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April 13, 2025 Vol 19

‘Ceasefire’ is a hollow word for the Palestinians – the killing, displacements and rejection of assistance continues | Nesrine Malik


IT has been more than six weeks since a stop occurred in Gaza, and it is clearly more accurately called a “reduced” fire, rather than a stop. The marks of the people are still killed; Enough, in any other scenario, to be considered both distressing and newsworthy. More than 100 people have died since January 19, said a Civil Defense Service spokesman for Gaza. Those killings constitute, along with other violations, a harsh record of the road -a reported violations of the ceasefire of the Israeli government’s ceasefire.

The latest of them is the decision of Israeli’s authorities to stop humanitarian assistance in Gaza, to insist on Hamas to accept new stop terms: Only hours after the first phase of stopping stopping, Israel cut off all the belongings. In doing so, Israel uses food and civilian relief as a political tool to achieve its goals, one step by the Qatari Foreign Ministry, the Midwife of Hostage Releases and CeaseFire Agreements over the last few months, called “a clear violation” of the terms of Truce and the international law.

This is a blockade that will not affect some Palestinians: it covers every single person who lives in Gaza. The entire population is held hostage. According to Amjad Al-Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza, “the entire Gaza population is highly dependent on the aid, of all kinds, as a result of dissolving economic and social infrastructure”. The ceasefire while standing today has no hindrance to death, hunger and siege of an entire population that homes are destroyed, and that the babies are still freezing to death in the trembling of torn tents.

In the West Bank, the pattern of slow but grinding attack opens for months, and rises for weeks. The general death of the West Bank since October 7 due to the strengthening of settler’s violence and the attack by Israeli defense forces standing nearly 1,000, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Stopping the cease only aggravated the situation. While Gaza is getting less of its resources and active military interaction, Israel has shifted its attention to the covered West Bank territories in a process described as “Gaza-Iification”. The war with Gaza, and what is allowed to pass there in terms of civilian killing, mass removal and targeting medical facilities, has become a stress-tested model that is now applied to the West Bank. It is safe to know that the allies of the Western will continue to support it and provide weapons and political cover, the Israeli government repeats its tactics elsewhere.

Once a stop agreed, Israel launched Operation Iron Wall, a military campaign in the West Bank, as if signing up to the timing that it was now a permanent war of permanent revenge. Last year, more than 224 children were killed in the West Bank of Israeli forces and settlers, according to the UN Office for coordination of humanitarian activities. To give an idea of ​​how sharp the point of inflection, this number has made up about half of the total number of children killed in the West Bank since the notes of the notes 20 years ago. Among them was Ayman Al-Hammouni, his shooting was caught on the camera, which was added to the archives of video and chilling audio notes, panic last moment and the death of children throughout the Palestinian territories. Among them were two-year-old Layla Al-Khatib, who was shot in his own home. And the unborn son of Sundos Jamal Mohammed Shalabi, eight months pregnant, who died with the child when he was shot. And here goes: there is no stopping, unmistakable, unstoppable.

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Playbook and justification are eerily similar to those used in Gaza. Targeting militants becomes an explanation for a full range of deadly activities, including but not limited to: destroying infrastructure, which drives people out of their homes without the right to return (40,000 to date, in less than two months, according to UNRWA, UN’s Assistance agency), which targets medical facilities and staff, Flattening and whole neighboring facilities and staff, Flattening and whole neighboring The most deadly policy, which dismissed the military policies of contact to allow the tolorals to further motivate and command the fire opening. According to UNRWA, “the use of airstrikes, armored bulldozers, controlled detonation, and advanced weapons of Israeli forces has become commonplace” in the West Bank, and “a War in Gaza”. The result is an attack on the West Bank as its history and in Gaza.

NASA, Operation Iron Wall has been the longest in the West Bank since the second intentifada. The tanks roll and the IDF soldiers arrange for a long haul in refugees camps in areas such as Jenin and Tulkarm, for the first time in 20 years. These actions mark a material change in how Israel chooses to engage in Palestinian populations in Gaza and West Bank. A move is made from brutal characteristics through settler violence, siege, legal overreach and restraint without testing a more deadly and oppressive authority mode that seems to have no strategic goal or long-term plan for stability. The goal seems to be the expansion of the negotiations, military presence and the basket and control of the millions of life of the Palestinian people, dictating everything from the time for them to eat, if they have the right to live. The result is a reduction of what the Palestinians already have – even less soil, even less autonomy and even fewer human rights.

In such a balance of asymmetric, and in this impotence, Israel is not incentivized to act in such a way that things go down. Gaza’s Israeli blockage shows an attitude of the Cavalier on the importance of maintaining negotiations. If the ceasefire collapses in Gaza, the conflict will return to those who result in incredible high casualties on the Palestinian side. If more people died in the West Bank, it only increases the regulations that are expanding into the territories of the drivers.

Such a bloody and suffering state of ceasefire should not mislead anyone Israel-Palestine is on a path of return to the status quo before the war, or there is any promise of a steady future after it. Donald Trump, the Arab leaders and the Israeli government can come back as they wish for what is the best “Gaza plan”. The truth is that the war in Gaza may be completed so far; But others, in all Palestinian territories, began.

Thora Simonis

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