FACT SHEET - Six months of ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza - A ceasefire in name only

Since the “ceasefire” agreement came into place in Gaza on 10 October 2025:

730+ Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including at least 120 children. (Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza (MoH)/ UNICEF)
Four Palestinian healthcare workers have been killed. Paramedic, Hatem Ismail Rayyan, died in Israeli detention. (MoH)
309 healthcare workers have been detained by Israeli forces since October 2023, with many still arbitrarily detained, including Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh, who UN experts say has been subjected to torture. (WHO / UN)

There are still no fully functional hospitals in Gaza. Roughly half of all hospitals are not operational. (WHO)
46% of medical items, 53% of essential medicines and 67% of medical consumables are at zero-stock (MoH, Gaza Health Cluster Meeting on 16 March 2026)
In primary healthcare, 64% of medications are unavailable, including a large proportion of drugs for non-communicable diseases, which remain a leading cause of mortality. (Gaza Health Cluster Meeting on 16 March 2026)
Cancer services and chemotherapy availability are also critically affected, with 68% of chemotherapy drugs and 64% of cancer medications out of stock. This significantly impacts cancer care and survival rates. (WHO/MOH)
Around 70% of medical laboratories are no longer functioning due to shortages and 84% of laboratory reagents unavailable, (MoH, Gaza Health Cluster Meeting 16 March 2026).
90 hospital generators are now completely out of service; 38 continue to operate with critically limited fuel supplies; 11 require urgent maintenance, contingent upon the availability of essential spare parts. All remaining generators are at imminent risk of failure. (MoH press release 29 March)
All hospitals in Gaza remain fully dependent on back-up generators with little fuel entering Gaza.

A daily average of only 130 trucks entered in March, compared to 230 per day in February and 225 per day during January. (WFP)
The number of trucks entering Gaza has fallen by 80% since the war against Iran began (28 Feb). (CMCC figure reported by Haaretz)
As of 30 March, reports indicate that weekly commercial truck volumes were still at less than half their pre-escalation levels (UNOCHA)
Despite rising needs, assistive devices continue to be classified by the Israeli authorities as dual use items.
37 international organisations, including MAP, are facing deregistration by Israeli authorities and further restrictions on their operations in the occupied Palestinian territory.

50% of people surveyed in March indicated they could not afford basic food items despite price reductions since the ceasefire agreement. (WFP)
MAP’s team continue to record significant levels of malnutrition, especially in children and pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Since the beginning of 2026, healthcare workers at MAP's Solidarity Polyclinic in Deir al Balah have reported identifying between one and two cases of malnutrition among pregnant and breastfeeding women every day.
31,000 children are projected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition in 2026 (IPC Snapshot /Nutrition Cluster).

More than 18,500 critical patients still need medical evacuation out of Gaza, including around 4,000 children. (WHO)
At least 195 cases are counted as ‘life-threatening’ and almost 2,000 cases that need to be evacuated within weeks (MoH official)
Between 6-10 Palestinians are dying every day in Gaza while waiting for medical evacuations (MoH official)
Since October 2023 more than 1,400 patients have died due to lack of medical access to evacuations (MoH)
Only 417 patients were evacuated in February and 69 in March (Health Cluster dashboard)

Between October 2025 and March 2026, MAP supported over 450,480 primary healthcare consultations, reaching more than 112,000 people across Gaza.

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