It was only a matter of time before Israel decides to definitively destroy its ceasefire agreement with Hamas and take over the genocide of all time in the Gaza Strip. Overnight, the Israeli army has launched a wave of attacks that have hitherto killed at least 404 Palestinians and wounded 562.
These figures will undoubtedly increase as more bodies are recovered under the rubble, and while Israel continues what Prime Minister Maltese Robert Abela denounced as a “barbaric” assault against the Palestinian enclave.
But barbarism, after all, is what Israel does best. And unfortunately, there is no end with a view to barbaric behavior – especially when the international community can bring together, they are declarations of conviction.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, for example, said that Israeli attacks “will add a tragedy to the tragedy”, and that “the use of Israel to even more military force will only toss more misery on a Palestinian population already suffering from catastrophic conditions”.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store concluded that the Israeli aggression constitutes “a great tragedy” for the population of Gaza, many of whom “live in tents and the ruins of what has been destroyed”.
For his part, the Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp, went to the X platform to estimate that “humanitarian aid must reach those who need it, and all hostilities must end permanently”. Switzerland called for “an immediate return to the ceasefire”.
The United States, of course, did not find the need to condemn the Israeli attacks renewed against Gaza – an unsurprising reaction from the country which was of help and encouraging the genocide, first under the administration Joe Biden and now under Donald Trump.
In an interview with Fox News, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the United States had been consulted by Israel during the last assault, adding that Trump had “clearly indicated” that Hamas and “all those who seek to terrorize not only Israel, but also the United States of America, will see a price to pay”. Paraphrasing a previous threat published by Trump in Hamas, Leavitt warned that “all hell will break”.
And yet, by all objective standards, hell has already broken decisively in the Gaza Strip. With solid American support, the Israeli army officially massacred at least 48,577 Palestinians between October 2023 and January 2025, when a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas settled. In February, the Gaza government media office updated its death review at almost 62,000 to account for the thousands of presumed disappeared Palestinians being dead under the fully pervasive rubble.
And while Gaza has ostensibly obtained a break in the implacable Israeli bombing with the implementation of the agreement of the truce, the Israeli army continued to kill the Palestinians and rape the agreement accordingly. After all, a cessation of hostilities has never been the Modus Operandi of Israel.
At the beginning of March, Israel blocked all humanitarian aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip – a maneuver equivalent to famine and an obvious war crime – the United States has predictable the blocking of Hamas aid rather than on the party. The European Union followed the trial by condemning Hamas for its alleged “refusal … to accept the extension of the first phase of the cease-fire agreement in Gaza”.
Given that Israel immediately changed the terms of the agreement, it was in reality not a case of “refusal” of Hamas, but rather one of the Israel who unilaterally moved the goal posts – as he did over and over again. Afterwards, the EU noted that “Israel’s decision to block the entry of all humanitarian aid to Gaza could potentially have humanitarian consequences”.
But anyway, that was the fault of Hamas.
Now, as the convictions of the renewed barbarism of Israel flow, it is not difficult to see why Israel could take international objections as slightly as serious. At the end of the day, the area of slaps on the wrist and calls for the end of the “tragedy” in Gaza does nothing to hinder the free hand of Israel as it begins and stops the genocide as she pleases.
Many children are among the victims today of Israeli terror, and Israel has made new forced travel orders for various sectors of the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Ministry of Health has launched an urgent appeal for blood donations. Overall, it therefore seems that a continuation of the ceasefire has been avoided safely.
And there is an additional advantage for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently tried in no less than three cases of corruption involving fraud, corruption and violation of confidence. As Times of Israel reported today, Netanyahu’s planned testimony has now been “canceled for the day in the middle of (the Gaza shock offensive”.
According to the Prime Minister, prosecutors approved the cancellation to allow the government to lead an “urgent security consultation” on the operations renewed in Gaza.
And while the barbaric tragedy is once again revealed in the Gaza Strip, the international refusal to put an end to it is itself a barbaric tragedy.
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