Palestinians walk among destroyed buildings in Gaza City, on Thursday, October 16, 2025 [Jehad Alshrafi/AP]
It has been ten days since the so-called "ceasefire" began—and Gaza is still under fire. Since October 10, more than 100 Palestinians have been killed, and just on Sunday, Israel dropped 153 tons of bombs across the Strip. That is not peace. That is occupation by another name.
People trying to return to what is left of their homes are being shot. Aid trucks are blocked or delayed. A UNRWA school-turned-shelter was bombed killing four more people with nowhere else to go. Violence has not stopped, it just shifted to a quieter, more politically expedient form.
Meanwhile, Israel continues to justify its actions by calling every victim a “terrorist”, while bulldozers flatten yet even more land to build yet another wall. Netanyahu is saying the war is not over and for the Palestinians, it is clear that it never was.
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This is not a stop to a ceasefire. This has and will expose what that ceasefire actually meant: a one sided pause in violence that was not intended to defend or protect Palestinians. And with US officials walking across Tel Aviv photo ops, the lack of action by the international community is more profound than ever.
Gaza is still bleeding. The world needs to stop looking away.
References:
https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/News/PressReleases/Pages/press201025n.aspx