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Israeli forces killed a woman in al-Atrara, northwest of Gaza City, on Friday morning, Wafa news agency reported.
According to Wafa, Maysaa Jaber al-Attar was struck by gunfire from an Israeli drone.
The reported added that the Israeli military has killed over 260 Palestinians since the ceasefire agreement in October.
Heavy rain flooded the tents of displaced Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, as forecast thunderstorms threaten “catastrophic consequences” for nearly two million people without shelter.
Thousands of families in makeshift displacement camps woke up to find their tents flooded in the early hours of Friday, according to local media.
The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza has warned residents, especially the displaced, to take necessary precautions against potential destruction from the storm.
The Palestinian Meteorological Department issued warnings of flash floods in low-lying areas and valleys across the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, with strong winds, heavy rain, and thunderstorms expected over the coming days.
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The Israeli army said on Friday it had killed a Palestinian man after he crossed the so-called “Yellow Line” in southern Gaza - an area that Israel designates as under its control - and moved towards Israeli soldiers.
Several Palestinian farmers in the village of al-Rashayida, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, suffered tear-gas inhalation after Israeli forces attacked them while they were ploughing their land, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The head of the village council told Wafa that Israeli forces have been targeting farmers in the Wadi Ayash area for a third consecutive day.
Soldiers reportedly fired live rounds, tear gas and stun grenades at Palestinians working their fields, leaving a number of them struggling to breathe.
Israel has transferred the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza, officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said on Friday, a day after the remains of Israeli captive Meny Godard were returned.
Under the terms of the current ceasefire’s first phase, Israel has been returning the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every hostage repatriated. According to the Palestinian health ministry, 330 Palestinian bodies have so far been received, though only 95 have been formally identified.
Health officials say the identification process is being slowed by the severe shortage of DNA testing kits in Gaza, making it difficult to verify many of the remains handed over by Israel.
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has declared on Friday that the permanent displacement of Palestinian populations within the occupied territories constitutes a war crime.
The office stated that Israel’s claim of sovereignty over the occupied West Bank and its annexation of parts of the territory violates international law.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called for an immediate end to attacks on Palestinians and their property, urging that those responsible be held accountable. He also stressed that Israel must end its illegal presence in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Russia on Thursday proposed its own draft UN Security Council resolution on Gaza, directly challenging a US effort to push through a text endorsing President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, according to a copy of the draft seen by Reuters.
The US circulated its resolution to all 15 council members last week, claiming regional support for a plan that would authorize a two-year mandate for a transitional governance body and an international stabilisation force.
In contrast, Russia’s draft calls on the UN secretary-general to explore options for an international stabilization force in Gaza but makes no mention of the “Board of Peace,” the transitional administration proposed by Washington.
“The objective of our draft is to enable the Security Council to develop a balanced, acceptable, and unified approach toward achieving a sustainable cessation of hostilities,” Russia said in a note accompanying its draft.
The Gaza Civil Defence on Friday urged displaced people in tents and shelters across the territory to take necessary precautions to avoid damage from a severe weather system, after rain flooded tents overnight.
Authorities called upon Palestinians to cooperate and support one another, stressing the importance of securing tents and placing sandbags around them where possible to prevent flooding.
The Israeli army on Friday declared the northern West Bank village of Burin a closed military zone just hours before hundreds of Israeli activists were due to take part in the annual olive harvest there.
According to the Israeli news outlet Haaretz, police reportedly stopped several buses carrying the activists to the village.
Lawmaker Gilad Kariv, who was present on the scene, said the officers had not presented the activists with the required order from the Israeli army's central command.
Israeli forces raided the southern area of Hebron, deploying military vehicles across several neighbourhoods and streets.
During the operation, they converted a house in the Wadi al-Hossein area into a military post, forcing its residents to leave their home into the open, despite heavy rain.
Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes on Friday inside the “Yellow Line” in the southeastern area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera.
Meanwhile, Israeli artillery shelled areas inside the “Yellow Line” east of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
Good morning Middle East Eye readers,
Here are the latest updates in Gaza and the occupied West Bank:
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Three Palestinians were wounded by live Israeli gunfire early on Friday during an Israeli army raid on the town of al-Eizariya, southeast of occupied Jerusalem.
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UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has warned that millions of Palestinian refugees are at risk of losing access to essential services unless the agency receives substantial new funding.
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The mayor of Khan Younis has warned that Gaza has been subjected to what he described as deliberate and systematic destruction, saying that “everything has been destroyed” — including the territory’s natural environment, with an estimated 90 percent of its vegetation wiped out.
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Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on the eastern areas of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Israeli forces deployed stun grenades while carrying out a raid in the Old City and surrounding areas in central Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
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Here are the day’s key developments:
- Two Palestinian boys have been shot dead by Israeli forces in Beit Amr, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Local media have identified them as Mohammed Abu Ayyash and Bilal Baha’a Bouran.
- Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque near the occupied West Bank city of Salfit on Thursday, in the latest attack amid a wave of escalating violence against Palestinians.
- The Israeli army carried out a drone strike targeting a minivan in Toul, a village in the Nabatieh district in Lebanon, wounding one person and leaving unexploded ordnance around the area. Overnight, Israeli forces struck a restaurant in the town of Tayr Filsey in the Sour district, along the Litani River.
- Israel has confirmed receipt of a casket from Gaza that belongs to a deceased Israeli captive. The casket was delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that although he appreciated US President Donald Trump’s letter to President Isaac Herzog urging a pardon, he would not accept it if it required admitting guilt in the corruption case against him.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called for the United Nations to impose "appropriate measures" against the US and Israel over military strikes in June against Iran's nuclear sites.
Araghchi said that President Donald Trump and other US officials bear "criminal responsibility" for the strikes after Trump's statement last week that he directed Israel's initial attack on Iran on 13 June.
In a letter on Wednesday to UN secretary general Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council, Araghchi said Israel and the US must be subject to reparations, including restitution and compensation for the damage caused in Iran.
Spokespersons for the US mission to the UN and for Guterres' office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Trump told reporters on 6 November that he was "very much in charge" of Israel's initial strike on Iran.
- Reporting by Reuters
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio became one of the few in the Trump administration to criticise Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank after reiterating the Israeli president's and senior military officials' condemnation of recent settler attacks.
Speaking from Hamilton International Airport in Canada on Wednesday after a G7 foreign ministers meeting, Rubio told reporters that he “thought today the comments were very strong by the president of Israel and also by the IDF commander in the area”, referring to an Israeli army official.
Rubio was referring to Israeli officials' condemnation of an arson attack by dozens of masked Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank villages of Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf on Tuesday. The settlers then went on to attack the Israeli military and the police, who were sent in to stop the violence.
