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LIVE: Israel attacks Gaza despite ceasefire killing 30 Palestinians

By Farah Najjar and Rory Sullivan

Analysis:

US-brokered Gaza truce allows Israel to ‘continue genocide by other means’

Israel’s intensified attacks on Gaza indicate it has no intention of ending the war on the Palestinian territory despite the US-brokered ceasefire, an analyst says.

“Until this moment, Israel has not given up on its plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, the idea of reintroducing Jewish-only settlements in Gaza,” said Muhammad Shehada, visiting fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations Middle East and North Africa programme.

“That’s why you see Israel dividing Gaza into east Gaza and west Gaza with an invisible ‘yellow line’ that is deadlier than the Berlin wall. East Gaza, nobody is allowed to live there except for the [Israeli army] and a few hundred gang members who are cultivated by Israel as proxy groups,” Shehada told Al Jazeera.

The biggest “red flag” during the start of the ceasefire should have been the reaction by the hardliners in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s far-right government, he added.

“Neither Ben-Gvir nor Smotrich resigned from Netanyahu’s government because both of those extremist ministers have repeatedly said if the war comes to an end they would leave the government and collapse it immediately. But neither of them did because they understand this Trump deal is not going to end the war – it is allowing Israel to continue the genocide by other means.”

Al-Jazeera