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Gaza requires urgent international attention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical reshaping. Israel is actively executing a plan to permanently occupy the vast majority of Gaza, with consequences that require little elaboration, considering what we already know about the ongoing genocide.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Currently, much of the international debate centers on a single official: Bulgarian diplomat <\/span>Nickolay Mladenov<\/span><\/a>. The former United Nations Special Coordinator has been designated by the United States as the Executive Director of the Trump administration\u2019s newly established \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d\u2014an international council founded to oversee the implementation of Washington’s 20-point Gaza roadmap.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The issue, however, is much bigger than a single Washington-backed bureaucrat. A growing number of Palestinians and political analysts <\/span>accuse<\/span><\/a> Mladenov of manufacturing the very conditions that continue to obstruct progress on the agreement\u2019s transition to its second phase.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Under the framework, the official transition to this second phase\u2014which Trump and the Board of Peace declared to have begun in January 2026\u2014demands sweeping, one-sided Palestinian concessions, most notably the total disarmament of armed factions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This demand is a recipe for the failure of the entire project, especially given that Israel has completely failed to implement the most basic requirements of the agreement’s first phase. It has refused to halt its routine military incursions, has failed to withdraw its forces to the originally mandated \u201c<\/span>Yellow Line<\/span><\/a>\u201d demarcation, and continues to deny entry permits to the technocratic committee slated to assume civil governance of the Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n Mladenov’s insistence on Palestinian disarmament before the agreement can advance\u2014without a single guarantee of Israeli compliance\u2014conveniently flips the narrative. It cynically reframes systematic starvation and the blockade of medical and construction supplies as a Palestinian failure to honor commitments.<\/span><\/p>\n In reality, Mladenov holds no real cards; he is merely a cog in a larger machinery controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli Prime Minister has made it explicitly clear that he has no intention of following any peace roadmap, planning instead for the permanent, incremental takeover of Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking at a conference in an occupied West Bank settlement on May 28, Netanyahu <\/span>explained<\/span><\/a> his strategy with total clarity, abandoning all diplomatic doublespeak: “We are currently squeezing Hamas; we now control 60% of the territory of the Strip\u2014you know this. We were at 50, we moved to 60. My directive is to move to…” he said, pausing as an audience member shouted “100!”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Netanyahu smiled and responded: “Let’s go step by step. First of all, 70. Let’s start with that. We’re pressing them from all sides, we’ll deal with the remnants.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This is the actual blueprint of the Israeli government, declared openly to domestic audiences. The admission was so brazen that even U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio <\/span>expressed<\/span><\/a> frustration at Netanyahu’s candor. <\/span>Testifying<\/span><\/a> before Congress on June 2, Rubio remarked, \u201cWe have a plan\u2014it doesn\u2019t call for that,\u201d referring to further Israeli territorial expansion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Yet, Rubio quickly reverted to Washington’s standard line: \u201cAnd at the end of the day, we understand that what we want, and I think what the Israelis would ultimately want, is a Gaza that is governed by a non-Hamas entity.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While the immediate priority for Palestinians is not governance but life-saving food, clean water, medicine, and basic survival, Netanyahu and Rubio view the entire crisis through a political lens. The U.S.-Israeli plan is predicated on achieving, through diplomatic strangulation and engineered famine, what they failed to fully achieve through military might.<\/span><\/p>\n A rare, decisive answer came from United Nations spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric, who <\/span>summed up<\/span><\/a> the UN position plainly: \u201cOne hundred percent of Gaza should be for the Palestinian people.” The problem, however, is that the UN\u2019s rhetoric is backed by no real enforcement mechanisms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The international community has walked directly into a trap, outsourcing the future of the Gaza Strip to the Trump administration and its Board of Peace. Even the designated <\/span>technocratic committee<\/span><\/a> has been rendered entirely irrelevant, excluded from a decision-making process left solely to diplomats beholden to the White House.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The situation on the ground remains catastrophic. Since the fragile, heavily compromised ceasefire took effect on October 10, regular Israeli violations and airstrikes have <\/span>killed<\/span><\/a> nearly 1,000 Palestinians and wounded thousands more\u2014the vast majority women and children. When added to the horrific toll of the initial two years of war, the official number of Palestinians killed has surpassed 73,000, with over 173,000 injured.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, credible epidemiological studies and medical journals have <\/span>concluded<\/span><\/a> that the true death toll is vastly higher.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With nearly the entire population of Gaza living in <\/span>sub-standard tents<\/span><\/a> and surviving on the meager rations permitted through Israeli checkpoints, it is the highest form of immorality to demand political concessions in exchange for basic sustenance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Netanyahu’s “step-by-step” annexation does not hinge on what Palestinian factions decide to do; his expansionist timeline is shaped independently of Palestinian compliance.<\/span><\/p>\n Arab, Muslim, and allied nations must fundamentally shift their diplomatic strategy. They must firmly insist on completely delinking humanitarian aid from the future governance or demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Starvation cannot be tolerated as political leverage for war criminals. Netanyahu is emboldened by a history of international impunity, speaking openly of <\/span>expanding<\/span><\/a> his military footprint regardless of the consequences of such action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The international community must remind Israel\u2019s government that the survival of millions of Palestinians cannot be held hostage to the political ambitions of an extremist coalition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As with all op-eds published by People\u2019s World, the views expressed here are those of the author.<\/em><\/p>\n We hope you appreciated this article. At\u00a0People\u2019s World, we believe news and information should be free and accessible to all, but we need your help. 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Gaza urgently demands international attention, as the ongoing humanitarian crisis masks a calculated geopolitical plan by Israel aimed at permanently occupying the territory. The U.S. has appointed Nickolay Mladenov to lead a “Board of Peace” overseeing a controversial 20-point roadmap for Gaza, which includes severe Palestinian concessions like disarmament without guarantees from Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu openly admits to expanding Israeli control over Gaza, disregarding prior agreements. As casualties rise, with nearly 73,000 Palestinians killed and basic needs unmet, the demand for political concessions based on humanitarian aid is seen as deeply immoral. Nations must separate aid from political negotiations to prevent further suffering.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gaza requires urgent international attention.\u00a0 What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical reshaping. Israel is actively executing a plan to permanently occupy the vast majority of Gaza, with consequences that require little elaboration, considering what we already know about the ongoing genocide.\u00a0\u00a0 Currently,…","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":2728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[413,1166,677,40,1167,200,250,201,541],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-war","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-palestinians","tag-politics","tag-trump-administration","tag-u-s","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}