Updates: Israel attacks Gaza despite ceasefire killing 33 Palestinians

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We will be closing this live page soon. Here are the day’s main developments:

• An Israeli air strike on a house in southern Gaza killed three people, including a baby girl, and wounded 15 others, according to Palestinian medics.
• Palestinian civil society groups said Israel has killed more than 19,000 children and wounded 28,000 others over the past two years of war.
• Israeli settlers wounded at least two people in the latest attacks against Palestinians and their property across the occupied West Bank.
• Hamas accused Israel of shifting the so-called “yellow line” truce demarcation in Gaza – forcing a new wave of displacement – with the group calling it a “flagrant breach” of the ceasefire agreement.
• The United Nations said Israel has carried out about 7,500 airspace violations and a further 2,500 ground incursions in Lebanon during its yearlong truce with Hezbollah.
• A Human Rights Watch report said the Israeli military’s displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• British authorities arrested 47 people during a pro-Palestinian protest outside the Justice Ministry in London as the crackdown on “terrorist” supporters continues.
  

  

Activists are protesting Germany’s plans to resume weapons shipments to Israel, ending a partial ban.

Israel has killed more than 300 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect.

Germany is Israel’s second-largest weapons supplier. In August, it announced a partial suspension of weapons exports to Israel.

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Israel has carried out repeated strikes against what it says are “Hamas targets” during the ceasefire, resulting in the death of more than 312 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza.

As we’ve been reporting, at least 33 Palestinians were killed on Thursday. Wednesday’s Israeli strikes on the Strip left 27 dead, according to the Gaza civil defence agency.

“The war hasn’t ended. Nothing has really changed,” said Mohammed Hamdouna, 36, who was displaced from northern Gaza to a tent in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in the south.

“The intensity of the death toll has decreased, but martyrs and shelling happen every day. We are still living in tents. The cities are rubble, the crossings are still closed, and all the basic necessities of life are still lacking,” he noted.

The spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he’s deeply concerned about ongoing Israeli attacks that killed 33 Palestinians over the last few hours.

“It’s not for us, given our lack of participation as a guarantor, to say the ceasefire is holding or not holding … Our concern is the fragility of the ceasefire,” Stephane Dujarric said.

“People are getting killed – Palestinians are getting killed – and that needs to stop.”

Dujarric said the main focus now is getting crucial humanitarian relief to the suffering people of Gaza after two years of war.

“Mr Trump’s plan for the UN right now, this moment, is on delivering humanitarian aid. We are doing the very best that we can in using every space that is allotted to us to deliver that humanitarian aid,” he said.

The death toll from Israeli air strikes on Gaza over a roughly 12-hour period has risen to 33 – mostly women and children, hospital sources say.

Four Israeli air strikes on tents sheltering displaced people in southern Khan Younis late Wednesday and early Thursday killed 17 people, including five women and five children, according to officials at Nasser Hospital.

In Gaza City, two air attacks on a building killed 16 people, including seven children and three women, according to officials at al-Shifa Hospital in the northern part of the city, where the bodies were taken.

Hamas condemned the Israeli strikes as a “shocking massacre”. Israel said it targeted Hamas fighters.

Palestinian authorities have condemned Israel’s Knesset for advancing a bill that would cut water and electricity to UNRWA facilities and allow the state to seize lands used by the UN agency.

In a statement carried by Wafa news agency, the refugee affairs department said the move is a blatant violation of international law, warning it aims to cripple UNRWA’s work in occupied East Jerusalem by shutting down 17 facilities serving more than 200,000 Palestinian refugees.

The legislation would give legal cover to confiscate key UNRWA sites, including its Sheikh Jarrah headquarters, as part of a wider effort to undermine the UN agency’s mandate and erase the Palestinian refugee issue, it said.

The department urged the UN to take action to ensure Israel respects UNRWA’s legal protections as stipulated by the International Court of Justice’s recent advisory opinion.

Since the ceasefire went into effect on October 10, more than 300 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary spoke to residents in the enclave about whether they think the truce will hold:

Israeli forces raided the Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron, according to Palestinian sources.

Earlier, several Palestinians were wounded when Israeli settlers launched an attack on the village of Khirbet al-Markaz in the Masafer Yatta area, also south of Hebron.

The latest violence comes during near-daily raids and settler assaults targeting Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank.

UN figures show Israeli settler violence has struck Palestinian communities more than 2,400 times over the past two years, forcing at least 3,055 people from their homes, including 1,529 children.

Most of those uprooted are Bedouin and herding families who are particularly vulnerable as settlers attack with impunity.

Winter rains are worsening already dire living conditions for displaced families across the Gaza Strip, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says, with many people left without basic protection from the cold.

UNRWA estimated that about half of Gaza’s 2.3 million population is now living in displacement camps where overcrowding, flooding and a lack of shelter materials have made survival increasingly difficult.

The agency says the need for tents, blankets, tarpaulins and other essential supplies remains immense as families enter another winter without adequate housing.

Despite agreeing to allow items in under the US-brokered ceasefire, Israel continues to block critical goods from reaching the desperate people of Gaza.

Israeli soldiers walk around relaxed while 15-year-old Jad Jadallah struggles in agony. The soldiers shot him in the back, then watched on as Jad signals for help, tries to move and sit up, before finally collapsing.

Jad bled to death over 35 minutes, just metres away from his home.

Looking on helplessly was paramedic Hassan Fuqaha.

“We tried to get to him. The soldiers stopped us. They signalled to us with lasers and flashlights to leave,” he says. “We had to pull back to a safer place.”

Fuqaha says barring paramedics from saving the lives of Palestinians has become standard practice. It’s also a regular policy for Israeli soldiers to retain the bodies of Palestinians they kill.

British authorities have arrested 47 people during a pro-Palestinian protest outside the Justice Ministry in London.

Those detained gathered with banners reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

Controversially, the UK government proscribed Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group earlier this year, after some of its members vandalised two planes at a British air force base over what they said was the country’s military support for Israel.

The designation makes it illegal to show Palestine Action any support. More than 2,000 people have been arrested in connection with the ban introduced in July.

The Metropolitan Police announced on Thursday that 120 people had been charged over an August 9 demonstration in London, raising the total number of people charged for supporting the group to 254.

Huda Ammori, Palestine Action’s co-founder, is set to challenge the ban next week at a three-day trial against the Home Office.

Palestinian civil society groups say Israel has killed more than 19,000 children and wounded 28,000 others since it began its assault more than two years ago, marking World Children’s Day with a call for urgent international action.

In a statement, the Palestinian NGO Network said hundreds of schools and childcare facilities, mostly in Gaza, have been destroyed, and more than 56,000 children orphaned, having lost one or both parents in Israeli attacks.

Palestinian children face “every form of abuse and violence” including policies amounting to genocide, as well as the mass detention of minors in Israeli prisons, it said.

The groups urged the UN and humanitarian agencies to protect Palestinian children, ensure access to food, medicine and medical evacuation, and hold Israel accountable for grave violations of international law.

Israeli settlers have carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, torching property and assaulting Palestinians before Israeli forces moved in to make arrests.

In Huwara, south of Nablus, dozens of settlers from a nearby illegal settlement set fire to a vehicle scrapyard after storming the northern part of the town, local sources told the Wafa news agency.

Meanwhile, west of Ramallah, settlers accompanied by Israeli soldiers beat four Palestinians as they tried to remove a soil barrier that settlers had placed in front of their farm near the village of Kafr Nima.

The four men were then arrested by Israeli forces.

Let’s bring you up to speed:

• Israeli forces and armed settlers launched more attacks on Palestinians and their property across the occupied West Bank, including in Huwara near Nablus, villages near Tulkarem, and areas west of Ramallah, injuring at least two people.
• The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza and the International Committee of the Red Cross said they will begin the first phase of recovering bodies buried under rubble in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
• In the United Kingdom, more than 80 legal scholars and practitioners signed an open letter urging the British government to withdraw a proposed law that would give police new powers to restrict protests, including pro-Palestine demonstrations.
• Hamas accused Israel of repeatedly breaching the so-called “yellow line”, to which Israeli troops withdrew under the ceasefire while shifting it westwards.
• The United Nations said Israel has carried out about 7,500 airspace violations and a further 2,500 ground incursions in Lebanon during its year-long truce with Hezbollah.

Tens of thousands of Palestinian students took their exams after working hard to complete their studies in tents and online during two years of Israel’s genocidal war.

And many have received near-perfect scores.

Gaza has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, despite restrictions on education caused by 18 years of Israeli military blockade and decades of occupation.

“Even in a warzone with no classrooms, no books and barely any internet, Gaza’s students are showing up, logging in and sitting their final exam, refusing to let war erase their future,” says Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum.

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Mohammad Mustafa, the Palestinian prime minister, is attending a Palestinian donor conference in Belgium.

There are some 60 delegations present here looking at how to bolster the Palestinian Authority (PA) financially. The EU believes the PA should be in charge of a unified Gaza and West Bank in the future.

The bloc is the biggest funder of the PA, but those donations are very much based on deep and major reforms the EU says the PA must make.

Mustafa said it is making those reforms and has been trying to undertake them for a while. He added one of the biggest obstacles to the economic stability and development for the Palestinian people is the ongoing Israeli occupation and the war on Gaza.

The Palestinian prime minister also noted Israel continues to bloc funds.

He is asking the international community to do more for the Palestinians financially and economically. Mustafa said the PA is working towards a two-state solution, which he believes is the future for the Palestinian people.

A senior municipal official in central Gaza is warning that toxic materials from Israeli bombardment may be seeping into the territory’s groundwater, further threatening an already devastated water system.

Tariq Shahin, director of Deir el-Balah municipality, told Al-Aqsa TV news channel that widespread destruction of infrastructure has left water and sanitation networks in ruins and urgently in need of reconstruction.

Clearing the massive volumes of rubble of destroyed buildings requires resources far beyond the capacity of local municipalities, he added.

Israel’s blockade is preventing the entry of heavy machinery and essential equipment, leaving authorities unable to clear debris – where thousands remain buried – or carry out large-scale repairs to shattered infrastructure.

About 32,000 Palestinians remain forcibly displaced in the north of the occupied West Bank because of Israel’s operation “Iron Wall”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.

“Israeli authorities in early 2025 forcibly removed 32,000 Palestinians from their homes in West Bank refugee camps without regard to international legal protections, and have not permitted them to return,” said Nadia Hardman, senior refugee and migrant rights researcher at HRW.

“With global attention focused on Gaza, Israeli forces have carried out war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank that should be investigated and prosecuted.”

Ten months after he was evicted from Tulkarem refugee camp and his home demolished, resident Hakam Irhil still does not know whether he will ever be able to return.

The Israeli army claims its operation, which first targeted multiple refugee camps in mid-January, is aimed at rooting out armed groups operating in civilian neighbourhoods. It has not said when it plans to end its activities.

“Before the operation in our house — even though it was in the camp — each child had a room. Our life was better,” Irhil said.

The 41-year-old father of four now lives with his family and 18 others in a nearby school. “There is no privacy at all. I’m living in a room that’s actually a classroom — me and the five with me.”