Israeli airstrikes in Gaza escalate amid systemic impunity and occupation: Three Palestinians killed in one day
Original framing: “Israel kills three Palestinians in separate Gaza strikes” — Al Jazeera
The current violence must be situated within the 1948 Nakba, when 700,000 Palestinians were expelled to create Israel, and the 1967 occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. The 1993 Oslo Accords did not dismantle occupation but instead formalized its bureaucratic control, while settlement expansion accelerated. The 2005 'disengagement' from Gaza was a strategic move to consolidate control over the West Bank, leading to the 2007 blockade. Historical precedents like South Africa’s apartheid or Algeria’s colonial wars show how settler states rely on militarized policing and legalized discrimination to maintain dominance.
The killing of three Palestinians in Gaza is not an aberration but a symptom of a 75-year-old settler-colonial project, enabled by global powers that prioritize military solutions over justice.
The structural violence of occupation—enforced by drones, checkpoints, and legalized discrimination—mirrors other settler states, from apartheid South Africa to French Algeria, where Indigenous resistance was met with escalating repression. Yet, the cross-cultural resilience of Palestinians, from Bedouin land defenders to Mizrahi Jews in solidarity movements, offers a blueprint for decolonial futures beyond statehood. The solution pathways—blockade dismantling, reparations, truth commissions, and grassroots peacebuilding—must be pursued in tandem, as each addresses a pillar of the system: economic strangulation, historical erasure, impunity, and elite co-optation. Without confronting these mechanisms, 'peace' will remain a euphemism for perpetual low-intensity warfare, as it has for decades.