Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 88 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including at least 63 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,655 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
Eight more Palestinians died of starvation in Gaza on Tuesday, one of them a child. The total number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition is now 193, including 96 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Tuesday, 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.)
Gaza: At least 20 Palestinians killed by overturned aid truck
At least 20 people were killed when an aid truck overturned on a crowd of aid seekers in the central Gaza Strip, the enclave’s civil defence agency said on Wednesday.
“Twenty people were killed and dozens injured around midnight last night in a truck carrying aid overturned… while hundreds of civilians were waiting for aid,” the agency’s spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
The incident took place near the Nuseirat refugee camp, as the truck was driving on an unsafe road that Israel had previously bombed, Bassal added.
Gaza Health Ministry Reports Spike in Neurological Diseases, With 95 New Cases in Past Day
A rare neurological disease is spreading in the Gaza Strip, particularly among children, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Tuesday. It attributed the spread of Guillain-Barre syndrome to increasingly poor nutrition and severe pollution of the drinking water in the enclave.
Over the past day, 95 people have been diagnosed with the disease, including 45 children. That’s vastly higher than the average incidence of the disease in prior years, which the ministry said was around one case per year.
Three people have already died of it, including two children under age 15. The ministry attributed the deaths to the lack of proper medical care, including severe shortages of medicine and medical equipment.
The ministry’s director general, Dr. Munir al-Boursh, said such an outbreak of Guillain-Barre Syndrome is unprecedented. He said he has major concern that an epidemic will develop.
Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza abducted by Israel at GHF sites, rights groups say
At least three Palestinians have been abducted and forcibly disappeared by the Israeli army as they were trying to receive aid from Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution sites since June, two rights groups have said.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and MENA Rights Group say two other Palestinians whose cases they have also documented, including a 16-year-old student, disappeared at GHF sites, but the army has denied taking them.
The groups have referred the five cases to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances, and say they are “only the tip of iceberg” among mounting cases of enforced disappearances at the sites (continue reading here).
GAZANS BURN WASTE AS FUEL RUNS DRY: Gaza’s worsening fuel crisis is pushing Palestinians to burn tires, rubber and waste – anything they can find – to power tuk-tuks and motorbikes, creating massive environmental damage and public health risks. Fuel shortages have also crippled essential services. “Ambulances cannot run, hospitals cannot operate, water trucks also cannot be delivered,” said an OCHA spokesperson.
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS:
(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 Army Demolishes School in Tubas
On Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces demolished an under-construction school in Tubas.
Azmi Balawna, Director of the Education Directorate in Tubas, stated that multiple Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the village of al-Aqabah, east of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank, and began demolishing the school.
Balawna noted that the school was funded by the French government to provide education for Palestinian children in the area.
NOTE: For info on Israel’s history of attacks on schools in the West Bank and Gaza, start with this and this and this.
MORE HEADLINES ON WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM:
Israel is holding Awdah Hathaleen’s body. His killer roams freely through his West Bank village
Israeli soldiers destroy water tank and pipeline, seize generator near West Bank’s Tubas
Israeli Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians In Nablus
Israeli Forces Abduct Five Palestinians in Hebron and Ramallah
ISRAEL NEWS:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil within its government. Many of the below news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Former Israeli PM Bennett says Israel is seen as a ‘leper state’ in US
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a lengthy post on X on Tuesday that Israel’s reputation in the US is “in collapse,” and accused PM Netanyahu and his Likud party of turning Israel into “a leper state”.
Bennet views Israel’s reputational damage as a failure of the propaganda machine in Israel*, and not the devastating war in Gaza that has killed over 60,000 Palestinians.
He recommended that the current Israeli government “re-establish a fast and synchronized propaganda headquarters,” which would function “quickly, strongly, accurately.” He added that Israel must “harness” its friends everywhere to continuously convey to them Israel’s point of view.
RELATED: The Dozen Ds That Drive Israel’s Propaganda
ISRAELI MEDIA EXPOSES NETANYAHU LIE: HE BLOCKED RECENT CEASEFIRE DEAL, NOT HAMAS: Secret meeting protocols from Israeli political and security leaders during the most recent Gaza ceasefire deal show that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected proposals that could have secured the release of all hostages and paused the war, an Israel channel reported Monday. Israeli officials believed the agreement could have been followed by renewed fighting if necessary, but Netanyahu opposed the plan, said Channel 13. US officials blamed Hamas for the impasse.
NETANYAHU ATTACKS HIS TOP GENERAL AS HE RUNS OUT OF SCAPEGOATS FOR GAZA FAILURE: IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir was hand-picked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lead the military. To get the ‘forever war’ he wants in Gaza, Netanyahu may now be ready to chuck him under the bus.
MORE HEADLINES ON ISRAEL (a quick skim just of headlines can be very informative!):
Netanyahu’s Declarations of Conquering Gaza Clash With Reality on the Ground
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
US “MAY TAKE OVER AID DISTRIBUTION IN GAZA: US media is reporting that Washington is expected to significantly increase its role in providing humanitarian aid to Gaza. An official said it was decided that the Trump administration would “take over” because Israel wasn’t “handling it adequately.” Trump was reportedly “not thrilled” about the US taking charge, but “it kind of has to happen,” the official said.
‘Erosion of Press Freedom’: Over 500 Journalists Demand Access to Gaza
More than 500 journalists and media organizations have signed a petition calling for “immediate, unsupervised foreign press access” to the besieged Gaza Strip, where no foreign journalists have been allowed since the war started in 2023.
“What’s happening in Gaza today reveals a far broader crisis: the erosion of press freedom as a pillar of democracy,” the petition states. “The people most directly affected are not only the millions of civilians in Gaza enduring war beyond public scrutiny, but also global citizens everywhere whose right to receive free and independent information is being denied.”
“Nearly 200 journalists, “overwhelmingly Palestinian,” have been killed while reporting from Gaza, the petition noted, while foreign journalists “remain barred from entering the territory, blocked by Israeli-imposed restrictions that silence independent observation” (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES:
Head of US-based pro-Israel group J Street acknowledges Israel breaking genocide convention in Gaza
UMD moves to settle lawsuit with Students for Justice in Palestine chapter for $100,000
As Columbia capitulates to Trump over Palestine protest, student activists are regrouping
Not Antisemitism: Israeli Soccer Player Shon Weissman Is Facing the Consequences of His Extremism
B’Tselem’s flawed report on Gaza names genocide but evades the law
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Retired security officials warn Israel on ‘precipice of defeat,’ demand ‘end to Gaza war’
Speaker Mike Johnson visits occupied West Bank to support [illegal] Israeli settlers
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 5, 2025*:
- At least 62,188 Palestinians killed, 160,652 injured – including:
- at least 61,158 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,030 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 151,442 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 193 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 96 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 1,655 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 9,519 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 5, 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)
- 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
- TikTok hires ex-Israeli army instructor as new hate speech manager, sparking backlash
- Amazon Labor Union Leader and Flotilla Crew Member Chris Smalls Released From Israeli Prison
- Israeli Officials Visit London, Offer Wealthy Jews Tax Incentives to Immigrate to Israel
- BBC is a patsy of the Israel lobby
- Christian GHF boss gets free hand to spread his own ‘disinformation’
- Ralph Nader: “Palestinian Holocaust,” Possibly 500,000 Dead
- American Nurse Who Tried to Save “No Other Land” Activist Was Detained & Deported By Israel
- Gaza starvation widens MAGA’s rupture with Israel
- The Information Warfare Consortium Shaping Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s PR Offensive
- As Gaza Starves, Republicans Take Aim at Another Lifeline. Almost No One Noticed
- Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda To 45 Million Europeans
- BREAKING: In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote to Stop Arming Israel
