Resistance to Israel’s Genocidal War in Gaza and Lebanon
A Genocide Within a Genocide
The U.S. and Israeli Zionists are stepping up their genocide within a genocide in northern Gaza.
The Israeli army has maintained a tight siege, with continued air and ground attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp and the towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanun. No aid, including medicine, is being allowed into the region, and Israel continues to bomb civilian areas.
The
Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Tuesday, October 15 that 55
Palestinian citizens were killed and 329 others injured in the four
massacres carried out by the U.S./Zionist forces in Gaza over the
previous 24 hours. Without counting the thousands whose remains lie
under the rubble
unidentified, this brings the official death toll in Gaza to 42,344 martyrs and
99,013 injured.
The U.S./Zionist attacks on Gaza have wiped out 902 entire families in the past year, erasing them from the civil registry. This means every single one of their members was killed over the past year.
Every day in Gaza, on average:
- 115 people are killed — that's one out of every 55 people living in Gaza
- 46 are children
- 31 are women
- 38 are men
- 266 people are injured -- that's one out of every 23 people in Gaza
- 27 people are missing under the rubble
- 5,480 people are forced from their homes
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that primary crossings into northern Gaza have been closed, with no food aid entering the region since October 1. Food distribution points, kitchens and bakeries have shut down due to airstrikes and evacuation orders. Those who do not evacuate will be considered terrorists, the Zionists have announced. Meanwhile, in certain areas they are shooting at anything that moves and nobody can evacuate not only because there is nowhere to go but because they are killed if they move.
Emergency demonstration in Montreal, October 14, against latest Israeli macssacre in Deir al-Balah camp
Israeli troops in Jabalia are burning houses and bombing them with tanks and artillery fire, using Palestinians as human shields, various news agencies report. The Israeli military is also trying to force medical personnel to evacuate the three hospitals in the area, imposing starvation warfare and preventing clean water from reaching the inhabitants. Israeli strikes have killed hundreds of Palestinians in an offensive focusing on the Jabalia refugee camp over the past few days, various news agencies confirm.
Francesca
Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories,
said Palestinian civilians in Jabalia "are killed – both in
groups and one by one – amid unspeakable cruelty and sadism" by
Israeli troops "who have accepted to be ‘willing executioners' of
a genocidal plan."
"It blows my mind to think that WE KNOW what Israel is doing and altogether we cannot stop it," she said.
Tania Hary, executive director of Gisha, the Israeli human rights organization defending Palestinians' right to move freely in Gaza, expressed deep concern over the implication that anyone failing to comply with evacuation orders could be considered "at war."
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also reported that health services in northern Gaza are almost non-existent.
The Arab League has described Israel's actions in northern Gaza as "genocide" and condemned these actions.
Norway sharply criticized Israel for its "brutal warfare" in Gaza, accusing the country of violating the rules of war. "Israel's brutal warfare in Gaza includes indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, as well as measures that prevent the population from receiving humanitarian aid. This is in violation of the rules of war," said Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide in a statement.
Thus far, Canada has nothing to say to condemn what Israel is doing. Its official stand is that everything Israel does is an act of its right to self-defence, a position with which all the cartel parties concur. It is an indefensible position in lockstep with the U.S. green light given to Israel to commit genocide.
The siege and intense attacks appear to follow the so-called "Generals' Plan," Israeli Non Government Organizations (NGOs) inform.
The "Generals' Plan," initially proposed by General Giora Eiland, a former head of the Israeli army's operations department, envisions a division of Gaza into two parts, the Associated Press (AP) which has seen a copy of the plan explains. The plan proposes indefinite Israeli control over northern Gaza and the establishment of a new administration free of Hamas.
The copy of the plan seen by AP suggests that if this strategy succeeds in northern Gaza, it could be extended to other areas in the south, including tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, AP reports.
It explains: "Under this strategy, Palestinians would have a week to leave a third of northern Gaza, including Gaza City, after which the area would be declared a closed military zone.
"The plan includes a strict embargo on food, water, medicine, and fuel, and would label Palestinians who remain as 'militants,' potentially justifying lethal force. The goal is to split Gaza and create a non-Hamas-controlled administration. Ultimately, Gaza would be divided into two separate areas.
"When asked if the recent evacuation orders were part of this plan, Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said, 'No, we have not received any such plan.' However, an official familiar with the matter told AP that some parts of the plan are being implemented, without specifying which."
According to AP, Eiland asserts that the only way to weaken Hamas is by denying it access to aid, forcing it to surrender or starve."That doesn't mean killing everyone. People won't be able to live there; the water will run out," he said.
Four NGOs — B'Tselem, Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and Yesh Din Volunteers for Human Rights — have called on the international community to take action to prevent Israel from forcibly transferring hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have remained in the Northern Gaza Strip. They say it is part of the "General's Plan."
"There are alarming signs that the Israeli military is beginning to quietly implement the Generals' Plan, also referred to as the Eiland Plan, which calls for complete forcible transfer of the civilians of the northern Gaza Strip through tightening the siege on the area and starving the population," the NGOs said in an October 14 statement.
The NGOs reiterated that all states "have an obligation to prevent the crimes of starvation and forcible transfer. The continuation of the 'wait and see' approach will enable Israel to liquidate northern Gaza, they will be complicit," the NGOs emphasized.
(Palestine Chronicle, AP, Al Mayadeen, Palestine Information Center, Al Jazeera, UK conflict monitoring organization Airwars)
This article was published in
October 16, 2024
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