"A strange kind of calm has settled over Israel in the weeks since the Gaza ceasefire was declared. The sirens stopped. The hostages who survived the 7 October attack and nearly two years in captivity came home. But this calm which has not been extended to Gaza, where more than 200 civilians have been killed since the ceasefire supposedly went into effect is built around an unclear plan by Donald Trump that does not address the root causes of the violence,"
"For nearly two years, Israel waged a campaign in Gaza that meets the clearest definition of genocide: a systematic, often openly declared attempt to destroy a group of people, the Palestinians in Gaza, through killing, starvation, forced displacement, and the destruction of life-sustaining conditions. Genocide is not a metaphor here. It is the only term that fits. Our organization, B'Tselem, published a report last July titled Our Genocide."
Genocide operates as a process whose roots and enabling conditions often become visible only in retrospect. Unchanged conditions and lack of accountability create a high likelihood of renewed or escalated violence. The Gaza ceasefire produced calm in Israel while violence persisted in Gaza, where more than 200 civilians were killed after the ceasefire. The ceasefire rests on an unclear plan that fails to address root causes, leaving the underlying machinery and logic of domination intact. Israel's nearly two-year campaign in Gaza matches the definition of genocide through killing, starvation, forced displacement, and destruction of life-sustaining conditions. Israeli and Palestinian researchers coordinated to document events and concluded the campaign met the definition of genocide.
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