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A Palestinian was killed by Israeli army fire in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, the Baptist Hospital reported.

The attack outside the so-called yellow line, highlighting the continued Israeli attacks on civilian areas in the southern Gaza Strip.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence to oppose a planned pardon, following a formal request from US President Donald Trump, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

Protesters insisted Netanyahu must face justice, emphasising that “Israel is a state of law” and rejecting claims that the country should act as “a Trump protectorate or a banana republic”.

Last week Netanyahu also formally requested a pardon from President Isaac Herzog over his ongoing corruption charges.

US President Donald Trump issued a veiled warning against Israel on Monday not to interfere with Syria’s “evolution” after it conducted a deadly raid against its neighbour that killed more than a dozen people.

“The United States is very satisfied with the results displayed, through hard work and determination, in the country of Syria,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, TruthSocial.

“It is very important that Israel maintain a strong and true dialogue with Syria and that nothing takes place that will interfere with Syria’s evolution into a prosperous state,” he added.

The Israeli army killed at least 13 people on Friday during a raid on a village in southern Syria. The villagers of Beit Jinn, which sits just 50km southwest of Damascus, tried to repel the Israeli attack, Syrian media reported. Israeli warplanes launched air strikes to prevent the troops from being "encircled", Syrian media reported.

The Israeli military said that six of its soldiers were wounded, three of them seriously. 

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The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Israeli occupation soldiers are holding the bodies of two Palestinians from Hebron and Beit Rima after they were executed.

Israeli troops forced residents of 13 neighbouring buildings to evacuate as they prepared to demolish the home of Abdul Karim Sanoubar in the occupied West Bank.

Sanoubar, a Palestinian prisoner, carried out a bombing on an Israeli bus last February. The military carried out the demolition early on Tuesday, targeting the house of his family, local sources reported.

The operation displaced residents temporarily and came amid Israel’s broader policy of punitive home demolitions in the occupied West Bank, a practice widely criticised by human rights groups as collective punishment.

Israeli occupation soldiers carried out dawn raids in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, detaining four Palestinians after storming and searching their homes, reported the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Local sources told Wafa that troops seized Iyad Omar Al-Nubani, Montaser Abu Samra and Jamal Jihad Al-Sarouji from the Azbat Al-Tayyah area, as well as Sameh Tawfiq Ghazal from the Al-Sawana neighbourhood.

Soldiers also ransacked the home of Musab Qouzah in the Dhannaba area, east of the city, during the operation.

Rights groups say such raids form part of Israel’s wider campaign of mass arrests and collective punishment across the occupied West Bank.

The British government has sharply criticised the obstruction of humanitarian aid into Gaza after a shipment of more than 1,100 UK-funded tents took over a year to enter the besieged territory.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper warned that other British-backed assistance remains blocked from reaching Palestinians, despite what Israel describes as a ceasefire with Hamas.

She said the situation in Gaza is “dire”, as the United Nations reports that at least 1.5 million people urgently need shelter while heavy rain and falling temperatures deepen the humanitarian catastrophe.

The tents, each designed to house a family of five, finally entered Gaza on Monday, with further deliveries expected later this week.

Government officials said the shipment could provide temporary shelter for up to 12,000 people, though aid groups stress that Israel’s restrictions continue to choke relief efforts and leave hundreds of thousands exposed.

Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian boy during an operation in the city of Hebron on Tuesday morning, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified him as 17-year-old Muhannad Tariq Muhammad Al-Zughair, saying Israeli gunfire struck him near the Abu Dajjan area in the southern part of the city.

Israeli occupation troops shot a Palestinian man near Kiryat Arba after an alleged car-ramming incident.

Israeli forces said a Palestinian driver struck a soldier with his vehicle near the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba, in the southern occupied West Bank, causing minor injuries.

After the incident, Israeli troops launched a search operation across the Hebron area. They later located the driver inside the same vehicle and opened fire, killing him at the scene, according to the Israeli army.

The shooting comes amid Israel’s intensified use of lethal force across the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians face escalating military raids, settler violence and routine use of deadly power under occupation.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

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

• An Israeli drone strike killed two Palestinian boys, aged eight and 10, in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis.

• Israeli artillery shelled the eastern parts of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, as local media reported sustained bombardment in residential areas.

• Israeli military vehicles opened fire east of the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Palestinian sources speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic, heightening fear among civilians trapped in the densely populated area.

• Israeli occupation forces stormed the courtyard of the Royal Hospital in the Zeitoun suburb of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, further violating the sanctity of medical spaces.

• Israeli forces also raided the town of Halhul, north of Hebron, launching home searches and a broad campaign of intimidation against residents.

• The occupation army claimed that an Israeli soldier was injured in a car-ramming incident in Hebron and said its forces “spotted the perpetrator before he was able to escape.”

• US President Donald Trump has invited Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in the “near future”, which would mark the latter’s fifth visit since Trump returned to office in January, underscoring Washington’s continued political backing despite Israel’s escalating violence.

The Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Eyal Zamir, said an incident in which Israeli police killed two Palestinians who had surrendered in the West Bank,needs to be investigated, Haaretz reported on Monday. 

Israeli armed forces say their Southern Command unit killed a Palestinian who crossed an Israeli-controlled buffer zone that was agreed as part of the ceasefire within the Gaza Strip on Monday.

According to an IDF statement Haaretz posted, "a terrorist [...] crossed the yellow line and approached the troops, posing an immediate threat.

"After the identification, troops alerted the Air Force which eliminated the terrorist," the statement added.

The person killed has not been identified. Israeli soldiers also killed two other Palestinians trying to cross the 'yellow line' earlier in the day. 

Palestinians who have been trying to return to their homes on the Israeli-controlled buffer zone of the unmarked 'yellow line' since the ceasefire have been killed by Israeli soldiers without warning and accused of being terrorists. 

Gaza's Civil Defense said between 30 and 40 people have been killed crossing the yellow line between the ceasefire on 11 October and mid-November and they were killed without warning.

The president of the International Criminal Court and key European members on Monday issued a defiant declaration of the tribunal's independence in the face of US sanctions against several of its top officials, AFP reported.

Opening an annual meeting that brought together representatives from the countries that are part of the ICC, Tomoko Akane said, "Let me be explicit. We never accept any kind of pressure from anyone.

"Our independence and impartiality are our Pole Stars and remain unaffected. Our loyalties are only with the Rome Statute (which established the ICC and sets out its powers) and international law," said the Japanese jurist.

The ICC, which prosecutes individuals for war crimes and crimes against humanity, is suffering arguably the most difficult period in its 23-year history.

US President Donald Trump, angry at arrest warrants issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the conduct of the war in Gaza, has slapped sanctions on key officials, including judges and prosecutors.

Neither the United States nor Israel is party to the ICC. But in 2021, the court ruled that its jurisdiction extends to the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

US President Donald Trump issued a veiled warning against Israel on Monday not to interfere with Syria’s “evolution” after it conducted a deadly raid against its neighbour that killed more than a dozen people.

“The United States is very satisfied with the results displayed, through hard work and determination, in the country of Syria,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, TruthSocial.

“It is very important that Israel maintain a strong and true dialogue with Syria and that nothing takes place that will interfere with Syria’s evolution into a prosperous state,” he added.

The Israeli army killed at least 13 people on Friday during a raid on a village in southern Syria. The villagers of Beit Jinn, which sits just 50km southwest of Damascus, tried to repel the Israeli attack, Syrian media reported. Israeli warplanes launched air strikes to prevent the troops from being "encircled", Syrian media reported.

The Israeli military said that six of its soldiers were wounded, three of them seriously. 

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Israeli soldiers opened fire on several Palestinians and wounded a 30-year-old man on Monday evening in a town north of Jerusalem, Wafa news agency reported. 

The man was shot in the leg near the separation wall in the town of al-Ram. 

The incident happened after Israeli soldiers chased several workers near the separation wall and then suddenly opened fire on them. 

Since the beginning of the year, Israeli soldiers have killed 15 workers who have crossed the wall to get to work, according to data from the General Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions.

Hundreds more have been detained by Israeli police.

Before Israel’s war on Gaza began after the 7 October 2023 attack, at least 390,000 Palestinians worked in Israel. But after the war, many of their work permits were "revoked". Some have continued to risk their lives for temporary work. Since October 2023, the federation has recorded 42 workers being killed and 32,000 people being detained by the Israeli army. 

The International Court of Justice, in an Advisory Opinion in July 2004, deemed the wall illegal and called on Israel to dismantle it.