### Under-reported news from Israel, Palestine, the Middle East and North Africa: August 29, 2025 *These roundups are, and will always be, free. No paywalls. If you find them useful, you can buy me a cup of coffee [here](https://paypal.me/ridaaburass?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US). Thanks!* [Subscribe](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct2B1Mm-SuaoJe5WkVn1HW1CSYkWnrXgLlOeg2JLLSEnqz2g/viewform?usp=header) to get these roundups (and just these roundups) by email. No spam. **TL;DR**: Israeli military pushes through Gaza City, killing dozens daily, including journalists, children and aid-seekers. The death toll from starvation rises sharply. Israeli forces conducted a series of raids across the West Bank, arresting and injuring civilians. Israeli forces demolished several homes within the Green Line. Protests for hostage release grow in Israel, though polls, analysis, and anecdotal evidence continues to indicate widespread indifference to Palestinian suffering in Gaza. Regional tensions rise as the Israeli military expands operations in neighboring countries - especially in Syria - unchecked. --- ##### Gaza: - 2025-08-25 - [Israeli strike kills 20 in a Gaza hospital](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/al-jazeera-journalist-mohammed-salama-among-14-killed-in-israeli-attack), including five journalists, drawing [widespread condemnation](https://aje.io/ej259o?update=3907082). - 2025-08-25 - As Israel drives Palestinians south toward the Egyptian border, [Egypt reinforces it with more troops](https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-bolsters-gaza-border-israel-drives-palestinians-south). - 2025-08-25 - [At least 11 Gazans die of starvation](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/160648) in the past 24 hours. - 2025-08-26 - [Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs underscores that Israeli stalling](https://www.qatar-tribune.com/article/191324/latest-news/responsibility-lies-with-israel-as-mediators-await-response-on-gaza-proposal-mofa-spokesperson) is the central obstacle to progress in Gaza ceasefire negotiations. Affirms that the offer that's currently on the table matches prior Israeli demands. - 2025-08-26 - [At least 75 Palestinians killed](https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2025-08-26/ty-article/.premium/00000198-e68c-d8c5-abbe-e7cf19d20000) in Israeli strikes throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. #hebrew - 2025-08-27 - [At least 76 Palestinians were killed](https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2025-08-27/ty-article/.premium/00000198-eb1c-d8c5-abbe-ebdfd1230000) in Israeli strikes throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including 18 aid seekers. At least 10 died of starvation. #hebrew - 2025-08-27 - [Israeli military spokesperson says](https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2025-08-27/ty-article/.premium/00000198-eb77-d56f-affe-ef7773a30000) the displacement of Gaza city residents "is inevitable". #hebrew - 2025-08-28 - [At least 71 Palestinians were killed](https://www.newarab.com/news/white-house-meeting-gaza-day-after-amid-ongoing-massacres?blockId=block_61293) across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. - 2025-08-29 - [Israeli forces recover](https://www.arabnews.com/node/2613417/middle-east) the bodies of two hostages that were kidnapped on October 7, 2023. - 2025-08-29 - [Israeli military continues to push through Gaza City](https://www.arabnews.com/node/2613417/middle-east), pushing the population south, declaring all of it a restricted military zone. - 2025-08-29 - [At least 30 Palestinians killed](https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-friday-rises-30?nid=427184&topic=Israel%2527s%2520genocide%2520in%2520Gaza&fid=547548) across Gaza since dawn today. [Five starve to death](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/160782). ---- ##### West Bank, inc. East Jerusalem: - 2025-08-25 - Palestinian man who was shot in Hebron and then detained by Israeli forces, [dies from wounds in Israeli custody](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/160662). - 2025-08-25 - [Israel uproots olive trees and destroys agricultural buildings](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/160651) across the West Bank. - 2025-08-26 - [Israeli army launched prolonged raid on Ramallah and el-Bireh](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/26/24-injured-including-child-and-elderly-man-in-israeli-raid-on-west-bank). At least 58 Palestinians have been wounded. - 2025-08-26 - [Israeli forces uproot olive trees](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/160714) in Issawiya, near Jerusalem. - 2025-08-27 - [A detailed report](https://www.972mag.com/israeli-army-settlers-al-mughayyir/) on the joint Israeli military-settler siege of al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian town near Ramallah, and the destruction of its olive groves - "a joint exercise in intimidation and re-engineering of Palestinian space". - 2025-08-27 - [A related report](https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/how-israel-is-funding-settler-violence-to-overrun-palestinian-villages-in-the-west-bank/) on the ways in which Israel uses settler violence to ethnically cleanse swaths of the West Bank. - 2025-08-27 - [Large-scale military raid](https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-80-palestinians-injured-israeli-raid-nablus?nid=427184&topic=Israel%2527s%2520genocide%2520in%2520Gaza&fid=547503) on the major West Bank city of Nablus. At least 80 Palestinians have been injured. - 2025-08-28 - [Israeli forces raided and searched six schools in the city of Hebron](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/160755), detaining several teachers. - 2025-08-29 - [Israeli settlers attacked](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/160778) a Palestinian community near Nablus. - 2025-08-29 - [Israeli settlers attacked](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/160776) a Palestinian community in the Northern Jordan Valley. - 2025-08-29 - [Israeli military storms Nablus](https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/160768); two Palestinians injured, one critically. ---- ##### '48 Palestinians: - 2025-08-26 - [Israeli forces demolish home in Ramleh](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/08/26/%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%89-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AD%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A9), within the Green Line, claiming it was illegally built. Israel generally [does not zone new areas for Palestinian construction](https://www.ac-ap.org/en/article/584/Planning-developments-in-Arab-towns), forcing Palestinian citizens to build illegally. #arabic - 2025-08-26 - [Israeli forces demolish seven homes](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/08/26/%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%85-7-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%84-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A8) in the unrecognized Bedouin village of a-Sir. #arabic - 2025-08-27 - [Palestinian bus drivers are facing](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/08/27/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%82%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D9%84%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3) face growing racism, attacks, threats and intimidation at work. #arabic - 2025-08-27 - [Israeli forces demolish more structures and homes](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/08/27/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%84-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%A2%D8%AA-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%B7-%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B9%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AE%D8%B5) in the Bedouin city of Rahat - the second demolition operation in the South over the past two days. #arabic - 2025-08-28 - [A Palestinian man was killed](https://www.arab48.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A9/2025/08/27/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AF-%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B4-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1) in the city of Lydda in a crime-related incident, bringing the total number of Palestinian victims of gun-violence within Israel this year to 165. #arabic - 2025-08-28 - [Outrage](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/08/28/%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%B9%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88-%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B4-%D9%8A%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%BA%D8%B6%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A) after a video of an Israeli man urinating on a mosque in the Palestinian town of Abu Ghosh was posted on TikTok. #arabic - 2025-08-29 - Several small demonstrations against the Gaza genocide today - in [Nazareth](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/08/29/%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%B6%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B9-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9), [Kabul](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/08/29/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84-%D9%88%D9%82%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%82%D9%81-%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9), [Haifa and Arara](https://www.arab48.com/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9/2025/08/28/%D8%AD%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7-%D9%88%D9%82%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%82%D9%81-%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9). --- ##### Israel: - 2025-08-25 - [An illuminating analysis](https://www.972mag.com/israelis-atrocity-denial-gaza/) of the Israeli public's response to the Gaza genocide. - 2025-08-25 - [Netanyahu thwarted seven Gaza ceasefire deals](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanyahu-thwarted-seven-gaza-ceasefire-deals-israeli-report-finds) so far, Middle East Eye report shows. - 2025-08-26 - Pro-hostage protesters [blocked major Israeli highways](https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/war-2023/2025-08-26/ty-article-live/00000198-e31b-d9a7-add9-e3ffcf480000). #hebrew - 2025-08-26 - [Top Israeli journalists justify, support the killing of journalists](https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/media/2025-08-26/ty-article/.premium/00000198-e68e-d8de-a3bb-e68f8b5a0000) in Gaza. #hebrew - 2025-08-26 - [New poll shows](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/vast-majority-israelis-believe-there-are-no-innocents-gaza-says-poll) 76 percent of the Jewish Israeli public partially or fully agrees that "there are no innocents in Gaza". --- ##### MENA + geopolitical: - 2025-08-25 - [Morocco bars](https://en.hespress.com/119038-morocco-bars-two-pro-polisario-activists-from-entering-laayoune.html) two pro-Polisario (Western Saharan independence) activists - citizens of Iraq and Portugal - from entering Laayoune, the capital of Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. - 2025-08-26 - [There is a growing online movement](https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/women-expose-harassment-in-arts-in-turkiyes-own-metoo-wave-212931) against sexual harassment in Turkey, not unlike MeToo. - 2025-08-27 - [Israeli strike kills six Syrian soldiers](https://www.arabnews.com/node/2613202/middle-east) near Damascus. No Israeli comments/acknowledgement so far. - 2025-08-28 - [Israeli forces raided a Syrian military site](https://www.arabnews.com/node/2613269/middle-east) near Damascus overnight. Israeli officials confirmed the attack, saying [it targeted Turkish spying devices](https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-865618). If true, this marks a serious escalation between the two countries. It is one of the deepest Israeli operations in Syrian territory since the fall of the al-Assad regime. - 2025-08-28 - [Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune replaces Prime Minister for the fourth time](https://en.hespress.com/119355-algerias-president-tebboune-replaces-prime-minister-in-latest-shake-up.html) since he took office in 2019. - 2025-08-29 - [Turkey severs economic ties with Israel](https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2025-08-29/ty-article/.premium/00000198-f5c3-d2dc-afde-fddb6f5f0000) and bars Israeli planes from its airspace. Turkish ships will be barred from docking in Israeli ports; foreign ships carrying Israel-bound military equipment will be barred from docking in Turkish ports. #hebrew - 2025-08-29 - [The US denies visas from Palestinian officials](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/29/us-denies-visas-for-palestinian-officials-ahead-of-un-assembly) - including PA president Mahmoud Abbas - preventing them from attending the UN General Assembly. --- Sign up [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct2B1Mm-SuaoJe5WkVn1HW1CSYkWnrXgLlOeg2JLLSEnqz2g/viewform?usp=header) to get an email notification when the weekly roundup is posted.