Updates: Gaza death toll rises as Israel intensifies West Bank attacks

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Finally, find out what Pope Leo XIV said about the importance of a two-state solution here.

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• Three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been confirmed killed, and two were wounded in the past 24-hour reporting period, as a result of ongoing Israeli attacks, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
• An attack by Israeli settlers on a water well east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank has cut off the water supply to several Palestinian towns, according to the Jerusalem Water Authority.
• The Israeli military claimed it killed more than 40 Hamas fighters in the Rafah area of southern Gaza over the past 40 days.
• Hamas members are searching for the remains of an Israeli captive in Beit Lahiya in the north of the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli forces have arrested a 16-year-old child at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

We just reported on an Israeli raid in the area near Tubas in the occupied West Bank, but elsewhere in the city, at a military checkpoint, Israeli troops assaulted and injured three Palestinians.

Wafa quotes Nidal Awda, the director of ambulance and emergency services in Tubas, who says that emergency crews transported the three to the hospital to receive treatment for injuries sustained as a result of being beaten by soldiers at the Tayasir checkpoint.

An Al Jazeera correspondent, along with the Wafa news agency, reports that Israeli forces have fought with local Palestinians in the town of Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces also raided a house during an incursion into the town of Aqqaba, north of Tubas.

The Syrian Civil Defence has said that its teams continue to transfer 13 families from the Beit Jinn farm to the town of Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside.

It said 11 families were transferred yesterday, following their displacement after last Friday’s Israeli attack, which killed at least 13 people, including two children.

Israel claimed it was going after members of Jamaa al-Islamiya, Lebanon’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

However, in response to the Israeli claim, the group said it was not active outside Lebanon.

Wafa reports that soldiers entered the village this evening and began storming homes, searching them.

No one from Marda, which is north of Salafit in the occupied West Bank, was arrested in the raid, Wafa said.

We have more for you now from the Hamas political bureau member’s interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher.

Badran said that there was no “severance” between his group and the Palestinian Authority (PA), and that a delegation from the group met with security and political officials from the PA in Cairo to discuss the roadblocks to the establishment of a Palestinian state.

“There is a kind of consensus, but the issue lies in the mechanisms to confront these challenges and how we can unify the Palestinian stance,” he said.

“We communicate daily with the other factions, and there is great agreement on follow-up mechanisms and how to confront this [Israeli] occupation. However, the Authority and Fatah movement remain influential factors in the national situation, and we are keen to reach at least a minimum level of unity in facing what our Palestinian people are confronting.”

The PA is largely seen as the go-to authority capable of administering Gaza by the West, should the ceasefire agreement reach a stage in which Palestinians once again govern the decimated territory.

Pope Leo has arrived in Lebanon, becoming the fourth roman catholic pontiff to visit the country.

His trip comes as Lebanon faces the possibility of renewed conflict after repeated Israeli bombing, despite a ceasefire with Israel agreed a year ago.

The pontiff says he’s completing a mission his predecessor Pope Francis hoped to fulfil – bringing what he calls a message of “hope and peace in the Middle East”.

On his way to Lebanon, Pope Leo said that the Vatican continues to support a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.

Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports from Beirut:

Hossam Badran, a member of the group’s political bureau, has given an interview to Al Jazeera Mubasher.

In it, he reiterated that the group is adhering fully to the ceasefire agreement, that it is diligently searching for the two remaining bodies of deceased captives buried under rubble in Gaza, and that Israel is using these bodies as a pretext to delay movement to the second phase of the ceasefire.

“We went to this agreement fully aware of the magnitude of the challenges, whether in the texts contained in it or in the implementation mechanisms, and we are accustomed to the [Israeli] occupation’s evasion of its commitments”, he said.

He said that Hamas entered the agreement in order to stop “the daily genocide war that the occupation was waging against our people and our families in Gaza”.

“Although violations continue”, he added, “this is incomparable to what it was during the war”, urging the world to try to understand the group’s rationale in taking this course of action.

The Times of Israel, citing statistics published by Israel’s Channel 12, reports that the military is facing a major crisis in retaining career service members in the Israeli military.

According to the report, the Israeli military is short of about 1,300 officers at the ranks of lieutenant and captain, and another 300 majors.

An internal survey conducted by the army showed only 63 percent of officers are interested in staying in the military, compared with 83 percent in 2018.

The Times of Israel said that recruitment to the army had been difficult as more Israelis are opting for civilian work “due to burnout from the war, perceived worsening service conditions, political delegitimisation, and discontent over recent appointments within [Israeli army] leadership”.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society is reporting that two Palestinians have been injured by Israeli forces in the town of ar-Ram, north of occupied East Jerusalem.

The camp, in the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem governorate, has been the frequent target of violent Israeli raids and forced home demolitions.

Video posted on X by a local account in the West Bank shows some street scenes of the destruction:

#فيديو | يوثق آثار الدمار الواسع بمخيم نور شمس في طولكرم؛ جرّاء عدوان الاحتلال. pic.twitter.com/8QCqZa7LoI

— شبكة فلسطين للحوار (@paldf) November 30, 2025

Translation: Documenting the extensive destruction in Nur Shams camp in Tulkarem, as a result of the [Israeli] occupation’s aggression.

Naftali Bennett says in a post on X that he supports a “binding agreement” that would see the current PM retire from political life in exchange for the end of three corruption cases against him.

“That way, we can let it go, unite, and rebuild the state together,”, he said.

Bennett took over the premiership from Netanyahu in 2021, and was succeeded in 2022 by Yair Lapid.

As we’ve been reporting, Netanyahu formally requested a pardon today from President Isaac Herzog, arguing that his exoneration is in Israel’s best interests.

The Israeli military claims it has killed more than 40 Hamas fighters in the Rafah area of southern Gaza over the past 40 days.

It added that the Golani and Nahal Brigades, along with other troops, had been working to dismantle the tunnel networks that were used by Hamas in the area.

There has been no comment from Hamas.