“Ceasefire” Violations as a Political Tool of Zionist Colonial Expansion

In recent weeks the US and “Israel”, France, Saudi Arabia and region puppet regimes have been using the extreme crisis created by the forced famine, starvation policy and continued bombings in Gaza to call for the total disarmament of the Axis of Resistance as a pathway to “peace”.

While the US and Zionists blame the resistance for the crumbling ceasefire talks, today, the US-”Israel” and Arab reactionary regimes are using the failed ceasefires to justify the full military take over and occupation of Gaza. The true intent of "Israel" regarding ceasefires is clear. The Zionists were always the ones to undermine the efforts for a just peace in the region. They want total domination of West Asia, not peace.


Since 1948, "Israel" has used ceasefires to expand its occupation

“Israel” has never upheld ceasefires. It has provoked wars through overwhelming violence to impose ceasefire lines that it never intends to respect.

The 1947 UN partition plan imposed unilaterally on the people of Palestine drew borders for an “Israeli state” that Zionist armed gangs immediately violated and seized more land through the Nakba. A 1967 ceasefire allowed “Israel” to occupy the West Bank and Gaza, effectively expanding its borders even further.

Zionist expansion into Syria

After the 1967 ceasefire between “Israel” and Syria, “Israel” would militarily occupy the land it stole in the Golan Heights.

The recent ceasefire between “Israel” and Syria did nothing to address the additional Syrian land that “Israel” stole around Mt. Hermon in late 2024. The Zionists have always sought to expand the borders of “Israel” and violated every ceasefire of each military aggression they started to achieve this.

“Israel” - Hezbollah ceasefire November 2024

A November 27, 2024 ceasefire was supposed to end “violent attacks,” but “Israel” has continued sporadic strikes on Lebanon. Under the initial terms of the agreement that brought about a ceasefire between “Israel” and Hezbollah in November, the former was to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon by January 26. But “Israel” refused to pull back its military, and the deadline was pushed to February 18. Even after the February deadline “Israel” breached the agreement once again and kept troops in five “strategic” locations in the Lebanese southern border.

Claiming that it is targeting Hezbollah, “Israel” continued to bomb Lebanon. Eight months after the ceasefire, the IOF admitted to having committed around 500 airstrikes since the truce came into effect in November 2024, reportedly killing more than 230 Hezbollah fighters, destroying thousands of rockets, 90 launchers, 20 headquarters, five weapons production sites, training camps, and other infrastructure, and killing 80 civilians.


“Israel”- Hamas Ceasefire - January 2025

One month after the Ceasefire went into effect, the “Israeli” occupation had violated the ceasefire agreement more than 350 times, an average of 10 violations per day. By March, “Israel” had committed 962 violations, reaching an average of 23 violations a day.

Blaming Hamas for violating the ceasefire, the Zionist entity relaunched its all-out genocidal campaign in March 2025. Since then, “Israel” has declared most of Gaza a no-go zone, forcing expulsions amid attacks and blocking all humanitarian aid, once again exposing its settler colonial nature. Over 87 per cent of the Gaza Strip remains within the “Israeli”-militarized zone, under displacement orders, or both as of 30 July 2025.

This Ceasefire agreement brought significant resistance wins and major prisoner exchange. However, the resistance harbors no illusions about “Israel’s” intentions to violate ceasefires, given the settler-colonial nature of Zionism. Yet these agreements and negotiations remain a crucial part of the long struggle for liberation. Periods of reduced violence are strategically used to reorganize, restrengthen, and secure the release of Palestinian prisoners from Zionist jails as part of negotiated deals.

As the Prisoner’s Media Office noted during the latest exchange, when hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were liberated: “The honorable exchange taking place today is a living expression of the strength of our national project, which views the liberation of detainees as a unifying national achievement and a right that will not be compromised, regardless of the sacrifices. These moments have come as the fruit of the sacrifices of our people in all arenas and the persistence of the resistance in fulfilling its promise to our detainees and people. The current exchange deal, “Flood of the Free,” represents a milestone in our struggle and an added victory to the long march of liberation, affirming that the will for freedom is stronger than all the jailer’s chains.”


“Israel” - Iran Ceasefire - June 2025

On June 13th "Israel" provoked a war of aggression that Iran had no role in starting, and once again showed itself to be the most dangerous entity in the region and the most utterly fascist and genocidal force in the world today.
While “Israel” had some initial success with precise strikes, it did not reach its main objectives in the war: destroying Iran's nuclear program and weakening national unity towards a regime change. Meanwhile, Iran's missile attacks broke through “Israel's” defenses, breaking the myth of the Iron Dome’s invincibility.

After suffering serious hits, “Israel” begged Donald Trump to negotiate a ceasefire on its behalf and relied on its imperialist master to back it up as the US directly intervened in the war. While “Israel” broke the ceasefire for two days, it was forced to stop as Iran proved to have missile parity with the occupation.


US-“Israel” and Resistance Factions - July 2025 Ceasefire talks

In July 2025, ceasefire negotiations between “Israel,” the U.S., and Palestinian resistance factions mediated by Qatar and Egypt faced a major setback when the U.S. withdrew its negotiating team from the table. The decision came after Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, publicly accused Hamas of showing a "lack of desire to reach a ceasefire." Hamas, however, denied these claims, reiterating its commitment to the talks and stating it was "keen to continue negotiations in a way that overcomes obstacles and achieves a lasting ceasefire agreement."

The proposed 60-day truce included several key provisions: a phased “Israeli” military withdrawal from Gaza (moving from west to east), a halt to aerial bombardments, unrestricted entry of food and humanitarian aid, and a prisoner exchange deal. Despite great flexibility by the Palestinian resistance, “Israel” proved to only be interested in the total and complete surrender of the Palestinian people, insisting that its primary war objective, the complete dismantling of Hamas, had not yet been achieved and therefore any kind of ceasefire deal was not worth it.

“Israel” and the US’s moves prove that they are not pursuing peace. What “Israel” wants is the dismantling of all Palestinian Resistance infrastructure, including political and armed power of the axis of resistance, to have a clear path to occupy the whole of Palestine and broader West Asia.

These goals are in full contradiction with the United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/37/43 concerning the ‘importance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination,' which endorses, without qualification, ‘the inalienable right’ of the Palestinian people to ‘self-determination, national independence, territorial integrity, national unity and sovereignty without outside interference’, and reaffirms the legitimacy of their struggle for those rights by all available means, including armed struggle.

“The resistance and its weapons are a national and legal right as long as the occupation persists”, said Hamas on August 2nd, 2025.


Ceasefires, Wars of Liberation, and the Fight for Just and Lasting Peace

“Israel” did not start its genocide in 2023, nor did the fight for Palestinian liberation begin in the same year. Wars are not only campaigns of violence, but wide ranging political and social phenomena in which violence is used to achieve political and economic interests of not only states but whole peoples and classes. Whether those interests stand for the people and the masses that make them up, or for the narrow ranks of the minority ruling classes, defines if it is a war for domination or a war for liberation.

A ceasefire is a momentary pause in direct fighting, but it is not a fundamental solution to the political and economic roots of conflict. In fact, a pause in direct fighting may open up other fronts for the ruling power to use other forms of oppression and exploitation to uphold their rule.

Therefore, ceasefires are no alternative to fundamentally changing the root causes of oppression and exploitation, and fighting will keep happening until these are addressed. However, they are necessary when they give pause to the horrors of wars of aggression and allows the people time to heal and regain their strength for the fights ahead until full liberation and just and lasting peace.

“Israel” is waging a war of genocide and annihilation for the benefit of the imperialist ruling elite. Palestine is waging a war of liberation for the benefit of its entire people to live on their historic land. How either approaches the question of ceasefires reflects the irreconcilable differences between the types of war that they are waging.

The Palestinian, Lebanese, Iranian, Syrian and all oppressed peoples of the world have the right to fight for their self-determination and a just peace in the region, free of Zionist-US domination and any foreign interference.