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4 Israeli soldiers injured in clashes in southern Gaza, military says

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Four Israeli soldiers were injured in clashes with Hamas fighters in Rafah the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the army said, Anadolu reports.

A military statement said that one of the soldiers was severely wounded, while three others sustained moderate injuries in eastern Rafah.

Channel 14 said that clashes erupted after three Palestinian fighters allegedly emerged from a tunnel in Rafah and fired anti-tank rockets at Israeli forces.

Israeli forces responded with fire from helicopters, with two fighters killed in direct fire, while a third Palestinian allegedly attached an explosive device to an Israeli armored vehicle before fleeing back into the tunnel, the channel said.

The public broadcaster KAN said an Israeli helicopter attacked the area to which the third Palestinian fled.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas on the reports.

According to Israeli media reports, there are around 200 Hamas fighters who are trapped inside underground tunnels in Rafah, and Tel Aviv has not yet responded to demands by Hamas and mediators to allow them safe passage to areas under the group’s control.

Separately, the Israeli army claimed that it had killed more than 40 Palestinian fighters over the past week in operations targeting tunnels in the area under its control in Rafah.

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On Monday, US President Donald Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call to clarify the crisis of the fighters trapped inside the Rafah tunnels.

According to Channel 12, Washington has attempted to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas in recent weeks to let the fighters surrender in exchange for amnesty and a “safe corridor” to an area under Hamas control or to a third country.

“The US administration viewed this as a potential model for disarming Hamas, and it did not appreciate Israel’s refusal to cooperate with this approach,” it added.

A fragile ceasefire agreement has been in place in Gaza since Oct. 10, mediated by Türkiye, Egypt, and Qatar, backed by the US.

Phase one of the ceasefire deal includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. The plan also envisages the rebuilding of Gaza and the establishment of a new governing mechanism without Hamas.

Israel has killed more than 70,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured nearly 171,000 others in attacks in Gaza since October 2023.

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Hamas warns of ceasefire collapse as Israel continues to target its trapped fighters in Rafah

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This article by Aseel Saleh republished from peoples dispatch under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license.

The crisis of the trapped combatant constitutes one of 393 Israeli violations of the truce agreement, which came into effect on October 10.

Hamas warned in a statement issued on Wednesday, November 26, that Israel’s killing and arresting of its resistance fighters, who have been trapped in tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip for weeks, would jeopardize the ceasefire deal.

The Palestinian resistance movement considered the pursuit of the trapped fighters a “blatant violation” of the US-brokered ceasefire deal.

Hamas also clarified that it “made great efforts during the past month with different political leaders and mediators to solve the problem of the fighters, and secure their return to their homes by providing certain ideas and mechanisms” to address the crisis.

The statement was released one day after the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) announced that it killed four Hamas fighters and arrested two others, while they were getting out from underground tunnels in Rafah, within the Israeli-controlled “yellow-line” zone.

It is worth noting that around 200 fighters affiliated with Hamas have been trapped in Rafah since the ceasefire deal came into force on October 10. This is despite the fact  that the Palestinian group as well as mediators have demanded a safe passage for the fighters to areas inside Gaza not controlled by Israel as part of the agreement.

On Sunday, November 30, family sources confirmed that Abdallah Hamad, who is the son of Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official and member of the movement’s negotiation delegation, was among the trapped Al-Qassam fighters that were killed by the IOF in Rafah.

Moreover, the IOF announced in a statement that same day that it has killed over 40 of those fighters inside the tunnels during the past week, but Hamas has not confirmed the claim yet. The Israeli military further stated that it will intensify efforts to demolish the remaining tunnels in eastern Rafah and eliminate the trapped combatants therein.

The pursuit of Hamas combatants, one of over 393 Israeli violations

Israel’s continued pursuit of Hamas fighters constitutes one of at least 393 reported Israeli violations since the ceasefire took effect.

United Nations rapporteurs warned in a statement issued on Monday, November 24, that Israel’s flagrant infringements of the truce agreement resulted in the killing of 339 Palestinians, including more than 70 children, and the injuring over 870 others.

As Israeli violations continued in the days that followed the statement, the death toll increased to 352 based on the latest information provided by medical sources in Gaza, on Thursday, November 27.

These sources added that the tally of Palestinian fatalities since Israel’s genocidal aggression on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, has risen to 69,799, most of them children and women.

Israel responds to Hamas’s warning by offering a surrender proposal

An Israeli official was quoted by local media on Thursday, declaring that his government had sent a proposal to Hamas through mediators last week, suggesting that the trapped combatants should hand themselves to the Israeli authorities if they want to avoid being killed.

Arab and Palestinian sources: “no progress is visible” in implementing phase two of Gaza ceasefire

Israeli media reports surfaced on Thursday, regarding talks on the implementation of phase two of the Gaza ceasefire deal.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited Arab and Palestinian sources familiar with the negotiations, saying that no progress in the talks is visible as Hamas refuses to disarm before Israel withdraws from Gaza and a detailed plan to hand over its weapons is brought forward.

Meanwhile, Israeli Channel 14 said it was told by an official at the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) for Gaza that first troops of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) are expected to arrive in Gaza next January.

The channel added that the “disarmament process” in the war-torn strip will be completed by the end of April.

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UN Approval of Gaza ‘Stabilization Force’ Slammed as ‘Denial of Palestinian Self-Determination’

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Original article by Brett Wilkins republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz raises his hand to vote in favor of a draft resolution to authorize a so-called international stabilization force in Gaza, on November 17, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)

CodePink said the plan “will leave Palestine in the hands of a puppet administration, assigning the United States, which shares complicity in the genocide, as the new manager of the open-air prison.”

Palestine defenders decried Monday’s approval by the United Nations Security Council of a US plan authorizing a so-called international stabilization force for Gaza—a plan decried by one peace group as a denial of Palestinian self-determination.

Thirteen UNSC members voted for the resolution, while no nation voted against the proposal. China abstained, as did Russia, which submitted a rival draft resolution.

While US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz hailed the approval of what he called a “historic and constructive resolution,” Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007, rejected what it said “imposes an international guardianship mechanism on the Gaza Strip, which our people and their factions reject.”

“Assigning the international force with tasks and roles inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation,” added Hamas, which the US labels a terrorist organization.

After waging war on Gaza for over two years, Israeli officials also rejected the resolution for opening the door to Palestinian statehood—which is officially recognized by around 150 nations but is vehemently opposed by Israel—with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling such an outcome “unacceptable.”

The approved stabilization force will be tasked with securing Gaza’s borders, protecting civilians, facilitating humanitarian assistance, supporting a redeployed Palestinian police force, and supervising disarmament of Hamas and other militant resistance groups. Under the plan, Israeli occupation forces would fully withdraw from Gaza after the stabilization force achieves security and operational control of the Palestinian exclave.

Then, a transitional governing body—the so-called Board of Peace led by US President Donald Trump—would be established to coordinate security, humanitarian aid, and reconstruction. The plan, which builds on Trump’s 20-point peace proposal adopted in last month’s tenuous ceasefire, dangles the carrot of a pathway toward Palestinian self-determination and statehood under a reformed Palestinian governing authority.

Human Rights Watch criticized the vote in an X post stating that “the fact that the words ‘human rights’ don’t appear in the resolution adopted by the Security Council today speaks volumes.”

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The US-based peace group CodePink said in a statement that “the resolution, while disguised as a peaceful and humanitarian proposal, is in reality a blueprint for the internationalization of the Israeli occupation and a complete denial of Palestinian self-determination.”

CodePink continued:

The resolution imposes a two-year mandate to “secure borders,” “protect civilians,” and “decommission weapons,” with the stated goal of disarming Palestinian resistance. However, it does nothing to address and end the root cause of the violence: Israel’s ongoing siege, occupation, and ethnic cleansing. The United States, which armed and shielded the Israeli government unconditionally as it killed and displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, should not be considered a neutral actor of good faith. A military force that answers to a “Board of Peace” chaired by the US president is an extension of US and Israeli interests, plain and simple.

“The establishment of a ‘technocratic Palestinian administration’ that answers to a US-led board will strip the Palestinian people of political agency,” CodePink added. “Essentially, it will leave Palestine in the hands of a puppet administration, assigning the United States, which shares complicity in the genocide, as the new manager of the open-air prison that Israel has already established.”

Members of the New York branch of the Palestine Youth Movement led a demonstration outside the US mission to the UN in Manhattan to protest the resolution.

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“We see through this thinly veiled attempt to strip the Palestinian people of their sovereignty, self-determination, and right of return,” the group said on Instagram. “The people reject any and all occupation plans for Gaza. Our movement will continue to struggle against Zionism and imperialism until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.”

Original article by Brett Wilkins republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

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Rights group warns of life-threatening abuse against Palestinian detainee in Israel

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A Palestinian man pass the graffiti showing Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian imprisoned politician on December 24, 2023 in Bethlehem, West Bank [Maja Hitij/Getty Images]

The Prisoners’ Media Office warned Monday that prominent Palestinian detainee Abdullah Barghouti, 53, is being subjected to severe and prolonged physical and psychological torture inside Israel’s Gilboa Prison, describing his treatment as a form of “slow execution.”

In a press statement, the office — affiliated with Hamas — said Barghouti has endured “systematic and repeated assaults” for more than 25 months. According to the statement, prison guards raid his cell day and night, often accompanied by dogs, announcing they “missed beating him” before restraining him and assaulting him with batons. The office reported that these attacks cause bleeding and deep wounds that prisoners are forced to treat using torn clothing and minimal cleaning supplies.

Barghouti, who is serving 67 life sentences, is reportedly suffering from untreated fractures in his right elbow and hand that have persisted for three months. He also has a broken finger, fractures in two ribs on the right side of his chest, torn tendons, and has lost approximately 35 kilograms due to the “starvation” policy pursued by the prison administration.

The Office added that Barghouti has been subjected to electric shocks and deliberately doused with water during torture sessions. He has also been placed in a room infested with scabies, resulting in widespread boils across his body. The statement says he now has severe difficulty moving his hands, with one nearly paralyzed, while prison authorities continue to deny him medical care or even basic pain relief. Human rights organizations are also being prevented from contacting him.

The office said Barghouti’s case reflects an “open war” against leaders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, adding that violations have reached the level of “attempted deliberate killing.” It called on international human rights and humanitarian bodies to intervene urgently to stop the torture, ensure Barghouti receives medical treatment, and hold those responsible accountable.

READ: Hamas rejects UN Security Council decision on Gaza

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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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Hamas rejects UN Security Council decision on Gaza

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather outside the United Nations headquarters, in front of the U.S. Mission to the UN, during an emergency picket titled “Hands off Gaza: Reject U.S.-Israeli Occupation,” in New York City, United States, on November 17, 2025. [Selçuk Acar – Anadolu Agency]

Hamas on Tuesday rejected the UN Security Council decision on the Gaza Strip, saying the adoption of the US-sponsored draft does not meet Palestinian demands or rights, and does not reflect the suffering the territory has experienced over the past two years.

The movement said in a statement that the decision does not reach the level of the political and humanitarian rights of the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, which it said has suffered “a war of extermination and unprecedented crimes” whose effects continue despite the announcement of the end of the war under the plan of US President Donald Trump.

The statement added that the decision imposes an international guardianship mechanism on Gaza, which Palestinians reject, saying it “seeks to achieve goals that Israel failed to achieve through military operations”.

Hamas said the decision separates Gaza from the rest of the Palestinian territory and brings new conditions that undermine the Palestinian right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

The movement stressed that “resistance by all means is a legitimate right under international law”, adding that the issue of factions’ weapons is an internal national matter that can only be discussed within a political framework that ends the occupation.

Hamas also criticised any role for an international force inside Gaza that includes disarmament duties, saying this would “remove its neutrality”.

It explained that any potential force should limit its role to separating forces and monitoring a ceasefire along the borders, working under UN supervision and coordinating solely with Palestinian institutions, with no role for Israel.

READ: Zionist Organization of America slams Trump administration’s plan to sell F-35 to Saudi Arabia

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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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