Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 46 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, including at least 23 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,706 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
Four more Palestinians died of starvation in Gaza on Wednesday. The total number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition is now 197, including 96 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Wednesday, go here.
An Israeli strike on the Lebanese town of Tulin has killed an 11-year-old child and injured his father.
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.)
AT LEAST 25 CRUSHED TO DEATH BY OVERTURNED AID TRUCK: Medical sources said that 25 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured when a truck carrying aid overturned on top of a crowd of people seeking relief in the central Gaza Strip. Local sources indicated that the aid truck overturned after the occupation forces forced it to enter through an unsafe road.
UN SAYS 100 PREMATURE BABIES IN DANGER DUE TO LACK OF FUEL: The UN’s Farhan Haq warns that Israel’s continued blockade on the entry of fuel into Gaza is affecting “lifesaving” operations in the territory.“For example, our partners working in health warned today that the lives of more than 100 premature babies are in imminent danger due to the lack of fuel.”
WHO: “ARBITRARY DENIAL” OF MEDICAL TEAMS TO GAZA LEADS TO MORE DEATHS: The World Health Organization (WHO) says the “complex” Israeli entry requirements for emergency medical teams (EMT) were “severely impacting availability of health services and leading to more deaths in Gaza.” In a post on X, the WHO said since March 18, the number of teams getting denied have risen by “nearly 50 percent” with 102 EMT health professionals, including surgeons and specialized doctors, barred from entering Gaza.
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Dire blood shortage in Gaza as deaths from Israeli attacks, starvation grow
Gaza’s already battered healthcare system is in a state of collapse as blood banks run dry and Israeli forces continue targeting clinics and facilities housing patients and displaced families while maintaining an aid blockade.
Healthcare officials in the besieged enclave reported on Wednesday that there is a severe shortage of blood as many would-be donors are too malnourished and dehydrated due to the severe Israeli-induced hunger crisis.
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Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says
Israel’s destruction of Gaza has left starving Palestinians with access to only 1.5% of cropland that is accessible and suitable for cultivation, according to new figures from the UN.
This is down from 4% in April, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), suggesting Israel has continued to target Palestinian farmland since initiating a complete blockade in early March, severely restricting aid from entering the Gaza Strip, where 2 million starved people are trapped.
Before the conflict, Gaza was a thriving agricultural hub, where farmers and ordinary Palestinians cultivated a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains for local consumption (continue reading here).
NOTE: Another recent article in the Guardian described what appeared to be Israel’s arbitrary obstruction of certain types of foods in humanitarian aid deliveries. An anonymous humanitarian reported that Israeli customs officials consistently rejected shipments of dates and olives without explanation. “After pooling their experiences with other aid groups, they realized the common denominator was fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted.”
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97 per cent of Gaza’s animal wealth destroyed by Israeli bombing, starvation, and looting
Israel has destroyed nearly all animal wealth in the Gaza Strip, approximately 97 per cent, through bombing and systematic starvation, including working animals that served as the last means of transport amid fuel shortages and limited public mobility.
The destruction of animal wealth coincides with the bulldozing of thousands of acres of farmland as part of a deliberate policy to starve the population, destroy food sources, and inflict severe physical and psychological suffering, all of which are fundamental components of the ongoing crime of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (continue reading here).
RELATED: War crime: Israeli army stole donkeys from Gaza, transported them to Europe
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Israel claims 100+ airdrops into Gaza today, as 22K loaded trucks wait at border
The Israeli military says that over the past few hours, “107 aid packages, containing food for the residents of the Gaza Strip, were airdropped by five different countries”.
It said it will continue to work in order “to improve the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, along with the international community” and refuted what it said were “false claims of deliberate starvation in Gaza”.
22,000 trucks loaded with aid remain at the crossings, waiting to enter, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.
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DESPITE 2005 ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL, GAZA HAS BEEN OCCUPIED SINCE 1967: Israeli officials have been threatening to fully “occupy” Gaza, but legal experts stress that the enclave has been occupied since 1967 despite the withdrawal of Israeli forces and settlers in 2005. The International Court of Justice, the UN’s top tribunal, reaffirmed that position in a ruling last year (continue reading here).
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MORE HEADLINES FROM GAZA:
UN experts call for immediate dismantling of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
(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.)
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS:
(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.)
ISRAEL BANS TOP MUSLIM CLERIC FROM AL-AQSA MOSQUE AFTER SERMON CRITICAL OF GAZA STARVATION: Israeli authorities have issued a six-month ban on Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territory, from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque. The ban was imposed after his Friday sermon, where he condemned Israel’s starvation policy against Palestinians in Gaza.
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MORE HEADLINES ON WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM:
From Children’s Piggy Banks to Heirloom Gold: Reports of Israeli Soldiers Looting Surge in the West Bank
At least 30 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank
Bethlehem village residents receive forced displacement notice amid illegal Israeli settlement expansion
Israeli Army Abducts Children Near Jerusalem
Israeli Army Injures Three Palestinians, Abducts One, In Jericho
Soldiers Demolish Two Homes In Silwan, Jerusalem
ISRAEL NEWS:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil within its government. Many of the below news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Leaks reveal Netanyahu deliberately imposed starvation in Gaza to ‘force Hamas surrender’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls from senior ministers to advance ceasefire negotiations and deliberately restricted all aid to Gaza in order to force a surrender from Hamas, internal government transcripts published by Israeli news outlet Channel 13 have revealed.
The transcripts from an Israeli war cabinet meeting on 1 March show that Netanyahu ignored repeated calls from senior defence officials to move to the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in order to secure the release of Israeli captives, and then to renew hostilities after.
Netanyahu instead chose to unilaterally break the ceasefire in March and bar all aid to Gaza, in the hopes of forcing a surrender by Hamas (continue reading here).
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WATCH: ISRAELI SETTLERS BLOCK GAZA-BOUND AID TRUCKS: Israeli settlers have attacked an aid convoy for the second time in days, delaying 30 trucks seeking to reach Gaza from Jordan. Footage shows settlers chanting, “May Palestine’s name be wiped out.” See more in the video below.
MORE HEADLINES ON ISRAEL (a quick skim just of headlines can be very informative!):
NOTABLE QUOTE:
Sixteen media organizations and press freedom groups, including Al Jazeera Media Network and the Committee to Protect Journalists, released a joint statement:
Journalists in Gaza are being starved to death. Not metaphorically. Not slowly. But deliberately, and in real time, while the world watches.
Those who remain, and their families, are subjected to constant targeting, intimidation, and denied of their basic needs and now forced to choose between death by air strike or starvation.
Their situation is dire and worsening day by day. Without immediate intervention by the international community, their lives are under serious threat, and they may not be able to continue reporting; their voices may fall silent.
The journalistic community and the world bear an immense responsibility; it is our duty to raise our voices and mobilize all available means to support our colleagues in this noble profession.
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
Rubio: Gaza Crisis Is Real, but Not Enough Attention Paid to the Israeli Hostages
In an interview with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked about the situation in Gaza.
According to Secretary of State Rubio, “a lot of attention” is being paid to the poor humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip.
“We want to do everything we can to be helpful on the humanitarian problem,” he said, but added that “not enough attention being paid to the fact that 20 people that had nothing to do with this are being held hostage in tunnels on the verge of death*, and no real talk about how Hamas needs to be disarmed and disbanded**.”
*NOTE: As Hamas leaders have explained, the Israeli hostages are eating the same food the people of Gaza are eating. When Israel withholds humanitarian aid from Gaza, it is also starving its own people.
**While many pro-Israel pundits like Rubio have called for Hamas to surrender and end the Palestinians’ suffering, the fact is that Hamas is not looking to simply end the war and return to the status quo of October 6, 2023. The resistance group is demanding an end to Israel’s decades-long blockade and the dire situation that Gaza has been enduring. As Hamas has said from the beginning, its goal is to end Israel’s occupation, reclaim Palestinian rights, and obtain “liberation and independence like all peoples around the world.” International law supports the efforts of resistance groups against an occupying power, even to the point of armed resistance.
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Israel ‘targeted civilians’ in Gaza, UK government staff told
Last week, a post seen by Middle East Eye on the Cabinet Office’s incident hub, a monitoring tool for government staff, reported that the “IDF targeted civilians near an aid distribution centre near Rafah, Gaza.” No Labour minister has ever publicly accused the Israeli military of targeting civilians, which is a naked war crime.
In fact, the government has never even accused Israel of breaking international law.
When British Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggested Israel had done so in Gaza in March, Downing Street quickly rowed back on the comments.
But government staff have now been informed the Israeli military targeted civilians (continue reading here).
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MORE HEADLINES:
Democrats attempt to navigate Israel’s declining support among base, as midterms loom
Family of Palestinian American who died after Israeli settler attack calls for US intervention
Drones, no-go zones, and weaponized policing: Inside Project Resolute, Canada’s crack down on pro-Palestine speech
U.S. Nonprofit Gave Over $100,000 to Publish Netanyahu’s Autobiography. It Wasn’t Reported as a Donation
Accepted but trapped: Why won’t the UK evacuate its students from Gaza?
An Unexpected Path to Hold War Criminals Accountable
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Gaza Health Ministry Reports Spike in Neurological Diseases, With 95 New Cases in Past Day
Israeli media exposes Netanyahu lie: he blocked recent ceasefire deal, not Hamas
‘Erosion of Press Freedom’: Over 500 Journalists Demand Access to Gaza
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 6, 2025*:
- At least 62,288 Palestinians killed, 161,275 injured – including:
- at least 61,258 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,030 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 152,045 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 193 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 96 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 1,706 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 9,752 people. 50 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 26) 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 6, 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)
- A war crimes net is tightening around Israeli soldiers abroad
- We Must Oppose a Definition of Antisemitism That Bolsters Genocide
- I saw many atrocities as a senior UN aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us.
- Report: Mass Abductions, Torture, Enforced Disappearances
- ‘She’s disappearing in front of me’: Gaza’s children are the most vulnerable victims of Israeli-imposed starvation
- Mainstream media largely sidelined Gaza starvation story, until it couldn’t
- The Cruelty and Speciousness of Bret Stephens’ Denial of Genocide
- Israel abducted starving children at Gaza “aid” sites, then tortured them
- Israel Is Imprisoning Florida-Born Cousin of American Slain by Settlers
- Billionaire Jeff Yass linked to $16m in donations to anti-Muslim and pro-Israel groups
- 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
