War of Extermination Continues Despite Ceasefire Agreement

The ceasefire agreement in Gaza has become more of a symbolic gesture rather than a genuine transformation on the ground! Blood is still spilled, and the sound of bombardment still echoes in the memory of every household, as if the truce were nothing more than an artificial calm masking the ongoing Zionist killing machine. Indeed, the scene in Gaza today reflects the tragedy of a city being drained day after day, breathing through the rubble, enduring its wounds while its people await a miracle that restores their right to safety. The Zionist attack has not ceased, continuously claiming Palestinian lives every hour in a siege that prevents food and medicine, and in intermittent raids sowing death around civilians. The ceasefire, in the view of the occupation force, represents a respite for repositioning. You cannot achieve true peace with a project built on negating the other and obliterating their existence from both consciousness and geography.

The humanitarian scene in Gaza continues to reveal the scale of the ongoing tragedy by its statistics. The truce that was signed did not stop the killing. More than 210 people have died since the agreement, including women and children, and thousands of wounded are living in pain without treatment after hospitals have been reduced to rubble. Medicine is under siege at the crossings, just as souls are trapped beneath the debris, with more than 68,000 people having been martyred since the start of the aggression, and 170,000 injured in body and dreams. Gaza has been transformed into a landscape overflowing with death and destruction, and these numbers stand as testimony to the ongoing crime and absence of deterrence. The occupation army continues the killing in many ways — from shelling to siege to starvation — turning the truce into a cover that allows for the prolongation of the Palestinian tragedy before the eyes of the world.

The calamity expands as the aggression spreads to the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, where the occupation continues its settlement project under an infuriating international silence. The announcement of more than 30,000 new settlement units within a single year reflects a clear intention to empty the land of its people and completely close the horizon for a Palestinian state. Consequently, what is happening in the West Bank and Jerusalem is part of the very same scene; the bombing in Gaza is matched by settlement encroachment in the West Bank, with the single objective of uprooting Palestinians from their land and altering geography and history. Therefore, a true ceasefire must encompass all occupied Palestinian territories, because the continuation of aggression in any area means the liquidation project continues. This policy, which combines bombardment and expansion, represents the full face of the occupation, seeking to establish a new colonial reality that erases the Palestinian presence from both memory and place.

The appeal delivered by the Permanent Palestinian Ambassador to the U.N. expresses the last remaining Palestinian voice confronting a deaf international machinery that is content with merely observing and turning a blind eye to genocide. The call for urgent action to halt violations and implement the rulings of the International Court of Justice represents a real test of the credibility of the global system that claims to defend human rights. The continued silence provides the occupation with cover to persist in killing and siege, rendering international laws lifeless texts. In short, justice is not achieved through statements, and the world is now required to take concrete measures that put an end to impunity and restore the dignity of the Palestinian people. The moral responsibility is clear for all to see. The steadfastness of the Palestinians is a recurring act of life, affirming that their existence is firmly rooted in both history and human consciousness.