News roundup for Tuesday, August 11, 2026, Day 1,040 since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people.
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM GAZA:
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.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The number of Palestinians being killed in Gaza is lower since the October 2025 “ceasefire” began, just over 300 days ago – about 4 per day, vs. over 100 per day during the 733 days of the “war.” But Israel is actively working (with Trump’s “Board of Peace“) to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinian population, even as the low-level killing continues. Genocide experts, along with organizations like the United Nations and Amnesty International, maintain that the genocide is ongoing.
MSF doctor discusses malnutrition in Gaza: James Smith, a doctor for Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières) working in Gaza, described the “slow and cumulative effect of…manufactured deprivation” in the Strip to the UK’s Channel 4 on Monday, as Israel continues to restrict the entry of life essentials into Gaza. “Every month still, approximately 3,000 children are being admitted into acute malnutrition programs,” Smith noted. His full interview is available here (and below).
‘I’ve Been Handed a Death Sentence, and My Crime Is Being a Cancer Patient From Gaza’
Palestine launches ‘1000 Martyrs Cup’ to honor 1,014 athletes killed by Israel: The Head of the Palestinian Supreme Council for Youth and Sports announced on Monday the launch of the “1000 Martyrs Cup” tournament to commemorate 1,014 Palestinian athletes killed during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. The list includes Olympic athletes, national team members, club and federation presidents, referees, and coaches.
Palestinian officials report over 5,400 casualties in Gaza since start of US-backed ‘ceasefire’: The ministry said on Tuesday that 1,259 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza since Trump launched his plan last year, while the number of wounded stands at 4,146. Israel has not stopped attacks and ceasefire violations since the 2025 US plan was launched, and has no plans to stop carrying out strikes on Gaza. It has also illegally occupied 70 percent of the strip.
DEATH TOLL – GAZA GENOCIDE (tentative):
- At least 1,259 since “ceasefire” began Oct. 11, 2025 (270 children). Children, women, and the elderly account for 35.3% of those killed and 49.1% of those wounded.
- 5 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire began – one by friendly fire, and four others in incidents during the first three weeks of the ceasefire.
- 73,386 killed (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls) since October 2023
- More statistics below
“Every month still, approximately 3,000 children are being admitted into acute malnutrition programs,” MSF doctor James Smith told Channel 4.
“What we’re seeing now is the slow and cumulative effect of deprivation, manufactured deprivation, over almost three years now. People… pic.twitter.com/NFqAY8oU4A
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) August 10, 2026
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM:
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 settler who stripped Palestinian naked and zip-tied his genitals released from house arrest: During the March attack, six settlers bound Palestinians of all ages with zip-ties, beat them with wooden sticks, and threatened to kill them.
Israel continues its assault on the occupied West Bank with 504 attacks in one week: Israeli forces and settlers continue to escalate attacks on the occupied West Bank, with 504 reported attacks in the past week alone, according to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission.
Israeli Bulldozing Intensifies Destruction of Farmland, Water Systems: Farmers say the effects extend far beyond the plots directly hit by bulldozers, with destroyed wells, irrigation lines, and access roads leaving large agricultural zones dry and inaccessible. The destruction is widespread in both the West Bank and Gaza.
Israeli Forces Issue New Demolition, Land-Clearing Orders For “Security*” Purposes
*NOTE: This justification of destruction of Palestinian property is yet another iteration of Israel’s self-portrayal as a perpetual victim – or potential victim – enabling it to claim “security” or “self-defense” as an excuse for taking aggressive actions against its neighbors.
ISRAELI MEDIA: The Israeli military says it condemns the “illegal, reprehensible and unacceptable” establishment of settler outposts inside Palestinian villages in the West Bank in recent days, but does not say why it hasn’t yet dismantled them or why, in a recent example, troops prayed with civilians rather than removing them from the area.
About 12,360 settlement units have been approved in the occupied West Bank this year, while nearly 7,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from more than 260 communities, Palestinian Land Authority head Alaa Al-Tamimi said.
Israeli army blows up Palestinian man’s home weeks after his killing: House belonged to Farouk Ramadan, who was killed while confronting occupier attack in Tal (also spelled Tell or Tel).
READ THE ORIGINAL STORY HERE: ISRAELI MEDIA: Israelis Fight Over Framing of West Bank Attacks. But Settler Violence Is an Israeli Strategy (2 articles)
Tuesday: West Bank Invasions, Abductions
Israeli Forces Demolish Home, Issue Orders Near Hebron
Army Demolishes 12 Commercial Storage Units South of Jenin
Colonizers Destroy Water Line, Assault Villages
DEATH TOLL – WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM (tentative):
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM 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 news accurately. IAK gets the facts – sometimes from Israeli media sites, where we can get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions, and that receives $63 million a day from America.
The gospel according to Bibi: How Israel Christ-washes hasbara: The Israeli state presenting itself as Christianity’s protector has presided over the erosion of one of the region’s oldest communities, Palestinian Christians.
*NOTE: Israel is not the “friend of Christians” that it claims to be. Israeli policies have imposed severe and unnecessary restrictions on worship at multiple Christian (and Muslim) religious sites. For example, blocking worshipers, and even top Christian leaders, from attending historic churches on high holy days; allowing the humiliation of clergy, arresting Christians who are victims of hate crimes, and painting anti-Christian graffiti on churches; as well as bombing and killing Palestinian Christians in Gaza.
Netanyahu has watched its Christian supporters slip away in recent months, thanks to these accumulating actions – and of course the genocide in Gaza. (See this and this, for example.) Consequently, Israeli propagandists have spent millions targeting Western Christians in major campaigns with an eye to turning them into influencers (some of them paid) for Israel (apparently, controlling the narrative is preferable to actually ending genocide).
RELATED: WSJ: Spitting Attacks Show Rise of Anti-Christian Hate in Israel
ISRAELI MEDIA: Russia ‘monitoring’ as historian critical of Zionism vanishes upon landing in Israel: Russian-Israeli historian Artyom Kirpichenok, 51, reportedly disappeared after arriving in Israel on August 2, and has not been heard from since. Kirpichenok immigrated to Israel in the 1990s and lived in the country for nearly 15 years, before returning to Russia, where he adopted a critical stance about the Jewish state and Zionism.
As conflict in the Middle East intensifies, India’s relationship with Israel deepens: An Amnesty International report reveals that the country is now a key part of Israel’s weapons supply chain.
IRAN, LEBANON, & SYRIA – NEWS & HEADLINES:
It can not be overemphasized that Israel is the impetus behind US policies and actions vis-a-vis Iran. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing the US to attack Iran for decades, using lies and deception. Under President Trump, he got his wish.
Israel has invaded Lebanon seven times in the last half century. Between 1978 and 2000, Israel maintained an 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon — Hezbollah was formed to fight that occupation.
Although Israel is not at war with Syria, the Israeli army has reportedly carried out over 1,600 violations inside Syrian territory since August 2025, and demanded the demilitarization of southern Syria – but also vowed to permanently occupy some areas.
IRAN
Turkey suspects Israel fabricated Trump Air Force One assassination plot to derail US-Iran deal: Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report that said Iran planned to assassinate US President Donald Trump during the Ankara NATO summit last month was a ruse to undermine negotiations with Tehran, Middle East Eye has learnt.
LEBANON
Lebanese man dies after Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon
Israel builds roads, military posts in south Lebanon as Rome talks stall
Moments ago, an Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle on the outskirts of Nabatieh, in southern Lebanon. When an ambulance crew from the Al-Risala Foundation arrived at the scene to tend to victims, their vehicle was deliberately targeted with a double-tap strike. pic.twitter.com/fcdz3ESauh
— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) August 11, 2026
SYRIA
Israeli forces shell agricultural land in Syria’s Quneitra countryside
ISRAELI MEDIA: IDF reservists are growing frustrated with constantly chasing Israelis who try to cross the Syrian border. One reserve soldier serving in the Syria sector told Army Radio, “We’re wasting a ton of resources, time, and energy on this stuff. This isn’t our mission; the mission is to protect the sector and the settlements… Instead of dealing with the important things, this is what we’re doing. It raises questions and doubts: what are we even doing here?” he asked.
DEATH TOLL – WARS ON IRAN & LEBANON (tentative):
- United States: 18 since Feb. 28, 2026
- Iran: at least 3,636 (1,701 civilians) since Feb. 28, 2026 (another source puts the number at 3,499)
- Lebanon: at least 4,335 people since March 2, 2026
- Arab states: at least 154 (including Palestine, excluding Lebanon)
- Israel: at least 60 people (Iran killed 20 civilians; Hezbollah killed 36 soldiers, 4 civilians)
MORE NEWS & HEADLINES:
Human rights groups sue Trump administration over ‘crippling’ ICC sanctions*: In a lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday, human rights groups – the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute – argued that the administration’s targeting of the ICC, as well as of groups and individuals affiliated with it or assisting its work, amounts to a “blatantly illegal attack on international justice.”
*NOTE: The Trump administration (like the Biden administration before it) has thrown its full weight of support on Israel, to the point that, when the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on Nov. 21, 2024 for over war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, the US sided with Israel, sanctioning eleven ICC officials – including the chief prosecutor.
The absurd outcome is that people who speak about war crimes are penalized for stating facts, while someone who is wanted for committing war crimes apparently gets a free pass. This is just one indication of how far the US is willing to debase itself to ensure impunity for Israel as it commits genocide. (Several Hamas members were also charged, but Israel has since assassinated them.)
Israel has run an almost decade-long secret “war” against the International Criminal Court, deploying its intelligence agencies to surveil, hack, pressure, smear, and allegedly threaten senior ICC staff in an effort to derail the court’s inquiries into Israeli leaders’ crimes. Read more here.
Power & Pushback: Carnegie Mellon investigating students over pro-Palestine messages
Tucker Carlson says Israel pushed him to report false allegations against Hunter Biden
Venezuela and Israel agreed on 11 August to resume consular services, 17 years after Caracas broke relations with Tel Aviv over war crimes committed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead.
ICYMI, A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Pregnancies shadowed by fear as miscarriage haunts Palestinian women in Gaza
International Media Is Failing Palestinian Journalists in Gaza
Netanyahu faces pushback from Kushner as tensions mount over Gaza roadmap: Report
Mike Huckabee must resign
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – August 11, 2026*:
- At least 74,571 Palestinians killed, 187,244 injured – including:
- Gaza: at least 73,386 killed (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls), 174,250 injured. Children, women, and the elderly account for 35.3% of those killed and 49.1% of those wounded during the “ceasefire”
- West Bank/East Jerusalem: at least 1,185 killed (~251 children) since Oct. 7, 2023, 13,000 injured
*NOTE: Thousands of remains in Gaza have yet to be identified, and as many as 15,000 more are still buried under rubble; others are reportedly missing.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – August 11, 2026: ~1,663 – including ~1,139** on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 472 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, about 52 military and civilians (by one count, there have been 59 victims) in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel (these numbers do not include deaths from the conflicts with Lebanon or Iran).
**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)
- “She was shot in the head. She was in the prayer area memorizing the Quran.”
- ‘Is this how our story ends?’ Palestinian refugees live in fear as Israel takes aim at West Bank camps
- ISRAELI MEDIA: International Media Is Failing Palestinian Journalists in Gaza
- Zionism has warped the lexicon, so words are now convenient weapons
- Israel’s siege cripples transport system in Gaza, risking return to famine in Gaza: Rights monitor
- Behind the Strange “Board of Peace” in Charge of Gaza
- Thousands of Jewish extremists intentionally provoke Muslims at Jerusalem’s holiest site
- Netanyahu’s Handpicked Likud Candidate: Trump a ‘Morally Corrupt Piece of Shit’
- Did California DA prosecute students to court pro-Israel donors?
- WSJ: Spitting Attacks Show Rise of Anti-Christian Hate in Israel
- ‘Used as human bait’: Leaked image shows elderly Palestinian men before execution by Israeli forces
- Israel’s Brutal Retaliation Against Imprisoned Palestinian Doctors Seeking Legal Appeals
- Pro-Israel Pressure Group Honest Reporting Received Grant from Knight Foundation
- Trump and Israel are demanding that Palestinians disarm. Here is why that is wrong and unjust.
