In the first 80 days of the Gaza ceasefire — from October 10 through December 28 — Israeli forces committed 969 documented violations of the agreement, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. Those violations killed 418 Palestinians and wounded 1,141 others.
The breakdown is specific: 298 incidents of direct gunfire against civilians, 54 military incursions into residential areas, 455 bombing and targeting operations against people and their homes, 162 acts of destruction targeting civilian buildings and institutions, and 45 unlawful arrests carried out during what was supposed to be a period of cessation.
The violations extended to the humanitarian provisions of the ceasefire agreement. Israel was obligated to allow 600 aid trucks per day into Gaza under the terms of the deal. It allowed an average of 253 — a compliance rate of 42 percent. Of the 48,000 trucks agreed for the 80-day period, 19,764 entered.
Fuel deliveries were worse. Israel was obligated to allow 50 fuel trucks per day. It allowed an average of five — a compliance rate of roughly 10 percent. The shortage has left hospitals running on generator fumes, bakeries unable to operate, and water and sewage facilities near collapse.
A ceasefire that kills 418 people, allows less than half the agreed food and medicine, and delivers one-tenth of the promised fuel is not a ceasefire in any meaningful sense. It is the continuation of a siege under a different name — one that allows the international community to point to a signed agreement while the documented reality on the ground proceeds unchanged.
The people of Gaza are not living under a ceasefire. They are dying under one.
