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Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian officials said, while the Israeli military said the two had attacked a nearby Jewish settlement with fire bombs and burning tyres.

There was no immediate further comment from Palestinian officials about the fatal incident in the area of Beit Ummar. Official Palestinian news agency WAFA said the teens were aged 15 and 19 and a relative confirmed their ages to Reuters.

Reuters was unable to independently verify the Israeli military's account. It said its forces had shot at three people who were throwing fire bombs and burning tyres near the settlement Karmei Tzur.

One of the three was wounded and two killed, the military said. WAFA said the third person was hospitalised in a stable condition. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said he is 15 years old.

Israeli troops carry out frequent raids in the West Bank and have tightened movement restrictions in recent months on Palestinian villages that sit near settlements.

UN bodies and most countries view Israel's settlements as illegal under international law and a primary obstacle to Palestinian statehood. Israel rejects this, viewing the territory as disputed rather than occupied and saying a Jewish presence has existed there for thousands of years.

Attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians and their villages have also risen sharply. In incidents involving settlers and the military, at least 57 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the year, according to UN data.

Palestinians have also carried out attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank, at least one of them deadly in 2026, according to Israel's Shin Bet domestic security service.

Nine Palestinians have been killed and 41 wounded in Gaza over the past 24 hours by Israeli attacks, Al Jazeera reported, citing the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza.

Since the “ceasefire” took effect in October, at least 1,021 people have been killed and 3,249 wounded by Israeli attacks.

Pakistan and other Muslim states expressed solidarity with Palestinians on Sunday during the Fourth Consultative Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye in Cairo.

Reaffirming the centrality of the Palestinian cause to the achievement of peace, security, and stability in the Middle East, the ministers underscored that the Palestinian cause remains at the heart of efforts to achieve a just, comprehensive, and lasting peace in the region and constitutes a central pillar for the realisation of a stable and secure regional order.

In this regard, particular attention was devoted to the humanitarian and political situation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem under occupation.

The ministers reiterated their support for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State on the basis of the 4 June 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital, as an indispensable foundation for achieving a just, comprehensive, and lasting peace in the region in accordance with the relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions.

The Israeli military said on Sunday that they "eliminated" Hussein Qadra and Mohammed Farra, operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

Qadra, who headed the network with Farra, acted under Hamas leadership and facilitated the transfer of more than half a billion shekels to Hamas, according to an Israeli military X post.

Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least nine people, including a child and a journalist from Al Jazeera, in the Gaza Strip y, health officials said.

An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians, including two women and a child, in an apartment building in Gaza City, health officials said. The attack on the building in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City destroyed the apartment and wounded several other people, medics added.

The Israeli military said it struck a "militant", without elaborating.

In another incident, Israeli forces shot and killed a woman in Beit Lahiya town further north, medics said. An Israeli airstrike killed at least one person and wounded eight others in Khan Younis, south of the enclave.

Later on Saturday, an Israeli airstrike killed three people, medics said, including Ahmed Wishah, a journalist working for Al Jazeera, in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera said Wishah, a cameraman, was killed in what the network called a "heinous crime," about two months after his brother, Mohammed Wishah, also an Al Jazeera journalist, was killed by the Israeli military.

Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least five people and injured 43 over the past 48 hours, despite the “ceasefire” announced last October, Al Jazeera reported, citing enclave’s Health Ministry.

In its daily statistical update, the ministry reported that since the ceasefire took effect, 1,012 people have been confirmed dead and 3,208 injured.

Diplomatic niceties broke down at the United Nations when Israel's ambassador and the UN secretary-general's special representative for children ​and armed conflict became embroiled in a furious shouting ‌match at a public hearing.

At a meeting in New York to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Israeli envoy, ​Danny Danon, demanded the resignation of Pramila Patten, who produced ​a report that blacklisted Israel for such alleged abuses for ⁠the first time, accusing her of bias.

"You caved to the secretary-general's ​obsession with targeting Israel," Danon said, referring to UN chief Antonio Guterres.

"We are a member state, and ‌you ⁠work for the UN, and you will be quiet now. You will be quiet ... you and your shameful report," he said.

Frazier, Malta's former UN ambassador, issued her report this week on behalf of Guterres warning ​that Israeli settler ​groups could be ⁠added to a global blacklist for violations against children as the UN chief voiced alarm at what ​he called a "staggering" rise in violations against Palestinian children.

Pakistan has called for immediate, unhindered humanitarian access to Gaza, warning that ceasefire violations and the humanitarian crisis continue despite recent diplomatic efforts.

Speaking at an emergency UN Security Council meeting, Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, said nearly two million Palestinians in Gaza remained trapped in dire conditions marked by killing, deprivation, displacement and uncertainty.

He urged the opening of all crossings, including Rafah, for humanitarian aid, commercial supplies and medical evacuations. Ahmad also called for an immediate end to the blockade, describing it as an instrument of occupation and collective punishment.

Pakistan said humanitarian aid must remain unconditional and be delivered through the United Nations and its agencies without interference. It also urged an end to restrictions on essential items classified as "dual-use", stronger funding for Gaza relief efforts and the full implementation of UNRWA's mandate.

Ahmad said a lasting solution required a permanent ceasefire, reconstruction without conditional delays and a credible political process for Palestinian self-determination, leading to an independent and contiguous Palestinian state on pre-1967 borders with Al Quds Al Sharif as its capital.

Israeli attacks on Lebanon continue after the latest escalation reached wide areas in the south of the country, all the way to the Bekaa Valley, killing and injuring more people, and causing extensive destruction to properties, the Lebanese army says, Al Jazeera reported.

“The continuation of Israel’s brutal attacks aims to obstruct any solution that would allow the restoration of stability in Lebanon,” the army said in a statement on X.

It also said that the Israeli military targeted and killed “a military figure in the army” on the Kafr Reman-Nabatieh road.

The Lebanese state media reported earlier that a Lebanese soldier was killed in an Israeli air attack.

The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza has reached more than 1,000 since a US-brokered ceasefire last October, the enclave's health ministry said on Thursday, as at least four people were reported killed in the latest strikes.

Medics said an Israeli strike hit a vehicle on the main Omar Al-Mokhtar road in Gaza City, killing three, as violence continues despite a new truce push by mediators. The Israeli military said it targeted Hamas militants.

Israel says four of its soldiers have been killed by Hamas in that period.

Israel says its strikes aimed to thwart imminent attacks by Hamas and other militants. Hamas rarely discloses information about deaths of its fighters.