Palestinians’ massacre continues

The world media has stopped reporting Palestinians’ massacre in Gaza as the readers’ attention focuses on American politics. Reading media headlines, one would contemplate the genocide has stopped, but it has not. Reporters and the hardly functioning medical establishments carry on reporting the genocide of Palestinians. In addition to dead bodies found, countless victims lie in the streets or under the rubble in flattened neighborhoods. The Palestinians’ killing takes place at a steady pace by US-made Israeli fighter jets, tanks, drones, quadcopters, bulldozers, and machine guns. In recent weeks, the massacre has taken yet another wicked turn, with the Israeli army executing what the Israeli media have called the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza. As a result, entire communities are disappearing in a crusade that goes beyond military objectives, targeting the very existence of the Palestinian people. The towns of Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya were by tradition sleepy villages once appreciated for their agricultural abundance and noiseless lifestyle. They were famous for the sugariness of their strawberries and oranges and their sandy dunes full of grazing sheep and goats. Nearby stood the behemoth of Jabaliya, home to the biggest and most thickly populated refugee camp among Gaza’s eight camps, with more than 200,000 residents. It is where the first Intifada began in 1987 after an Israeli driver mowed down and killed four Palestinian laborers. All areas of northern Gaza have been subject to recurring devastation since the second Intifada. Today they face a level of violence and destruction that are as incredible as they are unparalleled, a genocide within a genocide as described by Majed Bamya, a senior Palestinian diplomat at the United Nations. The mass death, mass displacement, and mass devastation with appalling viciousness rendered the entire north a wasteland. At the start of this latest campaign, about 400,000 Palestinians remained in the north, down from a population of one million. Israel gave these people an ultimatum to leave but no assurances of safe passage or a substitute place to lodge. Numerous decided to stay. For those who tried to leave, Israeli forces killed them in the streets and others who made it suffered torment along the way. In one distressing scene, Israeli soldiers separated children from their mothers and pushed them into a pit. Then an Israeli tank circled the pit, covering the children in sand and frightening them. Ultimately, the soldiers started taking children from the pit and throwing them over to the women. Whoever caught a child moved away speedily, many mothers carried children who were not their own, leaving their children in the hands of other mothers. This marked the commencement of a new episode of suffering, with mothers searching for their children in the arms of other women, trying to calm the children they held until they found their actual mothers. For those Palestinians who decided to stay or were unable to leave, the revulsion continues. To force them out or just to eradicate them, Israel has set up a considered policy of involuntary starvation. Its forces are systemically obstructing humanitarian aid from reaching the north, including food, bottled water, and medical supplies. To accelerate mass death, the Israeli army is also stopping medical staff and rescue teams from reaching the wounded and others in need of medical help. Those who manage to get to a hospital discover on arrival that it can provide neither medical care nor safety. Many succumb to their injuries due to a lack of medical supplies and personnel. With few hospitals and schools able to deliver safety, the remaining Palestinians are crowding into residential buildings. As a result, the indiscriminate Israeli bombing of residential areas is taking a staggering human toll, sometimes erasing entire families.