The Lancet: Israel has stolen three million years of human life from Gaza – Not a Ceasefire, Day 24

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The Lancet: Israel has stolen three million years of human life from Gaza – Not a Ceasefire, Day 24
A home in the heavily damaged Jabalia neighborhood in Gaza City (Anas Zeyad Fteha/Anadolu)

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 758th day.)

Since the “ceasefire” began, Israel has killed at least 236 Palestinians, including 97 children, with approximately 600 others injured, and violated the truce agreement at least 194 times.

Additional statistics below.

GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:

(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.) 

For a second time, Israel has allowed heavy machinery into Gaza to help find the bodies of Israeli captives, but not for digging out bodies of Palestinians who are trapped under the rubble.

The Israeli PM’s office says on X that three bodies of deceased Israeli captives have been received in Israel via the Red Cross. As per the terms of the ceasefire, Israel must now return the bodies of 45 dead Palestinian prisoners, 15 for each Israeli captive returned.

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A measure of lives lost from The Lancet

A study published in The Lancet medical journal this week underscored the human toll of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The report found that Gaza has lost more than a staggering three million years of human life since the start of the conflict in October 2023.

More than one million of those life-years were lost among children under the age of 15. The authors noted that their estimates were conservative and excluded deaths caused by starvation, lack of medicine, and the collapse of infrastructure under Israel’s siege.

Palestinian bodies that had been confiscated by Israel were returned through the Kerem Abu Salim border crossing to be buried in a mass grave dug in Rafah, Gaza on January 30, 2024
Palestinian bodies that had been confiscated by Israel were returned through the Kerem Abu Salim border crossing to be buried in a mass grave dug in Rafah, Gaza on January 30, 2024 (Mohammed Fayq – Anadolu Agency])

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Hamas rejects US accusation it looted aid trucks in Gaza

US CENTCOM published drone footage that allegedly showed an aid truck being looted on October 31, allegedly by Hamas members.

On Sunday, Hamas called the US accusations “unfounded” and “an attempt to justify the further reduction of already limited humanitarian aid,” adding that no aid groups or their drivers had filed any report or complaint about looting by Hamas.

The Hamas statement also criticized the US for failing to document the Israel’s attacks following the ceasefire agreement that killed 254 Palestinians and wounded 595: “The US adoption of the Israeli narrative only deepens Washington’s immoral bias and places it squarely as a partner in the blockade and the suffering of the Palestinian people” (continue reading here).

OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM 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.)

Jamil Atef Jamil Hanani, 17, killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, Nov. 2, 2025
Jamil Atef Jamil Hanani, 17, killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, Nov. 2, 2025 (IMEMC)

Israeli Army Kills a Palestinian Youth Near Nablus

The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the Palestinian youth, Jamil Atef Jamil Hanani, age 17, succumbed to critical gunshot wounds after being shot. in the chest by Israeli occupation forces in Beit Furik, east of Nablus.

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Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli prison after being denied care

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has confirmed the death of 63-year-old Mohammed Hussein Ghawadra from Burqin, near Jenin, who died Sunday while being held by Israeli authorities.

Mohammad Hussein Mohammad Ghawadra (63) from Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank was martyred inside an Israeli prison
Mohammad Hussein Mohammad Ghawadra (63) from Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank was martyred inside an Israeli prison (social media)

Ghawadra, detained since August 2024, was denied essential medical treatment despite suffering from chronic illnesses, the group said. His death, it added, exposes Israel’s “systematic crimes” against Palestinian detainees, including routine medical neglect and physical and psychological abuse.

According to the organization, Ghawadra’s death raises the number of Palestinian prisoners killed in Israeli custody since October 2023 to 81. Since 1967, at least 318 Palestinians have died behind Israeli bars. Rights groups have repeatedly accused Israel of turning its prisons into “slow-death chambers.”

Israel orders demolition of homes in besieged West Bank village following legal challenge

  • Lawyers representing the village said the demolition order is a ‘clear act of retaliation’ against the community for demanding an end to settler encroachment.

Israeli settlers target Palestinian vineyard as attacks sweep West Bank

WATCH: Israeli settlers intensify attacks on Palestinian farmers and livestock (TW)

NEWS & HEADLINES ABOUT ISRAEL:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Hezbollah is seeking to rearm and Israel will exercise its “right to self-defense,” threatening Sunday to “act as necessary” if Lebanon does not take steps to disarm the group.

An Israeli attack has killed at least four people in southern Lebanon, putting more pressure on a nearly yearlong truce with Hezbollah. The attack came a day after Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Israel of escalating violence in response to his offer to negotiate a more lasting end to the cross-border attacks.

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Israeli war minister accuses Lebanese president of ‘dragging feet,’ threatens ‘deeper’ escalation

  • Israel has killed over 30 people since the start of October under the pretext of preventing Hezbollah from rebuilding its forces.

NEWS (WITH NOTES) FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:

(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil and contradictions within the country, as well as myths and lies that are published there as facts.)

Supreme Court hosts new exhibit about truth in art and in the judiciary*

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit inaugurated a new art exhibit on Sunday evening at the Supreme Court building, titled “Truth Shall Spring from the Earth,” which explores symbols and motifs that have shaped Israeli identity, society and heritage.

At the opening event, Supreme Court President Isaac Amit spoke about the exhibit’s title, taken from the Psalms verse: “Truth shall spring from the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.”

He discussed the constant, necessary dialogue between heaven and earth, between heavenly truths setting the ideal standard of absolute justice and the truth that grows from the earth.

*NOTE: This event is ironic, given that Israel’s Supreme Court has consistently upheld unjust and apartheid policies against Palestinians, including evictions in East Jerusalem, demolition of homes and entire villages, open-fire policies against peaceful protesters, the sale of church property against the church’s will, and the use of torture on Palestinian detainees, to name just a few.

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Israel’s Knesset Advances Death Penalty Bill for Terrorists* Who Kill Israelis

  • Far-right Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed the law would remove judicial discretion and mark a ‘shift in Israel’s security doctrine.’

*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.

In fact, Israel has been oppressing Palestinians since its creation in 1948, and even before that.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Old City, yesterday. As he entered under heavy police protection, dozens of youths around him shouted "Death to Arabs."
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Old City, in May 2025. As he entered under heavy police protection, dozens of youths around him shouted “Death to Arabs.” (Tomer Appelbaum)

OTHER NEWS: 

WATCH: Lindsey Graham’s infectious optimism about Israel

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WATCH: Cory Booker’s hypocrisy called out

ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:

“If 226 Israelis had been killed…”

(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)

An aerial view of destruction in Sheikh Ridwan neighborhood following the Israeli forces’ withdrawal with the ceasefire agreement in Gaza City, Gaza on October 17, 2025.
An aerial view of destruction in Sheikh Ridwan neighborhood following the Israeli forces’ withdrawal with the ceasefire agreement in Gaza City, Gaza on October 17, 2025. (Mohammed Abu Samra – Anadolu Agency)

STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 2, 2025*:

  • At least 69,928 Palestinians killed, 180,670 injured – including:
  • At least 68,865 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 23,000 women) 
  • At least 1,063 killed in the West Bank (~213 children)
  • At least 170,670 injured in Gaza
  • More than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
  • At least 463 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 157 children
  • About 502 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 2, 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 272 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 207 and 326 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.

Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org

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