The Zionist Entity “Resumes” Its Genocide

On March 18th, the Zionist entity announced it was “resuming” its military aggression on the Gaza Strip, starting with airstrikes that left more than 400 Palestinians martyred. This includes Gaza government officials responsible for aid distribution and social welfare. This aggression effectively buries the 16th of January ceasefire agreement after incalculable Israeli violations of it over the past two months.

On March 19th, the Zionist entity announced that it would conduct a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s War Minister Israel Katz issued a televised statement, in Hebrew no less, on this:

“Gaza residents, this is a final warning. The first Sinwar destroyed Gaza, and the second Sinwar will completely destroy it.” This statement should read, in any reasonable political climate with a sense of human justice, as a call to genocide. After all, pinning the blame on commanders of the Palestinian Resistance for the destruction of Gaza is as reasonable as it’s not circular logic that justifies genocide – it is not reasonable, simply another excuse for genocide.

Genocide in the Gaza Strip did not “resume,” as Israel completely obstructed heavy bulldozers from going into Gaza and only allowed high-calorie foodstuffs to enter through the Rafah Crossing. As such, we put resume in quotation marks because resumption implies a stop – the slow settler colonial violence manifested during the truce also killed at least a hundred Palestinians from the period of January to mid-February. This unrelenting violence is as normalized outside Gaza as it is barbaric and indicative of genocidal motivations.

What must we do? We must rally for Gaza, protest for it, and scream for it from the top of our lungs. Gaza is not an isolated strip of land – it has history, a geographical continuity with Egypt and the rest of the Levant. Settler colonial machinations cannot strip us of this very basic native geography: Gaza is part and parcel of this world, and the genocide against it will reverberate to other forms of Empire-fuelled violence across the entire globe.

With Love and Solidarity,

Ameed Faleh