Updates: Israel launches air strikes on Gaza as ceasefire violations go on

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• Israeli attacks inside the Gaza ceasefire’s “yellow line” demarcation hit near the cities of Khan Younis in the south and Gaza City in the north as truce violations continue.
• Israel returned 15 more bodies of Palestinians detained in Gaza, bringing the total number of dead received since the October 10 ceasefire started to 330.
• Soldiers launched a series of incursions in the occupied West Bank, wounding at least two Palestinians and arresting 15 others.
• Israeli demonstrators take to the streets to urge the far-right government to launch a state inquiry into the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks – something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far resisted.
• Lebanon plans to file a complaint with the UN Security Council over Israel’s construction of a wall along its southern border that traverses the UN-backed, unofficial ceasefire line between the two countries.

A video showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner has shaken Israel’s military and judiciary, leading to the arrest of the prosecutor who leaked it.

But the fallout centres on the leak and not the grim events in the video. So what does it mean for the victim of the so-called Sde Teiman affair?

Montreal, Canada – A former United Nations special rapporteur who investigated Israeli abuses against Palestinians says he was interrogated by Canadian authorities on “national security” grounds as he travelled here to attend a Gaza-related event.

Richard Falk, an international law expert from the United States, told Al Jazeera he was questioned at Toronto Pearson international airport on Thursday alongside his wife, fellow legal scholar Hilal Elver.

“A security person came and said, ‘We’ve detained you both because we’re concerned that you pose a national security threat to Canada,'” Falk, 95, said in an interview from Ottawa, the Canadian capital. “It was my first experience of this sort – ever – in my life.”

Falk and Elver – both US citizens – travelled to Ottawa to take part in the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility when they were held for questioning.

Read more here.

Israeli soldiers have raided the villages of Baqat al-Hatab and Hajjah, east of Qalqilya, Wafa news agency reports.

Israeli army vehicles are moving through the streets of the villages, but no arrests have been reported, it said.

Israeli forces and settlers carried out 2,350 attacks across the occupied West Bank in recent months in an “ongoing cycle of terror”, the Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said.

European Union foreign ministers will discuss next week a proposal for the bloc to take the lead in training 3,000 Palestinian police officers with the aim of later deploying them in Gaza, a news report says.

In a paper produced by the bloc’s diplomatic arm ahead of the gathering of ministers on November 20, officials outlined options for contributing to the implementation of the 20-point plan for Gaza proposed by US President Donald Trump.

The EU’s police support mission could “take leadership in training the Palestinian police force in Gaza by providing direct training and support to approximately 3,000 Palestinian police officers [on the Palestinian Authority payroll] from Gaza, with a view to training the full 13,000 Palestinian police force”, the document seen by the Reuters news agency said.

The paper also raises the idea of expanding the EU’s civilian border monitoring mission in Rafah to other border crossing points. But prospects for the EU moving ahead with these initiatives are unclear.

Russia on Thursday proposed its own draft of a UN resolution on Gaza in a challenge to a US effort to pass its own text that would endorse Trump’s plan.

Israeli soldiers have raided the Far’a camp, south of Tubas, Wafa news agency reports.

Citing local sources, it said Israeli forces stormed multiple neighbourhoods.

Violence in the Palestinian territory has soared since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023, with more than 1,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli troops or Israelis from illegal settlements since.

Two far-right Israeli ministers have urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to explicitly reject the possibility of a Palestinian state.

In a message on X addressed to the Israeli premier, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Netanyahu should clarify his position.

“Formulate immediately an appropriate and decisive response that will make clear to the entire world: a Palestinian state will never arise on the lands of our homeland,” wrote Smotrich, who lives in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared a similar message, saying his Jewish Power party would not be part of a government that allows a Palestinian state.

He instead called for “encouraging voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from Gaza as the “only real solution” for the war-ravaged enclave.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry is warning people in Gaza against “human trafficking networks” and what it calls “displacement agents”.

It comes after details emerged about a mysterious organisation facilitating the transfer of Palestinians out of the Strip through unofficial channels – reportedly with Israeli military involvement.

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Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas turned 90 on Saturday, with the PA still holding power in tiny pockets of the occupied West Bank, but marginaliSed and weakened by Israel.

The world’s second-oldest serving president – after Cameroon’s 92-year-old Paul Biya – Abbas has been in office for 20 years, and for nearly the entire time has failed to hold elections.  His weakness has left Palestinians leaderless, critics say, at a time when they face an existential crisis.

Abbas “has put his head in the sand and has taken no initiative”, said Khalil Shikaki, head of the People’s Company for Polls and Survey Research, a Palestinian pollster.

“His legitimacy was depleted long ago. He has become a liability to his own party and for the Palestinians as a whole.”

An October poll by Shikaki’s organisation found 80 percent of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza want Abbas to resign.

For many Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority is a subcontractor of the occupation, suppressing opponents while Israel swallows up an increasing amount of the West Bank.

“It has chosen to put itself hand-in-hand with the Israeli occupation, even as [Israel] acts to make it more fragile and weaker,” said Abdaljawad Omar, an assistant professor of philosophy and cultural studies at the West Bank’s Birzeit University.

British Muslim journalist and political commentator Sami Hamdi has arrived in London after being held in a United States immigration detention centre for more than two weeks.

He had been on a speaking tour in the US when his visa was revoked. Supporters say the administration of US President Donald Trump targeted him for his pro-Palestinian advocacy.

His wife, Soumaya Hamdi, discussed Sami’s pro-Palestine advocacy, her family’s ordeal, and what her husband’s arrest says about free speech under Trump.

Israeli forces have carried out another round of raids in the occupied West Bank, spanning areas near Qalqilya, Tubas and Ramallah, according to Wafa news agency.

In addition, Israeli troops stormed the village of al-Maleh in the northern West Bank and demolished a residential building and two cattle pens, the village council head is quoted as saying.

Gaza’s medical personnel remain committed to their work even during personal tragedy.

“I remained at my post until they asked me to evacuate,” Islam Abu Assar, a nurse working at al-Shifa Hospital, told Al Jazeera. “But I did not evacuate when my family fled to the south [of Gaza].”

Abu Assar spoke of the shock and anguish she felt when her mother called to tell her that her brother was killed in an Israeli attack.

“I never expected that one day I would receive my brother as a martyr,” she said. “It was the most difficult moment of my life … when they [ambulance team] brought my brother.”

Despite this horrific news, Abu Assar continued her work, even sleeping at the hospital. “I stayed … providing care to the wounded because of the shortage of medical personnel.”

Jordanian King Abdullah and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have vowed “zero tolerance” for any displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Sharif hosted King Abdullah in Islamabad on a two-day state visit.

“On the issue of Palestine, both leaders acknowledged the unanimity of views and principled positions taken by Pakistan and Jordan regarding the post-war Gaza; zero tolerance for any displacement of Palestinians from Gaza,” Sharif’s office said in a statement.

The two leaders agreed to enhance coordination among the eight Arab-Islamic countries that are working with the United States on the Gaza ceasefire and peace plan, which includes a new governance structure and rebuilding of the enclave destroyed by Israel.

The two sides also discussed further deepening of bilateral relations as well as exploring avenues for enhanced cooperation in the economic, trade, investment, health, science and technology, education, and defence sectors.

A gang of armed Israeli settlers have pursued four Palestinians near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

The settlers chased the Palestinians as they drove a vehicle outside the town of Beitunia, said the agency, noting their whereabouts are currently unknown.

As we’ve reported, Israeli settler violence targeting Palestinians in the West Bank has escalated sharply since October 7, 2023, with at least 7,154 attacks during this period, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission.

Dr Eman Eyad was a medical student who became a physician in the heart of a war zone.

“I got a lot of experience. I can deal with 10 patients or more in one day,” she told Al Jazeera. “I go into surgery and I’m the second surgeon there. The war ended up making me more experienced.”

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, more than 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed since October 2023.

Amid Gaza’s collapsing health system, medical students have become front-line healers, learning medicine not from books, but from the wounded before them.

“We had new generations of doctors who are already working as our colleagues … helping overwhelmed hospitals and staff,” Dr Hani al-Faleet, a senior paediatrician, told Al Jazeera.

Let’s bring you up to speed:

• Israeli authorities say 153 Palestinians who arrived unexpectedly in South Africa were given prior entry approval by unnamed third countries.
• But questions continue to swirl around the organisation that orchestrated the mystery trip – Al-Majd Europe – which Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports does not have an office in its stated headquarters of Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem.
• Despite concerns about the group’s legitimacy, Palestinians in Gaza say they are still prepared to do “whatever it takes” to leave the war-battered enclave.
• The first heavy rainfall of the season has wreaked havoc on Gaza’s devastated infrastructure, with al-Mawasi residents digging trenches to try to stop water from flooding their tents.
• Israel’s Shin Bet director has suggested using electronic monitoring bracelets for hardline illegal settlers to curb growing violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.