[News] Savagery ensues as Netanyahu gets Trump green light to continue his genocide

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Savagery ensues as Netanyahu gets Trump green light to continue his
genocide
By Iqbal Jassat <https://english.palinfo.com/?p=250813>

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The intensity of the resumed Israeli missile strikes and bombings across
the besieged Gaza Strip is not only the settler-colonial regime’s
continuation of its genocide of the Palestinians, but also a decisive
rejection of the ceasefire that its war criminal leaders signed up to.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — for whom an International Criminal
Court arrest warrant is in place — has sought every pretext under the sun
to resume his massacre of innocent civilians.

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 honor 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 organizations 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.

*-Iqbal Jassat is an Executive Member of Media Review Network,
Johannesburg, South Africa. His article appeared in MEMO.*
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