Updates: Israel kills 3 in Gaza, food scarce amid ceasefire

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For more on Israel’s latest killings in Gaza and its release of five Palestinian prisoners, see our report here.

You can also read about the Israeli military’s most recent strikes in Lebanon, which killed two people and wounded seven.

And finally, click here to read about Turkiye’s calls for Israel to stop violating the Gaza ceasefire.

We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of today’s main events:

• Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire north of Rafah in southern Gaza.
• An ex-Israeli army lawyer has been arrested after leaking a video showing Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman military base last year.
• A United Nations survey has revealed that half of all polled Gaza households say food access is the same or has deteriorated since the October 10 ceasefire.
• Israel has released five Palestinian prisoners as well as the remains of 45 other Palestinians as part of the terms of the fragile Gaza truce.
• A whistleblower has said the last US government watered down a report on the killing of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reported to support proposed legislation that would introduce the death penalty against those accused of “terrorism”.

In an interview with CBS, Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tamim Khallaf said that an estimated $70bn will be needed for the reconstruction of Gaza.

Khallaf also said that Hamas understands that it has “no place” in a future role governing Gaza.

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday, Fox News reported, heading to the US-operated Civil-Military Coordination Centre (CMCC), which is monitoring the ceasefire in Gaza.

Gabbard told Fox News that the CMCC, involving 16 countries and 20 NGOs, is “a living example of what can happen when nations unite for common interests”.

About 200 US personnel are stationed at the centre.

UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock visited the Al-Thumama complex near Doha on Monday, meeting families and children evacuated from Gaza.

Once a World Cup fan village, the site now shelters nearly 2,000 people and provides medical and psychological care.

Baerbock said the visit showed the need to support a traumatised generation of children who have “lost everything but still keep on hoping for peace”.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Hamas is ready to transfer the governance of Gaza to a committee made up of Palestinians.

Watch below to hear his comments:

Mohammed bin Salman will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington on November 18, a White House official has said.

The upcoming visit comes as Trump looks to expand the Abraham Accords, under which Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates normalised relations with Israel in 2020.

“I hope to see Saudi Arabia go in, and I hope to see others go in. I think when Saudi Arabia goes in, everybody goes in,” Trump told Fox News last month.

The Saudis have been reluctant to join without significant steps being taken towards Palestinian statehood.

Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has been ordered to remain in custody until Wednesday by the Tel Aviv District Court, which rejected her appeal, according to Israeli media.

She was arrested over her leaking of a video showing Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman military base last year.

Laura Loomer, a self-described “proud Islamophobe”, has met with Israel’s Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli, who has frequently met prominent figures who hold extreme right-wing views, including British anti-Islam campaigner Tommy Robinson.

In August, Loomer pressured the administration of US President Donald Trump to stop granting visas for Palestinian children seeking healthcare. And she has claimed responsibility for the detention of author Sami Hamdi by US immigration authorities.

In a post on X, Chikli said Loomer was a “courageous woman”.

UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said there must be an end to the impunity with which journalists are killed worldwide, calling for accountability for attacks against journalists in Gaza.

“The secretary-general and the high commissioner for human rights have spoken at length on this and have repeatedly said there must be accountability for all crimes committed in Gaza, including those against journalists,” Haq told Al Jazeera.

“Journalists are the eyes and ears of the world, and it is no surprise that there are forces on the ground, including governments, who try to silence them.”

Nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed, according to the Shireen Abu Akleh Observatory, including 10 working for Al Jazeera.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has been advising Hamas members as they search for the remains of Israeli captives for the second consecutive day here in the Shujayea neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City.

Egyptian equipment and engineering crews have managed to get behind the yellow line, inside zones under Israeli control.

This coordinated operation aims to locate and recover the bodies of the captives in this neighbourhood after months of intense fighting.

The Red Cross says it is acting as a neutral intermediary … stressing that the scale of destruction makes the search extremely difficult.

These rescue efforts highlight the difficult aftermath that Israel’s war on Gaza has left behind.

The UK’s Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said Israel has “no excuse” for delaying aid to Palestinians in Gaza and called for a Jordanian route to be opened from a warehouse full of aid intended for Gaza in the country.

“In this warehouse alone, there is enough wheat to feed 700,000 people for a month, and yet we still have children in Gaza going hungry. This is just wrong,” Cooper told Channel 4 in an interview.

Cooper has been visiting several countries in the Middle East.

Israeli soldiers have initiated raids on several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank on Monday evening, according to the Wafa news agency.

Military vehicles were seen in the northeast city of Tubas, with Israeli troops spreading out across a number of neighbourhoods and raiding one house, according to Wafa news agency.

Local sources said the Israeli army also entered Turmus Aya, a town northeast of Ramallah, and set up a military checkpoint at its entrance.

A number of sites in the Qalqilya governorate are being raided as well, including the town of Azzun, where Wafa reported Israeli soldiers firing sound grenades “intensively”.

No arrests have been reported in connection with the latest Israeli military incursions.

Israel is holding a record 360 Palestinian children from the occupied West Bank in its prisons, many without charge or trial, in what rights groups call a system of control and abuse.

Families say the detentions, marked by torture and neglect, are meant to crush Palestinians.

Watch our report below for more:

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is challenging a new California law designed to protect Jewish students from discrimination, arguing it is unconstitutionally vague and violates their free speech rights, the Associated Press reports.

The federal complaint in the US, filed yesterday in San Jose, seeks to invalidate legislation Governor Gavin Newsom signed last month, creating an Office of Civil Rights to help schools identify and prevent anti-Semitism.

The new law, which takes effect January 1, does not define anti-Semitism, but gives educators the impression that they could be charged with discrimination “if they expose their students to ideas, information, and instructional materials that may be considered critical of the State of Israel and the philosophy of Zionism”, according to the complaint.

Jenin Younes, national legal director at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, says the lack of guidance has a chilling effect on speech among educators.

“They censor themselves very broadly because they don’t know what’s going to get them into trouble,” she told AP.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of individual teachers and students in California public schools, and the Los Angeles Educators for Justice in Palestine.

In the complaint, middle school science teacher Jonah Olson says students at his rural, largely Christian school district often ask him what it means to be Jewish. He responds in part by saying that his Judaism does not include support for the State of Israel, and now he fears that might violate the law.

Parents who are part of the lawsuit say they fear their children will be prevented from learning about differing perspectives on Israel, Palestinians, and the Middle East.

Qatar’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani met earlier today with Jordan’s Prime Minister Jafar Hassan, who is visiting the country.

The two discussed “developments in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories, in light of the ceasefire agreement in the Strip, in addition to a number of topics of common interest”, according to the official Qatar News Agency (QNA).

Al Thani “stressed the need for concerted regional and international efforts to ensure the full implementation of the agreement, paving the way for achieving sustainable peace and the desired stability in the region”, QNA said.

Yair Lapid, speaking at a ceremony marking 30 years since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, says the worst thing Netanyahu’s government has done is include far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in its coalition.

“This is the original sin that led to the rift in the nation and also to October 7,” Lapid said, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

“Laying the groundwork for extremism and racism [is] the fact that the most dangerous fringes in Israeli society have received so much power.”

Israeli fighter jets carried out attacks on Gaza City on Monday evening in another violation of the ceasefire, Wafa reports

According to the agency’s correspondent, two strikes hit the eastern part of the city. It isn’t yet clear if anyone was killed or injured.

UN Secretary-Gerneral Antonio Guterres has thanked Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani for his country’s role in facilitating the Gaza ceasefire.

During a meeting in Doha on Monday, the pair spoke about several regional issues, including the situation in Gaza, according to the UN leader’s spokesperson.

“The secretary-general underlined the need to establish a political horizon towards a negotiated two-state solution,” the spokesperson added.