A Year Into the Ceasefire, Gaza Is Still Counting Its Dead as Post-Ceasefire Toll Passes 1,500

A year has passed since the ceasefire in G@za, and the territory is still counting its dead almost every day. The Health Ministry’s latest tally puts the number killed since the October 2025 truce at 1,501, with 5,323 people wounded over the same period. Three more bodies reached hospitals in the past 24 hours and 17 injured were brought in; two of the dead had finally succumbed to wounds suffered in earlier attacks. On paper the war stopped a year ago. On the ground, people have not stopped dying.

A truce that only half arrived

The deal was supposed to bring quiet, aid and a chance to dig. Instead, rescue teams have recovered 838 bodies from under the rubble during the ceasefire itself, which means hundreds of families only got to bury their own after the fighting was meant to be over. Since October 2023 the overall toll has reached 74,392 killed and 175,440 wounded, according to the ministry. These are not round numbers in a briefing. Every one of them is a home that is no longer standing and a family that is no longer whole.

Rafah stays shut, patients stay stuck

The cruellest bottleneck is medical evacuation. Officials in G@za say the Rafah crossing into Egypt has still not reopened for sick and wounded patients for a second consecutive week. For the critically injured, that crossing is the only road to treatment the territory’s shattered hospitals cannot provide. A closed gate does not show up in casualty tables, but it belongs in them: treatable patients wait, and in G@za the waiting often ends before the gate opens.

Analysis: why this ceasefire keeps failing

The weakness was built into the deal. No serious international monitoring followed it, and no price was ever attached to breaking it, so strikes and gunfire have continued in a steady drip and each incident dissolves into statements. Reconstruction has barely moved beyond paperwork either, leaving displaced families facing a second winter in the same tents they pitched for the first. Until a ceasefire is tied to verification and consequences, every new day in G@za will simply add another number to a toll that was supposed to have stopped rising a year ago.