The Daily File

So that we won't say we didn't know

Adi Ronen Argov2 min read

Monday, October 20, 2025 – The Gaza Strip

General

‣ In the past 24 hours:

◦ 57 persons killed (45 of them in last night’s bombings). 158 wounded.

‣ Since October 11, 2025:

◦ 80 persons killed;

◦ 303 wounded;

◦ 426 bodies rescued from the rubble.

‣ Since October 7, 2023 – 68,216 persons killed, 170,361 wounded.

His son was killed yesterday evening

General

1. The body of captive Tal Haimi was returned to Israel. 15 more bodies of captives are held in the Gaza Strip.

2. The Guardian has published another study of the condition of Palestinian captives’ bodies returned to the Gaza Strip from Sdeh Teiman.

3. The Palestinian Center for Protection of Prisoners claims that another 1,300 Gazans are held in Israeli prisons.

4. Al Jazeera broadcasts research exposing names of Israeli officers and soldiers who – it claims – were involved in the killing of Hind Rajab and her family (January 2024) as well as names of Israeli pilots involved in the bombings.

Gaza City

1. Machine-gun fire at Al Tuffah, 2 persons killed.

2. Drone fire in the eastern part of Gaza City.

Central Strip

1. Artillery fire east of Deir al-Balah.

Yesterday's bombing on Al Bureij

Khan Yunis district

1. Artillery fire at eastern Khan Yunis.

2. Houses exploded in eastern Khan Yunis.

Rafah district

1. Houses exploded in the northern part of Rafah.

Sources

Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, BBC, Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Genocide in Gaza, Haaretz, HRANA - Human Rights Activists News Agency, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jordan Valley Activists, Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Matan Golan, Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, OCHA Lebanon, OCHA OPT, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Health Ministry, Quds News, Reuters, Rosa News, South Hebron Mountain Activists, Ta'ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), The Washington Post, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, West Bank Notifications, WHO, yNet, Zirat War