Updates: Hamas returns captive’s body as Gaza reels from Israeli aid curbs

For a look at how some Palestinian children are going back to school in Gaza’s classrooms-turned-shelters, check out our story here.

You can also read about a Palestinian woman’s daily search for her husband and brother among the bodies returned by Israel to Gaza, here.

And for all of our coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, check out this page.

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

• Hamas’s armed wing has handed over another deceased captive’s remains as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, leaving five captives’ bodies remaining in the Strip.
• An intensified wave of Israeli settler and military violence has continued across the occupied West Bank, with two Palestinian teenagers killed and more injured.
• Negotiations are under way to allow about 150 Hamas fighters trapped in tunnels in southern Gaza behind Israel’s “yellow line” to hand over their weapons and walk free.
• Istanbul’s chief prosecutor has issued arrest warrants for dozens of Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza.

The wife of pro-Palestinian commentator Sami Hamdi says his detention by US immigration authorities poses a threat to every US citizen and visitor to the country.

“If they’re able then to treat Sami in this way, it’s only a matter of time before they start to treat US citizens like that too,” Soumaya Hamdi told Al Jazeera.

A 14-year-old Palestinian child has been shot in the knee as Israeli forces stormed the centre of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society treated the boy and transported him to a hospital, where he remained in “moderate” condition, Wafa said. Israeli forces ordered businesses in Jenin to close and obstructed traffic as they opened fire.

Our correspondents on the ground also reported that Israeli shooting injured at least two people in the city.

As we reported earlier, Israeli settlers set fire to swaths of agricultural land in Arrabeh, south of Jenin, while two Palestinian teenage boys were killed overnight by Israeli soldiers in al-Judeira, northwest of Jerusalem.

The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is renewing its call for Israel to release Mohammed Ibrahim, the 16-year-old Palestinian American who has been detained in Israeli prison since February.

CAIR said in a statement that Israeli military prosecutors have “reportedly threatened to keep him unjustly imprisoned for up to three more years unless Mohammed admits to a crime he did not commit and accepts two years in an Israeli military prison”.

The group said the teenager has been denied access to medical care and adequate food, and has reported being assaulted by Israeli authorities.

Ibrahim – who was detained on stone-throwing accusations that he has denied – said an Israeli interrogator “threatened that if [he] did not comply, he would instruct the soldiers to beat [him]”, CAIR said.

Rights groups have been calling on the Trump administration to apply pressure on its ally, Israel, to release Ibrahim from detention. Many have also accused Washington of double standards in its failure to defend Palestinian Americans subjected to Israeli abuses.

• Footage published by local sources shows the aftermath of Israeli settlers setting fire to land and trees in Arraba, near Jenin in the northern West Bank.
• Israeli forces have stormed the city of el-Bireh, near Ramallah, firing gas and sound bombs, according to local sources.
• Palestinian sources say Israeli forces shot and wounded two Palestinians near the Grand Mosque in Jenin.
• Palestinian media outlets report that clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces after the latter stormed the village of Shuqba, west of Ramallah.
• Israeli forces have detained a vendor after assaulting him while he was working in the Bab al‑Amoud area of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

#فيديو| لحظة اندلاع حريق في منطقة وعر عرابة جراء حرق المستوطنين الأراضي والأشجار في المكان pic.twitter.com/DcmQN0axg4

— شبكة فلسطين للحوار (@paldf) November 7, 2025

Translation: #VIDEO | Moment of a fire breaking out in the rugged area of A’rabah due to settlers burning the lands and trees in the place.

Gideon Saar has rejected the Turkish arrest warrants against Israeli leaders as a “PR stunt”.

In a statement on social media condemning the move, the Israeli foreign minister also called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “tyrant”.

As we reported earlier, Istanbul’s top public prosecutor has issued arrest warrants for 37 Israeli officials, including the prime minister, on accusations of crimes against humanity in Gaza.

The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office – which, as recalled, recently orchestrated the arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul merely for daring to run against Erdoğan – has now issued “arrest warrants” for Israeli leaders and senior officials.

In Erdoğan’s Turkey, the judiciary has long…

— Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) November 7, 2025

Schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza are serving a dual-purpose: classrooms during the day and shelters at night.

See more in our video below as students return to class amid the ceasefire.

For Gaza resident Yassir Shaheen, nights have been the hardest part of living through Israel’s devastating two-year war on the enclave.

“Many nights, we lay awake, our lips dry, our hearts pounding in fear, feeling as though the sky itself was collapsing on us,” he told Al Jazeera.

The Strip lies in tatters – its economy destroyed, infrastructure in ruins, and its people displaced, as a fragile US-brokered truce barely holds. More than 68,000 Palestinians have been confirmed killed, with some 10,000 still buried under the rubble, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

As world leaders in the Qatari capital Doha pledged this week to “leave no one behind” at the United Nations Second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD), the commitments stood in stark contrast to the reality in Gaza, where access to basic needs remains a luxury.

“Even bread can feel out of reach,” said Shaheen, the team lead for the charity Humanity First UK in Gaza.

Read the rest here.

Chris Gunness, a former spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), says the Israeli government is not allowing critical aid into Gaza because it wants to continue its genocidal policies against Palestinians.

“There is a litany of – quite frankly – fascistic pretexts” for Israel to maintain its restrictions on humanitarian assistance, Gunness told Al Jazeera.

“Let’s be clear on the big picture: Israel has made it clear that it wants to commit a genocide against the Palestinians, it wants to ethnically-cleanse them, and it wants to starve them,” he said, noting that there are millions of aid items waiting to be brought into the enclave.

“The big picture is that the reason these items are not being let in … is that there is a genocide going on, there is a collective punishment, there is ethnic cleansing, and there’s a policy of starvation.”

More than 260 Israeli settler attacks – an average of eight a day – took place in the occupied West Bank in October, a UN agency says.

In its latest report, the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA) said October’s tally marked the highest number of settler attacks in a single month since the agency began tracking them in 2006.

As we’ve been reporting, this year’s olive harvest season has seen the worst settler violence in years as Israel pushes to formally annex the Palestinian territory.

At least 150 attacks have injured more than 140 Palestinians and vandalised 4,200 trees across 77 villages, OCHA reported.

More broadly, settler violence has disproportionately affected children, the agency added: One in five Palestinians killed so far this year in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child.

The Palestinian group has welcomed the move from the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, saying it “affirms the principled stances of the Turkish people” and “the brotherhood that binds them to our oppressed Palestinian people”.

As we reported earlier, the prosecutor’s office said it had issued arrest warrants for 37 Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, on accusations of genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

In a statement, Hamas called on other countries “to issue legal warrants to pursue” Israeli leaders and “hold them accountable for their crimes against humanity”.

Israel has not yet reacted publicly to news of the warrants.

Over half of the Gaza Strip remains under Israeli control – the Israeli army is present there – and in order for Hamas and the other groups to locate and exhume the [captives’] bodies, it has required a lot of coordination through the Red Cross.

But also it has required outside help from an Egyptian expert team that brought in heavy machinery in order to do the digging.

There are millions of tonnes of rubble under which lie the bodies of the remaining captives, as well as at least 10,000 Palestinians killed by Israel over the past two years.