‘Ceasefire’ is a hollow word for Palestinians – the killings, displacements and denial of aid continue | Nesrine Malik

IT has a little more than six weeks since the start of the shooting in Gaza, and it will be more accurately fired at the fire “reduce” fire, instead of stopping. Dozens of people are still killing; Sufficiently, in any other scenario, to be considered anxious and vocabulary. More than 100 people He died since January 19, says a spokesman for the Civil Defense Service in Gaza. These killings, along with other violations, are a dark record Hundreds of violations of the ceasefire By the Israeli government.

The last of which is the decision of the Israeli authorities Humanitarian aid In Gaza, in order to pressure Hamas to accept the conditions of the new ceasefire: just hours after the end of the first stage of the ceasefire, Israel Cut all supplies. When doing this, Israel uses food and civil comfort as a political tool to achieve its goals, a step that the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs benefit, the hostage of hostages and the cessation of agreements over the past few months, It is called “clear violation” Among the conditions of armistice and international humanitarian law.

This is a siege that will not affect a few Palestinians: it includes every person who lives in Gaza. All residents are held hostage. According to the glories of Al -ShawaThe director of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza, “the entire population of Gaza relies entirely on aid, of all kinds, as a result of the demolition of economic and social infrastructure.” The ceasefire, as is the case now, is not an obstacle to death, hunger, and the beard for their entire population. Their homes were destroyed, whose children are still their children. Freezing to death In the cold of torn tents.

In the West Bank, the pattern of slow assault but grinding was revealed for several months, and rising for weeks. The total number of death in the West Bank since October 7 due to the intensification of settlers’ violence and the attacks of the Israeli defense forces standing in Almost 1000According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The ceasefire only exacerbated the situation. Since Gaza is drawing less than its active military resources and participation, Israel has turned its attention to the occupied territories in the West Bank in a process that was described as “GazaThe war in Gaza, and what allowed to pass there in terms of civil killings, mass exodus and targeting medical facilities is a model that has been tested in stress that is now applied in the West Bank. He believed in knowing that Western allies will continue to support and provide weapons and political cover, the Israeli government repeats its tactics elsewhere.

The moment when a ceasefire was agreed upon, Israel launched the Iron Wall operation, a military campaign in the West Bank, as if it was indicating that this is now a war forever from permanent revenge. Last year alone, More than 224 children He was killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces and settlers, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. To give an idea of ​​the severity of the reflection point, this number is approximately half of the total number of children who have been killed in the West Bank since the records started 20 years ago. Among them Iman Al -Hami, His shooting was caught on the camera, adding to video and audio archives from the last moments and panic deaths and deaths throughout the Palestinian territories. Among them are also two years old Laila Al -KhatibShoot in her home. And the child who has not yet been born Sondos Jamal Mohamed ShalabiEight months pregnant, who died with the child when she was shot. And on what is happening: there is no relentlessness in it, it cannot be imagined, it cannot be stopped.

The play and justification book is similar in a frightening way to those used in Gaza. The targeting of the militants becomes an explanation of a complete set of destructive activities, including but not limited to: destroying the infrastructure, and expelling people from their homes without the right to return (40,000 so farIn less than two months, according to the United Nations Agency for Aid), Targeting medical facilities and employeesThe entire neighborhoods and those with deadly policy flattens, reduce the rules of military engagement to allow the soldiers to more space and authorize the opening of the fire. According to UNRWA“The use of air strikes, armored bulldozers, controlled bombings, and advanced weapons by Israeli forces have become common” in the West Bank, which is “the sparkle of war in Gaza.” The result is the attack in the West Bank, which is historical as it was in Gaza.

Indeed, running the longest iron wall in the West Bank since the second intifada is. Tanks and Israeli Defense Army soldiers rolled Long -term settled In refugee camps in areas such as Jenin and Tulkarm, for the first time in 20 years. These measures are materially characterized by how Israel chooses to interact with the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank. A transition from brutal attrition was performed through settlers ’violence, siege, legal transgression and detention without trial to a more deadly and repressive way of power that seems to have no strategic purpose or long -term plan for stability. It seems that the goal is to expand settlements, military presence, fraud in millions of the lives of the Palestinian people, which dictates everything if the time has come to eat, to whether they have the right to live. The result is the shrinking of a few Palestinians already – even less land, even less independent and even human rights.

In such a balance between asymmetric energy, and with this impunity, Israel It is not a catalyst to act in a way that disappears. The Israeli blockade in Gaza reveals a position more than the importance of preserving negotiations. If the ceasefire in Gaza collapses, the conflict will return to the high injuries that are not commensurate with the Palestinian side. If more people die in the West Bank, this is only feeding on settlements that expand in the lands of those who were expelled.

Such a blood condition and suffocation of the ceasefire should not be misleading that anyone that Israel-Palestine is on the way to the current situation before the war, or that there is any promise of a stable future after that. Donald Trump, Arab leaders and the Israeli government can return back and forth as much as they like at the best “Gaza Plan”. The fact is that the war in Gaza may end now; But something else, through everything Palestinian territoriesIt started.