Gaza ceasefire marks one year with continued Israeli attacks

Summarised from 2 outlets · 3 reports · Updated 15 Oct, 05:32 · Archive

A year into Gaza's ceasefire, Israeli forces continue military operations that have killed over 1,400 Palestinians since the truce began.

The Gaza ceasefire marked its first anniversary on 10 October, but more than 100 humanitarian and human rights organisations said it exists 'in name only'. Islamic Relief noted that Israeli forces have killed or wounded a Palestinian in Gaza on average every 90 minutes since the ceasefire took effect. Gaza's Health Ministry put the toll since the truce at 1,493 killed and 5,299 wounded as of 12 October, up from 1,460 a week earlier; the cumulative death toll since October 2023 stood at over 74,000.

Israeli forces have continued pushing the so-called Yellow Line demarcating Israeli control further into residential Gaza City neighbourhoods, triggering fresh displacement. An Israeli air strike on a vehicle in Gaza City's Tuffah neighbourhood killed one person and wounded several others. One year into the ceasefire, the Board of Peace – Gaza's transitional oversight body – has failed to meet most of its central commitments: no international stabilisation force has deployed, aid trucks are entering at roughly a third of the agreed rate, and Israel now controls nearly two-thirds of the Strip.

The Palestinian olive harvest has gathered pace as Israeli settlers and soldiers intensified efforts to disrupt it. Harvesters were killed, attacked and blocked, while isolated families faced days-long settler sieges. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli attacks in Ramallah and el-Bireh wounded a child with live ammunition and left several Palestinians suffocating from tear gas.

How it is being reported

• How Gaza changed Europe, exposing cracks that grow bigger by the week | Shada IslamSolidarity with Palestine’s suffering is punished but MEPs allow a witch-hunt of European Muslims For three painful years, Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, in retaliation for the Hamas terror attacks on 7 October 2023, has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians , wounded thousands more and reduced most of the territory to rubble. It has changed views of Israel across the world , increased support for Palestine and raised questions about US power. Europe’s failure to hold Israel’s government to account has cost it global credibility and influence. But I fear something even more consequential…The Guardian · 15 Oct, 05:00
• Israeli attacks kill one in Gaza, wound journalists in occupied West BankA year into the ceasefire, nearly two-thirds of Gaza is in Israeli hands and Netanyahu vows control of the West Bank.Al Jazeera · 14 Oct, 01:45
• Palestine weekly: Gaza marks year of ‘ceasefire’ with more Israeli killingA year after Gaza's ceasefire, Israeli attacks persist as settler violence disrupts West Bank's oil harvest.Al Jazeera · 13 Oct, 08:45

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