Over the past month, the demolition machine never paused. Between 28 April and 27 May, the army carried out 50 separate demolition operations—an average of one and two-thirds raids every day—erasing 169 Palestinian structures. Each sunrise brought the almost certain prospect of another five or six family homes, animal pens or water tanks being reduced to rubble.
The Government Media Office in Gaza made a press statement, estimating that a daily minimum of 500 trucks filled with aid and 50 trucks of fuel are urgently needed in order to save the lives of 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza. Already, 26 people have died in the last 24 hours due to imposed starvation and a lack of medicine.
This violence flows necessarily from the transformation of monopoly capitalism into its imperialist stage: as capital concentrates in ever larger private conglomerates, the export of surplus value demands new markets, raw materials and zones of cheap labour. In practice, this drive for accumulation subordinates entire territories to the logic of capital, converting land and people into resources to be extracted by force. The resulting military interventions, enforced border regimes, and settler-colonial occupations are therefore not aberrations but the logical consequence of capitalist accumulation crossing its own spatial limits.
Over the last month, members of the Good Shepherd Collective have travelled across California, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. In this short period, we held over 25 public and private meetings with organizations, community support groups, small activist formations, and student organizers to discuss our experiences, share our insight, and learn from others’ hard-earned wisdom as well.
While people could argue that it is par for the Trump administration’s course to issue such policies, we believe that Gaza has unveiled a new reality where Empire no longer needs to pretend to care. We are witnessing a reshaping of the entire West’s “humanistic” basis into what it truly stands for.
Ahmed Manasra has finally been released from occupation prisons after nine and a half years of imprisonment, neglect, and torture. Manasra was first abducted at the age of thirteen.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
We recognize the critical importance of this historical moment and the essential value of gathering around shared principles and mutual solidarity. Creating a better world requires us to connect meaningfully with one another, align our understanding, and determine the most effective ways to support liberation.
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