We are now closing our LIVE coverage of the region for tonight. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates.
Israeli soldier 's body surrendered by Hamas has been recovered by Israel
The Israeli army received the remains of an Israeli soldier handed over on Tuesday evening by Hamas, confirmed the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump to meet with Syrian president on Monday
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to meet with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced at a press briefing on Tuesday.
"When the president visited the Middle East, he made the historic decision to lift sanctions against Syria to give them a real chance at peace. I think the administration has seen good progress on this front under their new leadership," she said.
Gaza hostage body handed over to the Red Cross
The body of a hostage held in the Gaza Strip was handed over to the Red Cross Tuesday evening as part of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which came into effect on Oct. 10, the Israeli army announced Tuesday evening.
"According to information provided by the Red Cross, a coffin containing the body of a deceased hostage has been transferred to its custody and is en route to Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip," the army said in a statement.
Wider confrontation with Israel 'inevitable': Houthi leader
The leader of Yemen's Houthi rebels, Abdelmalik al-Houthi, has ordered his group to strengthen its military preparations for a future confrontation with Israel.
"We are inevitably heading towards a larger confrontation with the Israeli enemy," he said in a televised address. "Our region will know neither stability, nor security, nor peace as long as the Israeli enemy occupies Palestine and pursues its Zionist agenda against us, a Muslim nation."
The Houthi leader asserted that Israel continues to attack Gaza in violation of the cease-fire and that the United States, guarantor of the agreement, "is complicit in Israel's crimes in Gaza."
He also once again criticized the Islamic nations of the region for their "lack of firmness" towards Israel, accusing them of focusing on Israeli demands for the disarmament of Hezbollah in Lebanon, while the United States "provides unconditional support to the Israeli enemy and is fully complicit in injustice, genocide and aggression."
Only 7% of Gaza families returned home after cease-fire: UN
After three weeks of a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, only 7 percent of forcibly displaced families in Gaza have been able to return to their homes, with the majority remaining in temporary shelters, the U.N. reported.
An investigation conducted by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Palestine revealed that this small number of families had returned mainly to partially habitable dwellings.
However, most continue to live in camps for displaced persons due to widespread destruction and a lack of housing, while a recent analysis by the U.N. satellite agency revealed that approximately 81 percent of homes in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed.
2 Palestinians killed Tuesday by Israeli army in northern Gaza
At least two people were killed today in the Gaza Strip by Israeli army fire or airstrikes, despite the cease-fire.
According to a source at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, cited by Al Jazeera, a Palestinian man was shot dead in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army confirmed it opened fire on a person who had "crossed the yellow line."
Earlier in the day, another person was killed and another wounded in an Israeli drone strike targeting the Tufa neighborhood of Gaza City.
UNRWA warns of worst forced displacement crisis in occupied West Bank since 1967
UNRWA has warned that the occupied West Bank is experiencing its worst forced displacement crisis in over 50 years.
In a message published on X, the U.N. agency stated that “in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, UNRWA is coordinating emergency assistance in response to the worst displacement crisis since 1967.”
It specified that one in four displaced families is still unable to return home, adding that its teams are removing 13 tons of waste daily from communities hosting forcibly displaced people to support sanitation services.
Hamas announces handing over body of Israeli soldier found at 8 p.m.
Hamas' armed wing announced that it will hand over the body of an Israeli soldier found in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City this evening at 8 p.m. (local time).
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades "will hand over the body of one of the prisoners of the [Israeli] occupation at 8 p.m., Gaza time," or 6 p.m., according to a statement published on its Telegram channel.
"We continue to work towards completing the process of handing over the bodies of Israeli captives despite the difficulties and obstacles, and we are working to complete the entire exchange process as soon as possible," Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a separate statement.
Israeli artillery fire in southern Lebanon
The Israeli army fired three artillery shells towards Lebanese territorial waters off Naqoura (Sour district), according to our correspondent.
Gaza: Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks since cease-fire rises to 240
The Gaza Health Ministry reported the deaths of four more Palestinians in the past 24 hours, whose bodies were transported to hospitals in the enclave.
Three of the victims were killed since yesterday, while the last was found under rubble following previous attacks.
Since the cease-fire came into effect on Oct. 10, 2025, Israeli attacks on Gaza have resulted in at least 240 deaths and 607 injuries, the Ministry stated.
Body remains of captive found in Gaza
The al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, says it found the body of an Israeli soldier in the Shujayya neighbourhood in central Gaza.
It added that arrangements are underway to hand over the body to Israel.
The bodies of four Palestinians have been brought to hospitals across Gaza over the past 24 hours, including one recovered from beneath rubble, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Since the cease-fire took effect on Oct. 11 2025, Israeli attacks have killed a total of 240 people and wounded 607, the ministry said.
UN head condemns 'continuing violations' of Gaza cease-fire
The U.N. Secretary-General said he was "deeply concerned about the continuing violations" of the cease-fire in Gaza, which was supposed to end Israel's two-year war on the Strip.
These violations "must stop and all parties must respect the decisions of the first phase of the peace agreement," Antonio Guterres said at a press conference on the sidelines of the second World Summit for Social Development in Doha.
One person seriously injured in Israeli strike on Kfar Dajjar, southern Lebanon
Photo taken by our south Lebanon correspondent, Muntasser Abdallah
An Israeli drone targeted a vehicle in Kfar Dajjal, Nabatieh, according to our correspondent in southern Lebanon, seriously injuring one.
Israel arrests 5 Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza
The Israeli army arrested five Palestinian fishermen aboard a boat off the coast of Gaza City, reported al Jazeera, citing the Gaza Fishermen's Union. The men were taken to an unknown location.
Southern Lebanon: Israeli fires towards the Khiam plain
The Israeli army fired automatic weapons towards Wadi al-Assafir and the outskirts of the Khiam plain (Marjayoun) in southern Lebanon from a position it occupies on Hamames hill, south of the town, according to our south Lebanon correspondent.
Israeli strikes east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip
Israeli strikes targeted Bani Souheila, east of Khan Younis, earlier this morning, according to Al-Quds TV.
No casualties were immediately reported following the strikes.
MBS to visit Trump on Nov. 18, according to White House official
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) will visit the White House on Nov. 18 for an official state visit with U.S. President Donald Trump, a White House official announced, as reported by Reuters.
The visit comes as President Trump pressures Saudi Arabia to join the list of countries that have signed the Abraham Accords. In 2020, Donald Trump concluded agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco to normalize their relations with Israel.
The Saudis have been reluctant to commit in the absence of measures to support the creation of a Palestinian state.
Read more on this story here.
Hezbollah confirms killing of party member Mohammed Hadid
Hezbollah confirmed this morning the death of its member Mohammed Ali Hadid in Monday's Israeli strike on a car on the Sharqieh-Doueir road (Nabatieh). Hadid had survived Israel's deadly pager attacks in September 2024 which had left him blind.
Southern Lebanon: Israeli incursion and demolition of a house near Mais al-Jabal
Shortly after 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the Israeli army invaded the village of Kroum al-Marah, east of Mais al-Jabal (Marjayoun), where it blew up a house, according to our correspondent in southern Lebanon.
It was in the same area where the Lebanese Army had mobilized the previous night in response to a large deployment of Israeli soldiers on the other side of the border. The Lebanese Army was ordered to oppose any Israeli incursion into the south after soldiers entered the border village of Blida last Thursday and shot and killed a municipal employee.
Good morning and welcome to the live blog
Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of news in Lebanon, where Israel's military escalations intended to put pressure on Hezbollah and the government continue.
We will also be taking a close look at developments in Gaza which sees no respite from deadly Israeli strikes across the Strip.
We are now closing our LIVE coverage of the region for tonight. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates.
Israeli soldier 's body surrendered by Hamas has been recovered by Israel
The Israeli army received the remains of an Israeli soldier handed over on Tuesday evening by Hamas, confirmed the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump to meet with Syrian president on Monday
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to meet with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced at a press briefing on Tuesday.
"When the president visited the Middle East, he made the historic decision to lift sanctions against Syria to give them a real chance at peace. I think the administration has seen good progress on this front under their new leadership," she said.
Gaza hostage body handed over to the Red Cross
The body of a hostage held in the Gaza Strip was handed over to the Red Cross Tuesday evening as part of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which came into effect on Oct. 10, the Israeli army announced Tuesday evening.
"According to information provided by the Red Cross, a coffin containing the body of a deceased hostage has been transferred to its custody and is en route to Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip," the army said in a statement.
Wider confrontation with Israel 'inevitable': Houthi leader
The leader of Yemen's Houthi rebels, Abdelmalik al-Houthi, has ordered his group to strengthen its military preparations for a future confrontation with Israel.
"We are inevitably heading towards a larger confrontation with the Israeli enemy," he said in a televised address. "Our region will know neither stability, nor security, nor peace as long as the Israeli enemy occupies Palestine and pursues its Zionist agenda against us, a Muslim nation."
The Houthi leader asserted that Israel continues to attack Gaza in violation of the cease-fire and that the United States, guarantor of the agreement, "is complicit in Israel's crimes in Gaza."
He also once again criticized the Islamic nations of the region for their "lack of firmness" towards Israel, accusing them of focusing on Israeli demands for the disarmament of Hezbollah in Lebanon, while the United States "provides unconditional support to the Israeli enemy and is fully complicit in injustice, genocide and aggression."
Only 7% of Gaza families returned home after cease-fire: UN
After three weeks of a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, only 7 percent of forcibly displaced families in Gaza have been able to return to their homes, with the majority remaining in temporary shelters, the U.N. reported.
An investigation conducted by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Palestine revealed that this small number of families had returned mainly to partially habitable dwellings.
However, most continue to live in camps for displaced persons due to widespread destruction and a lack of housing, while a recent analysis by the U.N. satellite agency revealed that approximately 81 percent of homes in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed.
2 Palestinians killed Tuesday by Israeli army in northern Gaza
At least two people were killed today in the Gaza Strip by Israeli army fire or airstrikes, despite the cease-fire.
According to a source at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, cited by Al Jazeera, a Palestinian man was shot dead in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army confirmed it opened fire on a person who had "crossed the yellow line."
Earlier in the day, another person was killed and another wounded in an Israeli drone strike targeting the Tufa neighborhood of Gaza City.
UNRWA warns of worst forced displacement crisis in occupied West Bank since 1967
UNRWA has warned that the occupied West Bank is experiencing its worst forced displacement crisis in over 50 years.
In a message published on X, the U.N. agency stated that “in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, UNRWA is coordinating emergency assistance in response to the worst displacement crisis since 1967.”
It specified that one in four displaced families is still unable to return home, adding that its teams are removing 13 tons of waste daily from communities hosting forcibly displaced people to support sanitation services.
Hamas announces handing over body of Israeli soldier found at 8 p.m.
Hamas' armed wing announced that it will hand over the body of an Israeli soldier found in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City this evening at 8 p.m. (local time).
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades "will hand over the body of one of the prisoners of the [Israeli] occupation at 8 p.m., Gaza time," or 6 p.m., according to a statement published on its Telegram channel.
"We continue to work towards completing the process of handing over the bodies of Israeli captives despite the difficulties and obstacles, and we are working to complete the entire exchange process as soon as possible," Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a separate statement.
Israeli artillery fire in southern Lebanon
The Israeli army fired three artillery shells towards Lebanese territorial waters off Naqoura (Sour district), according to our correspondent.
Gaza: Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks since cease-fire rises to 240
The Gaza Health Ministry reported the deaths of four more Palestinians in the past 24 hours, whose bodies were transported to hospitals in the enclave.
Three of the victims were killed since yesterday, while the last was found under rubble following previous attacks.
Since the cease-fire came into effect on Oct. 10, 2025, Israeli attacks on Gaza have resulted in at least 240 deaths and 607 injuries, the Ministry stated.
Body remains of captive found in Gaza
The al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, says it found the body of an Israeli soldier in the Shujayya neighbourhood in central Gaza.
It added that arrangements are underway to hand over the body to Israel.
The bodies of four Palestinians have been brought to hospitals across Gaza over the past 24 hours, including one recovered from beneath rubble, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Since the cease-fire took effect on Oct. 11 2025, Israeli attacks have killed a total of 240 people and wounded 607, the ministry said.
UN head condemns 'continuing violations' of Gaza cease-fire
The U.N. Secretary-General said he was "deeply concerned about the continuing violations" of the cease-fire in Gaza, which was supposed to end Israel's two-year war on the Strip.
These violations "must stop and all parties must respect the decisions of the first phase of the peace agreement," Antonio Guterres said at a press conference on the sidelines of the second World Summit for Social Development in Doha.
One person seriously injured in Israeli strike on Kfar Dajjar, southern Lebanon
Photo taken by our south Lebanon correspondent, Muntasser Abdallah
An Israeli drone targeted a vehicle in Kfar Dajjal, Nabatieh, according to our correspondent in southern Lebanon, seriously injuring one.
Israel arrests 5 Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza
The Israeli army arrested five Palestinian fishermen aboard a boat off the coast of Gaza City, reported al Jazeera, citing the Gaza Fishermen's Union. The men were taken to an unknown location.
Southern Lebanon: Israeli fires towards the Khiam plain
The Israeli army fired automatic weapons towards Wadi al-Assafir and the outskirts of the Khiam plain (Marjayoun) in southern Lebanon from a position it occupies on Hamames hill, south of the town, according to our south Lebanon correspondent.
Israeli strikes east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip
Israeli strikes targeted Bani Souheila, east of Khan Younis, earlier this morning, according to Al-Quds TV.
No casualties were immediately reported following the strikes.
MBS to visit Trump on Nov. 18, according to White House official
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) will visit the White House on Nov. 18 for an official state visit with U.S. President Donald Trump, a White House official announced, as reported by Reuters.
The visit comes as President Trump pressures Saudi Arabia to join the list of countries that have signed the Abraham Accords. In 2020, Donald Trump concluded agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco to normalize their relations with Israel.
The Saudis have been reluctant to commit in the absence of measures to support the creation of a Palestinian state.
Read more on this story here.
Hezbollah confirms killing of party member Mohammed Hadid
Hezbollah confirmed this morning the death of its member Mohammed Ali Hadid in Monday's Israeli strike on a car on the Sharqieh-Doueir road (Nabatieh). Hadid had survived Israel's deadly pager attacks in September 2024 which had left him blind.
Southern Lebanon: Israeli incursion and demolition of a house near Mais al-Jabal
Shortly after 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the Israeli army invaded the village of Kroum al-Marah, east of Mais al-Jabal (Marjayoun), where it blew up a house, according to our correspondent in southern Lebanon.
It was in the same area where the Lebanese Army had mobilized the previous night in response to a large deployment of Israeli soldiers on the other side of the border. The Lebanese Army was ordered to oppose any Israeli incursion into the south after soldiers entered the border village of Blida last Thursday and shot and killed a municipal employee.
Good morning and welcome to the live blog
Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of news in Lebanon, where Israel's military escalations intended to put pressure on Hezbollah and the government continue.
We will also be taking a close look at developments in Gaza which sees no respite from deadly Israeli strikes across the Strip.
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