Despite the so-called “lull” in the genocide when the first phase of the ceasefire kicked in, Israel has been itching to shed more Palestinian blood, to add to the tens of thousands of martyrs since 7 October, 2023. And Netanyahu duly delivered.
While displaced Palestinians subjected to the Zionist regime’s inhumane blockade of food, fuel, medication and other essentials, and in the middle of Ramadan as they tried to prepare pre-dawn meals in makeshift plastic tents and bombed-out buildings, he unleashed fiery terror upon them.
Within minutes more than 500 civilians were killed, mainly women and children.
A thousand or more were wounded with no means to be treated adequately.
Reports indicate that the current Israeli air strikes are deadlier than the regular drone attacks that Gaza has been experiencing during the weeks when Netanyahu violated the original ceasefire terms. In response, Hamas has slammed apartheid Israel for disregarding its obligations and overturning the ceasefire agreement.
In fact, the occupation regime has violated the ceasefire repeatedly since 19 January and sought to fabricate new terms in an effort to justify blowing up the deal entirely. Analysts Jeremy Scahill and Abubaker Abed point out that Netanyahu has waged a campaign of sabotage and provocation, openly violating the terms of the agreement by hindering and blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Strip.
“While food and other supplies were permitted to enter Gaza throughout the first 42-day phase of the deal, Israel refused to allow almost any of the 60,000 mobile homes and only a fraction of the 200,000 tents to enter Gaza,” they said.
Although Netanyahu has sought to blame Hamas for undermining the ceasefire — a lie adopted readily by his allies in Washington — the reality is that he imposed a “total blockade on any aid, including food and medical supplies to the Strip and resumed [Israel’s] policy of using starvation as a weapon of war.”
On Sunday, Israel also cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, forcing a major desalination plant to slash its water output, severely limiting the amount of drinking water available to 600,000 people in Deir Al-Balah and Khan Yunis.
Hamas is known to have adhered to the agreement and was keen to maintain it. “But Netanyahu, looking for a way out of his internal crises, preferred to reignite the war at the expense of the blood of our people,” said the resistance movement in a media release.
According to Haaretz, Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani demanded immediate international action to compel Israel to implement an immediate ceasefire, abide by the Gaza ceasefire agreement and return to negotiations. That such a demand by a key member of the mediation team is directed exclusively towards Israel, confirms the fact that contrary to Netanyahu’s claims, it is not Hamas that violated the agreement.
This view is reinforced by media reports that the Hostages and Missing Families Forum has denounced Israel, not the Palestinian movement. “The greatest fear of the families, the hostages and the citizens of Israel has come true – the Israeli government has chosen to give up on the hostages,” a spokesperson is quoted by Haaretz as saying.
Moreover, Netanyahu’s right-wing terror thugs Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have not only welcomed the renewal of the scorched-earth policy in Gaza, but also exclaimed gleefully that the plans were prepared weeks ago.
Their excitement at the slaughter of innocent mothers and babies reveals more than mere approval.
It confirms that Israel had no intention to honour the agreement and had plotted to blame Hamas to justify more Zionist savagery.
Since the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza 60 days ago, the Palestinian resistance and responsible organisations have tracked meticulously the repeated violations of the agreement by the Zionist regime, says Palestinian Prisoner Network, Samidoun. “At the same time, in order to protect their people, the Resistance has not once violated the ceasefire agreements nor retaliated against the Zionist war criminals,” it pointed out.
Trump’s greenlighting of Israel’s bloodbath makes him directly complicit in a series of war crimes, as well as genocide and ethnic cleansing. By having facilitated the wave of air strikes by arming, rearming and funding Israel, as did his predecessor Joe Biden, Trump has proven, yet again, that far from being a peacemaker, he is in fact a warmonger, and the US is anything but an honest broker.
Alon Mizrahi summed up the devastating news of a renewed genocide, immediately followed by harrowing images as a tsunami of shock, disbelief and pain. “Let’s allow these feelings to crystallize into even stronger resolution and conviction,” he said. Hear, hear.
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