Israel's war on Gaza: 15 images of genocide, collaboration & resistance

As a ceasefire is set to come in on Sunday, we look back to the huge pain and huge protest over decades.

Cover photo: Empty Gaza Swings - Banksy Credit

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By Alan Story

As far back as the War in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, no war has generated more images --- videos, photos, cartoons, memes and graphic illustrations --- than Israel’s thoroughly obscene war of genocide on the Palestinians. More than 46,000 have been killed and thousands more bodies will be found in the rubble created by the Israeli Offense Force.

A ceasefire was announced yesterday (15 Jan). It is supposed to start on 19 Jan. Its terms, basically the same as those agreed by Hamas in May 2024, can be found HERE.

Whether the ceasefire will hold is far from certain. As Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara explained in this video, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is a “war criminal” and cannot be trusted with a ceasefire. Nor can Trump who becomes US president on 20 Jan.

Today THE LEFT LANE displays 15 of the images arising from the war so far.

As for the future, “keep your powder dry” as the Americans say. Or “ be ready to take immediate action in case a situation suddenly gets worse” as a British dictionary tells us.

Reproduced with permission of Polish artist Barbara Galińska [and first used by THE LEFT LANE on 14 March 2024]

Israel’s war on Palestinians began long before 2023. This photo by Danny W. near his home in Beersheba in south Israel shows holes in resident walls, after a missile attack 20 meters from the place, in an open area, during the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict.

Israeli tanks and other armoured vehicles near the Gaza Strip in May 2024 [File: Abir Sultan/EPA]

Here Palestinians are walking through destruction in the wake of an Israeli air and ground offensive in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on April 8. [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo] More photos from 2024 here: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/12/31/israels-war-on-gaza-12-months-12-pictures ]

Palestinians celebrating the announcement of the ceasefire in the past 24 hours.

In October 2023 and just after the current war on Gaza had begun, Yemenis gathered by the tens of thousands during a pro-Palestinian rally to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Sanaa, Yemen. [Houthi Media Center via Reuters]

Also in October 2023, Pro-Palestinian demonstrators took part in a sit-in protest in Istanbul, Turkey. [Dilara Senkaya/Reuters] More than 20 big marches have occurred in London in the past 15 months.

Two images ( above and below - “Bibi on Board” ) by Mr Fish (American illustrator Dwayne Booth) in Substack columns by Chris Hedges in the “Chris Hedges Report.” [Earlier images by Mr. Fish here: https://www.truthdig.com/author/mr_fish/ ]

A typical image on social media over the past 15 months.

This November 2023 cartoon by Dave Brown shows Keir Starmer, while still leader of the Labour opposition, flying as a navigator for Netanyahu during an earlier pause. [ https://x.com/DaveBrownToons/status/1725220129372336195]

This image is from The New Arab magazine in September 2024 after Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, again said Israel was not committing genocide against the Palestinian people. [https://www.newarab.com/opinion/starmer-never-again-holocaust-must-include-gaza-genocide ]

A photo by Susan Carr from a 10 January 2025 picket by my local Norfolk Palestine Solidarity Campaign group at an international bowls tournament that banned, then re-invited, Israeli bowlers. [ Read about event here: https://theleftlane2024.substack.com/p/does-this-look-like-poison-from-a ]

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