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Six Palestine Action defendants stood trial in the UK on Tuesday on alleged offences in connection with an action targeting a factory operated Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, in August 2024.

The defendants - Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31 - jointly face charges of aggravated burglary, criminal damage and violent disorder.

Corner is additionally charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

London's Woolwich Crown Court heard that the six defendants broke into premises owned by the arms firm in Filton, near Bristol, wearing red jumpsuits and carrying sledgehammers in the early hours of 6 August.

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The European Union wants to train up to 3,000 Palestinian police officers in the Gaza Strip under a scheme similar to one it already runs in the occupied West Bank, an EU official said on Wednesday.

There will be a "need to stabilise Gaza with an important police force" if the current ceasefire endures, said the official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.

The UN Security Council on Monday approved US President Donald Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza, which backs the creation of an international stabilisation force and also supports a possible "pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood" if certain targets are met.

Israeli forces detained three Palestinian fishermen near the ruins of Gaza’s devastated port on Wednesday, Wafa news agency reported.

The soldiers took the fishermen to an unknown location, the report said.

The Israeli army has imposed a naval blockade on Gaza since 2007, frequently arresting fishermen and destroying their boats. The ceasefire agreement that began on 10 October 2025 has not changed the situation.

We earlier reported that an Israeli strike hit a vehicle and a school bus this morning in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district.

According to the National News Agency (NNA), the air raid killed the vehicle's driver, Bilal Shaito, wounded several others and caused a fire.

Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed a total of 279 people and wounded 652 since the ceasefire came into effect on 10 October, according to the government media office in the Strip.

The office said Israel has carried out 393 attacks in this period, in violation of the ceasefire.

The Israeli Knesset's National Security Committee is set to hold a hearing on Wednesday regarding a bill that would impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners within 90 days, without the possibility of appeal, Haaretz reported.

According to far-right minister Itamar Ben Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party, which promoted the bill, the executions would be carried out on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis, including those who planned or were involved in alleged attacks.

The newly published details on the bill on Tuesday said the execution of the prisoners would be carried out through lethal injection by the Israel Prison Service.

The lawmakers approved the bill in the first of three required votes in the Knesset earlier this month.

The Israeli military has carried out several air strikes in parts of southern Gaza’s Rafah and Khan Younis following the strikes on Gaza City earlier today, Al Jazeera reported.

An Israeli drone attack in Bani Suheila, near Khan Younis, has wounded a woman and her child, according to a Nasser Hospital report, the network said.

Israeli forces welded shut the entrance to the home of slain Palestinian, Walid Sabarna, with a sheet of iron in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and prevented his family from entering the property on Saturday night, the Wafa news agency reported.

Sabarna was one of two Palestinians who were shot and killed on Tuesday evening near the Gush Etzion illegal settlement south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, following what Israel said was “a ramming and stabbing attack” that left one Israeli dead and three others wounded.

Earlier, Israeli soldiers had caused material damage to the house and assaulted family members after interrogating them, the report said.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the major developments from Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and its attacks on the wider region:

• The Israeli military carried out overnight raids near Jenin, Bethlehem, Tubas, and near Hebron, where it arrested more than 100 Palestinians during the raid on the town of Beit Ummar, according to the Palestinian Information Centre.

• Israeli forces shot and injured a 14-year-old boy during a raid in the town of al-Yamun in the occupied West Bank.

• Israeli strikes hit an area in eastern Gaza City despite the ongoing ceasefire.

• An Israeli drone targeted a car in the town of Al-Tiri, Lebanon, according to the National News Agency. The strike also hit a school bus passing behind the car and injured several students and the driver.

Israeli police arrested dozens of activists from NGO Standing Together and and human rights organisation Rabbis for Human Rights  on Tuesday.

The activists were on their way to join Palestinian olive harvesters near the village of Burin, in the West Bank.

Burin is an area that has been repeatedly attacked by Israeli settlers, and was declared a closed military zone on Friday, just before hundreds of Israeli activists were set to join a harvest.

"This is Ben-Gvir's police, this is the police of the occupation," Standing Together said. "They promote pogroms and violence; we promote a different path of peace."

The US cancelled meetings with Lebanese armed forces commander General Rudolf Haykal after it objected to  the army issuing a statement on Sunday that Israel had violated Lebanese sovereignty, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing Lebanese officials familiar with the matter said.

Haykal was due to arrive in Washington on Tuesday for meetings on "military assistance and border-security cooperation".

In the statement, the army accused Israel of "insisting on violating Lebanese sovereignty, causing instability and obstructing the army's deployment in the south".

Several Republican lawmakers had called for the cancellation of the meeting in recent days, including Lindsey Graham and Joni Ernst.

Israel struck the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the coastal city of Sidon in Lebanon, killing 13 people, according to Lebanese authorities.

Israel says it struck a Hamas facility.

Hamas refuted the claim. "The claims and allegations of the Zionist occupation army that the targeted location is a “training compound belonging to the movement” are pure fabrication and lies, aimed at justifying its criminal aggression," it said in a statement, published by Reuters.

Hamas says the strike targeted a sports field that camp residents use and that there are no military establishments in refugee camps in Lebanon.

Israel has repeatedly struck Lebanon and killed thousands of people since October 2023. Despite a ceasefire being in place since November 2024, it continues to strike Lebanon. 

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Tuesday that he wouldn't normalise relations with Israel until there was a "clear path" to Palestinian statehood.

"We want to be part of the Abraham Accords. But we want also to be sure that we secure a clear path of two-state solution," the Saudi prince told US President Donald Trump during their meeting in the Oval Office.

"We're going to work on that, to be sure that we can prepare the right situation as soon as possible," he added.

Pressed by Trump, who said that his guest had a "very good feeling" for the Abraham Accords, the prince said: "We want peace for the Israelis. We want peace for the Palestinians." 

"We want them to coexist peacefully in the region, and we will do our best to reach that date."

The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco in 2020 became the first Arab states to normalise relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords.

Students bid farewell to their school principal, Mohammad Shweikh, at his funeral on Tuesday after he was targeted and killed by Israel.

Israelis launched a drone strike on Shweikh's vehicle while he was inside it in the town of al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon on Sunday. 
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The Israeli army claimed that Shweikh was a "Hezbollah terrorist" without providing any evidence.⁠
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Israeli soldiers on Sunday also fired at a patrol of Unifil peacekeepers from inside Lebanese territory that it occupies. The soldiers⁠ blamed the incident on “poor weather conditions”, saying it did not deliberately fire at the troops.

Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and teargas on Palestinians in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, on Tuesday, Wafa news agency reported.

The soldiers initially raided the home of teenager Waleed Khalil Sabarneh, whom they killed earlier on Tuesday, damaging his family's furniture and belongings, confiscating their phones, and detaining his parents for interrogation. 

The soldiers then prevented worshippers from leaving the Beit Ummar Grand Mosque after the evening and night prayers.

After confrontations broke out between town dwellers and soldiers, Israeli soldiers unleashed the bullets, stun grenades and teargas on Palestinians.