The Ceasefire 2025 That Exploded

By Malik Mukhtar — ainnbeen.blogspot.com

History, it seems, is allergic to peace—especially when written in Hebrew and rubber-stamped in Washington.

On October 9, 2025, Israel and Hamas signed what the world was told was a “historic ceasefire.” Trump called it a “miracle of peace.” Biden mumbled something about “stability was dd like a weary parent rewarding a serial arsonist for promising not to light another match.

And then, almost poetically—before the ink on the ceasefire dried, before the displaced could even lift their broken children from the floor of UNRWA schools—Israel began bombing again.

The war, it turns out, never ended. It just changed its costume.

Ceasefire as Performance Art

The ceasefire was supposed to begin at noon on October 10.
By dawn, the skies over Gaza City, Khan Younis, Nuseirat were already on fire again.
Drones, artillery, tanks—each one humming the same old hymn of “self-defense.”

Nine Palestinians were killed that morning, dozens wounded, homes leveled, and the media handlers in Tel Aviv called it an “operational adjustment.”
Operational adjustment!—as if massacres were mere clerical errors.

Israel’s Southern Command insisted it was only targeting “immediate threats.”
Apparently, in Gaza, an “immediate threat” includes a woman boiling lentils or a child trying to retrieve his schoolbag from the rubble.

The Ceasefire That Shoots Back

The deal promised prisoner exchanges, aid convoys, and the slow resurrection of a dead land.
But Israel, ever faithful to its doctrine of deterrence-through-devastation, couldn’t resist the urge to remind the world who holds the whip.

Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods were shelled.
In Nuseirat, families moving northward were caught in drone fire.
In Khan Younis, residential blocks were turned to ash again.
In the official statement, these were “security zones.”
In truth, they were kitchens, bedrooms, and the last shelters of the displaced.

The message was unmistakable: Ceasefire or not, we will decide when you can breathe.

The Art of Deception

Israel’s generals have mastered a peculiar craft—the art of making barbarity sound bureaucratic.
They never say bombing; they say neutralizing a cell.
They never say killing children; they say eliminating collateral threats.
They never say violating ceasefire; they say repositioning troops.

And every Western outlet prints it faithfully, without the courtesy of quotation marks.

Meanwhile, humanitarian convoys wait at Rafah, engines idling, as aid workers read statements about “technical delays.”
Technical delays—that sacred phrase that means people are dying, but the paperwork isn’t ready.

The Silence of the Civilized

No Western leader condemned the renewed strikes.
The same voices that roared when Hamas fired back now hum lullabies when Israel breaks its word.
Europe is silent, America is complicit, and the United Nations—poor thing—issues “urgent calls for restraint” as if it’s talking to a misbehaving child, not a nuclear-armed state that has learned immunity by repetition.

And so the farce continues:
A ceasefire that bombs.
A democracy that starves.
A superpower that shrugs.

The Moral Ruins

Every bomb after the ceasefire is not just a violation—it is a confession.
A confession that Israel cannot exist without its enemies, that the war is not about hostages or Hamas or rockets, but about erasing the very possibility of Palestinian life.
A confession that the real battlefield is not Gaza’s ruins, but the world’s conscience.

Because if this is what “peace” looks like, then what language remains for justice?

Postscript from the Rubble

As Gaza’s people pull bodies from beneath what’s left of their homes, the world scrolls past.
Diplomats tweet “hopeful progress.”
Israeli spokesmen hold briefings about “mistaken coordinates.”
And in Washington, another billion-dollar aid package quietly sails through Congress.

History will not record this as a ceasefire.
It will remember it for what it truly was:
a rehearsal for the next massacre, staged under the banner of peace.

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