Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including at least 22 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,180 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
The total known number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 317, including 121 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Wednesday, 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.)
New video reveals third strike in deadly ‘double-tap’ attack on Gaza hospital
Israel has faced global condemnation for back-to-back strikes on the biggest hospital in southern Gaza this week, which killed at least 22 people, including health workers, emergency response crews and five journalists.
The attack on the hospital came just after 10 a.m. local time on Monday when a balcony at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis was hit by what appears to be a tank shell, killing a Reuters cameraman and others. Nine minutes later, as a group of rescue workers and other journalists attended to the victims, they were hit as the Israeli military fired again on the hospital – a tactic known as a “double tap.”
New video obtained by CNN reveals that this second “tap” was in fact two near-simultaneous strikes. These second and third strikes appear to have caused most of the deaths (continue reading here).
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“This is Eternal Displacement”: Israeli Onslaught Forcing Thousands to Flee With Nowhere to Go
Israeli tanks backed by warplanes and quadcopters are pushing deeper into Gaza City, destroying entire neighborhoods and leaving people with nowhere to go.
Palestinians are describing the assault by the Israeli military to seize and ethnically cleanse Gaza City—Gaza’s largest city, where up to a million people are currently seeking shelter—as the end game.
“We’re leaving,” said Rami, a local resident, “but we don’t know where to go…There is no safe place in Gaza…To go from the north to the south—you have no money, no transportation. It’s extremely difficult, disastrous. There is no healthcare, no food, no aid, no tents, no anything” (continue reading here).
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Aid deliveries “insufficient,” unhealthy, and expensive
Aid deliveries remain insufficient, disorganized, and frequently looted by hungry crowds and armed gangs. Israel is systematically forcing aid truck drivers to take specific routes that expose them to looting. Meanwhile, Israel appears to be securing commercial trucks bringing goods to the local market.
This, as a result, gives the perception to the international community that Gaza’s markets are full of products. But people don’t have money to buy these products.
That’s why we continue to see thousands of people making difficult journeys to the controversial GHF aid centers. That’s why we continue to see deaths from severe malnutrition on a daily basis.
More than 95 percent of Gaza’s population has no money or source of income to buy basic items and foodstuffs available in the markets, according to the Government Media Office.
“Among the most vital food items that the occupation prohibits from entering the Gaza Strip are eggs, red and white meat, fish, cheese, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, nutritional supplements, and dozens of other items,” it added.
US contractors in Gaza pursued Middle East Eye journalist before his killing
US contractors at a Gaza aid center interrogated a source of Middle East Eye journalist Mohamed Salama seeking information about his identity and whereabouts before he was killed, MEE can reveal.
Salama was killed alongside MEE reporter Ahmed Abu Aziz and three other journalists on Monday morning as they responded to an attack on Nasser hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The two strikes killed 20 Palestinians overall, including medics and first responders.
Days before, a source for one of Salama’s major investigations for MEE told him that they had been briefly detained at an aid distribution center by US security contractors guarding the site, where they had been interrogated about the identity of the reporter behind the story (continue reading here).
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IDF orders Gaza City Palestinians to transfer to areas Israel itself deems dangerous
The Israeli military on Wednesday told residents of Gaza City that evacuation was “inevitable” and urged them to leave before the military operation. A map showed 19 zones to which they should go. But a closer inspection of the map shows that several of these areas have been designated by the IDF as places where civilians would be in danger (more here).
In addition, the designated areas are too small to accommodate the population’s needs, and not all of that area is even available because some of it isn’t suitable for pitching tents and in other portions of it there are already tents.
GAZA CITY ORTHODOX CHURCH IN ISRAELI EVACUATION ZONE: The St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City, where hundreds of Palestinians are sheltering, is reportedly in the red zone of Israel’S evacuation map. The nearby Holy Family Catholic Church IS outside of the evacuation zone for now. The Orthodox and Latin Patriarchates recently declared that their clergy and nuns helping the displaced Palestinians will not leave the churches despite Israel’s planned offensive.
GAZA AID DELIVERIES DECLINED OVER PAST TWO WEEKS: UNRWA: UNRWA media adviser Adnan Abu Hasna has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the amount of aid entering Gaza has declined and no medical equipment was delivered over the past two weeks. One million children remain at risk of acute malnutrition across the enclave.
UN WARNS GAZA CHILDREN FACE THIRD YEAR WITHOUT SCHOOL: Children in the Gaza Strip are set to miss the start of a new school year for the third consecutive time, the UN said Wednesday. “Education is a fundamental right, and no child should be denied this right. Access to education must be protected. It must be restored,” spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters, adding that the crisis “threatens the future of an entire generation of children in Gaza,” while the expansion of military operations continues to increase risks from explosive ordnance.
MORE HEADLINES:
No vacancy: Gaza’s hospital bed occupancy rate has reached to an ‘unprecedented’ 300%
Israel destroys more than 1,500 homes in Gaza City’s Al-Zeitoun neighborhood as assault on Jabalia continues
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.)
Israeli Forces Storm Nablus, Injure Dozens, Displace Families
Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, injuring nearly 80 Palestinians, including one person shot with live ammunition.
The invasion involved the forced removal of Palestinian families from their homes, triggering widespread protests across the city.
Eyewitnesses described scenes of chaos as soldiers broke into residential areas, expelled families, and occupied rooftops.
Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, rubber-coated bullets, and live rounds. Medical teams treated dozens of injuries, many caused by suffocation and blunt trauma, and one who was shot by live fire (continue reading here).
RELATED: Israeli Settlers Set Up Four Trailers Near Village Where Settler Killed Palestinian Last Month
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.)
Israel demands retraction of UN-backed report declaring famine in Gaza
Israel has called on the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) to “retract immediately its fabricated report and publish a notice,” the director general of Israel’s foreign ministry, Eden Bar Tal, told a news conference.
Tal added that Israel would share “evidence” of misconduct in preparing the report with the IPC’s donors if the organization fails to retract “within a short time”, but did not provide any evidence to back up his statement during the news conference.
He went on to call the initiative a “politicized” institute that is “working for an evil terror* organization”.
*NOTE: The use of the word “terrorist” for groups – like Hamas – that resist occupation and oppression is a political, not fact-based choice. In reality, international law supports the efforts of resistance groups against an occupying power, the UN extending that right to the point of armed resistance.
ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Netanyahu urges army chief to stop media briefings against him
Egypt Isn’t Starving Gaza – Israel Is
OTHER NEWS:
US ALONE AS ALL OTHER UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AGREE GAZA FAMINE “MAN-MADE”: In all, 14 Security Council members sharply denounced “the use of starvation as a weapon of war,” which they said in a statement is “clearly prohibited under international humanitarian law.” They called “for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire,” the release of all hostages remaining in Gaza, and the unconditional lifting of “all restrictions on aid delivery.” The US was the sole member to refrain from signing on to the declaration.
Pope pleads for an end to collective punishment
“I plead for all hostages to be freed, a permanent ceasefire to be reached, the safe entry of humanitarian aid to be facilitated and humanitarian law to be fully respected,” Pope Leo XIV said at the end of his weekly general audience Aug. 27.
Without naming Israel, Pope Leo specified that he was calling for full observance of “the duty to protect civilians and the prohibitions against collective punishment, the indiscriminate use of force and the forced displacement of populations.”
He also endorsed the statement made Aug. 26 by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and Patriarch Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, calling for an end to “this spiral of violence, to put an end to the war and to give priority to the common good” (continue reading here).
RELATED: Palestine urges global churches to stop Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza
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Even Former AIPAC Democrats Are Signing On to Block Arms Sales to Israel
Three House Democrats who collected thousands from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in recent election cycles have signed on to a bill that would block arms sales to Israel in the latest sign that support for the U.S. ally has become a political liability amid its ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The bill’s lead sponsor, Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois, praised her colleagues for supporting the bill and expressed hope that their stances signaled a loosening of AIPAC’s powerful grip on the Democratic Party in Congress.
Ramirez said she admires Congress members who are willing to tell AIPAC, ‘Look, you may have given money to my campaign, but I am taking a stance that is correct, and the stance as a leader and representative I must take, and the stance my constituents call on me to take” (continue reading here).
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Why Tony Blair and Jared Kushner were at the White House to discuss Gaza
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, attended a White House meeting on Wednesday to lay out US and Israeli plans for the fate of post-war Gaza, according to media reports.
The meeting came days after Trump said he expected Israel’s war on Gaza to end within “two to three weeks”. Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, then said that the war would be finished by the end of the year.
“It’s a very comprehensive plan we’re putting together on the next day that I think many people are going to be – they’re going to see how robust it is and how well-meaning it is,” Witkoff said, addressing the meeting at the White House. “And it reflects President Trump’s humanitarian motives here” (continue reading here).
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Evangelical NGO Becomes First Aid Group to Say It’s Collaborating With Controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has secured its first external partner to assist in delivering aid to Palestinians in the Strip after months of being rejected by faith-based and nonprofit humanitarian organizations who refuse to work with the controversial foundation.
The Israel- and U.S.-backed GHF, whose leadership includes prominent figures from the Christian Zionist world, has partnered with Samaritan’s Purse – the international evangelical aid organization led by prominent Trump ally Franklin Graham (continue reading here).
Ultimate irony: Israeli Government Social Media Urges Europe to ‘Remove’ Muslims
Israel faced backlash this week after its Arabic-language account on the social media site X published a message warning Europeans to take action against the proliferation of mosques and “remove” Muslims from their countries.
“In the year 1980, there were only fewer than a hundred mosques in Europe. As for today, there are more than 20,000 mosques. This is the true face of colonization,” posted Israel, a settler-colonial state whose nearly 2 million Muslim citizens face widespread discrimination, and where Palestinians in the illegally occupied territories live under an apartheid regime (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES:
Joaquin Phoenix and Brad Pitt join film about Hind Rajab as executive producers
Microsoft Workers Arrested After Occupying C-Suite to Protest Israel’s Use of Azure in Gaza
US Soccer Club Faces Backlash for Ignoring Palestinian Player’s Nationality
Frankfurt bans protest demanding end to war in Gaza
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Aid reaching Gaza is just 15% of the minimum needed
Israel’s attacks on West Bank civil society “systematic acts of piracy”
Israel’s Security Cabinet meets without discussing Gaza ceasefire proposal
DNC Votes Down “Overwhelming Popular Position” Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 27, 2025*:
- At least 63,998 Palestinians killed, 168,496 injured – including:
- at least 62,966 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,032 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 159,266 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 313 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 119 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 2,180 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 11,121 people. 51 Israeli soldiers (most recent Aug. 23) 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 – August 27, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 455 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 313 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)
- ‘I lost my family, my home, my sight’: Israel blinds thousands in Gaza
- In defiance of voter base, DNC rejects resolution calling for Israel arms embargo
- The New “Free Press” Editorial Defending its Famine Denial Includes Fundamental Errors
- How western media helped turn Israel’s genocide into ‘fake news’
- Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes
- US groups demand release of American-Palestinian teen imprisoned by Israel
- Anatomy of a famine: how Gaza has starved
- Democrats will pay for ignoring base’s qualms about Gaza
- Israeli army says it ‘does not target’ journalists, after targeting and killing 5 journalists
- Valerie Zink Quits Reuters, Accuses Agency of Enabling Journalist Killings in Gaza
- Joint Statement By The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate And The Latin Patriarchate Of Jerusalem
- Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists
- New polls show growing support for Palestine, and for calling Israel’s actions “genocide”
- Israel kills Middle East Eye journalists in double-tap strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
- Palestinian Boys Allege Sexual Assault, Torture by Israeli Jailers
- Israeli News Debunks Netanyahu’s Attack on the Gaza Famine Report
- Israel Is Forcing Parents in Gaza to Watch Their Children Die of Hunger
- Israel’s killing of Palestinian farmers part of systematic policy to enforce starvation in Gaza
- Netanyahu thwarted seven Gaza ceasefire deals, Israeli report finds
