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Gaza faces increasingly bleak reality one month after Israel ended ceasefire

Western states are still failing to put the pressure on Israel needed to end the bloodshed

Gaza faces increasingly bleak reality one month after Israel ended ceasefire
Friends and neighbours grieve after an Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia Refugee Camp reportedly kills six civilians, 17 April 2025 | Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images
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Although Donald Trump is thoroughly unpredictable on many issues, his support for Israel’s government remains firm for now, allowing Binyamin Netanyahu to continue with the devastating war in Gaza.

Israel aims to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinian population and repopulate it with Jewish settlers, according to work by the Washington-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

A major element of this is already underway, with the Quincy report revealing that the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has “carved out a nearly one-mile deep ‘buffer zone’ inside Gaza along the border with Israel.