Ceasefire? Israel is still killing Palestinians in Gaza

In yet another flagrant violation of ceasefire, Israel has killed at least six Palestinians and wounded others carrying out an airstrike targeted a police checkpoint at the entrance of al Bureij refugee camp, in Central Gaza.

What ceasefire?

Journalist Mohammad Sayyed was among those killed in the attack, which happened in the early hours of 11 April. Several of the injured were reported to be in a serious condition.

Throughout its genocide in Gaza, the Israeli occupation has systematically targeted Palestinian police across the strip, to intentionally cause the breakdown of law and order, and sow the seeds of chaos amongst the desperate population.

It is now six months since the so called “ceasefire agreement” was signed, in October 2025. But conditions on the ground do not, in any way, resemble that of a ceasefire. Palestinians in Gaza continue to experience extreme hunger, deprivation, injury, and death, because of the Israeli occupation’s ongoing aid restrictions, attacks, and movement restrictions. There is no sense of safety or stability, and recovery or reconstruction is non existent, as all necessary equipment has been blocked from entering Gaza.

Humanitarian organisations – Save the Children, Refugees International, Oxfam, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the Danish Refugee Council, have produced a Scorecard, which assesses progress against Trump’s 20 point peace plan’s stated objectives and commitments.

Trump’s ceasefire deal has failed

According to Jeremy Konykndyk, president Refugees International said:

On matters of basic protection, rights, and aid for people living in Gaza, this deal has failed.

Save the Children’s Multimedia Manager, Shurouq, 31, lost her husband and her home during the genocide.

She says:

There is absolutely no ceasefire. We hear constant bombardment. Many of the explosions we hear are the Israeli military demolishing things, such as standing buildings beyond the yellow line, and within it.

The violence, killing, and indiscriminate airstrikes still take place each day. As of 3 April, more than 700 Palestinians, including at least 180 children have been killed since the so called ceasefire agreement in October 2025. 224 of these Palestinians have been killed near to the ‘yellow line,’ which ‘Israel’ continues to repeatedly shift.

Many hundreds of aid trucks have been blocked by “Israel” from entering the Strip. The Rafah and Jordan border crossings are still closed for aid, yet Trump’s ceasefire deal stated “immediately after the prisoner swap has taken place, aid will be distributed – without interference from either side – by the United Nations and the Red Crescent, along with other international organizations not associated with either Israel or Hamas. Entry of distribution and aid in the Gaza Strip will proceed without interference”.

Israel throttling aid

The population of Gaza is still struggling to survive, as almost all have lost their source of income, so are primarily reliant on humanitarian aid. But between 28 February and 8 April, less than 5000 aid trucks entered Gaza out of 23,400 that were planned.

Oxfam’s Ghada Al Haddad says:

There is not enough food to eat, and entire neighbourhoods still have no functioning water system because the equipment needed to repair them are not able to enter Gaza. The people are denied the basic tools for survival. Aid is blocked, repairs prevented, movement restricted, and the conditions of life continue to deteriorate, six months into this so called ceasefire. A large proportion of trucks entering Gaza do not even carry humanitarian aid,  only commercial goods. These goods are expensive, and not accessible to the vast number of Palestinians, who have no money to spare.

At least 1.7 million people are still in displacement sites, many with deteriorating tents that are subject to flooding. This is be ause the entry of shelters into the enclave continues to be “heavily restricted“.

No major reconstruction equipment is allowed into the Strip either. So the piles of rubble remain. People are not only unable to clear space to try and rebuild their homes, but they are also unable to bury their dead still buried underneath the rubble.

When it comes to reconstruction efforts, none is occuring. All critical infrastructure has been intentionally targeted by the terrorist regime of “Israel”, but none has been rebuilt. Health facilities, water and power infrastructure all remains destroyed.

Trump can’t even deliver on aid

Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan is a paediatric intensive care, and humanitarian doctor who has worked extensively in Gaza. She was last there in February.

She says:

There is constant bombardment and constant drones. You get the sense that you are in the middle of a war zone, as you were before. The conditions of the ceasefire clearly are not being met.

Haj-Hassan claims patients are now dying of preventable things, because of the conditions brought about by the Israeli occupation, and its:

targeted and systematic destruction of the healthcare system- through the direct targeting of every hospital in the Gaza Strip, and the continued blockade of aid.

Lack of medical facilities and supplies, combined with the devastating and inhumane conditions experience by the population of Gaza, mean that medical evacuations from the Strip are necessary. But as part of its ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinians, “Israel” is obstructing patients from leaving abroad. Almost the entire population of Gaza remains trapped inside the Yellow Line, unable to return to their homes- if anything remains of them, and the majority of the Strip.

According to Konykndyk, humanitarian access should be the easiest part of Trump’s “ceasefire plan” to deliver on.

He says:

They are now trying to turn to much more political issues, such as disarmament and governance of Gaza, but it’s very hard to see how there can be any progress if they can’t deliver on the easiest elements.

These organisations recommend the following, to ensure a lasting ceasefire

The ceasefire must be in practice, not only in rhetoric

There must be an independent and transparent system to approve aid delivery – The Israeli occupation government cannot be allowed to dictate who and what enters and exits Gaza.

All border crossings into Gaza must be opened.

The new arbitrary restrictions the occupation has placed on International NGOs – which provide many of the basic services and are critical to the population – must be lifted.

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