Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 88 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including at least 29 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,132 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
At least 14 more Palestinians have died of forced starvation in Gaza, including an infant, bringing the death toll from hunger to 147, including at least 88 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Sunday, go here.
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For a bit 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.)
Israel breaks “humanitarian pause” promise on the first day
On Sunday, the Israeli army said it would temporarily halt military activity each day from 10am to 8pm (07:00-17:00 GMT) in parts of central and northern Gaza, including al-Mawasi, Deir el-Balah and Gaza City. It also pledged to open designated aid corridors for food and medical convoys between 6am and 11pm.
But hours into the first day of the “humanitarian pauses”, Israeli air raids resumed.
“There was an air strike on Gaza City, and this is one of the areas that was designated as a safe area, and where the Israeli forces are going to halt their military operations,” Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reported from Deir el-Balah.
“According to Palestinians in that area, a bakery was targeted.”
Another attack that took place after the beginning of Israel’s pause in fighting in the area killed a woman and her four children. The Israeli military has not provided any comment on the incident.
A lot of aid nearby, a tiny bit coming into Gaza
Since Israel started allowing a trickle of aid into Gaza, in late May, a total of 4,500 UN aid trucks have entered – an average of about 70 trucks a day.
“We have to go back to the levels we had during the ceasefire, 500-600 trucks of aid every day managed by the UN, including UNRWA, that our teams would distribute in 400 distribution points,” said Juliette Touma, the UNRWA director of communications.
She explained that an unimpeded flow of aid would be needed to “reverse the tide and trajectory of famine”.
Israel has announced airdropped aid will resume, and that humanitarian corridors would be established to facilitate the entry of UN aid trucks into Gaza, though the number of trucks that will be allowed in was not specified.
UNRWA, which Israel banned* from operating in Gaza in January, has 6,000 trucks of aid loaded with food, medicine and other hygiene supplies in Jordan and Egypt. The World Food Program said on Sunday it had enough aid to feed the population of Gaza for three months.
*FACT: UNRWA, the United Nations body with a mandate to help Palestinian refugees, has been feeding the people of Gaza for decades as they wait for their internationally recognized right of return to be activated. Israel has forbidden UNRWA from continuing its work based on an unsubstantiated accusation that 12 employees (out of a staff of 13,000) participated in the October 2023 attack. The 6-page dossier Israel issued, allegedly proving the guilt of twelve UNRWA employees out of a staff of 13,000, offers no compelling evidence.
As of July 2025, Israel has still failed to provide evidence to back up its accusations against UNRWA.
To learn the real reason why UNRWA was banned from Gaza (and the West Bank), read this.
RELATED: Palestinians wary as Israel begins military pauses to allow ‘minimal’ aid into Gaza
PITTANCE OF AIRDROP AID: Gaza’s Government Media Office said, “We witnessed three airdrops, which combined did not equal the load of two truckloads of aid,” and that it landed in dangerous combat zones, and was watched over by Israeli forces. Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have also parachuted 25 tons of aid into Gaza.
AIRDROP INJURES AID-SEEKERS: Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported that one aid drop injured nearly a dozen people. “Eleven people were reported with injuries as one of these pallets fell directly on tents in that displacement site near al-Rasheed Road.”
NETANYAHU “FORCED” TO ALLOW AID INTO GAZA: In a video statement posted on X, the Israeli prime minister has said that Israel will achieve its goal of “destroying Hamas”: “In order to achieve the goal of defeating Hamas and returning our kidnapped soldiers, we are advancing the fighting and conducting negotiations,” he said. “Whatever path we choose, we will be forced to allow the entry of essential humanitarian aid.”
ISRAELI LAWMAKER: “NO AID, ONLY IMMIGRATION”: Legislator Tzvika Fogel told a local radio station that Palestinians in Gaza “should not be given anything.” He added, “The only humanitarian thing I would give them is voluntary migration*. The moment we do that, we get closer to victory.” Reports indicate that Israel is making contacts with nations around the world, trying to find one that will accept a mass population transfer from Gaza.
*NOTE: There is nothing “voluntary” about the Trump’s scheme for removal of Gazans from their homeland. Forced population transfer is a crime against humanity, and a form of ethnic cleansing. If world leaders truly want to offer Gazans a good life outside Gaza, the just solution would be to return them to their homes in historic Palestine.
US AMBASSADOR MIKE HUCKABEE SAYS GHF* IS “SAFE”: “Is the UN, NY Times, and Hamas all happy now?” Huckabee, a longtime Israel supporter and evangelical minister, said in response to a video of hungry people in Gaza climbing onto a truck bringing aid into the Gaza Strip. “I’m sure Hamas is. Their lies and propaganda destroyed the cease-fire deal, tried to discredit safe and functioning GHF effort, emboldened Hamas and will result in this complete balagan [Hebrew for chaos]! Most sad for hostage families-grief prolonged.”
*NOTE: Globally recognized human rights organizations have warned that the GHF model was deeply flawed and bound to create chaos, calling it a “dangerous, politicized sham”; news reports have indicated from early on that the organization was a tool of the Israeli government, allegedly funded by the notorious Israeli Mossad. Over 1,100 Palestinians have been killed at or around GHF distribution points – – eyewitness accounts indicate that Israeli soldiers and GHF workers have been shooting indiscriminately at the aid-seekers.
UNRWA CHIEF CITES NYT, ACCUSES ISRAEL OF SMEAR CAMPAIGN: Citing the New York Times’ recent bombshell report, “No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say,” UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini stated on X that Israel’s claims of Hamas stealing aid were “only aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the humanitarian community and attempting to replace it with a diabolic and politically motivated distribution scheme” – as alternative news outlets (including If Americans Knew) have been reporting for weeks.
(Get familiar with the charges against Israel: genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced transfer, starvation as a weapon of war, use of human shields, concentration camps, indiscriminate shooting at civilians, and more.)
No proof of aid diversion in #Gaza.
Claims were only aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the humanitarian community & attempting to replace it with a diabolic & politically motivated distribution scheme.
It’s time for principled & at scale humanitarian response including… https://t.co/5xJAMtrN1i
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) July 27, 2025
GAZA CEASEFIRE UPDATE:
(To get an idea about past ceasefires between Gaza and Israel and how they ended, check out this and this.)
Hamas’s top political leader Khalil Al-Hayya delivered a blistering speech Sunday night, accusing the U.S. and Israel of plotting to sabotage yet another potential ceasefire agreement to end the Gaza war.
“We state clearly: There is no point in continuing negotiations under the siege, genocide, and starvation of our children, women, and people in the Gaza Strip,” Al-Hayya said. “We will not accept that our people, their suffering, and the blood of its children be sacrificed for the occupation’s negotiating tricks and the achievement of its political goals.”
Al-Hayya, who has led Hamas’s negotiating team since Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Hanniyeh last summer in Tehran, accused Israel and the U.S. of “blackmail,” and charged that Israel was using “negotiations as a cover and tool for starvation.” He added, “The immediate and dignified entry of food and medicine to our people is a serious and genuine expression of the viability of continuing negotiations.”
Hamas officials said they were bewildered at the public response from the Trump administration. On Friday, Trump launched into a belligerent tirade on the White House lawn as he prepared to embark on a trip to Europe. “Hamas didn’t really want to make a deal. I think they want to die, and it’s very, very bad. It got to be to a point where you’re going to have to finish the job,” Trump declared. “I think they will be hunted down” (continue reading here for an overview of the last round of amendments proposed by Hamas).
WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM, AND ISRAEL NEWS AND HEADLINES:
(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.)
Two Palestinian Families Forced to Demolish Their Homes in Jerusalem
FREEDOM FLOTILLA UPDATE:
(Read about the Freedom Flotilla Coalition here. Read about FFC’s previous mission aboard the Madleen here.)
Activists, journalists detained as Israel seizes ‘Handala’
The Adalah Human Rights Center said that Tel Aviv has refused several demands to allow lawyers to contact the detained crew of the Handala vessel, thereby preventing them from receiving legal consultation.
It added that those onboard were peaceful, trying to break the siege on Gaza, and that their arrest is a violation of international law.
Israeli authorities continue to detain 11 other activists who were aboard the ship, who have reportedly gone on a hunger strike.
“Adalah reiterates that the activists aboard the Handala were part of a peaceful civilian mission to break through Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza. The vessel was intercepted in international waters and their detention constitutes a clear violation of international law.”
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
US senators urge Trump administration to stop funding for Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Pope Leo warns Gaza civilians being ‘crushed by hunger,’ exposed to violence, death
Netherlands labels Israel ‘threat to national security’ for first time
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
NYT Reveals Another Israeli Lie: No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say
‘Without a Doubt’: Former US Officer Tells BBC He Witnessed War Crimes in Gaza
Why a Famine Hasn’t Been Declared Yet – No Access
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JULY 27, 2025:
- At least 60,837 Palestinians killed, 154,081 injured – including:
- at least 59,821 killed in Gaza (~17,000 children)
- at least 1,016 killed in the West Bank (~207 children)
- at least 144,851 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 8,657 people. 50 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 26) have been killed during the same time period.
At least 1,132 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 27, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 454 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 228 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186 and 296 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)
- Committee to Protect Journalists calls for Anas Al-Sharif’s protection in face of Israeli threats
- Hunger is killing us in Gaza, but it is world leaders who should be dying of shame
- Enforce the Law: Trigger the Leahy Review Now Over IDF Abuses in Gaza
- The New York Times commitment to Zionism begins with its own staff
- IDF Soldiers Seize Second Gaza Aid Flotilla in Int’l Waters, Detain Activists on Board
- Palestinian women were told to go to U.S.-run aid sites in Gaza. They were killed and beaten instead, eyewitnesses say.
- Exclusive: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid
- US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence
- The JCRC tried to silence me for advocating for Palestinians, but I will not stop speaking out
- Former UN Aid Chief Calls Gaza Genocide ‘Worst Crime of the 21st Century’
- The people who spent time with Epstein AFTER his conviction
- Latest Israeli report on Oct 7 sexual violence fails to make a case
- ‘People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses,’ says UNRWA
- Children will die quickly amid ‘genocidal starvation’ in Gaza, warns top famine expert
- Rep. Randy Fine Tells Palestinians To ‘Starve Away’ as Babies Die of Malnutrition Under Israeli Blockade in Gaza
- How Israel pushed Gaza to breaking point, ‘starving, alone, and hunted’
- ‘Double tap’ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts
- ‘We are watching our colleagues waste away’: Aid workers, doctors, journalists go hungry alongside people in Gaza
