The IDF has suspended a soldier who was documented throwing a stun grenade at the door of a mosque in the village of Budrus, in the central West Bank. The video clip was posted and disseminated on social media.
The IDF spokesman said that “this was a serious incident which contravenes IDF values.”
He added that the soldier was suspended as soon as the army learned about the incident, and that he would be questioned and disciplined accordingly.
The World Health Organization announced that its personnel visited Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, and are preparing to evacuate patients and staff members who remain within 24 to 72 hours.
According to the WHO statement, there are still 25 staff members and 291 patients at the site – and actions are being to coordinate their transfer to Nasser hospital and the European hospital, also in the Gaza Strip.
It was noted, however, that “These facilities are already operating beyond their maximum capacity, and transferring more patients will only worsen the burden on them.”
In the statement, WHO said that the visit to Al-Shifa hospital lasted only an hour “due to security restrictions.” It also noted that the situation inside the hospital is very difficult, and that the compound itself showed signs of shell and small arms fire. The WHO delegation also reported a large mass grave that had been dug at the site, containing more than 80 bodies.
Doctors Without Borders says one relative of a staff member was killed and another person wounded during an attack on a convoy of its staff members and families attempting to evacuate from Al-Shifa Hospital.
The convoy had departed in five vehicles marked with MSF identification after being trapped for the past week. After informing both parties of its planned movement and going through an itinerary indicated by the Israeli army, they were not permitted to cross a checkpoint for hours.
The convoy sought to return to MSF premises, nearly four miles from the checkpoint, out of fear after hearing shots. The convoy was attacked en route by undetermined sources, with two vehicles being deliberately hit.
“MSF condemns in the strongest terms this deliberate attack,” it said, adding it “calls again to urgently allow the evacuation of our staff, as well as of thousands of other people, trapped by fighting and living in extremely dire conditions in northern Gaza.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders formally called on the U.S. to condition aid to Israel over ongoing crises in Gaza and the West Bank.
“While Israel has the right to go after Hamas, Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist government does not have the right to wage almost total warfare against the Palestinian people. That is morally unacceptable and in violation of international law,” he said.
“Displacing 1.6 million people from their homes, cutting off food, water, medical supplies, and fuel, and killing some 12,000 Palestinians – nearly half of whom are children – is in violation of every code of human decency. It must stop,” he continued.
Sanders added “the U.S. provides $3.8 billion a year in aid to Israel and the Biden administration wants $14.3 billion more. The Netanyahu government, or hopefully a new Israeli government, must understand that not one penny will be coming to Israel from the U.S. unless there is a fundamental change in their military and political positions.”
Among other conditions that must be imposed upon any aid to Israel, according to Sanders, include:
- an end to the indiscriminate bombing which has taken thousands of civilian lives and a significant pause in military operations so that massive humanitarian assistance can come into the region;
- the right of displaced Gazans to return to their homes;
- no long-term Israeli re-occupation or blockade of Gaza;
- an end to settler violence in the West Bank and a freeze on settlement expansion;
- a commitment to broad peace talks for a two-state solution in the wake of the war.
Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli lauded Elon Musk for saying he would suspend users using pro-Palestinian phrases such as “from the river to the sea” and “decolonization” on the grounds that they allegedly imply genocide.
Chikli’s praise comes days after Musk openly engaged with an antisemitic conspiracy theory cited by the assailant behind the worst massacre targeting Jews in U.S. history.
“I appreciate [Musk]’s steadfast stance against Hamas supporters and his assertion that the statement ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ is a call for genocide. This is not just Israel’s struggle against terrorist organizations; it’s the struggle of the free world who cherish life and freedom against those who glorify death and oppression. Thank you Elon, for standing on the right side of history,” he said.
Chikli previously defended Musk for calling George Soros ‘a threat to humanity’ – one of several past antisemitic controversies in which Musk has found himself embroiled.
A Palestinian prisoner has died, bringing to 6 the number of prisoners who died in Israeli prisons since October 7, the Palestinian news Agency WAFA said late on Saturday.
Thaer Samih Abu Assab, who has been detained in 2005 and sentenced to 25 years in jail, died in the Negev desert prison, the agency said, quoting the Palestinian Commission of Detainees Affairs.
The son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair, shared anti-media remarks on Telegram while his father held a press conference.
The younger Netanyahu shared posts from other channels that read: “It’s simply unbelievable what the reporters do. They ask political questions and do polls. Maybe you’ll really be interested in what’s happening on the ground?” and “The media throughout the war: Bibi deals with politics; The media at the press conference: almost all questions deal with politics.”
The last statement was shared by the Telegram channel operated by Channel 14 journalist Yinon Magal.
In addition, Yair Netanyahu shared an article published by Channel 12 News about reprimands received by female observers in the Gaza division due to the warning they sent about Hamas’ deployment in the strip. He said: “Netanyahu is guilty!” implying, sarcastically, that he means the opposite.
In another post, he shared an article from the beginning of October about the support of the IDF and Shin Bet for increasing Israeli work visas for workers from Gaza.
Two more Jewish House Democrats – Reps. Jamie Raskin and Sara Jacobs – joined the call for a Gaza cease-fire, joining Rep. Becca Balint.
“It is time for a bilateral cease-fire,” Jacobs said. “As a leader on the world stage, the United States has a legal and moral obligation to protect civilian lives, and to hold our closes allies to the same standard we hold everyone else.”
Raskin added that “Now is the time for American strategic, diplomatic and political leadership to press for a breakthrough change in the relentless and dangerous dynamics of war and violence. The world has seen enough death and destruction.”
“The team saw a hospital no longer able to function: no water, no food, no electricity, no fuel, medical supplies depleted,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“Given this deplorable situation and the condition of many patients, including babies, health workers requested support to evacuate patients who cannot receive lifesaving care there anymore,” he continued, adding the WHO is working with partners to develop an urgent evacuation plan.
Sirens sounded in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, Ibim, Nir Am and Mefalsim.
Haaretz asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday about calling for former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down after the Second Lebanon War. Netanyahu replied, “I don’t back down from anything I said under the circumstances at the time. There will also be time to engage with it.”
U.S. President Joe Biden wrote in an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Saturday that the U.S. is prepared to take steps to discourage settler violence in the West Bank, including by “issuing visa bans against extremists attacking civilians.” Biden also reiterated that “Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under” the Palestinian Authority following the Israel-Hamas war.
Biden wrote, “I have been emphatic with Israel’s leaders that extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop and that those committing the violence must be held accountable. The United States is prepared to take our own steps.”
Biden also addressed rising antisemitism in the wake of Hamas’ October 7 attacks, writing that “Jewish families worry about being targeted in school, while wearing symbols of their faith on the street or otherwise going about their daily lives. At the same time, too many Muslim Americans, Arab Americans and Palestinian Americans, and so many other communities, are outraged and hurting, fearing the resurgence of the Islamophobia and distrust we saw after 9/11.
“In the months ahead, the United States will redouble our efforts to establish a more peaceful, integrated and prosperous Middle East,” Biden continued. “As we strive for peace, Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governance structure, ultimately under a revitalized Palestinian Authority, as we all work toward a two-state solution.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a press conference on Saturday night that “until now there has not been a hostage release deal,” adding that “when we have something to say, we will update you.”
Netanyahu clarified that the first goal of the war is to cripple Hamas, the second is to return the hostages and the third is to eliminate the threat from Gaza.
He also mentioned the war cabinet’s decision to allow very limited quantities of fuel into Gaza, saying that “humanitarian aid is also essential for the continuing international support. Without humanitarian aid, even our best friends will find it difficult to support us for a long time.”
For this reason, Netanyahu said, “When the IDF and Shin Bet jointly recommended to the cabinet to accept the U.S.’s request to allow a limited entry of two fuel tankers a day into the southern Gaza Strip, the war cabinet unanimously agreed.”
He added that it “is a minimal amount of fuel to operate water and sewage pumps, without which we are expected to see an immediate outbreak of epidemics. An outbreak of epidemics will harm both the residents of Gaza and the IDF soldiers in the Strip.”
Thousands participated in a solidarity rally for the return of the hostages and the missing near the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
The rally also called specifically for the release of the 40 kidnapped children ahead of World Children’s Day on November 20.
Gili Romann, the brother of Yarden Romann-Gat, who was kidnapped to Gaza, spoke about her three-year-old daughter Gefen Roman: “Gefen saw with her own eyes armed terrorists entering her grandparents’ house and shooting her grandmother Kinneret and aunt Carmel. She knows that mom got lost while they were running for their lives together. She knows that Grandma Kinneret is dead.”
Former British Labour Party chief Jeremy Corbyn characterized Hamas as a terrorist group in an article for left-wing political magazine Tribune after refusing to answer the question in a television appearance on Monday.
“If we understand terrorism to describe the indiscriminate killing of civilians, in breach of international law, then of course Hamas is a terrorist group,” Corbyn wrote, adding that the Israeli army is committing “acts of terror too” in the form of targeting “hospitals, refugee camps and so-called safe zones.
“I deplore the targeting of all civilians. That includes Hamas’ attack on 7 October, which I have repeatedly condemned in Parliament, in print and at every demonstration that I have attended. And that includes that Israeli response; there is no meaningful sense that the Israeli army is avoiding civilian casualties when it drops 25,000 tonnes of bombs onto a tiny strip of land populated by 2.2 million people,” Corbyn wrote.
About 400 people called for the ouster of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the town of Caesarea on Saturday.
The protesters held signs reading, “Netanyahu is impaling his people on the altar of his guilt,” “He who blames only the army does not deserve to command it,” “Take 64, return 239 [referring to the numbers of people in Netanyahu’s government and held hostage in Gaza].”
Earlier, rallies were held in Haifa and the Karkur Junction in northern Israel calling for the removal of Netanyahu and for the return of the hostages. Participants in these two demonstrations later joined the demonstration in Caesarea.
Israeli Foreign Minister and member of the political-security cabinet Eli Cohen said in an interview on Channel 12 that the Palestinian Authority is not a solution for the issue of Gaza’s future governance and said “there will be Israeli security control from the Jordan [river] to the [Mediterranean] sea at all times.”
The Palestinian Authority “to this day has not condemned the October 7 event,” Cohen continued. “This authority continues to pay salaries to murderers of Jews.”
More than 2,000 demonstrators held a rally in central Berlin on Saturday to protest against attacks by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip.
Police in the German capital set the number of demonstrators at 2,500.
At the start of the rally near the central station, there were calls for “Freedom for Gaza” and “Freedom for Palestine.”
Other chants heard were: “Germany finances, Israel bombs” and “Stop the genocide.”
The organizers used a megaphone to announce: “We want to live peacefully with the Jews.” They also said they did not support terrorist organizations or murders carried out in Israel.
Berlin police had banned calls for violence and support for several Palestinian organizations, including Hamas.
The organizers said the demonstrators were to hold a silent march to the Großer Stern landmark in Berlin’s Tiergarten park.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene the war cabinet in the coming days for a meeting with representatives of the families of those who were abducted to Gaza and are being held by Hamas, his office said.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s top Middle East advisor Brett McGurk, currently visiting the Middle East, said “the surge in humanitarian relief the surge in fuel, the pause in fighting will come when hostages are released,” specifying “all women, children, toddlers and babies.”
His comments reflect an evolution in the Biden administration’s posture toward hostage negotiations mediated by Qatar, further shifting toward Israel’s position that a hostage release would need to precede any days-long pause.
“Simply calling for a ceasefire is not a path to peace,” he continued, noting that “the onus is on Hamas.”
McGurk further noted the U.S. has made daily efforts to generate sustained humanitarian assistance into Gaza, now nearing 100 trucks per day.
The Israeli military released on Saturday the names of five soldiers who were killed while fighting in Gaza. They are:
Staff Sgt. Shlomo Gurtovnik, 21, from Modi’in, served as a combat medic; Capt. Eden Provisor, 21, from the settlement of Alfei Menashe, served as a platoon commander; Staff Sgt. Adi Malik Harb, 19, from Beit Jann, a soldier in the Nahal Patrol; Staff Sgt. Shachar Fridman, 21, from Jerusalem, a soldier in the 101st Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade; Maj. Jamal Abbas, 23, from Peki’in, company commander in the 101st battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade.
The army added that eight soldiers had been seriously wounded in fighting in Gaza in recent days. Four are reservists and one is an officer.
The IDF also published the name of a reservist, Sgt. David (Dudi) Digmi, 43, from Rishon Letzion, who served as a paramedic, and who died on November 7.
Hamas’ military wing said that “contact with some squads whose job it was to guard the hostages was severed.”
It was also reported that Hamas has no information about the fate of the hostages who were being held by these squads, or about the condition of the guards themselves.
The head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Saturday it had received “horrifying” images and footage of scores of people killed and injured in an attack on a UNRWA school in the north of Gaza.
“These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop. A humanitarian ceasefire cannot wait any longer,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on social media platform X.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
The Israeli army stated that it struck Hezbollah targets in response to fire towards IDF positions from Lebanese territory.
The army also said it had intercepted a suspicious aerial target in Lebanese territory.
Thousands participated in state-sponsored marches against Israel in Iran on Saturday. “Palestine stands on the path of a war of attrition…Israel will face a definitive defeat and end up in the dustbin of history,” Revolutionary Guards Commander Hossein Salami told a rally in the capital Tehran, which was aired live on state TV.
“The battle is not over, the Islamic world will do whatever it has to do. There are still great (unused) capacities left,” Salami said, without referring to any possible moves by Iran to join the conflict.
Hundreds of alumni of Brandeis University threatened on Friday to withhold donations from their alma mater unless it lifts its ban on a prominent pro-Palestinian student group. They also demanded that the university issue a formal apology for allegedly authorizing police to use violence to break up a demonstration last week on campus protesting the ban.
Brandeis announced two weeks ago that it was withdrawing recognition of the campus branch of Students for Justice for Palestinian on the grounds that the group supports Hamas. The decision, in effect, means that SJP will not be eligible any longer for university funding or for space on campus for holding events.
Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv’s Charles Clore Park in central Israel for a Jewish-Arab demonstration led by Israel’s Hadash party. The protest calls for the immediate ceasefire and an end to the war. Protesters say they support an “all-for-all” hostage deal where all Israeli hostages are brought back in exchange for “Palestinian political prisoners unlawfully held in Israel.”
Hadash MK Aida Touma Suleiman spoke at the protest, saying: “They will not silence us. We won’t let the human voice against the war be unheard, so here we say: we are against the war. From the first day, we said that we oppose the atrocities and crimes committed against civilians, and when civilians in Gaza die from bombings – we will condemn these crimes as well. You will not prevail because there is also a voice in Gaza, and there are also citizens and children in Gaza.”
Dana Mills, former Peace Now director, declared, “Enough of the war, enough of the murder and massacre in Gaza. We will not be silent or calm until all the prisoners return home safely.'”
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry responded to reports in Gaza, according to which dozens were killed in an IDF attack on the UN-run al-Fakhoora school in the northern part of the Gaza Strip – where hundreds of refugee families found shelter.
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemned the attack, calling it “a continuation of the heinous war crimes.” It stated that “this is a blatant violation of international law in the absence of an international stance to stop the raging war and the suffering and humanitarian disaster it is causing.”
The Israeli army continued its ground operation in northern Gaza as crowds of Palestinian residents fled southwards on day 43 of the Israel-Hamas war. On Israel’s northern border, the IDF and Hezbollah traded fire after some 25 rockets were launched at Israel from Lebanon.
Thousands of Israelis have joined the families of hostages being held by Hamas as they complete the final leg of a 5-day march to Jerusalem to call for a hostage release deal.
Here’s what you need to know 43 days into the war:
■ Palestinians reported that 26 people were killed and 23 wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. According to the reports, three buildings were hit in the attack
■ Additional Palestinian reports claimed dozens had been killed in an army attack near areas populated by refugees, including schools and hospitals in northern Gaza
■ In the West Bank, at least five Palestinians were killed and two more wounded in an Israeli strike on a building in a refugee camp in the Nablus, the Palestinian Red Crescent said
■ The IDF struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon following the firing of some 25 rockets from Lebanon toward Israel on Saturday morning
■ Jordan’s foreign minister has said he does not understand how Israel’s goal of obliterating the Palestinian militant group Hamas could be achieved
■ The Israeli army rejected reports that it had ordered northern Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital to evacuate. The IDF spokesperson stressed that the army acceded to the hospital director’s plea to ensure safe evacuation of civilians. According to reports in Gaza, hundreds of patients evacuated the premises and making their way by foot toward the Strip’s southern regions
■ Members of the Hamas squad that fired a rocket barrage toward central Israel on Friday evening were killed by an Israeli drone attack on Saturday, the army said
■ The protest march by hostage families demanding a hostage deal reached Jerusalem after four days. Yuval Haran, whose family members were abducted and who initiated the march, clarified that “the journey is not over. 43 days is too long. We will continue in every possible way until each one of them is home”
■ UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said on Saturday that the amount of fuel approved entry into Gaza by Israel is “only half of the daily minimum” necessary to meet the requirements of humanitarian operations, urging “unconditional delivery of fuel” to maintain the organization’s activities in the Gaza Strip
The IDF announced that it targeted Hezbollah targets in Lebanese territory, including military compounds and posts used by the organization.
According to the military statement, the air force also successfully eliminated a surface-to-air missile system in response to Friday night’s shooting toward IDF aircraft which was interccepted successfully.
UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said on Saturday that the fuel approved for entry into Gaza by Israel is “only half of the daily minimum” necessary to meet the requirements of humanitarian operations, urging “unconditional delivery of fuel” to maintain the organization’s activities in the Gaza Strip
Lazzarini says much more fuel is needed “for desalination plants, sewage pumps, hospitals, water pumps in shelters, aid trucks, ambulances, bakeries and communications networks to work without interruption.”
He cautions that without the full amount of fuel delivered, people in Gaza will face difficulty accessing drinking water, the area will be flooded with sewage and the removal of solid waste will be stopped
“Humanitarian organizations should not be forced to make tough decisions between competing lifesaving activities. Community tensions in a once close-knitted society are likely to increase, making it even more difficult for UNRWA and other organizations to operate in an environment of unprecedented humanitarian crisis,” says the commissioner.
Lazzarini concluded his statement saying: “Humanitarian aid cannot be conditional and must not be used for political or military agendas and gains.”
The march of the families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza entered Jerusalem after setting out on Tuesday. Yuval Haran, whose family members were abducted and who initiated the march, clarified that “the journey is not over. 43 days is too long. We will continue in every possible way until each one of them is home.”
Reports emerge on Saturday in Gaza of dozens killed in an Israeli attack on the Al-Fakhoura school in the northern part of the Strip. The school provided shelter for hundreds of refugee families.
The IDF announced that aircraft targeted Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon on Saturday. In addition, a number of surface-to-surface launches from Lebanon towards Israel were identified, to which the army responded with artillery fire on the sources of the launches.
Thousands of Israelis joined the final leg of a 5-day march to Jerusalem with families of the hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 to demand their return.
The marchers stayed overnight at the Ein Hemed parking lot, located about 14 km (about 8 miles) from the city, and arrived on Saturday at the town of Mevaseret Zion, where they were received by hundreds of residents.
The procession is expected to reach Jerusalem afternoon on Saturday and march to the Knesset, where a protest rally will be held.
“Our role in this struggle is to remember that we are the sovereigns of the state, and our duty as citizens is to demand what we want, not to provide solutions or outlines, but to make a clear and unambiguous statement – we demand our loved ones back home. That’s it,” Udi Goren, the cousin of Tal Chaimi who was abducted from his home in Nir Yitzhak, said during the Shabbat reception held on Friday in Ein Hemed.
He added: “The war is about this idea called the State of Israel. Part of it is our security, that we can live here, that the state will do everything in times of trouble, and yet you haven’t done everything because my cousin Tal is still not here,” he said.
“Don’t forsake us again. This war has one and only one victorious image – 238 abductees in front of the Knesset, standing healthy and whole. There is no victory until the last abductee returns.” He addressed the public, saying, “Tomorrow we will march on Jerusalem. We need you to shout our cry so that it is very clear that the people are with us.”
According to reports in Gaza, hundreds of patients of the Al-Shifa hospital are evacuating the premises and making their way by foot toward the Strip’s southern regions.
Al-Shifa’s general manager said that the evacuation of premature babies is enabled by placing two in each incubator. “We predict that dozens of wounded will lose their lives on the way,” he said in an interview with Al Jazeera.
It was also reported that six dialysis patients and 22 patients of the intensive care unit have died.
The IDF spokesperson’s unit said that members of the Hamas squad that fired rockets into central Israel on Friday evening have been killed by an Israeli drone attack on Saturday.
The statement further said that during the last day, Israeli forces have located and destroyed dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza, including ammunition labs and command posts.
The IDF issued a statement Saturday, negating earlier reports of ordering the Al-Shifa hospital’s evacuation.
The statement further said that the hospital’s medical staff can remain in place and attend to the patients. Those who wish to leave the premises, the statement added, can do so through a secured route. The IDF spokesperson stressed that the army acceded to the hospital director’s plea to ensure safe evacuation of civilians.
The IDF attacks Hezbollah targets in Lebanon following the fire of some 25 rockets from Lebanon toward Israel on Saturday morning.
No wounded were reported in Israel following the shooting from Lebanon, the IDF says.
Jordan’s foreign minister has said he does not understand how Israel’s goal of obliterating the Palestinian militant group Hamas could be achieved, Reuters reports.
Ayman Safadi said on Saturday: “Israel says it wants to wipe out Hamas. There’s a lot of military people here, I just don’t understand how this objective can be realized.”
He warned that Jordan would do “whatever it takes to stop” the displacement of Palestinians, amid heavy Israeli bombardment of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in retaliation for Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October.
“We will never allow that to happen,” Safadi told at the IISS Manama Dialogue security summit in Bahrain.
In addition to it being a war crime, it would be a direct threat to our national security. We’ll do whatever it takes to stop it.
The Israel-Hamas war has reawakened longstanding fears in Jordan, home to a large population of Palestinian refugees and their descendants. They fear that Israel could expel Palestinians en masse from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians have surged since the 7 October attack.
Safadi said: “This war is not taking us anywhere but towards more conflict, more suffering and the threat of expanding into regional wars.”
Rocket sirens were activated in the northern Israeli community of Kibbutz Sasa.
Reports in Gaza say that dozens have been killed in a series of attacks carried out by the Israeli army Saturday morning in the northern Strip regions of Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun and Gaza City.
The reports further stated that the attacks hit areas where hundreds of refugees are satying, including schools and hospitals.
The Hostage and Missing Families Forum announced that its representatives will meet with War Cabinet Ministers Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot on Saturday evening.
The Forum added that the families’ request to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer was not granted.
In a joint statement Saturday, the IDF and the Shin Bet security service announced that Israeli forces operating in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the West Bank killed militants who planned an imminent terror attack against Israelis.
According to local reports, the attack was carried out by Israeli drones and was aimed at a compound that served as the headquarters of the local office of the Fatah movement.
Reports from the Rafidia Hospital in Nablus told Haaretz that among the dead are four members of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, affiliated with Fatah. The reports further stated that among the dead is Muhammad Zahed, who planned several terror attacks against Israelis in recent years.
Palestinian reports said Saturday that 26 people were killed and 23 were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. According to the reports, three buildings were hit in the attack.
As the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, Israel is awash with extremist statements by government officials, settler leaders, messianic rabbis and far-right social network influencers.
There’s an almost daily media storm around violent declarations against the Palestinians, despicable declarations like “nuke them all” or “we are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.”
Government ministers with virtual portfolios like “Minister of Heritage”, or “Special Assignments”, who were unknown figures before the formation of Netanyahu’s coalition government was formed in January, are using the occasion of Hamas’ catastrophic attack on October 7 as a launching pad for their own Kahanist messages.
Pro-Palestinian protest organizers are planning a national day of action on Saturday, rather than a large march in central London. The direct action will take the form of more than 100 smaller rallies at various locations across the U.K. London will see 10 events, including rallies in Islington, Redbridge and Tower Hamlets.
The Metropolitan Police said that a “significant” policing operation is planned for the capital this weekend. Temporary Commander Karen Findlay, who is leading the operation, said: “Whilst there is no single large central protest event on Saturday, our policing priorities remain the same across the local events that are due to take place.
“We are here to ensure that people can exercise their right to protest but to make sure that is done lawfully, and that unreasonable disruption to the lives of other Londoners is kept to a minimum.
The IDF says that its aerial defense systems intercepted a surface-to-air missile fired from Lebanon at an unmanned Israeli drone. The army added that sirens were sounded due to the launch of interceptor missiles and that no missile entered Israeli territory.
At least five Palestinians were killed and two more injured in an Israeli strike on a building in a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance service said early on Saturday.
The Israeli military did not immediately provide comment on the incident at Balata refugee camp. The Palestinian Red Crescent earlier said its medics were dealing with five serious injuries from the blast, all of them men ranging from 19 to 25 years in age.
According to local reports, one of the fatalities was a senior member of the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade who had been on Israel’s most-wanted list for many years.
As the IDF continues its ground operation in the northern Gaza Strip, Israel’s war cabinet approved the daily entry of fuel trucks for UN use. As calls for a ceasefire mount amid continuing rocket fire from Gaza and Lebanon, impasses remain to a possible hostage deal as international organizations warn of hunger and the spread of disease in Gaza.
Here’s what you need to know 43 days into the war.
■ Hamas published a video showing 86-year-old Arye Zalmanovich, an Israeli hostage kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, clearly in very poor health. Zalmanovich suffers from medical issues and is in need of treatment.
■ The IDF continued its operation in the northern Gaza Strip overnight into Friday. According to Palestinian reports, a senior member of Hamas’ political wing and a former senior Fatah member affiliated with Hamas were killed in Israeli strikes in the Strip. The IDF said it had destroyed a key Palestinian Islamic Jihad outpost, and that bombs and weapons have been found in Gaza’s kindergartens and schools.
■ Hundreds of Israelis participated in the funeral of fallen Israeli soldier Noa Marciano, who was killed in Hamas captivity. Marciano’s body was found Thursday near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and brought back to Israel.
■ On Friday, Israel’s war cabinet said it would comply with a U.S. request to allow the daily entry of two fuel trucks into Gaza for UN use, including the operation of desalination plants and sewage facilities. The decision triggered intense opposition among both far-right and Likud members of the Netanyahu government. Israel’s National Security Adviser defended the government’s decision, saying it does not harm Israel’s operational goals.
■ The UN World Food Program said Gaza faces a massive food gap and widespread hunger with nearly the entire population in desperate need of food assistance, and only 10 percent of necessary food supplies entering the Strip since the war began.
■ According to the Red Crescent, 73 wounded Palestinians left the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Friday.
■ Rocket sirens sounded in both northern and southern Israel throughout Friday, including Tel Aviv from rockets fired by Hamas. In the north, four Israelis were wounded by anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon at a community near the border. The IDF said it attacked Hezbollah launch sites in Lebanese territory in retaliation.
The White House has issued a statement on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, saying that “We are glad Israel agreed to fuel deliveries to Gaza at our strong request. We believe these deliveries should continue on a regular basis and in larger quantities.”
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