The ceasefire has a name, yet it keeps burning Gaza

200 hundred days have passed since the ceasefire reached as a result of the clashes between the occupying Israeli forces and Hamas in Gaza. During this period the mutual clashes stopped, but the ceasefire never stopped the aggression of the Israeli side. It is as if the ceasefire agreement meant only the disarmament of one side and its non-response to attacks.

THE CURRENT TOLL OF THE GENOCIDE CONTINUING IN GAZA

According to the latest data, dated April 26, 2026, from the field reports published daily by the Palestine Diplomacy Center, the number of violations committed by Israel since the ceasefire took effect has reached 2,604. That means an average of 13.2 violations per day. In other words, a new violation almost every two hours. A ceasefire whose most stable aspect is the regularity of its violations.

These violations are not merely technical or diplomatic headings. Each violation means a house demolished, a child wounded, a mother dead, a neighborhood waking up afraid once again. According to the report, the total number of those killed after the ceasefire has risen to 817. Of these, 213 are children, 90 are women and 23 are elderly. That is, 39.9% of those killed consist of children, women and the elderly. In the language of war, "civilian casualties"; in the language of humanity, the systematic extermination of defenseless lives.

The number of wounded has reached 2,296. Of these, 648 are children, 414 are women and 109 are elderly. Again, 51% of the total wounded are from the most unprotected segments. This picture alone shows that the target is not only armed elements but Gaza's society itself. For a society's future lives through its children, its resistance through its women, its memory through its elders.

The nature of the violations also aggravates the picture. Among the incidents recorded during the ceasefire are 1,027 live-fire attacks, 1,188 air strikes or artillery shellings, and 286 house demolitions. These are not isolated security incidents but a continuous regime of military pressure. On the same day, artillery shelling, armed attacks, air strikes and building demolitions were reported in Khan Younis, Gaza City, Al-Bureij, Jabalia and northern Gaza. In a geography where a ceasefire has been declared, tank fire, drone strikes and the blowing up of houses are no longer the exception but have become routine.

BUT DEATH IN GAZA DOES NOT COME ONLY WITH BOMBS.

Sometimes a truck not getting through also means death. Whereas under the ceasefire agreement 600 aid trucks a day, including 50 fuel trucks, were supposed to enter, the actual rate reached was only 37.4% in total. For fuel entry the rate is only 14.7%. These figures show not the inadequacy of aid but that aid is being systematically obstructed. Hospitals without electricity, neighborhoods without water, sewage systems that do not work, rubble-clearing operations that have been halted... Each of these is an invisible weapon of the modern age.

The picture at the Rafah Border Crossing is no different. Crossings have been restricted with arbitrary and humiliating procedures, and of the 12,800 people of movement that was planned, only 3,922 have been able to take place. The compliance rate is 30.6%. That is, the sick are waiting, students are waiting, families are waiting, divided. In Gaza sometimes a bullet kills, sometimes being made to wait.

In addition to all this, the report recalls the grave violations that remain unresolved: the violation of the agreed withdrawal lines, armed control over an additional area of about 34 square kilometers outside the agreement, the obstruction of infrastructure repairs, the refusal to permit the entry of heavy machinery, torture and inhuman treatment of detainees, uncertainty about the fate of the missing... These are not only ceasefire violations but also clear violations of international humanitarian law.

Here one must now choose words carefully. Because in some cases to say "clash" covers up the truth. To say "mutual war" hides the inequality. To say "violation" sometimes diminishes the magnitude of the crime. What is happening in Gaza is not merely a contravention of the ceasefire; it is a long-term policy of annihilation aimed at systematically collapsing a people's capacity to live, a genocide. That is why the issue is not only bombardment but starvation; not only killing but not letting live.

The international system, for its part, often records the numbers and silences its conscience. Yet numbers are not statistics; they are human destinies. 213 children is not a number; it is 213 lives left unfinished. 286 house demolitions are not a loss of concrete; they are scattered memories. 14.7% fuel entry is not technical data; it is hospitals operating in the dark.

WHEN GAZA NEEDS HELP MOST NOW...

This is the picture that has emerged 200 days after the ceasefire in Gaza. That is, the Gazan has given up using weapons even to defend himself against so many attacks, but Israel continues to attack unilaterally a Gaza that the ceasefire has rendered defenseless. Worse still: before the ceasefire, Muslim peoples had virtually entered a race to shower aid on the people of Gaza. The ceasefire is in fact precisely the most suitable time for this aid, most of which could not reach its destination because it was delayed. But, strange as it may seem, with the ceasefire a tragic drop in the flow of aid has also been recorded. Because people fell under the illusion that the humanitarian problem in Gaza had ended due to the officially declared ceasefire, they have largely extinguished their sensitivity from the time of the war. Thus the ceasefire, strangely, does not merely tie the hands of the people of Gaza against an aggressive power, but appears to have cut off the source of incoming aid as well.

Yet the aid that could not reach its destination during the war is needed far more now, precisely for post-war reconstruction, so that the people of Gaza can return to a minimal, normal life. Israel wants the Gazans it drove south toward Rafah to remain there.

That is why it wants to consolidate even further its de facto occupation in the North. Yet the Northerners, knowing the occupier's ulterior motive here, insist on returning, and they do return. But the completely destroyed Northern region now has real need of serious help for reconstruction and for its infrastructure to be re-established. This aid is very different from simple humanitarian assistance to people trying to survive. It is also support for a people's dignity and its will to resist the occupation.

The Gazans, alone, paying great prices on behalf of all humanity, have saved the honor of humanity against the savage-occupying-genocidal Zionist-Crusader world order. What they have done admits of no atonement for our sins, but it throws in our faces a minimum responsibility that falls to us: not to reduce our attention to Gaza, and not to hold back from supporting it with our wealth, our words, our stance and our prayers.