“The war is over,” declared President Donald Trump on his way to Israel. This announcement, however, rang hollow with Palestinians, mediators, and every expert I have spoken to. One immediate red flag was the total absence of protestation from Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right allies, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who had repeatedly vowed to quit and collapse the government if Israel ends the genocide in Gaza.
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It didn’t take long before Israel resumed killing and besieging Gazans. Within 24 hours of the ceasefire’s beginning, Israel killed at least 35 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 72 others. On Tuesday morning, the day after Hamas released all living captives, Israel resumed aerial bombardment in Gaza with an airstrike that reportedly killed five civilians in Shejaiya and another that killed two in Khan Younis.
Israel then officially declared it would continue to close the Rafah crossing, Gazans’s only gateway to the world, although it was supposed to open both ways immediately after the hostages’ release. Israel also announced restricting humanitarian aid entering the enclave under the pretext that Hamas was “not taking sufficient steps to locate the bodies of [dead] hostages.”
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