Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including at least 23 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,385 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
The total known number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 382, including 135 children.
Israeli forces also killed one Palestinian man in the West Bank (details below).
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Friday, 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 BOMBS BUS FULL OF CHILDREN, SHOOTS AT RESCUERS: 5 pm local time: Israel has just bombed a bus carrying children and women at the Tuwam junction, northwest of Gaza. The children were burned inside the vehicle, and fire was opened on civil defense teams while they were trying to rescue them.
August marked by record killings of Palestinian journalists
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says August was one of the deadliest months yet for media workers with 15 journalists killed by Israeli forces, including three women.
In a report, the syndicate’s Freedoms Committee documented 86 violations against journalists in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip during the month. These included killings, injuries, arrests, assaults and the targeting of homes and media offices (continue reading here).
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Israel targets Gaza City high-rise buildings, claiming “Hamas infrastructure”
On Friday, the Israeli military ordered people in Mushtaha Tower, a 12-story building located on the western side of Gaza City and surrounded by hundreds of makeshift tents, to evacuate, and later struck the building, claiming it was “Hamas infrastructure” and was used to plan and carry out operations against Israeli forces.
Israel has warned of further attacks to multi-story buildings as it intensifies its campaign to seize control of the capital.
Prior to the attack on the tower, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said the “gates of hell are opening now” in Gaza and warned that they will not be closed until Hamas “accepts Israel’s conditions for ending the war – led by the release of all the hostages and disarmament”.
Al Jazeera correspondents in Gaza reported that the attack came just 15 minutes after the forced evacuation was ordered and that the building is in a densely populated area of Gaza City.
RELATED: Genocide by remote control: Israel’s explosive robots devastate Gaza
الروبوتات المفخخة تحول ليل مدينة غزة الى نهار.
ليلة صعبة من الانفجارات العنيفة في غزة pic.twitter.com/3wX9FsG7a0
— Hanzala (@Hanzpal2) September 3, 2025
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War-ravaged Gaza faces deadly surge in rare child infections
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has unleashed a health and environmental catastrophe, creating fertile ground for outbreaks of multiple diseases amid food shortages, medicine scarcity, and contaminated drinking water.
Poliovirus, which resurfaced in Gaza in October 2024 after 25 years with no cases, is among the most alarming developments. Other serious illnesses have also escalated in recent months, including meningitis, pneumonia, and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
According to Gaza’s health ministry, there have been 452 cases of meningitis, 103,000 cases of scabies, 65,000 skin rashes, nearly 11,000 cases of chickenpox, 71,000 cases of hepatitis A, 167,000 cases of dysentery, 1,116 cases of spinal meningitis, and 64 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome – three of them fatal (continue reading here).
RELATED: ‘She could die any moment’: family of girl, eight, plead for urgent evacuation from Gaza
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.)
Israeli Soldiers Kill a Palestinian Near Nablus
In West Bank, Israel carried out more than 19,000 arrests since Oct 2023
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says Israeli forces have made more than 19,000 arrests across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, since the genocidal war on Gaza began 700 days ago, including 585 women and 1,550 children.
The figure does not include arrests in Gaza itself, where the number is believed to be in the thousands.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society also reported 77 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody during this period, including 46 from Gaza.
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
West Bank: Israeli authorities force Palestinian man to pay to demolish his own home
Illegal Israeli settlers injure 20 Palestinians, including infant, in Hebron attack
Invasions, Violations And Abductions Across Occupied West Bank Friday
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.)
Netanyahu drops West Bank annexation from government’s agenda after UAE warning
Israeli media reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu removed the West Bank annexation item from the government’s agenda on Thursday, following direct warnings from the United Arab Emirates that the move would endanger the Abraham Accords.
i24 news said the government meeting had been scheduled to discuss extending Israeli sovereignty over large areas of the West Bank. However, the agenda was changed to focus instead on the worsening security situation in the Palestinian territories, amid international expectations that the issue of recognising a Palestinian state will be raised during the UN General Assembly meetings.
The channel, citing unnamed sources, said the UAE warning that annexation was a “red line” threatening the Abraham Accords led Netanyahu to withdraw the matter from Thursday’s cabinet discussion (continue reading here).
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Ex-Israeli Premier Olmert urges end to Gaza war, backs 2-state solution for lasting regional peace
War in Gaza must end now, said former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday, adding that a two-state solution is the only way to long-lasting peace in the region.
Speaking at a session on the Eastern Mediterranean in the scope of an event organized by The Economist, Olmert underlined that the Netanyahu government’s plan to expand war in Gaza is a “death trap,” as it would lead to more casualties for the Israeli army and the death of thousands of Palestinian civilians, as well as Israeli hostages who are still alive (continue reading here).
ISRAELI NEWSPAPER HEADLINES:
Netanyahu’s New Rule: Any Criticism of the Gaza War Borders on Treason
A New Settler Hut Popped Up in Hebron. What Followed Confirmed the Palestinian Neighbors’ Worst Fears
Genocide experts demand ‘scholars’ group rescind accusation against Israel
Huckabee: ‘The US has never asked Israel to not apply sovereignty’ to the West Bank
FLOTILLA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(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. Get live updates on the Global Flotilla from Al Jazeera here.)
Mandela’s grandson condemns silence over Israeli genocide in Gaza
The grandson of late South African leader Nelson Mandela on Friday condemned the silence of the United Nations and African organizations to the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Addressing a press conference organized by the Global Sumud Flotilla in the Tunisian capital, Mandla Mandela said the Palestinian issue is off the UN agenda, and governments have let Gaza down, “But we will do everything in our power not to abandon Gaza,” he said, reminding listeners that “oppressed peoples have no choice but to resist in order to achieve liberation.”
Mandela recalled that the former apartheid regime in South Africa left the people with only two options: surrender or resistance.
PROTEST, BOYCOTT, & OTHER NEWS:
