Gideon Levy: The world will not forget the genocide of Gaza, and people will pass down its memory from generation to generation.

In an opinion piece in Haaretz, writer Gideon Levy considered that U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip is not a peace agreement, but an agreement imposed by the United States on Israel.

However, he sees the plan as a glimmer of hope to stop the war and save lives, reflecting the United States' ability to impose its decisions on Israel; without that, the situation will remain stagnant and will not change.

Levy believes that what has happened has restored relations between Washington and Tel Aviv to their normal state, where Israel remains the "client state" and the United States the "superpower."

He claimed that this description of U.S.-Israeli relations has completely faded in recent years "to the point that it sometimes seemed as if Israel was the patron and America its protectorate, especially during the presidencies of (Barack) Obama and (Joe) Biden."

He noted that this agreement will lead to the release of 20 Israeli prisoners, 250 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life, and 1,800 residents of Gaza detained in Israel, most of whom are without trial.

According to the writer, ending the war is not only in Gaza's interest but also in Israel's interest, which has suffered significant moral and strategic damages, some of which are difficult to rectify.

Levy emphasized that the world will not soon forget the "genocide," and that generations will pass before Gaza forgets it, considering that Israel could have avoided the war or ended it in different ways through direct negotiations with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and showing goodwill, adding that this might have changed the equation.

Moreover, a complete withdrawal from the Strip and the release of all prisoners would have constituted a signal for a new beginning, but Israel - as he said - chose, as usual, to do only what is imposed upon it.

Levy concludes that there is no consolation for the people of Gaza "who have paid an indescribable price, and the world may forget them again," but they are now in the spotlight.

Despite the destruction "similar to what happened to the Japanese city of Hiroshima" after it was bombed by America with the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, the leftist Israeli writer said that Gaza has remained resilient and has brought the Palestinian cause back to the forefront of international attention.

He called for opening the Strip to the media so that Israelis can see what they have committed, saying that "perhaps there is no use in crying over spilled milk, but spilled blood is a different matter."

He concluded his article by warning that reliance on military force alone leads to ruin, and that Israeli policies in the West Bank threaten to repeat the Gaza experience.