The execution of the first steps of Trump and Israel’s plan did not stop the aggressions nor the horrors of genocide and starvation. Imperialism intends to advance to the second phase; it remains to be seen if it can do so in the time and manner it has proposed. Be that as it may, it is imperative to reanimate the world mobilizations and propose a fundamental solution for both Palestine and the Middle East.
By Ruben Tzanoff
Cheating pact
With the “International Statement: For a Free Palestine from the River to the Sea. No to Trump and Israel’s agreement trap”, the International Socialist League (ISL) strongly denounced the alleged “peace pact” signed in Egypt. Subsequent events have more than confirmed that the agreement is tailored to the colonialist interests of Zionism and U.S. imperialism.
Executions, settlers, humanitarian crisis and economic collapse
Zionists continue their aggressions whenever they see fit, in order to continue committing crimes. In the last months of 2025, the Palestinian population has suffered systematic attacks on various levels. On November 27, 2025, the Palestinian National Authority released a video claiming that Israeli forces cold-bloodedly executed two unarmed Palestinian young people in Jenin, West Bank, after they had already surrendered during a military operation. This act is a flagrant violation of International Humanitarian Law that shows the daily brutality of the occupation. Added to this is the acceleration in the construction of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, which during 2025 has broken a record, with the highest number since 2017, executed by settlers and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
On December 3, 2025, the Israeli government announced the reopening of the Rafah border crossing, allowing Gazans to leave for Egypt within the framework of the cease-fire. However, this conditional opening demonstrates that life under occupation continues to be marked by restrictions, military control and severe limitations on mobility and the entry of humanitarian aid.
Rafah border crossing.
In late November 2025, the UN warned “the Palestinian economy is in near-total collapse after two years of Israeli military operations,” which have erased decades of progress, sunk GDP and plunged millions of people into grinding poverty. Restrictions on movement, the blockade and the war have dismantled the productive base of the occupied territory. Genocide is followed, like a shadow, by the direct social consequences of the destruction. The list of Zionist aggressions during the “cease-fire” is completed by the assault on the UN refugee agency in East Jerusalem, with the demolition of Palestinian homes causing displacement and the murder of more than 400 Palestinians since the entry into force of the “peace” agreement.
Trump pushes for second phase
This is the framework in which Trump intends to announce “before Christmas” the start of the second phase of his peace plan for the Gaza Strip. This new phase envisages the deployment of an international “stabilization” force and the creation of a transitional government of Palestinian technocrats, supervised by a council under a so-called “Peace Board”, which would include figures such as Trump, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The goal would be to move toward a handover of control of Gaza to a “reformed” Palestinian Authority (PA) after the current cease-fire.
In real terms, this would imply an advance of the direct political and military presence of imperialism in Gaza as a support for Israeli colonialism, with the “valuable” collaboration of collaborationist sectors. However, beyond Trump’s intentions, it will be necessary to see the actual conditions on the ground and the intentions of the protagonists: the plan stipulates that Israel gradually withdraw its troops from the territories it still controls in Gaza to make way for the international force, and that Hamas agrees to leave power and disarm, and both central issues are the subject of still unresolved controversies.
Resuming mobilizations with renewed strength
Nothing positive can be expected for Palestine from a plan devised by Trump with Netanyahu’s endorsement. It is necessary to resume with renewed force the solidarity mobilizations, the boycott of arms shipments and Zionist economic interests, occupations, blockades and strikes, as well as to demand that governments break relations with Israel. There will only be a just and lasting peace by defeating the State of Israel and the regional traitors who recognize it, through the socialist revolution in the Middle East and the establishment of a single, secular, non-racist, democratic and socialist Palestine.
Solidarity match between the Palestine and Catalonia national soccer teams , at the Montjuic Olympic Stadium.
