Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 52 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including at least 26 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,743 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
The total number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 222, including 101 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.)
The Israeli military on Sunday killed five Al Jazeera journalists with an airstrike on a press tent in Gaza City, a massacre that the media network decried as “yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom.”
Reporters Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa were killed in the Israeli strike. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it was intentionally targeting al-Sharif, claiming he was “the head of a Hamas terrorist cell.”
Press freedom organizations, United Nations experts, and human rights groups have denounced such assertions as part of a smear campaign aimed at justifying al-Sharif’s assassination. Last month, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it was “gravely worried” about al-Sharif’s safety, noting that the IDF ramped up its false attacks after “the journalist cried on air while reporting on starvation in Gaza” (continue reading here).
This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.
Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my…
— أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) August 10, 2025
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Israel bombed journalist tent hours after Netanyahu said he would let some foreign media into Gaza
The Israeli army’s attack on a journalists’ tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, which killed five Al Jazeera staff members, came hours after the Israeli prime minister told foreign media he had decided to allow some foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip.
“In fact, we have decided, and I’ve ordered, directed the military, to bring in foreign journalists, more foreign journalists,” Netanyahu said at the news conference in Jerusalem.
“There’s a problem of assuring security, but I think it can be done in a way that is responsible and careful to preserve your own safety,” he added.
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ISRAEL IS ALLOWING “ONLY 10% OF BABY FORMULAS, SUPPLEMENTS NEEDED IN GAZA: Despite tens of thousands of children suffering from acute malnutrition in Gaza, only 10 percent of the required baby formulas and supplements have been allowed into the enclave, Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, tells Al Jazeera. “There is no milk,” he said, adding that 55,000 infants cannot be breast-fed by their mothers.
AIRDROPS PROVIDE < 1% OF GAZA’S FOOD NEEDS: Palestinian writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada says all of the combined airdrops of aid into the Gaza Strip over the last week have totaled about the equivalent of 15 aid trucks, “which is less than 1 percent of the 600 Gaza needs on a normal day for basic survival”. Shehada says “complicit countries” are participating in parachuting aid into Gaza, “not to address the hunger, not to end it, but to sustain it [and] cover it up” with “headline-grabbing gestures.”
NOTABLE QUOTE: “This is a moral scar on our shared humanity”
Ahmad Alhendawi, Save the Children’s Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, as the number of children in Gaza who have starved to death reaches 100:
What kind of a world have we built to let at least 100 children be starved to death while the food, water and medical supplies to save them wait just miles away at a border crossing? Children in Gaza are being starved by design by Israeli authorities. This was a wholly predictable and avoidable tragedy that humanitarian organizations have been warning about for months. We knew this would happen; no one can say they didn’t.
With the Ministry of Health only able to provide data from what’s left of Gaza’s health facilities, we know these figures are just the tip of the iceberg. Who knows how many more young lives have been needlessly destroyed?
We also know that, for children, conditions like malnutrition can lead to lifelong health issues like stunting, weakened immune systems and organ failure. The effects of malnutrition can span generations, with its impacts on children making learning and development harder, creating a cycle of poverty for the entire population.
Even those who survive this could be condemned to a lifetime of suffering unless the Government of Israel urgently allows the full, immediate, unfettered access of life-saving food, clean water, medical supplies and staff (full statement here).
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS & 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 has made more than 18,500 West Bank arrests since October 7, 2023: Prisoner’s Society
Israeli forces made 662 arrests during raids in the occupied West Bank last month, reports the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. Among those detained were 39 minors and 12 women, it said.
Those arrests brought the total number of arrests since the Gaza war broke out to more than 18,500, with more than 1,500 minors and 570 women apprehended, according to its tally. Those figures do not include thousands of people estimated to have been detained in Gaza, said the Prisoner’s Society.
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ISRAELI MILITARY TO STAY IN WEST BANK REFUGEE CAMPS TILL END OF YEAR: Earlier this year, Israel’s military waged intensive, months-long raids on refugee camps Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams in the northern West Bank, displacing tens of thousands and killing dozens. Claiming the operation to be a security success, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz now says the military will remain “at least until the end of the year.”
MORE WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Israeli Colonizers Burn Palestinian Property, Establish Outposts in the West Bank
![Israeli forces intervene in the protest held by Palestinians against illegal Israeli settlers who set up encampments at Umm Safa village, north of Ramallah, West Bank on September 14, 2024. [ Issam Rimawi – Anadolu Agency]](https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/9-29-c-1024x682.jpg)
ISRAEL HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil within its government. Most of the below news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Israel allows for 430,000 reservists to be called up amid Gaza takeover plan
Far-right Minister Smotrich’s Attack Exposes Netanyahu’s Political Weakness
Families of captives fume at Netanyahu for only vowing to free ‘20 hostages’ in Gaza
Opposition pans Netanyahu as a ‘failed prime minister’ who ‘lies with brazen audacity’
After soccer star killed in Gaza, IDF says it’s unaware of casualties in the area that day
Cost of Israeli control of Gaza could exceed $50 billion a year, estimates show
PROPAGANDA SERVED UP IN ISRAELI PRESS AS “NEWS”:
‘Open your eyes, Hamas lies’: Netanyahu slams int’l media for reporting false starvation claims
‘Starvation’ campaign is new form of antisemitism
Israeli military kills Hamas terrorist doubling as Al Jazeera reporter near Shifa Hospital
Hamas terrorists disguised as journalists confirmed killed by IDF
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
COUNTRIES CHOSE TO AIRDROP AID TO GAZA, FEARING ISRAEL WILL HINDER GROUND DELIVERY*: Several countries providing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip have recently refused Israel’s request to unload the aid on Israeli soil and transport it into Gaza by truck, Israeli army officials said on Sunday. Sources said the countries refused the request on the grounds that they do not trust Israel’s assurances that the aid will indeed reach the needy population (more here).
*NOTE: 22,000 trucks loaded with aid reportedly remain at the crossings, waiting for Israeli permission to enter Gaza.
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Israel’s arms industry thrives on genocide and the world keeps buying
While anybody with a shred of humanity is outraged by Israel’s campaign of mass starvation and death in Gaza, Germany recently agreed to purchase a missile defense system from Israel’s largest arms company, Elbit, for $260m.
Israel’s arms and surveillance industries are thriving because of its violence in Gaza, the West Bank and beyond. The latest available figures, from 2024, show record sales of $14.8bn.
Numbers for 2025 are likely to be even higher, fueled by huge global demand for the arms, drones, surveillance and AI tools that Israel has deployed in Gaza.
Genocide is no impediment to Israel promoting itself as the ultimate “battle-tested” entity (continue reading here).
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UK police arrested 522 who backed banned pro-Palestine group
London’s police service said Sunday that officers had arrested 522 people the previous day for breaching anti-terror laws by carrying out a silent protest in support of the group Palestine Action, a human rights organization that was recently proscribed as a terrorist group after members broke into an air force base and allegedly damaged two aircraft.
The 522 total is thought to be the highest ever recorded at a single protest in the UK capital.
The force said the average age of those arrested on Saturday was 54, with six teenagers, 97 aged in their 70s and 15 octogenarians.
The United Nations and groups such as Amnesty International and Greenpeace have condemned the proscription of Palestine Action as legal overreach and a threat to free speech (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES (a quick skim of headlines can be very informative!):
Italian dockworkers block passage of Saudi ship carrying arms for Israel
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Members of Educators Union Say Its Capitulation to ADL Betrays Workers, Students
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 10, 2025*:
- At least 62,460 Palestinians killed, 162,443 injured – including:
- at least 61,430 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,030 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 153,213 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 217 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 100 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 1,743 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 9,921 people. 50 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 26) 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 10, 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 234 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186 and 304 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)
- Catching up with Ms Rachel
- Israel’s military is taking over Gaza City, and you’ll be paying for it.
- Israel Is Beginning To Choke On Its Own Lies
- Israel has always used food as a weapon against Palestinians
- Blaming the Israeli ‘far right’ lets a genocidal society off the hook
- Israel is losing the US front
- Netanyahu Hosts 20 AIPAC-Sponsored House Republicans in Israel
- Only 1.5% of cropland, 3% of animal wealth left in Gaza
- Jewish Currents: “We Need New Jewish Institutions,” and “How Support for Palestine Became a Hate Crime”
- Egypt’s Sisi calls Israel’s war, starvation campaign in Gaza a ‘systematic genocide’
- A war crimes net is tightening around Israeli soldiers abroad
- We Must Oppose a Definition of Antisemitism That Bolsters Genocide
- I saw many atrocities as a senior UN aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us.
- Report: Mass Abductions, Torture, Enforced Disappearances
- ‘She’s disappearing in front of me’: Gaza’s children are the most vulnerable victims of Israeli-imposed starvation
- Mainstream media largely sidelined Gaza starvation story, until it couldn’t
- The Cruelty and Speciousness of Bret Stephens’ Denial of Genocide
- Israel abducted starving children at Gaza “aid” sites, then tortured them
- Israel Is Imprisoning Florida-Born Cousin of American Slain by Settlers
