The Last Days of Gaza

Gaza without Gazans! And it’s precisely the aim of Israel. For all practical purposes, they have almost reached the goal. Today, Palestinians in Gaza have less space than detainees in Guantanamo Bay. Gazans are now reportedly confined to less than 15 percent of the enclave i.e. no more than 55 sq km. Approximately 2.3 million people are crammed into suffocating conditions.

This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most.

Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets.

They lack clean water, medicine and food. They have reached a point of collapse. Sick. Injured. Terrified. Humiliated. Abandoned. Destitute. Starving. Hopeless.

In the last pages of this horror story, Israel is sadistically baiting starving Palestinians with promises of food, luring them to the narrow and congested nine-mile ribbon of land that borders Egypt. Israel and its cynically named Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), allegedly funded by Israel’s Ministry of Defence and the Mossad, is weaponising starvation.

It is enticing Palestinians to southern Gaza the way the Nazis enticed starving Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto to board trains to the death camps. The goal is not to feed the Palestinians. No one seriously argues there is enough food. The goal is to cram Palestinians into heavily guarded compounds and deport them.

Fate has a way of surprising people. But there will be a final humanitarian explosion in Gaza’s human slaughterhouse. The surging crowds of Palestinians are fighting to get a food parcel, which has resulted in Israeli and US private contractors shooting dead at least 130 and wounding over seven hundred others in the first eight days of aid distribution.

 Benjamin Netanyahu is arming ISIS-linked gangs in Gaza that loot food supplies. Israel, which has eliminated hundreds of employees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), doctors, journalists, civil servants and police in targeted assassinations, has orchestrated the implosion of civil society.

It is difficult to look at the images emerging from Gaza. The rows of little shrouded bodies. The decapitated men and women. Families burned alive in their tents. The children who have lost limbs or are paralysed. The chalky death masks of those pulled from under the rubble. The wails of grief. The emaciated faces.

This genocide will haunt the so-called civilised Western world. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide people forever. There is no going back.

Once it is over, all those who supported it, all those who ignored it, and all those who did nothing will rewrite history, including their personal history. It was hard to find anyone who admitted to being a Nazi in post-war Germany or a member of the Ku Klux Klan once segregation in the southern United States ended.

One cannot decimate a people, carry out saturation bombing over 22 months to obliterate their homes, villages and cities, massacre tens of thousands of innocent people, set up a siege to ensure mass starvation, drive them from land where they have lived for centuries and not expect blowback. The Palestinian people deserve justice. The moment demands courage.

Meanwhile, ministerial delegates from more than 30 nations gathered in the Colombian capital Bogota on January 15 for an emergency summit focused on concrete measures to end Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza.

The genocide will end. The response to the reign of state terror will begin. The killing of two Israeli diplomats in Washington and the attack against supporters of Israel at a protest in Boulder, Colorado, are only the start.

(Contributed)

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Vol 58, No. 7, Aug 10 - 16, 2025