It seems there is a dearth of words to describe the apathy that is going on inside Gaza. Israeli transgression and barbarism, perhaps, has no limits, and the audacity with which it is trampling the Palestinians to a point of annihilation is remorseful, to say the least. Likewise, day in and day out, it is testing the conscience of humanity and the extent to which responsible states, especially those cherishing the mantra of peace and civilisation, can stay silent over the atrocities. Tel Aviv’s fresh episode of bombardment on a UN-run refugee camp in Nuseirat has claimed dozens of lives, and the casualties are mounting. The admission from Israel that it hit the facility on the mere suspicion of Hamas fighters being shielded inside is tantamount to war crimes, and must be taken to task. The camp set up inside a devastated school building was a source of succour to the souls on the brink, and there extermination is an abstract of how genocide can be defined.
It is quite surprising that all this mayhem is going on as the US and the G7 countries are busy cajoling a so-called ceasefire and peace plan for the besieged region. The question is then how come Israel continues to play the tricks of being oblivious of ground realities, and hit civilian installations? Even in a hypothetical sense, if the facility was intruded with Hamas fighters, Israel had no right to take out the entire premises on such an unfounded reasoning. This is genocide institutionalised in the state-centrism of the Zionist state, and the least is that it does not care for any norms of International Law or diplomacy. It reminds us that Israel quite recently had dubbed the UNRWA a ‘terrorist body’, and now taking it out is a perfect case of deliberate mass slaughter.
Israel knows that it is on the edge. Even Spain today made it public that it will join South Africa in pleading the case of genocide against Israel at the ICJ. Such a reawakening is marginalising the Jewish state, and it is apparently out with berserk butchery.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 7th, 2024.
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