Image by Levi Meir Clancy.

The Israeli bombing of Gaza since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack has been marked by one demand: the release of all Israeli hostages taken by Hamas. As has been documented, Hamas, US, and Qatar came close to agreeing to a ceasefire deal May of last year put forward by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, who willfully sabotaged it by expanding its war. Israel went on a murderous rampage across the Middle East, violating every rule of war: the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran; the 3,000 killer pagers let loose on people carrying about their quotidian lives in Lebanon; and the bombing and invasion of Lebanon preceded by the murder of Hassan Nasrallah and other top Hezbollah officials.

Dropping explosives equivalent to several atomic bombs on Gaza; starving and depriving Palestinian civilians of food, water, medicine, and international aid; and the destruction of hospitals, bombing and burning alive hospital patients and refugees, women and children in tents. Torturing and killing doctors, health workers, journalists, the Zionist state........

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