A joint statement issued on Friday, one year after the ceasefire was announced on October 10, 2025, said Israeli attacks in the enclave have killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including at least 327 children, in the year since US President Trump announced a deal to end hostilities as part of the Gaza Board of Peace framework.
"The ceasefire exists in name only, with Israeli forces continuing to kill and injure Palestinians daily, and restrictions on aid, equipment and rebuilding materials preventing families from recovering," the statement said.
Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said it was "utterly shameful that a full year after the ceasefire was signed, so little has improved for Palestinians in Gaza." Inger Ashing, chief executive of Save the Children, said "a ceasefire is meaningless if children are still being killed and families are still unable to rebuild their lives," noting that nearly one child has been killed every day since the ceasefire was announced.
The statement said that in the three years since Israel's October 2023 war began, more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed and 175,000 others wounded, about one in every 13 people in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. A World Health Organization estimate suggests roughly 24 percent of the wounded have life-changing injuries requiring long-term rehabilitation, a quarter of them children.
None of Gaza's 36 hospitals is operating at full capacity, with widespread shortages of medicine, equipment and fuel. More than 18,500 patients, including at least 4,000 children, need medical evacuation, and more than 1,000 have died while waiting. Almost 2 million Palestinians are in desperate need of shelter, with 80 percent of structures damaged.
Egeland warned that Israeli restrictions on equipment and construction materials continue to prevent recovery, and the statement said 1.4 million people in Gaza are facing crisis-level hunger or worse through the end of the year.
On Friday, Israeli forces shot dead at least one Palestinian after firing live ammunition at civilians in the al-Musaddar, Maghazi and Bureij refugee camp areas in central Gaza, which also came under heavy artillery shelling. In Khan Younis in the south, Israeli tanks directed heavy fire towards the Bani Suheila roundabout, where a number of injuries were reported. On Thursday, at least eight Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli air strikes and shelling across Gaza.