![36-year-old Khalil Muhammed Dervis, living in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, which is under Israeli blockade and attacks, struggles with hunger because he cannot access food in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on August 23, 2025. [Hassan Jedi - Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AA-20250825-38918368-38918355-THE_HUNGER_CRISIS_CAUSED_BY_ISRAELI_ATTACKS_IN_GAZA-scaled-e1756131149748.jpg)
Israel war of genocide is not about 7 October; it is not about freeing Israeli captives. It is, first and foremost, about preserving a racist Jewish governing coalition and seizing a historic opportunity while a submissive administration in Washington looks the other way. The aim is to advance a biblical expansionist project and create the conditions for “self” ethnic cleansing, as part of the permanent erasure of the Palestinian people from their homeland. As the UN officially declared a famine in Gaza City, Israel rejected the ceasefire and threatened to flatten Gaza City “like Beit Hanoun.” On 11 July, Israeli Minister of War Israel Katz openly flaunted an aerial image of the razed cities of Rafah in the south and […]
