By Ranjan Solomon
This weekend has been one of trauma for the Palestinians. Over 100,000 Palestinians are besieged under Israeli siege and bombardment in the areas of Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia. As part of its ethnic cleansing policy, the Israeli occupation is killing anyone who tries to help the people of the northern Gaza Strip. The fate of many people remains unknown.
Imagine this. Not a single drop of bread or water has entered the northern Gaza Strip. Israel simply will not countenance this. Israel’s holocaust is brutal, callous, cold-blooded. That itself is an understatement. Words cannot describe the horrifying conditions of people ejected from their homes and shelters on multiple occasions, each time leaving behind food supplies and personal belongings. They have no idea when the next bomb will strike them. It is insane that Netanyahu and his generals found it in them to attack Gaza Strip’s shelters 39 times in October alone.
They have closed down the UNRWA. This is savagery and inhumanity and the only way to describe it as brutish. Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary general, voiced his profound concern last week about the suffering of civilians in northern Gaza as a result of Israel’s siege. “People suffering under the ongoing Israeli siege in North Gaza are rapidly exhausting all available means for their survival.” Israeli forces have prohibited ambulances from passing through the majority of Jabalia and its camp, leaving many victims and injured people stranded and unable to be taken to hospitals. Medical teams were detained and the only hospitals that could care for victims and injured individuals were destroyed. The only parallel to such cruelty was the Nazi holocaust, the lessons of which have not been learned by Zionist thugs, despite their own people having experienced the horror of that savage experience. By the time this genocide concludes, it may turn out to be the worst form of collective human torture ever inflicted on any people.
The settlers are proving to be the most despicable wild things going around with license to kill. They’re now rummaging for land and homes that they can settle in once they have cleansed Gaza. If only, the ICC and ICJ would speed up their case and land notices on a few of the main culprits beginning with Netanyahu, Smotrich, and their wild racist.
Only a while ago, they referred to Palestinians as ‘human animals’. It is clear that it was a mere mirror image. And this expression is not just for the time being. From the Nakba onwards in 1948, terror has been their key strategy. It has left the Palestinians trapped in lives they never imagined. Netanyahu cannot extinguish this war against Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis – each of which are not traditional armies will be forced to find an escape route. It will be near-impossible for him to find a safe haven along with his closest co-villains.Or, will we witness an end that resembles that of Hitler’s?
Netanyahu and his minions in most parts of the West will not desert him. Colonialist-cousins, by nature and instinct, were all born and baptised in the same blood.As the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food recently denounced, in the space of a few months, Israel has deliberately starved more than two million people — and it continues to do so. It has destroyed one-third of Gaza’s agricultural lands, 80% of the fishing fleet and wrecked its irrigation systems. Israeli forces have prevented countless food convoys from entering the territory by land or by sea, directly shelling aid workers in the process. The consequences are unbearable and irreversible. As of April 2024, international authorities have determined that famine has all but taken complete hold in Gaza.
What the situation demands is to “Globalize the Intifada” – to promote worldwide activity in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. Intifada is a peaceful term, calling for a nonviolent uprising against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and blockade on Gaza.The chant and its associated chants have caused controversy, particularly concerning their impact and connotations. Critics claimed it encourages widespread violence or terrorism. This is a false flag. Pro-Palestinian activists believe in peaceful resistance and dialogue. Yet, Israel’s cronies will not easily do enough. India, for example, is a chum of Israel and practices similar political strategies to suppress its minorities.
“Free Palestine” is not hate speech nor a terrorist slogan. Rather, it’s a call to liberate Palestine from colonialist oppression – Israel.
Ranjan Solomon is a political commentator
31 October 2024
Source: countercurrents.org