Live: Israel kills 242 Palestinians, wounds 620 during ceasefire
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Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet on Monday detained a 27-year-old man in Tel Aviv on suspicion of collaborating with Iran's intelligence services, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
The report said that the Tel Aviv resident allegedly spied for Iran in exchange for cryptocurrency payments to "film various public locations".
Israeli police said an investigation into the man's laptop revealed that he was in touch with Iranian operatives via social media.
UK embassy worker in Tel Aviv owns property in a settlement built by an organisation sanctioned by Britain, news organisation The National News reported.
Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips, a long-time employee of the UK’s embassy in Tel Aviv, has owned a property in Kerem, official records show.
The settlement in the occupied West Bank, where Phillips owns property since 2022, is considered illegal under international law.
The report said that the settlement is a project of Amana, a settler organisation that the UK placed under sanctions in 2024.
The United States is planning to establish a military base in Gaza, news organisation Yedioth Ahronoth reported, citing an Israeli source.
The news comes as the Turkish government is finalising plans that would result in the deployment of hundreds of soldiers to Gaza as part of an international peacekeeping force, as negotiations with the US and Israel continue on the issue.
Sources familiar with the matter told MEE that a peacekeeping brigade, estimated to include at least 2,000 soldiers, has been drafting personnel from across the country in recent weeks.
The contingent, which would join the international stabilisation force in Gaza alongside other partner countries, is set to be made up of soldiers from multiple army branches with prior peacekeeping and conflict-zone experience.
The Gaza peace plan, brokered by US President Donald Trump, envisions Turkey as one of the lead countries to take over large swathes of territory in the Palestinian enclave from Hamas.
Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on Tuesday said that ratifying the law to execute Palestinian prisoners is "an extension of the racist Zionist approach and an attempt to legitimise mass murder against our people".
Hamas called the Israeli bill a "dangerous criminal escalation within the systematic extermination and ethnic cleansing against" Palestinian people.
The Israeli Knesset advanced a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Israelis on "nationalistic grounds".
In the first reading, 39 members approved the bill, while 16 others opposed it.
A bill must pass the third and final level of voting by a simple majority to become law.
The legislation, championed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, was pushed through the Knesset’s National Security Committee on 3 November, drawing widespread condemnation from human rights groups.
The bodies of two Palestinians killed in an Israeli raid on a house in Khan Younis were recovered on Tuesday in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
At least 242 Palestinians have been killed and 622 others wounded in Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Tuesday.
On Monday, the ministry in a statement said that the death toll from Israel's genocide since October 2023 has risen to 69,179, while 170,693 others have been wounded. Thousands more are missing and presumed dead.
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir handed out sweets at the Knesset on Monday to celebrate lawmakers voting in favour of a bill that would impose the death penalty on “terrorists” - the first of three votes required for it to become law.
Thirty-nine lawmakers voted in favour of the bill, while 16 voted against it.
The bill will now return to the Knesset’s National Security Committee.
The Gaza health ministry on Tuesday launched a vaccination campaign for children who missed basic vaccinations during the two years of the genocidal war waged by Israel.
Children constitute 47 percent of the total population in Gaza, according to a statement issued by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics last April.
Israeli forces on Tuesday set fire to Palestinian lands near the separation wall in the village of Arrabuna, east of Jenin city in the northern West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
The report said that Israeli forces conducted raids in the town of Huwara, the Balata refugee camp and the New Askar camp, south of Nablus.
The forces raided homes during an incursion into the Al-Zar’ina neighbourhood in the town of Aqaba, north of Tubas.
The Israeli Knesset, in its first of three votes, advanced a bill allowing the closure of any foreign media outlet without court approval, Haaretz reported.
The report said that the bill aims to convert the "Al-Jazeera Law", a temporary order that permits the permanent closure of foreign media outlets in Israel, into a permanent law.
The bill was approved by a majority of 50 supporters against 41 opponents, amid opposition from legal advisors.
A bill must pass the third and final level of voting by a simple majority to become law.
The Israeli Knesset on Tuesday advanced a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Israelis on "nationalistic grounds".
In the first reading, 39 members approved the bill, while 16 others opposed it.
A bill must pass the third and final level of voting by a simple majority to become law.
The legislation, championed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, was pushed through the Knesset’s National Security Committee on 3 November, drawing widespread condemnation from human rights groups.
Good morning,
We are on day 32 after a fragile ceasefire was agreed upon to end Israel's two-year genocidal war on Gaza. The truce has been violated by Israel many times as it launches new operations and continues to strike Gaza, while settlers displace Palestinians from the West Bank.
Here are the major developments from the last few hours:
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Israeli forces raided the towns and cities across the occupied West Bank, including Huwara, Qaryut, Yamoun, Balata refugee camp, New Askar camp. The forces also set fire to Palestinian lands near the separation wall in the village of Arrabuna.
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The Israeli Knesset, in its first of three votes, approved a bill to execute Palestinian prisoners. 39 members approved the bill, while 16 others opposed it.
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The Knesset also passed, in the first of three required votes, a bill allowing closure of foreign media outlets without court approval.
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The US State Department's Marco Rubio discussed with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, the ceasefire in Gaza and the next steps to ensure stability.
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Gaza's health minitsry launched a vaccination campaign for children who missed basic vaccinations during the two years of the genocidal war committed by Israel.
Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.
Here are the day's key developments:
- The Gaza Media Office on Monday said Israel has so far violated the 10 October ceasefire deal in Gaza 282 times, during which it has killed 242 Palestinians, and wounded 620. The latest Israeli drone strike on Monday killed two Palestinians, one of whom was a child.
- The United Nations has found that persistent Israeli shelling across Gaza, as well as bureaucratic delays, is hindering the delivery of what little aid is allowed into the enclave.
- US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his close family friend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, met in Jerusalem to discuss the second phase of the ceasefire deal in Gaza, the Associated Press reported.
- Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, before detaining him, the Wafa news agency reported. Israeli authorities said the man approached soldiers at a checkpoint and opened fire on them.
- The Foreign Press Association (FPA), which represents hundreds of foreign journalists, said it was "appalled" by recent Israeli settler attacks on journalists in the occupied West Bank, especially during this year's olive harvest.
- The Syrian foreign ministry the United States has affirmed its support for a security deal between Israel and Syria, after US President Donald Trump and Syrian President Ahmed el-Sharaa met at the White House.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) has found that persistent Israeli shelling across Gaza, as well as bureaucratic delays, is hindering the delivery of what little aid is arriving into the enclave, despite the terms of the 10 October ceasefire deal.
"Efforts to ramp up aid are still being held back by red tape, ongoing bans on key humanitarian partners, too few crossings and routes, and insecurity that persists despite the ceasefire," Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, told reporters on Monday.
"Our teams still have to coordinate every movement in advance with Israeli authorities," he added. "Yesterday, we made eight coordination attempts. Only two were fully facilitated, and four were impeded on the ground, including one that was delayed for 10 hours before the team finally received a green light to move".
The UN did, however, manage to kickstart its "Catch Up campaign" for routine immunisation in Gaza, Haq said, with a target of vaccinating 44,000 children overall.
The Syrian foreign ministry said on Monday that the United States affirmed its support for a security deal between Israel and Syria.
The statement followed a meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Syrian Foreign Minister Assad al-Shibani and Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on the sidelines of President Ahmed al-Sharaa's landmark visit to Washington.
- Reporting by Reuters
As the BBC’s director general and head of news resign amid an uproar over a misleadingly edited speech by US President Donald Trump, the narrative seems neat: an error, consequences, accountability.
But this latest scandal was prompted by the wrong controversy.
While headlines continue to focus on a single editing mistake, the real crisis at the heart of Britain’s public broadcaster runs far deeper, most notably in its failure to report Israel’s war on Gaza with honesty or courage.
And the irony is brutal: the BBC has been shaken by one of the smallest of its sins, while the greater one - its distortion of Palestinian reality - goes unpunished.
