Médecins Sans Frontières - Six Months Into Ceasefire, Gaza Still Suffocating

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF363897

Date taken / Date Recorded 09/04/2026 11:45 AM

Country Palestinian Territories

Photographer / videographer / producer Nour Alsaqqa

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Additional Information / Shotlist Text: On 6 April, in Gaza, MSF treated 16 critically injured patients in our field hospital in Deir-El-Balah, after armed clashes and an Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people and wounded several others.

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Suddenly, there

was heavy gunfire.

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There was an advance

by the [Israeli-backed] militias.

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People came out, everyone

went out to defend.

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Because civilians were being

arrested from their homes.

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Suddenly, the

army intervened.

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A group of people was targeted by

[Israeli] airstrikes for the first time.

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The injured were

lying on the ground

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some civilians from the area,

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including myself,

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tried to help them, and provide

first aid to those on the ground.

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Then Israeli aircraft came

back again and targeted us.

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Ten people were

killed on the spot,

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and I was injured.

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I am now in the hospital.

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Israeli forces have

been continuously

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advancing the “yellow line.”

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Recently, they pushed

it forward three times.

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At certain moments,

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the entire area is

placed under curfew.

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Our lands, and the lands of

our friends and neighbors,

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were completely

bulldozed last week.

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Now, there is a gradual

escalation in the advance,

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with direct damage

to civilians’ homes,

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the arrest of civilians,

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and gunfire

targeting rooftops,

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water tanks,

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the electricity grid,

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and anything moving

in the streets

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is shot at and targeted.

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There is no safety,

no difference.

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During the

past six months,

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which were supposed

to be a ceasefire,

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there were thousands

of violations.

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I am an eyewitness

in my area

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to many of

these violations.

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They led to arrests,

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the killing of

dozens of people,*

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destruction and land leveling

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as the “yellow line” advanced,

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and the bulldozing

of homes and farms.

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So what kind of ceasefire

are we even talking about?