Live: Israel kills at least two Palestinians in Gaza, infant dies of cold

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Wednesday that only a trickle of tents and shelters have allowed into the Gaza Strip.

The NRC said that the UN and international aid groups have only been able to bring 15,600 tents into Gaza since the October ceasefire. 

“At least 761 displacement sites hosting around 850,000 people are at risk of flooding,” NRC said. 

“International aid organisations remain blocked from bringing in relief and nearly 4,000 pallets of shelter materials have been rejected," the NRC said. 

"Gaza urgently needs heavy machinery, tools and shelter items to prevent catastrophic flooding," the statement added. 

Nemo, the Swiss singer and winner of the 2024 Eurovision contest, has returned his trophy in protest against Israel's participation in the contest.

"I no longer feel this trophy belongs on my shelf," Nemo wrote in a statement on Thursday. 

"Eurovision says it stands for unity, inclusion, and dignity for all. Those values made this contest meaningful to me. But Israel's continued participation, during what the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry has concluded to be a genocide, shows a clear conflict between those ideals and the decisions made by the EBU," the statement added, referring to the Eurovision contest. 

"The contest was repeatedly used to soften the image of a state accused of severe wrongdoing, all while the EBU
insisted Eurovision is 'non-political.'" the statement added. 

"When entire countries withdraw over this contradiction, it should be clear that something is deeply wrong...That's why I've decided that I'm sending my trophy back to the EBU headquarters in Geneva," the statement said. 
 

The Israeli military shot at a Palestinian doctor in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, wounding him, according to the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry. 

Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said the doctor was shot in the thigh after leaving the home of a family in mourning. He was taken to Jenin’s Ibn Sina Hospital.

Israeli soldiers have launched attacks on Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. 

Hamas have criticised threats by far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir to destroy the tomb of Palestinian nationalist leader Ezzedine al-Qassam, for whom Hamas names their armed wing.

Ben Gvir posted a video on X showing him accompanying security forces as they dismantled a prayer tent next to the grave of Qassam, who was a prominent Palestinian leader in the armed uprising against the British and Zionism in 1930s Palestine.

"The tomb of arch-terrorist Ezzedine al-Qassam in Nesher must be removed. And yesterday at dawn, we took the first step," Ben Gvir wrote on X.

Qassam's grave is situated near Haifa in what is now northern Israel and has been a target for vandalism over the years.

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi called Ben Gvir's threat "an unprecedented level of transgression against sanctity and desecration of holy sites, and a violation of the sanctity of graves".

"Targeting the grave of al-Qassam... is not merely an attack on a grave, but rather an attempt to erase the memory of a nation and remove a testament to our ongoing struggle," he said in a statement.

"Extremism has become an official, declared policy, requiring international action to curb this barbarity."

Four bodies and 10 injured Palestinians were brought to hospitals across the enclave in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza's health ministry.

The ministry said in a statement on Telegram that 383 Palestinians have been killed, 1,002 people have been injured, and 627 bodies have been recovered since the ceasefire began in October.

Since the war began in October 2023, Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed 70,373 people and injured 171,079 others, the ministry added.

In a recent New York Times column, one of former President Barack Obama’s closest advisers, Ben Rhodes, offered a long-overdue and merciless analysis of how badly the US Democratic Party has mismanaged the Gaza tragedy - and more broadly, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the past decade.

He summarised the Biden administration’s policy after 7 October 2023 as the “hug Bibi” strategy, referencing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The assumption was that “smothering Mr. Netanyahu with unconditional support would give the U.S. leverage to influence his actions”. 

Never has an assumption been more wrong.

Netanyahu, a true master in deceiving the Washington establishment, bamboozled a US administration once again. He took everything from President Joe Biden without conceding anything; the notorious US leverage was thus absent in Gaza.

Read more: 'Hug Bibi' strategy: Ben Rhodes shows how Democrats lost the plot on Gaza Opinion by Marco Carnelos

Three buildings collapsed on their residents in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, due to a storm, Al Jazeera Arabic and local sources reported.

Gaza’s Civil Defence urged residents not to stay in buildings at risk of collapse and warned they could be brought down by the storm.

#صورة| انهيار شقة الصحفية ابتسام مهدي في حي تل الهوا جنوب غرب مدينة غزة. pic.twitter.com/HmLV6FHuma

— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) December 11, 2025

The Trump administration is planning to appoint an American two-star general to command the International Stabilization Force in Gaza, Axios reported on Thursday, citing two US officials and two Israeli officials.

A United Nations Security Council resolution, adopted on 17 November, authorised a Board of Peace and countries working with it to establish a temporary International Stabilization Force in Gaza.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz, who visited Israel this week, told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials that the Trump administration is going to lead the ISF and appoint a two-star general as its commander, Axios said.

Israel said on Thursday that Hamas "will be disarmed" as part of the US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza, after a top leader from the group suggested a weapons freeze.

"There will be no future for Hamas under the 20-point plan," the Israeli official told AFP, adding that the group will be disarmed and Gaza will be demilitarised.

Hamas's Khaled Meshaal told Qatari news channel Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the group is open to a weapons "freeze", but rejects the demand for disarmament put forward in US President Donald Trump's plan for Gaza.

Gaza’s Government Media Office rejected the US envoy's claim that 600 trucks were coming in daily since the ceasefire deal in October, saying that no more than 234 trucks of aid per day have arrived in the enclave since then.

The US ambassador Mike Waltz’s claim represents a “blatant attempt to exonerate the [Israeli] occupation from the crime of the blockade and starving the civilian population”, the office said in a statement.

The government office said that the prevention of trucks entering Gaza, as stipulated in the ceasefire deal, is a means of "adopting a systematic economic strangulation policy aimed at keeping the Gaza Strip on the brink of famine".

The media office also said that Israel is blocking dozens of essential items, including basic food, medical supplies and spare parts, from entering the enclave.

Israeli shelling in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza killed at least one woman and injured others, Al Jazeera reported, citing ambulance and emergency services in the Strip.

The attacks were carried out outside the Israeli army’s areas of control, the report said.

Child rights group Defense for Children International–Palestine (DCIP) has shared details of the killing of a 17-year-old Palestinian by Israeli forces over the weekend, saying that the army confiscated his body.

Israeli forces allege that Ahmad Khalil Rajabi attempted to run over a soldier on Sunday, but his father refuted the accusation, saying that Ahmad was driving the family car to visit a friend at Alia Governmental Hospital in the city centre.

DCIP said in a statement that the soldiers yelled at Ahmad to stop when he was beside them in the second lane. The vehicle moved past the soldiers for several metres before Ahmad halted and backed up no more than five metres, when the soldiers immediately began shooting at the car.

“There is no rule of law for Palestinian children,” said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability programme director at DCIP.

“Palestinian families are left to piece together how their child was killed, and in many cases are denied even the basic dignity of burying them, as Israel continues to withhold children's bodies in violation of international law.”

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces and settlers have killed 53 Palestinian children so far this year, according to DCIP. The seizure of Ahmad’s body brings to 55 the number of Palestinian children whose remains Israel has withheld from their families since 2016.

Israeli forces killed 17-year-old Ahmad Khalil Ahmad Rajabi in Hebron and then confiscated his body. Ahmad was driving to visit a friend when soldiers opened fire on his car. Israel has killed 53 Palestinian children in the West Bank this year. Read more: https://t.co/Dv3AaPwpPk pic.twitter.com/eczI0XUtnO

— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) December 10, 2025

We earlier reported that one Palestinian was arrested in Nablus.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office is reporting that at least three people have been arrested during the latest Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank.

In Hebron, a man and his son were arrested in Khirbet Qalqas after their home was attacked by Israeli soldiers.

#متابعة | قوات الاحتلال تعتقل شابا عقب مداهمة منزله في حي كروم عاشور في نابلس شمال الضفة الغربية. pic.twitter.com/ucMhGPunPM

— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) December 11, 2025

An eight-month-old baby girl died on Thursday from exposure to severe cold in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wafa news agency reported.

Medical workers said the infant, Rahaf Abu Jazar, died after prolonged exposure to low temperatures.

Residents of Gaza are facing severe shortages of shelter, medical care and adequate heating as cold, stormy winter conditions batter the Strip.

The Israeli military has shot dead a Palestinian and injured others in al-Mawasi, near Rafah in southern Gaza, Wafa news agency reported.

The report said the Israeli forces opened fire near the Flag Roundabout in al-Mawasi on Wednesday night.

Israel has violated the ceasefire more than 700 times since it started on 10 October 10, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.