Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israel killed at least 74 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, including at least 8 aid-seekers.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Wednesday, go here.
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(To understand what’s going on right now between Gaza and Israel, go here. For a bit more critical background, skim this, this, and this. To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.)
“DECIMATED.”: A new mortality survey conducted by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday revealed, in the words of Amande Bazerolle, deputy manager of MSF’s emergency department, that since October 2023, “Forty-eight percent of the people who died from blast injuries among our colleagues’ households were children, and 40 percent were under 10 years old.” She added, “The children of Gaza are being decimated.”
“I FOUND ALL MY CHILDREN DEAD”: Crowds of people bid farewell to 10 members of the Shaaban family killed in an Israeli strike while they were inside their tent in Khan Younis. “I found all my children dead and my daughters’ three children dead,” said Um Mohammad. “It’s supposed to be a safe area where we were.”
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ISRAEL MAY CUT OFF WATER TO 44K CHILDREN: Save the Children warns Israel’s blockade of fuel into Gaza threatens to cut off supplies of drinking water to about 44,000 children within days. That would increase the risk of outbreaks of waterborne illnesses such as cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery, the group said. Save the Children relies on fuel to transport safe supplies of clean water to 50 communities across Gaza each day. But shipments have been entirely stopped from entering Gaza since Israeli authorities imposed a total siege in early March.
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SEEKING BULLDOZER DRIVERS TO DEMOLISH GAZA: The systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Indeed, the Israeli military is so desperate that, over the last couple of months, there have been ads for bulldozer drivers to help demolish Gaza posted on Facebook – some apparently offering as much as 3,000 shekels ($882) a day for the work. Meanwhile a Haaretz article reported that bulldozer drivers are paid per building, 2,500 to 5,000 shekels apiece (continue reading here).
BIDEN’S NO TO BULLDOZERS BECAME TRUMP’S YES: Dozens of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers and other equipment has arrived in Israel from the US after months of delays, according to Israel’s Defense Ministry. In November last year, it was reported that the Biden administration was holding up the sale of the D9 bulldozers due to the Israeli military’s use of them to raze homes in Gaza, the newspaper said.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE, OR FORCED TRANSFER? Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has reportedly told Likud lawmakers that Israel is destroying every building in Gaza so that Palestinians have nowhere to go other than outside the Strip: “It’s called the freedom of choice, and nothing more than that. No coercion, no forcible dislocation. If people want to leave Gaza, they should have the right to do so and not be held at the point of a gun by Hamas,” Netanyahu says.
NOTE: There is nothing “voluntary” about this scheme for removal of Gazans from their homeland. Israel has destroyed the means of survival for the people of Gaza; now they suggest giving them a “choice” between leaving their homeland to survive, and staying to struggle and die. Forced population transfer is a crime against humanity, and a form of ethnic cleansing. If world leaders truly want to offer Gazans a good life outside Gaza, the just solution would be to return them to their homes in historic Palestine.
AMNESTY SLAMS NETANYAHU PLAN: Human rights organization Amnesty International has condemned an Israeli proposal for Palestinians to be relocated to a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah as “outrageous”. “The remarks are nothing short of a declared intention to commit war crimes [and] crimes against humanity,” the group said in a post on X. “Relocating” Palestinians within Gaza, or deporting them against their will, would amount to the war crime of unlawful transfer or deportation.
CEASEFIRE NEWS:
(To get an idea about past ceasefires between Gaza and Israel and how they ended, check out this and this.)
HAMAS’ GOOD-FAITH EFFORT: “As part of its commitment to the success of the ongoing efforts, the movement has demonstrated the necessary flexibility and agreed to the release of 10 prisoners,” Hamas said in a statement. “The core issues remain under negotiation, most notably: the flow of aid, the withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip, and the provision of genuine guarantees for a permanent ceasefire,” the group said, adding that in spite of Israel’s “intransigence”, Hamas continues to work “diligently and in a positive spirit with the mediators”.
HOSTAGES FOR FOOD: Hamas official Taher al-Nunu says the group is prepared to free 10 abductees to ensure the unhindered flow of desperately needed aid into Gaza and stop Israeli attacks.
WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS AND HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this.)
Israeli siege turns West Bank’s Tulkarem into a ‘ghost camp’ as tens of thousands displaced
Israeli occupation forces have forcibly displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians from the occupied northern West Bank since January, transforming refugee camps like Tulkarem into what local officials now describe as “ghost camps.”
In a sweeping operation involving bulldozers, drones, and battle tanks, Israeli troops have flattened homes and infrastructure across the Tulkarem, Nour Shams, and Jenin refugee camps, pushing residents into makeshift shelters, schools, and nearby farmlands.
“What is happening in Tulkarem is an Israeli political decision, the issue has nothing to do with security,” Tulkarem governor Abdullah Kamil said on 30 June, warning that “there is nothing left in the camp.”
The Israeli army claims the demolitions are necessary to “allow the forces to operate freely and move unhindered within the area.” It insists that the destruction is carried out “after considering alternative options,” and that it complies with international law (continue reading here).
Israeli forces detain over 30, including children, in occupied West Bank raids
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
Palestinian testimonies of deliberate Israeli killings at U.S.-run ‘aid’ sites were ignored until the perpetrators admitted to it
These days, in Gaza, over 100 people are killed by Israeli forces every single day. Not all of them die in tents — many are indiscriminately targeted while trying to reach food at so-called “aid” sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the Israeli-backed and American-run company that has replaced the UN’s aid system in the Strip.
The GHF “aid” sites, touted as a humanitarian initiative, have turned food distribution into sadistic “death traps,” as Palestinian aid-seekers have described them in countless testimonies.
Palestinians have been saying this for months, describing how the Israeli army opens fire on aid-seekers, even after they are ordered to enter; how they are corralled into narrow, fenced corridors like cattle and made to fight over food boxes in a scene of deliberate and engineered chaos.
But the testimonies have largely fallen on deaf ears, despite the fact that over 773 people have been killed and hundreds more have been wounded near these sites. The fact that the United Nations and numerous other humanitarian groups have refused to cooperate with the GHF, citing violations of neutrality and basic humanitarian standards — and calling the GHF plan a “blueprint for ethnic cleansing” — barely made a dent in the public eye.
Then, Haaretz broke a story in late June highlighting firsthand testimonies from Israeli soldiers that corroborated what Palestinians had been saying for weeks: the soldiers were given explicit orders to shoot unarmed civilians at GHF aid sites. Massacres were not accidents, but directives (continue reading here).
US sanctions Francesca Albanese for exposing western profiteering from Gaza genocide
US State Secretary Marco Rubio announced on 9 July that Washington has sanctioned UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her “campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel.”
“Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt [International Criminal Court] action against US and Israeli officials, companies, and executives,” Rubio said via social media.
“The United States will continue to take whatever actions we deem necessary to respond to lawfare and protect our sovereignty and that of our allies,” Rubio added, stressing that US authorities “stand by our partners in their right to self-defense” (continue reading here).
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WAR CRIMINAL NOMINATES HIS ENABLER FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE: In the latest installment of the “can’t-make-this-sh*t-up” contest in global politics and diplomacy, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated United States President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. In other words, the person currently presiding over the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has proposed that the world’s top peacemaking prize be awarded to the primary enabler of that genocide – the man who in March, announced that he was “sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job” in Gaza (continue reading here).
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JULY 8, 2025:
- At least 58,688 Palestinians killed, 146,639 injured – including:
- at least 57,680 killed in Gaza (~16,500 children)
- at least 1,006 killed in the West Bank (~202 children)
- at least 137,409 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
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.
Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, it has killed at least 7,118 people. 45 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 8) have been killed during the same time period.
At least 773 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – July 8, 2025: ~1,627 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 444 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 223 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186 and 291 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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- The Stories of Mohammed, Razan, and Amal: Children Devastated by Israeli Starvation
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