The Strip under the ceasefire: strikes and the dead, aid at the crossings, the yellow line and the families on either side of it.
12lines, 31 layers under them
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Up to 500 Moroccan personnel have trained for the force and Kosovo says its bomb disposal team is ready, but a Board of Peace official says Israeli obstruction has stalled the base meant to house them.
Albania has finalised its agreement to join the International Stabilisation Force in Gaza, with liaison officers expected in November, while a planned ISF base near the yellow line remains on hold.
Source: The Times of Israel (live blog)
The ISF is meant to keep order and secure Gaza's borders under the Board of Peace plan, working with a new Palestinian police force as Israel withdraws in stages tied to Hamas disarmament.
Source: Al-Monitor
Kosovo's EOD team is ready and will deploy once ISF is prepared to receive it.Kosovo Ministry of Defence, statement · The Times of Israel
Albanian liaison officers are expected in November; no date has been given for troops to enter Gaza.
Source: The Times of Israel
Moroccan personnel trained for the ISF (up to)
Albania signs up to Gaza stabilisation force as planned base waits on Israel
personnel the stalled ISF base near the yellow line would house
Albania signs up to Gaza stabilisation force as planned base waits on Israel
children killed in Gaza since the ceasefire, per UNICEF (as of 22 October)
Girl among three reported killed in strike on al-Mawasi displacement area
people killed across Gaza in 24 hours, according to civil defence
Thirteen killed in a day as Israeli tanks push west of the yellow line in Deir al-Balah
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Hamas-affiliated media reported that an Israeli strike in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, killed three people including a girl; Israel later said it hit three militants leaving a tunnel nearby.
Gaza's civil defence said Israeli fire and air strikes killed at least 13 people and wounded about 60 in 24 hours, as Israeli armour advanced west of the yellow line in Deir al-Balah.
The UN said tents were set on fire in Ash Shuja'iyyeh on Sunday night, leaving at least nine households without shelter, as new yellow blocks were seen there and in Deir al-Balah.
A year after the October 2025 truce, hostages are home and rockets have stopped, but Hamas has not disarmed, Israel has not withdrawn and Israeli control has grown from 53% of Gaza to around 70%.
An Israeli air strike on the Islamic University campus in Gaza City killed three security guards, hours after a drone strike there wounded seven female students.
The Israeli military said strikes last week in Gaza City and Nuseirat killed a Hamas cell commander and an Islamic Jihad operative it accused of transferring millions of shekels to Hamas.
Israel's COGAT said Hamas used UN humanitarian coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov to relay an unusually blunt warning that it could carry out another attack like 7 October 2023.
Gaza civil defence officials say about 1,000 bodies have been recovered since the ceasefire, while an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 are still buried, about 3,000 of them in areas held by the Israeli army.
OCHA said 702 UN and partner trucks were offloaded at Kerem Shalom in the week to 19 October, up 47%, while commercial truckloads fell 25% after a reported halt over a disputed fee.
The World Food Programme said funding shortfalls had forced it to cut food assistance in Gaza by about a third, leaving half a million people without its support.
OCHA said about 950,000 displaced people in Gaza live in sites at medium to high risk of flooding, more than 400,000 of them at high risk, with winter shelter needs 66% unfunded.
