Nearly two-thirds of Gaza remains under Israeli military control a year into the ceasefire, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to extend Israeli authority across the West Bank.
An Israeli air strike targeting a vehicle in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood killed one person and wounded several others on Tuesday, emergency services told Al Jazeera. The attack underscores the ongoing violence despite the truce.
In az-Zawayda, central Gaza, a four-year-old boy, Osama Ahmed Abed, succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli strike three weeks ago, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. His death brings the total Palestinian fatalities in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to over 74,382.
Gaza’s Civil Defence agency expressed deep concern over repeated forced displacement near the “Yellow Line”—the boundary where Israeli troops withdrew under the October 2025 ceasefire agreement. The agency reported “massive explosions” and “indiscriminate gunfire” by Israeli forces that damaged hundreds of tents sheltering displaced people and further weakened previously damaged structures. It appealed for urgent international intervention to “halt this war against the civilian population.”
A Shrinking Gaza
Al Jazeera’s mapping analysis shows nearly two-thirds of the Gaza Strip is now under Israeli military control or subject to severe access restrictions. The “Yellow Line,” established under the U.S.-backed 20-point plan to end the war, was intended to mark the initial Israeli pullback point, with further withdrawals expected. Instead, Israeli forces have seized additional territory.
The U.S.-backed Board of Peace marked the ceasefire’s anniversary with a statement crediting former U.S. President Donald Trump’s leadership for ending “a war that had no end in sight.” Since the truce began, at least 1,400 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks, and no Palestinian technocratic administration has been established. More than 80 percent of Gaza’s buildings have been destroyed or damaged.
Raids in the Occupied West Bank
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli operations in Ramallah and el-Bireh wounded a child with live ammunition and caused several Palestinians to suffer tear gas inhalation, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported. Palestine TV correspondent Khaled Mattawa was wounded in the hand by a sound bomb, and Sky News Arabia correspondent Firas Lutfi was hit in the leg by shrapnel, according to Wafa.
Israeli forces also raided the offices of several Palestinian non-governmental organizations and the courtyard of the Palestine Medical Complex. Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Ramallah, described the attacks as “yet another step to undermine the Palestinian Authority.”
Human rights lawyer Muhammad Dahleh stated that Israel uses military orders and legislation to shut down Palestinian rights groups, designating them “terrorist organizations based on privileged evidence” withheld from the groups and their legal counsel. Several organizations were outlawed in 2021, and legal challenges were rejected by Israeli military authorities.
In a video posted on X, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was “preparing for a scenario in which Palestinian Authority forces turn their guns against Israel in the West Bank.” He declared, “There will be no Arab army west of the Jordan River. There will be the [Israeli military],” adding that Israel would extend its control across the territory.
