October 9, 2025
The ceasefire agreement: On our current moment and the road ahead
As the sun rose over Gaza this morning, the joyful calls of its people could be heard through the streets. We join our people in welcoming the prospect of a durable ceasefire agreement, and the immense relief such an agreement would bring.
At the same time, we note that nothing about this moment is a guarantee, nor represents a complete reprieve from Zionism’s genocidal aspirations. The agreement remains in the early stage of phase one, and Israel retains troop presence in over 53% of Gaza’s territory. Our optimism must be a cautious one, given Israel’s previous repeated ceasefire violations.
Nevertheless, after 733 days, the conspiracy by Israel and the world’s imperialist powers to drive our people from their land and into exile has failed.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza should not be understood as a sudden rupture in the history or political trajectory of Zionism. To the contrary, what has unfolded in Gaza over the last two years is part of a longstanding Zionist plan to liquidate the Palestinian people and their resistance.
The roots of Israel’s genocide lay in the 1948 Nakba and the 1967 Naksa, with its execution now continuing through the E1 plan for the take over of the West Bank. The genocide did not begin on October 7, 2023. The last two years have been an accelerated version of the previous hundred years of Zionist occupation and violence, a shocking magnification of the horrors Israel had already committed against the Palestinian people.
Since October 2023, Israel has killed more than 160,000 Palestinians, and destroyed almost all of the Gaza Strip. More than 40,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned, with arrests so sweeping they left no witnesses.
Inside the prison, a display of unnamable horror. Sexual abuse, sleep deprivation, intentional medical neglect, controlled starvation, manufactured spread of disease. In spite of these conditions, our people’s resistance continued even from behind bars. Today, the example of our prisoners and martyrs continues to guide us.
Even amidst a ceasefire, Israel will continue to widen its settlement project in the West Bank, forcibly displacing thousands of Palestinians. Israel will seek to return to a position of global favor and normalcy, in part, through the diplomatic cooperation of complicit Arab regimes.
This must be resisted at every turn. Israel will remain capable of resuming its genocide at any time so long as the weapons, military equipment, and technology made by Western corporations continue to flow through our airports, highways, and ports into the hands of occupation forces.
To this end, the work for us does not stop while tentative agreements hold. We must organize for the implementation of an arms embargo. Our cities, legislatures, and workplaces can no longer be pipelines for genocide.
As the bombs quiet and the dust begins to clear, our responsibility deepens. Rebuilding Gaza is a collective duty to restore the life, dignity, and future of our people in Gaza. For the diaspora, this moment is a call to take active ownership in this process.
We carry the resources, skills, and networks needed to mobilize the support for the restoration of Gaza’s communities. Every home rebuilt, every classroom reopened, every clinic restored will work to ensure that the Palestinian people can live and thrive on their land. It is a responsibility that belongs to all of us.
The world has awakened to the true, genocidal nature of the Zionist project, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives. Over the last two years, the global movement for Palestinian liberation was able to pressure governments, institutions and complicit actors to isolate Israel on the world stage.
On the road ahead, we must work to ensure Zionism and the state of Israel can never again regain legitimacy. We must struggle until the last jail cell of the occupation is empty, every inch of Palestinian land liberated, and the right of return fulfilled.