the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
May 12, 2025
This article is translated from the May 9 issue #2962 of Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle), the paper of the revolutionary workers group of that name active in France.
The Israeli government is guilty of the deaths of more than 52,000 Gazans in 19 months. Since Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu decided to break the ceasefire on March 18, 2,000 residents have been killed, including 437 in the last week of April alone.
A pharmacist trying to help people survive in a Gaza neighborhood described the war being waged against the residents as a holocaust. He lamented bitterly to journalists, “The world doesn’t seem bothered by 50 people dying a day from the bombings.” In addition to bombings and drone attacks terrorizing the population 24 hours a day, Israel’s complete blockade of the Gaza Strip is literally starving the two million Palestinians there who are without refuge.
The Israeli army’s hypocritical announcements broadcast by loudspeaker or by texts warn Gazans to move during bombings. But there is no place that is safe. “Everyone is a target in Gaza,” the pharmacist says.
After destroying electrical supply facilities and systematically targeting generators, cutting off access to drinking water, and ruining sewer systems, Israel rigorously prevents food, medicine, fuel, and basic necessities from reaching residents by either commercial or humanitarian means. Residents spend their days trying to find a scrap of food, a stick of wood, a drop of water. Some try to fish, using only old refrigerator doors as rafts. “No aid will enter Gaza,” the Defense Minister boasted in mid-April. His success is total.
Israeli drones even hit a Freedom Flotilla ship in international waters off Malta during the night of May 2. This humanitarian ship trying to deliver desperately needed aid suffered flames and a fire in its hull and a breach. Israel’s method, on the level of high-tech pirates, is not new. In 2010, a Turkish-flagged humanitarian ship Navi Marmara was attacked by Israel.
The liquidation of Gaza’s people is elaborated thoroughly in Netanyahu’s plan. His spokesman David Spencer summarized his position after the security cabinet meeting on May 4. He said he might allow humanitarian aid in Gaza, if it proves “necessary”—but he believes now Gaza has “sufficient” food. He claims Hamas stole food sent two months earlier and is now making up the story of famine. This provocative cynicism speaks volumes. The Butcher Netanyahu pursues a policy of extermination, with the silent complicity of his allies in powerful countries.