Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 75 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including at least 18 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,140 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
The total known number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 313, including 119 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Tuesday, go here.
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.)
AID REACHING GAZA IS JUST 15% OF THE MINIMUM NEEDED: Gaza’s Government Media Office has released figures covering the past 30 days of aid deliveries into the enclave, since Israel announced it would allow trucks to enter beginning on July 27, 2025: an average of just 88 trucks per day, or 15 percent of what is needed, according to the Gaza media office. Israel claims it allows 3-400 trucks per day. UNRWA says 5-600 trucks per day are the minimum required to meet Gaza’s basic humanitarian needs.
GAZA HEADLINES:
Israel claims double strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital targeted Hamas “surveillance camera”
‘I lost my family, my home, my sight’: Israel blinds thousands in Gaza
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM 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.)
ISRAEL’S ATTACKS ON WEST BANK CIVIL SOCIETY “SYSTEMATIC ACTS OF PIRACY”: The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) strongly condemned Israel’s raid on Ramallah on Tuesday. PNGO considers the raid, alongside the theft of Palestinian tax revenues, the persistent siege and closure of Palestinian towns and cities, restrictions on movement, and destruction of agricultural resources, as systematic acts of piracy aimed at undermining the Palestinian economy.
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Israel wanted to punish a Palestinian village. So it destroyed 10,000 of its olive trees.
Israeli army storms northern West Bank’s Nablus, lays siege to Old City
Israeli Army Abducts Dozens Of Palestinians In West Bank
West Bank Settler Attack on Palestinians and Israeli Activists Wounds Seven
ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil within its government. Often, our news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Israel’s Security Cabinet meets without discussing Gaza ceasefire proposal
Israel’s Security Cabinet convened Tuesday without addressing a recent Gaza ceasefire and prisoner swap proposal – a proposal that Hamas accepted on August 18.
Several key ministers, including Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir skipped the meeting entirely.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid condemned the failure to discuss the recent Gaza swap proposal: “Holding the cabinet without debating the hostage deal is another moral disgrace for the Oct. 7 government,” he said, adding, “There is a deal on the table that can bring the hostages home and end the war.”
RELATED: Netanyahu thwarted seven Gaza ceasefire deals, Israeli report finds
Israel claims to be investigating drone strike that killed 5 Gaza journalists
On Tuesday, the day after killing 20 Palestinians including 5 journalists, the Israeli military released what it said was the initial results of its investigation*.
The military claimed that soldiers were aiming to destroy a camera in the Nasser hospital area used by Hamas to surveil the Israeli army. It further claimed that six of those killed in the strike were “terrorists.”**
The statement, however, failed to address basic questions, like why a double-tap strike was used and whether anyone would be held accountable for the killing of civilians.
88% of Israel’s investigations into war crime allegations in Gaza were shut down or left unresolved, including investigations into the killing of at least 112 Palestinians in the “flour massacre” (February 2024) and an airstrike that killed 45 Palestinians in a tent encampment in May 2024 (continue reading here).
*NOTE: Israel’s self-investigations – on the rare occasions when they do take place – consistently whitewash its crimes and fail to appropriately punish the perpetrators.
Israel has a long track record of lying.
**The use of the word “terrorist” for groups – like Hamas – that resist occupation and oppression is a political, not fact-based choice. In reality, international law supports the efforts of resistance groups against an occupying power, the UN extending that right to the point of armed resistance.
RELATED: ‘Better Late Than Never’: Israeli Journalists Hail Killing of Palestinian Colleagues in Gaza
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Israeli army unit from deadly Gaza hospital attack ‘angry’ over Netanyahu’s ‘regret’
Discontent was reported within the Israeli army’s Sayeret Givati unit after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed “deep regret” for a deadly strike on a hospital in southern Gaza that left 20 people dead, including five journalists, local media said Tuesday.
Troops reportedly said they hope he apologizes to the fighters instead.
The outlet said Israeli soldiers confirmed the strike was approved and coordinated with the senior command (continue reading here).
RELATED: Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime on many fronts
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Netanyahu backs settler attacks in West Bank, signals move to annex territory
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening encouraged settlers to continue their attacks on Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, while hinting at its imminent annexation under Israeli sovereignty.
According to Israel’s Channel 7, Netanyahu said (speaking about settlers assaults against Palestinians), “The entire people of Israel trust the heroism of our sons.” He added: “From Judea and Samaria [the biblical term for the West Bank] and from all parts of the Land of Israel, we are protecting this land.”
Netanyahu also said: “I promised 25 years ago that we would plant our roots, and we did so together. I said we would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and we are doing that together.”
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LARGE MAJORITY OF ISRAELIS BELIEVE THERE ARE NO INNOCENTS IN GAZA: A new opinion poll has shown that 76% of Israelis believe there are “no innocents in Gaza,” reflecting a notable increase in extremist views within Israeli society (more here).
ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Israeli drone strikes kill 6 Syrian soldiers near Damascus
Ahead of Gaza City Conquest, Israeli Ground Troops Say They’re Treated Like Cannon Fodder
She Has PTSD From Her Service in Gaza, but the Israeli Army Refuses to Discharge Her
How Netanyahu Has Trapped Israel in a Messianic Timeline of Eternal War
OTHER NEWS:
DNC Votes Down “Overwhelming Popular Position” Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
In the latest party turmoil over Israel’s war on Gaza, Democratic National Committee members voted on Tuesday to kill a resolution calling on the U.S. to halt arms sales to Israel.
The resolution had been met with resistance from DNC Chair Ken Martin, despite polls showing overwhelming opposition to Israel’s military actions in Gaza from Democratic voters. The weapons ban resolution was put forward by a first-time DNC member to represent the views of younger party members.
“While it’s disappointing that DNC leadership wasn’t able to recognize that this is an overwhelming popular position, a 90-10 issue within its base, it started a conversation,” the resolution’s author, 26-year-old DNC member Allison Minnerly, told The Intercept. “As we approach 2026, it’s not going to go away, the more we delay having a hard conversation like this one” (continue reading here).
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US groups demand release of American-Palestinian teen imprisoned by Israel
More than 100 US human rights, faith-based and civil rights groups have demanded that the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, immediately secure the release of a 16-year-old dual American-Palestinian citizen who has been in an Israeli prison for six months over allegations of rock throwing.
The coalition warned that Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim’s deteriorating health puts “his life on the line” and demanded urgent US intervention.
“Mohammed is an American child with a community in Florida who cares about him deeply,” the organizations wrote in the letter. “It is the responsibility of the US government to protect all American children, including Palestinian-Americans” (continue reading here).
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HRW: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
US officials have acknowledged that since hostilities between Palestinian armed groups and Israel began on October 7, 2023, the United States has provided Israel with extensive actionable intelligence used to strike targets in Gaza, along with extensive coordination, planning, and intelligence gathering with Israeli forces to target Hamas leaders.
The US government’s provision of arms to Israel, which have repeatedly been used to carry out apparent war crimes, has made the United States complicit in their unlawful use.
Human Rights Watch has long called on the United States and other governments to do more to prevent further atrocities by the Israeli government, including by ending arms sales and military assistance, imposing targeted sanctions on Israeli officials, and suspending preferential trade agreements (continue reading here).
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MORE HEADLINES:
When Asked About Israel’s Double-Tap Strike on Gaza Hospital, State Department Refers Reporter to Israel
How the UN could act today to stop the genocide in Palestine
The Student Newspaper Suing Marco Rubio Over Targeted Deportations
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israel promised tents for the displaced, but has not delivered
Israeli soldiers mock American celebrities over their support for Palestinians
Israeli Ground Forces to Receive 5,000 Kamikaze Drones From Xtend
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 26, 2025*:
- At least 63,927 Palestinians killed, 168,157 injured – including:
- at least 62,895 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,032 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 158,927 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 313 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 119 children
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.
At least 2,158 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, 2025 it has killed at least 10,975 people. 51 Israeli soldiers (most recent Aug. 23) have been killed during the same time period.
*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble. Additionally, the numbers of injured and starved are very conservative estimates.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – August 26, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 455 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 240 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 197 and 313 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)
- Valerie Zink Quits Reuters, Accuses Agency of Enabling Journalist Killings in Gaza
- Joint Statement By The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate And The Latin Patriarchate Of Jerusalem
- Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists
- New polls show growing support for Palestine, and for calling Israel’s actions “genocide”
- Israel kills Middle East Eye journalists in double-tap strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
- Palestinian Boys Allege Sexual Assault, Torture by Israeli Jailers
- Israeli News Debunks Netanyahu’s Attack on the Gaza Famine Report
- Israel Is Forcing Parents in Gaza to Watch Their Children Die of Hunger
- Israel’s killing of Palestinian farmers part of systematic policy to enforce starvation in Gaza
- Netanyahu thwarted seven Gaza ceasefire deals, Israeli report finds
- Eyewitness says American subcontractors at Gaza aid sites fired at Palestinians
- 100 Days of Huckabee: A Master Class in Failure
- Palestinians in Gaza City hold ‘Last Hour’ protest demanding int’l protection
- Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
- Reuters journalists accuse their own agency of pro-Israel bias
- Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
- Israel Orders $760M in Top-of-the-Line Weapons for its “Evolving Needs”
- Pentagon seeks billions in ‘emergency funds’ to restock arms used in defense of Israel
- 2,000+ extradition requests with Israel as of May 2022, amid pattern of Jewish American pedophiles hiding in Israel
