The Weekly Edition

November 2, 2025 to November 8, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war

Al Jazeera reports that Hamas has agreed to retreat via Red Cross corridors from Gaza areas that are under Israeli control per the peace plan. (Haaretz)

Gaza war hostage crisis

Hamas returns the body of Israeli American Itay Chen to Israel, the last hostage with U.S. citizenship. (Times of Israel)

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Gaza war

Gaza war hostage crisis

The Israel Defence Forces return the remains of 45 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Hamas returning the remains of three hostages yesterday. (The Washington Times)

Israeli settler violence

Two Palestinian teenagers are killed in separate attacks by Israeli settlers in Hebron and Beit Furik respectively, in the occupied West Bank. (Jordan News)

Sudanese civil war, Famine in Sudan

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification review committee reports that famine is detected in two Sudanese regions, Darfur and South Kordofan, amid increased fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, which blocks humanitarian access. (NPR)

At least 40 people are killed and dozens of others are injured in a drone attack by the Rapid Support Forces on a funeral gathering in North Kordofan, Sudan. (Anadolu Agency)

Russo-Ukrainian war

Eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war

One person is killed and eight others are injured in a Russian strike on Synelnykove, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. (RBC-Ukraine)

2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers, War on drugs

Two people are killed in an American airstrike against a boat in the Pacific Ocean. (NBC News)

Three people are killed in a United States airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. (Al Jazeera)

Nigerian bandit conflict

Nineteen armed bandits, two soldiers and a vigilante are killed in a shootout in Shanono, Kano State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Sudanese civil war

Darfur campaign

The Rapid Support Forces state that they accept a humanitarian ceasefire proposed by international mediators after capturing El Fasher in Darfur, while the Sudanese army signals plans to continue the conflict. (AFP via Courthouse News Service)