Updates: Israeli strikes on Gaza kill over 50; attacks on Lebanon continue

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We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of the day’s major developments:

• At least 52 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today.
• At least 12 people have been killed and many others wounded following an Israeli attack on a school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
• Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours have killed at least 53 people and injured 161.
• Malaysia’s Defence Ministry said six of its peacekeepers with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were injured in a blast near the Saida Stadium in Lebanon.
• Israel’s parliament has given final approval to legislation allowing the government to deport family members of so-called “terrorists” to Gaza and elsewhere, even if they are Israeli citizens.
• Ireland intends to join South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ before the end of the year.

Stephanie Tremblay, associate spokesperson for the UN chief, said that “the entire population in north Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence”.

More than 1,500 people have been killed and no aid has entered northern Gaza since Israel’s siege there since last month.

“Palestinians there have no protection as bombardment continues our humanitarian colleagues stress once again that civilians in the north, and across Gaza, must be protected.”

In a statement, Hamas has called on the “Palestinian people, the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation, and to the free people of the world” to carry out three days of protests.

The statement added that the protests will be “in support of our people, to condemn the war of extermination, to pressure to stop the aggression, and to denounce the American and Western support for the horrific massacres to which our people are being subjected in the Gaza Strip”.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,469 Palestinians and injured 102,561 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.

A Palestinian woman has been wounded after an Israeli raid in al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

PRCS emergency services said the woman faced injuries to her face and hand after Israeli troops fired a tear gas canister at her car.

Israel’s recently fired Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has warned that it will prove costly for Israel if it continues its military presence in Gaza.

“I don’t know if it is possible to influence him [Netanyahu] into a ceasefire,” he told families of Israeli captives in Gaza, according to media outlet Days of Palestine.

“I tried and failed. I was isolated in the cabinet, and both the head of the Shin Bet, the chief of staff, and the head of the Mossad agreed with me on the necessity of reaching a deal.”

Moreover, Gallant pointed out that Netanyahu’s stance on the matter was driven by “neither security or political” concerns.

“At the beginning of July, Hamas agreed to a prisoner swap deal, and the conditions have been favourable since then. But until now, we’ve been in disagreement about whether it is ripe or not. I believed, and still believe, that we should be prepared to make a prisoner exchange deal and withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor,” he added.

In Gaza City, there were people inside a school that was converted into an evacuation centre recently.

Many of those displaced sought shelter and protection inside this school. Some of them who had arrived there in the past few days were among the casualties when the school was bombed.

Once again, we are seeing the same patterns of targeting. Over the past few months, women and children have made up the vast majority of the casualties.

Now, the tragedy is those with injuries are taken to hospital either in civilian vehicles or on carts pulled by animals, arriving with severe burns and wounds – without the proper medical care needed to save their lives.

Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian house and torched a vehicle in the Jaba town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Wafa news agency reported.

The report added that the settlers mounted an attack on the house of Aysar Saleh Khaliliya, physically assaulted his family and set a vehicle belonging to his brother, Muntaser, ablaze.

In violation of international law, more than 700,000 Israeli settlers are living across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Let’s get you up to speed:

• Medical sources told Al Jazeera that 52 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today.
• At least four people killed and many wounded following an Israeli air strike on al-Rimal School in Gaza City.
• Hezbollah says it has killed and injured an Israeli infantry force that tried to advance towards the town of Yaroun in southern Lebanon.
• Malaysia’s Defence Ministry said six of its peacekeepers with UNIFIL were injured in the blast near the Sidon Stadium in Lebanon. The ministry did not give details on what caused the explosion.

France is mulling new sanctions on those enabling the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on a visit to the territory.

“France has been a driving force to establish the first sanction regime at the European level targeting individuals or entities, either actors or accomplices of settlement activities,” Barrot said after talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.

“This regime has been activated two times already and we’re working on a third batch of sanctions targeting these activities that again are illegal with respect to international law.”

Barrot renewed France’s commitment to a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and warned settlement activities “threaten the political perspective that can ensure durable peace for Israel and Palestine”.

An opinion poll on the war on Gaza shows that 54.3 percent of Danes are in favour of banning the export of Danish weapon parts to Israel.

International rights groups, including Amnesty International, have repeatedly called for an arms embargo on Israel, citing numerous human rights violations.

The survey, conducted by Analyse Danmark for the Danish news outlet Puls48 between October 31 and November 5, also found:

• Almost 70 percent of respondents believe Denmark should intensify its pressure on Israel to guarantee humanitarian aid access to Gaza.
• Nearly 45 percent of people favour Denmark supporting South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ concerning allegations of genocide in Gaza.
• Close to 59 percent of respondents favour Denmark officially recognising Palestine as an independent state.
• Nearly 55 percent support a national ban on products made in Israeli settlements.

Israel has signed a deal for the purchase of 25 advanced US-made F-15 aircraft worth $5.2bn, the country’s defence ministry has said.

“The Ministry of Defense signed last night (Wednesday) the huge deal for the purchase of the next generation of F-15 aircraft, under which it will purchase 25 advanced fighter jets manufactured by the American company Boeing,” read a statement.

“The transaction, amounting to about $5.2 billion, will be carried out from American aid funds and it also includes an option for the future purchase of 25 additional aircraft.”

Our colleagues on the ground have shared these updates on the situation in Gaza today:

Gaza City and the north

• Twenty-seven people killed and a number of others wounded in an Israeli air strike that targeted al-Mabhouh family home in Jabalia camp.
• Twelve people killed and many wounded in an air strike on Sheheber School which is housing displaced people.
• Four people killed by Israeli attack on al-Rimal School on al-Nasr Street.
• Israeli forces warn residents in northern Gaza to evacuate to the south.

Central Gaza

• Three people killed and many wounded in Israeli bombing of al-Nuwairi area, west of Nuseirat camp.
• Two bodies retrieved from Netzarim area.

Southern Gaza

• Seven people killed, including three children, in Israeli bombing of various areas in Rafah.

At least four people have been killed and many wounded following an Israeli air strike on al-Rimal School at al-Nasr Street, west of Gaza City, the spokesperson for Gaza civil defence has said.

Earlier, we reported citing local medics that a deadly strike on a school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City killed at least 10 Palestinians.

Officials said earlier today that more than 1,500 Palestinians have been killed during Israeli forces’ siege of northern Gaza since last month.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid says Prime Minister Netanyahu had appointed Israel Katz “as a puppet for evasion matters”.

The comments by Lapid on X come after Netanyahu fired Yoav Gallant on Tuesday, saying he had lost confidence in Gallant over the management of Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Katz was previously serving as Israel’s foreign minister.

For months, there had been open disagreements between Netanyahu and Gallant, reflecting a wider split between Israel’s right-wing governing coalition and the military, which has long favoured reaching a deal to halt the assault on Gaza and bring home dozens of captives held by Hamas.

Protests erupted across Israel following the announcement as thousands of demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv, blocking the city’s main highway.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera that 52 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza today.

At least 42 of those were killed in northern Gaza.