Live: Major clashes break out near Bethlehem after Israeli raid

At least 570 Palestinians, including 41 children, were arrested in the occupied West Bank in November, according to a statement from the Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies earlier today.

This brings the total number of arrests in the West Bank to 21,000 since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

According to local sources, these numbers do not include mass arrests conducted by Israeli forces during daily raids on Palestinian cities.

Prominent Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti has been “brutally” assaulted by Israeli prison guards, according to information relayed to his family.

The account passed to them claimed that part of Barghouti’s ear had been cut off, and that his ribs, fingers and teeth were broken during repeated rounds of beatings.

Arab Barghouti, Marwan's son, told Middle East Eye that the family learnt of the assault through a phone call from a man who identified himself as a recently released Palestinian prisoner. 

He said his father’s condition was described as “extremely difficult and very dangerous”.

Read more: Marwan Barghouti brutally assaulted in Israeli prison, family told

Israeli artillery shelling injured a number of Palestinians in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, according to Wafa news agency.

Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have been ongoing since October, in spite of the ceasefire agreement.

Gaza Civil Defence teams completed 294 missions this past week, the its media office announced on Telegram on Friday.

At least 115 of the teams’ operations were rescue missions, while 108 were ambulance missions.

The operations come as the Israeli military has continued bombing Gaza, in spite of the ceasefire agreement reached in October. 

A 27 November Amnesty International report said that Israeli attacks have killed over 347 people in Gaza since the agreement.

Israeli forces stormed the town of Barta’a near Jenin, raiding houses and arresting residents, Wafa news agency reported.

According to the report, the local Prisoners Club stated that the Israeli military also stole money and destroyed property during the raid. 

Israeli forces also beat a 57-year-old Palestinian man at the Barta’a checkpoint, leading him to be hospitalized, Wafa reported.

Israel is threatening to demolish a refugee camp’s popular youth football ground built on land owned by the Armenian church on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the shadow of the West Bank separation wall.

The artificial grass pitch, which was installed in 2021, is regularly played on by youngsters from Aida refugee camp, including girls who have represented the Palestine women’s national teams at youth level.

Early one morning two weeks ago, Israeli soldiers pinned a notice to the gates of the football ground ordering a halt to all activities at the site and warning that it could be demolished because it had been built without the correct permits. A nearby theatre and a garden in the area were served with similar notices.

Read more: Israel is threatening to demolish a popular West Bank youth football pitch

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said in its weekly briefing that Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank - particularly in Jenin and Tubas - affected more than 95,000 Palestinians over the past week.

According to the agency, almost half of the 227 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers between 1 January and 1 December were from the Jenin and Nablus governorates, with four fatalities recorded in the last week alone.

Ocha also reported a sharp rise in settler violence, documenting 1,680 attacks across more than 270 Palestinian communities since the start of the year, averaging five incidents per day.

The ongoing olive harvest has been particularly targeted, with 178 settler assaults reported in October and November across 88 communities, underscoring what the agency described as “widespread” and persistent violence.

A Palestinian youth, who was earlier reported to be critically wounded during an Israeli raid on the West Bank town of Odala, south of Nablus, has died of his injuries.

Medical sources said Bahaa Rashid was shot in the head by Israeli forces during the overnight incursion.

A medical source told Al Jazeera that a Palestinian youth was shot in the head during an Israeli army raid on the West Bank town of Odala, south of Nablus.

The Palestinian embassy in London has accused the UK government of failing to uphold its diplomatic obligations after a series of attacks on its building.

A spokesperson for the embassy said it has "requested multiple times that the UK government provide protection to the Embassy of the State of Palestine in the UK".

"We did not receive any proper security arrangements to protect our embassy and staff," the spokesperson told Middle East Eye.

"At this point, we kindly request the UK government fulfil its obligations under the Vienna Convention," they added.

According to the embassy, incidents targeting the building have become increasingly frequent and severe since Israel began its genocidal war on Gaza. 

Read more: Palestinian embassy accuses UK government of failing to provide security after 'multiple' attacks

The Israeli military said on Friday it intercepted an attempt to smuggle nine pistols and a large number of cartridges across the Jordanian border, according to the Israeli news outlet Haaretz.

According to the Israeli army spokesperson’s office, aerial surveillance and border control forces detected a drone crossing into Israel overnight. Soldiers on the ground confiscated both the drone and the weapons.

Israeli settlers attacked the town of al-Taybeh east of Ramallah early Wednesday, setting fire to two vehicles before fleeing after being confronted by local youth, according to Al Jazeera.

In Turmus‘ayya, north of Ramallah, settlers reportedly bulldozed farmland and uprooted olive trees, while Israeli forces prevented Palestinian farmers from reaching their fields.

The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (Unifil) said Israeli airstrikes yesterday in its area of operations in southern Lebanon constituted a “clear violation” of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

A Palestinian youth, Aws Bani Harith, from the village of Kharbatha in the Ramallah governorate in the occupied West Bank, was reportedly beaten by Israeli settlers, leaving him with severe injuries.

He was taken to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah for treatment following the assault.

Here are the latest updates from Israel's war on Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank:

• Israeli forces stepped up their operations across Gaza overnight. An Al Jazeera correspondent reported that military helicopters unleashed heavy gunfire along the eastern sector inside the so-called “yellow line” in Khan Younis.

•  Palestinian media outlets said Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes targeting eastern districts of Gaza City, marking a sharp escalation in the enclave’s ongoing violence.

• Axios reports that Donald Trump is preparing to move into “phase two” of the Gaza peace process ahead of Christmas. US officials say a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected before the end of the month to discuss the next stage of the agreement

• Hamas said that militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab -  accused of working with Israeli forces and who was reported to be killed - has met the “inevitable fate” of a collaborator. The group accused him of committing “criminal acts” that violated national and social norms.

• Yemen’s Houthi rebels freed 11 crew members on Wednesday held since a July attack that sank the cargo ship Eternity C, according to the Associated Press. Oman took custody of the mariners, who are now en route home, though images released by the Houthis showed only 10 of the crew.

• A US federal judge said she was “struggling” to understand why Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish PhD student and pro-Palestinian activist, remains barred from Tufts nearly seven months after her release from US immigration detention. The judge questioned whether Ice acted arbitrarily by removing her from the federal student database after she co-wrote an opinion piece critical of the university’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza.