US-coordinated international stabilisation force to deploy in Gaza 'soon'

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Two Palestinians, including a child, were injured by Israeli army gunfire on Friday evening in the city of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement that its teams treated a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the thigh by Israeli forces near the Grand Mosque in central Jenin.

Meanwhile, the Ibn Sina Specialised Hospital announced that it had received a patient with a gunshot wound to the left knee, describing his condition as moderate.

Local sources told Anadolu Agency that Israeli forces raided the centre of Jenin, deployed infantry units near the main roundabout, Al-Sibat neighborhood, and Abu Bakr Street, and opened fire toward civilians.

The sources added that Israeli soldiers forced shop owners around the main roundabout to close their stores and obstructed the movement of vehicles.

The United States on Friday formally removed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa from a terrorism blacklist, days before the former jihadist is set to make a landmark visit to Washington.

The move announced by the State Department was widely expected as Sharaa cooperates with the United States, and comes a day after Washington led a vote by the Security Council to remove UN sanctions on him.

Israeli settlers carried out at least 264 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during October, marking the biggest monthly total since United Nations officials began tracking such incidents in 2006, the U.N. said on Friday.

In a statement warning against the sharp rise in violence, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the attacks, which resulted in casualties and property damage, amounted to an average of eight incidents per day.

"Since 2006, OCHA has documented over 9,600 such attacks. About 1,500 of them took place just this year, roughly 15 per cent of the total," the U.N. body said in a statement.

OCHA also said that according to OCHA-confirmed data as of Wednesday, 42 Palestinian children had been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank so far this year.

"That means one in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2025 has been a child," OCHA said.

Israel received on Friday the remains of another hostage handed over by Palestinian militants to the Red Cross in Gaza, the prime minister's office said.

A coffin, containing the body of one of the last six dead hostages held by Hamas and its allies, was delivered by the Red Cross to the Israeli army and Shin Bet security agency.

It will be transferred to Israel and the remains sent for identification, the statement said.

Despite some progress in delivering food to Gazans, the territory, ravaged by war and wracked by hunger, remains in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, a UN spokesperson said Friday.

The United Nations and its partners have been able to get 37,000 metric tonnes of aid, mostly food, into Gaza since the October 10 ceasefire, but much more is needed, UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters.

"Despite significant progress on the humanitarian scale-up, people's urgent needs are still immense, with impediments not being lifted quickly enough since the ceasefire," Haq said, citing reports from UN's humanitarian service, OCHA.

Haq lamented that entry into Gaza continues to be limited to only two crossings, with no direct access to northern Gaza from Israel or to southern Gaza from Egypt, while NGO staff are being denied access.

Turkey announced Friday that it had issued arrest warrants for genocide against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior officials within his government.

Among 37 suspects listed are Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, said a statement from the Istanbul prosecutor's office, which did not publish the complete list.

The US gathered intelligence last year that Israel's military lawyers warned there was evidence that could support war crimes charges against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza – operations reliant on American-supplied weapons, five former US officials said.

The previously unreported intelligence, described by the former officials as among the most startling, was shared with top US policymakers during the war and pointed to doubts within the Israeli military about the legality of its tactics that contrasted sharply with Israel's public stance defending its actions.

Two of the former US officials said the material was not broadly circulated within the US government until late in the Biden administration, when it was disseminated more widely ahead of a congressional briefing in December 2024.

The intelligence deepened concerns in Washington over Israel's conduct in a war it claimed was necessary to eliminate Palestinian Hamas fighters embedded in civilian infrastructure.

There were concerns Israel was intentionally targeting civilians and humanitarian workers, a potential war crime which Israel has strongly denied.

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Hamas's armed wing said it would hand over the remains of another captive on Friday at 7PM GMT.

In a statement on Telegram, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said that it, along with the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, would "hand over the body of one of the occupation's captives, which was found today in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, at 9 pm Gaza time (1900 GMT)".

At the start of the truce, which came into effect on October 10, Hamas held 48 captives in Gaza, 20 alive and 28 deceased - the group have since released all the surviving captives.

Of the 28 deceased captives, 22 have so far been returned, including 19 Israelis, one Thai national, one Nepali and one Tanzanian.

Azerbaijan does not plan to send peacekeepers to Gaza unless there is a complete halt to fighting there between Israel and Hamas, an Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry source told Reuters on Friday.

As part of President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, the US has been speaking to Azerbaijan, Indonesia, the UAE, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey about possible contributions from those countries to an International Stabilisation Force (ISF) of around 20,000 troops.

"We do not want to put our troops in danger. This can only happen if military action is completely stopped," the Azerbaijani source said.

The source noted that any such decision would have to be approved by parliament. The head of the parliamentary security committee told Reuters that it had not yet received any draft bill on the matter.

The United States and Israel on Friday accused Iran of plotting to assassinate Israel's ambassador to Mexico, in what would be the latest attempt to take the two countries' conflict to another region.

A US official said that the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force initiated the plot in late 2024 and that it was disrupted this year.

The plot allegedly included recruiting operatives out of Iran's embassy in Venezuela, whose leftist president, Nicolas Maduro, has a tactical alliance with Tehran.

"The plot was contained and does not pose a current threat," the US official said on condition of anonymity.

"This is just the latest in a long history of Iran's global lethal targeting of diplomats, journalists, dissidents and anyone who disagrees with them, something that should deeply worry every country where there is an Iranian presence."

The US official did not provide detailed evidence or say how the plot was contained.

The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza said on Friday it will hand over the body of a deceased captive in the evening.

Israel thanked Mexican security and law enforcement services on Friday for thwarting what it said was an Iran-backed plot to attack the Israeli ambassador.

The United States on Friday accused Iran of plotting to assassinate Israel's ambassador to Mexico, with a US official saying the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force initiated the plot in late 2024 and that it was disrupted this year.

"We thank the security and law enforcement services in Mexico for thwarting a terrorist network directed by Iran that sought to attack Israel's ambassador in Mexico," a statement from Israel's foreign ministry said.

Fifteen Palestinians were injured after Israeli forces squashed a mass protest in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society revealed

Israeli forces fired live and rubber-coated metal bullets, as well as toxic tear gas canisters, as protesters were performing the Friday prayers on lands that are being threatened with confiscation. Farmers were also chased, while young Palestinians were beaten.

One Palestinian was injured by live fire, two by beatings and 12 by tear gas inhalation.

The protest, organised by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, in coordination with the municipalities of Kafr Qaddum and Beit Lid, the Fatah movement, and popular resistance committees, was resisting Israeli settlers' attempts to establish new illegal outposts.

Two Palestinians were injured by Israeli fire at the Atara checkpoint, north of Ramallah, Wafa reports.

Sources told the agency one was hit in the shoulder and the other in the arm after the forces targeted a vehicle. They were taken to the hospital for treatment.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that Iran sought peace, but would not be coerced into abandoning its nuclear and missile programmes, state media reported.

"We are willing to hold talks under international frameworks, but not if they say you can't have a (nuclear) science, or the right to defend yourself (with missiles) or else we will bomb you," Pezeshkian said.

Iran has repeatedly dismissed the possibility of negotiations over its defensive capabilities, including its missile programme, and the idea of abandoning all enrichment of uranium on its soil.

"We want to live in this world in peace and security, but not be humiliated, and it is not acceptable that they impose upon us whatever they want and we just serve them," Pezeshkian said. "They supply arms to Israel while they tell us not to have missiles for defence, then they bomb us whenever they want."

Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the former Israeli prosecutor who was arrested after admitting to playing a role in leaking a video showing Israeli soldiers torturing a Palestinian detainee, has been put on house arrest for 10 days - Israeli broadcaster Kan reports.

The ex-legal officer is only allowed to leave her home to meet her attorney and to notify the investigation unit.

Tomer-Yerushalmi was detained on Monday after releasing the video showing a Palestinian being beaten in the Sde Teiman prison.

British police said Friday that 11 people were arrested the previous night around the highly charged Europa League soccer match in Birmingham between English Premier League side Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv, a match that saw fans of the Israeli team banned.

In an update on Friday, West Midlands Police said five of those arrested were on suspicion of racially aggravated offences. The others included failure to comply with orders and breaching the peace.

The police force deployed more than 700 officers around the Villa Park stadium over concerns of clashes between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli groups.

Though tensions were high ahead of the match, there were no serious incidents.

A pro-Palestine protest was held outside the stadium before kick-off, where hundreds

The Israeli army claims the two Palestinian 16-year-olds they killed threw Molotov cocktails in the occupied West Bank village of Judeira overnight.

It added that the military unit deployed in the area "eliminated" the individuals, a word Israeli officials generally use when suspects are killed.

The army published a surveillance camera video in which two individuals are seen throwing a burning object over a wall matching the appearance of the one separating the area near Judeira from a road used by Israelis.

The Norwegian and Italian soccer federations have been fined by FIFA for fan incidents at World Cup qualifying games against Israel last month.

Both federations faced charges relating to disturbance of national anthems, spectators invading the field of play and "order and security" at games, FIFA said. It published a document of World Cup disciplinary cases late Thursday.

The man on the field during Norway's 5–0 win over Israel has often interrupted international soccer matches over the last 20 years, including at the men's World Cup finals tournament.

The FIFA charges did not involve Palestinian flags, including some with slogans, displayed at the games played in Oslo and Udine, Italy.

FIFA stated that the Italian federation was fined 12,500 Swiss francs ($15,500), and Norway must pay 10,000 Swiss francs ($12,400).

The United Arab Emirates is preparing to increase aid deliveries to Gaza, an envoy said on Friday, stating that a sea corridor from Cyprus is essential, alongside land and air access.

Minister of State Lana Nusseibeh said a maritime route channelling pre-screened aid from the East Mediterranean island was a vital lifeline to the people of Gaza. The UAE has partnered with Cyprus in supplying large quantities of aid to the Palestinian enclave, devastated by a two-year war.

"Maintaining multiple entry points into Gaza remains incredibly important," Nusseibeh said after an inspection of aid accumulating at the port of Limassol in Cyprus.

"As this plan moves forward, access to Gaza by land, air and sea is going to remain critical," she told reporters.

The Israeli army released five Palestinian prisoners from Gaza after Hamas handed over the remains of Tanzanian captive Joshua Mollel on Wednesday in the latest round of captive-prisoner exchanges following the 10 October ceasefire.

The five Palestinians arrived at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir el-Balah on Thursday, Gaza's Prisoners' Media Office revealed.

Israel has released almost 2,000 Palestinians since the ceasefire, while 10,000 remain in Israeli detention.

Two young Palestinians were killed Thursday night after Israeli forces opened heavy fire in the town of Al-Judeira, northwest of Jerusalem.

Two 16-year-olds, Mohammad Abdullah Teim and Mohammad Rashad Fadel Qasem, were killed, and the forces withheld their bodies.

A child was injured and taken to the hospital after Israeli forces fired a drone in Gaza City's Shujaiya, despite a ceasefire being agreed upon on 10 October - Wafa reports.

Witnesses said the child was struck by a projectile from the drone on Al-Sikka Street.

Pro-Palestine protesters repeatedly disrupted a concert by the Israel Philharmonic orchestra in Paris, throwing flares that led musicians to leave the stage. Authorities said four people were detained.

The activists also demonstrated outside Thursday night's performance at the Paris Philharmonic concert hall. Tensions over the war on Gaza have often spilt over into protests in France.

First, a protester shouted ″Israel Assassin″ and then red flares were set off twice, Jonathan Arfi, president of France's national Jewish organisation CRIF, told The Associated Press. The musicians eventually returned to the stage to finish the concert.

"I condemn this action, it was dangerous, it is a way to kidnap culture and arts in order to use it to send violent messages inside French society," Arfi said.

Four people were detained, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said in a post on X.

Nunez denounced the disruptions, saying "nothing can justify them."

Je condamne fermement les agissements commis hier soir lors d’un concert à la Philharmonie de Paris. Rien ne peut les justifier.

Je remercie les effectifs de la @prefpolice qui ont permis l’interpellation rapide de plusieurs auteurs de troubles graves à l’intérieur de la salle… https://t.co/ZTieOuaaXU

— Laurent Nuñez (@NunezLaurent) November 7, 2025

At least eight Palestinians have been detained as Israeli forces continue with their large-scale raids of the occupied West Bank, carrying out mass detention campaigns against Palestinians.

The forces carried out raids in Tulkarm, detaining four, Bethlehem, where two were detained, and two more in Nablus - sources told Wafa.

The army also broke into homes, vandalised property and assaulted residents.

Iran strongly condemned on Friday what it called "savage" Israeli attacks on Lebanon, after its arch-foe hit targets belonging to the Tehran-backed Hezbollah movement.

In a statement, the Iranian foreign ministry urged "the United Nations, the international community and regional countries to confront the warmongering" of Israel while offering "condolences on the martyrdom of Lebanese citizens during the savage attacks".

Israel said Thursday it had struck a series of targets belonging to the movement in its stronghold in southern Lebanon.

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he expects a US-coordinated international stabilisation force to be on the ground in Gaza "very soon," following two years of war on the enclave.

The multinational force, likely to include troops from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, is part of Trump's post-war governance plan for Gaza.

"It's going to be very soon. And Gaza is working out very well," Trump said at a White House function with Central Asian leaders.

"You haven't been hearing too much about problems, and I'll tell you, we've had countries that have volunteered if there's a problem with Hamas."

The force is supposed to train and support vetted Palestinian police in the Gaza Strip, with backing from Egypt and Jordan.