Backed by US, British and European imperialism, the Zionist ethno-supremacist architects of the genocide against the Palestinian people are pressing ahead with what they see as the endgame in Gaza. Through daily massacres, occupation figureheads are attempting to complete their blueprint for a final solution to the question of Palestine. Every building in thousands of square kilometres is being razed to the ground, while annexation of the West Bank intensifies. While reports of an entire population being literally starved to death, against the backdrop of daily massacres by of hungry civilians queuing for food by the Israeli Occupation Forces, have elicited feeble squeaks of protest from Zionism’s imperialist backers, they have done absolutely nothing to rein in their monster. Meanwhile, Israel is advertising for more bulldozer operators to ‘clear’ southern Rafah and other ‘strategic’ locations. The Zionist plan to force what survives of the Palestinian population in Gaza into a concentration camp in the south is its latest attempt to liquidate the Palestinian liberation struggle and colonise the land in its entirety. This violent expansionism is Zionism’s raison d’être. Yet despite the appalling onslaught on the Palestinian people, the popular Hamas-led resistance continues to thwart Zionism’s colonial ambitions.
Rafah: Zionism’s final solution
On 27 September 2024, Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly, holding two maps of the region: one, ‘the blessing,’ showing Zionism’s official and unofficial allies among Arab reactionary regimes; a second, ‘the curse,’ attacking Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, then Ba’athist Syria and Yemen. At the centre, historic Palestine was labelled as ‘Israel,’ including the West Bank and Gaza. This future ‘Greater Israel’ has always been the Zionist dream, with the Palestinian people ethnically cleansed from every inch of their homeland. With it having become increasingly clear since October 2023 that there is no Zionist atrocity that imperialism is not prepared to tolerate in defence of its outpost in the Middle East, the Israeli government is pushing ahead with plans to achieve that aim.
On 7 July, Zionist defence minister Israel Katz announced that all Palestinians in Gaza would be pushed into a ‘humanitarian city’ in Rafah. Initially interning 600,000 Palestinian refugees and guarded by occupation forces, entry would be mandatory after ‘security screening’ and leaving would be prohibited, except for those permanently fleeing the country. Inside would be tent cities, some ‘permanent structures’ and four ‘aid’ points controlled by ‘international’ groups – read mercenaries. Implementing the ‘emigration plan, which will happen’, according to Katz, is the ultimate goal: the expulsion of 2.2 million Palestinians, to make way for a totally occupied Gaza. Zionism imagines that this policy will enable it to liquidate the Palestinian resistance.
By 4 July, according to an Al Jazeera satellite investigation, the number of buildings razed in Zionist demolitions in Rafah stood at 28,600, up from 15,800 on 4 April. The state recruits tractor drivers on social media, with bonuses depending on building type destroyed. Video documentation shows infrastructure being demolished in over 40 locations since the end of the March ceasefire, while academics Corey Scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek found that Rafah is the location of the most concentrated destruction.
So blatant is the colonial intent, and so clearly in contravention of international law at every level that it has exacerbated existing splits in Israeli society over the conduct and aims of the war even from army leaders – including chief of staff Eyal Zamir, seen as ‘dragging his feet’ by government officials. Zamir’s office has issued statements that moving and ‘concentrating’ civilians fell outside the war’s aims. Former Israeli prime minister Elmud Olmert even accurately used the phrase ‘concentration camp’ – a hugely emotive term in Jewish society – to describe the project. Hebrew University professor Amos Goldberg asked, ‘What will happen if the Palestinians will not accept this solution and revolt?’
‘A sick real estate project’
The US Trump administration is complicit in the Rafah plan. Backed by US imperialism, the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has detailed its collusion with what it calls a ‘Humanitarian Transit Area,’ describing Katz’s plan as enabling Gaza residents to ‘temporarily reside, deradicalise, re-integrate and prepare to relocate if they wish to do so.’ The Rafah concentration camp proposal is the logical conclusion to Trump’s racist call to ‘clean out’ Gaza for the creation of a US-owned Riviera.
Amidst reports that Tony Blair, former British Labour prime minister and war criminal, was involved in a related plot to expel the population of Gaza and ‘rebuild’ the land for US and Zionist capital, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine denounced ‘another sick, colonial project to turn Gaza into a real estate project.’ The Financial Times had revealed on 6 July that this project included a ‘Trump Riviera’, an ‘Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone’ and ‘Mohammed Bin Salman Road.’ Devised by a consortium including Boston Consulting Group (BCC), the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) and pro-Zionist businessmen, the ‘Gaza Economic Blueprint’ would be linked to the expulsion of 500,000 Palestinians, who would be offered relocation grants of $9,000. In openly colonialist language the TBI document claimed that the genocide brought a ‘once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild Gaza from first principles … as a secure, modern prosperous society.’
The BCC is heavily involved in underwriting the US and Israeli-backed GHF, which runs four death traps disguised as aid distribution centres. Set up in the wake of Zionist sabotage of the ceasefire deal, which collapsed on 18 March, 798 Palestinians had been killed in the vicinity of GHF centres by 7 July by the US mercenaries who run them and the IOF. It is this model that the collection of US imperialist financiers, British Labourites and Zionist entrepreneurs seek to expand in their plan for a Rafah concentration camp. The recent protestations of the British Labour government that the famine imposed on Gaza is a step too far are meaningless while it continues to arm and fund genocide and criminalise those who support Palestine.
In contrast the Hague Group – set up by countries including Cuba, Bolivia, Colombia and South Africa – held a meeting of 30 countries in Colombia in July to discuss legal, economic and political actions it could take against Israel. It was addressed by Francesca Albanese, the UN Rapporteur who has been sanctioned by the United States for repeatedly calling for countries to take concrete steps to isolate the genocidal regime.
Continuing genocide in Gaza…
On 11 July, occupation troops opened fire on crowds queuing for food in al-Shakoush, Rafah, killing 10 and injuring over 60. Among repeated massacres of displaced, aid-seeking families, 27 were killed and 180 injured in Israeli fire on 12 July. In parallel to these attacks, dozens were murdered by airstrikes on Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, Jabalia, Khan Younis and al-Shati’, bringing a two-day death toll to over 95.
By 14 July, more than 58,000 Palestinians were known to have been murdered during the Zionist genocide, with at least further 14,000 missing among the rubble and over 138,520 injured. Briefing on a World Food Programme delegation to Gaza at the UN on 11 July, Carl Skau reported that child malnutrition was chronic. 1kg of flour is now $25 and money is scarce. 5,119 children under five had been hospitalised for acute malnutrition in May, an increase of 50% on the previous month; all of Gaza’s hospitals have been attacked and 22 out of 38 have been bombed out of action. Skau met Palestinians who had been displaced up to 30 times since the onset of the genocide in October 2023, with some forced to move 10 times in a single week.
…and the West Bank
In the occupied West Bank, Zionist settlers and state forces are collaborating to make Netanyahu’s map a reality. Fascist violence has accelerated in Area B, designated as a supposedly Palestinian-controlled zone under the Oslo ‘peace’ deal. Liberal Israeli campaigners counted 59 new illegal settler outposts in the West Bank over 2024, compared with up to 12 in previous years. In 2021, violence from settler-colonists prevented Palestinians accessing 240,000 dunums of Area B land. This has reached 800,000 in 2025.
The Zionist state is rushing through a raft of legislation to officialise settler outposts. On 11 May, the cabinet enabled a massive wave of land registration in Area C – under total Israeli control since Oslo – making the theft of Palestinian land legal in the eyes of Zionist courts. In the weeks to follow, more than 40,000 Palestinian were forcibly displaced by armed colonial racists. Settlers and state bureaucracy are collaborating to expropriate indigenous land. Among dozens of land-grabbing projects, the previously halted E1 settlement plan in the vicinity of occupied Jerusalem has been revived. Under this onslaught, communities like the Bedouins of Khan al-Ahmar would be expelled as the Zionist entity seeks to connect its colonisation of Jerusalem to the Jordan valley, via West Bank colonies. As in Gaza, Israel’s creation of ‘facts on the ground’ attempts to abort the Palestinian revolution via seemingly immovable Zionist infrastructure.
Victory to the Palestinian resistance
Beginning on 6 July, Palestinian resistance factions announced that they were entering into negotiations in Doha, Qatar for a Gaza ceasefire, brokered by the US government. What remains clear, as Hamas leader Taher al-Nono pointed out on 9 July, is that US imperialism ‘holds the real keys to pressure “Israel” to end the war.’ A joint meeting of Hamas and Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on 13 July affirmed that ‘any negotiations must lead to achieving the goals and aspirations of our people, foremost among them ending the war, the complete withdrawal of the enemy’s forces, opening the [border] crossings, and reconstruction.’ The resistance is acutely aware that Zionism and imperialism will attempt to delay any settlement while it perpetrates its onslaught, hoping to create a situation where a desperate people are willing to accept whatever terms are imposed on them.
Frustrating these Zionist manoeuvres, Palestinian armed factions have built new momentum, with signs that the resistance has entered a new phase. They understand that whatever is won at the negotiating table must first be won on the battlefield. On 7 July, Israeli media reported the emergency airlifting of over 20 soldiers wounded in an ambush in northern Gaza. In a complex guerrilla attack in Beit Hanoun, improvised explosive devices were attached to multiple armoured vehicles by Palestinian fighters, exploding their vehicles and occupants. Zionist settler media complained that ‘The Beit Hanoun battalion always surprises the [Israeli] forces in Gaza. With every talk of an end to the fighting in Gaza, the Hamas battalion in Beit Hanoun emerges and inflicts heavy losses on the army.’ Israeli Army Radio asked, ‘How did an armed group manage to reach this area and plant four explosive devices, including one detonated remotely, without being detected, even though the area is considered under the “full control” of the Israeli army?’
In the wake of the Beit Hanoun ambush, Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida declared:
‘The steadfastness of our people and the bravery of its brave resistance fighters are the only ones that will determine the equations and shape the next phase. The most foolish decision Netanyahu could make would be to keep his forces inside the Gaza Strip.’
A day later, resistance forces carried out simultaneous operations in Beit Hanoun, Khan Younis and Gaza City. Palestinian resistance fighters remain able to engage fruitfully in combat with the invader, emerging from tunnels and rubble to inflict bruising strikes on Zionist forces. This long-term guerrilla strategy serves as a reminder of how the victories of other oppressed and occupied peoples were achieved, most notably in Vietnam.
It is this committed resistance that has prevented the Zionists from achieving their goals, despite the unprecedented horrors they have unleashed against the Palestinian people. It has done this despite the full might of imperialism standing four-square behind the genocide. The best solidarity we can give is to fight to expose the role Britain’s Labour government continues to play in enabling Zionist atrocities. We demand the total economic and political isolation of the Israeli state. Nothing short of this will do.
Louis Brehony
Isolate the Zionist state – sanctions now! Victory to the Palestinian resistance!
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! 307 August/September 2025
