More death: in Gaza, West Bank, Israeli prison – Not a ceasefire Day 94

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 822nd day.)

Israeli forces killed at least four Palestinians on Sunday in Gaza, in fresh violations of the ceasefire agreement in effect since October, said medical sources.

Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 442 Palestinians. At least 1,240 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative. 

Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 969 times (as of Dec. 28, 2025). More 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.)

Two-Month-Old Baby Dies from Cold in Gaza as Israel’s Aid Blockade Tightens

A two-month-old infant has died in Gaza City from exposure to extreme cold, Al Mayadeen reported on Sunday, as the Israeli occupation continues to tighten its blockade on the Gaza Strip, preventing the entry of essential humanitarian supplies, including food, heating materials, and weather protection.

According to Palestinian sources, the infant was identified as Muhammad Wissam Abu Harbid. His death occurred just hours after another infant, Mahmoud al-Aqra, also died from exposure to extreme cold in Gaza, underscoring the growing toll of winter conditions on the Strip’s most vulnerable residents.

The deaths come as severe winter storms sweep across the region, further deteriorating conditions for displaced families already facing acute shortages of food, medical care, and adequate shelter.

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At least 21 displaced Palestinians, 18 of them children, have died from extreme cold in Gaza’s displacement camps since the start of Israel’s war on the enclave, local authorities said Sunday.

In a statement, Gaza’s government media office said the deaths occurred among families living in makeshift shelters that offer little protection from harsh winter conditions, warning of a deepening humanitarian catastrophe as cold waves continue to hit the territory.

*NOTE: As a de facto occupier of Gaza, Israel is obligated under the law of armed conflict to ensure that the occupied civilian population is provided with supplies essential to the survival to the fullest extent that it can, including basic food and medical supplies as well as clothing, bedding and means of shelter. In cold climates, fuel for heating may take priority.

Humanitarian agencies have repeatedly stated that they have large quantities of sheltering materials, food, and medical supplies waiting just outside the border, but Israel does not allow them into the Strip.

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As Israel plans to remove the rubble of Rafah, international intervention, specialized teams urgently needed to recover victims’ bodies

Over recent days, Euro-Med Monitor’s team has documented the evacuation by the Israeli occupation army, alongside contractors operating under its authority, of the entire area under full Israeli control in Rafah, and the commencement of rubble removal and land leveling. The army confirmed in recent hours that no less than 70 per cent of rubble removal operations in the city have been completed.

Bulldozing and land leveling operations in Rafah are being carried out despite confirmed indications that hundreds of bodies remain beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings and in streets and agricultural fields, posing a serious risk of damaging human remains and erasing their locations before recovery and identification can take place (continue reading here).

No staff, no equipment, no medicine: Dr Ahmed Muhanna, one of Gaza’s most senior emergency care consultants, says the scale of destruction he saw on his release after 665 days in an Israeli prison brought him to tears https://t.co/uN9J6sZEX6

— LPHR (@LPHR_Lawyers) January 12, 2026

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 Soldiers Kill* A Palestinian Man In Hebron

Israeli forces raided a Palestinian wedding ceremony in occupied East Jerusalem, firing live ammunition and stun grenades at attendees. Several men, including the groom, were detained.

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Massive Invasions, Abductions And Injuries Across the West Bank

ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:

(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.)

Palestinian detainee from Gaza dies in Israeli custody, death toll rises to 87: Rights groups

Palestinian rights institutions said Sunday that detainee Hamza Abdullah Abdulhadi Adwan, 67, from Gaza died in Israeli detention on Sept. 9, 2025, raising the Palestinian detainee death toll since October 2023 to at least 87.

The Prisoners’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said that Adwan was married and a father of nine children, two of whom were killed before the start of the war. His death comes amid what they described as systematic abuses against Palestinian detainees, including torture, starvation, medical neglect, sexual assault, humiliation and detention under degrading conditions.

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Israel is ‘restoring governance’ to the Negev — by terrorizing Palestinians

It took Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and his police forces less than two weeks to turn a quiet Bedouin village in southern Israel into a bloody battleground. 

Tarabin Al-Sana is home to around 1,000 people. Unlike dozens of other Bedouin villages in the Negev (Naqab), it is officially recognized by the state. In the most recent national elections in 2022, over half of the village’s eligible voters did not cast a ballot, but among those who did almost 60 percent voted for the Likud Party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yet that has not prevented the government from treating them, like all Palestinians, as enemies of the state (continue reading here).

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Israel on Maximum Alert as Washington Weighs Iran Escalation, Reuters Reports

Israel has raised its security alert to the highest level amid concerns that the United States could carry out military action against Iran, as protests continue across the country.

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Israeli social media erupts with calls for overthrowing Iran’s government

Israeli politicians and influencers have openly welcomed the latest wave of protests, with some advocating for military intervention in order to access the Islamic Republic’s natural resources.

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Israeli forces kill one person in series of attacks on southern Lebanon

Israel claims its latest attacks on Lebanon were targeting alleged Hezbollah infrastructure.

*NOTE: Israel has attacked Lebanon almost every day since the ceasefire was reached on 27 November 2024. committing over 10,000 air and ground violations.

HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:

(You can learn a lot about a country from its headlines. Get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions that receives $63 million a day from America.)

A genuine cry for human rights cannot be selective or confined by borders. Israelis cannot sincerely support the collapse of one oppressive regime while maintaining another that operates in their name.

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Banned elsewhere in the West, Israel permitting farmers to use feces as cattle feed

Animals Now launches PR campaign against practice, but Agriculture Ministry says ‘adapted feeding solutions’ required when grazing land is limited.

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The selective conduct of Israel’s police – acting violently against the Bedouin population while turning a blind eye to Jewish terrorism in the West Bank – is no accident. It comes from the top, from the Kahanist minister in charge of the police, Itamar Ben-Gvir.

OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:

Hunger strike for 70 days: How the body breaks down without food

Three British activists from the proscribed Palestine Action group are on hunger strike seeking bail and a fair trial, with friends and relatives warning they are close to death but determined to continue until their demands are met.

Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed have refused food for 70 and 63 days respectively as part of a rolling hunger strike that began in November. A third prisoner, Lewie Chiaramello, is also refusing food on alternating days due to type 1 diabetes (to read about their demands, and to learn what prolonged hunger does to the body, go here).

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Israel is forcing Doctors Without Borders & dozens of other humanitarian groups to end their work in Gaza. Countless innocent people rely on these services amid the ongoing crisis there.

This is yet another cruel, inhumane step from the extremist Israeli government. pic.twitter.com/ezEHabJR1M

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 11, 2026

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Iran warns Israel, US military and shipping centers would be ‘legitimate targets’ if Washington attacks

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:

Israel’s Yellow Line scheme has grabbed another 7% of Gaza’s land

Did IDF make a mistake*? (shades of Minneapolis?)

(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)

STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JANUARY 11, 2026*:

• At least 72,522 Palestinians killed, 182,318 injured – including:
• At least 71,419 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls)
• At least 1,103 killed in the West Bank (~229 children)
• At least 171,318 injured in Gaza
• About 11,000 injured in the West Bank

*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 – January 11, 2026: ~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 (by one count, there have been 59 victims) in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. 

By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 275 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 215 and 328 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.

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• The “Zionist tint” to the Maduro abduction, if not operational, then normative
• Press association condemns Israel’s continued ban on media access to Gaza
• Israeli Indifference to Palestinian Suffering Is Fertile Ground for the Growth of Sadism
• Israel Targeted Churches, Mosques, and Markets during the Genocide.
• ‘We Saved the Child From Drowning’: In Gaza, Winter Storm Makes Displacement Even Deadlier
• Palestinian church committee urges churches worldwide to protect aid work in Gaza
• BlackNest: Inside Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted Sites
• Israel’s role in Trump’s attacks on Venezuela
• This is how Israeli settlers, backed by the military, erased a Palestinian village from existence last week
• Israel is waging a reproductive genocide against Palestinian mothers in Gaza
• With Their Breadwinners Killed, Gaza’s Children Turn to Begging to Survive
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