U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank: Sari Bashi
Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. However, the border will only open in one direction: for Palestinians to exit. Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says the move validates fears that Israel’s goal is to “continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”
This comes as a coalition of 12 Israeli human rights groups concluded in a new report that 2025 is the deadliest and most destructive year for Palestinians since 1967. Last week, the United Nations reported more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7, 2023. Violence in the West Bank and Gaza is “directed toward getting Palestinians to leave,” says Bashi.
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“Groundhog Day”: Israel Breaks Ceasefire to Attack Gaza, Killing 104 People, Including 46 Children
Israel launched major airstrikes on Gaza, killing at least 104 people, including 46 children, in the deadliest attacks since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire was announced. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “powerful strikes” on Gaza Tuesday after Israeli officials accused Hamas of killing an Israeli soldier in Rafah — which Hamas has denied. Netanyahu is trying “everything possible to resume the genocide in Gaza,” says Muhammad Shehada, a writer and analyst from Gaza. “The only condition is that he needs to maintain the facade of the ceasefire.”
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“The War Has Not Really Ended”: Gaza Reporter on Israeli Attacks & Reuniting with Imprisoned Brother
We speak with Al Jazeera reporter Ibrahim al-Khalili in Gaza, where the shaky ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears to be holding despite sporadic violence. Gaza officials say Israeli forces have repeatedly violated the agreement, including when they opened fire on a civilian bus, killing 11 members of a Palestinian family attempting to return home in Gaza City. Israel killed dozens more over the weekend when it unleashed a wave of airstrikes after it said militants attacked some of its soldiers, although there are reports the soldiers died when their bulldozer ran over unexploded ordnance. Israel also continues to restrict humanitarian aid into Gaza, despite its commitments in the ceasefire agreement.
“Israel is breaching the ceasefire,” says al-Khalili. “The war has not really ended for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are still struggling to survive the next day with the lack of basic necessities.”
Al-Khalili, who has reported from Gaza since the outbreak of the war in October 2023, lost several family members in a deadly Israeli attack on their apartment building. His brother Mohammed was also taken captive by Israeli forces for 19 months and only released last week as part of the prisoner exchange.
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