The airwaves are filled with seemingly rational conversations now, explaining why genocide is the only option, it will solve the problem, and everything will go back to normal after Hamas is "rooted out" in just a few more days. This is of course purest nonsense. Flooding the media with lies may be cost-effective for the war industry that now seems to run foreign policy in addition to the major dailies.
Anyone who gives the matter a moment's clear thought understands that it is irrelevant and distracting, as designed, but the constrast is telling. Nothing can ever justify so much murder. Immediate ceasefire is imperative now.
Here is a report that I, at least, find entirlely credible:
Over the last 40 days, Israel has killed over 11,450 Palestinians with murderous airstrikes. With the mass bombings of residential areas and the intentional targeting of hospitals and clinics, the US-backed Israeli military has killed over 4,700 children. It is estimated that some 3,640 people are trapped under the rubble. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that as many as 1,770 are children.
Read that again: nearly 1,800 children are buried under broken concrete and twisted rebar. Many Palestinians are being forced, by gunpoint, to leave behind their homes in northern Gaza and march down the road en masse as Israel executes its next face of ethnic genocide and forced population transport. Those walking have reported watching stray dogs eat the bodies of dead Palestinians trapped in these remains. While thousands are staying behind in northern Gaza, their parents, brothers, and sisters if still alive would have to face the Israeli military and the prospect of being gunned down as they looked at these children. Even if they could reach the mounds of rubble left behind after an air strike, they would have to dig through the carnage with their bare hands because there isn't electricity for power tools or the fuel to run the equipment.
There are some 1.6 million Gazans displaced with no place to go. As of November 6th, the Ministry of Public Works and Housing has reported that Israel's bombing campaign has destroyed over 10,000 buildings, including more than 41,000 housing units. An additional 222,000 housing units have suffered partial damage. Israel has ruined 45% of Gaza's housing. These numbers are on the rise with each passing moment.
Those with injuries and health issues have very few options, as Israel has also laid waste to the health sector: they have attacked 135 health facilities, putting out of commission some 25 hospitals and 52 healthcare centers. They have destroyed nearly 60 ambulances - almost two a day. The Israeli war machine has also destroyed 77 churches and mosques.
The Palestinians who manage to make it to a hospital are lucky. But even if they do, the remaining hospitals are also operating under an Israeli military siege. They also don't have fuel. Medical supplies are exhausted despite what US and Israeli propaganda would lead you to believe. They are under constant bombardments, and Israeli snipers have been shooting workers through the windows. Doctors and nurses are exhausted physically and emotionally beyond comprehension.
This comes from the Good Shepher Collective:
"GSC is an anti-Zionist, anti-colonial organization. We work alongside our partners on the ground to openly discuss and address the violent and unjust structures operating in Palestine and provide educational resources and action items to bring us closer to justice. GSC understands oppression to be rooted in the systems and laws that guide civil formation and order. As such, we reject the binary discourse of "Israelis vs. Palestinians" and instead focus our energy on addressing settler-colonialism and other forms of violence by targeting the structures that facilitate these regimes. GSC advocates for structural change, directing our collective energy at policies and laws that underpin these structures through grassroots campaigns. In this way, advocacy campaigns reflect the immediate needs of Palestinians on the the ground while linking grassroots in a transnational call for the rights of all people, building broad coalitions across movements."
