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

Since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October, Israeli authorities have rejected 23 requests from nine aid agencies to bring in essential shelter materials, such as tents, sealing kits, and blankets, nearly 4,000 pallets in total, to displaced Palestinians in Gaza, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said.

Millions of items remain stuck in Jordan, Egypt and Israel awaiting approval, as 260,000 Palestinian families exposed to worsening conditions in Gaza remain without proper shelter as winter rains and cold set in, the organisation said.

“We have a very short chance to protect families from the winter rains and cold,” said Angelita Caredda, NRC’s Middle East and North Africa regional director.

“Gaza should be receiving a surge of shelter materials, but only a fraction of what is needed has entered.”

More than 26,000 people in the United Kingdom have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of Thursday’s football match between British club Aston Villa and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv.

The petition, launched by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), urges both the Football Association (FA) and European football’s governing body, Uefa, to cancel the game and “take steps to exclude Israel from international football”.

The petition said Maccabi Tel Aviv's actions, including sending care packages to soldiers, show that the team is “directly involved” in Israel’s war on Gaza and allowing Israeli teams to compete “obscures the reality of genocide in Gaza".

It also said, the Israel Football Association includes teams based in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank in violation of Uefa and Fifa rules.

A team from the Red Cross, as well as the Qassam Brigades, is heading to the Shujaiya neighbourhood in eastern Gaza to search for the bodies of Israeli captives, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) says its complaint accusing the European Investment Bank (EIB) of complicity in Israeli war crimes has moved to a formal assessment phase within the bank’s complaints mechanism.

“This development is not merely procedural - it is a political and legal milestone, signaling that a European institution is being forced to reckon with its complicity in grave breaches of international law,” HRF said in a statement.

The complaint, filed on 20 June, demands the EIB suspend and investigate more than $1.1bn in investments linked to Israeli companies blacklisted by the UN for involvement in illegal settlements, including Bank Leumi and Electra. 

HRF said the case is a “turning point” as for the first time, "a European institution must account for how its public funds are fueling Israel’s apartheid system".

Israeli forces and settlers carried out 2,350 attacks across the occupied West Bank last month, Wafa news agency reported, citing the Palestinian Authority’s Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission.

The organisation’s head, Mu’ayyad Sha’ban, said Israeli forces carried out 1,584 of the attacks, including 542 in the Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate, 412 in Nablus and 401 in Hebron.

“The commission’s monthly report showed that the attacks included direct physical assaults, uprooting of trees, burning of fields and preventing olive pickers from accessing their lands, in addition to seizing property and demolishing homes and agricultural facilities, at a time when the occupation forces close off large areas of Palestinian land under the pretext of ‘security measures’, while settlers are being enabled to expand within them,” the report said.

Israeli forces launched a large-scale arrest operation in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, detaining at least 60 Palestinians, most of them former prisoners, the Palestinian Information Centre reported on Wednesday.

Local sources said soldiers turned a football field in the town into an improvised interrogation site during the raid.

In a race watched around the world, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic Socialist and assemblyman from Queens, New York, won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday to become its youngest leader in at least a century. 

Originally seen as an outsider candidate before his Democratic primary win in June made him the frontrunner, Mamdani ran an avowedly left-wing campaign.

He promised rent control and free bus travel - a platform funded by a proposed increase in taxes on the wealthiest residents of New York City.

Mamdani was also unapologetically pro-Palestinian throughout his campaign in a city that was convulsed by protests against Israel's war on Gaza. They were subsequently forcefully shut down by the New York Police Department and pressure on universities from the Trump administration.

Data shows Mamdani's stance on Israel and Palestine actually helped him seal the primary win, despite smears of antisemitism for his views on the war, which is now widely recognised as a genocide.

Read more: Zohran Mamdani makes history to become New York City's first Muslim mayor

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates from Gaza and the region, 25 days after a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas:

• The United States has drafted a United Nations resolution that approves a two-year mandate for a Gaza transitional governance body and an international stabilisation force in the Palestinian enclave, according to the text seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

• In a race watched around the world, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a 34-year-old pro-Palestinian Democratic Socialist and assemblyman from Queens, New York, won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday to become its youngest leader in at least a century.

• The former senior military legal adviser, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, was questioned for the first time after she was arrested overnight into Monday following the leak of a video showing sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees in a notorious Israeli military prison.

• US press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms that US President Donald Trump will host Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, 10 November.

• The Israeli army is carrying out continuous demolition operations on residential buildings east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

• The Israeli army says it received the body of Itay Chen, an Israeli captive soldier from Gaza, as part of the ongoing ceasefire deal with Hamas.

Our live blog will shortly be closing until Wednesday morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• The death toll in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli genocide in October 2023 has risen to 68,872, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday. At least 170,677 others have been wounded.

• Unrwa on Tuesday said that around 75,000 displaced people are sheltering in more than 100 agency buildings in Gaza, most of which are damaged and overcrowded.

• Israeli warplanes on Tuesday bombed Khan Younis as its tanks targeted Gaza, Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel reported. The report said that Israeli forces opened fire on citizens' homes east of Gaza City.

• An Israeli panel approved a bill introducing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners on Monday, paving the way for its first reading in parliament.⁠

• United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for linking Gaza and the West Bank, adding that any force deployed in Gaza must have a UN mandate.

• Israeli officials are reportedly working behind the scenes to rewrite parts of a UN Security Council draft that Washington plans to introduce, a resolution aimed at creating an international stabilisation force for Gaza.

• The World Food Programme says it has delivered food parcels to one million people in Gaza, well short of its target of 1.6 million, three weeks after the ceasefire took effect.

• Only seven percent of displaced families in southern Gaza have managed to return home since the ceasefire began, while the vast majority remain trapped in overcrowded shelters.

• The head of the Gaza City Mental Health Hospital team, Abdallah al-Jamal, said on Tuesday that Gaza residents are suffering "a volcano" of psychological trauma from Israel's devastating military campaign, Reuters news agency reported. 

• The NGO Network in Gaza said on Tuesday that the enclave remains under famine conditions and the humanitarian aid that enters "barely covers 30% of the needs", Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

• The Trump administration is pushing a draft UN Security Council resolution that would establish an International Stabilisation Force, which allows the US and partner countries to govern Gaza for up to two years, news organisation Axios reported. 

• Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri said on Tuesday that Israeli troops are stationed inside Lebanese territory in five strategic locations, adding that Israel is preventing the full deployment of Lebanon's forces along the southern border. 

• Yemen’s Houthi leader, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, has ordered his forces to prepare for confrontation with Israel, accusing Israel of defying the ceasefire and continuing its massacres in Gaza, stating in a TV address: “We are inevitably heading towards" more confrontation with Israel.

The morning of the New York City mayoral elections in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, was a muted affair.

Despite the warm, bright October day, people crossing Fulton Street at the Bedford Ave intersection did not seem caught up in a local election that has grabbed headlines all over the world, though turnout has been high. 

More than 700,000 people voted during the early election voting period, which closed on Monday. At the time of writing, more than 1.2 million people had voted, including early voters, surpassing the total turnout in the previous mayoral election, which stood at 1.15 million.

In what is being seen as a high-stakes election, underdog and Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking on the old-guard political elite, represented by former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Both have starkly different visions for the city, with Cuomo relying on his family name and experience to see him through, while Mamdani's progressive politics and charisma have shaped him into a rising political star.

Mamdani is a Muslim and a Democratic Socialist, and one of the youngest candidates ever to run for mayor, at 34 years old.

Read more: 'He's just on it': New Yorkers laud Mamdani's energy and progressive politics on election day

Israeli officials are reportedly working behind the scenes to rewrite parts of a UN Security Council draft that Washington plans to introduce, a resolution aimed at creating an international stabilisation force for Gaza.

Despite initially opposing a UN-led mandate, Israel eventually gave in to US pressure, according to a senior Israeli official cited by CNN. Yet Israel is still lobbying to shape the language of the resolution to suit its military and political aims.

Israel’s Channel 12 reported that senior officials object to key sections of the proposal, especially those requiring the Israeli army to respect the ceasefire and withdraw further from Gaza.

Some Israeli officials have also complained that the plan would “internationalise” the conflict, introducing oversight that could limit Israel’s military operations and expose its actions in Gaza to global scrutiny.

The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad says its fighters launched a shooting attack on Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm.

In a brief statement, the Tulkarem Brigade of al-Quds Brigades said its fighters targeted “a newly established position belonging to the enemy forces and a command and control centre” near an Israeli settlement.

The group claimed “confirmed hits”, following what it described as “intense bursts of direct gunfire” on Israeli troops.

Earlier, Israeli soldiers were seen firing during a separate raid in the town of Qabatiya, part of the army’s ongoing incursions across the occupied territory.

The architect of the controversial Generals' Plan, retired Israeli general Giora Eiland, is expected to participate in a conference organised by the left-wing Israeli party The Democrats to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

The conference is expected to take place on Friday at a teacher training seminar in Tel Aviv.

According to the conference programme, Yair Golan, head of The Democrats, will deliver a speech after a recorded message by President Isaac Herzog.

Afterwards, a discussion will be held on the subject of "Responsibility and Leadership" with Eiland, alongside former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former mayor of Beit Shemesh, Aliza Bloch.

According to Uri Weltmann, an activist in the left-wing Jewish-Palestinian group Standing Together, Eiland's participation in the conference "at the very least indicates that there are people in the leadership of the party who do not feel the need to distance themselves from statements that support starvation or support a sweeping attack on civilian population".

Read more: Architect of plan to starve Gaza invited to Israeli left-wing conference

Israeli settlers torched Palestinian farmland south of Nablus late on Tuesday, according to reports from the Wafa news agency.

Witnesses said the fires swept through large areas of Palestinian-owned land as settlers, accompanied by Israeli forces, blocked villagers from reaching their fields to put out the flames or assess the damage.

The arson attack is the latest in a string of settler assaults across the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces routinely shield perpetrators from accountability.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi met British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper in Amman on Tuesday as part of Cooper’s regional tour focused on the war in Gaza.

Jordan’s foreign ministry said the meeting “discussed regional developments and stressed the need to coordinate efforts to maintain the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, ensure the implementation of all terms of the ceasefire agreement, and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the area”.

Cooper’s visit comes amid growing frustration in London over Israel’s ongoing obstruction of aid deliveries to Gaza. In an interview with Channel 4 on Monday, Cooper said Israel had “no excuse” for blocking UK aid supplies waiting in warehouses while Palestinians in Gaza face starvation and disease under Israel’s siege.