Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 51 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including at least 24 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,095 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
The total known number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 289, including 115 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Sunday, 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.)
Palestinian Boys Allege Sexual Assault, Torture by Israeli Jailers
Palestinian teenagers kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces during the genocidal war on Gaza accused their jailers of torturing and sexually assaulting them in a report published Saturday by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“They took me from the aid distribution site and transferred me to a hospital in Rafah, where I was interrogated for an hour,” one 16-year-old boy identified by his first name Sami, who was abducted on June 29, told ABC. “They stripped me and conducted a body search. Then, they loaded me into a jeep and transported me to a prison in Israel.”
“During the interrogations, they tortured us—handcuffing us, beating us with sticks, and using electric shocks,” the teen continued. “They did countless things to break us” (continue reading here).
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OVER 1K BUILDINGS DESTROYED IN GAZA CITY, BODIES BURIED IN RUBBLE: Gaza’s Civil Defense reports that amid intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza City, more than 1,000 buildings have been destroyed in the Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods since August 6. Hundreds of bodies of killed Palestinians are still stuck under the rubble, while ongoing shelling and lack of access routes and resources prevent many aid operations.
GAZA SHELTER SUPPLIES MEET ONLY 4% OF NEEDS: The Government Media Office in Gaza says the territory faces a shelter deficit of more than 96 percent, leaving the southern governorates unable to accommodate the 1.3 million Palestinians who have been forcibly displaced. It said only about 10,000 tents have entered Gaza since Israel announced the entry of shelter supplies, just four percent of the 250,000 tents and caravans required. “This number reflects the extent of manipulation and procrastination in responding to urgent humanitarian needs,” the office said in a statement.
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Another American contractor for GHF tells the truth about Gaza aid
EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was established to replace the United Nations as the main distributor of aid. In late June, the U.S. State Department approved $30 million for the group, calling its work “absolutely incredible.”
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— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 21, 2025
There is something worse than starvation in Gaza
NOTABLE QUOTE: “Denial is the most obscene expression of dehumanization”
Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General, on the Gaza Famine:
Famine is the last calamity hitting the people of Gaza
Hell in all shapes.
“Never Again” has deliberately become again.
This will haunt us.
Denial is the most obscene expression of dehumanization.
It’s time for the Government of Israel to stop promoting a different narrative, and to let humanitarian organizations provide assistance without restrictions and allow international journalists to report independently from Gaza.
Every hours counts
Open the gates
Cease fire Now
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.)
West Bank village devastated as Israel uproots thousands of olive trees in 72 hours
The Israeli army has reportedly uprooted thousands of olive trees in the West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir in just the past three days, as part of a collective punishment* campaign against Palestinian residents of the village.
Olive farming is the backbone of Palestinian agriculture. Olive trees in the West Bank are often hundreds of years old, some even over a thousand years old, and are deeply tied to Palestinian identity, representing steadfastness and their historical connection to the land.
The Israeli army began uprooting the trees on Thursday, while also carrying out raids on homes and imposing a siege and curfew, preventing all movement into and out of the village located northeast of Ramallah. Soldiers also raided homes, looting money, jewelry, and vehicles.
The raid was apparently retaliation after 30-year-old Palestinian resident of Al-Mughayyir allegedly fired at settlers from the outpost, “without hitting any, before engaging in a physical altercation during which an Israeli man was lightly hurt.”
He was later detained by a unit of Israeli reserve soldiers comprised of local Jewish settlers.
Al-Mughayyir has long been a target of settlers and soldiers alike amid plans for ethnic cleansing and further land grabs.
*NOTE: Collective punishment is a war crime.
Compare the treatment of this entire village for the alleged actions of one resident (who only “lightly hurt” an Israeli settler) to a recent incident in which a settler murdered a Palestinian in cold blood – and was recorded doing it – and the killer has gone free. This is just one example of Israel’s apartheid policies.
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The Silent Tsunami: West Bank Edges Toward a Slow-Burning Collapse
The West Bank is quietly unraveling. Beneath the surface of daily life, a slow-burning crisis is taking shape, political immobilization, economic suffocation, and deepening public disillusionment are converging into what experts warn could become an explosive breakdown.
With no political horizon in sight and trust in the Palestinian Authority eroding, the region is inching toward a tipping point.
Israeli pressure is intensifying, and the Palestinian leadership is struggling to respond. The term “silent tsunami,” coined by the head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University, captures the scale of transformation underway (continue reading here).
Systematic Violations by Paramilitary Colonizers Across West Bank
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, Katz talk tough
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday night, following the Israeli retaliation on Yemen, “Anyone who attacks us—we attack them. Anyone planning to attack us—we attack them. I believe the entire region is learning the power and determination of the State of Israel.”
Defense Minister Israel Katz added, “For every missile the Houthis launch at Israel, they will pay with compound interest.”
The Israeli military stated last week that the Houthis operate “in order to harm the State of Israel and its allies.”
NOTE: The Houthis in Yemen – as well as Hezbollah – have declared in no uncertain terms that their conflict with Israel is in support of the Palestinians, and will end when Israel ends its war on Gaza.
OTHER NEWS:
Stop Censoring Palestine: A public call for accountability at the Harvard Education Publishing Group
Israeli bombardment kills six in Yemen’s Sanaa after Houthi attacks
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israel Assassinates Journalist After Threatening Him for the Past Week
Israel tried, but failed, to keep Gaza just above famine threshold
In Gaza, Even the Cost of a Grave Has Become a Luxury
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 24, 2025*:
- At least 63,718 Palestinians killed, 167,181 injured – including:
- at least 62,686 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,032 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 157,951 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 289 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 115 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 2,076 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 10,778 people. 51 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 24, 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 234 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 192 and 307 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)
- 100 Days of Huckabee: A Master Class in Failure
- Palestinians in Gaza City hold ‘Last Hour’ protest demanding int’l protection
- Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
- Reuters journalists accuse their own agency of pro-Israel bias
- Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
- Israel Orders $760M in Top-of-the-Line Weapons for its “Evolving Needs”
- Pentagon seeks billions in ‘emergency funds’ to restock arms used in defense of Israel
- 2,000+ extradition requests with Israel as of May 2022, amid pattern of Jewish American pedophiles hiding in Israel
- Bari Weiss’s Free Press Wants You to Know Some Kids Being Starved by Israel Were Already Sick
- Why are Americans not speaking out against Israel’s genocide? If Americans Knew founder Alison Weir breaks it down
- Amnesty: New testimonies provide compelling evidence that Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is a deliberate policy
- Palestinian woman declared dead found alive in Israeli detention months later
- United Methodist Church divests from Israel bonds
- AIPAC stands by Katherine Clark as she walks back ‘genocide’ comment
- Israelis Understand That Trump Can End The Nightmare In Gaza. Americans Should Know This Too.
- Inside Gaza’s Only Catholic Church, One Month After Israel’s Attack
- Israeli government official arrested in Nevada in internet crimes against children sting
- The Israeli flag just became the only national flag illegal to burn in the United States. Yeah. I’m dead serious.
- North Carolina Democrat spurns AIPAC, in latest sign of party’s growing distance from Israel
