# A year of ceasefire in Gaza: respite and ongoing violence

> A year after the ceasefire began, Gaza remains devastated. Israel controls 70% of the territory, aid is restricted, and airstrikes continue to kill Palestinians.
- Title: A year of ceasefire in Gaza: respite and ongoing violence
- Summary: A year after the ceasefire began, Gaza remains devastated. Israel controls 70% of the territory, aid is restricted, and airstrikes continue to kill…
- Keywords: gaza strip, israel-hamas war, ceasefire, israel, hamas, palestinian casualties, humanitarian crisis, news, year, Gaza, respite, ongoing
- Source: NPR — https://npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2026/10/10/nx-s1-5991619/gaza-ceasefire-israel-life
- Published: 2026-10-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 3 min
- Topics: gaza strip, israel-hamas war, ceasefire, israel, hamas, palestinian casualties, humanitarian crisis, news
## Trump brokered a ceasefire deal
President Donald Trump pushed Israel to agree to a ceasefire and Hamas to release remaining Israeli hostages. The deal came into effect on October tenth, twenty twenty-five.
## A year later, promises remain unfulfilled
One year into the ceasefire, there is still no international peacekeeping force in Gaza as promised and no reconstruction has begun. Instead, conditions have worsened for Palestinians.
## Israel controls most of Gaza
Israel's military has expanded its control to roughly seventy percent of Gaza, squeezing more than two million Palestinians near the sea's edge in the remaining territory.
## Airstrikes continue throughout ceasefire
Israel has continued targeting Hamas throughout the ceasefire. Those attacks have killed more than one thousand four hundred Palestinians this past year, nearly five hundred of them women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
## Bombing pace has slowed
Although the bombings have not stopped, they have slowed down during the ceasefire, giving people in Gaza a chance to recover from what U N backed experts declared was a famine in the north.
## More food enters Gaza
More food is now entering Gaza, reversing starvation across the territory after U N backed experts declared a famine in the north of Gaza last year.
## Prisoners freed in exchange
In Khan Younis, families greeted Palestinian prisoners who were freed in exchange for Israeli hostages on October thirteenth, twenty twenty-five, marking one of the ceasefire's early moments.
## Children wounded by shrapnel
At Al-Shifa Hospital on October twenty-third, twenty twenty-five, Joud Al-Angar, twelve, and his younger cousin were covered in dime-sized scabs after being wounded by shrapnel from an Israeli munition they found in rubble.
## Roughly one point five million homeless
Makeshift tents in Gaza City on December eleventh, twenty twenty-five, offer little protection from winter cold, but the U N says roughly one point five million people have only these for shelter after Israeli airstrikes…
## Aid organizations banned
On December thirty-first, twenty twenty-five, Israel banned more than forty international aid organizations from bringing in staff or aid to Gaza, restricting humanitarian access further.
## Bodies recovered from rubble
On February sixteenth, twenty twenty-six, the skeleton of Shawqi Abu Naser, sixty, was retrieved from under rubble more than a year after an Israeli airstrike killed one hundred thirty-two people from the same family in…
## Hamas leader killed in airstrike
On May sixteenth, twenty twenty-six, an Israeli airstrike killed Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the leader of the military wing of Hamas, his wife, his daughter and a neighbor in Gaza City.
## One hundred corpses recovered
On August fourth, twenty twenty-six, one hundred corpses wrapped in Palestinian flags were retrieved from under rubble in Gaza City after being hit in an Israeli airstrike in October twenty twenty-three.
## Violence continues amid restricted access
Throughout the ceasefire year, Israeli operations have continued killing Palestinians while aid organizations face restrictions entering certain zones, leaving displaced populations vulnerable and dependent on limited humanitarian assistance.
## Key takeaway

One year into the ceasefire that began October tenth, twenty twenty-five, Gaza has seen no international peacekeeping force or reconstruction, while Israel's military controls roughly seventy percent of the territory and continues targeting Hamas, killing more than one thousand four hundred Palestinians.