🩸Israel slaughtered 104 Palestinians YESTERDAY. 46 children. What kind of "ceasefire" is this?

Strikes hit tents in Al-Mawasi, homes and gatherings across Gaza. Officials counted 46 children and 20 women among the dead, 250+ injured—and the army called it “renewed enforcement.”

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What kind of ceasefire is this?

Last night into the morning, under a truce the world keeps calling a “ceasefire,” Israel shut it off, unleashed “powerful”strikes across Gaza, killed at least 104 people (medical officials say 46 were children and at least 20 were women), injured 250+ (including 70+ children) — and then announced the ceasefire was “resumed.” What exactly do those words mean if you can toggle them at will, slaughter a hundred civilians, and declare everything normal again by breakfast?

A ceasefire that can be paused to kill and resumed for optics is not a ceasefire. It’s a license.

They hit tents, homes, gatherings

Gaza’s Civil Defense says the strikes targeted homes, tents, and gatherings across multiple cities — including Al-Mawasi, the coastal area designated for displaced families who were explicitly told to shelter there. Hospitals reported the dead and wounded pouring in through the night. Photographs out of Nasser, Al-Awda, Al-Shifa show fathers carrying children in sheets; families mourning in crowded corridors; rescuers picking through rubble where tents used to be.

Then came the line that insults the injury: the army said it had “begun the renewed enforcement” of the ceasefire. Renewed enforcement — after the strikes that killed a hundred. If that phrase doesn’t make your blood boil, check your pulse.

Spin and silence

Officials say the strikes were in response to a Hamas attack on soldiers in an IDF-controlled area near Rafah. Hamas denies it. And experts say that it’s likely Israel again ran over an unexploded bomb of their own. Rafah is completely flattened and not a single building remains. I seriously doubt anyone from Hamas is anywhere near there. It’s completely controlled by the IDF.

What is verifiable is the civilian body count, the locations hit, and the pattern: when Palestinians die in large numbers, the truce is declared “on”; when a claim is made — verified or not — the truce is declared “off,” bombs fall, and then it’s magically “on” again.

Meanwhile, the White House line is that the ceasefire is “holding” — with maybe “little skirmishes here and there.” A hundred dead — half of them kids — are not skirmishes. They are funerals. We live in a world where 46 kids slaughtered in one day is called “a little skirmish.” This alone shows you just how much Palestinians are dehumanized and devalued.

The law is not a suggestion

Even during a ceasefire, international humanitarian law does not go on vacation.

• Distinction requires you to spare civilians and civilian objects.

• Proportionality forbids attacks where expected civilian harm is excessive to any concrete military advantage.

• Special protection applies to displaced persons, IDP camps, hospitals, and humanitarian zones.

Striking tents where displaced families sleep, then declaring the truce “back on,” is not an “incident.” It’s a series of violations.

And while we’re here: Israel’s Defense Minister just banned ICRC visits to thousands of detainees classified under “unlawful combatants,” formalizing the blackout the Red Cross has faced since the war began. That is the opposite of humane treatment and accountability; it’s a door slamming on the very people who are supposed to make sure detainees are alive.

The pattern you already know

This “ceasefire” behavior sits inside a larger truth the UN just said out loud. Yesterday, Navi Pillay, the chair of the UN’s Commission of Inquiry, told the General Assembly that Israel has committed four genocidal acts in Gaza, with specific intent — and that top leaders have incited genocide. Gaza “nearly uninhabitable.” Plans to deport, settle, annex. The West Bank policy: forcible transfer and annexation in slow motion.

You saw it with Jabalia — a city of 120,000 flattened into a gray horizon.
You saw it with two elders in Beit Lahiya — stripped, used as human shields, then murdered, their family says.
Now you see it with a truce that stops and starts only when it’s convenient for the bombers.

This isn’t security. It’s supremacy with paperwork.

What a real ceasefire would mean

A real ceasefire means no bombs, no raids, no “exceptions,” and full access for aid, medics, and monitors. It means ICRC in the prisons, UNRWA on the roads, and families not waking up in pieces. It means no double-speak where killing a hundred children is a “little skirmish.” It means law that applies on nights when it’s easy and nights when it’s not.

Israel is testing their limits to see what they can get away with. Yesterday they slaughtered 104 Palestinians and the world did nothing. To me, this ceasefire is over. It never even really started. Israel knows they can do whatever they want, whenever they want.

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