Trump predicts Gaza ceasefire within a week as Israel’s deadly aid blockade sparks global outrage

By isabelle // 2025-06-30

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Civilians in Gaza are being killed while seeking food, with over 500 reported dead near aid distribution points since May, including 80 on Friday alone.
The UN condemns Israel’s U.S.-backed aid system as a "killing field," accusing Israeli forces of shooting starving Palestinians trying to access food.
Israel denies targeting civilians, blaming Hamas and the UN while continuing its deadly blockade, despite investigations into potential war crimes.
Trump predicts a possible ceasefire within a week, but Palestinians remain skeptical after repeated broken promises and escalating violence.
Over 56,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed since October, with hospitals collapsing and 4,000 children needing urgent evacuation amid Israel’s forced displacement orders.

The Gaza Strip has become a slaughterhouse under Israel’s brutal military occupation, with civilians now being gunned down simply for trying to feed their starving families. President Donald Trump signaled Friday that a ceasefire could be reached "within the next week," but for the hundreds of Palestinians already massacred near aid distribution sites, justice delayed is justice denied. The United Nations has condemned Israel’s U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid system as a "killing field," with over 500 Palestinians reportedly killed near food distribution points since May. Gaza’s health ministry, controlled by Hamas, reported 80 more deaths on Friday alone, including 10 people seeking lifesaving aid. Yet Israel continues to deny responsibility, instead accusing the UN of "aligning with Hamas" while defending its deadly blockade.

Aid or execution? The heartbreaking reality of Gaza’s food lines

The GHF, a logistics initiative operated with American security contractors and Israeli military coordination, was supposed to alleviate Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. Instead, it has become a death trap. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), blasted the system, stating: "The new aid distribution system has become a killing field. People [are] shot at while trying to access food for themselves and their families." U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres echoed the outrage, declaring, "People are being killed simply trying to feed themselves and their families. The search for food must never be a death sentence." Even Doctors Without Borders, an organization accustomed to war zones, described the GHF’s operations as "slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid." Israel, predictably, denies targeting civilians. Its Foreign Ministry boasted that GHF had delivered 46 million meals while smearing the UN for "aligning itself with Hamas." But the bloodstains on Gaza’s streets tell a different story. On Friday, six Palestinians were killed near a GHF site in southern Gaza, one near a separate aid location in central Gaza, and three more were gunned down while waiting for supplies near Gaza City.

Netanyahu’s war machine refuses accountability

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have dismissed reports from Haaretz that military commanders ordered troops to fire at crowds near aid centers. The Israeli military advocate general has reportedly opened an investigation into potential violations of international law, but the military itself refuses to comment. Meanwhile, the death toll climbs. An airstrike on the Osama Bin Zaid School in northern Gaza, sheltering displaced residents, killed eight more innocents, according to civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal. Gaza’s health ministry reports at least 56,331 Palestinians killed since October, most of them civilians. The UN considers these figures reliable, despite Israel’s attempts to discredit them.

Trump’s ceasefire push meets Palestinian skepticism

President Trump, speaking to reporters Friday, expressed cautious optimism: "We think within the next week, we’re going to get a ceasefire." But Palestinians, weary of broken promises, remain doubtful. Abdel Hadi Al-Hour, a Gaza resident, voiced the collective exhaustion: "Since the beginning of the war, they have been promising us something like this: Release the hostages and we will stop the war. They did not stop the war." Trump’s administration has been supplying aid to Gaza, acknowledging the dire need. "We're supplying, as you know, a lot of money and a lot of food to that area because we have to," he admitted. Yet as long as Israel controls the flow of aid — and the bullets — Gaza’s suffering will continue.

A genocide the world cannot ignore

The numbers are staggering: more than 56,000 dead, most of them women and children. Hospitals barely function, and 4,000 children urgently need medical evacuation. Israel’s latest mass evacuation order for northern Gaza will only worsen the crisis, forcing traumatized families to flee once more. Hamas insists any ceasefire must include a full Israeli withdrawal and an end to the war. Israel, however, demands Hamas’s surrender, disarmament, and exile — terms the group will never accept. Netanyahu, embroiled in his own corruption trial, seems more focused on political survival than peace. The world must wake up. Gaza is not a "conflict"; it is a genocide, meticulously executed under the guise of self-defense. If Trump’s predicted ceasefire fails, more blood will stain the hands of those who enable Israel’s atrocities. Sources for this article include: YourNews.com FoxNews.com APNews.com