While Israel wants to impose massive displacement plans and a so-called “humanitarian city” in Rafah, Hamas responds with openness to a 60-day cease-fire pushed by the U.S. The aggression increasingly incorporates diplomatic maneuvers to break the Palestinian people.
By Ruben Tzanoff
On July 4, 2025 Hamas delivered to Qatar and Egypt a positive response to Trump’s proposal for a 60-day ceasefire, previously accepted by Israel. Hamas subsequently submitted remarks that the Zionists defined as “unacceptable”.
Simultaneously, Israeli Minister Israel Katz presented the plan to initially concentrate 600,000 displaced people in a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah, with heavy military control, exit restrictions, Hamas affiliation checks and eventual confinement of Gaza’s more than two million inhabitants.
This proposal is complemented by the release of around 10 hostages and the delivery of corpses, the opening of humanitarian crossings, international monitoring and other proposals that go back and forth between the parties.
There are different reactions
In Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, hostages’ families and popular sectors put pressure on Netanyahu to reach an agreement, while far-right forces threaten to resign if progress is made without disarming Hamas.
European imperialism and other powers endorse the US initiative with some partial criticism.
We repudiate this new colonial project of demographic transformation towards partition, forced displacement, control and confinement of the Palestinian population.
77 years of brutal colonialism
Only systematic violence against the Palestinians can emanate from the Zionist institutionality.
In 1948, (Nakba) the imposition of the State of Israel entailed the destruction of entire villages, the forced expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians and the foundation of the first refugee camps administered by UNRWA.
In 1967, (Naksa) during the Six-Day War, between 280,000 and 325,000 Palestinians were again displaced from the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights.
In 1987-1993 and 2000-2005, the settlers responded to the two Intifadas with house demolitions and internal displacement, especially in camps such as Jenin or Balata.
In March-May 2025, in the West Bank, “Operation Iron Wall” displaced approximately 44,000 people through expulsions, demolitions and bombings.
In April-July 2025, in Gaza, Rafah has been the scene of massive evacuations. In March, almost the entire city (50,000 inhabitants) was ordered to be urgently evacuated to Al Mawasi.
Ethnic cleansing
Stupidity and complicity are necessary to believe them when they say they want to set up a “humanitarian city” in Rafah.
They intend to force the installation of the 59th refugee camp in the Middle East (Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) by expanding its population to almost 6 million Palestinians in conditions of overcrowding and permanent emergency.
It reminds us of pogroms of identity-based collectives and the racist ghettos (1939-1945) in which the Nazi criminals confined the Jewish people.
Such racism, endorsed by the U.S., can only be defined as ethnic cleansing.
Together with the Palestinian people
It remains to be seen what the outcome of these “dialogues” will be amidst maneuvers, impositions and uncertainties. What is evident is that the US intends to impose conditions of subjugation and consolidate its gendarme in the Middle East, that each Zionist truce prepares a new attack and that the peace they are promoting is the peace of encirclement and Arab cemeteries.
Beyond what Hamas defines, organizations with which we have great political and ideological differences, we will continue to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Promoting the broadest unity of action for the immediate cessation of the bombings, the unblocking of humanitarian aid, the withdrawal of the colonizers, for a peace without conditions for the Palestinian victims and for the punishment of Israeli war criminals. in order to defeat Israel and for the establishment of a single, secular, non-racist, democratic and socialist Palestine.
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