Palestine Report<\/a><\/em>, Moulana Ebrahim Moosa painted a stark picture of life under the so-called ceasefire \u2014 a truce on paper, but one that has done little to end Gaza\u2019s humanitarian nightmare.<\/p>\n\u201cThe lack of basic medical supplies and equipment is such a great problem that only 10% of the requested medical supplies have entered Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reports from the ground reinforce this grim assessment. According to the World Health Organisation, more than half of Gaza\u2019s hospitals remain non-functional, with severe shortages of disinfectants, antibiotics, and fuel. Doctors describe scenes of patients lying on hospital floors or in makeshift tents, many suffering from infections caused by untreated wounds. The power cuts have made it impossible to refrigerate life-saving medicines like insulin, endangering thousands of lives.<\/p>\n
While the ceasefire agreement promised up to 1 000 aid trucks a day, only about 90 are entering Gaza \u2014 and many of those are commercial, not humanitarian. The United Nations has confirmed that aid convoys are being selectively approved and diverted mainly to southern areas, leaving northern Gaza largely cut off. Moulana Moosa highlighted the cruel selectivity of what aid Israel allows in.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of those trucks prioritise food of low nutritional value because it requires less coordination with the Israeli occupation authorities \u2014 meaning that high-protein foods, fruits, meat, poultry, etc., is definitely not entering in the desired quantities.\u201d<\/p>\n
International observers have condemned these tactics as a continuation of collective punishment, using starvation and deprivation as weapons of control. Palestinian families, many of whom have survived on canned goods and bread for months, now face malnutrition and disease. The UN has warned that nearly every one of Gaza\u2019s 2,1 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the political future of Gaza remains clouded. Palestinian factions \u2014 including Hamas and Fatah \u2014 have met in Cairo to discuss forming a technocratic government that would unify leadership across Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. The move represents a moment of unity, with Palestinian leaders agreeing on a shared vision for self-governance and reconstruction. But even these efforts are being undermined by Israel\u2019s ongoing interference. Moulana Moosa voiced concern about this duplicity.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you really going to support the technocratic government that Palestinians are putting forward when you are actually continuing to destroy buildings in the areas of Gaza that you occupy and embark on ceasefire violations and setting up parallel structures through these gangs?\u201d<\/p>\n
Recent investigations by Haaretz<\/em> revealed that Israeli authorities have been dumping truckloads of waste, rubble, and scrap metal inside Gaza \u2014 a literal and symbolic insult to a population still grieving tens of thousands of dead and displaced. The act, described by rights groups as \u201cenvironmental warfare,\u201d reinforces Israel\u2019s deep-seated dehumanisation of Palestinians and its contempt for international law.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, Western governments claim to be monitoring the ceasefire\u2019s implementation through a \u201cCivil-Military Coordination Center\u201d \u2014 but its real impact on the ground remains negligible. While the world congratulates itself for brokered truces and reconstruction pledges, Gaza\u2019s reality tells a different story: crushed infrastructure, suffocating restrictions, and a generation of Palestinians whose trauma continues long after the bombs stopped falling.<\/p>\n
The ongoing blockade \u2014 now in its 18th year \u2014 has turned Gaza into \u201cthe world\u2019s largest open-air prison.\u201d Even after the genocide-level bombardment that killed over 40 000 Palestinians and displaced nearly two million, Israel maintains full control over Gaza\u2019s borders, airspace, and sea access, dictating the entry of everything from fuel to food.<\/p>\n
As Moulana Moosa\u2019s report underscores, the ceasefire has brought quiet skies but not justice, nor true relief. It has only exposed the enduring cruelty of occupation \u2014 an occupation that extends beyond warfare into every aspect of Palestinian life: health, hunger, dignity, and self-determination.<\/p>\n
For Palestinians, peace is not the absence of bombs; it is the presence of freedom, reconstruction, and the right to live as human beings. Until that becomes reality, the so-called ceasefire remains nothing more than another chapter in Gaza\u2019s long history of betrayal by the world\u2019s silence.<\/p>\n
Listen <\/strong>to the Palestine Report<\/a> on Sabaahul Muslim with Moulana Ibrahim Daya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"27 October 2025 | 10:15 CAT 4-minute read Ceasefire in Name Only: Palestinians in Gaza Still Denied Lifesaving Aid and Dignity Nearly two weeks after the Gaza ceasefire took effect, the suffering of Palestinians continues largely unabated. Despite international assurances that aid would pour in, Israel\u2019s restrictions on medical supplies, food, and reconstruction materials have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":98313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,4998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-ummah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Palestine-Report-2.jpg?fit=372%2C367&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-qt8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 01:39:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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