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 792nd day.)
At least four Palestinians were confirmed dead on Wednesday, three newly killed and one body recovered.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 383 Palestinians. Among the dead are at least 136 children. At least 1,002 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative. More statistics below.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 738 times in 61 days.
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.)
IDF Kills 16-Year-Old Boy in Gaza and Runs Over His Body With a Tank
Israeli forces in northern Gaza shot and killed a 16-year-old boy on Wednesday before crushing his body with a tank, the Palestinian news agency WAFA has reported, as the IDF continues to violate the US-backed ceasefire deal.
“A WAFA correspondent reported that the army shot 16-year-old Zaher Nasser Shamiya from Jabalia refugee camp and then ran over him with a tank, splitting his body in half,” the news agency said (continue reading here).
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Heavy rains flood displacement camps in Gaza, sparking catastrophe warnings
Torrential rains have inundated thousands of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, aid officials and local authorities reported on Wednesday, Dec. 10, warning of an imminent humanitarian disaster.
The heavy downpours submerged numerous tents in makeshift camps, with water levels rising above 40 centimeters (~16 inches) in some areas.
The flooding has severely damaged the limited shelter available to hundreds of thousands of displaced families, ruining personal belongings and leaving many exposed to harsh, cold conditions.
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Rising maternal malnutrition in Gaza drives up newborn mortality
The number of newborns who died at birth in Gaza has increased by 75 percent, according to new data by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). Between July and September, an average of 47 baby deaths were recorded each month, almost double the monthly average of 27 in 2022.
Data also showed that in 2022, prior to Israel‘s genocidal war on Gaza, an average of 250 babies per month – 5 percent – were born underweight. That figure has risen sharply, to roughly 460 low birth-weight babies each month.
Children born underweight (less than 2.5 kilograms) are 20 times more likely to die than those born at a healthy weight (continue reading here).
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Palestinians in Gaza are literally left ALONE, FREEZING and STARVING in the winter storm.
I keep asking how we became such monsters, uncapable of stopping this nightmare.
For them, for us, for whatever remains of the people in whose name this genocide is being committed. https://t.co/SdFVmzTeSa— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) December 10, 2025
77 years ago today, the UN adopted the Genocide Convention – a treaty to ensure mass atrocities such as the Holocaust never happened again.
Tragically, this has not been the reality.
Nearly 2 months after the so-called ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza, Palestinians are still enduring… pic.twitter.com/4ayAaKUNNa
— Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) December 9, 2025
Watch | Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal reported the recovery of more than 100 unidentified Palestinian bodies from mass graves inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex, after Israeli occupation forces buried victims without names or recognition.
Basal said Civil… pic.twitter.com/WCP59M27z0
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 8, 2025
Breaking: The Israeli army continues to expand the agreed-upon “yellow line,” seizing more Palestinian land. Israel has not complied with a single provision of the ceasefire commitments. pic.twitter.com/QgLmCqtKOt
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) December 10, 2025
GAZA HEADLINES:
Silent Threats Beneath Gaza’s Ruins – Unexploded Ordnance
Ex Israeli official confirms ‘majority’ of captives in Gaza’s Jabalia killed by friendly fire
No phase two talks until Israel implements phase one of Gaza ceasefire: Hamas
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.)
Palestinian Detainee Dies* in Israeli Prison
The Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority announced the death of detainee Abdul-Rahman Sofian Mohammad Sabatin, 21, from the town of Husan west of Bethlehem, late Tuesday night.
Sabatin had been held since June 24, 2025. On November 25, 2025, his family saw him in court, and reported no signs of serious health complications.
Two prisoners’ rights institutions stressed that Sabatin’s death adds to the record of systematic slow-kill policies pursued by Israeli authorities against prisoners (continue reading here).
*NOTE: Rights groups — including Israeli organizations — report that fatalities among Palestinian prisoners since the start of the genocide on October 7, 2023, have surpassed one hundred, though the figure is not final.
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Israel approves construction of 764 new settler* homes in occupied West Bank
According to Israeli Channel 7, Israeli authorities approved the construction of 764 new settlement units in the central West Bank.
Israeli settlement construction has surged across the occupied West Bank since Benjamin Netanyahu’s current government took power at the end of 2022, with 51,370 settler homes approved across the occupied territory.
According to data from the Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now, more than 700,000 illegal settlers live in the West Bank, including around 250,000 in East Jerusalem.
*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.
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Israel raids Birzeit University, causing extensive damage; more than 150 students held in Israeli prisons
Israeli forces executed two Palestinian brothers in Nablus ‘without justification’: B’Tselem
Israeli Forces Abduct Dozens of Palestinians Across West Bank
NEWS & 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.)
Israeli minister says war with Syria* is now inevitable
The Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli has said that war with Syria “has become inevitable”, after videos circulated on Tuesday showing movements by Syrian security forces and armed men close to Israeli army positions in rural Quneitra in southern Syria.
(In other words, when Israeli forces violated Syria’s sovereign territory, they found Syrian forces ready to fight.)
Tel Aviv described this as a “security threat”, although the area has seen years of repeated Israeli attacks, incursions, and ongoing violations of Syrian sovereignty.
*NOTE: Israel has attacked Syria more than 600 times in the past year.
Since taking power following the overthrow of al-Assad, President Ahmed al-Sharaa has consistently stated that his government seeks no conflict with Israel and will not permit Syria to be used by foreign actors to launch attacks.
RELATED: Why Israel is Set to Escalate Its War on Syria – And What It Means for the Region
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ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Israel is ‘worst enemy of journalists’: Reporters Without Borders
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 America.)
Israel again urging US to strike Iran
The IDF’s military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder shared this information with visiting US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz earlier this week, Al-Monitor reports, indicating that Jerusalem is again urging Washington to act against Iran.
“This is a threat that Israel will not be able to accept for long, and we must coordinate with the Americans the red lines and actions we will take in the future, perhaps even in the near future,” a source familiar with the matter said.
HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
Israel Blocks Cancer Treatment for Five-year-old Palestinian Boy in West Bank Over Gaza-registered Address
Justice Ministry to Likely Block Netanyahu’s Bid for Presidential Pardon, Sources Say
‘Not a Natural Disaster’: Storm Byron Floods Gaza, Heightening Fears of Disease and Death
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
Ghana deports Israelis in retaliation for alleged mistreatment of Ghanaians
Ghana has deported three Israeli nationals who arrived in the country on Wednesday in what appears to be a tit-for-tat move over the alleged mistreatment of Ghanaian nationals at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel.
Seven Ghanaians, including four members of an official delegation attending a cyber-security conference in Tel Aviv, were allegedly detained without explanation.
They were released after five hours, while the three others were deported, according to Ghana, which condemned their “humiliating treatment” (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES:
US defense bill legally binds Washington to counter arms embargoes on Israel
Trump Administration Weighs Hitting UNRWA With Terrorism-related Sanctions
Eurovision used to be a campy joy – but it has become a cynical way to whitewash war
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
‘Beyond absurd’: Israeli Supreme Court extends ban on foreign media in Gaza
IDF actively supports construction of settler outposts and farms in West Bank
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 10, 2025*:
- At least 71,463 Palestinians killed, 182,069 injured – including:
- At least 70,373 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls)
- At least 1,095 killed in the West Bank (~223 children)
- At least 171,079 injured in Gaza
- About 11,000 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.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – December 10, 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.
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