Live: Israeli soldiers kill unarmed Palestinians as they surrender in Jenin

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Here are the latest updates:

• The UN Security Council is set to vote Monday on a US-drafted resolution bolstering Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, especially the deployment of an international force.

•  Al Jazeera is reporting heavy gunfire from Israeli helicopters behind the yellow line east of Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip.

• Israeli military carried out six air strikes on the eastern areas of Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Information Centre.

• Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the amendments to the draft US resolution don't serve stability in the Gaza Strip, warning that the proposal effectively replaces Israeli occupation with a different form of international trusteeship.

• The government media office in Gaza said Israel continues its "starvation policy" by preventing the entry of basic food supplies and allowing the passage of luxury goods.

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Here are the day's key developments:

• Gaza's hospitals have received the bodies of 17 Palestinians in the last 72 hours, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources. It reported that two people had been killed in Israeli attacks, while rescue teams recovered 15 bodies from the rubble.

• This brings the overall number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023 to 69,483.

• Since the fragile ceasefire was implemented on 11 October 2025, 266 people have been killed in Israeli attacks, 635 wounded and 548 bodies recovered from the rubble.

• The World Health Organization has reported that over 900 patients in Gaza have died while waiting for medical evacuations, which have been stalled by Israeli restrictions.

• Gaza officials say Israel has torn through the so-called ceasefire with relentless attacks, killing hundreds of Palestinians in the month since the agreement was announced.

• Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during an overnight raid on the Askar refugee camp east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

• The Israeli army said that its soldiers fired at UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) peacekeepers from a tank in southern Lebanon due to "poor weather conditions", which meant they mistook the observers for "suspects".

• Israel’s prime minister has doubled down on rejecting Palestinian statehood, moving to calm a revolt inside his own far-right coalition after Washington backed a UN draft that gestures, however cautiously, towards Palestinian independence.

• Palestinian officials have told Haaretz that senior figures in Saudi Arabia have quietly told the Palestinian leadership in recent days that Riyadh will not push ahead with any normalisation process with Israel as long as Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government remains in charge.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to distance his government from the surging settler violence sweeping the occupied West Bank, insisting the attacks “do not represent the large community of settlers who are law-abiding and loyal to the state”, The Jerusalem Post reported.

He told ministers the escalating assaults were “caused by a minority”, even as documented attacks reach unprecedented levels.

The UN’s humanitarian office recorded more than 260 settler assaults in October alone, the highest monthly figure since it began tracking the pattern in 2006. Palestinians say the violence is part of a broader strategy to drive them from their land while Israel accelerates efforts to entrench its control.

Israel continues to push towards formal annexation of the occupied territory, a move that violates international law and further entrenches the system of apartheid and dispossession Palestinians face daily.

Gaza officials say Israel has torn through the so-called ceasefire with relentless attacks, killing hundreds of Palestinians in the month since the agreement was announced.

According to the Government Media Office, Israeli forces breached the ceasefire at least 282 times between 10 October and 10 November, carrying out air strikes, artillery fire, and direct shootings across the Strip.

The office reported that Israeli forces opened fire on civilians 88 times, stormed neighbourhoods beyond the “yellow line” 12 times, bombed Gaza 124 times, and levelled residential property on 52 occasions. It also said Israel detained 23 Palestinians from Gaza during the same period.

Despite the declared pause in the genocide, Israel has continued to block essential humanitarian aid, while destroying homes and infrastructure across the besieged territory, deepening an already catastrophic situation for civilians.

Israeli security forces shot dead a 15-year-old boy in the Far’a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian education officials confirmed.

The boy, identified as Jadallah Jihad Jumaa Jadallah, was a ninth-grade student at a Unrwa-run school in the camp, Wafa news agency reported.

According to local sources, Israeli troops invaded Far’a, shot Jadallah, and wounded two others. Ambulance crews were initially blocked from reaching him, and Israeli forces later labelled him a “terrorist” without providing any evidence.

Wafa added that Israeli forces are still holding the boy’s body, raising urgent concerns among families and human rights groups about ongoing abuses in the West Bank

New details from an Israeli cabinet meeting reveal deep uncertainty over Gaza’s future a day before the UN Security Council is set to vote on a draft plan for the besieged territory.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ministers he “did not know” how long the ceasefire would hold and stressed that Israel is “working to conclude Phase A” while awaiting the return of three bodies held by Hamas.

National Missions Minister Orit Strock reportedly pushed back, saying, “We did not go to war only to free hostages.” Netanyahu also noted that foreign forces remain “reluctant” to enter Gaza, signalling the difficulty of assembling the proposed stabilisation force.

Although the draft plan allows for up to 20,000 international troops, it is unclear which countries would participate. Israel has already ruled out Turkish involvement. When pressed on timing, Netanyahu said, “We cannot ignore our managing of a seven-front war … the amount of time left cannot be quantified.”

UN warns of mass displacement across West Bank as Israeli violence intensifies

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha0 says the occupied West Bank is experiencing its worst displacement crisis in decades, driven by Israel’s demolitions, military raids and unchecked settler violence.

• More than 1,500 Palestinians have been forced from their homes this year because Israel withholds building permits that Palestinians say are practically impossible to obtain. About 1,000 were expelled from Area C and another 500 from occupied East Jerusalem.

• Satellite analysis shows roughly 1,460 structures destroyed or damaged in Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps during repeated Israeli assaults.

• Settler attacks linked to the olive harvest have surged. Since 1 October, Ocha has recorded 167 violent incidents targeting 87 Palestinian communities, as armed settlers act with the protection of Israeli forces.

• Israeli troops killed four Palestinians, three of them childre, between 4 and 10 November in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Since January, Israeli forces have killed 45 Palestinian children, nearly a quarter of all Palestinians killed in the territory this year.

• Ocha says Israel’s prolonged military operations in Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem have triggered the largest and longest displacement crisis in the northern West Bank since 1967.

• Unrwa estimates that at least 31,919 Palestinian refugees have been driven from these camps and nearby neighbourhoods as Israeli forces continue large-scale incursions.

Three Palestinian teenagers released in a recent prisoner exchange were abducted by Israeli soldiers while seeking aid and tortured in custody, a new report has revealed.

In interviews conducted by the NGO Defense for Children Palestine (DCIP), Mohammad Nael Khamis al-Zoghbi, 17, Faris Ibrahim Faris Abu Jabal, 16, and Mahmoud Hani Mohammad al-Majayda, 17, described how they were abducted by Israeli forces near aid distribution points and transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp in southern Israel. 

They said they endured torture, beatings and starvation in Israeli custody. The trauma has left them unable to sleep, and they are plagued by night terrors and bed wetting.

One of the boys said he felt his detention had "stripped away his childhood".

Jabal, who was abducted along with his father while seeking aid near the Morag Corridor on 11 September, recalled being so badly beaten during his interrogation that his forehead “split open and required stitches”.

Read more: Freed Palestinian child prisoners recount torture in Israeli custody

Palestinian officials have told Haaretz that senior figures in Saudi Arabia have quietly told the Palestinian leadership in recent days that Riyadh will not push ahead with any normalisation process with Israel as long as Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government remains in charge.

Their comments came after US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was considering approving a deal to supply Saudi Arabia with F-35 stealth fighters. According to the Palestinian officials, such a weapons agreement is nowhere near enough for Riyadh to formalise ties with Israel, especially at a moment when Israel continues its assault on Gaza and openly rejects Palestinian statehood.

Israel’s opposition leader, Yair Lapid, weighed in on Sunday, insisting that advanced fighter jets had never featured in earlier discussions on a potential Saudi-Israeli agreement. “Having taken part in dozens of discussions on a normalisation arrangement with Saudi Arabia, the F-35 deal was never part of any such agreement, because it was clear that Israel's security requires preserving its qualitative military edge,” he said.

Lapid urged lawmakers to block the move. “Israel cannot, due to the weakness of the current government, give up core security interests and allow the F-35 deal to go through.”

Israel’s prime minister has doubled down on rejecting Palestinian statehood, moving to calm a revolt inside his own far-right coalition after Washington backed a UN draft that gestures, however cautiously, towards Palestinian independence.

Benjamin Netanyahu issued the statement on Sunday, days after the United States joined several Muslim-majority countries in supporting a draft UN resolution aligned with President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan. Supporters say the proposal sketches a pathway, however limited, towards recognising Palestinian aspirations for self-determination.

The UN Security Council began negotiating the text on 7 November. The draft would enshrine Trump’s “Board of Peace” scheme, a transitional authority meant to oversee post-war reconstruction and economic recovery in Gaza, even as the enclave remains under devastating Israeli siege.

Trump’s 20-point outline includes a conditional reference to Palestinian statehood, noting that if the Palestinian Authority enacted reforms, “the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognise as the aspiration of the Palestinian people”.

That single line enraged Israel’s ultra-nationalist ministers, many of whom opposed the Trump-brokered ceasefire that paused the genocide in October.

The clause triggered a familiar crisis inside Netanyahu’s coalition, where far-right leaders Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich demanded an immediate public rejection of any talk of a Palestinian state. Ben-Gvir even threatened to collapse the government unless Netanyahu complied.

Netanyahu responded on Sunday with a blunt declaration meant to reassure his hardline allies. “Our opposition to a Palestinian state in any territory has not changed. Gaza will be demilitarised and Hamas will be disarmed, the easy way or the hard way. I do not need affirmations, tweets or lectures from anyone,” he said.

A far-right pullout would topple Netanyahu’s fragile governing bloc long before the next scheduled election in October 2026.

A ceasefire was supposed to ease Gaza’s chokehold and allow desperately needed supplies to move in. But Unrwa says Israel continues to hold back convoys, particularly those linked to the agency, prolonging the humanitarian crisis.

Tamara Alrifai, Unrwa’s director of communications, said the agency still faces sweeping restrictions despite its central role in the enclave. “Unrwa is under double the amount of scrutiny and restrictions than other agencies despite being the largest agency there,” she said, noting that stockpiles in Egypt and Jordan could immediately fill 6,000 lorries if Israel allowed them through.

Bottlenecks at the few crossings that remain open have left long lines of aid trucks idling for days, she added, as Israeli inspections drag on.

Alrifai said Israeli authorities continue to block basic goods by branding them as “dual use” items, an approach aid groups say has no connection to civilian needs but everything to do with deepening the siege. “Israel, during the inspection and the scrutiny, would take out many items that are extremely needed, especially in this winter situation,” she said

Palestinian Civil Defence crews say they rushed to flooded encampments south of Khan Younis as heavy rain swept through Gaza’s makeshift settlements, overwhelming tents that offer little protection after months of bombardment.

“Our teams evacuated several displaced families after their tents were also flooded,” the Civil Defence said, describing scenes of people wading through mud with what little they still own.

The agency said its responders “provided assistance to a number of displaced families whose tents were flooded in the vicinity of Bir 22 and helped them resecure the damaged tent pegs”, after severe weather tore through the area.

Winter has now settled over a devastated enclave where tens of thousands live under plastic sheets because Israeli attacks have wiped out entire neighbourhoods.

Cold winds and driving rain have turned crowded campgrounds into sodden, unsafe spaces, piling fresh hardship on families already pushed to the brink by Israel’s genocide.

Thousands marched in support of Palestine in the Spanish city of Bilbao as Palestinian footballers played their first European match against the Basque Country team.

The Basque Country team beat the Palestine team 3-0 in the friendly match, which was marked by shows of solidarity between both teams.

Palestinians and the Basque have long shared political sympathies, with both involved in nationalist struggles for independence.

The two teams celebrated side by side, arms around each other, on the San Mames pitch in front of more than 50,000 spectators.

"It's difficult to coach when your mother lives in a makeshift tent. I come from Gaza," Palestinian coach Ehab Abu Jazar told AFP.

"We lost nearly 200 people in my family. My house was destroyed - but representing Palestine is the greatest honour there is."

Read more: Football fans in Bilbao march in support as Palestine plays first European match

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man after they opened fire on civilians in Gaza City's Tuffah neighbourhood, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing a source at al-Ahli hospital.

According to the report, the attack occurred behind the so-called "Yellow Line".

We reported earlier that three other Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza City and Khan Younis.

The Israeli army said that its soldiers fired at UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) peacekeepers from a tank in southern Lebanon due to "poor weather conditions", which meant they mistook the observers for "suspects".

Unifil said that Israeli soldiers fired at its observers "from a Merkava tank from near a position Israel has established in Lebanese territory”.

The military said in a statement that “two suspects were identified in the Hammis area in southern Lebanon”, “the forces fired shots to disperse them and the suspects fled, without any casualties”.

“After an investigation, it emerged that the suspects were UN soldiers who were patrolling the area and were classified as suspects due to poor weather conditions. The incident is being investigated," it added.