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 791st day.)
At least 2 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Tuesday, and several were injured.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 379 Palestinians. Among the dead are at least 136 children. At least 992 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative. More statistics below.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 738 times in 61 days.
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.)
Thousands of Gaza children hospitalized for acute malnutrition
Malnutrition continues to take a toll among Gaza’s young despite a ceasefire declared two months ago, with more than 9,000 children and 8,300 pregnant and breastfeeding women were also hospitalized for acute malnutrition in October alone, according to the latest UN figures.
Tess Ingram, a spokesperson for the UN child protection agency Unicef, said: “In Gaza’s hospitals I have met several newborns who weighed less than one kilogram (2.2 pounds), their tiny chests heaving with the effort of staying alive” (continue reading here).
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Rains and low temperatures threaten Gaza displaced
Gaza’s media office has called on the world to respond “to save the catastrophic humanitarian reality” in Gaza, as a winter storm is set to hit on Wednesday and last until Friday, bringing with it heavy rains that will flood the tens of thousands of tents housing Gaza’s displaced.
It is also set to bring heavy winds, fierce waves from the sea and thunderstorms, according to the office.
It said the weather “may cause extensive damage to tens of thousands of families living in tents and primitive shelters that do not protect them from the cold winter or the harshness of weather lows.”
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GAZA HEADLINES:
‘Why did they do this to us?’: Gaza’s amputee children fight to reclaim their lives shattered by Israeli attacks
The proposed US plan in #Gaza risks entrenching grave violations, from ghettoisation and annexation to mass detention and resource plunder, with severe consequences for civilians pic.twitter.com/FoxWL4VSyz
— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) December 9, 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 Assault Released Detainees Near Jerusalem
Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday evening severely beat three Palestinian detainees immediately after releasing them at the al‑Jib military roadblock, northwest of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.
Witnesses said the detainees were subjected to violent blows and mistreatment before being let go, underscoring the routine abuse Palestinians face even after release from custody.
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WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Erasing roots, stealing seeds and engineering flight
‘A Beating No Child Could Endure’: Israel Intensifies Arrests, Abuse across West Bank
Soldiers Shoot Two Palestinians, Including Child, in 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.)
‘Beyond absurd’: Israeli Supreme Court extends ban on foreign media in Gaza
The Supreme Court in Jerusalem has held another hearing on Tuesday regarding a petition by the Foreign Press Association (FPA) to allow independent international media to enter Gaza, and granted the Israeli government a ninth postponement.
In a statement, the FPA said the situation was “beyond absurd…These repeated delays have robbed the world of a fuller glimpse of conditions in Gaza and made a mockery of the entire legal process.”
No independent international media has been allowed in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
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ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Israel Escalates Airstrikes in Southern Lebanon, Hitting Multiple Towns
Israel bombs Syria over 600 times since Sharaa seized power
Israel planned to assassinate Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif long before Gaza war
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 America.
Report: IDF actively supports construction of settler outposts and farms in West Bank
The IDF is fully aware and cooperating with Israeli settlers building new farm outposts in the West Bank, marking an overt shift in the Israeli military’s policy, according to an IDF officer who spoke with Israel’s Kan public broadcaster in a program aired Monday.
The officer, who the report said has been involved for years in IDF activity in the West Bank, said that the command doesn’t just “know that farms are going to be established,” but that the military is “also a partner in the preliminary coordination process” (continue reading here).
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‘To Sabotage, Shutter, Intimidate’: Emergency Conference of Israeli Journalists Sounds Alarm on Government Threats to Press Freedom
Far-right MKs sport noose-shaped pins at hearing on controversial Palestinian-only death penalty bill
Israeli Forces Raid Two Palestinian Universities in the West Bank, Reports Say
The Sanctification of Death Is Becoming Israel’s Political Norm
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
UK’s largest pro-Palestine prison hunger strike in decades sends activists to hospital
A pro-Palestine activist in the United Kingdom has been taken to hospital for a second time amid severe health complications on the 29th day of his hunger strike, as concerns mount over the condition of eight incarcerated activists refusing food to demand bail and basic rights.
“The reason they’re on hunger strike is because they have tried every other way of meeting the demands of this campaign but have been met with silence and incompetence from the government and the courts,” said Audrey Corno from Prisoners4Palestine, an organization representing all those detained under charges related to Palestinian liberation.
“The hunger strike is never safe, but past day 35 the thiamine levels drop significantly,” Corno says. “This puts them at very high risk of brain damage, osteoporosis and long-term health consequences” (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES:
Hecklers urge Israel’s president to pardon Netanyahu at American Zionist Movement conference in NYC
Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk can resume research after Trump officials revoked her visa, judge rules
US lawmaker MTG hits back at Trump over ‘traitor’ remark, points to his pro-Israel lobby donations
Here’s the thing, @RonDeSantis. Unlike you and other AIPAC servants, we do not take money from any foreign interests nor do we serve any foreign powers. We rely on the American people for support and we answer to the American people as we defend their rights from anti-Muslim… https://t.co/GrWiQhJ8zZ
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) December 9, 2025
🎬 Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra says his award brought ‘no political action’ as illegal Israeli settler and military violence in his West Bank village worsens
📽️ The award-winning documentary No Other Land tells the real stories of Palestinian communities… pic.twitter.com/cmxTtPl1Cp
— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) December 9, 2025
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Wash. Post: Israel denies some U.S. and foreign doctors entry to Gaza
Palestinian Succumbs to Critical Injuries From Israeli Attack
At least 110 Palestinians killed in Israeli prisons under Ben-Gvir
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 9, 2025*:
- At least 71,463 Palestinians killed, 182,069 injured – including:
- At least 70,369 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls)
- At least 1,094 killed in the West Bank (~223 children)
- At least 171,069 injured in Gaza
- About 11,000 injured in the West Bank
*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 – December 9, 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 275 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 215 and 328 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.
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