Gaza ceasefire anniversary Violence and ruin persist

Dec 2023

On the ceasefire's first anniversary, Tagesschau says the intended Israeli withdrawal, Hamas disarmament and reconstruction have not occurred. Pia Steckelbach describes Saleh Al Arabid's inability to recover and bury his wife and two children, whose bodies remain in his Gaza City home hit early in the war. The report replays Trump's promise of no shooting and attributes more than 1,400 further deaths and a total above 74,000 to Gaza's Health Ministry. It cites the UN for roughly ten percent more destroyed buildings since the ceasefire and 82 percent of buildings damaged, reports Israeli control of more than sixty percent of Gaza and says Hamas appears to be rebuilding structures elsewhere. Amani Al Naouq of the ICRC describes continuing death, destruction and shortages of medicine and rubble-clearing equipment. Al Arabid wants to remain in his home. Figures, assessments and uncertainty retain their source attribution.

An airstrike hit Saleh Al Arabid's home in Gaza City in December 2023, partly collapsing it and killing family members who could not be buried. Tagesthemen's October 10, 2026 report says eleven bodies remain under the rubble; Al Arabid identifies his wife Darin, daughter Rawia and son Nadir among those on the upper floors. He continues living in the ruins and waiting for excavators while insufficient heavy machinery enters Gaza. Tagesschau's same-day report carries compatible testimony about the family's unrecovered remains and grief. The day of the strike and a final total of those killed are not established by these accounts; the eleven refers to bodies reported still buried.