The Israeli army killed at least five Palestinians in renewed attacks across the Gaza Strip on Friday, despite announcing a resumption of the ceasefire earlier in the week.
Since the “ceasefire” began, Israel has killed 226 Palestinians, including 85 children, with approximately 600 others injured, and violated the truce agreement at least 125 times.
Additional statistics below.
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.)
Five Palestinians Killed as Israel Continues Ceasefire Violations
One Palestinian was killed Friday when an Israeli airstrike hit his home in Khan Younis; another was killed in Jabaliya; two were shot by Israeli forces in Gaza City, and a fifth died of earlier wounds.
Several others were injured.
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Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis said Friday that it received the bodies of 30 Palestinians released by Israel through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), raising the total number of bodies received to 225 since Oct. 14 under the ceasefire deal.
Medical and field evidence accompanying the handover of Palestinian bodies indicates they were subjected to summary executions following torture, restraint, and being run over by military vehicles, the Prisoners’ Information Office affiliated with Hamas said on Friday.
“Traces of torture, handcuffing, burns, and crushing by military vehicles were found on their bodies,” the information office said in a statement (continue reading here).
Red Cross teams deliver the bodies of 30 Palestinians, who were detained by Israeli forces during the war and handed over as part of the ceasefire deal, to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on October 30, 2025.
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UN: “87% of Gaza’s Farmland Damaged in 2025”
The United Nations has confirmed that nearly nine out of ten agricultural zones in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed due to sustained Israeli military operations throughout 2025. The destruction includes cropland, greenhouses, irrigation wells, and other vital infrastructure essential for food production and survival.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) findings show that 87% of Gaza’s farmland and irrigation wells have been affected, with only 37% of damaged farmland currently accessible for rehabilitation, following the ceasefire, and 600 hectares (about 1,500 acres) intact, offering a narrow window for restarting food production.
The report warns that Gaza’s agricultural base has been systematically dismantled, with repeated strikes targeting food-producing assets. This has triggered a collapse in local food systems, compounded by livestock losses and the near-total halt of dairy production.
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Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, Israel drew new boundaries for its withdrawal from the Strip, encompassing more than 58% of Gaza’s total area, and named it the “Yellow Line.” Israel says it will not withdraw from this area until it verifies that Hamas has been fully disarmed during the second phase of the agreement.
Major cities, or what is left of them, lie on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line. Thousands of Gaza families are banned from returning to their destroyed homes and neighborhoods within these boundaries, leaving them displaced indefinitely in southern shelters.
Israeli media reported that the Israeli government is considering expanding the Yellow Line to include 70% of the Gaza Strip—something the US administration opposes (continue reading here).
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WATCH: Gaza family forced to live around undetonated bomb lodged in their home
GAZA HEADLINES:
Israel kills an average of 10 Palestinians daily since the ceasefire in Gaza
- Since the ceasefire agreement came into effect on 10 October, the Israeli army has pursued a policy of gradual escalation, shifting from intermittent strikes to large-scale waves of killing.
Thousands of Unexploded Bombs Dropped by Israel Have Turned Gaza into a Minefield
- Five children were recently wounded by unexploded ordnance as they were searching for firewood in the rubble of Gaza City.
Zein Nour (left) and Joud Al-Anqar (right) recover in Shifa hospital in Gaza City after being wounded by explosive ordnance. October 28, 2025.
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM 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.)
Israel Abducts Palestinians in Overnight Invasions Across West Bank
Olive harvest season sees ‘highest level of damage’ by settlers in five years
- According to OCHA, the UN body that coordinates international humanitarian responses to emergencies, 60 Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians were recorded across the occupied West Bank in the past week. More than half were related to the olive harvest.
Palestinian farmers start to harvest olives on agricultural field despite the Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the village of Madama, south of the city of Nablus, West Bank on October 03, 2024.
NEWS & HEADLINES ABOUT ISRAEL:
Red Cross transfers remains of 3 bodies from Gaza to Israel for examination
- Israeli authorities have received from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) the remains of three Israeli captives from the Gaza Strip, Israeli broadcasting authority KAN said Friday.
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BREAKING: Israeli Forensic Tests Show Remains From Hamas Do Not Belong to Hostages
The remains handed over by Hamas Friday night do not match any known Israeli hostages, a preliminary examination at the Institute of Forensic Medicine concluded Saturday morning.
Israel received notice in advance that Hamas was unsure about the identity of the remains and that they may not belong to the hostages.
Hamas had offered to send Israel samples from unidentified remains, but Israel reportedly refused, asking for the remains themselves for examination.
OTHER NEWS & HEADLINES:
Leaked US State Department docs unveil first formal acknowledgment of Israeli units committing gross rights abuses
A classified US State Department report found that Israeli soldiers committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of US human rights law in the Gaza Strip that would require “multiple years” to review, the Washington Post reported on 31 October.
The report has, for the first time, “acknowledged the scale of Israeli actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of Leahy Laws, the landmark legislation that bars US security assistance to foreign military units credibly accused of gross human rights abuses,” the newspaper wrote.
However the report “raised doubts about the prospects for accountability for Israel’s actions given the large backlog of incidents and the nature of the review process, which is deferential to the Israel Defense Forces,” The Post added (continue reading here).
RELATED: I created the Leahy law. It should be applied to Israel.
In one example of wanton destruction of Gaza, an Israeli soldier records himself blowing up a mosque.
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Zohran Mamdani’s historic run will also help free Jews, and U.S. politics, from Zionism
Zohran Mamdani’s historic run for New York mayor is a huge moment for Jewish identity, giving a boost to Jews who argue that Judaism is not synonymous with Zionism.
According to polls, two out of three young Jews are expected to vote for Mamdani, and overall, a substantial minority of Jews will support him (43 percent).
These Jews accept or even celebrate Mamdani’s Palestinian solidarity. Mamdani takes positions that were previously a third rail in politics: He supports BDS against Israel, he says Israel committed a genocide in Gaza, and he says he would seek to arrest Netanyahu as a war criminal if he came to New York (continue reading here).
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MORE HEADLINES:
California redistricting could threaten five pro-Israel, House seats, state GOP Jewish leader says
- The five Republican congressmen whose seats could be in jeopardy are Darrell Issa, Kevin Kiley, David Valadao, Ken Calvert and Doug LaMalfa. All are “consistently pro-Israel.”
- The irony is people like Hamdi are not even losing the right to criticise the American government. They are losing the right to criticise a foreign government.
Lebanon slams Israel for intensifying attacks despite calls to negotiate
- Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has accused Israel of responding to its offer to negotiate by intensifying air strikes. 2 were killed in drone strikes on Friday alone.
Israel prepares to counter ‘potential threat’ from Iraqi resistance: Report
- The Israeli army and Mossad intelligence agency are preparing for a “developing threat” coming from Iraqi resistance factions, according to a report released on 31 October by Hebrew newspaper Maariv.
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
A view of the destruction following Israeli attacks after Israel resumed airstrikes, in Gaza City, Gaza, on October 29, 2025.
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 31, 2025*:
- At least 69,921 Palestinians killed, 180,664 injured – including:
- At least 68,858# killed in Gaza (~22,000 children, 23,000 women)
- At least 1,063 killed in the West Bank (~213 children)
- At least 170,664 injured in Gaza
- More than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
- At least 463 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 157 children
- About 482 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.
#NOTE: 193 martyrs have been added to the cumulative martyr count, whose data has been completed and approved by the Judicial Committee following up on the reports and missing persons file from October 24, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 31, 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 272 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 207 and 326 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.
Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org