US and Israel still blaming Hamas for lack of ceasefire – but latest deal won’t stop the killing and Israel has no intention of halting its genocide in Gaza
The new ‘ceasefire deal’ that has been touted by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken – with him blaming ‘Hamas’ for it not being agreed – isn’t a ceasefire deal at all and is stacked entirely in favour of Israel and the objectives it has been unable to achieve militarily.
Yet Israel still hasn’t agreed it – though this has not stopped US spokespeople claiming that it has.
The so-called ‘deal’:
involves no permanent ceasefire and no withdrawal of Israeli forces
involves no release of the thousands of Palestinian hostages held and tortured by Israel – but the release of Israeli captives
leaves Israel’s years-long blockade in place
leaves Israel in control of the vital Rafah border, through which most humanitarian aid needs to flow and where it is almost wholly being blocked by Israel and far-right settler groups protected by Israeli troops, and the ‘Philadelphi corridor’ that runs along it
leaves Israel in control of the so-called ‘Netzarim corridor’ that splits Gaza into northern and southern halves and is used by Israel as a conduit and launching point for murderous raids north and south
leaves residents of nothern Gaza, who moved south to supposed ‘safe zones’ where they were still bombed and slaughtered by occupation forces, permanently unable to return north
rejects the agreed UN resolution for a permanent ceasefire
leaves Israel at liberty to continue its genocidal war on Palestinian civilians as long as it wants
Blinken and his spokespeople have claimed that Israel has agreed the deal and only Hamas is preventing its implementation. However, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokespeople have said the deal is not agreed – even though Israel was allowed to add various punitive conditions to what had been discussed before.
Netanyahu himself said this week that he will never accept any ceasefire that leaves Israel unable to continue its attacks on Gaza until ‘Hamas is destroyed’ – a goal that military experts including those in Israel say is unachievable and that Israel is nowhere near. The Israeli regime classifies all adult males in Gaza as ‘Hamas’ and even mid to older teens, while the occupation force routinely targets attacks on homes and shelters it knows contain women and infants.
So far, Israel has killed around 200,000 people and maimed around twice as many – mostly women and children – and is imposing famine and rampant disease on around two million Palestinians in Gaza, part of a constant stream of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The US and its tame, complicit UK government continue to supply it with weapons, military support and political cover.
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