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19:48 [ Kashmir Indepth ]

Palestinian death toll in Gaza reaches 70,100 despite ceasefire, says Health Ministry

Despite the truce, Israel has continued to carry out airstrikes, which it describes as responses to alleged violations of the ceasefire. At the same time, rescue and recovery teams are still pulling bodies from the rubble of buildings destroyed in earlier phases of the war, contributing to the steadily rising toll.

The Health Ministry, which is staffed by medical professionals, maintains detailed casualty records that are widely regarded by the international community as generally reliable. Its latest update underscores the devastating human cost of the conflict and raises renewed concerns over the fragility of the ceasefire arrangement.

28.11.2025 - 02:48 [ Amnesty International ]

Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire

In December 2024 Amnesty International issued an extensive study concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza arguing that Israel had carried out three acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, including killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.

Today despite a reduction in scale of attacks, and some limited improvements, there has been no meaningful change in the conditions Israel is inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza and no evidence to indicate that Israel’s intent has changed.

“Israel has inflicted devastating harm on Palestinians in Gaza through its genocide, including two years of relentless bombardment and deliberate systematic starvation. So far, there is no indication that Israel is taking serious measures to reverse the deadly impact of its crimes and no evidence that its intent has changed. In fact, Israeli authorities are continuing their ruthless policies, restricting access to vital humanitarian aid and essential services, and deliberately imposing conditions calculated to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza,” said Agnès Callamard.

At least 347people, including 136 children, have been killed in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire was announced on 9 October. Israel continues to restrict access to critical aid and relief supplies, including medical supplies and equipment necessary to repair life-sustaining infrastructure, violating multiple orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for Israel to ensure that Palestinians have access to humanitarian supplies, in the case brought by South Africa to prevent Israel’s genocide. In January 2024, the ICJ found that Palestinians’ rights under the Genocide Convention, namely their survival were plausibly at risk.

The objective probability that the current conditions would lead to the destruction of Palestinians in Gaza persists, particularly considering the enhanced vulnerability of the population to sickness and spread of disease following months of famine caused by years of unlawful blockade and months of total siege earlier this year. This has created circumstances that would lead to a slow death of Palestinians resulting from the lack of proper food, water, shelter, clothing or sanitation.

28.11.2025 - 02:41 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel‘s genocide in Gaza continues as Palestinians face ‚slow death‘, Amnesty says

Ceasefire violations by Israel, no housing, destroyed farmland and ongoing sea blockade are intended to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, report says

26.11.2025 - 20:08 [ Wafa.ps ]

Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 69,785, over 170,965 wounded

GAZA, November 26, 2025 (WAFA) – Medical sources announced on Wednesday that the death toll has reached 69,785 Palestinians killed, the majority of them children and women, since the Israeli aggression began in October 2023.

The sources added that the number of injured has risen to 170,965, while many victims remain trapped under the rubble, with ambulance and rescue teams unable to reach them due to the dangerous conditions and widespread destruction.

25.11.2025 - 20:30 [ Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ]

Gaza: Studie zeigt beispiellose Verluste an Menschenleben und Lebenserwartung

Ein Team des Max-Planck-Instituts für demografische Forschung (MPIDR) und des Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) hat die Auswirkungen des Konflikts in Gaza auf die Sterblichkeit untersucht. Sie schätzen, dass zwischen dem 7. Oktober 2023 und dem 31. Dezember 2024 78.318 (70.614 – 87.504) Menschen in Gaza getötet wurden. Infolgedessen sank die Lebenserwartung in Gaza im Jahr 2024 auf weniger als die Hälfte des ohne Krieg zu erwartenden Niveaus. Eine Aktualisierung ihrer Analyse, die nach der Veröffentlichung der Studie erstellt wurde, ergab, dass die Zahl der gewaltsamen Todesfälle derzeit wahrscheinlich 100.000 übersteigt.

25.11.2025 - 20:30 [ Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ]

Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate that 78,318 (70,614-87,504) people were killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and December 31, 2024. As a result, life expectancy in Gaza in 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. An update of their analysis, produced after the publication of the study, revealed that the current violent death toll likely exceeds 100,000.

25.11.2025 - 20:26 [ Middle East Eye ]

Gaza war death toll surges to 69,775

At least 69,775 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in Israel‘s war in Gaza since October 2023, medical sources said on Tuesday.

The sources said the number of wounded had risen to 170,965, while many people remain trapped under rubble, with ambulance and rescue teams unable to reach them because of dangerous conditions and widespread destruction

16.11.2025 - 13:36 [ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) ]

A/80/4922 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese – Gaza Genocide: a collective crime

(October 20, 2025)

Summary

The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a collective crime, sustained by the complicity of influential Third States that have enabled longstanding systemic violations of international law by Israel. Framed by colonial narratives that dehumanize the Palestinians, this live-streamed atrocity has been facilitated through Third States’ direct support, material aid, diplomatic protection and, in some cases, active participation. It has exposed an unprecedented chasm between peoples and their governments, betraying the trust on which global peace and security rest. The world now stands on a knife-edge between the collapse of the international rule of law and hope for renewal. Renewal is only possible if complicity is confronted, responsibilities are met and justice is upheld.

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25. Certain non-Western States have turned to international courts to seek accountability and pressurize Israel to cease its actions. While only 13 States have supported South Africa before the ICJ, most Western States have persistently denied genocide. None have joined Nicaragua against Germany at the ICJ, or invoked domestic laws against complicit corporations or individuals. Only seven referred the situation to the ICC, many sought to undermine its arrest warrants, and at least 37 States were non-committal or critical, signalling intent to evade arrest obligations.

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. Military Ties: providing the means of destruction

32. While UN resolutions have called for arms embargoes on Israel since 1976, many States have continued supplying it with military support and arms transfers. Israel is disproportionately dependent on weapons imports, with the proportion of their total trade more than double the OECD average, and over four times greater than that of the United States. This international supply has continued, even as the evidence of genocide has mounted, with the United States, Germany and Italy among the largest suppliers. Only a few Western States, notably Spain and Slovenia, have cancelled contracts and imposed embargoes.

16.11.2025 - 13:16 [ Middle East Eye ]

Francesca Albanese: Why I‘m accusing 63 nations of complicity in the Gaza genocide

The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, has accused major European powers, including the UK, Italy and Germany, of complicity in the genocide in Gaza and warned that their government officials should face legal consequences.

In an interview with the Expert Witness podcast on 3 November, Albanese discussed the findings of her latest report, titled Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime, where she cited evidence of the alleged responsibility of 63 states for enabling Israeli breaches of international law.

12.11.2025 - 20:12 [ Gulf Times ]

Death toll from Israeli aggression on Gaza rises to 69,185

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported Wednesday that hospitals in the Strip received the bodies of three martyrs and four others who were wounded by Israeli fire over the past 24 hours.

The ministry noted that since the ceasefire came into effect on October 11, a total of 245 people have been martyred and 627 injured, while 532 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of destroyed buildings in various areas of the Strip

10.11.2025 - 18:58 [ Politico.com ]

Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 69,000 as more bodies are exchanged, local health officials say

(Movember 8, 2025)

The latest jump in deaths is attributed to more bodies being recovered under the rubble in the devastated strip since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10, and also because previously unidentified bodies were identified. It also includes Palestinians killed by strikes on the territory since the truce took hold, attacks that Israel says are to take out remaining militants.

09.11.2025 - 13:12 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

MK Odeh in Berlin: Germany – Recognize Palestine

According to Odeh, “Every hostage returned from Gaza is a victory. Every child and family who survived Gaza is a victory. But that is not the victory Netanyahu wants.” He said, “What has been achieved and at what price? Palestinian cities have been erased from the map. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza were killed, including 20,000 children. Hundreds of thousands were left without homes. This is not a victory. This is devastation,” and called on “those responsible for crimes against humanity” to be held accountable.

“The Israeli state was already like Sparta – now it has become a super Sparta. If this is victory, what does defeat look like?” Odeh wondered. Odeh also urged Germany to recognize a Palestinian state, saying that the only request he had of U.S. President Donald Trump when he came to address Israel’s Knesset in October was to recognize a Palestinian state. “So, I ask you too: Germany – recognize Palestine! Recognize that there are two people in our shared homeland, both with the right to self-determination,” he cried out, to great applause.

Regarding Germany, Odeh said that Berlin “carries the scars of the 20th century and stands as a living reminder of how far human cruelty can go when power is absolute. When racism is normalized and people are dehumanized. But a city like Berlin can be both a graveyard for history, resistance culture and rebirth,” he said. Odeh also said the history of Berlin teaches that “silence in the face of injustice is deadly. It was silence that made the greatest crime of the century possible. And yet, today we see silence return, dressed up in diplomatic language.”

08.11.2025 - 20:44 [ ZDF Heute ]

Türkei: Gericht erlässt Haftbefehl gegen Benjamin Netanjahu

Bereits im November 2024 hatte ein Gremium von Richtern des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs in Den Haag Haftbefehle gegen den israelischen Premierminister Benjamin Netanjahu und seinen früheren Verteidigungsminister Yoav Gallant wegen Kriegsverbrechen im Gazastreifen erlassen. Die USA und Israel erkennen den IStGH nicht an.

08.11.2025 - 20:42 [ France24.com ]

Turkey issues arrest warrant against Netanyahu for ‚genocide‘ in Gaza

The Istanbul prosecutor‘s office said in a statement that a total of 37 suspects were targeted by the arrest warrants, without providing a full list.

They include Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and army chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir.

Turkey has accused the officials of „genocide and crimes against humanity“ that Israel has „perpetrated systematically“ in Gaza.

03.11.2025 - 22:07 [ Lina Ghassan Abu Zayed / theIntercept.com ]

From Gaza to Sudan: “Their Pain Is Ours”

In Gaza, we are used to waking up to the sounds of explosions, counting the days between meals, and cycling constantly between fear and hope. We thought our pain was unlike any other in the world until we saw Sudan burning under the same silence. There, as here, people die from hunger and under rubble, cameras and lenses absent, as if pain in the Global South is not meant to be heard in the North.

In Sudan and Gaza, children are snatched from their mothers’ arms before they even know what safety feels like. Last Tuesday alone, some 460 people were reportedly killed by paramilitary forces in the city of El-Fasher. Estimates put the rate of displacement in Gaza at 90%; in Sudan, more than 14 million people have been displaced. Homes are destroyed, access to clean water is severely limited, food remains deeply scarce, and the wounded lie scattered on the ground without medical care, just as we witnessed in our small city on the Mediterranean coast.

Yet what hurts more than bombing or hunger is silence.

02.11.2025 - 23:12 [ Newsweek ]

Aid Groups Warn Thousands at Risk in Darfur After RSF Takeover

(November 2, 2025)

Days after Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, in a violent assault that included the killing of more than 400 people at a hospital, aid groups warn that tens of thousands of civilians are at risk amid continuing violence, including some that may be trapped in el-Fasher and others harmed while fleeing.

02.11.2025 - 23:03 [ ABC News ]

Fears grow for thousands trapped in Sudan‘s el-Fasher

(Novemebr 2, 2025)

A total of 70,894 people have been displaced since the RSF took control, it said.

However, less than 6,000 have made it to the nearest camp in Tawila, 65 kilometers (40 miles) away, said Shashwat Saraf, Sudan director for the Norwegian Refugee Council, which runs the camp.

Almost 1,000 people arrived in the last three days, he said.

“The numbers are still very few. We are not seeing the hundreds of thousands that we were expecting. If people are still in el-Fasher, it will be very difficult for them to survive,” he told The Associated Press by phone from Tawila.

02.11.2025 - 17:12 [ Middle East Eye ]

Gaza death toll rises to 68,865

The ministry added on Sunday that the number of wounded had increased to 170,670.

It said the bodies of seven victims arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, including three recently killed Palestinians, three recovered from under the debris, and one who succumbed to their wounds.

Since the ceasefire took effect on 11 October, 236 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and at least 600 others wounded.

01.11.2025 - 00:34 [ United Nations ]

‘Blood on the sand. Blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls

“What is unfolding in El Fasher recalls the horrors Darfur was subjected to twenty years ago,” Mr. Fletcher said, referring to the atrocities of the early 2000s that shocked the world and eventually led to International Criminal Court indictments.

“But somehow today we are seeing a very different global reaction – one of resignation,” he continued. “This is also a crisis of apathy.”

“The Sudan crisis is, at its core, a failure of protection, and our responsibility to uphold international law,” Mr. Fletcher said. “Atrocities are committed with unashamed expectation of impunity…the world has failed an entire generation.”

01.11.2025 - 00:24 [ United States Mission to the United Nations ]

Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on Sudan and South Sudan

(October 30, 2025)

The United States condemns in the strongest terms the horrific violence occurring in El Fasher. The situation is both tragic and appalling.

We have said this before, and we will say it again – the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias have committed genocide.

The RSF has and continues to systematically kill men and boys – even infants – and deliberately target women and children for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence. These crimes are ethnically motivated.

RSF militias are targeting civilians as they flee, killing innocent people escaping conflict, and preventing those who remain from accessing life-saving supplies.

The United States condemns these abhorrent atrocities in no uncertain terms. Those responsible should be held accountable, including through sanctions, as noted by the Sudan Sanctions Panel of Experts in its most recent report.

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Colleagues, ending wars is a priority for President Trump, and the United States remains committed to working with our partners and other stakeholders to resolve the crisis.

Together, we are focused on securing an immediate humanitarian truce, halting external support, and advancing a transition to civilian governance.

01.11.2025 - 00:00 [ theGuardian.com ]

UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told

(October 28, 2025)

British military equipment has been found on battlefields in Sudan, used by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of genocide, according to documents seen by the UN security council.

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Months after the UN security council first received material alleging that the UAE may have supplied British-made items to the RSF, new data indicates that the British government went on to approve further exports to the Gulf state for military equipment of the same type.

British engines made specifically for a type of UAE-manufactured armoured personnel carrier also appear to have been exported to the Emirates, despite evidence that the vehicles had been used in Libya and Yemen in defiance of UN arms embargos.

29.10.2025 - 21:27 [ Middle East Eye ]

Gaza death toll rises to 68,643 after Israel launches deadly attacks

29 October 2025 14:39 GMT

The death toll in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 has has risen to 68,643, after Israel launched deadly attacks overnight.

The Palestinian health ministry said the number of Palestinians wounded by Israeli forces had risen to 170,655 since the start of the war.

The ministry said 104 Palestinians, including 46 children and 40 women, were killed by Israeli forces over the past day. At least 253 wounded others were wounded.

28.10.2025 - 18:45 [ Middle East Eye ]

Gaza death toll rises to 68,531

Over the past day, four bodies – including one person recently killed, two whose bodies were recovered, and one who succumbed to their wounds – and seven wounded were taken to hospitals across the Gaza Strip.

Since the ceasefire came into effect on 11 October, Israeli forces have killed 94 people and wounded 344 others. An additional 474 bodies have been recovered in Gaza.

26.10.2025 - 00:06 [ יובל אברהם / Mekomit.co.il ]

החשיבה ה“משימתית“ שמאפשרת השמדה של עם

העובדה שעולם הדימויים של השואה משמש הן כהצדקה להשמדת עזה והן כאמצעי התנגדות לה משקפת בין היתר את כפיפות הפלסטינים לשיח השואה, ואת הצורך שלהם להכניס את הטרגדיה שלהם לתבניות שלה כדי להישמע. הבנת המתחולל בעזה לא רק דרך הפריזמה של ג׳נוסייד אלא גם של הנכבה כמטרת על, המושגת על ידי השמדה מכוונת של בני אדם ומרחב החיים שלהם, מייצרת קוהרנטית רבה יותר. עם זאת, כיהודי-ישראלי, אל מול הזוועות בשנתיים האחרונות, אני לא יכול שלא לחשוב דרך השואה. השמדת עזה איפשרה לי להבין לא רק את היהודים, אלא גם את הגרמנים, את הרוב הדומם, את אלו שאיפשרו לזוועות לקרות במעשה או בשתיקה.

25.10.2025 - 23:55 [ Yuval Abraham / +972 Magazine ]

One target at a time: The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide

Yet to see the past two years not only through the prism of genocide but also as a second Nakba — a sustained project of erasure aimed at destroying both a people and the space they inhabit — may bring us closer to grasping the nature of Israel’s actions. Whereas genocide is often understood as violence for its own sake, the Nakba represents violence with a purpose: the removal and replacement of a people.

And yet, as a Jewish-Israeli faced with the horrors of the past two years, I cannot help but think in Holocaust terms. The destruction of Gaza has enabled me to better understand not only the stories of the victims but also of the perpetrators — the silent majority who facilitated atrocities through their actions and the stories they tell themselves to justify it all.

24.10.2025 - 23:20 [ Times of Israel ]

Addressing Turkey, PA role in Gaza, Rubio says Israel must be ‘comfortable’ with countries that send troops

Asked in a press conference at the US Civil-Military Coordination Center whether Turkish troops would be deployed in the International Stabilization Force to be set up in the Strip, Rubio says, “We haven’t formed that force yet, so there’s still work going on.”

“Obviously, as you put together this force, it’ll have to be countries that Israel is comfortable with as well,” he continues, saying that “there are a lot of countries that are expressing interest right now,” adding he couldn’t specify them.

24.10.2025 - 23:11 [ New York Times ]

What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think

Yet now is a time of reckoning. After two years of relentless violence, a fragile and uncertain cease-fire has settled over Gaza, bringing joyous scenes of Israeli captives reuniting with their families and of Palestinian prisoners returning home after years of detention. But that must be set against the apocalyptic reality survivors face: a moonscape of total devastation and unfathomable loss. Today there is a chance, if we want it, to begin to discover the true cost of this war. We might find that it’s even worse than we thought.

24.10.2025 - 23:07 [ Middle East Eye ]

Gaza death toll rises to at least 68,280

)October 23, 2025)

At least one Palestinian has been killed and two others wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the last 24 hours, Gaza‘s Ministry of Health is reporting.

It added that 32 bodies have also been recovered over that period, pushing the overall toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since it launched its genocide in Gaza to 68,280, with another 170,375 wounded.

22.10.2025 - 11:49 [ NewArab.com ]

Counting the dead in Israel‘s genocide in Gaza

(October 21, 2025)

As of Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has recorded over 68,000 people killed, the majority of them women, children, and the elderly, with around 170,200 wounded since the war began in October 2023.

At least 20,000 children are among the dead, making up over 30% of the death toll. Overall, more than ten percent of the pre-war population of the Gaza Strip has been killed or injured.

19.10.2025 - 15:18 [ Wafa.ps ]

Despite ceasefire, Gaza death toll continues to rise, reaching 68,159 since October 2023

Medical sources stated that 18 bodies, including ten that were recovered from under the rubble and eight that were directly directed by Israeli forces, and three injured individuals were brought to hospitals in Gaza during the past 24 hours.

Since the ceasefire went into effect on October 11, 35 Palestinians have been killed and 146 others have been injured. The bodies of 414 Palestinians have also been recovered.

Fifteen unidentified bodies previously withheld by the Israeli occupation have also been handed over as part of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal, bringing the total number of bodies received from Israel to 150, delivered in batches of 45, 45, 30, 15, and 15.

18.10.2025 - 17:27 [ Wafa.ps ]

Death toll from Israeli aggression on Gaza rises to 68,116 since October 2023

Local health authorities reported that 29 Palestinians, including 23 whose bodies were recovered, two who succumbed to their wounds, and four killed in direct Israeli strikes, were brought to hospitals across Gaza over the past 48 hours. Additionally, 21 people were injured during the same period.

Since the ceasefire came into effect on October 11, 2025, 27 Palestinians have been killed and 143 wounded, while the bodies of 404 victims have been retrieved. Authorities have also received 135 bodies that were held by Israel and returned in batches.

16.10.2025 - 09:02 [ Middle East Eye ]

Gaza’s death toll rises to 67,938, health ministry says

The bodies of 25 people, and 35 wounded Palestinians have arrived at Gaza’s hospitals in the past 24 hours, the enclave’s health ministry said in a statement on Telegram.

The number includes 16 bodies newly recovered from the rubble and one person who died from their wounds.

The ministry said the Israeli attacks have killed at least 67,938 people and wounded 170,169 others across the enclave since the war began in October 2023.

12.10.2025 - 06:53 [ theCanary.co ]

200,000 tonnes of explosives dropped on Gaza, equivalent to 6 nuclear bombs

And, the Gaza Strip covers an area of 365 km², way less than half the size of London, which covers an area of 1,572 km². And, the population in Gaza are trapped in the midst of widespread destruction, with nowhere to go. The Gaza government ministry has reported:

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 67,183 Palestinians and injured 169,841 others since 7 October 2023.

More than 169,000 people suffered permanent physical injuries, with thousands of cases of amputation and paralysis. Thousands of families have been completely wiped out of the civil registry, and tens of thousands have been displaced.