Build a socialist alternative to capitalism and warMark Best, Socialist Party national committee“Gaza is burning”, the Israeli military is striking targets with an “iron fist”, says the Israeli defence minister. At the time of writing, the Israeli state has launched a ground offensive deep into Gaza City. One of the few places left where people had not yet been forced to evacuate at gunpoint, it has still been bombarded over the last nearly two years by the Israeli military. Over the summer, desperate to continue the war, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his next bloody phase – the forced displacement of the population of Gaza City into camps in the south of the Gaza Strip. His government arrests pro-Palestinian protesters while maintaining arms export licences to the Israeli military.