[RD] War in Gaza News: Pas de Deux

Israel clears final hurdle to start constructing controversial West Bank settlement project​

E1 project near Jerusalem would effectively cut the occupied West Bank in two​

Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a contentious settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the occupied West Bank in two, according to a government tender.

The tender, which seeks bids from developers, would clear the way to begin construction of the E1 project.

The anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now first reported the tender. Yoni Mizrahi, who runs the group's settlement watch division, said initial work could begin within the month.

Settlement development in E1, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, has been under consideration for more than two decades, but was frozen due to U.S. pressure during previous administrations.

The international community overwhelmingly considers Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank to be illegal and an obstacle to peace.

The E1 project is especially contentious because it runs from the outskirts of Jerusalem deep into the occupied West Bank. Critics say it would prevent the establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state in the territory.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right politician who oversees settlement policy, has long pushed for the plan to become a reality.

"The Palestinian state is being erased from the table not with slogans but with actions," he said in August, when Israel gave final approval to the plan. "Every settlement, every neighbourhood, every housing unit is another nail in the coffin of this dangerous idea."

The tender, publicly accessible on the website for Israel's Land Authority, calls for proposals to develop 3,401 housing units. Peace Now says the publication of the tender "reflects an accelerated effort to advance construction in E1."

Israeli troops fire at university protesters​

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent said Tuesday that 11 people were injured during an Israeli raid at a university in the West Bank.

The president of Birzeit University, speaking at a news conference, said a group of about 20 Israeli military vehicles had stormed the gate and entered the campus. Video obtained by The Associated Press confirmed their presence on campus.

"Unfortunately, targeting the university is a recurring event," said Talal Shahwan, the school's president, who said the forces displayed "clear brutality."

Israeli officials said military and border troops were sent to break up an anticipated gathering and soon found themselves facing a crowd of hundreds of people, some allegedly throwing rocks at them from rooftops.

They said they used targeted fire toward the "main violent individuals."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-west-bank-settlement-construction-9.7035408
 

UN rights chief says Israeli policy in West Bank 'resembles apartheid system'​

The UN human rights office has issued a report detailing what it calls Israel's "systemic discrimination" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and said the situation has "drastically deteriorated" over the past three years.

Israeli laws, policies and practices were having an "asphyxiating impact" on every aspect of daily life for Palestinians and violated an international convention against racial discrimination, it said.

"This is a particularly severe form of racial discrimination and segregation that resembles the kind of apartheid system we have seen before," High Commissioner Volker Türk warned.

Israel dismissed the accusations as "absurd and distorted".

The Israeli mission in Geneva said the UN human rights office "completely ignores fundamental facts that lie at the basis of the [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict, and that inform the actions and policies of the State of Israel, mainly the grave security threats Israel faces, which were put on display on October 7 2023".

It also accused the office of abusing its position "to issue yet another unmandated report" and having an "inherently politically driven fixation... on vilifying Israel".

Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land Palestinians want, along with Gaza, for a hoped-for future state - during the 1967 Middle East war. An estimated 3.3 million Palestinians live alongside them.

The settlements are illegal under international law.

This is the first time a UN human rights chief has explicitly compared Israeli policies in the West Bank to apartheid - the policy of racial segregation and discrimination that was enforced by the white minority government in South Africa against the country's black majority from 1948 until 1991.

"Whether accessing water, school, rushing to hospital, visiting family or friends, or harvesting olives - every aspect of life for Palestinians in the West Bank is controlled and curtailed by Israel's discriminatory laws, policies and practices" Türk said in a statement.

According to the 42-page report by his office, Israeli authorities treat Israeli settlers and Palestinians living in the West Bank under two distinct bodies of law and policies, which it says results in unequal treatment on a range of critical issues.

"Palestinians continue to be subjected to large-scale confiscation of land and deprivation of access to resources. This has had the effect of dispossessing them of their lands and homes, alongside other forms of systemic discrimination, including criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated," it finds.

The report says there are "reasonable grounds to believe that this separation, segregation, and subordination is intended to be permanent, indicating that these laws, policies, and practices amount to a deliberate policy of physical and juridical separation intended to maintain oppression and domination of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank".

It adds that this amounts to a violation of Israel's obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) to prevent racial segregation and apartheid in territories under its jurisdiction.

The reports says systemic discrimination against Palestinians has been "a long-standing concern" for the UN but that it has "drastically deteriorated" since at least December 2022 and especially since the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, which sparked the Gaza war.

It also says that Israel's settlement expansion in the West Bank had intensified over the past two years, citing the approval last month of the construction of 19 new settlements, which Israeli ministers said was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.

"Every negative trend documented in the report has not only continued but accelerated. And every day this is allowed to continue, the consequences worsen for Palestinians," Türk warned.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9erv6p15o
 
Meanwhile, democratic Syrian forces with Turkey support prepare to expel Kurds from Syria (part, what under their control). They start with Hallep, but defently action will continue till last city under control of Kurds will fall (and witch not under US umbrella. If there no oil or gas - no protection 🙂)
 

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Child killed in north Gaza by Israeli fire, family says, as post-ceasefire deaths mount​

Israel says it struck rocket launch site, in separate incident, after accusing Hamas of failed launch​

Israeli gunfire on Thursday killed an 11-year-old girl whose family had returned to a designated safe zone, according to a relative, adding to more than 400 deaths reported since a ceasefire was reached to halt fighting in Gaza nearly three months ago.

After shells and shrapnel hit her home in northern Gaza's Jabaliya area, Hamsa Housou was taken to Al-Shifa Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Outside the hospital mortuary, her uncle Khamis Housou told The Associated Press that the family had returned home on Oct. 11, 2025, a day after the ceasefire went into effect.

Housou, who said his niece had dreams of becoming a doctor, told how early on Thursday he heard screams as Israeli troops combed the area where shells and shrapnel hit. He ran from his apartment toward the home where Hamsa lived and found her lying on the floor.

He carried the girl to the nearest clinic, only to find the ambulance there had a flat tire. They waited about 15 minutes, he said, before taking her to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

"They say that there is a ceasefire and that the war on Gaza has stopped. Is this only through the media, while every day there are explosions and fire belts?" he asked. "Shooting does not stop. Where is the ceasefire?"


Khamis Housou said that Falluja, the neighbourhood in Jabaliya where the family lives, has been subjected to daily shooting by Israeli troops despite being on the western side of the yellow ceasefire line.

Israel's military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It has previously said that military actions since the ceasefire began have been in response to violations of the agreement.

At least 425 Palestinians have been killed in the nearly three months since the ceasefire took effect, Gaza's Health Ministry reported Thursday.

The overall Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war rose to at least 71,395, the Health Ministry said, with another 171,287 wounded.

The phased ceasefire agreement remains in its initial stage as efforts continue to recover the remains of the final hostage in Gaza.

Israel's Hostages and Missing Families Forum said on Wednesday that it had been notified that teams had recommenced searching for Ran Gvili. The 24-year-old police officer was abducted on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants abducted 251 people and killed around 1,200, mostly civilians, in the attack that triggered the war, according to Israeli figures.

Israel strikes Gaza rocket launch site​

Separately, Israel's military said on Thursday it had carried out a targeted strike on a rocket launch site near Gaza City after identifying a failed launch, as questions mount over when the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire will begin.

The military said the alleged projectile did not cross into Israeli territory and that the launch site was struck shortly after the attempt was detected.

It accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire twice in the past 24 hours. A source from the Palestinian militant group told Reuters it was checking the allegation.

Israel is awaiting the handover of the final body due under the current stage of the truce. An Israeli official close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will not move to the next phase of the ceasefire until Hamas returns the remains of the last Israeli hostage still held in Gaza.

Israel has yet to open the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, which is another condition of the U.S.-backed plan, saying it will only do so once the remains are returned.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/child-killed-north-gaza-israeli-fire-ceasefire-9.7037704
 
danjuno said:
Can you translate the caption? Also, what's the source?
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Some info available here
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CNN TÜRK çatışmanın sıfır noktasında: Tanklar Halep'e girdi, silahlar susmuyor | Video

Dünya Haberleri - Suriye ordusu Halepe girerken, Eşrefiye ve Şeyh Maksut mahalleleri çevresinde çatışmalar şiddetlendi. Tanklar ve zırhlı araçların kullanıl...
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As for pictures - army demand civilians leave area, as soon will be military clashes here with SDF
 
banzay13 said:
Some info available here
www.cnnturk.com

CNN TÜRK çatışmanın sıfır noktasında: Tanklar Halep'e girdi, silahlar susmuyor | Video

Dünya Haberleri - Suriye ordusu Halepe girerken, Eşrefiye ve Şeyh Maksut mahalleleri çevresinde çatışmalar şiddetlendi. Tanklar ve zırhlı araçların kullanıl...
www.cnnturk.com www.cnnturk.com

As for pictures - army demand civilians leave area, as soon will be military clashes here with SDF
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I don't think danjuno speaks turkish, also i dug up the middle east thread. This thread is for Israel/Palestine.
 
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As Israel plans to remove the rubble of Rafah, international intervention, specialised teams urgently needed to recover victims’ bodies

Bulldozing operations in Rafah are being carried out despite confirmed indications that hundreds of bodies remain beneath the debris
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Human Rights Monitor calls for urgent international intervention to halt the crimes of widespread destruction and land levelling being carried out by the Israeli army in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, until specialised teams and the necessary equipment are allowed to recover the bodies of victims, identify them, and ensure their dignified burial.

The circulating plans to reshape the area under the name of the “Green City” in Rafah will be used to entrench the isolation of the population and forcibly concentrate them into military-controlled ghettos, thereby perpetuating their displacement from their original homes and imposing deadly living conditions that undermine the basic foundations of their survival.

Over recent days, Euro-Med Monitor’s team has documented the evacuation by the Israeli occupation army, alongside contractors operating under its authority, of the entire area under full Israeli control in Rafah, and the commencement of rubble removal and land levelling. The army confirmed in recent hours that no less than 70 per cent of rubble removal operations in the city have been completed.

Bulldozing and land levelling operations in Rafah are being carried out despite confirmed indications that hundreds of bodies remain beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings and in streets and agricultural fields, posing a serious risk of damaging human remains and erasing their locations before recovery and identification can take place.

Euro-Med Monitor had previously documented the bombing of homes while residents were inside them, and the targeting of civilians during attempts to flee, without medical teams or rescue crews being able to reach or recover them due to Israel’s complete military control over the city and the prevention of access. This has been compounded by the creation of an unsafe environment in Israeli-controlled areas through local armed groups established or activated by Israel, which further increased risks and effectively restricted any safe humanitarian access. As such, the ongoing rubble removal operations constitute a continuation of the obstruction of rescue efforts and significantly heighten the risk of erasing evidence related to the fate of the victims.

The use of heavy machinery to remove rubble and level land could fragment victims’ remains or mix them with debris, which may then be transported to unknown collection sites or landfills. This would effectively result in the loss of bodies, render their recovery and identification impossible, and constitute a serious violation of the sanctity of the dead and the rights of their families, while further complicating dignified burial procedures. There is an urgent need to allow the entry of search and rescue teams, along with forensic experts equipped with surveying tools and location-identification technologies, to ensure the recovery, documentation, identification, and dignified burial of victim

The number of missing persons in the Gaza Strip is estimated at approximately 8,000, including hundreds believed to have been killed and left beneath rubble or in areas of Israeli military incursions, particularly in Rafah. Ignoring repeated calls to recover bodies and lay them to rest in accordance with human dignity is shameful and unacceptable, deepening the suffering of families of the missing and depriving them of their right to know the fate of their loved ones, to mourn, and to bury them.

The proposed establishment of a ‘Green City’ to house Palestinians forcibly transferred to an area under Israeli control, and under the authority of armed groups it has established, represents an extremely dangerous model of re-engineering both population and territory under direct Israeli military administration.

This would effectively transform the area into a population ghetto, particularly as it coincides with the erasure of Rafah and the elimination of residents’ right to return to their original homes, carrying serious risks of permanently altering the demographic and geographic landscape of the Gaza Strip.

The establishment of the so-called “Green City,” in its proposed form and as implemented on the ground, entrenches a comprehensive system of acts prohibited under international humanitarian law and rises to the level of international crimes. This is because it is based on the unlawful and forcible transfer of civilians by compelling them to move to a designated area under the effective control of the occupying power, while practically preventing return to original places of residence or converting them into closed military zones. The area would be administered as a closed system controlling entry, exit, and residence, resulting in severe and unlawful deprivation of physical liberty. This is accompanied by deliberate and serious deprivation of fundamental rights on discriminatory grounds, amounting to persecution, in addition to the extensive destruction of property without imperative military necessity, and the violation of the sanctity of the dead and the rights of families through the removal of rubble before bodies are recovered, thereby obstructing identification and dignified burial, and the undermining of the preservation of material evidence necessary for investigation and accountability resulting from the erasure of Rafah.

The so-called “Green City” constitutes a complementary mechanism to the ongoing path of genocide, as it transforms widespread destruction and population displacement into a permanent reality by erasing Rafah, preventing residents from returning to their homes, lands, and livelihoods, and then forcing them into a security-managed isolation zone governed by gates, permits, and surveillance under military control. This enables the imposition of foreseeable and systematic restrictions on food, water, medicine, fuel, healthcare services, movement, and work, and perpetuates forced dependence on aid controlled by the occupying power. As such, the proposed “city” is not a humanitarian plan but a living environment that produces gradual destruction, accelerates health and social collapse, and exacerbates hunger, disease, and death, amounting to the deliberate imposition of life-threatening conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group, in whole or in part.

Under international humanitarian law, the occupying power bears a direct obligation to ensure the safe and immediate access of medical personnel and rescue teams to victims, to search for and collect the dead, to prevent the mutilation of bodies, and to take all necessary measures to preserve their dignity and enable their identification and return to their families wherever possible. Preventing or delaying the recovery of bodies, leaving them under rubble or exposed, or subjecting them to deliberate or foreseeable damage through demolition and levelling machinery constitutes a grave violation of these rules, infringes upon the dignity of the dead and the rights of their families, and requires international accountability.

Euro-Med Human Right Monitor calls for urgent international pressure to immediately halt rubble removal and land levelling operations in Rafah until a clear, binding humanitarian and technical mechanism is established to ensure the systematic search for the missing, the recovery of bodies, the protection of remains, and the prevention of their mixing with debris or transfer to unknown locations, thereby safeguarding victims’ dignity, the rights of their families, and preventing the erasure of evidence.

Euro-Med Monitor further calls for the establishment of an independent international mechanism to oversee search, recovery, and documentation operations throughout the Gaza Strip, including Rafah, involving international experts in forensic medicine, forensic engineering, and cemetery management, to ensure integrity and prevent tampering with sites or remains.

It also calls for a ban on the transfer or disposal of rubble outside Rafah prior to the completion of forensic and humanitarian surveys of affected areas, and for obligating implementing entities to designate declared and secured debris collection sites and restrict unauthorised access until documentation procedures are completed. In addition, Euro-Med Monitor calls for urgent technical support for identification efforts, including mobile DNA laboratories or rapid referral arrangements, and the establishment of a unified database for missing persons in coordination with families and medical authorities.

It further urges the rejection of any arrangements under the name of the “Green City” that involve the forcible transfer, concentration, or isolation of the population, or subject them to a security administration that controls their movement and existence. Such arrangements must be treated as an unlawful framework that violates the core principles of humanitarian protection and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, entrenches crimes of forcible transfer, severe deprivation of liberty, and persecution, and effectively forecloses the possibility of return to original residential areas, while contributing to the consolidation of a life-threatening environment used to complete the ongoing genocidal process in the Gaza Strip.

Finally, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor calls on states and influential actors to fulfil their obligations under international law, particularly the duty to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and to refrain from contributing to grave violations, by moving beyond statements of concern to practical and tangible pressure measures to halt Israeli crimes against Palestinians and compel compliance with international obligations. This includes suspending any military, security, logistical, or financial cooperation that may enable or facilitate ongoing violations, imposing a comprehensive arms embargo, and banning the transfer of ammunition, related services, financing, insurance, shipping, and any commercial or financial activities used to support these crimes or entrench their effects
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Israel using armed militias to ethnically cleanse West Bank | The Jerusalem Post

B’Tselem warns that organized, state-backed settler militias are driving Palestinians from their land with violent attacks across the West Bank.
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Monday, 17 November 2025, the village of al-Jaba’ near Bethlehem. A group of settlers with covered faces attacked a car with stones and clubs. Inside were a one-year-old girl, her four-year-old sister, their mother, and their uncle. The attackers also torched two cars parked nearby, burned three others, and stoned five homes in the village.

Friday, 10 October 2025, Beita, near Nablus. Dozens of settlers and soldiers attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting olives, using clubs, stones, tear gas, and live fire. About 80 farmers and journalists were injured, including one person who was shot. During the attack, settlers beat to death a dog that was tied to a fence, torched 12 vehicles, and vandalized six more.

These two attacks are a tiny example of the organized pogroms being carried out in the West Bank on a daily basis. B’Tselem has documented such attacks for years. Yet the past two years have seen a sharp spike in the degree of violence and the frequency of the attacks, now amounting to thousands of incidents.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) documented more than 1,770 attacks involving harm to people or property in 2025 alone. This included violent raids, sometimes carried out by dozens of settlers, many of them armed; burning fields and uprooting trees; stealing livestock; torching homes and property; throwing stones; and even the shooting and killing of Palestinians in broad daylight, at times on camera. Yet Israeli politicians continue to claim, year in and year out, that there is no such thing as “settler violence.”

In a sense, they are right. Anyone who follows these incidents closely and sees the dynamics on the ground understands that labeling “settler violence” is an understatement for these organized pogroms. In fact, the term is used to deflect responsibility for what is really happening.

The dozens of outposts from which the attackers emerge are established with the knowledge and encouragement of state authorities and in many cases with explicit, institutionalized support.

Typically, the authorities provide the outposts with electricity and water infrastructure, pave access roads for them, and allocate government budgets. The ATVs and drones used by settlers in attacks were distributed by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Missions Minister Orit Strock. The weapons used to attack and threaten Palestinian residents are supplied by the military.

Attacks carried out by members of settler "security squads"
Many attacks are carried out by members of settlement “security squads” and by settler-soldiers enlisted in the regional defense units – military units composed of settlers from the area. Just last week, a settler-soldier entered the village of Deir Jarir on an ATV, fired his military-issued gun in the air, and then deliberately ran over a young Palestinian man praying by the roadside.

Members of organized militias, often with military weapons and in army uniforms, operate routinely throughout the West Bank. They set up checkpoints, drive farmers off their land, and attack Palestinians. The complete immunity they are granted by all state systems enables them to continue terrorizing Palestinians, who know they have no way to protect themselves or their property without risking death.

This model, of unchecked state-armed militias operating in coordination with the military and backed by all branches of government, has succeeded, according to B’Tselem’s monitoring, in driving 45 Palestinian communities out of their homes over the past two years.

It has ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of dunams (1 dunam = 0.1 hectares) throughout the West Bank of Palestinians, where any Palestinian entering them risks arrest or attack. New outposts are springing up in mass in these areas, taking over Palestinian land and, over time, receiving formal recognition as settlements.

In this way, the shared overarching goal of the settlers, the military, and all state systems is fulfilled: ethnically cleansing more and more areas of Palestinians and enabling Jewish takeover of the land. All this is carried out in broad daylight, with no attempt at concealment.
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