The Occupation Continues to Violate the Ceasefire Agreement and Deepens the Humanitarian Catastrophe in the Gaza Strip
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Press Release
The Occupation Continues to Violate the Ceasefire Agreement and Deepens the Humanitarian Catastrophe in the Gaza Strip
The International Commission to Support Palestinians’ Rights (ICSPR) affirmed that the Israeli occupation forces continued to commit grave crimes and violations against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, despite the announcement of a permanent ceasefire. These violations included launching airstrikes and artillery shelling on various areas, targeting civilians attempting to return to their homes, mistreating the bodies of martyrs, and carrying out field executions of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
ICSPR documented several Israeli violations of the ceasefire, including the bombing of the Halawa Camp for displaced persons in Jabalia, targeting civilians in Al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood while inspecting their homes, gunfire from military vehicles east of the Strip, drone strikes in Abasan and Al-Fukhari east of Khan Yunis, and sniper operations in Al-Mawasi, Rafah. These attacks resulted in the killing of seven (7) civilians and the injury of twenty-nine (29) others.
ICSPR reported that civil defense and health ministry teams continued to recover the bodies of martyrs from beneath the rubble of destroyed homes and facilities caused by Israeli aggression. The number of recovered bodies has now reached approximately 300 since the declared halt of the genocide, raising the overall toll of victims since October 2023 to about 67,913 martyrs and 170,134 wounded, most of whom are women and children. More than 10,000 people remain missing under the rubble amid the absence of urgent international support and the complete inability to conduct rescue and relief operations due to the massive destruction and the lack of equipment and supplies available to civil defense crews.
ICSPR emphasized that medical examinations conducted on the bodies of 45 Palestinian martyrs recently returned by the Israeli occupation revealed clear evidence of torture, binding, crushing, and close-range gunfire — clear indicators of systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity — demanding an urgent international investigation and accountability for those responsible.
ICSPR warned of the ongoing Israeli restrictions on the entry of humanitarian and relief aid. The occupation has allowed only 137 trucks to enter daily out of the 600 agreed upon, while continuing to prevent the entry of fuel, gas, and medical equipment. The Rafah crossing remains closed to the travel of the wounded, the sick, and civilians, in addition to the ongoing ban on the entry of humanitarian workers, journalists, and medical and relief teams — all in deliberate continuation of collective punishment policies that extend the occupation’s systematic starvation tactics used as a weapon of war against civilians.
ICSPR pointed out that 90% of Gaza’s streets have been completely or partially destroyed, hindering rescue operations, the entry of aid, and citizens’ access to their areas. This situation necessitates the urgent entry of heavy machinery and equipment to remove rubble and enable rapid recovery and reconstruction of essential service sectors to prevent further deterioration of health conditions due to the collapse of the medical system, the scarcity of clean drinking water, and the destruction of roads, infrastructure, and electricity and communication networks.
ICSPR expressed deep concern over warnings by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization that more than 15,600 patients urgently require medical evacuation, in addition to 20,000 amputation cases, amid the near-total shutdown of hospitals and medical centers.
ICSPR stated that the occupation’s continued violations and crimes despite the ceasefire constitute persistence in genocide and collective punishment, as well as a blatant breach of its legal obligations under international humanitarian law. These violations highlight the systematic criminal nature of the Israeli occupation. Saving what remains of life in the Gaza Strip requires urgent action by mediators and the international community to ensure a halt to Israeli violations and to achieve justice and accountability.
ICSPR called on the international community and the guarantors of the ceasefire agreement — particularly Egypt, the United States, and the United Nations — to act immediately to stop Israeli violations, open all crossings, allow the entry of aid, fuel, heavy equipment, and medical personnel, ensure the travel of patients and the wounded, and grant access to journalists, fact-finding missions, and rescue teams.
ICSPR urged the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to open an immediate and serious investigation into the war crimes and acts of genocide committed against Palestinian civilians and to hold Israeli political and military leaders accountable. It also called on the International Court of Justice to expedite its ruling in the ongoing case to ensure that Israel bears full legal and civil responsibility for the crimes of genocide and destruction in the Gaza Strip.
ICSPR renewed its call for the immediate release of all bodies held in Israeli morgues and “cemeteries of numbers,” and to reveal the fate of those missing and forcibly disappeared since the beginning of the aggression.
ICSPR further demanded the urgent strengthening of humanitarian and relief responses to ensure the entry of all essential humanitarian supplies, tents, and caravans to alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe and famine in the Gaza Strip, enable recovery of service sectors, protect civilians, and safeguard their human dignity.
