The world’s attention may be focused on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, but Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza hasn’t stopped.
Palestinians are still being starved and needlessly dying due to Israel’s criminal blockade of food, medicine and other needed supplies. Meanwhile, Israeli tank shells recently killed three people in a tent camp for displaced people and wounded ten more, including children. Their missiles have killed people in markets and slaughtered people in villages. On March 15 alone, the Israelis killed 12 Gazans, including two children and a pregnant woman.
Israel continues to launch missiles into busy markets like this one, even during the so-called ceasefire. Photo: AP
This brings the Palestinian death toll to 650 just since Trump announced his so-called “ceasefire” in October, a “ceasefire” Israel continues to violate at will with no U.S. pushback. Since October, 2023, Israel has killed at least 75,000 Gazans, including 22,800 children!
“What is the fault of children? Children are gone. Women are gone. Elderly people are gone,” said a survivor of a missile attack on a market. “Why us? What do they have to do with this? We are peaceful. But the Israelis don’t know peace.”
Terror, Dispossession and Ethnic Cleansing in Palestinian West Bank
Over the last several weeks, Israelis have rampaged through the West Bank, home to 3.2 million Palestinians. Like rabid lynch mobs, they have killed, burned and pillaged.
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On March 13, almost 100 settlers wearing masks armed with knives and sticks raided the Bedouin community of Hamsa. About 20 Israelis assaulted 29 year old Suhaib Abu Kbash. They stripped him, bound his genitals with a zip tie, and dragged him naked in front of his young children. He told Reuters, "I thought they were going to kill me."
At the funeral of four family members who were killed in their car by Israeli security forces in the West Bank, March 15, 2026. Photo: AP
On March 15, Ali Khaled Bani Odeh and his family—his wife Waad and their four children—went out to shop and eat dinner in the West Bank village of Tammun. As the family was returning home, “the kids were singing and having fun,” their grandmother said. Then Israeli soldiers opened fire on their car, shooting Ali, Waad, and two of their children in the head. When the soldiers pulled Ali’s surviving sons out of the car, they started beating them. “We killed dogs,” the soldiers said.
These are not some “isolated incidents,” involving a few “bad apples.” The state of Israel and thousands of rabid, racist Israeli settlers have been on a rampage since October 2023, burning homes, uprooting precious olive trees, terrorizing Palestinian farmers and shepherds, stealing land and killing at will. “They want to strip us out of our lands,” Mustafa’s grandmother says. “They are now building walls around the lands they have seized and firing at will at anyone approaching."
Since October 2023, 1,071 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, including at least 233 children. All this as Israel is moving to annex the whole West Bank—yet another Israeli war crime.