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Five Israeli vehicles were seen entering southern Syria as the Israeli army launched an incursion into the countryside of Quneitra.

It follows a similar raid on Sunday as Israel seeks to consolidate its hold over Syrian territory. 

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

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2024 diary has revealed regular close contact with Republican senators in the US and former British prime minister Tony Blair. 

The diary, which was published this week at the request of the non-profit group Hatzlaha, showed that Netanyahu held seven meetings and nine phone calls with Republican Senator Lindsay Graham.

The diary, much of which was redacted on national security grounds, also reveals that Blair and Netanyahu met seven times.

On 29 October 2024, the Israeli prime minister spoke with UAE President Mohammed Bin Zayed, a call that was unreported at the time. 

The discussions with Graham came at a time of heightened tension between Israel and the administration of then-US President Joe Biden over Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Read more: Netanyahu diary reveals close contact with Tony Blair and US senators

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

• The agency warns that more than 90 percent of Gaza’s population now survives entirely on aid. Many families receive only one meal a day, while just 170 trucks are allowed in, far below what is required for basic survival.

• Unrwa is running 100 shelters for over 80,000 displaced people and continues to provide schooling to around 300,000 students remotely and 50,000 in person under severe conditions.

• About 44,000 children study inside 330 makeshift learning spaces in 59 shelters. Many sit directly on cold floors due to the lack of chairs, which the agency says harms their sense of security and stability.

• Unrwa links the collapse of Gaza’s education system to Israel’s genocidal assault since 7 October 2023, which destroyed schools and forced emergency shelters to become classrooms.

• Clinics supported by Unrwa receive around 15,000 patients each day through 7 fixed centres and 35 mobile points. Since 7 October, medical visits have exceeded 15 million as malnutrition soars.

• The agency said 380 staff members have been killed by Israel, and 90 percent of its nearly 300 facilities have been damaged by Israeli bombing.

A source within the Palestinian resistance told Al Jazeera Arabic that remains were recovered at a site north of Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, where search teams had been looking for the body of an Israeli prisoner.

The source did not provide further details, but the recovery highlights the ongoing searches taking place amid Israel’s devastating assault on the area, which has left vast swathes of central Gaza in ruins.

Rescue workers in the Maghazi camp have recovered the bodies of eight Palestinians from beneath the ruins of a home destroyed by an earlier Israeli strike, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Teams on the ground said the effort took hours as they searched through collapsed concrete and twisted metal left behind by the attack in central Gaza.

The latest discovery brings the number of bodies retrieved since the ceasefire announced on 11 October to 582, thousands more are believed to be under the rubble. 

Despite an apparently greater interest shown in the horrific fate of the Palestinians between May and October this year, in alignment with the slightly more critical declarations of western governments, France's mainstream media never stopped uncritically echoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rhetoric, even as Palestinians were being decimated before our eyes.

This small, temporary shift in tone did not signal any change in their overwhelmingly pro-Israeli positions, but rather a moment of damage control during the worst phase of the genocide.

French media - and, to varying extents, those of many other countries - were thus forced to at least pretend to be more critical of Israel and grant more space to the plight of the Palestinians.

Yet at the same time, they deployed a range of strategies that effectively cancelled out that already mild and momentary inflexion in their reporting, allowing them to continue toeing Israel's official line as closely as possible.

Read more: How France's media became a mouthpiece of Israeli propaganda

Israeli settlers set fire to olive trees and stole farming equipment in Atara, north of Ramallah, on Monday, reported the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Residents told Wafa that the settlers raided agricultural land near a recently established outpost, in the occupied West Bank, burning trees and damaging citizens’ property. They also confiscated farming tools and wood belonging to Jawad Sarhanah before withdrawing.

According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Israel and its settlers carried out 2,350 attacks across the occupied West Bank in October alone.

The report detailed 1,584 attacks by the Israeli army and 766 by settlers, with the highest concentration in Ramallah and Al-Bireh (542), Nablus (412) and Hebron (401).

Palestinians describe these assaults as part of a persistent campaign of violence and land seizure by the occupying state against their people, homes and livelihoods.

Israel is facing a “mental health tsunami”, with two million people in need of support as addiction rates soar and families and communities fall apart, according to Yedioth Ahronoth. 

In an extensive report published on Friday, the news outlet said mental health professionals have raised the alarm over a sharp increase in people requiring support since 7 October 2023.

Meanwhile, there is a severe shortage of therapists and support services, which experts warn could have catastrophic consequences.

Last week, a coalition of eight major mental health organisations issued an urgent warning to the government, describing the country’s situation as an “outbreak of mental illness unprecedented in its depth and scope”. 

The groups called the crisis “catastrophic” and demanded immediate government intervention.

Read more: Israel faces ‘mental health tsunami’ after two years of war, report finds

Sources at Gaza hospitals reported that Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in Gaza City and Khan Younis since this morning, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Medical officials said the victims were shot during ongoing operations by the Israeli army, underscoring the persistent danger faced by civilians across the occupied territory.

Israel has killed 339 Palestinians in nearly 500 ceasefire violations since last month’s truce took effect, according to Gaza authorities.

Gaza’s government media office described the violations as “systematic” and warned they threaten “prospects for stability”.

The statement followed a wave of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including in areas outside its control. 

At least 21 people were killed, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Since the ceasefire began on 11 October, the death toll has reached 339, with 871 wounded.

Read more: Israeli drone strike kills one, injures two in Khan Younis

Israeli drone fire killed a Palestinian in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, striking beyond the so-called “yellow line” in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

The Nasser Medical Complex confirmed that two other people were wounded in the same attack.

At least two Palestinians have died after Israel launched fresh attacks in Gaza since dawn.

Al Jazeera reported that Israeli forces unleashed heavy fire on residential homes in al-Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.

Unrwa says it is running 330 makeshift learning spaces inside 59 overcrowded shelters across the Gaza Strip, trying to provide some form of schooling to more than 44,000 children who have been uprooted by Israel’s assault.

The agency notes that these improvised classrooms lack even the most basic facilities, underscoring how Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure has pushed an entire generation into educational limbo.

Earlier, in Ramallah, Education Minister Amjad Barham described the situation as catastrophic. “We are talking about the buildings of 427 schools, some of which were partially demolished, while 293 schools were taken out of service and completely destroyed,” he said. He added that the few remaining government and Unrwa schools now shelter displaced families whose homes have been levelled.

Palestinian officials say the collapse of Gaza’s education sector is a direct consequence of Israel’s relentless bombing campaign, which has targeted not only homes and hospitals but also the institutions meant to protect children’s futures.