Israel Says Truce Broken, Media Forgets Gaza's Constant Siege
According to The New Arab, Israel claims Hamas violated a truce, justifying renewed airstrikes on Gaza. What the mainstream narrative consistently glosses over is that for Gazans, the 'truce' was just a pause in aerial bombardment under a 17-year siege. There's no true 'truce' when 2.3 million people are trapped, starved, and denied basic necessities, and their fishing boats are routinely
attacked. This isn't a peace deal; it's a holding pattern for slow strangulation, punctuated by mass casualty events. One might wonder if 'truce violation' is merely the default excuse to restart the 'mowing the lawn' operations, a term Israeli officials themselves have used to describe periodic attacks on Gaza to quell resistance. The continuous blockade—verifiable via countless UN and human
rights reports—is the actual ongoing violation, a violation that never pauses, never respects a ceasefire. Yet, somehow, the media consistently frames each escalation as an isolated event, rather than a symptom of an unending occupation and siege.