JERUSALEM/UNITED NATIONS - Israel's security cabinet voted Thursday evening to create a ministerial committee that will supervise the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement's second phase, the country's public broadcaster Kan reported on Friday.

The committee will include Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, said Kan, while noting that both Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, two far-right ministers, voted against the truce deal.

The second phase is expected to begin when all living hostages are released and the bodies of deceased hostages are returned to Israel. According to the Israeli military, Hamas is still holding the bodies of three hostages who were killed.

It is also reported that although no specific timetable has been set for the upcoming stages, the US government is working on establishing an international security force made up of personnel from Arab and Muslim countries to enforce the ceasefire.

One of the key points of contention for the second phase is the disarmament of Hamas. Hamas has consistently refused to disarm, viewing it as a red line, while Israel insists that Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza must be disarmed.

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Although the first phase of the ceasefire has been in place since Oct 10, skirmishes between Israel and Hamas continued.

The Israel Defense Forces said in a Friday statement that it had killed five militants who emerged from a tunnel in eastern Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

Gaza-based health authorities reported that 312 people have been killed and 760 others injured since the ceasefire agreement took effect, while 572 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble during the same period, bringing the death toll of the conflict in Gaza to 69,546.

Palestinian man killed in West Bank

Also on Friday, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank after a manhunt for a gunman accused of wounding an Israeli soldier, Israeli officials said.

The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the man as Younes Waleed Mohammad Shtayyeh, 24.

In a joint statement, the Israeli military, the Shin Bet security agency and the Border Police said Shtayyeh was a member of the Palestinian Authority (PA) police. The statement said troops spotted him in the town of Tell, near Nablus, holding a rifle and firing at Israeli forces, who returned fire and killed him. Israel accused him of shooting and injuring an Israeli reserve soldier during operations in the area on Thursday.

The Palestinian news agency WAFA said Israeli special forces entered Tell, surrounded Shtayyeh's home, and fired live rounds and stun grenades, wounding him before detaining him.

He later died of his injuries, WAFA said, adding that Israel is withholding his body. It did not report that he was affiliated with the PA police.

The Israeli statement said troops also arrested three other suspects in separate raids in Tell, the town of Burqin, and the Far'a refugee camp, alleging all were members of the Palestinian police.

OCHA: Violence in West Bank deeply concerning

Separately, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the level of violence in the West Bank is deeply concerning, while efforts to pour more aid into the Gaza Strip are being thwarted.

OCHA said reasons for concern include casualties, property damage, displacement, loss of livelihoods, and a strong sense of insecurity in the West Bank due to the violence.

The number of Palestinian children killed in the West Bank in 2025 reached 50, including two girls, the youngest 2 years old. Overall, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of the year in the West Bank, OCHA noted.

The office said it documented 29 attacks between Nov 11 and 17 by Israeli settlers that led to 11 injuries and damaged 10 homes, two mosques, nearly two dozen vehicles and a wide range of agricultural assets, including livestock, seasonal crops and roughly 1,000 trees and saplings.

In the northern West Bank, large-scale operations by Israeli forces have left tens of thousands in prolonged displacement, causing additional school closures and further tightening movement restrictions. In the town of Ya'bad, where Israeli troops have been operating for two weeks, 55 people were newly displaced, OCHA said.

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The office said the United Nations and its partners provide cash aid to families displaced or otherwise affected. More than 10,000 households have received such support so far this year.

OCHA continues to call for the protection of civilians, which includes enforcing the law against anyone who carries out attacks and for lethal force to be used only in strict accordance with internationally agreed law enforcement standards. "War-like tactics must not be tolerated as the new normal in the West Bank," it said.