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The civil defence agency in Gaza reported on Thursday that a Palestinian man was killed after a damaged building collapsed in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
The agency said that many people were trapped after a building collapsed on its residents. “There are still people trapped under the rubble,” said the civil defence.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said that tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in severely damaged and unsafe buildings.
The UN agency said that most of its facilities in Gaza City have “sustained heavy damage” from two years of Israeli attacks.
"Many other facilities that Palestinians are taking shelter in across the Strip are also severely damaged and unsafe,” Unrwa said.
“Returning families also face the risk of unexploded ordnance,” it warned.
Unrwa said on Tuesday that around 75,000 displaced people are sheltering in more than 100 agency buildings in Gaza, most of which are overcrowded.
The Israeli military said on Thursday that it had carried out an air strike near the southern towns of Toura and Aabbasiyyeh, in southern Lebanon’s Tyre area.
Israeli forces will “continue to operate in order to remove any threat to the territory of the State of Israel,” said the military in a statement.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported two Israeli air strikes, both in the Tyre district, without listing any casualties.
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”.
Hezbollah said on Thursday that there was no prospect of any political negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, and insisted that it has a right to defend itself.
A source close to Hezbollah's political leadership said the declaration followed recent US and Egyptian pressure on Lebanon's leaders to open direct negotiations.
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.
Reporting by AFP
The walk up to Downing Street in September was a long time coming for Munib al-Masri, the Palestinian tycoon and former confidante of PLO leader Yasser Arafat, now in his 90s.
Masri was shot by British troops while on a protest march as a boy, in 1943. The leg injury has continued to plague him over the decades, like those countless Palestinians who have been injured, killed or displaced since the creation of Israel 77 years ago.
As a boy he lived through the Nakba in 1948, in which 750,000 Palestinians were made homeless. Many arrived as refugees in his native Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
“I saw them, it was really terrible, they were hungry, afraid, bare footed, they had walked hundreds of miles to come to Nablus for refuge,” he tells Middle East Eye.
Six decades later, his grandson, also named Munib, was shot by Israeli forces in 2011 while on a peaceful protest from the Lebanese side of the Israeli border, leaving him paralysed.
Read more: Palestinian tycoon shot by British troops in 1943 seeks justice over Balfour
The civil defence agency in Gaza reported on Thursday that many people were trapped after a building collapsed on its residents in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City.
“There are still people trapped under the rubble,” said the civil defence.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said that tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in severely damaged and unsafe buildings.
The UN agency said that most of its facilities in Gaza City have “sustained heavy damage” from two years of Israeli attacks.
"Many other facilities that Palestinians are taking shelter in across the Strip are also severely damaged and unsafe,” Unrwa said.
“Returning families also face the risk of unexploded ordnance,” it warned.
Unrwa said on Tuesday that around 75,000 displaced people are sheltering in more than 100 agency buildings in Gaza, most of which are overcrowded.
Since the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized Sudan’s city of El-Fasher, killing thousands of civilians, pro-UAE influencers have filled social media with posts attacking Sudan’s army and deflecting blame.
The online campaign comes amid mounting evidence of Emirati support for the RSF, accused of committing atrocities across Darfur.
Israeli accounts - including a state-run Arabic channel - have joined the effort, sharing identical content that links Sudan’s army to Hamas.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) on Thursday said that tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in severely damaged and unsafe buildings.
The UN agency said that most of its facilities in Gaza City have “sustained heavy damage” from two years of Israeli attacks.
"Many other facilities that Palestinians are taking shelter in across the Strip are also severely damaged and unsafe,” Unrwa said.
“Returning families also face the risk of unexploded ordnance,” it warned.
Unrwa on Tuesday said that around 75,000 displaced people are sheltering in more than 100 agency buildings in Gaza, most of which are overcrowded.
“For many displaced women and girls, daily life means coping without dignity, safety, or adequate hygiene. Limited access to healthcare and basic hygiene supplies makes each day a struggle,” the agency said in a social media post.
The Committee for Missing Persons in Gaza on Thursday said that more than 10,000 Palestinians are still under the rubble and that necessary equipment to recover the bodies was needed.
"We call on the world to send international teams to recover the bodies of the missing. We call on the world to provide the necessary equipment to recover the bodies," the committee said.
According to the Gaza health ministry, the Israeli genocidal war has killed over 68,875 Palestinians since October 2023. Another 10,000 are missing, presumed dead.
Israel has committed more than 200 violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October, the director of the government media office in Gaza said.
Israeli bulldozers on Thursday carried out extensive demolition operations in the town of Qatanna near occupied Jerusalem, Al Jazeera Arabic reported quoting Palestinian sources.
Reports said that Israeli forces also stormed the town of Al-Mughayyir, west of Ramallah, and turned some of its houses into military barracks.
Palestinian media have reported that Israeli forces carried out raids in various areas of the West Bank, including the towns of Sinjil, Ras Atiya, Beit Amin, Beit Rima, Deir Ghassana, and the city of Halhul north of Hebron.
Since October 2023, Israeli attacks in the West Bank have resulted in the killing of at least 1,065 Palestinians and the arrest of nearly 20,000.
In October alone, Israeli forces have arrested 540 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, including eight women and 39 children.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office said that since October 2023, Israel has arrested at least 19,300 Palestinians, including 600 women and 1,540 children. Of these, over 9,250 Palestinians are being held in Israeli custody currently, Palestinian prisoners' rights groups reported.
The organisations said that the majority are administrative detainees held without trial, adding that the figure does not include detainees held in Israeli military camps.
Somerville town in the US state of Massachusetts voted for its local government to "divest from companies supporting Israel’s actions in Palestine," American media reported.
The ballot question presented to residents of Somerville passed overwhelmingly on Tuesday night and is non-binding.
The initiative was forwarded by the local pro-Palestine advocacy group Somerville for Palestine, and won 11,489 votes with 7,920 against.
The move comes as Zohran Mamdani, who has publicly opposed Israel's actions in Gaza, won the mayoral elections of New York in record turnout. Polling numbers released in July showed that his open support for Palestinian rights was the issue that "supercharged" his campaign.
Polls in the US have shown growing discontent amongst young Americans of the country's unconditional support to Israel.
In August, poll conducted by The Harris Poll and HarrisX found that 60 percent of Gen Z voters back Hamas over Israel in Gaza war.
Human rights organisation Hind Rajab Foundation on Thursday said it has filed a complaint in Germany against former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for committing war crimes during the 2008-2009 attack on Gaza.
“Under Olmert’s leadership, the Israeli government and military high command executed a large-scale military campaign that resulted in the indiscriminate bombardment of densely populated civilian areas, the destruction of hospitals, schools, and UN facilities, and the killing of more than 1,300 Palestinians, among them over 300 children and 115 women,” the Hind Rajab Foundation said in a statement.
“Those responsible for war crimes must know that accountability has no expiration date and that the world is closing in on impunity,” said Dyab Abou Jahjah, general director of the foundation.
Israeli Defence Minister Yisrael Katz on Thursday instructed the army to turn the border area between Israel and Egypt into a closed military zone, news channel Israel Hayom reported.
The report said that Katz agrees with the head of the Shin Bet to treat arms smuggling via marches as "a terrorist threat".
Israeli forces on Thursday shot and killed a 15-year-old boy, Murad Fawzi Abu Seifen, in the town of Yamoun, near the West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the town was raided by Israeli forces overnight, during which they fired at Seifen and killed him.
The World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday said the UN agency will rebuild and renovate 20 health facilities across Gaza destroyed or damaged by Israel's assault.
Ghebreyesus said the effort will take place in partnership with the UN children’s agency Unicef and the agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa.
The agencies will provide “routine vaccinations, nutrition screening and treatment, and growth monitoring” for an estimated 44,000 children.
Israel's High Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled to allow the partial demolition of the family home of Palestinian man Abed al-Karim Snober, news organisation Haaretz reported.
Israel accuses Snober of planting explosive devices in three buses in Bat Yam and Holon, south of Tel Aviv.
The report said that two Supreme Court justices backed the majority opinion, Ofer Grosskopf and Alex Stein, with one justice, Daphne Barak-Erez objecting in the minority opinion.
The petition was filed against the decision of the military commander to demolish Snober's home in the town of Zawata, near Nablus in the West Bank.
