More Palestinian remains returned by Israel mutilated, tortured – Not a Ceasefire Day 48

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More Palestinian remains returned by Israel mutilated, tortured – Not a Ceasefire Day 48
The bodies of 14 Palestinians, handed over by Israel whose identities could not be determined, are being buried in a mass grave in the city of Deir al-Balah, Gaza on November 23, 2025. (Mohammed Nassar – Anadolu Agency)

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 780th day.)

Six Palestinians were killed on Wednesday by Israeli army.

Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 347 Palestinians. Among them are at least 67 children. Death toll figures are tentative.

Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 497 times.

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.) 

With over 112,000 killed, new study links Gaza’s massacre to past genocides

A new study, carried out by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany and the Centre for Demographic Studies Spain, puts the Gaza death toll since October 7th between 99,997 and 125,915 , with a median estimate of 112,069.

The researchers found that the overwhelming majority of deaths are among civilians, with large numbers of women, children, and the elderly, rather than combat-aged men. The study states explicitly that the age-sex pattern of deaths in Gaza closely resembles those seen during genocidal violence, not battlefield engagements between military forces.

Gaza’s life expectancy has fallen from 77 for women to 46, and for men from 74 to just 36.

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Israel returns remains of 15 more Gazans under ceasefire deal

It is Israel, not Gaza, that needs stabilization

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.)

Why Israel is launching yet another military operation in the northern West Bank

Israeli military bulldozers piled earth across every approach road to Tubas before dawn Wednesday, while Israeli Apache helicopters fired rounds over empty fields around the city in a bid to threaten Palestinian residents.

Troops then began house-to-house searches in the city of Tubas as well as four nearby towns, as the army announced a new military operation it claimed was targeting resistance fighters (continue reading here).

The Israeli army said on X that it aims to “reinforce control over the area” as part of broader operations in the northern West Bank, claiming that the Tubas operation is intended to prevent the reformation of armed resistance groups in the governorate.

But local sources tell Mondoweiss this is just a pretext. The real reason for the wide-ranging mobilization of military forces is to lay the groundwork for confiscating large swathes of land for an upcoming settlement project. Here’s what you need to know (continue reading here).

Palestinians inspect the scale of destruction after Israeli army demolishes a Palestinian house during a raid in Tammun town in Tubas, West Bank on May 15, 2025.
Palestinians inspect the scale of destruction after Israeli army demolishes a Palestinian house during a raid in Tammun town in Tubas, West Bank on May 15, 2025. (Nedal Eshtayah – Anadolu Agency)

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 army forces launched a new cross-border raid in southern Syria on Wednesday, in the latest violation of the country’s sovereignty. The Israeli army has carried out over 1,000 airstrikes and 400 cross-border raids on Syria since December 2024.

NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:

(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.)

Israeli Human Rights Groups Tell UN That Israel Increased Use of Torture During Gaza War

The report, filed as part of the committee’s periodic review of states that are party to the convention, was authored by the Adalah Legal Center, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Parents Against Child Detention, HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel.

“Israel has dismantled existing safeguards and now employs torture throughout the entire detention process – from arrest to imprisonment – targeting Palestinians under occupation and Palestinian citizens, with senior officials sanctioning these abuses while judicial and administrative mechanisms fail to intervene,” the report says.

According to the report, Israel Prison Service facilities employed policies of starvation and systematic abuse, including “punching, kicking, ramming with batons, painful shackling, dog attacks, threatening of and urinating on detainees as well as acts of sexual violence and rape with objects” (continue reading here).

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Despite Ruling by Israel’s Top Court, Palestinian Security Prisoners Say They Are Still Underfed

Three months after the Supreme Court ruled that Palestinian prisoners must be given enough food to maintain their health, nothing has changed, according to the prisoners.

Two organizations therefore went back to court this week to accuse the Prison Service of not complying with the ruling, based on the findings of their prison visits. Affidavits attached to the petition said that, according to the prisoners, the amount of food hasn’t increased at all. Several prisoners even said the amount has declined (continue reading here).

A view of Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert near the Gaza Strip, in Negev, Israel on January 10, 2025.
A view of Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert near the Gaza Strip, in Negev, Israel on January 10, 2025. (Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency)

OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:

This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him

The fate of one French judge is a case study in the west’s long unravelling. ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online. When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours. He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”, unable to use most bank cards.

Guillou, you see, has been sanctioned by the United States, putting him on a 15,000-strong list alongside al-Qaida terrorists, drug cartels and Vladimir Putin. Why? Because Guillou and his colleagues had “actively engaged in the ICC’s illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America or our close ally, Israel”, the US claimed. All are now barred from entering the US – but that is the least of the consequences.

 

The rationale is brutally clear. The rule of law does not apply to the world’s hegemon or its closest allies (continue reading here).

MORE HEADLINES:

Do the lessons of the Holocaust apply to Israel and “skinny Palestinians”?

Berlin shutdown of pro-Palestine conference was unlawful, court rules

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Israeli military claims winter supplies are on their way

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Settlers unpunished for 21 killings in West Bank ‘ethnic cleansing’

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