Nearly 1,000 dead in Gaza since start of ceasefire illusion

Abir Abou Younis stands over the body of her 14-year-old son, Moustafa, killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on June 7, 2026. ABDEL KAREEM HANA/AP At Gaza's port, concrete slabs were stained with blood after an Israeli attack on May 31. A woman shouted her anger in front of a local journalist's camera: "We don't want food or anything, we just want this war to end. Either you kill us all at once, or you let us live!" cried the desperate Palestinian woman. "Every day, we say goodbye to our loved ones. Where are the international laws?" From north to south, the enclave has known no respite since the theoretical ceasefire agreed between Hamas and Israel on October 10, 2025, and formalized by the Sharm El-Sheikh agreement . Since then, Israeli military operations have killed nearly 1,000 people, including 182 children, 110 women, and 54 people over 60, and 3,100 wounded, according to the local health ministry, whose figures are deemed reliable by international organizations. On average, about 125 people have been killed each month in Gaza. The scenes from Gaza are the same as those seen during the height of the war of annihilation Israel waged on the Palestinian territory following the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023: A father in tears clutches his son's schoolbag after he was killed on his way to school, bodies lying on the ground amid a panicked crowd, wounded people transported on carts, bloodied children on hospital beds. You have 81.14% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.