TEHRAN (FNA)- The Israeli regime’s military is ordering more tanks and ground troops to the Gaza border, with the United Sates and Saudi Arabia having green-lit the Zionist occupying forces to continue attacking the strip. Hamas has warned they will respond to continued Israeli aggression with more rocket strikes, and at longer range.
The entire matter started with an overnight Israeli military raid which went wrong, leading to a firefight that killed seven Palestinians, and one Israeli military officer. This led to Gaza rocket fire, which led to more Israeli attacks, and a day-long escalation.
Here, it is not history repeating itself, it is war crime repeating itself: The Zionist regime’s warplanes and tanks carry out airstrikes and artillery shelling on Gaza in yet another act of aggression against the besieged coastal enclave. In between the United Nations is looking the other way.
There is no doubt that Israel’s illegal attack on Gaza is unacceptable and must end now. Israel must also lift the illegal blockade and end its collective punishment of the civilian population. The relentless air assault and artillery fires have seen Israeli forces flagrantly disregard civilian life and property, which must be protected under International Humanitarian Law and UN Charter. Last night, the Israeli army leveled to the ground the Arabic-language Al-Aqsa TV station in Gaza, where tens of media personnel were working; the last in a chain of moves - that also include shooting at media workers - irrefutably aimed at suppressing freedom of the press and freedom of speech.
They have set the stage for humanitarian disaster. Sources of economic growth are all completely destroyed too – the airport (runways demolished, totally closed); the border for trade with Egypt (now with a sniper tower in the middle of the crossing); access to the ocean (completely cut off since 2007.
Benjamin Netanyahu and his America-Saudi paymasters are pretty much aware that what is going on in Gaza is a war crime and they are complicit. Deliberately attacking a besieged population is a war crime. For those living in Gaza’s ruins, simply spending time in their own homes, frequenting a mosque, going to a hospital or school is still a dangerous enterprise since any one of these civilian objects could become at any moment a target for the Zionist army.
Rampant corruption within the United Nations sidelines help from that quarter as well. Reportedly, funds sent by the national governments to help pay for reconstruction, schooling, health care, water, and food rarely leave the Zionist regime’s offices, or are wasted on costs tagged as administrative. Tel Aviv bribes and coerces UN officials and aid workers. It also refuses to issue visas for human rights groups and activists. They cannot administer anything they know nothing about.
Western governments stay away too. They have no idea of Gaza; there is laxity in understanding its horrific situation. They continue to put politics and profits before human rights by aiding, arming and continuing trade ties with the usurper regime. As a consequence, there are global demonstrations in which angry protesters are calling for an immediate end to Western complicity in Israeli crimes. The international community has also condemned the UN’s silence about Israel’s shameless human rights violations, while accusing the United States of supporting the illegal blockade.
The US government for decades has backed Israel in its war on Palestinians. To suppose a creative response from them to suffering and human rights violations in Gaza would be wishful thinking. The upper levels of Christian-Zionist society readily accept the US role of protector and protagonist of the Zionist project. The Trump administration stays solid with the status quo in occupied Palestine.
With President Trump opening the US embassy in Jerusalem Al-Quds and displaying a revealing ignorance toward the role of Washington in Palestinian suffering, now is the time for the people of Gaza and the West Bank to stand up and shape the future of their country, their families, and their communities. They must demonstrate unity and hold accountable those in Tel Aviv and Washington until they faithfully serve the interests of the Palestinian people.
The people of Palestine must tell the Zionist regime and its sponsors that they are not going away, and that they will keep fighting until they achieve their goals through resistance for self-determination and liberty.
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