Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 98 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, including at least 12 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,306 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
Among the dead were a pregnant woman and her unborn baby, killed near the Shati refugee camp.
The total known number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 361, including 130 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Monday, go here.
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.)
Israeli warplanes target hospital in central Gaza
Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on tents on the grounds of Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza early on Monday, according to the Gaza Government Media Office. The strike resulted in a number of injuries and material damage.
It was the 14th time that the hospital has been targeted by the Israeli army since the start of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, “which reflects a clear insistence on targeting the health infrastructure and violating international laws that prohibit harming medical facilities and civilians,” the statement said.
MSF: No change in Gaza despite UN famine declaration
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM 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.)
Family Of 5 Among 7 Palestinians Injured Near Tubas
Israeli offensive on Jenin enters seventh month amid widespread destruction, mass displacement
Israeli Army Invades School Perimeter in Silwan
Army Abducts Two Palestinians, Colonizers Attack Home in Hebron
Soldiers Assault A Palestinian Near Nablus
Israeli Colonizers Assault A Palestinian Child In Northern Plains
Settlers Run Over Child, Burn Crops, Near Hebron
ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil within its government. Often, our news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Netanyahu rejects prisoner exchange deal as Israel pounds Gaza, kills scores
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his rejection of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, despite the military supporting the idea, Hebrew media reported on Monday.
Netanyahu said in a statement carried by Channel 12 that “no deal currently exists” and reportedly refused to vote during a security cabinet meeting on a partial prisoner release, adding that there was no need to vote on a deal because it was not on the meeting’s agenda.
Israel’s far-right and extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, along with other ministers, also sought to vote against the partial prisoner release deal, reports said.
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Netanyahu Says Trump Told Him No ‘Partial Deals,’ Go With ‘Full Force’ in Gaza
At a security cabinet meeting on Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told his top officials that he had the backing of President Trump to reject a temporary Gaza ceasefire deal and to escalate military operations in Gaza.
“Forget the partial deals. Go in with full force. Finish it,” Netanyahu said, relaying what Trump told him.
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ISRAEL’S BEN-GVIR TO ALLOW 100,000 MORE ISRAELIS* TO HOLD GUN PERMITS: Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir decided on Monday to allow approximately 100,000 additional Israelis to obtain special firearm licenses, as part of a controversial policy. According to his office, approximately 230,000 new firearm licenses have been issued since the beginning of the arming policy.
*NOTE: This is just one more example of Israeli apartheid, which has been observed and documented by numerous recognized organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem, and Yesh Din , United Nations, and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). Groups that oppose the designation have yet to explain why the “apartheid” label is wrong.
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MORE ISRAEL HEADLINES:
131 Israeli journalists call for end to Tel Aviv’s targeting of press in Gaza, demand investigation
Key Liberal Democracy Chapters Cut From Israel’s Civics Exam, While Nationalist Content Is Boosted
Israel Police Break Up anti-Gaza War Protest in Tel Aviv Despite Prior Approval
Israel Refuses to Release Body of Palestinian Teen Who Suffered From Malnutrition in Jail
FLOTILLA NEWS:
Amnesty: Any attempt to block Gaza-bound flotilla is ‘attack’ on int’l law
Amnesty International on Monday urged Israel to allow an international flotilla aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, warning that any attempt to block it would be an attack on humanitarian principles and international law.
The UK-based rights group praised activists of the Global Sumud Flotilla initiative over its “powerful & inspiring act of solidarity” with Palestinians, who are struggling to survive under Israel’s cruel and unlawful blockade and amidst its ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.”
FLOTILLA HEADLINES:
Sumud Flotilla for Gaza departs Barcelona again after delay due to storm
Ben-Gvir plans to designate Global Sumud Flotilla activists as terrorists, seize boats
The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know
NOTABLE QUOTE:
Genocide is a process, developing over many years. It begins with practices of institutional dehumanization, ends in erasure, and throughout involves periodic massacres, practices of apartheid segregation, systematic weakening and social reorganization.
Genocide necessarily involves the prior and organized weakening of those to be eliminated. The process is attritional and includes state strategies of physical destruction through overcrowding, malnutrition, starvation, targeted disablement, epidemics, denial of healthcare, torture and rape; and state strategies of psychological destruction through humiliation, abuse, persistent violence, denial of basic rights, and the undermining of community solidarity through collective punishment and collaboration.
Evidence of both the physical and psychological components of Israel’s strategy to destroy Gaza has long been provided by human rights organizations. Systematic weakening is enabled through practices of segregation and apartheid, and is most potent once the target group has been physically and socially isolated.
Israel’s calculated, wholesale and relentless decimation of healthcare in Gaza represents something hitherto unseen in modern genocides.
OTHER NEWS:
UN Assembly Moves to Geneva After U.S. Bars Palestinian Delegation
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association have backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime.
Eighty-six per cent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in article II of the United Nations convention for the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (1948).”
The three-page resolution calls on Israel to “immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza, including deliberate attacks against and killing of civilians including children; starvation; deprivation of humanitarian aid, water, fuel, and other items essential to the survival of the population; sexual and reproductive violence; and forced displacement of the population” (continue reading here; find the full resolution here).
RELATED: Who Says Israel Is Committing a Genocide in Gaza? Everyone on This List
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Israel v S Africa is ‘the strongest case of genocide ever brought before the ICJ’
The case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is “arguably the strongest case of genocide ever brought before the Court,” says Professor William Schabas, one of the world’s leading authorities on international criminal law.
“There is already sufficient evidence in the public domain to sustain the charge of genocide,” he added, citing Israeli military actions in Gaza and public statements by senior Israeli officials as indicative of genocidal intent. “This is a litmus test for the credibility of international justice.”
In an exclusive interview with the European Centre for Populism Studies (ECPS), Schabas warned that the Court’s handling of the case will define whether international law can still restrain powerful states, or whether impunity will prevail. “We have more than circumstantial evidence,” he explained. “There are patterns of conduct, systematic destruction, starvation as a method of war, and a growing body of dehumanizing rhetoric from Israeli leaders” (continue reading here).
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‘Trump economic zone’ for Lebanon calls for occupation, forced displacement: Report
Plans for a “Trump economic zone” in south Lebanon include seizing land from 27 Lebanese villages in exchange for “attractive financial compensation, granting Israel freedom of action and the right to erect watchtowers, and deploying a US force for “security management,” Annahar newspaper reported on 1 September.
Washington confirmed the economic zone plan during the visit of a US delegation to Beirut last week, after media outlets reported on the matter and framed it as an effort to prevent Hezbollah from re-establishing itself along the border.
“This area will be under American security management. Between 1,500 and 2,000 soldiers will oversee its daily operations and communicate with Lebanese and Israeli security agencies.”
It is unclear if the report is referring to US military forces or private security contractors (continue reading here).
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US State Dept engaging with Norway over sovereign wealth fund BDS* move
The US State Department is in discussions with the Norwegian government over the decision by Norges Bank Investment Management, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, to sell its stake in U.S. machinery firm Caterpillar, citing concerns about the Israeli military’s use of the company’s bulldozers to destroy Palestinian property in the West Bank and Gaza.
“We are very troubled by the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund’s decision, which appears to be based on illegitimate claims against Caterpillar and the Israeli government,” a State Department spokesperson told Jewish Insider. “We are engaging directly with the Norwegian government on this matter.”
*NOTE: BDS, the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement, is a is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.
Israel is occupying and colonizing Palestinian land, discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel, and denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the BDS call urges action to pressure Israel to comply with international law.
MORE HEADLINES:
Global appeal: Gaza’s journalists need urgent protection
More than 250 media outlets protest over Israel murdering Gaza journalists
Trump Acknowledges Israel Is Losing Control Of Congress
Negotiations for next U.S.-Israel aid deal faces uphill battle with changing political tides
CUNY students win landmark legal case demanding the school disclose investments linked to Gaza genocide
Belgium to recognize Palestinian state and sanction Israel
Ireland’s Central Bank will no longer approve Israeli bonds: Report
EU credibility at stake over Gaza stance, warns bloc’s foreign policy chief
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2025*:
- At least 64,665 Palestinians killed, 170,144 injured – including:
- at least 63,633 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,032 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 160,914 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 361 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 130 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.
At least 2,306 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, 2025 it has killed at least 11,502 people. 52 Israeli soldiers (most recent Aug. 29) have been killed during the same time period.
*NOTE: 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 – September 1, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 456 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 240 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 197 and 314 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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