Although a ceasefire officially took effect in Gaza on Friday, October 10, the bloodshed has not ceased. The death toll in the besieged enclave continues to climb, reaching 67,967 martyrs—the vast majority of them women and children—since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023.

At least 170,179 others have been wounded, many with life-altering injuries, according to Gaza’s health authorities.

Medical sources reported that 29 more bodies were recovered in the past 24 hours, 22 of whom were pulled from beneath the rubble of homes and mosques destroyed by Israeli bombardment. In addition, 10 wounded civilians were brought to hospitals amid desperate conditions and shortages of medicine, fuel, and medical supplies.

Humanitarian organizations warn that the official death toll remains incomplete, as countless victims remain buried beneath the ruins of Gaza’s shattered neighborhoods—particularly in areas that rescue teams cannot reach due to destroyed roads and the continued presence of unexploded ordnance.

Local medics describe scenes of unimaginable horror: families found crushed under collapsed buildings, entire blocks erased, and children still missing days after the supposed “ceasefire” began.

Residents say the so-called truce has offered no real relief to Gaza’s 2.3 million besieged inhabitants. “Every day we wake up to new martyrs,” said one volunteer with the Civil Defense, his face smeared with dust and exhaustion. “Israel’s warplanes may have slowed their attacks, but the occupation’s crimes never stopped.”

The ongoing humanitarian catastrophe has drawn renewed calls from regional and international organizations demanding accountability for Israel’s violations of international law and urging an end to the suffocating blockade that continues to strangle life in Gaza.

Despite the ceasefire, Gaza remains a city of mourning—its skyline filled not with fireworks of peace, but with the smoke of destruction, and its hospitals echoing with the cries of mothers searching for their children beneath the rubble. (ILKHA)