Statistics for Friday 30 October to Thursday 5 November / Other developments Updated 11 November

Israel’s Opposition Is Tasked With Forming a Government

On 8 November, President Isaac Herzog gave Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party, the mandate to form Israel’s next government. Eisenkot received 67 recommendations from the 120 members of the Knesset, against 46 for Netanyahu, including those of the Joint List and Ra’am, the Arab-led parties, who did not commit to joining his coalition. He has 28 days, extendable by 14, and Netanyahu remains caretaker prime minister until a new government is sworn in. (Jerusalem Post)

Eisenkot’s own bloc has 48 of the 120 seats, so it would reach a majority only if the Arab parties’ 19 members backed the government, whether or not they join it. Avigdor Liberman of Yisrael Beytenu refuses to serve in a government that relies on them, and disputes over ultra-Orthodox military service remain unresolved. Netanyahu has called for a national unity government but rejected “a narrow government with supporters of terrorism”. (Arab News)

The new Knesset was sworn in on 10 November, and Eisenkot cancelled a planned meeting with Likud the same day after calling Netanyahu’s speech “shameful”. Eisenkot’s bloc has nominated Matan Kahana as Knesset speaker, and a vote is expected, without a date, as a first test of its support. The ultra-Orthodox parties are the other open question. Eisenkot’s deadline falls around 6 December, or about 20 December if extended (our calculation). (Israel Hayom)

Overview of this week’s developments

• Elections: Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, gave Gadi Eisenkot the mandate to form a government on 8 November, after he received 67 recommendations against 46 for Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s bloc won 53 seats and the opposition bloc 48, so Eisenkot needs the votes or abstention of the Arab-led parties, who hold a record 19 and have backed him without committing to join a government. Eisenkot has 28 days, extendable by 14. On 10 November, the new Knesset was sworn in, and Eisenkot cancelled talks with Likud after what he called a “divisive” speech by Netanyahu.
• West Bank: Settler and military pressure continued after the end of the Hebron siege. Settlers seized eight homes in a village west of Jericho on 4 November, Israel’s forces demolished five homes in Biddu on 5 November, displacing more than 100 people, and settlers set fire to olive trees in Burqa on 6 November. About 30 former Israeli officers, including six generals, have joined Palestinian farmers at the olive harvest in protest at settler violence. We found no Palestinian or Israeli deaths in the West Bank for 30 October to 5 November, though this is a finding of “none found” rather than a confirmed zero.
• Casualties: Gaza’s cumulative death toll rose by 48 this week to 74,618, of which 28 were new deaths since the ceasefire (1,602 in total) and the other 20 were adjustments to the total, such as recovered bodies and retroactive additions (derived). No new Israeli fatalities in Gaza were reported.
• Aid: 1,149 trucks entered Gaza, up 54% on the previous week, with commercial trucks doubling to 808 while aid trucks were broadly flat at 305 and fuel tankers fell to 36 (Gaza Crossings Authority, via an NCF exclusive). Kerem Shalom was open for goods all seven days and Rafah for three, with 295 people leaving Gaza and 242 returning.
• Gaza: The winter’s first storm flooded about 70,000 tents within 12 hours, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, which put initial losses at about $3m. Four children and a woman were killed when a sandbank collapsed onto their tent in Deir el-Balah, and two people remain missing. Killings under the ceasefire continued, with at least six Palestinians reported killed on 10 November.

In This Update

• • Deaths as a Consequence of War
  • Humanitarian Aid and other civilian crossings
  • Key Gaza related Developments
  • West Bank Key Developments
  • Elections

Deaths as a consequence of war

A note on this week’s reporting window: This week covers Friday 30 October to Thursday 5 November 2026 inclusive.

Since 7th October 2023

Since the ceasefire on October 10 2025

This week (30 October – 5 November): new deaths and injuries only

Adjustments to Gaza’s cumulative total this week (not new deaths): +36 (derived)

• Bodies recovered from the rubble and deaths added retroactively after identification details were verified. The Ministry’s report for 29 October does not give a separate recovered-bodies line, so the split is not available for this week (see notes).

Sources: Gaza Ministry of Health figures of Thursday 29 October 2026 as carried by Palestine Information Center (topline and since-ceasefire rows from the same report); previous week’s baseline from NCF Gaza Information Index, 26 October 2026. Israel: no new fatalities or injuries found in reporting on Gaza for this period; figures carried over from last week (Times of Israel/Al Arabiya-sourced totals).

Deaths in the West Bank

Since 1 January 2025 (OCHA, to 30 September 2026, latest published)

This week (30 October–5 November)

Sources: Cumulative figures unchanged from last week (OCHA West Bank infographic “as of 30 September 2026”; Palestinian Health Ministry via WAFA, 8 September 2026). This week: Al Jazeera (“Palestine weekly”, 3 November), Middle East Monitor and Anadolu (8 November), and WAFA.

Notes on this week’s figures

Gaza: the “since 7 October 2023” total rose by 48 (74,570 to 74,618), while the “since ceasefire” counter rose by 28 (1,574 to 1,602). New deaths are therefore 28, which includes people who died of injuries sustained in earlier attacks. The other 20 are adjustments to the total and are derived by subtraction (48 minus 28). The Ministry’s 5 November report does not itemise them. Injuries rose by 117 on the total (175,808 to 175,925) and by 112 since the ceasefire (5,687 to 5,799), so this week’s injury figure is 112. The five-injury gap between the two is unexplained and is within the Ministry’s usual reporting noise.

Recovered bodies (derived bounds): the Ministry’s recovered-bodies line stood at 845 on 31 October and 847 on 5 November. Its level on 29 October is not given, but was at least 841 (the 22 October figure) and no more than 845, so between 2 and 6 bodies were recovered in the window. That leaves between 14 and 18 retroactive additions. These ranges are inferences from reports either side of the window, not Ministry figures for the week.

Later figures, outside this window: the Ministry’s reports of 7 and 9 November give 74,640 and 74,643 killed, 175,947 and 175,962 injured, and 1,610 and 1,613 killed and 5,819 and 5,833 injured since the ceasefire. These will fall into next week’s table.

Israel: no new Israeli fatalities or injuries connected to Gaza were found for 30 October–5 November, so all four Israeli figures (since 7 October 2023: 1,806 fatalities, 3,004 injuries; since the ceasefire: 7 fatalities, 20 injuries) are carried over unchanged. Arab News (AFP, 2 November) also puts Israel’s military losses since the ceasefire at seven soldiers plus one civilian contractor, which is consistent with these figures.

West Bank: the cumulative rows are unchanged from last week, as OCHA has not published newer totals that I could access. I found no Palestinian or Israeli fatalities in the West Bank in available reporting for 30 October–5 November, and none are mentioned in Al Jazeera’s weekly round-up of 3 November or in reports from Middle East Monitor, Anadolu and WAFA on raids and settler attacks. This is a finding of “none found”, not confirmation that none occurred, and OCHA’s weekly figures for the period were not available to me. The Hebron operation (which ended on 2 November) produced arrests, demolitions and displacement but no reported deaths after the two Palestinian gunmen and two Israeli soldiers killed on 23 October. OCHA’s cross-check issues from last week remain: the Ministry (100 by 8 September) is higher than OCHA’s implied figure (about 91 by 30 September, derived), so OCHA is probably low.

Humanitarian Aid for the week of 30 October to 5 November

NCF Exclusive: Gaza Crossings Authority Weekly Report

This section is built entirely from the Gaza Crossings and Borders Authority’s own official weekly bulletin, obtained directly by NCF’s Head for Gaza, Adel Al Zanoon, through his personal contact with the Director of the Authority. NCF is grateful to both for this access.

Crossing operational status, 30 October–5 November (7-day period):

Passenger movement, 30 October–5 November: 295 people left Gaza, down from 387 last week. Of these, 243 went to Egypt and 52 to Jordan. None were recorded as evacuations, after 214 last week. By category, 137 were patients and 158 were companions. 242 people returned, all via Egypt, up from 170 last week. The bulletin records 1 detainee (3 last week), without saying whether the person was released or taken into custody, so we have not interpreted the figure. It also records 2 people under a new line that the Arabic text calls “المرجعين” and the English version renders as “Denied Entry/Returned”; the bulletin does not explain it.

Truck movement, 30 October–5 November (all via Kerem Shalom):

Fuel breakdown (36 tankers): Diesel 25, Cooking gas 9, Petrol 2.

Truck contents by category: Food/provisions 756, Consumer goods/household items 277, Shelter/relief supplies 59, Medical/health supplies 13, Fuel 36, Fodder/seeds 4, Sewage service vehicles 4 (total 1,149).

Source: Crossings and Borders Authority, Gaza, weekly bulletin for 30 October–5 November 2026, via Adel Al Zanoon and the Director of the Authority.

Week-on-week context: total truck volume rose 54%, from last week’s 746 to 1,149, the highest weekly figure in our recent reports. The rise came almost entirely from commercial trucks, which doubled (400 to 808, up 102%), while aid trucks were broadly flat (296 to 305, up 3%) and fuel tankers fell from 50 to 36. Kerem Shalom was open for goods all seven days, against six last week, and Zikim and Kissufim stayed closed. By content, food and provisions rose from 459 to 756 (up 65%) and consumer and household goods from 147 to 277 (up 88%), while shelter and relief supplies fell from 72 to 59. Medical supplies edged up from 10 to 13. Zinc sheets, which appeared last week, are absent, and sewage service vehicles appear as a new category (4). Rafah was open for three days, up from two, but departures fell because there were no evacuations this week.

Commercial trucks against September (derived): 808 commercial trucks over seven days is about 115 a day, which is roughly 14% below the September average of 134.8 a day quoted in Adel Al Zanoon’s earlier report. This is our own division, not a figure in the bulletin. Commercial volume is therefore close to, but still short of, its pre-halt level. Last week’s equivalent figure was about 67 a day (51% below).

Caveats

• Single-source (Gaza-side authority), not independently cross-verified by an international body.
• The Jordan departures (52) coincide with Kerem Shalom’s one passenger day.
• COGAT (gaza-aid-data.gov.il) remains unusable as a current source.

Key Gaza Related Developments: 3 November to 10 November

4 November: The Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says 1,134 children in Gaza have had limbs amputated because of Israel’s attacks, but few receive the long-term care they need. Only eight certified prosthetics and orthotics professionals work in Gaza. The group says Israel’s restrictions block imports of the equipment needed to make, fit and maintain prosthetic limbs and require specialist teams to obtain entry permits, while travel and medical evacuation limits keep hundreds of children from specialised treatment abroad. It cites WHO figures showing that of 2,300 amputees, children and adults, assessed between September 2024 and May 2026, about 500 received permanent prosthetics. Euro-Med warns that continued denial of treatment, rehabilitation and education risks turning the harm into “lifelong deprivation”.

5 November: The final of Gaza’s “Thousand Martyrs’ Cup” is held, a tournament honouring the more than 1,000 Palestinian athletes killed since October 2023. Al Jazeera describes it as marking the return of organised football after nearly three years of war, with players competing amid widespread destruction and fans finding a rare moment of joy.

6 November: As winter approaches, aid groups in Gaza are repurposing damaged cooking pots as makeshift seawalls to protect shelters and schools from flooding, according to a report by Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum.

6 November: Residents of the al-Mawasi displacement camp build wind turbines from scraps found in the rubble of destroyed buildings. Al Jazeera reports that the war has destroyed Gaza’s reliable power sources.

7 November: About 70,000 tents sheltering displaced Palestinians are flooded within 12 hours of the season’s first winter storm, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, which puts initial losses at about $3m. Civil Defence receives about 1,500 distress calls in 10 hours, and water levels in several shelter sites rise by 30 to 40cm. Dozens of walls collapse, and the emergency department at al-Shifa Medical Complex floods and is out of service for about four hours. Civil Defence director Raed al-Dahshan says the service does not have “a single tarpaulin or a single tent”. Gaza’s emergency committee says about 200,000 tents are needed for more than one million displaced people.

8 November: Four children and a woman are killed when a sandbank collapses onto their tent in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, after the winter’s first storm, and two people remain missing. Residents dig with their bare hands because specialist rescue equipment is in short supply. Gaza’s Government Media Office holds Israel, the United States and the international community “fully and directly responsible”, accusing them of silence and of preventing shelter supplies, construction materials, fuel and spare parts from entering Gaza. It also condemns the “inaction” of the Board of Peace and the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza. Save the Children says more than half a million children are living in “critical or catastrophic” shelter conditions and that Israel has repeatedly blocked the entry of caravans despite the ceasefire deal providing for them.

10 November: At least six Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks, according to local health sources: three in an air attack on the Ghubain family home in the Daraj area of Gaza City, a father and his 13-year-old son in an air attack on a tent in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, and a man shot dead in Khan Younis. Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel has killed more than 1,600 people in Gaza since the October 2025 ceasefire.

West Bank Key Developments: from 3 November to 10 November

3 November: Montaser Nassar, a journalist with Al Jazeera, is detained in Israel’s raids near Hebron, according to Al Jazeera’s “Jerusalem Daily” report.

3 November: Palestinian Americans in the West Bank are putting up US flags, razor wire and metal fences at their homes to fend off attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers, Al Jazeera reports.

3 November: Former Israeli military officers help Palestinian farmers with the olive harvest in Qusra and condemn settler violence. Former Major General Eyal Ben-Reuven says he has organised about 30 former officers, including six generals, and compares the settler attacks to the pogroms his parents described. Israeli rights group Yesh Din has recorded 180 physical attacks on olive harvesters in the 35 days since the season began. The farmer Nimr Nazzal says “the army is protecting the settlers”, and Israel’s military denies helping settlers.

4 November: Settlers seize eight Palestinian homes in the village of al-Duyuk al-Tahta, west of Jericho, and the UN says dozens of people were forced to flee. Peace Now reports that settlers shot a Palestinian man in the leg. Settler representative Hanan Greenwood tells AFP that the right-wing organisation Nachala had bought the properties, and Palestinian officials dispute this, saying the ownership documents were forged. Israeli military sources say they had not been informed in advance.

5 November: Israel’s forces demolish five homes in Biddu, north-west of Jerusalem, displacing more than 100 people. A resident, Ahmad Abu Eid, says forces raided the town without warning, despite attempts to prevent the demolitions through legal channels.

6 November: Israeli settlers set fire to olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of Burqa, near Ramallah. The farmers say Israel’s forces then stopped them from putting out the fires.

Elections: Current Developments and What Comes Next

Results certified: Israel’s results from the 27 October election were certified and President Isaac Herzog received them on 4 November. Netanyahu’s bloc has 53 of the 120 seats and the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot 48, so neither reaches the 61 needed, while the Arab-led parties hold a record 19. Netanyahu and his supporters had alleged without evidence that Arab-led parties “stole” the election. The Central Elections Committee found “no evidence of irregularities that compromised the integrity of the election or affected its results”, and the Attorney General rejected a request to question elected officials without supporting evidence. Herzog said “the elections are over” and urged both camps to compromise to avoid a new election.

Pressure on Arab parties: Al Jazeera reports that the Arab parties’ record result was followed by police raids, arrests and interrogation requests. Police and the Shin Bet had arrested Ra’am supporters on election day over alleged vote-buying, and many were released after a judge found the suspicions weakened. Shin Bet director David Zini reportedly asked to interrogate Joint List leader Ahmad Tibi and Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas over foreign-interference claims, which Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara denied. Itamar Ben-Gvir demanded the Attorney General’s removal. The journalist and activist Abed Abou Shhadeh was arrested on suspicion of “contact with a foreign agent”, and was released on 8 November after five days without charge, saying the detention was meant “to intimidate Arab society as a whole”.

The Arab parties back Eisenkot: On 5 November the Joint List (11 seats) said it would recommend to Herzog that Eisenkot be tasked with forming the government, and Ra’am (8 seats) also said it would. United Torah Judaism, whose four Degel HaTorah members declined to back either candidate, left Netanyahu without the recommendation of his traditional partner. A recommendation does not commit the Arab parties to join a government.

Eisenkot receives the mandate: On Sunday 8 November Herzog gave Eisenkot the mandate to form a government, after he received 67 recommendations against 46 for Netanyahu. Eisenkot called for a “national emergency government”, saying that “creative and unconventional political steps will be required” and that Israel is “approaching a point of no return”. He has 28 days, and Herzog may extend this by up to 14. Neither side has 61 seats, and Netanyahu remains caretaker prime minister until a new government is sworn in.

The obstacles to a coalition: Eisenkot’s bloc has recently opened the door to negotiating with ultra-Orthodox parties, after earlier ruling it out, but he says “we will not surrender on the issue of service”, meaning military service for the ultra-Orthodox. Yisrael Beytenu’s Avigdor Liberman says the bloc had sought a conscription law and a government without ultra-Orthodox parties, found insufficient public support, and is now seeking a compromise. Separately, Liberman refuses to serve in a government that relies on Arab-Israeli support, while the Democrats’ Yair Golan has urged the bloc not to rule the Arab parties out. Eisenkot’s bloc of 48 would reach a majority if the Arab parties’ 19 backed the government, whether or not they join it.

The new Knesset sits (10 November): Israel’s 26th Knesset was sworn in on 10 November. Several Arab members left the chamber during the national anthem, and Ben-Gvir heckled Joint List leader Yousef Jabareen, asking whom he was pledging allegiance to. Eisenkot’s Yashar party submitted a proposal for an independent commission to investigate the failures behind the 7 October 2023 attack, which Netanyahu opposes in favour of a politically appointed commission, and moved to repeal the judicial overhaul in full. His bloc said it has the votes to install Matan Kahana as Knesset speaker, with support expected from Arab members. The reports do not give a date for the vote.

Talks with Likud cancelled: In his Knesset speech Netanyahu called for a national unity government but rejected “a narrow government with supporters of terrorism and enemies of Israel”, a reference to the Arab parties. Eisenkot, who called the speech “shameful” and “delusional”, cancelled a meeting between Yashar and Likud negotiating teams planned for Wednesday 11 November. Yashar has set three conditions for Likud: cut ties with parties it calls extremist, accept Yashar’s governing principles, and join a government led by Eisenkot. Likud says it will meet any faction that wants unity and calls it “puzzling” that Yashar cancelled while continuing talks with Arab parties.

What comes next: Eisenkot’s 28 days run to about 6 December, and to about 20 December if Herzog grants the full 14-day extension (our calculation, counting from the 8 November mandate). If the attempt fails, Herzog can ask another member to try, and Al Jazeera reports that Israel would otherwise face another election early next year. In the immediate future the points to watch are whether the ultra-Orthodox parties will negotiate with Eisenkot, whether Likud returns to talks, whether the Arab parties’ backing turns into votes or abstentions on a confidence motion, and the vote on the Knesset speaker.

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