Attack on ‘safe zones’ keeps repeating itself: Israeli historian

A court in Tel Aviv has ordered that a major nationwide strike must end. Israel's largest trade union staged the protest, saying it wants to pressure the government of Benjamin Netanyahu into signing a Gaza ceasefire and captive release deal with Hamas. The action was called after the bodies of six Israeli captives were recovered from a tunnel in southern Gaza on Saturday. A labour court accepted the government's petition that the strike was politically motivated. Following the Israeli air strike in Deir el-Balah near a hospital that had been designated as “safe” for Palestinians to bring their children to get a polio vaccination, Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian, says: “We’ve been here before.” “When supposedly safe zones for Palestinians in Gaza were bombed, this keeps repeating itself. An Israeli prime minister is adamant in continuing a situation of the war as he would see it as long as he can until the next elections in Israel in 2026,” Pappe told Al Jazeera. “He would do everything possible to make sure that there are no conditions or circumstances for ending the Israeli genocidal attack on Gaza.” He added that the “cynical attack” that just occurred in Deir el-Balah indicates that this “inhuman cynicism would be perpetrated again and again” unless there is external intervention. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Palestine #Israel #TelAviv #IsraelProtests #Netanyahu #BringThemHome #BringThemHomeNow #BenjaminNetanyahu #IsraeliHostages #IsraeliCaptives #FreeTheHostages #Palestine #Gaza #GazaWar #IsraelGazaWar #IsraelHamasWar #IsraelGeneralStrike #CeasefireNow #SealTheDeal #Histadrut #BezalelSmotrich #YairLapid #GazaBombardment #GazaRefugeeCamps #CentralGaza #DeirElBalah #AlAqsaHospital #AlJazeeraEnglish