After breaking a two-month ceasefire, Israel launched an assault on Gaza Tuesday, killing more than 400 people in pre-dawn strikes.
The death toll in the genocide continues to rise as airstrikes continue, and Israel moves ahead with a ground invasion.
At least 200 children have been killed in recent attacks, according to UNICEF.
The attack — the deadliest in over a year — came after President Trump gave Benjamin Netanyahu permission to break the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
Netanyahu warned, “This is only the beginning.”
Author Pankaj Mishra argues Israel operates within a “culture of impunity,” emboldened by global far-right movements that admire Israel’s “brazen cruelty.”
This week on The Intercept Briefing, reporter Jonah Valdez speaks to Mishra about his latest book, “The World After Gaza,” which examines how the genocide in Gaza isn’t a war or “just another conflict” — it’s a turning point reshaping global politics, exposing institutional failures, and forcing a reckoning over who sets the rules on the international stage.
“Some of the worst people in the world today are drawn to Israel,” Mishra says. “Not because they believe in Zionism, not because they are protective of Jewish population of Israel, but because Israel again represents to them — embodies this opportunity to take whatever you can and hold on to it using extreme violence if necessary.”
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