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 774th day.)
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 312 Palestinians. Death toll figures are tentative.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 393 times.
At least 17 people have been killed by Israeli attacks on south Lebanon over the past 24 hours, including Lebanese citizens and at least 13 Palestinian refugees, mostly children.
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.)
Heavy rains flood Gaza tents with sewage, putting thousands of children at risk
Save the Children says children in Gaza are sleeping on bare, wet ground in clothing soaked with sewage water after heavy rains flooded hundreds of tents and makeshift shelters over the weekend, heightening the risk of disease as winter sets in.
The group said more than 13,000 households were affected by Friday’s flooding, as Gaza’s sanitation system has largely collapsed after two years of Israeli bombardment, siege and severe aid restrictions. With drainage systems destroyed, rainwater mixed with sewage inundated tents, soaking mattresses, blankets, clothing and even food supplies.
With more than 81 percent of buildings damaged, two-thirds of Gaza’s children – approximately 700,000 – are living in tents that are falling apart after two years of bombardment and displacement.
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GAZA HEADLINES:
UN resolution on Gaza imposes ‘illegal trusteeship’ over Palestinians, says top legal expert
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS & 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.)
Israeli forces issue demolition* orders to four Palestinian families in Old City of Jerusalem
Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday delivered demolition orders to four Palestinian families in Aqabat Al-Khalidiya district in occupied Jerusalem’s Old City, claiming their homes are unfit for living.
The families, who have lived in the homes for nearly six decades, reported that Israeli authorities have for years refused to grant them permits to repair or upgrade the aging structures, and have also prevented them from carrying out essential maintenance to ensure the safety of their homes. This neglect, they said, causes the buildings to deteriorate and crack, and is later used as a pretext for demolition.
*NOTE: Most home demolitions undertaken by Israel are due to Palestinians’ “building without a permit.” Israel admits that its construction permit system is highly discriminatory. Between 2016 and 2020, 99.1 percent of Palestinian requests for building permits were rejected, according to data provided by the IDF’s Civil Administration. This is part of Israel’s apartheid system.
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Israel plans to take 4,600 dunams in northern West Bank, citing archaeology protection
Nablus: Israeli Colonizers Attack Store, Destroy Its Contents
Israeli Forces Invade Hebron, Convert Homes into Military Posts
Soldiers Demolish A Commercial Structure Near Salfit
Israeli Colonizers Assault Farmers Near Salfit
Israeli Colonizers Damage Palestinian Car Near Ramallah
Soldiers Intensify Mass Abductions, Field Interrogations In Hebron
Home Demolished by Israeli Forces North of Jericho
Army Demolishes A Palestinian Home in Anata
NEWS & HEADLINES ABOUT ISRAEL:
(Israel is a tiny country, about the size of New Jersey, with a population smaller than the US state of Georgia – about 10 million (of which about 20 percent are Palestinians), yet it is in the news constantly. As has been demonstrated again and again, however, mainstream media rarely covers Israel accurately. IAK passes along only factual reporting.)
Israeli MPs Debate ‘Lethal Injection’ Death Penalty for Palestinian* Prisoners
*NOTE: this is a blatant example of Israel’s apartheid system.
Around 600 Israeli Soldiers Submit Requests for Early Retirement: Report
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA (WITH NOTES):
(Get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions that receives $63 million a day from American taxpayers. Israeli media sometimes tells the truth about itself, but often publishes myths and lies as facts.)
IDF: Palestinian Militants Fired on Troops*; Israeli Strikes Across Gaza Kill 28, Including Women and Children, Officials Say
Palestinian medical sources report 28 killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Wednesday, which the Israeli military said came after militants opened fire on troops near Khan Younis.
Seventeen of the dead were women and children, the medical sources said.
According to the military, no casualties were reported in the shooting incident, which it called a breach of the ceasefire agreement** with Hamas. Hamas said its members did not fire on Israeli forces and condemned the Israeli strikes (continue reading here.).
*NOTE: Israel has had a pattern of justifying attacks on civilians and protected sites – especially hospitals – by making claims like this without providing a shred of evidence. Just a few examples: this, this, this, this.
**NOTE: This statement is rich, coming from the Israeli military, which has violated the ceasefire at least 393 times by one count, killed over 300 Gazans, and withheld food and shelter from the wartorn population.
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Survey Shows 45% Rise in Sexual Abuse* Reports in Israel’s Education System Last Year
*NOTE: While rape crisis centers in Israel have clearly experienced booming business, they have not yet found a single credible report of rape by Hamas members on October 7th, 2023. The accusation of systematic mass rape is only one of the myths that have been thoroughly debunked.
On the other hand, credible testimonies abound (including at least one video) of Palestinians being sexually abused at the hands of Israeli soldiers – some of whom have become folk heroes. (American mainstream media have failed to cover this issue in any meaningful way.)
US officials: Saudi F-35s will be downgraded* despite Trump’s assurances
*NOTE: Earlier this week, President Trump said of Israel and Saudi Arabia, “As far as I’m concerned, I think they are both at a level where they should get top of the line” F-35 stealth fighter aircraft, adding that Israel would want to have better planes than any other country.
The fact that the US has now downgraded the caliber of the F-35s for Saudi Arabia is due to America’s so-called Israel QME policy. According to the US State Department website:
Steadfast support for Israel’s security has been a cornerstone of American foreign policy for every U.S. Administration since the presidency of Harry S. Truman.
Since its founding in 1948, the United States has provided Israel with over $130 billion in bilateral assistance focused on addressing new and complex security threats, bridging Israel’s capability gaps through security assistance and cooperation, increasing interoperability through joint exercises, and helping Israel maintain its Qualitative Military Edge (QME).
This assistance has helped transform the Israel Defense Forces into one of the world’s most capable, effective militaries and turned the Israeli military industry and technology sector into one of the largest exporters of military capabilities worldwide.
Rafael’s new backpack-sized missile gives ground forces precision strike capability
Israeli officials say only a major operation can dismantle Hezbollah
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. colonial administration of Gaza
More than two years into the genocide in Palestine, the UN Security Council has finally acted. But rather than acting to enforce international law, protect the victims, and hold the perpetrators accountable, it adopted a resolution that openly flouts key provisions of international law, disempowers and further punishes the victims, and rewards and empowers the perpetrators.
Most disturbingly, it hands control of Gaza and the survivors of the genocide over to the United States, a co-perpetrator of the genocide, and provides for the participation of the Israeli regime in decision making. Under the plan, Palestinians themselves are to be granted no such participation in decisions on their own rights, governance, and lives.
In adopting this resolution, the Council, in effect, has become a mechanism of U.S. oppression, an instrument for the continued unlawful occupation of Palestine, and a complicit actor in Israel’s genocide (continue reading here).
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MORE HEADLINES:
How California Spent Natural Disaster Funds to Quell Student Protests for Palestine
The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Shelter crisis in Gaza due to Israel’s ban on tents
The UN Resolution Is So Vague on Palestinian Statehood That Even Netanyahu Didn’t Care
Two Palestinians, One Israeli, Killed Near Gush Etzion
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 19, 2025*:
- At least 70,622 Palestinians killed, 180,833 injured – including:
- At least 69,546 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 23,000 women)
- At least 1,076 killed in the West Bank (~218 children)
- At least 170,833 injured in Gaza
- More than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
- At least 482 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 160 children
- About 572 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 19, 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 274 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 207 and 327 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
- The Global Zionist Organ Trafficking Conspiracy
- Iran: Three Things The New York Times Gets Wrong
- Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest
- Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire
- Christian Man Attacked by Jewish Youths in East Jerusalem Detained Alongside Assailants, Held Overnight by Israel Police
- ‘Zionism has taken over’: America First political action committee targets pro-Israel lobbying groups
- State-Sanctioned Jewish-mob Terror in the West Bank
- Why Journalists Won’t Tell You the Truth About the Gazan Genocide
- Israeli forces kill three Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank
- US signs deal for Israeli drones ‘tested in Gaza’
- Gaza cannot heal while its dead go unnamed
- Israel destroys Gaza’s historical palace, with over 20,000 artifacts looted
- “The prison is inside me”
- Israel uses old footage in new Hamas ‘terrorist rampage’ advert.
- How the Gaza “War” Influenced Israeli Fashion
- The Eviction Kings
- Israel killed her son and held his body. Her story is one of hundreds of Palestinian families.
- Israel seeks 20-year military aid deal with U.S. with “America First” tweaks
- Digging for annexation: How Israel uses archaeology to erase Palestine
