Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
(It is difficult to characterize the current situation in Gaza a “ceasefire,” when Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians. If Americans Knew considers Tuesday to be Day 746 of Israel’s war on Gaza)
5 martyrs (one as a result of direct Israeli targeting and four as a result of recovery) and four injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals over the past 24 hours.
Since the “ceasefire” went into effect on October 11, Israel has reportedly killed at least 88 Palestinians and injured 315 others, and violated the truce agreement at least 80 times.
The remains of 195 Palestinians (most unidentified and many showing signs of torture) have been returned to Gaza; Israel has received the remains of 15 captives, while 13 have not been located yet.
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.)
The aid getting into #Gaza is a drop in the ocean of what’s urgently needed.
All crossings need to open. Aid needs to be unrestricted.
UNRWA has around 6,000 trucks worth of vital humanitarian supplies in Jordan and Egypt waiting to go in.
Lift the ban on UNRWA aid. pic.twitter.com/LzE4DjqR6u
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) October 22, 2025
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Palestinian remains just don’t matter like Israeli remains
“It is a focus of everybody here to get those [Israeli captives’] bodies back home to their families so they can have a proper burial,” U.S. Vice President JD Vance said at a press conference in Israel on Tuesday. “That said, this is difficult. This is not going to happen overnight. Some of these hostages are buried under thousands of pounds of rubble, some of the hostages nobody even knows where they are.”
Vance did not mention the thousands of Palestinians also lying under the rubble. Nor did he mention the bodies of Palestinians buried in cemeteries that were bulldozed and destroyed by the Israeli military.
Mahmoud Bassal, the spokesperson for Civil Defense, said, “This is an issue that truly shocked us—the double standards in the immense attention given by international organizations to search for the bodies of Israeli prisoners, while, in fact, there are 10,000 Palestinians missing under the rubble.
“This is a human being, and that is also a human being, both have the right to be buried in a humane way. But the Israeli occupation, it seems without a doubt, and the international system, too, have a problem with understanding that and with the concept of humanity” (continue reading here).
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Forensic tests confirm torture on bodies of 54 Palestinians returned by Israel, says Gaza officials
The Government Media Office in Gaza has stated that 54 bodies of Palestinian bodies, previously held by Israeli forces, will be laid to rest after being returned bearing clear signs of torture.
According to the statement, the Israeli occupation handed over the bodies with visible evidence of abuse. Official forensic examinations confirmed that the deceased had been subjected to brutal violations while in Israeli custody.
Gaza authorities condemned these acts, describing them as “horrific crimes,” and called on international organizations to pursue justice. The statement urged global institutions to hold those responsible for these “massacres” accountable under international law.
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Gaza faces widespread explosive ordnance threat, hundreds of victims already
Luke David Irving, the head of the UN’s Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in the occupied Palestinian territory, says people in Gaza face an “incredibly high” threat from explosive ordnance littering the enclave, with five Palestinian children wounded last week alone.
“As of today, 328 victims of explosive ordnance, including injuries and deaths, have been reported to UNMAS since October 2023,” Irving told reporters, adding, “we expect that this figure is significantly underreported.”
UNMAS has been able to identify at least 560 explosive ordnances in Gaza in the limited areas the agency has been able to access.
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GAZA HEADLINES:
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.)
Israel shuts down orphan care association in occupied West Bank
The Israeli army has raided and closed a Palestinian charity that provides care for thousands of orphans in the city of Hebron. Staff members were detained for several hours, and office equipment and computers were seized.
Israeli forces provided no explanation for the raid, nor did they say how long the charity’s closure would last.
The Islamic Charitable Society is one of the most prominent nongovernmental organizations in the occupied West Bank, supporting more than 6,000 orphans.
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Viral video of West Bank settler attack sparks outrage and accusations of US hypocrisy
US journalist Jasper Nathaniel has accused the US embassy in Israel of failing to protect him after he was chased by Israeli settlers while reporting in the occupied West Bank, in what he called an ambush.
Nathaniel’s posts on X have led to outrage online over not just the targeting of a journalist, but also the unabating Israeli settler attacks.
On Sunday, Nathaniel had been covering the first day of the olive harvest in the village of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah, where he filmed a settler attack that left dozens injured – including an elderly Palestinian woman, a Swedish activist, and an Italian activist (continue reading here).
RELATED: Revealed: The Mysterious Millionaire Funding the Gaza Resettlement Movement
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Israeli forces, colonists carry out 158 attacks against Palestinian olive pickers this season
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said in a press release Tuesday that olive pickers in the West Bank have endured 17 attacks by the occupation army and 141 attacks by colonists.
These attacks ranged from violent physical assaults, arrest campaigns, restrictions of movement, denial of access, intimidation and terrorizing in all its forms, and direct gunfire. The attacks have resulted in the destruction of a total of 795 olive trees.
RELATED: Israeli settlers, with IDF complicity, have destroyed 800,000 olive trees since 1967
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WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Army Abducts 45 Palestinians In West Bank
Israeli Colonizers Uproot Olive Trees, Attack Villages in Hebron and Ramallah
- On Tuesday evening, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers uprooted dozens of olive trees near Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank and attacked a village near Ramallah in the central West Bank.
NEWS ABOUT ISRAEL & ISRAELIS
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil and contradictions within the country. Many of our news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Ben-Gvir threatens coalition crisis over death penalty for Palestinian prisoners
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir warned on Monday that his far-right Otzma Yehudit party will suspend support for all coalition legislation unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government advances a bill imposing the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners within the next three weeks.
Speaking during a meeting of his party’s Knesset faction, Ben-Gvir accused Netanyahu’s Likud party of violating the coalition agreement, which, he claimed, included a commitment to pass a death penalty law during the current Knesset term (continue reading here).
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HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
‘Tsunami’ of citizens chose to leave Israel in past years, Knesset report reveals
- “Israel’s population decreased by 29,700 citizens due to emigration; in 2023, by 58,600 people; and in 2024, up to August, by 36,900 Israelis,” a Knesset Research and Information Center member said.
Likud cabinet members call on president to pardon Netanyahu amid corruption trial
- Letter from ministers and deputy ministers comes after Trump asked Herzog to grant pardon
Invisible wounds haunt IDF’s Gaza veterans as war triggers wave of psychological suffering
- Army tracks dozens of suicides, thousands of requests for recognition of mental illness over two-year war; PTSD sufferers keep up encampment outside Knesset
US military says ceasefire HQ will be able ‘to assess real-time developments in Gaza’ [i.e. to spy]
- CENTCOM expects various ‘stakeholders’ to join new southern Israel-based Civil-Military Coordination Center in the coming weeks; Kushner: ‘No reconstruction funds going to areas Hamas still controls’
REMINDER: Israeli PM Netanyahu remains wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
Federal judge allows Northwestern to block enrollment for students who boycotted antisemitism training
A federal judge in Chicago allowed Northwestern University to discipline students who refused to watch an antisemitism training video.
In a lawsuit filed by Northwestern Graduate Workers for Palestine and two graduate students, the plaintiffs claimed that an antisemitism training required by the school for enrollment was biased and discriminatory toward Palestinian and Arab students.
“Northwestern University’s Training is not intended to foster a civil and collaborative workplace or remedy discrimination but rather is aimed at suppressing political anti-Zionist speech and speech critical of Israel,” the complaint read (continue reading here).
RELATED:
The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education
Professor At Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal Is Former Israeli Spy
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Democrats press Trump on preventing Israel from annexing West Bank
- More than 40 Democratic senators, led by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) asked President Trump to “reinforce” his opposition to Israel annexing parts of the occupied West Bank, according to a letter obtained by Axios.
Prominent Jewish figures call for sanctions on Israel: ‘The ceasefire must be the beginning, not the end.’
- Signatories include former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg, Ilana Glazer, Hannah Einbinder, and Peter Beinart.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers identified in ICC complaint on killing of Hind Rajab
- The Hind Rajab Foundation has been tracking down the alleged killers of the Palestinian girl and her family
The Israeli Occupation Forces Attacked Our Ship Conscience – Some Remembrances
- While our flotilla was at sea, we had no fear or concern, which was wonderful. Perhaps it was simply denial but it felt good to me. That all changed abruptly Wednesday morning.
Britain Joins U.S.-Led Force to “Stabilize Gaza”
Germany refusing to allow entry to injured children from Gaza
- The German government has rejected an offer by the northern city of Hanover to accept up to 20 injured and traumatized children from the Gaza Strip.
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 21, 2025*:
- At least 69,290 Palestinians killed, 180,373 injured – including:
- At least 68,234 killed in Gaza (~20,000 children, 23,000 women)
- At least 1,056 killed in the West Bank (~212 children)
- At least 170,373 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 436 bodies have been recovered since the ceasefire began
*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 9,500 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 – October 21, 2025: ~1,658 – including ~1,139** on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 470 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 206 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.
- Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
- Freed Palestinian prisoners tell of horrific rape, torture in Israeli detention
- It was never a Gaza ‘war’. The ‘ceasefire’ is a lie cut from the same cloth
- ‘Wow’: Observers Surprised After Dem Moderate Rejects AIPAC Cash
- From Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission’s Operations
- Journalist Ryan Grim discusses the disarming of Hamas & executions in Gaza
- My dream home lies in ruins. I will never forgive Israel, or the world
- The Israeli Scramble for Palestine’s Energy Reserves (Pt. 1)
- In pictures: Palestinians return to north Gaza to find devastation
- The Free Press Called Out “Incomplete” Reporting on Gaza’s Starving Children. Here’s the Complete Story.
- From Drug Lords to Death Squads: Israel’s Gaza War Continues through Collaborator Gangs
- Israel’s human shield: the secret Israeli military bunker under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran
- A short history of the UN’s complicity in Israel’s mass rape propaganda since October 7
- Gaza war has killed an estimated 20,000 kids. CBS News meets many more orphaned, and “always scared.”
- Israel wants to pay US pastors a stipend to spread the word
- We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide
- Over 9,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli captivity following exchange deal
- Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement
- Robert Kraft’s pro-Israel, anti-hate group renames itself the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate
- Hostages, captives, prisoners: Western media still privileges Israeli over Palestinian lives
