Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

Israeli settlers carried out at least 264 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during October, marking the biggest monthly total since United Nations officials began tracking such incidents in 2006, the UN said on Friday.

In a statement warning against the sharp rise in violence, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the attacks, which resulted in casualties and property damage, amounted to an average of eight incidents per day.

"Since 2006, OCHA has documented over 9,600 such attacks. About 1,500 of them took place just this year, roughly 15 per cent of the total," the UN body said in a statement.

Home to 2.7 million Palestinians, the West Bank has long been at the heart of plans for a future Palestinian state existing alongside Israel, but successive Israeli governments have expanded settlements rapidly, fragmenting the land.

The United Nations, Palestinians and most countries regard settlements as illegal under international law. Israel disputes this. Over half a million Israeli settlers live in the West Bank.

Turkiye announced Friday that it had issued arrest warrants for genocide against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior officials within his government.

Among 37 suspects listed are Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and army chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, said a statement from the Istanbul prosecutor's office, which did not publish the complete list.

Turkiye has accused the officials of "genocide and crimes against humanity" that Israel has "perpetrated systematically" in Gaza.

The statement also refers to the "Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital", built by Turkiye in the Gaza Strip and bombed by Israel in March.

Turkiye, last year, joined South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

A fragile ceasefire has been in force in the devastated Palestinian territory since October 10 as part of US President Donald Trump's regional peace plan.

The Palestinian health ministry said that Israeli forces killed two 16-year-olds in the occupied West Bank village of Judeira, where the military had said it killed two individuals who had thrown Molotov cocktails.

In a statement, the Ramallah-based ministry announced the death of two teenagers, Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed Ateem and Muhammad Rashad Fadl Qasim, both aged 16, who it said were shot dead by Israeli forces.

The ministry added that the Israeli military was holding the teenagers’ bodies.

The Israeli military said it had killed two people who it said threw Molotov cocktails in Judeira the previous night.

Negotiation has begun for allowing about 150 Hamas fighters, trapped in the tunnels in southern Gaza behind Israel’s yellow line areas, to surrender, with the handover of weapons, Al Jazeera reported.

The development came after Egypt’s proposal of exchanging safe passage of Hamas fighters after surrendering their arms to Egypt, and giving details of the tunnels there so they can be destroyed.

Israel and Hamas have yet to publicly accept mediators’ proposals.

The United Arab Emirates is preparing to increase aid deliveries into Gaza, an envoy said on Friday, saying a sea corridor from Cyprus was essential alongside land and air access.

"Maintaining multiple entry points into Gaza remains incredibly important," said Minister of State Lana Nusseibeh after an inspection of aid accumulating at the port of Limassol in Cyprus.

"As this plan moves forward, access to Gaza by land, air, and sea is going to remain critical," she told reporters.

Iran strongly condemned on Friday what it called "savage" Israeli attacks on Lebanon after its arch-foe hit targets belonging to the Tehran-backed Hezbollah movement a day earlier.

In a statement, the Iranian foreign ministry urged "the United Nations, the international community and regional countries to confront the warmongering" of Israel while offering "condolences on the martyrdom of Lebanese citizens during the savage attacks".

President Donald Trump said Thursday he expects a US-coordinated international stabilisation force to be on the ground in Gaza "very soon," following two years of war in the territory between Israel and Hamas.

The multinational force — likely to include troops from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates — is part of Trump's post-war governance plan for Gaza.

"It's going to be very soon. And Gaza is working out very well," Trump said at a White House function with Central Asian leaders.

"You haven't been hearing too much about problems, and I'll tell you, we've had countries that have volunteered if there's a problem with Hamas."

The force is supposed to train and support vetted Palestinian police in the Gaza Strip, with backing from Egypt and Jordan.

US President Donald Trump said that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords to have normalised relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations.

The announcement came after Trump said he had held a call with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

"We will soon announce a Signing Ceremony to make it official, and there are many more Countries trying to join this club of STRENGTH," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump met with Tokayev alongside four other Central Asian leaders at the White House on Thursday as the US seeks to gain influence in a region long dominated by Russia and increasingly courted by China.

Kazakhstan is expected to be announced on Thursday night as the latest country to join the Abraham Accords that have normalised relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations, a senior US official said.

Kazakhstan already has full diplomatic relations and economic ties with Israel, meaning the move would be largely symbolic.

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is set to meet President Donald Trump alongside four other Central Asian leaders at the White House on Thursday as the US seeks to gain influence in a region long dominated by Russia and increasingly courted by China.

The Israeli military said on Thursday it had completed a series of strikes on Hezbollah arms dumps in southern Lebanon, hours after urging residents of parts of the area to evacuate.

"The IDF completed a series of strikes on Radwan Force terrorist infrastructure and weapon storage facilities in southern Lebanon," the military said, referring to a special unit of Hezbollah fighters.