As we speak, the state of Israel, fully backed by the U.S., is quickly escalating its genocide in Gaza. For the past 20 days they have been laying siege to northern Gaza, starving the population, and bombing refugee camps and hospitals, committing massacre after massacre. Now is not the time to grow numb to this, or to comfort yourself with the Biden/Harris administration’s lies that they are pressuring Israel to let in aid and get a ceasefire—the same lies they have been telling for a year while the U.S. weapons keep flowing to Israel and the bodies keep piling up. No, now’s the time to confront the urgent reality of a genocide within a genocide happening right now—and to rededicate yourself to STOPPING this.

On Democracy Now!, the Palestinian writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada described the situation in northern Gaza right now:

Israel is implementing now a strategy that is in northern Gaza premised on four different pillars, one of which is mass starvation, quite literally mass starvation. The other one is mass killing and producing mass casualties, wounded people on mass scale. And then, the third one is shutting down all hospitals simultaneously, so that people with these wounds are destined to die if they don’t move south. And the last pillar is the mass expulsion, where you literally see Israel ordering people every day, “Move south. Move south.” And then they literally round them up from schools and hospitals and force them to line up on a death march and move to the south. I have friends who lost family members on some of these death marches, where you have to walk for dozens of kilometers under scorching heat or in the cold without any assistance, on foot, under constant fire, fully starved, with an empty stomach. And some people collapse and die on the way. I have never seen anything like this. But on the other hand, I’m seeing Israeli politicians and media celebrating the footage of these death marches with utmost glee and utmost joy…

And for those who are being forced out of northern Gaza, Muhammad Shehada described the situation in the rest of the Gaza Strip:

Once you cross to the southern side, what you will find there is an insanely overcrowded tent city, just tents upon tents upon tents, surrounded by mountains of garbage and pools of sewage water, heavily infested with diseases, no protection against the weather, no protection against the rain, and just left doomed to your own fate, basically surviving off handouts, humanitarian aid that is barely coming in. So, people find this as an absolute nightmare. And once you cross to the south, Israel is playing with people in the south like a ping-pong, moving them around like chess pieces all the time, moving them from Deir al-Balah to Khan Younis, and then from Khan Younis to Mawasi, and then from Mawasi to Khan Younis again, and back to Nuseirat. It’s a nonstop nightmare. And this constant instability, this constant uncertainty, is one of the worst things you can do to someone that is heavily shell-shocked and traumatized and in pure survival mode.

For months now, our website revcom.us has been warning that Israel aims to reduce the Palestinians to such a state that they will no longer pose any “problem” for Israel, if not literally killing off and/or driving out all the Palestinians. Now we are seeing Israel’s “final solution” coming more into focus:

Muhammad Shehada told Democracy Now!:

[N]ow Israel’s main liberal newspaper, Haaretz, has been warning since—for many weeks, but yesterday they came and officially said, the editorial board, they said Netanyahu’s government is now, quote, “paving the way to building settlements in Gaza,” building the path or facilitating the path to building Jewish-only settlements in northern Gaza after emptying it completely.

So, for Gaza’s population to be moved into an overcrowded, unlivable tent city, pure sand and rubble and the desert, and be shell-shocked all the time and squeezed more and more and more into tinier and tinier places, it is an absolute nightmare. And that’s the Israeli strategy. The reason why they adopt these strategies, what they themselves brag about, is that the images of these death marches count as a victory image for Israeli political parties and for the Israeli public to show that, look, the Palestinian public are being humiliated, are being terrorized, are being collectively punished, and with the sort of excuse that this pressure might at the end lead Gaza to either surrender or face complete demise.

Surrender or complete demise. Think about that. These are human beings. Israel is aiming to completely break the spirit of the people of Gaza, or if not, to wipe them off the map. This is what all-too-many Americans are enabling with their silence right now. And this is what you become an accomplice to when you get behind Kamala Harris. 

To those of you who refuse to become numb and complicit, to willfully blind yourself and justify the Democratic Party’s war crimes, you have the responsibility now, to speak out, to stand up, and to put it on the line to stop these atrocities.

And you have a responsibility to get to the root of the problem so that we can STOP this system of perpetual war crimes and crimes against humanity once and for all. That means revolution, yes a real revolution right here in the belly of the beast, right here in this time we’re living in now. Above all, it means engaging and following Bob Avakian, who’s developed the strategy for revolution, and the new communism for an actual emancipating alternative to this system. And it means joining THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity and becoming part of the growing, organized, disciplined, bold and fearless forces working every day for this revolution.