{"id":46178,"date":"2026-01-17T12:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=46178"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:47:54","slug":"all-lies-gazans-say-theres-no-ceasefire-as-phase-2-begins-amid-israeli-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/all-lies-gazans-say-theres-no-ceasefire-as-phase-2-begins-amid-israeli-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018All Lies\u2019: Gazans Say There\u2019s No Ceasefire as Phase 2 Begins Amid Israeli Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Palestinian child wounded by an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp receives treatment in Gaza City on January 15, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo by Hassan Jedi\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere is the ceasefire?\u201d asked the father of a teenage girl killed in an Israeli strike on their family home.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Brett Wilkins<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan 16, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities in Gaza<\/a> said Friday that Israeli forces killed or wounded dozens of Palestinians<\/a> within the past 24 hours amid widespread skepticism over the Trump administration\u2019s announcement that the second phase of what many in the coastal strip say is essentially a sham ceasefire has begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newly formed Gaza<\/a> Administration Committee met Friday for the first time in Cairo, where members discussed immediate humanitarian relief and reconstruction plans for the obliterated strip. The body is an integral part of Phase 2 of US President Donald Trump\u2019s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, which US special envoy Steve Witkoff said<\/a> began on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump said<\/a> Thursday that his so-called Board of Peace to oversee Gaza has also been formed. In a post on his Truth Social network, Trump touted the body as \u201cthe Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gaza Administration Committee is chaired by former Deputy Palestinian Planning Minister Ali Shaath, who said<\/a> during a Friday press conference that \u201cour goal is to give the Palestinian people hope that there is a future\u201d and bring \u201csmiles to the faces of Gaza\u2019s children<\/a>, women, and men.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Israeli bombs and bullets continued to claim Palestinian lives across the strip, including women and children, in the latest of what Gaza officials say are more than 1,200 violations<\/a> of the three-month ceasefire. At least 463 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,250 others wounded since the tenuous truce took effect on October 10, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere is the ceasefire?\u201d asked<\/a> the father of a teenage girl killed in an Israeli strike on their family\u2019s home in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. \u201cWe are civilians in our homes, and we are dying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Gaza resident, Jaber Mohammed, called<\/a> the ceasefire process \u201call lies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been suffering for two years and now starting the third,\u201d Mohammed told<\/a> Al Jazeera<\/em> Friday. \u201cWe\u2019re suffering from the lack of food and drink, and from high prices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet another Gazan, Fayeq al-Helou, said: \u201cThey haven\u2019t even started the first phase yet. How can they start the second?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want it to be like every other time, just words on paper,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to ongoing air and ground strikes, Israel has continued to block humanitarian aid<\/a> from entering Gaza, where widespread hunger and illness are rampant among the nearly 2 million forcibly displaced Palestinians, many of whom are living in tents and other makeshift shelters unfit for human habitation. Gaza\u2019s Interior Ministry says that at least 31 people\u2014some of them children and infants\u2014have died in the strip due to exposure to cold, flooding, and shelter collapse amid winter storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack, Israel\u2019s genocidal war<\/a> on Gaza has left more than 250,000 Palestinians dead, wounded, or missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamas<\/a>, which has governed Gaza since 2007, said Thursday that it welcomes the new administration committee. Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas\u2019 political bureau, said that \u201cthe ball is now in the court\u201d of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said<\/a> Thursday that Hamas must \u201cimmediately\u201d return the body of the final Israeli hostage abducted in October 2023 \u201cand proceed without delay to full demilitarization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey can do this the easy way, or the hard way,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamas has committed to dissolving Gaza\u2019s existing government and yield to the administration committee, although the group has been vague about how and when it would disarm, and\u00a0maintains<\/a>\u00a0its \u201cright to resist\u201d Israel\u2019s occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brett Wilkins<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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