Israeli forces have continued their assaults on Palestinians in Gaza despite the declared ceasefire, as Israel said it had received on Sunday the remains of a hostage that Hamas said were those of Israeli officer Hadar Goldin, killed more than a decade ago in the 2014 Gaza war.
Israeli forensic experts are expected to determine the identity of the remains now that they have been brought to Israel.
If confirmed, Goldin would be the 24th deceased hostage whose remains have been returned by Hamas since the start of the ceasefire on October 10 that has halted the latest war in Gaza, which broke out in October 2023.
Meanwhile, earlier on Sunday, Israeli strikes killed one man in the central Bureij refugee camp and two others in northern and southern areas of the enclave, according to Al Jazeera English.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that it had received the bodies of 15 Palestinians from Israel via the Red Cross, bringing the total number of bodies returned during the ceasefire to 300.
Israeli forces also carried out attacks in southern Lebanon, killing at least three people and wounding seven in a series of air raids.
Turkey is working to ensure the safe passage of some 200 civilians trapped in tunnels in Gaza, after having facilitated the return of a deceased Israeli soldier killed there more than a decade ago, a senior Turkish official said late on Sunday.
Palestinian militant group Hamas earlier said that fighters holed up in the Israeli-occupied Rafah area will not surrender to Israel and it urged mediators to find a solution to a crisis that threatens the month-old ceasefire.
As reported by Al Jazeera, former Israeli military prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned and is under investigation for leaking a video showing the rape of a Palestinian detainee, attempted to commit suicide this morning, according to Police Commissioner Chief Superintendent Danny Levi.
Tomer-Yerushalmi allegedly leaked the video last year to Israel’s Channel 12, sparking a major backlash after reports identified her as the source.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later described the incident as the most “severe public relations attack” on Israel.
The World Bank backs language in a U.S.-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on Gaza that would authorize a two-year mandate for a transitional governance body, according to a letter to the United States seen by Reuters.
The 15-member UN Security Council began negotiations on Thursday on the text that would mandate a so-called Board of Peace transitional governance administration, giving it the authority to establish operational entities to address issues including the reconstruction of Gaza and of economic recovery programs.
The World Bank, the U.N. and the European Union had estimated in February it would cost more than $50 billion to rebuild Gaza, and are finalizing a new interim estimate of $70 billion.
Al Jazeera reports that one person was killed in an earlier Israeli drone strike on southern Lebanon, according to the Health Emergency Operations Centre of the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
The attack targeted a car in the town of Houmin al-Fouqa, causing it to burst into flames.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has condemned a surge of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over the past week, describing it as a “disgrace”.
"This has been a long period in which the situation has spiralled out of control," Lapid wrote in a post on X.
His remarks follow a spike in settler attacks on Palestinians, which reached a monthly record in October since data collection began, according to the United Nations.
Lapid urged the Israeli army to take action to restore order and avoid turning a “blind eye”.
"These criminals must be arrested immediately. There is nothing Jewish and nothing Zionist about this violence," he added.
Israeli forces have demolished the home of Nael Samara, a Palestinian man accused of carrying out a shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Bruchin in May, according to a report by the Israeli daily Haaretz.
Israeli artillery fire has been reported in areas east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza and east of Jabalia in the north, according to Al Jazeera English.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty held discussions with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani regarding the latest developments in efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza.
As reported by Egypt’s Al-Qahera News, a channel affiliated with the country’s intelligence services, both ministers- representing two key mediators in the negotiations- emphasised the importance of linking the futures of the West Bank and Gaza in any forthcoming agreements and ensuring the unity of Palestinian territories.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to attend a Knesset debate on Monday over calls for a formal inquiry into the security failures that led to the October 7, 2023, attacks.
The session, initiated by opposition leader Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party, uses a parliamentary mechanism that allows the opposition to require the prime minister’s attendance once a month.
Netanyahu’s government has so far resisted launching the inquiry, citing concerns over its timing and who would head the investigation.
An Israeli drone has reportedly struck southern Lebanon near the village of Houmin al-Fawqa, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency.
The drone targeted a car with two guided missiles, though no casualties have been reported. The Israeli military has not yet issued a comment on the incident.
An Israeli government spokesperson said on Sunday that Turkish soldiers would not be deployed to Gaza as part of an multinational force that is meant to take over from the Israeli military.
"There will be no Turkish boots on the ground," spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian told reporters in response to a question.
Israeli media have reported that US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are expected to arrive in Israel on Monday to discuss the situation of Hamas fighters in Rafah and the implementation of US President Donald Trump’s proposed ceasefire plan.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has barred army officers from briefing journalists without his explicit approval, according to Israeli media reports.
Katz reportedly ordered army spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin to halt all interviews and briefings by senior commanders and to obtain his consent for any future media engagements — reversing a long-standing practice.
Under the new directive, Katz must be informed of the journalist requesting the meeting, the officer giving the briefing, and the topics to be discussed.
The only exception to this rule is the Israeli army spokesperson, who remains authorised to speak with journalists and the public without prior approval.
According to Israeli news publication Haaretz, citing military sources, Katz reprimanded Defrin for not informing him about discussions held between senior officers and journalists.
Israel said it had received Sunday through the Red Cross the remains of a hostage, which Hamas earlier announced belonged to officer Hadar Goldin, who was killed in the Gaza war of 2014.
Israeli forensic experts are expected to determine the identity of the remains once they are brought into Israel from Gaza.
"Israel has received, via the Red Cross, the coffin of a fallen hostage that was transferred to IDF and Shin Bet personnel inside the Gaza Strip," the prime minister's office said in a statement.
At least 241 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire began, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
In its latest update, the ministry reported that one person was killed and five others injured in the past 24 hours amid continued Israeli attacks across the enclave.
The ministry said six bodies were recovered and taken to hospitals throughout Gaza, adding that “a number of victims remain under the rubble and in the streets, as ambulance and civil defense teams are unable to reach them at this time.”
Since the ceasefire took effect on 11 October, 241 people have been killed and 619 wounded, with 528 bodies recovered, the ministry said.
The overall death toll since 7 October 2023 has now reached 69,176, with 170,690 people wounded, according to the ministry.
Hezbollah has announced that one of its members, Hassan Ali Jamil Sultan, was killed in an Israeli drone strike on the al-Sawanna–Khirbet Selm road in southern Lebanon earlier this morning.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health had earlier confirmed that one person was killed when an Israeli drone targeted a vehicle in the area. The region has faced repeated Israeli attacks in recent days amid escalating cross-border tensions.
A Palestinian man has been injured in an attack by Israeli settlers in the village of Umm al-Khair, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
According to the Wafa news agency, citing a Palestinian activist, the man was severely beaten by armed settlers under the protection of Israeli soldiers. The victim suffered head injuries and bruising and was taken to hospital in moderate condition, the activist said.
The settlers reportedly assaulted members of a Palestinian family who confronted them after they released livestock near Palestinian homes.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera English reported that Israeli settlers have raised several Israeli flags along a road between Nablus and Ramallah amid a surge in settler attacks across the occupied West Bank.
The incident follows a recent report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which said October saw the highest monthly number of settler attacks recorded in the occupied West Bank since monitoring began in 2006.
A Lebanese civilian has been killed after an Israeli drone targeted a vehicle on the al-Sawanna–Khirbet Selm road in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
In a statement, the ministry’s Emergency Operations Center said the Israeli strike hit a civilian car in the Bint Jbeil area, resulting in one fatality.
The incident follows earlier reports of Israeli drones launching missiles and flying at low altitudes across several parts of southern Lebanon, including Tyre, Nabatieh, and Bint Jbeil.
Hamas fighters holed up in the Israeli-held Rafah area of Gaza will not surrender to Israel, the group's armed wing said on Sunday, urging mediators to find a solution to a crisis that threatens the month-old ceasefire.
Reuters news agency reported, citing sources close to mediation efforts, that fighters could surrender their arms in exchange for passage to other areas of the enclave under a proposal aimed at resolving the stalemate.
Egyptian mediators have proposed that, in exchange for safe passage, fighters still in Rafah surrender their arms to Egypt and give details of tunnels there so they can be destroyed, said one of the sources, an Egyptian security official.
Sunday's statement from Al-Qassam Brigades held Israel responsible for engaging the fighters, who it said were defending themselves.
"The enemy must know that the concept of surrender and handing oneself over does not exist in the dictionary of the Al-Qassam Brigades," the group said.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Thursday that the proposed deal for about 200 fighters would be a test for a broader process to disarm Hamas forces across Gaza.
Al-Qassam Brigades did not comment directly on the continuing talks over the fighters in Rafah but implied that the crisis could affect the ceasefire.
"We place the mediators before their responsibilities, and they must find a solution to ensure the continuation of the ceasefire and prevent the enemy from using flimsy pretexts to violate it and exploit the situation to target innocent civilians in Gaza," the group said.
Denied contact with his lawyer for months, now freed Palestinian prisoner Shady Abu Sedo said he lost all sense of time while he was held in Israeli jails during the war in Gaza.
The 35-year-old resident of the Palestinian territory was arrested in March 2024, five months into the war sparked by Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
Abu Sedo, a photojournalist, said he was arrested while working at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and detained at Sde Teiman prison, a military facility in Israel used to hold Gazans during the war.
At the time of his arrest the Al-Shifa complex was at the centre of the war, with humanitarian organisations accusing Israel of rights violations while Israel accused Hamas of using it and other civilian facilities as command centres.
Abu Sedo was held under Israel's "unlawful combatants" law, which permits the detention of suspected members of "hostile forces" for months on end without charge.
Abu Sedo said he was repeatedly confronted with claims from the Israelis that "they had killed our children, our women and bombed our homes".
"So, when I saw (my children), honestly, it was a shock," he told AFP news agency after his release to Gaza on October 13 under the US-brokered ceasefire.
The truce, which came into effect on October 10, saw 20 living captives returned by Hamas to Israel in exchange for approximately 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
"Imagine, 100 days from five in the morning until 11 at night, sitting on your knees, handcuffed, blindfolded, forbidden to speak or talk," Abu Sedo said.
"You don't know the time, you don't know the days, you don't know where you are."
"After 100 days of torture, they took me for interrogation to confirm my identity. They tortured me without knowing who I was," he said, describing eye and ear injuries.
-Hamas armed wing said it will hand over a body of deceased Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin in Gaza on Sunday at 2 p.m. (1200 GMT).
It said Goldin's body was located in a tunnel in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has urged Israel to lift its blockade on aid entering Gaza, calling for all humanitarian routes to be opened immediately.
In a post on X, Cooper said that during her visit to Jordan last week she saw “warehouses full of aid still waiting to get into Gaza even though families are still going hungry.”
In Jordan last week I saw warehouses full of aid still waiting to get into Gaza even though families are still going hungry.
— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) November 8, 2025
All aid routes must be opened and aid restrictions lifted now. pic.twitter.com/zNJGSsSOnV
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has welcomed Turkey’s decision to issue arrest warrants for several Israeli officials, describing it as “a step in the right direction towards achieving justice.”
In a statement posted on X, the ministry commended the move, which targets individuals accused of crimes committed in Gaza.
It called the decision “a victory for the principles of justice” and a rejection of “the policy of impunity that some countries have afforded Israel.”
UNRWA has confirmed that its operations in Gaza are ongoing despite an Israeli ban on international staff entering the territory.
Tamara Alrifai, UNRWA’s director of external relations, told Al Jazeera that the agency’s 12,000 Palestinian employees “have not stopped working in Gaza – even though Israeli legislation has banned the entry of international staff into Gaza.”
She explained that international colleagues are coordinating the agency’s humanitarian operations and services remotely.
Alrifai added that the inability to engage directly with the Israeli government has severely disrupted daily logistics and hindered UNRWA’s capacity to deliver essential aid programmes.
Israel's military chief pledged Saturday to bring home the remains of an officer killed more than a decade ago in Gaza, after media reports that Hamas had pinpointed the location of his body following a search greenlit by Israel.
The army said Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir had met with the family of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, who was killed during the 2014 six-week war in Gaza.
Since his death, Goldin's body has been held in Gaza but Hamas has never publicly confirmed his death or acknowledged possession of his remains.
"Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir met this evening with the Goldin family and updated them on the information known to the [Israeli army] so far," the military said in a statement, without specifying what the information was.
Several networks, including Channel 12, reported that the group had recovered Goldin's remains in a tunnel under a part of the southern city of Rafah held by the army.
Another Israeli soldier, Oron Shaul, was also killed in the 2014 conflict. His body was recovered earlier this year during the latest war, which erupted after Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
Efforts to secure the return of both soldiers' remains in past prisoner swaps had repeatedly failed.
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