Israeli fire in Gaza continued despite the truce, with outlets updating the toll through the day from deaths from earlier wounds, including a medical student, to five killed and 32 wounded alongside demolitions, gunfire and evacuation of schools in al-Mawasi. By evening attention fixed on a child shot while playing football in Mawasi Khan Younis and drone injuries in Jabalia, described alongside UNRWA warnings that nearly two million lacked shelter ahead of cold rains.

In the West Bank coverage shifted from the 44-day siege of Ras al-Ahmar and start of Bedouin home demolitions for the E1 project east of Jerusalem to Hebron, where the Ibrahimi Mosque was closed for settler visits, and to Kafr Ni'ma, where 17 people including volunteers and journalists were detained.

Trump's contacts with Qatar and Iran and reports of mined tankers in Hormuz framed the background, alongside Eisenkot's four conditions for joining a government.