The U.S.-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza has not ended, but taken on new horrific form. Winter arrives with torrential rains. Israel continues to block food and medical supplies. Injuries remain untreated. Millions are living amongst the dead still buried under the rubble. Israeli attacks on civilians continue. And genocidal monsters are maneuvering and still on the loose.

This is a "ceasefire" that brings the "peace" of the graveyard, a “peace” based on the continuing domination and oppression of the Palestinian people.

Torrential Rains Bring Massive Flooding 

The horror of torrential rainstorms of the last week has been magnified by the lasting impacts of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza.

On Friday night, November 14, heavy rains poured down on Gaza into the morning hours, causing widespread flooding and swamping hundreds of tents. The hardest hit were the tent cities and camps of displaced persons in Gaza City, Khan Yunis and central Gaza. 

“Rescue and civil defense organizations have reported that hundreds of tents were flooded, while rainwater has penetrated and ruined residents' possessions," Haaretz reports. “Some of the displaced persons have been forced to move to higher ground to flee the rising water."

Pictures and video from Gaza show torn tents, soaking wet and barefoot children and families desperate for shelter. 

“The rain was heavy, and the holes were too many. Our mattresses and blankets were flooded,” said a young man in Gaza who lives in the tent with his parents and three younger siblings. Even hospitals have been flooded.

Imagine the nightmare of your traumatized children cold and soaking wet, with nowhere warm and dry to go to. Imagine losing the few precious possessions that you may have left from homes lost to bombings. Now imagine even more hell: because many sewage systems aren't functioning, rainwater is mixing with sewage water. This can cause respiratory, skin and intestinal diseases. 

According to officials in Gaza, more than 900,000 people face the risk of flooding and entire neighborhoods could be flooded by overflow from Gaza’s sewage system, which has been hit by Israeli attacks and often lacks enough fuel to operate due to Israel’s blockade.

Why does heavy rainfall lead to such devastating consequences? 

Because Israel has razed homes and buildings all across Gaza, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. 

Because Israeli bombs and shells—most supplied by the U.S.—have destroyed or damaged 85 percent of Gaza’s roads, water, electricity, and sewage systems. 

And because Israel has deliberately blocked basic, life-saving aid—including tents. Israel has blocked 95 percent of the 300,000 tents promised under the Trump ceasefire. As a result, 93 percent of the tents in Gaza are uninhabitable, many damaged by extreme weather or Israeli shelling, forcing tens of thousands to try to survive in makeshift shelters, torn tents, or bombed out homes.

The video above is just one that capture the nightmare.

Trump, Oppressive Powers Scheme Over Palestine’s Future… Israel’s Gaza Genocide Continues Under Ceasefire 

The fascist Trump regime, Israel, and other oppressive global and regional powers are actively scheming and contending over Trump’s “Peace Plan” and the future of the Palestinian people. 

Meanwhile, Trump’s ceasefire hasn’t made the genocidal impacts of Israel’s U.S.-enabled war crimes disappear, they still haunt Gaza. Hundreds of thousands are still sick, homeless, and/or hungry. The dead—estimated at 10,000 buried under rubble—have overwhelmingly not been recovered and buried. The wounded, including 6,000 amputees, have not all been treated. Gaza’s hospitals, food and water systems remain crippled if not devastated, and reconstruction hasn’t started in any meaningful way. 

The ceasefire has lowered the volume of Israeli attacks, but it has not changed Israel’s bloodthirsty, genocidal intent, and it has not stopped its ongoing attacks, destruction, and blockades. They are ongoing, all with the aim of keeping Israel’s boot on the necks of the Palestinian people and pushing its genocidal aim as far as possible, while not so flagrantly violating Trump’s plan as to provoke a U.S. or international response.

Making matters worse, Israel continues to bar international journalists from Gaza. They have killed more than 200 journalists that were reporting from inside Gaza. And the major U.S. and global media have greatly scaled back their ongoing coverage of the situation in Gaza.

Here are just some of the ways that Israel’s criminal attacks are continuing, often in direct violation of the terms of Trump’s plan they signed onto:

Attacks and killings continue. Israel isn’t killing dozens or scores a day, but it is still regularly killing Palestinian people. On November 10, Israel killed two children in southern Gaza and carried out air attacks in north, central and southern Gaza. On November 12, three more Palestinians were killed. On November 13 and 14, more Israeli air strikes were reported and another Palestinian was killed.

This brought the number killed by Israel since the ceasefire went into effect on October 11 to at least 260 dead, including 107 children, and 632 wounded. The official death toll in Gaza since October 7, 2023 now stands at 69,187 killed and 170,703 wounded.

In 18 months of genocidal massacres—October 2023 to March 2025—Israel charged only three of its soldiers with crimes, and only one of the cases resulted in a conviction for its massacres in Gaza. 

The reality is that Israel’s entire campaign in Gaza was a monstrous, towering crime for which its entire political and military leadership, and the soldiers who carried it out, should be on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity! 

Israel Is Still Blockading Food and Needed Supplies. Israel has allowed somewhat more food and aid into Gaza and opened at least one new entry point, but overall its Nazi-like blockade is continuing. Here are just a few of the ways reported in the past week: 

* The UN has charged Israel with blocking 1.6 million syringes for vaccinating children and nearly one million bottles of baby formula, preventing the immunization of more than 40,000 children under three against polio, measles and pneumonia.

* The New York Times reports, “Hundreds of trucks are now entering Gaza daily, although many are carrying commercial goods for sale rather than aid handouts.” This means that more junk food is getting in—like chocolate, chips or soda but not the nutrition people need after a famine. U.N. officials say they still face Israeli restrictions on what goods they can bring into Gaza. 

* The World Health Organization reports that only half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are even partially functioning. Yet Israel is even more aggressively barring foreign doctors from entering Gaza as volunteers. One is Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a California trauma surgeon.

* Israel systematically destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system—some 94 percent of its hospitals are damaged or destroyed—and now it’s threatening to deport some 90 Palestinian patients now in East Jerusalem back to Gaza. This includes infants, the elderly and others being treated. Medical groups have denounced this as illegal under international law. A patient suffering from kidney failure told CNN, “I will die there in two days,” if he’s returned to Gaza.

Desecrating Palestinian Remains. Under the terms of the ceasefire, Israel has returned the remains of 330 Palestinians. None have been identified, and many showed signs of torture and abuse. This past week in an interview with Al Jazeera, a surgeon who examined the bodies found that hearts, lungs, kidneys, and corneas had been surgically removed, and noted surgical cuts and evidence of stitching to this effect, as well as skin with burn marks consistent with the use of preservation chemicals. This amounts to systematic organ theft by Israel.

Razing 1,500 Palestinian Buildings. This past week an analysis by BBC found that the Israeli military was continuing to bulldoze, detonate, and destroy Palestinian homes and other buildings in the areas it controls. The analysis showed that at minimum 1,500 buildings, including whole neighborhoods, were destroyed after the ceasefire went into effect. This is a complete violation of the terms of the ceasefire and clearly shows that Israel is continuing its campaign to make Gaza unlivable for the Palestinian people, ceasefire or no ceasefire.

The System That Is Driving This Nightmare

The U.S.-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people is not a product of human nature but the nature of a system—the Jewish supremacist, apartheid state of Israel, and fully backed and supported by U.S. capitalism-imperialism. 

As we wrote on revcom.us in June 2024:

What is going on in Gaza did not “start” on October 7, and it is not essentially a “war” between Israel and Hamas. It is a one-sided slaughter of overwhelmingly defenseless Palestinians. 

Israel seized on Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel—which included the war crimes of taking hostages and the murder of civilians—to attempt to deal with what Israel’s rulers see as an existential threat. That is: in the area now ruled by Israel (the state of Israel and territory it occupies), Jews are a minority. Israel’s objective in the current genocidal assault on Gaza is to reduce the Palestinians to such a state that they can no longer pose any threat to Israel’s existence as an apartheid, Jewish-supremacist state. (Note, for example that Netan-Nazi defines Israel’s objectives as “ensuring that Gaza”—not Hamas—“no longer poses a threat to Israel.”) 

That genocidal death, destruction, imposed famine and disease, and attempt to crush the very existence of the Palestinian people has been hellishly escalating...

And, as the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian has brought alive, why is "the entire government and ruling class of the U.S., supporting Israel in carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people, before the whole world?" 

This is not because of “the power of the Jewish lobby”—or because of some ignorant, ridiculous and outrageous notion that “Jews are controlling everything.” It is because Israel plays a “special role” as a heavily armed bastion of support for U.S. imperialism in a strategically important part of the world (the “Middle East”). And Israel has been a key force in the commission of atrocities which have helped to maintain the oppressive rule of U.S. imperialism in many other parts of the world. 

The murder, oppression, and genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank and within Israel must end. The millions around the world who’ve stood up must continue to demand that this imperialist domination and oppression end, and that we fight for a whole different, and much better world!

Stop the U.S.-Israeli Genocide of the Palestinian People!

End the Siege on Gaza!

This whole system is rotten and illegitimate! We need and we demand: a whole new way to live, a fundamentally different system!

Additional Sources: Drop Site News, November 11-14