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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.

“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 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.

Citing satellite data, the UN said that entire neighbourhoods across Gaza have been reduced to rubble, leaving families displaced and essential infrastructure obliterated.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was reached on 10 October. Israel has committed 194 violations of the agreement, the director of the government media office in Gaza said. 

Israeli special forces on Tuesday stormed the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus in the northern West Bank at dawn, Al Jazeera reported, quoting local sources. 

The report mentioned that Israeli forces also arrested eight Palestinians in raids across Nablus governorate in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported. 

Five Palestinians were arrested in the town of Beit Furik, with arrests also in Nablus city. 

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.

The forces detonated explosives at several residential buildings, east of Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. Israeli forces also shelled areas north-east of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza with artillery. 

The Palestinian Information Centre said that "Israeli occupation artillery is shelling the eastern areas of the Shuja'iyya and Tuffah neighbourhoods, east of Gaza City."

Al-Aqsa TV reported that "the occupation's artillery and military vehicles have continued their heavy bombardment of the eastern neighbourhoods of Gaza City since midnight."

The channel added that Israeli artillery shelling targeted areas of Juhr al-Dik, coinciding with heavy gunfire from army vehicles east of al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip. Similar reports of heavy shelling came from the eastern areas of the Mughraqa region in the central Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian news agency Safa reported that Israeli aircraft attacked areas east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces on Tuesday stormed the Al-Qur’an neighbourhood in the city of Qalqilya and the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported, quoting local media. 

Palestinian sources said that Israeli forces stormed the municipality of Hebron and Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank and launched raids and arrests among citizens.

The report added that Israeli forces stormed the cities of Nablus and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank and arrested citizens.

The forces also raided the city of Dura, south of Hebron, the town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, and the town of Silwad, north-east of Ramallah. 

Palestinian youths and the Israeli army clashed at the entrance to the Al-Amari camp in the city of Al-Bireh in the occupied West Bank, local media reported. The forces fired flares and gas bombs during the clashes. 

Al Jazeera's also reported that Israeli forces attacked the cities of Tubas and Al-Bireh in the West Bank. 

Similar reports came from Al-Amari refugee camp in Al-Bireh, the town of Qabatiya south of Jenin, the villages of Deir Jarir and Silwad north-east of Ramallah, and the town of Kafr Laqif east of Qalqily. 

Israeli aircraft on Tuesday carried out attacks on Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Al-Quds TV reported.

Meanwhile, Israeli settlers 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, CWRC said. 

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

The ISF would be granted a broad mandate, effectively taking over security and governance in Gaza, according to a copy of the draft resolution obtained by Axios. 

The draft also says the ISF will perform “additional tasks as may be necessary in support of the Gaza agreement,” and that it will be established and operate “in close consultation and cooperation with Egypt and Israel.”

The force’s mandate will also include disarming Hamas, and demilitarising the Gaza Strip. 

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates from Gaza, 24 days after a fragile ceasefire ended Israel's two-year genocidal war: 

• Israeli special forces stormed the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank at dawn today.

• Hamas and members of the Red Cross continue the search for bodies of eight remaining Israeli captives in Gaza.

• Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in Gaza and two people in separate strikes on southern Lebanon, where seven others were wounded.

• Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that countries are still working on a UN mandate for an international stabilisation force in Gaza.

• Half of the households surveyed by the UN in Gaza reported that "food access is the same" or has deteriorated since the 10 October ceasefire.

Our live blog will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

• Israel has released five Palestinian prisoners in what marks the first unexpected release since the ceasefire took effect, offering a rare moment of hope and relief to families in Gaza.

• Israeli authorities on Monday released the bodies of 45 Palestinian prisoners being held by the Israeli side, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. The Red Cross team transported the bodies to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

• Israeli forces on Monday shot dead 17-year-old Jamil Atef Hanani in Beit Fourik, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. 

• Israeli army committed 194 violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October, director of the government media office in Gaza, Ismail al-Thawabta, said. 

• Gaza’s health ministry announced that it will launch a vaccination campaign next week, targeting approximately 40,000 children under the age of three.

• The United Nations says more than four-fifths of all buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by Israel’s relentless bombardment.

• Egypt has warned that the scale of destruction caused by Israel’s assault on Gaza will require an astronomical $70 billion to rebuild.

• Knesset's National Security Committee approved a bill that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, local media reported. The committee referred the bill to the Knesset General Assembly for discussion and voting in the upcoming legislative session, reports said. 

• US President Donald Trump on Monday said that the ceasefire in Gaza is not fragile and that he would intervene to help Netanyahu, who he said was not being treated well in Israel. 

• US President Donald Trump’s administration has presented a proposal to potential Gulf donor countries to rebuild "New Gaza" on the eastern side of the strip, which is under Israeli control, Times of Israel reported. 

Egypt has warned that the scale of destruction caused by Israel’s assault on Gaza will require an astronomical $70 billion to rebuild.

Speaking to CBS, Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tamim Khallaf said the figure reflects the unprecedented devastation Israel has inflicted on the enclave.

Khallaf added that Hamas “understands it has no place” in governing Gaza once reconstruction begins

When a video surfaced last year showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner, the outrage in Israel was immediate - but not over the crime.

Instead, the fury was directed at the leak.

Last week, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi stepped down as the Israeli army’s lawyer after confirming her involvement in leaking CCTV footage from inside the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

In the footage, heavily armed Israeli soldiers can be seen grabbing and leading away a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner before surrounding him with riot shields to obscure their gang rape.

The Palestinian man, who, according to some reports, has since been sent back to Gaza, suffered an injury to his anus, a ruptured bowel, lung damage, and broken ribs.

Read more: In Israel, raping Palestinian prisoners is justified. Leaking the footage is betrayal

The United Nations says more than four-fifths 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.

In a small, plain white hall, dozens of mothers and wives sit silently in the front rows. Fathers, brothers and friends stand at the back, leaning against the walls.

All eyes are fixed on a screen at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, showing images of partially decomposed bodies - remains that may belong to someone they love.

Invited by local authorities in Gaza, families study the photographs closely, hoping to identify their missing sons among Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.

The bodies, bearing clear signs of torture and decomposition, were recently handed over by Israeli authorities as part of a prisoner swap deal with Hamas.

They were returned without any form of identification, including the date of death or location.

Read more: 'I dreamed to hug him. Now I hope to bury him': Gaza's missing haunt their families

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Turkey is ready to do whatever is needed for peace in Gaza but only if a clear and fair framework is established.

Speaking after a meeting in Istanbul with ministers from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Pakistan and Indonesia, Fidan warned that the gulf between Israel and the Palestinians remains wide and cannot be bridged quickly.

He accused Israel of repeatedly breaching the ceasefire and blocking vital humanitarian aid, stressing that such actions must end if there is to be any hope of stability.

Fidan added that participating countries will decide later whether to send troops to the proposed International Stabilisation Force (ISF), part of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan to oversee security in Gaza.

However, he noted that key questions remain unanswered, including what powers the ISF would have, who would take part, and what rules of engagement it would follow.

The Palestinian foreign ministry has denounced Israel’s proposed death penalty law for those accused of “terrorism”, describing it as “a decision for extrajudicial field executions and intentions to commit a crime”.

The ministry urged the international community to intervene and hold Israeli officials behind the bill accountable, warning it would legitimise the state's murder of Palestinians under the guise of law.

The legislation, championed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, was pushed through the Knesset’s National Security Committee on Monday, drawing widespread condemnation from human rights groups.

It will go before parliament for its first reading on Wednesday, a move critics say exposes Israel’s deepening slide into authoritarianism and open embrace of racist, retributive violence against Palestinians.