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 783rd day.)
Israeli fire killed two Palestinian children, ages 8 and 11, in Bani Suhaila in southern Gaza on Saturday.
Also killed Saturday were 3 Palestinians who allegedly crossed the (movable) Yellow Line.
The Gaza Health Ministry announced that the death toll for the Gaza genocide has officially passed 70,000. This number includes only identified bodies reported to hospitals.
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.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 356 Palestinians. Among them are at least 67 children. Death toll figures are tentative.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 535 times.
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.)
Malnutrition + winter threatens children’s lives and wellbeing in Gaza
Nutrition screenings conducted by UNICEF and partners identified almost 9,300 children under 5 years of age with acute malnutrition in October – nearly five times higher than in February 2025, during the previous ceasefire.
A UNICEF survey of families conducted in October found that 2 in 3 children under 5 years of age ate two or less food groups out of the recommended eight food groups the week prior, mostly grains, bread or flour.
With poor sanitation, overcrowding and limited access to safe water, disease spreads rapidly and disproportionately affects young children. The combination of malnutrition and disease is especially lethal; cold temperatures dramatically increase the body’s energy needs, putting malnourished children, who lack fat and muscle reserves, at severe risk of hypothermia (read the full report here).
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Gaza eye injury crisis: Thousands face permanent vision loss
Gaza is witnessing a sharp rise in eye injuries and vision loss among civilians, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Saturday, as Israeli strikes continue across the Strip.
According to the figures shared, more than 4,000 people risk losing sight in one or both eyes unless they are promptly evacuated for specialized care, while nearly 2,000 have already lost their vision.
Imad Sadiq, a consultant ophthalmologist in Gaza, estimated that hospitals have received more than 5,000 eye-injury cases since the start of the war. Many government and private hospitals have already halted services due to structural damage, shortages of medical supplies, and limited access to medication.
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Why is Israel flooding Gaza with Gold-plated Iphone 17s?
Why is Israel flooding Gaza with Gold-plated Iphone 17s while preventing medicine, reconstruction, tents or basic necessities? Six reasons: mass surveillance 24/7, voice recognition technology, propaganda, propping up gangs, pure corruption & possibly another pager attack
- Mass surveillance: Every single phone Israel allows into Gaza is implanted with an Israeli bug that allows them a back entry door into everything on that phone (e.g. camera, microphone, internet traffic, passwords, chat history…etc) (continue reading here).
GAZA HEADLINES:
Israel blocks EU commissioner from entering Gaza during Egypt visit
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.)
Border cops suspected of killing 2 terror* suspects who surrendered in Jenin: We feared they’d harm us
Israeli Border Police officers are under investigation over the fatal shooting on Thursday of two Palestinian terror suspects in the West Bank’s Jenin, after the latter had surrendered , have argued that they had feared the Palestinians would try to harm them, Channel 13 news reports.
The incident was caught on camera and later confirmed by officials, prompting international condemnation.
“We feared that the terrorists* were armed. We saw them fiddling with equipment inside the building. We feared they would try harming the forces,” it quotes them as saying.
*NOTE: The use of the word “terrorist” for a group that resists occupation and oppression is a political, not fact-based choice. In reality, international law supports the efforts of resistance groups against an occupying power, the UN extending that right to the point of armed resistance.
תיעוד: שוטרי מג”ב בג’נין יורים למוות בשני פלסטינים לאחר שנכנעו pic.twitter.com/noSXz8vOPu
— הארץ חדשות (@haaretznewsvid) November 27, 2025
Three separate incidents of settler* violence in the West Bank: Settlers with IDF weapons shot at Palestinian residents
Settlers attacked multiple villages in the West Bank on Saturday, shooting one Palestinian woman in the leg near Bethlehem, trespassing onto Palestinian property in Burin, near Nablus, and throwing stones at houses in a Bedouin community in the northern West Bank (continue reading here).
*NOTE: Israel has illegally built around 280 settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are home to more than 700,000 illegal settlers. Some settler groups have a history of violence against Palestinians, often with the assistance of Israeli military forces (a phenomenon that has grown significantly worse since October 7th, 2023).
In a landmark advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Israeli Army Abducts Five Palestinians, Including Two Children, In Qalqilia
Israeli Army Continues Tubas Invasion
Ten Palestinians Injured in Colonizer Attack Near Bethlehem
Escalation of Illegal Colonizer Violations in Jerusalem, Jordan Valley
Israeli Forces Withdraw from Tubas After Four-Day Offensive
NEWS 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.)
Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
“It was one night and I was … a few hundred metres away. And it was very clear that Israeli quadcopters were supporting the looters in attacking the local security [teams],” French author Jean-Pierre Filiu writes. The Israeli military killed “two local notables as they sat in their car, armed and ready to protect the convoy”, Filiu says, and twenty trucks were robbed.
“The [Israeli] rationale [was] to discredit Hamas and the UN at that time … and to allow [Israel’s] clients, the looters, to either redistribute the aid to expand their own support networks or to make money out of reselling it in order to get some cash,” Filiu said.
Israeli officials denied the charge. A military spokesperson said that an Israeli Air Force aircraft “conducted a precise strike on a vehicle with armed terrorists inside who were planning “to divert humanitarian aid into Hamas storage units” (continue reading here).
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Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organized torture*, says UN report
The new report, which covers a two-year period since the beginning of the Gaza war on 7 October 2023, said 75 Palestinians had died in custody, during which detention conditions for Palestinians had undergone a “marked deterioration”. It found the death toll to be “abnormally high. It notes that “to date, no state officials have been held responsible or accountable for such deaths”.
The UN report also draws attention to the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand”, noting the age of criminal responsibility imposed by Israel is 12, and that children younger than 12 have also been detained (continue reading here).
*NOTE: An investigation released by the Israeli rights group, B’Tselem, as well as reports in CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times and others reveal a routine of torture and inhumane conditions at what became a detention center after 7 October.
RELATED: Welcome to Hell: The Israeli prison system as a network of torture camps
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PM Netanyahu asks Pres. Herzog for pardon in ongoing corruption trial
Israel’s longest-sitting prime minister faces corruption charges in three separate cases involving breach of trust, bribery, and fraud. Netanyahu claimed that he would prefer to “continue the process until the end, until full acquittal on all charges.”
“However, the security and diplomatic reality, the national interest, demand otherwise,” the premier continued. “The State of Israel faces enormous challenges…national unity is required,” Netanyahu stated. “The continuation of the trial tears us apart from within, fuels this division and deepens the rifts.”
From President Herzog: “The Office of the President is aware that this is an extraordinary request which carries with it significant implications. After receiving all of the relevant opinions, the president will responsibly and sincerely consider the request.”
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Israeli warplanes struck southern Lebanon again in fresh breach of ceasefire; Lebanon’s Health Ministry said in a recent statement that Israel has killed 335 people and wounded 973 others in 1,038 attacks since the ceasefire agreement came into effect on Nov. 27, 2024.
The Israeli army renewed Saturday its incursions into southern Syria, violating its sovereignty again. Government data shows that since December 2024, Israel has carried out over 1,000 airstrikes and more than 400 cross-border raids on Syria.
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 American taxpayers. Israeli media sometimes tells the truth about itself, but often publishes myths, half-truths, and lies as facts.)
Israel Labels Dublin ‘Capital of Antisemitism*’ for Considering Renaming Park Honoring Ex-president Herzog
The name of the park, honoring Israel’s sixth president who was born in Ireland and spent his childhood in Dublin, will be up for a vote on Monday amid pro-Palestinian efforts, according to the Irish Times. Ireland’s Jewish Representative Council warned that the move ‘would be widely understood as an attempt to erase our Irish Jewish history.’
The office of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, grandson of the Herzog after whom the park was named, said the move would be “shameful and disgraceful”; Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar said, “Dublin has become the capital of antisemitism in the world.”
*NOTE: Thanks to a yearslong program of indoctrination by pro-Israel organizations, the word “antisemitism” has taken on a new, distorted meaning that can include nearly all criticism of Israel – in other words, disapproval of the self-proclaimed “Jewish State” may be incorrectly labeled antisemitic.
HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
How Will Netanyahu Steal Israel’s Upcoming Election?
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
Washington Post: Int’l force at heart of Trump’s Gaza plan struggles to find takers
The proposed deployment of an international force in Gaza, seen as a crucial feature of President Donald Trump’s plan to bring peace to the enclave, is struggling to get off the ground as countries considered likely to contribute soldiers have grown wary.
Trump administration officials have been working to drum up troop commitments. But even for countries that are keen to win favor with the U.S. administration, many uncertainties remain, including the thorny question of how the force would go about securing weapons from Hamas, which has sent mixed signals about its willingness to disarm.
“They want the international stabilizing force to come into Gaza and restore, quote unquote, ‘law and order and disarm any resistance,’” a senior official in Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. “Nobody wants to do that” (continue reading here).
Global ‘Free Marwan’ campaign calls for Palestinian political leader’s release
A global campaign is being launched to secure the release of 66-year-old Palestinian Marwan Barghouti, as part of the next stage of the Gaza ceasefire. Successive opinion polls show he is the most popular Palestinian politician in Gaza and the West Bank.
Barghouti has been kept in jail by Israel for more than 20 years after being convicted of planning attacks that led to five civilians being killed. The trial was criticized as deeply flawed by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, an international organization (continue reading here).
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Milei launches ‘Isaac Accords’ to expand Israeli influence in Latin America
Argentinian President Javier Milei formally launched the Isaac Accords on 29 November, a new initiative – in partnership with Washington – aimed at strengthening political, economic, and cultural cooperation between Israel and Latin America.
Milei announced the initiative following a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, who visited Buenos Aires on Saturday as part of a regional diplomatic tour.
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MORE HEADLINES:
Educators Worry Palestine Censorship Could Reshape Public Education Entirely
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Pregnant women in Gaza face catastrophic scenarios
Hey ChatGPT: If in one year, the Israeli military has killed 370 Hezbollah in 1,200 operations, is it a ceasefire?
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 29, 2025*:
- At least 71,182 Palestinians killed, 180,983 injured – including:
- At least 70,100** killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls)
- At least 1,082 killed in the West Bank (~222 children)
- At least 170,983 injured in Gaza
- More than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
- At least 482 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 160 children
- About 607 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.
**NOTE: 299 martyrs have been added to the cumulative martyr count, whose data was completed and approved by the government committee for the recognition of martyrs between November 21, 2025 and November 28, 2025.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 29, 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 274 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 207 and 327 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
- Israeli Human Rights Groups Tell UN That Israel Increased Use of Torture During Gaza War
- On the uncontrollable Israeli urge to kill Palestinians
- ‘AIPAC Radicalized Me’: Mamdani’s Jewish Gen Z Strategist
- How Israel markets its US-funded genocidal weapons to the world
- Jeffries Misleads on AIPAC PAC Money
- Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies
- Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby”
- UN condemns torture in landslide vote, but Israel and US oppose resolution
- A Single Warehouse in Jersey City Moved Over A Thousand Tons of Military Cargo to Israel Every Week
- Zionists Pine for Censorship at World Jewish Congress, Jewish Leadership Conference and More
- Over 100,000 people died in Gaza, top German institute reports.
- Weapons of Willpower: Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Trump’s Gaza Plan
- The Neocon Wooing of Josh Shapiro
- Dissecting the UN’s “Comprehensive Plan” for Gaza and the inevitable dead-end
