{"id":72602,"date":"2025-10-15T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=72602"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:00:14","slug":"the-day-after-the-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/story\/72602\/the-day-after-the-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day After the Ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the very last moment, before the ceasefire took effect, the bombs kept falling, one final show of vengeance to soothe bruised pride. The psychopath could not end his war without one last performance. And then, silence.<\/p>\n\n

What follows is devastation. An ocean of grief for Gaza, for what was lost, erased, annihilated. Ninety-two percent <\/a>of its people have no home to return to. Hundreds of bodies are still being pulled from the rubble. Fifty-eight thousand children are now orphans, and there are more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world. No language can hold this kind of pain.<\/p>\n\n

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There is a flicker of relief: for the first time in months, 92 people will not die today. But relief is not peace. It is only the breath one takes between sobs.<\/p>\n\n

And even those<\/em> breaths are interrupted \u2013\u00a0and sometimes stolen \u2013 as Israeli forces continue to break the terms of the ceasefire agreement: 7 Palestinians were targeted and killed<\/a> while inspecting the rubble of their homes. Reports of car bombs being remotely detonated<\/a> at the rate of 10 per day have continued to injure and kill many more. And now, Israel is also refusing to open the Rafah crossing<\/a>, cutting in half the amount of aid agreed upon in the so-called \u201cpeace\u201d Plan.<\/p>\n\n

In the West Bank, the olive harvest, once a season of life, has again been transformed into another battlefield<\/a>, where Israeli settlers assault farmers under the watch of soldiers who protect them (research estimates Israeli settlers have decimated at least 800,000 olive trees since 1967<\/a> \u2013\u00a0the equivalent of 33 Central Parks \u2013\u00a0a potent reminder that this did not start on October 7th, 2023<\/a>). Occupation does not rest. It simply shifts its weight.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

A few hundred Palestinian hostages were released this week in line with the ceasefire agreement \u2013\u00a0people taken from their beds, their hospitals, their shelters, without trial, without record \u2013 while the world\u2019s media ignored and chose not to see. But, as of late September, Israel held over 11,000 Palestinians from the West Bank in prison<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,<\/em><\/strong> thousands without charge, thousands more under \u201cadministrative detention,\u201d and hundreds in the invented category of \u201cunlawful combatants.\u201d Many of those abducted from Gaza remain missing. <\/p>\n\n

How can any human being not cry<\/a> when the newly freed return home<\/a> after years of hell? And how can any heart not break watching people in Gaza sift with their bare hands through the lunar dust of their city, searching for their loved ones\u2019 remains?<\/p>\n\n

Let\u2019s say it clearly: Israel did not <\/strong>fight<\/em><\/strong> in Gaza.<\/strong> It destroyed Gaza, house by house, street by street. It did not destroy Hamas; it destroyed life itself.<\/p>\n\n

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The media\u2019s continued framing of Gaza as a \u201cwar\u201d is by design. Refusing to call it by its name is erasure, it\u2019s another way to rewrite the narrative and avoid accountability for Israel for the worst crimes against humanity.

They\u2019re still whitewashing genocide.<\/p>— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) October 12, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>