In a remarkable shift on the ground, Israel has intensified its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip over the past three days, coinciding with US President Donald Trump's tour of the region.

In the first three days of Trump's tour, which began Tuesday, the Israeli army killed approximately 260 Palestinians, compared to 78 killed in the previous three days, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent's monitoring of Ministry of Health data.

This jump demonstrates a systematic escalation in the genocide, in light of the approval by the Security Cabinet to expand the war of genocide that has been ongoing since October 7, 2023.

Over the past few days, Israel has threatened to escalate its war of extermination in Gaza by mobilizing reserve soldiers for a new operation dubbed "Gideon's Wagons."

With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving approximately 173,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.

** Bloody days

Trump began his tour in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, then visited Qatar and arrived in the UAE on Thursday.

Since the start of the round, the Israeli military has intensified its strikes on residential areas and civilian facilities, including two major hospitals—Nasser and Gaza European—and the Tawbah clinic and prayer hall in Jabalia, resulting in deaths and injuries.

On the first day of the round, Tuesday, the army issued evacuation notices for seven areas in northern Gaza, including densely populated neighborhoods such as Jabalia, Tel al-Zaatar, Sheikh Zayed, and al-Salam.

Army spokesman Avichay Adraee described the warning as "the last before the attack."

Indeed, the warning was followed by direct shelling that killed and wounded people, including children and women.

The same day also saw shelling targeting Nasser Hospital and the European Gaza Hospital, as well as homes and tents housing displaced persons, resulting in the deaths of approximately 48 people.

On Wednesday, the second day, Israel killed approximately 118 Palestinians in shelling targeting homes, civilian gatherings, and displaced persons' tents. It also issued evacuation orders for residential areas, including four schools housing displaced persons and Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Since the third day of Trump's tour on Thursday, Israel has killed approximately 94 Palestinians in airstrikes targeting homes and tents of displaced people, as well as a medical clinic and a prayer hall in various areas of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Israel has been blockading Gaza for 18 years, leaving approximately 1.5 million Palestinians out of a population of approximately 2.4 million homeless after their homes were destroyed in the war of extermination. The Strip is suffering from famine due to Tel Aviv's closure of the crossings to humanitarian aid.

** "A better future"!

While Trump spoke in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday about the "better future" that Palestinians in Gaza deserve, Israel expanded its bombing, genocide, and killing.

This was considered by Palestinians to be a "direct field message" from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aiming to thwart any path to calm or diplomatic pressure for a ceasefire.

On Wednesday, Hamas said, "While mediators are seeking to reach a ceasefire and conclude a prisoner exchange deal, the terrorist Netanyahu, obsessed with revenge, is rushing to escalate his aggression and massacres against innocent civilians."

She stressed that this represents "an attempt to undermine these efforts, in service of his political agenda."

Hamas has repeatedly affirmed its willingness to begin comprehensive negotiations to release Israeli prisoners "in one go" in exchange for an end to the genocide, the withdrawal of the Israeli army, and the release of Palestinian prisoners.

But Netanyahu, who is wanted by international justice, is evading the situation by proposing new conditions, the most recent of which is the disarmament of Hamas, a demand the movement rejects as long as Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories continues.

The opposition and the families of the prisoners say that Netanyahu is continuing his war of extermination in Gaza, deferring to the more extreme right-wing faction within his government to further his own political interests, particularly his ability to remain in power.

** Cover for genocide

Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the government media office in Gaza, told Anadolu Agency that "the significant increase in the number of martyrs killed by the occupation in Gaza coincided with Trump's visit."

Al-Thawabatah considered that "this coincidence confirms once again that these visits are nothing more than a political cover and an implicit signal of further escalation, aggression, and genocide."

He added, "While Trump is making false propaganda statements about a better future for the Palestinians, the Israeli war machine, led by the occupation government, is committing horrific massacres against civilians."

Constants, he added, "The war machine is expanding the scope of genocide and ethnic cleansing against our people, which exposes the falsity of these statements and exposes American complicity in enabling the aggression politically and militarily."

He continued, "Trump's statements, which promote a better future, lose all meaning and credibility in light of the ongoing massacres, the targeting of families, the destruction of infrastructure, and the killing of children and women."

He considered them "blatant attempts to beautify the occupation's image and mislead public opinion."

For decades, Israel has occupied territories in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, and refuses to withdraw from them and establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, along the pre-1967 borders.