TEHRAN – The Israeli regime’s recent attack on Gaza disguised as President Trump’s “peace plan” overshadows the guarantees offered to the Palestinians.
The fragile Gaza ceasefire, announced by US President Donald Trump amid cautious international optimism, is steadily disintegrating under the weight of new bombings and invasions by the Zionist regime.
The breakdown is widely believed to be due to Trump’s much-touted but disjointed 20-point ceasefire plan, which he boasted would “end the violence.”
However, this proposal was widely seen as superficial and one-sided. President Trump has repeatedly linked his “ceasefire plan” to the release of the occupying regime’s prisoners, but he has not acknowledged the ongoing massacre in Gaza, the mass killing of nearly 70,000 people and the severe injury of more than 170,000 others, most of them women and children.
Nowhere was the root cause of the violence, the Zionist occupation of Palestinian land, mentioned. This approach was designed to rescue the regime from growing international isolation and maintain its image as a regional power. But after two years of relentless attacks, the failure to narrowly crush Palestinian resistance has rather exposed the regime’s declining military credibility and shattered its myth of invincibility.
Under President Trump’s October 11 ceasefire plan, the Zionist regime would have been required to open the Rafah border crossing, allow humanitarian aid and cease offensive operations. Instead, Gaza faces continued invasion and a suffocating siege with little or no medicine coming in. Promises to the Palestinians have been broken.
“Gaza needs 6,000 aid trucks a day, not 600. The occupation (regime) is blocking some supplies from entering Gaza, as if we are still in a war,” said Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported that Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 93 Palestinians and injured at least 324 since the ceasefire began. Hundreds of bodies were recovered from the rubble.
These numbers contradict any concept of peace and instead reveal a nominal ceasefire maintained as a sham to avoid further global criticism of the occupying regime.
Another major flaw in the Trump team’s 20-point plan, which allowed the Israeli regime to continue its invasion, was its rush to reach breakthroughs on what could be agreed upon, then scramble the plan on paper to sort out the rest later. As most expected, the first phase of the plan did not materialize.
On Sunday, regime artillery shelling near the Maghazi and Braei refugee camps in central Gaza, as well as naval attacks on fishing boats.
Al-Awda Hospital announced that one Palestinian was killed and four others were injured in a drone attack in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Israeli occupation forces claimed they attacked members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who were preparing an “imminent attack,” a common justification that the Palestinian resistance has dismissed as a fabrication.
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said: “The occupation forces’ claim that al-Quds Brigade members in Nuseyrat were preparing for an imminent operation is a baseless lie and a fabrication aimed at justifying the occupation forces’ invasion and violation of the ceasefire.”
Such acts of aggression occur on a daily basis. Under President Trump’s watch, the Israeli occupation forces continue to use a perpetual “security” pretext while maintaining control over Palestinian land, leaving civilians to bear the costs.
Behind this repetition lies a deeper truth. The Zionist regime has been unable to secure any victory in Gaza and now relies on the spectacle of continued invasion to hide its strategic interests.
Militarily, the Zionist regime’s genocidal campaign failed. Diplomatically, it faces isolation. However, far from calming the situation, President Trump has allowed Netanyahu to continue as prime minister. Because eternal war is a political cover.
Seen from this perspective, in President Trump’s plan, new attacks on Gaza are less about “security” and more about maintaining the political narrative that the occupation regime still provides deterrence and that its power, although battered, is absolute. That is the fiction Prime Minister Netanyahu needs to survive, and President Trump has provided it for him.
Humanitarian agencies and the Gaza municipality have warned that infrastructure is crumbling. A girl was killed and several others injured when a damaged building collapsed in northern Gaza City on Sunday.
But such an important issue could not be achieved under President Trump’s “peace” plan, which provided for a “surge” in aid. In Gaza, the necessary heavy equipment has yet to arrive at a time when buildings are at risk of being destroyed or destabilized by the occupation regime’s military bombing.
For Netanyahu, ending the genocide means confronting his failures and failures to defeat Hamas and restore deterrence to his regime. By continuing to lay siege to Gaza, as President Trump has allowed, Prime Minister Netanyahu turns defeat into a political spectacle in which Palestinians continue to suffer and American promises once again prove unreliable.