After 2+ years off, some Gaza schools are back in session – Not a Ceasefire Day 33

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After 2+ years off, some Gaza schools are back in session – Not a Ceasefire Day 33
Palestinian students resume their interrupted education at an UNRWA-affiliated school, which had been converted into a shelter in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on November 3, 2025. (Mohammed Nassar – Anadolu Agency)

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 766th day.)

In the past 24 hours, Gaza hospitals received the bodies of three slain Palestinians —one newly killed, one recovered from beneath collapsed buildings, and one who succumbed to earlier injuries.

Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 242 and injured 622 (Hamas places the death toll higher, at 271, and states that over 90% were civilians; it adds that of the 622 wounded, 99% were civilians). Death toll figures are tentative.

Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 282 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.) 

The Israeli army killed two Palestinians on Monday, one of them a child, in a drone attack east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, claiming they “posed an immediate threat.”

The Palestinian Health Ministry has received 315 bodies released by Israel so far as part of the ceasefire agreement; due to the level of decomposition and signs of torture, only 91 have been identified. According to the ministry, 38 bodies were transferred and buried Monday in the Cemetery for the Unknown.

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Gaza’s UNRWA schools are classrooms by day, displacement shelters at night

Four weeks into the United States-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is in the process of reopening schools across the territory amid ongoing Israeli bombardment and heavy restrictions on the flow of aid.

Since October 2023, more than 300,000 UNRWA students have been deprived of a formal education, while 97 percent of the agency’s school buildings have been damaged or destroyed by the fighting.

What were once centers of education are now also being used as shelters by hundreds of displaced families (continue reading here).

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Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention

At least 95 Palestinian medical workers, 80 of whom are from Gaza, are still being held without charge in Israeli prisons, according to Healthcare Workers Watch, a group that tracks attacks on health care in Palestine. According to Healthcare Workers Watch, more than 400 Palestinian medical workers were detained by Israeli authorities after October 7, 2023.

“The majority of them have been taken from their place of work while working to try and save patients. So that includes people who’ve been taken from their ambulance, during their work, or from hospitals,” said Rebecca Inglis from Healthcare Workers Watch. “And so these are health care workers who are supposed to be specifically protected under international humanitarian law.” 

Since October 7, the Israeli military has repeatedly attacked Gaza’s hospitals from the north to the south, and blocked medicine and crucial supplies. More than 1,700 health workers have been killed. The United Nations has described the attacks as the “targeted destruction” of the health care system — a “medicide” (continue reading here).

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GAZA HEADLINES:

‘Genocide Stopped Only in Media’: Gaza Endures Daily Bombings a Month Into Truce

UNRWA has the capacity and expertise to support a postwar Gaza. We want to help make this peace work

Mediators discussing solutions for Hamas fighters trapped in Gaza tunnels

Horrific testimonies of systematic rape of prisoners

Gaza Port, where many displaced families continue to live in tents, on November 4, 2025.
Gaza Port, where many displaced families continue to live in tents, on November 4, 2025. (Mohammed Eslayeh – Anadolu Agency)

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.)

Israel launches ‘large-scale’ military exercise across occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have begun a three-day exercise across the occupied West Bank, including ground forces, the air force and special units operating in coordination with other branches of Israel’s security apparatus, and raising concerns among Palestinians over increased military activity.

The Israeli army said the exercise aims to test “operational readiness” for potential escalation scenarios, and will include drones, mock enemy forces, and active troop and aircraft movement throughout Palestinian areas. Residents have been warned of a heightened military presence over the coming days.

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Occupied West Bank village facing demolition

Umm al-Khair, a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank that was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, is bracing on Monday for the arrival of Israeli military bulldozers.

Residents say that Israel has ordered the demolition of 14 structures, including the community centre, greenhouse and family homes. It is unknown when the demolitions will occur, but a press release from the community says they could begin Tuesday (continue reading here).

RELATED: Media Obscure Message of Oscar-Winning Documentary No Other Land

Israeli army demolishes several Palestinian-owned buildings claiming that they were “unlicensed” in Hebron, West Bank on May 05, 2025.
Israeli army demolishes several Palestinian-owned buildings claiming that they were “unlicensed” in Hebron, West Bank on May 05, 2025. (Mamoun Wazwaz – Anadolu Agency)

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Israel evicts two Palestinian families from Silwan homes amid East Jerusalem ‘Judaization’

At least two Palestinian families have been evicted from their homes by Israeli authorities in the Palestinian district of Silwan, in East Jerusalem, after having lived there since the 1970s.

A total of 14 Palestinians, including children, are now facing homelessness as a result of the eviction order, with their possessions also seized in the process.

An eviction notice was issued to the families, to take effect on 30 November, but their evictions still went ahead. “We were surprised today when Israeli police stormed the houses and emptied them of their belongings,” one of the evictees said.

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WEST BANK HEADLINES:

Foreign Press Association denounces Israeli settler attacks on journalists in West Bank

Israeli Soldiers Abduct 19 Palestinians Across Occupied West Bank

Israeli Forces Block Teachers from Reaching Schools in Jordan Valley

Israeli Colonizers, Soldiers Prepare New Roads to Expand Colonies

Israeli Forces Shoot, Abduct a Palestinian Near Hebron

Two Workers Injured Near Annexation Wall North of Jerusalem

Israeli settlers repeatedly storm Al-Aqsa mosque courtyard, violating status quo*

*NOTE: Anyone can visit the Al Aqsa Mosque grounds, but only Muslims are allowed to pray there, according to an understanding known as the ‘status quo agreement,’ which has existed since Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967.

Israeli forces stand guard as illegal Jewish settlers raid the Old City area of Hebron, West Bank on September 20, 2025.
Israeli forces stand guard as illegal Jewish settlers raid the Old City area of Hebron, West Bank on September 20, 2025. (Amer Shallodi – Anadolu Agency)

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.)

Israel’s proposed bill to kill Palestinian prisoners is terrifying to their families

Israel demands Lebanese army raid civilian homes in south

Israeli army launches fresh attacks* in southern, eastern Lebanon, in new ceasefire violation

*NOTE: Israel has carried out scores of attacks on Lebanon and killed at least 111 civilians since a ceasefire was declared almost a year ago.

HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:

(Get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions that receives $63 million a day from American taxpayers. Israeli media sometimes tells the truth about itself, but often publishes myths and lies as facts.)

Jared Kushner is Israel’s ‘acting PM,’ Avigdor Liberman says in attack on government

IDF Committee on Oct. 7 Probes Finds Years-long Systemic Failure Leading to Hamas Attack

Netanyahu rejects Oct. 7 inquiry process as bereaved families turn their backs

Israel has limited time to act against Iranian regime, senior official warns

US considering plans to build large military base on Israel-Gaza border, Shomrim reports

Bill to allow Israel to close any foreign media outlet* without court approval passes first Knesset vote

*Read about Israel’s relationship with foreign media here, here, here.

Binyamin Netanyahu in court during his corruption trial, prior to his third testimony day, seems to be talking with his attorney, Amit Hadad, with his back to the camera
Binyamin Netanyahu in court during his corruption trial, prior to his third testimony day, seems to be talking with his attorney, Amit Hadad, with his back to the camera (Wikimedia Commons)

OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:

US mediator Kushner* meets Netanyahu for talks on Trump’s Gaza plan

*also see: The ‘enormous conflict of interest’ at center of Jared Kushner’s Gaza ceasefire deal

Netherlands presses on with plan to ban imports from illegal Israeli settlements

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