AntiWar.com reports in “Israel Restarts Large-Scale Bombing of Gaza, Over 400 Killed,” that: “The Israeli military on Tuesday morning began launching large-scale airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, marking the full-scale resumption of Israel’s genocidal war.
“Around 1:00 pm Gaza time, Al Jazeera reported that 404 Palestinians had been killed and 562 had been wounded by Israeli strikes on homes and tents sheltering displaced Palestinians across the Strip.
“Pictures and videos from Gaza that have surfaced online show there is a large number of child casualties. ‘Israeli bombardment has returned to Gaza, bringing massacres with it once again,’ Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif wrote on X. ‘The bodies of children, killed in their sleep, lay scattered in the aftermath.’
“The massive attack came about two weeks after Israel imposed a total blockade on aid and all other goods entering Gaza at the end of the first phase of the ceasefire deal. Israel violated the agreement by imposing the blockade, refusing to engage in negotiations on the second phase, and killing Palestinians throughout the truce.
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement Tuesday morning that he instructed the Israeli military to escalate in Gaza in response to Hamas rejecting U.S. and Israeli terms for an extended temporary ceasefire. Hamas wanted Israel to stick to the deal it agreed to in January, which would have involved a permanent truce and full Israeli withdrawal.” AntiWar.com reported on Feb. 18: “Israel Has Violated Gaza Ceasefire 266 Times, Killing 132 Palestinians.” See new video summary from Dave DeCamp of AntiWar.com.
Ryan Grim of Drop Site News commented: “Highly unlikely this family was killed randomly. The targeting not just of medical workers but of their families has become too routine to be explained as an unfortunate consequence of war. It is a strategic element of the genocide.”
Protests are taking place Tuesday outside the White House, in New York City and elsewhere.
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SAREEMAKDISI, sareemakdisi@proton.me, @sareemakdisi
Makdisi is professor of English at UCLA.
In January, n+1 Magazine published his piece “They Make a Wasteland and Call It Peace,” which is subtitled “If the ceasefire lasts, it is at best a temporary and palliative solution.”
His books include Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation,Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial and Reading William Blake.