European-Palestinian Media Center (EPAL) Bulletin | Issue: 2600 | Date: Wednesday, 11/11/2026

1. Five Palestinians killed and others injured in Israeli shelling and gunfire in the Gaza Strip

Five Palestinian citizens, including a child, were killed and others injured as a result of Israeli occupation forces’ shelling and gunfire in various areas of the Gaza Strip.

The attacks coincided with the destruction of two fishing boats, artillery shelling, and the demolition of homes using explosives, amid continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement.

### 2. Child killed by Israeli gunfire; body withheld during raid on Burqa, west of Nablus

Fourteen-year-old Mu’taz Iyad Daghlas died from injuries sustained after being shot by Israeli occupation forces during a raid on the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that the General Authority of Civil Affairs had informed it of the child’s death. It added that Israeli occupation forces had withheld his body and refused to hand it over to his family.

### 3. Settler arming expands: Israeli plan to establish shooting ranges at 31 locations across the West Bank and Jerusalem

Israeli occupation authorities have approved a plan allowing the establishment of shooting ranges at 31 settlement locations across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

The move is intended to strengthen the arming of settlers and expand their capacity to use firearms, amid escalating settler attacks against Palestinians and the widening scope of these assaults.

The Commission Against the Wall and Settlements revealed that the plan covers 29 settlements, outposts and settlement neighborhoods, in addition to two industrial zones. These are distributed across the governorates of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Jerusalem, Nablus, Jericho and the Jordan Valley.

### 4. Israeli escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem: raids, attacks and settlement plans

Israeli occupation forces and settler groups have escalated their attacks across various governorates of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

These actions include raids on towns and villages, arrest campaigns, demolitions and closures, as well as attacks on farmers and their property.

This escalation comes alongside the disclosure of settlement plans aimed at seizing thousands of dunams of Palestinian land.

### 5. Amal Al-Rifi, a cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner, faces detention and interruption of medical treatment

Sixty-year-old Palestinian Amal Al-Rifi was supposed to receive her fifth chemotherapy session on October 21. However, Israeli occupation authorities arrested her one day before the scheduled appointment, along with her daughter Yasmin, as they were returning from a medical trip to Egypt.

Since then, her cancer treatment has remained suspended. The only medication she has been receiving in detention is for high blood pressure and diabetes.

This information was reported by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.

## European News

### 6. Fifty-five European universities call for an academic boycott of Israel and its expulsion from the Horizon programme

Around 55 European universities are calling on the European Commission to suspend the Association Agreement between the European Union and Israel, which allows Israeli institutions to participate in the Horizon programme, one of the EU’s main research funding initiatives.

These demands come amid growing academic boycotts and student and trade union activism within European universities, aimed at putting pressure on institutions to end institutional cooperation with Israeli organizations considered complicit in violations of Palestinian rights.

### 7. Protest outside Google’s headquarters in Dublin denounces its complicity in genocide

More than 100 coordinated protest actions took place across 14 European countries following a call by the Stop Dirty Data Centres coalition.

Among these actions was a demonstration outside Google’s headquarters in the Irish capital, Dublin, denouncing the complicity of major technology companies in genocide and the apartheid system imposed on Palestinians.

Protesters targeted data centres belonging to Google, Microsoft and Amazon, using mock surveillance equipment and smoke bombs.

They also called for an end to the expansion of data centres powered by gas extracted through hydraulic fracturing (fracking), arguing that these facilities serve as instruments of technological and military support for the crimes of the occupation.

### 8. Israel completely absent from COP31 climate conference in Antalya, with no political or professional representation

The conference opened today, Monday, in Turkey, with the participation of more than 190 countries, and will continue until November 20.

According to an Israeli newspaper, Israel’s absence is attributed to strained relations with Turkey and the failure to obtain the necessary security permits.

The newspaper also noted that last year, outgoing Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman sought to withdraw Israel from the climate agreement.

### 9. BDS movement in France calls on trade unions to sign statement urging cultural institutions to sever ties with AXA

The insurance company AXA held shares in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest military manufacturer, which produces drones, military systems and weapons used by the Israeli army.

AXA also invests in 11 weapons manufacturers, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

### 10. Protest outside AIB bank against Israeli technology

A protest was held outside a branch of the Irish bank AIB in the city of Dundalk.

The demonstration was led by activists denouncing the bank’s efforts to sign a technology contract worth $1.2 million with the Israeli cybersecurity company Snyk.

Protesters highlighted the risks associated with the deal, which would give a company founded by former soldiers and officers of Israel’s Military Intelligence Unit 8200 access to customers’ data.

They described the move as direct financing of the genocide economy and complicity with the occupation system.

### 11. Solidarity demonstration in Valladolid in support of four activists facing trial over their position on Palestine

A solidarity demonstration was organized outside the courthouse in the Spanish city of Valladolid in support of four activists facing legal proceedings.

The activists are being prosecuted for their participation in a protest in 2025 against the involvement of an Israeli team in the Vuelta a España cycling race.

The demonstration was held to protest the legal action against the activists because of their opposition to the participation of a team representing the Israeli occupation in international sporting events.

It also reaffirmed their right to express solidarity with the Palestinian people.

### 12. European Union calls for unrestricted humanitarian aid to enter Gaza

The European Union has renewed its call on the Israeli occupation authorities to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches the Gaza Strip fully and without obstruction.

The demand comes amid the continued deterioration of humanitarian conditions and the worsening suffering of displaced Palestinians following the impact of the latest storm.

During a press briefing in Brussels, European Commission spokesperson Eva Hrnčířová stated that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip had deteriorated significantly due to heavy rainfall in displacement camps, which caused widespread damage to temporary shelters.

## International News

### 13. Calls for mass mobilization on November 29 to demand sanctions and an arms embargo against Israel

Activists and Palestine solidarity supporters in New York City, United States, have called for a gathering at Herald Square on Sunday, November 29, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.

The event will mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and call for an end to the ongoing genocide.

Organizers stressed that the demonstration aims to increase pressure for the imposition of international sanctions and a comprehensive ban on arms exports to Israel, as well as an end to escalating settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.

### 14. American singer Billie Eilish shares urgent appeal to help Gaza amid devastating floods

Internationally renowned artist Billie Eilish shared an appeal by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), calling for donations and urgent assistance for Palestinian families whose tents and temporary shelters have been flooded by heavy rainfall and rising waters.

The families are facing extremely harsh humanitarian conditions.

This latest gesture is part of Eilish’s broader political engagement within the international entertainment industry. She had previously joined the Artists for Ceasefire campaign.

### 15. Israeli ambassador to Washington accuses The New York Times of paving the way for a “genocide of Jews”

Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, has launched a public attack against the American newspaper The New York Times, accusing it of contributing to the groundwork for a “new genocide” against Jews.

Speaking at a conference organized by the Jewish movement Chabad in the United States, Leiter claimed that the newspaper was promoting what he described as “blood libels” against the State of Israel.

His remarks followed the newspaper’s coverage of the military offensive and the ongoing war of genocide in the Gaza Strip.

According to the report, this represents another official attempt to put pressure on Western media outlets and prevent the exposure of crimes attributed to the occupation forces.

### 16. Israeli tourists assault Sri Lankan boat driver as reports of their continued violent behavior emerge

A video filmed by Israeli tourists has sparked widespread outrage and condemnation.

The footage shows the tourists laughing as they push a Sri Lankan boat driver into the water during a boat excursion in Sri Lanka.

### 17. Israeli Foreign Ministry calls for Francesca Albanese’s dismissal after post quoting Primo Levi’s words in reference to Palestinian children

The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine of “desecrating the memory of the Holocaust” and exploiting the words of Italian writer Primo Levi, a Holocaust survivor, in what the ministry described as an antisemitic campaign.

The accusation followed a post in which Albanese connected Levi’s words to the suffering of Palestinian children.

### 18. UN: Israeli restrictions obstruct relief efforts for flood victims in Gaza

The United Nations has stated that the severe restrictions imposed by Israeli occupation forces on the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip are forcing relief teams to work with inadequate equipment and insufficient shelter supplies.

This comes in the aftermath of devastating floods that have resulted in deaths, missing persons and widespread displacement, as well as extensive material damage.

Speaking at a press conference in New York, Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, said that Israeli restrictions were forcing humanitarian workers to operate with equipment and shelter supplies that were “completely inadequate.”

### 19. Solidarity photography exhibition in Istanbul documents the genocide against children in Gaza

Activists in Istanbul have opened a solidarity photography exhibition highlighting the depth of the ongoing humanitarian suffering in the Gaza Strip.

The exhibition features commemorative photographs of Palestinian children who were killed during the ongoing genocidal war.

### 20. Journalist and foreign solidarity activist injured in settler attack south of Nablus

A journalist and a foreign solidarity activist sustained bruises after settlers attacked olive harvesters in the area between the villages of Qusra and Jalud, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.

The attack left European agency photographer Alaa Badarna bruised after he was targeted with stones. A foreign solidarity activist also sustained bruises.