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Hamas' armed wing said on Tuesday that it had found the body of an Israeli soldier in Gaza, and that arrangements were underway to hand it over to Israel.
The Israeli Knesset on Tuesday approved a bill in a preliminary reading to grant the government greater control over the country’s media sector, Anadolu news agency reported.
According to a Knesset statement, 54 members voted in favour of the bill, while 47 opposed it.
The bill allows for the creation of a new regulatory authority to replace both the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council and the Second Authority for Television and Radio. Under Israel’s legislative system, a bill must pass three readings before becoming law.
Israel is among the countries with the strictest controls over the press, enforced through a system known as “military censorship”, which allows the army to block publication of any material deemed "harmful to national security".
The move comes as Israeli police have arrested the country's former top military lawyer, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, for leaking a video apparently showing soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee.
Israeli Channel 12 news reported that police suspect Yerushalmi staged an attempted suicide to get rid of her phone "containing incriminating evidence".
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.
"We emphasise that the Gaza Strip remains under famine conditions, given what we are witnessing daily," the network said, adding that Unrwa remains the backbone of humanitarian work in the sector.
Stefanos Fotiou, director of the UN Food Systems Coordination Centre, called on Tuesday for the opening of crossings to facilitate the entry of aid into Gaza.
"We hope to seize the opportunity to rehabilitate the food system in Gaza. We call for the opening of the crossings to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza," Fotiou said.
According to the Gaza health ministry, the Israeli genocidal war has killed over 68,800 Palestinians since October 2023. Another 10,000 are missing, presumed dead.
Israel has committed close to 200 violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October, the director of the government media office in Gaza said.
The UN secretary general’s deputy spokesperson has said that 81 percent of the enclave’s structures have suffered destruction, underscoring the catastrophic scale of Israel’s assault on Gaza, which has been recognised as a genocide by the UN.
Israeli settlers on Tuesday opened fire on foreign solidarity activists and Palestinian farmers in Deir Istiya in the Salfit governorate in the West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
Israeli settlers also set fire to olive trees in the village of Marah Rabah, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported.
The Palestinian Authority’s Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) said in November that since the harvest began in the first week of October there have been at least 158 attacks across the Israeli-occupied 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 occupied 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.
Unrwa’s West Bank director, Roland Friedrich, warned that the attacks “threaten the very way of life for many Palestinians”, as olive farming remains their main source of income.
A group of Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque courtyard on Tuesday under police protection, footage published by Quds News Network shows.
The Jerusalem Governorate said a total of 465 settlers entered the courtyards in what it called "provocative tours".
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 Palestinian mental health specialist, who is now working out of a nearby clinic because the team's building is damaged, said that two years of intense Israeli bombardment have affected all of Gaza's 2.3 million inhabitants.
"With the start of the truce, it was like a volcano erupting in patients seeking mental health services. Even the stigma that used to be present before, the fear of visiting a psychologist, does not exist any more," he said, describing "a very large increase" in numbers from before the conflict.
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in Jabalia in northern Gaza on Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported, quoting a source at the Baptist Hospital.
The report mentioned that earlier in the day, an Israeli quadcopter opened fire in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, killing one Palestinian and wounding another.
According to the Gaza health ministry, the Israeli genocidal war has killed over 68,800 Palestinians and wounded more than 170,300 others since October 2023. Another 10,000 are missing, presumed dead.
Israel has committed close to 200 violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October, the director of the government media office in Gaza said.
The UN secretary general’s deputy spokesperson has said that 81 percent of the enclave’s structures have suffered destruction, underscoring the catastrophic scale of Israel’s assault on Gaza, which has been recognised as a genocide by the UN.
A far-right Israeli lawmaker who sponsored a bill imposing a death penalty for "terrorists", has said that it will only apply to "those who harm the State of Israel" and will exclude Jews.
When asked whether the law would apply to Jewish attackers, MK Limor Son Har-Melech said that "there's no such thing as a Jewish terrorist".
On Monday, an Israeli panel approved the bill which introduces the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, paving the way for its first reading in parliament.
The proposal, tabled by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's far-right Jewish Power party, would allow Israeli courts to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis on "nationalistic grounds".
The legislation does not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.
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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.
Berri said that 9,000 Lebanese soldiers have already been deployed south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon.
Following Israeli military movements near the border, the Lebanese army mobilised its forces in the border town of Meiss El-Jabal in southern Lebanon, local media said.
Israeli army forces were placed on alert inside the occupied territories next to Meiss El-Jabal, prompting the Lebanese army to mobilise and deploy vehicles and troops in the area, according to the Lebanese state news agency NNA.
The development comes after Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Thursday instructed the army to confront any Israeli military incursions into southern Lebanon. His directive followed an Israeli raid that killed a municipal employee inside the Blida municipality building in the south.
On Sunday, an Israeli drone launched three missiles near the Zefta–Nmeiriyeh junction in the Nabatieh area of southern Lebanon.
Israel continues to violate its ceasefire with Hezbollah, carrying out relentless attacks across southern Lebanon. Dozens of people, including medics, journalists and civilians, have been killed in Israeli strikes since the truce was agreed last November.
Despite its claims of “self-defence”, Israel’s repeated bombardments have drawn growing condemnation for fuelling instability and targeting non-combatants.
Director of the UN Food Systems Coordination Centre Stefanos Fotiou on Tuesday called for the opening of crossings to facilitate the entry of aid into Gaza, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
"We hope to seize the opportunity to rehabilitate the food system in Gaza. We call for the opening of the crossings to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza," Fotiou said.
According to the Gaza health ministry, the Israeli genocidal war has killed over 68,800 people and injured more than 170,300 Palestinians since October 2023. Another 10,000 are missing, presumed dead.
Israel has committed close to 200 violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October, the director of the government media office in Gaza said.
The UN secretary general’s deputy spokesperson has said that 81 percent of the enclave’s structures have suffered destruction, underscoring the catastrophic scale of Israel’s assault on Gaza, which has been recognised as a genocide by the UN.
Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday said that the country supports Trump's Gaza plan during a bilateral meeting in the capital, New Delhi.
“India supports the Gaza peace plan and hopes that it paves the way for a durable and lasting solution,” Jaishankar told his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar.
Saar arrived in New Delhi late Monday night on an official visit.
India and Israel are strategic partners, with bilateral trade between the two countries reaching nearly $4bn last year.
Israel has committed close to 200 violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October, the director of the government media office in Gaza said.
According to the Gaza health ministry, the Israeli genocidal war has killed over 68,800 people and injured more than 170,300 Palestinians since October 2023. Another 10,000 are missing, presumed dead.
The UN secretary general’s deputy spokesperson has said that 81 percent of the enclave’s structures have suffered destruction, underscoring the catastrophic scale of Israel’s assault on Gaza, which has been recognised as a genocide by the UN.
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper avoided giving a direct response to a question about the sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons at a conference in Bahrain on Saturday.
Instead, Cooper referred to global commitments under UN Resolution 1325, which she said aims "to protect women and girls from the horrors of war".
Since the genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, Israeli prison authorities and the military have been widely accused of abusing Palestinian detainees, including through rape, starvation, torture and the denial of medical treatment.
In March, the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found evidence of the systematic use of sexual violence by Israeli officers against Palestinians since the start of the war.
The commission said it had documented cases of rape and sexual assault of male detainees.
Criminal investigations against Israeli soldiers rarely result in prosecutions in Israel.
US President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing Israel to allow foreign press into Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.
The report quoted US officials as saying that the issue is "not at the top of Washington’s priorities", indicating that its pressure on the issue may not be overwhelming, which could allow Israel to maintain its ban.
Following the 10 October ceasefire, the Trump administration has renewed its request for journalists to be given access to the Strip, a US official told the Israeli news organisation.
The United Nations has condemned Israel’s systematic targeting of journalists in Gaza and demanded accountability for the killings.
According to the Shireen Abu Akleh Observatory, nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed since Israel’s assault began, a toll that exposes the extreme danger faced by those documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called for linking Gaza and the West Bank, adding that any force deployed in Gaza must have a UN mandate.
Addressing reporters on the sidelines of the Second World Summit for Social Development in Doha, Guterres said he is “deeply concerned about the continued violations of the ceasefire in Gaza. They must stop and all parties must abide by the decisions of the first phase of the peace agreement.”
"We are actively involved in ensuring that aid provided to the residents of the Gaza Strip is increased. We strongly support the need for the ceasefire agreement in Gaza to hold and the need to link Gaza and the West Bank," he said.
"The Security Council is discussing the draft resolution submitted by the United States regarding the force to be deployed in Gaza," he added.
The comments come as 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.
An Israeli panel approved a bill introducing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners on Monday, paving the way for its first reading in parliament.
According to an Israeli official, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also backed the bill, which would allow Israeli courts to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis on “nationalistic grounds”.
The bill could have its first of three readings in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, as soon as Wednesday.
Since October 2023, Israel has arbitrarily seized thousands of Palestinians from both the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
At least 10,000 people are currently being held in Israeli prisons, although the actual number is believed to be higher, as Israel has restricted information about the whereabouts of many detainees
