'Ceasefire' Called: Gazans Return Home to Land Israel Rendered Uninhabitable
France 24 highlights the 'destruction is everywhere' as Gazans return following a 'ceasefire.' This narrative conveniently overlooks the decades of policy—and more recently, US-supplied bombs—that created this 'everywhere.' While the world watches Gaza's residents trek back to rubble after two years of 'brutal war' (per France 24), mainstream media forgets the 2014, 2012, 2008-09 operations, all
featuring similar 'ceasefires' and subsequent 'reconstruction' cycles. It's a cyclical 'conflict' only if you ignore one side's systematic siege, bombing, and bulldozing, funded in part by billions in annual US aid. One might wonder at what point 'returning home' to a landscape deliberately rendered uninhabitable ceases to be an act of hope and becomes a grim performance for international cameras.
(Perhaps when the US State Department issues another statement about the 'right to self-defense' while simultaneously approving the next tranche of JDAM kits.)