Overview
- Palestinian officials accused Israeli settlers of burning the Hajja Hamida mosque in Dayr Istiya, with an AFP photographer documenting charred walls, burned Qurans and graffiti.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the mosque attack as an unacceptable act of violence against a place of worship.
- The Israeli army said troops near the Karmei Tzur settlement killed two people it described as attackers, while the Palestinian Authority reported two 15-year-olds were shot dead near Beit Omar in a separate incident that the army labeled an attempted attack.
- Army chief Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir vowed to end settler violence and President Isaac Herzog called recent assaults shocking and unacceptable, as police and the military announced arrests tied to a violent raid on Beit Lid near Tulkarem.
- OCHA reported that October’s 264 settler incidents marked the highest monthly total since systematic tracking began in 2006, alongside cumulative tallies of at least about 1,003–1,005 Palestinians and at least 36 Israelis killed in the territory according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.