GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), A Palestinian legal watchdog says Israel has transformed the Gaza ceasefire into a political and military shield for continued killings, documenting an average of five Palestinian deaths per day since the agreement took effect.
The Gaza Human Rights Center said Israeli occupation forces have continued committing genocide in the Gaza Strip through deliberate and systematic attacks on civilians, including children and women, in blatant violation of the ceasefire in force since 10 October 2025, as well as international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
According to the center, in just 90 days after the ceasefire began, Israeli forces killed 439 Palestinians, an average of five per day, including 155 children and 61 women, and wounded 1,225 others. The figures, it said, show that Israel is using the ceasefire to sustain killing rather than stop it.
On Saturday morning, Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinians, one in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood and another in Khan Yunis, marking the latest in a daily pattern of lethal attacks on civilians despite the ceasefire.
The center said this underscores Israel’s treatment of the truce as a cover to continue genocide against Palestinians.
The center noted a sharp escalation last Thursday, when Israeli attacks killed 14 Palestinians and wounded 17 others in a series of airstrikes and live fire targeting displacement tents and a shelter school.
In northern Gaza, Israeli occupation forces stationed east of Jabalia refugee camp opened machine-gun fire on a populated area inside the camp, killing 11-year-old Hamsa Nidal Housou after she was shot in the head.
The center described the incident as a deliberate killing of a civilian child not taking part in hostilities, noting that the girl’s father is detained in Israeli prisons.
An Israeli drone later struck the UNRWA-run Abu Hussein School in Jabalia, sheltering dozens of displaced families, killing 21-year-old Ibrahim Nabil Soboh and wounding others. Elsewhere, a missile strike south of the Asqoula junction in Gaza City killed four Palestinians and wounded five more.
In Khan Yunis, Israeli drones targeted displacement tents in the al-Mawasi area, killing three children: brothers Abdullah, 7, and Omar, 5, and 16-year-old Lian Omar Abu Shaqra. The center said the attack again demonstrates the intentional targeting of temporary refuge sites.
Israeli warplanes also carried out airstrikes on civilian homes in the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza, injuring residents and destroying houses. The center said the strikes form part of a systematic policy to destroy what remains of residential infrastructure and forcibly displace the population.
“These incidents are not isolated,” the Gaza Human Rights Center said. “They reflect a consistent pattern of intentional killing and civilian targeting.” It added that Israeli occupation forces continue bombardment and demolition operations within areas known as the “yellow line,” in a clear effort to render large swathes of Gaza uninhabitable.
The center stressed that the continued, deliberate killing of civilians, particularly children, displaced people, and shelter facilities, constitutes grave breaches of the ceasefire, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and amounts, by scope, context, and intent, to genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
It also said the attacks violate provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice, which require Israel to protect Palestinian civilians and prevent acts of killing.
Warning that international silence enables further crimes and impunity, the center said the global community bears legal and moral responsibility for failing to protect civilians.
“Any ceasefire that does not actually stop killing or provide protection for civilians is a hollow ceasefire that is used to whitewash an ongoing genocide on the ground,” the statement concluded.
