On 8 October, Israeli jets attacked Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman’s street near Gaza City “without warning and while we were still at home.” She says that “I am still in shock that I survived this massacre.”

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Canadian lawyers served a notice of intent to seek prosecution of Canadian officials complicit in Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. “It is a crime to supply arms to a state with knowledge that they will be used for war crimes and genocide,” the notice explains.

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Israeli government spokesperson Mark Regev has said that 200 bodies burned beyond recognition in a kibbutz near Gaza were Hamas fighters, not Israeli civilians as Israel originally thought. Regev’s admission adds to mounting evidence that on 7 October Israeli forces went on a panicked, indiscriminate rampage.

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Israel using its national anthem as “noise torture” against detainees, including against alleged members of the Nukhba commando unit of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. Videos showing soldiers abusing detainees are aimed at deliberately degrading and humiliating Palestinians “for war propaganda.”

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As Israel’s genocide continues in Gaza, it has become clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s endgame is the total displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and possibly even the occupied West Bank.

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UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, was informed that as of 18 November, Israel would allow the entry into Gaza of a daily amount of 60,000 liters of fuel from Egypt.” This represents around a third of the fuel needed by the agency – the largest provider of humanitarian aid in Gaza – to support its operations, “including food distribution, and operation of generators at hospitals and water and sanitation facilities,” the UN said. Israel has banned the entry of fuel to Gaza after it imposed a total siege on the territory on 9 October.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in its daily report that “no humanitarian supplies were confirmed to have entered Gaza on 17 November … for the third consecutive day.” The UN group said this is because UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, was unable to “receive and distribute additional loads because of its lack of fuel, compounded by the shutdown of telecommunications.”

“For the third consecutive day, Israeli troops, accompanied by tanks, operated within al-Shifa hospital compound in Gaza City,” UN OCHA said. “According to hospital administrators, since 11 November, 40 patients, including four premature babies, have died in the hospital due to the lack of electricity.” Israeli forces, including tanks, were surrounding al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City for the second consecutive day, according to OHCA, preventing medical teams from moving outside to access the injured.

Martin Griffiths, the UN humanitarian chief, called for “more crossing points into Gaza for aid and commercial deliveries of essentials.” He said that “addressing the scale of needs across Gaza from a single crossing point … is logistically impossible” and added that “at the very least, we need permission to use the crossing point at Kerem Shalom, through which 60 percent of goods were delivered before the hostilities began in October.” Gisha, an Israeli human rights group, likewise called for “full and unobstructed access to vital goods” via Kerem Shalom on Gaza’s eastern boundary, which has a greater capacity than the crossings being used on the Egypt border. Gisha also said that conditions in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula “aren’t conducive to massive, international aid operations. Transport through Sinai is slower and less secure than transport through Israel.”

At least 20 people were reported killed and 140 trapped under the rubble after two Israeli airstrikes on residential buildings in al-Nuseirat, central Gaza, shortly before midnight on 16 November and at around 11 am on 17 November. “Residents were reportedly trying to rescue those trapped with their hands and primitive tools,” according to UN OCHA. Civil Defense rescue and recovery missions have been “largely halted due to the lack of fuel and the communication blackout,” OCHA added.

Abu Obeida, spokesperson for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said the attack on al-Shifa hospital is a scandal and mocked what the Israeli military said it found there. In the nine-minute audio message, Abu Obeida said the Israeli military is preoccupied with killing innocent civilians, attacking civilian institutions and invading hospitals. He added Qassam fighters have struck 62 armored military vehicles over the previous four days and told the Israeli public that news of their soldiers’ deaths will reach them eventually. Israel has not been forthcoming with overall casualty figures during their ground invasion of Gaza.

The Qassam Brigades released a pair of videos showing their fighters targeting Israeli soldiers in buildings and on foot in Beit Hanoun, in the northeast of the Gaza Strip. One video shows a group of Israeli soldiers being hit by small arms fire as they are attempting to retrieve another seriously injured soldier. Both videos documented fighting from neighboring and adjacent buildings, suggesting Beit Hanoun is fiercely contested more than three weeks after Israeli troops invaded.

The World Health Organization said it was “concerned about the continued escalation of attacks on health care in the West Bank” after Israeli troops forced at least six paramedics to exit Ibn Sina hospital during an overnight raid in Jenin, in the north of the territory. Videos published by the Palestine Red Crescent Society shows the paramedics with their hands in the air in front off the hospital slowly approaching Israeli military jeeps as troops shout orders at them. The paramedics were searched and detained and ambulances were searched, the UN health agency said, adding that “there have been over 170 attacks on health care in the West Bank alone since 7 October.” Meanwhile, the Palestine Red Crescent Society published a video showing Israeli troops obstructing an ambulance crew in Hebron in the southern West Bank.

Three Palestinians were killed during a massive 11-hour raid involving Israeli airstrikes in Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA and UN OCHA reported. Nine others were wounded, some critically, and Israeli forces used Caterpillar D9 bulldozers to raze infrastructure in the camp. Doctors Without Borders said that “Israeli forces surrounded hospitals across Jenin” during the raid, including Khalil Suleiman Hospital, which the international charity supports. The emergency department at the hospital was unable to receive and treat casualties from Jenin refugee camp “as ambulances were blocked by Israeli forces.”