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- Israeli forces have kept Tubas under siege for a second straight day as large-scale military operations continue across the northern occupied West Bank. On Thursday, they arrested a journalist and a photographer in the city.
- Israeli security forces shot two Palestinian men on Thursday who appeared to be surrendering and unarmed during a raid in Jenin, Palestine TV news footage showed.
- Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, a US citizen living in the occupied West Bank, was released by Israeli authorities on Thursday, in a move timed to coincide with the American Thanksgiving holiday. The child had been detained for more than nine months without charge.
- A group of Israeli settlers torched a mosque in Biddya, a village in the northern occupied West Bank.
- Germany, Italy, France, and Britain called on Israel to abide by international law and protect Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in a joint statement released Thursday.
- Israel is still waging a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza despite the fact that a ceasefire in the enclave is entering its second month and all living Israeli captives have been released, Amnesty International has said.
- Roughly half of Gaza’s emergency services have shut down as severe fuel shortages paralyze rescue, firefighting and evacuation work, Al Jazeera reported.
Members of a graduate student union at Cornell University voted overwhelmingly to pass a referendum in support of "the Palestinian liberation struggle”.
Results were announced on Wednesday following a three-day voting period for members of the Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU-UE Local 300). The voting period ended on Tuesday.
The union said Cornell University supported human rights abuses against Palestinians through research and ties to the weapons industry, and the decision allows it to "join a larger movement to end the genocide in Palestine".
“Cornell is implicated in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians through research, recruitment, and financial ties with the weapons industry, and endowment investments,” a statement from the union reads.
Read more: Cornell student union pledges solidarity with Palestine and commits to BDS movement
A UN official warned that Britain has become an "international outlier" by choosing to ban direct-action group Palestine Action, a court heard on Thursday.
Speaking on the second day of the judicial review into the UK's ban on Palestine Action, Adam Straw KC set out the intervention on behalf of UN Special Rapporteur Ben Saul.
Saul, who serves as the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, criticised the UK's decision to ban Palestine Action and deemed it a "fundamental breach of human rights."
During proceedings, Adam Straw KC stated that responsible states have limited what they define as terrorism, and protest groups are not generally classified as terrorists, stating that Britain has become an "international outlier" as a consequence.
Read more: Palestine Action ban has made UK 'international outlier' warns UN rapporteurs, court told
Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, a US citizen living in the occupied West Bank, was released by Israeli authorities on Thursday, in a move timed to coincide with the American Thanksgiving holiday.
The child had been detained for more than nine months without charge.
The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said in a statement on Thursday that while it welcomed Ibrahim's release after many months of diplomatic and media pressure, Israel has made arresting children a routine act.
Ibrahim, the ADC said, "was kidnapped, abused, and wrongfully detained for months in an Israeli military prison. Despite his innocence, Ibrahim was held without due process, and in violation of international law and norms".
"Israel has a long history of targeting children. Israeli prisons continue to hold innocent children, all without due process. No child should ever endure what Mohammed has endured. The Trump Administration and government officials must question why they continue to provide funding to a nation that is brazen about take willingness to kidnap, torture, and starve an American child," the statement continued.
"Mohammed’s return to his family is a relief, but... His case is a painful reminder that hundreds of Palestinian children remain trapped in the same inhumane system, right now."
Israeli security forces shot two Palestinian men on Thursday who appeared to be surrendering and unarmed during a raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestine TV news footage showed.
In the footage, the men are seen exiting a building surrounded by armed Israeli forces in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, lifting their shirts and lying on the ground in an apparent surrender. The forces then appeared to direct the men back inside the building before opening fire at close range.
A Reuters journalist in the vicinity saw the men leave the building, appearing to surrender, and later, after hearing shots fired, saw Israeli forces standing near what appeared to be a lifeless body.
The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that the two men were killed in the shooting, identifying them as 26-year-old Montasir Abdullah and 37-year-old Yusuf Asasa.
The Israeli military and police issued a joint statement announcing that they had opened an investigation after forces opened fire towards suspects who had exited a building.
The statement did not give any reason for why the forces opened fire, nor say that the two men had lain on the ground before they were directed back inside the building and shot.
- Reporting by Reuters
Israel is still waging a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza despite the fact that a ceasefire in the enclave is entering its second month and all living Israeli captives have been released, Amnesty International has said.
“The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal,” Agnes Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International, said in a statement on Thursday.
"While Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over,” she added.
Amnesty International in December 2024 deemed Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide. That judgment was reaffirmed by the United Nations’ top investigative body on Palestine and Israel in September when it ruled that Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide in the strip. That view has been shared by dozens of world leaders, historians, human rights experts, and genocide scholars.
Read more: Israel's genocide in Gaza continues as Palestinians face 'slow death', Amnesty International says
Germany, Italy, France, and Britain called on Israel to abide by international law and protect Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in a joint statement released Thursday.
"We - France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom - strongly condemn the massive increase of settler violence against Palestinian civilians and call for stability in the West Bank," the foreign ministers said.
"Destabilising activity risks undermining the success of the 20 Point Plan for Gaza and prospects for long-term peace and security," they added.
"The number of attacks has reached new heights, with 264 attacks in October according to OCHA, the largest number of settlers’ attacks in a single month since the United Nations began recording such incidents in 2006."
Ocha is the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
"These attacks must stop," the statement continued.
"They sow terror among civilians, they are harmful to the ongoing peace efforts and for the lasting security of the State of Israel itself," they added.
"We, ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, call on the Government of Israel to abide by its obligations under international law and protect the Palestinian population."
Roughly half of Gaza’s emergency services have shut down as severe fuel shortages paralyze rescue, firefighting and evacuation work, Al Jazeera reported.
The Civil Defence agency accused the UN Office for Project Services of imposing what it described as restrictive and obstructive measures that prevented it from receiving the fuel needed to operate fire trucks, ambulances, and generators.
Teams are unable to reach thousands of damaged and unstable buildings, and officials warn that search and recovery operations could come to a complete stop. Firefighting and emergency response capacity has also dropped sharply.
A group of Israeli settlers torched a mosque in Biddya, a village in the northern occupied West Bank.
Video circulating online and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency shows the carpet inside the mosque burning.
The Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission says there were more than 2,300 incidents of settler violence in October, the highest monthly total since the UN began tracking such cases in 2006.
Israeli forces have kept Tubas under siege for a second straight day as large-scale military operations continue across the northern occupied West Bank.
One Palestinian was killed, dozens were arrested and at least 25 were wounded during the raids, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Schools remain closed and most businesses have shut their doors as movement restrictions tighten across the governorate.
Israeli forces uprooted more than 100 olive trees on Thursday in several villages in the Ramallah area in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestine News and Info Agency Wafa.
Nazih Maadi, a landowner in Kafr Malik, told Wafa this was the sixth time his land had been raided in the past two months. He said the incursions have removed olive and grape trees, torn down gates and fencing, and demolished a tent he had set up on his property.
Israeli forces on Thursday arrested a journalist and a photographer in the city of Tubas, northeast of the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
Israeli forces have laid siege to the town of Tammun in the Tubas Governorate, located 13 kilometres northeast of Nablus in the West Bank, where at least 60 Palestinians have been arrested and dozens have been forcibly displaced from their homes.
The mayor Tammun said that the forces have displaced many families, turning their homes into military barracks and sealed the town. The Israeli army also cut off roads connecting the town with the rest of the West Bank, and severed electricity lines and drinking water pipes.
Unrwa said that about 32,000 Palestinians in the West Bank were forcibly displaced after Israel launched its military operations in the area.
The Israeli Air Force launched fresh air strikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported.
Lebanese media reported air strikes near the southern villages of Jarmaq and Mahmudiya.
Al Jazeera also reported that Israel launched raids on the outskirts of the Mahmudiya area.
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Israeli forces besieged a house in the Jabal Abu Dhahir area of Jenin on Thursday. An explosion was then heard as a drone flew overhead, Al Jazeera reported.
The army deployed military reinforcements in the area after an Israeli special forces unit infiltrated the neighbourhood, Palestinian media reported.
Faten Sweedan remembers celebrating her 28th birthday in October 2023, the day before the Hamas-led attack on Israel and the start of Israel's ongoing war on Gaza.
She was born on 7 October, a date now forever associated with the start of the Gaza genocide.
“It was a special birthday, on the Friday," she told Middle East Eye. "I ate bowls of chocolate, I ate ice cream, iced sweet drinks, I ate lamb barbecue and also barbecued chicken. And stuffed vine leaves… it was a beautiful day.”
The Unrwa school teacher, now in the UK on a scholarship, smiles as she remembers this special occasion, the day before the war and her family’s displacement began.
“The first street to be bombed [by Israel] was our street… We were displaced from the very first day,” she said.
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