- Israel’s military intensifies incursions in the occupied West Bank as its war on Gaza kills more Palestinian civilians.
- Amnesty International condemns the US House of Representatives for voting to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court officials over issuing war crimes arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.
- Israeli forces killed an estimated 490 Palestinians in the first nine days of 2025, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports from the war-torn enclave where people face a daily “battle for survival”.
- A spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority’s security forces says 247 resistance fighters, which he branded “outlaws”, have been arrested in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp.
- Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 46,006 Palestinians and wounded 109,378 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 taken captive.
- Deaths from Israeli attacks in Gaza undercounted by 41%: StudyAn official Palestinian tally of deaths in Israel’s war on Gaza likely undercounted the toll by 41 percent in the first nine months of the conflict as healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to new research.A peer-reviewed statistical analysis published in The Lancet journal on Thursday was conducted by academics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Yale University, and other institutions. The study’s death toll estimate is 64,260 while the official figure was 37,877.
- Women pray in a graveyard where relatives killed in an Israeli air strike are buried in Khan Younis, southern Gaza [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]
- Israeli military attacks southern Lebanese townThe town of Aita al-Shaab in the Bint Jbeil region has been hit by Israeli artillery, according to Lebanon’s official news agency.Israeli soldiers also carried out an attack with assault weapons in the town’s neighbourhoods, the National News Agency reported.Since a ceasefire with Hezbollah in November, Israeli troops remain in the south, demolishing homes and other infrastructure. They’ve also prevented people from returning to their homes.Israel is supposed to withdraw its troops from south Lebanon within 60 days of the November 27 agreement, to be replaced by UN peacekeepers followed by the Lebanese army. But Israel claims Hezbollah infrastructure in the south and efforts to rebuild may push back the timeline for withdrawal.
- Smoke rises above Bint Jbeil during Israeli bombardment [File: Jalaa Marey/AFP]
- Shin Bet chief wants ‘reality-changing move’ in occupied West BankThe head of Israel’s internal security agency Shin Bet has urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to greenlight a major military offensive in the occupied West Bank.Israeli media outlets report that Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar called for the army operation at a meeting with Netanyahu, ministers and security officials after a shooting incident on Monday. Three Israelis were killed and eight others wounded near the illegal West Bank settlement of Kedumim.“Israel should learn from October 7 and not allow the intensification of these terrorist elements,” Bar was quoted as saying in a Channel 12 news report.“Therefore, a broad, reality-changing move must be initiated that will collapse and eliminate the phenomenon of the armed Palestinian battalions … in order to ensure our freedom of operation there.”
- Shin Bet director Ronen Bar in October 2024 [File: Gil Cohen-Magen via Reuters]Gaza civil defence agency says it retrieved a body in Khan YounisA statement on Telegram says first responders also rescued two
- wounded Palestinians after the Israeli military targeted Palestinians in the southern Gaza region.The attack took place in the vicinity of al-Shafi’i Mosque, near Taiba Towers, in the west of Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city.Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground reported earlier that at least one person was killed and two others wounded in an Israeli drone strike in the area.
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