Last night I listened to doctors talking about the Israeli tactics in Gaza, how they are deliberately starving the people and using food distribution as a way of murdering victims.
According to them the Israelis are then setting up just four aid distribution centres and then deliberately shooting young men. One doctor described how one day they aimed for the head, the next day it was the testicles, the day after the legs.
These soldiers have become so desensitised that killing and maiming Palestinians is a game.
Every day I hear word of more atrocities – babies starving to death, hospitals bombed, deliberate destruction of homes, shooting of innocent civilians, cutting off of water, using food as a weapon, hounding exhausted civilians from one place to another and the torturing of prisoners. One would imagine that survivors of the Holocaust, pogroms and centuries of unjust persecution would be more aware of the need for fairness and compassion. Revenge seems to have turned them crazy.
What Hamas did was atrocious. What Israel is doing is fifty times worse. I fear that Trump’s support of this far-right government is condoning war crimes and genocide.
It’s time the international community stepped in and put a stop to this insult to humanity.
