‘Neither war nor peace’: What Gaza looks like six months into ‘ceasefire’

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Apr 10, 2026 · 1670 words · By Maram Humaid

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‘Neither war nor peace’: What Gaza looks like six months into ‘ceasefire’ Since October 2025 agreement, attacks continue, aid is insufficient and regional conflicts are deepening local instability.

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Why it matters

Gaza City, Palestine – Six months after a ceasefire agreement was signed on October 10, 2025, the reality on the ground in the Gaza Strip remains fragile, oscillating between relative calm and recurring escalation, with no tangible improvement in humanitarian…

Common ground

The agreement between Israel and Hamas was brokered internationally after a devastating war lasting two years, resulting in more than 72,000 Palestinian deaths and tens of thousands of injuries.

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What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: ‘Neither war nor peace’: What Gaza looks like six months into ‘ceasefire’?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Official sources indicate that this disruption affected part of the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire provisions, such as the entry of aid and movement through crossings?
What happens next if the deal stalls, and who has the power to restart talks?

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Claim 1: “Official sources indicate that this disruption affected part of the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire provisions, such as the entry of aid and movement through crossings.”

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Claim 2: “During the Iran war, Israel's attacks in Gaza resulted in 434 violations, causing 104 deaths and 341 injuries.”

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Claim 3: “It also included expanded humanitarian arrangements, most notably the regular opening of border crossings like the Rafah crossing; enabling greater freedom of movement for individuals; and the improved entry of aid, including hundreds of daily trucks carrying food, medicine and fuel, with guarantees that assistance would reach all areas of the Strip without obstruction.”

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Claim 4: “However, six months later, field data and reports from international organisations show that these commitments have not been fulfilled as promised.”

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Claim 5: “The World Health Organization (WHO) and other UN agencies, only a few hundred patients were able to leave Gaza in the early weeks, while more than 20,000 patients are estimated to require urgent treatment outside the Strip.”

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Claim 6: “Only 4,999 aid trucks entered Gaza out of 23,400 that were planned (21 percent compliance), while only 625 people of 7,800 were allowed to travel through crossings (8 percent compliance).”

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Claim 7: “Gaza’s Government Media Office has documented more than 2,073 violations between October 2025 and March 2026, including Israeli air strikes, gunfire and incursions.”

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Claim 8: “The agreement between Israel and Hamas was brokered internationally after a devastating war lasting two years, resulting in more than 72,000 Palestinian deaths and tens of thousands of injuries.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli government has been involved in assisting or empowering the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas at various points in its history. This support continued during and in sp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A hostages-and-prisoners exchange and armistice between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip took effect from 19 January to 18 March 2025, during the Gaza war. It include…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2025_Gaza_war_ceasefir…

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Claim 9: “No full ceasefire has been achieved, no comprehensive withdrawal has taken place, aid has remained below agreed-upon levels, and border crossings have continued to operate intermittently under shifting security and political conditions.”

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Claim 10: “The agreement stipulated an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire, including the cessation of all ground and air military operations, alongside a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from within the Strip – particularly from populated areas – in order to reduce direct contact with civilians.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza peace plan, officially the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, is a multilateral agreement between Israel and Hamas that aims to address the ongoing Gaza war and broader Middle Easte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_peace_plan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Prior to the Gaza war breaking out on October 7, 2023, there were four Israeli citizens held hostage in the Gaza Strip: two of whom were alive, and two were dead. During the October 7 attacks that sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gaza_war_hostages

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Claim 11: “Since October 2025 agreement, attacks continue, aid is insufficient and regional conflicts are deepening local instability.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — October is the 10th month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name (from Latin and…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, and occasionally the November Revolution, w…
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Claim 12: “By April this year, the total death toll since the start of the ceasefire has exceeded 700 Palestinians, according to official sources.”

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Claim 13: “In the first weeks of the truce alone, about 497 violations were recorded, resulting in 342 Palestinian deaths, while by December, the toll had reached 379 killed and 992 injured, according to Ministry of Health data.”

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Claim 14: “According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the agreement called for the entry of about 600 aid trucks per day; however, actual deliveries remained significantly below this threshold in the early weeks and have continually fluctuated since.”

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