Updates: Displaced Palestinians suffer as winter weather takes hold in Gaza

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To learn more about Israel’s last-ditch bid to change the wording of a UN Security Council resolution that was recently amended to mention a “credible pathway” to Palestinian statehood, read here.

And here is a story on how Palestinian artists carry the New Visions spirit of resilience.

For all our coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict, here is our dedicated page.

But, before we go, here’s a recap of today’s main events:

• An Israeli drone strike killed one person after targeting Lebanon’s town of al-Mansouri, near Tyre.
• The Israeli government announced the establishment of an independent investigative committee – and not a state commission of inquiry – to look into the failures that led to the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel in 2023.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet he “did not know” how long the Gaza ceasefire would hold, according to The Jerusalem Post.
• Israeli forces have shot dead a 15-year-old ninth grader in the Far’a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, education officials have said.
• The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has said Israeli soldiers have fired at its peacekeepers from a tank near an army position in southern Lebanon. Israel said its soldiers fired due to “poor weather conditions” and mistook the UN patrol for “suspects”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that the escalating wave of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank “does not represent the large community of settlers who are law-abiding and loyal to the state”, The Jerusalem Post is reporting.

Netanyahu said the uptick in settler violence is “caused by a minority”, according to the outlet.

The UN’s humanitarian office tracked more than 260 Israeli settler attacks in October alone in the occupied West Bank – the highest number in a single month since the agency began tracking them in 2006.

Israel is pushing to formally annex the Palestinian territory in violation of international law.

One month into the declaration of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Israel has violated the agreement with near-daily attacks, killing hundreds of people.

Israel violated the ceasefire agreement at least 282 times from October 10 to November 10, through the continuation of attacks by air, artillery and direct shootings, the Government Media Office in Gaza reports.

The office said Israel shot at civilians 88 times, raided residential areas beyond the “yellow line” 12 times, bombed Gaza 124 times, and demolished people’s properties on 52 occasions. It added that Israel also detained 23 Palestinians from Gaza over the past month.

Israel has also continued to block vital humanitarian aid and destroy homes and infrastructure across the Strip.

Al Jazeera tracked and compiled all of the ceasefire violations to date. Check out our findings here.

Desperate and displaced Palestinians who’ve survived more than two years of war in Gaza are now enduring harsh weather conditions.

Heavy rain has flooded makeshift tents, causing some of them to collapse.

Many in southern Gaza say their belongings, including their bedding, are completely soaked after days of rain. Cold temperatures are worsening the already dire living conditions across the Strip.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud is in Gaza City with more on how the harsh weather is posing serious health risks:

The Haaretz investigation reveals that Al-Majd Europe is a phoney company; the address it provides in occupied East Jerusalem is false; It doesn’t have registration in Germany, as it claimed; and its connection to another, shady individual, a dual Estonian-Israeli citizen Tomer Janar Lind.

This man is linked to several phoney companies, some listed in London, Dubai and so on, all having the wrong number or no registration.

Now, this man spoke to Haaretz, and he confirmed that he is facilitating the one-way exit of families out of Gaza in coordination with the Israeli army. But he declined to give out more information. Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli army has established a department run by the vice director-general of the Ministry of Defence in charge of so-called voluntary migration of Palestinians out of Gaza, and what that unit does is facilitate the exit of any Palestinian who wishes to leave the Strip.

As far as they’re concerned, that means they will not return. This is, of course, not the intended target of Palestinians wishing to leave for education, for medical treatment, or like those families who ended up in Johannesburg. They had no idea where they were going to be. They just wanted to be out of Gaza, some of them having visas to other third countries.

According to the UN Satellite Centre, more than 80 percent of all structures in Gaza are damaged.

“Many buildings are at risk of collapse, especially given the imminent onset of winter rains that heighten the risk of further damage to already unstable structures,” the UN agency said in a statement.

Levels of destruction across #Gaza are harrowing.

According to the United Nations Satellite Centre, around 81% of all structures in Gaza are damaged.

Many buildings are at risk of collapse, especially given the imminent onset of winter rains that heighten the risk of further… pic.twitter.com/VIXJwMdzFG

— UNRWA (@UNRWA) November 16, 2025

The council head of al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, has told Wafa that Israeli settlers have attacked the village’s eastern plains and taken off with residents’ agricultural equipment.

As we reported earlier, the UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) has documented 167 settler attacks related to this year’s olive harvest season, affecting 87 Palestinian communities.

In August, the Israeli military destroyed 3,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir in an attack that also saw troops storm more than 30 homes.

As we’ve been reporting, some 13,000 families in Gaza are currently enduring harsh weather and low temperatures in makeshift shelters and tents, their homes destroyed during two years of indiscriminate Israeli bombardment.

The social media video below, verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit, shows a Palestinian child in the rain wearing inadequate clothing, showing a small window into what thousands of people in Gaza are enduring as winter arrived in the enclave this week.

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Israel is engaged in a last-ditch bid to change the wording of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution on the next phase of United States President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan that was recently amended to mention a “credible pathway” to Palestinian statehood.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that his opposition to a Palestinian state had “not changed one bit”, one day before the UNSC votes on the US-drafted resolution, which would mandate a transitional administration and an international stabilisation force (ISF) in Gaza.

Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported on Sunday that Netanyahu’s government was engaged in a last-minute diplomatic push to alter the draft resolution, which the US had changed to include more defined language about Palestinian self-determination under pressure from Arab and Muslim countries expected to contribute troops to the ISF.

The draft now says that “conditions may be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” after reforms to the Palestinian Authority are “faithfully carried out and Gaza redevelopment has advanced”.

Read more here.

If you’re just joining us, here are the latest developments:

• A boy who was shot dead by Israeli security forces earlier today in the Far’a refugee camp was a 15-year-old ninth grader, Palestinian education officials said.
• Palestinian factions are calling on Algeria – a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) – to reject the plan for stabilisation forces to be deployed in Gaza.
• The UNSC is slated to vote on a draft tomorrow that would allow roughly 20,000 foreign troops – empowered to use force – to secure Gaza’s borders, train Palestinian police and demilitarise police.
• The October Council, a group representing family members of captives and those killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks, has rejected Israel’s announcement earlier today that a government-appointed investigative committee – rather than a state commission of inquiry – will examine the 2023 events.
• An Israeli military vehicle “deliberately” hit a public transport vehicle in the occupied West Bank, injuring two Palestinians, local sources told Wafa news agency.

More details are emerging from an Israeli cabinet meeting today over the future of Gaza, a day before the UN Security Council is slated to vote on a draft plan for the besieged enclave.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet he “did not know” how long the Gaza ceasefire would hold, according to The Jerusalem Post. He emphasised to ministers that Israel is “working to conclude Phase A” and that Israel is still expecting the remains of three captives to be returned by Hamas.

“We did not go to war only to free hostages,” National Missions Minister Orit Strock reportedly shot back.

The prime minister went on to say that foreign forces are “reluctant” to enter Gaza, the paper reported.

Although the Gaza stabilisation force could theoretically include up to 20,000 troops, it is not yet clear which countries may commit to sending them, and Israel has roundly rejected the possibility of Turkish participation.

Netanyahu demurred when asked about the timing of the stabilisation effort.

“We cannot ignore our managing of a seven-front war … the amount of time left cannot be quantified,” he said.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, is set to visit Washington this week. This is his first trip to the US in seven years.

Both the crown prince and US President Donald Trump expect something concrete out of the meeting.

Watch the full story below:

The boy who was shot dead by Israeli security forces earlier today in the Far’a refugee camp was a 15-year-old ninth grader, education officials say.

Security sources have identified the boy as Jadallah Jihad Jumaa Jadallah, Wafa news agency reported. The Ministry of Education confirmed he attended ninth grade at a UNRWA-run school in the Far’a camp.

As we reported earlier, Israeli forces invaded Far’a, located south of the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, shot the boy and injured two others. Soldiers refused to allow ambulance crews to assist him, and later claimed without evidence he was a “terrorist”.

Israeli forces are still holding the boy’s body, Wafa reported.

More details are emerging about the raid that occurred earlier today at the Far’a camp.

As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces shot a young Palestinian man as they raided the camp located south of the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank – then prevented the paramedics from assisting him.

Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit, Sanad, has verified two videos posted to Telegram from the shooting. One shows a young man, injured by Israeli forces, lying on the ground while surrounded by a number of soldiers.

A second verified video shows a large bloodstain on the ground in the shape of a human body.

Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that three young men were injured in the raid, but ambulance crews were only allowed to treat two of them – a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old, both of whom received shrapnel wounds.

Citing security sources, Wafa said Israeli forces “arrested” the third boy after he was shot and refused to let ambulance crews near him.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting the identity of a person with alleged links to Al-Majd Europe.

As we’ve been reporting, a chartered plane carrying 153 Palestinians landed near Johannesburg on Thursday, confusing South African officials and prompting a wave of scrutiny into the organisation that arranged the flight – in exchange for hefty fees that passengers paid to personal accounts.

Using a previous version of the Al-Majd website, Haaretz found the logo of another company – Estonian Talent Globus – that advertised “conditions for voluntary emigration from the Gaza Strip”.

Talent Globus was registered last year by Tomer Janar Lind, an Israeli-Estonian citizen who previously registered four companies in the United Kingdom and has a UK phone number.

When reached by Haaretz, Lind “did not deny his involvement in arranging the departures from Gaza but refused to say who is behind the organisation”, the outlet reported.

Read more about the recent flights in our explainer here.

Every week, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) gives an update on the humanitarian situation in the occupied West Bank. Here are a few key facts from its latest report:

• This year, more than 1,500 Palestinians have been displaced by demolitions due to the lack of permits, which are almost impossible to obtain, including about 1,000 people in Area C and 500 in occupied East Jerusalem.
• Satellite imagery shows that about 1,460 structures have been destroyed or damaged in the Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps.
• Since October 1, OCHA has documented 167 settler attacks related to this year’s olive harvest season, affecting 87 Palestinian communities.
• Between November 4 and 10, Israeli forces killed four Palestinians, including three children, in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
• Since January, 45 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces – about 23 percent of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank so far this year.
• Since January, Israeli forces’ operations in refugee camps in the northern West Bank – Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem – have generated the longest and largest displacement crisis in the territory since 1967. As of September, UNRWA figures indicate that at least 31,919 Palestinian refugees have been displaced from the three refugee camps and surrounding areas.