Israel – Hamas War in Gaza | Fifteen months of conflict, more than 45,800 dead and a ceasefire with Tel Aviv that does not arrive

The brutal war in a Gaza Strip devastated and immersed in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, today marks fifteen months with more than 45,800 Palestinian deaths and 11,200 missing due to the incessant Israeli attacks, in the midst of yet another push in the negotiations for a ceasefire that has not yet arrived.

The images that come from within the enclave, especially from the north, show a razed Strip, entire cities have disappeared from the map with all their buildings in ruins. The percentage of destruction has reached 86%, according to figures from the Gazan Government, and it will be difficult for many families to resume their lives when the war ends.

An end to the war has become a clamor as attempts to seal a ceasefire agreement have repeatedly failed in the past year, largely at the insistence of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu in imposing new conditions every time a pact was close and his insistence that Israeli troops stay within the enclave, in the corridors of Philadelphia -border with Egypt- and Netzarin -a military route that divides the Strip into two halves-.

The elected president of USA, Donald Trumpmade it clear after his electoral victory was confirmed that he wanted to end the wars and demanded an agreement from Netanyahu before he takes office on January 20. He also threatened Hamas with making Gaza “hell on earth” if he did not release all the hostages.

The parties have returned to Doha: Israel yesterday sent the head of Mossad, David Barnea -who heads the negotiating team- and Hamas has already provided a list with the names of 34 kidnapped people, of the 96 who remain captive, who would be released in the first phase of the agreement, including two children, ten women and eleven elderly people, although the Government Israeli has criticized that the Islamist group has not clarified whether they are alive or dead.

The day before, in the face of growing rumors that the ceasefire agreement was in the final stage and optimistic messages from both sides, the hundreds of thousands of Gazans displaced in tents in the area of Rebels They celebrated the news with applause and shouts of joy, according to videos that went viral on social networks.

90% of the Gazan population, around 1.9 million people, have been displaced from their homes, many of them completely destroyed, and the majority live in the so-called “humanitarian zone”, but not exempt from bombings, in Mawasi, south of the Strip, where low winter temperatures are already taking their toll and eight people have died from hypothermia, seven of them babies just a few days old.

Not only from the cold, in fifteen months of war, some forty people have also died from hunger, most of them also babies, which forced Israel in the summer to open the key to humanitarian aid a little in the face of pressure, especially from the United States. .US, but even so the UN humanitarian agencies warned at the end of 2024 that 133,000 people suffer from levels “catastrophic” of food insecurity, especially in the north, although the figure is half that of half a year before.

Precisely in the north of the Strip, three months ago, Israeli troops undertook a tough “tierra burned”, which has left everything devastated and has forced the displacement of more than 100,000 Gazans from Beit Lahia, Beit Hanun y Jabaliyacities that have been completely devastated.

In these three months of intense military offensive in the north, the hardest episode of fifteen months of war, more than 4,800 people have died, according to the authorities of the Strip, in addition to a thousand people missing under the rubble due to the impossibility of rescue teams enter the area, where they have come under direct attack.

The Gaza Civil Defense It has not operated in the north of the Strip since the end of October, and they claim that there are hundreds of bodies decomposing in the streets, converted into food for stray dogs.

Hospitals have been another frequent target of Israel where not only are the more than 109,000 injured treated, but they also serve as a refuge for thousands of people. In the north there is no longer one operational, after the Army ordered the evacuation and assaulted the Kamal Adwanthe main one in the area, arresting more than 200 people, including its director, Dr. Husam Abu Morningwhose whereabouts remain unknown.

Hamas-ruled Gaza authorities have accused the Israeli military of carrying out a “genocide and ethnic cleansing“, while Israel claims that the objective is to avoid the “Hamas regrouping”, which in recent weeks has once again launched rockets into Israeli territory, although without major damage.

Of the more than 45,800 dead in 15 months of war, some 17,800 are children, as well as 5,000 among the more than 11,000 missing. Some 35,000 minors have been orphaned and more than 1,400 families have completely disappeared from the records, with the death of all their members.