KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (Bernama) -- The Palestinian Government Communication Centre has described the situation in the Gaza Strip under the ceasefire as “a continued genocide under a different name”, saying Palestinians continue to be killed, displaced and denied essential humanitarian assistance.
In its weekly situation report, covering July 27 to Aug 3, the centre said Israeli military attacks had continued despite the ceasefire, while the mechanisms of violence remained intact and disregard for Palestinian lives was becoming normalised.
The centre, which operates under the Palestinian Prime Minister’s Office, cited Doctors Without Borders (MSF) as describing the situation as “structural violence under a different name”.
“Nine months into this so-called ceasefire, the wounds of war are not only unhealed, they are still being inflicted.
“Palestinians are still pulling children from under the rubble. Families are still burying their loved ones,” MSF said, according to the report.
The report said continued military assaults, civilian casualties, restrictions on humanitarian access and the destruction of critical infrastructure had further deepened the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
Restrictions on the entry of humanitarian supplies had also severely hampered the delivery of life-saving assistance amid worsening shortages and the collapse of essential services.
According to the report, Israeli airstrikes targeted several locations, including Al-Mawasi, Al-Bureij and Al-Rimal, killing three Palestinians, including two children, and injuring several others.
Further attacks in Gaza City and Jabalia killed two Palestinians and wounded 10 others, while an Israeli airstrike destroyed a medical warehouse near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
The strike destroyed essential medical supplies and damaged nearby tents sheltering displaced Palestinians, further undermining Gaza’s already overwhelmed healthcare system, it said.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health warned that repeated attacks on hospitals and health facilities, coupled with severe shortages of medicines, equipment and fuel, had pushed Gaza’s healthcare system into an unprecedented crisis.
The report said restrictions on medical and humanitarian supplies, as well as obstacles faced by patients, ambulances and healthcare workers, had weakened the system’s ability to respond to the growing number of casualties.
At least 21,638 children were among the 73,375 Palestinians killed since October 2023, alongside more than 1,700 health workers and 262 journalists and media workers, it said.
The number of wounded Palestinians stood at 174,220 since October 2023, while 11,200 remained missing.
Meanwhile, the centre said Israeli settler attacks and movement restrictions had continued to intensify across the occupied West Bank.
Citing the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), it said settler attacks averaged about 190 incidents per month during the first four months of 2026, placing the West Bank on course to record more than 2,000 attacks by year-end.
The attacks resulted in deaths, injuries and widespread property destruction, while nearly 700 Palestinians from nine communities were forcibly displaced during the period.
The report also recorded 133 settler attacks across the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, between July 27 and Aug 2.
It said Israeli forces and settlers had intensified attacks on the agricultural sector by uprooting and burning thousands of trees, damaging crops, irrigation systems and water networks, stealing livestock and preventing farmers from accessing their land.
The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture estimated direct agricultural losses at no less than US$3.73 million, warning that the attacks were undermining livelihoods and food security.
The report said 925 Israeli military checkpoints, gates and other movement obstacles had been recorded across the West Bank as of March.
-- BERNAMA