Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Morning update

5 November 2025 05:53 GMT

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates from Gaza and the region, 25 days after a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas:

  • The United States has drafted a United Nations resolution that approves a two-year mandate for a Gaza transitional governance body and an international stabilisation force in the Palestinian enclave, according to the text seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

  • In a race watched around the world, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a 34-year-old pro-Palestinian Democratic Socialist and assemblyman from Queens, New York, won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday to become its youngest leader in at least a century.

  • The former senior military legal adviser, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, was questioned for the first time after she was arrested overnight into Monday following the leak of a video showing sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees in a notorious Israeli military prison.

  • US press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms that US President Donald Trump will host Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, 10 November.

  • The Israeli army is carrying out continuous demolition operations on residential buildings east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

  • The Israeli army says it received the body of Itay Chen, an Israeli captive soldier from Gaza, as part of the ongoing ceasefire deal with Hamas.