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

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) has said that the Israeli military fired at its observers "from a Merkava tank from near a position Israel has established in Lebanese territory”.

In a statement, Unifil reported that machine gun fire “hit approximately 5m from the peacekeepers, who were on foot and had to take shelter in the terrain”.

“Peacekeepers asked for the [Israeli forces] to stop firing through Unifil's liaison channels. They were able to leave safely 30 minutes later, when the Merkava tank withdrew inside the [Israeli military] position."

Unifil said the shooting "represents a serious violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701", which formed the basis of last November's truce between Israel and Hezbollah.

The Israeli military has yet to comment on the attack.

This is not the first time the peacekeeping force has been targeted by Israeli fire. In September, Unifil reported that Israeli drones dropped four grenades, which landed within 20m of its personnel.

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.

Lebanon's government is set to complain to the UN over allegations that Israel is building a wall in occupied territory in the south.

On Friday, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said the Israeli army had built walls in south Lebanon near the UN-demarcated Blue Line.

Israel has denied the allegations, but on Sunday, President Joseph Aoun's office said he had instructed officials "to file an urgent complaint to the United Nations Security Council against Israel for constructing a concrete wall on Lebanon's southern border exceeding the Blue Line".

Unifil said last month that its peacekeepers had surveyed a concrete T-wall erected by the Israeli army southwest of Yaroun and found that it "crossed the Blue Line, rendering more than 4,000 square metres of Lebanese territory inaccessible to the Lebanese people".

An Israeli military spokesperson told AFP that since the start of the war in Gaza, the Israeli army "has implemented a series of measures, including strengthening the physical barrier along the northern border".

Read more: Lebanon to complain to UN over Israel wall-building in south

Israeli settlers have stormed the village of al-Mughayyir, north east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank,  Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources.

The sources said that the settlers, under military escort, had raided agricultural land belonging to the community, which lies about 27km from Ramallah.

In a separate incident, Wafa reported that Israeli settlers stormed the town of Sinjil, damaging vehicles belonging to Palestinian residents.

South African activists have alleged that Israel is using a shadowy humanitarian group to force Palestinians out of Gaza, in what they decried as the latest form of ethnic cleansing to take place since October 2023.

On Thursday, a plane carrying 153 Palestinians from Gaza landed at South Africa's O.R. Tambo International Airport, but the plane was held on the tarmac for around 12 hours with passengers not allowed to disembark - triggering confusion and anger against local authorities.

Within hours, however, activists and South African authorities discovered several irregularities in the way the Palestinians' travel had been organised by a body called Al-Majd Europe.

Activists found that not only had the South African government been unaware of their arrival, but the evacuees themselves were not in possession of any documentation or paperwork to assist with their processing in the country.

The activists said that what was even more shocking, was that several Palestinians said they had embarked on the trip without fully knowing where they were going.

Read more: South African activists allege Israel used shadowy NGO to 'traffic' Palestinians from Gaza

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.

According to the agency, around 16,000 patients in the enclave are awaiting approval for evacuation, including some 4,000 children who are in urgent need of the life-saving transfers.

It warned that any further delay in handling these cases is tantamount to a death sentence.

It further noted that hospitals across Gaza are operating at less than half their capacity as they continue to grapple with shortages of fuel, medicine and medical equipment amid tight Israeli restrictions on the entry of these vital supplies into the territory.

WHO has conducted 119 medical evacuations of patients from the strip since May 2024, transferring 8,000 patients, including 5,500 children.

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 Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) told Al Jazeera that 19-year-old Hassan Sharkasi was shot in the abdomen. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him while transferring him to Rafidia hospital in Nablus, but he succumbed to his wounds and was pronounced dead on arrival.

Wafa news agency reported, also citing PRCS, that another young man was shot in the back during the raid and was transferred to the hospital for treatment.

The Israeli military issued a statement confirming that its soldiers had shot and killed a Palestinian man in what it described as an “offensive operation” in the Nablus area overnight. It claimed the victim “threw an explosive device at the force”.

Wafa also reported that Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a 26-year-old Palestinian man in another raid north east of Jerusalem. The PRCS said medics treated the man at the scene and transferred him to the hospital.

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Wafa news agency is reporting that rescue teams recovered the bodies of three Palestinians from a previous Israeli strike east of Khan Younis.

Local sources said the bodies were transferred to the Nasser Medical Complex.

Israeli air strikes continue to pound Khan Younis and Gaza City, with Al Jazeera reporting that three people have been killed in the attacks so far.

Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers have levelled buildings in the northern part of Rafah.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers.

Here are the latest updates:

• Israeli bombardment is pummelling areas inside the so-called "Yellow Line" in Gaza, including air strikes on Khan Younis and Gaza City. Three Palestinians have been killed in Khan Younis so far.

• Meanwhile, Israeli forces continue to conduct deadly raids and demolitions across the occupied West Bank, with a young Palestinian man killed by Israeli fire during a raid on the Askar refugee camp east of Nablus. In the northern Jordan Valley, Israeli military bulldozers levelled a residential structure and two livestock sheds in al-Maleh area.

• A strict curfew imposed by the Israeli military on Palestinian residents of the Old City of Hebron has entered a second day. All checkpoints to the area are shut, barring residents from returning home. Military units are tightly controlling the movements of Palestinians across the city.

• This was to allow for illegal Israeli settlers to mark a Jewish holiday, which they did by storming the Ibrahimi Mosque and parading through the streets under military escort.

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• Gaza's health ministry confirmed in a statement on Telegram that Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Friday via the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has urged the entry of sheltering materials into Gaza as heavy rains engulfed tents of displaced people across the enclave.

• Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry has issued a statement expressing "strong condemnation and denunciation" of attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank.

• A chartered flight carrying over 150 Palestinians from Gaza to South Africa was facilitated by a controversial agency in close collaboration with the Israeli military, Al Jazeera is reporting. The evacuees arrived in Johannesburg on Thursday without proper documentation or coordination.

• Israeli forces have continued to detonate buildings in Rafah, even as the truce with Hamas remains in place, with fresh blasts reported across the southern edge of the Gaza Strip.

• Lebanon says it will take Israel’s new border wall to the UN Security Council, after Beirut accused Israeli forces of pushing a concrete barrier into Lebanese land and slicing across the UN-mandated “Blue Line”.

• The UN Security Council is expected to vote on Monday on a US-backed plan to authorise an international military force in Gaza, even as Russia, China and several Arab states push back against the proposal.

• EU foreign ministers are set to meet next week to examine a proposal for the bloc to take charge of training 3,000 Palestinian police officers, a plan that would eventually place the force inside Gaza, according to a new report.

A former UN special rapporteur who documented Israeli violations against Palestinians says Canadian authorities interrogated him on “national security” grounds as he arrived in the country for a Gaza-focused event.

Richard Falk, a US-based international law scholar, told Al Jazeera he was questioned at Toronto Pearson international airport on Thursday alongside his wife, fellow legal expert Hilal Elver.

“A security person came and said, ‘We’ve detained you both because we’re concerned that you pose a national security threat to Canada,’” Falk, 95, said in an interview from Ottawa. “It was my first experience of this sort – ever – in my life.”

The pair, both US citizens, were travelling to Ottawa to take part in the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility.

The forum gathered international human rights and legal specialists on Friday and Saturday to scrutinise Canada’s role in Israel’s two-year assault on the Gaza Strip, a campaign a UN inquiry and numerous rights groups have labelled a genocide

EU foreign ministers are set to meet next week to examine a proposal for the bloc to take charge of training 3,000 Palestinian police officers, a plan that would eventually place the force inside Gaza, according to a new report.

A paper circulated by the EU’s diplomatic service ahead of the 20 November meeting outlines ways the bloc could support the 20-point Gaza framework promoted by US President Donald Trump.

The document, seen by Reuters, says the EU’s policing mission could “take leadership in training the Palestinian police force in Gaza by providing direct training and support to approximately 3,000 Palestinian police officers [on the Palestinian Authority payroll] from Gaza, with a view to training the full 13,000 Palestinian police force”.

The paper also suggests expanding the EU’s border monitoring mission in Rafah to other crossing points, though it concedes that it is far from clear whether any of these steps can move forward — especially as Gaza remains under Israeli siege and bombardment, leaving the enclave without functioning institutions.

Meanwhile, Russia has tabled its own draft UN resolution on Gaza, openly challenging Washington’s push to secure Security Council backing for Trump’s plan.

Two of Israel’s most hardline ministers are pressuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to formally reject any prospect of a Palestinian state, doubling down on an openly annexationist agenda that has long fuelled Israel’s occupation.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who lives in an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, posted a message on X demanding Netanyahu clarify his stance. “Formulate immediately an appropriate and decisive response that will make clear to the entire world: a Palestinian state will never arise on the lands of our homeland,” he wrote.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir echoed the call, warning that his Jewish Power party would abandon the coalition if the government recognised a Palestinian state. Ben-Gvir instead pushed for “encouraging voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from Gaza, a phrase critics say is a thinly veiled endorsement of ethnic cleansing.

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

Wafa news agency reports that an armed group of Israeli settlers chased four Palestinians near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the latest in a string of attacks that have intensified under Israel’s watch.

According to the agency, the settlers pursued the Palestinians as they travelled in a vehicle outside Beitunia. The four have not been located, and their current whereabouts remain unknown.

Settler assaults have surged dramatically since 7 October 2023, with at least 7,154 recorded incidents during this period, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission, a level of violence Palestinians say Israel enables by refusing to restrain its settlers