Israel is killing far more civilians than fighters in Gaza – Not a ceasefire Day 122

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Israel is killing far more civilians than fighters in Gaza – Not a ceasefire Day 122
In Gaza, entire families have been wiped out, to the point where there is no survivor who's there to declare that they have been killed. (screenshot)

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 848th day.)

Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians — including a 16-year-old child — across the Gaza Strip on Sunday.

Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 581 Palestinians (288 children, women, and elderly). At least 1,544 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative. 

Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 1,520 times (as of Feb. 1, 2026). More statistics below.

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.

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Handful of patients leave Gaza through Rafah crossing

44 Palestinians left the Gaza Strip on Sunday through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, including just 17 patients and 27 companions. The Rafah crossing saw no movement Friday or Saturday due to the weekend closure.

Israel reopened the Palestinian side of the crossing last Monday after keeping it under occupation since May 2024, allowing only minimal movement under tight controls. Estimates in Gaza indicate that about 22,000 wounded and sick Palestinians hope to leave the territory for treatment abroad.

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WATCH: Israel is killing far more civilians than fighters in Gaza:

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.)

WATCH: A 14-year-old Palestinian Bled to Death for 45 Minutes as Israeli Soldiers Stood Nearby:

Illegal Israeli settlers* assault elderly blind Palestinian in occupied West Bank

Local sources say attackers beat 81-year-old with sticks east of Hebron amid upsurge in settler violence.

*NOTE: Israel has built around 280 settlements, home to more than 700,000 illegal settlers, on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. 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.

 (Learn more about Israeli settler violence here and here.)

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Israel approves measures to expand settlements in occupied West Bank

The changes would fundamentally reshape the legal and civil framework in the occupied West Bank, bolstering Israeli control and enabling expansion of settlements, according to Israeli media. Palestinian leaders say the measures advance annexation, threaten holy sites and violate international law. Hamas says the changes “confirm [Israel’s] colonial program aimed at swallowing all Palestinian land and displacing its original inhabitants.”

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Israel Invades 17 West Bank Villages Overnight Saturday-Sunday

Israeli Military Invasions, Abductions, and Rising Colonizer Attacks

Israeli troops arrest Palestinians during a raid on Halhul, Hebron, occupied West Bank, in July
Israeli troops arrest Palestinians during a raid on Halhul, Hebron, occupied West Bank, in July 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu)

ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:

(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.)

Israel could collapse before its centennial, retired Israeli general warns

Itzhak Brik cites internal fractures, global isolation and leadership failures as existential risks. Israel’s centennial would be in 2048.

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Netanyahu’s son Yair sent to Miami after assaulting his father: Report

The prime minister’s former private security guard has shared details about the family, calling him ‘not a moral person’ who should be imprisoned for corruption and ‘treason.’

NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:

(You can learn a lot about a country from its headlines. Get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions that receives $63 million a day from America.)

Israel to Expand Law Enforcement in Palestinian-controlled West Bank Areas, Defying Oslo Accords

Among other things, the move will introduce measures to ease the sale of Palestinian land to Jews. Bezalel Smotrich said after the cabinet meeting, “We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state.” Under the Oslo Accords, Israel has no authority over civilian matters in the West Bank.

OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:

Who is Leqaa Kordia, the Columbia protester still in ICE detention?

The 33-year-old Palestinian woman in ICE custody for nearly a year is reportedly hospitalized in the US after a seizure at a detention facility. Her whereabouts are not known.

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Jeffrey Epstein reportedly wrote, “Palestine has never existed*”

Email correspondence sent by Epstein on May 20, 2012, to an unnamed person reveals that he claimed “Palestine has never historically existed.” In that message, Epstein wrote:

“Palestine was never an exclusively Arab country, although Arabic gradually became the language of most the population after the Muslim invasions of the seventh century. No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine.”

*NOTE: The question of the existence of Palestine is often answered with a disingenuous “No” in order to sidestep the inconvenient fact that Israel usurped 78% of Palestinian land and exiled 750,000 of its people in 1948. Ignoring the Palestinian presence on the land enables one to adopt the fantasy that it was “a land without people for a people without land,” just waiting for the return of the Jews after thousands of years of exile. Scholarly books like “Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History” by Nur Masalha provide the historical facts.

Today, nearly 160 UN member states recognize Palestine as a state, making its existence a current, internationally recognized reality, regardless of historical debates.

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Mediterranean dockworkers shut down over 20 ports in solidarity with Palestine

Strikers stated that this mobilization is just the start, cautioning that ‘today it’s the ports, tomorrow it will be the entire logistics sector.’

ICYMI, A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:

Israeli settlers storm Gaza to ‘plant trees’ in bid to establish Jewish settlement

The Toxic Border: How Israel’s Chemical Spraying is Reshaping Life in South Lebanon

(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)

In Gaza, a wedding is a commitment to hope, joy, and life.
In Gaza, a wedding is a commitment to hope, joy, and life in the midst of genocide. (screenshot)

STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – FEBRUARY 7, 2026*:

  • At least 73,144 Palestinians killed, 182,661 injured – including:
  • At least 72,032 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls)
  • At least 1,112 killed in the West Bank (~230 children)
  • At least 171,661 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; 5,000 more are reportedly missing, with no information about their fate.

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.

At least 25 Palestinians in Gaza have died due to the extreme cold, including 21 children, since the start of Israel’s genocidal war in October 2023. At least 11 Palestinian children have died of extreme cold this winter.

Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – February 7, 2026: ~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 (by one count, there have been 59 victims) in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. 

By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 281 Palestinian journalists and media workers (as of Jan. 21, 2026); Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 215 and 333 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.

 

Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org

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