🩸 “Ceasefire”? Israel Has Now Killed Over 100 Palestinians in a Week — and the World Pretends Not to See

CNN, MSNBC, and The New York Times would make you think peace broke out. Instead, Israel keeps slaughtering families — and calling it restraint.

Oct 18, 2025

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Family — this is what moral rot looks like.

A so-called “ceasefire” that has already claimed the lives of more than 100 Palestinians in just seven days.

You’d barely know a single Palestinian had been killed if you watched CNN or MSNBC or read the front pages of The NY Times and The Washington Post.

That silence isn’t journalism. It’s complicity.

A Week of Murder — Sold as Peace

Seven days.
That’s all it took for Israel to shatter its own “ceasefire.”
Over 100 Palestinians are dead — entire families wiped from the registry — while the same politicians who brokered this deal congratulate themselves for “progress.”

Not one of the major networks or newspapers — not one has shown their faces.
No wall-to-wall coverage. No panels. No outrage.
You would think the killing stopped the moment they said “ceasefire.”
But it didn’t stop.

If you live in Gaza, today hardly feels different than last month or last year.

A Family Erased

This morning, Ramy Abdul, chairman of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, shared what should have been breaking news everywhere in the world — but wasn’t.

🟥 In a new violation of the ceasefire, Israel carried out a horrific massacre today against the Abu Shaaban family on the outskirts of Zaytun.
Victims include:
– Ihab Nasser Abu Shaaban (38) – husband
– Randa Majid Muhammad Abu Shaaban (36) – wife
– Nasser Ihab Abu Shaaban (13) – son
– Jumana Ihab Abu Shaaban (10) – daughter
– Ibrahim Ihab Abu Shaaban (6) – son
– Muhammad Ihab Abu Shaaban (5) – son
Also killed were his sister Samer Muhammad Nasser Shaaban (Abu Shaaban before marriage), her husband Sufyan Othman Shaaban, and their three children:
– Nesma Sufyan Shaaban (12)
– Karam Sufyan Shaaban (10)
– Anas Sufyan Shaaban (8)

Thirteen members of one family — gone.
Parents, children, cousins, wiped out in a single airstrike during what Israel dares to call a ceasefire.

Could you imagine the headlines if Palestinians had killed a single Israeli family this week?

The anchors would be crying on television.

There would be emergency briefings, new sanctions, fresh bombardments.
But when Israel kills entire families, the world calls it a pause.

Broken Promises and Blocked Aid

Even the bare minimum promises of the ceasefire are being violated in plain sight.

The Rafah crossing is still closed.
The promised 300–500 aid trucks per day? Never allowed in.
And in an act of pure cruelty, Israel has begun re-arresting Palestinian hostages it just released — men dragged back to the same prisons they left days ago.

This is not a ceasefire.
This is a reset for genocide, a pause only long enough for the occupier to reload.

Where Are the Enforcers?

Every nation that claimed it would “enforce” this agreement — the United States, Egypt, Qatar, the U.N. — has failed miserably.
They tweet about diplomacy while Israel bombs refugee camps.
They talk about aid convoys while Gaza’s children starve to death waiting for trucks that never arrive.

To call this enforcement is to mock the word itself.
These governments are not referees; they are silent partners.

The Media’s Cowardice

Let’s tell the truth:
The reason Americans don’t know that Israel has already killed over 100 Palestinians during this ceasefire is because the press has made a choice not to tell them.

The same outlets that can trace a single drone strike in Ukraine down to the serial number suddenly can’t confirm who dropped a bomb in Rafah.
The same papers that spent a decade profiling ISIS leaders can’t even name the families Israel just killed.

Their silence is not neutrality.
It’s permission.

The Moral Reckoning

There is no “balance” between occupier and occupied, between a nuclear-armed state and the trapped civilians it starves and bombs.
A ceasefire that allows Israel to keep killing, keep starving, and keep arresting is not peace.
It’s performance — genocide with a PR team.

And the world, by pretending not to see, becomes part of it.

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