In January of 2025, Israel achieved a ceasefire with Hamas to temporarily end the fighting in Gaza. Though temporary, the ceasefire agreement contained a tiered plan to negotiate a permanent end to the war assuming all parties involved were willing to pursue peace. Unfortunately, the ceasefire negotiations collapsed in mid-February and Israel fully resumed its attacks in Gaza by mid-March. At least 10,000 more Gazans have been killed since. To this day, August 2025, Israel’s war wages on with new horrors being revealed every few hours.
Israel had peace in its hands. With full air superiority, control of the Mediterranean sea, and the destruction of over 70% of all infrastructure in Gaza, it would seem that Israel’s perceived enemies in Gaza have been utterly subjugated. Netanyahu’s army has a godlike control over Gaza, as sleepless drones roam the skies autonomously seeking targets and vast systems of fences and checkpoints prevent the native population from moving freely above ground. The bombings continue regardless. One has to ask– are there any Hamas fighters even left alive in the enclave? Do their numbers even exceed a thousand people? Or is Israel pumping Gaza full of lead just for the joy of it? Given the lack of transparency on the ground, nobody is able to confirm exactly what the military’s goals are or if a given target marked for death posed a military threat at all.
On the ground, structures resembling concentration camps have arisen. The American corporation established to distribute food in Gaza (the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” an Orwellian name for an Orwellian age) has constructed long corridors of barbed wire fencing to corral Palestinian bodies across the landscape toward aid distribution points.
Live ammunition is used to frighten and often kill Palestinians seeking aid. Despite the veneer of humanitarianism suggested by the organization’s name, the people of Gaza are being treated more like animals in line to the slaughterhouse than humans.
What profit does this American company turn by militarizing food assistance to starving people in an active war zone? We don’t know. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, despite receiving public funding from the US government, is otherwise a private organization that keeps its revenue and backers secret.
Despite the blockade of journalists in Gaza (Israel does not allow outside eyes to report on the situation in the enclave), images of the impacts of Israel’s war are nonetheless leaking out. Photographs of emaciated children have begun to proliferate online.
There is little hope for peace in Gaza. Israel has decided that starvation is an adequate punishment for its neighbors that it has deemed mortal enemies. The United States has decided to fully back Israel militarily, so no country can hope to intervene unless it is willing to be pummeled to ash by the most powerful military on the planet. Every time a country threatens to send missiles to Israel, America’s military presence in the middle east rises out of the shadows and shuts down all opposition. Economically, the USA has no incentive to stop. US tech firms like Google and Palantir all have military contracts with Israel. American guns and bombs feed Israel’s operations, and now American food distributors are playing an anonymous role in “feeding” Gaza’s population through shadowy organizations defended by mercenaries.
The decision to choose war over peace is an insane one. But for now, those in power in Israel and the USA see the continuation of the conflict as lucrative. All across the globe, conflict is rising. From Sudan to Congo, from Yemen to Ukraine, people are dying while the whole world divides itself into allies and enemies. We have seen this happen before. The results are obvious and somehow unavoidable.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/13/israel-humanitarian-city-rafah-gaza-camp-ehud-olmert