Israel-Palestine live: Israel and Palestinians agree to truce, hostage deal

Revenue from ticket sales for the Asian Football Cup planned for early 2024 in Qatar will be donated to help the Palestinians, the organisers of the competition announced on Monday.

“We have decided to donate the revenues generated by tickets sold for the Asian Cup in Qatar to provide necessary aid to Palestine,” the president of the organising committee said. 

“We will ensure that this social responsibility effort benefits those most affected, and that football fulfils its role as a support mechanism for the population during these extremely difficult times,” added Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
 

Around 200 Palestinians from Gaza are set to arrive in Turkey on Monday, including dozens of patients who will receive medical treatment there, Turkey's health minister and foreign ministry spokesperson said.

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said 61 patients, accompanied by 49 relatives, had arrived in Ankara on Monday afternoon after being brought out to Egypt on Sunday.

"In terms of protecting human dignity, I think the steps we have taken provide a contribution, though very small," Koca told reporters at the airport. The priority for evacuations was now Gazan children, babies, and wounded civilians, he added.
 

Jordan’s crown prince has arrived in Egypt’s al-Arish to oversee preparations for a field hospital for south Gaza. 

The field hospital will have a capacity of 41 beds and will be set up in Khan Younis. 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that three premature babies will be remaining behind at the Emirati hospital in south Gaza to receive treatment. 

On Sunday, 28 premature Palestinian babies were evacuated from the al-Shifa Hospital, which is under Israeli siege, and were transported to the Emirati hospital, close to the Egyptian border. They were then evacuated into Egypt. 

"The 28 babies have now safely arrived in Egypt. Three babies still remain at the Emirati Hospital and continue to receive treatment," a WHO spokesperson told Reuters.
Asked about the babies' condition, he said: "All babies are fighting serious infections and continue needing health care."

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus previously said the babies were "very sick", had been moved under "extremely intense and high-risk security conditions", and were now "receiving urgent care in the neonatal intensive care unit" in Rafah.

Dr Mohammad Zaqout, general director of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, told AP some of the babies were dehydrated or had developed gastritis due to unclean water. Lack of medications had caused others to develop sepsis, and some had developed hypothermia.
 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will host a meeting in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Gaza with foreign ministers from members of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the RIA news agency reported on Monday.

Two Yeshiva students, from a traditional Jewish educational institution that focuses on Rabbinic literature, have been indicted for throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem. 

The students also targeted several public buildings where Palestinians were present. 

According to Haaretz, Chaim Abramson, a 25-year-old resident of Jerusalem, and Shimon Cohen, a 19-year-old resident of Bnei Brak, are accused of the crimes of an act of terrorism with aggravated intent, arson, carrying a weapon and assaulting a public servant under aggravated circumstances. 

The prosecution requested that they be left in custody until the end of the proceedings against them.

Israeli air strikes have killed at least 12 Palestinians sheltering in a Unrwa school in the Bureij refugee camp. 

Hisham Zaqout, a journalist for Al Jazeera Arabic, said that many more people have been wounded. 

Many of the families were looking for food or resting when the air strike hit. 
 

Sirens are sounding on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon after an attack from Hezbollah caused damage to an Israeli military base on Monday, according to Haaretz. 

Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Monday condemned Israel's attack on the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza.

"The attack is a clear violation of international humanitarian laws. All countries, especially those that have close relations with Israel, must use all their influence and capabilities to urge Israel to stop its atrocities," she said in a statement.

The hospital is still surrounded by Israeli tanks, with those trapped inside unable to leave and live fire being used. 
 

Israeli forces have bombed the al-Kuwait school in north Gaza where hundreds of Palestinians were sheltering, according to the general manager of the Ministry of Health and local media. 

The school is located in close proximity to the Indonesian Hospital which is currently surrounded by Israeli tanks. 

Photos shared online showed the school engulfed in flames. 

There are no reports on the death toll or number of wounded people yet. 
 

Gaza’s government media office on Monday issued a statement saying that the humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave has worsened significantly. 

Here are the points from their statement:

• Shops and markets now have no basic food items, including flour, rice and canned foods. Bakeries have also been bombed by Israel.
• There are growing fears that Gaza will be plunged into famine and disease will spread more quickly as the number of displaced people has caused overcrowding. 
• Cold weather and rain have made the situation unbearable for displaced Palestinians, with most of them unequipped for the winter months. 

The media office said that they hold the “international community and Israel responsible for stopping the massacres”. 

They also called on international organisations and world bodies to stop the “deliberate starvation” of Palestinians.
 

The Palestinian Mission to the UK announced that its offices in London have faced increasing attacks on Sunday.

“On Saturday 18 November, 2023, at 23.05 the Palestinian Mission to the UK was attacked and vandalised. In addition to death threats, damage to vehicles and vandalism of property, this is the fourth attack in the last few weeks,” the mission said in a statement. 

The diplomatic  also added that the British government “failed to provide diplomatic protection in line with international norms.”

“The lack of any action by the British government, ignoring Palestinian rights and concerns, is inexplicable and unacceptable,” they said. 

Anas Al-Sharif, a journalist in Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital, told Al Jazeera Arabic on Monday that “everything is a target,” as Israeli forces continue to open fire inside the hospital’s buildings. 

He said that the hospital is now fully out of service. 

These are some of the main updates from al-Sharif. 

• People are unable to move inside the hospital, especially between wards or to go to different floors.
• Anyone who moves is being shot at, “live fire has not stopped since Sunday night," he said. 
• There are a “large number” of wounded people inside the hospital. 
• There is no electricity in the hospital.
• Tanks are still surrounding the hospital’s buildings. 
• There are hundreds of wounded patients, staff and displaced Palestinians inside the hospitals, who are unable to leave. 
   

Arab and Muslim ministers called on Monday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as their delegation visited Beijing on the first leg of a tour to push for an end to the bombing of Gaza and to allow humanitarian aid into the enclave.

The delegations are set to meet officials representing each of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

The officials are from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia, Palestine and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, among others.

"We are here to send a clear signal: that is we must immediately stop the fighting and the killings, we must immediately deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza," said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.
 

At least 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes in south Gaza on Sunday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.

The organisation said that dozens of patients including children had been treated for "severe burns" at the Nasser medical complex.

The air strike in Khan Younis took place less than one kilometre away from the hospital, wounding at least 122 people. "The hospital is overflowing," MSF said.