“What is happening in Gaza today is a disgrace to humanity” – Not a Ceasefire, Day 20

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“What is happening in Gaza today is a disgrace to humanity” – Not a Ceasefire, Day 20
Civil defense crews and families are trying to retrieve the bodies of martyrs from the occupation's airstrikes on Gaza City, Oct. 29 2025 (QNN)

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 Wednesday to be Day 754 of Israel’s war on Gaza)

The most recent casualty count from Tuesday night’s massacre is 109, including 52 children and 23 women. Over 500 were injured.

Since the “ceasefire” went into effect on October 11, Israel has reportedly killed at least 211 Palestinians and injured 597 others (including the most recent massacre), and violated the truce agreement at least 125 times (not including the most recent massacre).

Additional statistics below.

GAZA NEWS:

(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.) 

Some quick notes

Of the 42 people killed in central Gaza Tuesday night, 18 were from one family … three generations killed in a single attack on their home – children, their parents and their grandparents.

Israeli air strikes targeted parts of Khan Younis in southern Gaza late Wednesday night into Thursday, following Israel’s announcement to resume adherence to the ceasefire agreement. In the 24 hours prior, Israeli air strikes killed more than 110 Palestinians across Gaza.

Israeli news site Walla reports that the Palestinian fighters who attacked Israeli troops on Tuesday had been hiding in tunnels for months and do not seem to have had anything to do with the Hamas leadership. According to military, the tunnel in which the Palestinian fighters were hiding began to collapse, prompting them to attack.

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Palestinians suffering from shrapnel wounds, internal bleeding

An Al Jazeera correspondent reports: We checked with the emergency ward at al-Shifa Hospital, and we were told that many of the [patients] are in very critical condition.

The bombs and drone missiles fired by the Israeli military are packed with shrapnel – packed with nails and pieces of metal – and when they explode, that flies at very high speed and pierces through bodies. [Many patients] are bleeding internally; That’s increasing the pressure on medical staff.

And the fear did not end: There are still drones here in the skies of Gaza City. The kamikaze drones are hovering at a very dangerous, low level, causing panic and fear.

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Israel home destruction amid truce points toward Gaza annexation

Although the ceasefire took effect on 10 October, and Israel began pulling troops back to what it calls the yellow line, explosions have continued almost nightly in areas east and north of the Strip. Israeli forces claim the detonations are part of efforts to “clear the area”  or “remove buildings near the border for security reasons”.

Palestinians say the policy extends the war by other means and could be part of a plan to ethnically cleanse the territory with no homes and infrastructure killing any hopes of return (continue reading here).

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Israeli list of assassinated Palestinians is riddled with lies

After Israeli forces published an infographic on X listing 25 names of assassinated “terrorist” targets in Gaza over the last 24 hours, the Gaza media office said on Wednesday that the tactic is “media manipulation” because many of the names are false. 

The statement by the media office revealed that “the list contains three incorrect, non-Arabic names not found in official Palestinian records, as well as fictitious names that do not exist at all.” Another four were names of people who are alive. 

“Furthermore, the list included duplicated individuals after their names were manipulated to make them appear to be different people,” the media office said.

The statement called on US President Trump “to abide by the ceasefire agreement it signed, to immediately end the war on Gaza, and to guarantee the protection of civilians”. 

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GAZA HEADLINES:

2 killed in new Israeli airstrike in Gaza, in latest violation of ceasefire deal

  • Attack came one day after more than 100 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza.

Gaza health group says almost half of kidney patients have already died

  • The Medical Relief Society in Gaza says the health system is collapsing beyond repair, warning that almost half of all kidney patients in the territory have already died.

UNRWA launches online education for 300,000 children in Gaza under ‘Back to Learning’ program

  • UNRWA head emphasizes that “literacy and education serve as an antidote to despair and trauma” experienced by children in Gaza.

Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations are part of its strategy to keep waging war on Gaza

  • Here’s Israel’s strategy to continue the war on Gaza: find a pretext, no matter how baseless, use it to kill dozens of civilians and fighters, stop fire and claim you’re honoring the ceasefire. Then do it again.

NOTABLE QUOTE: ‘a disgrace to humanity’

Palestinian Civil Defense agency spokesman Mahmoud Basal, speaking on the agency’s rescue efforts following Israel’s massacre on Tuesday night:

The teams are still making great efforts to reach citizens trapped under the rubble, while hospitals are overwhelmed with the wounded and those in critical condition.

What is happening in Gaza today is a disgrace to humanity and highlights the international community’s complicity through its silence in these violations.

The continuation of these crimes amidst the world’s silence is an unforgivable moral and humanitarian failure.

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.)

Autistic, disabled Palestinian teen held by Israel, subjected to violence in detention: Report

  • Israeli media says 14-year-old boy with severe disabilities faces violence, harsh conditions in detention

Israeli settlers destroy olive trees, steal construction equipment in occupied West Bank

  • Israeli settlers have cut down about 50 olive saplings and stolen construction equipment in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Colonizers Burn Two Cars Near Hebron

  • A group of Israeli colonizers reportedly attacked homes in the town of Sureif, pelting them with stones and setting two vehicles ablaze.

Colonizers Cut Down Hundreds of Olive Trees in Hebron, Nablus

  • Sources say this is the second consecutive year that colonizers have cut down olive trees on their lands.

Israeli Colonizers Invade Bedouin Village Near Jerusalem

  • The colonizers reportedly roamed between tents and homes, shouting provocative slogans and tampering with family belongings.

NEWS & HEADLINES ABOUT ISRAEL:

Katz bans Red Cross visits to over 2,400 Palestinian prisoners* in Israeli jails

Israel prevented representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday from visiting hundreds of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons, local media reported.

Israel’s public broadcaster KAN said that Defense Minister Israel Katz signed an order to ban visits to Palestinian prisoners by Red Cross teams, claiming that the visits “endanger state security.”

According to KAN, the order will apply to thousands of prisoners who are being held by the Israeli army as “unlawful combatants.”

*NOTE: The vast majority of the roughly 10,000 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 – approximately 1 million Palestinians have been detained since the Israeli occupation began in 1967). 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.) 

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Ben Gvir lashes out at Netanyahu for not resuming full-scale war on Gaza

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir wrote on X, “Once again, Hamas murders one of our soldiers [it wasn’t Hamas] during a ‘ceasefire,’ and once again, the Prime Minister chooses to conclude the incident with a ‘measured response’ [109 Palestinians were killed] and an immediate return to the ceasefire, while continuing to allow in ‘humanitarian’ aid [only a fraction of the agreed-upon aid has been entering Gaza], instead of returning to full-scale war and striving to quickly achieve the primary goal: the destruction of Hamas,” Ben-Gvir wrote on X.

He warned that if Netanyahu abandons the aim of dismantling Hamas, “the government will have no right to exist”.

HEADLINES (& 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.)

Splitting the Attorney General’s Role, the Netanyahu Government Comes Closer to Undoing Democracy*

  • The bill to divide the role of the attorney general, which the Knesset approved Wednesday in the first of four votes, is just part of the government’s efforts to destroy the rule of law and to extricate its head from his criminal trial.

*NOTE: It is disingenuous to refer to Israel as a “democracy,” when in reality the Palestinians under Israeli rule (half of the total population) do not enjoy equality with Israeli Jews. The Nation-State Law (passed in 2018) is perhaps the most blatant example of the country’s overt Jewish supremacy; a number of highly respected human rights organizations (including Israeli orgs) have cataloged the laws, systems, and practices in place, and deemed them to add up to apartheid (most notably: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations, and the Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem and Yesh Din).

After Settlers Show Up, Israel Police Use Tear Gas to Disperse Palestinians Picking Olives in West Bank

  • The commander said Turmus Aya is a closed military zone, but failed to produce an order. Dispersal violated army procedures and a High Court ruling giving Palestinians access to their farmlands.

Trump’s deal traps Israel as Hamas breaks rules*

  • Four converging fronts have put Jerusalem in an impossible position between American pressure, absent international partners, UN political minefields, and an ideology-driven enemy that never stops fighting.

*NOTE: As CNN reported on October 9th, Israel and the US have been aware for months that “Hamas may not know the location of, or is unable to retrieve, the remains of some of the 28 remaining deceased hostages,” because some remains are likely in Israeli-controlled parts of Gaza, and Israel refused to allow heavy equipment into Gaza to move some of the 61 million tons of debris under which bodies are buried. Only in the last few days has Israel relented on these points – yet Israeli leaders have alleged that Hamas is purposely delaying the return of the bodies. That is, Israel and the US have been demanding something of Hamas that they knew was near-impossible.

Meanwhile, Israel has repeatedly violated the terms of the ceasefire – at least 125 times before the massacre: military options were supposed to be halted; Israel was supposed to allow 600 trucks per day of aid into Gaza, rehabilitate infrastructure, hospitals, and bakeries, facilitate the entry of necessary heavy equipment, and open the Rafah crossing for the entrance of needed aid and exit of medical evacuees. Not one of these responsibilities has been completed. Palestinians are still dying from lack of food, medicine, rescue, and medical evacuation.

BOTTOM LINE: Israel’s ceasefire violations have been lethal and numerous; Hamas’ have been unavoidable or unproven.

New pro-Israel org. aims to expose antizionism* as a rising hate threat – interview

  • Movement Against Antizionism (MAAZ) calls for a paradigm shift, identifying antizionism as a hate movement that endangers Jewish communities through dangerous narratives and libels.

*NOTE: Zionism, the ideology on which Israel is built, is a supremacist ideology – the ideology under which 750,000 Palestinian people were dispossessed and exiled to Gaza and other locations. By its very nature, Zionism requires an exclusively Jewish population – or a Jewish overclass – and has necessitated Israel’s policies of occupation, apartheid, genocide, and more. Antizionism opposes this supremacism and demands equality. It is not directed toward Jews, but toward the ideology. Many Jews are antizionists.

OTHER NEWS:

Francesca Albanese names over 60 states complicit in Gaza genocide

The UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, told the General Assembly on 28 October that 63 countries, including key western and Arab states, have fueled or were complicit in “Israel’s genocidal machinery” in Gaza.

Speaking remotely from the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, Albanese presented her 24-page report, ‘Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime,’ which she said documents how states armed, financed, and politically protected Tel Aviv as Gaza’s population was “bombed, starved, and erased” for over two years.

Her findings place the US at the center of Israel’s war economy, accounting for two-thirds of its weapons imports and providing diplomatic cover through seven UN Security Council vetoes, and cites Germany, Britain, and a number of other European powers for continuing arms transfers “even as evidence of genocide mounted” (continue reading here).

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The Elders call for Marwan Barghouti’s release to spur moves to two-state solution

STATEMENT: The Elders today call for the immediate release of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison, as an important step towards reviving a lasting two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

We encourage President Trump to demand his release, capitalizing on the opportunity opened up by the fragile ceasefire deal in Gaza.

Many Palestinians refer to Marwan Barghouti as “their Mandela”. Marwan Barghouti has been a long-term advocate for a two-state solution by peaceful means, and is consistently the most popular Palestinian leader in opinion polls. But Israel has so far refused to release Barghouti as part of President Trump’s deal.

Only the Palestinian people have the right to choose their own leadership (continue reading here).

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MORE HEADLINES:

Trump is only postponing Israeli annexation

  • Israel’s war on Palestinians continues under Trump’s so-called peace plan, with Washington feigning opposition to annexation and its Arab allies pretending to believe it.

UN Commission Confirms Israeli War Crimes, Genocide in Gaza

  • The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry investigation spanned two years and relied on more than 16,000 verified items of evidence.

‘An assault on history’: Censorship of author Susan Abulhawa roils Oxford Union

  • The prestigious debating society’s membership are at odds with trustees over the censorship of Palestinian-American writer, senior officials tell MEE.

Canadian charities channeling millions to fund Israeli army, illegal West Bank settlements

  • Ottawa’s complicity in supporting Israel’s occupation of Palestine through unchecked financial networks persists despite growing public opposition

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

(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)

STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 29, 2025*:

  • At least 69,705 Palestinians killed, 180,655 injured – including:
  • At least 68,643 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 23,000 women) 
  • At least 1,062 killed in the West Bank (~212 children)
  • At least 170,655 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 482 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 29, 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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