Live: Over 200 Lebanese children killed in two months of Israeli attacks

The Reuters news agency is reporting that an Israeli air strike killed at least seven people at a cafe west of southern Gaza's Khan Younis on Monday. 

Videos shared on social media show several bodies stacked in a morgue nearby. 

According to the Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission, women prisoners have been subjected to regular strip searches, arbitrary room inspections and confiscation of clothes and other essential items.

At least 94 female prisoners in the Damon Prison are "suffering" in worsening conditions that are “beyond all imaginable limits”, the commission said in a statement last week. 

"Hundreds of testimonies from prisoners reveal shocking and horrific accounts of what has occurred and is ongoing against both male and female prisoners,” said the commission, basing its statement on recent visits made by lawyers to the prisoners. 

“This includes the testimonies of female prisoners from Gaza, who have faced violations and crimes more severe and cruel than ever since the war began.”

Read more: Nearly 100 Palestinian women face conditions ‘beyond all imaginable limits’, including overcrowding, confiscations of hijabs and medical neglect

An Israeli bombing raid targeting a building in Ain Yaacoub, in the northern Lebanese governorate of Akkar, has killed eight people and wounded another 14, Lebanese authorities said on Monday. 

ثمانية شهداء وأربعة عشر جريحا في حصيلة أولية للغارة على عين يعقوب - عكار

صدر عن مركز عمليات طوارئ الصحة العامة التابع لوزارة الصحة العامة بيان أعلن أن غارة العدو الإسرائيلي على عين يعقوب - عكار أدت في حصيلة أولية إلى سقوط ثمانية شهداء وإصابة أربعة عشر آخرين بجروح.

— Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon (@mophleb) November 11, 2024

Akkar is located northwest of Tripoli, closer to the Syrian border with Lebanon. 

Lebanese officials say close to 3300 people have now been killed by Israel since 8 October 2023. Approximately 1,000 were killed just this month. 

Palestinian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are calling on the United Nations and the Palestinian government in Ramallah to immediately declare a "famine zone" in Gaza, according to a Facebook post published Monday. 

The post, published on the page of the Palestinian NGO Network, known as PNGO, points to the UN Famine Review Committee’s recent alert, which warns that ‎the situation in northern Gaza is critical and rapidly deteriorating, demanding urgent ‎action.‎

"PNGO confirms that the Israeli occupation continues to prevent the entry of essential ‎food, medical supplies, and water into northernGaza and severely limits access to aid ‎across the rest of the Gaza Strip, allowing only 30 aid trucks daily; a fraction that meets ‎just 6% of the region's essential needs.‎" 

PNGO was established in September 1993, after the signing of the Oslo Accords, with the objective of enhancing coordination, consultation and cooperation among the different sectors of civil society. It comprises 133 organisations working in different developmental fields. 

An Associated Press report published on Monday says Israel has begun a road construction project along the "Alpha Line" that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria, according to satellite imagery acquired earlier this month. 

The report says that Israeli troops entered the demilitarised zone, according to a United Nations source. The move is a violation of the ceasefire in the area. 

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has told his department to prepare for the annexation of the occupied West Bank in the wake of Donald Trump victory in the US elections.

Speaking at a meeting of his far-right Religious Zionism party, Smotrich said that Trump's victory provided an "important opportunity" and that "the time has come to apply sovereignty" over the West Bank.

According to a statement from his office, Smotrich said he had instructed Israeli authorities overseeing West Bank settlements "to begin professional and comprehensive staff work to prepare the necessary infrastructure" for extending sovereignty.

The EU said it was "appalled" by continued Israeli attacks on Lebanon, including on a town “away from Hezbollah area".

Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the bloc condemned an attack on Sunday that killed at least 38 people - including seven children - in the town of Almat, north of Beirut.

“No one, including [the Israeli military], can be indifferent to the high number of civilians killed,” he said.

Israel's parliament has expelled a prominent left-wing Jewish MP over his support for South Africa's case against Israel in the International Court of Justice.

Ofer Kassif, the only Jewish MP for the left-wing Hadash party, will be suspended for six months after accusing Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza.

Through this period his pay will be withheld.

Lebanon's prime minister has urged the international community to support the state rather than factions in the country, which was seen a veiled criticism of Iran and its backing for Hezbollah.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati, speaking at a summit of Arab and Islamic countries, demanded that countries stop "interfering in its internal affairs by supporting this or that group, but rather support Lebanon as a state and entity".

Israel's new foreign minister has said his country should reach out to Kurds and other regional minorities who are "natural" allies.

Gideon Saar, who was appointed foreign minister following the sacking of Yoav Gallant last week, said that they should look to Kurds, Druze and others in addition to Saudi Arabia for support in a largely hostile region.

"The Kurdish people are a great nation, one of the great nations without political independence. [They are] our natural ally," he said, speaking at his ministerial exchange and inauguration ceremony.

"It is a national minority in four different countries, in two of which it enjoys autonomy: de facto in Syria and de jure in the Iraqi constitution. He is a victim of oppression and aggression from Iran and Turkey. We need to reach out to him and strengthen our ties with him. This has both political and security aspects."

He said that the Druze minorities in Lebanon and Syria should also be reached out to.

I spoke to my family in Gaza a day before the US election. Our conversation followed days of silence, of unbearable waiting, with every hour deepening my dread.

When I finally heard my nephew’s voice, I felt relief, but it quickly gave way to heartbreak. At just 21, his voice now carries a sadness and exhaustion far beyond his years. 

“Does it even matter who wins?” he asked me, his tone hollow and resigned. “[Donald] Trump or anyone else - it doesn’t matter. Will he end this war?”

Read more: Gaza doesn't care about Trump or Harris - only survival matters

The Israeli army has arrested at least 20 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank - including former prisoners - during a campaign overnight, the Palestinian Prisoners Society and the Palestinian Authority’s Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, said in a statement.

Arrest operations were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Qalqilya and Nablus, the statement said.

Over 11,600 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since 7 October 2023.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called for immediate ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon at a joint Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit on Monday.

Mohammed bin Salman said the international community must "immediately halt the Israeli actions against our brothers in Palestine and Lebanon", condemning Israel's war on Gaza as "genocide".

Hezbollah said it had not received any ceasefire proposals despite Israel’s newly appointed foreign minister Gideon Saar saying "certain progress" had been made, according to Al Jazeera.

“So far, according to my information, nothing official has reached Lebanon or us in this regard,” the head of Hezbollah’s media office, Mohammad Afif, said at a news conference in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

“I believe that we are still in the phase of testing the waters and presenting initial ideas and proactive discussions, but so far there is nothing actual yet,” he added.

Saar earlier said Israel was “working with the Americans on the issue” and was ready for a settlement if Hezbollah agreed to retreat beyond the Litani River.

Palestinian photojournalist Mohammed Abdul Aziz Khreis was killed along with his wife in an Israeli air strike targeted tents of the displaced in the Al Sawarah area, west of the Al Nuseirat camp, central Gaza, Quds News Network reported.

BREAKING | Palestinian photojournalist Mohammed Abdul Aziz Khreis was killed along with his wife after an Israeli military drone targeted tents of the displaced in the Al-Sawarah area, west of the Al-Nuseirat camp, central Gaza. pic.twitter.com/bpftvWXUB7

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) November 10, 2024