The Genocide in Gaza

By Dropsite Daily - 15 September 2025

At least 37 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today, including 25 killed in Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera. Among those killed was Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Kouifi, who worked for the Safa news agency and Al-Aqsa TV channel.

• Gaza’s Ministry of Health reports at least 34 Palestinians killed and 316 injured in the past 24 hours. Three Palestinians were killed and 47 injured while seeking aid. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 64,905 killed, with 164,926 injured.
• Three more deaths were recorded over the past 24 hours due to starvation and malnutrition, bringing the total since the start of the war to 425, including 145 children.
• The Israeli military bombed the high rise al-Ghafri Tower in Gaza City on Monday, according to Al Jazeera. The attack comes after Israel targeted four high rise towers in Gaza City on Sunday—including one on the Islamic University campus. The strikes killed at least 48 people in Gaza City, including a family of six who had fled Beit Hanoun, with hundreds more wounded. Israel claimed without evidence that the strikes had targeted Hamas surveillance posts.
• On August 2, Israeli forces declared Gaza’s Beit Hanoun Battalion had “surrendered and [been] defeated.” Yet today, the Shin Bet announced they killed 11 fighters, including commanders, in a tunnel raid there. As Jon Elmer told Drop Site in July, Beit Hanoun has been “where the General’s plan went to die,” with fighters enduring Israel’s siege and continuing their resistance.
• Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reports that at least 114 children in Gaza, aged 15 or under, were treated for single gunshot wounds to the head or chest by 15 international doctors and a nurse—indicating deliberate targeting. Many were shot in Israeli-declared “humanitarian zones,” with forensic analysis showing bullets consistent with snipers or armed drones. The report details amputations without anesthesia, maggot-infested wounds, and hospitals bombed mid-operation, with some medical staff smuggling evidence to the ICC despite personal risks.
• On Saturday night, Israel struck near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, killing at least one person and injuring several others after a civilian vehicle was hit. Journalist Osama Abu Rabee reports that drones also fired at the hospital, wounding additional civilians.
• The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’s Olga Cherevko told Reuters that conditions since the UN famine declaration on Aug. 22 remain dire, with starvation deaths occurring daily. About 1 million people remain in northern Gaza, many unable or unwilling to leave, while aid convoys face 12+ hour delays for Israeli approvals, leaving the most vulnerable unreached. Cherevko called the risk of famine spreading south “extremely worrisome.”
• UN data shows only 24% of aid trucks reached Gaza this month, delivering just 114 trucks total (1,713 tons) compared to the 600 trucks per day that are needed. Three-fourths of shipments (366 of 481 trucks) were intercepted in transit, depriving warehouses and bakeries of nearly 4,200 tons of food. OCHA spokesperson Olga Cherevko described convoys being “attacked and taken over… by men with guns,” highlighting the extreme risks facing aid deliveries.

West Bank and Jerusalem

• A coalition of 84 humanitarian and human rights groups launched a campaign on Monday calling on countries—particularly members of the European Union and the United Kingdom—to ban all commercial or investment activities related to Israeli settlements in Palestine. The EU is Israel's largest trading partner. The campaign also calls for a ban on financial institutions providing loans to companies involved in projects within the settlements. The report highlights "how foreign states and corporations, through ongoing trade with illegal settlements, directly enable the humanitarian crisis driven by Israel’s prolonged occupation. With a focus on the EU and its member states and the UK, it addresses the urgent need for a ban on settlement trade as a mechanism to uphold international law, protect Palestinian livelihoods, and halt and reverse Israel’s settlement expansion and end its unlawful occupation."
• A Ramallah court has denied bail for Palestinian businessman Samir Hulileh, extending his detention 15 days, while investigators probe accusations of “inciting sectarian strife” on social media. Hulileh confirmed to Drop Site that he was approached by the U.S. last year as a possible candidate to govern Gaza post-war. His lawyer calls the charges baseless and plans to file another bail request Monday.
• Mahmoud Hassan Al-Wardian, 61, was released from Israeli detention on Sept. 12 in critical condition after three weeks in interrogation cells. Prisoners’ groups say he suffered severe torture causing serious health deterioration, and video shows him rushed to a hospital immediately after his release. Rights groups warn his case reflects a broader crackdown, with nearly 20,000 Palestinians detained in the West Bank since October 2023. Many are held without charge and subjected to systematic abuse.
• Israeli forces boasted of demolishing the West Bank home of a Palestinian accused in a May attack; a policy Israel openly acknowledges. Human rights groups and the UN say such demolitions are collective punishment and violate the Fourth Geneva Convention.
• Jasper Nathaniel reports: A 13-member delegation of New York–area police chiefs and commissioners visited Israel this week under a program run by the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs, dubbed “Birthright for American police chiefs,” JNS reports. They toured Kfar Aza and Oct. 7 attack sites, experienced air-raid sirens, met with Israeli security officials, and were briefed on new policing tech. Officials said they’ll bring lessons home to “protect Jewish communities,” raising concern that militarized tactics honed under occupation could be applied in New York.