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 767th day.)
In the past 24 hours, at least three people were killed in Gaza by Israeli forces.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 245 and injured 623. Death toll figures are tentative.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 282 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.)
Israel blocks critical medical supplies to Gaza, UNICEF says
Israel is blocking 1.6 million syringes needed for a children’s vaccination campaign in Gaza, UNICEF says, along with nearly one million baby formula bottles.
On Tuesday, the UN agency for children’s relief said the blockage is preventing efforts to immunize more than 40,000 children who missed routine vaccines during the war.
The syringes have awaited customs clearance since August.
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Partition of Gaza a looming risk as Trump’s plan falters
A de facto partition of Gaza between an area controlled by Israel and another ruled by Hamas is increasingly likely, multiple sources said, as Trump’s plan is faltering.
The Israeli military currently controls 53% of Gaza’s territory, including much of its farmland, while nearly all Gaza’s 2 million people are crammed into tent camps and the rubble of shattered cities across the rest of Gaza, under Hamas control.
Six European officials said the reconstruction is likely to be limited to the Israel-controlled area, which could lead to years of separation.
A major push by the United States is needed to break the impasse, officials said.
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Israel, US reach deal to exile 200 Hamas fighters trapped in Rafah: Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US envoy Jared Kushner reached an agreement to remove about 200 Hamas fighters from Rafah in southern Gaza and transfer them outside the Palestinian territories, Israeli media said Tuesday.
“A settlement was reached between Netanyahu and Kushner to deport about 200 (Palestinian) fighters trapped in the Rafah tunnels,” an unnamed official told Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, adding, “under the settlement, Israel must allow their safe transfer” out of the Palestinian territories.
The Israeli official said no country has yet agreed to receive them.
There was no immediate comment from the US, Israel, or Hamas on the report.
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GAZA HEADLINES:
‘Bleeding, trembling, but alive’: Palestinian mothers give birth alone after Israel’s genocide leaves Gaza’s healthcare in ruins
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.)
Palestinian boy dies month after Israeli tear gas attack during olive harvest
Aysam Jihad Labib Naser, 13, was harvesting olives with his family around 10 a.m. on October 11 in Beita, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, when Israeli soldiers heavily bombarded the area with tear gas and fired several tear gas canisters toward Aysam.
This caused him to choke severely and collapse. A nearby nurse examined Aysam and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
His death comes as this year’s olive harvest has become the most violent since UN agencies began tracking settler violence in 2013.
Israeli forces and settlers have killed 47 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank in 2025, according to documentation collected by DCIP (continue reading here).
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Jenin: A City Under Systematic Erasure
For nearly ten consecutive months, the Israeli occupation army has waged an unrelenting offensive against the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank’s transforming a once-crowded urban center into a zone of devastation and forced displacement.
The offensive, in its 295th day Tuesday, has escalated into a full-scale siege, with all four main entrances to the city sealed off by earth mounds and military roadblocks.
Drones hover overhead, broadcasting evacuation orders through loudspeakers, while armored vehicles patrol the streets, enforcing curfews and obstructing movement (continue reading here).
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Tuesday: Israeli Invasions, Abductions Across West Bank
BREAKING & HORRIFIC: Israeli settler terrorists have attacked the Palestinian village of Bayt Lid in the West Bank, carrying out a pogrom, setting homes on fire in an attempt to burn Palestinian families alive.
Residents are pleading for help as flames spread through the… pic.twitter.com/21lOmfkMec
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) November 11, 2025
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
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.)
Israel is building a ‘land grab wall*’ deep inside southern Lebanon as air strikes continue
Israeli forces have begun constructing a wall deep inside southern Lebanon, amid ongoing strikes on the south and increasing threats of a renewed offensive.
Israeli media reports confirmed the construction of the massive concrete wall two kilometers into Lebanese territory, near border towns where Israeli forces have blown up several homes. Photos of the wall, which extends beyond the UN-imposed Blue Line, have circulated online (continue reading here).
*NOTE: This wall, which Israel is using to unilaterally take over a swath of Lebanese land – under the guise of “security” – follows the pattern Israel has used against the Palestinians in the West Bank (and likely in Gaza). The “apartheid wall” has become, in the words of Israeli human rights group B’Tselem:
“a major political instrument for furthering Israeli annexationist goals. It serves for Israeli takeover of almost 10% of the West Bank… About 85% of the barrier’s meandering route winds through the West Bank. In other words, it runs through the occupied territory, and is not located along the Green Line or in Israel proper” (continue reading here).
To see how Israel is doing the same thing in Gaza, read How Israel’s ‘Yellow Line’ is redrawing Gaza and preventing displaced Palestinians returning home.
Israel used a similar strategy, but without a physical wall, in 1948: after the war, Israel refused to allow the 750,000 Palestinians who had fled to return to their homes. Read: Fact Sheet: Palestinian Refugees & The Right of Return Under International Law.
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Israeli embassy writes to US senators defending detention* of Palestinian American teen
The Israeli embassy in Washington has been circulating a letter on Capitol Hill defending its nine-month detention of a 16-year-old US citizen in military prison as pressure mounts from senators and civil society groups who have called for his release.
The document, obtained by the Guardian, describes Israel’s allegations against Mohammed Ibrahim and the medical treatment he has allegedly received in prison. It does not mention his dramatic weight loss or the fact that his family has had virtually no contact with him since his arrest in February.
Ibrahim, a dual Palestinian American teenager from Florida, has been charged with two counts of throwing objects at moving vehicles (continue reading here).
*The vast majority of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons are political prisoners; thousands are administrative detainees, being kept behind bars without charge, trial, or access to a lawyer. A growing number are children. Israeli prisons regularly use torture (and have done so for over 50 years). It is not a stretch to call them hostages.
Each year, hundreds of Palestinians (many of them minors) are imprisoned for throwing stones, which can carry a sentence of up to 20 years (for Palestinians, not Israeli Jews).
Administrative detention is intended to be used only in “exceptional” circumstances, but Israel uses it widely. (Read more here.) Approximately 1 million Palestinians have been detained since the Israeli occupation began in 1967.
HEADLINES ABOUT ISRAEL:
Israeli drones ignite large fires in southern Lebanon, civil defense teams struggle to contain blaze
‘There’s a Limit’: Hezbollah Chief Says Israeli Strikes Show Why Group Must Not Disarm
Israeli forces launch twin raids into Syria’s Quneitra countryside
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.)
Probe Launched After Israel Police Strip-search Teacher Who Confronted Ben-Gvir
Israeli Defense Minister Katz moves to shut down Army Radio after 75 years of broadcasting
Katz’s closure of Army Radio an ‘attack on free press,’ journalists and opposition say
President Herzog condemns ‘shocking and severe’ violence by settlers in West Bank
UNICEF says Israel blocking over a million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
US military explores Gaza-area base for international force: Report
The US military has requested cost estimates for constructing a temporary installation near Gaza capable of housing 10,000 personnel, Bloomberg News reports, citing documents it reviewed relating to the matter. Some Israeli outlets put a $500 million price tag on the project.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said, “This story is based on a single piece of paper produced by random people within the military,” she said, adding that senior officials have neither considered nor approved such plans.
An unnamed US official told Bloomberg the inquiry represents early planning for potential infrastructure supporting an international stabilization force to monitor the recent Israel-Hamas ceasefire; no American personnel would be stationed at the base, the official said.
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US puts Gaza militias* to the test
Jared Kushner’s recent visit to Israel has strengthened ties between the US and Palestinian militias in Gaza that oppose Hamas. In conversations and meetings between militia leaders, Kushner’s team, and US officers from the task force, proposals were raised to establish a formal mechanism for communication and cooperation.
The Americans are attempting to assess the capabilities of these militias and determine the extent of their influence and control. Those operating in areas under Israeli control function with almost no interference and have managed to maintain relative order, including organizing food distribution. Other militias remain in active conflict with Hamas terrorists**. Their message to the Americans has been clear: they need assistance in this fight.
The American goal is to explore whether these militias can be transformed into a local force that maintains order and security in their respective areas, and potentially beyond (continue reading here).
*These so-called “militias” are actually criminal gangs of Palestinians in Gaza who have actively collaborated with Israel throughout the genocide. Among other unlawful actions, they have looted aid trucks for months using weapons provided by Israel, and with IDF cooperation, then sold the products – which should have been free – at exorbitant prices to starving Gazans. Their position, essentially as traitors to the people of Gaza, should disqualify them as partners in peacemaking efforts.
**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.
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Private documents raise concerns among U.S. officials over Israel-Hamas ceasefire
According to Politico, several U.S. officials have expressed concern that the difficulties in enforcing several key sections of could cause the agreement signed between Israel and Hamas last month to collapse.
The sections of the 20-part plan which officials list as particularly challenging to put into action are the establishment of multinational bodies like the International Stabilization Force and the so-called Board of Peace, as well as the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
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MORE HEADLINES:
Trump Formally Asks Israel’s President to ‘Fully Pardon’ Netanyahu in Corruption Case
Human Rights Campaign Rejects Weapons Company Sponsorships After Pressure Around Israel Genocide
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention
Israel launches ‘large-scale’ military exercise across occupied West Bank
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 11, 2025*:
- At least 70,254 Palestinians killed, 180,694 injured – including:
- At least 69,182 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 23,000 women)
- At least 1,072 killed in the West Bank (~218 children)
- At least 170,694 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 529 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 11, 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)
- Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
- ‘We hate winter’: Palestinians face the rain without shelters as Israel blocks tents
- Colonel says US watered down report on Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing
- Corporate Media Silent as Epstein–Barak Emails Indicate Mossad Connection
- Paramount blacklists pro-Palestine voices under new pro-Israel leadership
- ‘The Silence after the Screams’: How Western Media Helped Justify the Rape of Palestinians
- The AI Drones Used In Gaza Now Surveilling American Cities
- Lawsuit Charges That California Law Illegally Muzzles Students and Teachers on Palestine
- Outrage over video leak of Israeli soldiers’ gang rape of Palestinian exposes rot in Israeli society
- Youtube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
- They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
- In Israel, raping Palestinian prisoners is justified. Leaking the footage is betrayal
- The Brutal Settler Attack Was Caught on Camera. But Two Weeks Later, No One’s Been Arrested
- ‘Almost wiped out’: Israeli restrictions stifle recovery of Gaza’s farmlands
- Full list of Israel’s ceasefire violations in Gaza
- Acute trauma: The ever-present wounds of Gaza’s children from Israel’s war
- Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
- Whitewashing the Gaza Gas Exploration
- Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War
