Genocide in Gaza… A Truth the World Has Finally Realized!
Israel, backed by the United
States, has not only committed war crimes during the war on Gaza since October
2023, but has also carried out crimes against humanity by every international
standard most notably, systematic genocide.
From the very first day of
the war, Israel adopted a policy of mass killings that deliberately targeted
civilians indiscriminately, with no red lines. It focused on densely populated
areas filled with displaced people, using devastating weapons in residential
zones including seismic bombs that cause mass death and widespread destruction.
It also targeted entire
families inside their homes, in shelters, and in the tents of displaced people wiping
hundreds of families from civil records. And it continues to pursue that very
policy.
This information was
confirmed by a United Nations report issued in November 2024, in addition to
separate reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Random killing
Israeli occupation warplanes carried out dozens of
indiscriminate airstrikes targeting civilians in streets, at intersections, and
in front of their homes—resulting in thousands of casualties.
It also targeted dozens of civilians with indiscriminate
shelling during what they call a “ground-clearing operation to invade an area” regardless
of the number of victims killed by such random bombardment or crushed beneath
the tracks of tanks.
In addition, it bombed ambulances, rescue teams, displaced
people, hospitals, shelters, journalists, as well as children, women, and the
elderly—who make up the majority of the victims, according to both Palestinian
and international estimates.
One of the most notorious acts of indiscriminate killing in
recent times was against crowds waiting for aid; hundreds were killed or
injured while trying to obtain food assistance amid Israel’s starvation policy right
at the gates of U.S. aid facilities, which became complicit partners in those
killings.
Starvation and Blockade Policy
The starvation policy has been Israel’s approach since the
very first moments of the war. It began with the closure of crossings and entry
points, preventing the delivery of aid, goods, and medicine according to
multiple reports, most notably from the International Association of Genocide
Scholars (IAGS) and the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
(IPC) report.
The occupation continues to use starvation blatantly violating
all international laws as one of its primary weapons against more than two
million civilians, with the aim of forcibly displacing them.
Hundreds of victims especially children have died as a result
of starvation and malnutrition. Starvation is still being used in Gaza, despite
the occupation’s attempts to deny it by allowing a limited number of trucks in,
in order to project a misleading image to the world about the catastrophic and
tragic reality in Gaza.
Systematic destruction of infrastructure
The occupation completely destroyed dozens of hospitals,
schools, universities, power plants, water and sewage networks, infrastructure,
as well as mosques and churches.
It has razed entire streets with belts of fire or by
bulldozing them, and is now demolishing whole residential blocks and
neighborhoods—turning them into scorched, uninhabitable land by driving in
vehicle-borne explosives and detonating them, which destroys entire areas.
Rafah governorate is almost completely devastated, as are the areas of Beit Hanoun, Shujaiya, Al-Zaytoun, and Jabalia.
Oppressed Entity or Oppressor?
The genocidal war on Gaza has exposed the true face of the Israeli
occupation to the world and the international community. Its real image now
stands laid bare: once portrayed as a victim, it has been revealed as an
oppressor and a killer.
This truth is not the outcome of a single moment or a single
crime, but rather the result of a long accumulation of events, massacres, and
atrocities.
After the Nakba of 1948, when Palestinians were displaced and
expelled from their homes and lands, Israel succeeded in portraying itself as a
small democratic entity surrounded by Arab enemies—exploiting the narrative of
Holocaust survivors and the idea of a people “returning” to their land after
exile, in order to gain broad Western sympathy.
The occupation also portrayed Palestinian resistance in
Western media as “terrorism,” a narrative that resonated widely and gained
acceptance around the world, largely due to the power of foreign media that
adopted the occupation’s version of events.
The Gaza war of 2023 came after a series of wars from 2008 to
2021, each one stripping Israel further of its façade and exposing its
deliberate targeting of civilians, homes, and families, as well as its bombing
of hospitals, schools, mosques, and shelters killing thousands of children,
women, the elderly, doctors, and journalists.
This shift in perception became evident through the changing
attitudes of free peoples around the world, marked by massive demonstrations in
London, Paris, New York, Istanbul, South Africa, and beyond.
Has it suffered defeat, or reaped advantage?
So, has Israel in fact lost more than it gained in its ongoing
war on Gaza? For it has been exposed before the world, its true image unveiled.
The world has come to realize that the “victim,” as it long portrayed itself to
global public opinion, cannot truly be the oppressed given the nature of the
vengeance it exacts upon defenseless civilians with no power whatsoever.
And in the eyes of millions around the world, it has been
redefined as an occupying power carrying out genocide against a defenseless
people who seek nothing more than their right to live with dignity on their
occupied land.
Human rights discourse on war crimes and crimes against
humanity has intensified, stripping away the last fig leaf from the Israeli
narrative.
On the diplomatic front, some countries have begun reassessing
their relations with Israel, while a clear division has emerged within the
European Union regarding its stance on the war.
Lawsuits have been filed before the International Court of
Justice against Israel on charges of genocide, while countries such as South
Africa, Belgium, Ireland, Bolivia, and others have taken clear stances against
it.
Western alliances have also begun to crack despite open U.S.
support, divisions have surfaced within American institutions themselves including
Congress, the State Department, and universities.
Israel’s media immunity has also come to an end, as it lost for
the first time its full grip on the narrative. Social media now transmits the
reality from the heart of Gaza, in sound and image.
But this is not the only loss. More is yet to come: ongoing
international legal pursuits, arrest warrants issued against Israeli officials,
and a steady erosion of its standing at the United Nations amid growing
solidarity with Palestine within UN bodies.
How to Bolster the Image of Victimhood
To reinforce the Palestinian people’s victimhood and
communicate it effectively to the world, relying solely on the justice of the
cause is not enough. A carefully crafted discourse, collective mobilization,
and coordinated legal and human-rights actions are required to dismantle the
occupier’s narrative.
As a first step, it is necessary to unify Palestinian and Arab
media messaging and concentrate on humanitarian issues: tell the stories of
families wiped out and of those martyred — children, women, journalists, and
medical personnel — and expose the starvation of Gaza, the destruction of
infrastructure, schools, hospitals, and institutions, in multiple languages
that reach the entire world and its institutions.
Accompanying that must be an international legal and
human-rights campaign based on thoroughly documented crimes evidence and witness testimony that should be
submitted to the International Criminal Court and other UN and international
legal bodies, in addition to supporting the ongoing legal efforts such as the
cases brought by South Africa, Ireland, and Belgium against Israel.
There must also be continuous, large-scale demonstrations in
countries around the world, harnessing the energy of unions, students, and
universities, while maintaining popular pressure on companies and institutions
complicit in the occupation’s extermination of Gaza.
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