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41 critical patients evacuated from Gaza on Wednesday—the first medical evacuations since the ceasefire went into effect on October 10. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports that no aid trucks have reached northern Gaza in 10 days. Israeli ministers are clashing over rules of engagement at the so-called “Yellow Line,” with influential far-right figures demanding the right to “shoot the children and the donkey.” Forty-one humanitarian organizations state that Israel is systematically blocking aid to Gaza. The U.S. is reportedly considering implementing a “Gaza Humanitarian Belt,” where aid would be distributed at drone-monitored hubs and former Palestinian fighters might be “reconciled.” President Donald Trump says he may bypass congressional approval if he chooses to expand strikes in the Caribbean to include land targets. U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticizes Israel’s planned annexation of the West Bank, calling it “a very stupid political stunt.” Eighteen-year-old Mohammed Ahmed Abu Haneen dies from wounds sustained during escalating settler violence in the West Bank, Al Jazeera reports. Israeli airstrikes hit multiple locations across southern and eastern Lebanon on Thursday and Friday, killing at least six and injuring several others. Nigeria’s military reported killing more than 50 Boko Haram fighters following drone attacks on the group’s bases in Borno and Yobe states. In Syria, the government reached a ceasefire agreement with Firqatul Ghuraba (“Foreign Battalion”) after striking the group’s camp near the Turkish border the previous day. Khartoum’s airport entered the third day of a siege imposed by the Rapid Support Forces, while five people were killed in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province during clashes between a pro-government militia and likely Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militants. President Trump pardons the founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance.