Gaza Genocide10 October, 20262 min read
Netanyahu Warns of Attack Before October 27 Election as Israeli Troops Kill More Than 100 in Gaza
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Netanyahu warned enemies plotted an attack before the October 27 election. Israeli troops killed more than 100 Palestinians in Gaza.
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Election ties to Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel’s enemies were plotting an attack on the country before the October 27 election, and he linked that claim to continuing attacks by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip where he said they had killed more than 100 “terrorists” in recent weeks.
Analysts said Netanyahu’s insistence that he alone can secure Israelis lies at the heart of his re-election campaign, even as his alleged failures during the attack three years ago and in securing the quick release of captives offered his opponents ammunition.
Bezalel Smotrich told Israeli outlet Ynet late last month that the Israeli army should “go to war” in the occupied West Bank and “do there what we did in Gaza,” and Moshe Feiglin later added, “The enemy is Gaza, not Hamas,” while calling for annexation after the election.
Ahron Bregman said the trend toward the right began after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 but intensified dramatically since October 7, and he described the result as “This is madness. But that’s contemporary Israel,” as Israel’s political debate increasingly centered on the war in Gaza.
Ceasefire stalls, civilians endure
A US-brokered ceasefire was supposed to end the war in Gaza, but a year later Israel was still launching deadly strikes on the devastated territory, leaving Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians in limbo.
Abdullah Abu Zubaida said, “When the ceasefire began last October, we expected the war to halt, assassinations to cease, and aid to flow in,” and Ne’man Abu Jarad said, “The ceasefire is merely nominal, ink on paper.”
The 20-point ceasefire agreement halted major military operations, freed all remaining hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, and ended major military operations while Israel tied progress to Hamas’ complete disarmament.
The Gaza Health Ministry said Israeli strikes have killed over 1,400 Palestinians since the ceasefire took effect, while Israel has barred the new Palestinian administration from entering Gaza via Egypt and the formation of an International Stabilization Force announced in February has yet to materialize.
International order and Gaza peace
El País described October 7, 2023 as the date when several thousands of Hamas militants crossed into Israeli territory in the Negev, killing about 1,200 people, almost all civilians, and kidnapping 251 more. El País said the Gaza Peace Board chaired by Donald Trump was established exactly one year ago in Sharm el-Sheikh, and it called the Peace Plan “authentic dead letter, mere statements with no consequences.”
El País said the White House pacifying efforts achieved the only substantial milestone: the release of the last hostages held by Hamas, while it said reconstruction has not even begun and that Gazans face “insufficient supplies, sanitation, food, or housing at least dignified.” The Washington Post’s documentary preview described how Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor started conducting interviews with soldiers and intelligence officers in Tel Aviv for the film “NAZA,” as the debate over Israeli war technology continued.