Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 71 Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, including at least 23 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,203 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
The total known number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 317, including 121 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Thursday, go here.
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.)
Israel evacuates Gazans to unsuitable places, including landfills
On Wednesday, the Israeli military said residents of Gaza City will inevitably be forced out, and posted a map highlighting areas where residents could move to. These include areas where there have been near-daily attacks.
Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit said the plots were not, as Israel portrayed them, ‘vast, empty areas’ ready to accommodate the displaced. Rather, they appeared to be disparate in nature, ranging from fenced private properties, to open landfills, to densely populated residential neighborhoods, as well as areas already crowded with displaced people’s tents or used for agricultural purposes.”
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UAE launches water pipeline from Egypt to southern Gaza amid collapse of local supply
An Emirati-funded pipeline carrying desalinated water from Egypt into southern Gaza was inaugurated Thursday in Khan Younis city, offering rare relief to residents struggling with a near-total collapse of water networks under Israeli bombardment.
The new line runs 6.7 kilometers from the Egyptian border along Gaza’s coastal road to Khan Younis. It will supply safe drinking water to displaced families in the overcrowded Mawasi district and to parts of Rafah.
A government spokesperson called the project the largest of its kind since the start of the Israeli war, adding, “this provides a vital source of clean water for hundreds of thousands of people facing severe shortages” (continue reading here).
‘NEW VIRUS’ SPREADING ACROSS GAZA: The director of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza issued an urgent warning on Thursday about a “new virus” spreading in the enclave. Symptoms include fever, joint pain, runny nose, cough, and bouts of diarrhea. Its source is unknown, but its spread is linked to “a lack of immunity resulting from malnutrition, in addition to the lack of clean water and cleaning materials, and the overcrowding of people in tents.”
GAZA HEADLINES:
Nearly half of Gaza aid missions blocked, impeded by Israel: UN
A doctor at the only Christian hospital in Gaza: ‘War is death’
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM 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.)
‘Neglect and Apathy’: Israel’s UNRWA Closures Leave Hundreds of Palestinian Students in East Jerusalem Without Schools as Summer Ends
Less than a week before the opening of the Israeli school year on Monday, September 1, hundreds of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem are not enrolled in a school.
This is partly due to a new Israeli law that bars UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, from operating within the territory of the State of Israel, including East Jerusalem, which Israel functionally annexed after the 1967 Six-Day War.
(The Ha’aretz article outlines the many efforts the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Palestinian parents have made to provide for the 600 children’s educational needs, only to be ignored or turned away by Israel.)
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Israeli colonists assault Palestinian shepherds, steal 300 sheep in Ramallah-area-village
Israeli troops raid school, arrest teachers in occupied West Bank’s Hebron
Including An Amputee, Army Abducts Three Palestinians In Hebron
Israel Confiscates Lands To Expand Colonialist Road In Qalqilia
ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil within its government. Often, our news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
ISRAELI MILITARY REGRETFUL OVER DRONE KILLING OF TWO LEBANESE SOLDIERS: The Israeli army has expressed regret over the “injury” of two Lebanese soldiers killed on Thursday when an Israeli drone crashed while they were inspecting exploded ordnance. An Israeli army spokesperson said their deaths was as a result of a technical error during a drone strike targeting Hezbollah infrastructure. Two other soldiers were injured.
ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Netanyahu Hides Behind His Latest Shield for His War in Gaza: Antisemitism in France
Smotrich Proposes Annexing Gaza and Carrying Out Trump Ethnic Cleansing Plan
OTHER NEWS:
UN experts decry ‘enforced disappearances’ of Gazans at food aid sites
UN rights experts voiced alarm Thursday at reports of “enforced disappearances” of starving Palestinians seeking food at distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), urging Israel to end the “heinous crime”.
The seven independent experts said in a joint statement they had received reports that a number of individuals, including one child, had been “forcibly disappeared” after going to aid distribution sites in Rafah, southern Gaza.
“Reports of enforced disappearances targeting starving civilians seeking their basic right to food is not only shocking, but amounts to torture,” said the experts, who are mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, but who do not speak on behalf of the United Nations itself (continue reading here).
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Hundreds of UN staff pressure rights chief to call Gaza a genocide, letter shows
Hundreds of U.N. staff at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk have written to ask him to explicitly describe the Gaza war as an unfolding genocide, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
The letter sent on Wednesday said the staff consider that the legal criteria for genocide in the nearly two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza have been met, citing the scale, scope and nature of violations documented there.
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‘Wish I could be there with you’: Holocaust survivor Gabor Mate backs Gaza Freedom Flotilla*
Hungarian-Canadian physician and Holocaust survivor Gabor Mate on Thursday voiced his support for the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which is scheduled to set sail from Barcelona this Sunday in a renewed attempt to deliver aid.
“I’m here to give whatever support I can to that flotilla,” Mate said in a social media video. “I wish I could be there with you.” He continued, “Israel has committed piracy in the open seas, seizing these boats of aid and support to the most needy people on Earth, arresting the participants. This time, more boats will leave from many different countries.”
The upcoming flotilla brings together four initiatives: the Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, the Global Movement to Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Sumud Nusantara. They will depart in the next few days.
Mate, an expert in childhood development and trauma, described the devastation in Gaza as a source of global anguish.
“What we’re witnessing in Gaza is literally traumatizing and breaking the hearts of millions and millions and millions of people around the world. And this flotilla is a gesture of support. It’s a gesture of open-heartedness, of human solidarity. It’s not directed against anybody. It’s directed in support of people whose suffering we’re witnessing, and so many of us feel so helpless in the face of it.”
*NOTE: Read about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2025 missions here and here; learn about the deadly mission in 2010 here; and find out about the global flotilla here.
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Trump revives Gaza ‘Riviera’ plan in White House meeting with Blair and Kushner
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MORE HEADLINES:
Half of US voters believe Israel committing genocide in Gaza, poll says
Israeli official Alexandrovich skips US court hearing on child sex charges
Almost 400 tonnes of munitions shipped through EU territory to Israel
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israel demands retraction of UN-backed report declaring famine in Gaza
“This is Eternal Displacement”: Israeli Onslaught Forcing Thousands to Flee With Nowhere to Go
IDF orders Gaza City Palestinians to transfer to areas Israel itself deems dangerous
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 28, 2025*:
- At least 64,057 Palestinians killed, 168,720 injured – including:
- at least 63,025 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,032 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 159,490 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 313 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 119 children
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.
At least 2,203 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, 2025 it has killed at least 11,178 people. 51 Israeli soldiers (most recent Aug. 23) have been killed during the same time period.
*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble. Additionally, the numbers of injured and starved are very conservative estimates.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – August 28, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 455 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 240 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 197 and 313 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)
- ‘I lost my family, my home, my sight’: Israel blinds thousands in Gaza
- In defiance of voter base, DNC rejects resolution calling for Israel arms embargo
- The New “Free Press” Editorial Defending its Famine Denial Includes Fundamental Errors
- How western media helped turn Israel’s genocide into ‘fake news’
- Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes
- US groups demand release of American-Palestinian teen imprisoned by Israel
- Anatomy of a famine: how Gaza has starved
- Democrats will pay for ignoring base’s qualms about Gaza
- Israeli army says it ‘does not target’ journalists, after targeting and killing 5 journalists
- Valerie Zink Quits Reuters, Accuses Agency of Enabling Journalist Killings in Gaza
- Joint Statement By The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate And The Latin Patriarchate Of Jerusalem
- Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists
- New polls show growing support for Palestine, and for calling Israel’s actions “genocide”
- Israel kills Middle East Eye journalists in double-tap strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
- Palestinian Boys Allege Sexual Assault, Torture by Israeli Jailers
- Israeli News Debunks Netanyahu’s Attack on the Gaza Famine Report
- Israel Is Forcing Parents in Gaza to Watch Their Children Die of Hunger
- Israel’s killing of Palestinian farmers part of systematic policy to enforce starvation in Gaza
- Netanyahu thwarted seven Gaza ceasefire deals, Israeli report finds
