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 786th day.)
Medical sources in Gaza reported that at least five Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in different parts of the Strip since Tuesday morning. Among the dead was Palestinian photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi (details).
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 360 Palestinians. Among the dead are at least 136 children. At least 922 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 591 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.)
‘Every day, I wish I could die’: In Gaza, survivors battle the long-term effects of war trauma amid a fragile ceasefire
Gaza’s air is thick with dust and smoke, nights are haunted by drones, and the ceasefire deal, which went into effect on October 10, 2025, hangs by a thread over the Strip.
What was meant to be a moment of relief has instead turned into despair, as tens of thousands of Palestinians returning to the ruins of their homes are forced to endure unbearable conditions — searching desperately for water and bread while anxiously awaiting news of family members who have vanished amid the rubble.
“During Israel’s genocide, people coped by avoiding what had happened to them,” Arwa al-Sakafi, a therapist, tells The New Arab. She describes a new kind of war that has followed the genocide — a battle with trauma and its long-term effects (continue reading here).
GAZA HEADLINES:
How Israel’s genocide in Gaza extends to digital annihilation
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.)
Israeli forces kill two* Palestinian teenagers in occupied West Bank
The Israeli army said 17-year-old Muhannad al-Zughair was shot dead in the Abu Daajan area of Hebron after what it claimed was a ramming attack that injured two soldiers.
The Israeli army then invaded the slain young man’s family home and the mourning tent, forcing the family to leave their home.
Meanwhile, in the north of Ramallah, 18-year-old Muhammad Asmar was killed near the village of Umm Safa after allegedly stabbing Israeli soldiers, lightly wounding two.
Asmar was “held by soldiers and was then shot while on the ground and left to bleed for hours”.
Israeli forces abducted three brothers and the cousin of the slain youth, and threatened the family against holding a mourning ceremony for their son.
*NOTE: Israeli forces and/or settlers have killed nearly 2,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7th, 2023. Detailed statistics below.
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Hundreds of settlers storm Al-Aqsa mosque* under Israeli military guard
Israeli settlers forced their way into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday while Israeli occupation forces cordoned off and guarded the compound, reported the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Local sources said 631 settlers entered the site and staged provocative tours across the courtyards under the protection of Israeli soldiers, in yet another violation of the status quo* at the holy site.
*NOTE: Anyone can visit the Al Aqsa Mosque grounds, but only Muslims are allowed to pray there, according to an understanding known as the ‘status quo agreement,’ which has existed since Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967.
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WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Some 21,000 Palestinians arrested in West Bank since October 2023
Israeli helicopters open fire on parts of Tubas, Qabatiya in northern West Bank
Israeli Soldiers Shoot a Woman Near Bethlehem
NEWS 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 rights groups say 2025 marks ‘deadliest and most destructive year’ for Palestinians
Israeli human rights organizations on Tuesday deemed 2025 the “deadliest and most destructive” year for Palestinians, with Israel doubling its killing and displacement of civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
This came in a joint report released by 12 Israeli human rights groups: Bimkom (Planners for Planning Rights), Gisha, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, HaMoked (Center for the Defence of the Individual), Yesh Din, Combatants for Peace, Ir Amim, Emek Shaveh, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, Breaking the Silence, and Torat Tzedek (continue reading here).
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Legislating apartheid*: How Israel entrenched unequal rule during Gaza war
As a disturbing new report by the Haifa-based legal center Adalah shows, Israel’s legislators have used the chaos of the past two years to advance more than 30 new laws entrenching apartheid and Jewish supremacy — joining Adalah’s existing list of now more than 100 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens.
One of the report’s central findings is a sweeping assault on freedom of expression, thought, and protest across a wide array of arenas. It includes laws prohibiting the publication of content that includes “denial of the events of October 7,” as determined by the Knesset, and restricting broadcasts of critical media outlets that “harm state security” (continue reading here; see the full report here).
*NOTE: Zionism, the ideology on which Israel is built, is a supremacist ideology – the ideology under which 750,000 Palestinian people were dispossessed and exiled to Gaza and other locations. By its very nature, Zionism requires an exclusively Jewish population – or a Jewish overclass – and has necessitated Israel’s policies of occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and more. Antizionism opposes this supremacism and demands equality. It is not directed toward Jews, but toward the ideology. Many Jews are antizionists.
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Despite Trump’s call for restraint, Israeli army stages new cross-border raid into southern Syria
The Israeli army staged a new cross-border raid into southern Syria on Tuesday.
On Monday, the army raided two Syrian villages, in continuation of near-daily attacks on the country’s south for several months, and President Trump demanded that Israel exercise restraint: “It is very important that Israel maintain a strong and true dialogue with Syria, and that nothing takes place that will interfere with Syria’s evolution into a prosperous state.”
Syrian government data shows that since December 2024, Israel has carried out over 1,000 airstrikes on Syria and more than 400 cross-border raids.
RELATED: US officials: Netanyahu risks self-destruction if attacks on Syria continue
ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Beyond Netanyahu: Israel’s major political corruption scandals
French journalists file legal complaint against Israel over Gaza access
Report: Netanyahu asked Trump for more help securing pardon in criminal trial
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, half-truths, and lies as facts.)
Only Trump Can Stop Jewish Settlers* Terrorizing Palestinians. This Is How
In recent weeks, mainstream Israeli media has, at long last, joined Haaretz’s coverage and begun to focus on the surge of violent settler attacks against Palestinian civilians. Mosques, homes, and cars have been torched. Olive harvests have been stolen. Palestinians have been beaten, terrorized and, in some cases, killed.
The situation is so grave that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu felt compelled to issue a rare condemnation. He promised that his government “will take very forceful action” regarding attacks against Palestinians and IDF soldiers. He even convened a special meeting of security officials to explore possible steps.
Israelis responded with a collective shrug. They know Netanyahu’s stern language and “meetings with security officials” – meetings that are quickly leaked to the media – are all for show. They are designed to satisfy international pressure, not to signal meaningful change (continue reading here).
*NOTE: Israel has illegally built around 280 settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are home to more than 700,000 illegal settlers. Some settler groups have a history of violence against Palestinians, often with the assistance of Israeli military forces (a phenomenon that has grown significantly worse since October 7th, 2023).
In a landmark advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
Ben-Gvir Is Making the Israel Police Into an Organization Filled With Criminals
Israel Used to Cover Up the War Crimes It Committed. Not Today
Netanyahu Didn’t Request a Pardon; He Is Extorting Israel and Its President Through Threats
‘Why We Are Here’: IDF Campaign Encourages West Bank Tourism With Settler Propaganda
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
200 Luminaries from the Arts and Business World demand release of “Palestinian Mandela” – name dropping
More than 200 leading cultural figures have come together to call for the release of Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Palestinian leader seen as capable of uniting factions and bringing the best hope to the stalled mission of creating a Palestinian state.
The prestigious and diverse group calling for his release in an open letter includes a variety of prominent names, including the writers Margaret Atwood, Philip Pullman, Zadie Smith and Annie Ernaux; actors Sir Ian McKellen, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Josh O’Connor and Mark Ruffalo, and the broadcaster and former footballer Gary Lineker.
It also includes the musicians Sting, Paul Simon, Brian Eno and Annie Lennox, as well as actor and presenter Stephen Fry and the British cookery writer and presenter Delia Smith. Others on the list are director Sir Richard Eyre, artist Ai Weiwei, and billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson (continue reading here; read about Marwan Barghouti here).
The list also includes several Jewish names, including Paul Simon, Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Naomi Klein, Nan Goldin, Peter Beinart, Gabor Maté, Ilana Glazer and Hannah Einbinder.
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ICC president vows to ‘resist’ US sanctions over Gaza genocide probe
The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Tomoko Akane, has warned that US sanctions imposed over the court’s investigation into Israeli war crimes in Gaza will not alter how judges interpret their mandate or handle cases.
Speaking to representatives of the ICC’s 125 member states at the annual meeting in The Hague, Akane said the sanctions campaign ordered earlier this year by US President Donald Trump has “unsettled” the daily lives of officials and disrupted their financial transactions, including in European member states (continue reading here).
RELATED: Spying & threats: Israel spent 9 years trying to keep the ICC off the trail of Israel’s war crimes.
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“Our job is to do to our enemies here what Israel did to its enemies there” Elan Carr, CEO of the Israeli-American Council called for replicating Israel’s violent tactics abroad at the Israel Hayom conference in New York, considering “israel’s victory” as theirs.#GazaGenocide… pic.twitter.com/Vz5aaZH8rq
— Palestine Info Center (@palinfoen) December 3, 2025
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MORE HEADLINES:
World’s largest pension fund demands Microsoft disclose its dealings with Israel
The US bulldozed the prospect of Uniting for Peace in Palestine
Children’s coloring book highlighting Palestinian story pulled by German retailer
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israel’s war forces Gaza children into work as breadwinners
Electric shocks now ‘main tool’ of torture in Israel’s Gilad Prison
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 2, 2025*:
- At least 71,206 Palestinians killed, 180,999 injured – including:
- At least 70,117 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls)
- At least 1,089 killed in the West Bank (~223 children)
- At least 170,999 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 617 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 – December 2, 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 275 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 215 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
- Pregnant women in Gaza face catastrophic scenarios
- Educators Worry Palestine Censorship Could Reshape Public Education Entirely
- Why Is the Establishment Ignoring the Recently Declassified JFK Files?
- ‘I searched for my father in the ruins’: The fate of thousands buried under Gaza’s rubble
- Melanie Phillips: Jews Worldwide Must Put ‘The Jewish People and The Jewish Nation’ First
- Israeli Settler Kicks Detained Palestinian as IOF Soldiers Watch
- Infiltration: A Cardinal Function of the Zionist Movement
- Israeli Human Rights Groups Tell UN That Israel Increased Use of Torture During Gaza War
- On the uncontrollable Israeli urge to kill Palestinians
- ‘AIPAC Radicalized Me’: Mamdani’s Jewish Gen Z Strategist
- How Israel markets its US-funded genocidal weapons to the world
- Jeffries Misleads on AIPAC PAC Money
- Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies
- Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby”
