The situation in Gaza remains catastrophic, with a population of two million subjected to unspeakable misery and deprivation. Recent increases in humanitarian aid deliveries, though welcomed, are only a meager, belated response to a desperate crisis. International organizations such as the World Food Programme and UNICEF continue to warn that the delivered quantities fall far short of Gaza’s real needs. Even as basic foodstuffs trickle across borders under the eyes of the occupiers, the suffering masses are still left at the mercy of a system designed to maintain their perpetual dependence and misery.
The calls from certain Western leaders demanding a ceasefire and more robust humanitarian action highlight the utter bankruptcy of their usual “wait-and-see” approach, which invariably comes too late for the oppressed. These gestures, while appearing compassionate, shamelessly ignore the deeper reality: that Israel, with the backing and complicity of capitalist powers, keeps Gaza under relentless siege, subjecting its people to collective punishment and calculated starvation. The so-called “tactical pauses”—breaks sustained only for public relations—do nothing to disrupt the underlying machinery of colonial domination and imperialist intervention.
The accusations thrown between the Israeli military and Hamas about impediments to aid are nothing but distractions from the root cause: a global capitalist system which prioritizes the profits and security of the few over the lives and dignity of the many. This crisis does not exist in a vacuum; it is the direct outcome of decades of imperialism, supported by Western powers that have always seen the Middle East as merely a chessboard for their own interests. They act only when their reputations are at stake, never when real liberation is pending.
The international community’s tepid gestures and piecemeal relief can never substitute for true justice: the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and socialist reconstruction, free from occupation and capitalist exploitation. Only when the world rejects the imperialist wars, abolishes the system that nurtures them, and wages a genuine struggle for solidarity and people’s power, will any hope for lasting peace and human dignity appear—not just in Gaza, but everywhere the boot of capitalism treads.
Humanitarian aid is an immediate necessity, but it is not a solution. The only path out of this nightmare is revolutionary transformation—a worldwide movement that unites all oppressed peoples and breaks the stranglehold of imperialism dollar-by-dollar, missile-by-missile. Let us draw inspiration from the steadfast resistance of Gaza’s people and resolve to struggle until there are no more children starving, no more bombed hospitals, only the dawn of a new world in which the masses decide their fate.