Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 74 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, including at least 36 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,568 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
Eight more Palestinians died of starvation in Gaza on Monday, one of them a newborn. The total number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition is now 188, including 94 children.
Among the dead was a nurse at al-Aqsa Hospital, who was killed when one of the airdropped pallets fell on his tent.
Israeli forces also killed one Palestinian in the West Bank (see below).
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Monday, go here.
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For a bit 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.)
Hunger in Gaza Can’t Be Explained Away by Preexisting Conditions
For those living with chronic illness or disability in Gaza, hunger is not separate from their condition — it is made worse by it. Medications have disappeared. Treatments have stopped. And basic survival has become a daily battle. Under total blockade, diabetes or a thyroid condition can become a death sentence.
The Intercept spoke to nine Palestinians with chronic illnesses or disabilities across Gaza, including two children, many of whom agreed to be interviewed on the condition that only their first name be published. Their experiences reveal that illness and starvation are deeply interconnected. Rather than explaining the other away, they intensify each other.
Deya’a has Type 1 diabetes; Sabri and Nazmiya have Type 2 diabetes; Bushra has thyroid disease; Rania has eczema; Hiba has atrial fibrillation. Read about their struggles here.
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza. Palestinians cannot leave, war has ended farming and Israel has banned fishing, so practically every calorie its population eats must be brought in from outside.
Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation.
“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later (continue reading here).
What ‘starvation’ really means, for the human body and for Gaza
Dr James Smith, an emergency doctor who has volunteered twice in Gaza, said, “It’s one of the most undignified and barbaric ways to kill. Starvation is always something that is done by one person to another. It’s intended to be protracted and to maximize suffering.”
He continued, “With starvation, the body loses the ability to launch an immune response to diseases or injuries it could normally deal with, such as gastroenteritis, trauma or a respiratory infection, so it’s often malnutrition plus an infection that kills.”
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a Palestinian British surgeon who spent 43 days working in Gaza, said, “There are currently thousands of orphans roaming Gaza. There is no one to feed them or risk their lives to get food for them, so they’re more likely to die,” he said (continue reading here).
RELATED: Israel delivers only 14 percent of required aid to Gaza: Officials
Unpacking the numbers behind Gaza’s wounded
The number of wounded during Israel’s war on Gaza has today reached at least 150,027. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry:
- At least 18,500 of those wounded will require long-term rehabilitation
- At least 4,700 have had one or more limbs amputated as a result of their injuries, of which at least 1,000 are children
Three die from Guillain-Barre Syndrome in Gaza
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has confirmed three deaths from Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a rare nerve condition that can cause sudden muscle weakness or paralysis. Two of the victims were children under the age of 15, who died after life-saving treatment became unavailable due to the ongoing blockade.
In a statement, Gaza health officials said the collapse of Gaza’s health and environmental systems poses a grave threat to Palestinians. “These are not just deaths… They are a warning of a real, potential infectious disaster.”
MORE HEADLINES FROM GAZA:
Hunger makes life hell for Gaza’s journalists
Palestinians distraught over relatives missing at deadly Gaza aid sites
(Get familiar with the charges against Israel: genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced transfer, starvation as a weapon of war, use of human shields, indiscriminate shooting at civilians, and more.)
WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM, AND ISRAEL NEWS AND HEADLINES:
(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.)
Reports: Netanyahu orders Israeli army to conquer all of Gaza
The Israeli war cabinet met on Monday to decide on the next phase of Israel’s war on Gaza. The meeting was reportedly to choose between ending the war in favor of ceasefire talks or expanding it to reoccupy the entire Strip.
According to initial unconfirmed reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has briefed “friendly journalists” that he has ordered the Israeli army to “conquer Gaza” in the face of opposition from the army’s Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir. Netanyahu’s office reportedly told N12: “The decision has been made — Israel is going to conquer the Gaza Strip.”
The ceasefire was supported by Israeli army officials, while the decision to reoccupy Gaza is favored by the hardline ministers like National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who are key allies in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s rightwing coalition and are credited with playing an influential role in sustaining the ongoing Israeli onslaught.
US President Donald Trump had given Netanyahu a “green light” to proceed with the expanded assault, according to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth.
Retired security officials warn Israel on ‘precipice of defeat,’ demand ‘end to Gaza war’
Over a dozen former Israeli security officials issued a joint video statement on 3 August demanding an end to the war in Gaza and warning that Tel Aviv is on the brink of “defeat.”
Former officials have also demanded that US President Donald Trump pressure Israel to end the genocidal campaign which has raged since October 2023 – in a separate letter accompanying the video and signed by 550 former security officials.
The video statement was made by 19 retired army chiefs, intelligence heads, Shin Bet and Mossad directors, and police commissioners (continue reading here).
West Bank: Israeli military, settlers committed over 1,800 violations against Palestinians in July
More than 1,821 violations were recorded in July, according to a report by the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission. Israeli military units were responsible for 1,355 of the attacks, while paramilitary colonizers conducted 466.
Colonizers killed four Palestinians and expelled residents two Bedouin hamlets, for a total of 33 expelled Bedouin communities since October 2023.
Colonizers cut, uprooted or poisoned 2,844 trees, the majority in Bethlehem. 232 additional incidents of vandalism and theft targeted Palestinian farms and private lands (continue reading here).
ISRAELI MILITARY KILLS PALESTINIAN NEAR JENIN: On Monday morning, officials announced the death of 33-year-old Yousef Emad Ibrahim Al-Amer, killed by Israeli soldiers in the town of Qabatia, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian sources confirmed Al-Amer, a resident of Jenin refugee camp, was killed in an agricultural shed that the soldiers bombed in Qabatia.
LEFT-WING ISRAELI LAWMAKER FORCIBLY REMOVED FOR SAYING “GENOCIDE”: Jewish Lawmaker Ofer Cassif was forcibly removed from the Knesset podium Monday night after quoting Israeli author David Grossman, who said in an interview published last week that genocide is taking place in Gaza. Likud MK Tally Gotliv shouted: “He will not say ‘genocide’ in here!” Knesset ushers then physically removed Cassif from the podium.
MORE HEADLINES ON ISRAEL, WEST BANK (a quick skim just of headlines can be very informative!):
Tensions between Israeli army chief, government ‘reach their peak’: Report
Army Abducts Many Palestinians in West Bank
Army Demolishes Structures, Issues demolition Orders, In Jerusalem
Israeli Settlers Torch Palestinian Farmhouse, Tag Walls With ‘Revenge’ and ‘Price Tag’
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
Massive civilian flotilla set to sail for Gaza late August to break Israeli siege
Speaker Mike Johnson visits occupied West Bank to support [illegal] Israeli settlers
Mike Johnson became the highest ranked US official to visit the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Republican House speaker drawing measures of praise and condemnation for his trip in support of Israeli settlements amid a worsening starvation crisis in Gaza.
Common Dreams quoted Johnson as saying that “the mountains of Judea and Samaria are the rightful property of the Jewish people*” and that the territory was at “the front line of the state of Israel, and must remain an integral part of it”.
“Even if the world thinks otherwise, we stand with you,” he reportedly added, an apparent reference to recent proclamations by France and the UK that they would recognize a Palestinian state if Israel did not commit to a ceasefire in Gaza (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.
Some settler groups have a history of violence against Palestinians, often with the assistance of Israeli military forces.
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.
US reverses pledge to link disaster funds to Israel boycott stance
The Trump administration on Monday reversed course on requiring U.S. cities and states to rebuke boycotts of Israeli companies in order to receive disaster funds, according to a statement, and deleted the earlier policy from its website.
The Department of Homeland Security removed its statement that said states must certify they will not sever “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies” to qualify for the funding (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES:
US Congressman Khanna leads push to recognise Palestinian state
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
22,000 humanitarian aid trucks wait outside Gaza
Another Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli prison: Rights groups
House speaker Mike Johnson prays at Western Wall for US to ‘always stand with Israel’
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 4, 2025*:
- At least 62,050 Palestinians killed, 159,901 injured – including:
- at least 61,020 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,030 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 150,671 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 188 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 94 children
According to Palestinian authorities, during the ceasefire Jan. 19 – March 18 2025, Israeli attacks killed at least 170 Gazans, and Israel committed at least 962 ceasefire violations.
Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, 2025 it has killed at least 9,519 people. 50 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 26) have been killed during the same time period.
At least 1,516 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
*Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble. Additionally, the numbers of injured and starved are very conservative estimates.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – August 4, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 454 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. (72 soldiers have reportedly died due to “operational incidents.”)
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 229 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186 and 298 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)
- TikTok hires ex-Israeli army instructor as new hate speech manager, sparking backlash
- Amazon Labor Union Leader and Flotilla Crew Member Chris Smalls Released From Israeli Prison
- Israeli Officials Visit London, Offer Wealthy Jews Tax Incentives to Immigrate to Israel
- BBC is a patsy of the Israel lobby
- Christian GHF boss gets free hand to spread his own ‘disinformation’
- Ralph Nader: “Palestinian Holocaust,” Possibly 500,000 Dead
- American Nurse Who Tried to Save “No Other Land” Activist Was Detained & Deported By Israel
- Gaza starvation widens MAGA’s rupture with Israel
- The Information Warfare Consortium Shaping Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s PR Offensive
- As Gaza Starves, Republicans Take Aim at Another Lifeline. Almost No One Noticed
- Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda To 45 Million Europeans
- BREAKING: In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote to Stop Arming Israel
- A Cry from the Heart: an Episcopal priest talks about Gaza
- Tucker Carlson on Israel’s Shocking War Crimes and Genocide in Gaza
- The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence
- Israel Caused the Hunger Crisis in Gaza, No Matter How Much It Tries to Blame the UN
- Fmr. Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes
- Zohran Mamdani’s support for Palestinian rights sealed mayoral primary win, poll shows
- US Consular Officials from US Embassy-Israel Have NOT Visited US Citizens from Gaza Flotilla Who Have Been in Israeli Prison For Four Days
