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The highest number of deaths, 29, occurred at the Sde Teiman military prison (pictured), according to the group's report
At least 94 Palestinians died in Israeli prisons in two years, human rights group says
JERUSALEM — At least 94 Palestinian prisoners and detainees have died in Israeli custody in less than two years, a well-regarded Israeli human rights group says.A new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) alleges a practice of "systematic killings and cover-ups".The report covers the period between 7 October 2023, when Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israel, sparking the latest conflict in Gaza, and 31 August 2025. It said fewer than 30 Palestinians died in Israeli custody in the 10 years prior.The Israel Prison Service (IPS) told the BBC it "operates in accordance with the law and under the supervision of official oversight bodies".It said it did not comment on figures or allegations from outside bodies."All inmates are held according to legal procedures, and their...
November 18, 2025

At least 94 Palestinians died in Israeli prisons in two years, human rights group says

US representative to the United Nations Mike Waltz speaks during the UN Security Council meeting in New York ahead of the vote on the US-drafted resolution for an international stabilization force in Gaza on November 17.
UN Security Council backs Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza
NEW YORK — The UN Security Council has voted in favor of a US-drafted resolution that endorses US President Donald Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza.Included in the plan is the establishment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF), to which, the US says, multiple unnamed countries have offered to contribute.The resolution was backed by 13 countries — including the UK, France and Somalia — with none voting against the proposal. Russia and China abstained.Adopting it was an "important step in the consolidation of the ceasefire," a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. Hamas has rejected the resolution, saying it fails to meet Palestinians' rights and demands.Writing on Telegram after the resolution passed, Hamas said the plan, "imposes an...
November 18, 2025

UN Security Council backs Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza

Displaced Palestinians have nowhere else to go after so much of Gaza was devastated in the war
Shelters plea for Gazans as winter rains raise fears of more disease and death
JERUSALEM — Aid agencies have reiterated calls for Israel to allow more tents and urgently needed supplies into Gaza after the first heavy winter rainfall, saying more than a quarter of a million families need emergency help with shelters."We are going to lose lives this winter. Children, families will perish," says Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)."It's actually so frustrating that we've now lost so many crucial weeks since the adoption of the Trump peace plan, which said humanitarian aid would flow and the Palestinians would not needlessly continue to suffer."With a majority of the population displaced by two-years of a devastating war, most Gazans now live in tents — many of them makeshift.They have been clearing up after widespread...
November 18, 2025

Shelters plea for Gazans as winter rains raise fears of more disease and death

Squad leader Frank Wuterich was the only marine to stand trial for the deaths, but his charges were eventually dismissed in a plea deal
Two US marines implicated in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting
HADITHA, Iraq — "This is the room where my whole family was killed," says Safa Younes.Bullet holes pepper the front door to the house in the Iraqi town of Haditha, where she grew up. Inside the back bedroom, a colourful bedspread covers the bed where her family was shot.This is where she hid with her five siblings, mum and aunt when US marines stormed into their home and opened fire, killing everyone apart from Safa, on 19 November 2005. Her dad was also shot dead when he opened the front door.Now, 20 years on, a BBC Eye investigation has uncovered evidence that implicates two marines, who were never brought to trial, in the killing of Safa's family, according to a forensic expert.The evidence — mainly statements and testimony given in the aftermath of the killings — raises...
November 17, 2025

Two US marines implicated in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting

Meny Godard's body was taken into Gaza after Hamas killed him alongside his wife
Israel confirms identity of hostage body returned by Hamas as Meny Godard
TEL AVIV — Israel has identified the hostage body returned by Hamas on Thursday as that of Meny Godard, who was 73 when he was killed in the 7 October attacks.Red Cross vehicles collected his body hours after Hamas issued a joint statement with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad saying it had been located in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza.The Israeli prime minister's office said forensic testing confirmed the body belonged to Godard, who was killed along with his wife, Ayelet, during Hamas's raid on kibbutz Be'eri on 7 October 2023.Three out of 28 deceased hostages remain in Gaza, with the first phase of the current ceasefire deal which forms part of a US plan to end the Gaza war.Under the ceasefire deal, Hamas agreed to return the 20 living and 28 dead hostages it was...
November 14, 2025

Israel confirms identity of hostage body returned by Hamas as Meny Godard

Members of the Israeli special forces check the apparent remains of a ballistic missile lying on the ground following missile attacks by Iran in June
US lawmakers demand answers over Chinese chemical shipments to Iran 
WASHINGTON — US lawmakers have called for the Trump administration to respond to reporting that Chinese firms are helping Iran rebuild its ballistic missile program in defiance of United Nations sanctions.The call, from Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi and Joe Courtney, follows CNN reporting last month detailing what Western intelligence sources said were several shipments of sodium perchlorate, a missile propellant precursor, from China to Iran since the end of September.These shipments are “indispensable to Tehran’s efforts to rebuild its ballistic missile arsenal following its 12-day war with Israel last summer,” the congressmen wrote in a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe.“Beijing’s support for Tehran’s...
November 13, 2025

US lawmakers demand answers over Chinese chemical shipments to Iran 

Boualem Sansal, 81, was immediately taken to hospital on arrival in Germany
French relief as Algeria frees jailed novelist at center of diplomatic crisis
ALGIERS — Almost a year to the day since French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was arrested on arrival at Algiers airport, the Algerian president has pardoned him and allowed him to leave the country.Sansal, 81, has been at the center of a bitter diplomatic row between Paris and Algiers and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's decision came in response to a direct approach from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.The writer arrived in Germany on a military plane on Wednesday evening and was taken to hospital.French President Emmanuel Macron, who spoke to Sansal by phone, said France had used respect and calm to bring about his freedom."I thank President Tebboune for this act of humanity," said Macron.Although Paris had for months sought to lower tensions with Algeria, it was the...
November 13, 2025

French relief as Algeria frees jailed novelist at center of diplomatic crisis

At least 89 Gazan patients and their companions due for deportation, according to medical teams in East Jerusalem
Israel plans to deport sick Palestinians back to Gaza, patients and doctors say
JERUSALEM — Yamen Al-Najjar recalls his past life – the days when he went to school and laughed regularly. Today, the 16-year-old lives with his mother in a cramped 6-square-meter room, just large enough to hold a hospital bed he seldom leaves.“Life is hard. I am sick and in pain all the time… I feel alone, and I miss home,” he told CNN.Yamen, who has a bleeding disorder, was medically evacuated from Gaza City with his mother to a Palestinian hospital in occupied East Jerusalem just two days before the October 7 attack in 2023.His condition is rare, according to his mother, Haifa Al-Najjar, and his doctors, who have struggled to manage his symptoms and been unable to get him the treatment he needs, even in East Jerusalem.Al-Najjar has been working to get her son medically...
November 13, 2025

Israel plans to deport sick Palestinians back to Gaza, patients and doctors say

Reuters photographer Raneen Sawafta was beaten and stoned by settlers during an attack near Beita on Saturday
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and farmland as West Bank attacks surge
JERUSALEM — Dozens of Israeli settlers launched arson attacks targeting a Palestinian warehouse, a Bedouin village, and farmland in the north of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.Several Palestinians were injured.The incidents were the latest in a recent surge in settler violence coinciding with the olive harvest season, when Palestinians head to their agricultural land around towns and villages.It comes just after the UN's humanitarian office said the number of violent attacks by settlers last month was the highest since it began collecting figures nearly 20 years ago.Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land Palestinians want, along with Gaza, for a hoped-for future state - during the 1967 Middle East war....
November 12, 2025

Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and farmland as West Bank attacks surge

Hamas wants its fighters in Rafah to be given safe passage
Hamas fighters trapped in tunnels present new obstacle to Gaza ceasefire progress
JERUSALEM — US President Donald Trump's envoy and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, returned to Israel on Monday, as mediators face a new obstacle in their efforts to advance negotiations on the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal to the next and more complex phase.Key sticking points remain unresolved, including Hamas's disarmament, the reconstruction and future governance of Gaza, and the deployment of an international security force to the territory.Without a timeline for the discussions, which are likely to require significant concessions from both Israel and Hamas, there are doubts that any progress can be achieved.Another challenge has emerged recently, involving scores of Hamas fighters believed to be in tunnels beneath the southern city of Rafah behind the so-called "Yellow Line",...
November 12, 2025

Hamas fighters trapped in tunnels present new obstacle to Gaza ceasefire progress

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