Across Gaza, unfathomable destruction awaits returning Palestinians – Ceasefire Day 2
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Day 735 of Israel’s War on Gaza
Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday.
The number of known starvation/malnutrition deaths stands at 463, including 157 children.
NOTE: 320 martyrs have been added to the cumulative statistics of martyrs, whose data was completed and approved by the Judicial Committee following up on the Reports and Missing Persons file from October 3, 2025 to October 10, 2025.
Additional statistics below. For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Friday, go here.
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.)
Initial reports of devastation are shocking
Friday saw a massive return of internally displaced Palestinians, with hundreds of thousands streaming back to Gaza City and northern areas despite the overwhelming devastation. Scenes of destroyed buildings and rubble are widespread.
The Mayor of Khan Younis announced in a press conference that 85% of the governorate is destroyed. The city faces the task of removing approximately 400,000 tons of rubble, with 300 kilometers of water networks and 75% of the sewage network destroyed. The municipality must also deal with over 350,000 tons of waste.
The Gaza City Municipality reported that more than 85% of its heavy and medium machinery is destroyed, but efforts have begun to open some main streets, prioritizing water, sewage, and waste collection.
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Aid Groups Ready to Begin Providing Relief to Gaza Under Cease-Fire
Israel will allow the United Nations to deliver larger amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza starting on Sunday [or Saturday], according to a senior U.N. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the plans.
The cease-fire agreement reached on Thursday between Israel and Hamas contains stipulations for an increase of aid into Gaza and the reopening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
The U.N. has said about 170,000 metric tons of food, medicine and other aid supplies are staged and ready to be transported into the enclave.
Foreign Press Association reiterates call for media access to Gaza
The Foreign Press Association (FPA), which represents hundreds of media workers, has issued a statement: “With the halt in fighting, we renew our urgent call for Israel to open the borders immediately and allow international media free and independent access to the Gaza Strip,” it said.
“These demands have been repeatedly ignored, while our Palestinian colleagues have risked their lives to provide tireless and brave reporting from Gaza.”
The FPA has repeatedly asked for access to Gaza over the past two years, but Israel has denied any entry of foreign journalists to the besieged enclave.
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The Israeli media is reporting on a ‘secret clause’ in the Gaza ceasefire deal that no one is talking about
The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas could collapse due to an alleged “secret clause” in the agreement that would allow Israel to resume the war, according to reports in the Arab and Hebrew-language Israeli media.
That so-called clause would reportedly be “activated” in the event that Hamas is unable to locate all the Israeli captives within the 72-hour window allotted to the Palestinian resistance group during the first part of the deal’s implementation.
On Friday, Al Jazeera’s Palestine Bureau Chief Walid al-Omary pointed out on the network’s live broadcast that the second article of the deal concerning the release of Israeli captives included a phrase in the Hebrew version about an undisclosed annex. According to al-Omary, if Hamas fails to release all Israeli captives, dead and alive, a “secret clause in appendix B” would be “activated” (continue reading here).
GAZA HEADLINES:
No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans
U.S. Troops To Establish “Ceasefire Coordination Center”
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.)
Israeli Forces Kill a Palestinian in Jenin
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man, Mohammad Adnan Yousef Salama, and wounded a child, on Friday night, near the Cinema Roundabout in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews transported the body of the 25-year-old man to the hospital, adding that he was killed after sustaining live gunshot wounds to the neck and abdomen.
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36 Palestinians wounded in Israeli attack on olive harvesters in West Bank
Dozens of Palestinians, including journalists, were injured and six others arrested on Friday in attacks by Israeli settlers and the military in the occupied West Bank.
The assaults targeted olive harvesters all over the West Bank, and involved physical assaults, tear gas, and live ammunition. Three vehicles were also set ablaze. Israeli forces reportedly arrested six Palestinians while they were harvesting olives, after settlers attacked them at the site.
Attacks by extremist Jewish Israeli settlers typically increase around the olive harvest season, which falls in late September to mid-November.
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Army Detonates Home of Slain Palestinian in Jerusalem
ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil and contradictions within the country. Often, our news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Israel holding bodies of 735 Palestinians, says advocacy group
The National Campaign for the Retrieval of Palestinian and Arab War Victims’ Corpses and the Disclosure of the Fate of the Missing said Israeli authorities are holding the bodies of 735 people in cemeteries and refrigerators.
The cemeteries are made up of mass graves marked with numbers rather than names, and some of the bodies have been there since the 1967 war.
It is widely known that Israel employs the practice as a tactic for leverage in negotiations. The practice has long pained Palestinian families, who sometimes have to wait decades before receiving the bodies of their loved ones.
(Trump apparently thinks Israel is sick and twisted)
In March 2025, after a fragile ceasefire had begun, Trump posted a warning to Hamas on social media: “Release all of the Hostages now… and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you… Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted!”.
RELATED: Israel continues burying Palestinian bodies in cemeteries of numbers
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REMINDER: Israeli PM Netanyahu remains wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Beware Netanyahu: he is a master of self-interest – and that’s why he signed the Hamas ceasefire deal
HERE’S WHAT ISRAELIS ARE READING:
European Countries Prepare to Reconcile With Israel, but War in Gaza Has Left Its Mark
Charlie Kirk’s Leaked Text Messages Before Murder Show Frustration Over Jewish Donors
OTHER HEADLINES:
The Pro-War Nobel Peace Prize Winner is A Friend Of Netanyahu – Profile
Now that a Gaza ceasefire has been reached, will Trump force Israel to end the genocide?
ICYMI (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) – A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
CAIR Condemns Israel as ‘Sadistic’ for Bombing Gaza Despite Ceasefire Agreement
Spanish Gaza flotilla activist convicted of assaulting prison guard
Gaza genocide: Could this be the downfall of Israel’s arms industry?
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
TAKE ACTION FOR GAZA
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 10, 2025*:
- At least 68,734 Palestinians killed, 180,033 injured – including:
- at least 67,682 killed in Gaza (~20,000 children, 23,000 women)
- at least 1,052 killed in the West Bank (~212 children)
- at least 170,033 injured in Gaza
- more than 10,000 injured in the West Bank
- at least 463 have died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 157 children
At least 2,615 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
NOTE: 320 martyrs have been added to the cumulative statistics of martyrs, whose data was completed and approved by the Judicial Committee following up on the Reports and Missing Persons file from October 3, 2025 to October 10, 2025.
Since the Israeli army unilaterally broke the January ceasefire on March 18, 2025, it has killed at least 13,598 people. 65 Israeli soldiers (most recent Sept. 28) 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 – October 10, 2025: ~1,658 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 467 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 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 203 and 323 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.
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