Israeli attacks in Gaza have significantly escalated since Israel halted strikes on Iran under the ceasefire that started on April 8, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing data from Gaza’s Health Ministry and the conflict monitor Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED).
According to the Health Ministry numbers, since April 8, Israeli attacks in the Strip have killed at least 120 Palestinians, including eight women and 13 children, 20% more fatalities than the five weeks that preceded the ceasefire with Iran.
“The war is still ongoing,” Lafi Al-Najjar, a blind Palestinian living in a tent in Khan Younis who lost his nine-year-old son, Adel al-Najjar, to an April 28 Israeli strike, told Reuters. “It stopped in the announcement, but in reality and on the ground, the war has not stopped.”
The ACLED recorded an increase of Israeli attacks in the month of April by 35% compared to March. Many of the attacks targeted Gaza’s police force as Israel seeks to disrupt Hamas’s control of the area of Gaza where Palestinian civilians live, which is about 40% of the territory, as the IDF has pushed the “yellow line” further west, expanding the territory it occupies.
Israeli strikes continued on Wednesday with the Palestinian news agency WAFA reporting that eight people, mostly children, were injured by Israeli attacks across the Strip. A day earlier, at least one Palestinian was killed by an Israeli strike in central Gaza. The Health Ministry said on Tuesday that since the so-called ceasefire deal was signed in October 2025, the IDF has killed at least 856 Palestinians and injured 2,463.
The US has stayed quiet about Israel’s constant violations of the President Trump-backed Gaza ceasefire deal, and there’s no sign of progress in implementing the long-term plan. The US and Israel continue to demand Hamas’s disarmament while Hamas insists on actually implementing the first phase of the ceasefire deal before discussing the issue or linking it to a path toward a Palestinian state.
