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 760th day.)
On Tuesday, hospitals received the bodies of four Palestinians: three killed in recent attacks and one recovered from the ruins of a collapsed building.
Since the “ceasefire” began, Israel has killed at least 241 Palestinians, including 97 children, with approximately 609 others injured.
Israel has violated the truce agreement at least 194 times.
Additional 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.)
Israel blocks shelter, healthy food in Gaza
Israel appears to be carrying out a deliberate policy to flood Gaza markets with such “luxury” goods – instant noodles, cookies, and nuts, for example – but restrict the entry of essential items such as such as meat, fruits, vegetables, and clothing products.
This could create the false impression of an abundance of supplies, while the actual humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate day by day.
Israel has so far banned the import of tents, solar panels, and fuel, all of which are necessary to cope with the harsh cold and ongoing power outages (continue reading here).
After three weeks of a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, only 7 percent of forcibly displaced families in Gaza have been able to return to their homes, with the majority remaining in temporary shelters, the U.N. reported. Those who returned are staying in only partially habitable dwellings, while the rest remain mostly in displacement camps.
NOTE: Israel has repeatedly violated the terms of the ceasefire – at least 194 times before the massacre: military options were supposed to be halted; Israel was supposed to allow 600 trucks per day of aid into Gaza, rehabilitate infrastructure, hospitals, and bakeries, facilitate the entry of necessary heavy equipment, and open the Rafah crossing for the entrance of needed aid and exit of medical evacuees. Not one of these responsibilities has been completed. Palestinians are still dying from lack of food, medicine, rescue, and medical evacuation.
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Gaza’s Toxic Nightmare – 260,000 Tons of Garbage Demand Urgent International Intervention
The crisis stems from the Israeli genocide, which has not only prevented access to the main official landfill but also destroyed approximately 85% of the municipality’s vehicles and machinery, severely hindering essential services.
The municipality spokesperson stated that some streets have effectively become “open and random dumps,” posing a direct threat to citizens’ lives and raising the “real possibility of an outbreak of epidemics and infectious diseases.”
The toxic runoff and uncollected garbage also cause long-term environmental degradation, including soil and groundwater contamination, greenhouse gas emissions, and the destruction of biodiversity (continue reading here).
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Heavy Israeli shelling in Khan Younis as drones circle Gaza’s skies
Al Jazeera’s Tariq Abu Azzoum reported from Gaza City Tuesday morning: Since midnight into this morning, we have seen massive Israeli activity conducted in the eastern parts of Khan Younis. We have witness reports describing constant artillery shelling and a campaign taking place on what’s left of homes in Khan Younis. Farms and houses are being destroyed in eastern parts of Gaza City.
We have also been hearing drones and jets since early morning. These activities are banned by the terms of the ceasefire agreement, but the Israeli military says such activities are to eliminate potential threats that can encircle Israeli troops beyond the yellow line.
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Hundreds of Palestinian fighters trapped in tunnels under Israeli-controlled Rafah: Report
Around two hundred Palestinian resistance fighters remain trapped in underground tunnels in the southernmost city of Rafah, according to Israeli media reports.
According to Hebrew news outlet Channel 14, there is growing concern within Israel that the tunnels may also contain the remains of deceased Israeli captives, which has reportedly deterred Israeli forces from heavily bombing them in an attempt to destroy them (continue reading here).
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GAZA HEADLINES:
In a tent in central Gaza, a women’s film festival is born
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM 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.)
In the #WestBank, including East Jerusalem, UNRWA is leading the emergency response to the largest displacement crisis since 1967.
One in four displaced families are still unable to return to their homes.
To support sanitation services, UNRWA has been removing 13 tons of waste… pic.twitter.com/E50RQ8vCNi
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) November 4, 2025
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Across the West Bank, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks on Tuesday, while accompanied by Israeli forces, including setting fire to vast stretches of farmland, destroyed dozens of fruit-bearing olive trees, stealing olive harvests, and more.
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Israel Forces Palestinians to Demolish Their Home, Barn
NEWS & HEADLINES ABOUT ISRAEL:
Outrage over video leak of Israeli soldiers’ gang rape of Palestinian exposes rot in Israeli society
Israelis are having a meltdown over the leak of a video of Israeli soldiers gang raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman torture camp – not about the dozen or so Israeli soldiers who inserted a sharp object into a Palestinian prisoner’s anus and ripped his rectum apart. No, it’s over the fact that it was made public at all — and leaked by Israel’s Chief Military Advocate, no less.
The court case against the suspected rapists — who are not even charged with rape, but “aggravated abuse” and “causing aggravated injury” — is still ongoing. Meanwhile, the leaker is now being leveled with charges such as “breach of loyalty,” “breach of trust,” “dereliction of duty,” and “disrupting investigative operations,” Israel’s Channel 12 reported in Hebrew (continue reading here).
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Israeli minister says Israel will resume intensive military operations in Gaza after resolving the hostage issue
Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Eli Cohen, has said that Tel Aviv will return to intensive military operations in the Gaza Strip once the issue of hostages is concluded, since Hamas would not willingly give up its weapons and no international force would succeed in disarming it.
In an interview with Israel’s Channel 7, he stressed that Israel is preparing to resume the war, saying: “We are ready, and we now have a wider margin to act after the living hostages have reunited with their families.”
He added that Israel believes time is working in its favor in the ongoing conflict, claiming that Hamas “is living on borrowed time.”
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How Israel’s unrestrained brutality signals the beginning of its end
To justify Israel’s sustained violence, a racist mechanism is required to provide psychological and political legitimacy. Israeli leaders have modeled one since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza: referring to Palestinians as “human animals“.
It is a window into the nadir of dehumanization: a linguistic method of legitimizing institutionalized violence with a goal of “annihilation, expulsion and settlement”. When people speak this way, they do not address a person with a story; they invoke a faceless image severed from story and place.
This is a process in which the person becomes a worthless object, and the power to dispossess becomes the highest moral authority. Language precedes the bullet, preparing the ground for total erasure. It is a conversation among those who only appear human (continue reading here).
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War expenses for Israel have so far totaled 250 billion shekels ($76.3 billion), according to Israel’s public broadcaster KAN, citing finance ministry data. That is an average of over $1.1 million per Gazan killed, or $38,000 for every person in Gaza.
The body of another deceased Israeli soldier was handed over to the Red Cross on Tuesday, which transferred the remains to Israel. The body was confirmed to be Itay Chay, an IDF soldier with Israeli and US citizenship.
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HEADLINES ABOUT ISRAEL:
Israeli soldiers defend torturing Palestinian prisoner, saying they deserve thanks
Two People Killed as Israeli Drone Strike Targets Vehicle in South Lebanon
On to the Next Front: Israel Threatens Lebanon with a New War
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil and contradictions within the country, the truths that are told, as well as myths and lies that are published as facts.)
The riviera on Gaza’s ruins: A global economic experiment disguised as reconstruction
Imagine Gaza’s shoreline, a few kilometers of shattered coast reborn as luxury resorts, artificial islands in the style of Dubai and a neon casino glittering under the name “Trump Riviera & Islands.” This is not a dystopian fantasy. It is a genuine proposal embedded in the GREAT Trust, a U.S.-led international plan that seeks to rebuild Gaza by turning it into a financial and tourist hub.
Behind the glossy imagery lies a different agenda. Gaza is being recast as a laboratory for a global economic experiment. Land, once a symbol of home, belonging and identity, is now a financial asset, managed by an international trust, translated into digital tokens and traded on global markets.
If this experiment succeeds, it will not stop in Gaza. It will be replicated across Africa, Southeast Asia and even Greenland, anywhere that conflict, poverty or political weakness can be reframed as an “investment opportunity” (continue reading here).
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Israeli settlers on Tuesday used a drone to attack Palestinian olive harvesters and Jewish activists in the northern West Bank. The settlers harassed the olive harvesters by flying the drone at the height of their heads for an extended period, then allowed it to strike one of the activists. An Israeli activist present said, “The army is abetting armed militias and Jewish terrorism on the ground, either by standing by and sometimes actively.”
Israel is preparing to resume military operations in Gaza once diplomatic efforts to dismantle Hamas fail, warning that the militant group is using the current lull to regroup and rearm, according to Brigadier General (Res.) Amir Avivi, founder and chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum.
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HEADLINES:
In Netanyahu’s Israel, Telling the Truth Makes You an Enemy of the State
OTHER NEWS:
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
YouTube surreptitiously deleted hours of footage in early October by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with their channels’ archives. The accounts belonged to three prominent Palestinian human rights groups: Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.
The move came in response to a U.S. government campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes against Palestinians.
YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review (continue reading here).
RELATED: Israel wins TikTok
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Trump challenges Saudi position on Palestine, says normalization with Israel ‘inevitable’
US President Donald Trump questioned Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s insistence that normalization with Israel is tied to the establishment of a Palestinian state, saying he does not believe the Saudi leader is “serious” about the condition.
Speaking in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Trump said he expects Saudi Arabia to eventually join the Abraham Accords, which were brokered during his previous term in office.
Asked about bin Salman’s statement that normalization would only be possible under a two-state solution, Trump replied: “No, I think he will join the agreements. We will reach a solution. I don’t know if it will be a two-state solution — that’s up to Israel and other parties… and me as well.”
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A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job.
Gabriele Nunziati, a Brussels-based reporter who covered the EU for Rome’s Nova news agency, told The Intercept he received a notice that he would lose his job barely a month after he became a correspondent.
He asked a European Commission spokesperson about Gaza’s reconstruction on October 13: “You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?” The spokesperson replied that it was “definitely an interesting question, on which I would not have any comment.”
Two weeks later, he was out of a job (continue reading here).
RELATED: A Doctor Said Israel’s War Is Fueling Health Crises in Gaza. UCSF Fired Her.
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MORE HEADLINES:
In a first, a ballot initiative to divest from Israel has won at the ballot box, in Somerville, Mass.
Trump’s widening war on the left started with Palestine
Exposing the Tata Group, a major sponsor of the New York Marathon and a leading supporter of the Gaza genocide
Canada’s Plan to Take in Palestinians from Gaza Is a “PR Show,” Families Say
Conflicting Visions of an International Force for Gaza in Istanbul and Washington
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 4, 2025*:
- At least 69,941 Palestinians killed, 180,679 injured – including:
- At least 68,875 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 23,000 women)
- At least 1,066 killed in the West Bank (~213 children)
- At least 170,679 injured in Gaza
- More than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
- At least 463 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 157 children
- About 513 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 4, 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 272 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 207 and 326 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)
- Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
- Whitewashing the Gaza Gas Exploration
- Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War
- Israeli Military Accused of Palestinian Organ Theft Again
- AIPAC Begins Lobbying in Taiwan As Brand Turns Toxic in The U.S.
- Israeli forces use Palestinian women, elderly men as human shields in Gaza and the West Bank
- Ms Rachel’s activism on Gaza lauded in Glamour Women of the Year nod
- FLASHBACK: To Israel’s Supporters: Where Do You Draw the Line Between ‘Defense’ and Atrocities?
- Inside Israel’s tax war on Palestinian churches
- Ex-Mossad chief, behind ICJ blackmail campaign, brags Israel has installed a global sabotage network
- Werleman: Israel Has Killed How Many Americans?
- Ben & Jerry’s co-founder creating watermelon-flavoured ice cream to support Palestine
- Can MAGA Conservatives and Muslim Americans Unite?
- Arab League chief exposes secret US deal shielding Israel’s nukes
- Manufacturing Consent: How Israel-First Jewish Americans plan to re-monopolize the narratives on Palestine
- A 9-year-old Palestinian Boy Stood at a Distance. An Israeli Soldier Knelt and Shot Him Dead
- This 16-Year-Old American Is Among Hundreds of Palestinian Children Jailed In Israel
- ‘Their lives have been ruined forever’: A bomb in Gaza’s rubble wounds twins who thought it was a toy
- Settler terror devastates West Bank olive harvest
