Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
(While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be ongoing, and in its 779th day.)
At least four people were killed in Gaza Monday. Among the dead were a child killed when a leftover ordnance exploded.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 345 Palestinians. Among them are at least 67 children. Death toll figures are tentative.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 497 times.
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.)
Over 100,000 people died in Gaza war, top German research institute reports
Based on calculations by the researchers, between 99,997 and 125,915 people died or were killed in the fighting in the Gaza Strip during the first two years of the war. The researchers’ median estimate is 112,069 people.
The Max Planck scientists compiled data from various sources and performed a statistical projection. In addition to data from the Gaza-based Ministry of Health, they also incorporated an independent household survey and death reports from social media (continue reading here).
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UNRWA: “6,000 Trucks Stalled at Gaza Crossings”
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Monday that the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip remains catastrophic despite the ceasefire. The agency stressed that Israel continues to bar its international staff from entering Gaza and restricts the flow of aid, leaving nearly 6,000 food trucks stranded at border crossings.
UNRWA said that more than 90% of Gaza’s population is entirely dependent on relief assistance, with many families surviving on just one meal every 24 hours. Only about 170 trucks of aid enter daily, far below the minimum threshold required to meet basic needs.
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US-backed GHF mission ends – with lies and exaggerations
The US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on Monday declared the end of its mission in Gaza, nine months after its establishment: “The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) today announced the successful* completion of its emergency mission in Gaza after delivering more than 187 million free meals directly to civilians living in Gaza,” the organization said in a statement.
GHF Executive Director John Acree said the group was “winding down our operations as we have succeeded in our mission of showing there’s a better way to deliver aid to Gazans.”
Acree said the GHF’s model was being adopted and expanded by the Civil Military Coordination Center (CMCC) and other international organizations following weeks of talks (continue reading here).
*NOTE: Use of the word “successful” is a stretch when describing GHF’s work in Gaza. The world has gotten firsthand accounts of Israel’s massacres of Gazans since the first day of so-called aid distribution: at least 2,615 Palestinians were killed in and around the aid sites – by IDF soldiers and GHF personnel – as they sought to secure a box of food or a bag of flour.
Globally recognized human rights organizations warned that the GHF model was deeply flawed and bound to create chaos, and called it a “dangerous, politicized sham.” Countless videos from reporters and aid-seekers, as well as whistleblower testimonies, bore witness to utter mayhem; meanwhile, GHF staged videos in which small, controlled groups of Gazans calmly collected parcels and left without incident.
News reports indicated from early on that the organization was a tool of the Israeli government, allegedly funded by the notorious Israeli Mossad.
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Israel is allowing no more than 200 aid trucks into Gaza per day out of the 600 agreed upon under a ceasefire deal with Israel, local authorities said Monday. Ismail Al-Thawabteh, who heads Gaza’s Government Media Office, said, “Israel is managing hunger in Gaza deliberately, slowly, and cumulatively,” he said, warning that malnutrition levels among Gaza’s population have exceeded 90%.
Around 300 Palestinians have been allowed to leave Gaza for medical treatment, according to the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli Defense Ministry unit responsible for civilian coordination in the Palestinian territories.
UNRWA says the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains catastrophic, despite the ceasefire. The UN agency added that more than 90 percent of Gaza’s population is entirely dependent on aid, with many receiving only one meal every 24 hours.
Another hostage body was found in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The body was located in an area controlled by the Israeli army. It will be returned Tuesday. The remains of two more hostages are still missing.
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GAZA HEADLINES:
US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to end operations in territory
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Every day, Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem endure dozens of incidents like the ones below, at the hands of Israeli soldiers and/or settlers. 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 Execute a Palestinian in Nablus
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Settlers torch farmland near Ramallah in apparent land grab
Israeli Colonizers Torch Olive Trees, Steal Equipment in Atara
Israeli Forces Abduct Many Palestinians Across West Bank
Israeli Colonizers Escalate Attacks In West Bank
Israeli Colonizers Attack Farmers, Burn Lands, Uproot, In West Bank
Israeli Colonizers Storm Home in Silwad
NEWS & HEADLINES ABOUT ISRAEL:
(Israel is a tiny country, about the size of New Jersey, with a population smaller than the US state of Georgia – about 10 million (of which about 20 percent are Palestinians), yet it is in the news constantly. As has been demonstrated again and again, however, mainstream media rarely covers Israel accurately. IAK passes along only factual reporting.)
Netanyahu escalates with “Muslim Brotherhood ban,” raising concerns of wider targeting of Palestinians in Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments about completing a ban on what remains of the “Muslim Brotherhood” in the Palestinian towns inside Israel have triggered concern and anger among Palestinians, one group describing the move “a message that no one is safe from his government’s plans”
Palestinian groups inside Israel view the move as part of a political and security approach that targets the Arab presence in all its forms. They say it revives old patterns of persecution and opens the door to a more dangerous phase (continue reading here).
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ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s top military chief, threatening a return to war with Lebanon
Netanyahu diary reveals close contact with Tony Blair and US senators and Lindsey Graham
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
(Get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions that receives $63 million a day from American taxpayers. Israeli media sometimes tells the truth about itself, but often publishes myths and lies as facts.)
‘A Knife in the Back’: Bedouin Villagers in Israel Given 90 Days to Evacuate – and Nowhere to Go
The Israeli High Court rejected the appeal of residents of the unrecognized village of Ras Jrabah, ordering them off land they have lived on since before Israel’s founding to make way for the expansion of the city of Dimona. The court also denied their request to relocate into the city, backing the state’s position that Bedouin cannot receive plots in Jewish communities.
“We’ve been on our land since the time of the Ottomans and the British; Dimona was built partly on our lands,” says Sheikh Freij Alhwashla, the village elder. “The first residents of Dimona had it rough, and we helped them. This was during the transitional immigrant camps. We gave them bread and milk and when it was muddy, we helped them get home on our camels. Where will we go now?” he asks angrily.
“We helped Israel, and this is what we deserve? Even if the state comes in and throws a mass of explosives on us and kills us all, we won’t move. We will die here” (continue reading here).
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Two Years On, IDF Is Still Searching Gaza’s Tunnels for Militants (unlawfully)
An Israeli army spokesman in Gaza gives talking points to reporters whose movements are strictly controlled:
“We do not operate beyond the yellow line*,” the Golani Reconnaissance Unit commander emphasizes. “We launch attacks and operations within our area, in an organized way, to push the enemy back and hit them when they come out to attack us from the tunnels.”
It is hard not to notice how much more operational freedom the forces now have, with no concern about living hostages still in the tunnels. Unlike before, the IDF is now employing all means at its disposal. “We are not dealing with this or that cease-fire**,” says Col. A (continue reading here).
*NOTE: While this particular unit may or may not pass the Yellow Line that marks the boundary of the Israeli-controlled part of Gaza, some troops cross the line on a regular basis, and the IDF has relocated the line in order to expand Its territory – and then attacked the Palestinians inside the new line.
**This is an admission of violation of the ceasefire. Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 497 times.
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HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
Why Netanyahu’s Family and Defense Minister Wage Separate Smear Campaigns Against IDF Chief
Beyond the Racism and Apartheid, the Death Penalty Poses a Real Danger to Israelis
Israel to Seize Palestinian Municipal Powers* for Construction at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs
*NOTE: Since the Israeli Civil Administration is not formally mandated to carry out Israeli plans for the site in the West Bank, any action related to construction requires the seizure of powers from the Palestinian municipality. The Hebron municipality and other Palestinian bodies say that the construction work will ‘critically damage the holy site.’ Hebron is a city in the Palestinian West Bank, not a part of Israel.
‘We Will Not Become Executioners on Behalf of the State’: Israeli Doctors Refuse Role in Death Penalty for Terrorists*
*NOTE: The use of the word “terrorist” for a group that resists 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.
On October 7th, Hamas was exercising – albeit imperfectly – its internationally recognized right to resist the oppressor and occupier of its people. Hamas fighters attacked Israel after years of oppression and many nonviolent attempts to call attention to the issue. The UN has passed hundreds of resolutions demanding justice – to no avail.
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
UN condemns torture in landslide vote, but US and Israel oppose resolution
Three countries – the United States, Israel, and Argentina – vote against a UN General Assembly resolution aimed at preventing and ending this use of torture.
These resolutions used to be adopted unanimously. What does it say when these states oppose any opposition to torture? pic.twitter.com/IYOem1ah4E
— Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social (@MarkKersten) November 21, 2025
RELATED: Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees
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Academic boycott of Israel doubles, even after Gaza war ends: Report
An Israeli report has cited a sharp rise in academic boycotts targeting researchers and institutions in Israel, even after the end of the Gaza war.
The report, prepared by the Academic Boycott of Israel Monitoring Team, said Israel’s negative image in Europe appears “so deeply entrenched that political moves alone are not enough to shift public perception*.”
The report, published by the The Marker, the economic version of the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, noted that the end of the Gaza war did not reduce boycott pressure. Instead, “the opposite occurred,” with a spike in cases filed by institutions and individual academics, it added (continue reading here).
*NOTE: The Israeli government has been spending massive sums trying to regain control of the narrative – and silence pro-Palestine voices.
Analysts point out that since Israel has lost favor with many in the West, it is looking to bolster its image by characterizing “radical” Islam as the cause of the instability in the Middle East, when in fact Zionism drives much of the conflict.
RELATED: Army ex-spokesman says Israel lost social media battle, calls for propaganda overhaul
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How Corporate Partnerships Powered University Surveillance of Palestine Protests
This is the first detailed reporting on how a U.S. university used the AI technology to surveil its own students. It’s just one example of how public universities worked with private partners to surveil student protests, revealing how corporate involvement in higher education can be leveraged against students’ free expression.
This is the final installment in an investigative series on the draconian surveillance practices that universities across the country employed to crack down on the 2024 pro-Palestine encampments and student protests. More than 20,000 pages of documentation covering communications from April and May 2024, which The Intercept obtained via public records requests, reveal a systematic pattern of surveillance by U.S. universities in response to their students’ dissent.
Public universities in California tapped emergency response funds for natural disasters to quell protests; in Ohio and South Carolina, schools received briefings from intelligence-sharing fusion centers; and at the University of Connecticut, student participation in a protest sent administrators into a frenzy over what a local military weapons manufacturer would think (continue reading here).
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MORE HEADLINES:
Israel is launching its campaign for a massive increase in U.S. aid* – will it succeed?
*NOTE: On April 24, 2024, legislation was signed into law giving $63 million per day in military aid to Israel. (For information, go here.)
‘AIPAC* Radicalized Me’: Mamdani’s Jewish Gen Z Strategist on Big Money, Cynicism and the Weaponization of Antisemitism
*NOTE: For more information on the outsized (but waning) power of AIPAC and the rest of the Israel lobby, watch this and this.
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
More colonization: U.S. mulls expropriating Gazan land to build “safe communities”
Palestinian man killed by Israeli forces’ and colonists’ gunfire east of Ramallah
Germany is offering asylum to donkeys from Gaza. Gaza’s children? Not allowed.
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 24, 2025*:
- At least 70,826 Palestinians killed, 180,965 injured – including:
- At least 69,775 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 23,000 women)
- At least 1,082 killed in the West Bank (~222 children)
- At least 170,965 injured in Gaza
- More than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
- At least 482 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 160 children
- About 588 bodies have been recovered since the ceasefire began
*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 10,000 more are still buried under rubble. Additionally, the numbers of injured and starved are very conservative estimates. Only the dead who are brought to hospitals are included in the official fatality count.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 24, 2025: ~1,661 – including ~1,139** on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 471 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, about 52 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 274 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 207 and 327 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
- Dissecting the UN’s “Comprehensive Plan” for Gaza and the inevitable dead-end
- Gaza: Israeli blasts deafen thousands as treatment is blocked
- How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students
- Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard Met with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Said ‘Thank You’
- US Should Not Sign Another MOU for More Weapons to Israel
- A Palestinian Boy Waited for His School Bus. An Israeli Soldier Fired a Tear-gas Canister in His Face
- Army ex-spokesman says Israel lost social media battle, calls for propaganda overhaul
- Epstein saga exposes Israel’s iron grip on US power
- ‘Western coverage of Palestine remains structurally biased’: Study
- Israel says 1,000th aircraft bringing Western military supplies landed since war on Gaza began
- West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity
- Modi on board: Jeffrey Epstein Pressed Steve Bannon to Meet With Indian PM as Part of “Israel Strategy”
- WATCH: How a shamed Supreme Court Justice helped Israeli dual citizens in America
- Ex-UN official decries resolution backing Gaza force as ‘colonial outrage’
- The Israeli Plot to Assassinate Al-Jazeera: A New Front in the War on Palestinian Journalism
- Bringing sports back to life: Gaza’s amputees reclaim joy through football
- Flashback: International campaign is criminalizing criticism of Israel as ‘antisemitism’
- U.S. Mercenary Firm Tied to Notorious Aid Scheme Is Recruiting for New Gaza Deployment
- The Global Zionist Organ Trafficking Conspiracy
