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- Hamas has identified the remains of an Israeli captive in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, and has arranged for a transfer via the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- Around 473,000 have returned to northern Gaza following the ceasefire, which came into effect on 10 October, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
- Egypt has sent over a dozen engineering vehicles into Gaza via the Kerem Abu Salem crossing to assist with the recovery of the bodies of the remaining 13 Israeli captives, Al-Araby is reporting, citing an Egyptian official.
- Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has said his country will not allow Turkey to send troops to Gaza as part of the international force outlined in US President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan.
- Three displaced Palestinians were wounded when a wall collapsed near a fisherman's port on Gaza's coast, Wafa news agency reported.
- Israel is preparing a coordinated media strategy ahead of global journalists’ arrival in Gaza, including military-escorted tours, Israeli media have reported. Ynet news reported that Israel plans field visits for journalists, supervised by the Israeli military, to present alleged evidence justifying the genocidal war on the Strip.
Israel carried out several home raids across Palestinian towns and villages in the occupied West Bank on Monday, social media videos show.
At least one Palestinian man from Jenin was arrested, the Wafa News Agency confirmed.
The man in question has not yet been identified.
Nothing reveals the true nature of Zionism more clearly than the annual attacks of Israeli settlers during the olive harvest in the West Bank.
This year, they are particularly frenzied.
After two years of a genocidal war in Gaza, the brakes have truly come off their attempt to purge the countryside of its native population.
Almost as much as the Palestinian flag, the olive tree represents the symbol of ownership that one Palestinian generation hands down to another, and Israelis of all tribes are determined to erase it.
Afaf Abu Alia, a 53-year-old Palestinian mother who was beaten on the head in turns by Israeli settlers, said: "When they cut our olive trees, it felt like they were gouging out our eyes. The olive tree is so precious to us - like our own children."
Read more: As Israel continues to devour West Bank, Abbas is busy rearranging chairs on the Titanic's deck
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on Sunday naming his vice president, Hussein al-Sheikh, as acting president in the event of a vacancy.
The decree stipulates that if the president dies or becomes incapacitated, the vice president will assume the role for up to 90 days, during which elections for a new president must be held.
If elections cannot be held within that period due to exceptional circumstances, the Palestinian Central Council may extend the interim term once, the decree adds.
The move has drawn sharp criticism from opponents, who have called it unconstitutional. Under Palestinian law, the speaker of parliament - last elected from Hamas in 2006 - is next in line for succession.
Read more: Palestine's Abbas names deputy al-Sheikh as successor if presidency is vacated
A source from the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, has told Al Jazeera that the remains of an Israelic captive were found in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Monday.
The source said the International Committee of the Red Cross has been informed in order to facilitate a return of the remains.
Three displaced Palestinians were wounded when a wall collapsed near a fisherman's port on Gaza's coast, Wafa news agency reported on Monday.
The wall collapsed onto crowds of displaced people in Gloria Hall, near Gaza Port. Thousands of people are living in makeshift tents at the port, having been displaced from Gaza City and the north.
A Palestinian man was shot and wounded by Israeli forces on Monday near occupied Jerusalem, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local and medical sources.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, whose crews treated the man, the man was shot in the foot by Israeli fire in the town of al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem.
He has now been transferred to hospital for treatment.
Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers chased several Palestinian workers near the separation wall and opened fire at them.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has said his country will not allow Turkey to send troops to Gaza as part of the international force outlined in US President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan.
At a news conference in Budapest, Saar cited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's "hostile approach" to Israel, saying it is "not reasonable for us to let their armed forces enter the Gaza Strip, and we will not agree to that and we said it to our American friends".
Egypt has sent over a dozen engineering vehicles into Gaza via the Kerem Abu Salem crossing to assist with the recovery of the bodies of the remaining 13 Israeli captives, Al-Araby is reporting, citing an Egyptian official.
The official reported that six vehicles crossed into Gaza on Sunday, with another 12 entering the strip on Monday.
He added that the move was part of "ongoing Egyptian-Israeli coordination to facilitate search and rescue operations in areas that witnessed heavy fighting in recent weeks".
Israeli media reported that the entry of the vehicles was "officially approved by the Israeli army" and conducted under "joint technical supervision".
Gaza's Civil Defence has slammed the "double standards" of these efforts, given emergency teams lack the necessary equipment to recover the bodies of some 10,000 Palestinians who remain trapped beneath the rubble.
“This represents a double standard that in no way reflects humanity. True humanity requires the same care to be given to Palestinian bodies as is given to Israeli bodies," Civil Defence spokesman Mahmud Basal said.
“I think we need 10,000 days to recover the bodies of 10,000 martyrs. This means that we need a very large amount of heavy equipment… The trucks, bulldozers and excavators that have entered the Strip are nowhere near sufficient to carry out our task,” he said.
“The issue requires the integration and cooperation of all parties, so that we can immediately start working on this and recover the bodies of the martyrs."
Around 473,000 have returned to northern Gaza following the ceasefire, which came into effect on 10 October, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is reporting on Monday.
They return to flattened neighbourhoods and infrastructure, with many forced to erect makeshift tents on the debris of their homes.
Palestinians in Gaza have begun burying 40 unidentified bodies returned by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement in exchange for the remains of Israeli captives.
Footage circulating on social media showed 41 shrouded bodies laid out by civil defence workers in front of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis before transfer to a cemetery.
Due to torture and mutilation, families searching for their loved ones among the remains could not identify them.
Israel is preparing a coordinated media strategy ahead of global journalists’ arrival in Gaza, including military-escorted tours, Israeli media have reported.
Ynet news reported that Israel plans field visits for journalists, supervised by the Israeli military, to present alleged evidence justifying the genocidal war on the Strip.
As per the report, one idea under review is the establishment of "designated sites in Gaza where journalists can be shown how Hamas operated from within civilian areas and hid behind noncombatants".
Officials say that if the plan is approved, several “demonstration sites” will be created to provide clear visual explanations.
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Monday that he will end a state of emergency in Israel’s south, which has been in place since October 2023, Israeli media have reported.
“I have decided to adopt the IDF’s recommendation and to remove, for the first time since October 7, the special situation in the home front,” Katz said in a statement.
The order will expire tomorrow, and for the first time in over two years there will be no active “special situation”, the Times of Israel reported.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club on Monday said that Israeli forces arrested 40 Palestinians overnight in various areas of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces also stormed the town of Al-Funduq, east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank and demolished a Palestinian home, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
Palestinian sources also reported that a number of school students suffered suffocation from tear gas inhalation during a raid by Israeli forces on the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
The Families Forum, an Israeli group campaigning for the release of captives in Gaza, called for the suspension of further steps in the ceasefire agreement on Monday "until Hamas returns the last 13 bodies" still held in the Palestinian territory.
Recalling that under the terms of the agreement, all captives, dead and alive, should have been returned two weeks ago, the Families Forum issued a statement calling "on the Israeli government, the American administration and the mediators not to move to the next phase of the agreement until Hamas has fulfilled all of its obligations".
This second phase includes the disarmament of Hamas and the amnesty or exile of its fighters and the continuation of Israeli withdrawals from Gaza, points which remain subject to discussion.
Hamas released all 20 live captives on 13 October. It was also due to return the bodies of the 28 dead captives by that date, but has only returned 15 so far, citing difficulties in finding remains in territory ravaged by the Israeli offensive.
Israel has refused to allow in equipment to remove rubble that Hamas says is necessary to locate other bodies.
Reporting by AFP
