Not a Ceasefire Day 58
Israeli forces violate the ceasefire by targeting the tents of displaced Palestinians, killing five people, including two children in Khan Younis, Gaza on December 3, 2025. (Mahmoud Bassam – Anadolu Agency)
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 789th day.)
Israeli forces killed at least eight Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 373 Palestinians. Among the dead are at least 136 children. At least 970 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:
(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.)
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
A 70-year-old woman and her son were among at least seven Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli attacks in Gaza, as the military continues to operate across the “yellow line” ceasefire demarcation.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said the woman and her son were chased by a quadcopter drone about one kilometre [half a mile] from the yellow line and “left there to bleed to death” as the aircraft continued hovering overhead, preventing anyone from reaching them (continue reading here).
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Gaza receives only 16% of its cooking gas needs
The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation continues to impose a systematic strangulation policy on the Strip by reducing the quantities of cooking gas allowed in.
Only 104 gas trucks have entered since the start of the ceasefire agreement until December 6, 2025, out of 660 trucks that should have been allowed in, meaning Gaza has received just 16% of the agreed-upon quantity – a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement.
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.)
Israeli Soldiers Kill Two Palestinians in Hebron
On Saturday evening, Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in Hebron, Ziad Na’im Abdul-Jabbar Abu Daoud, 55, and Ahmad Khalil Rajabi, 20. in the southern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its ambulances were blocked and medics prevented from reaching the victims.
Israeli forces withheld the body of Rajabi.
The army alleged the two had carried out a “car‑ramming attempt” that lightly injured one soldier, but eyewitnesses and humanitarian groups disputed this account, describing the killings as a field execution.
Ha’aretz reports: The IDF initially claimed both Palestinians were involved in the car ramming, but later revised its statement, saying one of the Palestinians, Ziad Na’im Jabara Abu Dawud, was a bystander.
Since October 2023, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 1,092 Palestinians in the West Bank (~224 of them children).
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WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Israeli Orders to Uproot Hundreds of Olive Trees in Tuqu’
Escalating Violations: Injuries, Abductions And Attacks Across West Bank
Israeli Forces Shoot Four Palestinians Near Jerusalem
Soldiers Abduct Six Palestinians in Qalqilia And Ramallah
NOTABLE QUOTE: At Christmas, “We are here to stay”
Bethlehem Mayor Maher Kanawati, at the 2025 Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Bethlehem:
We are here to stay, to preserve this land, for it has something worth living for, and from it we derive our right to survive. Palestine is the land of messages and our deep roots in history, and it will only happen through our steadfastness and adherence to it.
Wherever there is life, freedom and hope, there will be Palestine, and its story is not symbolic but an act lived by the ancestors and completed by us, the children (continue reading here).
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.)
Wall Street Journal: Israel’s Latest Military Tech: Tested in Gaza, Wanted by the West
Israel is leveraging the war in Gaza to market its latest military technology. U.S. and European buyers are lining up.
Officials from countries including Germany, Norway and the U.K. flocked to a conference sponsored by the Israeli Defense Ministry this week that showcased battlefield technology tested in the furnace of Israel’s military campaigns, including in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.
On a big screen in the crowded auditorium this week, two attack drones were shown flying into a building in the Palestinian enclave, sending smoke billowing along the Gaza coastline.
“You see the first one hitting on the left side…and then the second one goes to its own target,” Ran Gozali, CEO of UVision Air, an Israeli defense-technology company, told the audience.“These are some of the clips that we were approved to share” (continue reading here).
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Yasser Abu Shabab’s Killing Proves Israel’s Failure in Gaza
A report published in The New York Times on Friday has offered one of the clearest acknowledgments yet that Israel’s effort to cultivate proxy militias inside Gaza has failed.
The article centers on the killing of Yasser Abu Shabab, a known criminal and collaborator, described as “a Gazan militia leader backed by Israel”.
“The killing on Thursday of Yasser Abu Shabab (…) underscored what analysts had long warned: that Palestinians handpicked by Israel to undermine Hamas would most likely meet a violent end,” the newspaper wrote (continue reading here).
CONTEXT:
Experts say gang- leader’s killing exposes fragility of Israel’s militia strategy in Gaza
Who Is Abu Shabab? Meet the Gaza Gangster that Israel Armed to Counter Hamas
The rise of Abu Shabab: Mapping the Gaza militia armed by Israel
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ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Israeli premier held secret meeting with Tony Blair over Gaza ‘day after’ plans: Report
UN sounds alarm over repeated Israeli airstrikes near peacekeepers in Lebanon
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.)
Netanyahu Rejects Retirement From Political Life in Exchange for Pardon in Criminal Cases
Ex-IDF Chief: Netanyahu’s Mossad Chief Pick Is ‘Reward for Loyalty’ Over Experience
Saudi diplomat says Israel, more than PA, needs reform to become a partner for peace
Netanyahu calls for evacuating 14 illegal outposts, removing Jewish extremists in West Bank
Qatari PM: Gaza truce can’t be considered ceasefire until Israel leaves the Strip
OTHER HEADLINES:
Hind Rajab Foundation urges Spain to arrest Israeli soldier accused of Gaza war crimes
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
Nations ‘concerned’ about Israel opening one-way Gaza exit
Israeli Forces Kill a Palestinian Near Nablus
Israel sets 2026 defense budget at over $30bn
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 6, 2025*:
- At least 71,452 Palestinians killed, 181,047 injured – including:
- At least 70,360 killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls)
- At least 1,092 killed in the West Bank (~223 children)
- At least 171,047 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 624 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 6, 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.https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/death-chart-650px/Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org
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