Hebron city holds general strike after municipal worker killed on duty

<article data-history-node-id="431561" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-killed-15-year-old-west-bank-refusing-aid-and-holding-his" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-killed-15-year-old-west-bank-refusing-aid-and-holding-his" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces killed a 15-year-old in the West Bank, refusing aid and holding his body</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="585" data-start="395">Israeli security forces shot dead a 15-year-old boy in the Far’a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian education officials confirmed.</p> <p data-end="730" data-start="587">The boy, identified as Jadallah Jihad Jumaa Jadallah, was a ninth-grade student at a Unrwa-run school in the camp, Wafa news agency reported.</p> <p data-end="972" data-start="732">According to local sources, Israeli troops invaded Far’a, shot Jadallah, and wounded two others. Ambulance crews were initially blocked from reaching him, and Israeli forces later labelled him a “terrorist” without providing any evidence.</p> <p data-end="1142" data-start="974">Wafa added that Israeli forces are still holding the boy’s body, raising urgent concerns among families and human rights groups about ongoing abuses in the West Bank</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israelis cheer two of five suspect in gang-rape of a detainee, which was captured on video, as they appear in court

<article data-history-node-id="430948" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-blocks-majority-gaza-aid-despite-ceasefire-deal" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-blocks-majority-gaza-aid-despite-ceasefire-deal" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel blocks majority of Gaza aid despite ceasefire deal</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="75" data-start="0">Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) says Israel continues to choke the flow of aid into the besieged enclave, accusing it of breaching the ceasefire agreement.</p> <p data-end="630" data-start="274">Since the truce took effect on 10 October, an average of just 145 commercial and aid trucks have entered Gaza daily, only 24 percent of the 600 trucks agreed upon in the deal. Between 10 and 31 October, a total of 3,203 trucks crossed into Gaza, including 639 commercial vehicles, 2,564 carrying aid, 84 loaded with diesel fuel, and 31 with cooking gas.</p> <p data-end="992" data-start="632">“We strongly condemn the Israeli occupation’s obstruction of aid and commercial trucks and hold it fully responsible for the worsening and deteriorating humanitarian situation faced by more than 2.4 million people in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing siege and arbitrary measures that impede the flow of essential goods,” the GMO said in a statement.</p> <p data-end="1348" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="994">It urged US President Donald Trump, the guarantor states, and mediators “to take immediate action to compel the Israeli occupation to implement what was signed, particularly the clause regarding the entry of humanitarian and relief aid without restrictions or conditions, in order to alleviate the escalating suffering of our people in the Gaza Strip.”</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430846" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-enter-lebanon-town-kill-municipal-employee-local-media" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-enter-lebanon-town-kill-municipal-employee-local-media" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli soldiers enter Lebanon town, kill municipal employee, local media reports</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli soldiers on Thursday raided the southern Lebanese town of Blida and killed a municipal employee, local media have reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli troops entered the town of Blida after midnight&nbsp;with several military vehicles and stormed the municipal building, as per the official National News Agency.&nbsp;</p> <p>At the municipality, Israeli soldiers killed Ibrahim Salameh, an employee who had been staying there, the report said.</p> <p>The soldiers withdrew before dawn and the Lebanese army later entered the building and recovered the body of the municipal worker, NNA adds.</p> <p>Times of Israel reported that the army has not yet made any comments on the incident.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430772" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-orders-air-strikes-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-orders-air-strikes-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Netanyahu orders air strikes on Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday ordered air strikes on Gaza as he accused Hamas of only pretending to actively search for captive remains.</p> <p>Suheil al-Hindi, a member of the Hamas political bureau, rejected the accusation and said that Palestinian factions do not benefit from concealing any captive remains.&nbsp;</p> <p>US President Donald Trump had previously acknowledged that it is in fact difficult to unearth many of the remains, and that the process may take time.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>