More than 100 humanitarian, human rights and civil society organizations said Friday that the Gaza ceasefire exists in name only, one year after the US-backed deal was announced. “The ceasefire exists in name only, with Israeli forces continuing to kill and injure Palestinians daily, and restrictions on aid, equipment and rebuilding materials preventing families from recovering,” the joint statement said.
Signatories include Amnesty International, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Save the Children, Oxfam and Greenpeace. They said Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including at least 327 children, in the year since the ceasefire took effect under the Gaza Board of Peace framework, or nearly one child killed every day. Norwegian Refugee Council chief Jan Egeland called it “utterly shameful that a full year after the ceasefire was signed, so little has improved,” and Amnesty’s Agnes Callamard said the failure to hold Israel accountable “continues to fuel the atrocity crimes on a mass scale.”
The statement also warned that 1.4 million people face crisis-level hunger or worse through the end of the year, and that Israeli forces have squeezed civilians into ever more crowded areas by moving the so-called Yellow Line buffer. The Palestinian Health Ministry puts the three-year toll at 74,254 killed, about 3 percent of Gaza’s pre-war population.