Weekly Developments

Levant developments — 1 November 2026

Published 2026-11-01Reporting window 2026-10-25 → 2026-10-314 developments · 10 watch items reviewed

Three checks carried from last week were answered this week, and none ends the question it answers. In Lebanon, the government commissioner to the Military Court charged 13 people over the seized explosives on 30 October, two in custody and eleven in absentia. Lebanese television named two of them as Hezbollah security officials, but the charge sheet was not read and no state text read names the explosives' owner. In Gaza, OCHA counted 343 commercial truckloads in the week that began with Israel's 19 October announcement. It did not say which crossing they used or how many came from Israel, so the count does not show that the shipments from Israel resumed. Most of the bakeries that had closed for lack of flour were working again by 26 October. In Hebron, OCHA's account adds about 3,000 people displaced, a municipal figure it is still verifying. All main entrances to the city were still closed on 29 October. No source read reports a lockdown of the whole West Bank. OCHA also recorded more settler attacks in October than in any month since 2006. None of the ten standing questions met an observable.

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