Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 61 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including at least 21 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,743 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
The total number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 217, including 100 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday, go here.
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For a bit 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 STRIKE WIPES OUT ENTIRE FAMILY IN GAZA: Palestinian media say an entire family has been removed from Gaza’s civil registry following an Israeli air strike on the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis. The attack reportedly killed Tariq Muhammad Abu Hajras, his wife, and their five children, and completely destroyed their home. This is the latest in a series of incidents where entire families have been erased from official records due to the scale of casualties in single air strikes.
Palestinian boy killed by air-dropped aid box in central Gaza
A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and several people were injured Saturday when an aid box dropped by air fell on them in central Gaza, marking the fourth such fatal accident in recent days, medical sources said.
The sources told Anadolu that Muhannad Eid died after being struck in the head by a box in the Al-Nuwairi Hill area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp. The exact number of injured was not immediately available.
Saturday’s tragedy follows three similar incidents since multiple countries began parachuting aid into Gaza on July 16, amid an Israeli blockade that has pushed the enclave into famine.
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At least 23 Palestinians killed by airdropped aid since start of war, 13 drowned
Gaza’s Government Media Office reports that at least 23 Palestinians have been killed and 124 others injured as a result of airdrops of aid since the start of the war.
Many air drops fall in areas under Israeli military control. Some packages have also fallen into the sea, and 13 Palestinians drowned while trying to retrieve them.
Israel has been welcoming airdrops from various countries recently, though Gaza leaders have repeatedly warned of the danger, and 22,000 trucks loaded with aid reportedly remain at the crossings, waiting for Israeli permission to enter Gaza.
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MORE HEADLINES FROM GAZA:
(Get familiar with the charges against Israel: genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced transfer, starvation as a weapon of war, use of human shields, indiscriminate shooting at civilians, and more.)
NOTABLE QUOTE:
Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam’s Policy Lead in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, on Israel’s decision to take military control of Gaza City:
The decision to take direct military control of Gaza City marks a dangerous escalation in the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian territory; a brazen act of erasure carried out in full view of the world…
Reports of plans to forcibly remove the one million people still living in Gaza City and confine civilians in tightly controlled camps are profoundly alarming, evoking some of the darkest chapters of recent history…
The time for hollow words of condemnation is over…The UK, along with all powerful nations, must use every diplomatic, legal, and economic tool at its disposal, to stop this latest atrocity. Together, they must work for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to end the death and suffering, full access for humanitarian aid and to ensure the release of all hostages and unlawful Palestinian detainees.
History will not be kind to those who chose inaction in the face of Gaza’s obliteration.
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 fire tear gas, make arrests as they back settler raids in West Bank
Israeli Colonizers’ Violations in the Occupied West Bank – Saturday
ISRAEL HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil within its government. Many of the below news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Israel’s Government Is Setting Up the IDF for Failure
Israel Police Chief Seeks to Promote Commander to Top Job Despite 80% Spike in Homicide Rate
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
Eighty years after Hiroshima, calls to ‘nuke Gaza’ show how little has been learned
Somebody has been lying about Israeli military’s use of Azure cloud storage
Microsoft is investigating how Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, is using its Azure cloud storage platform, amid concerns the company’s staff in Israel may have concealed key details about its work on sensitive military projects.
Senior executives are scrambling to assess what data Unit 8200 holds in Azure after a Guardian investigation, in partnership with +972 Magazine and Local Call, revealed how the spy agency has used the cloud platform to store a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian mobile phone calls.
Unit 8200 has used Azure to store recordings of millions of calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank; intelligence drawn from the enormous repository of calls held in the cloud has been used to identify bombing targets in Gaza (continue reading here).
RELATED: Rotten Apple: Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant
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Members of Educators Union Say Its Capitulation to ADL Betrays Workers, Students
On July 5, the highest deliberative body of the country’s largest union, the National Education Association (NEA), voted at their 2025 Representative Assembly to call on the NEA to “not use, endorse, or publicize any materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or its statistics. NEA will not participate in ADL programs or publicize ADL professional development offerings.”
Less than two weeks later, the NEA board overturned this democratic decision from the delegates — yet another capitulation to an organization that many educators and others have called a bully.
The ADL, which has long represented itself as a civil right organization, was exposed as a right-wing, Israel-aligned political advocacy organization by #DropTheADL. More recent campaigns like Drop the ADL from Schools have argued it should not be considered a social justice partner to schools (continue reading here).
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WHITEWASHING THE DEATH OF “PALESTINIAN PELE”: The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)’s tribute to the late Suleiman Al-Obeid, said, “Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the ‘Palestinian Pelé,’ a talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times.” Al-Obeid, 41, was killed by an Israeli attack on civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
GERMAN PUBLIC TURNS SHARPLY AGAINST ISRAEL: According to an ARD-DeutschlandTREND survey released this week, 66% of Germans want their government to put more pressure on Israel to change its behavior. 47% think their government is doing too little for Palestinians. And only 31% of Germans feel they have a bigger responsibility for Israel due to their history – while 62% do not. Another recent poll asked, “Should Germany now recognize Palestine as its own state?” 54% said yes, 31% said no.
RELATED: Germany’s Arms Embargo on Israel Isn’t a Betrayal, It’s a Moral Reckoning
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MORE HEADLINES (a quick skim of headlines can be very informative!):
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israel Warns: UK has “a lot to lose” if it recognizes Palestinian state
Trump says ‘looking into’ reports Somaliland open to taking in Palestinians
Even Republicans have questions about Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 9, 2025*:
- At least 62,460 Palestinians killed, 162,443 injured – including:
- at least 61,430 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,030 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 153,213 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 217 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 100 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 1,743 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 9,921 people. 50 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 26) 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 9, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 454 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 229 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186 and 298 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)
- Israel’s military is taking over Gaza City, and you’ll be paying for it.
- Israel Is Beginning To Choke On Its Own Lies
- Israel has always used food as a weapon against Palestinians
- Blaming the Israeli ‘far right’ lets a genocidal society off the hook
- Israel is losing the US front
- Netanyahu Hosts 20 AIPAC-Sponsored House Republicans in Israel
- Only 1.5% of cropland, 3% of animal wealth left in Gaza
- Jewish Currents: “We Need New Jewish Institutions,” and “How Support for Palestine Became a Hate Crime”
- Egypt’s Sisi calls Israel’s war, starvation campaign in Gaza a ‘systematic genocide’
- A war crimes net is tightening around Israeli soldiers abroad
- We Must Oppose a Definition of Antisemitism That Bolsters Genocide
- I saw many atrocities as a senior UN aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us.
- Report: Mass Abductions, Torture, Enforced Disappearances
- ‘She’s disappearing in front of me’: Gaza’s children are the most vulnerable victims of Israeli-imposed starvation
- Mainstream media largely sidelined Gaza starvation story, until it couldn’t
- The Cruelty and Speciousness of Bret Stephens’ Denial of Genocide
- Israel abducted starving children at Gaza “aid” sites, then tortured them
- Israel Is Imprisoning Florida-Born Cousin of American Slain by Settlers
- Billionaire Jeff Yass linked to $16m in donations to anti-Muslim and pro-Israel groups
