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 772nd day.)
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 266 and injured 635. Death toll figures are tentative.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 282 times.
GAZA NEWS:
(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.)
Gaza death toll rises again
The Israeli military said on Monday that two men were shot dead for allegedly attempting to cross the “yellow line” that separates areas under army control from those where Palestinians are permitted to move under the ceasefire deal.
Israeli forces routinely target Palestinians who approach, even without crossing, the “yellow line” in areas where movement is permitted.
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.)
Israel tries Al-Aqsa imam Ekrima Sabri over alleged ‘incitement’
The charges, filed in August 2024, relate to two condolence speeches the Palestinian imam delivered in 2022, as well as his mourning of former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh following his assassination in 2024.
Sabri’s defense team says the case forms part of a broader pattern of political, religious, and ideological persecution carried out by Israeli authorities against him in recent years.
Khaled Zabarka, head of Sabri’s legal team, told Middle East Eye that the case represents “the embodiment of the racist persecution” targeting the imam (continue reading here).
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Including Children, Israeli Drones Injure 15 Civilians in Gaza
Israeli Colonizers Torch Homes and Vehicles in Bethlehem
Jerusalem: Israeli Forces Shoot Two, Settlers Attack Homes
Israeli Colonizers Open Fire Near Ramallah
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.)
Death Sentence for Palestinians in Custody
The latest report from Physicians For Human Rights – Israel reveals that over the past two years, up to August 2025, at least 94 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention facilities. Yet, the report stresses that this unprecedented figure likely represents only a portion of the full death toll, and points to a deliberate Israeli policy of killing Palestinians in custody due to systemic torture and denial of medical care.
At least 46 Palestinians died in Israel Prison Service (IPS) facilities, and 52 more died in military custody. The data makes clear that deaths have occurred across all detention facilities, not as isolated incidents but as part of a broader policy implemented consistently in both IPS and military facilities over the past two years (continue reading here).
ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Israeli Drone Campaign Widens in Southern Lebanon; School Principal Killed
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 and lies as facts.)
Israeli Court Extends Detention of Autistic Jaffa Boy Who Was Sexually Assaulted in Prison
If Polls Predict Defeat, Netanyahu Will Do Everything He Can to Defer the Israeli Election
Former chief rabbi among three probed for bribery, extortion in rabbinical courts
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
UN Security Council adopts resolution establishing Gaza Board of Peace, stabilization force
The UN Security Council approved US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza on Monday, which backs the creation of an international stabilization force and also supports a possible “pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” if certain targets are met.
The resolution, which passed by a vote of 13-0 with abstentions by China and Russia, will place Donald Trump in supreme control of Gaza, and see his “board of peace” oversee multinational peacekeeping troops, a committee of Palestinian technocrats and a local police force, for a period of two years.
What about statehood?
According to the resolution, a Board of Peace (BoP) will serve as a transitional administration in Gaza, “until such time as the Palestinian Authority (PA) has satisfactorily completed its reform program, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French Proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza.
“After the PA reform program is faithfully carried out and Gaza redevelopment has advanced, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood. The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence.”
Is the resolution a useful tool?
Critics argue the US draft seeks to use the UN’s authority to normalize Israel’s genocide and impose another foreign regime on Palestinians. The plan is also criticized for operating outside recognized international legal frameworks, establishing a parallel order based on security control and external authority.
On Sunday, a group of Palestinian organizations issued a statement rejecting US proposals to place Gaza under an externally imposed transitional administration, warning that such a move amounts to “a new colonialism”.
The National Commission for Palestinian Popular Action (NCPPA) said any attempt to install a governing body “outside the will of the Palestinian people” violates their right to self-determination and repackages old forms of domination “under updated labels”.
RELATED: Ex-UN official decries resolution backing Gaza force as ‘colonial outrage’
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israel’s policy on medical evacuation from Gaza is killing Palestinians
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Child, injure 2 Palestinians In Tubas
Report: Majority of Palestinians who died in Israeli custody were civilians
‘I served you as the mayor’: Outgoing NYC mayor tells Israeli Jews
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 17, 2025*:
- At least 70,259 Palestinians killed, 180,703 injured – including:
- At least 69,483** killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 23,000 women)
**Note: 279 martyrs have been added to the cumulative martyr statistics, whose data has been completed and approved by the government committee for the recognition of martyrs.
- At least 1,076 killed in the West Bank (~218 children)
- At least 170,706 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 548 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.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 17, 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 forces kill three Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank
- US signs deal for Israeli drones ‘tested in Gaza’
- Gaza cannot heal while its dead go unnamed
- Israel destroys Gaza’s historical palace, with over 20,000 artifacts looted
- “The prison is inside me”
- Israel uses old footage in new Hamas ‘terrorist rampage’ advert.
- How the Gaza “War” Influenced Israeli Fashion
- The Eviction Kings
- Israel killed her son and held his body. Her story is one of hundreds of Palestinian families.
- Israel seeks 20-year military aid deal with U.S. with “America First” tweaks
- Digging for annexation: How Israel uses archaeology to erase Palestine
- US Officials Warned Secretary Blinken that Israel Was Committing War Crimes in December 2023
- Censorship Crusade: Israel Targets Platforms and Online Archives to Rewrite Gaza
- Jeffrey Epstein Helped Israel Sell a Surveillance State to Ivory Coast
- Cornell Submits to Trump’s pro-Israel ‘Extortion’ Over Student Protests
- Israeli crowd applauds soldiers accused of raping Palestinian prisoner
- Rescue Teams Dig Up Over 50 Bodies Buried in Shallow Graves in Courtyard of Gaza City Clinic
- Palestinian children disappear amid Israeli military detentions in Gaza
- I Cannot Unsee the Photos of the Tortured Palestinian Hostages Returned by Israel
