A ceasefire in name only as Gaza continues to burn...

Two 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, mutual clashes stopped, but the ceasefire never stopped the Israeli side's aggression. It is as if the ceasefire agreement means only one side disarming and remaining unresponsive to attacks.

CURRENT TOLL OF THE ONGOING GENOCIDE IN GAZA

According to the latest data from the daily field reports published by the Palestinian Diplomatic Center on April 26, 2026, the number of Israeli violations since the ceasefire went into effect has reached 2,604. This means an average of 13.2 violations per day. In other words, a new violation almost every two hours. A ceasefire in which the most consistent party is the regularity of the violations.

These violations are not merely technical or diplomatic headings. Each violation means a house destroyed, a child injured, a mother killed, a neighborhood waking up to fear again. According to the report, the total number of people 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 humans, the systematic destruction of defenseless lives.

The number of injured has reached 2,296. Of these, 648 are children, 414 are women, and 109 are elderly. Again, 51% of the total injured consist of the most vulnerable groups. This picture alone shows that the target is not just armed elements, but Gazan society itself. Because the future of a society lives through its children, its resilience through its women, and its memory through its elderly.

The nature of the violations also worsens the picture. Among the incidents recorded during the ceasefire period are 1,027 live‑fire attacks, 1,188 airstrikes 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 shellings, armed attacks, airstrikes, and building demolitions were reported in Khan Younis, Gaza City, Al‑Bureij, Jabaliya, and North Gaza. In a geography where a ceasefire has been declared, tank fire, drone attacks, and house demolitions are no longer exceptions; they have become routine.

BUT IN GAZA, DEATH DOES NOT COME ONLY BY BOMBS

Sometimes, a truck not passing also means death. According to the ceasefire agreement, 600 aid trucks, including 50 fuel trucks, should enter daily. In reality, the achieved rate is only 37.4% in total. The rate for fuel entry is only 14.7%. These figures show not the insufficiency of aid, but the systematic obstruction of aid. Hospitals without electricity, neighborhoods without water, non‑functioning sewage systems, halted rubble removal activities… Each of these is an invisible weapon of the modern age.

The situation at the Rafah border crossing is no different. Crossings are restricted by arbitrary and humiliating procedures, with only 3,922 of the planned 12,800 people able to move. The compliance rate is 30.6%. That is, patients wait, students wait, families wait, divided. In Gaza, sometimes a bullet kills; sometimes being made to wait kills.

In addition to all this, the report also reminds us of serious violations that have not been resolved: violation of the agreed withdrawal lines, armed control over an additional area of approximately 34 square kilometers outside the agreement, prevention of infrastructure repairs, denial of entry for heavy machinery, torture and inhuman treatment of detainees, uncertainty over the fate of the missing… These are not only ceasefire violations, but also clear violations of international humanitarian law.

Here, words must be chosen carefully. Because in some cases, saying "conflict" obscures the truth. Saying "mutual war" hides the inequality. Saying "violation" sometimes diminishes the magnitude of the crime. What is happening in Gaza is not merely a breach of ceasefire; it is a long‑term policy of annihilation – a genocide – aimed at systematically collapsing a people's capacity to live. Thus, the issue is not just bombardment, but starvation; not just killing, but not letting live.

The international system, for the most part, records the numbers and silences its conscience. Yet numbers are not statistics; they are human fates. 213 children are not a number; they are 213 unfinished lives. 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.

EXACTLY NOW, WHEN GAZZA NEEDS HELP THE MOST…

This is the picture emerging 200 days after the ceasefire in Gaza. That is, Gazans have even stopped using weapons to defend themselves against so many attacks, but Israel continues to unilaterally attack Gaza, which the ceasefire has rendered defenseless. Worse: before the ceasefire, Muslim peoples had almost entered a race to shower Gaza with aid. That aid, most of which could not reach its destination because it was delayed, actually makes the ceasefire the most opportune time. But behold, with the ceasefire, there has been a tragic drop in the flow of aid. People have largely extinguished the sensitivity they had during the war, having fallen into the illusion that the humanitarian problem in Gaza has ended because of the declared ceasefire. Thus, the ceasefire paradoxically not only ties the hands of Gazans against an aggressive power, but also seems to have cut off the source of incoming aid.

Yet, now, more than ever, aid is needed – not the kind that couldn't reach its destination during the war, but aid for post‑war reconstruction, for Gazans to return to a minimally normal life. Israel wants the Gazans it has driven south, toward Rafah, to stay there. That is why it wants to further consolidate its de facto occupation in the north. But the northerners, knowing this ulterior motive of the occupier, insist on returning – and they are returning. However, the completely destroyed northern region now urgently needs serious aid for reconstruction and for re‑establishing its infrastructure. This aid is very different from simple humanitarian aid to people struggling to survive. It is also support for a people's will to resist occupation with dignity.

The Gazans, alone against the savage‑occupier‑genocidal Zionist‑Crusader world order, have paid a heavy price on behalf of all humanity and saved humanity's honor. What they have done is not atonement for our sins, but this situation throws back in our face a minimum responsibility that falls on us: not to reduce attention to Gaza, and not to refrain from supporting it with our wealth, our words, our stance, and our prayers.