PALESTINE After a two-month truce Gaza: once again facing genocide

An article by Dominique Ferré in La Tribune des Travailleurs (France)

Trump and Netanyahu have deliberately decided to resume the bloody bombardment. Their objective: to terrorise the population in order to implement their plan for the “transfer” of Gaza’s inhabitants to an unknown destination.

The State of Israel carried out dozens of bombings in Gaza in the night of 17 to 18 March. The US presidency claimed its sponsorship of this crime: “Hamas, the Houthis, Iran – all those who seek to terrorise not only Israel, but also the United States – will pay the price: hell will break loose,” said the White House*.

The provisional toll is over 400 dead and hundreds injured. But Trump and Netanyahu have no intention of stopping there. The Israeli army has issued a warning to residents of border areas: “You must evacuate immediately to the known shelters in the west of Gaza City and to those in Khan Younes.”

While the bombings of 17 March have escalated, Israel has in fact been violating the ceasefire on a daily basis for weeks, as evidenced by this report from the American media Mondoweiss (13 March): “Since the beginning of the ceasefire in Gaza in mid-January, not a day has gone by without deaths or injuries among the inhabitants of the border areas. The only thing that has changed is the pace of the massacres. (…) The Israeli army, stationed on the Gaza border, is using all means at its disposal to intimidate the inhabitants of these areas. They believe that the army wants to force them to leave their homes and flee, once again. But they insist that they will not leave their homes.”

For that is the objective of Trump and Netanyahu: to initiate the plan for the “transfer”, that is to say deportation, of more than two million Palestinians from Gaza, survivors of the genocide. Trump’s emissaries are already in talks with the governments of Syria, Somalia and Somaliland to “welcome” two million evictees, “guilty”, according to Trump and Netanyahu, of not having renounced their desire to return to Palestine.

As usual, there were a few protests from Western chancelleries and the UN… And as usual, these statements were not followed by the slightest measure to break off economic, commercial, diplomatic and military relations that would make it possible to isolate the genocidal state.

On the other hand, the Forum for the Families of Israelis Held in Gaza addressed Netanyahu in these terms: “The Israeli government has decided to abandon the hostages. We are shocked, angry and terrified by the deliberate dismantling of the process of having our loved ones returned (…). The claim that the war has resumed for the liberation of the hostages is a total sham.”

It must be said that all this also allows Netanyahu to divert attention from the circle tightening around him. The latest episode: he has had the head of the Shin Bet (internal intelligence) dismissed in an attempt to slow down an investigation into his alleged links with the Emirate of Qatar.

Stop the bombings!

No to the transfer plan!

Right to return for the refugees!

Break off all relations with the State of Israel!

These are the rallying cries of the hour.

* A few days earlier, the US Air Force had bombed the civilian population of Yemen.