Urgent health update: Consequences of War on Gaza and the West Bank/East Jerusalem - November 29, 2025

This Urgent Health Update is now posted every 2 weeks. 

What to do?: People opposed to the US’s colonial takeover of Palestine can join the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement, lobby for arms embargoes, and support accountability for Israeli and U.S. leaders responsible for perpetrating the genocide.

ACTION ITEM

1.       Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has introduced an historic Congressional resolution that recognizes the Israeli government’s genocide against Palestinians and calls for accountability. Already joined by 20 colleagues, we need to push our elected officials to sign and demand an end to US complicity in Israeli atrocities now. Here

2.       (a general ask) PALESTINIAN PRISONERS Dr. Husam Abu Safiya remains detained by Israel, without charge or trial, at a time when Zionist abuse of Palestinian political prisoners has reached a fever pitch. Reports from attorneys who are able to secure a visit with their clients, including Dr. Abu Safiya’s lawyer, report routine psychological torture, sexual abuse, humiliation, nutritional deprivation, and medical neglect among other violations of the prisoners’ dignity and fundamental rights. In the wake of Dr. Abu Safiya and thousands of others’ detention and abuse, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) calls upon international bodies and Palestinian solidarity activists to keep pursuing freedom for Dr. Abu Safiya and other Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

Webinar

Our HAC webinar Reprocide and the weaponization of starvation, with Dr. Alice Rothchild & Lt.Col. Anthony Aguilar, was held last week but its insights are still timely. Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irOti9iBMcY

And the recording of the previous webinar: Severed: film screening and discussion, with filmmaker, Jen Marlowe and Dr Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay. Webinar recording is available here.

PBS News Hour-video

Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world, a reminder of the war’s horrific toll on the youngest victims. Before the State Department paused new medical visas for Palestinians in August, a group of children and teens was able to leave Gaza for life-saving care in the U.S. Amna Nawaz and producer Zeba Warsi captured their stories. A warning: some images are disturbing. here

Reports

·       Preparatory material | Two Years On: Genocide, Annexation, Apartheid, and the Future of Palestinian Self-Determination – with a focus on the Trump Exclusionary Gaza Plan, prepared by Law For Palestine. here

·        A report from Samidoun says that the imprisoned Palestinian leader Abdullah Barghouti, serving 67 life sentences in Israel’s Gilboa Prison, has faced years of torture, prolonged isolation, starvation, untreated fractures, infections, and has lost more than 77 pounds. Guards in his prison have allegedly employed dogs and electric shocks to torture him and exposed him to scabies. Rights groups warn he is among several high-profile detainees facing escalating abuse, as at least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 2023. here

·       West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity, Tens of Thousands of Palestinians Forcibly Displaced in Early 2025 Denied Return. All My Dreams Erased. Humans Rights Watch, here, here

·       PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees. According to the PCHR, these acts of sexual violence must be understood as part of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, representing an attempt to inflict destruction, both physical and psychological, upon an entire people. here

Research articles

Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition: This qualitative study explores the efforts of displaced mothers (n=30) in Khan Younis to feed their children amid severe food shortages. The data, collected between January to February 2025, “reveal mothers’ emotional distress caused by children’s hunger and malnutrition.” Key themes included “the perception of starvation as a tool of control, feelings of helplessness, and the visibility of suffering through children’s bodies.”  The authors highlight that “although international law prohibits the use of starvation as a method of warfare, mothers describe continuing deterioration in their children’s nutritional and general health under documented siege conditions” and emphasize “the urgent need for mechanisms that ensure accountability for the Israeli actions restricting access to basic necessities and for more effective humanitarian interventions.” here

Social Science and Medicine: Using data from 25 in-depth interviews with pregnant women in Gaza between June-July 2025, this study demonstrates how “the significant disruption of social and health infrastructures, compounded by food insecurity and limited access to essential resources, has compelled some women to sell their urine as a survival strategy. This urine is subsequently used to falsify pregnancy tests in order to obtain nutritional supplements distributed by aid organizations.” “The very existence of this market is a clear signal that the humanitarian situation reflects a state of severe societal strain, demanding immediate, principled, and politically informed international action to restore not only the flow of aid, but also the foundations of human dignity and stability.” here

Medicine, Conflict, and Survival: Using firsthand field observations and case studies, this article “examines the ethical dilemmas faced by healthcare workers treating pediatric patients in Gaza amid extreme resources scarcity, systemic violence, and infrastructural collapse.” The authors “explore the difficulties of informed consent, surrogate decision-making, and resource prioritization in an active armed conflict” using examples such as limb salvage vs. amputation decisions and the treatment of unaccompanied minors. The article reflects on the limitations of applying Euro-American “peacetime” bioethics in Gaza and proposes the use of “an ethical framework that considers the role of relational autonomy, Islamic bioethics, and humanitarian ethics, grounded in principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence.” here

Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience: A narrative review of literature published between 10/2023 and 9/2025, combined with field observations conducted in Gaza City during July and August 2025, examined the prevalence, risk factors, and sequelae of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) among internally displaced persons in Gaza. The authors identified a marked increase in GBS since 2023 with approximately 100 cases reported in 2025. GBS has been exacerbated by widespread malnutrition, overcrowding, and limited access to healthcare and medication. “Sustainable recovery will depend on coordinated international action that integrates medical relief with long-term reconstruction, ensuring both the immediate management of GBS cases and the resilience of Gaza's health system against future crises.” here

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health: A synthesis of peer-reviewed literature, WHO and UN reports, and field assessments from 2023-2025, examined the continuity of chronic disease care in Gaza. The authors found that “adherence to medical follow-up among NCD patients has declined from 96.7% before the war to 40.7% amid ongoing conflict, while more than 90% of primary healthcare facilities report shortages in insulin, antihypertensives, and dialysis supplies. Only 14 of 36 hospitals remain partially functional, leaving thousands without life-sustaining treatment” and emphasize that “establishing a ceasefire is the single most critical public health intervention required to prevent further death and suffering.” here

International Journal for Equity in Health: This cross-sectional survey examined the mediating role of social support on the association between food and water insecurity and psychotic experiences among young adults living in Gaza in September 2024 (n=476). Higher food-water insecurity was significantly associated with lower social support and higher psychotic experiences. Social support mediated the association between food-water insecurity and psychotic experiences “suggesting that higher levels of food and water insecurity can exacerbate psychotic symptoms by eroding social networks.” here  

Editorials and Commentaries

American Journal of Nursing: This report details the experiences of Natasha Davies, a nursing activities manager for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who was posted in southern Gaza for eight weeks. Davies describes working under conditions of mass displacement, infrastructure destruction, and famine to address traumatic injuries and widespread chronic disease alongside Palestinian colleagues who, despite their constant experiences of trauma and loss, have retained “this beautiful spirit of willingness to do everything, try and make things work, try and improve things.” here

Brazilian Journal of Occupational Therapy: This report by Palestinian occupational therapists, educators, and scholars examines how the ongoing genocide in Gaza has exacerbated pre-existing injustices in occupational therapy education, research, and services. The authors discuss the difficulties associated with providing occupational therapy services in the context of limited equipment, resources, and infrastructure, an inability to ensure client safety, and a lack of educational programming, training, and professional development opportunities. To address these challenges, the authors “propose actionable, culturally humble, and practice-informed strategies” including “strengthening local occupational therapy programs, expanding community-led rehabilitation, developing accessible online professional development tools, and co-producing context-specific knowledge.” here

United Nations

·       Multiple groups condemn latest UN action. “The UN Security Council…enshrined Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, put its imprimatur on Israel’s genocide, and granted colonial control over the lives of the Palestinians to the United States, which has aided and abetted the genocide. 11/17, the Council adopted Resolution 2803, by a vote of 13-0. Russia and China…could have vetoed it, but shamefully abstained.” here, here UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese here  

·       UN Security Council approved the Trump administration’s plan for Gaza by a vote of 13-0, with Russia and China abstaining. Resolution authorizes an international stabilization force in Gaza to work to demilitarize the Palestinian resistance by ensuring “the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups” and authorizes it “to use all necessary measures to carry out its mandate.” Resolution also approves the creation of a “board of peace” (chaired by Trump, Jared Kushner and Tony Blair) with sweeping authority over Gaza, including overseeing reconstruction, security, economic recovery, and coordinating the distribution of humanitarian aid. Authorization for the board and the international stabilization force expires at the end of 2027. Drop site 11/18/2025

·       The resolution gives no timeline or guarantee for an independent state but says that, after reconstruction moves forward and reforms are made in the Palestinian Authority, “the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.” Drop site 11/18/2025

·       Hamas blasted the resolution, saying in a statement that it “does not meet the level of our Palestinian people’s political and humanitarian demands and rights” and that “imposes a mechanism to achieve the occupation’s objectives, which it failed to accomplish through its brutal genocide.” Drop site 11/18/2025

·       How to deal with resisting Natives: The Kushner plan for Gaza. Until recently, the authors and leaders of the Zionist settler-colonial project in Palestine would rely mainly on “Chasing”, though their pursuit of that would often be punctuated by periods of using, “Physical Extermination”, in which the terrifying nature of many of the killings was aimed at grotesquely intimidating the remaining Native Palestinians as well as at actual physical extermination. (From Deir Yassin to Gaza…) In the present (and ongoing) U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza, the genocidaires’ emphasis for most of the first two years was on, physical extermination, but with occasional inquiries about the possibility of chasing them over the border into Egypt. But now, here comes Pres. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner (and Tony Blair) with a new plan– for “Pacification”. here

GAZA

Israel continues to violate the 10/10 ceasefire in multiple ways. In the Israeli “red zone” (more than half of Gaza), daily demolitions of residential buildings, farmland and public infrastructure continue. Military strikes to protect the “yellow line” demarcating it cause casualties and limit access to agricultural lands and public goods. Palestinian access to the sea and fishing remains prohibited. 

·       Reporting its troops came under fire in Khan Younis (11/19), Israeli military strikes killed 25 and wounded 77 others. Similarly on 11/22, the military reported a single armed individual crossed the “Yellow Line” in southern Gaza, and in response they killed 21 and injured 83. In both cases, Palestine Civil Defense noted the fatalities were mostly children, women, and elders.

·       Israel continues to severely limit aid entry into Gaza, since 10/10 refusing entry to over 6,490 metric tons of UN-coordinated relief materials.

·       Since the 10/10 “ceasefire,” Israel has killed at least 347 Palestinians and injured 889. 

·       In the past 2 weeks, Israel killed 73 people and injured 258, including from unexploded ordinance OCHAOPT and Democracy Now 11/25

Since 10/07/2023: 69,785+ killed, 170,965+ injured.  

Israeli soldiers in Gaza: 471 killed, 2,982 injured (no deaths, 4 injured in the past 2 weeks)

Israeli Hostages in Gaza: 0. All live hostages have been released; 2 bodies have yet to be recovered/ returned.

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel since 10/10: 345, of whom only 99 were identified. Most bodies are unidentified and mutilated, handcuffed, blind-folded, run over by military vehicles, or disfigured beyond recognition.

For more information: here  

Israeli attacks

·       11/17, an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped two bombs on and around Al-Daraj School in Gaza City, injuring more than 13 people, including a child who is now in critical condition. One device detonated at the school’s main gate and another struck a tent inside a shelter area behind the building, officials reported, emphasizing that the school sits in an area west of the “yellow line” and therefore outside of Israeli military control. (Drop Site 11/18)

·       11/18,19, Reporter Ibrahim al-Sallout filmed “continuous gunfire accompanied by the sounds of explosions, amid ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement” in areas east of Khan Younis on 11/18. 11/19, Israel conducted a series of airstrikes on multiple locations across Gaza. At least 32 Palestinians were killed, including 12 children. The attacks targeted Palestinian men, women and children in tents and crowded shelters in Zaytoun and Shujaiya, neighborhoods of Gaza City. (Electronic Intifada 11/21)

• 11/20, Israel pushed westward into eastern Gaza City—advancing tanks and moving the yellow concrete barriers that mark the ceasefire withdrawal line roughly 300 meters into Al-Tuffah and Al-Shujaiya—after strikes a day earlier killed dozens of Palestinians. Families awoke to find themselves behind the shifted line as Israeli forces shelled the area, prompting renewed displacement. Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem called it a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire maps and urged mediators to intervene. See our exclusive footage here. Drop Site 11/20

• Taher al-Nounou, media adviser to Hamas’ political bureau, accused Israel of “false and fabricated” claims that the resistance violated the ceasefire, saying there was “no gunfire at Israeli forces” and that Israel is using the allegation as “a pretext to justify their crime” after killing 28 Palestinians in new strikes. He said Israel has killed more than 300 Palestinians since the ceasefire began and is “escaping the obligations of this agreement” in line with “Netanyahu’s political agenda,” urging Washington to enforce the deal it guaranteed and calling on Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey to intervene. Al-Nounou added that the resistance will not negotiate about surrendering its weapons, arguing that ending the occupation and preserving its arms are “inseparable.” Drop Site 11/20

Children

·       11/22, UNICEF reported at least 67 children have been killed in conflict-related incidents since the ceasefire--nearly 2 children killed per day, and dozens more injured. For the many children with severe burns, shrapnel wounds, spinal injuries, traumatic brain injuries, or cancer (who have lost months of treatment), or those who need surgeries that cannot be performed in Gaza today, UNICEF Communication Manager and Deputy Spokesperson, Ricardo Pires, emphasized that “safe, fast and predictable medical evacuations are the difference between life and death and between recovery and life-long disability.” For the hundreds of thousands of children living in tents or amid the rubble of their former homes, he warned that winter is a threat multiplier, noting that a lot more could be done if aid was entering faster. “Our colleagues in Gaza describe what they see every day from children sleeping in the open and living with amputations to children orphaned and trembling in fear while living in flooded, makeshift shelters, stripped of their dignity […] respiratory infections are on the rise while contaminated water fuels the spread of diarrhea,” he stated, stressing that the stakes are incredibly high especially in relation to the entry of winter and shelter supplies.

·       “This pipe doesn’t make up for my leg,” said 10-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq. Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies here

Aid

·       Israel finally reopened the Zikim (North Gaza) crossing, there are now 3 points where aid enters Gaza. Israel has rejected entry to 5,600 MT of aid (24%) due to NGOs not being ‘’authorized’’ or ‘’approved.’’ The bulk of the rejected supplies are for health, shelter, and water and sanitation. Other requests were denied by Israeli authorities either because they did not fall within the “humanitarian” category, or because they were classified as “dual-use.” These items include frozen meat, pesticides, vehicles, power equipment, construction materials, specialized machinery, tents, tarps, blankets, insulation, prosthetics, wheelchairs, mobility devices for children, and child learning and recreational materials. Aid trucks are allowed on the Philadelphi Corridor and Al Rasheed Road, while Salah ad Din Road remains closed to humanitarian movements. The congestion slows delivery, lengthens missions, raises the risk of looting, and limits the size of convoys. OCHAOPT and Drop Site 11/18

·       11/12-25, of 106 missions coordinated with Israeli authorities: 56 were facilitated, 9 were cancelled, 26 were impeded and 15 were denied.

·       After 20 days, Israel granted access to repair the severed main fiber communications cable near the Erez crossing. Palestinians repaired 2 of 3 cuts, but subsequent Israeli denial of access, most recently on 11/25 & 26, prevented full restoration, threatening fragile internet connectivity.

·       UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reports that two years of Israeli military operations and damage to infrastructure and productive assets have driven the entire population into multidimensional poverty. 

·       US- and Israel-backed so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has ended its operations in Gaza. The group’s aid distribution points were widely condemned by human rights groups as “death traps,” with the UN reporting more than 850 Palestinians killed while attempting to access food — even as Israeli authorities barred the UN and international aid organizations from bringing food and basic goods into Gaza. (Democracy Now 11/25) and here

·       *BUT* UG Solutions, a leading US military subcontractor that provided security for the (GHF), is stepping up its recruitment efforts amid possible plans for several aid distribution sites to be set up in Gaza by next month. A former army infantry officer who applied for a position as an “International Humanitarian Security Officer” at UG Solutions was told in an 10/30 job interview that 12 to 15 sites were being planned to open in Gaza and that the company was “going to need a lot more guys.” Dropsite 11/19/2025

Displacement and Shelter 

·       Movement of people from south to north is slowing: 17,000 displacement movements were recorded 11/19-25, compared to 34,000 movements the preceding week and 46,000 the week before that. Overall, more than 637,000 people moved north since the “ceasefire,” and 113,000 people moved from western to eastern Khan Younis.

·       The Shelter Cluster estimates that 1.48 million people need emergency shelter assistance. Partners bringing shelter materials into Gaza warn that existing efforts cannot meet the need.

·       Efforts in displacement sites focus on reducing flooding risks, such as drainage improvements and sandbag reinforcements, remain largely ineffective due to continued severe shortages in needed materials and tools. An estimated 17,000 families in Gaza have been directly affected by flooding and heavy winter rains.  Lack of fuel, compounded by extensive damage to infrastructure and public services, threatens communities at risk of flooding from rainwater or seawater surges. Gaza Municipality faces a severe shortage of heavy machinery required to deal with rainwater and sewage overflows, as well as the unavailability of pipes, cement, and essential materials needed to repair damaged drainage networks and infrastructure damage caused by Israeli strategic destruction of wastewater treatment facilities and rainwater pumping stations. More than 288,000 families now lack the minimum requirements for survival and that Gaza needs roughly 300,000 tents and mobile homes to meet their needs. OCHAOPT and Drop Site 11/18, 11/19, and here

·       Sofia Calltorp, the UN Women Chief of Humanitarian Action, highlighted the harsh impact of winter on women and girls, noting that with entire neighborhoods in ruins, women face hunger, fear, repeated displacement and harsh weather in makeshift shelters that offer little protection. More than 57,000 women are heads of households. ''We arrived in Gaza just after a weekend of severe rain and cold. Women showed me how water soaked through their makeshift tents, leaving their children shivering through the night. This is what it means to be a woman in Gaza today: to know that winter is coming, and to know you cannot protect your children from it.''

·       Save The Children reports that after 2 years of bombardment, the sanitation system has collapsed. Rainwater no longer drains, and mixes with sewage, soaking clothes, blankets, food and shelter. About 700,000 children live in worn-out tents unsuitable for winter, without access to shoes, warm clothes, mattresses or blankets: “Despite the past month seeing more items in the markets, blankets and mattresses are almost nowhere to be seen, new clothes are also near-impossible to come by, with children still wearing summer clothes of shorts and t-shirts, and most of them barefoot. With families desperate for the basics to survive, they spend what little they have on food.”

Health & Hospitals

·       11/12 & 24, WHO facilitated  medical evacuation of 52 patients with 142 companions, despite “long delays patients faced moving from the Kerem Shalom crossing out of Gaza to Allenby [Bridge border] crossing, where, together with the WHO team, they waited over 4 hours before being allowed to proceed, putting their fragile health at further risk.” More than 16,500 patients (4,000 children) still require evacuation, as needed care is not available in Gaza. WHO called for additional support, as well as the opening of all evacuation routes, particularly to the West Bank, and for medical evacuation convoys to be expedited at crossings.

·       11/9/20, 1st round of the catch-up immunizations reached more than 13,700 children. During the vaccinations, about 500 children (of 6,800 screened) were identified as acutely malnourished and referred to treatment. 

·       Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) remain the most frequent health problem, 68% of all cases in 2025. Overcrowding due to displacement, a collapse of water and sanitation systems and the resulting spread of infectious disease have triggered an uptick of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) cases to 141, 9 in November, according to the Rehabilitation Task Force. 3 suspected cases of leptospirosis, a bacterial blood infection often called “rat fever,” are under investigation, 2 people currently in intensive care. No new polio cases have been reported.

·       Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) and Acute Jaundice Syndrome (AJS, Hepatitis A) are on the rise, reflecting public health risks of overcrowded shelters, poor access to safe water, and limited hygiene supplies. Over 25,500 AWD cases were recorded in the first half of November, compared to 22,600 cases in the last half of October, a 13% increase. AJS cases more than doubled, increasing to 307 from 132 in 2 weeks. A WASH Cluster assessment found 63% of households had no soap.

·       Over 80 Palestinians from Gaza who went to East Jerusalem for medical treatment before Israel began its genocide were returned to the enclave today after being stranded for over two years while Israel blocked all returns and new medical entries. Some had completed their treatment and expressed their desire to return to Gaza, some were forced to return. (Drop Site 11/18)

·       Hospitals are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days, medical and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory have said. (Guardian 11/23)

Before the war, the Hamad Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics in Gaza City, funded by the Qatar Development Fund, was the only remaining hospital specializing in prosthetics and rehabilitation in the Gaza Strip. Gaza once had around 1,300 physiotherapists and 400 occupational therapists but dozens have been killed in Israeli attacks and many more injured or displaced.  Over 6,000 amputation cases had been registered, with children comprising 25%. “The conflict has devastated the rehabilitation workforce,” the WHO said. “Despite the huge number of amputations, Gaza has only 8 prosthetists to manufacture and fit artificial limbs.” (Drop Site 11/25) here

Food & Nutrition

·       About 10% of households reported going an entire day without eating at least once in the preceding month, down from 20% in October. 1 in 4 households ate only once a day in the first 10 days of November. Dietary diversity remains low, with access to vegetables, fruits and protein still out of reach for many families. Protein-rich items like eggs and meat remain scarce or unaffordable. Commercial imports are often high-cost, low-nutrition foods, such as soft drinks and chocolate. A new joint Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition analysis began on 11/17 and is expected to conclude on 11/21.

·       As of 11/26 November, 1,558,000 meals were being delivered daily by 28 partners through 213 kitchens: 343,000 in northern Gaza and 1,215,000 in the south.

THE WEST BANK, INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM

In the past 2 weeks, Israeli forces killed 12 West Bank Palestinians (4 children) and injured 61. So far this year, Israeli forces in the West Bank have killed 49 children (24% of the 201 Palestinians killed). More than 1,000 Palestinians have been injured in settler attacks so far in 2025, more than double the number in 2024.

·       Since 10/ 2023, Israeli forces have killed 14 and injured more than 200 Palestinians attempting to cross the Barrier, mostly to work, amid a severe economic downturn.

·       As of November 2025, Israel Prison Service (IPS) data lists 9,204 Palestinians in Israeli custody: 1,242 sentenced prisoners, 3,389 remand detainees, 3,368 administrative detainees held without charge, and 1,205 “unlawful combatants.”

For more West Bank information, see the OCHA West Bank September 2025 Snapshot.

·       UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reports  the West Bank has experienced the worst economic decline since record-keeping began in 1972. In 2024, GDP shrank 17%, per capita GDP shrank 18.8%, erasing 17 years of progress. Unemployment is 35%. An UNCTAD press release stressed: “The expansion of settlements and movement restrictions continue to fragment the West Bank, disrupt the economy, trade and investment, and reduce access to land, resources and markets. These restrictions affect over 3.3 million people, raising transport costs, lengthening travel times and disrupting access to markets, employment, education and health services.”

Israeli attacks

·       11/13, Israeli forces shot and killed two boys (aged 14 and 15) near Karmei Tzur settlement (Hebron). The military claimed the boys were preparing an attack. Their bodies were withheld.

·       11/16, Israeli forces shot and killed a young man and injured another during a raid in Askar Camp, northeast of Nablus. The military stated they had thrown explosives, but residents say they were throwing stones. Israeli forces prevented ambulance crews from reaching them for 30 minutes; an ambulance took him to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

·       11/17, Israeli forces shot and killed a 14-year-old and injured 2 boys during a raid in Al Far'a Camp (Tubas). The Red Crescent took 2 children to hospital but Israeli forces prevented them from reaching the third, later pronounced dead in a military statement. His body was withheld.

·       11/18, 2 Palestinians attempted to drive into a crowd at Gush Etzion settlement junction (Bethlehem). After killing an elderly Israeli and injuring 2 (1 child), Israeli forces shot and killed both. Their bodies were withheld. Israeli media reported an Israeli woman was injured by Israeli fire. Afterwards, Israeli forces closed all 4 road gates leading to Hebron, stranding thousands of Palestinians for hours. In Beit Ummar, Israeli forces sealed the entrance of an assailant’s family home, displacing 3 families, and imposed a 3 -day curfew, closing internal roads with 12 earth mounds, removed 3 days later. Israeli forces continue to close 7 main gates, 3 to Hebron and 4 to nearby communities, isolating Halhul, Beit Ummar, and Al Arrub refugee camp, leaving only 1 entrance open to Hebron, causing severe congestion and long delays for thousands seeking to enter or exit Hebron.

·       Israeli military detained at least 200 Palestinians in the town of Beit Ummar after troops raided the area overnight and sealed all of the town’s entrances. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said that the “extensive” field interrogations were marked by harassment, beatings, and destruction of property. Drop Site 11/19

·       11/21, Israeli forces killed and withheld the body of a Palestinian in Tell village (Nablus); and shot and killed a child and a young man in East Jerusalem. 

·       11/23, Israeli forces shot and killed a man in Deir Jarir (Ramallah) after a settler raid.

·       11/24, Israeli forces killed and withheld the body of a man in Mirka village (Jenin), stating that he killed a settler in Qalqiliya on 8/18/2024.

·       11/24, Israeli forces killed a man in Nablus, stating he had killed 2 soldiers at the Nablus-Awarta checkpoint on 5/29/2024.

Demolitions, Displacement and Movement Restrictions

In the past 2 weeks, Israel demolished 34 structures due to the lack of impossible to attain Israeli-issued building permits, displacing 140 (89 children). 

·       Since 11/23, Israeli forces continue to intermittently close Ash Shuhada Street checkpoint (CP 56) in the H2 area of Hebron city, hindering movement for approximately 800 Palestinian residents, 125 students and 19 teachers. 11/23-26, the checkpoint was closed 6-9 hours daily, preventing residents from accessing their homes and students from attending school. 

·       A checkpoint system regulating movement in the restricted area of H2 implemented in October 2023 has further restricted movement for 7,000 Palestinians, leading to the detention of at least 427 Palestinians (52 children).

·       Additional closures in the H2 area of Hebron have intensified since July. The closures prevent the entry and exit of 11 families (66 people, 26 children) to their homes. 10/2, Israeli forces welded shut a main entrance to a residential building, forcing 7 families (38 people, 23 children) and 25 children attending a kindergarten to use indirect, improvised and unsafe routes.

·       30 Palestinians risk displacement in Qalandiya where Israeli authorities reactivated decades-old expropriation orders and approved the construction of a waste treatment facility. Peace Now reports here

Settler Attacks and Settlement Activities

In the past 2 weeks, 65 settler attacks injured 33 Palestinians (12 children), displaced 2 families (12 people, 8 children), and damaged 1,180 olive trees 23 vehicles, 10 homes and 2 mosques. 

So far this year, 1,600 setter attacks on 270 West Bank communities have injured over 1,000 Palestinians (70% by settlers and the rest by Israeli forces), double the number in 2024.

·       Expansion of settlements continues to affect members of Bedouin communities in Jericho. (See OCHA reports here and here:

·       Violence has increased across the occupied West Bank as Palestinian farmers harvest their olive trees before the end of the season, in the face of a campaign of harassment by groups of armed and aggressive Israeli settlers. Settlers vandalized cars on the outskirts of the town of Sinjil and “raided” farmland near the village of Mughayyir, according to local reports. “It’s really bad at the moment. The settlers are operating with total impunity,” said Aviv Tatarsky, an Israeli activist who has worked in the West Bank for decades. (The Guardian 11/18)

Israeli Operations in the Northern West Bank

·       Since 11/7, operations in Ya’bad (Jenin) have displaced 2 families (10 people) whose homes were converted into military observation posts. 11 other families (55 people) were displaced, 9 roads blocked, and all 12 schools in Ya’bad closed, affecting 4,000 students.

·       11/12-14, Raids in Jenin city, Qabatiya, and Birqin contribute to heightened fear and insecurity among residents. Raids in Nablus caused injuries and closed the Beit Furik checkpoint, affecting 20,000 residents. 

·       11/18, Israeli forces shot and injured 2 Palestinians (1 child and 1 journalist) in Nur Shams refugee camp (Tulkarm) during a protest. About 100 displaced Nur Shams residents had gathered to demand a return to their homes and an end to the Israeli operation that since January has displaced about 8,700 Palestinians from Nur Shams Camp. OCHAOPT and Palestine Chronicle 11/18

·       11/18, Israeli forces shot and injured a 14-year-old in his home in Al Yamun village.

·       11/19, Security footage from the Christian Palestinian town of Taybeh shows Israeli settlers slashing car tires and smashing shop windows. Taybeh has faced repeated attacks in recent months, prompting a July visit from U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, an ordained pastor, who urged Israeli authorities to prosecute those responsible; no charges followed. Drop Site 11/20

·       11/20, Israeli forces raided Zububa, northwest of Jenin, and built barriers blocking 2 main roads and 4 side roads, restricting movement for 2,700 residents. 

·       11/24, Israeli forces detained a Palestinian family (a 3-year-old and his parents) from Silat al Harithiya village, made a wrong turn leaving a medical appointment at Jenin governmental hospital. They were held for 10 hours and the father was beaten. 

·       11/26, Israeli forces launched a large-scale operation in Tubas, deploying jeeps and bulldozers in Tubas city and the surrounding villages of Tammun, Aqqaba, Tayasir, and Wadi al Fara’. At least 30 Palestinian families were forcibly evacuated and displaced from their homes, which Israeli forces used as observation points. Israeli forces have closed about a dozen main and secondary roads, imposing severe movement restrictions across the governorate, including an open-ended curfew, search operations and detentions. Bulldozers damaged the water network between Tammun and Khirbet ‘Atuf on 11/26, disconnecting water supply for residential areas and agricultural land. Although Israel claims to be fighting against “terrorist” groups, they are just making way for new and expanded settlements. here, here  

·       11/28, the killing of two unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin has provoked international outrage after video footage of the incident went viral. Credited to the local Palestine TV station, the footage shows Israeli forces shooting two young Palestinian men as they raised their hands to surrender. The UN condemned the incident as another “apparent summary execution” and warned that killings in the West Bank are surging “without accountability.” (Mondoweiss 11/28)

Prisoners

·       Imprisoned Palestinian journalist Farah Abu Ayyash described a sustained pattern of torture by Israelis, beginning with her arrest in the middle of the night in August. She was bound to a chair under filthy, dripping water in a Karmeh Tzur prison, subjected to tightened plastic restraints that cut into an artery, attacked by dogs, and held in solitary confinement before being forced to unlock her phone for her Israeli captors. Ayyash was disappointed her colleagues in the West failed to advocate for her freedom. Drop site 11/18/2025

·       A Tel Aviv court ruled that a 14-year-old Palestinian autistic boy from Jaffa who reported being sexually assaulted by both prison guards and other inmates must be returned to the same prison for temporary detention per Haaretz reports. Drop site 11/18/2025

·       In the occupied West Bank, human rights groups are calling on Israel to release Palestinian journalist and activist Ayman Ghrayeb, after he was arrested on 11/17 and held incommunicado for days. Israel now plans to hold him under administrative detention without charge or trial. He was reportedly hospitalized after he was transferred from Israeli military custody to the prison system, raising fears he was subjected to torture, like many other Palestinian prisoners. (Democracy Now 11/26)

ISRAEL

·       Israel’s parliament advanced a bill to strip UNRWA of access to water and electricity, passing its first reading in a narrow 28–8 vote and sending it to a Knesset committee for further action. Israeli ministries are already barred from engaging with the UN agency, but the new measure would prohibit utility companies from supplying power or water to any property registered under UNRWA and would allow the state to confiscate agency-registered land. If enacted, it would mark a further escalation in Israel’s long-running effort to cripple UNRWA’s operations in the occupied territories. (Drop Site 11/20)

·       An Israeli airstrike on the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in Lebanon killed 13 people amid escalating Israeli bombardment across Lebanon, threatening the ceasefire with Hezbollah - which Israel has already broken dozens of times. Mondoweiss 11/22

·       A list published by Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI), identifies17 Gazan doctors — and 80 medical workers overall — who remain in Israeli custody even after Israel’s release of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees at the start of the ceasefire. Held without charge or trial in dire conditions, these doctors are denied contact with the outside world, save for infrequent lawyer visits. They face physical violence, medical neglect, and starvation, as a result of which dozens of detainees have died. here  

·       A new Israel Democracy Institute poll of Jewish Israelis shows broad public backing for extreme wartime measures, with 62% saying a militant should be killed even if they pose no threat and 55% supporting heavy fire on Palestinian population centers after rocket attacks. Majorities also rate the Israeli forces’ conduct in Gaza as “excellent” or “very good,” endorse using Palestinian civilians as human shields to clear suspected explosives, and oppose investigations into soldiers accused of abusing detainees. (Drop Site 11/24)

·       Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir escalated threats against the Palestinian Authority, saying Mahmoud Abbas should be placed “in solitary confinement” and that senior PA officials should face “targeted killings” if the UN advances recognition of a Palestinian state, which he dismissed as a project of an “invented people.” He said Israel must prepare orders for assassinations and arrest warrants, adding that “a solitary confinement cell is ready for him in Ketziot Prison.” Finance Minister Smotrich vowed to block “any path” to Palestinian statehood, calling it his “life’s mission” and insisting that any such state should be established in “Arab countries” or Europe but “not here,” where he said Israel will retain “full sovereignty.” The Palestinian Authority welcomed the resolution and said it was ready to immediately implement it on the ground. Drop site 11/18/2025

·       Like many other health care providers, the Israelis banned US Dr. Feroze Sidhwa from entering Gaza despite receiving approval & participating in two medical missions. here, here

·       Inside the American-Run Base Helping Plan the Future of Gaza. US and Israeli soldiers, foreign diplomats and aid workers are congregated in a warehouse in Israel to talk about the future of Gaza. One key group is missing: Palestinians. here

UNITED STATES

·       A single warehouse in Jersey City, New Jersey, packaged and transported over a thousand tons of military equipment to Israel every week in the first eight months of 2025, according to a report jointly released today by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and Progressive International (PI). The transfer of military gear to Israel is spearheaded by three overlapping Jersey-based companies—Interglobal Forwarding Services (IFS), G&B Packing Company, and G&G Services—which are all seemingly owned and operated by the same people. IFS and G&B serve as contractors with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, which works closely with U.S. weapons manufacturers to purchase weapons. IFS primarily handles administrative matters; G&B Packing Company handles, packages, and loads the equipment onto trucks; and G&G Services makes shipments to local ports with its own fleet of trucks. The PYM and PI’s report documented that 91% of all Israel-bound sea exports of military gear that did not go through a U.S. military base passed through the IFS and the G&B warehouse. (Drop Site 11/24)

·       Fifteen-year-old Palestinian American citizen from Florida, Mohammed Ibrahim, was arrested by Israeli soldiers during an early-morning raid on his family’s West Bank home in February after allegedly throwing rocks, which he denied. He reportedly suffered beatings in Israeli detention and lost a considerable amount of weight. His plight sparked widespread outrage and condemnation at Israel’s abuses. After more than nine months, he was released (now age 16) and is now recovering at home with his family. (Democracy Now 11/25)

·       ADL released yet another entry in its ongoing series of reports that should be subtitled “Defending Israel by Weaponizing Antisemitism.” This one accuses over a dozen professional academic associations in the United States of failing to combat antisemitism within their ranks. The American Psychological Association, is unfairly maligned as among the very worst offenders. here

·      North Carolina State Pension Fund has divested $6.4 million in Israeli bonds after a sustained organizing effort by a coalition including Palestine Youth Movement, JVP Triangle and JVP Charlotte, Durham Educators for Liberty and Freedom, North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, and UE Local 150.

·       Medical institutions are silencing their staff and impeding efforts to build solidarity with medical workers in Gaza. here

US universities

·       Dan Segal published on the Academe Blog: "The New AAUP-MESA Report on Our Moment’s Campus Repression" here  

·       Aaron Shakow is a co-author on "Harvard idealizes pluralism. It needs restorative justice instead." here

·       Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist who was detained for over three months, is suing the Trump administration for its communications with the anti-Palestinian groups that helped facilitate his arrest. “For months, shady organizations and individuals carried out a smear and harassment campaign designed to intimidate and silence me,” Khalil told Zeteo.  “The public deserves full accountability for every bad actor who helped make that possible, including those at Columbia who fabricated and amplified these smears and opened the door for state retaliation against Palestinian speech.” (Mondoweiss 11/25)

·       Judge Rules Trump Can’t Cut UC Funding — but UC Leaders Are Still Negotiating a Settlement. Nationwide, faculty and students fight against Trump’s assault on higher education — and administrators capitulate. here

·       In a historic wall-to-wall labor union lawsuit led by the AAUP, the US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction that will stop the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to unlawfully stifle free speech and academic freedom across the University of California (UC) system’s ten campuses and medical centers. This marks a huge win for the broad coalition of faculty, staff, students, and labor unions that brought the lawsuit seeking to defend their First Amendment rights and to restore critical research funding. here Palestine Legal full post here

INTERNATIONAL

·       Poland repurposed a Nazi factory site to make TNT to drop on Gaza. The state-owned Polish company, Nitro-Chem, imported 90% of the TNT that US weapons manufacturers use to make "Mark Series" aerial bombs, according to  “The Missing Ingredient: Polish TNT,” published by a coalition representing the People’s Embargo for Palestine, Palestine Youth Movement, Shadow World Investigations, and Movement Research Unit. (+972)

·       11/22 & 23 The International People’s Tribunal on Palestine convened on in Barcelona. The event brought together organizers, human rights advocates, and legal experts and offered a platform for survivors of the ongoing assault on Gaza to present evidence of Israel’s international crimes. After two days of testimony, jurors returned their verdict: Israel, the US, and other Western powers are guilty of the crimes of genocide, ecocide, and the forced starvation of the Palestinian people. OCHAOPT and here

·       South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola said the recent arrival of Palestinians airlifted from Gaza appears to be “a clearly orchestrated operation,” warning that it reflects “a broader agenda to remove Palestinians from Palestine into many different parts of the world.” He cautioned that Pretoria “does not want any further flights to come our way,” describing the transfers as an attempt to ethnically cleanse “the Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank.” At least two planes have landed carrying hundreds of Palestinians on flights run by a little-known organization alleged to be coordinating closely with Israeli authorities. Drop site 11/18/2025

SOURCES

OCHAOPT, Drop Site News, Anews, Aljazeera, Palestine Chronicle, +972, Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, The Guardian, Democracy Now, Truthout, the Intercept, New York Times, BBC, PCHR, AAUP, IGM, X, Boston Globe, Peace Now, UNHCR, Globalities, HRW, Via Campesina, Samidoun, Law for Palestine