November 2, 2025
Dave DeCamp
According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, a Palestinian man was killed by an Israeli drone attack in Gaza City’s eastern Shuja’iyya neighborhood. The IDF claimed it killed a “terrorist” who crossed the “yellow line,” referring to the vague line that the IDF withdrew to under the ceasefire deal.
The IDF claimed the man posed a “threat,” but didn’t allege he was armed. The Israeli military has killed dozens of Palestinians, including at least seven children, who allegedly crossed or came near the yellow line, which, according to Palestinians and an Israeli NGO, is not clearly marked for the people on the ground.
“Many displaced residents are still trying to reach their homes or lands ‘behind the line’, often without clear indications on its whereabouts. For people already living through repeated displacements, severe overcrowding and degraded basic services, the effect is a continuing fragmentation of civilian life with heightened exposure to live-fire incidents near an indistinct boundary,” said Shai Grundber, spokeswoman for the Israeli NGO Gisha, according to France 24.
“Under international law, [the army] must refrain from targeting civilians regardless of proximity to any line or warning. The army must always distinguish between civilians and combatants, use force only when strictly necessary and proportionate, and take constant precautions to protect civilians,” Gisha added.
According to Israeli media, Israeli ministers discussed the policy last month at a security cabinet meeting, with a military official stating that any adult who crosses the line will be shot, and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir urging the Israeli military to also shoot children. Defense Minister Israel Katz concluded the conversation by stating that anyone who approaches the line “should know that they may be harmed.”
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Sunday that a total of three Palestinians were killed by the IDF in Gaza over the previous 24-hour period. On Friday, Middle East Eye reported that five Palestinians were killed in attacks across the Strip.
According to the Health Ministry’s numbers, at least 236 Palestinians have been killed and 600 have been wounded by the IDF in Gaza since the truce went into effect.
From air strikes and shootings to arrests and incursions beyond the deployment lines, most of the violations appear unprovoked.
Israel has cited alleged breaches by Hamas and other Palestinian groups to justify its actions.
Hamas, however, has denied the accusations, insisting it has fully complied with the terms of the ceasefire.
Many of the violations targeting civilians, meanwhile, have occurred without justification.
Attacks
As of 28 October, Israeli forces had carried out 52 shootings and 55 shellings across the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza-based Government Media Office.
Further air strikes have been launched since.
The attacks have killed 226 people, including 97 children - nearly 40 per cent of all fatalities - and wounded a further 594.
Israel has also demolished at least 11 civilian homes, with troops continuing to deploy remotely controlled, explosive-laden robots to destroy buildings.
In two separate alleged attacks by Palestinians in Rafah, three Israeli soldiers were killed.
No Palestinian group, including Hamas, has claimed responsibility.
Israel launched more heavy air strikes, killing scores of people.
Arrests and incursions
Israel has carried out multiple incursions beyond the so-called Yellow Line, which marks troop deployments within the Gaza Strip.
Many of those killed in the attacks were shot or bombed while inside the Yellow Line, an area outside Israeli control.
According to the Gaza media office, at least nine such incursions had been reported as of 28 October.
Hamas has also accused Israel of maintaining fire control up to 1,500 metres beyond the Yellow Line in parts of the Strip.
The Israeli army has reportedly also placed yellow concrete blocks at distances ranging from 400 to 1,050 metres inside the demarcated area.
Israeli forces have additionally arrested at least 29 Palestinians, some while inspecting homes near the Yellow Line, and others from the sea while fishing.
Aid and border closure
During the two-year genocidal war on Gaza, Israel closed all border crossings - including the Rafah crossing with Egypt - blocking the entry of aid and goods.
The tight siege triggered a famine, declared in August, leaving scores of people dead from malnutrition and a lack of medicine.
The agreement signed last month - brokered by the United States, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey - stipulated an end to the siege by the reopening of the Rafah crossing for the movement of people and the entry of 600 humanitarian aid trucks, including 50 carrying fuel, daily.
Israel has so far kept the Rafah crossing closed, preventing tens of thousands of critically wounded people from seeking treatment abroad.
Only around 115 fuel trucks have entered in the past 21 days - roughly 10 percent of the agreed quantity.
The number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip has consistently fallen well below the 600 needed daily, averaging around 145 carrying humanitarian aid each day, along with some transporting commercial goods, according to the Gaza media office.
Items such as frozen meat, eggs and livestock remain largely banned.
According to health officials, only around 10 percent of essential and urgently needed medical supplies have entered.
Israel has yet to permit the entry of heavy machinery required to clear rubble and reopen roads.
Prisoners
Additionally, Hamas has accused Israel of breaching the terms related to the prisoner exchange component of the deal.
The Palestinian movement said Israel has failed to provide a complete list of all prisoners currently held in its custody.
Since the war began, Israel has detained thousands of people from Gaza and the occupied West Bank, but has not disclosed the whereabouts of many of them.
Thousands remain missing, with families unsure whether their relatives are alive or dead, or where they are being held.
Hamas said Israel had provided only an incomplete list containing errors.
The group has also accused Israel of failing to release children and women from Gaza, as stipulated in the agreement.
Meanwhile, Israel has accused Hamas of delaying the recovery of dead captives, citing that as justification for many of its violations.
However, the agreement explicitly states that the bodies of dead captives are to be handed over "as soon as" Hamas can recover them, without a fixed deadline.
Hamas said the recovery process requires heavy machinery and access to Israeli-controlled areas.
The group has so far returned 20 living captives and 17 bodies under the agreement, with 11 more believed to remain buried in Gaza.
Dave DeCamp
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the leak of a video allegedly showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sede Teiman detentions facility last year was the “most serious public-relations attack” Israel has ever experienced.
Netanyahu’s comments came after Israel’s top military prosecutor, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, admitted to approving the leak of the video and resigned from her post amid outrage and criticism from Israelis who are accusing her of betraying the state.
“It is perhaps the most serious public relations attack Israel has experienced since its founding — I cannot recall one so concentrated and intense,” Netanyahu said. “This requires an independent and impartial inquiry, and I expect that such an investigation will indeed take place.”
The video was leaked last year after Israeli soldiers were arrested by military police on suspicion of raping the Palestinian prisoner, and far-right Israelis, including members of the Knesset and government, stormed Sde Teiman in protest of the arrests. Tomer-Yerushalmi said the video was leaked in response to the criticism of the Israeli military for detaining the soldiers.
“Unfortunately, this basic understanding — that there are actions which must never be taken even against the vilest of detainees — no longer convinces everyone,” she said in a resignation letter.
Israeli government officials haven’t offered criticism of the severe abuse of the Palestinian prisoner, just of the fact that the video was leaked. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has called the leak a “blood libel” against Israel.
Amid the controversy over the leak, lawyers representing the five Israeli reservists who have been indicted for abusing the prisoner are calling for the charges to be dropped. The soldiers have been indicted for “severe abuse” but not for rape or sexual assault, despite the indictment saying that a soldier stabbed the Palestinian with a “sharp object” that caused a tear in his rectal wall.
According to Israeli media reports at the time, the Palestinian prisoner was admitted to the hospital with an injury to his anus so severe that he couldn’t walk. According to Haaretz, the victim suffered a ruptured bowel, severe anal and lung injuries, broken ribs. and required surgery.
Kyle Anzalone
The majority of Israelis believe that President Donald Trump is able to dictate policy to Tel Aviv.
The survey was conducted by Israel’s Channel 12, and the results were released on Friday. 67% of Israelis believed that Washington is the primary decision-maker, compared with just 24% who said Tel Aviv is the main decision-maker. 69% of Israelis said their country was a “client state” of the US.
The survey follows the Israeli Prime Minister pushing back against the accusations that he has been forced to alter the war in Gaza by Trump. In an interview published with JNS last week, Netanyahu asserted, “We’re not asking permission from our American friends. We just tell them that’s what we’re doing, and that’s fine.”
Vice President JD Vance told students at a Turning Points USA event last week that the President applied leverage with the Israeli Prime Minister to get Tel Aviv to agree to the ceasefire and hostage exchange.
While Israel agreed to the ceasefire and all the living Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas, the IDF has continued to attack Gaza. Over 230 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the start of the ceasefire, including 46 children who were killed on a single day.
Tel Aviv has also restricted aid deliveries to a fraction of what was agreed under Trump’s peace plan.
While Trump has allowed Netanyahu to violate the deal daily, he has sent a series of high-level officials to Tel Aviv to keep Israel from completely shattering the deal. The policy has been dubbed “Bibi-sitting.”
Dave DeCamp
Since
the ceasefire went into effect, the IDF has killed 236 Palestinians in Gaza,
according to Gaza's Health Ministry
At least one more Palestinian was
killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza on Sunday as the IDF has continued its
attacks in the Strip despite the ceasefire deal.
According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, a Palestinian man was killed by an Israeli drone attack in Gaza City’s eastern Shuja’iyya neighborhood. The IDF claimed it killed a “terrorist” who crossed the “yellow line,” referring to the vague line that the IDF withdrew to under the ceasefire deal.
The IDF claimed the man posed a “threat,” but didn’t allege he was armed. The Israeli military has killed dozens of Palestinians, including at least seven children, who allegedly crossed or came near the yellow line, which, according to Palestinians and an Israeli NGO, is not clearly marked for the people on the ground.
“Many displaced residents are still trying to reach their homes or lands ‘behind the line’, often without clear indications on its whereabouts. For people already living through repeated displacements, severe overcrowding and degraded basic services, the effect is a continuing fragmentation of civilian life with heightened exposure to live-fire incidents near an indistinct boundary,” said Shai Grundber, spokeswoman for the Israeli NGO Gisha, according to France 24.
“Under international law, [the army] must refrain from targeting civilians regardless of proximity to any line or warning. The army must always distinguish between civilians and combatants, use force only when strictly necessary and proportionate, and take constant precautions to protect civilians,” Gisha added.
According to Israeli media, Israeli ministers discussed the policy last month at a security cabinet meeting, with a military official stating that any adult who crosses the line will be shot, and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir urging the Israeli military to also shoot children. Defense Minister Israel Katz concluded the conversation by stating that anyone who approaches the line “should know that they may be harmed.”
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Sunday that a total of three Palestinians were killed by the IDF in Gaza over the previous 24-hour period. On Friday, Middle East Eye reported that five Palestinians were killed in attacks across the Strip.
According to the Health Ministry’s numbers, at least 236 Palestinians have been killed and 600 have been wounded by the IDF in Gaza since the truce went into effect.
Middle
East Eye details Israeli attacks, arrests and aid blockades since last month's
truce
Since the Gaza ceasefire was
signed last month, Israel has continued to violate the agreement.From air strikes and shootings to arrests and incursions beyond the deployment lines, most of the violations appear unprovoked.
Israel has cited alleged breaches by Hamas and other Palestinian groups to justify its actions.
Hamas, however, has denied the accusations, insisting it has fully complied with the terms of the ceasefire.
Many of the violations targeting civilians, meanwhile, have occurred without justification.
Attacks
As of 28 October, Israeli forces had carried out 52 shootings and 55 shellings across the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza-based Government Media Office.
Further air strikes have been launched since.
The attacks have killed 226 people, including 97 children - nearly 40 per cent of all fatalities - and wounded a further 594.
Israel has also demolished at least 11 civilian homes, with troops continuing to deploy remotely controlled, explosive-laden robots to destroy buildings.
In two separate alleged attacks by Palestinians in Rafah, three Israeli soldiers were killed.
No Palestinian group, including Hamas, has claimed responsibility.
Israel launched more heavy air strikes, killing scores of people.
Arrests and incursions
Israel has carried out multiple incursions beyond the so-called Yellow Line, which marks troop deployments within the Gaza Strip.
Many of those killed in the attacks were shot or bombed while inside the Yellow Line, an area outside Israeli control.
According to the Gaza media office, at least nine such incursions had been reported as of 28 October.
Hamas has also accused Israel of maintaining fire control up to 1,500 metres beyond the Yellow Line in parts of the Strip.
The Israeli army has reportedly also placed yellow concrete blocks at distances ranging from 400 to 1,050 metres inside the demarcated area.
Israeli forces have additionally arrested at least 29 Palestinians, some while inspecting homes near the Yellow Line, and others from the sea while fishing.
Aid and border closure
During the two-year genocidal war on Gaza, Israel closed all border crossings - including the Rafah crossing with Egypt - blocking the entry of aid and goods.
The tight siege triggered a famine, declared in August, leaving scores of people dead from malnutrition and a lack of medicine.
The agreement signed last month - brokered by the United States, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey - stipulated an end to the siege by the reopening of the Rafah crossing for the movement of people and the entry of 600 humanitarian aid trucks, including 50 carrying fuel, daily.
Israel has so far kept the Rafah crossing closed, preventing tens of thousands of critically wounded people from seeking treatment abroad.
Only around 115 fuel trucks have entered in the past 21 days - roughly 10 percent of the agreed quantity.
The number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip has consistently fallen well below the 600 needed daily, averaging around 145 carrying humanitarian aid each day, along with some transporting commercial goods, according to the Gaza media office.
Items such as frozen meat, eggs and livestock remain largely banned.
According to health officials, only around 10 percent of essential and urgently needed medical supplies have entered.
Israel has yet to permit the entry of heavy machinery required to clear rubble and reopen roads.
Prisoners
Additionally, Hamas has accused Israel of breaching the terms related to the prisoner exchange component of the deal.
The Palestinian movement said Israel has failed to provide a complete list of all prisoners currently held in its custody.
Since the war began, Israel has detained thousands of people from Gaza and the occupied West Bank, but has not disclosed the whereabouts of many of them.
Thousands remain missing, with families unsure whether their relatives are alive or dead, or where they are being held.
Hamas said Israel had provided only an incomplete list containing errors.
The group has also accused Israel of failing to release children and women from Gaza, as stipulated in the agreement.
Meanwhile, Israel has accused Hamas of delaying the recovery of dead captives, citing that as justification for many of its violations.
However, the agreement explicitly states that the bodies of dead captives are to be handed over "as soon as" Hamas can recover them, without a fixed deadline.
Hamas said the recovery process requires heavy machinery and access to Israeli-controlled areas.
The group has so far returned 20 living captives and 17 bodies under the agreement, with 11 more believed to remain buried in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the leak of a video allegedly showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sede Teiman detentions facility last year was the “most serious public-relations attack” Israel has ever experienced.
Netanyahu’s comments came after Israel’s top military prosecutor, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, admitted to approving the leak of the video and resigned from her post amid outrage and criticism from Israelis who are accusing her of betraying the state.
“It is perhaps the most serious public relations attack Israel has experienced since its founding — I cannot recall one so concentrated and intense,” Netanyahu said. “This requires an independent and impartial inquiry, and I expect that such an investigation will indeed take place.”
The video was leaked last year after Israeli soldiers were arrested by military police on suspicion of raping the Palestinian prisoner, and far-right Israelis, including members of the Knesset and government, stormed Sde Teiman in protest of the arrests. Tomer-Yerushalmi said the video was leaked in response to the criticism of the Israeli military for detaining the soldiers.
“Unfortunately, this basic understanding — that there are actions which must never be taken even against the vilest of detainees — no longer convinces everyone,” she said in a resignation letter.
Israeli government officials haven’t offered criticism of the severe abuse of the Palestinian prisoner, just of the fact that the video was leaked. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has called the leak a “blood libel” against Israel.
Amid the controversy over the leak, lawyers representing the five Israeli reservists who have been indicted for abusing the prisoner are calling for the charges to be dropped. The soldiers have been indicted for “severe abuse” but not for rape or sexual assault, despite the indictment saying that a soldier stabbed the Palestinian with a “sharp object” that caused a tear in his rectal wall.
According to Israeli media reports at the time, the Palestinian prisoner was admitted to the hospital with an injury to his anus so severe that he couldn’t walk. According to Haaretz, the victim suffered a ruptured bowel, severe anal and lung injuries, broken ribs. and required surgery.
The majority of Israelis believe that President Donald Trump is able to dictate policy to Tel Aviv.
The survey was conducted by Israel’s Channel 12, and the results were released on Friday. 67% of Israelis believed that Washington is the primary decision-maker, compared with just 24% who said Tel Aviv is the main decision-maker. 69% of Israelis said their country was a “client state” of the US.
The survey follows the Israeli Prime Minister pushing back against the accusations that he has been forced to alter the war in Gaza by Trump. In an interview published with JNS last week, Netanyahu asserted, “We’re not asking permission from our American friends. We just tell them that’s what we’re doing, and that’s fine.”
Vice President JD Vance told students at a Turning Points USA event last week that the President applied leverage with the Israeli Prime Minister to get Tel Aviv to agree to the ceasefire and hostage exchange.
While Israel agreed to the ceasefire and all the living Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas, the IDF has continued to attack Gaza. Over 230 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the start of the ceasefire, including 46 children who were killed on a single day.
Tel Aviv has also restricted aid deliveries to a fraction of what was agreed under Trump’s peace plan.
While Trump has allowed Netanyahu to violate the deal daily, he has sent a series of high-level officials to Tel Aviv to keep Israel from completely shattering the deal. The policy has been dubbed “Bibi-sitting.”
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