Israel Strikes Gaza Marketplace and Tent Camp, Killing and Wounding Palestinians
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/12/headlines/israel_strikes_gaza_marketplace_and_tent_camp_killing_and_wounding_palestinians
In Gaza, Israeli forces have continued deadly attacks on Palestinians over the past 24 hours — in the latest violations of the U.S.-brokered October 10 ceasefire agreement. Palestinian reporters say two women were killed and seven others were injured, including three children, after Israeli forces targeted tents sheltering displaced families in the Nuseirat refugee camp. In western Gaza City, health officials say one Palestinian was killed and others were wounded when an Israeli drone fired a missile on a market. This is a Palestinian survivor of the attack.
"Gaza is not an isolated tragedy. It is the epicentre of global politics."
https://progressive.international/wire/2026-03-12-gaza-is-not-an-isolated-tragedy-it-is-the-epicentre-of-global-politics/en/
In her speech at the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, Yara Hawari examines the brutal reality of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, where US-supplied thermobaric weapons have literally evaporated thousands of Palestinians. Drawing parallels to US aggression in Venezuela, sanctions on Cuba, and the war on Iran, Hawari argues that Gaza functions as a laboratory for weapons, surveillance technology, and occupation tactics that are already being deployed against populations worldwide.
Last month, I read a headline that didn’t sound real. It said that thousands of Palestinians in Gaza had been evaporated. Not displaced. Not injured. Not killed. Evaporated.
It turns out that the Israeli regime used US supplied thermobaric weapons that don’t just explode. They inhale. They suck the oxygen out of a space and then they ignite it. This produces a fireball which reaches up to 3000 degrees celsius. In that kind of heat, concrete cracks, steel bends. And human bodies inevitably, horrifyingly, evaporate.
This is not science fiction. This is real and it is now and it is Gaza.
For the last two and a half years, Gaza has been subjected to a brutal and ongoing genocide. It has endured roughly six times the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, concentrated on an area less than half the size of Hiroshima. The devastation has been all encompassing.
When the October 2025 ceasefire was declared, I think there was a collective feeling of relief. But what soon became very clear was that the ceasefire in Gaza, as so many ceasefires with Israel have been, was a diplomatic sham- a tool to make sure Gaza slips out of the headlines and for the genocide to continue under the guise of diplomacy. And indeed, the Israeli regime has violated the ceasefire every single day, killing Palestinians every single day and limiting aid every single day. Since the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, the Israeli regime has closed all the border crossings and stopped completely that trickle of aid.
Meanwhile, Trump’s disgustingly named Board of Peace has come up with dystopic plans for concentration camps in Gaza, where communities will be constantly surveilled, their biometric data collected, calories counted, healthcare and education controlled. All under the watchful eye of colonial overlords. The contracts for building these concentration camps will be sold to the highest bidders. This is what the Trump administration has laid out for the future of Gaza. And while they draft this dystopian future, they are erasing the past two years.
There is no talk of justice. No pursuit of accountability. No investigations into the thousands of massacres. Instead, there is an effort to bury it all. To push the rubble into the sea, along with the thousands of martyrs still trapped beneath it and to demand that we forget what was done in Gaza.
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Because that is what we must understand. The architecture being tested on Palestinians does not stay in Palestine. It travels. It is exported. It becomes precedent.
This is a system functioning as designed. But this system didn’t build itself- it comes after decades of complicity by states, corporations and individuals.
I am certain that the genocide in Gaza will define our generation and the generations that follow. We are living through a historical rupture. The question is not whether this moment will shape the future. The question is how. And the answer to that question depends on what we do.
Solidarity is important but in today’s world, we need more. The task at hand is radical transformation. To convert moral outrage into political power. To convert mass mobilisation into structural change. To build the institutions, the alliances, and the political will that make genocide impossible- not just unpopular- now and forever.
Now more than ever it is clear that freeing Palestine means freeing the world. There is no more waiting. Because we cannot live in a world where regimes are permitted to evaporate human beings. Not ever again.
