Palestinian central bank chief urges IMF-backed fix for banking ties with Israel
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.
Brief · Source: WAFA / Palestine Monetary Authority, 6 Nov, 15:47
The rest of the day
More than 2,000 children detained since October 2023, Prisoners’ Society says
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
Israeli forces ransack prisoners’ commission office in Salfit, demolish Haris workshops
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
Israeli forces detain mother of man they killed in 2023, near Tulkarm checkpoint
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
Man, 90, and woman beaten during hours-long Israeli raid on Tammun, Red Crescent says
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
Traders return to Khan Younis’s historic grain market
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)
Displaced families living in a Khan Younis cemetery patch tents before winter
A WAFA video shows families covering worn tents with nylon and tarpaulins against the rain, with no safe shelter as the wet season nears. WAFA (video report)
PLO refugee official warns UNRWA against laying off staff over budget gap
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 League to mark its first remembrance day for what it calls genocide victims
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
Israel’s army chief warns of ‘potential for escalation,’ condemns settler violence
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. The Times of Israel
Israeli troops raid Red Crescent office and hospital in Salfit, seize camera footage
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. WAFA (official sources)