That concludes our live coverage of events in the region for today. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow morning with more live updates as the news unfolds. Goodnight.
Israel's war on Gaza has caused the most significant economic crisis on record, UN says
Gaza is facing the most severe economic crisis on record, according to a report released today by the U.N.’s trade and development agency.
"Two years of military operations and restrictions have triggered an unprecedented collapse across the Palestinian economy," the report reads, adding that "plummeting revenues and the withholding of fiscal transfers by the Israeli government have severely constrained the Palestinian government’s ability to maintain essential public services and invest in recovery."
According to the agency, by the end of 2024, Palestinian GDP fell back to its 2010 level while GDP per capita returned to that of 2003, erasing 22 years of development progress in a little over a year.
The report also recalls an earlier one by the U.N. in which it found that the estimated cost of reconstruction and recovery in Gaza exceeds $70 billion, "underscoring the magnitude of investment required to rebuild infrastructure and restore livelihoods."
“The military operations have significantly undermined every pillar of survival” from food to shelter to healthcare, AFP cites the U.N. as stating, “and plunged Gaza into a human-made abyss.”
Israeli settlers have killed at least 21 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 2023
Israel has killed 1,004 Palestinians — including 217 children — in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since October 2023, the Jerusalem-based Israeli human rights group B'Tselem revealed in a statement published on X yesterday.
At least 21 of the killings were perpetrated by settlers, according to B'Tselem, adding that in all 21 cases where settlers have killed Palestinians, not a single perpetrator has been convicted.
"Since October 2023, alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israeli military has been enforcing an increasingly permissive and reckless open-fire policy in the West Bank," the group wrote, "including the use of airstrikes in populated areas."
"The military has also armed and mobilized thousands of settlers into regional defense battalions and rapid-response teams within settlements," the statement reads.
Remains from Gaza believed to be third-last hostage handed over to Israel
The casket containing the apparent remains of a deceased hostage has been brought out of the Gaza Strip by troops, the Israeli army announced.
According to Times of Israel, the body is now being escorted by the police to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv for identification, a process which officials have said may take up to two days.
Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad did not provide the identity of the hostage they handed over.
If the body is confirmed to belong to a hostage, it would mean that the remains of two hostages are still held in Gaza.
Defense Minister Michel Menasseh meets with UN official to discuss Lebanon-UNIFIL relationship
Defense Minister Michel Menasseh met with Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific of the United Nations Khaled Khiari and his accompanying delegation, according to the state-run National News Agency.
The discussion took place in Menasseh's office in Yarzeh and revolved around the ongoing cooperation between Lebanon and UNIFIL, particularly regarding the implementation of international resolutions. The U.N. delegation explained its “efforts to develop scenarios and options, to be later presented to the U.N. Secretary-General, relating to finding appropriate mechanisms to follow up on the implementation of Resolution 1701 after the end of UNIFIL’s mandate in southern Lebanon at the end of 2026.
Menasseh reportedly reaffirmed “the Lebanese side’s full commitment to implementing Resolution 1701 and the Lebanese Army’s readiness to continue carrying out its duties in this regard,” and stressed that “the difficulties hindering implementation lie in the continued violations by the Israeli side of the cease-fire, in addition to its non-compliance with Resolution 1701 and its failure to withdraw from the sites it still occupies in southern Lebanon.”
Turkey, Egypt, Qatar discuss second phase of Gaza cease-fire deal, Turkish source says
Turkey's spy chief met with his Egyptian counterpart and Qatar's foreign minister in Cairo today to discuss transitioning to the second phase of the Gaza cease-fire deal and increasing joint efforts in coordination with the U.S., a Turkish source told Reuters.
"During the meeting, [they] also agreed to continue strengthening coordination and cooperation with the Civil Military Coordination Center [CMCC] to eliminate all obstacles to ensure the continuity of the cease-fire and to prevent further violations," the source said, adding that the three officials also discussed countering Israeli violations of the accord.
As winter looms, floods swamp tents of Palestinians forced from their homes by Israeli bombs
Palestinian children walk in flood water after heavy rain flooded a makeshift camp housing displaced people in Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Nov. 25, 2025. (Credit: Eyad Baba/AFP)
Heavy rain caused flooding in the Gaza Strip earliertoday, swamping the tents of thousands of homeless Palestinians facing the prospect of harsh winter storms without sturdy shelter, Reuters reports.
Amjad Al-Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGOs Network, said there was an urgent need for at least 300,000 new tents to house the roughly 1.5 million people still displaced from their homes.
The Palestinian Civil Defence Service said thousands of tents housing displaced families had been inundated by rainwater or damaged by torrential rainstorms over the past week.
Some tents were completely washed away as floodwaters rose 40 to 50 centimeters above ground level in some areas of the coastal enclave, while a field hospital had to suspend operations due to flooding, medics and witnesses said.
Read the full report here. 👈
Syrian security forces use gunfire to disperse rival protests in Alawite heartland
Syrian security forces used gunfire earlier today to break up two rival groups of demonstrators in the coastal town of Latakia, heartland of the country's Alawite minority, witnesses and officials told Reuters.
Witnesses said hundreds of Alawite protesters had gathered to demand a decentralized political system in Syria and the release of men they say were unjustly detained by the country's new authorities. Supporters of the government then gathered and began shouting insults at the Alawites.
About an hour into the Alawites' rally, gunshots were heard in Agriculture Square, one of two town squares where the protesters had gathered, according to two witnesses and videos verified by Reuters. One of the verified videos showed a man lying motionless on the ground with a wound to the head.
Read the full report here. 👈
Remains of hostage being transferred by Red Cross to Israeli army
The remains of a hostage whose body was located and retrieved yesterday by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Israeli-occupied area in Rafah, southern Gaza, have been collected by the Red Cross and are currently being transferred to the Israeli army, Haaretz reports. This is the third-last hostage yet to be returned from Gaza after being taken on Oct. 7, 2023.
Popemobile transformed into Gaza mobile children's clinic
The popemobile used by the late Pope Francis on his 2014 visit to Bethlehem re-emerged today as a mobile children's clinic to be deployed in Gaza, AFP reports.
Staffed by medics, the popemobile is intended for performing triage and is equipped for examination, diagnosis and treatment, including vaccines, stitches and tests for infections. The clinic should be able to perform up to 200 consultations a day. The children will sit in the pontiff's chair while being attended to.
The vehicle was transformed by Caritas, the Catholic humanitarian aid organization. Costing $15,000, it has been repurposed and spruced up by Palestinian mechanics.
Read the full report here. 👈
Syrians protest after attacks on Alawite minority
Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday across Syria's Alawite-majority coast in protest against recent attacks targeting the minority community, AFP correspondents reported from Tartous, Latakia and Jableh.
The Observatory for Human Rights recorded 42 demonstrations on Tuesday.
Red Cross personnel are on their way to a Gaza meeting point ahead of a handover of a hostage's body, the Israeli army said, as cited in Haaretz.
"The [Israeli army] requests that the public act with sensitivity and wait for the official identification, which will first be provided to the families," the statement read.
"Hamas is required to uphold the agreement and take the necessary steps to return all the deceased hostages," it read.
Hamas still has to return three hostages' remains as part of the Gaza cease-fire deal, which it says it is struggling to do so because of the presence of Israeli forces in Gaza blocking areas containing remains, or them being buried under tons of Israeli-caused destruction.
Lebanon 'taking precautions' against risk of Israeli escalation, Salam says
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday that his government was preparing for the possibility of a new large-scale Israeli offensive against Lebanon, amid tensions following the assassination of Haytham Abu Ali Tabtaba’i on Sunday.
Asked about the security situation during a visit to Beirut Port, Salam said it was “clear that Israel is taking an escalatory line.”
“We are in a situation of war, the intensity of which is increasing, taking the form of a one-sided war of attrition. We are taking precautions to deal with any escalation and anything that may result from it on the humanitarian, social, or other levels,” he said.
Salam added that he had spoken with Army Commander Rodolph Haykal on Monday. He would continue to “work to mobilize more Arab and international support to stop these attacks and work toward an Israeli withdrawal” from occupied territories in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah MP Hassan Ezzeddine said that Sunday's Israeli attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut is an "aggression against all of Lebanon, not against Hezbollah or the resistance leadership, because those targeted are Lebanese citizens living on Lebanese land," according to the state-run National News Agency. "Therefore, they are subjects of this state, which must be responsible for its citizens, its people, and its communities."
Ezzeddine spoke during a commemoration in Froun (Bint Jbeil district) for Ahmad Ramadan, a Hezbollah member killed in an Israeli airstrike last Friday in the same village.
“Today, no one can underestimate us (...) in this country, we form the fundamental pillar for building a true homeland and establishing a just and capable state based on the principle of strength in protection and the principle of justice in care; a state that protects and provides for its people," he added.
UN calls for 'impartial' probe into Israeli strikes on Ain al-Hilweh
The United Nations called Tuesday for swift and impartial investigations into Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including a deadly attack on Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilweh last week, which killed 14 people, mainly teenagers.
"There must be prompt and impartial investigations into the Ain al-Hilweh strike, as well as all other incidents involving possible violations of international humanitarian law by all parties, both before and after the cease-fire. Those responsible must be brought to justice," U.N. rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva.
Israel killed over 127 civilians in Lebanon since cease-fire, UN says
The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that at least 127 civilians had been killed in Lebanon by Israeli strikes since a cease-fire nearly a year ago, and called for an investigation and for the truce to be respected.
"Almost a year since the cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel was agreed, we continue to witness increasing attacks by the Israeli military, resulting in the killing of civilians and destruction of civilian objects in Lebanon, coupled with alarming threats of a wider, intensified offensive," said Thameen al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the U.N. human rights office, at a Geneva press briefing.
He said the number included deaths it had verified based on its own strict methodology, but that the reality could be higher.
Israel fires white phosphorus shells on Bint Jbeil towns
Israeli artillery fire, including white phosphorus shells, hit the area between the towns of Rmeish, Yaroun and Aita al-Shaab (Bint Jbeil), our correspondent in southern Lebanon reported.
Gaza 'survival' at stake, UN warns, calls for arms embargo on Israel
In a report published on Monday, U.N. human rights experts called on member states to take immediate action in response to Israel's continued violations of the Gaza cease-fire.
Since the cease-fire came into effect on Oct. 10, Israel has committed at least 393 violations, killing 339 Palestinians, including over 70 children, and injuring over 871 others, according to the report. The deadliest recorded violation was on Oct. 28, when a series of strikes killed 104 Palestinians in one day.
“The ongoing Israeli attacks against the Palestinian population in Gaza constitute a flagrant violation of the cease-fire agreement,” the experts warned, urging the international community to pressure Israel to enforce the truce and calling for an arms embargo.
Gaza: Palestinian killed by Israeli fire east of Khan Younis
A Palestinian was killed this morning by Israeli fire near the yellow line east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.
The death was confirmed by a source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, after the victim was hit by bullets in Bani Suheila, inside the yellow line. Two people had already been killed in the same spot on Monday.
Local Al Jazeera correspondents added that the Israeli army continued to strike this area as well as the eastern part of Gaza City, where it detonated buildings beyond the yellow line, which marks the territory that remained under Israeli control under the Trump plan.
Separately, Gaza’s Civil Defense said it retrieved the bodies of 14 people from under the rubble of a house in the al-Maghazi refugee camp.
Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 339 people killed by Israel since the cease-fire took effect on Oct. 10. That brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in the enclave to at least 69,756 since Oct. 7, 2023.
Storms in Israel caused part of the separation wall to collapse in the occupied West Bank's Hebron area, also affecting Be’er Sheva, the Negev and the Judean Desert, Haaretz reported.
South Lebanon
After midnight, Israeli gunfire, coming from the Malikiya site, was heard on the outskirts of Blida (Marjayoun).
Israeli military vehicles made two incursions into Lebanese territory: one from the new Jabal Blat site and the other from Malikiya, on the outskirts of Aitaroun (Bint Jbeil).
Israeli army says it killed Palestinian behind attack in occupied West Bank
The Israeli army said in a statement that it killed “Ala’ Raouf Shetiyya,” who it alleges carried out a car-ramming attack at the entrance of Nablus on May 29, 2024, killing two Israeli soldiers.
It claimed troops opened fire on a building where the man “had barricaded himself and was armed,” and arrested several of his alleged “collaborators.”
Since the Gaza war began, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to data from the Palestinian Authority and the U.N.
Trump begins process of labeling Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday began the process of designating certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists, a move that would bring sanctions against one of the Arab world's oldest and most influential Islamist movements.
Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to submit a report on whether to designate any Muslim Brotherhood chapters, such as those in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, according to a White House fact sheet.
It orders the secretaries to move forward with any designations within 45 days of the report.
Good morning! Thank you for joining our live coverage
We will be covering the fragile cease-fires in both Lebanon and Gaza, where Israeli strikes continue on a daily basis, and the events in the region.
That concludes our live coverage of events in the region for today. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow morning with more live updates as the news unfolds. Goodnight.
Israel's war on Gaza has caused the most significant economic crisis on record, UN says
Gaza is facing the most severe economic crisis on record, according to a report released today by the U.N.’s trade and development agency.
"Two years of military operations and restrictions have triggered an unprecedented collapse across the Palestinian economy," the report reads, adding that "plummeting revenues and the withholding of fiscal transfers by the Israeli government have severely constrained the Palestinian government’s ability to maintain essential public services and invest in recovery."
According to the agency, by the end of 2024, Palestinian GDP fell back to its 2010 level while GDP per capita returned to that of 2003, erasing 22 years of development progress in a little over a year.
The report also recalls an earlier one by the U.N. in which it found that the estimated cost of reconstruction and recovery in Gaza exceeds $70 billion, "underscoring the magnitude of investment required to rebuild infrastructure and restore livelihoods."
“The military operations have significantly undermined every pillar of survival” from food to shelter to healthcare, AFP cites the U.N. as stating, “and plunged Gaza into a human-made abyss.”
Israeli settlers have killed at least 21 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 2023
Israel has killed 1,004 Palestinians — including 217 children — in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since October 2023, the Jerusalem-based Israeli human rights group B'Tselem revealed in a statement published on X yesterday.
At least 21 of the killings were perpetrated by settlers, according to B'Tselem, adding that in all 21 cases where settlers have killed Palestinians, not a single perpetrator has been convicted.
"Since October 2023, alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israeli military has been enforcing an increasingly permissive and reckless open-fire policy in the West Bank," the group wrote, "including the use of airstrikes in populated areas."
"The military has also armed and mobilized thousands of settlers into regional defense battalions and rapid-response teams within settlements," the statement reads.
Remains from Gaza believed to be third-last hostage handed over to Israel
The casket containing the apparent remains of a deceased hostage has been brought out of the Gaza Strip by troops, the Israeli army announced.
According to Times of Israel, the body is now being escorted by the police to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv for identification, a process which officials have said may take up to two days.
Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad did not provide the identity of the hostage they handed over.
If the body is confirmed to belong to a hostage, it would mean that the remains of two hostages are still held in Gaza.
Defense Minister Michel Menasseh meets with UN official to discuss Lebanon-UNIFIL relationship
Defense Minister Michel Menasseh met with Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific of the United Nations Khaled Khiari and his accompanying delegation, according to the state-run National News Agency.
The discussion took place in Menasseh's office in Yarzeh and revolved around the ongoing cooperation between Lebanon and UNIFIL, particularly regarding the implementation of international resolutions. The U.N. delegation explained its “efforts to develop scenarios and options, to be later presented to the U.N. Secretary-General, relating to finding appropriate mechanisms to follow up on the implementation of Resolution 1701 after the end of UNIFIL’s mandate in southern Lebanon at the end of 2026.
Menasseh reportedly reaffirmed “the Lebanese side’s full commitment to implementing Resolution 1701 and the Lebanese Army’s readiness to continue carrying out its duties in this regard,” and stressed that “the difficulties hindering implementation lie in the continued violations by the Israeli side of the cease-fire, in addition to its non-compliance with Resolution 1701 and its failure to withdraw from the sites it still occupies in southern Lebanon.”
Turkey, Egypt, Qatar discuss second phase of Gaza cease-fire deal, Turkish source says
Turkey's spy chief met with his Egyptian counterpart and Qatar's foreign minister in Cairo today to discuss transitioning to the second phase of the Gaza cease-fire deal and increasing joint efforts in coordination with the U.S., a Turkish source told Reuters.
"During the meeting, [they] also agreed to continue strengthening coordination and cooperation with the Civil Military Coordination Center [CMCC] to eliminate all obstacles to ensure the continuity of the cease-fire and to prevent further violations," the source said, adding that the three officials also discussed countering Israeli violations of the accord.
As winter looms, floods swamp tents of Palestinians forced from their homes by Israeli bombs
Palestinian children walk in flood water after heavy rain flooded a makeshift camp housing displaced people in Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Nov. 25, 2025. (Credit: Eyad Baba/AFP)
Heavy rain caused flooding in the Gaza Strip earliertoday, swamping the tents of thousands of homeless Palestinians facing the prospect of harsh winter storms without sturdy shelter, Reuters reports.
Amjad Al-Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGOs Network, said there was an urgent need for at least 300,000 new tents to house the roughly 1.5 million people still displaced from their homes.
The Palestinian Civil Defence Service said thousands of tents housing displaced families had been inundated by rainwater or damaged by torrential rainstorms over the past week.
Some tents were completely washed away as floodwaters rose 40 to 50 centimeters above ground level in some areas of the coastal enclave, while a field hospital had to suspend operations due to flooding, medics and witnesses said.
Read the full report here. 👈
Syrian security forces use gunfire to disperse rival protests in Alawite heartland
Syrian security forces used gunfire earlier today to break up two rival groups of demonstrators in the coastal town of Latakia, heartland of the country's Alawite minority, witnesses and officials told Reuters.
Witnesses said hundreds of Alawite protesters had gathered to demand a decentralized political system in Syria and the release of men they say were unjustly detained by the country's new authorities. Supporters of the government then gathered and began shouting insults at the Alawites.
About an hour into the Alawites' rally, gunshots were heard in Agriculture Square, one of two town squares where the protesters had gathered, according to two witnesses and videos verified by Reuters. One of the verified videos showed a man lying motionless on the ground with a wound to the head.
Read the full report here. 👈
Remains of hostage being transferred by Red Cross to Israeli army
The remains of a hostage whose body was located and retrieved yesterday by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Israeli-occupied area in Rafah, southern Gaza, have been collected by the Red Cross and are currently being transferred to the Israeli army, Haaretz reports. This is the third-last hostage yet to be returned from Gaza after being taken on Oct. 7, 2023.
Popemobile transformed into Gaza mobile children's clinic
The popemobile used by the late Pope Francis on his 2014 visit to Bethlehem re-emerged today as a mobile children's clinic to be deployed in Gaza, AFP reports.
Staffed by medics, the popemobile is intended for performing triage and is equipped for examination, diagnosis and treatment, including vaccines, stitches and tests for infections. The clinic should be able to perform up to 200 consultations a day. The children will sit in the pontiff's chair while being attended to.
The vehicle was transformed by Caritas, the Catholic humanitarian aid organization. Costing $15,000, it has been repurposed and spruced up by Palestinian mechanics.
Read the full report here. 👈
Syrians protest after attacks on Alawite minority
Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday across Syria's Alawite-majority coast in protest against recent attacks targeting the minority community, AFP correspondents reported from Tartous, Latakia and Jableh.
The Observatory for Human Rights recorded 42 demonstrations on Tuesday.
Red Cross personnel are on their way to a Gaza meeting point ahead of a handover of a hostage's body, the Israeli army said, as cited in Haaretz.
"The [Israeli army] requests that the public act with sensitivity and wait for the official identification, which will first be provided to the families," the statement read.
"Hamas is required to uphold the agreement and take the necessary steps to return all the deceased hostages," it read.
Hamas still has to return three hostages' remains as part of the Gaza cease-fire deal, which it says it is struggling to do so because of the presence of Israeli forces in Gaza blocking areas containing remains, or them being buried under tons of Israeli-caused destruction.
Lebanon 'taking precautions' against risk of Israeli escalation, Salam says
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday that his government was preparing for the possibility of a new large-scale Israeli offensive against Lebanon, amid tensions following the assassination of Haytham Abu Ali Tabtaba’i on Sunday.
Asked about the security situation during a visit to Beirut Port, Salam said it was “clear that Israel is taking an escalatory line.”
“We are in a situation of war, the intensity of which is increasing, taking the form of a one-sided war of attrition. We are taking precautions to deal with any escalation and anything that may result from it on the humanitarian, social, or other levels,” he said.
Salam added that he had spoken with Army Commander Rodolph Haykal on Monday. He would continue to “work to mobilize more Arab and international support to stop these attacks and work toward an Israeli withdrawal” from occupied territories in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah MP Hassan Ezzeddine said that Sunday's Israeli attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut is an "aggression against all of Lebanon, not against Hezbollah or the resistance leadership, because those targeted are Lebanese citizens living on Lebanese land," according to the state-run National News Agency. "Therefore, they are subjects of this state, which must be responsible for its citizens, its people, and its communities."
Ezzeddine spoke during a commemoration in Froun (Bint Jbeil district) for Ahmad Ramadan, a Hezbollah member killed in an Israeli airstrike last Friday in the same village.
“Today, no one can underestimate us (...) in this country, we form the fundamental pillar for building a true homeland and establishing a just and capable state based on the principle of strength in protection and the principle of justice in care; a state that protects and provides for its people," he added.
UN calls for 'impartial' probe into Israeli strikes on Ain al-Hilweh
The United Nations called Tuesday for swift and impartial investigations into Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including a deadly attack on Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilweh last week, which killed 14 people, mainly teenagers.
"There must be prompt and impartial investigations into the Ain al-Hilweh strike, as well as all other incidents involving possible violations of international humanitarian law by all parties, both before and after the cease-fire. Those responsible must be brought to justice," U.N. rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva.
Israel killed over 127 civilians in Lebanon since cease-fire, UN says
The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that at least 127 civilians had been killed in Lebanon by Israeli strikes since a cease-fire nearly a year ago, and called for an investigation and for the truce to be respected.
"Almost a year since the cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel was agreed, we continue to witness increasing attacks by the Israeli military, resulting in the killing of civilians and destruction of civilian objects in Lebanon, coupled with alarming threats of a wider, intensified offensive," said Thameen al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the U.N. human rights office, at a Geneva press briefing.
He said the number included deaths it had verified based on its own strict methodology, but that the reality could be higher.
Israel fires white phosphorus shells on Bint Jbeil towns
Israeli artillery fire, including white phosphorus shells, hit the area between the towns of Rmeish, Yaroun and Aita al-Shaab (Bint Jbeil), our correspondent in southern Lebanon reported.
Gaza 'survival' at stake, UN warns, calls for arms embargo on Israel
In a report published on Monday, U.N. human rights experts called on member states to take immediate action in response to Israel's continued violations of the Gaza cease-fire.
Since the cease-fire came into effect on Oct. 10, Israel has committed at least 393 violations, killing 339 Palestinians, including over 70 children, and injuring over 871 others, according to the report. The deadliest recorded violation was on Oct. 28, when a series of strikes killed 104 Palestinians in one day.
“The ongoing Israeli attacks against the Palestinian population in Gaza constitute a flagrant violation of the cease-fire agreement,” the experts warned, urging the international community to pressure Israel to enforce the truce and calling for an arms embargo.
Gaza: Palestinian killed by Israeli fire east of Khan Younis
A Palestinian was killed this morning by Israeli fire near the yellow line east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.
The death was confirmed by a source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, after the victim was hit by bullets in Bani Suheila, inside the yellow line. Two people had already been killed in the same spot on Monday.
Local Al Jazeera correspondents added that the Israeli army continued to strike this area as well as the eastern part of Gaza City, where it detonated buildings beyond the yellow line, which marks the territory that remained under Israeli control under the Trump plan.
Separately, Gaza’s Civil Defense said it retrieved the bodies of 14 people from under the rubble of a house in the al-Maghazi refugee camp.
Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 339 people killed by Israel since the cease-fire took effect on Oct. 10. That brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in the enclave to at least 69,756 since Oct. 7, 2023.
Storms in Israel caused part of the separation wall to collapse in the occupied West Bank's Hebron area, also affecting Be’er Sheva, the Negev and the Judean Desert, Haaretz reported.
South Lebanon
After midnight, Israeli gunfire, coming from the Malikiya site, was heard on the outskirts of Blida (Marjayoun).
Israeli military vehicles made two incursions into Lebanese territory: one from the new Jabal Blat site and the other from Malikiya, on the outskirts of Aitaroun (Bint Jbeil).
Israeli army says it killed Palestinian behind attack in occupied West Bank
The Israeli army said in a statement that it killed “Ala’ Raouf Shetiyya,” who it alleges carried out a car-ramming attack at the entrance of Nablus on May 29, 2024, killing two Israeli soldiers.
It claimed troops opened fire on a building where the man “had barricaded himself and was armed,” and arrested several of his alleged “collaborators.”
Since the Gaza war began, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to data from the Palestinian Authority and the U.N.
Trump begins process of labeling Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday began the process of designating certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists, a move that would bring sanctions against one of the Arab world's oldest and most influential Islamist movements.
Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to submit a report on whether to designate any Muslim Brotherhood chapters, such as those in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, according to a White House fact sheet.
It orders the secretaries to move forward with any designations within 45 days of the report.
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