Israel and the Palestinian territories

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said Israeli forces had expanded westward over two weeks, displacing Palestinians in Shujayea, eastern Bureij and eastern Deir el-Balah, and continued a stated aim of enlarging their deployment area to 70 percent of Gaza. It said the forces appeared to treat the yellow line as a 'kill zone'.

Israeli forces raided the Jilada and Ain Deir Baha neighborhoods of Hebron for an eighth consecutive day on Friday and forced dozens of Palestinians in Ain Deir Baha to evacuate their homes, local sources told Anadolu. The Palestinian Prisoners' Society said the army had arrested 110 Palestinians in the governorate since the offensive began.

At least two Palestinians were injured early on Friday when an Israeli helicopter fired a missile at an apartment in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, medical and local sources told Anadolu. Gaza's Health Ministry said 1,574 Palestinians had been killed and 5,687 wounded by Israeli fire since the ceasefire, as of Thursday.

UN spokesperson Shirin Yaseen said about 3,000 Palestinians remained displaced from two neighborhoods in Hebron city, citing the latest municipality figures, and that Israeli forces were still blocking the way in and imposing tight movement restrictions across the governorate, Anadolu reported.

Israeli airstrikes destroyed a home in the Safatawi neighborhood north of Gaza City and a five-story residential building in the Bureij refugee camp late on Thursday, after evacuation warnings, displacing dozens of families, sources and witnesses told Anadolu. No deaths or injuries were reported.

UN aid transport into Gaza was suspended on Tuesday after Israel closed the Kerem Shalom crossing for election day, UN News reported. UNOPS reported three incidents affecting its convoys and premises over three consecutive days, including close-proximity explosions and small-arms rounds striking one of its guesthouses.

The Hebron municipality said 4,969 Palestinians from 780 families had been displaced from the Deir Bahha and Al-Jilda areas since the Israeli military campaign began on Friday, Anadolu reported. The army has kept all entrances to Hebron and surrounding villages shut since a shooting attack that killed two Israeli soldiers.

A UN commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory published a report accusing Israel of crimes against humanity in the West Bank, including extermination, torture and rape, and of continuing to commit genocide in Gaza. Israel's mission in Geneva called the report part of a 'misinformation campaign'.

An Israeli air attack on a camp for displaced people in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, killed at least four Palestinians, medical sources and first responders said. Nasser Hospital identified three of the dead, including seven-year-old Jouri al-Soufi, Al Jazeera reported.

Gaza's Ministry of Public Works and Housing said Israeli quadcopter drones set a camp for displaced people ablaze at the Shujayea junction at about 8pm, displacing more than 200 families, or over 800 people, Al Jazeera reported.

Two Israeli strikes hit students and security guards at the Islamic University in Gaza City, killing three people and injuring at least seven others, according to Al Jazeera's reporter Hani Mahmoud.

The Hebron municipality said Israeli forces had forced about 1,500 Palestinians from 250 families out of the Deir Bahha and al-Jilda neighborhoods since Friday and planned to displace 2,500 more, Anadolu reported. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that his army was preparing a large-scale offensive in the occupied West Bank.

Two Palestinians fired at an Israeli checkpoint near Hebron on Friday. Both attackers and two Israeli soldiers were killed, and three other soldiers were wounded, according to Israeli figures, Anadolu reported. The army then imposed a closure on Hebron, with raids and searches of homes.

Israeli attacks across Gaza killed four Palestinians in 24 hours, according to Gaza hospitals, Al Jazeera reported, including a girl shot near the Jabalia refugee camp, Wafa said, and one person in a strike on a vehicle in Gaza City's Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.

Israeli military bulldozers demolished buildings in the al-Wad area near Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, and assaulted residents, the Jerusalem Governorate said, WAFA reported.

An Israeli air strike on an apartment in Gaza City killed Akram Yassin and his wife Dina Abu Baker, medics said. A 17-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire in Khan Younis. Gaza health authorities put the toll since the October 2025 ceasefire at 1,522 killed.

The World Food Programme said it had cut its food assistance in Gaza by roughly one third because of funding shortages, affecting some 500,000 people. It said it was now supporting 1.1 million people, down from 1.6 million in September, and families would receive one food parcel instead of two.

Israeli police said they had arrested 10 suspects early on Monday over settler attacks in the occupied West Bank over the weekend, including on Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine at Abu Falah and on European diplomats at Taybeh. Israel's Army Radio said all were Israeli citizens.

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian civilians, European diplomats and a French mayor near Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, Belgium's foreign minister said. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar condemned the attack and called the perpetrators Israeli rioters, Reuters reported.

Israeli drone attacks killed at least six Palestinians across Gaza, medical and emergency workers said, including near Jabalia refugee camp, in eastern Gaza City and in Deir el-Balah. Gaza's Health Ministry said 1,511 Palestinians had been killed and 5,375 injured since the October 2025 ceasefire.

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters near Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah. Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, 64, was hospitalized in Ramallah after she said they knocked her down and kicked her. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said it treated three injured Palestinians.

Gaza's Health Ministry said at least 466 Palestinians have died of malnutrition and starvation since 2024, one-third of them children, in a statement for World Food Day. It said 74,200 children would need treatment for acute malnutrition through April 2027.

Israeli shelling and gunfire killed five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from dawn on Wednesday, WAFA reported, among them two men in a drone strike on a vehicle in Al-Qarara, north of Khan Yunis, and one man in Jabalia refugee camp.

Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque, an olive tree and a vehicle while raiding the village of Mikhmas in the occupied West Bank early on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Al Jazeera reported.

Israeli forces raided the offices of two Palestinian NGOs in Ramallah, the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and the courtyard of the Palestine Medical Complex, Al Jazeera reported. Israel designated both groups as 'terrorist' organisations in 2021.

Israeli military vehicles advanced tens of meters beyond their positions in the Shujaiya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City overnight, injuring two Palestinians and forcing dozens of families to flee, local sources told Anadolu. Later that day an Israeli drone strike on a tent near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis killed three Palestinians, medical sources said.

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization approved postponing Palestinian legislative elections scheduled for 28 November 2026 to September 2027, citing the continued presence of Israeli forces in Gaza, the absence of international stabilization forces there and ongoing Israeli attacks, WAFA reported.

On the first anniversary of the ceasefire, Israeli attacks killed at least eight people across Gaza, among them Shahd Abdul-Razzaq al-Najjar, 8, hit by a quadcopter drone in Gaza City, medical sources said. Gaza's Health Ministry said 1,481 people had been killed since the ceasefire took effect.

Ali Hassan Yasser al-Bazzari, 44, was killed and 16 others wounded when settlers under the protection of Israeli forces attacked Palestinians harvesting olives near Burqa, west of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health and other Palestinian authorities said.

Israeli bulldozers demolished a five-storey residential building in the At-Tur neighbourhood of Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, home to about 70 people; national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir said it was built without a permit, and the Palestinian Jerusalem Governorate said the demolition was aimed at forcible transfer, AFP reported.

Israeli fire killed three Palestinians in Gaza, medical sources said: one in a drone strike in central Gaza City, one on Aidiya Street west of Gaza City, and one who died of wounds from a strike in Khan Younis the day before. Gaza's Health Ministry said at least 1,460 people had been killed since the October 2025 ceasefire.

Israeli troops opened fire on a car carrying three Palestinians near Bani Naim, east of Hebron, killing Hossam Alaa al-Din Abdul Jabbar Walad Ali, 38, and seriously injuring two, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli military said the car had rammed one of its vehicles.

Israeli forces shot dead six-year-old Suha Mohammed Nasser inside her family's displacement tent south of Deir al-Balah, and an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in Gaza City killed Saqr al-Qaisi, medical sources said.

Raafat Khairy Abu Khalil, 45, died while detained at the Israeli military checkpoint of Ennab, east of Tulkarm in the West Bank; the Red Crescent said medics found him in cardiac arrest.

An Israeli air strike on an apartment building in Gaza City killed at least five people, including four women, health officials said. The Israeli military said it had targeted Hamas's leader in Gaza, Ali Al-Amoudi, without saying whether he was killed.

The World Health Organization said repeated Israeli delays to medicines and prosthetics entering Gaza risked devastating consequences; approved aid could enter only through Kerem Shalom.

Settlers shot dead a Palestinian man, Mashhour Yassin, 51, during a raid on Yasuf, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Gaza's Ministry of Health said 1,439 people had been killed since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025, and 834 bodies recovered from the rubble.

Israeli strikes killed at least six Palestinians in Gaza, health officials said, including four in a strike on a vehicle in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel did not accept the Board of Peace document and that Israeli forces would not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas was disarmed, Haaretz reported.

Hamas and other Palestinian factions agreed to a Board of Peace document setting out a phased plan for their disarmament in Gaza; the board's envoy said Israeli withdrawal must move in lockstep with decommissioning.

The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt reopened for limited movement of people; no goods were allowed through.

The Israeli military said it had recovered the remains of Ran Gvili, the last hostage held in Gaza.

US envoy Steve Witkoff announced the launch of phase two of the US plan for Gaza, 'moving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction'.