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An Israeli minister has called on Jewish Americans in New York to consider emigrating to Israel following the election of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor.
Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister for diaspora affairs, described Mamdani’s victory as “a critical turning point for the city of New York” that “shakes the very foundations of the place that offered freedom and opportunity to countless Jewish refugees”.
Chikli - who has previously voiced support for ethnic cleansing and occupation in southern Lebanon and for settlements in Gaza - labelled Mamdani a “Hamas supporter”.
He claimed that the 34-year-old Muslim politician’s views were “not far from those of the jihadist fanatics who, 25 years ago, murdered 3,000 of their own people,” referring to the 9/11 attacks.
“The Jews of New York to seriously consider making their new home in the Land of Israel,” he concluded.
Read more: Israeli minister urges Jews to flee New York after Mamdani win
Israeli forces have ramped up their assault on the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, tearing up roads and tightening their siege on the refugee camp that has now endured 283 days of blockade.
According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli bulldozers ripped apart the main road at the camp’s northern entrance, worsening damage from previous raids. Troops have sealed off all entry points with concrete blocks and gates, while turning several Palestinian homes into military outposts.
Wafa also reported that the nearby Nur Shams camp remains encircled for the 270th consecutive day. When residents attempted to protest against their forced displacement, Israeli soldiers dispersed them at gunpoint.
Since the start of the Israeli offensive, more than 25,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the two camps. Thousands of homes have been reduced to rubble, and at least 14 people, including a child and two women, have been killed.
Hamas's Qassam Brigades have announced that they will hand over the remains of an Israeli captive at 9pm local time (1900 GMT).
Israel’s housing ministry published on Monday two tenders for the construction of 356 housing units in settlements near Ramallah, Israeli campaign group Peace Now is reporting.
The tenders are for the construction of a new neighbourhood in the Geva Binyamin settlement southeast of Ramallah - one for the construction of 342 housing units, and another for 14 single-family homes earmarked for reserve soldiers.
This follows another tender published on Sunday for the planning and construction of a residential complex in the settlement of Giv’on HaHadasha, south of Ramallah. Peace Now said that the exact number of homes is yet to be determined but is expected to include several dozen homes.
According to the campaign group, tenders were issued for 4,030 housing units in Ma’ale Adumim and Ariel in August alone.
Since the beginning of 2025, tenders have been published for 5,667 settlement housing units - the highest ever annual total, up by over 50 percent from the previous year.
If the tenders published this year are built, they will accommodate an additional 25,000 settlers in the occupied West Bank, according to Peace Now.
The group said that the Netanyahu government “is exploiting every moment in power to destroy Israel’s chances for a future of peace and prosperity”.
Israeli forces have intensified their assault on the occupied West Bank's Tulkarm city and its two refugee camps, Wafa news agency is reporting.
According to Unrwa, as of late September, Israeli raids have driven around 32,000 Palestinians to flee the camps of Tulkarm, Nur Shams and Jenin.
Israeli forces launched their assault on Jenin in January this year, expanding to Tulkarm and Nur Shams in February.
Wafa reported that Israeli bulldozers were seen demolishing Al-Wakala Street at the northern entrance of Tulkarm camp.
It added that Israeli forces continue to bar residents from reaching their homes and have sealed off all the camps' entrances, as well as establishing barriers in the area connecting the camp to the Thinnaba neighbourhood.
Meanwhile, the Israeli siege on nearby Nur Shams camp entered its 270th day - residents staged a protest at one of the camp's entrances, demanding the right to return to their homes.
The Israeli military has issued a statement saying its soldiers killed two Palestinians in separate attacks in central Gaza.
The statement claims that the men approached soldiers “in a manner that posed an immediate threat”, and that its forces "eliminated" them after they crossed the ceasefire's yellow line.
Gaza's government media office said on Sunday that the Israeli army has committed 194 ceasefire violations in Gaza since the fragile truce came into effect on 10 October.
Israeli forces have gunned down dozens of Palestinians for breaching or approaching the so-called yellow line - the newly created boundary to which the Israeli forces withdrew on 10 October.
The location of the line is unclear and it is still being marked on the ground.
Gaza's government media office said that Israeli forces have repeatedly crossed the boundary, storming residential areas and conducing air strikes and demolitions across the territory.
The Gaza Strip continues to face a severe water shortage crisis caused by Israel’s two-year genocidal war and the ongoing blockade despite the ceasefire, according to local officials.
Hosni Muhanna, spokesperson for the Gaza City Municipality, said that much of the water currently reaching Gaza amounts to no more than 15 percent of the Strip’s actual needs for its population of over two million - roughly 100,000 cubic metres daily.
During the two-year war, which ended with a fragile ceasefire on 11 October, Israel destroyed most of the wells, and the central desalination plant has been forced out of service. Only 17 wells out of 88 are currently operational.
The Strip is now dependent on the unstable supply from the Mekorot water line, Israel’s national water company. Muhanna said the line provides about 15,000 cubic metres per day.
Even before the war began in October 2023, most water in Gaza was undrinkable due to the Israeli blockade.
Read more: Gaza Strip faces a severe water shortage, despite ceasefire
Over 9,250 Palestinian prisoners and detainees are being held in Israeli custody as of November, Palestinian prisoners' rights groups are reporting.
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.
They also reported that 1,242 of those held are sentenced prisoners, 49 are women and 350 children.
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.
The ministry said in its monthly report that Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli forces stormed the site, performed Talmudic rituals and dances, and offered plant sacrifices within the mosque courtyards in October.
It noted the involvement of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, along with a number of Knesset members, in at least one raid in the last month.
The ministry said that Ben Gvir has staged 13 invasions of the complex since he assumed office in 2022, including 10 times since Israel launched its genocide in Gaza in October 2023.
The Jerusalem Governorate said a total of 465 settlers entered the courtyards in what it called "provocative tours".
Incursions into the mosque complex by Israeli settlers and forces have occurred almost on a daily basis, with a marked surge during Jewish and national holidays.
In October, a report by Israeli monitor the Ir Amim Association accused the Israeli government of directly violating the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque, warning that its continued control constitutes a dangerous escalation.
The status quo is defined by a set of rules and regulations considered a binding international norm and long recognised by world powers. It designates Al-Aqsa Mosque as an exclusively Islamic site, where only Muslims are permitted to worship.
An Israeli minister has called on Jewish Americans in New York to consider emigrating to Israel following the election of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor.
Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister for diaspora affairs, described Mamdani’s victory as “a critical turning point for the city of New York” that “shakes the very foundations of the place that offered freedom and opportunity to countless Jewish refugees”.
Chikli - who has previously voiced support for ethnic cleansing and occupation in southern Lebanon and for settlements in Gaza - labelled Mamdani a “Hamas supporter”.
He claimed that the 34-year-old Muslim politician’s views were “not far from those of the jihadist fanatics who, 25 years ago, murdered 3,000 of their own people,” referring to the 9/11 attacks.
“The Jews of New York to seriously consider making their new home in the Land of Israel,” he concluded.
Read more: Israeli minister urges Jews to flee 'Hamas supporter' Mamdani after New York mayoral win
At least 68,875 people have been killed and 170,679 wounded by Israeli attacks across Gaza since October 2023, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on social media on Wednesday.
The ministry said the hospitals in Gaza received bodies of three Palestinians and two wounded people in the last 24 hours amid continuing Israeli attacks.
The death toll is likely to be higher than the official numbers, as some victims are still under the rubble and in the streets and ambulance and civil defence crews are unable to reach them at this time.
Celebrations have erupted across New York City and online, globally, as Zohran Mamdani secured a historic victory, becoming the first South Asian and Muslim to be elected mayor of the "Big Apple".
With over 90 percent of the votes counted, Mamdani, who describes himself as a Democratic Socialist, was ahead of independent candidate Andrew Cuomo by nearly 9 percentage points.
Over two million New Yorkers voted in the election, which marks the largest turnout in a mayoral race in over half a century, according the city's Board of Elections.
The win defied all odds, as Mamdani started the campaign as an underdog, polling at less than one percent in February.
Just four months later, he won the primary with 56 percent of the vote, after running a successful grassroots campaign mobilising tens of thousands to knock on more than three million doors in the city, according to the Mamdani campaign.
Read more: Celebrations across NYC and world as Mamdani becomes first Muslim mayor of ‘Big Apple’
The Israeli troops, backed by two tanks and four military vehicles, have entered the Quneitra countryside in southern Syria, according to Syria’s state news agency Sana.
The military set up a checkpoint on the road to Ain al-Bayda in northern Quneitra, the report said.
A disengagement agreement in 1974 between Israel and Syria created a UN buffer zone in Syria’s Golan Heights, an area that has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
When Bashar al-Assad’s government fell in December, Israel occupied the buffer zone and declared that the 1974 agreement was null and void.
The arrest of Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was extended until Friday, after she was arrested earlier this week after leaking a video appearing to show soldiers abusing a Palestinian prisoner from Gaza at the Sde Teiman detention facility, Haaretz reported.
Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned on 31 October, saying that she "authorised the release of materials to the media in an attempt to debunk false propaganda against army law enforcement bodies. I take full responsibility for any material released."
"It is our duty to investigate whenever there is reasonable suspicion of acts of violence against a detainee," she said in her resignation letter. Following her letter, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz accused her of spreading "blood libels" against Israeli troops.
Tomer-Yerushalmi is now held on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust, abuse of office, obstruction of justice, and disclosure of official information by a public servant.
Israel has handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians, the day after Hamas returned the body of an Israeli-American soldier, according to Al Jazeera, citing health officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
The return brings the total number of Palestinian bodies returned to Gaza to 285, according to the Associated Press.
