Claim
Israel's war against Hamas is still ongoing, 1,000 days after the 7 October 2023 attack.
“Israel's war on terror against Hamas is still ongoing, it's 1,000 days since 7th October 2023.”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
The temporal core of the claim is accurate: 2 July 2026 was indeed marked worldwide as the 1,000th day since the 7 October 2023 attack. However, characterizing Israel's war on Hamas as 'still ongoing' is misleading, because a ceasefire under the 20-point Gaza peace plan took effect on 10 October 2025 — about nine months before the broadcast — formally halting the full-scale war, with hostage releases completing by January 2026. While the ceasefire is fragile and Israeli strikes and violations have continued (killing hundreds), the situation is a contested ceasefire rather than the active war the phrasing implies, so the framing overstates the current state of hostilities.
Evidence
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/2/gaza-wars-1000-days-90-of-strip-destroyed-80-seized-by-israel Al Jazeera (2 July 2026) confirms the broadcast date marks 1,000 days since the 7 October 2023 attack, validating the day-count figure. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-marks-1000-days-since-oct-7-attack-on-very-existence-of-jewish-people/ Times of Israel and multiple outlets (France 24, The National) confirm 2 July 2026 was widely commemorated as the 1,000th day since 7 October 2023. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war States the active Gaza war ran until a ceasefire commenced on 10 October 2025 — i.e. roughly nine months before the broadcast, active warfare was formally halted. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_peace_plan A ceasefire under the 20-point plan began 10 October 2025 with hostage/body exchanges; the last deceased hostage was recovered 26 January 2026. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/how-many-times-has-israel-violated-the-gaza-ceasefire-here-are-the-numbers Documents that despite the ceasefire, thousands of violations and near-daily strikes continued, killing ~992 Palestinians by mid-2026 — the conflict is unresolved but not full-scale war. ✓ reachable · archived