Israel’s genocide against Palestine has continued unabated since the ceasefire implemented on October 10. In the past two months, Israeli airstrikes and gunfire have killed nearly 400 people — an average of five per day — and injured nearly 1,000 in the Gaza Strip. All told, officials in Gaza say that the Zionist state has committed around 800 ceasefire violations, threatening to derail the second phase of the deal.

In addition to continued bombing campaigns, Israel is also preventing much-needed aid from reaching Palestinians. The number of aid trucks is far below the terms agreed to in the ceasefire, let alone enough to rebuild the enclave: Israel’s genocidal campaign has damaged or destroyed over 80 percent of all buildings, ruined 95 percent of farmlands, and decimated sanitation systems. As a result of this destruction, at least a dozen people have been killed during heavy rains that have collapsed more houses.

Israel is also moving full-steam ahead on its plan to annex the Strip. Although the ceasefire stipulates that Israeli forces are meant to withdraw from Gaza, the Zionist state has continued to keep troops in the Strip, retaining control of 58 percent of the territory. Israel is also attempting to make the new occupation permanent: the Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), has said that the “yellow line” which currently marks the IDF’s limits is the “new border line.”

Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign isn’t limited to Gaza. Palestinians in the West Bank are experiencing the highest level of violence since the 1967 start of the occupation. Since October 2023, more than 1,000 have been killed, including 277 this year alone. In addition to deadly shootings, Palestinians in the West Bank are exposed to raids, beatings, arbitrary arrest, and prison torture.

This situation makes clear that this is a ceasefire in name only, and Israel will not stop committing genocide and ethnically cleansing Palestinians, whether in Gaza or in the West Bank.

U.S. imperialism, particularly President Trump’s colonial 20-point “Peace Plan,” cannot guarantee a ceasefire nor protect Palestinians. We also cannot rely on European countries which, just like the United States, continue to provide aid to Israel — like Germany, which has resumed arms shipments.

For their part, the regimes of the countries in the region — including Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Turkey — have also been complicit in the genocide and back Trump’s plan, despite popular demonstrations against Israel. For instance, the Sisi government in Egypt has helped enforce the Rafah border closure and keep Gaza isolated, all while deporting activists attempting to break the siege of Gaza.

Instead, the Palestine movement across the world must return, showing its full solidarity with people in Gaza and the West Bank. We’ve seen powerful demonstrations of this force across the world in recent years — like the hundreds of thousands who have marched in cities across Europe, the youth occupations in both Europe and the United States, and the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Key to this fight is the labor movement: workers make the economy run, and they can grind the gears of imperialism — like arm shipments — to a halt. Workers in Italy recently showed the way forward, by going on strike to protest the genocide. Until the genocidal state of Israel and its imperialist accomplices are defeated, the global working class cannot stop fighting for Palestinian liberation.

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