“The ceasefire exists in name only, with Israeli forces continuing to kill and injure Palestinians daily, and restrictions on aid, equipment and rebuilding materials preventing families from recovering,” a joint statement by the NGOs said on Friday.
Amnesty International, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Save the Children, Oxfam, Greenpeace and dozens of other international organisations said Israeli attacks had killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including at least 327 children, in the year since US President Trump announced a deal to end hostilities under the Gaza Board of Peace framework.
The organisations’ statement highlights the failure of a US-backed arrangement to deliver meaningful protection for Palestinians, as occupation forces continue their attacks while restrictions on essential supplies prevent families from rebuilding their lives.
“It is utterly shameful that a full year after the ceasefire was signed, so little has improved for Palestinians in Gaza,” Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said in the joint statement.
Inger Ashing, chief executive of Save the Children, said, “A ceasefire is meaningless if children are still being killed and families are still unable to rebuild their lives.”
Ashing noted that since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, “nearly one child has been killed every day.”
The continuing killings come against the backdrop of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, launched in October 2023, which has devastated the Palestinian territory and killed tens of thousands of people.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed and 175,000 wounded in nearly three years of Israeli attacks, equivalent to about one in every 13 people in Gaza.
A conservative estimate by the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that roughly 24 percent of those wounded have sustained life-changing injuries requiring long-term rehabilitation, with children accounting for a quarter of that group.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s remaining health facilities are struggling to cope with the growing needs of the wounded and sick amid severe shortages of medicine, medical equipment and fuel.
According to Friday’s ministry statement, none of Gaza’s 36 hospitals is operating at full capacity.
More than 18,500 patients, including at least 4,000 children, need medical evacuation, while more than 1,000 patients have died waiting for permission to leave for treatment, the statement said.
The humanitarian crisis extends beyond the health sector, with nearly 2 million Palestinians in desperate need of shelter and 80 percent of structures in the enclave damaged, according to the ministry.
Egeland warned that Israeli restrictions on essential equipment and construction materials continue to obstruct reconstruction and prevent Palestinians from recovering from the destruction caused by the war.
“Israeli restrictions are still preventing the required equipment or materials, which are the only ways for communities to begin rebuilding their lives,” he said.
At the same time, 1.4 million people in Gaza are “facing crisis-level hunger or worse through the end of the year”, the joint statement added.
Despite the ceasefire backed by Washington, Israeli attacks have continued across the enclave, further undermining claims that the agreement has brought an end to hostilities.
On Friday, Israeli forces shot dead at least one Palestinian after opening fire on civilians in the al-Musaddar, Maghazi and Bureij refugee camp areas in central Gaza, which also came under heavy Israeli artillery shelling.
In Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Israeli tanks directed heavy fire towards the Bani Suheila roundabout, where several injuries were reported.
On Thursday, at least eight Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured in Israeli air strikes and shelling across the enclave.
The NGO statement also accused Israeli forces of further confining Palestinians to increasingly overcrowded areas by arbitrarily moving the so-called “Yellow Line”, established as a buffer separating Israeli-controlled areas from Palestinian areas under last year’s ceasefire framework.
The ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, but Israeli attacks have continued to claim Palestinian lives.
Since the agreement was announced, Israel has killed at least 1,471 Palestinians and wounded 5,189 others, according to the figures cited in the report.
The wider toll of Israel’s war on Gaza has reached at least 74,254 Palestinian deaths, including at least 21,000 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The ministry’s figures indicate that deaths alone amount to about 3 percent of Gaza’s pre-war population.
The ministry counts deaths recorded at hospitals or officially registered, meaning the actual toll is likely higher because thousands of Palestinians remain missing or are believed to be buried beneath destroyed buildings.
The continued killings and restrictions have also renewed criticism of the international community’s failure to hold Israel accountable, with the NGOs warning that the absence of meaningful consequences has allowed the atrocities against Palestinians to persist.
“Accountability cannot be buried under the rubble,” Agnes Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International, said in the joint statement.
“The persistent failure to hold Israel accountable and press Israel to comply with the International Court of Justice’s binding orders continues to fuel the atrocity crimes on a mass scale against Palestinians.”