GAZA – the genocide continues
This year has been marked by attempts to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza, agreement being reached, Israel breaching the terms of the agreement and further negotiations. Israel’s aim is to secure the release of the remaining hostages and then resume its genocide unhindered, to include any Palestinian prisoners it may have released from its dungeons. Hamas is insisting on a permanent ceasefire. In the meantime, Israeli aggression and genocide continues.
All the time the genocide continues, Israel itself is imploding from within, with its economy in tatters, its army increasingly undermanned and its citizens leaving the country in droves.
Israel has therefore been forced, therefore, to engage in ceasefire negotiations to prevent its own lifeblood seeping away, but as long as American funding and military assistance keeps flowing in, it is unable to let go of its dream of eliminating Palestinians from the territories it includes in the area it calls Eretz Israel which includes land from the Nile to the Euphrates, from Medina in Saudi Arabia to Lebanon, large parts of Syria, Iraq, and Egypt and the whole of Jordan and Palestine. Immediately it feels entitled to take over and control the whole of Palestine, freeing it of its Arab inhabitants, starting with the annexation of an ethnically cleansed Gaza and moving on to intensification of its clearance of the West Bank, where house demolitions and the building of Jewish settlements is already continuing at a much accelerated pace.
US imperialism is supposedly pressuring Israel to reach a ceasefire deal and to observe it, but since the military and financial support for the genocide carries on regardless, it is clear that this pressure is entirely fictitious, designed to save the face of US imperialism’s stooges in charge of various middle eastern countries who have not lifted a finger in support of Gaza.
Therefore, though a ceasefire deal was signed on 17 January this year, under which there was a hostage and prisoner exchange while Israel permitted some humanitarian aid to enter Gaza and let Gazans return to their largely destroyed homes, it did not last. During the first phase of the agreement, scheduled to end on 1 March, negotiations were supposed to continue towards finalising a permanent ceasefire after which all remaining hostage and prisoners would be released and exchanged. Thereafter, Israel would lift the blockade on Gaza.
However, Israel could not stop killing Palestinians, ceasefire or no ceasefire. According to Wikipedia (‘2025 Gaza ceasefire’, accessed on 27 April):
• On 20 January, Al Jazeera reported that at least three Palestinians were killed and eight others were injured by Israeli gunfire in Rafah, despite the ceasefire. In one such case Israeli forces opened fire on and killed 13-year old Zakariya Barbakh, then shot at locals who tried to retrieve his body.
• On 21 January, Wafa reported that two people were wounded by an Israeli drone and gunfire in Gaza.
• On 22 January, Israeli gunboats shelled towards the coast of Gaza city. On the same day, Israeli firing in Rafah’s Shaboura camp killed at least one Palestinian and wounded others who were removing rubble from destroyed houses. Later, an IDF spokesperson stated that, in accordance with the ceasefire terms, the IDF opened fire towards armed suspects and masked assailants who approached and posed a threat to IDF forces. During these incidents, a member of the Islamic Jihad organization named Akram ‘Atf Farhan Zanoun was killed.
• On 23 January, two Palestinians were killed by Israeli tank fire in Tel-al Sultan refugee camp.
• On 28 January, two Palestinian civilians, including a five-year-old child, were killed by Israeli attacks while trying to return to Northern Gaza.
• On 31 January, a 19-year-old fisherman named Saher Walid Al-Qar’an was killed by the Israeli navy near the Nuseirat refugee camp.
• On 2 February, an Israeli airstrike targeted the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing one child and injuring several others.
• On 5 February, a 13-year-old child was shot dead by Israeli forces in Rafah, according to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.
• On 9 February, IDF troops fired warning shots toward dozens of Palestinians approaching the border east of Gaza City near kibbutz Nahal Oz, and thus inside the buffer zone specified by the ceasefire. After failing to comply, three civilians were shot and killed. Commenting on the event, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz reiterated that there was “zero tolerance” for those violating the ceasefire’s buffer zone, while a Hamas civil-defense spokesman reminded Gazans to follow official directives regarding the border. In a separate incident, Israeli soldiers killed an elderly woman in al-Qarara, east of Khan Younis.
• On 10 February, one Palestinian was killed by the IDF; the victim was transported to the European Gaza Hospital by truck drivers working at the Karm Abu Salem crossing. In a separate incident, one Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces when they opened fire on people near Shuja’iyya. In another separate incident, two Palestinians were injured by Israeli snipers in the Al-Awda area of Rafah.
• On 11 February, Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians in western Rafah, killing a young man, Mohammad Nafith Hosni Abu Taha and injured three others. In a separate incident, a Palestinian was seriously wounded after the IDF shot him in Tal al-Sultan, Rafah. On that same day in the evening, the army also shot and injured two Palestinian citizens while they were near the Al-Awda Square.
• On 12 February, one Palestinian was killed and another seriously injured after an Israeli drone fired a rocket on a group of people who were inspecting their homes in the Abu Halawa area in Rafah.
• On 13 February, a Palestinian was shot and killed in Deir al-Balah.
• On 14 February, the Israeli navy shot and injured two Palestinian fishermen near Gaza City’s port. In another separate incident, Israeli forces wounded three Palestinians, including critically injured one in the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis.
• On 15 February, two Palestinians were injured when an Israeli drone attacked a bulldozer while attempting to remove building debris in Central Gaza.
• On 16 February, Israeli forces carried out an airstrike in Rafah, killing three policemen. The Gaza Interior Ministry stated that the policemen were members of a civilian apparatus and had been in the area to oversee distribution of humanitarian aid. On that same day, one Palestinian ended up succumbing to his injuries sustained in an Israeli bombardment in Rafah.
• On 17 February, two Palestinians from Rafah and Khan Younis respectively, died after sustaining wounds from the Israeli military two days prior.
• On 19 February, a 16-year-old child was killed by an Israeli sharpshooter while five others were injured in Rafah.
• On 20 February, a 23-year-old Palestinian man was killed by Israeli forces in Shuja’iyya while trying to check his house.
• On 21 February, a Palestinian woman was killed by Israeli gunfire in east Rafah.
• On 23 February, a Palestinian man was killed by an Israeli sniper in east of Gaza City.
• On 27 February, a child was seriously injured by an Israeli drone in Rafah.
• On 28 February, an 18-year-old male was killed by an Israeli drone strike in Rafah.
• On 2 March, two Palestinians were killed in Beit Hanoun by an Israeli drone strike. On the same day, a woman was killed and two others were injured by Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis while a young man was killed by gunfire in Rafah.
• On 4 March, a Palestinian civilian was killed by Israeli forces in Deir al-Balah.
• On 6 March, three Palestinians were killed after the Israeli army targeted them in a group of people in Shuja’iyya. One of them was killed instantly, while the other two victims succumbed to their injuries.
• On 8 March, two Palestinians were killed by an Israeli drone strike in Rafah.
• On 10 March, at least two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Bureij refugee camp.
• On 11 March, five Palestinians were killed by an Israeli airstrike near the Netzarim Corridor and a woman was killed by Israeli forces in Rafah.
• On 14 March, Israel carried out an airstrike in the Zeitoun district of Gaza city, killing four Palestinian civilians. On the same day, a fisherman was killed by an Israeli gunboat while fishing in Northern Gaza.
• On 15 March, the Gaza health ministry said that at least nine Palestinians, including Hossam Shabat and two other journalists, were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia; the head of Gazan civil defense said that they were using a drone to help build tents. Israel said six of those killed were Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad affiliated and operating ‘under the guise of journalists’. Later on that same day, three more Palestinians, including a child, were killed by Israeli gunfire and drone strikes.”
These Israeli violations led Hamas to cease releasing hostages, which Israel and the US then used as a justification for Israel’s violations of the agreement. With Israel not having engaged in the talks to reach a permanent ceasefire agreement by 1 March, the US proposed that, since the conditions had not been met for moving on to the second stage, the first phase be extended instead to allow further prisoner/hostage exchanges, which the Palestinian resistance rejected as by that time a. permanent ceasefire agreement should have been reached, which Israel clearly had no intention of ever allowing.
Although the ceasefire was still technically in force, immediately after 1 March Israel moved to stop all humanitarian aid reaching Gaza. On 9 March Israel cut off all electricity supplies. On 18 March Israeli airstrikes on Gaza were resumed in full force.
In full force, and with all its inhumanity, attacking schools and hospitals, and bombing refugees living in tent cities. 2,500 more Palestinians were killed in Gaza in just the first month after Israel broke the ceasefire.
Rabbi Brant Rosen on 11 April 2025 wrote of the horrors in an article in Truthout entitled ‘This Passover, we must reckon with Israel’s massacre of children in Gaza’ in which he exorted Jewish people “This Passover – the second to come amidst the ongoing genocide perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza and mass forced displacement in the West Bank – we would be grievously remiss if we failed to acknowledge the scores of children who have been killed, maimed and traumatized by Israel’s ongoing military onslaught.
“The official death toll in Gaza has now broken the 50,000 mark, including more than 17,000 children. (The medical journal The Lancet has concluded that the total number of those killed is likely 40 percent higher.) On March 18, the day that Israel broke a two-month ceasefire, the Israeli military killed more than 400 Palestinians, including 183 children and 94 women — on what observers call the single bloodiest day of the genocide.
“More recently, on April 3, Israel bombed the Dar al-Arqam School-turned-shelter in Gaza City, killing 29 people, 18 of whom were children. In its report on the attack, Al Jazeera quoted a spokesperson from Gaza’s emergency rescue workers: ‘What is going on here is a wake-up call to the entire world. This war and these massacres against women and children must stop immediately. Children are being killed with cold blood here in Gaza.’”
But the Israeli murderers have no time for Jewish religion.
“On 23 March, ten PRCS paramedics and six Civil Defence first responders were targeted when responding to treat Palestinians wounded after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah. One PRCS ambulance came under fire by Israeli forces, and three additional ambulances were dispatched to support the mission, before Israeli forces besieged the area and contact was lost. One paramedic was released by Israeli forces on 23 March, but until 29 March, Israeli forces refused to coordinate or permit access for rescue teams to the site to search for those that remained.
“On 29 March, PRCS teams, accompanied by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Palestinian Civil Defence teams accessed the area to find the ambulances, one fire-truck and a UN vehicle had been struck, crushed and partially buried, and the body of a Civil Defence worker beneath his fire-truck. On 30 March, rescue teams returned to the site and recovered the bodies of eight PRCS staff, six Civil Defence workers and one UN staff member buried in a mass grave. The Head of UNOCHA, Jonathan Whittall, described finding the paramedics had been in killed their uniforms, wearing their gloves as they sought to carry out their lifesaving duties” (‘MAP condemns the killing of paramedics and first responders in Rafah’, Medical Aid for Palestinians, 1 April 2025).
In the meantime the United Nations World Food Programme, which has been able to feed about 25% of starving Palestinians since 2 March, has just announced that it has run out of food. Despite the protests forthcoming from all over the world, Israel and its imperialist backers are seeking to starve to death those of the Palestinians who they cannot force out of Gaza.
The soft underbelly of the aggressor
Israel is nevertheless paying a heavy price – a price that will sooner or later lead to its fall: a website called Silenced Sirs has published the following analysis:
Since the beginning of the war, Israel has plunged into an unprecedented crisis on all fronts—economic, social, psychological, and political. While mainstream media attempts to conceal the truth, the numbers and facts paint a starkly different picture of a state that once claimed to be invincible.
This report will reveal the most critical indicators of Israel’s decline, based on the latest data as of March 21, 2025.
1. Unprecedented Economic Losses
Israel is facing a catastrophic economic collapse, the worst since its founding in 1948.
• Military losses: $34 billion.
•Total economic losses: $67 billion.
• Budget deficit: $40 billion (the largest in Israel’s history).
The economic repercussions in 2024 have been severe:
• 60,000 companies shut down, resulting in massive job losses.
• Tourism sector declined by 70%, causing a $5 billion loss.
• Construction sector lost $4 billion, with over 70 construction firms ceasing operations.
These numbers indicate that Israel is on the verge of an economic meltdown, which could cripple its ability to sustain the war effort.
2. Forced Displacement of Israelis
Due to the ongoing war and fear of resistance retaliation, 143,000 Israelis have fled their homes, particularly from settlements near Gaza and the northern border. Even after temporary ceasefires, many are too afraid to return, fearing another escalation.
This situation is not just an internal displacement crisis—it has triggered a mass exodus of Israelis out of the country, significantly impacting Israel’s demographic balance.
3. Unprecedented Psychological Crisis
The Israeli population is experiencing severe psychological trauma due to the prolonged conflict and fear of resistance operations:
• 900,000 Israelis suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—a record-breaking figure.
• One-third of Israelis are struggling with depression or other mental health disorders
• Alcohol consumption has risen by 25%, indicating a surge in substance abuse.
• Sleeping pill sales skyrocketed by 180%, meaning Israelis can no longer sleep without medical aid.
• In the Israeli army, 21 suicides were recorded in 2024—and the real number is likely much higher than reported.
These statistics show that morale inside Israel is at an all-time low, directly affecting military preparedness and internal stability.
4. The Reverse Jewish Exodus
One of the most alarming trends in Israel today is the mass emigration of Jews from the country, with:
• 82,700 Jews leaving Israel in 2024, the highest emigration rate in decades.
• In contrast, 70,000 Jews moved to Israel in 2002 from abroad. Today, the trend has completely reversed—Israel is witnessing a mass exodus rather than an influx.
This shift reflects a growing loss of faith in Israel’s future as a secure and stable state, which threatens its long-term viability.
5. Political and Moral Collapse
Israel is not just facing a military and economic crisis—it is also undergoing a severe political and diplomatic collapse:
• Its global image has been completely destroyed, as the world now recognizes its occupation and crimes against humanity.
• Many countries are distancing themselves diplomatically from Israel, with international condemnation rising.
• The illusion of a ‘democratic and peaceful Israel’ has crumbled, revealing its true face as an apartheid state.
These developments leave Israel weaker than ever on the global stage, increasingly isolated, and struggling to maintain international support.
6. Internal Revolt and Elite Divisions
One of the least reported but most significant crises in Israel today is the internal revolt within its elite circles:
• High-ranking officials, including a former Mossad chief and a former police commissioner, have openly turned against the government.
• Families of Israeli prisoners and captives have set up permanent protest camps outside the Ministry of Justice, demanding an end to the war.
• There is deep political division among Israeli leaders on how to handle the war, risking a potential collapse of the government itself.
This proves that Israel is not only losing externally—it is also imploding from within.
Conclusion: Are We Witnessing the Beginning of Israel’s End?
Israel today is not the same Israel the world knew a few years ago. Its economy is crumbling, its society is psychologically shattered, emigration is skyrocketing, its politics are in chaos, and internal dissent is growing.
These indicators all point to a critical turning point, leaving many to ask: Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the Zionist project?
While the final answer remains uncertain, one thing is clear—Israel is no longer invincible, and the resistance continues to drain it toward inevitable collapse.
The Zionist project is an imperialist project
What is happening in Gaza is a tragedy not only for the Palestinians, but also for Jews and for humanity at large. While it is the Palestinians who are the most obvious victims, imperialism has taken advantage of the suffering of Jewish people under the Nazis to mobilise large numbers of them to act as its attack dogs for control of the oil riches of the Middle East. Imperialism has heartlessly used the victims of genocide to be perpetrators of genocide in the Middle East. As a result, the ongoing violence in Gaza has undoubtedly led many Jews to critically reassess their views on Zionism, leading to increased pro-Palestinian activism within certain communities. Polls have indicated a growing sympathy for Palestinian perspectives among younger Jewish people. In Britain, the Jewish Board of Deputies has suspended and is disciplining 36 of its members over an open letter they signed condemning Netanyahu for breaking the ceasefire. Israelis, however, are brought up in an all-pervasive atmosphere of hate and contempt for Arabs in general, and for Palestinians in particular, and for most of them to free themselves of Zionist servitude will be a hard task.
However, sooner or later they will have to follow the example of the South African whites in dismantling their apartheid state and learning to live in peace and mutual respect with the people whom their forefathers displaced from their homes and land. Then truly, from the river to the sea Palestine will be free!