The UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine has issued a new report saying Israel is continuing killings, destruction and land grabs in Gaza despite a ceasefire, according to Press TV reporting from Deir al-Balah on October 30. The report, covered on Friday, October 30, says the Israeli regime is continuing its campaign in Gaza through further killings, destruction and land seizures, even after the truce took effect.
Press TV’s correspondent Motee Abu Musabeh, reporting from Deir al-Balah, said the Commission’s new report was issued this week and covers the situation in war-ravaged Gaza. The report’s language is among the strongest used by a UN body since the ceasefire, and it will be cited by Palestinian officials and their supporters as independent backing for their claim that the truce has not stopped the killing.
A second UN voice in the same week
The Commission’s report follows a separate UN finding reported on October 28, in which UN investigators said Israel continues its campaign in Gaza despite the ceasefire, according to Press TV’s October 28 coverage. Together, the two reports frame the ceasefire not as a settled peace but as a contested pause, with violations documented by both Gaza’s Health Ministry and UN investigators.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said ceasefire violations alone have killed 1,574 Palestinians and wounded 5,687 others as of Thursday, according to Muslim Network TV’s October 30 report citing Anadolu. That figure, if accepted, means more people have died after the ceasefire than in many full-scale battles elsewhere in the world this year.
What the report does not settle
Israel has consistently rejected UN Commission findings as biased, and it says its operations in Gaza target Hamas fighters and infrastructure, not civilians as such. The Commission’s report, as covered on October 30, does not by itself create legal enforcement, and its findings will be debated at the UN and in capitals, not on the ground in Gaza.
For civilians in Gaza, however, the report’s significance is less legal than practical: it puts an international institution on record saying the ceasefire has not brought safety. With demolitions continuing in central Gaza and strikes still hitting Gaza City apartments, according to October 30 reporting, that record matches what many Gazans say they experience daily.
