Israel bombs Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, after 'summary executions' in West Bank

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Switzerland announced on Friday the arrival of 13 more children from the Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment.

The announcement came in a statement issued by the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration, which explained that the second evacuation operation for wounded children from Gaza to Switzerland has been completed.

"Today, 13 children and 51 accompanying family members were transported to Switzerland, after traveling from Gaza to Jordan earlier in cooperation with Norway," the agency said.

It added that the children arriving from the Gaza Strip - still under Israeli attack - will be distributed across eight Swiss cantons, where they will receive medical treatment and undergo asylum procedures in the country.

The agency noted that Switzerland had recently evacuated, as part of this humanitarian operation, 20 wounded children from Gaza along with 78 accompanying family members.

A total of 130 Palestinians have been injured as a result of an Israeli assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern occupied West Bank since the start of the military operation last Wednesday.

Nidal Odeh, the director of ambulance and emergency services in Tubas, told Anadolu Agency that since the beginning of the Israeli military operation in the governorate, 130 Palestinians have been injured after being beaten by Israeli soldiers.

Odeh noted that 66 of the injured were transported to hospitals, while the rest were treated in the field.

Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai said on Friday that "direct negotiations with Israel are necessary for peace," stressing that his call does not imply normalisation.

In an interview with the Lebanese broadcaster LBCI, Rai stated that Hezbollah and other militant groups' "disarmament is an irreversible decision."

He emphasised that "the state must address with Israel the issue of its withdrawal from the south" of Lebanon, while he reiterated that "direct negotiations with Israel are necessary for peace."

"By that, I do not mean normalisation," he said.

Rai also called on the government to ask the international community to extend the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) - whose mandate ends at the end of next year - saying: "We have not yet reached peace."

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem welcomed on Friday Pope Leo XIV's upcoming visit to Lebanon, saying he has tasked members of the Iran-backed group with delivering a letter to the pontiff.

"I welcome the Pope's visit to Lebanon," Qassem said in a televised speech, adding that he "tasked members of our political council with visiting the Papal Embassy and presenting a letter from Hezbollah to the Pope, which will also be published in the media".

"We welcome this visit at this pivotal moment, and we pray that the Holy Father will contribute to spreading peace in Lebanon, liberating it, ending the (Israeli) aggression, and standing by it and by the oppressed, as we have always known him to do," Qassem said.

Saudi Arabia on Friday condemned Israel’s "criminal" attacks on rural Damascus on Friday, calling them an attempt to undermine the security and stability of Syria and its people.

In a statement issued by its Foreign Ministry, Saudi Arabia said it "denounces and condemns the blatant assault carried out by the Israeli occupation forces on the town of Beit Jinn in rural Damascus."

The Kingdom reaffirmed its "complete rejection of all Israeli violations on Syrian territory and all attempts to destabilise Syria and its people."

Saudi Arabia also called on the international community and the permanent members of the UN Security Council to "confront Israel’s repeated violations in Syria and its aggressive practices against residents in villages and border areas."

It further urged the implementation of relevant international laws and resolutions that guarantee Syria’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the security of its brotherly people.

The U.S. Central Command announced that 50 nations and international organisations are now represented in the Civil-Military Coordination Center established by Washington in southern Israel to monitor the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

"One month after achieving full operational capability, the U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) has grown to include representatives from 50 partner nations and international organisations," CENTCOM said on X.

"The coordination centre also facilitated the movement of more than 24,000 trucks worth of humanitarian aid and commercial goods into Gaza the past five weeks, while working to open additional routes for delivering and distributing needed goods and aid," it added.

CENTCOM’s remarks on the scale of aid deliveries, however, stand in contrast to the actual humanitarian situation in Gaza and to figures released by the authorities in the enclave, which assert that a deliberate policy of starvation is still ongoing.

The head of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said on Friday it retained the right to respond to Israel's killing days ago of its top military commander and left open the possibility of a new war with Israel.

Speaking in a televised address, Naim Qassem said the group would "set the timing" for any retaliation, and said threats of a broader air campaign had no impact on the group - but that renewed war was possible.

"Do you expect a war later? It's possible sometime. Yes, this possibility is there, and the possibility of no war is also there," Qassem said.

Qassem did not explicitly say what the group's position would be in a new war but said Lebanon should prepare a plan to confront Israel that relies on "its army and its people."

Moments after Qassem's speech ended, Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee claimed the Lebanese army's efforts to seize Hezbollah weapons in the country's south were "inadequate."

An Israeli army drone struck a pickup truck this afternoon in the town of Kantara in the southern Lebanon Marjeyoun district, killing the driver.

Civil defence firefighters are working to put out the blaze that erupted in the vehicle, according to our correspondent.

Yemen's Houthis have condemned what they called a "treacherous Israeli attack" on the southern Syrian town of Beit Jinn.

In a statement, the group said the ground incursion and strikes marked a clear violation of Syrian sovereignty and another step in Israel's expansion of its occupation policies.

It praised local residents as "heroic resistance" during clashes that left six Israeli troops wounded.

The group said armed struggle remains the only "effective deterrent against Israeli aggression", warning that concessions will not halt Israel’s "expansionist agenda".

It added that Syria had the right to respond to the assault "by all available means".

Israeli forces have carried out multiple raids in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition and stun grenades near residential homes, Wafa reports.

The army also set up a checkpoint in Sarda, east of the town, stopping cars and inspecting their identification cards. At the same time, the forces also seized three vehicles owned by Palestinians at the Atara checkpoint. The vehicles were abandoned by the forces in the middle of the road.

At least 15 Palestinians were injured after Israeli forces raided Palestinian homes and beat and detained their residents in Tubas for the third consecutive day.

Eight of the injured were taken to the hospital, Director of Ambulance and Emergency Services in Tubas, Nidhal Aouda said.

Israeli forces detained 20 Palestinians during their raid, along with questioning them on-site. The army had also kicked several Palestinians out of their homes and turned them into military outposts.

The Israeli army claims it killed a Palestinian who allegedly crossed the so-called "yellow line", without providing any evidence.

The army claims the Palestinian approached the forces "in a manner that posed an immediate threat".

The "yellow line" marks the areas Israel controls in southern Gaza. 

A 24-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel was seriously injured after being shot in Nazareth.

Over 191 Palestinians have been killed by gunfire in Israel, with 13 cases involving Israeli police.

An Israeli soldier was injured in Gaza's Khan Younis, The Times of Israel reports.

The soldier reportedly suffered an injury from shrapnel and has been taken to the hospital, the military told the publication.

Israeli forces have begun demolishing buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reports.

This comes after an earlier warning where the Israeli army said it would raze 24 structures in the camp, which it claimed is for "operational" purposes.

Israel's attack on southern Syria left 14 dead and several wounded. Survivors of the attack told AFP what happened.

"We were asleep when we were woken up at three in the morning by gunfire," wounded resident Iyad Taher told AFP at al-Mouwassat hospital in the Syrian capital.

"We went outside to see what was happening and saw the Israeli army in the village, soldiers and tanks. Then they withdrew, the air force came, and the shells started falling. I was hit by shrapnel in the neck."

A local official told AFP that Israeli forces raided the village to capture three men, sparking clashes.

"Following the clashes, the Israeli occupation forces shelled the area with artillery and drones," village official Abdul Rahman al-Hamrawi said.

At the hospital, Ahmad Kamal told AFP he and others "opened fire on the Israeli patrol to defend ourselves and stop them from taking us. My brother was killed, and I was wounded".

Several Palestinians suffered from smoke inhalation after Israeli forces and settlers raided private farmlands, preventing farmers from accessing their land in Hebron.

Israeli forces fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters at those trying to get to their land in Taqumiya, Wafa reports.

The Palestinians were treated on site.

Three Palestinians were injured, and 15 were detained after the Israeli army raided the Al-Far’a refugee camp in Tubas, in the occupied West Bank.

The raid began around midnight, when Israeli forces stormed Palestinian homes and carried out their detention campaign. 

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Israel on 6 and 7 December for his first official visit since taking office, a German government spokesperson said on Friday.

Merz is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 7 December to discuss bilateral relations, the ceasefire in Gaza and other international issues, and will also visit the Yad Vashem memorial and hold talks with local representatives from society, the spokesperson added during a regular government press conference.

Germany has long been one of Israel's staunchest supporters, but has also criticised Netanyahu's government over its strategy in the devastating Gaza war.

This month, the German government moved to resume weapons sales to Israel that had been suspended since August over the war, but said the decision is subject to the observance of the ceasefire and the large-scale provision of humanitarian aid. 

The killing of two Palestinians shot dead in the West Bank while seemingly surrendering to Israeli forces was an "apparent summary execution", the United Nations said Friday.

"We are appalled at the brazen killing by Israeli border police yesterday of two Palestinian men in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, in yet another apparent summary execution," UN rights office spokesman Jeremy Laurence told reporters in Geneva, calling for "independent, prompt and effective investigations into the killings of Palestinians".

Over a thousand Palestinians have been injured so far by Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank, which is over double last year's toll, the United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA) revealed.

The OCHA recorded over 1,600 settler attacks, affecting more than 270 communities across the West Bank, with the Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron areas being attacked the most, equivalent to almost 35 settler attacks a week.

The agency also documented 36 Israeli settler attacks between 18-24 November, injuring at least 22 Palestinians.

The Israeli military claims it had tracked and killed nine fighters stuck in underground tunnels in Israeli-controlled areas of Rafah in southern Gaza.

The fighters were reportedly killed after Israeli forces destroyed the tunnels using "air strikes and engineering means".

Syria on Friday condemned an Israeli military operation in southern Syria that killed 14 people overnight as a "war crime".

"Syria denounces... the criminal aggression" of the Israeli army in the village of Beit Jin, the foreign ministry said in a statement, adding that such acts aim to "ignite the region" in conflict.

"This is a war crime."

Israel's incursion into Syria has now killed at least 14 in the southern town of Beit Jinn, with at least 25 wounded.

The Syrian Civil Defence has now entered Beit Jinn to transport the dead and treat the wounded, SANA said.

An Israeli drone strike killed a Palestinian man in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, despite a ceasefire being in effect.

Abdullah Wajdi Hammad was killed after the strike targeted the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wafa reports.

Israeli forces also shelled across Khan Younis, as well as striking Rafah and targeting the coast with its navy vessels.

At least 10 people were killed by Israeli forces in a southern Syrian village overnight, Syrian state television reported Friday, after Israel's army said six soldiers were wounded in an operation in the area.

"The number of martyrs from the Israeli aggression... has risen to 10, including women and children, while others remain trapped under the rubble," Syrian state TV said, adding that dozens of families fled the village of Beit Jin to safety in nearby areas.

Israel's army said at least six soldiers were wounded overnight in an operation to arrest suspects from the Lebanese Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya.

Local official Abdul Rahman Al-Hamrawi told AFP that Israel raided the village southwest of Damascus that sits on the foothills of Mount Hermon, sparking clashes.

"The Israeli occupation army raided Beit Jin to arrest three young men from the village, leading to clashes with residents who tried to resist the Israeli incursion," he said.

Amnesty International on Thursday claimed Israel was "still committing genocide" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month.

"The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal," said Amnesty chief Agnes Callamard.

"But while Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel's genocide is not over."

When faced with such allegations previously, the Israeli ministry has vehemently rejected them as "entirely false", "fabricated", and "based on lies".

The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after two years of war.

Contacted by AFP, the Israeli foreign ministry did not respond to the allegations by early evening.