While everyone is focused on Iran, Israel, and Lebanon, the Gaza Strip is experiencing the worst moment in its history. The ceasefire of October 10, 2025, is only being implemented by Palestinian militias, as Israel continues to kill civilians and bomb at a rapid pace.
The negotiations promoted by President Donald Trump are leading nowhere. It can be said that there are two future projects, one Palestinian and one Israeli. Project A, defended by the Palestinians, links the disarmament of the factions operating in the Strip to a process aimed at creating a state within a reasonable timeframe in all Palestinian territories occupied in the 1967 war.
Project B, led by Nikolay Mladenov, coordinator of Trump's Peace Board, responds to Israel's interests and includes a handful of vague and non-binding promises in exchange for the disarmament of the factions. The disarmament of the factions would therefore be a prerequisite for a process devoid of content. It would remain a set of measures to guarantee Israel's security, but without advancing the political process.
Proponents of Project A consider that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank form a geographically and politically unified entity, while Project B considers the Gaza Strip differently. According to the Israeli project, the West Bank and Gaza would be two separate entities in terms of security and also in terms of their administration.
This project proposes a long, undefined transition period that does not foresee the resolution of the conflict but only its management, and this not only with regard to the Gaza Strip but also with regard to the West Bank. It is clear that Israel would take advantage of a permanent management of the conflict to deepen the occupation and the displacement of the Jewish population in the Palestinian territories, as it is continuously doing in the West Bank.
These useless conversations between the representatives of projects A and B coincide in time with the work of the independent UN committee, which this week has accused Israel of "genocide" in Gaza. Founded in 2021, it is not the first time this group of experts has made this accusation, but the report published on Tuesday ratifies this circumstance. Specifically, it confirms that Israel deliberately attacks Palestinian children. The committee says that despite the ceasefire agreed on October 10, the killing has not stopped, nor have the deliberate attacks by the army against children in the Gaza Strip. The report speaks not only of genocide, but also of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank.
In the first two years of the army's activity in Gaza, that is, from October 7, 2023, 10 percent of the Strip's population died or were injured. More than 70,000 Palestinians died, of whom at least 20,000 are minors. And now, although on a smaller scale, the number of Palestinians killed is increasing every day.
"The deliberate attacks against children are one of the key elements that prove the genocidal intent of the Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian community totally or in part in Gaza," says the report of the independent UN committee. In response, Israel rejects the document and calls its content "defamation".
