Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 73 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including at least 21 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,859 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
The total number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 235, including 106 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Tuesday, go here.
GAZA NEWS:
(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.)
Israel ‘blocking’ critical food items
Israel is blocking the entry of more than 430 food items into Gaza, Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Tuesday.
In a statement, it said banned items include “frozen meat of all kinds, frozen fish, cheese, dairy products, frozen vegetables, and fruits,” along with “hundreds of other items needed by the starving and sick.”
It added that Israeli strikes had directly targeted food sources, including deliberately bombing 57 food distribution centers and 44 food banks, and killing dozens of workers in them.
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric added that Israel causes long delays in the pick-up and delivery of aid: “Efforts to coordinate humanitarian movements often drag on for hours due to the unpredictable clearances by the Israeli authorities, wasting precious time,” he said.
Gaza faces new threat from antibiotic-resistant disease
Gaza is facing a new threat as diseases resistant to antibiotics spread across the devastated territory, which will mean longer and more serious illnesses, a more rapid transmission of infectious diseases and more deaths, experts said.
The findings published on Tuesday in the Lancet Infectious Diseases are the first since the conflict began in October 2023 to suggest a prevalence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria in Gaza.
“We don’t even know the true scale because of the destruction of almost all the laboratories and the killing of a lot of the medical staff, so to even get a small insight into what is happening in Gaza is extremely important,” said Irfan, a bioethicist who conducts research at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s hospital and the University of Michigan (continue reading here).
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Guillain-Barré syndrome: A rare disease crippling Gaza’s children under Israel’s war
“Sadeen was playing and laughing. Suddenly, she told me she couldn’t see clearly. Her legs felt weak. Two days later, she couldn’t move at all. It’s like life stopped inside her tiny body,” the 39-year-old Maisaa told The New Arab.
The worst moment, she says, came when doctors said Sadeen’s life depended on a ventilator. The doctors were forced to cut a hole in her throat so she could breathe.
“I can’t bear to see her like this. I’m terrified she’ll grow up trapped in this body,” the mother said.
In a Khan Younis tent neighborhood, Maram Zourob, 11, shares a similar fate. Her mother said, “The water here is polluted; the food makes the children sick. Maram was always running, jumping, and full of energy. Now she can’t even dress herself. I can’t afford treatment. I can’t take her out of Gaza as the borders are closed. Every day she loses more of her childhood, and I can’t do anything. All I want is to see her walk again” (continue reading here).
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Hope for Gaza? Egypt, Qatar, Turkey Advance “Ceasefire Proposal”
A well-informed source disclosed to Sky News Arabia on Monday evening that Egyptian and Qatari mediators, with Turkish involvement, are preparing a new initiative aimed at presenting a viable proposal to the leadership of Hamas. The initiative seeks to present an alternative to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention to occupy Gaza City.
According to the source, Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas’s political bureau in Gaza, is expected to arrive in Cairo next Monday night to meet with Egyptian officials as part of intensified regional efforts to revive the path toward ending the genocide.
If Hamas approves the proposal, it will be relayed to the American mediator before being formally presented to the Israeli side (continue reading here).
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM NEWS & 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.)
Water crisis grips Hebron after Israel chokes West Bank supply
Hebron Governorate, the largest in the occupied West Bank, has been facing an acute water crisis since May after Israeli occupation authorities cut its allocation by more than 40 percent.
One resident said, “We now rely on tankers, which bring a different burden, financially and in wasted time. Because of the shortage, we have to pay 200 shekels ($57) per tanker instead of 60, and I need three tankers a month during the summer. Sometimes I have to buy bottled water for drinking, while there are no solutions from the authorities” (continue reading here).
NOTE: Read about the unique challenges Palestinians face in Hebron here.
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The Israeli far-right’s dangerous push for a new status quo* at Al-Aqsa
On 3 August, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish holiday of ‘Tisha B’Av’, joined by 1,250 settlers who conducted religious rituals, raised flags, and sang to rebuild the ‘Third Temple’.
The visit is the far-right minister’s fourth since 7 October 2023. However, his latest comes at a time when Israel faces unprecedented global condemnation over mass starvation in Gaza and plans to take over the Palestinian territory.
Despite the international condemnation he drew for his visit, analysts say that Ben-Gvir’s move emphasizes Israel’s determination to rock a fragile status quo in its favor, and Ben-Gvir’s visit reflects a growing far-right agenda seeking to alter the historic status quo at Muslim holy sites (continue reading here).
*NOTE: Anyone can visit the Al Aqsa Mosque grounds, but only Muslims are allowed to pray there, according to an understanding known as the ‘status quo agreement,’ which has existed since Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967.
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MORE WEST BANK HEADLINES (a quick skim of headlines can be very informative!):
With IDF Soldiers and Settlers Expelling Palestinians, the West Bank Is Seeing a Creeping Nakba
Assaults by Israeli soldiers become a daily reality in West Bank’s Sebastia
Mother, Her Two Children, Among Many Palestinians Abducted In West Bank
Israeli Colonizers Reestablish Outpost Near Ramallah
Israeli Army Demolishes A Home In Silwad
West Bank/Jerusalem: Israeli Paramilitary and Military Attacks Tuesday
ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil within its government. Most of the below news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Israel’s army created intel unit to ‘justify’ and ‘whitewash’ killing of Gaza journalists
(A post by Yuval Abraham, an Israeli investigative journalist, film director, and Arabic–Hebrew translator. He co-directed the award-winning documentary No Other Land)
After October 7, the Israeli military intelligence directorate established a team called the “Legitimization Cell.” Their job was to uncover information to “legitimize” the Israeli army’s actions in Gaza.
A primary mission of the Legitimization Cell was to find Gazan journalists who could be portrayed in the media as Hamas operatives in disguise. The team tried to dig up information on journalists, but they found nothing of substance.
Why look for a journalist in disguise? As I understand it, because it provides media “legitimization” for the killing of journalists in general – just like alleging that one hospital is a Hamas headquarters makes all hospitals suspect.
Sowing doubt is a method to justify atrocities. Identifying a journalist as an operative in disguise whitewashes the killing of all other journalists – like those Israel killed on Sunday.
A reporter who doesn’t question the IDF spokesperson’s statements at this stage, after countless lies, is simply failing in their duty.
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MORE ISRAEL HEADLINES (a quick skim of headlines can be very informative!):
Israel in talks to expel Palestinians from Gaza to South Sudan
Israeli fighter pilots protest demanding Gaza ceasefire deal
Gaza City seizure plan appears aimed at keeping war going indefinitely: Ex-Israeli PM
NOTABLE QUOTE: Gaza is “an unfolding genocide”
Mary Robinson and Helen Clark, members of the Elders – a group of global leaders working for peace, justice, human rights and a sustainable planet – following their visit to Egypt and the Rafah border crossing, 9-12 August 2025:
Today we express our shock and outrage at Israel’s deliberate obstruction of the entry of life-saving humanitarian aid into Gaza, causing mass starvation to spread. The targeted killing of journalist Anas al-Sharif and four of his colleagues in Gaza is an attempt to silence the truth. Truth matters.
What we saw and heard underlines our personal conviction that there is not only an unfolding, human-caused famine in Gaza. There is an unfolding genocide.
We saw evidence of food and medical aid denied entry, and heard witness accounts of the killing of Palestinian civilians, including children, while trying to access aid inside Gaza. The deliberate destruction of health facilities in Gaza means children facing acute malnutrition cannot be treated effectively. At least 36 children starved to death just in the month of July.
No shelter materials have entered Gaza since March this year, and we saw huge numbers of tents ready for delivery but blocked by the Israeli authorities. This leaves families already displaced multiple times without protection. 96% of households face water insecurity.
Israel must open all border crossings into Gaza, including at Rafah, immediately (more here).
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
US reporter criticizes US media’s ‘complicity’ in deaths of Palestinian journalists
Multimedia reporter Marina Watanabe has accused US media of being “complicit” in the deaths of five Al Jazeera staff who the Israeli military killed in an intentional drone strike while they were in a media tent stationed outside of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
In a post on X on Monday, the former LA Times reporter said:
Shortly after the Gaza genocide began, I signed an open letter demanding that Israel stop killing journalists. @latimes [LA Times] punished me and 100 of my colleagues and banned us from covering Palestine for 3 months. I will never forgive US media for its complicity in their deaths.
US publications such as The New York Times, CNN and others have been under fire for inaccurate and biased reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza (for example see this and this – more here).
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Recognition Without Consequence: The World’s Empty Gesture to Palestine
There is nothing that should excite the Palestinians or unsettle Israel in the announcements by a growing number of countries expressing their intention to recognize a Palestinian state.
Such a state requires approval from the UN Security Council, where a U.S. veto is guaranteed, so the discussion remains theoretical – and even at that level, little beyond empty rhetoric can be expected.
The international community possesses far more effective means to influence and pressure Israel.
Freezing investments, canceling agreements, boycotting academic collaborations, downgrading diplomatic representation, banning flights to Israel and imposing arms embargoes are all part of the arsenal the world – including the US – first used against South Africa.
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Bashar Assad’s Syria, Iran and Russia are a few of the other rogue countries that later felt the full force of the international community.
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RIGHTS GROUPS FILE CASE WITH ICC OVER AL JAZEERA JOURNALISTS’ KILLING: The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) have filed a joint case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the killing of Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Anas Al-Sharif and his colleagues in Gaza, according to a joint statement released on Tuesday. The ICC filing names senior Israeli figures, including PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and accuses them of war crimes and genocide.
[Read about the Hind Rajab Foundation here; find out who Hind Rajab was here.]
WATCH: New Zealand Speaker of Parliament more offended by legislator’s speech than by genocide
WATCH: Chloe Swarbrick gets evicted from Parliament’s debating chamber for a week after a fiery speech criticising the government for failing to recognise Palestinian Statehood. pic.twitter.com/j1WiPR6anZ
— William McGimpsey🇳🇿 (@TheZeitgeistNZ) August 12, 2025
MORE HEADLINES (a quick skim of headlines can be very informative!):
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israel’s refusal to allow rescue missions has killed 2,500 since March
This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism
xAI Grok temporarily suspended for telling the truth about Gaza
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 12, 2025*:
- At least 62,752 Palestinians killed, 163,755 injured – including:
- at least 61,722 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,030 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 154,525 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 235 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 106 children
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.
At least 1,859 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 resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, 2025 it has killed at least 10,201 people. 50 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 26) 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 – August 12, 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 234 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 192 and 304 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)
- After crushing dissent, U.S. universities are deepening ties with Israeli academia
- Israel assassinates ‘voice of Gaza,’ Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif
- FLASHBACK: It’s Not Shocking to See Israeli Children Celebrate the Gaza Genocide
- A Guardian investigation shows an Israeli pattern of firing on Palestinians seeking food.
- Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS
- Palestinian Activist Recorded His Own Murder, Israel Still Released His Killer
- Israel’s arms industry thrives on genocide and the world keeps buying
- Democrats seek to blame only the ‘Netanyahu government’ for the Gaza genocide, but the true responsibility rests with Zionism
- Friends of the Earth condemns Israeli assault on Palestine’s only national seed bank
- US lawmakers spending summer break with AIPAC touring Israel
- Top Democrats Smear Palestinian-American Politician for Criticizing Zionism
- Amnesty urges international action to stop the genocide in Gaza – ‘The time is now. Our humanity is at stake’
- “A Purely Manmade Famine”: How Israel is Starving Gaza
- Catching up with Ms Rachel
- Israel’s military is taking over Gaza City, and you’ll be paying for it.
- Israel Is Beginning To Choke On Its Own Lies
- Israel has always used food as a weapon against Palestinians
- Blaming the Israeli ‘far right’ lets a genocidal society off the hook
