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A Palestinian toddler was returned from a 10-hour detention by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip with apparent cigarette burns on his thighs, according to medical reports.

Jawad Abu Nassar, aged 21 months, was detained alongside his father, Osama Abu Nassar, 25, in central Gaza on 19 March.

According to the family, Osama had taken his son out at around 10am to buy sweets ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

Osama - who had been grappling with severe trauma after losing his home, his unborn child, and his livelihood during the war - never returned.

“When he left, he seemed to head east instead of west,” Osama’s father, Muhammed Husni Abu Nassar, told Middle East Eye.

“Neighbours called me and said, ‘Hurry, your son is carrying his child on his shoulders and going east.’”

Around 200 metres from the family home in Maghazi refugee camp, Israeli forces are stationed along the so-called “Yellow Line”, a military demarcation established under the Gaza ceasefire that marks the boundary of Israeli control and a no-go zone where civilians risk being shot.

When Muhammed rushed to follow his son, neighbours told him that Osama had already reached the area.

Osama, whose home had been destroyed in an Israeli bombardment, had been living with his wife and their only child in his family’s house. In recent months, his wife had become pregnant but lost the baby amid the hardships of the war.

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Casualty count: Over the three days of the Eid holiday, nine Palestinians were killed—one due to wounds sustained in earlier attacks—and 30 were injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 has risen to 72,263 killed, with 171,944 injured. Since October 11, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 687 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 1,845, while 756 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Israeli strike kills three Palestinian police officers in central Gaza: An Israeli strike on Sunday hit a police vehicle in central Gaza, killing three Palestinian officers and wounding eight, according to local reports. The attack comes amid repeated Israeli attacks on police units in recent weeks, in which it has targeted civilian law enforcement to disrupt basic governance and sow chaos. One more person was killed in a separate attack in Gaza City, according to Al-Shifa hospital.

Settlers torch West Bank villages in coordinated raids: Dozens of Israeli settlers carried out coordinated attacks across at least 15 Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, setting homes and vehicles on fire and assaulting residents. The attacks were reportedly “retaliation” for an incident in which an Israeli settler died in an accident with a Palestinian driver. At least nine Palestinians were injured in the attacks, with incidents recorded in Jalud, Fandaqumiya, Silat ad-Dhahr, and Qaryut. Over 15 Palestinians were detained and no settlers were arrested.

An additional 10 Palestinians were injured on Sunday in attacks by rampaging settlers on four Palestinian villages in the Nablus area. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich used the funeral of the settler killed in the accident to advocate for unimpeded settlement of the West Bank, saying that, “We will erase the lines, the definitions, and the letters, and we will settle our land in all its expanses.”

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Up to 10 Palestinians are dying every day in Gaza due to severe Israeli restrictions that prevent them from accessing urgent medical care abroad, the Palestinian health ministry has said.

Zaher al-Wahidi, the director of the ministry's information department, said on Monday that "every day, between six and 10 patients who are waiting to travel abroad for treatment die".

He said there were at least 195 cases classified as life-threatening and warned that if they were not evacuated within the next few hours, their lives could be at risk. 

There are 1,971 other emergency cases that need to be evacuated within weeks, or they could reach critical levels amid their deteriorating conditions. 

Among these cases are 4,000 children and another 4,000 cancer patients.

Medical evacuations out of Gaza have long been a difficult trial for thousands of Palestinians with Israel's years-long siege on the territory. 

Since the start of Israel's genocidal war on the strip, these limitations have only increased, especially with Israeli forces occupying the Rafah crossing and its surroundings.

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Dozens of Israeli settlers rampaged across the occupied West Bank overnight on Saturday, torching cars and houses.

Video footage showed the villages of Jalud, Fandaqumiya, Silat ad-Dhahr and Qaryut with buildings on fire, and residents scrambling to try to evacuate those inside.

The Israeli army reported on Sunday a spate of arson attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank the previous night.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said three people were injured after being beaten by settlers in the village of Jalud. Six others were injured from beatings in villages near Jenin.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa said several Palestinians were injured in the attacks. No arrests have been made.

The Israeli army said the attacks came after an Israeli civilian died on Saturday "following a report received regarding a Palestinian vehicle that hit an Israeli vehicle".

"Last night, IDF and border police forces were dispatched to several Palestinian villages... following reports of Israeli civilians committing acts of arson against structures and property, as well as engaging in disturbances in the area," the military said.

Six Palestinians have been shot dead in settler attacks in the West Bank since 1 March, according to the Palestinian Authority.

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When an Israeli settler killed dozens of Palestinian worshippers during Ramadan at the Ibrahimi Mosque in 1994, the shock reverberated far beyond Hebron.

The massacre marked a tragic turning point for the sacred site in the occupied West Bank and its Islamic identity.

In its aftermath, Israel tightened its grip, consolidating control over the mosque and imposing ever-escalating restrictions on Muslims.

Now, 32 years on, the atmosphere inside the mosque feels bleaker than ever.

Hosni al-Rajbi, 74, was one of the 125 Palestinians who were wounded during the massacre but survived. Today, he resolutely continues to pray at the ancient site, propped up by a wooden cane.

Pausing in a covered alleyway as he leaves the mosque, Rajbi says Ramadan night prayers this year are weighed down with an anguish about the fate of the mosque, Hebron and Palestine.

The strain felt by the community is even worse than after the massacre three decades ago, he says.

Barely any worshippers are able to reach the mosque because of Israeli restrictions and harassment.

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Dozens of Democrats told the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security on Friday to stop the “continued targeting” of Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian activist who was detained and released last year but still lives under the threat of deportation.

Immigration agents arrested Khalil, a Syrian-born legal U.S. resident, last March after he played a prominent role in demonstrations at Columbia University against Israel’s war in Gaza. The government accused him of stoking antisemitism and detained him for 104 days.

Though a federal judge ordered Khalil released from custody last year, the Trump administration is still trying to deport him through immigration proceedings.

“Evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that the Administration’s detention of and efforts to deport Mr. Khalil have violated his constitutional rights to free speech and due process,” the 43 lawmakers, led by Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), wrote in a Friday letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and outgoing DHS Sec. Kristi Noem.

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