Israeli strikes target Gaza's Khan Younis as nine detained in West Bank raids

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Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian man in the Shallal al-Auja area, north of Jericho, Wafa reports.

The settlers beat Ahmad Mohammad Ghawanmeh, causing bruises across his body, and smashed the windows of his car with stones, the general supervisor of Al-Baidar Organisation for Human Rights, Hassan Mleihat, said.

Israeli settlers have been increasing their attacks on Palestinians since October 2023.

A Palestinian teenage boy was injured during an Israeli raid into the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus.

Ameed Ahmad, director of the Ambulance and Emergency Centre at the Red Crescent in Nablus, said an 18-year-old was shot in the foot and was taken to the hospital.

Israeli forces fired live rounds and tear gas canisters - sources told Wafa​​​​​​.

The United States and several Arab and Muslim-majority nations, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, called on Friday for the UN Security Council to quickly adopt a US resolution endorsing Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza.

"The United States, Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Jordan, and Türkiye express our joint support for the Security Council Resolution currently under consideration," the countries said in a joint statement, adding they were seeking the measure's "swift adoption."

More than 150 Palestinians who have "mysteriously" arrived in South Africa appeared to have been "flushed out" of the Gaza Strip, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Friday.

"It does seem like they were being flushed out," Ramaphosa told journalists Friday.

"These are people from Gaza who somehow mysteriously were put on a plane that passed by Nairobi and came here," he said, adding that South Africa would investigate "the details" but had admitted the group "out of compassion".

The Palestinian embassy in South Africa said Thursday both groups' travel "was arranged by an unregistered and misleading organisation that exploited the tragic humanitarian conditions of our people in Gaza, deceived families, collected money from them, and facilitated their travel in an irregular and irresponsible manner".

Palestinians in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank held weekly communal prayers on Friday after clearing insulting graffiti, broken glass and burn marks from a mosque they say was targeted by Israeli settlers amid a spike in attacks.

Villagers in Deir Istiya who cleaned up the mosque told Reuters that settlers had smashed windows, sprayed slogans insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammed and tried to torch the building in an assault on Wednesday night.

Reuters video of the mosque on Thursday showed the graffiti as well as shattered glass, charred internal walls and furniture, and a burnt Quran.

Israel's military said security forces had arrived at the mosque after hearing reports of the attack, but had not identified or arrested any suspects.

It said in a statement to Reuters that it "condemns any force of violence and will continue to operate to safeguard the security and order in the area".

🚨 Settler gangs attacked the Hajja Hamida Mosque between Kifl Haris and Deir Istiya, #Salfit, at dawn today. The attack resulted in the burning of parts of the mosque and defacement with racist graffiti. The Ministry of Awqaf condemned the crime. pic.twitter.com/K3oApNDpEu

— Rizwan Warraich 🍉 (@RizWarraich) November 13, 2025

The Israeli military on Friday denied building a wall in Lebanon after UN peacekeepers said it had built walls in the country's south near the UN-demarcated Blue Line, the de facto border.

When asked by AFP about the accusation, the Israeli military said: "The wall is part of a broader (Israeli military) plan whose construction began in 2022. Since the start of the war, and as part of lessons learned from it, the (Israeli military) has been advancing a series of measures, including reinforcing the physical barrier along the northern border."

"It should be emphasised that the wall does not cross the Blue Line," it added.

Jordan's king and Indonesia's leader on Friday held talks as the two longtime friends agreed to strengthen military cooperation and economic ties between the two Muslim-majority nations.

Abdullah's state visit to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country and Southeast Asia's largest economy, was the fourth stop on his tour of Asian nations, which also included Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, and Pakistan.

Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin told reporters after separate talks with Jordan's armed forces Joint Chiefs of Staff Maj. Gen. Pilot Yousef Ahmed Al-Hunaity that Subianto and Abdullah also oversaw the signing of several agreements, including intelligence sharing on Gaza.

Sjamsoeddin said that Jordan is significantly important in assisting with Indonesia's humanitarian operation for Gaza because Indonesia, which has long been a staunch supporter of Palestinians, doesn't have formal diplomatic relations with Israel.

United Nations peacekeepers said on Friday that Israel's army has built walls in south Lebanon near the UN-demarcated Blue Line, the de facto border, nearly a year after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

In October, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon surveyed "a concrete T-wall erected by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) southwest of Yaroun. The survey confirmed that the wall crossed the Blue Line, rendering more than 4,000 square metres of Lebanese territory inaccessible to the Lebanese people," UNIFIL.

"In November, peacekeepers observed additional T-wall construction in the area. A survey confirmed that a section of wall southeast of Yaroun also crossed the Blue Line," it added, urging Israel to withdraw.

The Israeli army said it shot and killed a Palestinian man after he crossed the "Yellow Line" in southern Gaza and moved towards the soldiers.

The Yellow Line, an area Israel says is under their control, separates a part of Gaza that is controlled by Hamas from the Israeli "buffer zone".

At least nine Palestinians were detained as Israeli forces continue to raid the occupied West Bank.

Four Palestinians were detained in the Askar refugee camp in Nablus, including a father and his two sons. Another four were detained in Silwad, east of Ramallah, while one Palestinian in Jenin was detained after Israeli forces raided his home - sources told Wafa.

The forces turned the Palestinian's home into a makeshift interrogation centre, where they detained and interrogated several Palestinians.

Israeli forces also fired stun bombs and tear gas, raiding and ransacking homes, damaging vehicles, vandalising shops and smashing windows.

Greece is in talks with Israel to buy modern missile systems that would be used for a planned anti-aircraft defence dome, two officials with knowledge of the plan told Reuters.

Athens has said it will spend about 28 billion euros ($33 billion) by 2036 to modernise its armed forces as it emerges from a 2009-2018 debt crisis and tries to keep pace with its historic rival, Turkey.

About 3 billion euros will be used to create a multi-layer anti-aircraft and anti-drone system, called the "Achilles Shield". It also plans to buy new stealth fighter jets, frigates and submarines from the U.S. and Europe.

"We want to buy 36 PULS artillery systems and anti-aircraft systems for 'Achilles Shield'. The negotiations with Israel will intensify next month," one of the officials said, adding that Greek companies would provide about 25 percent of the project.

Greece and Israel have strong economic and diplomatic ties. They have launched several joint exercises in recent years, and they operate an air training centre in southern Greece.

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, according to a document seen by Reuters on Friday.

Several Palestinians suffered from gas inhalation after Israeli forces attacked farmers in Bethlehem. 

Israeli forces fired live rounds and tear gas canisters, to which several Palestinians suffered from gas inhalation, as well as firing sun grenades - Jumaa Rashayda, head of the al-Rashayda Village Council, told Wafa.

Rashayda added that the Israeli forces were preventing farmers from doing their work, forcing them off their land and confiscating two tractors.

A Palestinian woman was killed after Israeli drone fire targeted the northwest of Gaza City, in violation of the 10 October ceasefire - Wafa reports.

Sources told the agency the woman, Maysa Jaber al-Attar, was shot in the al-Atatra area.

Indonesia has trained up to 20,000 troops to take on health and construction-related tasks during a planned peacekeeping operation in the war-torn enclave of Gaza, the defence minister said on Friday.

Last week, Reuters reported a draft readied by Washington for such a force that would authorise it to "use all necessary measures" to demilitarise Gaza, secure its borders, protect civilians and aid delivery, and support a newly trained Palestinian police force.

Indonesia says there is no decision yet on when troops will be deployed and what mandate they will have, underscoring the uncertainty over establishing an international presence in Gaza.

"We've prepared a maximum of 20,000 troops, but the specifications will revolve around health and construction," Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin told reporters. "We are waiting for further decisions on Gaza peace action."

President Prabowo Subianto and Jordan's King Abdullah, who is making a state visit to Indonesia from Friday, would discuss the initiative of US President Donald Trump, he added.

Gaza's Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis said it received the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Friday as part of the US-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

In a statement, the hospital said that: "15 bodies of Palestinian martyrs arrived at Nasser Medical Complex as part of the thirteenth batch of the body exchange deal, bringing the total number of bodies received to 330 martyrs".

Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli returned.

Israel confirmed overnight that Hamas had returned the remains of Israeli captive Meny Godard, killed during the 7 October attacks.

More than 150 Palestinians, who were kept on a plane for 12 hours by South African border police, were finally allowed to disembark Thursday evening, authorities said.

The plane carrying 153 Palestinians landed shortly after 8 am (0600 GMT) on Thursday at O.R. Tambo International Airport, according to border police.

The passengers were not allowed to leave the aircraft as they "did not have the customary departure stamps in their passports", the police said, adding that none had "expressed an intention to apply for asylum".

The Home Affairs Ministry finally authorised the passengers to disembark after the NGO Gift of the Givers guaranteed to provide them with accommodation.

A total of 130 individuals entered the country, and 23 were waiting to connect to another destination of their choice, according to the border police.

Gaza health officials say they have received the bodies of 15 Palestinians returned by Israel as part of the US-brokered ceasefire deal.

Palestinian health officials and doctors have previously said bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and professional organ extraction.

More to come.

The Palestinian Authority said Thursday that Israeli soldiers had killed two 15-year-olds in the occupied West Bank, while Israel called them "terrorists" attempting to carry out an attack.

"A short while ago, IDF soldiers who were operating adjacent to the community of Karmei Zur, eliminated two terrorists who were on their way to carry out a terror attack," the military said in a statement, without providing details.

Palestinian authorities also did not provide any details.

Settler violence has surged in recent weeks across the West Bank, drawing international condemnation and even rare criticism from within the Israeli military and government.