Gaza is purposefully being forgotten by the West

On October 10 2025, a ceasefire was agreed upon by the governments of Israel and Palestine and declared in the Gaza Strip. Yet, Israel has not stopped its vicious murdering of Palestinian people, and indeed has committed genocidal attacks nearly every day since then. In fact, according to analysis by Al-Jazeera, only eight of those days have seen no attacks from Israel, with hundreds dead and over 600 injured.

The Government Media Office in Gaza reports that Israeli military forces have shot at civilians 164 times, trespassed into and raided homes 25 times, and bombed the Gaza area 280 times, alongside kidnapping 35 Gazans. Moreover, Israel has continued blocking vital humanitarian aid, ensuring that Gazans continue to starve.

Major Western news providers no longer seem interested in Gaza, seemingly viewing the ‘ceasefire’ as the end of their moral need to care, despite the continued death and genocide

Yet, the US continues to support Israel both militarily and diplomatically, ignoring its clear violations of international law and the ceasefire that the US itself created. They also continue to justify Israel’s violence as “retribution” despite the IDF’s brutal genocide, which has killed at least 69,513 people, 20,179 of whom are children, and has also injured at least 170,745 people. This does not include those who have been kidnapped by Israel, many of whom have reportedly been tortured and mutilated.

Indeed, recent reports by the NGO Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) have made clear just how systemic torture and abuse are for those Palestinians who have been kidnapped by Israel and held within its prison system. Israel killed at least 94 Palestinians as a result of torture and malicious neglect, a number likely to be far higher. Israel is believed to have kidnapped over 18,500 Palestinians since October 2023; many of these will have been tortured, mutilated, and abused physically, mentally, and sexually by Israeli forces.

Within all this, major Western news providers no longer seem interested in Gaza, seemingly viewing the ‘ceasefire’ as the end of their moral need to care, despite the continued death and genocide. This is something that it was already partially doing by trying to soften and shift the blame away from Israel to hide its immorality.

We are also seeing a new US military plan, approved by the UN Security Council in a 13-0 vote, which saw Russia and China abstain from voting, to divide the Gaza Strip into two zones. One will be colonised by an Israeli-international coalition of occupying forces, while the other will be left to rubble and wasteland. This ‘red zone’ wasteland will be where almost all Palestinians will be displaced to, the next step in Israel’s ethnic cleansing. Yet, Israeli forces would still be present in the red zone, not even giving Gazans any independence, a continuation of the denial of any semblance of Palestinian statehood. Furthermore, although it imposes upon Palestinians and the Gaza territory, just as with the original ceasefire, Hamas, as the governing representatives of Gaza, were still not included in discussions, and as such, they have reacted to the UN resolution, rejecting it for how it “imposes an international guardianship mechanism” on Gaza.

As we approach the deadliest season for displaced persons and refugees, the international community needs to do more before Gaza and its people are brutalised by the harsh winter

This, however, is the only current proposed path forward that appears to have some support from influential figures in the international system. So, despite the clear dangers of this resolution, we must hope that it can at least be taken and turned into a hopeful, meaningful path for the future.

As we approach the deadliest season for displaced persons and refugees, the international community needs to do more before Gaza and its people are brutalised by the harsh winter. Lack of food will continue to starve people into husks, as the spiking, driving winds and freezing rain drive people out of shelters and into hypothermia, illness, and death.

More clearly needs to be done, yet the international community is continuing to fail Gaza. But this perhaps should not be surprising, after all, many international countries and politicians, especially those in the West and the US, must be hoping that in forgetting Gaza, it will allow them to hide the part that they have played in enabling the genocidal ethnic cleansing that Israel has been, and is, carrying out upon the Gazan people.