Despite the ceasefire deal, Israel has postponed the release of 620 prisoners, has bombed cities in Lebanon and has parked tanks in the Palestinian West Bank and ordered troops to remain there 'for the coming year' and not to allow the return of 40,000 displaced residents.
A new report published in the U.K. medical journal The Lancet, indicates that the 47,000 deaths so far is likely an underestmate and the true number of the dead could be as high as 64,260 with a further 10,000 more bodies buried under the rubble which in total is about 3% of Gaza’s population dead since October 2023.
The report goes on to say that the horrific death toll from Israel's military operation is likely even higher, as its analysis does not include non-trauma-related deaths caused by disruption to healthcare, lack of food, clean water and sanitation, and disease outbreaks and the United Nations have repeatedly spoken out about Israel falling woefully short of allowing into the Gaza Strip the supply of the desperately needed aid.
Israel has shot and killed at least 25 Gazan's since the start of the ceasefire with the Israeli military not even trying to deny, saying Israeli soldiers fired on a crowd of Gaza residents several times as the crowd 'posed a threat' and in Lebanon, 120 were injured and 22 people killed while trying to return to their homes in the South of the country where Israel was meant to have vacated under their peace agreement, again for the vague reason of 'posing a threat to Israeli soldiers'.
With Donald Trump in the White House bizarrely backing the side committing the genocide and with Netanyahu reportedly to have persuaded several Ministers threatening to resign over the peace agreement with Hamas that Israel would resume its war on Gaza irrespective of the terms of the ceasefire and continually accusing Hamas of violations and issuing menacing threats to return to the conflict, then the death and destruction again looms on the horizon and the International community needs to treat Israel as the Pariah it has become and heavily sanction it.