Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 21 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, including 2 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,610 aid seekers since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation opened on May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
Among the dead was five-day-old Rital Odai Abu Aasi, who died in Gaza’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood after inhaling toxic gases and gunpowder residue from continuous Israeli bombardment.
The number of known starvation/malnutrition deaths stands at 460, including 154 children.
Additional statistics below. For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Monday, go here.
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.)
Gaza’s children face genetic harm ‘for generations to come’ from Israel’s genocide
Over the past two decades, research into historic famines and traumas – from the Holocaust to the Great Chinese Famine and the Rwandan genocide – has shown that such suffering leaves lasting genetic imprints.
While starvation, stress and trauma do not mutate DNA, they still mark it with chemical changes that affect how genes are expressed, without altering the underlying sequence, a process known as epigenetics, where the weight of war is passed down across generations.
“Studies show that stress hormones in the mothers affect the babies’ bodies and brains,” said Professor Tessa Roseboom, a biologist at the University of Amsterdam who led research on the Dutch famine’s genetic impact (continue reading here).
RELATED: Mothers in Gaza Give Life to the Next Generation of Palestinians Despite Genocide
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Gaza’s health sector in dire straits: MOH statement
What is happening in the Gaza Strip is not a humanitarian crisis, or merely a passing description of the Israeli occupation’s long record of crimes.
Rather, it is a complete and deliberate collapse of the foundation of human existence, represented by the health services system, which has been subjected to devastating and fatal attacks over the past 730 days, striking at the very heart of the service and its infrastructure.
These crimes have earned the description “health genocide” due to the catastrophic indicators that have ravaged the health and humanitarian landscape in the Gaza Strip. Observers and decision-makers in international health and humanitarian institutions are now concerned about the success of emergency responses that maintain a minimum level of service.
Hospitals have been transformed into concrete structures as a result of direct and indirect military strikes, completely emptied of the components of diagnostic and therapeutic care. Through this, and after two years of genocidal warfare, the Ministry of Health indicates the following:
- The number of martyred medical personnel has reached 1,701 martyrs, and 362 detainees are being held in conditions of detention, enforced disappearance, and deprivation of their human rights.
- Out of 38 hospitals, 25 are out of service, while 13 hospitals are still operating partially and in difficult conditions. The occupation has also destroyed 103 primary healthcare centers out of 157, while 54 centers are operating partially.
- The closure of the crossing to the movement of patients and wounded has deprived 18,000 patients from traveling abroad for treatment, including 5,580 children.
- The direct targeting of health facilities has destroyed electrical and electromechanical systems. The occupation destroyed 25 of the 35 oxygen generating stations and 61 of the 110 electrical generators.
CEASEFIRE NEWS & HEADLINES:
Indirect talks between Hamas, Israel begin in Egypt to prepare ground for hostage swap deal
Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas began Monday in Egypt’s Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh to prepare the ground for a prisoner exchange and implement US President Donald Trump’s plan, Egyptian media said.
An Israeli negotiating team arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh early Monday for the ceasefire talks. The Hamas delegation, headed by the group’s leader Khalil al-Hayya, arrived on Sunday.
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Qatar says Israel should have already ceased fire under Trump plan for Gaza
Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that Israel should have ceased operations in Gaza already in line with US President Donald Trump’s peace plan. Israel has killed over 100 Palestinians since the statements were made.
“We await the outcomes of the negotiations in the coming days regarding the ceasefire. This question should be directed first to the Israeli occupation government. It was supposed to actually cease fire if the statements made by the prime minister there regarding adherence to the Trump plan were true,” Majed al-Ansari told reporters in Doha.
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UN ready to surge humanitarian aid to Gaza once it gets ‘green light’
United Nations officials are in touch with mediators trying to end the war on Gaza and will get aid into the enclave as soon as they get the “green light”, says UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
“We’ve been ready and the machinery is cranked up and ready to go as soon as we get the green light,” he said.
“There are many thousands of metric tons in the pipeline of goods ready to enter” from Jordan, the Israeli port of Ashdod, and elsewhere, Dujarric added.
CEASEFIRE HEADLINES:
Israel ignores ceasefire calls and kills 94 Palestinians in 48 hours
FLOTILLA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Read about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2025 missions here and here; learn about the deadly mission in 2010 here; and find out about the global flotilla here. Track the latest flotilla here.)
‘We are coming’: Next wave of aid activists plan to reach Gaza by Friday
The Conscience is one of nine vessels on the way to Gaza. The Conscience is specifically dedicated to healthcare and media workers under fire in Gaza, a spokesperson said.
“We have dozens of each on this boat. These two professions are targeted in Gaza,” she said, adding, “and we are sailing here to say to the world that this must end. The world must rise up and ensure that it ends by sanctioning Israel.”
She also addressed the people of Gaza: “You are not alone. We are coming. We are trying to reach you.”
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171 flotilla activists deported from Israel after days of detention, abuse
Several deported activists said they were beaten during interrogation, deprived of food and water for extended periods, and forced to kneel or stand in stress positions for hours.
Others described being stripped, groped, and threatened with further violence, recounting what they called systematic sexual humiliation and psychological abuse aimed at breaking their morale.
Many described being locked in cages, threatened with dogs and weapons, and made to watch videos of Hamas’s 7 October 2023 operation.
Female detainees said guards forcibly removed their hijabs, while others reported theft and forced confessions under duress.
Greta Thunberg in Greece:
I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.
Israel is escalating genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an entire population in… pic.twitter.com/nhpDtCXmiK
— Global Sumud Flotilla (@GlobalSumud) October 6, 2025
FLOTILLA HEADLINES:
House Dems Demand Trump, Rubio Free Sumud Flotilla Americans Held by Israel
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM HEADLINES:
(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.)
Colonizers Injure Peace Activists, Cut Dozens Of Trees In West Bank
Monday: Invasions, Abductions, Demolition And Colonizers Attacks
Israeli Forces, Colonizers Invade Palestinian School, Bedouin Village
Soldiers Invade Towns, Injure Child, Detain Journalists In West Bank
ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil and contradictions within the country. Often, our news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Israeli report warns of isolation, financial deficit if Trump’s Gaza Plan fails
An Israeli economic study has warned of severe repercussions for the country’s economy if the US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan is not implemented and the war in Gaza continues.
The report, published by the Aharon Institute for Economic Policy at Reichman University and cited by the business daily Calcalist, outlined three possible scenarios. It warned that a full occupation of Gaza would result in “international isolation, a massive financial deficit, and a sharp decline in living standards.” Continuing “hostilities” without a settlement, it added, would also exact a heavy economic toll.
According to the study, only the implementation of Trump’s 21-point plan* could put Israel “back on the right path” by halting the fighting and stabilizing the economy.
*NOTE: While some earlier reports referenced a 21-point plan, the finalized proposal contains 20 points. Netanyahu reportedly demanded the removal of one item: a pledge that Israel would not annex the West Bank.
RELATED: How Netanyahu Saved Himself by Destroying Gaza
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HERE’S WHAT ISRAELIS ARE READING:
Hostages’ Father: I Believed in Zionism, but Now I Ask Myself a Lot of Questions
Two Years, No Accountability: A Failed Government Clings to Power as the Nation Pays the Price
Trump ‘pretty sure’ there will be a Gaza deal, denies telling PM to not be ‘f*cking negative’
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
Two years into the Gaza conflict, record numbers of Britons say Israeli action is not justified
The results of a new YouGov survey – conducted on 17-18 September – show where public attitudes stand in the UK after nearly two years of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Sympathy for the Israeli side has fallen to the lowest level since the conflict began: just 12% of Britons say they sympathize most with the Israeli side in the conflict; at the same time 38% say they sympathize most with the Palestinian side.
The number of Britons saying they “don’t sympathize at all” with the Israeli side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has risen to its highest level since the Gaza conflict began: 35%.
The number of Britons saying that Israel’s attack on Gaza is not justified has reached its highest level since the conflict began: 57%
Read an analysis of the poll here; see the poll in full here.
RELATED:
Americans’ Support for Israel Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds
Poll: Overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis share genocidal belief there are ‘no innocent people in Gaza’
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MORE HEADLINES:
Italy bans pro-Palestinian October 7 demonstration in Bologna
2 years of Gaza genocide: Where did Israel get its weapons?
Spain to file complaint at ICC regarding events on Sumud flotilla
FIFA Insists on Not Expelling Israel, Choosing Silence over Justice
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
After 2 years of genocide, a sample of what Palestinians have lost
Rubio’s Israel-centric statement on the negotiations
Ben Gvir to blow up Netanyahu’s coalition if Hamas ‘continues to exist’ after Trump deal
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
TAKE ACTION FOR GAZA
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 6, 2025*:
- At least 68,222 Palestinians killed, 179,780 injured – including:
- at least 67,173 killed in Gaza (~20,000 children, 23,000 women)
- at least 1,049 killed in the West Bank (~212 children)
- at least 169,780 injured in Gaza
- more than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
- at least 460 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 154 children
At least 2,610 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
Since the Israeli army unilaterally broke the January ceasefire on March 18, 2025, it has killed at least 13,568 people. 65 Israeli soldiers (most recent Sept. 28) have been killed during the same time period.
*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble. Additionally, the numbers of injured and starved are very conservative estimates.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 6, 2025: ~1,658 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 466 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 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 203 and 323 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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