Gaza – Damascus: Europe and the Arabs – Agencies

Israel continues its operations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank despite the ceasefire agreement, while also escalating its operations in Lebanon and Syria.

Television footage showed Israeli forces shooting two Palestinian men on Thursday after they surrendered and were unarmed during a raid in the West Bank.

The far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, expressed "full support" for the police officers and soldiers who shot the two Palestinians in Jenin.

For its part, Amnesty International declared that "Israel continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza without pause despite the ceasefire" that went into effect on October 10.

Amnesty International expressed grave concern about the large-scale military operation launched by the Israeli army in the northern occupied West Bank. According to the European News Network in Brussels, "Euronews," which published the report on Friday, citing the Palestinian Prisoners Club, the Israeli authorities are inciting murder and genocide.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned on Thursday evening "the heinous extrajudicial killing committed by the occupation army against two Palestinian youths in the Jabal Abu Dhahir area near Jenin camp, in a scene that constitutes a documented and fully-fledged war crime, and a flagrant violation of all international laws, agreements, norms, and human values," according to the statement.

In Lebanon, the Israeli army launched airstrikes and destroyed infrastructure it claimed belonged to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, as part of Tel Aviv's escalation of its attacks on Lebanon, where it claimed that the party was trying to rearm itself a year after the ceasefire between the two sides.

In Syria, local Syrian sources reported on Friday morning that nine people were killed in an initial toll from the Israeli bombing of Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside.

Local Syrian sources reported on Friday morning that nine people were killed in an initial toll from the Israeli bombing of Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside.

Syrian state television reported that there were "martyrs and wounded as a result of an Israeli airstrike on the town of Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside."

It added that "the bombing came after residents surrounded an Israeli military patrol as it entered the town, and a clash ensued before the patrol withdrew," noting that Israeli aircraft were flying intensively over the town.