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Mukhmas, northeast of Jerusalem — The attack came after midnight; the Israeli military said no suspects were identified and it had opened an investigation.
Filed 09:00 · sun 31° · WAFA / Jerusalem Governorate; AFPRead it in its hour
Dawn 05:05 · First light 05:34 · Sunrise over Jericho 05:59 · Noon 11:23, sun 42° · Sunset into Gaza’s sea 16:49 · Last light 17:11 · Night 17:40 · Moon 10% lit, waning · Day length 10 h 46 min
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Ras Karkar, west of Ramallah — They were trying to cross the iron gate that has long sealed the road between Ras Karkar and Kharbatha Bani Harith, local sources told WAFA.
Israeli forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets at two Palestinians late on Tuesday as they tried to cross the iron gate separating the lands of Ras Karkar, west of Ramallah, from the neighbouring village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, hitting both in the head, local sources told WAFA. They were taken to Ramallah for treatment.
The sources said Israeli forces have kept the road between the two villages closed with the gate for a long time, barring vehicles and forcing residents to take detours or cross on foot.
Update · Source: WAFA (English), 6 Nov, 00:10 · also 1
05:59–09:43Morning
Sun −1° to 37°
He irrigated the tree with his blood.
An olive farmer from the Nablus area, cousin of the man killed on 7 October, to The National
Nablus — The National visits a Nablus-area grove where a father of four was killed by settlers on 7 October, and a family in Usarin still nursing its wounds.
In the hills around Nablus, a 59-year-old farmer showed The National the olive tree where his cousin, a 44-year-old father of four, bled to death after settlers attacked the family’s grove on 7 October. He said the attackers fired at them, beat them with metal and wooden objects and threw stones; eight people were hurt, two by gunfire.
Farther south in the village of Usarin, a 63-year-old woman described being beaten as she ran toward relatives ambushed by settlers in the grove beside their home. One of her sons was still in intensive care in Nablus with a severe brain injury, the paper reported.
The National says the trees are full this year after a poor 2025 crop, that at least two Palestinians have been killed by settlers since farmers began returning to their groves in late September, and that both attacks it documented took place in Areas A and B, where the Palestinian Authority has full or partial control.
Berlin told the Left party’s parliamentary group that aid deliveries need comprehensive improvement and said it has given up to €420 million since October 2023. WAFA
Story · Source: The National, 6 Nov, 06:00
Nablus — Troops also searched homes and questioned residents in Deir Dibwan, Burqa, Turmus Ayya and Qibya in Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate, security sources said.
Israeli forces arrested four Palestinians in Nablus before dawn on Wednesday after raiding the al-Ma’ajin and al-Dahiya neighbourhoods and the Askar and al-Ein refugee camps and searching homes, security and local sources told WAFA.
The apartment was near the Abu Talal junction in al-Rimal; several people were wounded, and heavy fire was reported east of Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis. WAFA
a barbaric act and a dangerous escalation in settler terrorism
Rouhi Fattouh, President, Palestinian National Council (translated from Arabic)
Mukhmas, northeast of Jerusalem — The attack came after midnight; the Israeli military said no suspects were identified and it had opened an investigation.
Israeli settlers entered Mukhmas, northeast of Jerusalem, after midnight and set fire to a mosque, an olive tree beside it and a car, which burned out completely, the Jerusalem Governorate said.
AFP footage showed the fire had burned the mosque’s carpeting and blackened its walls, and Hebrew graffiti was sprayed on its exterior. The Israeli military said soldiers were sent after reports of arson and graffiti, that no suspects were identified and that an investigation had been opened, AFP reported.
Palestinian National Council President Rouhi Fattouh condemned the attack and blamed international inaction for the continuing settler attacks, WAFA reported.
Detainees from Sa’ir, al-Burj and Beit Ula were beaten, the society said; a couple from al-Dhahiriya was questioned for hours in Kiryat Arba settlement. WAFA / Palestinian Prisoners' Society
A statement for Arab Environment Day says outposts set up in 2023-2025 control about 1.07 million dunums and displaced 118 herding communities. WAFA / PCBS and Environment Quality Authority
Farmers from al-Fandaqumiya, Jaba’ and Silat al-Dhahr were forced out; in Ya’bad, settlers stole harvested olives and expelled pickers, local sources said. WAFA
Forces and Israeli municipal crews also entered the al-Bustan neighbourhood of Silwan, south of al-Aqsa Mosque, the governorate said. WAFA / Jerusalem Governorate
A 25-kilogram sack of white flour averaged 56 shekels in Gaza; prices rose 0.53% in the West Bank and 0.44% in Jerusalem, the bureau said. WAFA / Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Update · Source: WAFA / Jerusalem Governorate; AFP, 6 Nov, 09:00 · also 1, 2, 3
09:43–13:03Midday
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Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron — An 80-square-metre house in Ighzaywa and a 40-square-metre shelter for a family of seven in Umm al-Khair were razed; a mobile toilet was seized.
Israeli forces demolished an 80-square-metre house in Khirbet Ighzaywa, south of Yatta, and a 40-square-metre dwelling that housed a family of seven in Khirbet Umm al-Khair, in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron, local sources told WAFA. They also seized a mobile toilet.
UN OCHA reported on 2 October that about 400 structures had been demolished in the Masafer Yatta communities located inside the area Israel designates Firing Zone 918, displacing 969 Palestinians.
Two bulldozers opened new roads east of Beit Dajan and razed land around a family’s home in Burin, local and security sources told WAFA. WAFA
Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah — The settlers retreated toward an outpost set up on the town’s plain late last year, local sources told WAFA.
A group of settlers attacked olive pickers in the northeast of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, on Wednesday morning and tried to stop the harvest, local sources told WAFA. Residents confronted them and forced them back toward the outpost settlers set up on the town’s plain.
According to WAFA, settlers established that outpost at the end of last year, and Israeli bulldozers uprooted more than 2,000 olive trees to open a road linking it to Shilo settlement, which is built on the town’s land.
In nearby Beit Furik, settlers stopped farmers harvesting east of al-Naqra road, in Area B, and dumped the olives they had gathered, local sources said. WAFA / Palestine Red Crescent Society
Palestinian children have the least influence on the conflict and often have to pay the highest price.
Khaled Quzmar, Palestinian children's rights lawyer, 2026 Amnesty Germany Human Rights Award recipient (translated from German)
Ramallah — The Ramallah-based lawyer has defended Palestinian children for nearly 40 years; the prize will be presented in Berlin on 25 November, WAFA reported.
Amnesty International’s German section has chosen Khaled Quzmar, a Ramallah-based lawyer who has spent nearly four decades defending Palestinian children, for its 2026 Human Rights Award. WAFA reported the award on Wednesday.
Amnesty said Quzmar documented violations of children’s rights in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, for UN bodies and international courts, and was summoned by Israeli intelligence in 2021 and threatened with a long prison term. As long-time director general of Defense for Children International - Palestine, he dissolved the organisation in spring 2026 after more than 35 years because of continuing harassment, Amnesty said.
Story · Source: Amnesty International Germany / WAFA, 6 Nov, 12:02 · also 1
Gaza Strip — Three bodies and 17 injured people reached hospitals in 24 hours; 1,501 people have been killed since the ceasefire began a year ago.
The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023 has risen to 74,392, with 175,440 injured, medical sources said on Wednesday.
Three bodies, including that of a person who died of earlier wounds, and 17 injured people reached hospitals in the previous 24 hours, the sources said.
Since the ceasefire took effect on 11 October 2025, 1,501 people have been killed and 5,323 injured, and the bodies of 838 people have been recovered, according to the same sources.
Thirty-five dunums of farmland beside the bypass road were razed under a military order issued ten days earlier, local sources told WAFA. WAFA
Figures · Source: WAFA / Gaza medical sources, 6 Nov, 12:06
East Jerusalem — Fakhri Abu Diab told Voice of Palestine radio that 23,280 demolition orders are in force and that no more than 1% of Jerusalemites who applied this year got permits.
Israeli authorities have demolished more than 430 homes and other structures in occupied East Jerusalem since the start of 2026, Jerusalem affairs researcher Fakhri Abu Diab told Voice of Palestine radio. He said 23,280 administrative and judicial demolition orders are in force in the city.
Beit Hanina, al-Tur, Silwan and Jabal al-Mukabbir are among the most targeted neighbourhoods, Abu Diab said. He estimated that about 33 percent of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem are under threat of demolition and put the number demolished since 1967 at about 37,000.
The detainees, aged 20 and 31, told a commission lawyer their rooms were raided with gas and sound grenades on 7 October and that food is scarce. WAFA / Commission of Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs
The team at al-Quds Hospital, working with HEAL Palestine, aims to operate on about 30 patients while more than 200 critical cases wait, WAFA reported. WAFA (video report)
Neonatal care at al-Rantisi and al-Shifa has been disrupted; a medical relief director says 2,027 patients have died awaiting treatment or evacuation. Quds News Network / WAFA
All seven entrances to Tuqu’ are closed with iron gates, its mayor said; a new gate at Wad Da’uq follows gates fitted at Arraba’s entrances on Tuesday. WAFA / Tuqu' Municipality
Figures · Source: WAFA, 6 Nov, 12:24
13:03–16:01Afternoon
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Jerusalem — Colombia is the tenth country with an embassy in the city, Reuters reported; Ramallah says the move breaches Security Council resolutions 476 and 478.
Colombia opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Colombian Foreign Minister Omar Bula Escobar, making it the tenth country with an embassy in the city, Reuters reported. Former president Gustavo Petro broke off relations with Israel in May 2024; his successor, Abelardo de la Espriella, restored them, and a free trade agreement was reinstated on Tuesday.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the opening as a violation of international law and of Security Council resolutions 476 and 478, urged Bogotá to reverse it and called on states to take political, diplomatic, economic and legal steps against any country that opens or moves an embassy to Jerusalem.
Palestine’s envoy to the Arab League, Muhannad al-Aklouk, told Voice of Palestine radio that Arab states had decided to summon Colombia’s ambassadors and had asked members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to do the same.
At least 350 remain in custody, the society said, after at least six children were detained overnight in Sa’ir and al-Shuyukh, near Hebron. Quds News Network / Palestinian Prisoners' Society
Troops tore photographs and questioned staff at the office, its director said; three vehicle-repair shops owned by two brothers were razed in Haris. WAFA
The 47-year-old woman from Tulkarm refugee camp was detained near Jubara checkpoint, the Prisoners’ Society said; two young men were also arrested in the governorate. WAFA / Palestinian Prisoners' Society
Special forces surrounded a house in the town south of Tubas; a young man was detained to pressure his brother to surrender, the Prisoners’ Society said. WAFA / Palestine Red Crescent Society
A WAFA video shows vendors back at work in the old market in southern Gaza as prices in the Strip keep climbing. WAFA (video report)
Update · Source: WAFA (Palestinian Foreign Ministry); Reuters, 6 Nov, 13:18 · also 1, 2
Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip — A WAFA video shows families covering worn tents with nylon and tarpaulins against the rain, with no safe shelter as the wet season nears.
Displaced Palestinian families are living in tents inside a cemetery in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, and covering them with nylon sheeting and tarpaulins to keep out rainwater, according to a WAFA video report.
WAFA said the families face harsh living conditions and have no safe shelter as winter approaches. Another WAFA video on Wednesday showed displaced people in a camp in central Gaza City tying down their worn tents with ropes.
The International Organization for Migration said on 9 October that almost 2 million people in Gaza need shelter assistance and that shelter partners’ supplies cover barely 17 percent of identified winter needs, according to Security Council Report.
Yahya Shunnar said about 50 billion shekels a year flows through correspondent banking with Israeli banks, whose legal cover has been cut to two-week periods. WAFA / Palestine Monetary Authority
Ahmad Abu Holi wrote to Commissioner-General Christian Saunders after Saunders said in Berlin that large layoffs were possible without new funding. WAFA / PLO Department of Refugee Affairs
Arab ministers designated 17 October each year; the League says more than 700 people were killed in Gaza on that day in 2023, including at al-Ahli hospital. WAFA / Arab League
Feature · Source: WAFA (video report), 6 Nov, 15:06 · also 1, 2
17:11–24:00Dusk and night
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Harming and committing violence against innocent people does not reflect the Israeli spirit or the Jewish spirit.
Eyal Zamir, Chief of Staff, Israeli military (translated from Hebrew)
West Bank — Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said the army would keep enabling the olive harvest; the 98th Division has been sent to the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported.
Israeli military chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said numerous alerts on all fronts had increased the potential for escalation, during a visit to Central Command headquarters with its head, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, The Times of Israel reported.
The 98th Division has been deployed to the West Bank to boost the army’s presence there, the paper said. Zamir said the army was ready to move to broad offensive operations against anyone who tries to harm Israeli civilians, and would keep enabling the olive harvest while maintaining public order.
He said violence against Palestinians must be eradicated using every tool available to the state, according to the report. Quds News Network, citing an army statement, reported that Zamir approved plans to continue military operations in the West Bank.
Statement · Source: The Times of Israel, 6 Nov, 17:25 · also 1
Salfit — Soldiers threatened to open fire if the Yasser Arafat Hospital did not hand over its recordings, official sources told WAFA; troops came back later in the day.
Israeli forces raided the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters and the Martyr Yasser Arafat Hospital in Salfit on Wednesday, official sources told WAFA. They took surveillance camera recordings from the Red Crescent office and demanded that the hospital’s management hand over its camera footage.
The troops threatened to open fire if the recordings were not handed over, then pulled back to the hospital entrance, the sources said. WAFA’s correspondent said forces raided the hospital a second time later in the day.
The League cited Security Council resolutions 478 and 2334; the OIC chief wrote to Colombia’s foreign minister urging a reversal and warned of consequences. WAFA (Arab League, OIC, Egyptian Foreign Ministry statements)
Racist slogans were sprayed on the Sultan Ibrahim Mosque, the ministry said; the commission counts 13 arson attacks on mosques so far in 2026. WAFA / Palestinian Foreign Ministry; Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission
One of the men was taken to hospital; the area has faced repeated attacks, including gunfire at residents’ cars in August, WAFA said. WAFA
Hussein al-Sheikh said the move flouts international law and the city’s special legal and historical status, and urged the world to act. WAFA
Settlers smashed doors and cameras before Israeli forces arrived and detained the owner of the damaged house; olives were stolen east of Yatta, an activist said. WAFA
Update · Source: WAFA (official sources), 6 Nov, 17:47 · also 1
Gaza Strip — A drone strike on a car in al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis, killed two men and wounded a woman; another man was killed by gunfire in Jabalia camp.
An Israeli drone struck a vehicle on al-Hayya Street in al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis, on Wednesday evening, setting it on fire and killing the two men inside, WAFA’s correspondent said. A woman was injured; all were taken to Nasser Medical Complex.
Earlier, a man was killed and others were injured by Israeli fire in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, WAFA said, putting the number killed in Gaza since dawn at five.
Israeli artillery south of Khan Younis shelled western Rafah, and Israeli forces carried out demolitions east of Gaza City and Khan Younis, the agency reported.
West Bank — Settlers carried out 12, the army 8 and one was joint, between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said.
Israeli forces and settlers carried out 21 attacks on farmers, their land and the olive crop in seven governorates between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Wednesday, the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said in an evening report: 12 by settlers, 8 by the army and one joint attack.
They included assaults, detentions, blocking the harvest, theft of olives and equipment, land razing and the uprooting and burning of trees, the commission said. In Beita, a farmer and a 17-year-old were beaten with clubs at Jabal Qmas; in Jinsafut, settlers smashed two electric olive-harvesting machines; in Idhna, troops and settlers forced farmers and activists off land threatened with seizure.
The commission said the targeting of the season undermines farmers’ ability to stay on and use their land, and called for their protection and for those responsible to be held to account.
The syndicate said 260 journalists have been killed in Gaza and more than 240 detained, 38 of whom are still held, and asked for protection in the field. WAFA / Palestinian Journalists Syndicate
A joint statement after King Abdullah II’s talks with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra also condemned the E1 settlement project as illegal. WAFA (Jordan-Australia joint statement)
Deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said the aid the UN can bring in falls short of needs and that access is restricted to more than 64% of Gaza’s land. WAFA (UN noon briefing)
Troops stopped cars and held passengers in Shweikeh and fired sound and gas grenades in Azzun; a checkpoint at Qalqilya’s southern entrance slowed traffic earlier. WAFA
Algeria said the step undermines the two-state solution; Kuwait urged the Security Council to act; the Arab Parliament’s speaker called it null and void. WAFA (Algerian and Kuwaiti foreign ministries, Arab Parliament)
Figures · Source: WAFA / Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, 6 Nov, 19:34
West Bank and Gaza — The agency’s closing tally lists raids, arrests, settler attacks, demolitions and road closures in the West Bank, and strikes and demolitions across Gaza.
WAFA’s end-of-day round-up said four Palestinians, including a woman, were killed in Gaza on Wednesday: two in the drone strike on a car in al-Qarara, one by gunfire in Jabalia camp and a woman in the morning strike on an apartment in al-Rimal. An earlier WAFA report had put the day’s toll at five.
It said Israeli forces detained dozens of people across the West Bank, including children, and listed raids in Nablus, Qalqilya, Hebron, Jerusalem, Tulkarm, Tubas and Salfit; settler attacks in Mukhmas, Ya’bad, Beit Dajan, Burin, Turmus Ayya, Yarza, Qarawat Bani Hassan and Beit Furik; and demolitions in Masafer Yatta and Haris.
The round-up also recorded the continued closure of Tuqu’s seven entrances, the new gate at Wad Da’uq and the checkpoint at Qalqilya’s southern entrance.
UN Security Council quarterly open debate on the Middle East, including the Palestinian questionUnder Greece’s October presidency; Acting UN Special Coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov is the anticipated briefer. Security Council Report’s monthly forecast expects Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis to chair.
Temperatures drop, scattered showers forecastThe Palestinian Meteorological Department forecast a marked drop in temperatures on Thursday with scattered showers, especially in the north, and further cooling through Saturday.
Arab League’s first remembrance day for Palestinian victimsCommemoration at the League’s Cairo headquarters on Sunday, marking 17 October, which Arab foreign ministers designated in September 2026.
E1 settlement tender: bid deadlineIsrael’s housing ministry published tenders for 1,234 of 3,401 approved E1 units on 18 Aug; the Israel Land Authority said on 12 Oct it would not consider bids before 19 Nov (Security Council Report).
Israel’s general electionKnesset elections on the date fixed by law; the Knesset dissolved on 17 July for the campaign (Globes).
Palestinian presidential and legislative electionsSet by presidential decree on 10 Oct 2026, replacing the legislative vote planned for 28 Nov 2026; the decree frames voting in East Jerusalem as an integral part of the process.
Round-up · Source: WAFA (daily round-up), 6 Nov, 23:59
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