DaysofPal- A new report has accused the United States of turning a blind eye to Israel’s repeated violations of the Gaza ceasefire, suggesting that Washington considers the truce “stable” only because the victims continue to be Palestinians.
According to the U.S.-based investigative outlet Counter Punch, the Israeli occupation has violated the ceasefire agreement, brokered on October 10, 2025, more than 125 times in less than three weeks.
During that period, Israeli forces killed 226 Palestinians and wounded 594, while continuing to demolish homes and attack civilian areas.
The most deadly breach came on October 28, when Israeli warplanes struck Gaza City and Khan Younis, killing 109 people, including 46 children and 20 women.
Despite these assaults, U.S. President Donald Trump justified the Israeli violations, saying that “Israel has the right to respond.”
Vice President J.D. Vance went further, describing the Israeli air raids as mere “minor skirmishes,” and claiming the ceasefire was still “holding.” A U.S. spokesperson called the killing of more than 100 Palestinians “limited and targeted.”
“For Washington, the truce holds as long as the dead are Palestinian, and as long as the resistance doesn’t respond,” the Counter Punch report stated.
The report also highlighted the ongoing Israeli blockade on humanitarian aid, noting that it has ignored key provisions of the ceasefire.
Clause 7 of the agreement required “the immediate delivery of full aid supplies to Gaza, at levels equivalent to those of January 19, 2025, approximately 600 trucks daily.”
Yet, in the first two weeks following the deal, Israel rejected 99 requests to deliver aid, allowing an average of only 145 trucks per day, barely 24% of the agreed amount. It also barred UNRWA from providing shelter and food to 1.3 million displaced people, in direct violation of the International Court of Justice ruling ordering Israel to permit UNRWA’s full operations.
The report argued that the Israeli occupation’s disregard for ceasefire commitments is part of a longstanding pattern.
It drew parallels with southern Lebanon, where the Israeli occupation has continued occupying parts of Lebanese territory and conducting daily attacks nearly ten months after a similar ceasefire was signed.
Both the U.S. and France, the report said, have remained silent on these violations, though they would likely “express outrage” if Lebanese resistance forces retaliated.
“For Israel, agreements are tools of convenience, used to gain what it wants while discarding its obligations,” the report noted.
It added that “Once its captives were released, the Israeli occupation resumed its war on Gaza without restraint.”
The analysis warned that Israel is using the ceasefire as a façade to enforce a “diet of hunger” on Gaza’s more than two million residents.
By downplaying Israeli violations, Washington and its Arab allies have turned what should have been a mutual commitment into “a one-sided license for war.”
“When Israeli breaches go unchallenged,” the report continued, “the Trump administration and its Arab mediators normalize them into policy.”
According to Counter Punch, the broader Israeli strategy is to create a “new normal,” one in which frequent incursions into Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria are tolerated as routine, while the ceasefire itself becomes a tactical illusion to entrench occupation and normalize aggression.
The report concluded that as long as Washington and its “pliant Arab dictators” dismiss the Israeli crimes as “minor incidents,” and Palestinian lives remain expendable, ceasefires will continue to function as one-sided wars under another name.
“In this world of press-release truces and self-congratulatory diplomacy,” it said, noting that “Trump’s so-called peace is nothing more than a tool to restore the Israeli power to starve, bomb, and dominate without consequence.”
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