The world has acknowledged and observes yet another blank ‘ceasefire’. To the people of Gaza, the word has no meaning. Ceasefires in Gaza do not stop the killing; they merely rearrange it. They reduce the noise but not the cruelty. They temper the headline, not the suffering. Israel’s operations continue through loopholes, exceptions, “security necessities,” and the ever-elastic language of occupation. Even within the so-called pause, shells land in the peripheries, sniper fire continues near aid distribution zones, drones terrorise the skies, and families move through ruins trying to locate the last place still standing.

This time is no different. Hospitals are still overwhelmed with untreated wounds. Children still die from dehydration and untreated infections. Elderly people still collapse in food queues. The term ceasefire becomes a political instrument for foreign capitals, not a lived relief for Palestinians. Gaza continues to be stripped of its infrastructure, dignity, and breath. The pause is only in sound; the suffering is uninterrupted.

Families crushed in collapsed stairwells. Women giving birth without anaesthesia. Doctors operating in hallways lit by mobile phones. Men digging their children out from cement dust with their bare hands. Thousands displaced multiple times, each displacement a new silent trauma. The ceasefire has neither stopped nor softened these horrors. It has only shifted them into the quieter corners of a broken territory.

And yet, as Gaza bleeds silently under the soft cover of a “truce,” an altogether different spectacle has been unfolding in Tel Aviv.

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War as display: Tel Aviv turns Gaza’s destruction into a global showroom

While Gazan families scavenge for firewood and water, Tel Aviv opened its doors to one of the most grotesque exhibitions in modern political history: DefenseTech Week, an arms expo where the annihilation of Gaza became a marketing asset.Inside polished glass halls, with air-conditioning humming and champagne flutes clinking, Israeli defence corporations unveiled weapons that have been “combat-tested” on Palestinian civilians. The phrase is no longer even whispered – it is advertised. A point........

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