In yet another grotesque display of its unhinged aggression, Israel carpet-bombed parts of Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 43 Palestinians—mainly women and children—as if exterminating families were sport. Health officials confirmed the bloodbath, while Israel continued pretending this was some noble “war” instead of what it clearly is: a genocidal rampage cloaked in lies and PR spin.
The indiscriminate strikes, according to the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, leveled homes and tents in Khan Younis, crushing lives beneath the rubble. Among the 15 murdered there were five women and five children. A journalist, Islam Meqdad, was butchered with her son and five relatives. Her mother’s words sliced through the hypocrisy: “My daughter is innocent. She had no involvement, she loved journalism and adored it.” Meanwhile in Gaza City, as people queued outside a bakery for what scraps remained, Israel struck again—killing six, including three children. Cowardice disguised as strategy. Further up in Jabaliya, four more were erased by Israeli shelling. This is not warfare; it’s terrorism with a state budget.
Since smashing a fragile ceasefire last month, Israel has doubled down on collective punishment—choking off aid, fuel, and food to a population already starving. It’s not just bombs doing the killing. Israel has weaponized hunger. Fifteen medics were found dead after a week, their bodies left to rot while Israel peddled its favorite lie: “We didn’t know.” The Red Cross and UN weren’t buying it.
The whole war traces back to Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack—yes, a bloody and tragic event—but Israel has turned it into a blank check for slaughter. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, over 50,000 Palestinians are now dead—more than half of them women and children. And Israel keeps touting the laughable claim that it’s killed 20,000 “militants.” Where’s the proof? Nowhere. Because it’s fiction.
Fifty-nine hostages remain in Gaza, 24 possibly alive. But Israel has no interest in saving them—only in demanding Hamas’ surrender while offering nothing but carnage in return.
As Gaza burns, Netanyahu hops on a plane to meet US President Donald Trump—his second reunion with America’s warmonger-in-chief since Trump clawed back into power. Trump’s vow to “end the Gaza issue” is as empty as his empathy. Washington bankrolls Israel’s every crime, so what incentive is there to stop?
Even a slap-on-the-wrist 17% tariff on Israeli goods is meaningless when weighed against the horror Israeli forces unleash daily.
Inside Gaza, rare protests broke out in Jabaliya—not against Israel’s bombs, but against Hamas. A symptom of unbearable desperation in a cage Israel keeps tightening. And in the West Bank, Israel’s settler thugs killed a Palestinian-American teen in Turmus Ayya—yet another case of Israeli impunity running riot.
By Monday morning, Israel’s war machine was at it again, bombing near Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, setting fire to what little infrastructure remains. Israel’s war on the vulnerable—children, medics, journalists—isn’t collateral damage. It’s the mission.
The international community watches, wrings its hands, and does nothing. The US smiles and sends more weapons. And Israel? Israel keeps killing—with impunity, with pride, and with a bottomless appetite for destruction.
