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 811th day.)
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 418 Palestinians. At least 1,142 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 969 times in 82 days. More statistics below.
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.)
Four Palestinians, including two young girls and a two‑month‑old infant, were killed and several others were injured over the past two days in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip, as ongoing Israeli attacks, collapsing bombarded buildings, and severe winter storms continue to create lethal conditions for displaced families.
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Red Crescent warns of hepatitis A, gastroenteritis outbreak linked to contaminated water in Gaza
Bashar Murad, director of health programs at the Red Crescent in Gaza, said the spread of hepatitis A is a clear indicator of widespread water contamination; around 80 per cent of Gaza’s water network has been destroyed, forcing families to rely on transported water.
Murad said laboratory testing of water samples revealed viruses and bacteria responsible for gastroenteritis. The territory is also witnessing a surge in influenza cases, particularly among children, due to severe overcrowding, extreme cold and environmental pollution (continue reading here).
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Israel to halt operations of renowned aid agencies in Gaza
Israel on Tuesday said it will suspend more than two dozen humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said that the organizations facing bans on 1 January didn’t meet new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. The ministry said that around 25 organizations, or 15 percent, of nongovernmental organizations working in Gaza didn’t have their permits renewed.
International organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff (continue reading here).
NOTABLE QUOTE: “Palestinians do not negotiate their own extinction”
Sayid Marcos Tenório, historian and founder of the Brazil-Palestine Institute (Ibraspal), on the Hamas document Our Narrative… Al-Aqsa Flood: Two Years of Steadfastness and the Will for Liberation:
Since the Nakba of 1948, the Zionist project has been organized around the material, political, and symbolic negation of Palestinian existence, through expulsion, confinement, territorial fragmentation, and permanent violence.
Within this framework, the Al-Aqsa Flood does not inaugurate violence, but interrupts the normalization of colonial violence.
It is a historical rupture that exposes the failure of the Zionist colonial project to produce durable submission…Where there is settler colonialism, resistance is not a moral option; it is a historical necessity.
The Hamas document thus concludes with a central strategic assertion: the Palestinian people do not negotiate their own extinction, and resistance will remain as long as the occupation persists (continue reading here).
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 Kill a Palestinian Near Nablus
Israeli forces killed a young Palestinian man, Qais Sami Jasser Allan (20 years old), and seriously injured two others on Tuesday evening, after opening heavy fire towards their vehicle between the villages of Urif and Einabus, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The car was overturned and burst into flames.
The Israeli army claimed that the driver of the vehicle, Allan, had allegedly attempted to carry out a car-ramming attack, admitting that no soldiers were injured during the so-called attack.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, occupation forces have killed 1103 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, including 229 children and 24 women.
Genocide behind bars: 32 Palestinians killed in Israeli detention in 2025
Israeli Troops Invade Village of Aboud, Fire Bombs Spark House Fire
Israeli Soldiers Injure Four Palestinians Near Nablus
Israeli Forces and Colonizers Escalate West Bank Violations
Israeli armed forces uproot olive trees in a town in the West Bank
House catches fire from Israeli army bombs in Ramallah-governorate village
TRUMP / NETANYAHU MEETING:
Israel, US set two-month deadline for Hamas disarmament*
Israel and the United States will give Hamas a two-month window to disarm. Israel Hayom has learned that this was agreed** during a meeting overnight between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago; this would include the destruction of Hamas’ underground tunnel network.
If Hamas does not disarm, as is widely expected in Israel, responsibility for the next steps would revert to Israel and the Israel Defense Forces.
*NOTE: Critically, Hamas has made clear that it will not surrender its weapons as long as the occupation remains in place – a fact that Netanyahu and Trump seem to be ignoring.
**Notice that this “agreement” does not include Palestinian input or acceptance.
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Report: Half of Palestinian Detainees Held Without Charge
A joint human rights report released on Tuesday by the Commission of Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association revealed that nearly 49% of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are detained without charge or trial.
The annual report notes that the number of detainees in Israeli prisons has now exceeded 9,300, including 3,350 administrative detainees and 1,220 detainees classified by Israeli authorities as “unlawful combatants.” This designation—applied to detainees from the Gaza Strip—operates under a legal framework similar to administrative detention (continue reading here).
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Trump, top aides asked Netanyahu to change policy in occupied West Bank
President Trump and his top advisers reportedly asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to change Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank during their meeting on Monday.
Flattery, threats, and disagreements: Key takeaways from Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu
Trump and Netanyahu agreed on threatening Hamas and Iran but differed over Israel’s policies in the West Bank.
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Trump extends duty-free access for Israeli agricultural imports
Specified quantities of Israeli agricultural products will continue to enter US market duty-free through Dec. 31, 2026, according to proclamation.
OTHER ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:
(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.)
Netanyahu whitewashes settler violence* on Fox interview
“When they’re talking about [settler violence], they’re talking about a handful of kids,” Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News during his trip to the US, referring to “bloated” media coverage of the violence.
“We actually located it. It’s about 70 kids. They’re not from the West Bank,” he claimed, using the internationally accepted term for the territory rather than the biblical phrase “Judea and Samaria” favored by right-wing Israelis.
“They’re actually teenagers who come from broken homes, and they do things like chopping olive trees, and sometimes they try to burn a home,” he said. “I can’t accept that. That’s vigilantism. I’m taking that out.”
*NOTE: Netanyahu’s depiction of settler violence bears no resemblance to reality. In fact, Israeli settlers – many fueled by extremism – have carried out mass attacks (at times, the word “pogrom” has been used to describe the attacks). The perpetrators have generally not been a handful of teenagers bent on shenanigans, but well-organized groups aiming to destroy the West Bank economy and/or drive out the indigenous Palestinians (including Palestinian Christians).
The New York Times spelled out the scope of the aggression: “With Arson and Land Grabs, Israeli Settler Attacks in West Bank Hit Record High: Extremists are carrying out one of the most violent campaigns against Palestinian villages since the U.N. began.” keeping records.
Amnesty Int’l described a critical component of the attacks: “Since 7 October 2023, settler violence in the occupied West Bank has significantly increased, with human rights organizations consistently documenting the Israeli authorities’ failure to protect Palestinians and hold perpetrators accountable.”
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Israeli government announces boycott of Ha’aretz newspaper over claims it supports ‘enemies’
For the first time since the establishment of the State of Israel, the government has announced a boycott of the newspaper Ha’aretz, accusing it of supporting “enemies” during wartime.
In a statement, the Israeli government said Haaretz had published editorials during the war on Gaza that “damaged the legitimacy of the State of Israel in the world and its right to self-defense” (continue reading here).
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Smotrich hails ‘full US support’ for illegal settler expansion in occupied West Bank
Trump said during his meeting with Netanyahu that the two did not agree ‘100 percent’ on the West Bank, but that the Israeli premier would ‘do the right thing.’
Israeli Knesset passes bill halting electricity, water supply to UNRWA* facilities
The legislation, backed by the Israeli government, requires electricity and water providers, as well as telecom, banking, and other services, to withhold or cut services to UNRWA facilities.
*RELATED: The real reason Israel is banning UNRWA, and what it means for millions of Palestinian refugees
HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
(You can learn a lot about a country from its headlines. Get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions that receives $63 million a day from America.)
Occupation Moving Forward: Israeli Settlers – and Soldiers – Are Now Expelling Palestinians From Homes in Area B
Harassment, violence and vandalism routinely drive people from their villages in Area C, but three recent cases show that the practice now extends into areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. The army is actively taking part.
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
‘Data is control’: what we learned from a year investigating the Israeli military’s ties to big tech
Guardian reporting revealed a symbiotic relationship between the IDF and Silicon Valley – with implications for the future of warfare.
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AIPAC Is Retreating From Endorsements and Election Spending. It Won’t Give Up Its Influence.
The lobbying group is taking a quieter approach this midterms cycle, but it’s still seeking to keep Congress in Israel’s pocket.
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Another Palestinian baby dies of severe cold in Gaza
Trump’s Comments Outside Mar-a-Lago Read Like a Script Direct From Netanyahu
How many countries has Israel attacked in 2025?
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 30, 2025*:
- At least 72,367 Palestinians killed, 182,222 injured – including:
- At least71,269** killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls)
- At least 1,103 killed in the West Bank (~229 children)
- At least 171,232 injured in Gaza
- About11,000 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.
**NOTE: 292 martyrs have been added to the cumulative statistics of martyrs, whose data has been completed and approved by the Martyrs’ Verification Committee, from December 19, 2025 to December 26, 2025.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – December 30, 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.
- Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated
- TCN Warns – “ISRAEL FIRST: U.S. May Attack Iran Again”
- Hamas calls on Israel to allow impartial investigation into 7 October attacks
- Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown
- Gaza races to preserve what remains of its 5,000-year-old archaeological legacy
- Gaza health official says miscarriages surge as births fall by 40%
- Leahy Law Requires Ban on Aid to Israeli Police Unit for Killing Two Palestinians Who Surrendered
- Israel blocks entry of eye drops for blind people in Gaza
- I did not understand I grew up in a concentration camp until I left Gaza
- One excavator, 10,000 bodies, a sea of rubble: inside Gaza’s effort to retrieve and bury its dead
- Rights Group Warns Israel’s Genocide Isn’t Over in Gaza
- Pro-Israel Forces Intensify Effort To Control American Discourse
- The Faces of AIPAC: the largest pro-Israel lobbying org in the US
- Israeli scams children with cancer out of millions fundraised for their treatment, BBC finds
- Casey Kennedy Fired from AG Scientific Amid Zionist Troll Campaign Over Track AIPAC Work
