Updates: Israel troops launch new ground invasion over Gaza’s ‘yellow line’

To read more about the 67 Palestinian children killed in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, see here.

Read our exclusive interview with Yuli Novak, executive director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, here.

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

• An Israeli drone attack injured four children in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya area as attacks throughout the Strip continue despite the ceasefire.
• At least 67 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began on October 10, according to the UN children’s agency.
• The Israeli army killed two Palestinian teenagers during a raid in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Kafr Aqab.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his opposition to an independent Palestine, saying: “There will be no Palestinian state – as simple as that.”
• One person was killed in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon in the latest deadly violation of last year’s ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.

Husni Muhanna, spokesperson for Gaza City’s municipality, said hundreds of Palestinians escaped the Tuffah and Shujayea areas after Israeli armoured vehicles advanced about 300 metres (1,000 feet) into both neighbourhoods.

He said Israel troops expanded the “yellow zone” truce demarcation by pushing concrete blocks westward.

The latest military expansion, Muhanna said, constitutes “a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement, which stipulated that Israeli forces withdraw east of the line”.

“What is happening in Tuffah and Shujayea is not a temporary displacement but a deliberate tightening on civilians by expanding the military zone known as the ‘yellow line’, increasing the suffering of families who believed they were in a safe area,” he said.

Israel continues to violate the October 10 ceasefire with killings, demolitions, land encroachment and severe restrictions on aid, which it had agreed to allow into besieged Gaza.

The Israeli army has killed a Palestinian man and detained two others in separate raids in the occupied West Bank.

The Health Ministry said Mohammed Shatyeh, 24, was killed by Israeli gunfire in the village of Tal, west of Nablus, before troops carried the body away in a military vehicle and withdrew from the area.

Soldiers entered the village, stormed the family home of Shatyeh, and shot him dead inside, said Naaman Ramadan, head of the Tal village council.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said in a statement that Israeli forces blocked crews from reaching the man at the time he was shot.

In another raid, Israeli troops arrested a young man after surrounding his home on the edge of al-Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas, according to Kamel Bani Odeh, head of the Palestinian Prisoner Society’s office in Tubas.

Israeli forces also arrested another young man from Khirbet Hamsa al-Fawqa in the northern Jordan Valley.

Several Palestinians suffered from breathing difficulties after Israeli forces stormed the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, and fired gas canisters, Wafa news agency reports.

A local activist told the agency that soldiers entered the town and fired tear gas and sound bombs.

Palestinians have faced tightening military restrictions over the past two years, curbing their freedom of movement. Attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers have also escalated.

Overnight, settlers attacked communities near Nablus, setting fire to properties in Huwara and Abu Falah, residents said.

Videos widely shared on social media have shown dozens of settlers, often wielding wooden clubs and sometimes guns, attacking occupied West Bank communities in recent months.

Yuli Novak, executive director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, has a warning for politicians in the United States and across the world: The situation in Israel-Palestine is “disastrous”.

Despite the US-brokered ceasefire that scaled back Israeli attacks in Gaza, Novak told Al Jazeera the conditions are more dangerous than ever.

“Our warning is that we haven’t seen the worst,” she said, stressing Israel must be held accountable for its many abuses in Gaza.

Over the past two years, numerous human rights groups have released reports accusing Israel of carrying out a genocide in Gaza – a campaign to destroy the Palestinian people.

Read more here.

Ensuring state control over weapons and decisions of war and peace is “important and inevitable”, Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said in a speech on the eve of the country’s independence day.

Aoun made the speech from southern Lebanon, where Israel still maintains troops in five areas it deems “strategic”.

“I confirm the army is ready to take over positions immediately after Israel ceases all attacks and violations and after Israel withdraws from positions inside Lebanon at the border,” said Aoun.

He said Lebanon is ready to entrust the truce supervisory committee – comprising the United States, France, Lebanon, Israel and United Nations peacekeepers – with “making sure that in the south Litani region, only the Lebanese army is exerting its sovereignty by its own means”.

Lebanon is ready to negotiate under US or international sponsorship “any agreement which will put a permanent end to the transborder aggressions”, he added.

As Israeli strikes continue, the official National News Agency said one person was killed on Friday in a raid strike on south Lebanon.

The UN Security Council has endorsed Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan.

Washington is now responsible for establishing a new governing framework that will direct Gaza’s reconstruction, security, and essential services.

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The “ongoing humanitarian scale-up” in Gaza remains constrained, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric says, as Israel continues to impose severe restrictions on goods and limits access to land crossings.

Dujarric cited restrictions “affecting visas and import approvals, too few crossing points operating, and limited facilitation of humanitarian movements inside Gaza”.

“Between 12 and 18 November, the UN and our partners tried to coordinate more than 50 humanitarian movements with the Israeli authorities. Most were to collect cargo from the three crossings that were open. Over a third were either denied or initially approved but then impeded on the ground.”

Dujarric noted even with the opening of the Zikim crossing, overall aid levels remain unchanged because “we’re only allowed to offload and collect cargo at Zikim and Kissufim [al-Karara] on an alternating schedule.”

Israeli forces have stormed the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, Wafa news agency reports.

It was the latest incursion by Israeli troops as they continue to step up detentions of Palestinians in the occupied territory.

Israel has launched a crackdown on the occupied West Bank since it launched its devastating war on Gaza, killing more than 1,000 Palestinians, arresting thousands, and demolishing hundreds of homes and civic infrastructure.

The United Nations has denounced the use of sanctions against officials tied to the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying such measures undermine the global justice system and inflict significant personal harm.

Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, was asked to comment on an article by Le Monde that detailed the sweeping disruptions the US measures have caused to French Judge Nicolas Guillou’s work and daily life after his approval of arrest warrants for Israeli officials last year.

In August, the US sanctioned four ICC officials, including Guillou, for authorising the warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, accusing both officials of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.

“It’s sadly he [Guillou] is not the only person linked to the International Criminal Court who has been placed under unilateral sanctions,” Dujarric said.

“We don’t believe that its members should be targeted by unilateral sanctions, which, as I think, as the article says, and as we know, have a deep impact on people and their families.”

The United Nations says it is concerned about several incidents this week involving the Israeli military taking threatening actions against peacekeepers on patrol in southern Lebanon.

Israeli soldiers pointed a laser at UNIFIL peacekeeping troops and small arms fire was discharged from their positions targeting a patrol near Kfarchouba, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

“We reiterate that the parties must ensure the safety and security of UNIFIL personnel, and all peacekeepers everywhere, at all times. We urge the parties to use the established liaison and coordination mechanisms of UNIFIL to avoid misunderstandings and potential accidents,” Dujarric said.

In September, Israeli drones dropped four grenades close to UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel in “of the most serious attacks on UNIFIL personnel and assets since the cessation of hostilities agreement of last November,” it said.

At least 67 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says.

Speaking during a news conference in Geneva, UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said the death toll includes a baby girl killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on Thursday.

It also includes seven other children killed a day earlier as Israel carried out a wave of attacks across the enclave.

“This is during an agreed ceasefire. The pattern is staggering,” Pires told reporters. “As we have repeated many times, these are not statistics: each was a child with a family, a dream, a life – suddenly cut short by continued violence.”

Read more here.

One person has been killed in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon in the latest deadly violation of last year’s ceasefire agreement.

The official National News Agency reported the attack targeted a vehicle on the outskirts of Froun in the Bint Jbeil district, without providing further details.

On Friday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said 331 people have been killed and 945 wounded by Israeli fire since the ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect on November 27, 2024.

On Thursday, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said it recorded more than 10,000 air and ground violations by Israel inside Lebanese territory since the ceasefire began.

Tensions have mounted in southern Lebanon for weeks with the Israeli army intensifying air raids allegedly targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure.

Anti-Semitic incidents in the Czech Republic reached record levels last year during Israel’s war on Gaza.

In its annual report, the Federation of the Jewish Communities said it registered 4,694 anti-Semitic incidents in 2024, up 8.5 percent from 4,328 in the previous year. Most incidents, almost 96 percent, were expressed online mostly through social media, it said.

In 2023, the reports jumped by 90 percent following the deadly Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7 that year.

Petr Papousek, head of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Czech Republic, said his country is no exception to “a global explosive wave of anti-Semitism which erupted immediately after the Hamas attack”.

Papousek said hatred of Jews, especially in the form of demonisation of the state of Israel, has become a socially acceptable attitude and has dominated the public space.

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary asks Palestinians whether they think the fragile ceasefire with Israel will hold as they continue to face deadly shelling, shooting, and new destruction in Gaza.

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A UN expert has warned Israeli air strikes on Lebanon are undermining ceasefire efforts and may amount to war crimes citing repeated deadly attacks on civilians in populated areas.

Morris Tidball-Binz, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, condemned Israel’s renewed strikes, pointing to the deadly attack on the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon on Tueaday, and other assaults across the country.

“This is not an isolated incident but part of a disturbing pattern of lethal strikes in populated areas by Israel, and of total disregard for the ceasefire and for Lebanese peace efforts,” said Tidball-Binz.

The Ein el-Hilweh attack followed near-daily strikes despite the ceasefire with Lebanon and Hezbollah, describing repeated attacks on civilians as “war crimes and a violation of the UN Charter”.

“These incidents form part of a broader pattern of unlawful killings and violations of the ceasefire agreement by Israel,” Tidball-Binz noted.

The UN has warned about worsening conditions in the occupied West Bank, reporting a surge in violence that has left Palestinian civilians facing mounting casualties, displacement and insecurity.

“Turning to the West Bank, our humanitarian colleagues warned that the level of violence there remains deeply concerning with casualties, property damage, displacement, loss of livelihoods and a strong sense of insecurity for Palestinian civilians,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters.

This week, Dujarric said the number of Palestinian children killed in 2025 reached 50 in the Israeli-occupied territory.

“Overall, more than 200 Palestinians have now been killed by Israeli forces since the start of the year,” he said.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it’s cutting its 2026 budget by 17 percent because of declining donor contributions and will slash 2,900 staff positions.

“The ICRC remains committed to working on the front lines of conflict where few others can operate,” President Mirjana Spoljaric said in a statement.

“The financial reality is forcing us to make difficult decisions to ensure we can continue to deliver critical humanitarian assistance to those who need it most.”

The ICRC has played a crucial role during the Gaza war, returning Palestinian prisoners and Israeli captives along with other humanitarian efforts.

“As defence budgets surge, states must also put more effort and resources into preventing conflicts, defending the rules of war, and providing humanitarian relief,” said Spoljaric. “Failure to do so risks a world of ever more and greater suffering.”