On March 18, in the dead of night, with no warning, Israel shattered its ongoing ceasefire with Hamas and unleashed one of its most heinous massacres of Palestinians in Gaza. 

It dropped massive bombs on homes, schools, and shelters where families had taken refuge and most were sleeping. Over 400 people—including some 183 children—were slaughtered that night alone.¹ This was the largest number of children killed in a single day since Israel unleashed its assault on Gaza in October 2023.²

This new surge of Israeli atrocities is continuing, in many ways more ferociously than ever. Israel is declaring its genocidal intent even more brazenly and explicitly than ever. And the U.S. imperialists, now headed by the Trump/MAGA fascists, are broadcasting their complete and total support for these towering crimes against humanity more loudly than ever.

On Thursday, March 20, Trump’s press secretary declared that Trump had "made it very clear to Hamas that if they did not release all of the hostages, there would be all hell to pay,” and Trump "fully supports Israel and the IDF [the Israeli military] and the actions that they've taken in recent days."  

That night Israel dropped leaflets with this chilling, genocidal message:

To the people of Gaza, after what happened and the end of the temporary ceasefire and before we start Trump’s compulsory plan [to force Palestinians to leave Gaza] which we will proceed with whether you liked it or not, this is the last call for anyone who may share information with us in return for financial support… Reconsider this. The world map will not change if Gaza’s people disappear. No one will notice you. No one will ask about you. 

Neither America nor Europe cares about Gaza. Even the Arab states. They are our allies. They provide us with money, oil, and arms. They only send you shrouds. The game will end soon.

Four Days Later—Overall Palestinian Death Toll Passes 50,000 

By Saturday, March 22, four days after it restarted its assault on Gaza, Israel had killed some 673 people and wounded 1,233 others, the majority women and children. 

This latest killing spree pushed the official number of Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israel since October 2023 to a grim new milestone: 50,021 (along with 113,274 wounded).³

On Thursday, Israeli ground troops re-entered Gaza, invading the Netzarim Corridor, which splits Gaza in half. On Friday, Israel’s military launched a ground invasion in Rafah and pushed into northern Gaza. That same day Israeli troops blew up and totally destroyed the largest and only specialized cancer treatment center in Gaza: the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, in central Gaza.

As this was taking place, Israeli officials were threatening to annex more and more parts of Gaza if Hamas didn’t cave in to their demands.

“It’s basically the most unprecedented, most savage attack that Gaza has witnessed in over a year,” said Muhammad Shehada, a writer and analyst from Gaza. “You have about 200 kids whose lives were extinguished in a matter of seconds. And now you have about 700 wounded civilians that are languishing in hospitals that are dysfunctional because of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.… You have entire families that were extinguished completely, a whole bloodline that vanished from the civil registry…. I have a colleague whose sister, her husband, their kids, their in-laws and their grandchildren were killed in a single airstrike.”

Israel’s Siege Continues to Kill

Israel continues to strangle the people of Gaza—blocking food, medicine, water, and all goods and services, even electricity, from entering. Punishing civilians and denying them basic necessities is a war crime and crime against humanity, and it’s having horrific, deadly results:  

• According to UNICEF, a third of young children in northern Gaza are suffering from acute malnutrition: “1 million children are living without the very basics they need to survive—yet again.”
• My Son Cries All Night From Hunger, and I Have Nothing to Give Him: “Due to the aid blockade and the renewed IDF bombardment, food prices have soared, and the threat of hunger is increasing. Residents have limited access to clean water, sewage is flooding the streets, and a significant sanitation crisis is unfolding.” Only one in ten people have access to clean drinking water. The price of sugar has risen by 300 percent and the price of rice by 200 percent. Sewage is flowing everywhere, and everything is covered in garbage.
• Health officials describe the situation in Gaza’s hospitals as catastrophic because of Israel’s blockade and its systematic targeting of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure: “The injured are lying on the ground with blood covering the floors of the hospitals. We are suffering greatly from a shortage of supplies for emergency and intensive care, as well as for surgeries and medical equipment.”⁴

Big Lies and Open Declarations of Genocide 

Israeli and U.S. officials claim that ceasefire negotiations with Hamas had reached a “dead end” and Israel had “no alternative but to give the order to reopen fire.”⁵

These are bald-faced lies. Israel had been breaking its deal with Hamas from the start—continuing to kill Palestinians, preventing agreed-upon aid from entering Gaza, and refusing to even negotiate a second phase of the agreement on the end of Israel’s assault and the withdrawal of its forces.

The actual reason Israel resumed its attack was that it’s aiming to completely decimate Hamas as a political force, and put Gaza much more completely under its thumb. And overall, its goal—as demonstrated by its ruthless destruction of Palestinian society—is to make it impossible for the Palestinian people to survive as a people on their historic homeland, whether through mass murder, exile, imprisonment, even more brutal oppression… or all of the above.

And this past week, Israel and the U.S. have spoken openly about doing just that.

On March 19, Israel’s Defense Minister issued perhaps Israel’s most explicitly genocidal warning to the people of Gaza yet: 

“Residents of Gaza, this is your final warning. The first Sinwar destroyed Gaza, and the second Sinwar will bring upon it total ruin. The Israeli Air Force’s attack against Hamas terrorists was only the first step. What follows will be far harsher, and you will bear the full cost.

“Evacuation of the population from combat zones will soon resume. If all Israeli hostages are not released and Hamas is not kicked out of Gaza, Israel will act with force you have not known before.

“Take the advice of the U.S. President: return the hostages and kick out Hamas, and new options will open up for you — including relocation to other parts of the world for those who choose. The alternative is destruction and total devastation.”⁶

These aren’t just words. In recent weeks, Israel’s Defense Ministry has created a new office to facilitate “voluntary emigration” from Gaza. The Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, envisions a transfer of 10,000 Palestinians a day, depopulating the entire Gaza Strip within six months. Israel and the U.S. have already asked Sudan, Somaliland and other governments to take the Palestinians.

The U.S. and Israel Are Openly Accelerating Their Genocide in Gaza—It Is Our Responsibility to Stop This World-Historic Crime!

YOU need to join together with others now to stop Israel’s onslaughts against the Palestinian people, and to stop Trump fascism—before it’s too late.

Here is why this is happening.

Here is where to go to join the forces for revolution that are part of the fight to STOP this genocide, to defeat this fascist regime, and to get organized to overthrow this system of capitalism-imperialism that is the cause of this genocide, and so many other atrocities.

And here is where to go to get to a world where such crimes are no longer possible.