• Israeli colonists attack Palestinian olive groves in the occupied West Bank, with one group stealing olives from farmers in the village of al-Mughayyir near Ramallah under the protection of Israeli troops.

Gaza

Young girl among several wounded as Israeli forces open fire near Khan Younis

A source within Gaza’s medical and emergency services tells Al Jazeera that a young girl is among several people wounded after the Israeli military opened fire near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military reportedly fired outside the area it currently controls.

This area, which accounts for 50 percent of Gaza, is defined by the “Yellow Line” unilaterally imposed by Israel. It acts as an effective buffer zone, squeezing Palestinians into increasingly confined spaces.

Palestinian killed in Israeli drone strike west of Gaza City

One person has been killed in an Israeli drone strike along the perimeter of the Ansar Roundabout, west of Gaza City, the Al-Shifa Hospital has said.

Palestinian killed in Israeli drone strike in central Gaza City

One person has been killed in an Israeli drone strike on the perimeter of the Palestine Stadium in central Gaza City, emergency rescue teams have told our colleagues on the ground.

Israeli air attack hits residential building in Gaza, kills one

An Israeli air attack has hit a residential apartment complex west of Gaza City.

Al-Shifa Hospital reported one Palestinian has been killed and several wounded in the bombing.

Death toll in Israeli attack on Gaza City apartment rises to four, including a child

Palestinian medical sources say the death toll from the Israeli air attack on a residential apartment complex in western Gaza City has risen to four, including a young girl, with several other people injured.

WHO urges Israel to ease delays on medical supplies into Gaza

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged Israel to “release the pressure on medical supplies” entering Gaza, warning that repeated delays are putting lives at risk as winter approaches.

Dr Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the WHO representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said essential medicines “should not be considered as dual use,” a designation Israel uses to ban items it says Hamas fighters could use. “A truck full of non-priority supplies or the right supplies arriving too late doesn’t save lives,” she said, according to a statement.

She said one shipment of prosthetics and assistive devices had been rejected four times in the past six months. Medicines, by contrast, “move relatively well”, she said, with almost 87 percent approved and just more than 1 percent rejected.

Approved aid can enter Gaza only through the Karem Abu Salem crossing (known as Kerem Shalom in Israel). Rafah is open for limited movement of people, including patients needing treatment abroad. Van de Weerdt called for “unimpeded and predictable entry” of supplies at scale through multiple crossings.

She said almost two million people need shelter against the cold and flooding and warned of heightened disease risks linked to unsafe shelter, a lack of clean water and rats. The destruction of public health laboratories has complicated the identification of outbreaks, WHO said.

US issues fresh sanctions targeting Hamas

The US has issued fresh sanctions against Hamas, according to a statement by the Treasury Department.

The sanctions target Gaza-based Saleem Abdallah Saleem al-Zaq, identified as a deputy battalion commander of Al Qassam Brigades, the group’s military wing.

Al-Zaq is reported to oversee a financial network used to transfer funds to the group.

Sanctions also targeted “with two France-based individuals and two affiliated entities that provide critical financing to Hamas.”

“These designations expose a sophisticated, multi‑year financing architecture that moved more than $2m to Hamas through deceptive charitable fronts and crypto currency channels, demonstrating the organization's persistent ability to adapt its fundraising mechanisms to evade detection,” the statement said.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US “will continue to identify, isolate, and impose consequences on those who provide Hamas with the financial lifelines it needs to survive.”

US charges four over alleged Hamas fundraising network; French police arrest three

The US Justice Department has unsealed an indictment against a Gaza-based man it accuses of running an international fundraising network for Hamas and announced the arrests of three men in the United States.

The department said Saleem Alzaq, 45, a Hamas member and battalion deputy in the Qassam Brigades, has collected more than $1.7m since January 2020 through social media campaigns purporting to provide humanitarian aid to people in Gaza. Prosecutors allege the money was funnelled to Hamas, which Washington designates as a foreign terrorist organisation.

Omar Adhami, 33, and Abdel Adhami, 35, of Covington, Louisiana, and Raed Yousef, 56, of Lutz, Florida, were arrested.

In France, the country’s DGSI domestic intelligence agency arrested three of Alzaq’s alleged associates: Faouzi Barika, Amel Oualid and Nordine Barika.

Alzaq faces charges including conspiracy to provide material support to Hamas and conspiracy to commit money laundering, each carrying up to 20 years in prison.

“Anyone who finances or assists terrorist organizations responsible for the deaths of American citizens should expect to be prosecuted by the Department of Justice,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

US escalates Hamas supply lines

Washington has delivered a series of targeted financial actions aimed at choking off funding streams for Hamas this week.

On Friday, the US slapped new sanctions on a Hamas financial network operating across multiple international jurisdictions. The Treasury Department designated Saleem Abdallah Saleem al-Zaq alongside two France-based fundraisers and associated corporate entities. According to officials, the designated network relied on a blend of deceptive charitable fronts, local money services, and crypto currency channels to covertly funnel more than $2m directly to the al-Qassam Brigades.

US to continue working with partners to choke Hamas lifelines

The United States will continue working France and other partners to continue dismantling economic and financial lifelines to the Palestinian group Hamas, according to a statement by Thomas Piggot, the spokesman for the State Department.

The statement said the US and its partners will “identify and hold accountable individuals and organizations that provide Hamas cover to raise and transfer funds internationally”

“Disrupting these networks is central to broader US efforts to isolate Hamas”, it said adding that this was essential to, “protect the integrity of legitimate humanitarian assistance to Gazan civilians”.

Washington has delivered a series of targeted financial actions aimed at choking off funding streams for Hamas this week.

Jerusalem

Israeli colonists storm Bab al-Rahma cemetery near Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli colonists have stormed the Bab al-Rahma cemetery, located along the eastern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the Wafa news agency reports.

At dawn, the colonists performed Talmudic rituals at the site to mark the final day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

This is only the latest in a series of similar incursions; over the past week, more than 10,000 colonists stormed the compound to perform rituals for the holiday.

What we know about the Talmud:

There are two of them, the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmuds. The Jerusalem Talmud is to consider moderate, as it is less about debate. It is common in the northern areas like in Gallilee.

The Babylonian Talmud (Mesopotamia) is extensively about debate and is to consider, let us say, "extreme" as it also includes debates which do not reflect standards and values in our modern-day society.

Celebration of Sukkot is in the Tractate Sukkah, which appears in both the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) and the Jerusalem Talmud (Talmud Yerushalmi).

Talmuds are not followed by moderate Jews. They follow the Torah.

West Bank

Palestinians suffer tear gas inhalation amid pogroms near Nablus

At least five Palestinians, including a 70-year-old woman, suffered from tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces fired gas shells during a raid on the outskirts of Awarta, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews told Wafa that they treated five people struggling to breathe at the scene.

Local residents reported that Israeli colonists attacked homes in the town under the protection of the Israeli army, which locals said used live ammunition during the pogrom.

Happened in the occupied West Bank

Israeli military forces and colonists conducted several raids in the occupied West Bank early Friday, storming Palestinian homes, attacking and vandalising property, and arresting at least four people, the Wafa news agency reports.

• Israeli forces stormed several neighbourhoods in Hebron, raiding and searching a number of homes before arresting a Palestinian man. In southern Hebron, troops ransacked additional houses and assaulted the owners.
• Troops also stormed the town of Burqa, near Nablus, arresting three Palestinians after raiding and damaging their homes. Another Palestinian man was detained for several hours before being released.
• Israeli colonists attacked a home in southern Nablus at dawn, damaging a vehicle and attempting to force entry into the property.

Colonists attack farmers south of Beita in the occupied West Bank

Israeli colonists have attacked farmers south of the Palestinian town of Beita, located south of Nablus, according to Wafa.

Citing local sources, the Palestinian news agency said the colonists fired at the farmers as they were picking olives.

No injuries have been reported.

Israeli forces and colonists attack farmers harvesting olives in Salfit

Israeli military and colonists are attacking Palestinian farmers in several areas in the Salfit governorate in the occupied West Bank, stopping them from harvesting olives, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reports.

The attacks force farmers to leave integral agricultural lands, preventing them from working, in a systemic move that colonists have been using against across the occupied territory during the olive-picking season.

Israeli army conducts mass arrests in towns near Jenin

Israeli troops have arrested a Palestinian in the town of al-Zababida, southeast of Jenin, as well as dozens of workers in Barta’a, southwest of Jenin, Wafa reports.

The troops stormed the town of al-Zababida and raided several houses in the area before arresting the man, the Palestinian news agency said.

The soldiers then conducted a mass arrest campaign targeting dozens of workers in Barta’a, it added.

Israeli colonists injure several Palestinians picking olives in Nablus governorate

Three Palestinians have been injured after colonists attacked them while they were picking olives in villages in the Nablus governorate, Wafa has reported.

Security sources reported that colonists, under the protection of Israeli soldiers, attacked citizens while they were picking olives in the villages and towns of Beita, Jamma’in, Awarta, Asira al-Qibliya, Beit Furik, and Deir Sharaf, the Palestinian news agency said.

The sources said the colonists assaulted the villagers by beating them, which led to the injury of a citizen in Beita, south of Nablus, and to a man and his wife being left with bruises and wounds in Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus.

The sources said Israeli soldiers had fired sound bombs and toxic gas at villagers and foreign activists in the area while they were picking olives.

Happened in the occupied West Bank

Palestinian news agency Wafa reports:

• A 62-year-old Palestinian man was injured after Israeli occupation forces severely beat him in the town of Aqraba, southern Nablus.
• Colonists stormed the al-Tireh neighborhood in Ramallah and raised the Israeli flag in Return Square, according to our colleagues on the ground.
• Israeli forces stormed the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, our colleagues on the ground reported.
• Colonists attacked Palestinian farmers while they were working on their land in Qarawat Bani Hassan in Salfit governorate, according to our colleagues on the ground.
• The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that a Palestinian was injured after colonists assaulted him by beating him in Beita, near Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
• Palestinian security source told Wafa that colonists, protected by Israeli military forces, attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in the towns of Beita, Urif, Jamma’in, Awarta, Asira al-Qibliya, Beit Furik and Deir Sharaf. Three Palestinians were injured in the attacks.

Palestinians injured in occupied West Bank colonist attack

A Palestinian man has been injured during a colonist attack on the town of az-Zawiya, west of the Salfit governorate, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The man was picking olives when colonists assaulted and pepper-sprayed him, the agency said.

In a separate incident, two Palestinians were also injured in a colonist attack in the town of Yabrud, east of Ramallah.

Israeli colonists kill 19-year-old Palestinian in occupied West Bank

Israeli colonists have killed a 19-year-old Palestinian man after opening fire at several Palestinians in Kobar, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

Israeli forces then prevented Palestinian medics from treating the wounded man, Wafa said, citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

Another Palestinian was wounded in the shooting, Wafa reported.

In a separate incident, two Palestinians were injured by colonists in Yabrud, east of Ramallah. Wafa reported that the colonists, protected by Israeli forces, attacked the outskirts of the town before residents attempted to confront the assailants.

Over 2,000 Israeli colonist, military attacks during September in the occupied West Bank: Palestinian commission

Israeli forces and colonists carried out 2,051 attacks against Palestinians, their land and property in September 2026, according to the Wall and Colony Resistance Commission, Wafa has reported.

Of that total, 1,404 were carried out by Israeli forces and 647 by colonists, while Ramallah and Al-Bireh recorded the most attacks, the Palestinian news agency reported the commission as saying.

The commission said colonist attacks killed three Palestinians, bringing the 2026 total to 29, and injured 88 people. Attacks also damaged 14,600 trees, including 9,334 olive trees.

It reported 21 attempts to establish new illegal colony outposts, as Israeli authorities continued to issue land-seizure and tree-removal orders. The commission said approximately 6,635 dunams had been seized since the start of 2026.

Israeli authorities also carried out 62 demolition operations affecting 254 structures, directly affecting 320 Palestinians, including 164 children, it said.

Israeli colonists have killed 30 Palestinians in occupied West Bank in 2026

Israeli colonists have killed 30 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of 2026, according to the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, a toll it says exceeds that of any year since 2022.

In a statement, the commission described a “dangerous escalation” and said this year’s figure is more than double the toll for all of last year.

Most of the deaths were in the Ramallah and el-Bireh governorate, where 15 were killed, and in Nablus, where seven were killed. Three were killed in Hebron, two each in Jerusalem and Salfit, and one in Qalqilya.

The commission said Israeli forces and colonists carried out 2,051 attacks on Palestinians and their land and property in September.

Other

US lawmakers introduce ‘Stop the Colonies Act’ targeting West Bank expansion

US Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro has announced she is joining fellow lawmakers to introduce the “Stop the Colonies Act” in Congress, warning that Israeli support for colonies drives “the continuation of displacement & forced statelessness”.

The legislation seeks to impose sanctions on drivers of colony expansion and prohibit the import of goods produced in Israeli colonies.

“I witnessed firsthand how Israeli colonists in the West Bank pursue violent attacks on innocent Palestinians every day,” DeLauro said in a post on X, adding: “The colonies must end.”

DeLauro joined primary sponsor Joaquin Castro alongside representatives Madeleine Dean, Greg Casar, Sara Jacobs and Veronica Escobar in introducing the bill.