Since the atrocity by Hamas against Israeli civilains in October 2023, I’ve been writing about Gaza and have been writing about one atrocity after another as Palestinian journalists have been burned alive, babies have frozen to death, medics have been executed and buried in mass graves and kids are being killed in their beds.
I don’t know what is really left to say at this point after 18 months of endless carnage but it should be clear to everyone that this is not a war or as Israeli call it, 'self-defence'.
What is happening in Gaza is, quite simply, genocide as a litany of experts have stated yet still nobody seems determined to end it.
Palestinians aren’t just being murdered by US-supplied bombs but since Israel cut off the meager amounts of supplies of aid they allowed in as well as cutting off water and electricity, this is now an attempt to starve the Palestinians until they 'voluntarily' agree to leave en masse to somewhere else and leave Palestine free for the Donald Trump visions of building hotels and casinos alongside Israeli settlements on the site of the mass murder.
Overnight the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City was hit by multiple missiles and Israel trotted out the same nonsense about Hamas using it as a Command and Control Centre as a justification although they never provide any evidence and the doctors and medics state it wasn't but as the only hospital that was still functioning in Gaza City, the war on Palestinians Healthcare has taken an even darker turn.
The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, was among those who condemned the strike, calling Israeli attacks on medical facilities 'deplorable' and comes hot on the heels of the massacre of fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by the Israeli Defense Forces.
Despite the initial strong denials, that only came to light and exposed the Israeli outright lies as it was filmed by a Red Crescent paramedic in the last minutes of his life and then the mass grave of the medics who were shot at close range and buried along with their vehicles to try and hide their war crimes.
Since October 2023, the death toll of health workers in the Gaza Strip has reached the grim number of 1,060 and health facilities have been targeted and destroyed, and a report from Healthcare Workers Watch identified 384 cases of unlawful detention of Health workers.
In the opinion of the UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, 'This is part of a pattern by Israel to continuously bombard, destroy and fully annihilate the realisation of the right to health in Gaza.'
After 18 months you probably already know where you stand on all this but if you are happy to stay silent, simply look away or actively back the murder, starvation and genocide of your fellow humans, if you still support Israel while knowing all of the above out of some bizarre religious reasons or ignorance then shame on you.