SvennoJ on 19 August 2025
Main events on August 19th
- Israeli attacks have killed 51 people, including seven aid seekers, in the last day.
- At least 18,885 children are among the more than 62,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since the start of the war in October 2023.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry has warned of severe shortages in laboratory materials and blood bank supplies amid an ongoing blockade.
- Hamas says it approved a proposal for a Gaza ceasefire deal, which Israel has yet to issue an official response to.
- Israeli media are reporting that the government is insisting on the release of all 50 remaining captives as part of any ceasefire deal.
- Several Israeli settlers have attacked a father and his son in the east of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
- Iran’s state media are reporting that at least one person was killed after munitions left from Israel’s war earlier this year exploded near Beyranshahr.
- Lebanon’s prime minister has affirmed the government’s plan to limit all arms possession to the army by the year’s end in a move Hezbollah firmly rejected as being aligned with Israeli and US pressure.
