An Endless Genocide in Palestine | Capire Report
On the night of March 17th, 2025, the Israel Defense Forces launched another attack against Palestinian territories, disregarding a ceasefire agreement that lasted less than two months. Israeli military planes bombed several areas across Palestinian land, from Gaza City, in the north, to Khan Yunis, in the south. Recent data from the Gaza Health Ministry show that 591 Palestinians, including 200 children, have been killed, and 1,042 people have been injured in the enclave since Israel violated the ceasefire agreement. Even before the recent attacks, Israel was already back to blocking the Gaza border and preventing trucks from carrying water, food, and other essential items to Palestinians. As La Via Campesina stated in response to the recent attacks against civilians in Gaza during Ramadan, “This is genocide. It is an organized, systematic attempt to erase the Palestinian people, and the world is allowing it to happen.”
In a statement available here, Amjad Shawwa, director of the Palestinian NGO Network, says that “75,000 people are currently in the northern part of Gaza, without food or humanitarian aid for the past two months. They have been displaced three or four times. Seventy percent of those killed are women and children. Seventy percent of the hospitals are no longer functioning. The food crisis is unmanageable: in the Gaza Strip, crops such as citrus fruits, oranges, grapes, guavas, and strawberries were previously produced. All these crops have been destroyed, and famine has now taken hold. Before October 7, 700 to 800 trucks crossed the border daily; today, only 30 to 40 trucks are allowed through, which accounts for just 5% of daily needs. NGOs are doing what they can to help the people.”
In the West Bank, activists with the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), linked with the international peasant movement La Via Campesina, have denounced the quick escalation of the violence perpetrated by Israeli military and settlers. As their statement published on January 27th, 2025 reads, “Following the ceasefire in Gaza, the Israeli occupation announced a shift in its military focus and resources to the West Bank. In turn, the Israeli Occupation Forces declared plans to escalate the scope and intensity of its operations in the West Bank and redeploy its troops from Gaza, including the ‘Nahal Brigade.’ These moves signal a clear intensification of systemic Israeli efforts to expand control over Palestinian land and dismantle Palestinian society.”