Gaza has received a third of the aid the ceasefire promised

Gaza's Government Media Office said on Monday that 66,607 aid trucks have entered the Strip since the ceasefire began, against the 189,000 that were due to have arrived by what it counted as the agreement's 315th day. That is a compliance rate of 35 percent.

It gave a similar figure for movement of people. Since the arrangement to reopen the Rafah crossing was reached, the office said, 11,759 travellers have got out of the territory through it, where the number provided for was 29,800 — a rate of 39 percent.

Both numbers describe a gap rather than a total. The quantities of aid and the numbers of travellers were fixed in advance as obligations with a timetable attached, so the shortfall is not a matter of supply failing to keep up. Roughly two out of every three lorries that were meant to reach Gaza have not, and roughly three out of five people who were meant to be able to leave have not left.

The same report logged 4,379 violations of the ceasefire since it took effect. The office attributed 1,286 Palestinian deaths and 4,257 injuries to them, figures the Ministry of Health has been publishing daily, and added a category that has drawn less attention: 180 Palestinians detained during the period of the truce.

The office held Israel responsible for the deterioration in conditions in the territory and called on the mediators and guarantors of the agreement to compel it to carry out the provisions in full — the aid volumes, the freedom of movement through Rafah and an end to the attacks.

That appeal is the part worth reading closely. The office is not asking for a new commitment but for an existing one to be honoured, and it is addressing the states that underwrote the deal rather than the party it accuses. Ten months in, the mechanism for enforcing the humanitarian clauses of the ceasefire appears to consist of counting how far they have been missed and publishing the arithmetic.