Israeli occupation forces continue to commit crimes within the context of genocide despite the Sharm El-Sheikh ceasefire agreement. The occupation forces continue to bombard various areas of the Gaza Strip almost daily, including residential areas and civilian gatherings, resulting in the killing of 266 Palestinians and the injury of 635 others since the ceasefire understandings came into effect. A large proportion of the victims are children and women. This raises the total number of fatalities since October 2023 to 69,483, with 170,706 injured, approximately 70% of whom are children and women.

Following the redeployment of occupation forces along the borders of Gaza’s cities under the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, the occupation maintained absolute control and military presence over vast areas in the north, south, and east of the Gaza Strip. The forces continue to destroy infrastructure there and carry out demolitions of entire residential blocks and neighborhoods behind the so-called “yellow line” established east of Khan Younis, Deir al-Balah, and Gaza City. Explosions and the sounds of military vehicles are constantly heard in those areas. The occupation forces also target Palestinians who approach these areas to inspect their homes or collect firewood, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries since the ceasefire announcement.

Israel has seized and controls additional land beyond the yellow line, which itself has already annexed more than 52% of Gaza’s territory. It has transformed an area between 300 and 500 meters beyond the yellow line toward civilian communities into a buffer zone where any moving object is targeted, while conducting incursions into those areas. Thus, Israel is not only confiscating more than half of Gaza according to the declared line, but in practice is occupying a much larger area on the ground.

The occupation authorities continue to impose major obstacles to the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, particularly fuel and urgently needed medical supplies, especially medical devices and equipment required by hospitals. The amount of aid allowed in covers only a tiny fraction of daily needs. The Strip requires more than 600 trucks per day according to the ceasefire agreement, yet the actual number entering does not exceed an average of 170 trucks daily. Israel also continues to block and obstruct aid delivery by most humanitarian organizations and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), as these organizations have repeatedly announced. This has severely impacted aid distribution to the population, worsening the humanitarian crisis.

It is worth noting that around 80% of the trucks permitted to enter are designated for commercial traders rather than humanitarian relief, and their goods are often sold at extremely high prices that civilians living in extreme poverty cannot afford. Israel is openly extorting traders at the expense of Gaza’s residents by imposing exorbitant fees on commercial trucks, ranging from USD 60,000 to USD 800,000 depending on the type of goods, with the highest fees imposed on solar panels, batteries, and similar items.

According to the United Nations, around 80% of Gaza’s buildings have been destroyed or damaged. Most residents are living in destroyed homes or temporary tents amid harsh winter cold and a severe shortage of essential survival supplies. Floodwaters inundated thousands of tents in displacement areas during the past week, compounding civilian suffering as families struggled to protect their remaining belongings and secure safe shelter for their children amid increasingly harsh humanitarian conditions.

Citizen “M.A.” stated:

“My wife, children, and I did not sleep all night when floodwaters overwhelmed our tent, which I had built some time ago west of Deir al-Balah. The weather was rainy and bitterly cold. All night long, water and mud covered our feet, and we were almost standing the entire night. Not only us, but all the families in the camp were unable to sleep. We felt exhausted, freezing, and terrified. I feared for my children’s health. In the morning, after the rain stopped, the tent was torn apart by water and rain. I searched for plastic sheets to cover the damaged parts but could not find any in the market. After several calls to acquaintances and friends, I managed to buy a tent for 700 shekels and erected it in place of the old one, while most people in the camp tried to repair their tents with pieces of cloth and other materials, though some tents could not be repaired at all.”

To date, occupation forces continue to obstruct the entry of tents and heating materials needed by displaced people, as well as heavy machinery required to remove rubble, hindering efforts to recover bodies trapped under debris for months. They also prevent the entry of materials and equipment needed to repair water wells, pipelines, sewage systems, and to remove thousands of tons of accumulated waste surrounding residential and overcrowded displacement areas. This exposes civilians to a direct threat of epidemics and infectious diseases and poses a real danger to their lives.

Israel continues to confine residents into narrow geographical areas, especially displacement zones, where hundreds of thousands live in inhumane conditions. They face severe hardships after being forcibly displaced through the destruction of their homes and being prevented from returning to their areas, while residing in overcrowded places lacking the minimum necessities for life, such as the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis. This is accompanied by environmental degradation, rising pollution, the spread of diseases, and shortages of usable and drinking water and food.

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stated that Gaza’s residents are suffering from disease and displacement, and that insufficient resources are entering the Strip. The aid entering Gaza is inadequate, food is unaffordable due to soaring prices, and winter brings further hardship because of rain and cold weather. He stressed the need to open crossings to allow the delivery of assistance required by Gaza’s population.

Israel now controls most of Gaza’s agricultural areas located within the yellow line and prevents farmers from accessing their land for cultivation and rehabilitation. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Israel has destroyed around 95% of Gaza’s agricultural land. The situation is especially critical in Rafah and the northern governorates, where access to all agricultural lands is impossible.

This widespread destruction has caused the collapse of the agricultural sector, directly affecting food security and worsening malnutrition, especially among children who suffer from severe deficiencies in essential nutrients amid insufficient humanitarian support. At the same time, Israel prevents fishermen from accessing Gaza’s sea for fishing, fires at them, and arrests them. Field information indicates that occupation forces have arrested eight fishermen since the October ceasefire and taken them to unknown locations.

Occupation forces continue to keep the Rafah crossing closed to travelers, particularly patients in urgent need of medical evacuation. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, there are more than 15,000 patients in Gaza requiring treatment, including 13,000 cancer patients, among them 4,200 women and 750 girls. Around 200 new cases are recorded monthly, while 5,000 cancer patients urgently need referrals abroad for diagnosis or chemotherapy and radiation treatment but remain unable to travel.

Israel also continues to block the entry of cash into Gaza, causing a severe liquidity crisis. Residents are forced to pay extremely high commissions reaching nearly 30% when withdrawing money from their accounts through banking applications or local intermediaries. This has further eroded purchasing power and worsened living conditions amid the collapse of employment and production opportunities.

Occupation forces have also targeted components of the natural environment — air, water, and soil — through bombardment, destruction, bulldozing, and pollution. Large quantities of advanced high-explosive bombs and missiles have been used against water and sewage networks, rainwater collection systems, waste dumps, waste collection and disposal equipment, and facilities for the safe disposal of medical and hazardous waste. This has resulted in enormous accumulations of concrete rubble from destroyed homes and facilities, as well as massive amounts of solid waste.

Students in Gaza, especially high school students, are living under catastrophic conditions. Many have lost opportunities to enroll in universities inside or outside Gaza due to continued border closures. Some have already lost two consecutive academic years and are now threatened with losing another year because of closed crossings, deteriorating security conditions, and severe economic hardship, leaving their academic and professional futures uncertain. This policy forms part of a systematic plan to destroy the educational infrastructure and crush the hopes of a new generation for a dignified life and a better future.

Regarding the bodies of killed Palestinians and forcibly disappeared persons, Israeli occupation forces compelled local transportation companies to receive the bodies of 410 Palestinians before the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, without any coordination with international bodies or local institutions. Gaza’s Ministry of Health received these bodies in four separate batches between February, May, and August 2024, without any documents or data identifying the victims or explaining the circumstances of their deaths.

After the ceasefire announcement on October 9, 2025, occupation forces handed over another 330 bodies to the Palestinian Ministry of Health through coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross, without adhering to international humanitarian law standards. The bodies were placed in black plastic bags marked only with serial numbers, some containing more than one body, without identification details. Many corpses reportedly showed signs of torture and field execution, reflecting extreme neglect and disregard for the dignity of the dead. This practice is considered part of a systematic Israeli policy aimed at concealing evidence and erasing victims’ identities, complicating documentation and accountability while depriving families of their right to know the fate of their loved ones and bury them with dignity.

Israeli authorities continue, for the third consecutive year, to prohibit representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons as part of the genocidal war on Gaza. This ban was renewed by the Israeli Minister of Defense on October 29, 2025, further obscuring the conditions of detainees by preventing the oversight and humanitarian role of the ICRC and heightening fears for prisoners’ lives, especially following the recent leak of photos and videos exposing unprecedented suffering endured by Palestinian detainees.

Meanwhile, the Knesset Security Committee approved a draft law on September 28, 2025, authorizing the execution of Palestinian prisoners. The Knesset passed the bill in its first reading on Monday evening, November 10, 2025, reflecting an intent to strip Palestinian detainees of their humanity and dignity and use the law as a tool of revenge and killing.

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights affirms that the continuation of these crimes despite the ceasefire agreement, alongside siege, starvation, and ongoing forced displacement, constitutes a continuation of the genocidal war against Gaza’s population. The Israeli occupation forces bear responsibility for pushing humanitarian conditions toward further collapse. The Center also warns of an even deeper catastrophe threatening the lives of more than two million people unless the international community intervenes effectively to save civilians.

Accordingly, Al Mezan calls on the international community, especially the United Nations, the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court, to intervene effectively and pressure the occupation forces to halt all military attacks against civilians and civilian property, immediately and unconditionally open all crossings, allow the entry of humanitarian aid, fuel, medical equipment, and relief supplies, ensure access to all areas without exception, and enable engineering teams and municipalities to rebuild water and sewage networks, remove rubble, and clear waste to prevent epidemics and environmental disasters.

The Center also calls for revealing the fate of the missing and forcibly disappeared, returning the bodies of the deceased in accordance with humanitarian standards that preserve their dignity and allow families to bury them properly, permitting the International Committee of the Red Cross to resume prison visits, ending torture and ill-treatment, and rejecting the death penalty law as a blatant violation of international law and a direct threat to detainees’ right to life.

Al Mezan renews its call on the international community to fulfill its legal and moral responsibilities, end impunity, compel the occupation authorities to respect international humanitarian law and human rights, ensure the protection of civilians in the Gaza Strip, and end their ongoing suffering.