Israel bombs the Gaza Strip on Oct. 9, 2025, not long after the announcement that it had agreed to a ceasefire deal. Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images
source: https://zeteo.com/p/gaza-ceasefire-hold-israel-accountable-genocide
Israel bombs the Gaza Strip on Oct. 9, 2025, not long after the announcement that it had agreed to a ceasefire deal. Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images
source: https://zeteo.com/p/gaza-ceasefire-hold-israel-accountable-genocide
Why would you sign a ceasefire / peace deal but also continue to attack right up until the last moment?
It’s just business?
Because it’s what Israel has been doing over and over since it’s inception?
Obligatory “Nothing against Jews!” before the “ITS AN ANTISEMIIIIITE” crowd gets in, but I’ve seen the Israeli government and army pulling this shit for at least 5 decades now. Israeli government and IDF is not the same as all the Jews, please
I heard about this ceasefire a few hours ago in the morning and immediately wondered how long it would be before Israel would just say “fuck it” and continue their genocide, and apparently it was faster even than I expected.
And again to those in the “it’s an antisemiteeeee” camp, I wrong? Did the IDF not just not break the ceasefire? Because, of course they did.
Apart from the current genocide, seems to be a normal thing in war. I’ll never find it again, but read an essay on the end of WWII in the Pacific. A guy found his dad’s writings and wrote about it.
Everyone knew it was all over but the shouting, yet both sides continued to murder the fuck out of one another. The violence and cruelty actually ramped up! God I wish I could find it, but I think the idea was that combatants were taking out their rage in the final moments of the war.
Another reason to fight till the last moment is to hurt your enemy as badly as possible before they come to the negotiation table.
Because it’s lemmy, and I have to say it out fucking loud, I’m not excusing Israel’s actions. Hell, not even explaining them, unless the later statement applies.
This is what I was thinking about. Big wars might wind down like that but there’s almost overwhelming pressure to stand down. Israel isn’t about to collapse, they were never in a position where they were close to defeat, they’ve more or less been shaping negotiations from week 1, and this is a wound they’ve been picking at for decades.
You’re dangerously close to a lemmy thought police violation here ;-)
They haven’t actually signed anything yet. But also, note that hostilities don’t stop before the armistice:
That said, I have very little confidence that this truce will hold. Israel broke the previous truce in March 2025.
Because Israel doesn’t want Hamas to accept the peace deal. They’re trying to goad Hamas into calling it off, so they can claim it’s Hamas’ fault the peace deal didn’t hold up
Because most of the world allow them to do it with either their inaction or complicity