UN human rights chief Volker Türk said Israel's Hebron operation, which had forced more than 3,000 people from their homes, raised serious concerns of ethnic cleansing and amounted to collective punishment.
A Jerusalem court released settlement security coordinator Pinhas Shem Tov Ran to house arrest in the Golan Heights; he is accused of seriously wounding an 18-year-old Palestinian woman at an unauthorised roadblock.
Rabbis for Human Rights said Israeli soldiers used a closed military zone order signed the same day to remove its activists and Palestinian farmers from an olive grove near Huwara.
Israel's public broadcaster Kan reported that army chief Eyal Zamir told Netanyahu there was no operational justification to continue the Hebron operation, and the prime minister ordered it to continue.
Most Palestinian Jerusalemites hold residency rather than citizenship and cannot vote in Israel's national elections, though policies on housing and policing shape their lives, Haaretz reported.
Israelis vote on 27 October in an election framed as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, and France 24 reports that turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel could decide the outcome.
Albania has finalised its agreement to join the International Stabilisation Force in Gaza, with liaison officers expected in November, while a planned ISF base near the yellow line remains on hold.
Hamas-affiliated media reported that an Israeli strike in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, killed three people including a girl; Israel later said it hit three militants leaving a tunnel nearby.
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Diaspora & World26 OctUN General Assembly, New York
The UN Commission of Inquiry, chaired by Srinivasan Muralidhar, reported to the General Assembly that Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity and continues to commit genocide in Gaza.
Israel's operation in Hebron, launched after two soldiers were killed at a checkpoint on 23 October, had displaced about 3,971 Palestinians by Monday, according to WAFA.
A year after the October 2025 truce, hostages are home and rockets have stopped, but Hamas has not disarmed, Israel has not withdrawn and Israeli control has grown from 53% of Gaza to around 70%.
The UN said tents were set on fire in Ash Shuja'iyyeh on Sunday night, leaving at least nine households without shelter, as new yellow blocks were seen there and in Deir al-Balah.
Gaza's civil defence said Israeli fire and air strikes killed at least 13 people and wounded about 60 in 24 hours, as Israeli armour advanced west of the yellow line in Deir al-Balah.
An Israeli air strike on the Islamic University campus in Gaza City killed three security guards, hours after a drone strike there wounded seven female students.
The Israeli military said strikes last week in Gaza City and Nuseirat killed a Hamas cell commander and an Islamic Jihad operative it accused of transferring millions of shekels to Hamas.
Settlers who had taken over a Palestinian-owned house near Jalud clashed with Israeli soldiers on Saturday, and the house was set on fire; the army said it was dealing with violent rioters at an illegal outpost.
Israel's COGAT said Hamas used UN humanitarian coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov to relay an unusually blunt warning that it could carry out another attack like 7 October 2023.
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Jerusalem25 OctAl-Aqsa Mosque compound / Temple Mount
Under the long-standing status quo, Muslims pray at the compound while non-Muslims may visit only at set times through one gate and may not pray; police now in effect allow Jewish prayer on its eastern side.
The Palestinian Jerusalem Governorate said excavations and tunnels beneath Silwan, especially Wadi Hilweh, were causing cracks, collapses and structural damage to homes above.
Dozens of Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound through the Moroccan Gate on Sunday under Israeli police protection and performed prayers, WAFA reported.
Israeli settlers spray-painted slogans calling for the killing of Palestinians on the walls of homes in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, on Sunday morning, WAFA reported.
Israeli authorities forced Fawaz al-Rajabi to demolish his family's 60-square-metre home in Beit Hanina, citing construction without a permit, WAFA reported.
Israel said it would close all land crossings with the West Bank on 27 October, election day, and barred Palestinian workers from settlements from 25 October.
Palestinian farmers told France 24 that some settlers attacking groves wore keffiyehs, as Israeli rights group B'Tselem said soldiers often stand by while settlers attack and steal.
Gaza civil defence officials say about 1,000 bodies have been recovered since the ceasefire, while an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 are still buried, about 3,000 of them in areas held by the Israeli army.
The harvest runs from mid-October to the end of November and supports tens of thousands of families; in 2026 harvest-related settler attacks passed the full-season totals of the two previous years by mid-October.
Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared AI-generated campaign videos mocking Gazans, including one sending a Palestinian to Paris; France's foreign ministry replied that even magic could not lift his entry ban.
UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese told Reuters in Jakarta that Indonesia should reconsider its role in Trump's Board of Peace, arguing the rules are set by Israel and Palestinians lack a voice.
Yesh Din recorded 125 physical attacks on Palestinian olive harvesters and 168 cases of crop theft in the first 24 days of the season, with Israeli forces present in at least a quarter.
OCHA said 702 UN and partner trucks were offloaded at Kerem Shalom in the week to 19 October, up 47%, while commercial truckloads fell 25% after a reported halt over a disputed fee.
Israeli forces detained US congressional candidate Brad Lander and about 80 American and Israeli rabbis and activists helping farmers near Nahalin, the largest such detention in a decade, lawyers said.
Settlers, protected by Israeli police, installed an iron gate at the entrance to Silwan's Wadi al-Rababa neighbourhood, home to more than 1,000 Palestinians, blocking service vehicles, WAFA reported.
A Jerusalem court blocked the transfer of millions of shekels from Israel's Heritage Ministry to Ateret Cohanim for a planned Jewish heritage centre in Silwan, Haaretz reported.
Israeli police said they arrested 10 people on 19 October over a wave of settler violence that included attacks on a Washington Post photographer and European diplomats.
The World Food Programme said funding shortfalls had forced it to cut food assistance in Gaza by about a third, leaving half a million people without its support.
Masked settlers attacked a convoy carrying Belgian, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives in the Christian village of Taybeh, beating 78-year-old French mayor Bernard Baudoux with iron bars.
About 80 settlers attacked olive pickers in Abu Falah, setting trees alight and throwing rocks; Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine was among those injured.
OCHA said about 950,000 displaced people in Gaza live in sites at medium to high risk of flooding, more than 400,000 of them at high risk, with winter shelter needs 66% unfunded.
Israeli forces with heavy machinery completed the demolition of the Abdullah family's 200-square-metre home in al-Tur's Sheikh Anbar area, which housed 16 people, after the family had begun knocking it down themselves.
Israel's High Court ordered the state to give a timetable for the steps it says are needed before residents can return to the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps, with a response due by 23 November.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cancelled legislative elections due in November and set 11 September 2027 for both presidential and legislative votes, blaming Israeli measures and conditions in Gaza.