Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
As of January 21, 2025, the UN has recorded 92 casualties in Gaza, encompassing both injuries and deaths, due to contact with unexploded ordnance. The Israeli systemic destruction of civilian building infrastructure in Gaza generated over 50 million tons of debris by 1 December 2024.
BREAKING: Red Cross confirms that Saturday, three Israeli captives were transferred out of Gaza to Israel, and 183 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel.
The Life Expectancy of Palestinians Fell by 11.5 Years in the First Three Months of the Genocide
Using estimates from the United Nations’ World Population Prospects 2024, a study has found that Palestinian life expectancy at birth fell by 11.5 years between 2022 and 2023, from a respectable 76.7 years in 2022 to just 65.2 years in 2023.
The group that did the study is not aware of such a rapid decline in life expectancy at any other period of modern human history.
A Palestinian life is now more than seventeen years shorter than an Israeli one. This gap is greater than that which existed between blacks and whites in apartheid South Africa, which was fifteen years in 1980.
Eleven and a half years lost per Palestinian. That is almost 60 million years lost for the remaining 5.2 million Palestinians who have remained in Palestine and survived the genocide.
![An aerial view of the dead Palestinian bodies that are confiscated by Israel were delivered through the Kerem Abu Salim border crossing and are buried in a mass grave dug in Rafah, Gaza on January 30, 2024 [Mohammed Fayq – Anadolu Agency]](https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4-17-b-300x200.jpg)
Palestinian fisherman killed off Gaza’s coast
Israeli gunboats have shot and killed a Palestinian fisherman in Gaza’s coastal waters, near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the enclave, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Israeli forces have repeatedly fired at Palestinians, including fishermen, in recent weeks despite the ongoing ceasefire.
Three Israelis and 183 Palestinians to be freed in Saturday ceasefire swap
Israel and Hamas will carry out their fourth prisoners-for-captives swap of the Gaza ceasefire on Saturday with the Palestinian group set to free three Israeli captives in exchange for 183 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
“The updated number of prisoners to be released tomorrow is 183,” Palestinian Prisoner’s Society spokesperson Amani Sarahneh said on Friday after previously announcing that 90 prisoners would be freed.
The advocacy group published two lists of names due for release on Saturday. The first comprised 72 prisoners arrested before the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.
A second list of inmates to be freed contained 111 names of people from Gaza detained after the attacks, which sparked the war in the Palestinian territory.
- 18 prisoners serving life sentences
- 54 prisoners serving long sentences
- 111 prisoners from the Gaza Strip arrested after October 7, 2023
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Israeli army withdraws from Rafah crossing, hands over control to EU forces
The Israeli army withdrew from the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Friday in accordance with the terms of the cease-fire agreement, handing over the crossing to an international force from the European Union (EU) in preparation for its reopening later on Friday.
50 wounded Palestinians will be allowed every day to travel in addition to three escorts to each injured, totaling 200 people every day; all names will be checked by the Israeli general security service Shin Bet, along with Egyptian approval on the names.
The Rafah crossing, a vital route for humanitarian aid into Gaza, has been closed since May 2024.
There are still 12,000 to 14,000 people who require urgent specialized medical care outside Gaza, according to the World Health Organization.
Israeli drone attack kills 10th Palestinian youth in occupied West Bank in 2025
A 17-year-old was among a group of 10 people killed in a double Israeli drone attack in Tammun town in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday night, a child rights organisation said.
Defense for Children International (DCI) – Palestine said the slain teenager, Jihad Nasser Yousef Bani Matar, was brought to hospital after the deadly, no-warning attack with “shrapnel wounds and burns all over his body”.
There were no Israeli ground forces in the Tammun area at the time of the attack, DCI said, adding that Israel now routinely carries out air attacks “in densely populated areas with no regard for Palestinian children’s lives”.
The killing of the teenager brings the number of Palestinian children killed in the occupied territory so far this year to 10 – six killed in drone attacks and four shot dead by Israeli forces, the organization said.
“No one has been held responsible for killing these ten children,” it added.
NOTE: Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 889 Palestinians in the West Bank (~178 children) since October 7th, 2023.
For a summary of Israel’s latest deadly incursion into the West Bank, read Israel Escalates West Bank Military Assault, Invading Areas Across the North
Palestinian Authority tells US it is ready to ‘clash’ with Hamas for control of Gaza
The Palestinian Authority told the US it is ready to “clash” with Hamas if that is the price needed to take power in the Gaza Strip, during a pitch to President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Middle East Eye can reveal.
The plan was presented on Tuesday to Steve Witkoff during a meeting in Riyadh by Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian official who has been floated as a successor to octogenarian Palestinian President Mohammad Abbas, a Palestinian source told MEE.
The PA’s plan envisions the Gaza Strip ruled by a committee whose majority is from outside of the enclave.
Ziad Abu Amr, one of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s longtime advisors, would become the de facto ruler of the Gaza Strip, heading the committee. He would be appointed deputy to Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa but endowed with massive new powers (continue reading here).
Israeli forces storm wedding hall in Hebron, hold groom
Israeli occupation forces Friday stormed a wedding hall in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron and held the groom, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that the occupying soldiers barged their way into the wedding hall in the city, spreading panic among children and women, and held the groom, a member of the Abu Turki family, for almost two hours before releasing him.
Witnesses said that the troops also vandalized several cars parked near the wedding venue. The reason, behind the raid and detentions, however, remains unclear.
Outgoing National Security Advisor Sullivan: ‘Not sure how I could have justified cutting weapons off from Israel’
In his first interview out of office, former U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke of the Biden Administration’s handling of the Israel-Gaza war.
“There was immense human suffering in Gaza, and so for me to sit here and say, ‘No, no, it all went great,’ would display a total lack of human empathy. On the other hand, the idea of cutting weapons off from Israel when they were taking incoming from several fronts all at once . . . I’m not sure how I could have justified that. So, it’s hard.”
“It’s probably the single biggest thing in the four years where only some level of perspective gained over time will allow me to fully judge what I thought we did right and what I thought we didn’t do right,” he went on.
NOTE: The US has made special efforts to create loopholes for Israel, and has bypassed Congressional oversight on at least two major weapons transfers since October 7th, and “quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza war began.”
The US has even broken its own laws in order to provide weapons to Israel, even though it was aware that the weapons were being used to commit war crimes.
On April 24, 2024, legislation was signed into law giving $49 million per day in military aid to Israel and $2.7 million per day in foreign aid to the Palestinians. (For information on expenditures on behalf of both populations, go here.)
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JANUARY 31, 2025 (ongoing count):
At least 48,349 Palestinians killed, 118,580 injured – including:
- at least 47,460 killed in Gaza (~20,600 children)
- at least 889 killed in the West Bank (~178 children)
- at least 111,580 injured in Gaza
- at least 7,000 injured in the West Bank
WAR STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 (Hamas attack) – JANUARY 19, 2025 (Ceasefire):
Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: at least 48,143 – including at least 47,283 in Gaza (~20,600 children), and 860 in the West Bank (~177 children). Palestinian injuries: at least 118,472 – including at least 111,472 in Gaza, and 7,000 in the West Bank.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 11,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: ~1,616 (or 1,590) – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 436 (or 405) military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
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