Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 48 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including at least 10 aid-seekers. The number of aid-seekers killed has now reached 805.
In the West Bank, a Palestinian and an American citizen were killed by Israeli settlers.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Friday, go here.
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(To understand what’s going on right now between Gaza and Israel, go here. For a bit more critical background, skim this, this, and this. To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.)
Ha’aretz: Israel Wants to Build the Most Moral Concentration Camp in the World
The support given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the criminal plan being promoted by Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, involving the construction of a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah, which would incarcerate all the enclave’s residents, is a moral and historic nadir for the State of Israel and the Jewish people. No matter how they try in Israel to wrap this move with laundered epithets, they are talking about a concentration camp.
It appears that in Israel they believe that it’s sufficient to attach the label “humanitarian” to convert every act into a legitimate one. Just like the term “the most moral army in the world“, which is no longer connected to what IDF soldiers are doing [if it ever was], they’re now trying to present a concentration camp to be used for the transfer of population as the most moral one in the world.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz says construction of the concentration zone would begin during the implementation of the agreement.
Several Palestinians told Al Jazeera that they would rather die where they were than bow to Israel’s plans.
“This is a crime; it is a sin. We’d rather die here than head to the south,” one man told our team on the ground.
“We will not head to Rafah, even if we all die here. We’re tired of displacement,” said another.
Israel’s plan has drawn international condemnation, including from the United Nations.
HUMANITARIAN NEEDS IN GAZA “NEVER HIGHER”: Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned the hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip “is worse than I’ve ever seen it before.” Skau revealed that the “humanitarian needs have never been higher” and that the UN’s “ability to respond and to assist has never been more constrained…Malnutrition is surging,” he said, adding that 90,000 children are now in urgent need of treatment for malnutrition. “One in three people in Gaza go for days without eating.”
GAZA DOCTORS VOW TO STAY BY PATIENTS’ SIDES: In a letter addressed to the public, the medical staff of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, have said they are running the hospital under “harsh conditions”, treating patients while under Israeli bombardment. “Tell the world about us. Tell them that we chose death rather than abandon our noble mission,” part of the letter read. “Don’t say we’re heroes. Just say that we understood what it means to be truly human, and forgive us. We are not numbers,” it added. The letter was first published by Al-Aqsa TV and later reported by our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues.
ISRAELI FORCES BULLDOZE CEMETERY, EXHUME GRAVES: Gaza’s Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs said in a statement that graves were desecrated at the Turkish Cemetery in southern Gaza, at dawn on Thursday. The ministry called the act a “flagrant violation of the sanctity of the dead and a blatant assault on the sanctity of cemeteries and human dignity after death,” adding that Israeli forces had completely or partially destroyed about two-thirds of Gaza’s 60 cemeteries.
NO AMBULANCES LEFT IN GAZA: A spokesman for Gaza’s civil defense says that it no longer has any functioning ambulances in Gaza City due to relentless Israeli attacks.
CEASEFIRE NEWS:
(To get an idea about past ceasefires between Gaza and Israel and how they ended, check out this and this.)
NETANYAHU DELIBERATELY STALLS CEASEFIRE: Negotiations between Israel and Hamas in Qatar on a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal are on the brink of collapse, according to Palestinian officials familiar with the details of the discussions. One senior official told the BBC that Israel had “bought time” during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week and deliberately stalled the process by sending a delegation to Doha with no real authority to make decisions on key points of contention. Before he left the US on Thursday, Netanyahu had maintained a positive tone, saying he hoped to complete an agreement “in a few days” (more here).
Ceasefire talks give cautious hope. But the reality in Gaza couldn’t be more brutal
WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS AND HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this.)
ISRAELI SETTLERS BEAT TO DEATH US CITIZEN: Israeli settlers have beaten to death United States citizen Sayfollah Musallet – who was in his early 20s – in the occupied West Bank, the victim’s family members and rights groups have said. The incident occurred Friday in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Musallet, also known as Saif al-Din Musalat, had travelled from his home in Florida to visit family in Palestine, his cousin Fatmah Muhammad said in a social media post. Israeli forces have killed at least nine US citizens since 2022, including veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh.
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
US BREAKS INT’L AGREEMENT, MAY FACE CHARGES AT ICJ: The Trump administration’s decision to sanction the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has prompted calls for legal action at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on account of her diplomatic immunity. Albanese was sanctioned by the US on Wednesday over her work as a UN expert scrutinizing Israeli and US actions in occupied Palestine. She is the first UN expert in history to be the subject of sanctions. The 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the UN, to which the US is a party, enshrines the immunity of UN special rapporteurs from legal process, immunity which enables them to carry out their work independently without interruption.
ISRAEL BUYS ADS TO DISCREDIT FRANCESCA ALBANESE: A recent investigation by an Italian news site has revealed that Israel resorted to using digital propaganda tools to discredit the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese. The probe was published on Wednesday on the Italian news site FanPage and details how the Israeli government purchased Google ads to discredit the UN rapporteur. Italian lawmaker Stefania Ascari, stated, “Israel is financing on one hand a digital campaign to discredit Francesca Albanese, and the US is targeting her on the other hand with sanctions”.
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ISRAEL WANTS US TO BOMB YEMEN AGAIN: Israel is pressuring the US to restart its campaign against the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) and Ansarallah [Houthi] movement in Yemen.According to Israel’s Broadcasting Corporation (KAN), Yemeni attacks on vessels headed to Israeli ports “can no longer remain solely an Israeli problem.” Sources said that Tel Aviv has been calling for “more intense combined attacks against Houthi regime targets – not just [Israeli] air force fighter jet strikes, but also a renewal of American attacks and the formation of a coalition including additional countries.”
Bipartisan Group of Senators Meets With Netanyahu Despite ICC Arrest Warrant
Aiding Israel’s genocide has been ‘reputationally damaging’, admits US consultancy BCG
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JULY 11, 2025:
- At least 58,771 Palestinians killed, 147,325 injured – including:
- at least 57,882 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 1,013 killed in the West Bank (~203 children)
- at least 138,095 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
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.
Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, it has killed at least 7,311 people. 45 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 8) have been killed during the same time period.
At least 805 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – July 11, 2025: ~1,627 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 446 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 223 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186 and 291 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)
- ‘Like a video game’: Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones
- A Palestinian Grandmother Was on Her Roof With Her Family When Israeli Police Shot Her Dead
- Haaretz Exposé: Malnutrition, Illness and Death – The Routine for Palestinian Prisoners at Israel’s Megiddo Prison
- Palestinian testimonies of deliberate Israeli killings at U.S.-run ‘aid’ sites were ignored until the perpetrators admitted to it
- AB 715: Strong Opposition Derails Dangerous Pro-Israel Public Education Censorship Bill in California
- New footage exposes ragtag US mercenaries firing toward Gaza aid seekers
- Palestine in Pictures: June 2025
- Amid Gaza’s Devastated Infrastructure, Donkey Carts Function as Ambulances
- Israel Besieges 2.3 Million Palestinians in Less Than 15% of Gaza, Amid Escalating Starvation and Mass Killings
- Gaza football star killed in Israeli strike, raising athlete death toll to 585
- The Stories of Mohammed, Razan, and Amal: Children Devastated by Israeli Starvation
- Muhammad was an inspirational teacher and coder
- The Israeli Plot to Extinguish the Journalists Documenting Genocide
- Poll: Overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis share genocidal belief there are ‘no innocent people in Gaza’
- Behind USS Liberty Cover-up: Israeli Threats Against LBJ
- 100 BBC Insiders Pen Letter Accusing UK Broadcaster Of Being “PR For Israel”
- US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
- Israel has killed 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, 2023
- ‘Time for the Shabbos goy’: Andrew Cuomo announced new pro-Israel Democratic group
