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

There's a desperate need for a moral reckoning among the global Jewish population after more than two years of Israeli-inflicted horrors in Gaza.

From the mass starvation of Palestinians to AI- and cloud-enabled killing, Jewish complicity, both in Israel and across the Diaspora, has been a profound moral failure.

I write this as a Jew who has spent decades opposing Israel's suffocating hold on the Jewish Diaspora, and as a man whose family was murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

Since 7 October 2023, we have witnessed a genocide on our watch, as Jews and as citizens.

Now is the time for accountability - including international war crimes trials - not only for those who actively participated in it, but for Jews who wholly embraced the carnage from London to Sydney out of racism, fear, revenge or sheer bloodlust.

Jewish communities must confront their complicity in Israel's genocide Opinion by Antony Loewenstein

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Thursday that two Palestinians were killed and five others were wounded in the enclave in the past 24 hours. 

The ministry said that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli aggression since October 2023 has risen to 69,187, and 170,703 others have been wounded. 

Israeli forces arrested more than 40 Palestinians on Thursday in an ongoing, large-scale arrest campaign in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said.

The Israeli army also destroyed a commercial facility in the town of Arraba, southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

Turkish authorities transferred three wounded Palestinians out of Gaza on Thursday, sources familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye contributor Levent Kemal.

The Turkish foreign ministry facilitated the evacuation, according to the sources.

Since November 2023, Turkey has regularly evacuated sick or wounded Palestinians from Gaza, initially focusing on cancer patients receiving treatment at the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza.

The Turkish foreign ministry and Turkish health ministry have coordinated a total of 19 medical evacuation operations, bringing 449 patients and injured individuals, along with 488 accompanying persons, from Gaza to Turkey since 2023.

Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir on Thursday condemned the violence by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and said the military “will not tolerate criminal behaviour by a small minority that tarnishes the law-abiding public”.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog also condemned the raids, calling on authorities to “act decisively to eradicate the phenomenon”.

The comments come as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that settler violence in the West Bank could have direct implications on the truce in Gaza. 

Israeli settlers have been shooting at foreign solidarity activists and Palestinian farmers, and setting fire to olive trees across the West Bank. 

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that settler violence in the occupied West Bank could have direct implications on the truce in Gaza. 

“There is certainly some concern that events in the West Bank could have repercussions that could undermine what we are doing in Gaza,” Rubio told reporters.

“We don’t expect that to happen, and we will do everything we can to ensure that it doesn’t,” he said. 

Rubio's comments come as illegal Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the village of Deir Istiya in the northern West Bank, and used bulldozers to establish and expand a new settlement outpost on Jabal al-Najma in Qaryut. 

Israeli settlers have been shooting at foreign solidarity activists and Palestinian farmers, and setting fire to olive trees across the West Bank. 

The Palestinian Authority’s Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) said that since the harvest began in the first week of October, there have been at least 158 attacks across the West Bank.

More than 15,000 trees have been attacked since October 2024, the CWRC said. 

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, has condemned the alarming surge in Israeli settler attacks targeting Palestinian olive farmers across the West Bank.

“October 2025 is on track to be the most violent month since Unrwa began tracking settler violence in 2013,” the agency said in a statement.

The Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs said it has recorded 27 Israeli settler intrusions into Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the last month.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday said that Israel is not a client state of the US and demanded the immediate publication of all commitments that were made "behind the backs of Israeli citizens," local media have reported.  

Times of Israel reported that Bennett criticised the ceasefire arrangements in Gaza, referring to them as “Oslo on steroids”. 

“How did we get to a situation in which our troops need to OK Israeli movements with the American command in Kiryat Gat?” Bennett said in a statement. 

“Transferring control over our fate to Qatar, which funds Hamas, is Oslo on steroids,” he added. 

Bennett, who briefly replaced Netanyahu in 2021, is widely viewed as his strongest rival in next year’s elections.

Throughout most of his political career, Bennett was a right-wing ally of Netanyahu and a vocal critic of the Oslo Accords, which created the Palestinian Authority and granted it limited self-rule in parts of the West Bank.

Mayor of Khan Younis, Alaa Al Din Al Batta, on Thursday said that everything in Gaza, including the vegetation, has been destroyed by Israel in a deliberate and systematic manner, Al Jazeera reported. 

"Access to landfills is difficult due to the destruction. More than 90 percent of the vegetation cover in the Gaza Strip has been destroyed," he said. 

"We are facing a real catastrophe that will result in the spread of diseases and epidemics," he added. 

On Tuesday, Bashar Murad, the director of health programmes at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, said that 80 percent of the water in the Gaza Strip is completely contaminated. 

On 3 November, the United Nations said more than 81 percent of all buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by Israel’s relentless bombardment.

Entire neighbourhoods across Gaza have been reduced to rubble, leaving families displaced and essential infrastructure obliterated.

The family of British journalist Sami Hamdi on Thursday said that he had boarded a flight home to the UK after being detained by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) authorities while on a tour in the US. 

Hamdi was detained at San Francisco International Airport during a speaking tour in the US.

Hamdi had spoken at a Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) gala in Sacramento, where he condemned Israel's genocide in Gaza. He was scheduled to speak at another Cair event in Florida. 

He arrived in the US on 19 October on a valid visitor visa, but his visa was revoked on 24 October without his knowledge, according to Zahraa Billo, executive director for the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair-SFBA).

He has not been charged with any criminal conduct or charged on the grounds of national security despite allegations by the Department of Homeland Security on X that he supports terrorism and actively undermines the “safety of Americans”.

Cair-California CEO Hussam Ayloush also said that Sam was being penalised for speaking out about Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians and should never have spent a single night in an Ice cell.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said that he was optimistic that the UN Security Council would pass a resolution on Gaza supporting the deployment of an international stability force, Anadolu news agency reported. 

"We are making good progress in drafting the resolution, and we hope to take action on it very soon," Rubio told reporters after the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Canada. 

"Deploying an international force in the Palestinian territory is crucial to allowing more aid to enter and to marginalise Hamas," he added. 

The Israeli military on Thursday said it carried out air strikes in southern Lebanon on what it described as a "weapons storage facility and underground infrastructure used by Hezbollah". 

Lebanon and Israel are still technically in a state of war, but all the recent armed conflicts with Israel were fought by Hezbollah, not the Lebanese military.

The only diplomatic contact between Israel and Lebanon is through a ceasefire monitoring mechanism, which includes the United States, France and the United Nations.

Despite a ceasefire that came into force in November last year, Israel continues to carry out near-daily strikes in southern Lebanon.  

On 30 October, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun instructed the commander of the army to "confront any Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon", after Israeli forces crossed the border, entered a municipal building in the southern town of Blida and killed an employee. 

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the incident, calling it “a blatant attack on the institutions and sovereignty of the Lebanese state”.

Illegal Israeli settlers on Thursday set fire to a mosque in the village of Deir Istiya in the northern West Bank, Palestinian media reported. 

The fire caused damage inside the building and Hebrew graffiti was sprayed on the walls.

Some of the graffiti reads, “We’re not afraid of Avi Blot,” who heads the Israeli forces' central command, and “Muhammad is a pig.”

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— فلسطين أون لايـن (@F24online) November 13, 2025

The Israeli army on Thursday arrested more than 20 Palestinians in an ongoing large-scale arrest campaign in the city of Dura, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

Palestinian media have reported heavy firing in the vicinity of the Al-Shakoush area, northwest of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces on Thursday demolished buildings east of Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported. 

Al Jazeera Arabic reported that the forces also demolished buildings east of the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, as Israeli warplanes raided the eastern part of the city and military vehicles opened fire east of Khan Younis.

Palestinian media have reported that Israeli forces are firing heavily in the vicinity of the Al-Shakoush area, northwest of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

An Israeli air strike targeted the vicinity of Ahmed Al-Shuqairi School in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, the report said. 

Israeli forces on Thursday shot a child and a man in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the West Bank, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. 

The report said that the Israeli forces stormed Qabatiya in military vehicles and opened fire on Palestinians in the Cafes Street. 

The forces spread out in the town’s streets, and deployed snipers in the Cafes Street and the municipality roundabout area.