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 764th day.)
Since the “ceasefire” began, Israel has killed at least 242 Palestinians, including 97 children, with approximately 609 others injured.
Israel has violated the truce agreement at least 194 times.
Additional statistics below.
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(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.)
Israeli army says it killed two Palestinians who crossed Gaza’s ‘yellow line’
Israel has continued to fire at Palestinians – including families – who approach the demarcation line, an invisible boundary established under the first phase of the ceasefire.
Israeli troops have moved behind the yellow line, where satellite images show that they hold about 40 active military posts, but Palestinians say it is impossible for them to know where exactly the boundary is – opening them up to deadly dangers.
Israel remains in control more than half of Gaza’s territory.
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A Palestinian child was killed after an explosive device left behind by Israeli forces in the city of Khan Younis detonated. Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense, told Al Jazeera last month that Israel dropped at least 200,000 tonnes of explosives on the territory, with roughly 70,000 tonnes failing to detonate.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed receiving the bodies of 15 more Palestinians from Israel via the Red Cross, bringing the total number of dead received during the ceasefire to 300. Most have been impossible to identify.
Media sources reported that Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting the eastern areas of Gaza City and Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip early Saturday. No injuries were reported. At the same time, Israeli artillery shelled the eastern outskirts of Khan Younis, while the soldiers continued to detonate and demolish residential buildings and civilian structures in eastern Gaza City.
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WFP-supported hot meal kitchens continue serving freshly cooked meals to families in #Gaza who’ve lost everything.
Among the immense needs, food assistance is a lifeline offering nourishment and hope. pic.twitter.com/QJJyKSaGkk
— World Food Programme (@WFP) November 8, 2025
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WATCH: Gaza’s water turns poisonous as Israel’s genocide leaves toxic aftermath
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM 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 Young Palestinian Man Near Tubas
Medics, Journalists, Farmer Injured by Israeli Colonizers During Olive Harvest
Six Palestinians—including volunteer medics, journalists, and a local farmer—were injured on Saturday during an assault by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
The colonizers attacked participants in an olive harvesting event, pelting them with stones.
The assault wounded six individuals: three volunteer medics, three journalists, and one additional civilian. Three of the wounded were transferred to hospital for treatment.
RELATED: ‘Olives are everything for us’: West Bank farmers are prevented from harvesting by settler violence
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WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Israeli Colonizers Steal Olive Harvest in Southern Nablus
Israeli Colonizers Set Fire to Palestinian Home Near Ramallah
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 strikes kill at least 3 in Lebanon
An Israeli drone strike killed two Lebanese brothers in their car Saturday, according to Lebanon’s news agency, as Israel said it had hit arms smugglers from a group affiliated to Hezbollah. Two other strikes were reported the same day, killing one and wounding 11.
The latest strikes came as the European Union added its voice to international concern over Israel’s continued strikes despite its year-old ceasefire with Lebanon.
The Israeli army also launched a raid in southern Syria’s Quneitra province on Saturday, in the latest violation of the country’s sovereignty. Israeli incursions in Quneitra have recently intensified, with locals complaining of Tel Aviv’s advances into their farmland as well as the destruction of hundreds of acres of forests, arrests of residents, and the establishment of military checkpoints.
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Israel’s “ceasefire” routine always includes a return to violence
This is the pattern: Israel turns the volume of violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous “ceasefire”. They violate it immediately, kill Palestinians who dare exist in their own land, then wait for any response, any stone thrown, any rocket fired in defense, to justify their pre-planned retaliation.
They did the same thing after they violated the ceasefire in March 2025 during Ramadan. The genocide never ends; it only modulates between active slaughter and slow strangulation. The fact that Israel’s occupation and colonial expansion has continued unpunished by international authorities since 1967 is proof enough that they will never be held to the fire they started.
In 1949, immediately after the UN-brokered armistice, Israeli forces began violating demilitarized zones and launching attacks that killed civilians. In 1967, Israel launched a surprise attack on Egypt and Syria despite knowing Egypt posed no serious threat. Between 1981 and 1982, defense minister Ariel Sharon repeatedly violated a UN ceasefire with the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon with the Sabra and Shatila massacres, trying to provoke a response that would justify his long-planned invasion (continue reading here).
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil and contradictions within the country, the truths that are told, as well as myths and lies that are published as facts.)
‘Time Is Being Stolen From Us’: How IDF Checkpoint Expansion Strangles Palestinian Life in the West Bank
There are 877 checkpoints and roadblocks spread between and around Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank (known as Areas A and B), according to documentation and a tally from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. About one-quarter of those – 220 – have been placed since October 2023.
RELATED: For pregnant Palestinian women, checkpoints are a matter of life and death
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“Straight to Solitary”: Right-wing Protesters Rally Outside Home of Former IDF Top Lawyer, Demand Imprisonment Over Abuse Video Leak
Around 100 demonstrators protested outside the home of the Israeli military’s former top lawyer on Saturday, after her release to ten days of house arrest over the leak of a video showing Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee at a detention facility last year.
The protesters held signs against the former top lawyer with slogans such as “straight to solitary,” “go to prison.” They also held up Israel flags and flags with emblems of right-wing parties Otzma Yehudit and Likud.
For more on this controversy – a defining moment in Israel – read:
Outrage over video leak of Israeli soldiers’ gang rape of Palestinian exposes rot in Israeli society
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Israel unveils 0% tax rate for 2026’s immigrants and returning residents
“This is a Zionist and economic revolution,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said. “It’s worthwhile being a new immigrant.”
“This is a data-based process that aims to ensure optimal integration for new immigrants, create a real opportunity for them to integrate into Israeli society, and at the same time contribute to the growth of the Israeli economy,” Immigration and Absorption Minister Ofir Sofer said.
“Immigration is of Zionist, social, and economic importance to the State of Israel,” he added. “It strengthens our social fabric, brings high-quality human capital, and directly contributes to growth, innovation, and economic development.”
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HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
Defense Minister Bars Israeli Army Officers From Briefing Journalists Without His Approval
Netanyahu’s flirtation with economic isolation would be catastrophic for Israel, economists warn
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
Inside David Ellison’s Dramatic First 100 Days at Paramount: the Israel connection*
Since taking over Paramount, Team Ellison has been spending money freely, like purchasing Bari Weiss’ The Free Press — a fledgling Substack-based news outlet — for $150 million. It has also slashed staff, replacing them with executives with unfashionable — by Hollywood standards — viewpoints, including vocal Israel supporters, like CBS News editor-in-chief Weiss.
Layoffs have conspicuously included staff whose reporting featured an anti-Israel bent, including foreign correspondent Debora Patta, who had been covering the war in Gaza for the past three years.
But Israel is an important issue. Larry Ellison is reportedly a close friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is a prolific donor to Friends of the IDF (continue reading here).
*Read about the pervasive pro-Israel bias in Western mainstream media here and here and here.
MORE HEADLINES:
Maryland Workers Are Fighting to Divest Their Pensions From Israel’s Genocide
Irish football body overwhelmingly backs call for Israel’s ban from UEFA
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
‘We hate winter’: Palestinians face the rain without shelters as Israel blocks tents
Israeli Forces Kill Two Youths Near Jerusalem
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 8, 2025*:
- At least 69,941 Palestinians killed, 180,685 injured – including:
- At least 69,169 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 23,000 women)
The Gaza Health Ministry recently added 284 additional people to the cumulative total after their identities were verified.
- At least 1,071 killed in the West Bank (~217 children)
- At least 170,685 injured in Gaza
- More than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
- At least 463 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 157 children
- About 522 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.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 8, 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 272 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 207 and 326 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)
- ‘The Silence after the Screams’: How Western Media Helped Justify the Rape of Palestinians
- The AI Drones Used In Gaza Now Surveilling American Cities
- Lawsuit Charges That California Law Illegally Muzzles Students and Teachers on Palestine
- Outrage over video leak of Israeli soldiers’ gang rape of Palestinian exposes rot in Israeli society
- Youtube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
- They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
- In Israel, raping Palestinian prisoners is justified. Leaking the footage is betrayal
- The Brutal Settler Attack Was Caught on Camera. But Two Weeks Later, No One’s Been Arrested
- ‘Almost wiped out’: Israeli restrictions stifle recovery of Gaza’s farmlands
- Full list of Israel’s ceasefire violations in Gaza
- Acute trauma: The ever-present wounds of Gaza’s children from Israel’s war
- Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
- Whitewashing the Gaza Gas Exploration
- Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War
- Israeli Military Accused of Palestinian Organ Theft Again
- AIPAC Begins Lobbying in Taiwan As Brand Turns Toxic in The U.S.
- Israeli forces use Palestinian women, elderly men as human shields in Gaza and the West Bank
- Ms Rachel’s activism on Gaza lauded in Glamour Women of the Year nod
- FLASHBACK: To Israel’s Supporters: Where Do You Draw the Line Between ‘Defense’ and Atrocities?
