Ceasefire in name only: Gaza death toll nears 70,000
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Airstrikes, aid blockades, and rising casualties deepen Gaza’s crisis as "Israel" intensifies its violations of the ceasefire amid worsening conditions.
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The Atallah family sits outside their damaged home, surrounded by the rubble of neighboring residences, all devastated by Israeli bombardments, in Gaza City, Friday, November 14, 2025. (AP)
"Israel" has persisted in violating the declared ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, carrying out airstrikes, artillery shelling, and targeting ambulance crews to obstruct them from reaching wounded Palestinians.
In the past 72 hours, hospitals across the Gaza Strip have received 17 martyrs, two recently killed and 15 whose bodies were retrieved, as well as three injured individuals.
These figures bring the total death toll in Gaza to 69,483 martyrs and 170,706 wounded since the beginning of the Israeli genocide on October 7, 2023.
Despite the ceasefire declared on October 11, the Israeli occupation has continued its attacks, killing an additional 266 Palestinians since and injuring 635 more. According to the Civil Defense, 548 bodies have been recovered from beneath the rubble across various areas of the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire took effect, underscoring the immense scale of destruction.
The streets of Gaza are filled with the remnants of its martyrs and loved ones. pic.twitter.com/3EfYQf6Fg1
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) November 16, 2025
Rescue teams and humanitarian organizations have repeatedly sounded the alarm, urging immediate international intervention. Large parts of Gaza remain inaccessible due to unexploded ordnance, collapsed infrastructure, and ongoing bombardment by the Israeli occupation, severely hindering relief operations and putting countless Palestinian lives at risk.
Only 97 out of 330 Palestinian martyrs bodies received identified
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that it has received 15 bodies of martyrs released by the Israeli occupation on Friday through the Red Cross, bringing the total number of bodies received to 330.
So far, authorities have been able to identify 97 of the 330 bodies, and medical teams in Gaza continue to handle the remains according to established protocols, carrying out examinations and documentation before returning them to their families.
Hamas says it received names of 1,468 detainees from Gaza
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, confirmed on Sunday that, after a month of communication through mediators, it received a list with the names of 1,468 detainees from the Gaza Strip held in Israeli prisons, noting that its Prisoners' Media Office decided to announce the list through its official platforms.
In its statement, Hamas stressed that the Israeli occupation bears full responsibility for the lives of all detainees and for any manipulation or discrepancies in the list it provided. The movement asserted that the occupation continues to forcibly conceal other detainees in its prisons and refuses to disclose their whereabouts.
Hamas also called on the mediators to exert pressure on the occupation to reveal the names of all detainees and guarantee their rights.
Gaza drowns in rainfall amid a lack of proper shelter
On Saturday, Gaza’s Civil Defense warned that heavy rainfall had flooded dozens of tents housing forcibly displaced families in the al-Mawasi coastal area near Khan Younis, worsening already precarious living conditions.
The agency reported that emergency teams are “responding to dozens of waterlogged tents in displacement camps across multiple areas of al-Mawasi in Khan Younis,” as families struggle to salvage what remains of their belongings.
Imagine a child saying, "Lord, take us."
— Muhammad in Gaza🇵🇸⚡️ (@7MohammedKhaled) November 15, 2025
This is the most difficult chapter of silent genocide: leaving people to die, drown, and become ill in tattered tents. pic.twitter.com/dunaiExRLG
On November 14, Civil Defense officials confirmed they received continuous distress calls from early morning as tents collapsed and were inundated by rain across camps and shelters in several locations. The hardest-hit areas included Gaza City’s al-Nafaq, al-Daraj, al-Yarmouk, al-Zaytoun, and al-Shati refugee camps.
The situation was equally critical in the central governorate, including al-Baraka and al-Bassa in Deir al-Balah, near the Islamic Bank on Salah al-Din Street, west of the al-Bureij camp, as well as displacement sites around the Nuseirat market area.
With winter conditions setting in and infrastructure devastated by months of bombardment, civil defense authorities called for immediate international intervention. They specifically urged countries involved in Gaza ceasefire negotiations to address the humanitarian crisis affecting nearly half a million families uprooted by what they described as Israel’s “ongoing war of extermination.”
