupied West Bank in yet another apparent summary execution,” spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told a UN briefing in Geneva.

The office has previously said that Israel’s extrajudicial killings of Palestinians showed “a chilling pattern of violations of the basic principles” of international law.

"Thoughts and Prayers", no action. The UN should be appalled at itself.

Israel’s attack on Syria’s Beit Jinn ‘grave and unacceptable’: UN

Najat Rochdi, the United Nations deputy special envoy for Syria, has condemned Israel’s attack on the southern town of Beit Jinn.

In a statement, Rochdi pointed to the deaths of civilians and displacement of Syrian families from Beit Jinn as a “grave and unacceptable violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

Israel’s actions are “further destabilising an already fragile environment”, she added.

Rochdi called for “the immediate cessation” of territorial violations and adherence to the 1974 Disengagement Agreement between Israel and Syria, which Israel has argued is void since the removal of former President Bashar al-Assad last year.

Is This Arab-Jewish Movement in Israel the Right Way to Fight Apartheid and Occupation?

As Israel continues to violate its ceasefire agreement in Gaza, Mehdi is joined by two members of Standing Together, an organization the Guardian has called the “largest Arab-Jewish grassroots movement in Israel,” to discuss their efforts to end the occupation of Palestinians and fight back against Israeli apartheid.

Standing Together has organized mass protests against Israel’s genocide, coordinated hundreds of aid trucks for Gaza, and most recently conducted a speaking tour in the US. Alon-Lee Green, a Jewish-Israeli co-founder of Standing Together: “If you don't believe that people on the ground in Palestine and Israel can work together against occupation, you're closing doors that can allow us to do the work that we're doing” Sally Abed, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, a member of Standing Together, and a Haifa City Council member: “My baby is Palestinian…if they can’t see her as a human, then I have no place in there. And I refuse not to have [a] place in my own homeland.”

Israel About to Face Something SERIOUS.. | Paul Krugman

It's about the economic repercussions of the 2 year genocide. BDS movement is gaining traction.

There's a clear shift in comments on You Tube as well. Americans are fed up supporting a genocidal apartheid state.

Nations lack ‘political will and moral courage’ to hold Israel accountable for crimes: B’Tselem

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says the killing of two Palestinian men surrendering to Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank is just one of many deadly incidents that show total impunity by its armed forces.

“What we’re seeing again and again is that Israel is unwilling and unable to investigate itself. Every once [in] a while it is forced to do so due to international coverage in the media or pressure from other states,” public outreach director Shai Parnes told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv.

“But pretty much every time, the outcome is the same. The investigatory mechanism is actually a whitewash mechanism. And their goal is to pretend they’re investigating but to get the perpetrators total impunity.”

The most disturbing aspect is the total impunity given to Israel by the international community – Israel’s Western allies in particular – for the genocide in Gaza and ongoing attacks in the occupied West Bank, he added.

“What they’re lacking is the political will to act and the moral courage to act, and that’s really shameful,” said Parnes.


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Palestine pleads ‘stop the Israeli killing machine’ in occupied West Bank

Palestine’s Foreign Ministry is demanding action from the international community to halt Israel’s “war crime” as it continues its large-scale military assault on the occupied West Bank.

The call comes after Israeli forces shot dead two unarmed Palestinian men after they surrendered in Jenin on Thursday night.

“The ministry calls on the international community – particularly the United Nations Security Council and international courts – to take immediate action to stop the Israeli killing machine, deter crimes, and impose urgent international protection mechanisms for the Palestinian people,” it said in a statement.

It called for international peacekeeping forces in the occupied territories, and the prosecution of Israel’s political and military leaders “as they are war criminals who must be held accountable under international law”.


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UN committee presses Israel to investigate torture claims

A UN committee has urged Israel to set up an independent investigatory commission to investigate claims of torture of Palestinians, saying the situation has “gravely intensified” since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza.

The Committee against Torture said it’s “deeply concerned about reports indicating a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture and ill-treatment” in Israel.

The committee – with 10 independent experts who monitor how countries implement an international convention against torture – stressed it “unequivocally condemned the attack perpetrated by Hamas and other groups on October 7, 2023 against Israel”.

But it also highlighted “the disproportionate nature of Israel’s response to these attacks” while imposing “cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population”.

Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Daniel Meron, rejected the allegations, branding them “disinformation”.

Useless UN continues to urge, call, denounce, condemn.

‘They only came to us to beat us … nothing else’

Mohammed Ibrahim and Tasneem al-Hams, ages 16 and 22, respectively, were both just released from Israeli custody. As they reunited with their loved ones, both described brutal conditions inside the prisons.

Palestinian American teenager Ibrahim was arrested in February for allegedly throwing stones in the occupied West Bank. He spent almost 10 months in an Israeli prison.

An armed group abducted al-Hams from a medical facility in Gaza where she was working as a nurse – and then handed her over to Israel. For almost two months, Israel moved her from prison to prison, where she described violent treatment and soldiers denying women from wearing their hijabs.

‘Abhorrent’: UN condemns Israel’s Ben-Gvir for deadly shooting comments

The UN human rights office spokesperson, Jeremy Laurence, had denounced Israel’s national security minister after he praised the killing of two unarmed Palestinian men during raids on the occupied West Bank.

Itamar Ben-Gvir publicly backed the military and police unit involved in the extrajudicial killings on Thursday. “The [Israeli] fighters acted exactly as expected of them – terrorists should die,” he wrote on X.

Laurence told reporters in Geneva that Ben-Gvir’s comments are “nothing short of abhorrent”. He added at least 21 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces so far in November, nine of them children.

Ben-Gvir demands no investigation of Israeli soldiers after deadly shootings

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says he intends to change investigation procedures into shootings by troops after the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank.

“We need to put an end to this distorted procedure where when one of our fighters shoots a terrorist, they immediately take him for questioning,” Ben-Gvir was quoted by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority as saying.

The Israeli army opened an investigation following the release of a video appearing to show soldiers shooting dead two unarmed Palestinians who had already surrendered.

The far-right minister also publicly backed the military and police unit involved in the extrajudicial killings, which took place in Jenin, northern occupied West Bank. “The [Israeli] fighters acted exactly as expected of them – terrorists should die,” he wrote on X.

Israeli assault on West Bank’s Far’a camp injures 15 with dozens arrested

At least 15 Palestinians have been wounded in an ongoing Israeli raid of the Far’a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Nidal Odeh, head of ambulance and emergency services in Tubas city, said the victims sustained beatings by Israeli troops, with eight transferred to hospital and the rest treated on site.

The army continues to storm homes, make arrests, and force Palestinians out of their residences to turn houses into military posts, the official Wafa news agency reported.

Kamal Bani Odeh, director of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society in Tubas, said more than 20 people were arrested on Friday.

Soldiers remain deployed in Tubas, Aqqaba town, and the village of Tayasir, where more homes have been turned into military positions.

Israeli troops raid West Bank’s Ramallah area

Israeli forces have carried out multiple incursions across Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Soldiers stormed the village of Burqa and fired live ammunition and stun grenades near residential homes, Wafa news agency reported, citing witnesses.

In a separate incident, Israeli troops entered the town of Sarda, northeast of Ramallah, and set up an army checkpoint on the main road, stopping vehicles and inspecting identification cards.

At the Atara checkpoint, north of Ramallah, Israeli soldiers seized the keys of three Palestinian vehicles. Witnesses said traffic was disrupted around the Atara bridge area as troops left the vehicles sitting in the middle of the road.

Israel escalating mass arrests across West Bank, rights group warns

The Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies says Israel has sharply intensified its mass arrest campaign across the occupied West Bank, a form of collective punishment aimed at intimidating communities.

Riyad al-Ashqar, the centre’s director, said Israeli forces have increased overnight raids on towns, villages and refugee camps, breaking into homes, damaging property, and seizing cash and jewellery before detaining residents. Many are taken blindfolded and handcuffed to makeshift interrogation sites.

Al-Ashqar said nearly all detainees experience some form of violence or degrading treatment from the moment of arrest, including prolonged exposure to cold and rain, and physical and verbal assaults.

No area of the West Bank has been spared, he said, citing a recent large-scale incursion in Tammun where more than 300 residents, including the town’s mayor, were detained and interrogated before most were released.

Israeli bulldozers destroy more homes in Jenin camp

Since the early hours, Israeli troops have demolished Palestinian homes in the besieged Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank.

Israeli bulldozers started demolishing 24 homes in the Abdullah Azzam neighbourhood, west of the camp, including 12 slated for complete demolition, the report said. The Israeli army has destroyed more than 600 homes in the refugee camp since January, forcing the displacement of 22,000 residents, the Wafa news agency reported.

Israeli troops assault and detain Palestinians in town near Jenin

Israeli forces detained several Palestinians in the town of Yabad, southwest of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, local residents told the Wafa news agency.

Soldiers stopped a group of young men near a roundabout and severely beat one of them before holding others for questioning.

Later, troops raided the home of freed prisoner Nazmi Abu Bakr, 25, destroying his belongings before arresting him.

Israelis from illegal settlements also cleared Palestinian land in the town, while Israeli forces continued turning several homes into military outposts after forcibly evicting residents.

Yabad’s Mayor Amjad Attatra said settlers have stepped up assaults on private land as the army maintains its seizure of multiple homes in the area.

_{Soldiers detain a Palestinian resident of the Nur Shams refugee camp, near Tulkarem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank}

Palestinian man injured after settler attack near Nablus

A Palestinian man has been wounded after an assault by Israeli settlers in the village of Rujeib, east of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

Settlers attacked the man while he was on Rujeib Mountain, causing injuries that required his transfer to hospital for treatment, the Wafa news agency reported.

Violence in the West Bank has broken new records this year with Israeli settlers carrying out almost-daily attacks on Palestinians, including killings, beatings, and the destruction of property – often under the protection of the Israeli military.

The Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said Israeli forces and settlers carried out 2,350 attacks across the West Bank last month alone.

Number of Palestinians injured in Israeli assault on Tubas rises to 130

The number of Palestinians wounded by Israeli forces in the West Bank’s Tubas governorate since the start of the ongoing military attack has risen to 130.

Nidal Odeh, head of ambulance and emergency services in Tubas, told Wafa that emergency teams have dealt with 130 injuries over the past three days.

Of those, 66 people were transferred to hospitals, with the rest treated at the scene.

Israeli forces have maintained a three-day raid and siege on Tubas, turning several Palestinian homes into military outposts.

Israeli army says its forces killed Palestinian in southern Gaza

The Israeli army says it killed a Palestinian who it alleged crossed the so-called yellow line ceasefire demarcation into territory it controls in southern Gaza.

Without providing evidence, it claimed the person approached Israeli soldiers “in a manner that posed an immediate threat”.

Set out in the agreement between Israel and Hamas, the yellow line refers to an unmarked boundary where the Israeli military repositioned itself when the truce deal came into effect on October 10. Since then, the Israeli army has killed at least 347 Palestinians and wounded 889 others, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

EU official calls for unrestricted aid flow into Gaza during Rafah visit

Hadja Lahbib, European commissioner for equality, preparedness and crisis management, has pressed for urgent and unhindered delivery of food and medicine into Gaza through all available land crossings.

During a visit to the Egyptian side of the Rafah border, Lahbib urged Israel to allow UN agencies to operate without obstruction. “We are now in a grey zone. It is neither war nor peace, and this situation does not allow the Palestinians to begin rebuilding,” she said.

Lahbib said her visit was intended to examine how aid is being processed for entry into Gaza under UN standards at a time when international organisations continue to warn of rapidly worsening humanitarian conditions.

International assessments estimate Gaza requires at least 600 aid trucks per day, she said, noting many shipments are either delayed or turned back by Israeli authorities.

An honour to visit the symbolic Rafah crossing.

The ceasefire must hold, IHL must be respected and aid needs to flood Gaza.

We need all crossing points to be reopened & aid effectively delivered to people.

Immensely grateful to 🇪🇬 for their support & great cooperation. pic.twitter.com/TJLWLmcVq6

— Hadja Lahbib (@hadjalahbib) November 28, 2025

It's not a ceasefire... Saying 'the ceasefire' must hold is just re-inforcing the IDF's impunity.

Three Palestinians wounded in Israeli attack near Khan Younis

Three Palestinians have been injured in an Israeli drone attack in an area northeast of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Gaza-based Wafa news agency said the three were hit by a drone-fired munition inside the “yellow line” zone in the town of al-Qarara.

Israeli army says killed 9 Palestinian fighters in Rafah tunnel

The Israeli army says nine Palestinian fighters inside a tunnel under the city of Rafah were killed by troops in southern Gaza.

Media reports say between 100 and 200 Hamas fighters are trapped inside the tunnel, and Israel has not yet responded to demands by Hamas and mediator pleas to allow them safe passage to areas under the group’s control.

In a statement, the Israeli army alleged that, in total, more than 30 fighters “who attempted to flee the underground terror infrastructure in eastern Rafah have been eliminated”.

The city of Rafah falls within zones still occupied by the Israeli military inside Gaza. The United States and other ceasefire mediators are trying to negotiate the fighters’ escape to Hamas-controlled areas to keep the truce alive.

US military command praises Gaza truce efforts: ‘We are making progress’

The US military-led Gaza ceasefire coordination centre now has more than 50 nations and international organisations involved at its facility in Israel’s Kiryat Gat to maintain the peace.

“This is a historic opportunity to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East,” said Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command, in a statement.

“We appreciate the efforts of our international partners. Successful implementation of the peace plan requires unprecedented collaboration and we are making progress.”

The coordination centre helped get more than 24,000 trucks carrying humanitarian aid and commercial goods into Gaza over the past five weeks, it said.

“Currently, efforts are underway to deliver humanitarian supplies needed for winter months and clear unexploded ordnance along Gaza’s critical logistical corridors to improve safety,” it added.

It's all lies, all aid organizations say otherwise, Palestinians are still killed and wounded daily.

Gaza press office accuses Israel of ‘turning aid into a tool of war’

Ismail al-Thawabta, director of Gaza’s Government Media Office, says since the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel took hold, 535 Israeli violations have been documented.

Attacks since October 10 have killed 350 Palestinians and wounded about 900 others, al-Thawabta said in a statement.

Despite the US and Israel suggesting otherwise, he added that aid flows into the war-battered territory are far below what was agreed upon in the truce.

“The occupation has allowed only 9,930 trucks to enter Gaza out of the nearly 28,000 requested – a mere 35 percent – thus turning aid into a tool of war used for pressure rather than a legal or humanitarian obligation,” said al-Thawabta.

“The humanitarian situation in Gaza is deteriorating at an unprecedented rate, and the Israeli aggression has destroyed infrastructure and essential services. The continued Israeli violations without international accountability embolden the occupation to persist in killing and targeting civilians.”

Brad Cooper is part of the genocide, not there for the so called 'peace' plan.

UN says staff, civilians still coming under fire in Gaza despite ceasefire

The UN humanitarian office says that despite the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, its staff and facilities “continue to come under fire”, creating dangerous conditions that are obstructing aid operations.

“Civilians, including humanitarian workers, and civilian infrastructure – including humanitarian convoys, supplies and facilities – must always be protected in accordance with international humanitarian law,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement.

Ongoing attacks “expose UN staff, NGO partners, and the people who depend on their services to grave risks, including death and injury, and further impede humanitarian work”, it added.

Israel’s military continues near-daily attacks on Gaza, with hundreds of ceasefire violations since the October 10 truce deal came into effect.

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Since the declaration of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on October 10, Israel has violated the agreement many times with near-daily attacks, killing hundreds of people.

The Government Media Office in Gaza said Israel shot at civilians 142 times, raided residential areas beyond the “yellow line” 21 times, bombed and shelled Gaza 228 times, and demolished people’s property on 100 occasions.

Israeli forces have also detained 35 Palestinians in Gaza over the past month, and continue to block vital humanitarian aid and destroy homes and infrastructure across the Strip.