Three killed in Gaza on Friday in new Israeli violations of ceasefire deal

The Red Cross says it transferred unidentified remains of three people to Israel that a military source says came from Hamas

Crowds of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank town of Silwad attended the funeral of a 15-year-old boy on Friday after he was shot dead by Israeli forces overnight.

About 200 mourners clapped and chanted as they carried the body of Yamen Hamed, wrapped in a Palestinian flag, through the crowded streets.

Some waved Palestinian flags, while others clutched those representing Hamas and its long-time rival Fatah. Inside, women sobbed over the teenager's body, stroking and kissing his face.

Earlier on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry had announced the death of "Yamen Samed Yousef Hamed... by occupation bullets in Silwad, northeast of Ramallah".

وسط هتافات للمـــقاومة.. حشود كبيرة تشارك في تشييع الشهيد الفتى يامن صامد حماد في بلدة سلواد شمال شرق رام الله. pic.twitter.com/hXve7EcbVS

— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) October 31, 2025

Israeli settlers on Friday set fire to three Palestinian vehicles in the town of Kafr Qaddum, north of the occupied West Bank, marking the second attack in just hours.

Abdul Qabbaja, an activist with the Resistance to the Wall and Settlement Movement, told Anadolu Agency that the settlers attacked Kafr Qaddum, sparking violent clashes with local residents during which the settlers fired live rounds.

Qabbaja added that the Israeli army intervened to protect the settlers, using tear gas and live ammunition.

He also noted that among the three vehicles burned was one belonging to Murad Ishtawi, director of the movement in the northern West Bank.

#شاهد| مستوطنون يشعلون النار في عدداً من المركبات بمنطقة اللدائن بين قريتي كفر قدوم (شرق قلقيلية) وبيت ليد (شرق طولكرم)، والفلسطينيون يهرعون لصد الهجوم. pic.twitter.com/BGCMAwncb8

— شبكة فلسطين للحوار (@paldf) October 31, 2025

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said Friday that any negotiations with Israel to halt its ongoing strikes on southern Lebanon — which have continued despite a nearly year-old U.S.-brokered ceasefire — must be mutual.

Aoun made the remarks following talks with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, who was on a four-day Middle East tour and visited Beirut on his first official trip since taking office.

"Lebanon is ready for negotiations to end the Israeli occupation," Aoun told Wadephul, "but any talks cannot be one-sided — they require mutual will, which is still lacking. The format, timing and location of negotiations will be determined later."

He added that the Lebanese army’s presence in the south will increase to 10,000 troops before the end of the year, noting continued coordination with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem accused the United States on Friday of attempting to expand Israel’s military aggression against Lebanon, saying Washington’s actions and statements reveal direct involvement in the conflict. The group said the U.S. bears responsibility for the escalation along the southern border.

During a televised speech, Qassem said that American political and military support enables Israel to continue its "open aggression" against Lebanese territory. It added that U.S. pressure on Beirut aims to weaken the country’s resistance and embolden Tel Aviv.

He accused Washington of providing diplomatic cover for Israel’s military operations and of obstructing international efforts to end hostilities. He said the U.S. role proves that the current confrontation is not only with Israel but with "the entire American project in the region."

Hezbollah called on the Lebanese government and people to resist U.S. and Israeli pressures, reaffirming its commitment to defending Lebanon’s sovereignty and territory against any further escalation.

Various foreign ministers will meet on Monday to discuss the Gaza ceasefire and next steps there, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday, adding that Turkey was concerned over whether the ceasefire will continue.

Speaking at a press conference in Ankara, Fidan said the meeting would include foreign ministers who met U.S. President Donald Trump in New York in September, adding that talks were continuing on forming a Gaza task force and stabilisation force.

Israel struck the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh on Friday, killing at least one person.

The drone strike killed a man who was riding a motorbike along the Nabatiyeh-Shoukin road.

It came hours after another drone strike in the village of Kounine, which the Israeli army claimed killed a Hezbollah operative.

مراسل "ليبانون ديبايت": نفذت مسيرة اسرائيلية قرابة الرابعة من عصر اليوم غارة جوية بصاروخ موجه مستهدفة دراجة نارية في طلعة شوكين - مفرق نادي الشقيف على طريق النبطية -شوكين pic.twitter.com/rtDpDtTUN6

— Lebanon Debate (@lebanondebate) October 31, 2025

Detained local United Nations staff will face trial on suspicion of links to an Israeli airstrike that assassinated top Houthi leaders in Yemen in August, the acting foreign minister of the Houthi government told Reuters.

The prime minister of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi-run government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital Sanaa in August, the first such attack to kill senior officials.

A total of 36 United Nations employees were arrested after that attack, the U.N. said on Friday. It is not clear how many of those would stand trial.

The U.N. has repeatedly rejected Houthi accusations that U.N. staff or U.N. operations in Yemen were involved.

Israel's national security minister on Friday posted a video of himself standing over a row of Palestinian prisoners lying prone with their hands tied, in which he calls for the "death penalty for terrorists".

In footage shared on his personal Telegram channel, Itamar Ben Gvir addresses the camera while pointing at a dozen detainees face down in front of an Israeli flag.

"These guys, the Nukhba who came to kill children, women, our babies. Look at them today," the far-right minister claims, referring to the special forces unit of Hamas' military wing.

"But there's still something that must be done: death penalty for the terrorists," he adds.

“There’s something else that must be done — the death penalty.”

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir abuses Palestinian prisoners in one of the occupation’s prisons. pic.twitter.com/4EXS8jVCQy

— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) October 31, 2025

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Friday accused Israel of responding to its offer to negotiate by intensifying its air strikes, the latest of which killed a man riding a motorbike in southern Lebanon.

Aoun had called for negotiations with Israel in mid-October, after US President Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire in Gaza.

"Lebanon is ready for negotiations to end the Israeli occupation, but any negotiation... requires mutual willingness, which is not the case," Aoun said on Friday.

Israel "is responding to this option by carrying out more attacks against Lebanon... and intensifying tensions", he added during a meeting with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul.

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen has said that his refusal to sign a $35 billion gas agreement with Egypt has prompted his U.S. counterpart to cancel a planned trip to Israel.

A statement from Cohen's office on Thursday night said that U.S. officials had been "exerting a great deal of pressure on Israeli officials" to approve the deal, but it said that the minister would refuse to do so "until Israeli interests are secured and a fair price for the Israeli market is agreed upon."

The move, the statement said, prompted U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright to cancel his trip to Israel. Wright's office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday morning. U.S. officials in Israel declined to comment. Egypt's Foreign Ministry didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cohen's refusal to sign the deal appears to freeze progress on what his office says would be the largest gas export agreement in Israel's history, exporting natural gas from the Leviathan gas field to Egypt.

Cohen's move appears to risk inflaming Israel's relations with the United States and Egypt, both key brokers of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, which has paused more than two years of war. The statement from Cohen's office said that efforts have been made to settle “the political issues between Israel and Egypt," but didn't specify further.

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said that the statements made by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in which he justified Israel's two-year genocidal war on Gaza, once again confirms the extent of German political and military support for this war, despite global consensus against Israel.

Merz made the comments during a press conference in Ankara on Friday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Qassem called on Merz to "stop fully siding with the occupation’s aggression, to stop attempting to justify the genocidal crimes it has committed, and to align with the global conscience that has condemned Israeli crimes."

An International Committee of the Red Cross senior official Friday urged Israel to lift its ban on the group visiting Palestinian detainees, denying that they were a security threat.

There was "no way in which our visits can pose a security threat or a national security threat" to Israel, ICRC director-general Pierre Krahenbuhl told AFP in an interview.

Israeli settlers attacked two towns east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank on Friday, setting vehicles on fire and smashing the windows of a mosque.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that a group of extremist settlers launched midday attacks on the towns of Beitin and Deir Dibwan, torching cars and breaking mosque windows.

The witnesses said the neighbouring towns were attacked simultaneously by dozens of Israeli settlers.

Settlers also stormed olive fields and stole crops in the villages of Qaryut, Turmus Ayya, Jalud, and Duma, located between the cities of Nablus (north) and Ramallah, according to local sources.

مستوطنون يشعلون النار في مركبات الأهالي عقب هجومهم على بلدة بيتين قضاء رام الله. pic.twitter.com/p4KM37Bp0Q

— فلسطين بوست (@PalpostN) October 31, 2025

The International Committee of the Red Cross's director-general told AFP Friday that humanitarian workers were being targeted in Gaza and in Sudan, where five volunteers were killed this week.

"It is now becoming a pattern of violence against humanitarian workers in Sudan, in Gaza, and others, that we find very dramatic," Pierre Krahenbuhl told AFP in Bahrain.

The Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy in the town of Silwad in the central occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian health ministry announced in a statement on Thursday evening that "the child Yamen Samed Youssef Hamed (15 years old) was shot dead by Israeli forces in Silwad."

According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli forces stormed the town of Silwad, leading to confrontations.

The agency reported that a group of Palestinians hurled stones at the Israeli troops, who responded with live fire, tear gas, and stun grenades, fatally wounding the child.

It added that the forces prevented an ambulance from reaching the wounded boy, leaving him lying on the ground before eventually allowing medics to transfer him to Ramallah Government Hospital.

The Washington Post reported that a classified U.S. government report indicates Israel has violated American human rights laws in Gaza "hundreds of times."

According to the paper, which cited U.S. officials on Thursday, the State Department’s inspection unit prepared a confidential report examining human rights violations committed by foreign militaries that receive U.S. aid.

The report found that Israel committed "hundreds" of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in the Gaza Strip.

It also noted that the investigation into these violations "will take the State Department several years" to complete.

Iran's foreign minister called on Thursday US plans to resume nuclear testing "regressive and irresponsible", after a surprise directive by US President Donald Trump.

"A nuclear-armed bully is resuming testing of atomic weapons. The same bully has been demonizing Iran's peaceful nuclear program," Abbas Araghchi said in a post on social media.

"The (US) announcement of a resumption of nuclear tests is a regressive and irresponsible move and a serious threat to international peace and security," he added.

Israel has returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a US-brokered ceasefire plan, a hospital told AFP on Friday.

The Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis told AFP that "the bodies of 30 Palestinian prisoners were received from the Israeli side as part of the exchange deal".

Under the truce, Israel is to return 15 Palestinian remains for every deceased Israeli hostage returned by Hamas. Friday's transfer brings the number returned to Gaza to 225.