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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">Savagery ensues as Netanyahu gets Trump green light to continue his genocide</h1>
<div class="gmail-article-author"><h3>By <a href="https://english.palinfo.com/?p=250813"> Iqbal Jassat </a></h3></div>
<p class="gmail-single_date">Thursday 20-March-2025 - <font size="1"><a href="https://english.palinfo.com/opinion_articles/savagery-ensues-as-netanyahu-gets-trump-green-light-to-continue-his-genocide/">https://english.palinfo.com/opinion_articles/savagery-ensues-as-netanyahu-gets-trump-green-light-to-continue-his-genocide/</a></font></p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Within minutes more than 500 civilians were killed, mainly women and children.</p>
<p>A thousand or more were wounded with no means to be treated adequately.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Their excitement at the slaughter of innocent mothers and babies reveals more than mere approval.</p>
<p>It confirms that Israel had no intention to honor the agreement and had plotted to blame Hamas to justify more Zionist savagery.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><em>-Iqbal Jassat is an Executive Member of Media Review Network, Johannesburg, South Africa. His article appeared in MEMO.</em></p>
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