The Israeli army continues one of the most brutal massacres of the modern age in the Gaza Strip against a starved and terrorised civilian population.
Since Oct 7, Israel has been doing in Gaza what it has always been doing to the Palestinian people since the Nakba, but in more concentrated fashion. The torture, murder, humiliation and pillage the Arabs of Palestine have faced since 1948 — and even before, since the Zionist encroachment of Arab land began in the early 20th century — can be seen in condensed form in what the Israeli state has unleashed over the past 80 days or so in the forsaken Strip.
The role of west and the Muslim world is also disappointing as everyone failed to take practical steps rather than condemning the brutality. You will not find any example of so many attacks on UN installations murder of volunteers in Gaza during Israeli attacks, but even UN, which was dying for Ukrainians has also exposed its hypocrisy.
Some of this hypocrisy was on display at the UN Security Council, when the world body passed a resolution that called for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, yet remained silent on stopping state-sponsored Israeli violence. As many global bodies observed, the resolution is meaningless: aid will be of little use as Tel Aviv continues to bomb Gaza. This pointless resolution is the result of much hard work by the US, which did all it could to prevent calls for a meaningful ceasefire, and abstained at the time of voting. True to form, Israel dismissed even this watered-down text, reflecting what it really thinks of world opinion.
Meanwhile, famine-like conditions loom in Gaza, with the UN’s World Food Programme saying the Strip faces “catastrophic conditions” as its people confront starvation. This is another war crime to be added to the many Israel has already committed against the Palestinians.
Yet even the death of 20,000 Palestinians — most of them women and children — has been unable to shake the world’s conscience.
The bravery and steadfastness of the Palestinian people can only be commended, while their killers and tormentors have shown they are capable of truly bestial violence.
