If you’re just joining usHere are the latest developments:
In the Gaza Strip:78 Palestinians have been killed and 214 wounded in the latest 48-hour reporting period, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Gaza’s civil defence agency says that 12 people have now been killed in the Israeli air strike on a school housing displaced people in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City.
At least six people have been killed in an Israeli bombing of Rafah city in southern Gaza, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
In Lebanon:Three Lebanese citizens have been killed in an Israeli strike on the outskirts of Sidon. Five UNIFIL peacekeepers and three Lebanese soldiers were also wounded.
In the occupied West BankThe Israeli army has rounded up at least 18 Palestinians, including two girls, in raids, according to prisoners’ affairs groups.
In IsraelLawmakers in Israel’s parliament gave final approval to legislation allowing the government to deport family members of so-called “terrorists” to Gaza and elsewhere, even if they are Israeli citizens.
The Israeli parliament has also given its final approval to a law granting the Education Ministry the authority to fire, without notice, teachers who have identified with a “terrorist act”.
UNIFIL confirms five peacekeepers injured in Sidon strikeUNIFIL has released a statement regarding the Israeli strike on the outskirts of Sidon in Lebanon.
It said that its “newly arrived” peacekeepers were in the vicinity of a drone strike, lightly injuring five of them.
It said the injured peacekeepers were treated by the Lebanese Red Cross on the spot and that they would continue to their posts.
It reminded “all actors to avoid actions putting peacekeepers or civilians in danger,” adding that “differences should be resolved at the negotiating table, not through violence.”
Israel buys 25 US-made F-15 aircraft for $5.2bnIsrael has signed a deal for the purchase of 25 advanced US-made F-15 aircraft worth $5.2bn, the country’s defence ministry has said.
“The Ministry of Defense signed last night (Wednesday) the huge deal for the purchase of the next generation of F-15 aircraft, under which it will purchase 25 advanced fighter jets manufactured by the American company Boeing,” read a statement.
“The transaction, amounting to about $5.2 billion, will be carried out from American aid funds and it also includes an option for the future purchase of 25 additional aircraft.”
Hezbollah claims five attacks on Israeli targetsThe Lebanese armed group says its fighters launched rockets at a group of Israeli soldiers at the gate of the Hermon military site near the Lebanese border.
The group also claimed to have targeted the Israeli forces with missiles in the Liman, Hanita and Saar settlements in northern Israel, as well as the Al-Karyot residential complex in northern Haifa.
New Knesset laws pave way for ‘teachers to be targets for persecution’Nour OdehReporting from Amman, JordanAl Jazeera is reporting from outside Israel because it has been banned by the Israeli government.
One law allows for the deportation of citizens of Israel of Palestinian descent who happen to be family members of people who have attacked Israel or had planned to attack Israel. They would be deported if they were deemed to have had prior knowledge or if they had expressed sympathy with the act or with so-called terrorist organisations.
All Palestinian factions are labelled as terrorist organisations by Israel.
Any expression of sympathy with the victims of the war in Gaza has been labelled as an expression of support for terror, especially in the past year.
The other law targets Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem, which Israel has annexed illegally, as well as schools inside Israel proper, run by Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Any expression of Palestinian identity, or support for Palestinian aspirations, any use of national symbols would be deemed in a very sweeping, very elastic notion of terrorism, those teachers would be sacked without prior notice.
The Ministry of Education could also defund the schools. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel has sounded the alarm, saying that this bill against teachers in particular opens the way for Palestinian teachers to be targets for persecution.
Hamas calls for three days of protestsIn a statement, Hamas has called on the “Palestinian people, the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation, and to the free people of the world” to carry out three days of protests.
The statement added that the protests will be “in support of our people, to condemn the war of extermination, to pressure to stop the aggression, and to denounce the American and Western support for the horrific massacres to which our people are being subjected in the Gaza Strip”.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,469 Palestinians and injured 102,561 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Dozens of Lebanon MPs demand UN protection of heritage sitesMore than 100 Lebanese lawmakers have issued an appeal to the United Nations, demanding the preservation of heritage sites in areas heavily bombed by Israel during its war with Hezbollah.
“During the devastating war on Lebanon, Israel has caused grave human rights violations and atrocities,” said a letter addressed to UNESCO’s chief, demanding “the protection of Lebanon’s historic sites in Baalbek, Tyre, Sidon, and other invaluable landmarks currently at risk due to the escalation of the atrocities.”
German parliament passes motion to combat anti-SemitismThe German Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, has overwhelmingly approved a resolution to combat anti-Semitism.
The text calls for a ban on public funding for any group “that spreads anti-Semitism, calls into question Israel’s right to exist or calls for a boycott of Israel”.
In cases of anti-Semitic acts in schools and universities, it calls for those responsible to be excluded from classes or even expelled.
The motion received broad support from a range of political parties, including the centre-left Social Democrats, the conservative CDU-CSU, the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats.
About 100 Jewish artists and intellectuals living in Germany said in a statement the resolution would “weaken, rather than strengthen, the diversity of Jewish life in Germany by associating all Jews with the actions of the Israeli government”.
The general secretary of Amnesty International’s Germany chapter, Julia Duchrow, said that while the rights group “explicitly welcomes the goal of adopting measures to fight anti-Semitism, … the resolution adopted today not only fails to achieve this, it could lead to serious violations of basic human rights and legal uncertainty”.
Houthi leader says Trump will fail to end Israel-Palestine conflictThe leader of Yemen’s Houthi group has criticised Trump for supporting Israel, saying the US president-elect would fail to end the Middle East conflict in his second term.
Abdul Malik al-Houthi said a series of normalisation deals between Arab countries and Israel brokered by Trump’s administration during his first term did not help bring the conflict closer to an end.
“Trump failed in the project of … ‘the deal of the century’ despite all his arrogance, haughtiness, recklessness and tyranny, and he will fail this time as well,” Houthi said in his weekly speech.
The Houthis, who have controlled the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, since 2014, have attacked merchant vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and also fired on Israel itself in stated solidarity with the Palestinians.
“Trump himself had a previous presidential term and was keen to provide achievements for the Israelis.”
What matters for Iranian people is the US’s deeds: IranIran says the US presidential election is a domestic issue for Americans and what matters to the Iranians is Washington’s behaviour.
“It is for the American people to elect their president and they have now made their choice,” Esmail Baghaei, the spokesman of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.
He said, “Every new election provides opportunities for revisiting and reconsidering unjust and ill-suited approaches.”
“What matters for us is the US’s deeds,” Baghaei said, adding that Iranians had “very bitter experiences from past consecutive American administrations.”
Hezbollah’s hope not tied to any US administration, lawmaker saysHezbollah welcomes any effort to stop the war in Lebanon but does not pin its hopes for a ceasefire on any particular US administration, Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim al-Moussawi said when asked about Trump’s election victory.
‘We warned you’: Arab Americans in Michigan tell HarrisAli HarbWhen Fox News called Pennsylvania for Trump in the early hours of Wednesday, all but confirming that he would be the next president of the US, there were a handful of Arab activists left at a watch party in Dearborn, Michigan.
“Genocide is bad politics,” said one attendee at the event, which had Palestinian and Lebanese flags hanging outside its doors.
As the reality of another Trump presidency set off anger and sorrow from many Democratic commentators, at the Arab American gathering there was a sense of indifference – if not vindication.
Activist Adam Abusalah said part of the reason why Harris lost was her decision to side with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the expense of alienating the Democratic base – Arab and Muslim Americans as well as young people and progressives.
“It’s not our fault. They cannot vilify our community,” Abusalah said.
“We’ve been warning the Democrats for over a year now, and the Democrats continue to downplay what’s going on.”
Uncle of Hezbollah’s late leader Nasrallah reported killedHezbollah has reported that an uncle of the movement’s late leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has been killed in an Israeli attack.
In a post on social media, the movement said that sources had announced the death of Nasrallah’s uncle – identified as Abu Haider Nasrallah – in an attack in southern Lebanon’s Bazouriyeh area, in Tyre district.
He was killed alongside his family, Hezbollah said in a short post.
Hassan Nasrallah, 64, was killed in an Israeli strike in September after leading the armed group for 32 years.
Nasrallah was replaced as Hezbollah’s secretary-general by Naim Qassem, the longtime number two to the late leader.
Survey reveals majority of Danes want ban on weapon parts sale to IsraelAn opinion poll on the war on Gaza shows that 54.3 percent of Danes are in favour of banning the export of Danish weapon parts to Israel.
International rights groups, including Amnesty International, have repeatedly called for an arms embargo on Israel, citing numerous human rights violations.
The survey, conducted by Analyse Danmark for the Danish news outlet Puls48 between October 31 and November 5, also found:
Almost 70 percent of respondents believe Denmark should intensify its pressure on Israel to guarantee humanitarian aid access to Gaza.Nearly 45 percent of people favour Denmark supporting South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ concerning allegations of genocide in Gaza.''Close to 59 percent of respondents favour Denmark officially recognising Palestine as an independent state.
Nearly 55 percent support a national ban on products made in Israeli settlements.''
Ireland to join South Africa’s ICJ ‘genocide’ case against IsraelThe Republic of Ireland intends to join South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) before the end of the year, its foreign minister said.
Micheal Martin’s comments came as the Irish parliament passed a non-binding motion agreeing that “genocide is being perpetrated before our eyes by Israel in Gaza”.
In December, South Africa brought a case before the ICJ, arguing that the war in Gaza breached the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention, an accusation Israel has strongly denied.
Several nations have added their weight to the proceedings, including Spain, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Turkey, Chile and Libya.
Ireland said it would file a submission to the court once South Africa had submitted a document supporting its claims, which it did on Monday.
“The government’s decision to intervene in the South African case was based on detailed and rigorous legal analysis,” Martin told lawmakers in the Dail Eireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament.
“Ireland is a strong supporter of the work of the court and is deeply committed to international law and accountability.”
South Africa announced on Monday that it had filed a so-called memorial with the ICJ claiming “evidence” of a “genocide” committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Gallant says Israel will face consequences if military presence in Gaza continuesIsrael’s recently fired Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has warned that it will prove costly for Israel if it continues its military presence in Gaza.
“I don’t know if it is possible to influence him [Netanyahu] into a ceasefire,” he told families of Israeli captives in Gaza, according to media outlet Days of Palestine.
“I tried and failed. I was isolated in the cabinet, and both the head of the Shin Bet, the chief of staff, and the head of the Mossad agreed with me on the necessity of reaching a deal.”
Moreover, Gallant pointed out that Netanyahu’s stance on the matter was driven by “neither security or political” concerns.
“At the beginning of July, Hamas agreed to a prisoner swap deal, and the conditions have been favourable since then. But until now, we’ve been in disagreement about whether it is ripe or not. I believed, and still believe, that we should be prepared to make a prisoner exchange deal and withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor,” he added.
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