Israeli captives will eat when Gazans eat – War on Gaza Day 667

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Israeli captives will eat when Gazans eat – War on Gaza Day 667
People in Gaza City spend hours in a rubbish dump. This rubbish dump is located behind Firas Market in Gaza City. (Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu)

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

Israeli forces killed at least 92 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including at least 56 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,516 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).

6 more Palestinians died of starvation in Gaza on Sunday. The total number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition is 175, including 93 children.

For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Sunday, go here.

GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:

(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For a bit 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.)

RED CRESCENT SAYS ATTACK ON THEIR FACILITY IS A WAR CRIME: Israeli forces attacked the Palestinian Red Crescent Society headquarters on Sunday, causing a fire that killed a staff member. The location was reportedly well known to Israeli forces and clearly marked. The group said in a statement, “This deliberate attack on a protected Red Crescent facility is a grave violation of international humanitarian law – it is a war crime,.”

22K HUMANITARIAN AID TRUCKS WAIT OUTSIDE GAZA: The Government Media Office in Gaza says Israel is deliberately blocking more than 22,000 humanitarian aid trucks, most of which belong to the UN and international organizations and various entities, from entering the territory, calling it part of a systematic campaign of “starvation, siege, and chaos.” More than 6,000 Palestinian children are reportedly being treated for malnutrition resulting from the blockade.

No Special Treatment: Abu Obeida Says Aid for Captives Tied to Gaza Ceasefire

Abu Obeida, spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades—the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas—announced on Sunday that the group is willing to allow the Red Cross to deliver aid to Israeli captives held in Gaza. 

However, he said this would be contingent on Israel permanently opening humanitarian corridors and halting airstrikes during the delivery period.

Abu Obeida emphasized that no special treatment would be granted to Israeli captives while Palestinians themselves endure famine and siege, adding that “prisoners are not deliberately starved—they eat what our fighters and our people eat.”

Recent videos released by both the Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades—Islamic Jihad’s military wing—showed two Israeli captives, Eviatar David and Rom Braslavsky, in visibly deteriorating health due to hunger. 

(Get familiar with the charges against Israel: genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced transfer, starvation as a weapon of war, use of human shields, indiscriminate shooting at civilians, and more.) 

WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM, AND ISRAEL NEWS AND HEADLINES:

(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.) 

Another Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli prison: Rights groups

A 20-year-old Palestinian, Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa, from the West Bank city of Jenin, died in detention at Israel’s Megiddo Prison in northern Israel, the Palestinian Prisoner Society and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs said in a joint statement.

Tazaza had been held without trial since May 6, under Israel’s policy of administrative detention, used to hold Palestinians up to six months without charge and extend detention up to five years through military court orders (read more about administrative detention here).

The latest fatality brought the number of Palestinians died in Israeli custody since October 2023 to 76, according to Palestinian data. These figures include only those whose identities have been confirmed amid ongoing cases of enforced disappearance.

RELATED: Haaretz Exposé: Malnutrition, Illness and Death – The Routine for Palestinian Prisoners at Israel’s Megiddo Prison

Israel’s Ben Gvir, under heavy guard, leads settler raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir led as many as 4,000 settlers and Likud officials into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, openly conducting Jewish prayers in violation of the 1967 status quo agreement. He also called for Gaza’s occupation and Palestinian “voluntary migration.” The minister’s actions threaten further regional escalation.

Residents in Jerusalem’s Old City said that before and after Ben Gvir’s raid, the area had come to resemble a “military base” due to the “many checkpoints” that had been set up and the “heavy Israeli security presence”.

Speaking to reporters after the raid, Ben Gvir said: “The Temple Mount is for the Jews, and we will remain here forever.”

Since becoming a minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, Ben Gvir has led at least 11 assaults on the mosque. Meanwhile, several other far-right politicians have advocated for the destruction of Al-Aqsa and the construction of a  temple where they claim Jewish temples once stood.

House speaker Mike Johnson prays at Western Wall for US to ‘always stand with Israel*’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) offered a prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday that America should always stand with Israel.

The House speaker’s delegation included Reps. Michael Cloud (R-TX), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) and Claudia Tenney (R-NY). Heather Johnston, founder and executive director of the U.S. Israel Education Association, also participated.

The delegation met with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Defense Minister Israel Katz, who thanked them and U.S. President Donald Trump for their strong moral support for Israel. Sa’ar said that it was an honor to meet the delegation and that Johnson is “a true friend of Israel.”

*NOTE: The U.S. provides Israel more than $63 million in military aid (American tax dollars) per day. In 2024, the first full year of war, Israel received $23 billion in US military aid – in order to carry out a genocide (sources: The Hill, International Jewish News, C-SPAN, AIPAC).

ISRAEL’S FORMER TOP OFFICIALS CALL FOR END TO WAR ON GAZA: Israeli Army Radio has published an unprecedented video featuring 11 former top military and security officials who called for an immediate halt to the war on Gaza, saying Israel is losing more than it is achieving. The former leaders included chiefs of staff and senior officials in the Israeli security apparatus, along with former heads of Mossad, Shin Bet and military intelligence (more here).

ISRAELI ENERGY MINISTER: NO GENOCIDE IN GAZA: Eli Cohen has taken to X to claim that anyone in Israel who says the country is committing genocide in Gaza is “blatantly lying, distorting reality, and spitting in the faces of our heroic soldiers who are doing sacred work”. “We must not surrender to Hamas”, Israel’s Energy Minister Cohen continued, saying this is the only way Israelis can live without fear.

RELATED: Who Says Israel Is Committing a Genocide in Gaza? Everyone on This List

MORE HEADLINES ON ISRAEL, WEST BANK (a quick skim just of headlines can be very informative!):

Including Injured Man, Army Abducts Six In West Bank

OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:

WASH. POST: TRUMP WAS WAY OFF ON US AID CONTRIBUTION TO GAZA: Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated assertion in recent days that the United States has contributed $60 million for food to Gaza, U.S. pledges have been half of that amount, only a fraction of which has been actually disbursed. PolitiFact first reported that only $30 million in U.S. aid, rather than $60 million, had been approved. At that time, none had been disbursed; about 10 percent, or $3 million, had been sent to GHF by Friday.

‘Stop Genocide!’ 300,000 March Across Sydney Bridge for Gaza

Organizers estimated that 300,000 people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia’s most populous city on Sunday in demonstration against the ongoing genocide being carried out by Israel and its international backers in Gaza.

Footage being shared widely online showed throngs of people unbowed by the rain crossing the iconic bridge in a flood of umbrellas and ponchos, many carrying signs that said, “Feed Gaza!”; “Let Aid In”; and “Stop Genocide!”

Observers said the scale of the demonstration shows that international support for Israel’s attack on Gaza, even among countries that have long been allies, is fracturing in the face of the undeniable evidence that atrocities are taking place against the Palestinian people on a daily basis and in a coordinated manner (continue reading here).

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:

Investigation finds Israel shot children in head, chest in more than half of cases

‘Year of threats’: Report reveals US-Israeli campaign to sabotage ICC arrest warrants

Recognizing Palestine Won’t Stop the Genocide in Gaza – Sanctions on Israel Will

STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 3, 2025:

  • At least 61,961 Palestinians killed, 159,257 injured – including:
  • at least 60,933 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children) 
  • at least 1,028 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
  • at least 150,027 injured in Gaza
  • at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank

According to Palestinian authorities, during the ceasefire Jan. 19 – March 18 2025, Israeli attacks killed at least 170 Gazans, and Israel committed at least 962 ceasefire violations.

Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, 2025 it has killed at least 9,440 people. 50 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 26) have been killed during the same time period.

At least 1,516 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.

Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble.

Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – August 3, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 454 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. (72 soldiers have reportedly died due to “operational incidents.”)

By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 229 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186 and 298 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.

Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org

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