Press Release: Veritas Press C.I.C.
Author: Kamran Faqir
Article Date Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 18:56 GMT
Category: Middle East | Palestine-Gaza | US-Israel At War
Source(s): Veritas Press C.I.C. | Multi News Agencies
Gaza — Israel’s Security Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has approved a highly controversial plan to seize full control of Gaza City, accelerating a 22-month-long military campaign that has already devastated the enclave’s population and infrastructure.
Intra-Ministerial Conflict And Military Concerns:
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir registered strong opposition within the cabinet, warning that such a ground incursion could imperil Israeli hostages and overextend military capabilities. Notwithstanding these warnings, the plan was greenlit.
Human Cost: Displacement, Famine, And Collapse:
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, denounced the move as defying the International Court of Justice, warning it could forcibly displace up to 800,000 Palestinians, many of whom are already internally displaced.
Meanwhile, Humanitarian Watch accuses Israel of executing a systematic campaign of forced displacement in Gaza, an action that may constitute war crimes or even ethnic cleansing. Destruction of homes, schools, hospitals, orchards, and the creation of militarised “buffer zones” suggest coercive intent.
Residents remain defiant yet desperate. In al-Shujaiya, Gaza City, civilians were given abrupt evacuation orders. A resident described the ordeal: “We are being starved in Gaza City… with no hope that this war is ever ending.”
Firsthand Voices Of Despair And Defiance:
- Ihab Suliman, a former university professor, spoke from displacement: “There is no longer any taste to life… Life and death have become one and the same for us.”
- Rosalia Bollen, UNICEF communications specialist, reflects the crisis: “Children and their parents… are just worn out physically and mentally.”
International Outcry And Diplomatic Backlash:
The global response was immediate and unanimous:
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the expansion “alarming,” stressing civilian lives are at stake.
- Germany and the UK suspended arms exports, while Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong criticised the plan as illegal and disastrous; even within Australia, veteran lawmakers warned of likely Israeli casualties.
- Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Spain, Turkey, and Jordan condemned the operation, calling for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian access.
Strategic Questions: Occupy Or Govern?
Netanyahu insists the occupation is temporary and contingent on establishing a new civil administration, neither controlled by Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority, but specifics remain murky. Critics, including former Israeli officials, argue the plan lacks foresight and context, risking escalation without a coherent post-conflict framework.
Under The Surface: Deeper Motives And Consequences.
- Human Rights Watch paints the broader strategy as one of forced demographic restructuring through uprooting and rendering homes uninhabitable, raising alarms that such acts “reflect a state policy.”
- Experts fear the plan amounts to urbicide, the deliberate elimination of civilian space, not just conflict.
Urgent Closing Reflections:
This latest phase is less a military strategy than a social and political overhaul, one that could irreversibly reshape Gaza. As military encirclements proceed, humanitarian corridors collapse, and famine tightens its grip, Gaza stands on the edge of a breakdown, physically, morally, and politically.
Conclusion: Gaza City And The Final Burial Of The Two-State Illusion.
The Israeli cabinet’s approval to militarily seize Gaza City is not merely a tactical move; it represents the latest stage in a growing process of erasure: the obliteration of Palestine as a political entity, of Gazans as a people, and of international law as a meaningful constraint on power. It signifies not only the end of the two-state illusion but also the collapse of the international community’s credibility.
The West’s insistence on “Israel’s right to defend itself” while Palestinians starve, suffocate, and are buried under concrete has exposed a gaping moral void. The two-state solution, for decades a centrepiece of diplomatic theatre, has been exposed as a cruel mirage, weaponised to pacify dissent, stall justice, and grant Israel time to entrench permanent control.
Now, even the illusion is abandoned.
Palestinian self-determination has been methodically dismantled, not only by Israel’s military and political machinery, but by the complicity of Western powers and the calculated indifference of Arab regimes. U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s declaration that America has “no plans to recognise a Palestinian state” makes explicit what has long been true: the West was never interested in Palestinian liberation. Only in the Palestinian submission.
Meanwhile, humanitarian aid has been cynically reduced to crisis management, not to relieve suffering, but to sustain it at a level that avoids international rupture. Food trucks are bombed, convoys blocked, and children left to die of starvation, while the same governments responsible praise Israel’s “humanitarian gestures.” This is not a failure of oversight, it is policy by design.
Accountability? A lie. Justice? Deferred indefinitely.
Behind the smokescreen of investigations and UN resolutions, Israel continues to be armed, financed, and politically protected, even as it levels cities, destroys hospitals, and starves civilians in violation of every human rights convention. Western capitals issue grave statements while continuing to send fighter jets and surveillance systems. Behind the veneer of diplomacy lies a machinery of complicity that enables genocide with clean hands.
And yet, the betrayal deepens. As bombs rain down on Gaza, Western powers are dangling Palestinian suffering as leverage, offering Arab and Muslim governments political trinkets, arms deals, and investment opportunities in exchange for full normalisation with Israel. The Abraham Accords, and their proposed successors, are less about peace and more about purchasing silence. Gaza is the bargaining chip. Palestinian lives are the price of “stability.”
Arab regimes, too, have blood on their hands. They condemn the occupation in public, yet host Israeli envoys in private. They profess solidarity while denying meaningful aid and blocking refugee entry. Their betrayal is not passive; it is deliberate, calculative, and cowardly. They have chosen power over principle, optics over obligation.
And the final insult?
The same leaders who speak of “freedom” have trampled every fundamental right in pursuit of their alliances with Israel and the West. They have criminalised protest, muzzled journalists, banned solidarity demonstrations, and surveilled student activists across the globe. In Gaza, over 100 journalists have been killed, media offices flattened, and communications blacked out in what Reporters Without Borders has called “the deadliest conflict for the press in modern history.”
To speak of freedom in this context is an obscenity. It is a hollow word, emptied of meaning by those who invoke it while bombing children, silencing dissent, and jailing whistleblowers.
What Israel is doing in Gaza is not simply a military operation; it is a political annihilation. It is the rewriting of geography, identity, and history through fire and starvation, broadcast in real time to a world that shrugs and turns away.
Unless this machinery of impunity is dismantled, unless Israel is held to account, and the governments that sponsor it are exposed, Gaza will be remembered not just as a humanitarian catastrophe, but as a defining indictment of our age: a moment when the world had a choice, and chose complicity.
Because Gaza is not just the frontline of occupation.
It is the frontline of freedom. And right now, freedom is being buried beneath the rubble.
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