The final chapter of the genocide.

This is the final chapter of the genocide. It is the final, bloody push to expel the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No drinking water. No electricity. Israel is rapidly transforming Gaza into a Dantean cauldron of human misery, where Palestinians are killed by the hundreds and, soon, again by the thousands and tens of thousands—or will be forced to leave, never to return.

The final chapter marks the end of Israeli lies. The lie of the two-state solution. The lie that Israel respects the laws of war that protect civilians. The lie that it bombs hospitals and schools only because they are used as bases by Hamas. The lie that Hamas uses civilians as human shields, while Israel routinely forces captive Palestinians into potentially booby-trapped tunnels and buildings before the troops. The lie that Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are responsible—often accused of launching stray rockets—for the destruction of hospitals, UN facilities, or the mass deaths of civilians. The lie that humanitarian aid is blocked because Hamas hijacks trucks or smuggles weapons. The lie that Israeli babies have been beheaded or that mass rapes committed by Palestinians have occurred. The lie that 75% of those killed in Gaza were “terrorists.” The lie that Hamas, by supposedly rearming and recruiting, is responsible for the collapse of the ceasefire.

Israel's genocidal face is laid bare. The country has ordered the evacuation of northern Gaza, where desperate Palestinians are camped among the rubble. Now will come mass famine—UNRWA warned on March 21 that only six days' worth of flour supplies remain—deaths from diseases caused by contaminated water and food, and dozens of deaths daily under continuous bombardment. Nothing is working anymore: bakeries, water and sewage treatment plants, hospitals—Israel blew up the already damaged Turkish-Palestinian hospital on March 21—schools, aid centers, or clinics. Less than half of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society's 53 emergency vehicles are still operational, and soon there will be none left.

Israel's message is clear: Gaza will be uninhabitable. Leave or die.

Since Tuesday, March 18, when Israel broke the ceasefire with heavy bombing, more than 700 Palestinians have been killed, including 200 children. In just 24 hours, 400 Palestinians were killed. And this is only the beginning. No Western power, including the United States—which supplies the weapons for the genocide—intends to stop it. The images of Gaza after almost sixteen months of attacks were already horrific. What is to come will be even worse. It will rival the most atrocious war crimes of the 20th century, such as the massacre and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 by the Nazis.