Israel Sabotages Trump's Gaza Peace Plan
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- Israel has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians and injured more than 3,000 in Gaza since the supposed October ceasefire took effect, with the tempo of operations continuing or increasing since the U.S.-Iran war began.
- Within the past week, Israel attacked a police station in the Jabalia displacement camp, killing at least eight people including the station chief and officers directing traffic in a marketplace.
- Israeli forces have expanded their controlled area of Gaza from 53% to 60% and erected fortifications along the "yellow line," cementing indefinite occupation of more than half the Strip.
- Israel is blocking the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) from entering the territory — it remains stuck in a Cairo hotel — even though Hamas has formally dissolved its own Emergency Committee to transfer authority.
- Israel is undermining the plan's humanitarian provisions by blocking "dual-use" items ranging from sleeping bags to portable toilets and barring international aid organizations from operating in Gaza.
- Israel's "Free Movement Plan" — rebranded from "voluntary migration" after public criticism — seeks ethnic cleansing and directly violates point 12 of Trump's plan, which states no one will be forced to leave Gaza.
- The 20-point plan contains a clause addressing delays by Hamas but no clause addressing Israeli sabotage, leaving the framework's enforcement mechanism one-sided.
Why it matters: The 20-point plan is arguably the most plausible vehicle for ending Gaza's humanitarian catastrophe, but Israel's on-the-ground actions — expanded territory to 60%, over 1,000 killed since October, blocked aid, and a stalled technocratic administration — are gutting it in real time. With the U.S. consumed by its war with Iran, Netanyahu faces no pressure to comply with the plan's provisions on Palestinian self-determination, allowing ethnic cleansing to proceed under a rebranded label.
