Israel has shattered the ceasefire. Here are actions to take.
Photo: Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a residential building in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip March 18, 2025. Mahmoud Issa/Reuters
Israel launched dozens of airstrikes on Tuesday, killing over 400 Palestinians — half whom were women and children. In doing so, they shattered the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza, one they have routinely broken since signing on January 18.
For the last two weeks, Israel has completely blockaded Gaza, using starvation as a weapon of war as it continued to kill Palestinians with impunity. And now, with the Trump administration’s greenlight, Israel has resumed its genocidal assault on Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is waging an all-out war against our communities and our movements for justice. These attacks have left many of us feeling demoralized and overwhelmed. That is intentional: Fascists thrive when we are isolated, too terrified or hopeless to resist.
What can we do? In this Wire, you’ll find a list of actions you can take.
Israel shatters an already fragile ceasefire…
Israel began carpet bombing Gaza in the middle of the night local time on Tuesday, pummeling already-devastated cities across the north and south. In the span of just a few hours, it had killed hundreds of people across the enclave, including over 170 children: one of the largest single-day death tolls of the last year and a half of genocide.
“We gathered in the middle of our home, knowing our end may be near. That’s the same feeling we have had for the 16 months of intense bombings and attacks. The nightmare has chased us again.”
-Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed
In the last 16 months, Israel has deliberately targeted Gaza’s hospitals, systematically destroyed life-sustaining infrastructure, and blocked basic supplies from reaching Palestinians in Gaza, using starvation as a weapon of war. Even in the month and a half since a ceasefire agreement was reached, Palestinians saw little relief.
In that time, the Israeli government violated the ceasefire again and again, killing over 100 Palestinians across Gaza and preventing critical aid from entering — from mobile homes and tents for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been forced to flee their homes, to machinery desperately needed to recover thousands of bodies from the rubble.
Two weeks ago, the Israeli government announced that it was once again fully blockading Gaza, a move that threatened to completely derail the already tenuous agreement. Last week, the Israeli government cut off all electricity.
Now, as Israel resumes its genocidal onslaught, Gaza’s already battered hospitals are unable to cope.
“We’ve run out of…all painkillers,” said Australian medic Muhammad Mustafa, speaking from Gaza City’s Baptist Hospital. “We intubate, and people wake up choking — no sedation. Seven girls are getting their legs amputated without anesthesia.”
…while expanding the genocide across historic Palestine
While a fragile ceasefire was still in effect, the Israeli military was already turning the genocidal tactics it perfected in Gaza on Palestinians across the Occupied West Bank.
In the last month, the Israeli military has ethnically cleansed entire Palestinian cities, forcing tens of thousands to flee before systematically destroying roads and critical infrastructure — making it difficult, if not impossible, for Palestinians to return to their homes.
In the last year and a half, the Israeli military has escalated its violence across the Occupied West Bank, launching major military operations and empowering Jewish settlers to carry out hundreds of attacks, terrorizing and killing Palestinians with impunity. Over 800 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed by the Israeli military and settlers since the genocide in Gaza began.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its relentless attacks across the occupied West Bank over the last year and a half represent the escalation of a longer war, one Zionists have waged on Palestinians across historic Palestine for the last century. Their aim has always been to steal Palestinian land.
Now, the Israeli government is accelerating that land theft at a record pace. On Tuesday, UN human rights commission released a report describing the rapid expansion of illegal settlements across the West Bank. Between November 2023 October 2024, the Israeli government took steps towards the construction of over 20,000 housing units in new or existing Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem alone.
As repression mounts, our movements refuse to comply
The Trump administration is waging an all-out war against our communities and our movements for justice.
In his first 100 days in office, he has issued executive orders that aim to dismantle the fundamental rights of trans people. He has expanded ICE’s power and ramped up raids across the country. And he has acted on his threat to arrest and deport non-citizen student activists in retaliation for their political speech — a direct affront to the First Amendment that pushes the U.S. to the brink of an authoritarian takeover.
Earlier this month, ICE abducted a lead negotiator for Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment, Mahmoud Khalil, in a transparent act of retaliation against him for his activism. The Trump administration is threatening to deport Mahmoud despite his status as a legal permanent resident, and despite having committed no crime. He is currently detained in Louisiana, over 1,400 miles from his home and eight-months-pregnant wife.
Trump said last week more arrests are to come — and they already have. On March 14, the Department of Homeland Security said ICE had arrested a second Columbia student involved in the Gaza solidarity encampment. A third Columbia student fled the country after ICE showed up at her door.
These attacks have left many of us feeling demoralized and overwhelmed. That is intentional: Fascists thrive when we are isolated, too terrified or hopeless to resist. Our movements cannot allow that to happen.
What we can do right now
The pathways for change at the federal level have undoubtedly narrowed. That doesn’t mean we stop organizing. It does mean that we must adapt to organize on shifting terrain: Because there remain multiple, interconnected pressure points that our movements can organize around.
Our members of Congress continue to arm Israel’s genocide. We have a responsibility to keep up the pressure. By November of last year, a fifth of the Senate had voted to block billions in weapons to Israel, a direct result of our organizing.
Non-federal U.S. dollars continue to pour into Israel — from the individuals, municipal and state governments, universities, and religious institutions that have invested in Israel Bonds, to the tax-exempt “charities” in New York state that funnel billions into illegal Israeli settlements.
Arms corporations continue to profit enormously from the ongoing genocide, exercising enormous influence over U.S. foreign policy across administrations while their billionaire CEOs hide in plain sight, holding prestigious positions at universities and cultural institutions across the country.
Now is the time to escalate around these pressure points: to expand divestment campaigns across the country, expose genocide profiteers, and build a united front to resist fascism.
Take Action
Take as many actions as you’re able to:
Demand Congress act.
The U.S. continues to be the Israeli military’s largest arms dealer and supplier of unconditional funding. The Department of Homeland Security kidnapped Mahmoud Khailil, and Trump has threatened this is just the beginning. Do not allow your Congressperson to abdicate responsibility for these atrocities. They need to hear a groundswell of constituents demanding they stop arming Israel NOW
- Tell Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention.
- Tell Congress: Block the Bombs that Israel is using to commit this genocide.
Demand the U.S. media stop taking it’s cues from Israeli propaganda.
Demand U.S. media stop manufacturing consent for Israel’s genocide. Use our click-to-tweet tool to send a message right now.
Give to Gaza
After a two week siege on all aid and fuel, and 16 months of genocide, two million people are being starved.
If you are active in a JVP chapter, escalate (or launch) a campaign to divest your city, state, campus or institution from the Israeli government’s occupation and genocide.
JVP runs campaigns in over a dozen cities to demand divestment from Israel bonds, from corporations that are profiting off the genocide, ending tax breaks for Israeli war crimes, or otherwise ending complicity and profit from the genocide.
- Break the Bonds campaign page
- Have an Israel Bond? Pledge to Divest at JVP’s Not in My Name campaign page.
Your city can join the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and genocide profiteering — including starting a boycott of Chevron.
- Read and learn: Cities are an Important Part of the BDS Movement
- In a JVP chapter and want to join the Chevron Boycott campaign?
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