Fast Facts: New Gaza aid distribution system begins
June 1, 2025 | AIJAC staff
‘Fast Facts’ are snapshots of rapidly evolving situations. This specific page will not be updated, but we are monitoring developments…
Fast Facts: Aid back into Gaza – what we know
May 21, 2025 | AIJAC staff
The current resumption of aid delivered via UN agencies and NGOs is expected to continue until a new method of distributing aid is rolled out in the coming weeks. Israel prevented virtually all aid entering Gaza from 2 March until May 19. Its rationale for doing so was that there was enough aid stockpiled in Gaza to last for several months, and that Hamas had been stealing large proportions of aid that was entering Gaza.
Fact Sheet: Gaza’s death toll
May 13, 2025 | AIJAC staff
Different methodologies are used by different actors in different wars, with some governments, regimes and activists deliberately overestimating or underestimating the death toll for their own political purposes. Every civilian who dies in war is a tragedy. While this fact sheet discusses numbers, facts and statistics, we remember that these are real people and mourn their very real suffering.
Fact Sheet: Aid into Gaza
May 12, 2025 | AIJAC staff
Hamas has stolen much of the aid that has gone into Gaza during the war, both for its own purposes, and to profit from on-selling the aid. Because of this, and because Gaza received and stockpiled substantial deliveries of aid during the January to February 2025 ceasefire, Israel has prevented aid entering Gaza since March 2. Israel has recently revealed (and is now implementing) a plan to provide aid to civilians directly, in a way that is designed to prevent Hamas from stealing the aid.
Fact Sheet: Recently released hostages reveal stories of horrific mistreatment
March 4, 2025 | Alana Schetzer
Many details of what the hostages went through are yet to be revealed; families have reported that their loved ones are not ready to talk, some are mentally unresponsive, plus there remain concerns for the safety of the remaining hostages who are still alive in Gaza if certain details are disclosed publicly.
Fast Facts: The ceasefire for hostages deal just reached between Israel and Hamas
January 16, 2025 | AIJAC staff
On January 15 2025, many hours after Israeli approval, the terror group Hamas finally agreed to a brokered deal, which would see Hamas gradually release 33 of the 98 Israeli hostages remaining in captivity in Gaza from among those taken during Hamas’ pillaging of southern Israel on October 7 2023, in return for the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli jails and a six-week Israeli ceasefire and withdrawal from large portions of the Gaza Strip.
Fast Facts: What’s happened in Syria and how will it affect the region?
December 9, 2024 | AIJAC staff
Establishing control over the entirety of Syria will be very difficult for the country’s new rulers. Over and above the numerous jihadi groups, many ethnic and religious minorities armed themselves during the civil war to protect their villages and local autonomy (during the height of the Syrian civil war, there were over 1,500 armed groups in Syria).
Fast Facts: Recent Israeli legislation on UNRWA
October 31, 2024 | AIJAC staff
Commentary about the new Israeli legislation ‘banning UNRWA’ has mischaracterised the scope of the laws, the idea that UNRWA is irreplaceable, and the Israeli concerns about UNRWA. This factsheet provides some corrective information.
Fast Facts: The current Israel-Hezbollah conflict
October 1, 2024 | AIJAC staff
On Oct. 1, the IDF announced it had begun “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
Fast Facts: Israel’s ground incursion into Lebanon
October 1, 2024 | AIJAC staff
On Sept. 30, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Israeli special forces have been carrying out small, targeted raids into southern Lebanon, gathering intelligence and probing ahead of a possible broader ground incursion that could come as soon as this week.”
