Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 71 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including at least 24 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,036 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
Among the dead are a woman and four children, killed in a drone strike on their tent in Khan Younis.
The total known number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 281, including 114 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Friday, go here.
Note: 298 martyrs have been added to the cumulative statistics of martyrs, whose data has been completed and approved by the Judicial Committee following up on the reports and missing persons file.
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.)
“It is a famine, the Gaza famine”
Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
Please read the IPC report, cover to cover. Read it in sorrow and in anger. Not as words and numbers but as names and lives. Be in no doubt that this is irrefutable testimony.
It is a famine. The Gaza Famine.
It is a famine that we could have prevented, if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel.
It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food, in a fertile land.
It is a famine that hits the most vulnerable first. Each with a name, each with a story. That strips people of dignity before it strips them of life. That forces a parent to choose which child to feed. That forces people to risk their lives to seek food.
It is a famine that we repeatedly warned of. But that the international media has not been allowed in to cover. To bear witness.
It is a famine in 2025. A 21st century famine watched over by drones and the most advanced military technology in history.
It is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war.
It is a famine on all of our watch. Everyone owns this. The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. It is a famine that asks ‘but what did you do?’ A famine that will and must haunt us all.
It is a predictable and a preventable famine. A famine caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference and sustained by complicity.
It is a famine that must spur the world to more urgent action. That must shame the world to do better. It is a famine that therefore also asks ‘… and what now will you do?’
My ask, my plea, my demand to Prime Minister Netanyahu and anyone who can reach him:
Enough. Ceasefire. Open the crossings, north and south, all of them. Let us get food and other supplies in, unimpeded and at the massive scale required. End the retribution. It is too late for far too many. But not for everyone in Gaza. Enough. For humanity’s sake, let us in.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qyqVEo3nQgU
Conditions in North Gaza as bad or worse than in Gaza governorate: IPC
According to the IPC report that has confirmed a famine in the Gaza governorate, conditions in the North Gaza governorate, which includes cities like Beit Hanoon and Jabalia, are estimated to be just as severe or even worse.
But the IPC said it was unable to provide a food security classification for North Gaza due to limited data, highlighting an urgent need for access and assessments in the area.
The body said it had also not carried out an analysis of Rafah governorate in the south, where Israeli military operations have caused widespread devastation, “given indications that it is largely depopulated”.
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‘Bizarre and terrifying’: Israeli quadcopters harass and attack Gaza City residents
While sleeping in her home in Gaza City, MF was jolted awake at dawn by an unusual sight: an Israeli armed quadcopter hovering in her room.
Panicked, the 26-year-old Palestinian shut her eyes and forced herself back to sleep.
The next morning, she got up and went to work, wondering whether what she had seen was just a bad dream – a product of the ongoing attacks that had already triggered a psychological breakdown.
But when she returned home, MF, who asked to be identified only by her initials, overheard her father saying he had seen a quadcopter leaving their home earlier that morning.
It was then she realized that what she had witnessed was, in fact, real (continue reading here).
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Israel’s killing of Palestinian farmers part of systematic policy to enforce starvation in Gaza
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor’s field team documented the killing of the five farmers after an Israeli drone fired at least one missile at them around 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, 21 August, while they were working on farmland in southern Gaza. The five victims were all from the same family.
Over the past months, Israeli forces have killed or injured hundreds of Palestinian farmers, while systematically destroying or occupying Gaza’s farmland. Today, Israel controls over 93% of Gaza’s agricultural land, through bombardments, bulldozing, and military occupation, effectively dismantling Gaza’s food production capacity and stripping civilians of their most basic means of survival.
Israeli forces intentionally target Palestinian farmers working in the few agricultural areas that have not yet been destroyed, using airstrikes, direct gunfire, and repeated shelling. This has turned farmlands into high-risk zones where the simple act of trying to secure food has become a deadly gamble (continue reading here).
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The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation in Gaza, March – August 2025
Forensic Architecture, with the World Peace Foundation, recently published a report that verifies yet again the facts of Gaza’s hunger crisis that human rights and humanitarian organizations have presented for many months. Following is an excerpt from the Executive Summary:
This report is in three sections:
1) Two models of aid distribution: Describes what the civilian and military models are, their structural organization, and how they compare.
2) The Israeli aid system: starvation rationing in practice: Analyzes how these two models are being weaponized by Israel into an inhumane aid distribution system operating through starvation rationing. By crippling the civilian model and replacing it with a military approach, Israel is starving by design, and using aid instrumentally to further its strategic military and political goals.
3) Patterns: Within this system, we observe three key dimensions to Israel’s weaponization of starvation. Namely, forced displacement and re-concentration of the Palestinian people, reaching aid being dangerous and deadly, and the undermining of civil order and dismantling of the social fabric.
Our findings contradict claims made by Israeli authorities and political figures that Hamas is systematically diverting aid in Gaza, instead revealing how Israel creates the conditions for, directly enables, and fails to prevent aid diversion, in order to dismantle the civilian system (find the full report here).
Explainer: What has led to a famine being confirmed in Gaza?
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
WHO warns mild diseases turning ‘fatal’ with widespread malnutrition in famine-declared Gaza
Israel Is Forcing Parents in Gaza to Watch Their Children Die of Hunger
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM 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 soldiers raid across occupied West Bank, back violent settler attacks
Israel’s army chief visits occupied West Bank as military confirms 90 arrests
Israeli Army to Uproot Hundreds of Trees in Palestinian Village
ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil within its government. Often, our news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Netanyahu thwarted seven Gaza ceasefire deals, Israeli report finds
Over the course of the war on Gaza, Israel has repeatedly put up roadblocks to ceasefire deals with Hamas, even when the Palestinian group accepted its conditions, Israel’s Channel 13 investigative program HaMakor reported on Friday.
According to senior American and Israeli officials interviewed by the program, Israel blocked a ceasefire agreement on seven occasions during nearly two years of its devastating military campaign against the besieged enclave.
The officials said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was chiefly responsible, often bowing to pressure from far-right ministers, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (continue reading here).
How Israelis turned atrocity denial into an art
Tel Aviv police bans march demanding govt ‘stop the starvation’
Israel’s Foreign Ministry Says West Bank Is Israeli Territory, Contravening International and Domestic Law
‘Gates of Hell Will Open’: Israel’s Defense Minister Vows to Level Gaza City After IDF Takeover Plan Approved
Former IDF Intelligence Chief Says Netanyahu Was Warned of War Prior to Oct. 7
Israel advances $1.5 billion plan to up local production of armored vehicles
OTHER NEWS:
Netanyahu told Biden administration he planned to fight in Gaza for decades: Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that he planned to be fighting in Gaza for decades, when he was warned about not crafting a so-called day after plan for governance of Gaza.
“You’re right. We are going to be fighting this war for decades to come,” Netanyahu said, former State Department spokesman Matthew Miller recalled in an interview aired on Thursday with Hebrew media.
Miller also said there were times members of the Biden administration discussed publicly declaring Netanyahu was an obstacle to the ceasefire but refrained from doing so because they believed it would harden Hamas’ negotiating position.
RELATED: The Case Against Joe Biden for Complicity in Genocide
MORE HEADLINES:
Trump Backs Israel’s Offensive, Occupation Of Gaza
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Israeli army destroys displacement camp, leaving hundreds homeless
Hamas agrees to major concessions; Israel ignores offer, moves ahead with Gaza City assault
Israel weighs cutting water supply to northern Gaza to push Palestinians south
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – AUGUST 22, 2025*:
- At least 63,654 Palestinians killed, 166,903 injured – including:
- at least 62,622 killed in Gaza (~18,500 children)
- at least 1,032 killed in the West Bank (~210 children)
- at least 157,673 injured in Gaza
- at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
- at least 281 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 114 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 2,076 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 10,778 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 22, 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 306 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)
- 100 Days of Huckabee: A Master Class in Failure
- Palestinians in Gaza City hold ‘Last Hour’ protest demanding int’l protection
- Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
- Reuters journalists accuse their own agency of pro-Israel bias
- Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
- Israel Orders $760M in Top-of-the-Line Weapons for its “Evolving Needs”
- Pentagon seeks billions in ‘emergency funds’ to restock arms used in defense of Israel
- 2,000+ extradition requests with Israel as of May 2022, amid pattern of Jewish American pedophiles hiding in Israel
- Bari Weiss’s Free Press Wants You to Know Some Kids Being Starved by Israel Were Already Sick
- Why are Americans not speaking out against Israel’s genocide? If Americans Knew founder Alison Weir breaks it down
- Amnesty: New testimonies provide compelling evidence that Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is a deliberate policy
- Palestinian woman declared dead found alive in Israeli detention months later
- United Methodist Church divests from Israel bonds
- AIPAC stands by Katherine Clark as she walks back ‘genocide’ comment
- Israelis Understand That Trump Can End The Nightmare In Gaza. Americans Should Know This Too.
- Inside Gaza’s Only Catholic Church, One Month After Israel’s Attack
- Israeli government official arrested in Nevada in internet crimes against children sting
- The Israeli flag just became the only national flag illegal to burn in the United States. Yeah. I’m dead serious.
- North Carolina Democrat spurns AIPAC, in latest sign of party’s growing distance from Israel
