🚫 How Israel Completely Broke the Ceasefire in 72 Hours

They bombed and killed an entire family today. Drones are everywhere. They refused to open the Rafah crossing and won't let almost anything inside of Gaza. It's the scam we hoped it wouldn't be.

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What “peace” looks like in Gaza today

Do you see that photo above? Israel dropped a bomb on a family this morning in Gaza and killed half the family. That’s them.

Now, please imagine what would happen if Hamas dropped a bomb in Israel today and killed a family. YOU ALREADY KNOW. It would be all over the news and the genocide would be back in full effect.

Family, the ceasefire is 72 hours old — on paper. But the deal is clearly Gaza ceases and Israel fires.

On the ground, Israeli strikes have hit Gaza City again, killing and injuring civilians. In the last 24 hours alone, at least six Palestinians were killed and twenty-nine wounded. At the same time, the government in Tel Aviv has declared it will keep Rafah closed and restrict aid until Hamas returns every last body of deceased Israeli captives.

Read that again. First, Israel leveled neighborhoods, buried people under concrete, and blocked heavy equipment from entering to clear the rubble. Now it says: “Until you find and return all the bodies buried under the rubble we created — no aid.” That’s not a condition. That’s a pretext. It is starvation as a weapon, dressed up as “implementation.” My own friends can’t find the bodies OF THEIR MOTHERS AND FATHERS AND SONS AND DAUGHTERS.

Journalists and aid workers in Gaza — Motasem A. Dalloul, Muhammad Shehada, Nour Odeh, and others — are documenting the same reality: bombs during a ceasefire, Rafah locked, families punished for a task Israel makes physically impossible. Israeli media and wire services carry the government line; the people digging through collapsed homes carry the truth.

What was promised — and what’s being broken

Phase One of the deal was simple: release the living hostages and the remains of the dead, exchange prisoners, open Rafah in both directions, and scale aid to at least the UN’s minimum survival level. Israel would redeploy to an agreed line inside Gaza. The world was told the killing would stop.

Instead, we have a ceasefire announced with fanfare and violated in practice. Airstrikes continue. Aid is throttled. And the border that determines whether babies eat tonight — Rafah — is being used like a faucet to discipline an entire people.

Let me be painfully clear: you cannot demand the return of remains while blocking the cranes, bulldozers, and crews needed to recover them. That is logic as cruel as it is deliberate.

The moral math they don’t want you to do

What Israel is saying out loud:

• “We bombed most of Gaza’s urban grid.”

• “We will not allow the equipment required to clear the grid.”

• “We will keep borders closed and aid restricted until you clear the grid.”

That is collective punishment under a new name. It is also a preview of how this government intends to manage any “peace”: a truce when useful; a loophole when convenient; a siege whenever it chooses.

Objection & Answer

Objection: Hamas broke the deal first by failing to return all remains.
Answer: Hamas and other factions told mediators from the start that locating remains would take time and they would need fuel and equipment. Israel’s own destruction and the ban on heavy equipment make the search impossible at speed. Keeping Rafah closed while demanding results is not enforcement — it’s sabotage of the agreement.

Objection: Bombings were “limited defensive actions.”
Answer: A ceasefire is supposed to be a ceasefire. “Limited” airstrikes that kill civilians violate the spirit and the letter of what the world just announced.

Objection: Aid is entering.
Answer: Not at promised levels — and any trickle cannot offset a population deliberately starved for two years. The metric is not whether a few trucks roll; it’s whether Rafah is open, aid is scaled, and famine indicators fall.

What must happen now

• Open Rafah immediately in both directions. Trucks, fuel, and the heavy equipment required to recover remains must pass — without games.

• Publish an implementation calendar. Day-by-day milestones, aid tonnage, and redeployment lines.

• Deploy independent monitors and press. Not chaperoned embeds — free movement for international media and humanitarian observers to verify compliance in real time.

• Trigger consequences for violations. If bombs fall during a truce or Rafah is closed again, aid, trade, and diplomatic costs must follow automatically — not after another thousand funerals.

The human truth behind the headlines

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: a can of baby formula is not charity — it’s medicine. A border that opens is not politics — it’s oxygen. A bulldozer allowed through Rafah is not a concession — it is the only way to keep the promise everyone claims to want kept.

So when you see headlines that say, “Israel keeps Rafah closed until Hamas returns remaining bodies,” translate it correctly: starvation continues until Palestinians deliver what Israel itself buried under rubble and forbids them to unearth.

This is why our work can’t stop

We will keep publishing receipts and saying plainly what the nightly news won’t. We’ll keep pushing convoys of formula, bottles, and supplies the moment crossings open. And we will keep the pressure on the men who call this “peace” while the sky is still on fire.

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