Gaza Herald – Gaza’s Ministry of Health has warned that Israeli forces have significantly escalated the systematic killing of entire Palestinian families in recent months, despite the ceasefire announced in October 2025, stressing the sharp rise in civilian deaths and the continued destruction of family lineages across the Strip.
The ministry said the pace of Israeli attacks intensified throughout June and July 2026, with daily killings increasing instead of declining. According to its latest data, 134 Palestinians were killed in June, up from 110 in May, while July has witnessed an even higher rate of deadly attacks. It stressed that the continued rise in casualties demonstrates that the ceasefire has failed to halt the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
One of the most alarming trends documented by the ministry is the growing number of entire Palestinian families being wiped out in Israeli strikes. It said three families were completely erased from the civil registry during the past two months alone, after every member of those families was killed. The ministry said that the pattern is a part of Israel’s ongoing targeting of residential homes and civilian gatherings, leaving behind irreversible humanitarian and social devastation.
The warning comes only a day after an Israeli airstrike on a home in Deir al-Balah killed Omar Sami Abu Qasim, his wife Asmaa Ghazi Abu Qasim, and their six-year-old daughter Habiba, while their young son, Sami, survived as the sole remaining member of the family. The ministry said such massacres have become a recurring feature of Israel’s attacks in Gaza.
According to the Ministry of Health, around 2,000 Palestinian families have been completely erased from the civil registry since the beginning of Israel’s genocide on Gaza on October 7, 2023. Thousands of other families have lost most of their members, with only one survivor or a handful of relatives left alive. The ministry stressed that these figures represent not only statistics but the destruction of entire family histories and generations of Palestinian life.
The ministry said it continues to document casualties and update Gaza’s national martyr registry daily, warning that civilians remain the primary victims of Israel’s attacks amid the collapse of the humanitarian and healthcare systems. It added that 1,123 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire took effect on October 11, 2025, while the overall death toll since October 7, 2023, has risen to 73,246 killed and 173,727 injured, underscoring that Israel’s attack on Gaza continues despite repeated claims of de-escalation.
