Palestinians again trapped under the rubble as Israel violates ceasefire
Israeli fighter jets have just targeted a residential building in a suburban neighbourhood south of Gaza City. Many Palestinians have been confirmed killed, and dozens were injured, among them women and children.
The scenes here are repeating themselves – the same tragedy as Palestinians are again under the rubble after Israel violated the ceasefire agreement. We can clearly see here Civil Defence teams are struggling to get trapped Palestinians from beneath the rubble.
They are using manually operated tools and their bare hands to get many Palestinians who are still trapped under the rubble.
As I talked to residents here, they told me that this house was meant to be a refuge for at least 40 family members. They celebrated the ceasefire days ago, but now they ended up being targeted and brutally killed.
Five Palestinians killed in Israeli bombing of tent in central Gaza
Five Palestinians have been killed when Israel bombed a tent housing displaced people in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, a source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital tells Al Jazeera.
Others were wounded in the attack, the source said.
Israel ‘trying to undermine the ceasefire’
Israel is deliberately trying to undermine the ceasefire, a deal it was unwillingly dragged into by the United States, according to Mouin Rabbani.
Rabbani, a nonresident fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, told Al Jazeera that Israel had “never really fulfilled any of its commitments” under the deal.
“There was a ceasefire, but Israel has already killed over 100 Palestinians,” he said, adding that Israel had also not withdrawn to the agreed line in Gaza or allowed the agreed-upon amount of aid to enter Gaza.
“Now it’s using this pretext of, on the one hand, preventing the entry of the heavy equipment that’s needed to search for bodies under 61 million tonnes of rubble and the entirely expected delays in recovering those bodies as an excuse to erode the agreement,” he said.
He said it was “quite clear that Israel does not feel it is simply able to unilaterally renounce” the ceasefire. “So what we’re seeing is a gradual intensification of the process of erosion,” he said. “The key issue here now is how will the United States … respond.”
This is not a ceasefire, stop calling it that. Just like it's not a war, it's a genocide.
The question is how will Saudi Arabia respond, still coming to the White House on November 17th to sign the Abraham accords? If so, Trump isn't going to do anything. As long as the Arab states are fine with the continuation of the genocide, Trump will let Netanyahu do what he wants. Only when his trillion dollar deals are in jeopardy, he'll tell Netanyahu to reign it in.
