In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 18 August 2025 until 08:00, 19 August 2025
Gaza Strip
Sanction Israel
Merciless blitz on starving Gaza — growing numbers
of dead and injured
Victims 18-19 August 2025:
60 more killed and 343 wounded
Since dawn, Israeli air strikes, missile–launches and gunfire on homes, as well as medical and other facilities, have resulted in 60 dead and 343 wounded. Civil Defence crews retrieved two more bodies from underneath bomb-damaged property, bringing the total number now killed in Gaza, since 7 October 2023, to at least 62,064. The total wounded is now at least 156,573. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 91 and, that of those injured, is more than 229. A UN report states that, as of 14 January 2025, around 70% of those killed in Gaza were women and children.
UK Government terrorism against free speech leads to public outcry
The Government is clearly rattled by public outcry at the mass arrest of over 500 people opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and expressing support for the banned protest group, Palestine Action. Both Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, and Victims Minister, Alex Davies-Jones, have taken to the airwaves to insist that they possess secret knowledge proving the group was a “violent organisation” – a claim that co-founder, Huda Ammori, has vigorously condemned as defamatory.
All this begs the question: if, as Cooper told the BBC, the public “don’t know the full nature of this organisation”, then how exactly is the public supposedly ‘terrorised’ by it. All the individuals who risked arrest and potential imprisonment under the Terrorism Act for resisting the ban are extremely courageous, but this is not a choice everyone can make. There are numerous consequences, as Netpol’s guide to the ban highlights, of a terrorism-related conviction. However, a coalition of groups is now offering an alternative that doesn’t inevitably result in arrest but does challenge Britain’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza: a mass blockade of Britain’s largest arms fair, DSEI, on its opening day on 9th September. This event in East London is where the defence industry, the military and politicians rub shoulders, with Israel regularly present and arms companies, like Elbit Systems, often in attendance.
Our Campaigns & Media Co–ordinator, Kevin Blowe, has written about the blockade, dubbed ‘The Big One‘, and the push to mobilise thousands to make it impossible for arms trade delegates to comfortably network and strike deals.
West Bank
Israeli Army attack – stun grenades fired: Ramallah – 18:10, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided the village of Kafr Malik.
Israeli Army attack – stun grenades fired: Jenin – Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, continued their storming of the city as well as its refugee camp.
Israeli Army attack – home invasions – 3 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – the Israeli Army, firing live ammunition, continue to storm the city as well as the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps,invading and occupying homes. Three female residents taken prisoner.
Home invasions and demolition: Ramallah – 07:30, Israeli Occupation forces demolished a two-apartment building in the village of Beit Sira.
Home invasion and demolition: Ramallah – 01:40, Israeli forces, raiding the village of Beit Sira, demolished a house, a café, a barracks and a wall. Three residents were taken prisoner.
Home invasions and robbery: Jenin – 02:50, the Israeli Army stole cash from each of two homes while searching them in Ya’bad.
Home invasions: Tulkarem – 24:00–01:45, Israeli troops raided the town of Allar and invaded three houses.
Home invasion: Tubas – 03:30-04:40, Israeli soldiers raided the city and invaded a home.
Home invasions – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 00:50–03:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided the town of Beit Ummar and invaded four homes, taking prisoner one resident.
Israeli police and settlers’ mosque violation: Jerusalem – 08:00, Israeli settlers, escorted by Occupation police, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and molested worshippers.
Israeli Army population–control: Ramallah – 16:45, Israeli Occupation forces detained the Minister of Culture, Imad Hamdan, and his accompanying staff during a visit to the youth village near Kafr Ni’ma. They also detained the Executive Director of the Sharek Youth Forum, Bader Zama’ra, and a group of young people.
Israeli Army destruction and economic sabotage: Ramallah – 07:30, Israeli forces demolished a café, a livestock shelter and a fence, in the village of Beit Sira.
Israeli Army agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 13:10, the Israeli Army bulldozed an area of land, in the east of Rujeib village.
Israeli Army pastoral sabotage: Bethlehem – 11:45, Israeli troops demolished two livestock shelters, in the Umm Rukba area of al-Khadr.
Israeli Army destruction and economic sabotage: Hebron – 09:40, the Israeli military demolished commercial buildings, near the town of al-Ramadin, on the pretext of lacking a licence.
Occupation settlement development – land-grab: Nablus – 16:15, Israeli Occupation settlers carried out bulldozing work, near the entrance to the village of Beit Dajan, for the enlargement of their settlement outpost.
Occupation settlement enlargement – land-grab: Hebron – 11:50, Occupation settlers, in the Masafer area of Yatta, began establishing a new settlement outpost on privately-owned land, setting up camp, placing household items inside tent–dwellings and raising Israeli flags over the area.
Occupation settler violence and population–control: Ramallah – 18:45, Israeli Occupation settlers, in the youth village near Kafr Ni’ma village, assaulted and obstructed Ministry of Culture staff accompanying the Minister on a visit to it.
Occupation settler violence and stoning: Ramallah – dawn, Israelis, from the Shilo Occupation settlement, invaded the outskirts of Turmusaya and stoned a home, shattering the windows and beating-up and injuring the householder’s son,as well as his brother.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 11:55, Occupation settlers raided the Yanun area of Aqraba and began grazing their sheep on crops growing on people’s agricultural land.
Occupation settler violence and agricultural sabotage: Jericho – 10:40, Israeli settlers invaded the Sateeh area, west of Jericho, forcing the farmers off the land and preventing the building of a greenhouse from continuing.
Occupation settler arson and agricultural sabotage: Hebron – morning, Israelis, from the Asfar Occupation settlement, raided the Wadi Sa’ir area and set fire to agricultural land planted with grapevines as well as almond and olive trees.
Occupation settler stoning of family home – injuries to wife and children: Hebron – 20:40, Israeli Occupation settlers invaded the outskirts of Susya village and stoned the home of Nasser Shreiteh, causing injury to his wife and children and smashing the windows of their home as well as a motor vehicle.
Raid: Ramallah – afternoon, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled al-Bireh and set up a checkpoint on Jerusalem Street, near the al-Am’ari refugee camp.
Raid: Ramallah – 18:10, Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Kafr Malik.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 03:35, Israeli troops raided the city, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Ramallah – 05:50, the Israeli military forces raided the village of Rammun, detaining for a time three residents.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jenin – 06:00, the Israeli soldiers raided the town of al-Yamoun, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – dawn, the Israeli military raided the town of Attil, taking prisoner two residents.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 18:15-20:00, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Aslah and searched a house under construction.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner – population–control: Nablus – 17:05, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Burqa, taking prisoner one person and issuing demolition notices to a number of warehouses.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 17:30, Israeli forces raided the village of Sarra, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – violence: Nablus – evening, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Sebastia, assaulting a resident and his son.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Salfit – 03:15, Israeli troops raided the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, taking prisoner one person.
Raids: Salfit – 19:25, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the towns of Bruqin and Kafr al- Dik.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Salfit – 01:00–02:55, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Haris, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Jericho – 09:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – 6 taken prisoner: Jericho – 20:55–23:00, Israeli forces raided the town of al-Auja, taking prisoner six people and detaining, for a time, three others.
Raid: Jericho – 01:05–02:30, Israeli Army forces again raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Bethlehem – evening, Israeli troops, firing stun grenades, raided the city.
Raid – violence: Bethlehem – evening, the Israeli military assaulted a resident while raiding and patrolling the town of Beit Fajjar.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – dawn, Israeli soldiers raided al-Khadr, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Bethlehem – 22:05, Israeli Occupation forces again raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 02:05, Israeli forces raided the village of al-Minya, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Hebron – 21:35, the Israeli Army forces raided and patrolled the city.
Raid: Hebron – 24:00, Israeli troops raided the town of Bani Na’im, detaining, for a time, one resident.