One year after the October 2025 Gaza ceasefire agreement, promised reconstruction has not begun, 80 percent of Gaza's population remains unemployed, and Israeli forces hold over 60 percent of the territory.

An ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Hamas that escalated on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a large-scale assault on southern Israel, killing over 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. Israel's subsequent military campaign in Gaza has triggered a severe humanitarian crisis with mass casualties and widespread displacement.