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At least 305 Palestinians have been killed since the US-brokered ceasefire came into effect five-and-a-half weeks ago, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Nearly half of those were killed in a single day last week when Israel retaliated for an attack on its troops, according to Palestinian health authorities.

Three Israeli soldiers have been killed during the same period.

The Trump administration has approached Yemen’s internationally recognised government (IRG) in Aden about potentially contributing to the "international stabilisation force" being assembled for Gaza, AFP reported on Wednesday.

The report cited a source at the presidential council, a Yemeni diplomat, and a senior military official, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity. 

The military official said Yemen's "participation in the international force has been discussed with the Americans, but we have not yet received an official request", according to AFP. 

The IRG has little power within the country despite being represented at the United Nations and having an ambassador in Washington. It was kicked out of the capital, Sanaa, by Houthi rebels over 12 years ago.

The Houthis have since retained control over most of Yemen, and have been a target of air strikes by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Israel, and the US. 

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Israel launched an air strike on the town of Aynata in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. 

The air strike targeted a home and also damaged surrounding homes in a residential neighbourhood, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.

In Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon, it destroyed more than half of the homes in Aynata. 

Israel's ongoing attacks are in violation of a ceasefire currently in place with Lebanon.

Syria's foreign ministry strongly condemned on Wednesday a visit made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the government to an illegal Israeli outpost in Syria.

In a statement, the ministry said, "We affirm that the visit represents a new attempt to impose a de facto situation that contradicts relevant UN Security Council resolutions and falls within the occupation’s policies aimed at consolidating its aggression and continuing its violations of Syrian territory.” 

The ministry reiterated a call for Israel to withdraw from Syria, and then asked for the international community to follow its mandate to pressure Israel to follow international law.

“We call on the international community to assume its responsibilities, deter the occupation’s practices and compel it to fully withdraw from southern Syria and return to the 1974 Disengagement Agreement,” the statement added.

At least 25 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza on Wednesday, Gaza’s health ministry said.

The ministry also said 77 others were left wounded in the attacks across Gaza City and Khan Younis.

At least 23 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza on Wednesday after Israel escalated attacks across the Strip in violation of the ceasefire.

This includes seven Palestinians being killed in Gaza City, including a woman and a child, and three people being killed in Khan Younis. Dozens were left wounded.

Israel claims it conducted the attacks in response to a Hamas attack on soldiers in Khan Younis in a post on X. 

On Tuesday, Israel killed 13 people in the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on Tuesday evening.

Israel has been using banned cluster munitions in its attacks on Lebanon over the last 13 months, which continue to pose a threat to innocent civilians long after they have been dropped, The Guardian revealed on Wednesday.

The Israeli cluster munitions were reported to have been found in three multiple areas: Wadi Zibqin valley, Wadi Barghouz and Wadi Deir Siryan.

Cluster munitions pose threats to civilians because two-thirds of them do not explode upon impact and therefore continue to be a threat to local people who could be blown to pieces if they accidentally come into contact with them and explode. 

Israel used cluster bombs in its 2006 war in Lebanon, with one million unexploded cluster bombs continuing to wreak havoc on the lives of Lebanese people, with 400 people having been killed by them in the last 19 years.

Israel's strategy leaves places where they are using cluster munitions increasingly uninhabitable. 

Police in England and Wales arrested more than 140 people on Tuesday, the first day of coordinated protests against the UK government’s proscription of the direct action group Palestine Action.

No arrests were made at parallel events in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

In each location, protesters staged sit-downs, holding signs that read, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine.”

The group, Defend Our Juries (DOJ), which organised the protests, said an estimated 142 people were arrested on Tuesday, with more actions scheduled to take place this week ahead of the planned judicial review into the ban on Palestine Action on 24 November.

In Scotland, meanwhile, police made no arrests at a protest involving 49 people standing outside the government's Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh. The Scottish Police Force declined to make arrests at four similar actions this year.

In May, Scotland's Counter-Terrorism Board said that Palestine Action "has not been close to meeting the statutory definition of terrorism". A legal challenge to the proscription is ongoing in the Scottish Courts.

While in Northern Ireland, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) did not arrest participants at a similar sign-holding protest in the city of Derry. A planned protest in Belfast on 22 November will be the first held in the city.

Read more: England and Wales arrest dozens of Palestine Action supporters

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have reacted with scepticism to the UN resolution authorising foreign governance and forces in the war-torn territory.

After more than two years of Israeli genocide, most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are internally displaced and lack access to basic necessities such as food, shelter, electricity and medical services.

Many had hoped the UN would help alleviate the devastating humanitarian crisis in the enclave.

However, the passing of the US-drafted UN Security Council resolution on Monday showed that the humanitarian needs of the population are still not the top priority, said resident Abu Malek Jerjawi.

“The Security Council should have prioritised reconstruction and the urgent expansion of humanitarian relief,” Jerjawi told Middle East Eye.

“More than one million people need shelter, and even the most basic supplies are still being blocked by Israel,” he added.

Even worse, he said, the “deeply disappointing” resolution now “makes improving the humanitarian situation conditional on political requirements”.

Read more: Gaza’s Palestinians sceptical after UN resolution ‘ignored humanitarian needs’

The Israeli parliament's National Security Committee on Wednesday debated a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of terrorism, with "lethal injection" proposed as the method.

The bill, initiated by MK Limor Son Har Melech of the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, passed its first reading last week, and the National Security Committee is now preparing it for its second and third readings before it can become a law in Israel.

On Tuesday, the committee chair, MK Tzvika Foghel - also from the Otzma Yehudit party - published the guiding principles of the proposed law.

After the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023, Foghel wrote: "The people of Israel understand very well that nothing is more just and fitting than the death penalty for terrorists.

"Besides being just, the death penalty will ensure that there are no more bargaining chips and no more deals paid for with future Jewish blood," he wrote.

Read more: Israeli MPs debate 'lethal injection' death penalty for Palestinian prisoners

The death toll in Gaza since Israel's genocide began in October 2023 has risen to 69,513, the Palestinian health ministry said.

The number of Palestinians wounded by Israeli forces during that time has risen to 170,745. 

Hospitals in Gaza received seven bodies over the past 48 hours, including two victims who were recovered from beneath the rubble, in addition to 33 wounded people.

Since the ceasefire agreement came into effect on 11 October, at least 280 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and 672 others wounded. A further 571 bodies have been recovered during that period.

Israel's military has told Lebanese residents of specific buildings in the villages of Deir Kifa and Chehour in south Lebanon to leave their homes ahead of what it said were imminent attacks.

An Israeli attack has killed a Palestinian in Qizan an-Najjar neighbourhood in southern Khan Younis, according to Al Jazeera, citing Nasser Hospital.

An earlier Israeli attack today injured a woman and a child in Bani Suheila.

An Israeli air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon killed at least 13 people on Tuesday, according to the health ministry.

The attack targeted an area near a mosque and a football pitch in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the city of Sidon, which was packed with civilians.

Local media reported that dozens were wounded in the strike.

Ain al-Hilweh is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. It houses a population of nearly 80,000 people who live in an area of just 1.5 sq km. 

The Israeli military said the strike targeted a Hamas “military compound” allegedly used for training.

Read more: Israel kills 13 in strike on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

A group of Israeli settlers entered the town of Deir Ballut, near Salfit, in the occupied West Bank, and assaulted Palestinian olive farmers, Wafa news agency is reporting.

The settlers also stole money from the farmers and destroyed their agricultural equipment, the report said.

In a separate incident, the settlers also attacked and vandalised a Palestinian man’s vehicle in the village of Taybeh, northeast of Ramallah.