Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
(While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be ongoing, and in its 776th day.)
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 318 Palestinians. Among them are at least 67 children. Death toll figures are tentative.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 393 times.
GAZA NEWS:
(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For more critical context, skim this, this, and this. To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.)
No surprise here: Israel has allowed just 20% of aid promised in ceasefire agreement
Palestinian relief agencies say a total of 5,037 aid trucks were delivered inside Gaza in the first 42 days of the ceasefire, an average of 117 per day. According to the agreement, 600 trucks were supposed to arrive per day, for a total of 25,200.
According to UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, the shortage is due to Israel continuing to impose severe restrictions on goods and limiting access to land crossings.
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Winter in Gaza: A New War Devours the Tents of the Displaced
On the shores of Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, Palestinians are entering yet another harsh chapter in their ongoing tragedy. With the first heavy rains of winter, the worn-out tents that had sheltered displaced families since the beginning of the war turned into shallow lakes, submerging the few belongings they still possessed.
The sight of flooded camps sinking into the sand was sadly predictable. Still, it laid bare the sheer magnitude of the humanitarian collapse that hundreds of thousands have endured for more than two years.
Amir Abu Shamala, a father of five, recalls the first moments of the storm that swept through his tent. “It was a harsh and unexpected winter wave. We were completely flooded,” he said. “Our mattresses and belongings got soaked. My children caught colds and suffered stomach aches from the extreme cold.”
His voice carries both helplessness and anger as he continues: “If this is just the first storm, what will happen in the coming days? We’re living in damp, freezing air, and we don’t have enough blankets. I don’t know how I’ll protect my children” (continue reading here).
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Trapped by yellow: the movable line that confines 2 million Gazans in a 3.5 sq. mi. cage
Israel has placed tall, yellow-painted concrete blocks to mark the yellow line, though their placement is uneven, liable to change and inconsistent.
The division of Gaza is intended to be temporary, to hold only until the next stage of the agreement, when Israeli forces are supposed to withdraw further and a new international governing body has been formed. Yet, according to some reports, the US and Israel are already discussing a plan to formalize this division as part of post-genocide arrangements.
Under this proposal, suggested by US president Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and US vice president JD Vance, the area under Israeli military control would become a secured and rebuilt zone, concentrating reconstruction, international investment, infrastructure and jobs there.
The remainder, under Hamas control, would stay isolated and be denied reconstruction until Hamas is disarmed (continue reading here).
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“That yellow line is the limit Gazans cannot cross. Everything west of it is all they’re allowed.
Gaza is 365 km². The area west of the line is only 36% of that, & more than 75% destroyed.
The result? Nearly 2 million people confined to about 9 km².
Roughly 62,000 people per… https://t.co/5v1bVaevRn— Hala Jaber (@HalaJaber) November 17, 2025
🚨Today alone, more than 24 Palestinian civilians, including women, children, and elderly people, were killed, and numerous others wounded, after the Israeli occupation bombed crowded residential areas, tents, and homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood and eastern Gaza, in a clear… pic.twitter.com/tcdw0bmqH8
— Translating Falasteen (Palestine) (@translatingpal) November 19, 2025
Francesca Albanese tells the world there has not been a single day of ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza 🇵🇸:
‘There is no ceasefire for Palestinians 🇵🇸’
‘Ceasefire’ is a word for people to remain indifferent to the suffering’
‘We won’t let them remain in their comfort zone’Free Palestine 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/fohklt3KER
— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) November 21, 2025
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Every day, Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem endure dozens of incidents like the ones below, at the hands of Israeli soldiers and/or settlers. For background on the West Bank, read this and this. For information on the significance of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, read this and this.)
Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians, including 2 teens
Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian teenagers, Amr Khaled Ahmed al-Marbou, 18, and Sami Ibrahim Sami Mashayekh, 16, during a raid on the town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli forces stormed Kafr Aqab overnight on Friday, deploying ground forces, according to local media. Snipers positioned on the rooftops of several buildings opened fire on civilian crowds, killing two and wounding several others.
Israeli forces also killed Younis Walid Muhammad Ishtayeh, 24 on Friday after storming the town of Tel, southwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, and confiscated his body.
Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 1,080 in the West Bank (~222 children) since October 7th, 2023.
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WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Israeli Colonizers Establish Outpost In Khan Al-Ahmar
Israeli Colonizers Torch Agricultural Room Near Ramallah
Israeli Colonizers Attack Plant Nursery in Deir Sharaf
Israeli Colonizers Torch Six Villas Near Nablus
Escalation of Colonizer Attacks Across Occupied West Bank
NEWS & HEADLINES ABOUT ISRAEL:
(Israel is a tiny country, about the size of New Jersey, with a population smaller than the US state of Georgia – about 10 million (of which about 20 percent are Palestinians), yet it is in the news constantly. As has been demonstrated again and again, however, mainstream media rarely covers Israel accurately. IAK passes along only factual reporting.)
Israeli Army ex-spox says Israel lost social media battle, calls for propaganda overhaul
Former Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Israel has “lost the war on social media,” where global public opinion is formed.
Hagari urged the creation of a powerful new propaganda apparatus modeled on the capabilities and structure of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite cyber intelligence division, capable of monitoring anti-Israel content across platforms, in real time and in multiple languages, supplying rapid-response messaging and data to government and media outlets.
His plan also calls for the systematic creation of fake online identities, automated bot networks, and the use of unofficial bloggers—“preferably mostly young women”—to shape global perceptions (continue reading here).
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HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
Netanyahu rejects Palestinian state even in return for normalization with Saudi Arabia
Israeli strike kills 1 in southern Lebanon amid ceasefire violations
Israeli army’s outposts on Syrian soil break ‘every international law on the books’
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
(Get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions that receives $63 million a day from American taxpayers. Israeli media sometimes tells the truth about itself, but often publishes myths and lies as facts.)
IDF Soldiers Seize Cattle From Palestinian Family, Give Them to Israeli Settlers
Israeli soldiers last month seized cattle from a Palestinian family’s cowshed in the West Bank and handed them to Israeli settlers, in what a rights group described as an illegal and violent act and what settlers called an act of justice.
On October 10, around 10 Israel Defense Forces soldiers entered the cowshed of a Palestinian family in Sanur, near the city of Jenin, to seize a herd of cows. The soldiers presented no official document justifying the raid.
Shortly after the incident, settlers claimed the cows had originally belonged to an Israeli farm in the West Bank and had been stolen by Palestinians, lauding the military for returning them (continue reading here).
HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
Downfall of the ‘Most Moral Army’: How Whistleblowers on IDF Abuses Are Attacked in Today’s Israel
The Netanyahu Government’s Multifront War on Israeli and Foreign Media
All Signs Point to Imminent Israel-Hezbollah Escalation Along Lebanon Border
Mamdani accuses US of funding Israeli ‘genocide,’ during warm meeting with Trump
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
Who is Ready to Die for Trump’s Gaza Plan? So Far, Nobody
Hamas and other factions in Gaza have issued a joint statement that unequivocally rejects Trump’s plan and the Security Council resolution, saying it “will turn into a type of imposed guardianship or administration – reproducing a reality that restricts the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and to managing their own affairs.”
As for the foreign military force, the Hamas statement says, “Assigning the international force with tasks and roles inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation.”
The joint statement reserves its strongest condemnation for the Arab rulers who support Trump’s plan, calling their support “a form of deep international partnership in the war of extermination waged by the occupation against our people” (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES:
Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket
Gaza’s Blackwater: Despite Denials, US Boots Will Be on the Ground in Gaza
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israel has advanced 300m beyond yellow line in eastern Gaza City, violating ceasefire
Video shows Israeli troops shooting Palestinian boy, leaving him to die
Israeli media: Israel investigates “optimal way” to execute Palestinian prisoners
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 21, 2025*:
- At least 70,813 Palestinians killed, 180,863 injured – including:
- At least 69,733** killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 23,000 women)
- At least 1,080 killed in the West Bank (~222 children)
- At least 170,863 injured in Gaza
- More than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
- At least 482 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 160 children
- About 572 bodies have been recovered since the ceasefire began
*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 10,000 more are still buried under rubble. Additionally, the numbers of injured and starved are very conservative estimates. Only the dead who are brought to hospitals are included in the official fatality count.
**NOTE: 180 martyrs have been added to the cumulative martyr count, whose data has been completed and approved by the government committee.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 21, 2025: ~1,661 – including ~1,139** on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 471 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, about 52 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 274 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 207 and 327 Palestinian journalists killed – depending on the criteria used).
**NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
- Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated
- Epstein saga exposes Israel’s iron grip on US power
- ‘Western coverage of Palestine remains structurally biased’: Study
- Israel says 1,000th aircraft bringing Western military supplies landed since war on Gaza began
- West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity
- Modi on board: Jeffrey Epstein Pressed Steve Bannon to Meet With Indian PM as Part of “Israel Strategy”
- WATCH: How a shamed Supreme Court Justice helped Israeli dual citizens in America
- Ex-UN official decries resolution backing Gaza force as ‘colonial outrage’
- The Israeli Plot to Assassinate Al-Jazeera: A New Front in the War on Palestinian Journalism
- Bringing sports back to life: Gaza’s amputees reclaim joy through football
- Flashback: International campaign is criminalizing criticism of Israel as ‘antisemitism’
- U.S. Mercenary Firm Tied to Notorious Aid Scheme Is Recruiting for New Gaza Deployment
- The Global Zionist Organ Trafficking Conspiracy
- Iran: Three Things The New York Times Gets Wrong
- Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest
- Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire
- Christian Man Attacked by Jewish Youths in East Jerusalem Detained Alongside Assailants, Held Overnight by Israel Police
- ‘Zionism has taken over’: America First political action committee targets pro-Israel lobbying groups
- State-Sanctioned Jewish-mob Terror in the West Bank
- Why Journalists Won’t Tell You the Truth About the Gazan Genocide
