Benjamin Netanyahu and Zionism are responsible for some of the darkest pages of humanity, a carbon copy from Nazi barbarism. Solidarity of the peoples is growing in front of governments’ complicity.
By Ruben Tzanoff
During 20 months of invasion, bombardment and siege, the State of Israel has massacred more than 55,000 Palestinians in Gaza, an outstanding majority of them civilians, including at least 17,000 children. More than 130,000 people were injured, a quarter of which will deal with permanent health repercussions.
Israel prevents the entry of most, if not all, authorized trucks, while the population is facing an unprecedented food crisis. In September 2024, 90% of humanitarian missions were denied or prevented by the Israeli army; the situation worsened in 2025, especially since March, with the total blockade of food, medicine and fuel: only 64 trucks have entered recently, while civilians looking for food are shot at.
Up to 470,000 people, or 25 percent of Gaza’s population, could suffer catastrophic famine in the coming months. At least 50,000 children aged 6-59 months need urgent attention for malnutrition. Gaza is today “the hungriest place on the planet”, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Murderous cruelty reaches such an extent that, according to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, from May to today Israel has killed at least 274 people and injured more than 2,000 in the vicinity of aid distribution centers, even amid the escalating conflict with Iran.
Faced with this atrocious reality, the responses of the powers of the peoples have been contrasting. The bourgeois governments and the establishment have oscillated between open support for Israel, lukewarm or hypocritical condemnations, and partial denunciations that do not imply any diplomatic or economic rupture with Zionism. On the other hand, the peoples of the world have led a historic rejection of the massacre led by Netanyahu, with mobilizations, boycotts, marches and other actions in defense of the Palestinian people.
During May, in addition to the actions for the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, mass demonstrations were held in dozens of countries. In Spain, events were held in 140 locations. In London, 600,000 people marched demanding that the British government take concrete steps to stop the atrocities. In the Netherlands, there were mass protests, including 100,000 people in The Hague, and a student occupation at the University of Utrecht, in which 50 people were arrested.
During June, the focus of the mobilizations was the preparation of the March to Gaza. The “Madleen”, with 12 activists on board, was intercepted and its occupants arrested and deported by Israel on June 9. On another route, more than 2,000 people joined the “Soumoud” land convoy, which crossed Libya before being blocked at Sirte, with at least 13 arrests. There were also important actions in the USA, Brazil and Argentina, among many other countries.
The Cairo meeting on June 12 brought together delegations from more than 50 countries with the aim of marching to Rafah and holding an international action until June 20. However, Egypt’s military and authoritarian regime responded with a wave of repression, arrests and deportations: more than 200 activists were arrested or expelled from the country led by current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The march was finally cancelled, leaving a balance of persecuted activists to be released immediately and without legal proceedings.
In 1979, Egypt was the first Arab country to acknowledge Israel following the Camp David Peace Agreement (signed by Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Beguin, with Jimmy Carter as mediator).
Despite the repression, the demand for the blockade of humanitarian aid was widely reported in many media outlets around the world.
We are facing crimes against humanity: genocide, ethnic cleansing, colonization and humanitarian asphyxiation, orchestrated by Zionism with the support of the U.S., which must be defeated through united mobilization throughout the world.
We also repudiate Israel’s aggressions against Iran, which have once again set the Middle East ablaze. Although this does not imply any political support for the reactionary fundamentalist regime of the ayatollahs
The fundamental solution to achieve a just and lasting peace, democratic and social rights, is the defeat of the State of Israel and imperialist intervention, to achieve a single, secular, democratic, non-racist and socialist Palestine, as part of a Socialist Revolution throughout the Middle East that defeats dictatorships, imperialism and its allies.
