THE ASIAN INDEPENDENT UK
Bal Ram Sampla
Geopolitics
A ceasefire was supposed to mean peace. It was supposed to mean safety for Palestinians in Gaza after months of devastating war. Instead, Hamas fighters are now killing their own people in the streets. They are executing Palestinians they call “collaborators.” They are using violence to grab back control. And the activists who claimed to care about Palestinian lives have gone silent.
Where are the protests now? Where are the social media campaigns? Where is the outrage?
For months, we heard passionate voices demanding justice for Palestinians. We saw marches in major cities. We watched as celebrities and influencers posted endlessly about Gaza’s suffering. The message was clear: Palestinian lives matter. Every death was a tragedy that demanded attention.
But now Hamas is killing Palestinians, and those same voices have disappeared. The activists who flooded our feeds with updates have nothing to say. The organizations that organized rallies are not calling for action. The silence is deafening.
This is not about picking sides in a complex conflict. This is about consistency. If you claimed to care about Palestinian lives during the war, you should care about Palestinian lives now. Dead Palestinians are dead Palestinians, whether they are killed by Israeli bombs or Hamas bullets. If the cause was truly humanitarian, the killers’ identity should not matter.
But it does matter to many activists. And that reveals something uncomfortable. For some, this was never really about protecting innocent lives. It was about who was doing the killing. When Hamas executes Palestinians in public, it does not fit the narrative. So it gets ignored.
Hamas is not bringing peace to Gaza. They are bringing terror to their own people. They are undermining a ceasefire that could have given Palestinians a chance to rebuild. They are murdering people in the streets to send a message: we are in charge, and anyone who questioned us will pay the price. This is not resistance. This is tyranny.
The Palestinian people deserve better than this. They deserve leaders who protect them, not murder them. They deserve a chance at actual peace, not Hamas reasserting control through violence. And they deserve activists who care about their lives consistently, not selectively.
It means speaking up when it is uncomfortable. It means calling out violence even when it comes from groups you have supported. It means admitting when you were wrong. The test of whether someone truly cares about Palestinian suffering is whether they speak up now, when it is not convenient to their political views.
The silence from pro-Hamas and pro-Palestine activists right now is a moral failure. By staying quiet, they are telling the world that some Palestinian lives do not count. They are revealing that their activism was always more about politics than people. They are abandoning the very people they claimed to champion.
Hamas is killing Palestinians. The peace deal is crumbling. And the people who said they cared are looking the other way.
History will remember this silence. And it will not be kind.
References
1.https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/trump-hamas-warning-gaza
2.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-warns-hamas-war-resume-terror-group-continues-kill-people-gaza
3.https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-hostages-10-16-25
