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Since the beginning, it’s been obvious that Gaza was in many ways a fight between International Law and the US’s “rules-based order”.
This whole episode around the UN resolution is a perfect illustration of this. There is no debate amongst international law scholars that resolutions by the UN Security Council that “demand” certain actions are binding (good explanation by a legal scholar here: verfassungsblog.de/why-todays-un-…). In fact resolutions by the council ARE international law, article 25 of the UN Charter clearly states: “The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.”
Yet the US now argues that the “rule” is in fact different: “It’s a non-binding resolution, so there’s no impact at all on Israel”.
Where is this rule written, that somehow when the UNSC “demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire”, it’s non-binding and “there’s no impact at all” on the warring party? Nowhere, that’s the beauty of the rules-based order: the rules are made-up in the moment to fit the interests of the U.S. and its henchmen, depending on the circumstances.
Had the very same resolution, with the exact same language, been adopted for a conflict that the U.S. actually wanted stopped, there’s no doubt they’d have argued the exact opposite: that it was binding and the hostilities had to cease immediately. Which goes to show that sometimes the Rules-Based Order does align with international law, when it’s in the US’s interests to do so.
In that sense, Israel’s genocide in Gaza is a great revealer because everything about it goes against international law: the mass killing of civilians, journalists, and humanitarian workers; the pre-existing occupation of Palestinian land; the wholesale destruction of Gaza: the hospitals, the mosques, the schools; the torture of prisoners; the deliberate starvation of the population, etc. So never before have we been able to see in such an obvious way the immense contrast between the rules-based order and international law.
And there’s no going back, the curtain was pulled: if they hadn’t noticed before, the world now knows for sure that the US (and Israel of course) is quite literally a rogue state, operating outside international laws and norms, and outside the most fundamental moral principles.
There’s no overstating how consequential this is for the integrity of international relations. By doing so, the US effectively destroys the world order it largely created after WW2 because it effectively tells everyone that the set of institutions, rules and norms that underpin it are meaningless. We’re effectively now in a world system where everyone realizes the police, the government, the basic set of beliefs, have become completely corrupted. This changes everything.
What comes next? I think there’s no coming back for the U.S. And I think they know this, maybe unconsciously, otherwise they would at least pretend to act for the better good of all. The fact they don’t, shows they’ve effectively abdicated ambitions to restore their hegemony: they’re now nakedly in it to milk the system for themselves, universal pretentions have gone.
Most countries however don’t want to live in an “eat or get eaten”/”might makes right” world, without rules or norms. So in time a new system will arise. The biggest unknowns being: can it arise without a major global war, who will lead the construction of its foundations and how can it be set up so that this time around it is fair for all and respected by all?
A podcast by an Irish man who explains the reason why the Irish feel so strongly about what has happened in Palestine and much of it is because of the shared history in that Balfour and Churchill were both involved in the oppression.
The terrorist paramilitary force of Black and Tans, notorious for their brutal tactics during times of colonialism , hold a dark place in the histories of both Ireland and Palestine. Originating as a paramilitary force deployed by the British government, their terrorism left a lasting impact on the socio-political landscapes of these regions.
In Ireland, the Black and Tans were dispatched in response to the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), tasked with suppressing the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and quelling nationalist uprisings. However, their methods were marked by terrorism, violence and reprisals against civilians, earning them a reputation for indiscriminate brutality. Infamous incidents such as the burning of Cork city and the Croke Park massacre stained their legacy, exacerbating tensions and fueling anti-British sentiment.
Similarly, in Palestine, during the period of British Mandate (1920-1948), the British authorities employed the paramilitary Black and Tans to maintain control over the territory amidst growing unrest. The indigenous Palestinian communities clashed with the European Jewish invaders who stole Palestinian lands and massacre innocent civilians , and the British responded with force, often resorting to harsh measures against Palestinian civilians to suppress dissent. The legacy of this era, marked by oppression, terrorism, and displacement, continues to shape the Israeli occupation of Palestine to this day.
The Haganah, a terrorist Jewish paramilitary force, emerged amidst the tumult of British Mandate of Palestine, seeking to confiscate land and kill Palestinians. Haganah engaged in armed attacks against both Palestinian civilians and British military installations and personnel. This dual terrorist role of Haganah reflects the ongoing brutal Israeli occupation with acts of genocides and ethnic cleansing for over 75 years of apartheid regime and constant violations of human rights of indigenous Palestinian population.
Their shared history of British colonial oppression and the experiences of Ireland and Palestine are so similar in many ways. On the other hand, the southern part of Ireland eventually gained independence from British occupation, but Palestine remains under brutal and illegal Israeli occupation, which is sadly, fully supported by British government and western countries. Nevertheless, the parallels between the use the Black and Tans and Haganah in both contexts highlight the inhumane and dirty methods of imperial occupation of innocent people whose only fault was to have been born in Ireland or Palestine.
The legacy of the Black and Tans serves as a reminder of the human cost of illegal occupation and brutal colonial history. Their inhumane and terrorist actions underscore the lengths to which imperial powers were willing to go to maintain illegal occupation of over others’ lands.
By examining their role in Ireland and Palestine, we gain insights into the enduring impact of colonialism and the ongoing struggles for justice and sovereignty in the modern world.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – MARCH 23: A view of Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California, United States on March 23, 2024. ( Tayfun Coşkun – Anadolu Agency )
A damning report, “Palestinian Digital Rights, Genocide, and Big Tech Accountability”, by 7amleh, a Palestinian-led non-profit organisation that is focused on protecting the human rights of Palestinians, has laid bare the disturbing and active role that major online platforms and big tech companies play in perpetuating human rights abuses against Palestinians. While the world watches the horrors unfold in Gaza, the role of these digital accomplices cannot be ignored. The report highlights that platforms like Meta, X, YouTube and tech giants Google and Amazon have enabled, facilitated and even profited from these atrocities, effectively shielding war crimes under a digital smokescreen.
The findings are a harrowing indictment of how big tech companies, under the guise of neutrality, have become active participants in censorship, disinformation and incitement to violence. They have provided crucial infrastructure that underpins Israel’s military actions, allowing their platforms to be weaponised, silencing Palestinian voices while amplifying hate speech and calls for genocide. The complicity of these platforms is not a mere oversight; it is an entrenched system of deliberate decision-making that prioritises profits over human rights.
Systematic censorship of Palestinian voices
At the heart of the report’s findings is a shocking pattern of systematic censorship targeting Palestinian voices. Between October 2023 and July 2024, over 1,350 instances of censorship were documented on major platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok. These platforms disproportionately targeted Palestinian journalists, activists and human rights defenders, with Meta’s platforms being among the worst offenders. The censorship took many forms: accounts were suspended, content takedowns became routine and distribution of pro-Palestinian narratives was heavily restricted.
Meta’s manipulative algorithm changes played a key role in this censorship. The report reveals that during the ongoing war in Gaza, Meta altered its content moderation policies to lower the threshold for flagging Palestinian content, reducing the accuracy of its filters and triggering unnecessary takedowns. For Palestinian content, Meta’s filters operated with a mere 25 per cent certainty of a violation, compared to the usual 80 per cent applied elsewhere. These so-called “temporary risk response measures” were never lifted, allowing for an outsized level of scrutiny on Palestinian content creators. This is not an isolated incident – it’s a calculated, discriminatory policy that silences marginalised voices and hinders the free flow of information at a time when it’s needed the most.
As 7amleh’s report highlights, Meta’s broken promises to safeguard free speech, coupled with its biased content moderation, exacerbated the situation for Palestinians. Human Rights Watch had already condemned Meta for its systemic censorship of Palestinian voices during the war, with over 1,050 instances of content removal on Facebook and Instagram. In nearly all cases, this censorship targeted peaceful, pro-Palestinian content while allowing violent, anti-Palestinian content to flourish unchecked. Comments like “Free Palestine”, “Stop the Genocide” and “Ceasefire Now” were removed under Meta’s spam guidelines, reflecting a dangerous double standard that stifles legitimate political discourse.
Platforms as instruments of genocide
The report makes clear that online platforms are not simply neutral forums but have become instruments of incitement to genocide. Between October 2023 and July 2024, over 3,300 instances of harmful content – including incitement to genocide – were documented, the majority on X and Facebook. These platforms allowed high-level Israeli officials and other users to openly call for the extermination of Palestinians, dehumanising them as “sub-humans”, “animals” and worse. This genocidal rhetoric wasn’t limited to obscure corners of the internet. It was promoted, amplified and left unchallenged by the very platforms that claim to be committed to community standards and human rights.
For instance, on X, a December 2023 post by the deputy mayor of Jerusalem described blindfolded Palestinian detainees as “ants” and called for burying them alive. Although this specific post was eventually removed, countless others like it remain, fuelling a climate of violence and dehumanisation against Palestinians. This failure to combat hate speech directly contravenes international law, particularly in light of the International Court of Justice’s January 2024 order, which directed Israel to prevent and punish incitement to genocide.
These platforms are not just failing in their duty to protect free speech; they are actively facilitating the spread of genocidal propaganda. In the case of Meta, the report details how over 9,500 takedown requests from the Israeli government were sent to Meta between October and November 2023, with a shocking 94 per cent compliance rate. This high level of cooperation with a state actively committing war crimes raises serious concerns about the ethical boundaries of these companies. Meta’s decision to comply with such requests without transparency or accountability reveals a deeper issue: these platforms are willing to become tools of state oppression when the price is right.
The role of Big Tech: Project Nimbus and the automation of killing
Beyond the sphere of social media, Google and Amazon’s collaboration with the Israeli military under Project Nimbus casts an even darker shadow over the tech industry’s role in this conflict. The $1.2 billion cloud computing contract, as the report highlights, provides critical infrastructure to power Israel’s AI-driven Lavender and Gospel targeting systems – systems that are directly linked to the mass civilian casualties in Gaza.
The Lavender system, in particular, functions as a tool for automated killings, identifying targets based on massive data inputs and feeding them into the Israeli military’s bombing campaigns. The report describes how Lavender alone identified over 37,000 potential targets, contributing to the deaths of thousands of civilians, including women and children. By providing cloud services to facilitate this mass-scale targeting, Google and Amazon are directly implicated in these violations of international law. Despite mounting global pressure, both companies continue to support Israel’s military operations under Project Nimbus, even as the civilian death toll in Gaza rises.
Hate speech and disinformation: A coordinated assault on truth
The report goes on to document a deluge of hate speech and disinformation campaigns, often spearheaded by Israeli officials and amplified by online platforms. These campaigns, which include the systematic dissemination of dehumanising content on Telegram, X and YouTube, have targeted Palestinians both inside Gaza and across the diaspora. The report cites three million instances of violent content in Hebrew aimed at Palestinians on X alone, much of it coordinated by Israeli state actors.
Perhaps most troubling is the Israeli government’s influence operation known as STOIC, which ran a disinformation campaign targeting US and Canadian lawmakers to undermine the work of The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). This campaign, orchestrated with the help of AI, spread false narratives that led to the defunding of UNRWA, cutting off critical humanitarian aid to Palestinians. This is not merely a failure of moderation but an example of how platforms can be weaponised for state-driven disinformation, with devastating consequences for innocent civilians.
Profiting from genocide: Advertising amidst war crimes
As if censorship and disinformation weren’t enough, the report also exposes how platforms like Facebook have profited from harmful advertisements promoting violence against Palestinians. The investigation found that Facebook ran ads calling for the assassination of pro-Palestinian activists and the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank. Meta profited from these campaigns, further entrenching its complicity in the human rights violations unfolding in Gaza.
Meanwhile, YouTube ran ads from the Israeli government that used graphic imagery to sway public opinion in favour of its military actions in Gaza. Despite YouTube’s policies against violent content, these ads flooded social media with incendiary narratives, particularly in Europe and the US, contributing to the normalisation of war crimes under the guise of counter-terrorism.
Time for accountability
The findings of this report should compel the international community to act. It is no longer acceptable for tech companies to hide behind vague policies and empty commitments to free speech while facilitating the mass killing and silencing of a besieged population. The complicity of Meta, X, YouTube, Google and Amazon in these atrocities must be brought into the spotlight and held accountable for their role in enabling these crimes.
These platforms are not neutral arbiters of truth – they are corporations driven by profit, willing to accommodate genocidal regimes and turn a blind eye to the suffering of millions if it serves their bottom line. As the report makes clear, it is time for the world to demand that these companies stop profiting from the destruction of Palestinian lives. The silence and complicity of big tech are unforgivable, and they must not be allowed to escape responsibility any longer.
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The Palestinian leaders and a number of writers and thinkers tended to call for the necessity of building a unified strategy to confront the aggression and the danger of the stage. Some believe that this is possible if the will, desire and decision of the parties are present. Some of them called for the formation of a unified national leadership, some of them called for the reform of the PLO, and some of them said that The embodiment of the state is a choice.
Let us review where each Palestinian faction stands in this existential battle, where the Arab countries stand in light of the aggression, where America stands, and how it sees the solution? How does Israel view the Palestinian issue after October 7?
The President says that Hamas must recognize the resolutions of international legitimacy and adhere to the obligations of the Liberation Organization, and that this is the national program. Hamas says that it is committed to the national reconciliation program and that this stage requires partnership and not a frame of reference based on commitments that have been overtaken by events and no longer exist. Its position is that if Hamas wanted to recognize the commitments of the PLO, it would have recognized them in isolation from the PLO and would have become the address of all international and Arab parties and easily become a representative of the Palestinian people. Therefore, what the president is asking for is disconnected from reality. Dahlan finds that the war is an opportunity for him to return to the forefront of leadership.
The Arabs, led by Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates, see Hamas as part of the Iranian axis and that it should not be granted any political victory, so I advised the authority, Dahlan, Fayyad, Al-Qudwa, and Marwan Barghouti to engage in a unified framework. There is no objection to Hamas joining through figures affiliated with it in the proposed system, or joining after being stripped of its power. Its strength elements.
As for America, it believes that there is no solution to the Palestinian issue except a state devoid of national fat, and that talking about an independent state within comprehensive regional arrangements does not go beyond the deal of the century in its essence, meaning that it does not want to achieve any achievement for Hamas and the Palestinian people through what President Biden called the renewable authority.
As for Israel no longer sees any horizon for any political solution to the Palestinian issue, and there is no alternative to administrative solutions in which the Authority is liquidated in its current form. In the event of the defeat of Hamas, the next day will be life alternatives that will occupy people in Gaza for at least ten years to search for new conditions of life, as for the West Bank. With time, life conditions become harsh and people leave voluntarily.
As for a number of Palestinian parties and movements, and a number of Palestinian and Arab writers and thinkers, they called for the formation of a unified national leadership that would transcend the state of exclusivity in Palestinian decision-making and not keep it in the hands of the president and the staff surrounding him.
The president is haunted by fear of Hamas’ desire to control the PLO, and he believes that by adhering to the conditions for Hamas’ accession to the PLO, he is guaranteed to be rejected by Hamas, and thus he remains safe from Hamas’s burden at this stage, because Hamas did not accept the Quartet’s conditions before the war. Will it accept after the war?
Hamas does not pay attention to the president’s demands. What matters to Hamas is to stop targeting civilians and stop the policy of starvation against the people of Gaza so that it can focus on resistance work. Hamas does not care about who delivers aid to the Palestinian people, but not at the expense of Hamas as an honorable body, so Israel is within the framework of its understanding of this.
In recent days, the dynamic has focused on assassinating members of Hamas who supervise the distribution of aid in preparation for the emergence of one or other parties to take responsibility for managing aid in the Gaza Strip. This means that after failing to eliminate the military structure of Hamas, Israel seeks to dismantle the civilian structure in the hope of separating the civil structure from the military so that it can focus on military action, and with time it isolates Hamas from people’s lives and thus disintegrates Hamas and jihad with the passage of time.
On the other hand, Dahlan considered the aggression against Gaza to be an opportunity for him, and as long as America has the solution in hand, it is through America that a comprehensive framework can be formulated to launch a comprehensive financial, political and security package in Palestine and the entire region. Therefore, it was leaked that Dahlan took the initiative to persuade Hamas to establish the port in the hope that the port will turn To one of the symbols of Palestinian sovereignty later.
On the other hand, whoever proposes the idea of establishing a unified national leadership does not have the tools or capabilities on the ground because all the regional and international parties do not find this proposal any chance of success, so every team and party seeks to crystallize an approach that serves its interests and ambitions. Although it is a useful idea in the collective sense, it does not have two legs to stand on, because the president rejects it and Hamas does not find it worthy at this stage, and because the Arabs do not want a unified Palestinian framework because that distances parties and brings Hamas closer to decision-making.
America opened channels of dialogue with all Palestinian parties, using the Arab countries as a lever for its efforts. On the one hand, it asks the authority for reform and says that there are noticeable steps achieved by the authority. It knows that the president did not take any fundamental step that was asked of him, and that changing the government is the only demand that he implemented, and he appointed a person who was not acceptable to either an American or an Arab. He did not appoint a deputy, did not stop paying the salaries of martyrs and prisoners, did not make any change to the educational curricula, did not unify the security services, and did not reform the judiciary in a clearer sense. He still exercises absolute powers in managing the Palestinian issue. So why does America say that Did the authority make reforms? Is this accompanied by Jack Chumi’s statement that Abu Mazen is an obstacle to reform and must leave? On the other hand, America is communicating with Dahlan and coordinating with him on the port issue, and is pushing for an Arab-Israeli partnership through Saudi-Israeli normalization as a culmination of ending the aggression against Gaza?
America is exercising the role of decision-maker even in the details of military operations in the Gaza Strip, as if it were the one managing the war and determining the objectives of each stage of the war in order to achieve the political goals it desires. The majority leader in Congress even called for early elections in Israel.
Israel is holding meetings, as leaked from more than one source, with Major General Majid Faraj to manage the aid file and control security in the Gaza Strip. At the same time, it is holding other meetings with Dahlan for the same purpose and objective, and is asking businessman Bashar Al-Masry to have a role in the Gaza Strip. This is all according to what was reported by the Wall Street Journal. Journal.
Through these leaks, Israel may be seeking to harm the national structure and cause damage to the reputation of those whose names were leaked. They may not have held any meetings with the Israeli side, which is an attempt to harm their national and social standing. Their names will be published so that the Palestinians exhaust their efforts in quarreling and even clashing between them.
The president believes that he has the key to the decision by refusing to cooperate with Hamas and Dahlan, and rejecting Arab and international pressures. He says that as long as I am the address, they cannot bypass me. Dahlan says that he is working as if the president and the authority do not exist, and as long as the Arabs, America, and Hamas are, to a certain extent, ready to cooperate, the role of the president and the authority will erode, and they will find themselves faced with realities. They cannot bypass it, even the government led by Muhammad Mustafa will fail because it will not work in the sector.
Jordan, on the one hand, lets the Authority do what it wants in order to maintain the stability of the situation in the West Bank. On the other hand, it engages with the American and Arab efforts and Dahlan’s efforts for the next day. As for Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and Egypt, what is important to them is that Hamas does not prevail politically and let America put pressure on Qatar to make Hamas submit to American demands for the next day. The end of the war, as if the battle being waged today was not over a prisoner exchange contract, the return of the displaced from the south of the Gaza Strip to the north, and stopping the war, but rather approving a deal the day after the war. No one tells us that all these American and European tours to the region are only being held for truce arrangements, the exchange of prisoners, and the return. The displaced people and the delivery of aid, we believe that these are deep and strategic arrangements to make Israel victorious and defeat Iran and its axis. Therefore, there will be no unified Palestinian vision as long as we are disintegrated to this extent and in this way, either by our own hands or through Arab or international efforts. Building a unified Palestinian vision requires a special miracle, and that every side sees it. It is the most concerned about the interests of the Palestinian people, and the Arabs have a complex of political Islam and do not see any possibility of reconciliation with it, and they fear Iran more than Israel.
It is the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their leadership on the ground that will decide the results of this confrontation, and a new political reality must be born, with which many parties will be absent and others’ status will be elevated .
Benjamin Netanyahu and his former foreign minister have been accused of heinous crimes.
It is not just Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant who should fear accountability for one of the gravest crimes of our age. If the international criminal court (ICC) had not issued today’s arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and his erstwhile defence minister – and indeed Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif – a global legal order already widely regarded with contempt by much of the world would not have survived.
Why? Because of the scale of the alleged crime. Because of the overwhelming body of evidence, not least that accumulated by Palestinian journalists, many of whom acted as the world’s eyes and ears on the killing fields of Gaza before being killed by Israel, often alongside their families. And because few crimes in modern history have been so confessed to – boasted about even – by the perpetrators, from leaders at the top to the soldiers unleashing murderous mayhem on the ground. That the evidence for war crimes and crimes against humanity has met the threshold to satisfy the ICC’s chief prosecutor, an independent panel of esteemed lawyers and now three pre-trial international judges demonstrates the strength of the case – and that nobody who facilitated this historic abomination can plead ignorance. It is not just Netanyahu and Gallant who should tremble before justice: as well as other Israeli leaders and soldiers, so should the guilty men and women of western governments.
Some may consider the threat of arrests to be far-fetched: those charged would need to travel to a state that is a signatory to the ICC, which excludes, for example, the US, and Netanyahu may enjoy a level of immunity in foreign states because he is a head of government. But as Victor Kattan, an assistant international law professor at Nottingham University, tells me, the now sacked minister Gallant has no such immunity. “Today’s move is unprecedented,” he tells me, “because we have never had Israelis held accountable for anything they’ve done to Palestinians for the last 70-plus years.” That the judges assessed the available evidence and decided there were reasonable grounds to issue an arrest warrant, he says, speaks to “very, very serious crimes we know are likely to be taking place.”
Indeed, the accused were open about their plans to commit these crimes from the start. The western politicians and media outlets that aided and abetted these atrocities know that, which is why their own protestations of innocence should be considered buried under the rubble, along with countless butchered Palestinian families. At the very start, Gallant declared Israel would impose a total siege on Gaza’s population, whom he termed “human animals”, echoed by one of his leading generals who threatened to unleash “hell” on the civilian population. As two US government agencies concluded seven months ago, Israel indeed deliberately blockaded the essentials of life.
In the days after 7 October 2023, Gallant promised “Gaza won’t return to what it was before.” If that left room for subtlety, he declared: “Hamas won’t be there. We will eliminate everything.” He told Israeli soldiers that he had “released all the restraints” and “removed every restriction” on them. And so it came to pass. The Israeli onslaught has killed what some public health experts estimated in July could amount to 180,000 Palestinians, and by last December had already destroyed so many buildings that Gaza was a different colour and texture when observed from space. These soldiers often posted their actions online, overwhelmed with glee and triumphalism as they did so. Too many western media outlets not only failed to frame their coverage around Israel’s explicit declarations of intent, they buried them, failed to explain their implications, and in many cases simply did not cover them at all.
Western politicians willingly armed this promised crime: the Biden administration has offered $12.5bn worth of aid since 7 October, and just this week was alone on the UN security council in vetoing a ceasefire. The White House has already come out to “fundamentally reject” the ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants. Israel has said Netanyahu would “not give in to pressure” in the war against Hamas and the Iranian “axis of terror” and Gallant previously referred to the warrants as drawing a “despicable” parallel between Israel and Hamas.When the Labour government finally suspended some arms sales to Israel in September, it left 92% intact and bent over backwards to emphasise that Israel remained a staunch ally.
While western politicians and media outlets made themselves willing accomplices to an obvious heinous crime, those who took Israeli leaders and officials at their word were demonised, hounded, defamed and silenced. Well, let us be clear here. This crime is simply too depraved, too obscene, too colossal for the complicit not to face accountability.
But now is a time to give proper credit to the longsuffering people of Palestine. As the human rights scholar Dr Alonso Gurmendi tells me, “this is the denouement of a long process that the Palestinian leadership started in the early 2010s,” praising their success in “using international law to advance their liberation”. As he also notes, today’s decision could prove to be a sea change, where the west’s “double standards and conditional commitment to international law will be put to the highest test at the hands of an emerging global south”.
There is a separate case, of course, led by South Africa, at the international court of justice, seeking to prove Israel is committing genocide. But if anything emerges from the rubble of Gaza, let it be this. Israel’s genocidal onslaught is the most obscene example of how western supremacy is riddled with grotesque hypocrisies. Let accountability mean that these horrors will never be possible again.
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During the ongoing raid, the Israeli army prevented doctors and medical staff from treating their patients, resulting in more than a dozen deaths.
The Government Media Office in Gaza statedthat “doctors and nurses were arrested and removed from the departments and forced to strip off their clothes, and prevented from reaching the patient rooms to attempt to save them.”
Israel’s army, the media office added, is “systematically and deliberately committing the crime [of] genocide with premeditated intention, and is committing horrendous and clear crimes against humanity by using the weapon of starving the sick and wounded, and practicing deliberate medical negligence against them, the rest of the medical and nursing staff, and the displaced people inside the compound
