Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 92 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including at least 33 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,289 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
Medical sources in Gaza have confirmed the death of seven Palestinians, including a child, due to starvation over the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition to 154, including 89 children.
Thirty Palestinians were killed in Nuseirat refugee camp overnight after Israeli forces struck a number of residential houses. Among the victims are 12 children and 14 women, and witnesses say most the of the victims arrived at al-Awda Hospital torn to pieces due to the sheer force of explosions.
In the designated “safe zone” of al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, a father and his three children were killed in an Israeli attack on a makeshift tent.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Tuesday, go here.
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For a bit 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.)
Famine under way in Gaza, UN-backed experts say, as war death toll passes 60,000
“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said in an alert that called for an urgent ceasefire to alleviate “widespread starvation”.
The famine in Gaza is the most severe hunger crisis the world has faced for decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) emergency director Ross Smith said. “This is unlike anything we have seen in this century,” he told a news conference after the IPC alert was published. “It reminds us of previous disasters in Ethiopia or Biafra in the past century.”
The IPC is a global initiative working with 21 aid groups, international organizations and UN agencies to assess hunger levels in populations at risk. It had previously warned Gaza was on the brink of famine, most recently in May (continue reading here).
Malnutrition rose rapidly in the first half of July, with more than 20,000 children being admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition between April and mid-July. More than 3,000 are severely malnourished.
The IPC alert comes against the backdrop of its latest analysis released in May 2025, which projected that by September 2025, the entire population of Gaza would face high levels of acute food insecurity, with more than 500,000 people expected to be in a state of extreme food deprivation, starvation, and destitution.
Every resident of Gaza is currently experiencing severe food insecurity, according to a joint UN report on global food security and nutrition for 2025—published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), WFP, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), UNICEF, and the World Health Organization.
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MINIMAL AID REACHED GAZANS TUESDAY: Israel allowed 109 aid trucks into the Gaza Strip, but most were looted during escalating security chaos, the Government Media Office says. Airdrop operations failed to reach those in need, the office said, noting that “four of six air drops landed in areas under Israeli military control or neighborhoods where civilians had been ordered to evacuate,” and anyone found would likely be killed.
HOW TO END THE LOOTING OF AID TRUCKS: Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports that desperate Palestinians are jumping on the trucks and taking whatever they can take. “When we ask Palestinians what is driving them to do that, they say they do not have time; their children are starving.” She added that if a large number of trucks entered every single day, the desperation would subside.
(Get familiar with the charges against Israel: genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced transfer, starvation as a weapon of war, use of human shields, concentration camps, indiscriminate shooting at civilians, and more.)
WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM, AND ISRAEL NEWS AND 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.)
Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian activist out on house arrest
A court in Israel has released to house arrest an Israeli settler, Yinon Levi, accused of fatally shooting a Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank. 31-year-old Palestinian activist and English teacher Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead on Monday night. Hathaleen was well known for his activism, including helping the creators of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, which documents Israeli settler and soldier attacks on the Palestinian community of Masafer Yatta (continue reading here).
Israeli troops reportedly stormed Awdah Hathaleen’s funeral procession, assaulted mourners, forcibly removing them from the procession, and declared the area a closed military zone. During the incident, two foreign activists were detained by Israeli soldiers for showing solidarity with Hathaleen’s family.
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ISRAELI LUMINARIES: The starvation of Gaza is shameful. Crippling sanctions on Israel are needed
A group of high-profile Israeli public figures, including academics, artists and public intellectuals, has called for “crippling sanctions” to be imposed by the international community on Israel, amid mounting horror over its starvation of Gaza.
The brief letter to the Guardian reads:
We, Israelis dedicated to a peaceful future for our country and our Palestinian neighbors, write this with grave shame, in rage and in agony. Our country is starving the people of Gaza to death and contemplating the forced removal of millions of Palestinians from the Strip. The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire.
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FREEDOM FLOTILLA UPDATE:
(Read about the Freedom Flotilla Coalition here. Read about FFC’s previous mission aboard the Madleen here.)
Freedom Flotilla says US activist Chris Smalls assaulted in Israeli custody
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says US labor activist Chris Smalls has been physically assaulted in Israeli custody: “Seven uniformed individuals … choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back,” the FFC said in a post on social media. Chris Smalls is African-American.
“When his lawyer met with him, Christian was surrounded by six members of Israel’s special police unit. This level of force was not used against other abducted activists,” the group said.
FFC condemned the “discriminatory treatment” towards Smalls and called for accountability.
Smalls, the former president of Amazon Labor Union, was one of the 21 activists and journalists from 10 countries on board the Handala when it was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters as it approached Gaza.
2 Australian activists from Gaza aid ship released from Israeli custody
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
UK TO RECOGNIZE STATE OF PALESTINE IN SEPT UNLESS ISRAEL HOLDS TO A CEASEFIRE: The UK will formally recognize the state of Palestine this September as a result of the “increasingly intolerable” situation on the ground in Gaza, unless Israel abides by a ceasefire and commits to a two-state solution in the Middle East. Keir Starmer’s cabinet has agreed to a roadmap for peace in the region after coming under intense domestic pressure over the mounting humanitarian crisis in the territory, and calls to follow France in acknowledging statehood (more here). Israel rejected the statement.
NEW POLL SHOWS US SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL IS PLUNGING: A new poll from the research firm Gallup suggests that only 32 percent of Americans approve of Israel’s military action in Gaza, a 10-point drop from September 2024, as anger over atrocities against Palestinians continues to rise. 71% of respondents who identified as Republicns said they approve of Israel’s conduct, compared with 8 percent of Democrats (more here).
CALLS TO ARREST ISRAELI IN HUNGARY FOR POSSIBLE WAR CRIMES: The International Coalition for Justice and Peace (ICJP) has formally notified police of an Israeli soldier suspected of war crimes now believed to be within Hungary’s jurisdiction. The coalition has submitted a detailed dossier including photographic and written evidence to support the claim. ICJP called for the individual’s arrest and detention under Hungarian law (to read more about efforts to hold Israeli soldiers accountable for war crimes, read this).
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ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Over 40,000 infants at risk of death in Gaza due to Israeli ban on baby formula
Two Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide
Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film ‘No Other Land’ killed in occupied West Bank
Countries denounce Israel but keep trading with it
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JULY 29, 2025:
- At least 61,164 Palestinians killed, 155,499 injured – including:
- at least 60,138 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,026 killed in the West Bank (~209 children)
- at least 146,269 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
According to Palestinian authorities, during the ceasefire Jan. 19 – March 18 2025, Israeli attacks killed at least 170 Gazans, and Israel committed at least 962 ceasefire violations.
Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, it has killed at least 8,970 people. 50 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 26) have been killed during the same time period.
At least 1,289 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – July 29, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 454 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. (72 soldiers have reportedly died due to “operational incidents.”)
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 228 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186 and 296 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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