Israel’s genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire: Analysts

A ceasefire on October 10, 2025, was supposed to put an end to Israel’s genocidal conflict in Gaza.

However, after two months, Israel has violated the ceasefire more than 500 times, killing at least 356 Palestinians and overthrowing Gaza’s total death toll.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has made it clear that the conflict is still ongoing.

According to analysts, the war has continued despite the slowdown in Israel’s killing of Palestinians in Gaza, for all intents and purposes.

According to Muhammad Shehada, a visiting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council on Foreign Relations, “genocide is not just mass killing.”

He claimed that the population’s ability to coexist as a group is also being ruined by the mass destruction of infrastructure, ethnic cleansing, and starvation.

Political spectacle and theater

According to analysts, the ceasefire gave the international community an excuse to stop focusing on Israel’s actions in Gaza rather than as a pardon for Palestinians.

The US-backed ceasefire agreement was intended to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza and prompt the start of aid deliveries to Palestinians who were besieged by the Gaza Strip, which had been declared a famine.

US President Donald Trump stated from Cairo, where a Gaza peace summit was taking place, that “we have finally found peace in the Middle East.”

Israel, however, kept attacking. More than 1,500 buildings were destroyed, and it has expanded further into Gaza, preventing residents from entering the aid they agreed to.

“It’s theater because everyone was upset about the genocide and wanted to stop rather than end it,” said one witness. And that is exactly what Shehada said.

Gaza has scurried in and out of media attention in the weeks since the ceasefire was established.

According to Lebanese Palestinian researcher and writer Elia Ayoub, “the main difference is, of course, the reduced media coverage, which was one of the intended purposes of the so-called ceasefire.”

“Israel is currently under much less pressure than it was up until October 10; there isn’t any hope of accountability.”

Israel’s genocide is still ongoing.

Amnesty International, which released a legal analysis of what it called the “ongoing genocide in the Occupied Gaza Strip,” took note of the Palestinians’ ongoing harm in Gaza last week.

“The world must not be deceived,” he said. Amnesty International secretary-general Agnes Callamard said that Israel’s genocide is still ongoing.

The analysis cites the number of Palestinians who have died as a result of the ceasefire, Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian and medical supplies, and how the Israeli blockade and siege of Gaza caused a famine and increased the risk of illnesses.

There is no evidence that Israel’s intentions have changed, according to Callamard, who said there is no indication that it is taking serious action to stop the deadly effects of its crimes.

Prior to the ceasefire, UNRWA’s head, UNRWA’s Philippe Lazzarini, reported on October 1 that 100 people per day were dying in Gaza, primarily from Israeli military operations or gunshots at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution points.

The foundations of Palestinian society in Gaza are still inruins, and even less people have died as a result of direct military operations since the ceasefire.

Defense analyst Hamze Attar claimed that the Israeli “yellow line of occupation” in the Gaza Strip is a continuation of the genocide and that the pace is different, the destruction of the homes is ongoing, and Palestinians are still killed, and the Israeli “yellow line of occupation” is still ongoing.

“The genocide involves preventing people from returning to their homes and creating a new reality in the Gaza Strip,” said one author.

Simply genocide

Hamas and other Palestinian organizations were required to release the prisoners held in Gaza, one of the main stipulations of the ceasefire. Ran Gvili, an Israeli policeman, and Sudthisak Rinthalak, a Thai national, have returned all living prisoners and all but two of the bodies of dead prisoners.

According to Israeli media, one of the bodies that are still unaccounted for may be returned in the near future. The most fervent supporters of Israel argued for months that the war would be ended by the captives’ return.

Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for Hamas, previously stated that the organization has made it “committed to fully complete the exchange process and its ongoing efforts to finalize it despite significant difficulties.”

In terms of Israel, it released the bodies of 345 Palestinian prisoners who had perished in its prisons and released 2, 000 of them. Many allegedly displayed signs of torture, mutilation, and execution. Israel hasn’t, however, reduced its grip on Gaza’s citizens.

No one bothers with details as soon as ceasefires come into effect, Shehada said, giving Israel the freedom to do whatever it wants.

Shehada claimed that Trump is more interested in the spectacle of peace than “the dynamics on the ground,” noting that Israel consistently violates the ceasefire, making it difficult for the mediators to keep up.

He claimed that the Palestinians’ ethnic cleansing in Gaza was still the end goal.

According to analysts, Israel has violated peace agreements in Gaza as well as in Lebanon and Syria. Analysts have repeatedly doubted Netanyahu’s claims that his goal is to annihilate and destroy Hamas.

According to Ayoub, “it confirms what we already knew: that the goal is not to end an armed group like Hamas but to ensure that life itself cannot be sustained in Gaza over the long term.”

Source: Aljazeera