FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets running back Breece Hall is questionable to play in the season finale Sunday against the Buffalo Bills.
Hall, who reached 1,000 yards rushing for the first time in his four-year career last week, was limited for the second day in a row Friday while dealing with a knee ailment. With the Jets capping a 3-13 season and Hall scheduled to be a free agent in the offseason, he could sit out against the Bills.
“He’ll be limited today,” coach Aaron Glenn said before practice Friday, “and we will see how it is as we get to game day.”
Hall ran for 111 yards, including a 59-yard touchdown, last Sunday in New York's 42-10 loss to New England. He left late in the game after he was tackled while running out of bounds, but said afterward he was “fine.”
He was the first Jets player to reach 1,000 yards rushing in a season since Chris Ivory in 2015. Hall currently has 1,065 yards rushing and four touchdowns, along with 36 catches for 350 yards and a score.
Backup Isaiah Davis (concussion) was already ruled out for the game. If Hall doesn't play, it would leave Khalil Herbert and Kene Nwangwu as the only healthy running backs on the active roster. The recently signed Raheem Blackshear is on the practice squad.
Rookie tight end Mason Taylor, who leads the team with 44 catches, is out with a neck injury. Offensive lineman Xavier Newman (knee), defensive lineman Micheal Clemons (ankle), cornerback Qwan'tez Stiggers (knee) and tight end Jelani Woods (hamstring) will also sit out the finale.
Undrafted rookie Brady Cook will make his fourth straight start at quarterback, but Hendon Hooker could serve as his backup for the second game in a row. Tyrod Taylor, who missed last week's game while dealing with a personal matter, is questionable with a knee ailment that limited him at practice.
Starting cornerback Brandon Stephens was a late addition to the injury report with a neck ailment that limited him Thursday and kept him out of practice Friday.
With Stephens potentially missing the game and Stiggers already ruled out, the Jets' cornerbacks could be Ja'Sir Taylor, Tre Brown and Jordan Clark. Samuel Womack is also on the practice squad.
Right guard Joe Tippmann (hip) is also questionable for the game, but was a full participant at practice Friday.
Wide receiver/return specialist Isaiah Williams was selected by his teammates as the Jets' MVP, capping a turnaround season that included him being cut after a rough game.
Williams was signed off Cincinnati's practice squad in Week 2. He was waived on Oct. 4, a few days after he fumbled the kickoff to open the second half against Miami and later called a fair catch of a punt deep in Jets territory that helped lead to a 27-21 loss in front of a “Monday Night Football” audience.
New York re-signed him to the practice squad a few days later and promoted him to the active roster — and Williams became one of the NFL's most dynamic returners. He has two punt returns for touchdowns, won AFC Special Teams Player of the Week honors once this season and found a role on offense with a career-high 21 catches for 169 yards.
“I feel like it’s a perfect example of, like, everybody else might count you out, but never forget who you are,” Williams said. “Man, it’s the perfect testimony for our team and where we’re going, if I’m being honest. But for me, it's just, don’t let nobody else write your story. No matter what nobody else thinks, no matter what happens in this life, no matter what it looks like, never forget who you are.”
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New Orleans Saints safety Jonas Sanker (33) tackles New York Jets wide receiver Isaiah Williams (18) during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Ella Hall)
New York Jets running back Breece Hall (20) runs for a touchdown against New England Patriots cornerback Miles Battle (35) during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
New York Jets running back Breece Hall pauses before an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Ella Hall)
DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A grandmother and her 5-year-old grandson burned to death in Gaza when their tent caught fire while cooking, as thousands of Palestinians endure colder weather in makeshift housing.
The nylon tent in Yarmouk caught fire Thursday night while a meal was being prepared, a neighbor said. A hospital official said that two Palestinian men were killed by Israeli gunfire on Friday in Gaza.
The shaky 12-week-old ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas militant group has largely ended large-scale Israeli bombardment of Gaza. But Palestinians are still being killed by Israeli forces, especially along the so-called Yellow Line that delineates areas under Israeli control.
On Friday, American actor and film producer Angelina Jolie visited the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
Over the past few weeks, cold winter rains have repeatedly lashed the sprawling tent cities, causing flooding, turning Gaza’s dirt roads into mud and causing damaged buildings to collapse.
Aid groups say not enough shelter materials are getting into Gaza during the truce. Figures recently released by Israel’s military suggest it hasn’t met the ceasefire stipulation of allowing 600 trucks of aid into Gaza a day, though Israel disputes that finding.
Israel has said throughout the war that Hamas was siphoning off aid supplies, preventing the population in Gaza from receiving them. Last month, the World Food Program said that there have been “notable improvements” in food security in Gaza since the ceasefire.
Palestinians have long called for mobile homes and caravans to be allowed in to protect them against living in impractical and worn out tents.
Jolie met with members of the Red Crescent on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing and then visited a hospital in the nearby city of Arish to speak with Palestinian patients on Friday, according to Egyptian officials.
Her visit sought to raise support for the displaced and humanitarian workers in the crises in Gaza as well as in Sudan, Jolie's team told The Associated Press in a statement.
“What needs to happen is clear: the ceasefire must hold, and access must be sustained, safe and urgently scaled up so that aid, fuel and critical medical supplies can move quickly and consistently, at the volume required,” Jolie said about Gaza.
Reopening the crossing, which would allow Palestinians to leave Gaza — especially the ill and wounded who could get specialized care unavailable in the territory — has been contentious. Israel has said that it will only allow Palestinians to exit Gaza, not enter, until militants in Gaza return all the hostages they took in the attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which triggered the war. The remains of one hostage are still in Gaza.
Israel also says Palestinians wanting to leave Gaza will have to get Israeli and Egyptian security approval. Egypt, meanwhile, says it wants the crossing immediately opened in both directions, so Palestinians in Egypt can enter Gaza. That’s a position rooted in Egypt’s vehement opposition to Palestinian refugees permanently resettling in the country.
For more than two decades until 2022, Jolie worked with the U.N. refugee agency, including as a special envoy.
On Friday, the foreign ministers of Arab and Muslim countries, including Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, expressed concern about Gaza's humanitarian situation.
The situation has been “compounded by the continued lack of sufficient humanitarian access, acute shortages of essential life-saving supplies, and the slow pace of the entry of essential materials," according to the joint statement.
The Palestinian death toll from the war is at least 71,271, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which doesn't distinguish between militants and civilians in its count. The Israel-Hamas war began with the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.
On Friday, two Palestinian men were killed in separate incidents by Israeli gunfire in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, a hospital official said. Israel's military said troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip killed a person who “crossed the Yellow Line and approached the troops, posing an immediate threat to them."
Meanwhile, Israel continues operating in the occupied West Bank.
On Friday, the Palestinian Prisoners media office said that Israel carried out numerous raids across the territory, including the major cities of Ramallah and Hebron. Nearly 50 people were detained, following the arrest of at least 50 other Palestinians on Thursday, most of those in the Ramallah area.
Israel's military said there were arrests made of people “involved in terrorist activity." Last week, a Palestinian attacker rammed his car into a man and then stabbed a young woman in northern Israel, killing both of them, police said.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says that Israel has arrested 7,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem this year, and 21,000 since the war began. The number arrested from Gaza isn't made public by Israel.
Associated Press writer Sam Mednick in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.
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Fatima Abu al-Bayd inspects what remains of her mother's tent after her mother, Amal Abu Al-Khair, and grandchild, Saud, were killed when it caught fire overnight at the Yarmouk displacement camp in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
CORRECTS BYLINE TO EMAD ELGEBALY - American actor and film producer Angelina Jolie, front left, greets Red Crecent workers during her visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Emad Elgebaly)
Magdi Abu Al-Khair bids farewell to his mother Amal Abu Al-Khair at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026, after she and her grandchild Saud were killed when their tent caught fire overnight at the Yarmouk displacement camp. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
American actor and film producer Angelina Jolie, front left, greets Red Crecent workers during her visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)
The bodies of Amal Abu Al-Khair and her grandchild, Saud, are transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after they were killed when their tent caught fire overnight at the Yarmouk displacement camp, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Fatima Abu al-Bayd inspects what remains of her mother's tent after her mother, Amal Abu Al-Khair, and grandchild, Saud, were killed when it caught fire overnight at the Yarmouk displacement camp in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Fatima Abu al-Bayd inspects what remains of her mother's tent after her mother, Amal Abu Al-Khair, and grandchild, Saud, were killed when it caught fire overnight at the Yarmouk displacement camp in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Magdi Abu Al-Khair bids farewell to his mother, Amal Abu Al-Khair, after she and her grandchild, Saud, were killed when their tent caught fire overnight at the Yarmouk displacement camp, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
