I am going to force you to see the 36 Palestinians Israel just slaughtered over the past 24 hours during this fake ceasefire.
There is no ceasefire. Period. Not one definition in the world for the word "ceasefire" allows one side to slaughter 30 men, women, and children. Period.
If just ONE Israeli baby was killed like this today we would have WALL TO WALL non-stop news coverage and you know it. The ONLY reason it’s me showing you these babies and not CNN is because they are Palestinians. Period.
Family, before we get into today’s report from Gaza, I need to say something personal and direct to you.
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Now let me tell you what Israel did under the cover of this so-called “ceasefire.”
The 2nd bloodiest night of the ‘ceasefire’
Over the past 24 hours, Israel carried out its second deadliest assault since the thing they call a ceasefire went into effect — killing at least 36 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
These weren’t military sites.
These weren’t resistance tunnels.
These were tent encampments and displacement shelters — places where families fled because Israel told them they’d be safer there.
Let me repeat that:
Israel bombed the very places where displaced families were told to seek safety.
Bodies poured into Al-Ahli and Al-Shifa hospitals “in an endless stream,” as eyewitnesses described it. Children arrived covered in dust and blood. Men carried small bodies wrapped in blankets. Mothers searched for the remains of their children. Hospital tents overflowed with the wounded.
Mahmoud Bassal, the spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense, said something that broke me. Standing in a hospital tent, surrounded by dying children, he said:
“The war has returned to the Gaza Strip… These children are being killed — their only crime is that they are children. Who will cry for them?”
The world calls it a ceasefire.
Gaza calls it what it is: genocide disguised as diplomacy.
What Israel bombed
Most of the dead came from:
A tent encampment in Khan Younis, where 17 people were killed — including five children.
A building belonging to the Ministry of Religious Endowments, used as a shelter, where Israel killed 16 displaced people, including seven children.
One man described being thrown into the street by the blast, searching through rubble for members of multiple families — children, parents, cousins, babies. Entire households erased in minutes.
And Israel’s excuse?
They claimed — with no evidence — that Hamas fighters fired a gun in the general area. They didn’t even claim that anyone was hit.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said 36 Palestinians were killed, including at least 12 children and eight women. Two entire families were wiped out.
That’s not a military strike.
That’s extermination.
Israel is expanding its occupation line — during the ceasefire
Here’s something even more outrageous: while the world is saying “the fighting has paused,” Israel physically moved the yellow concrete blocks that mark the boundaries of its occupation.
They literally shifted the line 300 meters west, swallowing new neighborhoods, forcing families — again — to run for their lives at dawn.
People woke up Thursday morning and found themselves suddenly living on the wrong side of an occupation line. That is how ethnic cleansing works: quietly, incrementally, one concrete block at a time.
This is the kind of language required under international law — a simple explanation:
A ceasefire that one side violates hundreds of times is not a ceasefire. It is a cover for continued crimes.
This came 48 hours after the UN voted to turn Gaza over to Trump
Two days before these massacres, the UN Security Council passed the U.S.–Israel plan to place Gaza under a so-called “International Stabilization Force” run by a Trump-chaired Board of Peace.
Not the UN.
Not the Palestinians.
Not an independent international authority.
Trump.
Craig Mokhiber — one of the most respected human rights lawyers the UN ever had — said:
“Not a single member of the Council had the courage, principle, or respect for international law to vote against this U.S.–Israel colonial outrage.”
The Security Council just handed Gaza to its co-perpetrator — the United States — and gave Israel a seat at the table. Meanwhile, Palestinians have no seat, no say, no sovereignty.
This is what a colonial resolution looks like:
Empower the occupier.
Disempower the occupied.
Then call it peace.
Nearly 400 ceasefire violations. Hundreds killed. Thousands displaced.
Since the ceasefire began on October 10th:
Israel has committed nearly 400 documented violations
312 Palestinians have been killed
760 have been wounded
1,500 buildings destroyed
Winter storms have flooded tents
4,000 households are sheltering on shorelines now being submerged
The Gaza Government Media Office said:
“These violations have claimed the lives of more than 300 martyrs and worsened the catastrophic conditions in the limited remaining space of the Gaza Strip.”
This is why I refuse the word “ceasefire.”
It is a ceasefire in name, genocide in practice.
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