Live: Arab and Muslim countries urge Israel to allow 'permanent' shelter into Gaza as weather worsens

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a young Palestinian man on Tuesday evening after opening fire on a vehicle between the towns of Awarta and Einabus, south of Nablus, Wafa news agency reported.

The General Authority for Civil Affairs said its teams in Nablus are coordinating the transfer of the body of Qais Sami Jasser Allan, 20, who Israeli forces killed during the shooting on the road linking Einabus and Awarta.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the same attacks left four other Palestinians wounded when Israeli troops fired directly at their vehicle.

The killing comes amid intensified Israeli military operations across the occupied West Bank.

There may not have been concrete deliverables on Gaza from the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, but one thing is for sure: Trump is receiving yet another trophy. 

Netanyahu said he is awarding Israel's highest cultural honour, the Israel Prize, to the US president "for his tremendous contributions to Israel and the Jewish people". 

It has never been awarded to a non-Israeli citizen before.

Not to be outdone, Trump lavished Netanyahu with praise, repeatedly calling him a "wartime prime minister at the highest level". 

"He can be very difficult on occasion, but you need a strong man," Trump conceded when asked about his personal relationship with Netanyahu, as he welcomed him at the doorstep of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Read more: Netanyahu awards Trump 'Israel Prize' as Trump lavishes him with praise

The World Council of Churches has called on the European Union to impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel over its war on Gaza and ongoing violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Iskandar Majlatoun, the local coordinator of the council’s Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, said the organisation is “deeply shocked by the spiral of violence and immense suffering” unfolding across the territory.

He said the council’s stance rests firmly on international law and human rights principles, adding that it unequivocally condemns all attacks targeting civilians.

Majlatoun described the situation in Gaza as an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”, pointing to the killing of thousands of civilians – most of them women and children – and the mass displacement of nearly the entire population amid widespread destruction, hunger and disease.

He stressed that the “tragic spiral of violence” did not begin in October 2023, but instead stems from “a decades-long occupation, the blockade imposed on Gaza, and systemic inequality”.

The council said accountability and concrete international action remain essential to halt further suffering and protect Palestinian civilians.

Leading Palestinian prisoner rights groups have accused Israel of committing a "systematic genocide" against detainees, with at least 32 recorded prisoner deaths in 2025.

According to an annual report published by the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) and Addameer, prisoners have died under "severely inhumane systematic policies".

"These facilities have turned into sites of torture, designed to break prisoners physically and mentally through prolonged, deliberate suffering, and slow-execution policies," the report said. 

At least 100 prisoner deaths under these conditions have been documented since October 2023, according to information disclosed by Israel. The identities of 86 of them were released, while the real Palestinian death toll in Israeli prisons remains unknown. 

The report noted that 94 bodies of Palestinians – 83 of whom died during Israel's genocidal war on Gaza – continue to be withheld by Israeli authorities.

Read more: Genocide behind bars: 32 Palestinians killed in Israeli detention in 2025

The foreign ministers of 10 countries have raised alarm over what they described as a sharp deterioration in Gaza’s humanitarian conditions, warning that the situation has reached “catastrophic” levels.

In a joint statement released on Tuesday by the UK Foreign Office, the ministers of Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland said civilians are facing increasingly dire conditions as winter sets in.

“As winter draws in, civilians in Gaza are facing appalling conditions with heavy rainfall and temperatures dropping,” the statement said.

The ministers highlighted the scale of the crisis, noting that “1.3 million people still require urgent shelter support”, while more than half of Gaza’s health facilities remain only partially operational and lack basic medical equipment and supplies.

They warned that the “total collapse of sanitation infrastructure has left 740,000 people vulnerable to toxic flooding.”

The statement called on Israeli authorities to allow international NGOs to operate in Gaza in a “sustained and predictable” manner, warning that many established aid organisations face deregistration by the end of December due to new Israeli restrictions.

“As 31 December approaches, many established international NGO partners are at risk of being deregistered because of the government of Israel’s restrictive new requirements,” it said.

The United Nations has warned that Israel’s latest measures targeting the UN agency for Palestinian refugees could strip millions of people of essential services, including education and healthcare.

Israel’s parliament passed legislation on Monday removing diplomatic immunity from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) and banning Israeli companies from supplying water and electricity to its facilities.

Unrwa said the law also empowers the Israeli government to seize the agency’s property in occupied East Jerusalem, including its headquarters and main vocational training centre.

Unrwa Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini condemned the move as “outrageous”, describing it on social media as “part of an ongoing, systematic campaign to discredit Unrwa and thereby obstruct the core role that the agency plays providing human-development assistance and services to Palestine refugees”.

Filippo Grandi, the outgoing head of the UN refugee agency Unhcr and a former Unrwa chief, also criticised the legislation, calling it “very unfortunate”.

Speaking to AFP, Grandi stressed that Unrwa plays a unique role within the UN system by delivering basic public services directly to Palestinian refugees across Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

“If you deprive those people of those services... then you had better find a substitute,” he said, warning: “I think it would be very difficult.”

Israel says it is suspending the operating licences of about 25 aid groups currently working in Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders, one of the largest health organisations working there, the AP news agency reported.

Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said the bans will come into effect on 1 January 2026, citing a failure to meet Israel’s new vetting requirements for organisations operating in the Gaza Strip.

The ministry has accused Doctors Without Borders' staff members of cooperation with Hamas and other armed groups. 

Doctors Without Borders has previously clarified that they would never knowingly employ people engaged in military activity.

Under these new regulations, Israel included a requirement for registration that involves submitting a full list of staff, including Palestinians in Gaza, which international aid groups have said could endanger their staff and breach European data protection laws.

As a result, the ministry has said that 15 percent of nongovernmental organisations working in Gaza did not have their permits renewed and will now be barred from operating during an ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Doctors Without Borders has said in a statement that “any reduction in humanitarian assistance in Gaza would be a disaster”, putting hundreds of thousands of lives at risk due to reliance on such aid groups.

Israeli forces raided Qarawat Bani Hassan in the occupied West Bank, seizing equipment and tools used to operate an artesian well in the town, local sources told Wafa news.

The move is the latest measure taken by Israel against Palestinians in the West Bank, depriving them of access to water sources, particularly in agricultural areas dependent on them for drinking and sanitation.

Data released by the Pacific Institute, a thinktank that tracks water conflicts, in November revealed that Israeli armed forces and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza attacked Palestinian water sources more than 250 times in the past five years.

This amounts to the most sustained assault on civilian water supplies in recent years, according to the report - suggesting a targeted attack on Palestinians’ access to drinking water infrastructure, irrigation and sanitation sites necessary for survival.

“Israel has systematically used water to displace and segregate the Palestinian population in their own territories… as part of its strategy of apartheid and progressive colonisation,” UN special rapporteur Pedro Arrojo-Adudo told The Guardian. 

An estimated 90 percent of water and sanitation facilities in Gaza have been destroyed in targeted attacks, while snipers routinely shoot at Palestinians collecting water at distribution points. 

Israeli army bulldozers razed agricultural land and olive trees in the town of Zububa in the west of Jenin, Wafa News reported, citing a local official.

The head of Zububa municipality also said that Israeli forces had razed the area two weeks ago and destroyed four greenhouses.

The attack on olive groves follows a pattern of settler violence against Palestinians in an attempt to destroy their livelihoods.

Palestinian researcher Hamza Zubeidat told Al Jazeera in August, after the Israeli military destroyed about 3,000 olive trees in a village near Ramallah in the West Bank, that the destruction is part of Israel’s “continuous” effort to force Palestinians off their lands.

The army said the trees posed a “security threat” to the main Israeli settlement road running through the village’s lands. 

A group of Jewish settlers broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem under the protection of Israeli forces, videos circulating on social media showed.

Palestinians were performing the dawn prayer in the courtyards of the mosque despite Israeli restrictions.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam, after Mecca and Medina, and is a key symbol of Palestinian identity.

In 2024, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said he would build a synagogue on the mosque’s compound if he could. He has been criticised for ignoring the Israeli government’s longstanding ban on Jews praying at the site.

“If I could do anything I wanted, I would put an Israeli flag on the site,” Ben Gvir said in an interview.

Al-Baydar Organisation for the Defense of Bedouin Rights reported that on Tuesday Israeli settlers stormed the Shallal al-Auja community north of Jericho, in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian news agency Wafa also reported that Israeli forces detained a foreign activist who was in the area attempting to document the events.

Israeli forces on Tuesday detained three foreign activists in the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, Wafa news agency reported.

Local sources said troops raided agricultural land owned by a Palestinian family in the al-Khalayel area, south of al-Mughayyir, and detained activists of British, American and Italian nationalities.

The activists had been at the Abu Naeem family farm to support residents who face daily attacks and provocations by Israeli colonists, the report said.

A total of 32 detainees, including a child, died in Israeli custody in 2025, bringing the number of prisoners killed since the start of the current phase to more than 100, the Palestinian Information Centre reported, citing a report by rights groups.

In a joint report, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners Club and Addameer said dozens of Gaza detainees remain forcibly disappeared, and Israeli authorities are withholding the bodies of 94 prisoners.

The report also said testimonies and evidence indicate a deliberate policy of physical and psychological targeting of prisoners, including torture, starvation, denial of treatment and solitary confinement.

The groups recorded about 21,000 arrests in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, since the start of what they describe as genocide, and more than 7,000 arrests this year alone, including 600 children and 200 women.

According to the report, 49 percent of prisoners are held without charge or trial, including 3,350 administrative detainees and 1,220 classified by Israel as “unlawful combatants”, alongside the continued administrative detention of dozens of children and women.

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Spain’s leftist government has ordered seven online platforms to remove more than 100 listings for holiday rentals in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.

The consumer affairs ministry said on Tuesday that it has identified 138 listings on platforms operating in Spain and notified the companies to "immediately remove or block" the content.

If they fail to comply, the platforms could face further government action, the statement said, without specifying what the consequences would be.

The move is part of measures adopted by Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government in backing Palestinians and condemning Israel’s war on Gaza.

A decree approved by lawmakers in October includes an arms embargo on Israel and a ban on the advertising of products "coming from illegal colonies in Gaza and the West Bank".

Consumer affairs minister Pablo Bustinduy said the listings help "normalise and perpetuate a colonial regime considered illegal under international law".

In October, France’s Human Rights League filed complaints against Airbnb and Booking.com, accusing them of promoting "occupation tourism" by featuring properties in settlements.