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Jordan’s King Abdullah and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have reaffirmed their “zero-tolerance” stance on any attempt to push Palestinians out of Gaza, doubling down on a position both leaders say is non-negotiable.
Sharif hosted the Jordanian monarch in Islamabad for a two-day state visit, where the Gaza crisis dominated their talks. In a statement, Sharif’s office said, “On the issue of Palestine, both leaders acknowledged the unanimity of views and principled positions taken by Pakistan and Jordan regarding the post-war Gaza; zero-tolerance for any displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.”
The two leaders also agreed to step up coordination among the eight Arab-Islamic states engaged in discussions with the United States over a possible ceasefire plan, a framework that includes proposals for a new governing arrangement in Gaza and the reconstruction of the enclave, which Israel has largely destroyed through months of bombardment.
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
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a phone call on Saturday, with the two leaders discussing the Middle East, from Israel’s assault on Gaza to Iran’s nuclear programme and the situation in Syria. No further details were provided.
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.
The move comes as the first phase of the ceasefire reaches its final hours. What follows is far more complicated: establishing a governing authority for Gaza, deploying a foreign “stabilisation” force on the ground, and navigating the highly contentious demand for Hamas’s disarmament.
None of it is settled, and diplomats admit they have little clarity on how any of these steps will unfold.
For Palestinians who have survived months of devastation, the uncertainty carries a familiar fear, that Israel may resume the kind of large-scale assault that levelled neighbourhoods and wiped out families.
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 69,187 Palestinians, overwhelmingly women and children, since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
South Africa says it was blindsided when 153 Palestinians from Gaza landed in Johannesburg without any warning, prompting questions from President Cyril Ramaphosa and a scramble among officials to work out who authorised their travel.
Israeli authorities claimed the group had been cleared to leave only after an unnamed third country agreed to receive them. Shimi Zuaretz, a spokesperson for COGAT, the Israeli body that controls Palestinian civil affairs, told AFP they left Gaza “after COGAT received approval from a third country to receive them”. He refused to identify which state had issued the approval, deepening the confusion around the transfer.
When the passengers arrived on Thursday, South African border police kept them on the aircraft for 12 hours because their passports lacked Israeli departure stamps, a direct result of Israel’s restrictive and opaque exit procedures for Palestinians. They were finally allowed to enter the country after the NGO Gift of the Givers stepped in to secure temporary accommodation.
Gift of the Givers said it had no knowledge of who chartered the plane, nor the earlier flight that brought 176 Palestinians on 28 October. An Israeli official, speaking anonymously, told AFP that the organisation coordinating the evacuation had presented third-country visas to COGAT for all the travellers.
South Africa has taken a leading role in challenging Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. The government filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice in 2023, accusing it of carrying out mass atrocities in Gaza.
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.
The latest demolitions form part of what appears to be a steady Israeli push to level what is left of Gaza’s already shattered infrastructure. Using recent satellite imagery, multiple news outlets say the army has flattened at least 1,500 structures since the ceasefire took hold on 10 October.
The UN warned in July that nearly seven in ten buildings across Gaza had been damaged or wiped out, including more than 245,000 homes. With over 100 lorries hauling debris every day, UN engineers say the territory faces a rubble-clearing effort that could drag on for more than 15 years.
A Palestinian father has accused the British government of putting his family in Gaza "in constant danger" after it failed to evacuate them, despite promising to do so more than two months ago.
Lawyers representing the Palestinian man, who is in the UK and wishes to remain anonymous to protect his family, said his wife, three children and adopted nephew remain stranded in the Zawida area of Gaza after being displaced by Israeli bombardment.
The family lives in a flimsy tent with little access to food, clean water or medical care as they continue to wait for the British government to evacuate them.
"My family are in constant danger, and I worry about them every minute of every day," the man told Middle East Eye. "The UK government promised to help them but has now gone back on that promise for no good reason, while they continue to suffer.
"My children are so scared, they cannot sleep because of the constant hunger and fear that strikes will resume at any minute. I can't bear to be separated from my wife and children - if anything happens to them, my own life will not be worth living."
Read more: UK government faces legal challenge over broken promise to rescue family from Gaza
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”.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that President Joseph Aoun instructed officials to file the complaint, citing recent UN findings that the Israeli structure has sealed off roughly 4,000 square metres (about 43,000 square feet) of Lebanese territory, cutting residents off from their own land.
Israeli forces have closed the Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslim worshippers and imposed a curfew on Palestinians in the Old City of Hebron to allow illegal settlers to mark a Jewish holiday, Anadolu Agency is reporting, citing local activists.
The army imposed the curfew on Friday morning across multiple neighbourhoods in the city, Aref Jaber, a member of the non-governmental Hebron Defense Committee and a resident of the area, told Anadolu.
According to Jaber, Israeli forces shut checkpoints leading to the Old City, effectively preventing Palestinians from entering or leaving the area.
This barred many residents from returning to their homes and forced them to stay overnight elsewhere in Hebron, he said.
Jaber also reported that hundreds of illegal settlers entered the Old City on Friday night and Sunday morning, conducting what he described as “provocative” processions through the city streets under military escort.
He added that this comes amid Israeli attempts to convert the mosque into a synagogue.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged to get to the bottom of a "mysterious" plane carrying 153 Palestinians who he said had apparently been "flushed out" of Gaza by Israel.
The 153 men, women and children who arrived in Johannesburg on board a flight from Nairobi were detained by border police on their plane for more than 12 hours because their passports lacked an exit stamp from Israel.
The Department of Home Affairs eventually authorised the passengers' entry into South Africa that evening, after receiving assurances from NGO Gift of the Givers that they would be taken care of.
"These are residents of Gaza who, in a rather mysterious way, were put on a plane that transited through Nairobi and then landed here," Ramaphosa said on Friday.
He said while they would welcome the passengers "out of compassion", there would be an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the flight.
Read more: South Africa accepts plane of Palestinians 'flushed out' of Gaza
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.
The statement highlighted the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and an assault on the Hajjah Hamidah Mosque in the Palestinian village of Kifl Haris, near Salfit in the northern occupied West Bank.
On Thursday, Israeli settlers torched and spray-painted the mosque with racist graffiti, the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs reported in a statement, condemning it as a “heinous crime and a blatant assault on the feelings of Muslims”.
#Statement | The Foreign Ministry expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s strong condemnation and denunciation of the ongoing violations committed by the Israeli occupation authorities and extremist settlers against the Palestinian people, the latest of which is the storming of… pic.twitter.com/jDbh65vsOg
— Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦 (@KSAmofaEN) November 14, 2025
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
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.
“Winter has come to Gaza,” Unrwa said in a post on X.
“Winter rains in Gaza are making conditions even more desperate. Families taking shelter anywhere they can, including in makeshift tents," the post read.
It added that Unrwa has the necessary supplies waiting in warehouses outside Gaza. "Let us bring them in," the agency urged.
Israel had banned Unrwa, the UN's main humanitarian provider to Palestinians, from operating in the territory it controls last year, saying a number of its employees were members of Hamas.
The agency reported that, as of 25 October, Israel is continuing to block its staff and humanitarian aid from entering Gaza.
Despite this, the organisation reported that "around 12,000 of our staff continue to deliver healthcare, psychosocial support and education to the people, often under unimaginable conditions."
On 22 October, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel's ban on Unrwa and its restrictions on aid to Gaza and the occupied West Bank are inconsistent with international law.
Winter rains in #Gaza are making conditions even more desperate.
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) November 15, 2025
Families taking shelter anywhere they can, including in makeshift tents.
Shelter supplies are urgently needed. UNRWA has those supplies to help people get through winter.
Let us bring them in. pic.twitter.com/3hWTHsMF84
Israeli forces have detained 15 Palestinians in pre-dawn raids across the occupied West Bank governorates of Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, and al-Bireh, Wafa news agency is reporting.
Israeli soldiers rounded up seven Palestinians in Nablus, while they detained Mahmoud Abu Labdeh and his brother Ahmad, Tariq Shabita, Sameh Abu Ali, Muhammad Abu Halima, and Saeed Abu Salma from the Kafr Saba neighbourhood in Qalqilya.
In Ramallah and el-Bireh, former detainee Nadeem Barghouti was arrested from Beit Rima, and Khalil Nabil was detained in Abu Shukheidim.
