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 788th day.)
Israeli occupation forces killed at least seven Palestinians, including two children and one woman, and injured dozens more on Thursday, December 4, 2025, in multiple attacks across the Gaza Strip.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 366 Palestinians. Among the dead are at least 136 children. At least 938 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 591 times.
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 militia leader accused of collaborating with Israel killed
Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of a gang in the Gaza Strip that was accused of working with Israel to counter Hamas, was shot and killed, according to his group, the Popular Forces, “as he tried to resolve a dispute” among members of a local clan.
Abu Shabab became an infamous figure during Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza, as his group was accused of stealing the little humanitarian assistance that the Israeli authorities allowed into the coastal enclave – even as famine descended on the enclave. They were also notorious in Gaza for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking
Israeli officials have admitted they were cooperating with armed groups in Gaza, including the one led by Abu Shabab, in order to establish a local anti-Hamas force.
Hamas called Abu Shabab’s death “the inevitable fate of anyone who betrayed his people and his country.”
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Three Gaza Detainees Die in Israeli Custody
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex‑Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced on Thursday the names of three detainees from the Gaza Strip who died in Israeli prisons and military camps in recent months.
The three detainees have been officially identified as Tayseer Saeed al‑Abed Sababa, 60, Khamis Shukri Ashour, 44, and Khalil Ahmad Khalil Haniyya, 35.
The replies indicated that Sababa died on December 31, 2024, two months after his detention; Ashour died on February 8, 2024, just one day after his detention; and Haniyya died on December 25, 2024, nearly a year after his detention.
Sababa was the father of nine children, Ashour the father of six, and Haniyya the father of four (continue reading here).
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The rules of engagement that Israel has given itself during this “ceasefire” are illustrated by the killing of two Palestinians last weekend along the “yellow line” ceasefire boundary near Khan Younis. The Israeli military said its forces had “identified two suspects” who “conducted suspicious activities,” after which “the air force, directed by forces on the ground, eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat.” The “threat” consisted of two boys, ages 9 and 10, who had left their home to gather wood.
The Israeli attitude toward ceasefires was also displayed after an agreement for a ceasefire in Gaza and partial prisoner exchange was reached in January of this year. Israel welcomed some released hostages and used the breather for its military forces before ending the ceasefire and resuming its full-scale assault in March. The Israeli government evidently had no intention of ever implementing the later phases of that agreement (continue reading here).
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Israel Is Quietly Expanding Its Occupation of Gaza Under Cover of “Ceasefire”
The occupation has convinced the world that the bloodshed in Gaza has stopped, while in reality families are still being erased from the civil registry in absolute silence. The world is quiet — perhaps simply because something called a “ceasefire” was announced?
What the world does not see is that, day after day, the Israeli military expands its control inside Gaza. It advances slowly, swallowing a street, a neighborhood, an entire area — quietly redrawing the map while the world celebrates a fabricated calm. The war has not stopped; it has only changed form: from bombing to quiet expansion, from airstrikes to a creeping occupation (continue reading here).
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GAZA HEADLINES:
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.)
Israel Revoked a Palestinian’s Work Permit. When He Tried to Cross the Wall, They Shot Him and Left Him to Die.
Desperate to find work, Arafat Qaddous paid some local Palestinian men 600 shekels ($186) to sneak him over the Separation Wall and look for a job. As he climbed the ladder, his lookouts spotted an Israeli police jeep. Qaddous fell to the ground.
“The fall did not kill him immediately,” his brother said. “Israeli police spotted him as he lay on the ground with a serious head injury and prevented an ambulance from reaching him. He bled out. When they were sure he was dead, they allowed paramedics to take his body” (continue reading here).
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Israeli forces confiscate 5 historical artifacts in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces confiscated five five Byzantine-era historical columns from an archaeological site in the town of Al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya, northeast of Ramallah, according to eyewitnesses.
Israeli media reports claimed the columns were confiscated based on allegations* that Palestinians were constructing buildings in the area and damaging historical artifacts.
Palestinian Tourism and Antiquities Minister Hani al-Hayek has said that Israeli attacks have completely or partially destroyed 316 archaeological and historical sites, noting that the attacks are “war crimes aimed at erasing Palestine’s history.”
*NOTE: Israel’s claims carry little weight: historically, Israel has lied to the US and the world many times. Among Israel’s lies are numerous atrocity stories about the October 7th attack that have since been disproven (more examples here). Previously, Israel has been caught in many lies – for examples, see this and this. Many of Israel’s lies have been debunked even by traditionally pro-Israel mainstream media.
RELATED: Digging for annexation: How Israel uses archaeology to erase Palestine
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Israel is threatening to demolish a popular West Bank youth football pitch
Israel is threatening to demolish a refugee camp’s popular youth football ground built on land owned by the Armenian church on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the shadow of the West Bank separation wall.
The artificial grass pitch, which was installed in 2021, is regularly played on by youngsters from Aida refugee camp, including girls who have represented the Palestine women’s national teams at youth level.
Early one morning two weeks ago, Israeli soldiers pinned a notice to the gates of the football ground ordering a halt to all activities at the site and warning that it could be demolished because it had been built without the correct permits. A nearby theatre and a garden in the area were served with similar notices (continue reading here).
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WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Soldiers Assault A Palestinian Near Jenin
Israeli Colonizers Injure Seven Palestinians Near Hebron
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.)
“A Second West Bank”: Israeli Military Raids Escalate in Occupied Syrian Border Villages
Over the past year, Israeli forces have established nine military posts in southern Syria; constructed military installations less than one kilometer from villages; demolished at least 12 buildings in al-Hamidiya; razed over 45 hectares of the Jubata al-Khashab forest; and seized thousands of dunams of agricultural land, cutting off access to farmers’ livelihoods.
Local officials told Drop Site News that, in total, Israel has illegally seized between 600 and 800 square kilometers of southern Syrian territory through more than 200 incursions.
Israeli military operations in the area have escalated in recent weeks, with Israeli troops displacing residents, destroying farmland, snatching people off the streets and taking them across the border to Israeli detention centers (continue reading here).
ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Israel violently bombs south Lebanon one day after direct talks with Beirut
Israeli forces carry out new incursion in Syria 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, half-truths, and lies as facts.)
One State, Brought to You by the IDF
Death of anti-Hamas Militia Head Shows That Israel Won’t Dictate Gaza’s Future Leadership
IDF Chief Says Israel’s Gaza Policy Enabled Hamas’ October 7 Attack
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
She Lost Her Job for Speaking Out About Gaza. Can It Power Her to Congress?
Attorney Melat Kiros lost her job in 2023 after she wrote a post on Medium criticizing law firms, including her own, for opposing pro-Palestine protests and “chilling future lawyers’ employment prospects for criticism of the Israeli government’s actions and its legitimacy.”
Now, she’s running for Congress to replace a nearly three-decade incumbent in Denver and calling to end U.S. military aid to Israel (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES:
Outgoing New York City mayor Eric Adams signs anti-BDS law
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israeli strikes kill seven Palestinians sheltering in Gaza makeshift camp
Israel used bulldozers to bury Palestinians in shallow, unmarked graves, CNN reveals
Sorry If This Is Antisemitic* But I Think It’s Wrong To Train Dogs To Rape Prisoners
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 4, 2025*:
- At least 71,214 Palestinians killed, 181,015 injured – including:
- At least 70,125 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls)
- At least 1,089 killed in the West Bank (~223 children)
- At least 171,015 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 617 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 – December 4, 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 275 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 215 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
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- WATCH: Israel Is Behind Trump’s Escalation on Venezuela – Col. Wilkerson
- Israel used bulldozers to bury Palestinians in shallow, unmarked graves, CNN reveals
- Legislating apartheid: How Israel entrenched unequal rule during Gaza war
- The Israel lobby is melting down before our eyes
- Inside Israel’s shadow campaign to win over American media
- Stop Anti-Semitism Lists Ms. Rachel, Tucker Carlson as Finalists for ‘Antisemite of the Year’
- IDF whistleblower testimonies appear to confirm claims of Israeli war crimes in Gaza
- Why Rachel Maddow and Bill Kristol Attended Cheney’s Funeral
- Pregnant women in Gaza face catastrophic scenarios
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- Why Is the Establishment Ignoring the Recently Declassified JFK Files?
