Endless Horror in Gaza

Apr 14, 2025

This article is translated from the April 11 issue #2958 of Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle), the paper of the revolutionary workers group of that name active in France.

All food aid deliveries to Gaza have been stopped since March 2. Since the beginning of the war on October 8, 2023, Israeli bombings and ground assaults have already killed 53,000 Palestinians, 70% being women and children.

The survivors pitch their tents in fields of ruins, wherever they can. They are deprived of everything. No drinking water, electricity, or sewer service. Unvaccinated. Children infected with polio. They are forced to move again, as in Rafah, where Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to seize land. In fact, he plans to reoccupy a quarter of the territory and establish “security zones,” including Israeli roads Palestinians may not cross, dividing the narrow territory into so many narrower strips.

Despite protests by Israelis when Netanyahu visited Hungary and then met with Trump, Netanyahu ordered an intensification of the war. He claims this will exert pressure on Hamas to release its remaining Israeli hostages. Israeli ground assaults in Gaza resumed, along with targeted assassinations by bombings.

Soon after, the bodies of 14 rescuers and a United Nations aid worker were discovered in a mass grave. Video shot by one of the victims proves they were deliberately targeted in their emergency vehicles. The vehicles were traveling together, clearly marked and with their flashers on. But their occupants were deliberately executed in cold blood, according to a Palestinian doctor. Palestinian journalists were also deliberately targeted on April 7. Two lost their lives, with one burned alive in a tent fire.

For the past 18 months, tens of thousands of Palestinians have fallen victim to Israeli terrorism armed and encouraged by Western leaders.