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The United Nations called on Tuesday for swift and impartial investigations into Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including a deadly attack on a Palestinian refugee camp last week.

"There must be prompt and impartial investigations into the Ain al-Hilweh strike, as well as all other incidents involving possible violations of international humanitarian law by all parties, both before and after the ceasefire. Those responsible must be brought to justice," UN rights office spokesman Thameen al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva.

The UN human rights office said on Tuesday that at least 127 civilians had been killed in Lebanon in strikes by the Israeli military since a ceasefire nearly a year ago, and called for an investigation and for the truce to be respected.

"Almost a year since the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel was agreed, we continue to witness increasing attacks by the Israeli military, resulting in the killing of civilians and destruction of civilian objects in Lebanon, coupled with alarming threats of a wider, intensified offensive," said Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office, at a Geneva press briefing.

He said the number included deaths it had verified based on its own strict methodology but that the real level could be higher.

The Israel Medical Association (IMA) ethics board says it has banned all doctors from actively or passively taking part in the Israeli bill for the execution of Palestinian prisoners by lethal injection, involving doctors in the process, Haaretz reported.

According to far-right minister Itamar Ben Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party, which promoted the bill, the executions would be carried out on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis, including those who planned or were involved in alleged attacks. According to the bill, the sentencing will be made by a single judge and will not be subject to appeal.

IMA ethics board chairman Dr Yosef Walfisch told Haartez that he sent a letter to National Security Committee chairman on 10 November, clarifying the position of the ethics board.

"Israeli doctors will not become executioners in the service of the state, regardless of their political position," Walfisch told the newspaper.

"Even the most right-wing doctors realise this, as well as doctors who wish for me to object to any death penalty in Israel," he said, adding that Ben Gvir will find it hard to recruit doctors willing to participate in the injection process.

Israeli forces on Tuesday detained more than 25 young men during a raid in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported.

Local sources said that Israeli forces raided the neighbourhoods of Al-Mansour, Al-Safha, Al-Ghanawi, Al-Muthallath, Al-Muntar, and Omar Al-Qasim Hospital and assaulted the residents, the report said. They later converted the home of a resident into an army outpost.

The sources said the Israeli troops are tightening their military measures around the town, erecting a military checkpoint, preventing the movement of residents, and closing the Jiyous Bridge road connecting Azzun and Tulkarm with an iron gate.

Israel's war on Gaza has ravaged the Palestinian territory's economy and is threatening its very survival, the United Nations warned Tuesday, calling for "immediate and substantial" international intervention.

Rebuilding the Gaza Strip will cost more than $70bn and could take several decades, the UN Trade and Development agency, Unctad, said in a new report, warning that war and restrictions had triggered an "unprecedented collapse across the Palestinian economy".

"The military operations have significantly undermined every pillar of survival," from food to shelter to healthcare, "and plunged Gaza into a human-made abyss," it said.

"Even in an optimistic scenario of double-digit growth rates facilitated by a significant level of foreign aid, it will take several decades for Gaza to return to pre-October 2023 welfare levels."

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates from Gaza, where Israel continues to violate the ceasefire that ended its two-year genocidal war last month:

• Heavy rain flooded the tents of displaced families in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis on Tuesday morning, deepening the already severe hardship of displacement.

• UN official Ramiz Al-Akbarov said Gaza’s humanitarian situation remains bleak under the ongoing Israeli blockade. Many families cannot afford meat or chicken, while the UN struggles to deliver basic shelter materials and warns of critical delays as winter sets in.

• Gaza’s Civil Defence recovered the remains of 14 people from a home in Al-Maghazi camp struck by Israeli forces on Tuesday. Search teams are still working to recover the estimated thousands of bodies believed to be trapped under the rubble.

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Here are the day's key developments:

- Israeli strikes killed another five Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, bringing the number of dead since the ceasefire was declared to more than 343. To date, Israel has violated the ceasefire nearly 500 times.

- A spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Defence warned that unexploded Israeli ordnance in the enclave poses grave danger, "threatening the lives of citizens daily", and that immediate action must be taken to clear out the explosives. 

- Hamas has called for accountability for the more than 2,600 Palestinians killed as they tried to retrieve food rations from the now-defunct Gaza Humanitarian Foundation between May and October of this year. The GHF officially announced the end of its "mission" on Monday. 

- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said Gaza remains in a catastrophic state and accused Israel of blocking its international staff and choking the entry of aid. Around 6,000 food trucks are stalled at the crossings.

- Palestinian officials said more than 185 Israeli settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, moving through the courtyards under the watch of heavily armed occupation police.

Hamas on Monday called for accountability for the more than 2,600 Palestinians killed as they tried to retrieve food rations from the now-defunct Gaza Humanitarian Foundation between May and October of this year.

"The announcement by the Gaza 'Humanitarian' Foundation of ending its mission in the Gaza Strip is a deserved step for an inhumane group that was complicit in the genocide project and the engineering of starvation in partnership with the Zionist occupation," Hamas said in a statement. 

"Since its entry into the Gaza Strip, this foundation was part of the occupation's security system, which adopted distribution mechanisms entirely disconnected from humanitarian principles, and created dangerous and degrading conditions for the dignity of the starving Palestinian people during their attempts to obtain a piece of bread," the statement continued. 

"Any project that works with the occupation and implements its fascist policies will necessarily collapse because it is built on injustice, tyranny, and dehumanization," Hamas said. 

"We call on legal bodies and international courts to hold this foundation and its officers accountable for their crimes against our people, so that the tragedy is not repeated and to protect humanity from organized international terrorism." 
 

Victims of Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack on Israel sued Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao, accusing them of facilitating millions of dollars in payments to the group and other US-designated terrorist groups.

According to a complaint made public on Monday, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange laundered money for Hamas even after pleading guilty in November 2023 and paying a $4.32 billion criminal penalty for violating federal anti-money-laundering and sanctions laws.

The plaintiffs include 306 American victims of Hamas's attack, including relatives of people killed, injured or taken hostage, and subsequent attacks by various groups.

They accused Binance of knowingly enabling Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Iran's Revolutionary Guard to move more than $1b through its platform, including more than $50m after the 7 October 2023 attack.

Zhao pleaded guilty to anti-money-laundering violations in connection with Binance's plea and served a four-month prison sentence. US President Donald Trump pardoned him on 23 October.

- Reporting by Reuters

Controversial British columnist and broadcaster Melanie Phillips has claimed there is "no such thing as the Palestinian people" and only Jewish people "have any entitlement" to historic Palestine.

During a twenty-minute speech at the "Rage Against the Hate" conference at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City last month, Phillips, who writes for The Times, also claimed the "West" is facing a "death cult" in the "forces of Islam".

Organised by Shurat HaDin, an Israeli legal organisation known for targeting organisations which document international law violations by the Israeli government, the 27 October 2025 conference aimed to bring "together Jewish community and pro-Israeli activists from around the globe at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC".

"The world has been made to believe that peace and justice in the Middle East hinge on the Palestinians getting a state of their own," Phillips said in her speech.

"Justice for Palestinians has been deemed to be the issue that drives all before it. By apparently denying that happy outcome, the state of Israel has been perceived as the enemy of humanity itself."

Read more: British columnist Melanie Phillips lashes out at Palestinians at pro-Israel NYC event

In its first strike on Beirut since June, Israel on Sunday killed the most senior Hezbollah military figure to have been targeted since the ceasefire in Lebanon was established a year ago.

Haytham Ali Tabatabai, known as Abu Ali, rose through the ranks to become Hezbollah’s top military chief after Israel eliminated much of the group’s senior leadership. 

During last year’s war, Tabatabai headed Hezbollah’s operations division. After the 24 November 2024 ceasefire, he was appointed chief of staff, replacing Ibrahim Aqil, who was killed two months earlier.

Hezbollah mourned him as “one of the leaders who laid the foundation for this resistance to remain strong, dignified, and capable, protecting the homeland and achieving victories”.

The Israeli military said Tabatabai “worked extensively” to restore Hezbollah’s “readiness for war with Israel”.

Read more: Haytham Ali Tabatabai: The Hezbollah commander who cut his teeth in Syria and Yemen

A spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Defence on Monday warned that unexploded Israeli ordnance in the enclave poses grave danger, "threatening the lives of citizens daily", and that immediate action must be taken to clear out the explosives. 

Four Palestinians were injured in two separate incidents in Gaza City on Monday, one of whom was critically injured "while tampering with an Israeli military leftover", the spokesperson said.

The controversial Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) has announced the end of its "mission" in Gaza.

The GHF began closing its food distribution sites in the enclave last month after the UN was allowed to resume some deliveries in Gaza.

Hundreds of Palestinians were shot dead at sites run by the group, who were backed by the US and Israel and widely condemned by other aid agencies.

“This mission was designed to show that humanitarian aid can be delivered efficiently, safely, and transparently even in the most challenging conflict zones,” said GHF executive director John Acree in a statement.

“With the support of the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) and the broader international community, we have successfully demonstrated a new standard for aid operations in Gaza.”

Poland summoned the Israeli ambassador over a tweet from the holocaust memorial institution Yad Vashem, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski wrote on social media platform X on Monday.

Sikorski was protesting against a social media post in which Yad Vashem wrote that Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive badge in order to isolate them from the surrounding population.

He said the post should make it clear Poland was "German-occupied" at the time.

- Reporting by Reuters

A Hamas delegation has met with Egypt's intelligence chief to discuss Israel's repeated violations of the Gaza ceasefire.

Following the meeting with Hassan Rashad in Cairo, Hamas said it reaffirmed its commitment to implementing the first phase of the ceasefire agreement but accused Israel of “continued violations".

They called for a “clear and defined mechanism” to be enacted in case of violations of the ceasefire.