What about Gaza?

About 250 people were killed in Israel’s latest operation in Gaza. The IDF says it has launched first stages of new Gaza offensive dubbed ‘Gideon’s Chariots [or what may be called ‘Chariots of Genocide’’]. It is already a bone-chilling scenario. What is waiting for the survivors in the coming days is anybody’s guess. No choice exists but to cry out again.

The so-called international community remains unmoved against Israel’s barbarism: Children’s bodies being carried by their relatives, the bulldozer trying to clear a way for the ambulance and being blown up from the air, the people burrowing in the ruins of the hospital searching for their loved ones–all this against the backdrop of Trump’s trade mission to Gulf countries, seeking investments from the oil Sheiks who at worst express their oral sympathy for the Gazans. They hardly recognise the sacrifice the Gazans have made and will have to make if Israel continues its military operations unopposed. Palestine was not on the agenda of Trump.

Nothing, not even the elimination of the second Sinwar who allegedly delayed hostage deal and stood as a stumbling block in the path of negotiations, can justify the indiscriminate bombing of a hospital. Everything is normal, everything is justified and approved, and even the attack on the intensive care unit in the European Hospital is billed as a legitimate target. They discover Hamas terrorists in every house of Gaza though most of the houses have been demolished with the sole objective of denying the Palestinians a place to live in once and for all. They will have to live in refugee camps in some other countries forever.

Israel has now killed more than 52,000 Palestinians in its Gaza campaign, an estimated 15000, of them are children. By any standard Israel’s action meets the definition of genocide. Everybody is talking about it but nobody is coming forward to stop it. While addressing Sheiks and Emirs in the Middle East last month, Trump shed crocodile’s tears as he would go on record: ‘A lot of people are starving in Gaza–there are a lot of bad things going on’.  As he wrapped up his Gulf trip at least 93 more people were killed by the Israeli strikes on May 16 in Gaza. Hypocrisy unlimited! The UN relief agencies have been systematically complaining about blockade of aid trucks by Israeli forces. In Europe only 7 governments have so far criticised Israel for its genocidal action without really pressurising the government desisting from its ethnic cleansing programme. They just called on Israel to reverse Gaza aid blockade. That was all! But it is already a famine like situation as per UN observation. Meanwhile, UN Secretary General urged the parties to announce immediate ceasefire but there was no taker.

In truth the Trump administration is working on a project to permanently relocate as much as one million Palestinians from the Gaza strip to Libya. In exchange for resettling the Palestinians, the administration would release to Libya billions of dollars of funds the US froze more than a decade ago. How they destroyed Libya and its leader Gaddafi is well known. Trump’s original idea of emptying Gaza to convert it into a Riviera is taking shape.

Israel has also engaged its acts of apartheid against the Palestinian population. While most people associate apartheid with South Africa, the definition of apartheid–considered a crime against humanity–encompasses inhuman acts of racial subjugation and systematic oppression anywhere in the world. The significance of Israel’s apartheid has been overshadowed by its genocidal assault on Gaza.

Once again body carts, once again children in a long-line of body-bags on the floor, and once again heart-breaking weeping of parents for their daughters and sons, once again helpless widows looking vacantly into the sky!

21-05-2025

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Vol 57, No. 50, June 8 - 14, 2025