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Unicef said on Tuesday that Israel is blocking essential items, including 1.6 million syringes and solar-powered fridges used to store vaccine vials, from entering Gaza.

The warning comes as Unicef works to carry out a mass child vaccination campaign under the fragile ceasefire, which Israel has violated 282 times since October.

The syringes, along with bottles for baby formula, have been awaiting customs clearance since August, leaving thousands of children at risk as health services in the besieged Strip remain shattered after two years of Israel’s genocide.

Israel demolished more than ten shops in the Palestinian town of Laqiya in Negev on Tuesday morning, drawing outrage from residents and business owners.

The move comes amid a broader military campaign targeting several Palestinian communities in southern Israel, with Israel imposing restrictive policies while offering no planning framework that would allow stable economic activity.

Shop owners said the demolished businesses supported dozens of families and that no alternatives or licensing options were provided. On the same day, the Israeli military issued demolition orders for seven agricultural structures west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. 

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Tuesday, with the focus set on pushing the Gaza ceasefire agreement towards full implementation.

Abbas, who is considered the architect of diplomatic ties with Israel, has been the president of the Palestinian Authority for nearly two decades. The PA, which exercises only limited control over parts of the West Bank, is now being floated by western leaders as a possible governing authority in Gaza under the ceasefire deal.

The meeting follows France’s decision in September to recognise a Palestinian state at a United Nations summit.

El Al Israel Airlines reported an 8 percent rise in quarterly profit, benefiting from foreign airlines halting flights to Israel during its genocide in Gaza, according to Reuters.

Some international carriers resumed flights in August, while others announced they would restart flights after the US-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in October.

Israel is operating “an organised and systematic practice of sexual torture” against Palestinian prisoners from Gaza in its custody, according to a new report by a leading rights organisation.

Researchers and lawyers at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) interviewed men and women from the Gaza Strip who had been released from Israeli detention. The detainees gave accounts of rape, forced stripping, filming of abuse, sexual assault using objects and dogs and psychological humiliation.

“I wished for death every moment,” said a 42-year-old mother who was detained while crossing an Israeli checkpoint in northern Gaza in November 2024.

She told the PCHR she endured repeated rapes and physical abuse that continued for days.

The former prisoner described being stripped, electrocuted, beaten and filmed while naked.

Read more: Report accuses Israel of 'systematic' torture of Palestinian prisoners

Israel’s fiscal deficit continued to rise in October, reaching 4.9 percent of GDP amid a sharp decline in public revenues, according to a report published by the Israeli newspaper Calcalist. 

The report said that the total deficit reached about $31.3bn during the past 12 months, reflecting the widening gap between government spending and revenues.

Israel has an annual deficit of nearly 5.1 percent of GDP, the report says, quoting estimates from the Bank of Israel. 

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza on Tuesday said that 6,000 amputation cases registered in the Ministry of Health require urgent rehabilitation. 

The ministry, in a statement, said that children make up 25 percent of the total number of amputation cases, while women account for 12.7 percent.

"The shortage of medical resources and assistive devices is worsening the suffering of the wounded who have lost limbs," the statement said. 

The ministry urged international organisations to make urgent interventions to meet the needs of the wounded, amid a deepening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza health ministry on Tuesday said that in the past 24 hours, Israeli forces killed three Palestinians across the enclave, and one person was wounded due to Israeli aggression. 

"The overall toll of the Israeli aggression has risen to 69,182 martyrs and 170,694 injuries since 7 October 2023," the statement said. 

Since the beginning of the ceasefire, Israeli forces have killed at least 245 Palestinians, while 623 others have been wounded, the ministry said, adding that its teams have so far recovered 529 bodies from under the rubble. 

The statement said that many victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defence crews have been unable to reach them so far.

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

Murad said that this has "led to an increase in cases of hepatitis C, with more than 70,000 cases recorded" since the start of the genocide in 2023.

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.

Citing satellite data, the UN secretary general’s deputy spokesperson confirmed that 81 percent of the enclave’s structures have suffered destruction, underscoring the catastrophic scale of Israel’s assault on the enclave, which has been recognised as a genocide by the UN.

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

Israeli prosecutors on Monday petitioned the court to confiscate 50 vessels that attempted to breach Israel’s illegal naval blockade of Gaza, which led to mass starvation in the enclave, local media reported. 

The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail in August and included dozens of vessels and hundreds of activists from multiple countries. Israel’s navy intercepted the flotilla in early October, detaining more than 400 activists, parliamentarians and lawyers.

Activists on the flotilla said that they had suffered mistreatment and violation of their rights by Israeli authorities. 

Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir handed out sweets in parliament on Monday after a bill allowing death penalty for Palestinian prisoners passed its first reading. 

The bill was approved by a majority of 39 out of 120 Knesset members, with 16 voting against in Israel's parliament.

It would allow judges to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis on so-called “nationalistic” grounds.

The legislation would not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.

The bill now requires two more readings in the Knesset before it can become an official law.  

Hamas called the legislation "fascist and sadistic" and called for global action against Israel, including "deterrent sanctions."

The Islamic Jihad said the bill's passing was "a dangerous criminal escalation".

Read more: Israel's Ben Gvir hands out sweets after death penalty bill for Palestinians advances

Israeli warplanes on Tuesday conducted two air strikes east of Khan Younis city in Gaza, local media reported. 

The Gaza media office on Monday said Israel has so far violated the 10 October ceasefire deal 282 times, during which it has killed 242 Palestinians, and wounded 620.

Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet detained a 27-year-old man in Tel Aviv on Monday on suspicion of collaborating with Iran's intelligence services, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. 

The report said that the Tel Aviv resident allegedly spied for Iran in exchange for cryptocurrency payments to "film various public locations".

Israeli police said an investigation into the man's laptop revealed that he was in touch with Iranian operatives via social media. 

A UK embassy worker in Tel Aviv owns property in a settlement built by an organisation sanctioned by Britain, news organisation The National News reported. 

Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips, a long-time employee of the UK’s embassy in Tel Aviv, has owned a property in Kerem, official records show.

The settlement in the occupied West Bank, where Phillips owns property since 2022, is considered illegal under international law. 

The report said that the settlement is a project of Amana, a settler organisation that the UK placed under sanctions in 2024.

The United States is planning to establish a military base in Gaza, news organisation Yedioth Ahronoth reported, citing an Israeli source. 

The news comes as the Turkish government is finalising plans that would result in the deployment of hundreds of soldiers to Gaza as part of an international peacekeeping force, as negotiations with the US and Israel continue on the issue. 

Sources familiar with the matter told MEE that a peacekeeping brigade, estimated to include at least 2,000 soldiers, has been drafting personnel from across the country in recent weeks.

The contingent, which would join the international stabilisation force in Gaza alongside other partner countries, is set to be made up of soldiers from multiple army branches with prior peacekeeping and conflict-zone experience.

The Gaza peace plan, brokered by US President Donald Trump, envisions Turkey as one of the lead countries to take over large swathes of territory in the Palestinian enclave from Hamas.