State of Occupation Report: Gaza Strip
Overview
The Gaza ceasefire agreement entered into effect in October 2025. Israel, however, has continued to attack population centers and carry out the systematic destruction of buildings and infrastructure in areas under its control, along with indiscriminately firing at anyone who approaches or crosses the Yellow Line. Meanwhile, the Gaza Strip is still gripped by a major humanitarian crisis due to the restrictions Israel imposes on the entry of aid. Hundreds of civilians have been killed and...
Deaths, injuries and missing persons
Despite the ceasefire agreement that entered into effect in October 2025, Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip have continued, including during the weeks of the war with Iran from late February until early April 2026. According to figures released by the Gaza Ministry of Health, which are backed by names and ID numbers and recognized as reliable by international research bodies and even by the Israeli military, from the start of the ceasefire until April 26, 2026, 811 people were killed and...
The Yellow Line
Israel’s conduct in the area that was temporarily left under its control under the ceasefire agreement and its treatment of Gaza’s civilians now crowded in the rest of the Strip are a direct continuation of its policy during the war: killing, expulsion, and systematic destruction on the one hand, and entrenching a presence in the territory it controls on the other. This policy aligns with the vision of ethnic cleansing and the renewal of Jewish settlement in Gaza repeatedly expressed by...
Humanitarian crisis and restrictions on the entry of aid and goods
Israel has had complete control over the movement of people and goods into the Gaza Strip for many decades. Preventing the entry of food, medicines, fuel, and goods into Gaza during the war was a key factor in the unprecedented humanitarian crisis and the starvation of the population. Even now, the population’s survival depends directly on the opening of the crossings for the transfer of food and essential goods. The restrictions Israel imposes on the entry of humanitarian aid and equipment...
Population displacement and its impact
Displacement figures and living conditions According to UN data from 2024, about 90% of the Strip’s 2.1 million residents had already been displaced at least once during the war. Many families were displaced multiple times, sometimes 10 times or more, as they escaped Israeli attacks. Displacement was often sudden, sometimes under fire, without proper means of transport and with nowhere safe to go. In most cases, residents were not given enough time to pack essential belongings, which dwindled...
Impact of the war and displacement on women and girls
According to Gaza Ministry of Health figures, from October 2023 through the end of December 2025, at least 10,983 women were killed in Gaza as a result of Israeli attacks. Thousands of women and girls are living with life altering injuries, i.e injuries that preclude a full recovery and a return to pre injury life. Tens of thousands more women have been widowed or have lost children, parents, or other relatives. Around 90% of all residents of the Strip have fled their homes and have been...
The health crisis
After causing the massive destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system during the war, Israel’s current policy continues to violate the rights of Gaza’s residents to life and to health by imposing restrictions on the entry of medicines and medical equipment needed in the Strip. This forces residents to live in conditions that increase morbidity, and limits the options available to seriously ill and wounded patients to travel for treatment outside of Gaza. Gaza’s healthcare system is struggling to...

