Media coverage of Israel’s genocidal war may have diminished since the so-called ceasefire, but the daily suffering of the Palestinian people continues, as this digest of last week’s news underlines.
Monday
Despite the ‘ceasefire’, Israel continues to kill Palestinians in Gaza – thirteen over the last 48 hours. Five of these were Gaza police officers, who continue to be deliberately targeted, bringing the police death toll since the ceasefire to 75.
The total recorded death toll since October 7th, 2023, is now 74,609 killed, with 175,872 injured. Since October 11th, 2025, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,593 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 5,748, while 847 bodies have been recovered reports Drop Site Daily.
Israel finally lifted its eleven-day siege of Hebron. The assault displaced nearly 5,000 Palestinians, as Israeli forces demolished 15 civilian buildings, including homes, and disrupted schooling for some 80,000 students. Direct economic losses exceeded $3.8 million per day, while infrastructure damage surpassed $1.9 million, according to local Palestinian officials.
Settler attacks and thefts continue. The home of Youssef Shanaran in Wadi Al-Rakhim, Masafer Yatta has been besieged for 29 days, with twelve family members, including children, unable to enter or leave without Israeli military permission.
Israeli attacks in the West Bank surged 53% since September, topping 3,100. According to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, attacks damaged 5,890 trees, including 4,498 olive trees, while Israeli authorities demolished 129 Palestinian structures, including 62 inhabited homes.
Tuesday
Israel announced that it is imposing a “complete and comprehensive closure” of the Rafah crossing, blocking humanitarian aid, commercial shipments, food, fuel, and cooking gas entering Gaza. Under the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, 600 aid trucks are supposed to enter Gaza daily, but Israel has severely restricted deliveries, allowing an average of only around 200 trucks per day. The closure comes as Palestinians across Gaza face the onset of winter in makeshift tents and heavily damaged homes, with worsening food insecurity compounded by cuts to UN food assistance and rising prices. In Gaza, 42% of essential medicines and 50% of medical supplies are completely depleted.
An Israeli drone strike on a police post near the College of Applied Sciences, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killed three Palestinians and wounded several others.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli issued orders for the seizure of eleven acres of land and demolished five shops belonging to a Palestinian resident, northwest of Hebron.
“Although the large-scale operation in Hebron apparently ended, a sweeping arrest campaign was carried out on Tuesday, November 3rd, during which 21 Palestinians were detained by the Israeli army in Dura, southwest of the city,” reported Breakthrough News. “On the same day, the army forced an extended family of 15 individuals to evacuate their home in the village of Al-Burj, southwest of Hebron, turning it into a military barrack.
“Several checkpoints were also set up at the entrances of the city and different towns, villages and refugee camps within the governorate, while movement was further restricted with iron gates, concrete blocks, and earthen barriers being installed along main and side roads. On the day of their withdrawal from the city, the Israeli forces stormed the campus of Kadoorie University, in the Al-Aroub area north of Hebron.”
Meanwhile Israeli settlers severely beat a 60-year-old Palestinian man in Burqa, northwest of Nablus, leaving him hospitalized, and torched various property across the West Bank.
Middle East Eye reported that Israeli prison guards shot and wounded prominent Palestinian detainee Hassan Salameh nine times last month, according to his fiancée and a prisoners’ rights group. The assault on Salameh, 55, came after National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed his cell and filmed himself threatening to kill him.
Wednesday
Over the past 24 hours, Israeli attacks killed three Palestinians—two in new attacks and one due to wounds sustained in an earlier attack—and injured 21 others across Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Palestinian journalist Bushra Al-Tawil, from Al-Bireh in the occupied West Bank, has lost 16 kilograms since her arrest on February 5th, amid severe food shortages, medical neglect, and prolonged solitary confinement, according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.
Israeli authorities issued an order on November 3rd declaring 627 acres of Palestinian land in near Ramallah in the West Bank, as “state property,” according to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission. Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli forces carried out raids, demolitions, and arrests, displacing 25 families.
The Guardian reported that teachers and pupils in the West Bank town of al-Mughayyir are on high alert after the deaths of five students at the hands of Israeli settlers in the last academic year. “Settlers now enter the town on a regular basis, shutting down roads, and harassing residents as they graze their sheep on fields next to the school and deeper in the village,” it said. “Residents say that settlers steal sheep from villagers, provoking fights with residents who depend on livestock for their livelihood. When villagers resist they can be arrested, or killed.”
Thursday
Israeli forces shot and killed a woman in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, and a child in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Another Palestinian was killed in an Israeli airstrike west of Al-Zawayda in central Gaza.
Around 30 Israeli settlers, some of whom were armed, took over eight homes in Ein Al-Duyuk Al-Tahta on the outskirts of Jericho in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. Sixty-five Palestinian residents fled after settlers attacked them with stones, an activist told the Times of Israel.
Israeli forces demolished five residential buildings containing 12 apartments in the town of Biddu, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, displacing 105 Palestinians without prior warning.
Israeli settlers set fire to dozens of centuries-old olive trees in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, and three Palestinians were injured after settlers, accompanied by Israeli forces, raided Palestinian homes in the Bedouin communities of Ard Satih, west of Jericho, beating residents and spraying them with pepper spray. Settlers attacked farmers in Beita, south of Nablus, injuring one Palestinian. Israeli forces also demolished a home in Furush Beit Dajan, east of Nablus.
Friday
A female medical student at the Islamic University of Gaza died from injuries sustained in an Israeli strike on the university about a week ago. A man died from wounds sustained in an Israeli attack on the Al-Shati refugee camp several days earlier.
Nearly two million Palestinians in Gaza, or 94% of the population, need shelter assistance as winter approaches, with 270 displaced families living in four UN shelters at very high risk of collapse, according to a new report from UNRWA. Israeli restrictions have prevented UNRWA from directly bringing aid into Gaza since March 2025, leaving food and shelter supplies for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians stranded outside the territory.
Israeli forces and settlers carried out 760 environmental attacks across the West Bank in the first nine months of 2026, destroying approximately 100,000 olive trees and causing an estimated $67 million in losses, according to the Palestinian Environmental Quality Authority. The attacks targeted farmland, water sources, irrigation networks, and natural reserves, while Israeli forces and settlers also dumped hazardous waste and demolished infrastructure.
In Gaza, the authority said Israeli attacks have left up to 68 million tons of rubble, including four million tons of hazardous waste, and destroyed 82% of agricultural land, 97% of fruit and olive trees, and 84% of water and sanitation infrastructure. The authority described the destruction as “ecocide.”
Compiled with the help of reports from Drop Site Daily.
Image: c/o Labour Hub.
