🩸 Tell me how this photo is possible during a ceasefire.
This photo is from this morning in Gaza. A lifeless child carried through the rubble while CNN, the NY Times, and MSNBC call it a truce. It’s a farce, not a ceasefire.
Family — this is the image the world has chosen to ignore.
A man carrying the body of a child through the ruins of Al Zawaideh, south of the Gaza Strip.
The little child’s face is covered in bright red blood.
I can’t even tell if it’s a little boy or girl, but this image haunts me.
We saw this DAILY during the genocide, but now we are seeing it daily DURING A CEASEFIRE. Tell me how that’s possible. What even is a ceasefire?
The caption from journalist Motasem A Dalloul reads simply:
“Six people have been killed and 17 others wounded in Israeli bombing of Al Zawaideh area, south of the Gaza Strip.”
That was this morning.
During a ceasefire.
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The Lie of the “Ceasefire”
For a week now, the United States, Israel, and the Western press have used the word “ceasefire” like a magic spell — as if repeating it enough times makes it true.
But in Gaza, over 100 Palestinians — mostly children — have been killed since the so-called ceasefire began.
Entire families, like the Abu Shaaban family of Zaytun, have been wiped out in a single night.
There is no ceasefire when the air still shakes.
There is no truce when the dead still arrive by the dozens.
And there is no peace when the same governments that funded the genocide pretend it’s over because the cameras turned away.
The Ceasefire That Exists Only on TV
Turn on CNN or MSNBC right now.
Open the New York Times or the Washington Post.
You would think Gaza is quiet.
You would think the war has paused, the killing has stopped, and aid is flowing freely.
But the Rafah crossing remains closed.
The promised aid trucks — 300 to 500 per day — never arrived.
And Israel has already re-arrested Palestinian hostages it just released, dragging them back into the same cells they were freed from days ago.
This isn’t peace.
It’s PR management.
A media ceasefire, not a military one.
The Image That Breaks the Spell
So tell me: how is this photo possible?
How can a child lie dead in his father’s arms while the White House tweets about “restoring calm”?
The answer is simple and shameful.
The ceasefire is a lie — a political performance designed to quiet outrage abroad while the killing continues on schedule.
In truth, this image from Al Zawaideh is not an exception.
It is the rule — the daily face of a genocide being rebranded as restraint.
The Double Standard That Defines It All
If a single Israeli family were killed during this “ceasefire,” it would dominate every front page in America.
World leaders would issue statements of outrage.
The networks would run breaking news banners for hours.
But when more than 100 Palestinians, including children, are killed during the same ceasefire, the silence is total.
The most powerful media institutions in the world have decided that Palestinian deaths no longer qualify as news.
That is not journalism.
That is moral blindness dressed up as professionalism.
The Farce of Enforcement
Remember all those nations that promised to “enforce” this ceasefire?
Where are they now?
Where is the accountability for Israel’s violations?
Where is the outrage from the governments that swore to uphold international law?
They are busy redefining words — calling murder “mistake,” starvation “delay,” and apartheid “security.”
They are not enforcers.
They are accomplices.
The Only Ceasefire That’s Real
The only ceasefire that’s real is the one between Western newsrooms and their conscience.
They have agreed not to see.
Not to feel.
Not to name what’s right in front of them.
This morning’s image of a dead child carried through the rubble should have been a breaking story on every major outlet in the world.
Instead, it’s just another day in Gaza — unmentioned, unseen, unacknowledged.
That’s not peace.
That’s propaganda.
The Moral Reckoning
There’s a line from the Qur’an that says:
“Do not mix truth with falsehood, or hide the truth while you know it.”
That’s what this moment demands.
The world is hiding what it knows — that Israel never stopped killing, that the ceasefire is a farce, and that every government and newsroom pretending otherwise is part of the cover-up.
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With every day that passes during this fake ceasefire I get more and more angry
When I was a journalist in Bosnia we had a bad joke about ceasefires. We'd say that you always KNEW when there was a new ceasefire because that was when the shelling started. Back then, the Serbs would use ceasefires to rearm and re-group and then start their genocide all over again. In the Zionist genocide the situation is different because the fascist killing machine is well armed by countries like Britain and the US but political pressure is mounting, at least in Europe, for the carnage to end. This involves different degrees of sincerity on the part of European governments but all is driven by mass protests against the Gaza genocide. Without doubt there are plenty of fascists in the Israeli government who want to ignore Europe's growing discomfiture and proceed with Plan A, in which every Palestinian man, woman and child in Gaza is exterminated but even Adolf Hitler's stunt double in the White House now realises that this is untennable. Hence Plan B, a new phase of colonial occupation based on a plan cooked up by the Tony Blair Institute and Ari Ben Menasche which is not a "settlement" in any real sense because its being imposed on the back of a genocide with no Palestinians involved. Netanyahu knows he will have to go along with this plan which, from his perspective, is a compromise but is determined to "soften up" the Palestinians, to take their harsh medicine a but more first. Hence 20 attacks on Gaza SINCE the ceasefire killing 100 civilians including the young girl shown here. To justify this Israel's Channel 14 claims that the attacks are in retaliation for Hamas attacks at the Rafa border crossing which also remains closed. This is highly unlikely and if any such attack DID take place we need to remind ourselves that the Zionists are no strangers to false flags just as they are adept at propaganda, having learned both from the Nazis whose methods they are so eager to reproduce.