Why are you killing us? Why are destroying our homes? Such pleas by Gazans who have been under the vicious Israeli war machine since 7 October, 2023 are falling on deaf ears by the so-called Jewish leadership.
Benjamin Netanyahu promises to continue his war despite being told not to by the International Court of Justice.
Their provisions guarding against Israeli military actions that tantamount to genocide is being viciously criticized by Netanyahu and his extreme rightwing government. Blinded by hate, Netanyahu has called the ICJ’s provisions as disgraceful, unwarranted and that Israel is protecting itself.
But the images coming out of Gaza through the handiwork of the Israeli war machines – 2000-pound bombs – are harrowing, coming out of sick horror movie because they show people dying on the video screen and in front of the camera.
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Such a video, one of many of a boy on the floor of a Khan Younis hospital with a gash in the head made by a shot wound taking his last breath and told to utter the Muslim Shehada (I witness there is no god but God and Mohammad is his Prophet) by what seems to be one of the male nurse).
This is Israel, and this is their big guns and American-made missiles. But videos of heartache continue to run wild as if they are the normal state of affairs. Most of the people killed in this war on Gaza has been women and/or children.
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Although the next video is of a doctor surprised at seeing his friend lying dead on the hospital floor. The doctor is in shock as he tries to revive his friend but it is no good. There are much people around, some alive, some lying injured and dying on the floor.
The Palestinian death toll has been well over 26,000 with thousands more – dare I say it, at least 8000 – under the rubble waiting to be brought out but they will have to wait for the bombs to stop. There are many miraculous stories of a boy brought out from under the rubble after eight days but there is plenty of heartache.
It’s a Palestinian tragedy. Nobody would have foretold of the vehemence of Israeli politicians and the army and their appetite for death and murder. They are still licking their wounds from the 7 October attacks in which more than 1200 Israelis were killed by the infiltration of Hamas fighters into the so-called Gaza envelope – disputed territories controlled by Israel as part of its state.
Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant continue to promise Hamas will pay despite the fact that evidence since 7 October revealed many of those Jews shot dead were by Israeli soldiers under the so-called Hannibal directive which sees a dead Israeli better than the one who is taken alive, a callous and dangerous attitude if there was ever one.
Meanwhile the United Nations says that the number of women and children that have died so far tops the 16000-mark and likely to rise as Israel and the USA, their main military backers, continue to shy away from supporting a ceasefire in Gaza.
Whether Netanyahu likes it or not, his army is targeting children and which is blatantly sanctioned by his war cabinet. But this doesn’t seem to be of no real worry since America has just suspended aid to UNRWA, the UN refugee agency for alleged Israeli claims that some 12 members of its employees took part in the 7 October attacks. Italy, Australia and the UK have followed suit but the EU is still assessing the situation bending further investigation.
And then there is more images of Palestinian kids, more like, babies dying, looking as if they are asleep. This has become a normal state of affairs in Gaza with dead babies everywhere. Cameras don’t lie. A father holding his dead baby says “enough. The Israeli army say ‘we don’t target children but this exactly what they are doing.”
It is to be wondered what would it be like if this genocide was on Israelis, how would the West react?
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And then there are the scenes of destruction, reducing many parts of Gaza, the great majority of its areas into wasteland, a bombing into, dare we say, a 16th century situation, or more likely the rugged terrains of the moon and/or mars.
The extent of destruction is graphic and is set to continue till the world conscience forces the Israelis to stop. The recent rulings of the world court to stop the “plausible” genocide maybe the start, but much pressure needs to be applied on Netanyahu and his ministers to stop the killing fields of Gaza.
Dr Marwan Asmar is based in Jordan specializing on the affairs of the Middle East
