The World Food Programme has announced that it has officially run out of food supplies in the Gaza Strip, as a result of Israel‘s total blockade, now entering its third month.
At the same time, Israeli officials are making their intentions plain: to maintain military control over Gaza, cleanse it of genocide survivors and partition Syria.
Israel’s onslaught against Palestinian and Arab life, organisation and resistance over the past 18 months has been devastating beyond words.
This period will be remembered, alongside 1948 and 1967, as a moment of major Palestinian and regional defeat at the hands of Israel and its western sponsors, marked by rapid settler-colonial expansion and an aggressive redrawing of the status quo.
And yet, from this defeat, new contradictions will emerge – from which the long struggle for liberation will burst forth once more.
Unimaginable depths
The situation in Gaza has once again reached unimaginable depths. As of the end of April 2025, the official death toll had surpassed 52,400, and at least 90 percent of the strip’s population had been displaced. The actual number of dead is likely far higher.
Already, by September 2024, projections had exceeded 300,000. Since then, conditions have only worsened.
Doctors Without Borders has described the whole of Gaza as a mass grave. Even before the latest announcement by the World Food Programme, all bakeries had shut down, baby formula had run out, and children were receiving “less than one meal a day”.
Access to water has been weaponised, as Israel cuts off electricity and fuel. The genocide has shifted from a military campaign of successive massacres to a slow, systematic mass murder by starvation and daily bombing of displaced Palestinians. Words fail to capture such a hell.
Israel’s “day after” vision is now unmistakable. As it once did in the West Bank, it is carving out small bantustans in Gaza, segmented by Israeli-controlled corridors named after former settlements: Netzarim, Philadelphi and Morag.
This campaign of mass expulsion and starvation is designed to “thin out” the Palestinian population and force it into dramatically smaller zones, far from most arable lands – especially between Rafah and Khan Younis.
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