More than 100 humanitarian and human rights organizations declared on Friday that the ceasefire marking its first anniversary in Gaza has failed to stop the killing, saying Israeli forces have continued daily attacks on Palestinians despite the US-brokered truce reached on October 10, 2025.

In a joint statement, the groups — including Amnesty International, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Save the Children, Oxfam and Greenpeace — said “the ceasefire exists in name only, with Israeli forces continuing to kill and injure Palestinians daily.” They cited figures showing more than 1,400 Palestinians, including at least 327 children, have been killed in Gaza since the deal took effect, even as the broader three-year war has already claimed at least 74,254 Palestinian lives, among them roughly 21,000 children, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. That toll, the ministry notes, counts only hospital-recorded or officially registered deaths, meaning the real number is likely higher.

The ceasefire, announced by US President Donald Trump as part of a broader “Gaza Board of Peace” framework, was meant to halt the fighting and open the territory to reconstruction. Instead, the signatory organizations say Israeli restrictions on construction materials, medical equipment and aid shipments have left recovery barely begun. Almost 2 million Palestinians still need shelter, with roughly 80 percent of Gaza’s structures damaged, while 1.4 million people face crisis-level hunger or worse through the end of the year. None of Gaza’s 36 hospitals is operating at full capacity amid shortages of medicine, equipment and fuel, and more than 18,500 patients — including at least 4,000 children — are still waiting for medical evacuation out of the territory; over 1,000 of them have died while waiting.

“It is utterly shameful that one year on, so little has improved for Palestinians in Gaza,” said Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who also said Israeli restrictions continue to block the materials communities need simply to rebuild.

Save the Children’s chief executive, Inger Ashing, said the group’s own tally shows “nearly one child has been killed every day” since the ceasefire was announced, adding bluntly: “A ceasefire is meaningless if children are still being killed.”

Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnes Callamard went further, tying the continued violence to a broader failure of enforcement. “Accountability cannot be buried under the rubble,” she said, arguing that the international community’s failure to hold Israel accountable — including pressing it to comply with International Court of Justice orders — continues to fuel atrocity crimes.

The statement came as fresh violence was reported on the ground: at least eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes and shelling on Thursday, and on Friday Israeli forces shot dead at least one Palestinian in the Musaddar, Maghazi and Bureij refugee camp areas, while tank fire in Khan Younis injured several more people, according to local reports. Rights groups also accused Israeli forces of arbitrarily shifting the ceasefire’s “Yellow Line” buffer zone, further compressing the space available to Gaza’s roughly two million residents.

For a global audience watching the anniversary pass, the statement from such a broad coalition of aid and rights organizations is a stark marker: a year after the guns were meant to fall silent, the people of Gaza remain caught between a truce on paper and a war that, by their own accounting, never really ended.

Sources: Al Jazeera, Amnesty International