Updates: Israel air strikes, demolitions hit Gaza despite ceasefire

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• The Israeli army has continued to launch attacks on Palestinians in Gaza despite the ceasefire, killing one man in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp, while demolishing homes and structures in the south.
• Hamas says it has retrieved the remains of deceased Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin in Rafah.
• Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed receiving the bodies of 15 Palestinians from Israel via the Red Cross, bringing the total number of dead received during the ceasefire to 300.
• Munir al-Bursh, director of Gaza’s Health Ministry, has warned of a severe shortage of medicines, describing it as “the most dangerous manifestation of the health system’s collapse” in the enclave.
• A surge in Israeli settler violence has swept across the occupied West Bank, injuring several Palestinian farmers and journalists near Nablus.
• Israeli forces also carried out new raids in multiple areas of the West Bank, arresting several people and shooting dead a Palestinian man in the Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas.
• Israel has launched three aerial attacks on southern Lebanon, killing at least three people and injuring seven others, according to the country’s National News Agency.

Mohammed Abu Loay, a Palestinian civil defence worker in Gaza, has shared a video expressing support for people in war-torn Sudan.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Abu Loay said of the situation in el-Fasher, the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region that has seen mass killings and displacement since it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last month.

“Our hearts are with you,” he said.

“From wounded Gaza to wounded Sudan, we send our prayers and peace.”

This Palestinian civil defense worker is calling for action in Sudan. pic.twitter.com/PmXldkY2U1

— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 8, 2025

Among Gaza’s dirt and debris, there’s also opportunity for the industrious.

Some communities have repurposed fuel and batteries from abandoned or damaged Israeli military vehicles to build improvised water generators.

Here’s the story of Nouh Alshaghnoubi.

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has taken to social media to call for an end to restrictions on humanitarian assistance for Gaza.

She included photos of her visit to warehouses in Jordan, which she said were full of aid awaiting shipment to the Palestinian enclave.

In Jordan last week I saw warehouses full of aid still waiting to get into Gaza even though families are still going hungry.

All aid routes must be opened and aid restrictions lifted now. pic.twitter.com/zNJGSsSOnV

— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) November 8, 2025

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has shared a testimonial from a Palestinian man in Gaza, who explains that he gets food for his family at a community kitchen in the enclave.

“There’s no work or income. That’s why we come to the hot-meal kitchens,” the man said in a video shared on social media. “No matter what aid goods or trucks come in, people remain dependent on these kitchens.”

While the UN has acknowledged that more food and other assistance has entered Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, it says deliveries remain insufficient to meet peoples’ needs.

“We need full access. We need everything to be moving fast. We are in a race against time. The winter months are coming. People are still suffering from hunger, and the needs are overwhelming,” a WFP representative said last week.

WFP-supported hot meal kitchens continue serving freshly cooked meals to families in #Gaza who’ve lost everything.

Among the immense needs, food assistance is a lifeline offering nourishment and hope. pic.twitter.com/QJJyKSaGkk

— World Food Programme (@WFP) November 8, 2025

Israeli forces have carried out a series of raids and assaults across the West Bank this evening, arresting a 13-year-old boy, injuring a man, and firing tear gas at Palestinian worshippers, the Palestinian Wafa news agency is reporting.

In the town of Yabad, near Jenin, soldiers arrested Rakan Amarna, 13, after beating him while he was walking in the street, local sources told Wafa.

Israeli forces have been raiding the town since early this morning, turning several homes into military posts and closing side roads, residents said.

Separately, in ar-Ram, north of occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian man was shot in the leg near Israel’s separation wall and transferred to a medical facility in Ramallah, Wafa said.

Meanwhile, in Salem, a village east of Nablus, dozens of Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces fired gas canisters at worshippers performing evening prayers at the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Mosque. Soldiers also set up a military checkpoint at the village entrance and searched vehicles.

Earlier, Israeli troops also raided the village of Immatin, east of Qalqilya, and patrolled its streets. No arrests were reported.

Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli anti-apartheid activist, says he was helping Palestinians harvest their olives earlier today when a group of dozens of masked Israeli settlers, armed with clubs, attacked them.

The settlers descended from a hill and “started hurling … huge rocks at us and we had to flee”, Pollak told Al Jazeera.

He said the assault led to more than a dozen injuries that required medical attention, including a journalist who was bludgeoned by the settlers and a 70-year-old activist who had his cheekbone and jaw broken.

But Pollak stressed that the assault was not an isolated incident carried out by “extremist” settlers but rather part of a longstanding Israeli government policy.

“We live in a situation that’s very similar to the US South during the Jim Crow period, where the sheriff and the [Klu Klux] Klan are one and the same,” he said.

“Here in the West Bank, armed Israeli civilians and the army are merely separate fingers in one clenched fist, which is the fist of Israel’s policy [to] ethnically cleanse Palestinians.”

A series of reports detailing how Joe Biden’s administration failed to cut off support for Israel despite evidence that the country was committing war crimes in Gaza has renewed condemnation of the former US president’s policies.

“There was evidence that Israel was committing war crimes. The Biden administration knew all of this,” Farid Senzai, a professor at Santa Clara University in California, wrote on social media.

The Reuters news agency reported this week that the US gathered intelligence during Biden’s term that Israeli military lawyers had warned there was evidence that could lead to war crimes charges against Israel.

The Huffington Post also reported that Biden personally “rejected suggestions from advisers to reduce American involvement in the war” despite American intelligence detailing Israeli officials’ views on the legality of the war on Gaza.

“The Biden team knew all along that Israel was committing war crimes. Everything they did, they did to enable Israel to continue those crimes,” Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, wrote on X. “They lied to the American people. They put Israel before America, before the law, and before all the values they professed to uphold.”

The Biden administration provided billions of dollars in military assistance to Israel during the war, along with unwavering diplomatic support. It also refused to apply the US’s own laws that bar assistance to foreign militaries engaged in gross human rights abuses.

Recent Israeli air attacks on Lebanon have reignited fears of more conflict along the border between the two countries.

Israeli forces are also bombing Gaza, violating the ceasefire, and have launched more than 1,000 air raids in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime.

But next week, Trump will host Ahmed al-Sharaa, the first Syrian president to visit the White House.

So, how will that meeting affect regional sovereignty? And can Israel sustain its near-daily attacks across the Middle East under the guise of security?

See more in our video here.

In the past few hours, members of [Hamas’s] Qassam Brigades … were given the greenlight by mediators to move to retrieve the body of Israeli captive Hadar Goldin from the city of Rafah that has been under Israeli control for more than a year – and has been decimated to the ground as a result of Israeli military operations there.

There are reports that the Israeli captive was retrieved from a tunnel that the Israeli military had inspected multiple times over the past year.

Hadar Goldin was … in the Israeli military. He was captured by Hamas fighters in a military ambush back in … 2014, while the Israeli military was working to destroy tunnels in the eastern parts of the city.

After his abduction, the Israeli military activated the Hannibal Directive, which is a controversial military protocol that is designed to prevent the capturing of Israeli soldiers, even if it risks killing them.

Nasser Hospital has announced that a Palestinian child was killed after an explosive device left behind by Israeli forces in the city of Khan Younis detonated.

Unexploded military ordnance pose serious risks to Palestinians across Gaza as they try to return to homes and neighbourhoods destroyed during Israel’s two-year bombardment.

Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence, told Al Jazeera last month that Israel dropped at least 200,000 tonnes of explosives on the territory, with roughly 70,000 tonnes failing to detonate.