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 795th day.)
Israeli attacks and ceasefire violations across the Gaza Strip on Saturday left at least seven Palestinians killed and more than 40 injured.
A number of infants died of hypothermia in the winter of 2023-2024 and 2024-2025, for the same reason it has begun happening now: Israel’s refusal to provide shelter – a responsibility under international law.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 391 Palestinians. Among the dead are at least 136 children. At least 1,063 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative. More statistics below.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 738 times in 64 days.
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.)
Deadly Israeli drone strike hits Gaza City in latest ceasefire violation
An Israeli drone strike hit a vehicle near the Nabulsi junction in the west of Gaza City on 13 December, with local sources reporting at least four people killed, in what Israel claimed was a targeted assassination of a “key” Hamas official. It was also the latest Israeli violation of the ceasefire.
Israeli army officials claimed the intended target was senior Qassam Brigades commander Raed Saad.
Palestinian resistance factions have now confirmed the Israeli claim.
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Over 1,000 Palestinians died awaiting medical evacuation from Gaza in over a year, says WHO
More than a thousand Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip while waiting for medical evacuation permits from Israel between July 2024 and late November this year, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Rick Peeperkorn, the WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territories, told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York that 1,092 patients died between July 2024 and 28 November 2025, citing Gaza’s health authorities.
But he said the figure was likely an underestimate, based only on reported deaths.
Last month, WHO said around 16,500 patients were still waiting to be evacuated from war-torn Gaza but continued to face delays by Israel.
NOTABLE QUOTE: The agonizing death of children doesn’t contribute a thing to Israel’s security
Lead editorial in Israeli daily Ha’aretz, on Israel’s war on Palestinian health:
[There are] over 16,000 human beings – people with cancer and other serious illnesses or injuries – who require urgent medical evacuation from Gaza.
The fast and efficient way for saving the lives of thousands of these people is to allow Palestinian hospitals in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem to take them in. They are only an hour away by car from Gaza, and were always part of a medical system that provided services for Gazans. Funding is available for treating these people.
However, since the start of the war, Israel has refused to allow these patients passage to East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Since the beginning of the cease-fire more than three months ago, Israel has continued to torment and mistreat the residents of the Gaza Strip. It doesn’t permit the delivery of medical equipment and tents into the enclave and prevents humanitarian organizations from operating there, while also blocking the entry of physicians.
All this is in contravention of the law, of basic morality and of simple logic. The agonizing death of children doesn’t contribute a thing to Israel’s security.
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Storm Byron aftermath
- 11 bodies were recovered by civil defense teams, and the search is ongoing for one missing person as a result of the collapse of several buildings previously bombed.
- At least 13 houses collapsed across Gaza.
- More than 27,000 tents of displaced people were swept away or fully submerged, with more than 53,000 tents in total suffering damage.
- More than 250,000 displaced Palestinians were directly affected, of approximately 1.5 million people living in tents and flimsy structures, who were partially affected.
- Infrastructure and roads are eroded, disrupting transportation and communication, and creating difficulties for ambulances and civil defence vehicles. Sewage systems are destroyed or damaged.
- Remaining agricultural areas were damaged as well, with lands and seasonal crops affected and dozens of primitive greenhouses that provide a livelihood for thousands of displaced families destroyed.
- The storm caused around $4 million in direct damage.
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Palestinian Medical Evacuees in Jordan Returned to Gaza Without Prior Warning
A group of Palestinian children evacuated from Gaza to Jordan for medical treatment with family members or caregivers were reportedly returned to Gaza earlier this month by Jordanian authorities without prior warning and had their belongings, including money and jewelry, confiscated by Israeli soldiers, according to multiple sources.
The Jordanian Armed Forces issued a statement last week announcing that the latest group of 140 child medical evacuees and their family members were returned to Gaza. But reports indicate the group was poorly treated by Jordanian authorities and robbed by Israeli soldiers (continue reading here).
RELATED: Targeting Children: A War Crime Turned Into Policy
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.)
Occupation Forces Kill* a Palestinian Teen Near Jenin
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian, Mohammad Iyad Mohammad Abahra (16), on Saturday night, after invading the town of Silat al-Harithiya, northwest of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
In a statement, the occupation army claimed that “during an operation by a paratrooper reconnaissance unit in Silat al-Harithiya, a gunman threw an explosive device at the force. The force returned fire and killed him,” adding that there were no casualties reported among its soldiers.
*NOTE: Since October 7, 2023, Israeli occupation forces have killed 1095 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, including 226 children and 24 women.
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Another Palestinian Hostage* Dies in Israeli Custody
The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Prisoners’ Club reported the death of Palestinian hostage Sakhr Ahmed Zaoul (26 years old) from the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem, who had been abducted in June and held hostage by Israeli authorities, with no charges filed against him*, and tortured since then.
According to Zaoul’s family, he did not suffer from any chronic diseases, noting that he has another brother detained in the occupation prisons, Khalil Zaoul.
The Israeli occupation itself has acknowledged that more than 100 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prison camps over the past two years (continue reading here).
*NOTE: Palestinian administrative detainees are prisoners held without charge, trial, or access to lawyers; administrative detention is intended to be used only in “exceptional” circumstances. Neither the administrative detainees, who include women and children, nor their lawyers are allowed to see the “secret evidence” that Israeli forces say form the basis for their arrests. Read more here.
Approximately 1 million Palestinians have been detained since the Israeli occupation began in 1967.
Israeli Settlers Reportedly Attack Palestinian Village in West Bank, Wounding Nine
Palestinian residents said the attackers arrived in Ein al-Duyuk in two off-road vehicles, assaulted locals, including elderly people and children, and vandalized property and structures, focusing on a building where foreign activists had been wounded in November.
In November, Israeli settlers attacked and wounded four foreign activists in the village, according to the human rights organization Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine (UCPiP).
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WEST BANK HEADLINES:
More than 1,600 Palestinian olive trees destroyed in a week in West Bank: Ministry
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 says no to UN resolution telling it to work with UNRWA
Israeli forces set up checkpoint, search houses in southern Syria: Report
HEADLINES FROM ISRAELI MEDIA:
(Get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions that receives $63 million a day from America.)
Israeli High Court annuls Netanyahu’s firing of attorney general; cabinet ministers urge defiance of ruling
Israel said to hope killing of Raad Saad doesn’t delay return of last hostage’s body
OTHER HEADLINES:
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Storm Byron brings a new catastrophic chapter to Gaza – while Israel is safe and dry
Israel claims “for now” it will clear Gaza debris
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 13, 2025*:
- At least 71,758 Palestinians killed, 182,139 injured – including:
- At least 70,663 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls)
- At least 1,095 killed in the West Bank (~226 children)
- At least 171,139 injured in Gaza
- About 11,000 injured in the West Bank
*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 13, 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 328 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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