Blinken urges Israel to ‘substantially increase’ aid to Gaza

The US Secretary of State spoke with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant by telephone and urged him to take action to improve the humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave ahead of a Washington-imposed deadline.

Antony Blinken “urged further actions to substantially increase and sustain humanitarian aid – including food, medicine, and other essential supplies – to civilians across all of Gaza,” the State Department said.

“The Secretary emphasised the importance of ending the war in Gaza and bringing all of the hostages home, as well as charting a path forward in the post-conflict period that allows the Palestinian population in Gaza to rebuild their lives and advances governance, security, and reconstruction,” it added.

The Biden administration told Israel in an October 13 letter that it had 30 days to take specific steps to address the dire humanitarian crisis in the Strip – which has been pummelled for more than a year by Israeli ground and air attacks – or risk facing restrictions on military aid.

The 'deadline' was just to stop reporters asking questions until after the elections. But we'll see next Tuesday when the 30 days are up.

Premature births, maternal deaths rising in Gaza, UNFPA says

The UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency says its partners in Gaza are reporting a rise in premature births and maternal deaths amid Israel’s war on the Palestinian enclave.

“Sexual and reproductive healthcare, including postnatal and family planning services, have become severely limited for 155,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women, who face serious health risks due to a lack of prenatal and postnatal care,” the agency said.

“Complicated and high-risk pregnancies linked with negative outcomes have increased, while access to safe childbirth services has dramatically decreased, especially in the North.”

Many women are being forced to give birth without access to medical support, it said.

“Menstrual hygiene has also become nearly impossible to manage, as over 690,000 women lack access to basic sanitary supplies,” the agency said. “The cost of essential items like soap has skyrocketed by 1,100%, making it impossible to keep clean and increasing women’s vulnerability to violence and exploitation.”

Israel’s five-stage plan for Gaza, Lebanon

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, Marwan Bishara, examines Israel’s military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, outlining a five-stage plan: siege, assault, expulsion, destruction, and occupation.

He comments on the US presidential election, expressing doubt that either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump would back a regional war in the Middle East.

Bishara suggests Harris may take a more cautious stance towards Israeli war crimes, while Trump’s position remains uncertain. However, he does not expect either candidate to engage directly in a Middle Eastern conflict.

Newborn babies wounded as Israel attacks Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital

Eid Sabbah, the director of nursing at Kamal Adwan Hospital, said Israel’s attack on the facility wounded newborn babies and forced the evacuation of its nursery.

“The children’s ward with the incubators was hit by Israeli warplanes and quad-copter drones. The upper floors were damaged and some of the children and newborn babies were injured,” he told Al Jazeera by telephone. “Journalists, nurses and other medical staff were also injured,” he said.

“The nurses took the children to the lower floors but those floors don’t have the equipment needed to cater to the newborns who need incubators and intensive care. Those children and newborns came under direct fire. One child was forced to have emergency surgery. The staff were shocked by this new attack because we had already come under fire just the day before.”

The hospital – which continues to receive people wounded in Israel’s intensified attacks on northern Gaza – has called for urgent international intervention and the establishment of a humanitarian passage for the delivery of medical supplies.

“There are 125 patients in the hospital, including children and the wounded. The incubator had eight babies and the Intensive Care Unit has seven newborns and children who all need to be on a ventilator,” he told Al Jazeera.

But Israel’s attack damaged the upper floors, where the children’s ward was located, forcing staff to move the babies and children to the lower floors, which do not have the same equipment. “So they [the babies and children] are direct victims of these attacks,” Sabbah said.

He noted that Israeli forces have detained dozens of the hospital’s staff, including surgeons, neurologists and paediatricians, during last week’s raid. “The hospital is extremely understaffed as a result. There are four doctors and 50 volunteers, medical workers and nurses. They can’t cope with the huge influx of wounded people and there are no supplies,” he said.

“Israeli forces have destroyed warehouses and the pharmacy storing supplies and many of the facilities in the hospital have been destroyed.”

Child killed as Israel’s military bombs tents in central Gaza

The Israeli attack on tents housing displaced Palestinians in Deir e-Balah killed two people, including a child, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Three Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza’s Khan Younis

The Israeli military has attacked a tent housing displaced Palestinians in the Maen area east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. Three people, including a child, have been killed in the attack.

Eight Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on central, northern Gaza

Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that Israeli fighter jets have bombed a house in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City in the north, killing four people and wounding several others.

Israeli forces have also bombed another tent sheltering displaced Palestinians, this time in the az-Zawayda area of central Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency. Four people have been killed in the attack, while an unspecified number have been wounded, Wafa reported.

The assault marked the third Israeli attack on displacement tents in recent hours, following deadly strikes in Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis, which killed five people in total.

Palestinian child who lost his father early in war killed in Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya

As we’ve been reporting, the Israeli military bombed two homes in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on Monday, killing at least 15 people. Among the dead was a Palestinian child who had lost his father in the first days of the war.

Civilians rushed to the scene to dig for survivors, using their bare hands.

Israeli military bombs West Bank’s Tammun: Reports

Israeli forces have bombed the town of Tammun, south of the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, according to the Quds News Network and the Palestinian Information Center. Initial reports suggest a house has been hit, but it is not known if there have been any casualties.

Palestinian man killed as Israeli forces attack West Bank’s Tammun

The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces killed the man after laying siege to his home in Tammun. The troops fired “Energa” shells at the building, it reported. The Palestinian Information Center identified the victim as Hani Bani Awda Abu Asif.

The killing came as Israeli forces also launched drone attacks on four sites in the town. The targets of the attacks are not yet clear and it is not known if there have been any casualties or injuries.

Israeli forces also stormed the nearby Far’a refugee camp, raiding homes, firing live ammunition and bulldozing infrastructure, including water lines, Wafa added. Israeli raids have also been reported in the town of Qabatiya and the an-Naqqar neighbourhood in Qalqilya city, where a man has been arrested.

Second person killed in Israeli raid on West Bank’s Tammun

The Wafa news agency is reporting that a second person has been killed following Israel’s siege on the town of Tammun. A video clip circulating on social media shows an Israeli military bulldozer carrying the victim’s body as it withdrew from the town.

The deceased has not been identified.

Earlier, we reported another man had been killed in the same raid after Israeli soldiers fired “Energa” shells at the building. The Palestinian Information Center identified the victim as Hani Bani Awda Abu Asif.

Israeli forces have also arrested two men, shooting one of them, after besieging their home in the Thinnabeh suburb, east of Tulkarem, according to Wafa. The extent of the wounded man’s injuries is not known.

The Israeli military also arrested two men in the city of Qalqilya.

Renewed Israeli incursions into occupied Tulkarem and East Jerusalem

Sources have told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces are storming the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. Sources also reported that Israeli police have stormed neighbourhoods in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem.

Earlier, Hamas had called for Palestinians to confront the incursions by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. “We call on the masses of the West Bank for more defiance, steadfastness and continued confrontation with the occupation and settlers in all governorates,” it said in a statement.

Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians near occupied West Bank’s Jenin

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli soldiers have raided the occupied West Bank city of Qabatiya, killing three Palestinian men.

Israel destroys private property, infrastructure in West Bank’s Tulkarem and Nur Shams

Israeli bulldozers have caused extensive damage to infrastructure and private property during a four-hour operation in Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps in the western occupied West Bank.

Videos verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad show scenes of bulldozing and vandalism of the streets in the camps. One video clip captures Israeli forces detonating an explosive device in Nur Shams.

In Tulkarem camp, Israeli bulldozers destroyed streets and damaged the main water line supplying the area, according to the Wafa news agency.

In Nour Shams camp, properties were also heavily damaged, with a shop set on fire and completely destroyed.

Israeli forces also maintained a tight siege around both camps, deploying vehicles at all access points and placing snipers on rooftops, Wafa reported.

Death toll in Israeli raids in occupied West Bank rises to seven

At least seven people were killed during an Israeli military raid and air attacks on the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Five were killed in two Israeli attacks in Qabatiya, near Jenin, which we reported on earlier, while the other two were killed in the Tammun area, in Tubas.

_{People inspect a building that was blown up during an Israeli raid in Qabatiya, near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, on November 5}

Israel demolishes seven Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem

Municipal workers began demolishing seven homes in occupied East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighbourhood after an Israeli court called their construction illegal.

“This morning the Jerusalem Municipality, with a security escort from the Israel police, began its enforcement against illegal buildings in the al-Bustan neighbourhood in Silwan,” Jerusalem’s Israeli-controlled municipality said in a statement.

Activist Fakhri Abu Diab, one of those affected by the demolition, confirmed to the AFP news agency that “at least seven homes have been demolished, and the operation is ongoing.”

He said about “40 people, including children, were affected by the demolitions in the neighbourhood, leaving them homeless”.

Bulldozers tear down homes in occupied territory

Up to eight homes have been demolished so far and seven people killed. One of those killed was not even defending a home or opposing the Israeli forces. He was a young man standing on the rooftop of his home looking on.

That gives you an idea about the situation in the occupied West Bank and how easy it is for the Israeli army to kill Palestinians in that area.

It has always been official Israeli policy to demolish homes in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. However, with the world’s attention diverted towards the ongoing US elections, it is typical of Israel to accelerate the demolition of homes.

Several killed in Israeli bombing in Gaza City

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that five people were killed in an Israeli attack in the az-Zarqa area north of Gaza City. An unspecified number of people were also wounded in the attack.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 61 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since dawn today.

More on Israeli attack on Syria

An Israeli attack hit an industrial zone and some residential buildings in al-Qusayr, Homs province, in central Syria, Syrian state TV reports. The outlet quoted the Homs province’s health director as saying there were no injuries.

A previous “Israeli aggression” on al-Qusayr on Thursday wounded a number of civilians and caused material damage, state media said.

Israel’s military, which typically does not comment on specific reports of attacks in Syria, claimed in a statement that it had hit weapons storage facilities and command centres used by Hezbollah.

Hezbollah bombs Meron base in northern Israel

The Lebanese armed group says it has hit the Meron base with a missile barrage. Hezbollah also said its fighters “targeted a vital objective in the southern occupied territories, marking the sixth such operation today, using drones”.