In a flagrant violation of what is supposed to be a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel killed more than 100 Palestinians between Oct. 28 and Oct. 29.
“The occupation committed horrific massacres over the past hours, killing 109 people within just 12 hours … including 52 children, 23 women, four elderly individuals.
And seven people with disabilities, in systematic acts of extermination that demonstrate that the Israeli occupation deliberately targets innocent civilians indiscriminately, confirming that it pursues a policy of mass killing as a deliberate choice, not as an incidental occurrence,” Dr. Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Gaza Government Media Office, said in a statement posted on X.
He accused Israel’s occupying force of deliberately targeting residential neighborhoods, hospitals, schools and shelters under the pretext of retaliation and self-defense.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed the military to “immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip,” according to an announcement by his office.
According to the Gaza Government Media Office, from Oct. 11 to Oct. 29, Israel violated the ceasefire agreement 125 times and also failed to provide the necessary machinery needed to recover deceased bodies, including deceased Israeli captives, from the millions of tons of rubble in Gaza.
On his X account, Dr. al-Thawabta provided a list of Israel’s lack of adherence to the terms of the ceasefire agreement and non-compliance with humanitarian protocol.
Israel has not opened the crossings, including the Rafah crossing, to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, has not allowed the agreed-upon number of 600 trucks per day to enter Gaza and has not allowed the 22,000 people who are wounded and sick in Gaza to travel abroad for treatment.
“The occupation has been clearly stalling since the first day of the agreement and does not want to abide by it. We demand that the guarantor states of the agreement and the mediators compel the occupation to adhere to the terms it signed onto as part of the ceasefire resolution and the cessation of the war on Gaza,” Dr. al-Thawabta said.
Teams with Doctors Without Borders helped provide treatment to those severely wounded by Israeli attacks. The humanitarian organization posted a statement on X regarding the damage Israel caused.
“When I got to the emergency room, it was a desperate situation. There is no doubt this is an attack on civilians, with so many children being injured and killed. Do we really call this a ceasefire?” Dr. Morten Rostrup, a doctor at Al-Aqsa hospital said, according to the statement.
“Since the ceasefire began, Israeli forces have killed 211 people, according to the Ministry of Health,” the statement said. “We have repeatedly called for a sustained ceasefire to stop the overwhelming level of death and catastrophic injuries suffered by civilians. So far, we are witnessing the consequences of repeated violations of this ceasefire, which perpetuate the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
After killing more than 100 people, the Israel Defense Forces said in an Oct. 29 statement on X that it “has begun the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire.”
After the statement, within the following day, Israel continued attacking the Gaza Strip, including an attack on a neighborhood in north Gaza that killed at least two people and about 10 overnight air strikes in Khan Younis in the south, according to Al Jazeera.
Since the Gaza genocide began in October 2023, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli forces have killed at least 68,643 people and 170,655 have been wounded.
During an Oct. 28 press briefing on the latest actions by Israel, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese commented, “Nothing changes.”
“There is no ceasefire in Gaza. People keep on dying or being starved and being forcibly displaced, as simple as that,” she said.
In another briefing on the same day, Navanethem Pillay of South Africa, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, and Chris Sidoti of Australia, a member of the commission, presented analysis based on a recent report.
During the briefing, Ms. Pillay said Israeli officials demonstrated a “clear and consistent intent to establish permanent military control over Gaza” and pointed out continued statements by Israeli officials making it clear that “ethnic cleansing and establishment of settlements in the Gaza Strip remain firmly in place.”
“We are still a long way away from even seeing an effective ceasefire and effective delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza, two of the three items that were agreed, and we are even further away from seeing any serious negotiations taking place,” Mr. Sidoti said.
Violence has also continued in the West Bank. The Iranian news agency PressTV.ir reported that Israeli forces stormed the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah, on Oct. 31. “The regime’s troops used live fire against the Palestinians, injuring the 15-year-old child, Yamen Samed Youssef Hamed.
Yamen was later declared dead at a hospital, as sources said Israeli forces initially blocked an ambulance from reaching him for a while, preventing the boy from receiving timely medical care,” reported presstv.ir.